Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th Apr., 1887.
I, WALTER RISK, of Murray Place, Coatbridge, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Bookkeeper, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows,
that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of copying presses
and especially to render them more conveniently portable than as hitherto made.
In carrying out my Invention I make the bedplate and the platen of wood bound
and strengthened with steel or other metal or I make thein entirely of steel or
other suitable metal and as light as possible. For pressing the platen I use a short
screw spindle provided with a cross handle and fitted to work in an internal screw
formed in the middle of a cross bar or beam which is jointed at its ends to short cheek
plates fixed to or formed on the bed plate. These cheek plates are formed with slots
or grooves to guide the platen which is provided with pins or projections to work in
the slots or grooves. The slots or grooves do not extend down to the bed plate, and
when the letter book is withdrawn the platen is held up by its pins or projections and
tilts to one side so as to be in a position for conveniently reintroducing the letter book.
The complete press made as hereinbefore described is much lighter than a copying
press of the ordinary construction; and when not in use the cross bar with the screw
and handle can be turned down, the press being thereby rendered extremely compact,
and capable of being conveniently packed for travelling.
1005
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: I, WALTER RISK, of Murray Place, Coatbridge, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Bookkeeper, 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, that is to say -
My said Invention has for its object to improve the construction of copying presses
and especially to render. them more conveniently portable than as hitherto made.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing my improved copying press.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a side elevation of the copying
press with a letter book inserted. Figure, 2, is an end elevation showing the platen
tilted or inclined for convenience in introducing the letter book; and figures, 3, and
4, are respectively a plan and a transverse vertical section showing the pressing parts
as folded down for convenience in packing.
In carrying out my Invention I make the bedplate, 5, and-platen, 6, of wood bound
and strengthened with steel or other metal or I make them entirely of steel or other
suitable metal and as light as possible. For prossing the platen, 6, I use a short
screw spindle, 7, provided with a cross handle, 8, and fitted to work in an internal
screw formed in the middle of a cross bar or beam, 9. When the platen, 6, is made
principally of wood as shown a steel plate, 15, is fixed on the top to receive the
pressure of the screw, 7. The beam, 9, is jointed at its ends to short cheeks, 10,
formed on the bed plate, 5, when entirely of metal, or formed on the metal pieces
which bind and strengthen the bed plate when of wood, the joints being formed by
projecting pivots, 11, on the ends of the cross bar, 9, fitted into eyes or bearings in the
checks, 10. These cheeks, 10, are formed with slots or grooves, 12, to guide the
platen, 6, which is provided with pins or projections, 13, to work in the slots or
grooves. The slots or grooves, 12, do not extend down to the bed plate, 5, and when
the letter book, 14, is withdrawn the platen, 6, is held up by its pins or projections, 13,
and can be tilted so as to be in a position for conveniently reintroducing the letter book
in which position it is shown in figure, 2, of the drawings.
The complete press made as hereinbefore described is much lighter than a copying
press of the ordinary construction; and when not in use the cross bar, 9, with the
Screw, 7, and handle, 8, can be turned down as shown in figures, 3, and 4, the press

page_text: being thereby rendered extremely compact, and capable of being conveniently packed
for travelling. When the handle, S, and cross bar, 9, are turned down as shown in
figures, 3, and 4, the boss or enlargement at the middle of the cross bar, 9, presses on
the platen, 6, sufficiently to hold the letter book, 14, securely in its place.
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. The combination of parts constituting the improved copying press as a whole
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The arranging of the screw and cross bar so that they can be turned down
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.