US824016A - Poster and color printing. - Google Patents

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Np. 824,016. 'IPATENTED JUNE 19, -190s. 0. s. HEBRMANGE. POSTER AND COLOR PRINTING. APPLICATION I'ILE D APR.27.-1903. RENEWED AUG. 29, 1906.

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To all whom it may concern:

UNITED. STATES .LPATENT orrron I Specification of Letters Ifatent.

POSTER AND ooLo n PRINTING.

Patented June, 19, 1.9.Q6.

- Application filed April 27, L903. Renewed August 29, 1905. Serial No. 276,323.

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. HEER- MANGE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the fountain.

' one of the conducting-plates.

State of California, have invented an Improvement in Poster and'Color Printing; and

I hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in the printing of characters of any description in a variety of colors andat-a single impres' sion.

It consists in making the printin surface or form of felt or equivalent soft a sorbent material and superposing the form upon one or more fountains or containers with means by which the ink is raised by capillary attraction or otherwise, so as to be absorbed by the characters on the form, and thence trans mitted to the surface upon which the printing is to take place. By the'use of fountains or ink-containers of different shapes and with different colors a variety of shades and colors may be printed, so as to mergeinto each other or to be variously disposed with relation to each other.

Referring to the accompanying drawi%gs,

1g. 2 is a section through B, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a form and a part of the fountain. Fig. 4 is a perspective of Fig. 5 shows two forms of different colors and their fountains. 1

It is the object of my invention to produce a variety of colors or effects from a single impression.

As shown in the accompanying drawings, 2 represents the ink-containing receptacle or fountain. I have here shown it made with strips of metal or other suitable material 3, extending from end to end of the containingbox and retained in a substantially vertical position by means of guides or supports.

These supports may either be fixed within the receptacle or, as here shown, they are attached to each of the plates 3, so that when the plates are inserted into the receptacle they will beself-sup orted at a suflicient distance apart. In or er to lighten these plates and also rovide for the free flow of ink through t e interspaces, I have shown the plates having cut-out portions of any suit-- able form and size, as at 4. The plates are partially covered or have otherwise applied to them any fibrous or porous material 5,

I vey the ink upwar which will .act by cafiillary attraction to con- T y to the surface. The form, which may be of any suitable description and which ishere illustrated by a single, letter, as at 6, is placed upon the fountain, so that its lower surface rests upon the porous or conducting material 5. This form is made of an absorbent felt or equivalent material which will take up the ink from below and transmit it through its own substance to the ing when the surface to be printed upon is applied and pressed upon it.

In order to apply a number of colors, a

number of ink-containers may be disposed.

with relation to each other, so that different colors may be placed in each container, and

being raised to the surface and absorbed by the form these colors will intermin 'le at their meeting edges and produce shaded, spotted, or other desired effects dependent upon the arrangement of the ink-containers with relation to the form. Thus by placing a series of containers side by side in the direction of the length orwidth of the form the division-lines between the colors will be shaded into each other throu h the absorbent material of the form and w en im rinted will produce the shaded effect and t e intermediate colorresultant u on the mixing of the two primary colors 0 the two ink-containers. These surface, and it thus is in readiness for printmay be arranged in an infinite variety of ways. By placing the ink-containers one within another either circular, square, or any desired polygonal form may be obtained, and

an equivalent disposition of colors upon the printed surface will result. This form of printing .is especially designed for printing posters and large surfaces in which a considerable quantity of color is massed in each part of the printed surface. Having us described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' v 1 An improved device for color-printing consisting of a porous absorbent form interosed between the ink-container and the surace to be printed, and means including plates with a transverse wrapping of absorbent material for transmitting the ink through the absorbent form.

2. A device for color-printing consisting of a porous absorbent form or rintingsurface, an ink-containing receptac e, lates positioned in the container, and absor ent strands or surfaces wound transversely about the plates and dipping into the ink-receptacle and contacting with the under surface of the absorbent form whereby the ink is trans- Ifnitted through said form to the printing-surace.

3. A device for multicolor-printing consisting of a plurality of receptacles containing difierent-colored inks and disposed contiguous to each other, a form or rinting-surface made of felt or equivalent a sorbent ma-- terial and disposed above the ink-recepta- I cles, plates in the container and provided with passages for the inks, and absorbent strands or the like wound about the plates and dipping into the ink-receptacles and having their upper portions contacting with the lower surface of the form.

4. A device for color-printing consisting of an ink-receptacle, plates supported on edge within said receptacle having fibers, strands hand.

CHARLES S. HEERMANUE Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, JESSIE O. BRODIE.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 3 5

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