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W. 'H.- TURNER. MACHINE FOR PRINTING-DESIGNS 0N PAPER TO BE APPLIED T0 BARTHENWABE, &0.

No; 374,644. Patentgd Deg. 13, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFF-ICEQ' WILLIAM HALES TURNER, OF TUNSTALL, COUNTY OF STAFFORD ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING DESIGNS ON PAPER TO BE APPLIED T0 EARTHENWARE, dc.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 374,644, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed February 5, 1887. Serial No. 226,710. (No model.) Patented in England November 24, 1886, No. 15,340.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALES TUR- NER, a subject of the Queen of England, re-

siding at Tunstall, in the county of Stafford,

of paper or other substance, and is particularly adapted for printing pat-terns to be subsequently transferred to china or earthenware.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of the end of the machine from which the paper is supplied. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof, and Fig. 3 a detail of the apparatus for supplying the color to the printing-roller.

A A are two vertical end frames rigidly connected by the rods B. 7 On brackets G is supported a rod or beam around which is wound a roll or series of rolls of paper, D, capable of revolving independently of each other.

E are rollers upon which the patterns are engraved. These rollers may be either of copper, copper coated with steel, or steel only. Any number of such rollers may be mounted side by side, the whole being hollow and heated by hot air, gas, or other suitable means for raising them to a considerable heat. On the sleeves E, which constitute the axis of the rollers, are mounted worm-wheels E, with which gear the worms F, the shafts F of which are driven by bevel-wheels F mounted on the shafts F and on a lay-shaft, F to which rotation is imparted by means of change-speed pulleys G and G, the latter being mounted on the main driving-shaft G The means of imparting the rotation to the rollers may, however, be varied to suit circumstances. As each of the rollers E has its own drivinggear, they revolve independently with each other, and any one or more of them may be stopped without interfering with the remainder by throwing the worm out of gear with the wheel with which it engages if the gear shown in the drawings be used.

Under each roller E is a roller, H, similarly ers E and H passes an endless traveling band,

J, preferably of milled flannel, which passes around guide-rollers J, J and J, the latter acting as a stretching-roller, adjustable by means of screws J bevel-wheels J gearing with other bevel-wheels, J, on shaft J which may be turned by hand-wheel J The color for each roller E is contained in a trough or vessel, K, the whole series being heated in a similar manner to the rollers. In each trough revolves a heated roller, K", the said roller revolving in contact with and supplying color to the printing-roller E, the surplus being removed by doctors or scrapers K attached to hollow metal blocks or casings K also heated as above described.-

K is a roll which revolves in contact with the roll E, and cleans off any lint or grease left on it from the size of the paper.

The paper after leaving the roll D passes around heated glass rollers or rods L, which iron it or remove any creases, after which it passes between a pair of rollers, M and M, the former of which revolves in contact with a dip-roller, N, partially immersed in a trough, N, containing size or other liquid, which is transferred by the roller M to the paper. Af-

ter being damped or sized, the paper travels along with the endless band under a drying apparatus, P, preferably steam heated, and thence between the rollers E and H, where it receives the impression of the pattern or design, the length of contact with the roller E being increased by means of the guide-rollers J so as to allow time for the proper application of the coloring-matter. Leaving the print- 'ing-roller, the paper is carried along with the endless sheet underneath rollers R, which rest on the margin at each side thereof, and is carried off upon an endless band, S, from which it is taken and applied directly to the potteryware. Instead of sizing the paper in the printing-machine, it may be sized during the process of manufacture; but when the sizing less band surrounding the plain roller and is done in the printing-machine the apparatus 1 partially encircling the printing-roller, substantially as and for the purpose specified; t 5

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

described is employed.

I claim The machine described, consisting of a printing-roller, a plain roller below the same, a color-trough and roller adjacent to the printing-roller, a doctor acting on the said printing roller, and glass smoothing rollers. or rods, all constructed to be heated, and an end- WILLIAM HALES TURNER.

Wituesses:

. ARTHUR P. LLEWELLYN,

SAML. DAVIES,

Solicitors, Tunstall, England.

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