Improvements in Frinting Implements or Materials.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1900
Improvements in Frinting Implements or Materials.
I, ARTHUR JOHN SCOTCHMER, of 320, Markhouse Road, Leyton, in the County
of Essex, Compositor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention has for its object a new and improved means whereby the
blanks or whites required in setting up type blocks and the like in printing
formes can be obtained with greater facility and a considerable saving of time.
Up to the present time there are various means adopted for obtaining the blanks
or spaces of the required size such blanks being as a rule composed of pieces of
wood or metal technically known as furniture." This in most cases consists
of pieces of wood or metal of the required thickness and length packed or forced
into the frame at the required places and making the forme very heavy and
compelling the printer to keep a large stock of furniture of various lengths
always in stock.
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My new invention consists of a specially constructed and designed strut which
fits by means of a dovetail of circular or other plan section into metal side pieces
the whole forming a rigid frame whose length and breadth varies according to
the length of struts and side-pieces.
The strut is made of brass steel iron or of any other material that will not
warp or change in substance and by preference of a girder section such as the
H type to lighten the apparatus at the same time make it strong. At the top
part of each end of the strut I place the dovetail lug before mentioned which
lug fits into suitable holes sunk into corresponding positions in the side pieces.
When in use the struts of the required length are dovetailed into the side
pieces and the whole forms a rigid frame.
Dated this Sixth day of June 1899
Improvements in Printing implements or Materials.
I, ARTHUR JOHN SCOTCHMER, of 320, Markhouse Road, Leyton, Essex, 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 simple means for providing "blanks" whites" or
spaces in setting up or mounting type in printing frames or chases, and its

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object is to minimise the weight of the frame or chase, and to render the use of
such means more convenient than those usually employed for the purpose.
The means that are at present usually adopted for providing the blanks
"whites" or spaces in printing frames or chases, are pieces of wood or metal
known as "furniture" which are of various thicknesses and lengths, and are
packed or forced into the frame or chase where required. Such
"furniture
renders the frame or chase heavy, and necessitates a large stock of varying
length and size.
The present invention consists of "furniture made up into skeleton frames
made to any particular size by the use of side pieces, and distance pieces or
struts, which are jointed or connected to each other; the skeleton frames being
made to any particular size by the use of side pieces, and distance pieces or
struts, or elements of corresponding dimensions.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 represents in elevation a side piece or element for the formation of
the skeleton frame.
Figure 2 is a plan corresponding to Figure 1.
Figures 3 and 4 are plan and side elevation respectively of a distance piece,
strut, or element forming the skeleton frame by connection with the side pieces,
and
Figure 5 is a plan view of a skeleton frame so formed.
In carrying the invention into effect in the provision of "furniture" as
illustrated in the accompanying drawing, narrow bars or side pieces, such as A,
are provided of various lengths, which are preferably indicated therein in ems,
points or other notation, and are provided with circular dovetail or other shaped
recesses, such as B, for the reception of lugs such as D formed upon distance
pieces or struts, such as C, which are likewise provided of various lengths,
preferably indicated thereon.
The distance pieces or struts C are by means of their shoulders d rigidly
maintained in fixed relation with the side pieces or elements that are connected
thereby, and are preferably formed of H, T, or other similar section whereby
their weight may be reduced.
"Furniture" according to the invention is preferably made of brass or other
suitable metal; and is provided in pieces or elements of various standard
lengths such as would be required in use; the printer making up the size of the
furniture" he requires from such pieces or elements as herein before described.
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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:-
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Means for providing "blanks" "whites or spaces in setting up or mounting
type, substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 6th day of March 1000
EDWARD EVANS & Co.,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Lonsdale Chambers, 27, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., and
105, Colmore Row, Birmingham.