AN IMPROVED INKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING IN COLORS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
INKING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING IN COLORS," A communication from
abroad by John Knox Lowe, of Cleveland, Ohio, United States of
America.
Sealed the 18th December 1866, and dated the 20th August 1866.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration,
on the 20th August 1866, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent
Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the International Patent Office," No. 8, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send'
greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED INKING
APPARATUS FOR PRINTING IN COLORS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent
for the same, and have made solemn declaration that it has been communicated
to me from abroad by John Knox Lowe, of Cleveland, Ohio, United States
of America.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully
describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the accompanying Drawings making a part of said Specifica-
tion-
The said Invention relates to the means for distributing ink and colors in a
printing press in such a manner that at the same time and by the same press
lines of different colors may be printed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved apparatus; Fig. 2 is a
plan of the top of the said apparatus; Fig. 3, a front view, and Fig. 4 a rear
view thereof.
A represents the inking roller: B and B' the adjustable sectional com-
municating rollers; C and C', the composition distributing rollers; D, D,
the sectional adjustable distributing rollers: E, the distributing roller; F,
the cam of distributing roller E. which gives it lateral motion: G, the, cam of
distributing rollers D, D, which gives them lateral motion; H, the sectional
fountain 1, the feed roller communicating from fountain H to distributing
rollers D, D, The adjustable sectional communicating rollers B and B
are arranged as required by the type, so that there will be one roller for
each space of color desired to be produced. The said rollers may be secured
upon their shafts by set screws or by any other convenient and suitable
means. The adjustable sectional distributing rollers D. D, are arranged in
like manner upon their shaft so that there shall be a distributing roller over
each communicating roller, care must be taken to have each distributing, roller
of such width that the several colors shall not be carried so far as to blend
them upon the composition distributing rollers. The distributing roller E
and composition distributing roller C' will feed the ink or color to the sectional
communicating rollers B'. The said ink or color is applied to sectional
distributing rollers D, and distributing roller E, when the press is started
the several shafts revolve, the rollers and cams F and G-impart lateral motion
at the same time to distributing rollers D and E. The inks or colors will be
communicated in spaces equal to the width of the rollers D; and their lateral
travel from the said rollers to the surface of the composition distributing
roller C and from the distributing roller E upon composition distributing
roller Cl. The former will in its turn impart the said ink or color to the
sectional communicating rollers B, and the latter to the sectional communi-

page_text: which coming in
with the ink or
cating rollers B¹ these rollers B and B', will leave their own exact width of
ink or color in well defined lines upon the inking roller A,
direct contact with the form supplies the type beneath it
color thus brought thereto..
It will be seen that the chief object of this Invention is to feed the ink in
sections and at the same time secure distribution. The sectional distributing
rollers D may be inked from sectional fountain H, one fountain for each
roller containing the required ink or color. The desired result is secured by
performing the distribution independent of the inking roller and communi-
cating the ink thus distributed to the inking roller in the required spaces.
This apparatus may be applied to lithographic printing, as the distributors
of printing presses differ, the system of sectional rollers must be of course
adapted to the peculiar arrangements of each of the said presses.
Having thus described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and shown how the same may be conveniently and
advantageously carried into practice, I claim,--
First, an inking apparatus with sectional distributing and communicating
rollers constructed and operating substantially in the manner and for the
purposes described.
Second, the sectional communicating rollers constructed and operating
substantially as. and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight. hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM ROBERT Lake.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)