Improvements in and in Apparatus for Printing or Padding Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 2nd June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in Apparatus for Printing or Padding
Fabrics.
We WILLIE HADFIELD of Furness Vale, in the County of Chester, Colourist,
JOSEPH JOHNSON SUMNER of the same place, Mechanic, and HENRY HADFIELD
also of the same place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Our invention relates principally to the printing of cotton cloth and has for its
object to obtain rainbow effects-that is to say to produce bands of various colours
or shades
upon the cloth.
We employ a roller which is coated or supplied at different parts of its length
with colouring matters which will produce the required shades. The colouring
matters are supplied to the roller by means of furnishing rollers or of a grooved
furnishing roller or of a roller which has its surface divided into sections by means
ot curved partitions fixed in a colour trough or by means of curved ribs or by
means of such ribs in conjunction with the partitions.
The colours are picked up from a colour trough or are supplied by means of pipes
provided with fan shaped spreading mouths which are perforated or slit to deliver
the colour upon breadths of the furnishing roller or rollers. When the colours are
supplied from a divided colour trough the partitions may enter the spaces between
the furnishing rollers or the sections of the furnishing roller. The faces of the
curved ribs and the edges of the curved partitions which are toward the furnishing
roller are preferably covered with felt or with a suitably elastic material adapted to
keep the colours distinct and the ends of the curved ribs are pointed or tapered so
as to let the colours come near enough together to permit them to join edges upon
the cloth. When supply pipes are used the spreading mouths deliver the colours
upon the sections of the furnishing roller which applies the colours in bands upon
the printing or padding roller. We may employ a sectional furnishing roller in
combination with a second roller either plain or divided into sections and revolving
in a divided trough. We may employ a roller or rollers to spread the colours upon
the furnishing roller or rollers before contact with the printing or padding roller
and such spreading roller or rollers may or may not be provided with a doctor or
with doctors.
The printing or padding roller may be plain or be stippled lined or engraved.
After the rainbow effects have been produced the cloths would usually be passed in
the ordinary manner through a printing machine to be printed with suitable patterns
but we do not confine ourselves in this respect.
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E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in and in Apparatus for Printing or Padding
Fabrics.
We WILLIE HADFIELD of Furness Vale, in the County of Chester, Colourist,
JOSEPH JOHNSON SUMNER of the same place, Mechanic, and HENRY HADFIELD
also of the same place, Manager, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
Our invention relates principally to the printing of cotton cloth and has for its
object to obtain rainbow effects-that is to say to produce bands of various colours
or shades upon the cloth.
We employ a roller which is coated or supplied at different parts of its length
The colouring
with colouring matters which will produce the required shades.
matters are supplied to the roller by means of furnishing rollers or of a grooved
furnishing roller or of a roller which has its surface divided into sections by means
of curved partitions fixed in a colour trough or by means of curved ribs or by means
of such ribs in conjunction with the partitions.
The colours are picked up from a colour trough or are supplied by means of
pipes provided with fan shaped spreading mouths which are perforated or slit to
deliver the colour upon breadths of the furnishing roller or rollers. When the
colours are supplied from a divided colour trough the partitions may enter the spaces
between the furnishing rollers or the sections of the furnishing roller. The faces of
the curved ribs and the edges of the curved partitions which are toward the
furnishing roller are preferably covered with felt or with a suitably elastic material
adapted to keep the colours distinct and the ends of the curved ribs are pointed or
tapered so as to let the colours come near enough together to permit them to join
edges upon the cloth. When supply pipes are used the spreading mouths deliver
the colours upon the sections of the furnishing roller which applies the colours in
bands upon the printing or padding roller. We may employ a sectional furnishing
roller in combination with a second roller either plain or divided into sections and
revolving in a divided trough. We may employ a roller or rollers to spread the
colours upon the furnishing roller or rollers before contact with the printing or
padding roller and such spreading roller or rollers may or may not be provided with
a doctor or with doctors.
The printing or padding roller may be plain or be stippled lined or engraved.
