Improved Embossing Device.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16!h Nov... 1895-Accepted, 21st. Dec., 1895
I, FIDELIUS TSCHOFEN, of 8, Rother Hof of the City of Vienna in the Empire
of Austria, First-Lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army, do hereby
declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved embossing device, which is easily applied
and may be carried in the pocket. It can be used for embossing monograms and
other designs in paper or other suitable material and may also serve to amuse
children.
The embossing device consists of two thin strips or plates of any material adapted
for being pressed or embossed as for instance sheet metal, card-board or preferably
& substance which can be embossed after having been warmed and which hardens
after cooling, as for instance celluloid or hard rubber. One of these strips or
plates is embossed by a steel stamp with the positive and the other with the corre-
sponding negative design and both strips or plates are suitably attached to each
other in such manner that both designs or dies are opposite each other. For
employing this device it is only necessary to place the paper or other substance to
be embossed between the two connected strips or plates and to press or rub with a
hard surface over the die parts. The edges of the strips or plates may be bent
over or thickened as a guide for whatever is used to operate the dies.
Dated this 28th day of May 1895.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Embossing Device.
I, FIDELIUS TSCHOFEN of 8 Rother Hof, Vienna in the Empire of Austria,
First Lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army, 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:
This invention relates to an improved embossing device which is very simple in
construction and which may be carried in the owner's purse or vest pocket. By
means of this device monograms, mottoes or like designs, may be readily embossed
on paper, envelopes, linen, or the like.
As illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the device comprises two thin
elastic plates or strips P of celluloid, hardened caoutchouc, sheet metal, or the like,
which are preferably connected by means of rivets, or the like. Near the end R.
the design, motto, monogram or the like is impressed or stamped by means of a
steel-stamp in such manner that (for instance, as shown in the drawing) the design
or monogram on the lower strip is in relief, while on the other strip the corresponding
impression of the design is made immediately opposite the design in relief on the
said lower strip.

page_text: This is preferably done by first stamping the two strips with the steel stamp, the
celluloid and hardened' caoutchouc baing preferably first warmed for this purpose.
One of the plates or strips thus stamped is now turned over and placed with its
reverse side on the other, so that the embossed surface falls snugly into the
corresponding impression in the other plate.
If now the paper, envelope, linen or the like, to be embossed is placed between
the two strips and the letter pressed together, or a hard substance passed
firmly over same, the motto or the like will be clearly impressed or embossed
on the article.
It will be evident that coloring matter such as aniline may be put into the
impressed motto, in which case the article is embossed with a correspondingly-
colored representation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
An improved embossing device, comprising two strips or plates of celluloid,
hardened caoutchouc, sheet-metal, or the like, suitably connected to each other,
both of which strips are stamped with exactly the same design, motto, or monogram
to be embossed and then placed reversely on each other in such manner that the
embossed surface of the one falls into the corresponding impression in the other,
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 16th day of November 1895.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
37 Cursitor Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.