Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Blankets used in Calico- printing and Paper-staining Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, oth may, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1900
Date of Application, on May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan.,
1900
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Blankets used in Calico-
printing and Paper-staining Machines.
We, JOHN ARCHER, of Bridgemont, Foreman Printer, and JOHN CARTER, of
Bingswood Avenue, Millwright, both in Whaley Bridge, in the County of Chester,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to improvements in apparatus to be attached to calico
printing and paper-staining machines for the purpose of washing the endless
blankets emploved in such machines, after each impression has been given.
Our improved apparatus consists principally in the combination with a vertical,
or slightly inclined slab or smooth resisting surface over or in contact which the
endless blanket is caused to travel after each impression, of a pair of cylindrical
brushes one mounted at or near each edge of the blanket, such cylindrical brushes
having their axes parallel to the surface of the slab and preferably inclined towards
each other at their upper ends, or they may both be inclined either to the right
or to the left, so that their points of contact with the blanket will cover, say, two
three or more inches from each edge of the blanket, those being the parts
requiring to be washed. The blanket is caused to pass between these cvlindrical
brushes and the slab or resisting surface, and at the same time the said brushes
are driven by suitable gearing in such a direction as will cause them to brush
the surface of the blanket from the centre towards the edges, whilst at the same
time a plentiful supply of water is spread over the surface of the blanket by
means of an ordinary perforated spirt pipe. The blanket then passes round the
ordinary copper tension roller in contact with two horizontal revolving brushing
rollers and so on back again under the machine to the front printing rollers in
the usual manner.
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The axle bearings of our improved cylindrical brushes are so arranged as to
be adjustable so as to cover more or less breadth at the edges of the blanket
according to the width of the piece being printed. and also to regulate the amount
of pressure of the brushes against the surface of the blanket.
Dated this 4th day of or 1800
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Improvements in Apparatus for Washing Blankets used in Calico-
printing and Paper-staining Machines.
We, JOHN ARCHER, of Bridgemont, Foreman Printer, and JOHN CARTER, of
Bingswood Avenue, Millwright, both in Whaley Bridge, in the County of Chester,
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page_text: do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus to be attached to calico
printing and paper-staining machines for the purpose of washing the endless
blankets employed in such machines, after each impression has been given.
The manner in which our said invention. is to, be performed or carried into
practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the annexed sheet
of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1, on the drawing is a vertical sectional view, and Eig. 2 an elevation
of our improved blanket washing machine.
Our improved apparatus consists principally in the combination with a vertical
or slightly inclined slab or smooth resisting surface a (over or in contact with
which the endless blanket b of the printing or paper staining machine is caused-
to travel after each impression) of a pair of cylindrical brushes e one mounted at
or near each edge of the blanket, such cylindrical brushes c having their axes
parallel to the surface of the slab, and preferably inclined towards each other at
their upper ends (as shown at Fig. 2) or they may both be inclined either to the
right, or to the left, so that their points of contact with the face of the blanket b
will cover, say, two, three or more inches from each. edge of. the blanket, those
being the parts requiring to be washed.
The blanket b is caused to pass between these cylindrical brushes c and the
slab or resisting surface a, and at the same time the said brushes are driven by
suitable bevel or other gearing d in such a direction as will cause them to brush
the surface of the blanket & away from the centre towards the edges, whilst at the
same time a plentiful supply of water is spread over the brushes and the surface
of the blanket by means of an ordinary spirt pipe or pipes e. The blanket b then
passes round the ordinary copper_tension roller f in contact with two horizontal
revolving brushing rollers g (see Fig. 3) and so on back again under the machine
to the front printing rollers in the usual manner..
The axle bearings of our improved cylindrical brushes may be so arranged
as to be adjustable, so as to cover more or less breadth at the edges of the blanket,
according to the width of the piece being printed, and also to regulate the amount
of pressure of the brushes against the surface of the blanket, or, if preferred, the
slab a may be adjustable for the same purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
In apparatus for washing blankets used in calico-printing and paper staining
machines, the combination with a slab or resisting surface placed vertically or
slightly inclined, of a pair of revolving cylindrical brushes, one mounted at or
near each edge of the blanket; such cylindrical brushes having their axes parallel
to the surface of the slab, and either inclined towards each other at their upper
ends, or both inclined either to the right or to the left substantially as and for th
purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated the 17th day of November 1899.
:
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.