AN IMPROVED LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Worssam, of Commercial Wharf, Kingsland
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS."
Sealed the 3rd July 1868, and dated the 9th January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Worssam at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th January 1863.
I, CHARLES WORSSAM, of Commercial Wharf, Kingsland Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED LITHOGRAPHIC PRESS," to be as follows:-
For printing on paper, and for transferring the print or writing on to
rollers, and taking impressions therefrom.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
No. 1 is the end view of No. 2, shows the cross head A, the screw B to
rise and fall, the scraper box C, the frictions D, driven by a wheel at the end
of the shaft to drive the bed forward and back.
No. 2, side view, with carriage on wheels, working on a tramway to and
fro, driven by frictions D, to carry the bed and stone; motion Ę is a quadrant

page_text: and lever with two rods connected to a beam above, for the purpose of raising
the scraper box from the stone, and also for moving the frictions in and out of
gear;
this motion works on both sides of the press.
No. 3, side view of a frame containing two transfer rollers and small rollers
for damping and inking, provision being made to take the transfer rollers out
to receive new transfers for printing.
No. 4 is the end view of No. 3, showing the two rollers in the two standards,
with two screws to set the top roller down; the rollers are driven by a rigger
and toothed wheels; the materials used for making the rollers are wood,
paper, stone, composition, zinc, copper, iron, or any other metal.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same.
First, I would have it understood that I claim the frictions D and the
motions E to take the bed and stone to and fro.
Second, I claim as an entire new method of printing on paper by making
the transfers or engraving on the surface of one or both rollers, and taking
impressions therefrom on one or both sides of the paper at the same time by
rotary action.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Worssam in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th July 1863.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WORSSAM, of Commercial Wharf, Kingsland Road, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred, and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Worssam, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Worssam,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Worssam, my executors, 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, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED LITHOGRAPHIC
PRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Worssam,

page_text: my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same. was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Worssam, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement (that is to say):
:-
For printing on paper, and for transferring the print or writing on flat
surfaces and rollers, and taking impressions therefrom.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the means by me pursued.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
No. 1 is the end view of No. 2, shows the cross head A, the screw B to rise
and fall the scraper box C, the friction D driven by a wheel at the end of the
shaft to drive the bed forward and back.
No. 2, side view, with carriage on wheels working on a tramway to and
fro, driven by frictions D to carry the bed and stone; motion E is a quadrant
and lever with connected rods to a beam above, for the purpose of raising the
scraper box from the stone, and also for moving the frictions in and out of
gear; the motion acts on both sides of the press. On this same shaft that
carries the quadrants is a lever, and on the carriage is a slot and stop for
registering the distance the bed is required to travel.
No. 3 is a side view of a frame containing two transfer printing rollers, and
smaller rollers for damping and inking, provision being made to take the
rollers out to receive new transfers.
No. 4 is the end view of No. 3, shewing the two rollers in the two standards,
with screws to set the rollers down; the rollers are driven by a rigger and
toothed wheels; the materials used in making the rollers are wood, paper,
stone, composition, zinc, copper, or any other metal.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same.
First, I would have it understood that I claim the frictions D and the
motion E to take the bed and stone to and fro, and also the stop and slot
motion for registering distances.
Second, I claim as an entirely new method of printing by making the

page_text: transfers or engravings on one or both rollers, and taking printing impressions
therefrom on one or both sides of the paper at the same time by a rotary
action.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Worssam, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
CHARLES WORSSAM. (L.S.)