AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR EMBOSSING AND STAMPING PAPER, LINEN, AND OTHER FABRICS, AND SUBSTANCES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pinches, of No. 27, Oxendon Street, Haymarket,
in the County of Middlesex, Die Sinker and Medallist, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR EMBOSSING AND STAMPING PAPER, LINEN, AND
OTHER FABRICS, AND SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pinches at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th June
1860.
I, JOHN PINCHES, of No. 27, Oxendon Street, Haymarket, in the County of
Middlesex, Die Sinker and Medallist, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR EMBOSSING AND STAMPING PAPER,
LINEN, AND OTHER FABRICS AND SUBSTANCES," to be as follows (vizt.) :-
The Invention consists in the die or the embossing and stamping tool
being carried by and placed at or near one end of a lever spring or arm acted
on by a spring, the other end of such spring or arm being the fulcrum or
centre of motion. In this press the whole space between the die and the
back of the press, or the distance from the die to the centre of motion, is
available for the articles, or fabrics, or substances to be stamped or embossed,
so that paper, envelopes, and other articles may be placed under the die and
stamped either from the front or the back in the same press, rendering it appli-

page_text: cable for the above mentioned purposes, and doing away with the necessity
of either removing the die or having a duplicate press and die. The die
may be raised from the counter or pressed down to the counter, the spring
giving the return action.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Pinches in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PINCHES, of No. 27, Oxendon Street, Haymarket, in the County of Middlesex,
Die Sinker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Pinches, Her special licence that I, the said John Pinches, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Pinches, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time 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 "AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR EMBOSSING
AND STAMPING PAPER, LINEN, AND OTHER FABRICS AND SUBSTANCES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said John Pinches, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 John Pinches, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in the die or the embossing and stamping tool
being carried by and placed at or near one end of a lever spring or spring
lever, the other end of such lever spring or spring lever being the fulcrum or
centre of motion. In this press the whole space between the die and, the

page_text: back of the press, or the distance from the die to the centre of motion, is
available for the articles or fabrics or substances to be stamped or embossed,
so that paper, envelopes, and other articles may be placed under the die and
stamped either from the front or the back in the same press, rendering it
applicable for the above-mentioned purposes, and doing away with the
necessity of either removing the die, or having a duplicate press and die. The
die may be raised from the counter or pressed down to the counter, the spring
giving the return action.
The annexed Drawing shews a side elevation of a press constructed
with a lever spring or spring lever, the several parts of which will require
no further information or explanation than an inspection of the Drawing
affixed.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I am aware
it has been proposed to place the die or stamp on a lever connected with
and raised by a separate spring, and what I claim as my improvement is
the die or stamp carried by a lever spring or spring lever as above described
and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pinches, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JOHN PINCHES. (L.S.)