IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMPING OR EMBOSSING PRESSES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Frederick Carter, of Hart Street, Blooms-
bury, in the County of Middlesex, Die and Seal Engraver, for the
Sealed the 21st March 1871, and dated the 23rd September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Frederick
Carter at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd September 1870.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK CARTER, of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Die and Seal Engraver, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STAMPING OR EMBOSSING
PRESSES," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to enable color stamping or illumi-
nating to be effected by hand stamping or embossing presses, and more

page_text: particularly by those presses which are worked by a lever and cam
action.
My Invention consists essentially in fitting the die in such manner
that it may be turned up to receive the necessary color or paint.
In carrying my Invention into effect I attach the die to the press by
hinges and springs, so that when required the die may be freely moved
forward and upward. The hinges are attached to the sides of the press
by springs. The top of the die has a central recess corresponding with
a pin let into the vertical shank of the press.
The action of the press is as follows:-The die is turned upward to
receive the color, and is again returned to position; the hand lever is
then depressed; during this movement the vertical shank descends until
the pin thereon takes into the recess in the top of the die, when the die
and shank will descend together and the colored impression on the paper
or card placed between the die, and the counterpart or force will be
effected. The hand lever is then raised, when the springs which attach
the hinges of the die to the press will raise the die clear of the paper.
Although I prefer for the purpose of turning up the die to receive
the color to attach the die to the press by hinges as before described
other modes may be adopted for turning up the die, for instance, the
body of the press itself may be hinged or jointed. Or the positions of
the die and counterpart or force may be reversed and the latter be made
to turn up so as to allow the color to be applied to the die on the bed of
the press.
My Invention further relates to an improvement to facilitate the
feeding of the paper or card between the die and the force or counterpart.
Heretofore the force has projected from the face of the bed of the press,
and there has been nothing to serve as a guide to the paper.
My improvement consists in constructing a guide in the form of a
table, rim, or other device, which extends round or partly round the
force, is fixed to or cast with the bed of the press, and is of the same
height as, or a little higher than the force. If preferred, the force may
be fixed to this guide in a recess in the middle thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Frederick Carter in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERICK CARTER, late of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, but now of Litchfield Street, Soho, in the same County, Die
and Seal Engraver, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in
the thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Frederick Carter,
Her special licence that I, the said Charles Frederick Carter, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Frederick Carter, 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 STAMPING OR EMBOSSING
PRESSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Frederick Carter, 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..
KNOW NOW YE, that I, the said Charles Frederick Carter, 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 thereof, reference being had to the accom-.
panying Drawings, that is to say :—
The object of my Invention is to enable color stamping or illumi-

page_text: particularly by those presses which are worked by a lever and cam
action.
My Invention consists essentially in fitting the die in such manner
that it may be turned up to receive the necessary color or paint.
In carrying my Invention into effect I attach the die to the press
by spring hinges, so that when required the die may be freely moved
forward and upward. The hinges are attached to the sides of the press
by springs. The top of the die has a central press corresponding with
a pin formed on or let into the vertical shank of the press.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and
Figure 2 an end elevation, one half in section, of a press constructed
according to my Invention.
a is the body, and 6 the bed of the press; c is the hand lever; d the cam,
and e the vertical shank; f is the die which is attached by spring hinges g
to vertical bars h, these bars can be moved down or up in brackets i, i,
screwed to the sides of the press; k, k, are springs which tend to keep
the bars raised, and is a spring for raising or assisting to raise
the hand lever c; m is a central pin or stud on the lower end of the
shank e, and n is a corresponding recess in the top of the dic d; o is the
counterpart or force.
The action of the press is as follows:-The die f is turned upward
into the position seen in dotted lines in Figure 1 to receive the color,
and is again returned to position. The hand lever c is then depressed,
during this movement the vertical shank e descends until the pin m
thereon takes into the recess n in the top of the die when the die and
shank will descend together, and the colored impression on the paper or
card placed between the die and the counterpart or force o will be
effected. The hand lever is then raised when the springs k, k, will
raise the die clear of the paper. If desired the positions of the die
and counterpart or force may be reversed, and the latter be made to
turn up so as to allow the color to be applied to the die on the bed of
the press.
In order to facilitate the feeding of the paper or card between the die
and the force or counterpart, I find it convenient to have a guide in the
form of a table or rim p, which may extend round or partly round the
force, is fixed to or cast with the bed of the press, and is of the same

page_text: height as, or a little higher than the force. The force may be fixed to
this guide in a recess in the middle thereof.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,
constructing, stamping, or embosssing presses in such manner that the
die or the counterpart or force may be turned up so as to enable the
color or paint to be applied to the die, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Frederick Carter, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
C. F. CARTER. (L.S.)