IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRINTING THE DATE OR OTHER PARTICULARS ON RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Beeby Edmondson, of the City of Manchester,
Railway Ticket Manufacturer, and James Carson, of the same Place,
Foreman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRINTING
Sealed the 11th January 1867, and dated the 15th August 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by the said John Beeby Edmondson
and James Carson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 15th August 1866.
We, JOHN BEEBY EDMONDSON, of the City of Manchester, Railway Ticket
Manufacturer, and JAMES CARSON, of the same Place, Foreman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR
PRINTING THE DATE OR OTHER PARTICULARS ON RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in an improved mode of applying the ink to the type.
for printing the date or other particulars on railway and other tickets.
In performing our Invention we attach a small box containing printers' ink.
to the upper end of a lever; this box is made wiih a slotted or perforated par.
tition, through which the ink passes to saturate a pad of flannel or other
suitable material; the type is fixed to the stand or to the usual swing frame,
and the ink box lever is jointed to another lever, which is jointed to the

page_text: foundation plate of the press.
When the ticket has been laid on the striking
or pressing plate, and the swing frame has been pushed inwards by the hand of
the operator, the lever with the ink box are held by a weight or a spring
beyond the reach of the swing frame while the impression is given, but as soon
as the ticket is drawn out of the press the swing frame regains its original
position, and the lower end of the striking or pressing plate acting on the lever
connected to the ink box lever, causes the ink box to advance towards and
press the pad against the type, thus applying the requisite quantity of ink for
the next impression.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Beeby Edmondson and James Carson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 14th February 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
BEEBY EDMONDSON, of the City of Manchester, Railway Ticket Manufacturer,
and JAMES CARSON, of the same Place, Foreman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give. and grant unto us, the
said John Beeby Edmondson and James Carson, Her special license that
we, the said John Beeby Edmondson and James Carson, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Beeby
Edmondson and James Carson, our 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 "IM-
'PROVEMENTS IN PRESSES FOR PRINTING THE DATE AND OTHER PARTICULARS ON
RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said John Beeby Edmondson and James Carson, our executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Beeby Edmondson and James
Carson, do hereby declare the nature of our said .Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):
Our Invention consists in an improved mode of applying the ink to the type
of dating presses for printing the date or other particulars on railway and
other tickets.
"
And in order that our Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, we will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being had to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, Figure 2. a side view, Figure 3 a vertical
section, and Figure 4 a plan of a dating press for railway and other tickets,
to which our improvements are applied.
a is the usual stand which is cast with the foundation plate 6; c is the
usual swing frame, to which is jointed the striking plate d in the ordinary
manner. The type e is secured to the stand a, and the supply of ink is con-
tained in the box f, the peculiar construction of which is seen best in the
section, Figure 3; the box f is made with a slotted or perforated partition f¹,
through which the ink passes to saturate the pad of flannel or other suitable
material marked f. The box f is fixed to the upper end of the lever g, the
lower end of which is jointed to the lever h, which pivots on the fulcrum
studi, passing through the foundation plate b. The lever g is also jointed to
the link j, which pivots on the stud k on the stand a. When the ticket to be
dated or otherwise marked has been laid on the striking plate d, and the swing
frame has been pushed inwards by the hand of the operator, the lever 9 and
ink box fare held by the spring acting on the link j beyond the reach of the
swing frame c while the impression is given, but as soon as the ticket is drawn
out of the press the swing frame and striking plate regain their original posi-
tions, and the lower end of the striking plate acting on the turned-up end of
the lever h causes the ink box f to advance to the type and presses the
saturated pad f against the type, thus applying the requisite quantity of ink
for giving the impression to the next ticket that is inserted into the press.
Figure 5 represents a modification of our Invention; in this view m repre-
sents a disc on which the matter required to be printed is engraved or the
types are set, as described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
us, in conjunction with John Blaylock, on the Nineteenth day of November,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, No. 3111. f is the ink trough,
which is actuated in the manner described in reference to the previous Figures,
and supplies the ink to the roller m.

page_text: "Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, we declare that we claim,―
First, the mode described of applying ink to the type of presses for printing
the date or other particulars on railway tickets and for other purposes.
And, secondly, the peculiar construction of the ink box f, as shewn and
Idescribed.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Beeby Edmondson and James
Carson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twelveth day of
February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JOHN BEEBY EDMONDSON. (L.S.)
JAMES CARSON.
(L.S.)