IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES OR PRESSES, AND APPARATUS ATTACHED THERETO FOR STAMPING OR EMBOSSING PAPER OR OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Jones, of 246, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINES OR PRESSES, AND APPARATUS ATTACHED THERETO FOR STAMPING
OR EMBOSSING PAPER OR OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 3rd May 1861, and dated the 6th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
November 1860.
I, WILLIAM JONES, of 246, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINES OR PRESSES AND APPARATUS ATTACHED THERETO FOR STAMPING
OR EMBOSSING PAPER OR OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of improvements in machines or presses and
apparatus attached thereto for stamping or embossing paper or other sub-
stances whereby the pressure is obtained by percussive force.
According to one arrangement hereafter described, the stamp, when not
depressed, is kept raised parallel to the bed, and when struck it falls at an
angle with the bed. According to the other arrangement, the stamp rises and
falls parallel to the bed.
Upon a cast iron bed there are two projections to receive the axis of a
lever with a long and a short arm. To the top of the outer ends of the long

page_text: arm a button or knob is fixed, and on the under side of the same end of the
-lever-an-engraved_die_is_inserted or otherwise fixed. A corresponding
embossed matrix is fixed on the press bottom immediately under the die, into
which it enters, when the button is struck by the hand. A spring attached to
the under side of the bed, and connected to the outer end of the short arm of
the lever by means of a link passing through the bed, keeps the die or stamp
raised parallel to the bed.
According to the other arrangement, a bed is formed having a frame to
carry a die or stampholder so as to rise and fall parallel to the bed; to this
frame is attached a spring, one end of which enters a hole in the die holder,
and keeps it depressed. On the back of a die holder is a projection or stud
under which works a cam or tappit fixed on a horizontal axis, on which also
is fixed a button or knob; this button, when turned by the hand, causes the
tappit to revolve, which raises the die holder, and compresses the spring until
the tappit works clear of the projection or stud, when the dic holder and dic
falls by the force of the spring on to a matrix fixed below, and gives the
impression.
The apparatus attached to this embossing machine consists of a guide or
guage for holding paper, envelopes, or any other substance in a proper position
while receiving an impression; it is formed by two slides working at right
angles to each other. This is fixed to the press by means of steady pins or
screws falling or fitting into corresponding holes made in the bottom of
the press.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the g
6th May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JONES, of 246, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Machinist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Jones, Her special licence that I, the said William Jones,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said s
William Jones, niy executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time

page_text: agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES OR PRESSES, AND APPARATUS ATTACHED THERETO FOR STAMPING OR
EMBOSSING PAPER OR OTHER SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Jones, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Jones, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement :-
My Invention consists of improvements in machinery or presses and
apparatus attached thereto for stamping or embossing paper or other sub-
stances. In these Inventions the pressure is obtained by percussive force.
According to one arrangement hereafter described the stamp, when not
depressed, is kept raised parallel to the bed, and when struck it falls at an
angle with the bed. According to the other arrangement, the stamp rises
and falls parallel to the bed.
Upon a cast iron bed there are two projections to receive the axis of a lever
with a long and a short arm. To the top of the outer end of the long arm a
button or knob is fixed, and on the under side of the same end of the lever an
engraved die is inserted or otherwise fixed. A corresponding embossed matrix
is fixed on the press bottom immediately under the die, into which it enters,
when the button is struck by the hand; a spring attached to the under side of
the bed, and connected to the outer end of the short arm of the lever by means
of a link passing through the bed, keeps the die or stamp raised parallel to
the bed.
According to the other arrangement, a bed is formed having a frame to
carry a die or stamp holder so as to raise and fall parallel to the bed; to this
frame is attached a spring, one end of which enters a hole in the die holder,
and keeps it depressed. On the back of a die holder is a projection or stud,
under which works a cam or tappit fixed on a horizontal axis, on which also
is fixed a button or knob. This button, when turned by the hand, causes the
tappit to revolve, which raises the die holder and compresses the spring_until

page_text: the tappit works clear of the projection or stud, when the die holder and die
-falls-by-the-force-of-the-spring-on-to-a-matrix-fixed..below, and gives_the
impression on the bottom die.
Having fully described the nature of my Invention, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed will more fully and at large appear.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
WILLIAM JONES. (L.S.)