Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and other similar Floorcloths.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of
Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and other similar Floorcloths.
We, JAMES SALTER FARMER, of the firm of Sir James Farmer and Sons,
Adelphi Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, and
HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY, and ISAAC HENRY STOREY, both of the firm
of Storey Brothers and Company, White Cross Mills, Lancaster, in the said
county, Manufacturers of Oil Cloths, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines employed in the manufacture
of what are known as "solid colour" floorcloths, such as linoleum, kamptulicon,
corticine, and the like in which the pigment or colouring matter is incorporated
with the materials of which the fabric is composed, instead of being merely printed
upon the surface of such fabric.
Our improvements consist chiefly in the construction and arrangement of
machinery for cutting out the "solid colour" pieces and placing them in their
proper positions automatically and in one continuous operation upon the foundation
of woven material to which they are secured.
In a two colour machine constructed according to our improvements we employ
two pairs of driven rollers supported in adjustable bearings and each pair geared
together and to the other pair by box wheels and other suitable gearing to insure
correct register. Each roller has formed upon its periphery a series of recesses or
apertures of a diamond or other shape according to the pattern desired, and when
a pair of such rollers are geared together the recesses upon one come opposite the
correspondingly shaped solid or projecting surfaces of the other roller.
In operation a sheet of the combined materials and of the first colour is fed
between the first pair of rollers and is by them cut into diamond or other shaped
pieces which are carried round in the recesses in each roller until by means of
pushers suitably arranged the colour pieces from one roller are expelled and
deposited upon the prepared surface of a web of the woven foundation, which is
travelling through the machine at the same surface speed as that of the rollers.
The pieces from the other rollers are also expelled by pushers and are then
returned to the mixing mill and subsequently re-rolled, or the pieces may be other-
wise utilized in any convenient manner. In like manner the pieces for the second
colour are cut out from another sheet of combined materials by the second pair
of rollers, and in their turn deposited upon the web beside the first colour pieces
and in correct register according to the pattern required.
The colour pieces adhere to the web of woven fabric the surface of which may
be prepared with an adhesive substance and the fabric is pressed and finished in
the usual manner.
We may employ three or more pairs of rollers for three or more colours.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines employed in the Manufacture of
Linoleum, Kamptulicon, and other similar Floorcloths.
We, JAMES SALTER FARMER, of the firm of Sir James Farmer and Sons,
Adelphi Iron Works, Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, and
HERBERT LUSHINGTON STOREY and ISAAC HENRY STOREY, both of the firm
of Storey Brothers and Company, White Cross Mills, Lancaster, in the said
county, Manufacturers of Oil Cloths, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines employed in the manufacture
of what are known as 66
solid colour" floorcloths, such as linoleum, kamptulicon,
corticine, and the like in which the pigment or colouring matter is incorporated
with the materials of which the fabric is composed, instead of being merely printed
upon the surface of such fabric.
Our improvements consist chiefly in the construction and arrangement of machinery
for cutting out the "solid colour" pieces and placing them in their proper positions
automatically and in one continuous operation upon the foundation of woven
material to which they are secured.
In a two colour machine constructed according to our improvements we employ
two pairs of driven rollers supported in adjustable bearings and each pair geared.
together and to the other pair by box wheels and other suitable gearing to insure
correct register. Each roller has formed upon its periphery a series of recesses or
apertures of a diamond or other shape according to the pattern desired, and when
a pair of such rollers are geared together the recesses upon one come opposite the
correspondingly shaped solid or projecting surfaces of the other roller.
In operation a sheet of the combined materials and of the first colour is fed
between the first pair of rollers and is by them cut into diamond or other shaped
pieces which are carried round in the recesses in each roller until by means of
pushers suitably arranged the colour pieces from one roller are expelled and
deposited upon the prepared surface of a web of the woven foundation, which is
travelling through the machine at the same surface speed as that of the rollers.
