Ar IMPROVED PRESS FOR STAMPING LETTERS, BOOKS, AND DOCUMENTS WITH INK OR OTHER COLORING MATTER
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Pierre Hébert and Louis Armand Moulin,
both of Neuilly-on-Seine, Avenue du Roule, No. 51, Department
de la Seine, in the Empire of France, for the Invention of "Ar
IMPROVED PRESS FOR STAMPING LETTERS, BOOKS, AND DOCUMENTS WITH INK
OR OTHER COLORING MATTER,"
Sealed the 27th July 1869, and dated the 28th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Pierre Hébert
and Louis Armand Moulin at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 28th January 1869.
We, LOUIS PIERRE HÉBERT and LOUIS ARMAND MOULIN, both of
Neuilly-on-Seine, Avenue du Roule, No. 51, Department de la Seine, in
the Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR STAMPING LETTERS, BOOKS, AND DOCUMENTS WITH
INK OR OTHER COLORING MATTER," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of certain new and improved mechanical
arrangements constituting an improved press for stamping letters and
documents with ink or other coloring matter.

page_text: The mechanism consists of an ink box of the same shape as the stamp
with a vertical tube at the centre and top thereof. The ink box is formed
in two parts or chambers; the upper one contains the ink, and in the
lower one a sheet of cork is placed and a piece of felt in contact there-
with. The division plate of the ink box, as also the piece of cork, are
pierced with small holes for the passage of the ink on to the felt.
It is also proposed when it is required to use different colored inks to
divide the ink box into chambers, each containing a different colored ink.
The stamping die is made with two engraving faces and a central axis
supported by hollow columns or tubes, in one of which a hooked piece
of metal is adjusted and employed for turning the die holder half a
revolution at each pressure of the stamp. And we would hero remark
that the handle of the stamp on which pressure is to be exerted is con-
nected to the ink box, so that in stamping papers whilst one die is
stamping the opposite die is receiving ink, and when the pressure is
removed from the handle of the stamp a spring lifts the ink box away
from the inked die, and at the same time by means of the hooked piece
of metal turns the die holder half a revolution, thereby turning the inked
die downwards, and the uppermost dic will be inked in the act of
stamping, and so on in succession.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis Armand Moulin in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, LOUIS
PIERRE HEBERT and LOUIS ARMAND MOULIN, both of Neuilly-on-Seinc,
Avenue du Roule, No. 51, Department de la Seine, in the Empire of
France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis Armand
Moulin, Her special licence that we, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and
Louis Armand Moulin, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis Armand

page_text: Moulin, 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
"AN IMPROVED PRESS FOR STAMPING LETTERS, BooxS, AND DOCUMENTS WITH
INK OR OTHER COLORING MATTER," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis Armand Moulin, our.
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis
Armand Moulin, do hereby declare the nature of the 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 :-
This Invention consists of certain new and improved mechanical
arrangements constituting an improved press for stamping letters and
documents with ink or other coloring matter.
The mechanism consists of an ink box of the same shape as the stamp
with a vertical tube at the centre and top thereof. The ink box is formed
in two parts or chambers; the upper one contains the ink, and in the lower
one a sheet of cork is placed and a piece of felt in contact therewith.
The division plate of the ink box, as also the piece of cork, are pierced
with small holes for the passage of the ink on to the felt.
It is also proposed when it is required to use different colored inks to
divide the ink box into chambers, each containing a different colored ink.
The stamping die is made with two engraving faces and a central axis
supported by hollow columns or tubes, in one of which a hooked piece of
metal is adjusted and employed for turning the die holder half a revo-
lution at each pressure of the stamp. And we would here remark that
the handle of the stamp on which pressure is to be exerted is connected
to the ink box, so that in stamping papers whilst one die is stamping
the opposite die is receiving ink, and when the pressure is removed from
the handle of the stamp a spring lifts the ink box away from the inked
die, and at the same time by means of the hooked picce of metal turns

page_text: the die holder half a revolution, thereby turning the inked die downwards,
and the uppermost die will be inked in the act of stamping, and so on in
succession.
And in order to explain this Invention more completely we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative
Sheet of Drawings accompanying these presents, and to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon respectively as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of our improved stamping press
complete and as it would appear when ready for use; Figure 2, a plan
view at A, Figure 1; Figure 3 is a transverse and vertical section
through the line X, Y, at Figure 2; Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, respectively
represent sections through the lines A, a, B, b, C, c, of the parts shewn
at Figure 3. At each of the foregoing Figures we employ similar letters
of reference to denote corresponding parts in so far as such parts appear
or can be seen at each of such said Figures respectively.
A, B, B, mark hollow castings fixed to each other; C is another
hollow casting sliding in A and upon B, B; D is the handle of the
stamp fixed on to a metal tube E screwed on to the tubular part of the
casting C, as shewn; G is a helical spring for lifting up the ink pad H
after it has been pressed upon one or other of the faces of the engraved
die I. The part d of the casting C is intended to contain ink or other
coloring matter with which the pad H is always saturated, K, a stopper;
I marks the axis of the rotating die I. This die is formed of one piece
of metal with a long opening or slot to receive the axis L, which is held
in position and securely fixed to the die by a strip of metal e of the
length of the die, the screw M connecting the axis and die firmly
together. There are holes: or bearings formed in the pieces B, B, which
support the ends of the axis L. The pieces N, at Figures 1 and 2, connect
the bottom part of the pieces B, B, together. At Figures. 3, 5, 6, 7,
O, P, mark pieces of metal fitting in the pièces B, B, and sliding up and
down them by means of the pins ffixed to the casting C and working
through slots
in the pieces B, B, as shewn. The piece is a twisted
flat piece of metal with slots i, k, therein, and the bottom of the piece P
has a hooked and bent piece of spring metal fixed thereinto, so that
supposing the parts to be in the position shewn at Figures 3, 5, 6, and.

page_text: the handle D to be pressed down the effect would be first to press the
inking pad H on to the die I and at the same time to force down the
pieces P, 1, and disengage the hook of 2 from one or other of the pins
1, 2, fixed in the end of the axis L, and thus place the hook / in the
position shewn at Figure 7, the effect of which is, when the pressure is
removed from the handle, for the piece C to rise by the elastic force of
the spring G, thereby bringing the inking pad away from the die, and at
the same time causing the hook part of the piece to take hold of the
lowermost pin 2, and thus turn the die half a revolution on its axis, so as
to present that face of the die that was last inked downwards ready for
use, and so on in succession.
We would here remark that in order to hold each face of the die
steady and square with the paper to be stamped we form a flat 3 on the
end of the axis L which rests on the bottom of the square slot in the
piece O, as shewn,
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of
our said Invention for "An Improved Press for Stamping Letters,
Books, and Documents with Ink or other Coloring Matter," together
with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, we hereby declare this Invention to consist in and
we claim, the general arrangement and combination of parts above
described and represented by the Drawing in the construction of
stamping presses.
In witness whereof, we, the said Louis Pierre Hebert and Louis
Armand Moulin, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
HEBERT. (L.S.)
MOULIN. (L.S.)