AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR HANGING WALL PAPER
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR HANGING WALL PAPER."
—A communication from abroad by Robert Bustin, of Saint John,
New Brunswick. Canada. Gentleman.
Sealed the 7th May 1875, and dated the 18th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th January 1875.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR HANGING
WALL PAPER," a communication, to be as follows :—
The first part of this Invention relates to a combination of four rollers
so arranged in a box that the wall paper may before being used by
passing over the central roller, as herein-after described, be covered with

page_text: paste of an even thickness, the paste being contained in the bottom of
the box.
The second part of the said Invention relates to a thin metal plate
parallel with the rollers, and so arranged as to regulate the thickness of
the paste, and to spread it uniformly on the paper and keep it free from
lumps. The said rollers should occupy such relative positions that ono
roller is suspended immediately over another, the latter being a largo
central roller. For this purpose a projection is extended up from cach
end of the box about an inch and a half in width. The aforesaid plate
which regulates the thickness of the paste and prevents the lumps in
the paste from getting on the paper is a thin plate extending parallel
with the said central roller, and at the elevation of the centre of the
roller is suspended in the box and is kept in position by means of a
stationary slide at each end. A metal screw is fastened to the plate at
its centre and passes through a hole in the side of the box. A nut fits
on the said screw at the outer end, by turning which the said plate
may be moved to or away from the central roller, as may be required.
The aforesaid plate has also fastened to it at each end a small rod or
bar passing through the side of the box at each end. Around the said
bars there are wire springs enclosed in a covering of tin or other metal.
The object of the bars and springs is to keep the plate securely in
position.
In using this machine the paper is wound on the upper roller by
means of a small crank and cog wheels, the inside of the paper being
next the roller; it is then carried around another roller at one side of
the central roller, then over the said central roller and under another
side roller. After passing under the last named roller the paper is
carried to the wall by the person using the machine.
Office on the 16th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.

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Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of this improved machine;
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same; Figure 3 is a top
view; and Figure 4 is an end clevation of the said machine.
a, b, c, d, are the rollers which should occupy the position shewn in
Figure 2, and should be of the respective sizes shewn in this Figure.
The roller a is suspended immediately over the large central roller b.
For this purpose a projection is extended up from cach end of the box
about an inch and a half in width, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2. g is
the plate which regulates the thickness of the paste and keeps the lumps
in the paste from getting on the paper. It is a thin plate extending
parallel with the roller b, and at the elevation of the centre of the roller b
is suspended in the box, and is kept in position by means of a stationary
slide at each end. i is a metal scrow fastened to the plate at its centro
and passing through a hole in the side of the box; e is a nut fitting on
the screw at the outer end, by turning which the plate g may be moved
near to or away from the roller b, as may be required. The plate 9 has
also fastened to it at each end a small rod or bar n passing through the
side of the box at each end, as shown in Figure 3. Around the bars n, n,
there are wire springs m, m, enclosed in a covering of tin or other metal.
The object of the bars n, n, and springs m, m, is to keep the plate g
securely in position.
In using this machine the paper is wound on the roller a; the winding
may be speedily effected by means of a small crank and cog wheels h, the
inside of the paper being next the roller; it is then carried around the 2
roller & over the roller band under the roller c, in the direction indicated
by the arrows in Figure 2. After passing under the roller c the paper is
carried to the wall by the person using the machine.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the 8
same, I wish it understood that I make no claim to the box or the mode
in which the rollers are secured in the frame or the crank or cog wheels,
for these are not new; but I claim,—
First. The combination of the rollers a, b, c, and d, as above set forth,
and for the nummose ancien

page_text: Second. The combination of the plate g and nut and screw e and i
with the roller b, as above set forth, and for the purposes specified.
In witness witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.
Witness,
JAB. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
Wч. ROB³. LAKE. (L.S.)