Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
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1, LOUIS SAGET, of 9 Bartholomew Villas, in the County of Middlesex, Commission
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to presses in which copies of correspondence or other papers
may be obtained by the employment of pressure, and consists of improvements in the
apparatus to effect this purpose whereby a press can be produced in a much cheaper,
simpler, and more portable form than is usual.
I avoid the necessity for any heavy bridge by producing the pressure by a hand
nut or nuts working on a fixed screwed stud or studs, the nut or nuts when screwed
down producing the requisite pressure and movement upon one or more edges of a
cover under which the copying book or material is placed.
This cover I hinge to a portion of the under plate and which may be a fixture
thereto or may be adjustable in height in order to space the height of the cover or
upper tablet to suit the thickness of the copying book.
Or, I may dispense with the hinged back and use two similar vertically fixed screwed
studs with two nuts provided with suitable handles for screwing down the top tablet
over them, the said studs being spaced wide enough to allow of the copying book or
material to be placed between them.
I may conveniently apply a hinged screwed stud or studs as above described instead
of fixed studs, and which when raised in place may enter into suitable slots of the top
tablet, and when it is desired to disengage the top tablet, after the put has been
slightly screwed back, the said hinged stud may be thrown back and entirely disengaged
from the tablet, which may then be readily removed.
The lower tablet may be the table itself or fixed upon a suitable base or frame which
may be attached to a table, or, as it is self-contained it may be laid upon any table for
use, or attached to or hung against the wall.
Dated this 29th day of November 1987.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: 1, LOUIS SAGET of Bartholomew Villas, Kentish Town in the County of Middlesex,
Commission Agent, 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 :—
My invention relates to presses in which copies of correspondence or other papers
may be obtained by the employment of pressure and consists of improvements in the
apparatus to effect this purpose whereby a press can be produced in a much cheaper
simpler, and more portable form than is usual.
I avoid the necessity for any heavy bridge by producing the pressure by a hand-nut
or nuts, working on a fixed screwed stud or studs, the nut or nuts when screwed down
producing the requisite pressure and movement upon one or more edges of a cover,
under which the copying book or material is placed.
This cover hinge to a portion of the under plate, and which may be a fixture
thereto or may be adjustable in height in order to space the height of the cover or upper
tables to suit the thickness of the copying book. Or I may dispense with the hinged
back and use two similar vertically fixed screwed studs with two nuts provided with
suitable handles for screwing down the top tablet over them the said studs being
spaced wide enough to allow of the copying book or material to be placed between
them.
And in order that my invention may be the more easily understood I will proceed
to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents a copying press constructed according to my invention ready to
receive the copy book. Fig. 2 represents the same with book in position and press
screwed down Fig. 3 represents a section of a portion of the cover or upper tablet
Fig. 4 plan of the same portion and Fig. 5 plan of a small portion of the plate attached
to the upper tablet or cover to distributo the pressure. The same letters denote the
same parts in all the figures.
a is the bottom plate or tablet of the press cover or upper tablet hinged at c to
the plate a, d is a screwed stud hinged at e to the plate a and provided with a nut f
and handle The copy
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book is placed on the bottom plate a the upper tablet b
turned down on to it the stud d placed in the position shewn in Fig. 2, and the nut
screwed down till the requisite pressure is obtained. A slot is provided in the upper
tablet to allow the stud d to be turned into position for copying. To prevent the
stud d from slipping out of the slot k I pass the same through a loose plate (shewn
on an enlarged scale in Figs. 3 and 4) having a catch m which engages with a slot n
in plate o Fig. 5 which is attached to the upper tablet bin wooden presses to prevent
the wood from crushing. In metal presses these plates may be dispensed with
and the tablet countersunk to receive the nut f. The lower tablet may be the table
itself or fixed upon a suitable base or frame which may be attached to a table or as it

page_text: is self-contained it may be laid upon any table for use or attached to or hung against
the wall.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improved copying press substantially as described and shewn in the
accompanying drawing and operating as specified.