Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis
SYLVAIN GONIN, of Paris, in the Kingdom of France, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of
December, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the tenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Louis Sylvain Gonin, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I the said Louis Sylvain
Gonin, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Sylvain Gonin, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Inven-

page_text: tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING STUFFS, PAPERS, AND OTHER MATTERS;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Louis Sylvain
Gonin, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by a instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same; reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Louis Sylvain Gonin, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner of performing the same, are fully described and ascertained
in and by the following description, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is
to say:-
My Invention consists of certain arrangements of apparatus to be employed
when printing by hand. The particular characters of my Invention arc,-
First, the arrangement of guides for the workman for laying on the block
to the fabric, by which the practise and knowledge of a good workman is ren-
dered not so indispensable as is the case with the ordinary system of printing,
and at the same time, by this new arrangement, I am enabled to perform the
work with regularity, precision, and great rapidity.
The second part of the Invention is a system of keeping the fabric to be
printed at a continuous tension, which is brought in the piece over a roller,
and caused to unrol in proportion as is required, according to the will of the
workinan.
And the third point of Invention is in the mode of arranging the printing
table, combined with the guides above alluded to, and also with the mode of
stretching the fabrics. But in order that these different parts may be more
fully understood, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed,
which represents a printing table, having my different improvements applied
thereto.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a lateral elevation of a printing table, shewing a side view of the
ratchet lever, which determines the successive unrolling of the fabric to be
printed, and allows also of the continuous stretching of the fabric so as to roll a
on the printed fabric; Figure 2 shows a plan of the printing table with the
fabric printed thereon; and Figure 3 is a transverse section of the different

page_text: rollers by which the requisite tension is given for the rolling on and unrolling
of the fabrics. The same letters are used in the different figures to indicate
the same parts. A is the printing table placed upon the cross framing B, B,
such framing D carrying the axes of the various rollers in suitable bearings C,
5 over which the fabric passes to be printed. D is a side frame placed at the
head of the table, and upon which the arms of the workman rest. At the
upper part of this frame and across the table is a rule or guide E. This rule
is perforated with small holes, in order that the positions of the guide pieces F
may be varied.
The printing block G has two guides pieces at f, f, which
enter the holes in the guide piece F. The rule E extends the whole width of
the table A, and has a slot 6 at each end, through which a screw bolt passes
to fasten it to the side framing B, the rule E being guided in the movements
by a slot i, through which the screw bolts pass, by which it may be brought
nearer to or further from the head of the table. This rule E is shewn on a
larger scale in plan at Figure 4. The block G, the design on which may be
varied in any way required, is shewn at Figures 5 and 6. The blocks are
provided with two pins, which sink into the holes of the guides F in propor-
tion as the block is pressed upon the fabric. One of these guides F is shewn
at Figures 7 and 8.
Figure 4 shows two of these guides placed in a variable position in the
holes of the rules E, and Figure 2 shows two positions of the printing
blocks G, which can be successively changed in their position in proportion as
they have printed by moving the pins of them into the next holes, it will
therefore be seen that this mechanical guide consists of the employment of
this rule E, having a series of holes therein, in which are fixed, as may be
required, guiding pieces, which serve as a mark or guide, the holes through
which receive successively the pins of the printing block, the printing having
a fixed and determined position, so that the workman cannot print wrongly,
which often happens with the ordinary system of hand printing; with this
arrangement, on the contrary, a workman, even if inexperience, cannot avoid
printing with perfect regularity. The mode of rolling on the fabric when
printing and unrolling the fabrics to be printed is carried out in the following
manner-The fabric to be printed is wound around the roller H, and from
this roller it is caused to pass over the rollers J and K, over the table A, then
over the rollers L, M, N, and then on to the roller O, around which it is
wound. On the axes of the rollers H and O are rollers P, P¹, over which
pass cords or bands r, r, which cords pass over small pulleys s, and these
cords are kept constantly stretched by a weight t, so as to give and. keep up

page_text: the necessary tension to the fabric as it becomes unwound from the roller H,
and as it passes over the table to be printed; and also for it to wind on to the
roller O after it has been printed. In its course the fabric slides along an
endless cloth, which is shewn in the Drawings with blue lines, and which
starts from the roller U, and then passes over the rollers J and K (over which
the fabric passes as indicated by the red lines), and from thence over the
table A, then over the rollers L and M, and is fixed to the roller N, the axis
of which roller, as well as the axis of the roller O, is furnished with a
pulley and weight Y. The roller K is supported at each end on bearings c,
and moveable screws c. At one end of the rollers L is a ratchet wheel.
y, z, are clicks, which take into the teeth of this wheel. On the axis of this
wheel y is placed a lever b, on which is another click d with a spring e, which
takes into the teeth of the wheely. The lever b rests upon the support g. The
mode of working the machine is as follows:-The fabric having been brought
over the table to the hand of the workman, as shewn in the Drawing Figure 2,
and he having adjusted the rule E to a suitable position on the table A, and
having printed part of the fabric by placing successively the printing block G
into the sliding pieces F, which serve as guides, he then raises the lever b,
which he lowers, to cause the fabric to advance, which on the one part is
unwound from the roller H, and at the same time is carried by its tension
over and around the roller o. By this arrangement of the guides on the
printing table, and by the constant keeping the fabric in the proper state of
tension, the workman is not required to change his position, but is at all
times at the head of the table, and he will at all times be enabled to work both
with precision and speed; and it will not require that the table should be so
long as usual, as the fabric may be printed any length, and what is of far
more consequence, the fabrics will be but every little stretched whatever may
be the width of the fabric or the material of which it is composed.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to
the precise arrangements herein described, so long as the character of the
Invention be retained. But what I claim is the mode of arranging guides to
hand-printing tables, whereby the workman is enabled to print paper and other
fabrics with a greater degree of certainty and speed than with the ordinary
hand-printing machines.
Secondly, I claim the mode of regulating the tension of the fabrics
whilst being unwound from one roller and wound on to another, as herein
described.

page_text: And thirdly, I claim the arranging the guides E to a band-printing table,
in combination with the system above described for regulating the tension of
the fabrics when being unwound and wound on to the rollers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Sylvain Gonin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
LOUIS SYLVAIN (L.s.) GONIN.
Taken and acknowledged by Louis
Sylvain Gonin (party hereto), at
Paris, in the Kingdom of France,
this Fifth day of May, 1847, before

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of William Henry Ritchie,
the Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above written. And
aiso the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One