US101732A - Improvement in machine for coloring- paper-hangings - Google Patents

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(iititeli 51am 11e/latent @Mite JOHN HEIST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIG-NOR TO HIMSELF, OZINK, AND

H. SPOEHRER, Ol? SAME PLACE.

Leiters Patent No. 101,732, dated April 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINE lfOR COLORING PAPER-HANGINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the Samo- *04W*- 'TO au whom t 'may Wm'mf is a. proper pressure of a yielding nature applied to Be it known that I, JOHN HEIST, of the city and the paper to keep it against the color-box. State of New York, have inventedvzand' made an Im- The color-box j is hung upon arms m1,'t-he gudgeons px'ovement in Machine for Coloring `I-aper-Hangiugs, ot' said box extering the ends of' the-arms, and screws and the following is decla-red to be a correct descrip n,.beneath the arms m, serve to adjust the position tion of the same. j v of the box f vertically, and the clamping screws o This machine is for applying coloring material to serve to hold the box from swinging .upon the trunthe surface of paper to t'orni stri ped paper hangings. nions after it has been adjusted.

Before my invention, a box with a central division It will now be -understood thatthe color-box can and separate partitions had been made for receiving be lifted sufficiently for the paper to be inserted below coloring matter and applying the same to the `paperit, the arms 'm swinging as thebox is lifted.

hangings. The construction" ofthe same is costly, .The color-box is made of' a wedge-shape', with4v a and the colors have to be applied with great- Careto bottom of the width sufficient fortrecelvnig the vaprevent them being unequal. rions slots 'i fi that open into the compartments for In my invention the paper is drawn over an adjustcolor, formed by divisions that run entirely across the able presser-cloth between that and the color-box, so said box d.' that more oryless colorwill pass out from the color- Instead ot' these slots yi i being placed alternately, box upon the paper according tothe pressure of the I place them successively.in'advance of each other,. adjustable cloth, and I-monnt the color-box sothat it as shown in the inverted plan, iig. 2, in order that the may be adjusted to the proper position upon the pav stripe of' color may be complete from the slot that is per` nearest the roll a of' paper, and that the next stripe In the drawingmay be made contiguous thereto, and so on across the Figure lis avert-ical longitudinal section of the entire sheet of paper. v

machine, and l In this manner the stripe of color can be laid on Figure 2 is an inverted plan of the color-box. with considerable uniformity, and in order to cause The roll of paper, a, is supported upon afrollcr in the colors to run full at the ends of the slots and blend bearings ip the frame b, and is passed below the roller slightly, I make use of the shallow grooves passing c and over the presser-cloth :l and rollers e f', beneath off from -the ends of these slots i in the direction in the color-box f, to the table g. j e which the paper is moved.

The 'table g is of the necessary length f'or the pa I claim as my inveutonper-hanging after it is colored in stripes to lie out tlat 1. The adjustable presser-cloth dand rollers orsupuntil the color is snficiently dry or set. ports e e, in combination with -the color-boxfand A clamp, h, is employed to receive'the advancing mechanism for drawing the paper along, as specified. end of the paper a, and this clamp is connected with 2. The arms 'm and adjusting screws n, in combia. cord or rope passing around the-roller It' -to the winchnation with the color-box f and clamps ofor the trunroller l, so that the paper can be drawn along gradnns ot' said box, as and for the purposes specified.

ually beneath the color-box, and, at the same time, 3. The color-box f, with the slots through the unrolled from a. The paper. is to be cut oi in lengths bottom thereof, and arranged. in the manner specified,

and rolled up when dry. in combination with the divisions passing across from The presser-cloth (lwis attached, permanently, at one side to side of said box, as specified.

end at 2, and at the other end one or more screws, d, Signed by me. this 28th day ot' February, A. D.

are applied to a bar, or its equivalent, so as to tighten 1870. the same to whatever' extent may be necessary to keep the paperA properly and uniformly in contact with Witnesses:

the under side of the color-box, and, as thc color-box CHAS. SMITH, comes above the cloth d, between the rollers e c, there GEO. T. PINCKNEY.

JOHN HEIST.

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