A MODE OF EMBOSSING AND PRINTING AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME, BY MEANS OF A CYLINDER OR ROLLER, ON GOODS OR FABRICS MADE OF OR FROM COTTON, SILK, FLAX, HEMP, AND WOOL, OR ANY ONE OR MORE OF THESE MATERIALS, OR ON PAPER AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES
Year: 1835

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GREIG, of Rose Bank, in the Parish of Bury, in the County of Lancaster,
Calico Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Tenth day of November, in the sixth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Greig, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Thomas Greig, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said Thomas Greig, my executors, administrators, and
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 Invention of "A MODE OF EMBOSSING AND PRINTING
AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME, BY MEANS OF A CYLINDER OR ROLLER, ON GOODS OR
FABRICS MADE OF OR FROM COTTON, SILK, FLAX, HEMP, AND WOOL, OR ANY ONE OR
MORE OF THESE MATERIALS, OR ON PAPER AND OTHER FIBROUS SUBSTANCES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas
Greig, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said in part recited recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: 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
Thomas Greig, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in the Drawings hereto annexed, and by the following
explanation thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in a novel adaptation and arrangement of machinery
for embossing and printing silk, cotton, woollen, paper, and other fabrics or
goods, in one or more colours at one opertion, either simutaniously or consecu-
tively, by means of revolving cylinders. The construction of this machinery
in its combined form and its mode of operating will be understood by reference
to the Drawings hereto appended, and the following explanation thereof:
Figure 1 exhibits a front elevation of the printing and embossing machine;
Figure 2 is an end view of the same; Figure 3 represents the reverse end,
and Figure 4 is a vertical section taken through the machine in the same
direction, and parallel to Figure 2, the respective letters of reference indicating
the same parts in all the Figures. The machine, as represented in the Drawing,
is furnished with three distinct printing cylinders of copper or other suitable
material A, B, C, with their necessary appendages for printing three different
colours upon the fabric as it passes through the machine. Either of these
cylinders A, B, or C, may be employed as an embossing cylinder without per-
forming the printing process, or may be made to effect both operations at the
same time. The fabric or goods to be operated upon being first wound tightly
upon a roller, that roller is to be mounted upon an axle or pivot bearing in
arms or brackets at the back of the machine, as shewn at D. From this
roller the fabric a, a, a, a, is conducted between tension rails and passed under
the bed cylinder or paper bowl E, and thence proceeds over a carrier roller F,
and over steam boxes not shewn in the Drawing, or it may be conducted into
a hot room for the purpose of drying the colours. The cylinders A, B, and C,
having either engraved or raised surfaces, are connected to feeding rollers
b, b, b, revolving in the ink or colour troughs c, c, c, or endless felts, called
sieves, may be employed as in ordinary printing machines for supplying the
colour when the device on the surface of the cylinders are raised. These
cylinders may be furnished with doctors or scrapers when required, or the same
may be applied to the endless felts. The printing cylinders may be driven by
gear and pressed against the paper bowl in the way exhibited in the Drawing,
or by any other convenient means, the particular manner of doing which I do
not claim as any part of niy Invention, but I have exhibited this for the pur-

page_text: pose of rendering the construction and adaption of all the parts of the machine
evident. The situation of the doctors when required to be used for removing any
superfluous colour from the surface of the printing cylinder are shown at d, d, d;
those for removing any lint which may attach itself at e, e, e. They are kept
in their bearings by weighted levers and screws, and receive a slight lateral
movement to and fro by means of the vertical rod m, which is connected at
top to an excentric on the end of the axle of the roller H, and at its lower end
to the horizontal rod n, mounted at the side of the frame (see Figure 3). To
this horizontal rod, arms o, o, o, are attached, which are connected to the
respective doctors, and thus, by the rotation of the eccentric, the doctors are
made to slide laterally. When the cylinders A, B, or C, are employed for
embossing only, those doctors will not be required. The driving power is
communicated to the machine from any first mover through the agency of the
toothed gear, as shewn in Figure 2, which gives rotary motion to the
cylinder B, and from thence to the other cylinders A and C by toothed gear,
shewn in Figure 1 and 3. The gudgeons of the cylinders A and C are sup-
ported in blocks f, f, sliding in brackets formed on the side frames of the
machine, which blocks have adjustible screws g, g, for the purpose of bringing
the cylinders up against the paper bowl with any required degree of pressure.
The cylinder B is supported by its gudgeons running in blocks h, which blocks
slide in the lower parts of the side frames, and are connected to perpen-
dicular rods i, having adjustible screw nuts. The lower parts of these rods
bear upon weighted levers k, k, extending in front of the machine; and by
increasing the weights 1, 1, any degree of upward pressure may be given to
the cylinder B. The colour: boxes or troughs c, c, c, carrying the feeding
rollers b, b, b, are fixed on boards which slide in grooves in the side frames,
and the rollers are adjusted and brought into contact with the surface of the
printing cylinders by screws f*, f*, f. If a back cloth should be required to be
introduced between the cylindrical bed or paper bowl E. and the fabric a, a, a,
as the ordinary felt or blanket, that may, for printing and embossing' cotton,
silk, or paper, be of linen or cotton; but if woollen goods are to be operated
upon, a lap of felt or some such material must be bound round the paper
bowl, and the felt or blanket must be used for the back cloth; which is to be
conducted over the rollers H and 1. For the purpose of embossing the fabric.
either of the rollers A, B, or C, may be employed, observing that the surface
of the roller must be cut so as to leave the pattern or device elevated for
embossing velvets, plain cloths, and papers; but for woollens the device must
be excavated, that is, cut in recess. The pattern of the embossing cylinder
will, by the operation, be partially marked through the fabric on to the surface

