IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURE OF TYPES AND DIES, AND IN THE APPARATUS FOR SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Hannart, of King Street, Clerkenwell, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF TYPES AND DIES, AND IN THE APPARATUS FOR SUCH
MANUFACTURE."
Scaled the 2nd July 1869, and dated the 5th January 1809.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Hannart at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th January 1869.
LOUIS HANNART, of King Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURE OF TYPES AND DIES, AND IN THE APPARATUS
FOR SUCH MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
The first part of these improvements relate to the manufacture of type
and other articles above mentioned by casting them in moulds, and the
second part to a method of making type of wrought and rolled metal,
the letters being cut out by machinery.

page_text: As regards type made by casting in moulds, the improvement consists
in making a long pattern or trough in wood or other suitable material
or substance with several separato letters thereon or therein placed at
suitable distances asunder for the purpose hereafter stated. The pattern
when cast from in sand I place in a planing machine and plane all the
sides true to a gauge; this done I cut or divide the casting crosswise
by a circular saw or other suitable means, so as to separate the letters,
which are then ready to be set up by the printer, each piece being as
near as may be of the same size, so that when set up they may present
a flush surface.
By the above means I propose to manufacture characters or devices
other than type, such as embossing blocks and other ornamenting tools
used by bookbinders, also crests, monograms, scals, endorsing stamps,
and numbering, dating, and alphabetical wheels used in stamping and
endorsing machines employed for various purposes.
In using metals which are subject to oxydation I propose to subject
them to the well-known galvanizing process.
And to make type of wrought metal I proceed as follows:-I take a
long strip of wrought metal and by means of rollers make it into a
trough, somewhat like the letter U inverted; and having planed this
piece in the manner before stated I proceed to mark on the top thereof
the letters or other characters I require, and proceed to cut out or
remove the metal round and about the shape of the several letters
or characters by means of revolving and reciprocating cutting tools
either moved about the shape of the letters or the letters moved to the
cutting tools, after which the letters are divided by the means before
stated ready for use. I use any metal suitable for printing from.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Louis Hannart, Her special licence
that I, the said Louis Hannart, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Hannart, my exccutors,
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, tho
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF TYPES AND DIES, AND IN THE APPARATUS FOR SUCH MANU-
FACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Hannart, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to bo performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the late of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Hannart, 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, that is to say :-
The first part of these improvements relates to the manufacture of
type and other articles above mentioned by casting them in moulds,
and the second part to a method of making type of wrought and rolled
metal the letters being cut out by machinery.
As regards type made by casting in moulds, the improvement consists
in making a long pattern or trough in wood or other suitable material
or substance with several separate letters thereon or therein placed at
suitable distances asunder for the purpose hereafter stated. The pattern
when cast from in sand I place on a planing machine and plane all tho
sides truo and to a gungo; this done I cut or divide the casting crosswise
by a circular saw or other suitablo means, so as to separate the letters,
which are then ready to be set up by the printer, cach piece being as
near as may be of the same size, so that when set up they may present
a flush surface.

page_text: By the above means I propose to manufacture characters or devices
other than type, such as enbossing blocks and other ornamenting tools
used by bookbinders, also crests, monograms, seals, endorsing stamps,
and numbering, dating, and alphabetical wheels used in stamping and
endorsing machines employed for various purposes.
In using metals which are subject to oxydation I propose if necessary
to subject them to the well-known galvanizing or other process.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
my said Invention for "Improvements in Manufacture of Types and
Dyes, and in the Apparatus for such Manufacture," together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as my Inven-
tion intended to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, manufacturing types and dyes in the manner and by
the means and apparatus above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Hannart, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
L. HANNART. (L.S.)