IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING AND IN THE MEAND THERETUR. PRO
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Francis Gough, of Lorrimore Square, in
the County of Surrey, Printer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PRINTING AND IN THE MEAND THERETUR.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Francis Gough
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th March 1873.
I, HENRY FRANCIS GOUGH, of Lorrimore Square, in the County of
5 Surrey, Printer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING, AND IN THE MEANS THEREFOR," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the adaptation or the application of the art of
typographic printing to the production of ornamental, decorative,
illuminated, and mosaic work.
In carrying out the.Invention I cut matrices for, and cast in type or
other metal, or cut or engrave upon metal or wood various complete

page_text: series of blank types with a printing surface; each of the series of
blank types being composed of all the known geometrical shapes or
forms, and having all the necessary counterparts or register types.
Each of the various series includes squares, half squares, and quarter
squares, circles, half circles, and quarter circles, diamonds, half diamonds,
and quarter diamonds, rings, half rings, and quarter rings, ovals, half
ovals, and quarter ovals, diagonals, half diagonals, and quarter diagonals;
rectangles, triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons,
octagons, nonagons, decagons, and polygons, spirals, curves, cubes,
cones, oblongs, rhombi, rhomboids, trapezia and trapezoids, parallelo-
grams, parabolas, pyramids, ellipses, and others.
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Each of the above-named geometrical shapes or forms is cast to one or
more ems or "ens" as occasion may necessitate, in all the different sizes,
bodies, or founts used in letter-press printing, namely, gem, diamond,
pearl, ruby, emerald, minion, brevier, bourgeois, long primer, small pica,
pica, English, great primer, paragon, double pica, canon and the double
of each, or the 1-line, 2-line, 3-line, 4-line, 5-line and so on up to
20-line of each or all of the said sizes, bodies, or founts. All are cast
mathematically true. The several sizes, bodies, or founts are made to
justify with each other, and thus enable the artist compositor to exercise
his skill, judgment or taste in preparing new designs or imitating the
works of ancient or modern masters.
In addition to the above series of blank types the same geometrical
shapes or forms with their several counterparts or register types of all
the before-mentioned sizes, founts, or bodies, have printing surfaces of
perpendicular, horizontal, diagonal, cross diagonal and curved lines,
hatched lines and cross hatched lines.
In addition to the series of types last-mentioned the same geometrical
shapes or forms with their several counterparts or register types, of the
before-mentioned sizes, founts, or bodies, have printing surfaces of dots,
spots, or fine points.
The artist compositor will thus be enabled with the aid of the two
series last described to produce plaids, shades, tints, and groundworks to
embellish or set-off his designs.
The methods of printing are the ordinary methods in use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Francis Gough in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
FRANCIS GOUGH, of 35, Lorrimore Square, Kennington Park, in the
County of Surrey, Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Francis Gough, Her special
licence that I, the said Henry Francis Gough, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Francis
Gough, 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 PRINTING, AND THE MEANS THEREFOR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I the said Henry Francis Gough, my exccutors
or administrators, 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 Henry Francis Gough, 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 following statement :-
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My Invention consists in the adaptation or application of the art of
typographic printing to the production of ornamental, decorative,
illuminated, and mosaic work.
In carrying out the Invention I cut punches and make matrices for
and cast in type or other metal, or cut or engrave upon metal or wood
various complete series of blank types with a printing surface, each of

page_text: the series of blank types being composed of all the known geometrical
shapes or forms, and having all the necessary counterparts or register
types.
Each of the various series includes squares, half squares, and quarter
squares, circles, half circles, and quarter circles, diamonds, half diamonds,
and quarter diamonds, rings, half rings, and quarter rings, ovals, half
ovals, and quarter ovals, diagonals, half diagonals, and quarter diagonals,
rectangles, triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons,
octagons, nonagons, decagons, undecagons, dodecagons, and polygons,
spirals, curves, cubes, cones, oblongs, rhombi, rhomboids, trapezia, and
trapezoids, parallelograms, parabolas, pyramids, ellipses and others.
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"
Each of the above-named geometrical shapes or forms is cast to one
or more ems or ens as occasion may necessitate in all the different
sizes, bodies, or founts used in letter-press printing, namely, gem,
diamond, pearl, ruby, emerald, minion, brevier, bourgeois, long primer,
small pica, pica, English, great primer, paragon, double pica, canon, and
the double of each or the one-line, two-line, three-line, four-line, five-
line and so on up to twenty-line or larger if required of each or all of
the said sizes, bodies, or founts. All are cast mathematically true. The
several sizes, bodies, or founts are made to "justify" with each other,
and thus enable the artist compositor to exercise his skill, judgment, or
taste in preparing new designs or imitating the works of ancient or
modern masters.
In addition to the above series of blank types the same geometrical
shapes or forms with their several counterparts or register types of all
the before-mentioned sizes, founts, or bodies have printing surfaces of
perpendicular, horizontal, diagonal, cross diagonal, and curved lines,
hatched, and cross hatched lines.
In addition to the series of types last-mentioned the same geometrical
shapes or forms with their several counterparts or register types of the
before-mentioned sizes, founts, or bodies have printing surfaces of dots,
spots, or fine points.
The artist compositor will thus be enabled with the aid of the two
series last described to produce plaids, shades, tints, and groundworks to
embellish or set-off his designs.
The methods of printing are the ordinary methods in use.

page_text: In the Drawing accompanying this Specification Numbers 1 to 96.
inclusive show a portion of a series of blank types with printing surfaces,
and their register types or counterparts illustrating my Invention.
Numbers 10 A, 10 B, 2C, 5 D, 26 F, and 2 E, show some of the same
forms with a printing surface of perpendicular lines, diagonal lines,
cross diagonal lines, hatched lines, and waved or curved lines. Numbers
5 F, 12 F, 26 F, and 27 F show some of the same forms or shapes with
printing surfaces of dots, spots, or fine points.
Figures I., II., and III. are mosaic patterns illustrating the mode of
carrying out my Invention; Figure I. is made up of Numbers 1, 5,
8, 10, 11, 74, and 75; Figure II. is made up of Numbers 5, 8, 9,
12, 13, 92, and 96; Figure III. is made up of Numbers 1, 6, 7, 10,
and 22.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the composing and printing
by means of blank types with printing surfaces as herein-before described
and shown in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Francis Gough, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.