US1547776A

US1547776A - Form of plates and rollers to ornament sheet materials

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Publication number: US1547776A
Application number: US731940A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ball Jay Otis
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-08-14
Filing date: 1924-08-14
Publication date: 1925-07-28
Anticipated expiration: 1942-07-28

Description

Jul 28, 1925.

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Application fled August 14, 1924. Serial No. 781,940. To all whom it may concern: Referring now to the accompanying Be it known that I, JAY OTIS Benn, a drawing, wherein like reference characters citizen. of the United- States, resldm at represent corresponding parts, Figure 1 rep- Bo ota, in the county of Bergen and tate resents a section of the master printing sur- 5 of ew Jerse have invented a new and face, which may be either male or female, to novel Form 0 Plates and Rollers to Ornasuch terms being used in the art to refer ment Sheet Materials, of which the follow-- to raised or intaglio surfaces respectively, ing is a specification. as previously described. In this instance The object of the invention is to proa male roller isselected as offering a simple vide' a novel form of lates and rollers to Illustration of the app i n f y inVen- 65 ornament sheet materia s such as paper, textion, although it will pe evident that both tile fabrics and the like, and the method of types of rollers may 'be used, without demaking the same. parting from the splrit of my invention. The invention provides a method for mak- The master printlng surface may be either ing platesandrollers for ornamenting sheet hand-engraved or made by the photo-me- 7 I materials, which differs from'the methods ellanie l pro ess; and it will be noted that di il d i th i t t ti surface areas appear on this roller for the lars; first, in that one master printing surprlntlng of all the colors des1red; a repface is made with all the printing"'surfaces n ng 'p inting Surface to rint one appearing thereon for all the colors that lor, b representing such sur ace as is are desired on the finished product; second, deslred 1n another color, and c and d? in that several color printing rollers are epresentln surfaces for printing other admade, from said master printing surface; d tlonal co ors.

and third, in that a method is provided for Fi%1re 2 illustrates the roller for print:

making embossing rollers, when desired, ing 1: color surface a, with all the porfrom the master printing surface. trons of theroller not necessary for print- More specifically, the invention provides: g t 1 1 a? r nted oil"- Figure 3 rep- 'Fi t1 f va te i ti f resents the section of the roller necessary which may be made either by hand engravo p n l g h With. the p 30 ing or photo-mechanical processes, all the tlons for printing the other colors rendered printing surfaces for all the colors desired P lgure 4: represents the poron the finished product appearing on the tion of the roller necessary for prlnting the one surface. color a; and Figure 5 represents the pors ndl d li at u h l ct t p 'tlon of the roller necessary for printing the stereotypes, transferred and etched dupli- 1 1 Wlth other surfaces routed off. cates, or the like, are then made from this .It will be evident that these duplicate master printing surface. As many duplirollers need not be electrotype rollers; for cate rollers are made from the master prlntwithmthe scope of my invention, duplicates ing surface as may be desired for the sev- 'of'the original master printing surface may 40 eral colors; surfaces on said duplicate rollbe made in other ways; such as, for iners that would print other areas than destance, the taking of impressions from the sired for the one color on each roller are original master printing surface, transfertreated so they will not print, as by routing ring them to rollers, and then treating suroff projecting surfaces or filling intaglio face areas other than the one necessary to 45 surfaces. Thus the several color printing print the one particular color, so that colors rollers are made without engraving each not desired will not print. roller separately. It should be noted that Having thus described and illustrated my difliculties of registration are avoided in invention what I claim is: that the duplicates of the master printing 1. The method of making an embossing F surface are all in perfect registration. roller comprising the making of a master Thirdly, embossing rollers may be made printing surface having surfaces for ornafrom the master printing surface, or from menting in several colors, making an emortions of it, by makin duplicates with bossing roller from this master printin surollow'portions in the ro er for such surface and treating said embossing ro er so faces as may be desired to lie embossed. that surfaces appearing on said master printing surfaces not necessary to embossappearing thereon for all the coiprs in a ing in accordance with a preconceived depreconceived design, with such portions in sign are rendered inoperative on the emthe embossing roller that are not desired to H) bossing roller. emboss rendered inoperative in the emboss- 2. An embossing roller for ornamenting' ing roller sheet material comprising a complement of a master prmting surface with surface area JAY OTIS BALL.