1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VI.: John Dalton

4. DALTON, JOHN, Mottram-in-Longendale - Inventor.

Machine for printing calicoes, de laines, and other textile fabrics. By one process a corresponding or varied pattern is printed on each side of the fabric. It may be employed as a double printing machine, for printing on one side two pieces at the same time. The construction is applicable to printing machines generally, and consists in substituting for the ordinary iron printing cylinder, a newly-invented cylinder, constructed with the exterior surface of gutta percha, and in dispensing with the use of the endless-web or blanket, and the lapping, which is required in the ordinary machines, to afford a yielding surface to the action of the engraved roller. These new cylinders possess in a great degree the properties of permanence and elasticity, and are superior to other appliances, from their increased efficiency and economy. A more accurate and uniform impression of the pattern is obtained, and a saving of one-third of the power required to work the ordinary machines is effected. When used in two or more coloured machines, the fitting-in of the pattern will be correct, and without variation; and no allowance, as usual at present, will need to be given to the engraved rollers to compensate for the extension of the web.

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