US1797038A - Printing machine for textile fabrics - Google Patents

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March 17, 1931 P. M. ZLYDIN PRINTING MACHINE FOR TEXTILE FABRICS or'i inal Filed Nov. s, 1928 FIG.2

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Patented Mar. 17, 1931 ETED STATES PATENT OFFICE PETER M. ZLYDIN, 0F ASTORIA, NEW YORK PRINTING MACHINE FOR TEXTILE FABRICS Original application filed November 6, 1928, Serial No. 317,580. Divided and this application filed June 4.,

1930. Serial Mly invention relates to printing machines for textile fabrics and has a particular reference to machines for printing line figures or patterns on fabrics or cloth.

In a well known art of dyeing fabrics in difierently colored patterns, under the name of batik, it is necessary to outline the patterns with a composition, impervious to water soluble dyes.

Usually this work is performed by hand in the following manner: A small piece of cloth is stretched on a frame and the outline of the design or pattern is drawn by a thin brush, using some impervious to water substance such as a glue or rubber solution. The spaces between the lines are painted by dyes of different colors.

The manual process is very slow and expensive. It can be greatly simplified and cheapened, however, by means of my machine, in which the lines are printed by a single impression, and several pieces of goods can be printed one after the other from the same pattern block.

My invention is more fully described 111 the accompanying specificaiton and drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my machine, Fig. 2 is a plan view of same partly in section, Fig. 3 is a detailed View ofthe printing table, and Fig. 4: is a detailed view of a printing block.

This is a divisional application of my application Serial No. 317,580, filed Nov. 6, 1928.

My machine consists of a table 1 supporting atray 2 preferably made of metal. The tray has dowel or guiding pins 3 attached to its sides. These pins slida-bly fit 1n the holes in clips or brackets 4: attached to the sides of a stretcher or stretching frame 5 on which a piece of goods 6 is tightly stretched.

A second tray 7 is placed inside of the first tray 2 and is supported on the ends of levers 8 pivotally supported on ivots 9 on brackets 10 attached to the sides 0 the tray 2.

The free or outer ends of the levers 8 are provided with hooks or eyes for cords 11 extending around sheaves 12 to a central c onnector 13. A cord (or chain or a similar flexible carrier) let extends from the connector around a central sheave 15 to the end of a lever arm 16. This arm is rotativeiy mounted on a pin 17 on a bracket 18. The free end of this lever is provided with a pedal 19 (a handle may be also used if so preferred).

The pattern of a design is formed by means of lead blocks or strips 20 bent to the required shape and cemented to the bottom of the tray 7. Instead of cementing the strips can be soldered in a few spots to the bottom if the tray is made of a suitable metal.

The pattern strips 2O are. provided with narrow grooves 21 at the top for the printing solution. They are all of the same height so that their tops form a level surface.

The operation of my machine is as follows.

The tray 2 is filled with a suitable composition such as a rubber or glue solution. The

weight of the tray 7 tends to keep it down in the tray 2, and the cords 11 are relieved from tension by a spring 22 which pushes the free end of the lever 16 up.

The frame 5 with a piece of cloth 6 stretched on its under side is then placed on the pins 3 resting on the edge of the tray 2 or on special blocks 23.

In this inoperative position of the tray 7 there should be sufiicient amount of glue in the tray 2 to cover the tops of the strips 20.

The pedal 19 is then depressed thereby turning the levers 8 and raising the tray 7 (Fig. 3) until the topsof the strips 20 press againstthe cloth 6. The grooves 21 become filled with glue and transfer same on the cloth thereby printing the outline of the pat tern or design with an impervious line of a uniform width. I The frame 5 is then removed from the machine and is transferred to another machine for filling the spaces between the lines with dyes of different colors.

Important advantages of my machine are that it provides a means for rapid printing on the cloth of pattern outlines with impervious to water solutions thereby replacing a slow and expensive manual labor for this purpose.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a printing machine for textile fabrics, the combination with a table, of a tray on said table adapted to contain impervious to water solutions, strips in said tray forming a pattern of a design, means to support a piece of fabric above said tray, andmeans to raise said strips from said tray so as to bring said strips in a contact with said fabric thereby imprinting said design on said fabric.

2. In a printing machine for textile fabrics, the combination with a table, of a tray sup ported on said table, and adapted to contain impervious to water solutions, a second tray in said first tray, strips in said second tray forming a pattern of a design, means to support a piece of fabric above said trays, and means to raise said second tray until said strips come in contact with said fabric thereby imprinting said design on said fabric with said solutions.

3. In a printing machine for textile fabrics, the combination with a table, of a tray supported on said table and adapted to contain an impervious to water solution, a second tray in said first tray, vertically arranged strips in said second tray forming a pattern of a design, the top edges of said strips being provided with grooves for said solution, means to support a piece of fabric above said'trays, and means to raise said second tray until said strips come in contact with said fabric thereby imprinting said design with said solution.

4. In a printing machine for textile fabrics. the combination with a table,-of a tray supported on said table and adapted to contain an impervious to water solution, a second tray in said first tray, vertically arranged strips in said second tray forming a pattern of a design, levers supporting said second tray so that the tops of said strips are below the level of said solution, a pedal, operating connections between said levers and said pedal, a frame adapted to be supported on said table above said trays and adapted to support a pieceof fabricin a stretched condition. said levers being adapted to raise said second tray until said strips come in a contact with said fabric thereby imprinting said pattern on said fabric, when saidperlal is operated.

In testimony whereof I affix int signature.

' 'PETER M. ZLYDIN.

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