An Improved Machine applicable for Stamping, Branding, ог Marking Tin and Terne Plate Packing-boxes, and for other analogous uses.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine applicable for Stamping, Branding, ог
Marking Tin and Terne Plate Packing-boxes, and for other
analogous uses.
I, DAVID GREY, of Maesteg, Glamorganshire, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to an improved machine for stamping, branding or marking
the wooden boxes in which tin and terne plates are usually packed, the machine
being also applicable for stamping, branding or marking any required letter-press,
designs or other matter on other material, and being intended to supersede the use
of hot iron stamps, stencil-plates and other means at present in use for the aforesaid
purpose of stamping, branding or marking.
The improved machine is represented on the accompanying drawings in side
elevation in Fig. 1, and in front elevation in Fig. 2.
The improved machine is constructed with a supporting framing 3, at the front
end of which are mounted standards 4, supporting the centre pin 5, of a lever 6,
one arm or end of which extends over and is connected by a pin 7, to a removable
and adjustable stock-head 8, and the other and longer arm of which lever extends
backwards to over a piston or ram 9, projecting from a steam or water cylinder 10,
mounted at the rear part of the framing 3. The cylinder 10, is connected with the
steam or water supply by piping 11, a three-way cock 12, and suitable connections,
the cock 12, being under the control of a suitably supported hand lever 13, within
easy reach of the operator and connected thereto by suitable connections 14.
The stock-head 8, is mounted on the pin 7, with facility of being turned about
the pin as a centre, as indicated by the dotted line a,-, and it is adapted with a
lever arm 15, to facilitate this movement. Its under face is dovetailed or
equivalently formed for the reception of removable stamps or dies 16, made of steel,
iron, brass or other suitable metal or material, on the face of which dies are cut, in
sufficiently high relief for the intended purpose, the letter-press, design, or other
matter 17, they are desired to bear.
The front of the standards is formed or adapted with a block 18, on which the
box or article 19, to be stamped, branded or marked is placed. When it is intended
to use the improved machine, the article 19, to be marked is placed upon the
block 18, and the stock-head 8, is turned out to about the position indicated in
dotted lines Fig. 1, which exposes the stamping face of the die 16, so that it can be
readily rolled over with printer's ink or other suitable black or other coloring
matter, after which it is allowed to swing back to the position indicated in full
lines. When both the die 16, and the article to be marked are ready, the hand-
lever 13, is operated so as to cause the motive agent to be admitted to the
cylinder below the piston or ram-head 20, therein, so as to elevate the same and
raise the superposed end of the lever 6, which causes the other end of such lever
to be depressed and the attached die to be forcibly driven into the substance of the
article 19, thus indelibly stamping and branding the same both in the substance
thereof and in color. In such cases, however, as may be desired, the blacking or
coloring of the dies need not be effected, in which case the desired design will
only be stamped into the substance of the article 19.
Upon subsequently reversing the hand-lever 13, the steam or motive agent is
allowed to escape from below the piston through the exhaust connection 21, the
superposed end of the lever 6, falling with the piston and releasing the article 19,
so as to allow of its removal.

page_text: In lieu of operating the lever 6, by steam or water power, it may be operated by
a cam-shaft or by a screw motion acting upon its longer arm.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
1. The hereinbefore described improved machine applicable for stamping,
branding or marking tin and terne-plate packing boxes and for other analogous
uses.
2. The application, in combination, of the lever 6, and of the adjustable
die-carrying stock-head 8.
Dated this 6th day of December 1890.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.