Improvements in Devices for Copying or Printing Music.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar.,
1898
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
Improvements in Devices for Copying or Printing Music.
WILLIAM HARPER BOLTON, Foreman, High Street, Cinderford, Glos. and
CHARLES HARPER BOLTON, Clerk, High Street, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The above "music printer" is a device for writing or copying music.
It is made up of 58 india rubber mounted stamps, 2 wheel stamps, and an inked
pad, all put up in a convenient size box with lock & handle. The handle to be on
the top.
At the bottom of the box, will be a drawer, about half an inch deep for containing
the inked pad & directions. 57 of the 58 stamps mentioned above, are quarter to
half an inch long, more or less, and quarter to half an inch in diameter at the top,
and are tapered or cut down to the bottom or face of the stamps to the shape and
size of the particular characters for which they are individually intended.
They are fastened to round polished handles made of wood, papier mache, or any
other suitable material, two to three inches long, more or less, and the same in
diameter as the top of the stamps.
The remaining stamp,-to make the 58-is of the same length as the others,
namely, about quarter to half an inch, and is, instead of being round, oblong,
threequarters of an inch to an inch, more or less, one way, and about a quarter to
half an inch the other way. The handle for this stamp is, at the bottom, the same
size as the stamp, but rounded above to the size of ordinary handles.
The stamps are fastened to the handles by means of glue-or any other suitable
tenacious substance, and short double pointed spikes or screws, one point to go in
bottom of handle, and the other to go in top of india rubber stamp.
The two wheels, which are for making continuous lines, are made of wood or any
other suitable material, around each of which is stuck the india rubber stamp in
shape of an endless band. They are each an inch, more or less, in diameter, and
the one about one-sixteenth of an inch wide, and the other from a quarter to half
an inch wide. Their handles are made of thin sheet iron, or any other suitable
material bent square, with two opposite sides about a quarter to half an inch wide.
The other two sides are slightly wider than the wheel stamp for which it is intended.
The lengths of the handles are such as to make the height of each wheel and handle
to the same as the other stamps and handles.
The widest sides of the handles are elongated about threequarters of an inch,
between which the wheels are fastened by means of pieces of wire or any other
suitable material, passed through a hole made in centre of wheels, and through holes
in the sides corresponding to the holes in wheels. The ends of the wire is then
soldered or otherwise fastened over the holes, when the wheels ought then to work
freely round their axles.
The character of each stamp is painted on the top of its handle.
In the box is fixed, some distance apart from each other, two pieces of board or
any other suitable material in which is made at regular intervals 57 round holes,
slightly larger in diameter than the 57 round stamps, and three oblong holes for the

page_text: other three stamps, through which the stamps are dropped perpendicularly face
downwards, so that each individual character can be known by a glance at the painted
tops.
All over the partition on top of the drawer for the inkpad, is stuck a piece of cloth
or any other suitable material, for the faces of the stamps to rest upon.
The stamns are made un as follows :-
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of March Eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
Improvements in Devices for Copying or Printing Music.
We, WILLIAM HARPER BOLTON, Foreman and Timekeeper, Lower High Street,
Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and CHARLES HARPER BOLTON, Clerk, Lower High Street,
Cinderford, Gloucestershire, 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:-
Our invention has for its object the better facility of printing music when
composing or copying such & is composed of 71 hand stamps this number being made
up of the following notations letters numbers etc.
A semibreve, minim, crotchet 2 quavers semiquavers & 2 demisemiquavers
a minim rest, crotchet rest, quaver rest, semiquaver rest & demisemiquaver rest,
2 grace notes, a sharp, flat, natural, dot, comma 2 slurs 2 bars a m. a p. & a f.
a soprano clef, a tenor clef & a bass clef a sforzando a pause a wavy line a C denoting
common time stamps for the numerals 1 to 8 inclusive stamps for alphabet a
bracket.
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In addition we provide a wheel for printing what is known as the stave the whole

page_text: being so placed in a box or case specially made that each stamp or wheel can be
rapidly found when required.
In order that our invention may be more readily understood & carried into practice,
we have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which :-Fig. 1 is a perspective
view of the box or case showing some of the stamps in position but with some
removed to more readily see the formation of the box.
Fig. 2 is a view of one of the hand stamps.
Fig. 3 being a plan & an inverted plan of the same.
Fig. 4 is a view of a special shaped stamp.
Figures 5 & 6 are views of a special form of hand marking wheel.
Our invention consists of a box or case A which is made with a partition b¹ having
perforations d¹ in which the hand stamps D when not in use are held. This box A
has a drawer B which is divided by partition C¹ into two parts. In one of the
divisions we place an ink pad C & in the other the wheel stamp & such flat stamps as
Fig. 4.
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These hand stamps D have at one end rubber or other like material d² moulded or
cut with each notation of music or other characters necessary for printing music.
These hand stamps D when not in use are placed with their rubber ends d² down-
wards in the perforations d¹ their ends d² resting upon a partition a¹ which is covered
with any suitable soft material to preserve the marking faces of stamps. At the other
end of the hand stamps D namely d³ being the end in view when stamp is in position
in box, we place a label upon which is printed a corresponding character as will be
seen by plan d² & inverted plan 3 Fig. 3 so that each stamp can be readily found
when required. These corresponding characters or indexes may be painted upon the
top of the handles themselves instead of using a label d³ if so desired.
Fig. 4 is a stamp composed of handle E & rubber tip e¹ for printing brackets
such as e² or e³ & this stamp may be kept in the drawer B in the division C².
Figures 5 & 6 show the hand wheel stamp provided for printing the stave lines
continously and which is made of any suitable material but preferably of metal
with a handle F and an ink roller f¹ mounted on the axle 4 & marking roller
or wheel f. The inking roller f¹ being provided with ink, & so formed as to slightly
bear or touch the marking surface f of the roller f¹, thus enabling continuous lines
to be formed, without having broken parts as is now the usual way with such rollers;
this roller f may be easily removed by taking out the set screws f³ & another
marking wheel substituted.
Having therefore now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. Improvements in devices for copying and printing music as herein set forth and
shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2nd. Improvements in devices for copying & printing music, together, with a
specially formed box or case substantially as & for the purpose herein set forth &
shown in the accompanying drawings.
3rd. In devices for copying & printing music, the duplicating, or indexing of the
different notations, numbers, or other characters substantially as herein set forth &
shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 13th day of December 1898.
WILLIAM HARPER BOLTON,
CHARLES HARPER BOLTON.