Ornamenting Paper or other Material.
Year: 1885

page_text: Ornamenting Paper or other Material.
We, ROBERT FLETCHER PHILIPS of 7 Bedford St Salford, Engineer, JACQUES
STERNBERG of 31 Arcade Chambers, St Mary's Gate Manchester, Machinery
Agent, and THOMAS LAMBLEY ARCHER of 18 Fennel St Manchester, Gas Engineer
all in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR BRONZING AND OTHERWISE ORNAMENTING
PAPER OR OTHER MATERIAL to be as follows:-
"
Our invention relates to improvements in machines for bronzing or otherwise
ornamenting paper or other material and has for its object to simplify the con-
struction and increase the efficiency of such machines.
The improvements consist principally in carrying or bringing by means of a
cylinder without grippers the paper or other material to be bronzed or otherwise
ornamented under a certain appliance and combination of rollers to be described
hercinafter which perform the different operations necessary for bronzing or other-
wise ornamenting paper or other material thus dispensing with the endless band
or carrier rollers hitherto employed for this purpose.
This cylinder we make about 18" in diameter and arrange the same to be
rotated in bearings within a box or frame.
Each end of this box or frame is provided with a table, slot and grating, the
latter being fixed between the periphery of the said cylinder and the slot respec-
tively for the purpose of allowing the paper or other material to be treated to be
fed onto the cylinder and afterwards delivered onto the table on the delivery end.
The said gratings serve also to prevent the waste of bronze or other powder
which might be caused when the material operated upon enters or leaves the
machine and to catch the same by one or more drawers arranged below the said
gratings.
Above the grating on the feeding end we arrange a hopper, or bronze or other
powder distributor, to which we impart by suitable means, a shaking motion which
may be interrupted when required.
Between the said two gratings we arrange on the periphery of the cylinder
the appliance and combination of rollers herein before referred to, which consists of
four retaining rollers about 1 inch in diameter and rotated by frictional contact, a

page_text: bronzing or otherwise ornamenting roller of about 2 inches in diameter situated
on the feeding side, between the first and second retarding rollers, a rubbing or
polishing roller of about 6 inches in diameter between the second and third
retarding rollers, and an endless band made of suitable material which removes the
superfluous bronze or other powder from off the material under treatment between
the 3rd and 4th rollers.
The cylinder bronzing rubbing or polishing rollers are covered with suitable
material and mounted in bearings and driven and geared up from the driving or
cylinder shaft.

page_text: Ornamenting Paper or other Material.
We, ROBERT FLETCHER PHILIPS, of 7 Bedford St Salford, Engineer, JACQUES
STERNBERG of 31 Arcade Chambers, St Mary's Gate, Manchester, Machinery
Agent, and THOMAS LAMBLEY ARCHER, of 18 Fennel St Manchester, Gas Engineer,
all in the County of Lancaster, 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 for bronzing or otherwise
ornamenting paper or other material, and has for its object to simplify the con-
struction and increase the efficiency of such machines.
The improvements consist principally in carrying or bringing by means of a
cylinder without grippers, the paper or other material to be bronzed or otherwise
ornamented under a certain appliance and combination of rollers to be described
hereinafter, which perform the different operations necessary for bronzing or other-
wise ornamenting paper or other material, thus dispensing with the endless band
or carrier rollers hitherto employed for this purpose.
And in order that our invention may be better understood we have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 on annexed drawing is a side view, and Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of
the improved machine.
In carrying out our invention we employ a cylinder a without grippers, about 18",
in diameter and arrange the same to be rotated in bearings b within a box or
frame c.
Each end of this box or frame is provided with a table d & d', slots e & e¹ and
gratings f, f, and f", the gratings fand f¹ being fixed between the periphery of
the said cylinder a and the slots e and e¹ respectively, and the grating f' against
the dusting roller g, for the purpose of allowing the paper or other material to be
treated, to be fed onto the cylinder a, and afterwards delivered onto the inclined
table don the delivery end.
The said gratings serve also to prevent the waste of bronze or other powder,
which might be caused, when the material operated upon enters or leaves the
machine that is to say, to allow the superfluous bronze or other powder to drop
through the said gratings and through a drawer i into a hopper b¹ which conducts
it into a bottle b* or other suitable receptacle, a sheet iron apron 63 being employed
to prevent the bronze or other powder from falling onto the cylinder a.
The drawer i, employed below the gratings fand f' and cylinder a is formed of
wire rods ¹, so as to allow the superfluous bronze or other powder to drop through
the said drawer, while the paper or other material under treatment, which might
pass between the cylinder a and gratings fand f1, is caught by the wire rods ¿¹
and afterwards may be taken out of the machine by simply withdrawing the
drawer ¿.
Above the grating f on the feeding end we arrange a hopper l, or bronze or other
powder distributor, to which we impart by means of the cam m, lever arm m¹ and

page_text: spring m³, a shaking motion which may be regulated or interrupted when required,
by means of the quadrant lever n and rod n¹.
Between the said two gratings f and f¹, we arrange on the periphery of the
cylinder a the appliance and combination of rollers herein before referred to which
consists of the retarding rollers 0, 0¹, and o² & 03 about 2 in. in diameter, and
rotated by frictional contact, a bronzing or otherwise ornamenting roller p of
about 2 in. in diameter, situated on the feeding side between the first and second
retarding rollers o and o¹, a rubbing or polishing roller q of about 6 in, in diameter,
between the second and third retarding rollers o¹ and o² and an endless band
between the third and fourth retarding rollers (02 and 0% or preferably a dusting
roller g for the purpose of removing the superfluous bronze or other powder from
off the material under treatment, in which latter case, the fourth retarding roller o³
is dispensed with.
The cylinder, bronzing, rubbing or polishing, and dusting rollers aro covered
with suitable material and mounted in bearings, and driven and geared up from
the driving or cylinder, shaft a¹ in the following manner.
The cylinder shaft a' is on one end provided with a large spur wheel a² to which
motion is transmitted by means of the wheel q' fixed on the respective end of the
rubbing or polishing roller shaft q2 from a driving pulley. q³, .fixed on the opposite
end of the rubbing or polishing roller shaft q2. Behind the said driving pulley q³
a spur wheel c¹ is arranged on the shaft q2 which transmits motion by means of
an intermediate or stud wheel c² to a spur-wheel c³ keyed on the respective end of
the bronzing roller shaft p¹, which latter is also provided with the cam m from
which the hopper is actuated.
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The dusting roller shaft h¹ on the opposite side to the driving pulley'³ is`
provided with a spur wheel h² which receives its motion from the spur wheel q on
the rubbing or polishing shaft q2, through the intermediate or stud wheel h³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim, is
1st In a machine for bronzing or otherwise ornamenting paper or other
material, the use and employment of a cylinder without grippers for the purpose
of carrying or bringing the material to be treated, under a bronzing or otherwise
ornamenting appliance, substantially as set forth.
2nd The use and employment of the cylinder a in combination with the bronzing
or otherwise ornamenting appliance consisting of the bronze distributor l, bronzing
roller 2 rubbing and polishing rollers q, dusting roller g and retarding rollers o, o¹,
& o², for the purpose specified substantially as set forth.
Dated this 17th day of November 1885. .
Pro ROBERT FLETCHER PHILIPS,
JACQUES STERNBERG, and
THOMAS LAMBLEY ARCHER,
Bosshardt & Grant,
Agents to the Applicants.