An Improved Braille Type Embossing Machine.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Braille Type Embossing Machine.
I, LETITIA ALICE WALKINGTON of Edenvale, Strandtown, County Down,
Ireland, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to the production of Braille type matter for the blind and
consists of a pair of cylinders mounted in a suitable frame and rotating on horizontal
axes in such close proximity to each other that a sheet of paper or other suitable
material may be fed between them by their rotation.
The surfaces of these rollers are provided with projections which indent the
paper and form the usual Braille letter. They however are so arranged relatively
to each other that whilst one line of type on one roller is indenting the paper on
the one side a rubber strip on the other roller is forming a pad for the action of
the projecting type. The next moment however the projecting pins on the second
roller come into action and therewith the first roller has come to such a position
that a rubber strip thereon is presented to the paper to act as a pad to the projections
on the second roller.
Thus it will be seen the paper is printed or indented on both sides as it passes
between the rollers and the rollers being provided with suitable grooves or
notches for lines of type, new matter may be readily put in after removing the old,
or of course the cylinders or rollers may be exchanged for fresh ones.
Obviously such a machine may be worked by hand or power as may be most.
convenient in each-individual instance.
An Improved Braille Type Embossing Machine.
I, LETITIA ALICE WALKINGTON of Edenvale, Strandtown, County Down,
Ireland, Spinster, 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 the production of Braille type matter for the blind and
consists of a pair of cylinders A & B. mounted in a suitable frame C. and rotating
on horizontal axes D and E. in such close proximity to each other that a sheet of
paper or other suitable material may be fed between them by their rotation.
The surfaces of these rollers A and B which are carried by the frame C. are
provided with projections G. forming the type, which indent the paper and form
the usual Braille letter. They however are so arranged relatively to each other
that whilst one line of type on one roller A. is indenting the paper on the one side,.
a rubber strip H. on the other roller is forming a pad for the action of the projecting.
type, as shewn in Fig. 3.

page_text: The next moment however
Por type on the second roller B.
roller has come to such a position that a
rubber strip thereon is presented to the paper to act as a pad to the projections on
the second roller.
come into action and therewith ng pins c
Thus it will be seen the paper is printed or indented on both sides as it passes
between the rollers and the rollers.being provided with suitable grooves or notches
for lines of type, new matter may be readily put in after removing the old, or of
course the cylinders or rollers may be exchanged for fresh ones.
In order that the invention may be the more readily understood, reference is
made to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1. is a front view of the machine shewing the alternate rows of pins or
type G. with the rows of rubber pads H. on the rollers A and B.
Fig. 2. is a side view of the machine with the rollers A and B. fixed on axles D
and E. and mounted on the frame C.
Fig. 3. is a detail view of the rollers A. and B. shewing, the action respectively
of the type and the pad,
Obviously the machine may be worked either by hand or power as desired,
and any suitable material may be used in place of rubber in forming the pads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A Braille type embossing or printing machine as and for the purposes herein set
forth substantially as described and shewn in the foregoing Specification and the
accompanying drawing.
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Dated this 22nd day of January 1906
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J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,.
Agents for the Applicant.