After the rainbow effects have been produced the cloths would usually be passed in
the ordinary manner through a printing machine to be printed with suitable patterns
but we do not confine ourselves in this respect.
To render our invention perfectly clear we have annexed hereto a sheet of
illustrative drawings which we will now describe.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a slop padding machine for printing rainbow effects
or colour stripes upon fabrics.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1.
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The printing roller is marked a; the pad roller around which the cloth passes
inarked and the cloth being printed is marked c. The roller a revolves within a
trough d which is divided into a series of compartments by liquid tight partitions
which fit closely against the roller a. In conjunction with these partitions e we us
curved ribs mounted on the partitions and following the curve of the roller a
clearly shown in Fig. 1. The inner edges of the curved ribs and of the partitions
are lined with a suitable soft packing y, such as felt, which more thoroughly separate
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page_text: one colour from another. The respective compartments between the partitions
contain the different colours, and when the machine is at work the roller a revolving
in the trough lifts the respective colours to the cloth c and applied the colours.
thereto. The upper ends of the ribs fare carried as far up as possible and are
brought to a point so as to allow the colours to come closely together and join edges.
The two colours thus applied side by side melt into each other and produce the
required rainbow effect or it might be print stripes of colour side by side.
Instead of lifting the colour from the compartments in the trough by the roller a
as described we might use pipes h as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings which
are respectively sectional and plan views of the apparatus. These pipes are
provided with triangular flattened mouthpieces so that the colours led along
the pipes are spread thinly upon the roller a in broad stripes and thus applied
to the cloth.
In this modification we preserve the trough d with partitions and curved ribs
for the purpose of catching surplus colour and for more accurately dividing one
colour from another.
As a further modification of our invention we provide sectional furnishing
rollers as clearly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings. The said sectional
furnishing roller is shown clearly in Fig. 6 and consists of a number of bowls i
strung upon a central shaft j. The bowls i correspond to the compartments in
the trough d already spoken of. A colour trough k is provided, divided off into
a corresponding number of compartments, by means of partitions each compart-
ment containing a different colour. In each compartment and dipping into the
colour is a transferring bowl which transferring bowls lift and transfer the colours
to the furnishing roller. The furnishing bowls i print or lay the colours upon the
cloth c.
The furnishing bowls i may be used alone or they might be used in
conjunction with the roller a and trough d fitted with partitions and curved ribs as
in the former instances all as shown in Fig. 5.
The effects produced by our improved apparatus may be either rainbow effects
or we can with the same apparatus print stripes of colour side by side in which the
edges meet without mixing or shading into each other.
The cloth when printed either with rainbow or stripe effects may be finished and
made up in this condition or it may be passed through an ordinary printing machine
and printed with suitable patterns.
When thus printing over the stripes or rainbow effects we can produce patterns
of different colours or shades from a one colour cylinder. For example upon a
cloth printed with stripes of yellow, red, and so on, a one colour cylinder printing
blue for example would produce the patterns in green, purple &c. the print or
pattern being modified in colour or tone by the ground stripe upon which it is
printed.
In the same manner patterns might be produced on the striped or rainbowed
fabric by means of the well known discharge processes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:
1. The general arrangement construction and combination of the improved
apparatus for printing or padding fabrics with stripes or rainbow effects substantially
as described and as illustrated.
2. The improved slop padding or printing machine consisting of the printing
roller a revolving in a trough, divided into a series of colour compartments by
partitions carrying curved dividing ribs in conjunction with the pad roller b for
taking round the cloth, all substantially as described and illustrated.
3. In printing or slop padding apparatus of the indicated nature, the employ-
ment of pipes for carrying the colour to the printing roller, the said pipes being
formed with splayed or flattened mouth pieces for applying and spreading the
colour, substantially as described and shown.

page_text: 4. In printing or slop padding machines of the indicated nature, the employment
of sectional furnishing rollers for taking up and applying the colour to the fabric
and arranged and acting in the manner hereinbefore described and shown.
BOL Jf Amil 100.1
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.