22 APPARATUS FOR P APEll-STAINING. 



Method of printing Light Grounds. 



Description of PI. I, fig. 1. A, the printer's table coverotl with a soft blan- 



the apparatus. ^Q^ g^ j|^g woollen cloth sieve on which the colour is laid 



and spread by a boy (called the tere-boy) with a hair brush. 



This cloth sieve is laid upon a leather sieve impervious to wet, 



and it floats upon some gum liquor, in a wooden vpssel C. 



D, D, two cords of S6 feet long, stretched from the table 

 A to the other end of the room, and kept tight by a weight 

 at B. 



F, F, an endless cord, passing round a grooved wheel G 

 under the table, over a pulley H, in the side of the table, and 

 and over another I, at. the other end of the room. Its use is 

 to carry the cross-piece K, called the traverse, which is fas- 

 tened to it. 



L, is a wheel fixed on the same axis as the wheel G, but on 

 the outside of the boarding of the table; it has three pegs 

 projecting about four inches from its face. This wheel is 

 moved by the printer setting his foot on one of the pegs. 



Fig. 2, is the traverse on a larger scale. M, ^I, are two 

 pieces of wood connected by a hinge at N, and when closed 

 are retained in that position by a ring O, put over the ends of 

 them : it is connected with the endless cord, by a staple P on 

 one side, and another staple on the other side, and slides along 

 the cords D, D, by meaiis of two pullies R, R. 

 Method of The operation of printing commences by putting one end 



printing light of the paper to be printed (which is 12 yards long and 23 

 groun s, inches wide) between the divisions of the traverse (fig. 2), and 



fastening it there by the ring O. The other part of the paperj 

 except what lies on the printing table, is wound round the 

 roller S. The workman takes up the printing block with his 

 right hand, dips the face of it on the woollen cloth in the 

 sieve, which t;he tere boy had previously spread with colour, 

 and then places the block upon the paper to be printed, giving 

 it two or three smart strokes with a leaden mail held in his 

 left hand ; he then removes the block to supply it with more 

 colour from the sieve; and duriog this operation sets his foot 

 upon the peg in the wheel ; and as' he recovers his upright po- 

 sition to bring the block over the table, his foot presses the 



