IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTERS QUADRATS, SPACES, QUOTATIONS, FURNITURE, TYPE, ORNAMENTS, BORDERS, OR OTHER DEVICES
Year: 1885

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niture, Type, Ornaments, Borders, or other Devices for
Letterpress Printing.
I, WILLIAM JOHN STONHILL, Newspaper Proprietor, of The Cottage, Orpington
Kent, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
PRINTERS QUADRATS, SPACES, QUOTATIONS, FURNITURE, TYPE, ORNAMENTS,
BORDERS, OR OTHER DEVICES to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the form of Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations,
Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders, or other devices for Letterpress and surface
printing of metal, wood, or other material,
For the purposes of explanation it may be mentioned that hitherto these
Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders or other
devices for Letterpress Printing and Rubber Stamp Printing have been made-
of a rectangular form.
When therefore it becomes necessary for the compositor to set up a line or lines
of Quadrats, Furniture, Spaces, Quotations, Type, Ornaments, Borders or other
devices or combinations of a circular, curved, angular serpentine or irregular form,
spaces are left which require to be filled up by Plaster of Paris Papier Maché or
other substances and for purposes safety the entire "forme" is frequently stereo-
typed, electrotyped or otherwise duplicated owing to the difficulty and danger of
locking up a forme of this character in an insecure condition.
This invention is intended to obviate these difficulties by the use of Quadrats,
Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders, or other devices of such
a shape that they will accomodate themselves to the composition as aforesaid.
The improved Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments,
Borders or other devices may be of various angles, curved, or otherwise shaped to
meet the requirements above specified.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. I claim the improvement herein described of forming Quadrats, Spaces,

page_text: 2. I claim the application of this principle to ordinary Types, Borders, Ornaments
and Combinations by casting them or otherwise shaping them with various angles,
or curves, to form angular, curved, serpentine or other irregular shaped lines or
designs.
3. I claim the improvement of Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type,
Ornaments, Borders, Rules, and other devices bevelled, mortised, perforated, or
otherwise shaped to admit of the adjustment of smaller or larger types, ornaments
or designs thereto in any required lines, combinations or designs.
the
4. I claim the combinations hitherto described and their various applications for
purposes of letterpress, rubber stamp, textile and surface printing generally.
5. I claim the application of this principle for embossing and blocking.

page_text: Frinters Quadrats, spaces, Quotations, Fur-
niture, Type, Ornaments, Borders, or other Devices for
Letterpress Printing.
IN
I, WILLIAM JOHN STONHILL, Newspaper Proprietor, of The Cottage, Orpington,
Kent do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
PRINTERS QUADRATS, SPACES, QUOTATIONS, FURNITURE, TYPE, ORNAMENTS,
BORDERS OR OTHER DEVICES FOR LETTERPRESS PRINTING and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in the form of Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations,
Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders or other devices for Letterpress and Surface
printing, of metal, wood or other material.
For the purposes of explanation it may be mentioned that hitherto these
Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders or other devices
for Letterpress printing and Rubber Stamp Printing have been made of rectangular
form.
When therefore it becomes necessary for the compositor to set up a line or lines
of Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders or other
devices for Letterpress printing; or combinations of a circular, curved, a regular
serpentine or irregular form, spaces are left which require to be filled up by the
Plaster of Paris, Papier Machê, or other substances; and for purposes of safety, the
entire forme is frequently stereotyped, electrotyped, or otherwise duplicated,
owing to the difficulty and danger of locking up a "forme" of this character in an
insecure condition,
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This invention is intended to obviate these difficulties by the use of Quadrats,
Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders, or other devices of such
a shape that they will accomodate themselves to the composition as aforesaid.
The improved Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders
or other devices, may be of various angles, curved, or otherwise shaped; to meet
the requirements above specified.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. I claim the improvement herein described of forming Quadrats, Spaces,
Quotations, Furniture, Type, Ornaments, Borders and other devices.
2. I claim the application of this principle to ordinary Types, Borders, Ornaments,
and Combinations; by casting them or otherwise shaping them with various angles
or curves, to form angular, curved, serpentine or other irregular shaped lines or
designs.

page_text: 3. I claim the improvements of Quadrats, Spaces, Quotations, Furniture, Type,
Ornaments, Borders, Rules and other devices bevelled, mortised, perforated, or
otherwise shaped to admit of the adjustment of smaller or larger types, ornaments,
or designs therto in any required lines, combinations or designs.
4. I claim the combination hitherto described and their various applications for
the purpose of letterpress, rubber stamp, textile and surface printing generally.
5. I claim the application of this principle for designs set up for embossing and
blocking.