IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBOSSING PRESSES, TO FACILITATE THE OPERATION OF RELIEF COLORING ON ENVELOPES, NOTE PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF STATIONERY
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Rest Fenner, of No. 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBOSSING
PRESSES, TO FACILITATE THE OPERATION OF RELIEF COLORING ON ENVELOPES,
NOTE PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF STATIONERY."
Sealed the 31st October 1865, and dated the 2nd May 1865.
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atents, with his Petition, on the
2nd May 1865.
I, REST FENNER, of No. 7; Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN EMBOSSING PRESSES, TO FACILITATE THE OPERATION OF RELIEF COLORING
ON ENVELOPES, NOTE-PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF STATIONERY," to be
as follows:-
1
The system recently adopted of revolving circular dies having various
drawbacks, the object of the present Invention is by means of a very simple

page_text: arrangement to obviate existing defects; this I effect by replacing the hori-
zontal revolving die by a vertical one mounted on a shaft working in plummer
blocks, and having the devices engraved or punched on the edge of it, instead
of on the plane. In lieu of the die being furnished with cogs, as formerly, a
ratchet is attached to the shaft of the die worked by a metal finger piece
connected with the stamping plunger. The ratchet is furnished with a
number of holes varying in proportion to the number of devices on the die,
and in which is a metal catch working into a spring, so as to hold the ratchet
in a stationary position at each successive stamping. At the end of the shaft
above mentioned is a cog wheel working into a series of cog wheels placed in
a convenient position on the bed of the press, to give motion to the roller
which presses the strip of paper on the die for removing the superfluous color.
The die is furnished with a scraper arranged in a suitable manner, and
connected to the bed of the press, for the purpose of removing the refuse
color.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Rest Fenner in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, REST
FENNER, of No. 7, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Rest Fenner, Her special licence that I, the said Rest Fenner, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Rest
Fenner, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN EMBOSSING
PRESSES, TO FACILITATE THE OPERATION OF RELIEF COLORING ON ENVELOPES, NOTE
PAPER, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF STATIONERY," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Rest Fenner, my executors or adminis-

page_text: trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain 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 Rest Fenner, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
The system recently adopted of revolving circular dies having various
drawbacks, the object of the present Invention is by means of a very simple
arrangement to obviate existing defects; this I effect by replacing the
horizontal die by a vertical one mounted on a shaft working in plummer
blocks, and having the devices engraved or punched on the edge of it, instead
of on the plane. In lieu of the die being furnished with cogs, as formerly, a
ratchet is attached to the shaft of the die worked by a metal finger piece con-
nected with the stamping plunger. The ratchet is furnished with a number
of holes varying in proportion to the number of devices on the die, and in
which is a metal catch working with a spring, so as to hold the ratchet in a
stationary position at each successive stamping. At the end of the shaft
above mentioned is a cog wheel working into a series of cog wheels placed
in a convenient position on the bed of the press, to give motion to the roller
which presses the strip of paper on the die for removing the superfluous
color therefrom. The die is furnished with a scraper arranged in a suitable
manner, and connected to the bed of the press, for the purpose of removing
the refuse color.
It will thus be seen that the main features. of the improvements I have
introduced in embossing presses relate especially to the position of the die,
the facilitated means of communicating motion thereto, combined with a less
complicated arrangement for regulating its movement, together with a more
ready mode of supplying the color, and the employment of a scraper as a pre-
liminary means of removing the surplus supply previous to the wiping off by
means of paper.
Considerable inconvenience has been found to result from the horizontal
position of the die in existing presses, and to obviate this has been my object
in the present Invention, the die being placed, as has been already mentioned,
in a vertical position in my present system; this alteration of parts has
naturally necessitated considerable modifications, but their simplicity as well as

page_text: their union of action will be better and more readily understood by the
following details, due reference being made to the accompanying Drawings.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts shown in the different
Figures, those parts not mentioned, but illustrated, being well known, and
consequently requiring no special mention, as they occur in the ordinary screw
presses as at present in use.
Fig. 1 is a side view; Fig. 2, a sectional front view; and Fig. 3, a plan
of the same.
The apparatus consists of a stamping press worked in the usual way, with
screw a, and fly b, and on the plunger c is the counterpart of the device d;
beneath this plunger is the die e, which consists of a block of metal, upon the
edge of which a number of the devices to be stamped are engraved. This die
is mounted upon a shaft f, which works in bearings upon the bed of the press,
and upon which shaft is fixed a ratchet wheel g, the teeth of which are so
arranged as to correspond with the number of devices engraved upon the die e;
this ratchet wheel has also a series of holes sunk in its side, into which a metal
catch h working with a spring starts, so as to retain the ratchet in a stationary
position at each successive stamping. The plunger c is furnished with a finger i,
which at each descent of the plunger forces the ratchet round, and with it the
die e, so as to bring at each stroke a fresh device under the stamping plunger;
at the end of the shaft f is a cog wheel k, which gears with a smaller cog wheel,
which also works in its turn another small cog wheel m on a shaft n; this shaft
works in bearings p, p, which are capable of being moved either forwards
or backwards by the adjusting or set screws q, q, q, q; it is furnished with a
roller o, covered with india-rubber or other suitable substance, the use of which
will be hereafter described. The ink is supplied to the die by the reservoir r,
from which it is allowed to escape by a few holes, the reservoir being covered
with felt, or any suitable substance; underneath it is a metal scraper s; which
is brought up against the die by springs t, t, for the purpose of removing the
surplus color, the paper u, u, u, u, serving to wipe off any extra color which
might remain, is coiled round a supply cylinder v, and is then brought round
the roller o above mentioned. This roller o is pressed against the die by the
screws p, p; the cleaning paper is carried away from the die by the two-
rollers w, w, which are driven by a gut working upon dummy wheels y from
the shaft n.
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim and desire to secure by
Letters Patent are, the various improvements in embossing and stamping
presses, as herein-before described and represented in the accompanying

page_text: Drawings, and of which the vertical die e, the ratchet g, and the cog wheel k,
all working on the shaft f, together with the scraper s, for the purposes herein-
before indicated, are the remarkable features.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rest Fenner, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
A. C. HENDERSON,
31, Charing Cross.
REST FENNER. (L.B.)