A Method of Stencilling.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Stencilling.
ROBERT WALTERS Show Card Writer 29 High Street Belfast JOHN EDWARD
MOORHEAD Linen Manufacturer 41 Royal Avenue Belfast do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
A method of inscribing letters and numerals on a new principle for the purpose of
manufacturing show cards & price tickets and similar articles, by means of stencil
plates, the letters and numerals on which are cut in sections, and the plates so adjusted
in the working that each section registers the one into the other, forming one complete
figure the figures being perfectly formed as they come from the plato or plates,
without ties or cross bars or break of any kind.
;
What we claim as new is the invention of stencilling letters and numerals in sections,
the sections so adjusted as to register with accuracy and rapidity the one into the
other, making in the result one complete whole, and that by this process the most
superior and perfect letters and numerals can be produced without the aid of skilled
labour.
Dated this Second day of May 1889.
ROBERT WALTERS.
JOHN EDWD. MOORHEAD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Stencilling.
We ROBERT WALTERS Show Card Writer, 29 High Street Belfast and JOHN
EDWARD MOORHEAD Linen Manufacturer 41 Royal Avenue Belfast 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:-
This invention is a method of inscribing letters and numerals on a new principle.
We can describe it best by drawing a comparison between our invention and the old
stencil plate so much in use. The numerals and letters cut on the old stencil plates
are necessarily made with ties or cross-bars to hold the parts together, and the filling-
in or touching-up which the impression requires in order to make it complete renders
it impracticable for many purposes. The chief result attained by our invention is
that it produces letters and numerals without ties or cross-bars and makes them
complete without visible break of any kind. They require no filling-in and no
touching-up. Their form is complete when leaving the plate or plates. Various
enrichments may be added to extend the effect and enhance the appearance of fancy
characters.
The manner in which the work is performed is:-the numeral or letter is cut in
two or more sections either upon one plate or separate plates. Each section, forming
a portion of the whole, is so adjusted as to register the one into the other, thus forming
in the result one complete figure. The adjustment of the plates, bringing the sections
into their proper position, can be carried out in several ways. One way is by means
of a table into which is driven two fixed pins, and one of these pins registers into a
corresponding notch cut in either end of each plate. The notch in the loose plate
receiving the fixed pin determines the position of one section on the plate; the ends
of the plate being then reversed the position of the second section is determined in
an exactly similar way. The use of the second, or stop-pin, is, to secure that the
plates in each movement will rest on the same base line.
D

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The invention of stencilling letters and numerals in sections, the sections so adjusted
as to register with accuracy the one into the other, making in the result one complete
whole, and that by this process the most superior and perfect letters and numerals
can be produced without the aid of skilled labour.
Dated Belfast this Sixteenth day of July 1889.
ROBERT WALTERS.
JOHN EDWD. MOORHEAD.