The pieces from the other roller are also expelled by pushers and are then returned
to the mixing mill and subsequently re-rolled, or the pieces may be otherwise
utilized in any convenient manner. In like manner the pieces for the second colour
are cut out from another sheet of combined materials by the second pair of rollers,
and in their turn deposited upon the web beside the first colour pieces and in
correct register according to the pattern required.
The colour pieces adhere to the web of woven fabric the surface of which may
be prepared with an adhesive substance and the fabric is pressed and finished in the
usual manner.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being
had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the main portions of a two colour machine employed
in the manufacture of linoleum and similar floorcloths, shown partly in section,
constructed according to our invention and Fig. 2 is an end view, partly in section,
of the same.
In the drawings, a represents the main frame and two pairs of standards
in each of which is fitted a pair of colour rollers c d and c¹ d'; e is the driving shaft
of the machine supported in bearings, not shown, but carried by the frame a; ou

page_text: this shaft are secured two wheels ff and also a pair of bevel wheels g g' which
gear into and drive bevel wheels keyed upon the axles & d³ of the lower colour
rollers d d respectively; on the other ends of these two roller axles are secured
spur wheels which gear into box wheels ; one on the axle c³ ³ of each of the top
rollers cc and by which the latter are driven.
Each of the colour rollers is provided with recesses k in its periphery of suitable
shape according to the pattern desired, the recesses in one roller come opposite
correspondingly shaped solid surfaces on the other roller and each of these rollers
contains inside it a rotating drum on the periphery of which is a number of pro-
jecting studs, see Fig. 1; these drums are supported in links m which are
mounted on the shafts of the colour rollers within which they are respectively
placed.
The axles of the top colour, rollers c c¹ are carried in blocks n fitted in slide-
ways in the standards bb' and adjustable in the vertical direction by screws o o¹;
the lower rollers d d¹ are carried in blocks n' also fitted in the slideways b' and
made adjustable vertically by means of wedges p which pass through slots in the
standards b b under the blocks n' which rest upon them; these wedges are moved
and adjusted by means of locknuts q' on screwed studs q secured in the
standards b¹.
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A batch or roll of the first pigment or colouring matter incorporated with the
materials of which the fabric is to be composed is shown on a roller r, the material
is fed into the nip of the colour rollers c d where it is pressed into the recesses k in
each roller by the action of a solid portion of one roller coming opposite a recess in
the other one, as the rollers rotate the material from the roller d is pushed out
of its recesses on to the foundation by the studs in the drum 1; the drums
are caused to rotate by the studs one of which is always engaged with one or
other of the holes in the shell of its colour roller; or in place of the drums with
studs any other suitable means for expelling the material may be employed.
The foundation fabric s is held extended transversely by hooks pins or grippers
on travelling bands in any convenient manner and it receives the same speed as
that given to the surface of the colour rollers; the second pair of colour rollers
are driven by suitable gearing and brought into correct register with the first pair
by means of the box wheels on the shaft e. The material is expelled from the
recesses in the top roller in the manner described and is carried away to the
necessary machinery for future use.
After the fabrics with the detached pieces of material in position reaches
the second colour roller d' material of the second colour roller t2 from the batch t'
on the roller t is deposited upon it into the spaces between the pieces thus com-
pleting the linoleum or other floor cloth ready to be pressed and finished in any
convenient manner.
If it be required to employ three or more colours in the pattern additional pairs
of colour rollers would be required.
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 :-
In a machine for manufacturing "solid colour". linoleum and similar floor-
cloths-
1. The use and application of recessed rollers arranged in pairs, each pair cutting
out the solid pieces of material for one colour and placing them automatically in
and by a continuous operation upon a woven or other foundation substantially in
the manner herein set forth.
2. The combination with a recessed roller, of means such as a rotating drum
placed inside said roller and provided with studs or projections for ejecting the
solid colour pieces from the recesses substantially as and for the purpose
described.

page_text: 3. The general arrangement and combination of parts embodying our improve-
ments substantially as herein described and as illustrated by the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 15th day of March 1802
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.