Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 7th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
I THOMAS ROWE WESTON No. 61 Hampton Park Bristol Iron Merchant do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the production of type plates and the like for
printing and similar purposes without the necessity of setting up type in the usual or
ordinary manner. The invention is accomplished in the following manner. I place under
or in connection with a type writer of any ordinary or special construction certain
plastic or suitable metal or material or substance to receive the type writing and so forth
(properly set for printing) from the type writer or instrument used, thus, the type
writer or instrument is made to write, stamp, mark or so forth the letters, figures,
stops, notes characters and the like upon the plastic or other material which shall
afterwards be hardened (if necessary) or otherwise prepared to act as a printing block,
plate, strip or the like to stereotype or print from. The type writer or instrument
may be worked by hand, electricity or other power and in certain cases the type and
the like may be pressed or so forth in any convenient manner against the plastic or
other material without the intervention of the type writer thus doing away in each
and every case with the necessity of keeping large quantities of loose type in printing
offices.
J
1007

page_text: A Method of Obtaining Type Plates and the like.
1, THOMAS ROWE WESTON, Iron Merchant of 131 St. Thomas Road, Finsbury Park,
in the County of Middlesex, 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 :—
My invention has for its object the production of type plates and the like for
printing, and similar purposes without the necessity of producing or setting up type
in the usual or ordinary manner commonly done by printers for the production of
printing matter and the like.
My invention is accomplished by placing under or in connection with a machine
fitted up with any description or style of type, sketch plates, notes or signs for music,
or any other matter, this said machine being commonly known as a type writer of
which there are several descriptions, but either or any of them I can use, by means
of which I place certain plastic or suitable metal, paper pulp, wax or any other such
like material which may be set in the type machine, properly set for printing from
the type writer or any other similar instrument or machine which may be made or
constructed to write, stamp, impress, or the like, the letters, imprints, stops, notes,
lines, characters, and the like upon the plastic material, which material shall afterwards,
be dried, hardened or otherwise prepared with any description of chemical or any
other production, to permit of the aforesaid plastic material plate to become sufficiently
hard that the said type plate material may be used as a printing block, plate, strip or
the like to stereotype or print from.
The aforesaid blocks, plates, strips or the like may be made of any thickness or
strength so that when the plastic material such as paper pulp or wax or any other
material of which they are composed is made sufficiently hard by drying, chemicals,
or any other substance or if desired they can receive a coating or skin of electro
copper (which said electro copper is similar to that deposited on ordinary type or
type founders metal), for blocks for printing or any other similar purpose.
The type writer, machine or instrument may be worked by hand, electricity or any
other driving power and in certain cases the type or the like may be pressed against
the plastic material without the intervention of the type writing machine. The type
plates may be turned or bent into any convenient shapes or manner, to permit the
aforesaid blocks, when dry or hardened or prepared, to fit on or in any printing
machine of either flat, circular, or any other shape. By the intervention of the
aforesaid type writer sufficient blocks may be procured or produced to enable a
printing business of any magnitude to be carried on by means of the aforesaid blocks
and thus save the necessity of keeping large quantities of loose type in printing offices
as is now commonly done. I do not limit myself to the particular size or shape of
the type plates and the like or the composition of the plastic material, paper pulp or
wax or the like or any particular process or chemicals to be used for hardening or

page_text: covering the aforesaid blocks, as these may be varied without departing from the nature
of my invention provided they be of such a nature as herein before described.
Having now particularly described the nature and object of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I claim as new and novel the
following:
First. The combination of any plastic materials such as paper pulp, wax or any
other soft material or metal to be placed beneath or in connection with any type
writer or the like, to print or impress on the said plastic material or substance or any
other soft material, to receive the impression or imprint of the type from the machine
or the like, substantially herein described.
Secondly. I claim the placing of loose letters, figures, stops, notes and the like to
be pressed against any plastic paper pulp or other like material, without the inter-
vention of any type writer or machine, substantially herein described.
Thirdly. The combination of any chemical, drying or any other process to harden
the aforesaid plastic material, paper pulp, wax or any other soft material blocks, or
by electro plating or any other such like process, to permit the said blocks to be used
for printing or any other purpose, substantially herein described.
Fourthly. That I claim I can prepare either of the plastic material, substance, paper
pulp, wax or any other material, before hardening, make, construct, or press the
aforesaid blocks, into any shape either flat, curved, circular or any other shape to fit
in any recess of any printing machine to further the process of printing therefrom,
substantially herein described.
13
1
3
с
1007