IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Darbyshire Hatton, of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Wholesale Stationer and Bookbinder, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES."
Sealed the 2nd December 1862, and dated the 7th June 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Darbyshire Hatton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th June 1862..
I, GEORGE DARBYSHIRE HATTON, of the City of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Wholesale Stationer and Bookbinder, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESSES," to be as
follows:-
This improved machine is an upright press for "nipping" or pressing pur-
poses, and is intended to be used by bookbinders, printers, stationers, and
others. The Invention claims greater simplicity in construction, and greater
efficiency and economy than anything hitherto adopted for the purpose. Con-
structed upon a design totally different to the old form of standing press,
it consists of two upright pillars (with a broad foot to give a firm support);
these are attached at their summit by a cross beam through which works a

page_text: screw, terminated by levers and balls, and supporting a plate which forms the
upper flat of the press; the sides of the pillars are shouldered at distances of
about three inches apart, commencing from the base, and meeting the plate
before mentioned at the greatest fall of the screw. A loose plate of similar
dimensions to the former one is used to fit upon the shoulders of the
uprights, and the faces of the two plates effect by the use of the screw the
object sought.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Darbyshire Hatton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th December 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DARBYSHIRE HATTON, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Wholesale Stationer and Bookbinder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Darbyshire Hatton, Her special licence, that I, the said
George Darbyshire Hatton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Darbyshire Hatton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN. PRESSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Darbyshire Hatton, my executors or
administrators, 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 George Darbyshire Hatton, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
This improved machine is an upright press for "nipping" or pressing
purposes, and is intended to be used by bookbinders, printers, stationers, 'and
all others to whom its utility will be available, the Invention claiming greater
simplicity in construction, and greater efficiency and economy, than anything
hitherto adapted for the purpose.
I employ two standards or upright pillars with a broad foot to each, to give
a firm support; these standards are attached at their summit by a cross beam,
through which works a screw, terminated by a lever and ball of considerable
power, and supporting a plate which forms the upper flat of the press. The
sides of the pillars are shouldered or grooved at distances of about three inches
apart, commencing from near the base and meeting the plate before mentioned
at the greatest fall of the screw. A loose flat or plate of similar dimensions
to the upper one before-mentioned is placed upon one or other pair of
shoulders or grooves of the standards or uprights, according to the thickness
of the matters to be pressed, so that the faces of the two plates enable articles
of various thicknesses to be pressed by means of a short screw, and thereby
avoid the loss of time and wear and tear of packing, or of causing a long screw
to descend to the lower part of the press, when a thin substance is to be
acted upon.
This Invention will be clearly understood by referring to the figures and
letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which Figs. 1 and 2 are
front and end elevations of a stationer's press, shewing my system and improve-
ments. The standards or side frames are shewn at a, they have broad feet 6,
and are held firmly at the bottom by the tie rods c. In the inside of the
standards there are shoulders or grooves d, for supporting the bottom flat or
plate e, which is shifted to one or other pair of supports, according to the
thickness of substance to be pressed. Thus, instead of having the bottom
flat stationery, it is moveable, and thereby enables substances of various
thicknesses to be pressed without descending the screw below a certain point,
or without necessity for packing, as in the old forms of presses. The shoulders
and moveable plate are shewn adapted to a stationer's press, but I apply them
to all other presses or machines where they can be used with advantage.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my Invention, I desire
it to be understood that I claim in presses the employment of shoulders,
grooves, or supports on each of the pillars or standards of the press, to enable
the bottom flat or plate to be shifted according to the thickness of the

page_text: substance to be pressed, and also the moveable flat or plate, as such improve-
ments are herein described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Darbyshire Hatton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GEORGE DARBYSHIRE HATTON. (L.B.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named George Darbyshire
Hatton, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
* Manchester.