Improvements in Apparatus for Printing on Fabrics.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for Printing on Fabrics.
I, JAMES KERR of the firm of F. Steiner and Company of Church and Sunnyside
in the County of Lancaster Turkey Red Dyers, and Calico printers do hereby declare
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient apparatus whereby
two sides of fabric can be printed simultaneously without the use of a central cylinder
or bowl or cylinders or bowls and blanket or blankets which are used in such printing
machines as ordinarily made and by my said Invention I can when so desired ensure
that impressions made on one side coincide exactly with the impressions on the other
side of the fabric.
According to my Invention 1 provide one or more pairs of printing rollers the
individual rollers of each pair being placed opposite to each other the fabric to be
printed on being passed between the pair or pairs of rollers so as to be in contact
with each roller of the pair or with all the rollers of the pairs at the same time.
The rollers may print the same pattern on each side or different patterns may be
printed on the two sides. In patterns printed with one colour one pair of rollers
can be used but in printing with more than one colour the number of pairs of
rollers will correspond with the number of colours and the pairs will print on the
fabric one after the other as the fabric passes between the several pairs.
By this means I can effect the printing of a pattern or patterns on both sides
of a fabric without the use of a cylinder or bowl or cylinders or bowls or a blanket
or blankets such as are used in ordinary machines and I obtain results by simple
and efficient means equal to or superior to those which have hitherto only been
obtained by the use of complicated mechanism and this beneficial effect is especially
the case when printing with more than one colour.
It will be evident that a machine arranged according to my Invention is capable
of printing either on both sides of one fabric or on one side of each of two fabrics
placed back to back each roller or series of rollers to print either the same or a
different pattern on the two sides.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1888
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fieids, London, W.C.,
Agents.

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Improvements in Apparatus for Printing on Fabrics.
I JAMES KERR of the Firm of F. Steiner and Company of Church and Sunnyside
in the County of Lancaster Turkey Red Dyers and Calico Printers 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 :-
My Invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient apparatus whereby
two sides of fabric can be printed simultaneously without the use of a central
cylinder or bowl or cylinders or bowls and blanket or blankets which are used in
such printing machines as ordinarily made and by my said Invention I can when
so desired ensure that impressions made on one side coincide exactly with the
impressions on the other side of the fabric.
According to my Invention I provide one or more pairs of printing rollers the
individual rollers of each pair being placed opposite to each other the fabric to be
printed on being passed between the pair or pairs of rollers so as to be in contact with
each roller of the pair or with all the rollers of the pairs at the same time. The
rollers may print the same pattern on each side or different patterns may be printed
on the two sides. In patterns printed with one colour one pair of rollers can be used
but in printing with more than one colour the number of pairs of rollers will corre-
spond with the number of colours and the pairs will print on the fabric one after the
other as the fabric passes between the several pairs.
By this means I can effect the printing of a pattern or patterns on both sides of a
fabric without the use of a cylinder or bowl or cylinders or bowls or a blanket or
blankets such as are used in ordinary machines and I obtain results by simple and
efficient means equal to or superior to those which have hitherto only been obtained
by the use of complicated mechanism and this beneficial effect is especially the case
when printing with more than one colour.
It will be evident that a machine arranged according to my Invention is capable of
printing either on both sides of one fabric or on one side of each of two fabrics placed
back to back each roller or series of rollers to print either the same or a different
pattern on the two sides.
In order that my Invention and the manner in which it can be carried into effect
may be fully understood I will describe the same more particularly with reference to
the accompanying drawing whereon Figures 1 and 2 are an end elevation and front
elevation shewing a printing machine arranged according to my Invention and
provided with two pairs of rollers to print in two colours on the fabric.
The arrangement of pairs of rollers is such that the nips are in parallel planes to
each other in this respect differing from ordinary printing machines wherein 'the
centre lines of the "nips" radiate to the centre of the bowl. The rollers B. B are
shewn as being mounted upon the mandrils C. C carried in the usual form of sliding
blocks in the frame A the requisite adjusted pressure for properly printing being
obtained by means of levers or springs or equivalent devices. At the end of these
mandrils are fixed box wheels D D gearing with each other so that the peripheries of
the rollers will travel in the same direction.

page_text: At the opposite end of the mandrils C. C. and on one mandril of each pair I fix the
driving wheels E E which gear with so as to be actuated by the wheel F driven by
any motor.
The fabric G to be printed preferably passes in the direction indicated by the
arrows up between the printing rollers B B which are engraved with any desired
pattern and are simultaneously in contact with the fabric but on opposite sides
thereof; therefore as each roller is engraved or otherwise formed with a design on it
I can effect the printing of a pattern or patterns on both sides of the fabric at one
operation and without the use of a cylinder or bowl or cylinders or bowls or blanket
or blankets such as are used in ordinary printing machines.
It will be evident as before stated that a machine arranged according to my Inven-
tion as hereinbefore described is capable of use for printing either on both sides of one.
fabric or on one side of each of two fabrics placed back to back and simultaneously
passed through the machine and that each roller or pair of rollers can print either the
same or a different pattern on the two sides.
The rollers are each fed with colour which may be for each roller the same as or
equivalent to the means used for supplying colour to rollers in ordinary roller
printing machines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In apparatus for printing on fabrics the combination of a pair of rollers or of
two or more pairs of rollers each roller having a design upon it and the individual
rollers of each pair bearing upon the opposite sides of the fabric or fabrics passed
between them so as to simultaneously print on both sides of one or on one side of
each of two fabrics in one or more colours substantially as hereinhefore described.
2. The apparatus for printing on fabrics consisting of the arrangement and com-
bination of parts substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.