Improvements in Printing.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
Improvements in Printing.
I JULES HIPPOLYTE CORTHÉSY of 3 Montague Place, Richmond Hill, in the
County of Surrey, Secretary do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to the process generally used for printing from type,
stereotype or blocks of drawings or paintings by the means of printing machines or
printing presses, and has for its object to obtain prints which imitate type-writing.
In carrying out my invention I altogether suppress, in printing machines or
presses the use of ink, and I replace the latter by sheets of carbon paper, or any
other similar composition. The carbon paper is placed between the form of type,
or stereotype or blocks, and the paper to be printed upon, and in such a manner
that the carbon side of the carbon paper is turned towards the paper to be printed
upon, and the impression is then produced in the usual way by the printing machine
or press. Several prints may be obtained with each impression, by superposing a
number of sheets of paper to be printed upon, and placing carbon paper between
them.
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1004
J. H. CORTHÉSY.
Improvements in Printing.
I JULES HIPPOLYTE CORTHÉSY of 3 Montague Place, Richmond Hill, Surrey,
Private Secretary, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 certain improvements in printing and to the process
generally used for printing from type, stereotype or blocks of drawings or designs,
by means of any of the known or available printing machines or printing presses;
the object being to obtain prints or copies in imitation of typewriting by an agent
already inked or colored but from which ink or color can be expressed.
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It is known that type of ordinary kind but of design similar to that commonly.
used upon type-writing machines has been employed to produce copies, sheet by
sbeet, by ordinary typo-printing machines, in imitation of type-writing (that is in
imitation of "typo-autographie ") but the prints or impressions come off" too
sharp and clear, and the slight blur or characteristic imperfection which is apparent
and lends grace to a "type-written" letter (due to its apparently individual or
personal character of address) is conspicuous by its absence.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ forms of type or blocks, but in
effecting an impression from the raised surface of the type I do not apply (to and
by the surface of the type) ink direct, but I replace the duty of directly applied
ink by substituting sheets of carbon or "manifold paper or other similar
composition, as an inking agent for the impression.

page_text: The "carbon-paper" or sheet is placed between the type and the paper to be
printed upon
in such manner that the carbon side of the carbon-paper is turned
towards the paper to be printed upon; and the impression is then produced and
given off by the printing machine or press.
Several prints may be obtained with or at each impression by superposing a
number of sheets of paper to be printed upon and placing a "carbon paper" sheet
between each of them and by these means I can obtain copies with typewriting
appearance.
This multi-typo-autographic production of copies, will be found in many cases,
highly useful as, for instance, in issueing or sending out circular letters and
announcements of the kind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in printing characterised by the employment, as means or
agent, for giving off the ink or color impression, of carbon-paper or similarly
and previously prepared sheets, as and for the purpose herein specified.
$100
J. H. CORTHÉSY,
Per Walter A. Barlow,
7, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Expert.