Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Stereotyping.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Stereotyping.
I, WILLIAM WARD of 42 King Street, Hull in the County of York, Stereotyper,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct stereotype plates without any
superfluous metal round the edge of the plate as heretofore, thus effecting a great
saving of time and labor, and entirely doing away with machinery for cutting,
planeing or sawing off the said edges."
I construct the gauges and furniture for stereotype plates, with recesses cast
upon their inner edges, the papier mache mould is raised round the edges by having
a packing of suitable substance inserted between the layers, so as to bear against
the recesses in the gauges or furniture; the said mould is put in the casting box
with the gauges or furniture on the top, with the recesses downward, the raised
edge of the papier mache mould bearing against the top of the recesses in the
gauges or furniture, the metal is then poured in a liquid or molten state, and runs
to the raised edge of the mould which bears against the recesses in the gauge or
furniture; by this means there are no superfluous edges left on the stereotypo
plate.
Dated this 27th day of August 1801
JOHN E. WALSH,
Saville Street, Hull, and Quality Court, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Stereotyping.
I, WILLIAM WARD of 42 King Street, Hull in the County of York, Electro-
typer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same
5 is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct stereotype plates without any
superfluous metal round the edges of the plates as heretofore, thus effecting a
great saving of time and labor, and entirely doing away with machinery for
O cutting, planing, or sawing off the said edges.
Fig. 3. shows my improved furniture.
5 Fig. 4. is a section of same.
Fig. 5. is a section of papier maché mould raised at its edges.
I construct the gauges A and furniture B. for stereotype plates with recesses.C.
and D. cast or formed upon their inner edges, the papier maché mould E. is raised
round the edges at F, by having a packing of suitable substance inserted around
the edges between layere, or upon the back, so as to bear against the recesses in
the furniture.
The stereotypers furniture B. is put around the printers type, and by means of
the recesses D'around the inner edges of the furniture, the stereotype mould is

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formed with the raised edges F, such raised edges fitting into the recesses of the
gauges.
The said mould is put in the ordinary casting box with the gauges on the top
around the edges, with the recesses downwards, the raised edge of the papier maché
mould, bearing against or filling into the top of the recess in the gauges, the
casting box is then closed, and the metal is poured in, in a liquid or molten state,
and runs over the face of the mould to the raised edge of the mould, which bears
against the recesses in the gauges; by this means there are no superfluous metal
edges left on the stereotype plates, which in ordinary cases have to be cut away
or otherwise removed.
Having now particularly described and 'ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The special construction of gauges and furniture for stereotyping, so dispensing
with cutting the plate edges, in the manner such as shown and described.
Dated this Twenty-third day of May 1892.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Saville Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.