page_text: of the paper bowl E, to obliterate which marks from the surface of the
bowl as it revolves the iron cylindrical roller G is employed; but as in the
embossing of the same patterns in paper a counter roller is required to
produce the pattern perfectly, the iron roller is, in that case, dispensed with,
the impression given to the paper bowl being required to be retained in its
surface until the operation is finished. In this case, however, the relative
circumferences of the embossing cylinder and of the paper bowl must be
exactly proportioned to each other; that is, the circumference of the bowl
must be equal exactly to a given number of circumferences of the embossing
cylinder very accurately measured, in order to preserve a perfect register or
coincidence as they continue revolving between the pattern on the surface of
the embossing, cylinder and that indented into the surface of the paper bowl.
The axle of the paper bowl E turns in brasses fitted into slots in the sido
frames, and it may be raised by hand from its bearings when required by a
lever K extending in front. This lever is affixed to the end of a horizontal
shaft L, L, crossing the machine, seen in Figure 1 and 4, at the back of
which shaft there are two segments levers p, p, to which bent rods q, q, are
attached, having hooks in their lower ends passed under the axle of the bowl.
At the reverse end of the shaft L a ratchet wheel r is affixed, and a pall or
clink 8, mounted on the side of the frame (see Figure 3), takes into the teeth
of the wheel r, and thereby holds up the paper bowl when required. When
the iron roller G is to be brought into operation the vertical screws t, t,
mounted in the upper parts of the side frames are turned, in order to bring
down the brasses n which carry the axle of that roller, and slide in slots in the
side frames. The cylinders A, B, and C, are represented hollow, and may be
kept at any desired temperature during the operation of printing by intro-
ducing steam into them; and under the colour boxes c, c, c, hollow chambers
are also made for the same purpose. The degree of temperature required to
be given to these must depend upon the nature of the colouring material and
of the goods operated upon. For the purpose of conducting steam to these
hollow cylinder and colour boxes, pipes, as shewn at v, v, v, are attached,
which lead from a steam boiler; but when either of these cylinders are
employed for embossing alone, or for embossing and printing at the same time,
and particularly for some kind of goods when a higher temperature may be
required, I then introduce a red-hot heater into the hollow cylinder in place of
steam. If I employ the cylinder B as the embossing cylinder, and do not
intend to print the fabric by that cylinder simultaneously with the operation of
embossing, I remove the feeding roller b and the colour box c belonging to t at
cylinder, and I employ the cylinders A and C for printing the fabric, the one

page_text: applying the colour before the embossing is effected, the other after. I would
however remark, that if A and C are to print colours on the fabric, and B to
emboss it, I should in that case, where the pattern would allow it, prefer that
A and C be wooden rollers, having the pattern upon their surfaces, and not
metal, as the embossing cylinders must of necessity be. It will be perceived
that this machine will print one, two, or three colours at the same time, and
that the operation of embossing may be performed simultaneously with the
printing by either of the cylinders A, B, or C; or the operation may be per-
formed consecutively by the cylinders either proceeding or succeeding each
other.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Greig, have hereunto set my
band and seal, the Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
THOMAS (L.s.) GREIG.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
said Thomas Greig, in the pre-
sence of
JOHN DAVIES.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of May, in the
sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, the said
Thomas Greig came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Ninth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and