A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR BRONZING
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Simon, of Hutchinson Street, Wilford Road, in.
the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, for the Invention of
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Sealed the 17th December 1867, and dated the 19th June 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Simon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th June 1867.
I, LOUIS SIMON, of Hutchinson Street, Wilford Road, in the Town and
County of the Town of Nottingham, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINE FOR BRONZING," to be as
follows:
The Invention relates to certain new and improved mechanical arrangements
constituting a machine for bronzing and dusting paper, cards, and other surfaces
when printed in varnish or similar substances so as to make bronze powder or
colors adhere thereto. The usual method of bronzing is first to print the
letters or design in varnish by an ordinary printing machine, the bronze or
other colored powder is then rubbed over the varnish either with wool,
wadding, or a similar material, and what has hitherto been done by hand
I now propose to accomplish by machinery. After the sheet has been
printed in varnish by the ordinary method it is placed on the table 1, which
is moveable by means of a cam or cams or a lever; the table then carries
the sheet to grippers 2, which fall and holds the sheet on cylinder 3, the

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bronze or powder is put in the box 4, which is fixed in an axle at each end,
and is made to shake or tremble by means of a tooth wheel; the bottom
of the box being made of wire gauze allows the powder to fall through in
-small quantities upon rollers which rub the varnished sheet on the cylinder;
as the cylinder revolves there are four or more rollers covered with lambs
skin or other suitable material, which also rub the bronze powder or color
the varnished part and also clean the sheet, it is then brought underneath
the roller marked-5, and the grippers marked 2 loose their hold, and the
tiplers or throwing off levers marked 6 rise and throw the paper over the
roller 5 on to an incline board; the whole of the rollers, grips, tiplers, and
table are put in motion by the gearing at the ends of the machine. Each
revolution of the machine will bronze one sheet of paper, and is arranged to
work either by hand or steam power. Sometimes I prefer to use one or
more fixed rubbers with or instead of revolving rollers, and in place of scattering
the bronze on the sheet or rollers I prefer to make the rubber or roller dip
into a box containing the bronze or colored powder, and then by pressing the
rubber on the varnished sheet as the cylinder revolves the letter or design is
bronzed or colored and the sheet cleaned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Simon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
December 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
SIMON, of Hutchinson Street, Wilford Road, in the Town and County of the
Town of Nottingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Louis Simon, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Simon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Simon, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR BRONZING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said

page_text: Louis Simon, my executors or adminstrators, 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 Louis Simon, 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:-
The Invention relates to a certain new and improved mechanical arrangement
constituting a machine for bronzing and dusting paper, cards, and other surfaces
when printed in varnish or similar substances so as to make bronze powder or
colors adhere thereto. The usual method of bronzing is first to print the
letters or design in varnish by an ordinary printing press or machine; the
bronze or other colored powder is then rubbed over the varnish either with
wool, wadding, or a similar material, and what has hitherto been done by
hand I now propose to accomplish by machinery. After the sheet has been
printed in varnish by the ordinary method it is placed on the table (1),
see Drawings Fig. 1, which is movable by means of, a cam or cams or a
lever; the table then carries the sheet to grippers 2, which fall and hold the
sheet on cylinder 3, the bronze or powder is put in the box 4 in which
is fixed an axle at each end, and is made to shake or tremble by means of a
toothed wheel; the bottom of the box being made of wire gauze allows the
powder to fall through in small quantities upon the rollers which rub the
varnished sheet on the cylinder; as the cylinder revolves there are four or
more rollers covered with lamb skin or other suitable material, which also rub
the bronze powder or color upon the varnished part and also clean the sheet;
it is then brought underneath the roller marked 5, and the grippers marked 2
loose their hold, and the tiplers or throwing off levers marked 6 rise and
throw the paper over the roller 5 on to an incline board; the whole of the
rollers, grips, tiplers, and table are put in motion by the gearing at the ends
of the machine. Each revolution of the machine will bronze one sheet of paper,
and it is arranged to work either by hand or steam power. Sometimes I
prefer to use one or more fixed rubbers with or instead of revolving rollers,
and in place of scattering the bronze on the sheet or rollers I prefer to make
the rubber or roller dip into a box containing the bronze or colored powder,
and then by pressing the rubber on the varnished sheet as the cylinder revolves
the latter or design is bronzed or colored and the sheet cleaned, viz*; to

page_text: have the bronze powder under the cylinder in an open box, or anything in the
shape of a saucer, and a roller covered with leather or any other like material
above the box, and the cylinder above the roller; the box containing the bronze
rests on a spring which is arranged in such a way that the leather roll takes
the bronze out, so that sufficient adheres, and the paper is put between the
cylinder and the roll in the same manner as it is put in the other mode of
constructing the machine on nearly the bottom of the cylinder; this is described
by Fig. 2 on Drawings, A being the cylinder; B, roll covered with leather;
C, box containing bronze powder; D, spring under, the box; E, table on which
the paper is placed to go between B and A.
Having now described the nature and object of my Invention, I declare
that what I claim and desire to be secured by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is, the system to bronze by machinery, and the new
or improved machine for bronzing, substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated on the Drawings, or any mere modification thereof...
In witness whereof, I, the said. Louis Simon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
LOUIS SIMON.. (L.S.)