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Description

. (No Model.)

P. D. HADDON & A. A. KUBNEMANN.

Patented Apr. 20, 1897.

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FRANK D. IIADDON, OF ROMILEY, AND ALBERT ARTHUR KUENEMANN, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

MACHINERY FOR PRINTING ON FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,202, dated April 20, 1897. Application filed September 1, 1896. Serial No. 604,543. (Np model.)

T all whom, zit may concern within the said trough and parallel with the Be it known that we, FRANK DANIEL HAD- surface thereof and partly projecting and in DON, of Romiley, in the county of Chester, and contact with the said engraved roller a just ALBERT ARTHUR KUENEMANN, of Manchesabove the line of meeting of the lint-doctor c 5 ter, in the county of Lancaster, England, subwith the engraved surface, so that the said jects of the Queen of Great Britain, have incovered or coated roller f will revolve by vented new and useful Improvements in or friction of contact with the engraved printing- Applioable to Machinery for Printing on Fabroller. rics, of Which the following is a specification. The covered roller may be parallel through- 10 This invention is designed for use in such out its length, so as to touch the printing-roller printing-machines as are fitted with means from end to end, so as to moisten and cool for furnishing differentcolors tovarious parts the whole printing-roller, or it may be cut of the same engraved printing-roller, the obaway at parts, as shown, so as only to be in ject of the invention being to prevent any contact with the engraved roller at those particles of color from caking upon the enparts where the color-furnishing rollers do graved roller at those parts where'it is not not touch, and thus moisten and cool only the kept moist by the color-f-urnisher and from required portions thereof. passing beneath the color-doctor and coming The trough is to contain water or other suitinto contact with the fabric to be printed and ableliquid and will be kept full to such a level 20 thus spoiling the same. that the lower portion of the covered roller Our invention will be readily understood f will dip therein and constantly feed such on reference to the accompanying drawings, moisture to the surface of the printing-roller in which we have illustrated our invention a, in contact with which it revolves, or, if preas being applied to a construction of printferred, the covered roller may revolve above 2 5 ing-machine With separated furnishers, such the level of the water or liquid in the trough as forms the subject of another application and be supplied therewith by means of a filed by us March 10, 1896, Serial No. 582,595, small f urnishing-roller revolving in the Water but We wish it to be understood that our presor liquid and in contact with the soft-coated ent invention maybe applied to manydiiferroller, or in any other convenient manner. 3o ent constructions of printing-machines in For example, the roller may be supplied at which different colors are furnished to the the desired points with liquids by means of engraved roller. a pipe f or trough having suitable perfora- In the present drawings, Figure 1 is a sections therein. (See Fig. 3.) tional elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, of a part In place of the soft-coated roller above de- 35 of an engraved rollerfurnished from a divided scribed we may in some cases use a fixed bar color-trough with our moistening apparatus provided with a strip or a series of strips of applied thereto. Figs. 3 and iillustrate modisome soft or spongy material f (see Fig. 4,)

fied forms of the moistener. one edge of which slightly presses on the sura is the engraved roller; 1), the furnisher, face of the engraved printing-roller, and wao 40 shown as a roller. ter or liquid may be supplied to such strip by c is the color-trough, divided into compartarevolving roller or otherwise,so as to dampen ments by the plates 0'. and cool the printing-roller as it revolves in d is the color-doctor. contact with the strip; or the moisture may 9 is the lint-doctor. be applied to the desired parts of the engraved 5 5 We fix on the lint-doctor shears c a long roller by allowing it to drip in very limited trough c and the lint-doctor e may be used quantities upon such parts or supplying it by as the under side of the trough 6 In thisis other equivalent means. mounted (so as to be capable of revolving) a The roller f and trough e or the other moisroller f, of iron or other metal, coated with a tening device may be separate from the lint- 50 soft pliable material or composition and so doctor and either above or below the same.

fixed at each end of the trough as to be partly We claim as our invention- The combination with an engraved roller names to this specification in the presence of furnished by separated furnishers with wrtwo subscribing witnesses.

1 10ns colors of mesnsfor nrorstenmgand eool- FRANK D .MDDON' 111g those parts of the said engraved roller y YFFW N not kept moist by the furnishing apparatus, b substantially as and for the purpose herein- \Vitnesses: before set forth. CHARLES A. DAVIES,

In testimony whereof we have signed our .TNO. HUGHES.

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