US155072A - Improvement in machines for printing skirts - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. DAVIES, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES G. BENNETT AND ANDREW E. SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR PRINTING SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,072, dated September 15, 1874; application filed February 14, 1874.

CASE B.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY J. DAVIES, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Machines for Printing Skirts, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to machines for printin g, or printing and embossing, skirts and other articles of circular or partly circular form. The invention consists in a combination, with one or more conical printing or embossing rollers and a conical impression-roller, of a closesided frame composed mainly of standards arranged to give a firm or unyielding support to both end bearings of the impression and printing rollers, with a clear space between two of the standards beyond the ends of the rollers for that portion of the skirt which does not require to be printed or embossed. The invention also consists in a combination, with a printing-roller and with the doctor used to remove surplus ink or color from the latter, of one or more guards arranged over the end portion or portions of said roller, within the length of the doctor, and between the printing-roller and the impression-roller, whereby the surplus ink or color distributed by the doctor toward the ends of the printing-roller is prevented, by the intervention of the guard or guards between the skirt and the printingroller at such portion, from streaking or marking the skirt.

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a machine, in part, for printing or embossing skirts, having my invention applied to it; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same on the line :10 ax, and Fig. 3 a horizontal section on the line y 3 In this machine, as in the one previously invented by me, for which Letters Patent N 0. 137,184 were issued March 25, 1873, I use a conical impression-roller, A, which is covered with india-rubber, or other like material, to give it a yielding surface; also a conical printing-roller, B, and, if desired, an additional conical embossing-roller arranged at a suitable distance from the printing-roller. Furthermore, the axes of these rollers all converge toprinting-rollers on the one side of them, and

of an arc form, with its edges struck from the point in which the axes and profile lines of the rollers A B would meet; also furnished on its outer side with a guide, b, for guiding the goods to be operated onto the rollers, said guide conforming to the arc shape of the ta- ;ble; The table 1) is of greater length, extending beyond the smaller ends of the impression and printing rollers A B, to provide for support of the upper part of the skirt, in part or in whole, which does not require to be printed. The frame for support of the journals of the impression roller A and of the printingroller B is of peculiar construction, and is what may be termed a close-sided one, being formed principally of outer uprights or standards E E, mounted on a suitable base, and preferably connected at their upper ends by a brace or cross-stay, F, also of an intermediate standard, G, which is arranged at a proper distance from the one outer standard, E, leaving a space, H, to accommodate the portion of the skirt not requiring to beprinted. These several standards serve to form bearings for support of the journals of the impression and printing rollers AB in a firm or steady manner, and without that liability to spring which is incidental to a support of the journals by means of a hanger.

The skirt to be ornamented, with its upper portion lying loose within the space H and over the narrowest end of the feed-table D, is fed over the latter with its bottom or outer edge against the guide to conduct it, as required, to the impression and printing rollers between the standards E E.

Arranged over the delivery edge of the tableD are a pair of rollers, S S, the lower one, S, of them extending the length of the table, or thereabout, and supported at both of its ends in bearings, while the upper one, S, of these rollers is of shorter length, corresponding to the depth of the printing to be done, or thereabout, and has only a bearing at its outer end 0, and its opposite or inner end d left open or free, preferably with capacity to yield by makingthe support 6, which carries said roller, an elastic one, and so that the skirt may readily be admitted between the two rollers S S, and under the free inner edge of the upper one. These rollers S S are also conical, and taper in the direction of the impression and printin g rollers. Said rollers serve to remove irregularities in the surface of the skirt, and to smooth or even it before the latter passes to the printing devices. Furthermore, there is arranged to lie up against, or in close proximity to, the impression-roller A, in advance of the printing-roller B, another similarly-taperin g roller, I, for the purpose of insuring the even laying of the portion of the skirt to be printed on the printing-roller, or between the latter and the impression-roller. J is the doctor, arranged to extend throughout the length of the printing-roller, and serving, as in other plain surface-printing rollers, for calicoprinting or other purposes, to scrape off or remove surplus ink. As, however, such surplus ink or color is collected or forced by the doctor toward the ends of the printing-roller, and as, in the present instance, a portion of the fabric under operation extends beyond the end or ends of the printing-roller or printing-surface of the roller B, and as such collection of ink would be apt to objectionably streak or mark the skirt or fabric, Iarrange over the end or ends of the printing-roller B, and between the latter and the impression-roller A, beyond the printing-surface of the roller B, but Within the length of the doctor J, one or more guards, K, which may either be elastic or rigid, and be carried by the base on which the table D rests, or by the standards of the main frame, but are shown as formed of elastic strips attached at their one end to the base L of the table, and free at their outer ends. In the feed of the skirt or fabric, the latter passes over these guards K, and between them and the impression-rollerA, thereby preventing the ink which is collected by the doctor at the ends of the printing-roller from coming in contact with the skirt.

I claim 1. The combination, with one or more conical printing or embossing rollers, B, and a conical impression-roller, A, of a close-sided frame for support of the rollers, and composed of two outer or opposite standards, E E, and an intermediate standard, G, leaving an open space, H, between the latter and its adjacent outer standard, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a printing-roller, accompanying impression-roller, and a doctor applied to the former, of one or more guards arranged over the end or ends of the printingroller, within the length of the doctor, and between the printing and impression rollers, essen tially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

HENRY J. DAVIES.

Witnesses:

HENRY '1. BROWN, MICHAEL RYAN.

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