IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO FACILITATE EMBOSSING IN COLORED RELIEF ON NOTE PAPER, ENVELOPES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Kendrick, of 15, Charterhouse Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Stationer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS TO FACILITATE EMBOSSING IN COLORED RELIEF ON NOTE PAPER,
ENVELOPES AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 2nd December 1864, and dated the 13th June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Kendrick at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
June 1864.
I, RICHARD KENDRICK, of 15, Charterhouse Lane, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO FACILITATE EMBOSSING IN COLORED RELIEF
ON NOTE PAPER, ENVELOPES, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:--
This Invention relates to a novel arrangement of a floral or any other
design engraved or punched at equal distances on the plane of a circular
block of polished steel, for the purpose of embossing in colored relief on note
paper, envelopes, and such like articles for business or other purposes, the
object being to simplify and expedite that operation.
In the centre of the inside plane of the aforesaid block of polished steel is
a shank or projection, in which there are cut from four to fourteen grooves (as
occasion may require) at equal distances, which shank or projection fits into
the circular hole of a corresponding plain circular block of iron, the latter
block having a peg or stopper run through it in a horizontal direction from.
Price d

page_text: the front and projecting into the aforesaid circular hole, and catching in each
of the grooves of the shank or projection of the aforesaid circular block, and
thus impeding its motion to allow of each impression being taken from the
design.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Kendrick in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
Kendrick, of 15, Charterhouse Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Stationer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Kendrick, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Kendrick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Kendrick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE
MENTS IN APPARATUS TO FACILITATE EMBOSSING IN COLORED RELIEF ON NOTE PAPER,
ENVELOPES, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Kendrick, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Richard Kendrick, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My improvements in embossing apparatus are intended to facilitate the
process of embossing in colored relief on note paper, envelopes, and other
similar articles of stationery, which is effected by the employment of a revolving

page_text: circular die, on which is engraved or punched at equal distances a number
of duplicates of one device, the color or ink being supplied to them from
a small metal tube or reservoir, the bottom of which is covered with any suit-
able material, the texture being sufficiently fine to admit of the color passing
on its being pressed, and at the same time capable of retaining it when not
subject to pressure. This tube or reservoir is attached to the stamping
plunger, and placed in such a position that while one device is undergoing the
stamping operation another is being supplied with color from the reservoir,
both which operations are conducted simultaneously.
The superfluous color is removed from the surface of the die by means of a
strip or band of thin paper or other suitable material passing from a cylinder
or roller round which it is coiled, thence to a smaller roller placed in such a
manner immediately above the die that the paper in passing over its surface
is gently pressed upon it, and is then wound off on to another cylinderarranged
and placed in a suitable position for that purpose.
Motion is communicated to the cylinders by means of a ratchet wheel turn-
ing on a pivot or shaft fixed to the upper part of the frame of the press; over
this wheel, as well as under a small dummy wheel attached to one of the
cylinders, is passed an endless cord or gut.
The above description will be readily understood, reference being made to
the accompanying Drawings, of which Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of
my improved embossing apparatus, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the
The same figures of reference indicate like parts seen in different
same.
positions.
A, A, A, is the frame of an ordinary screw press; Bis the bed of the same;
C is the revolving screw shaft; D is the ratchet wheel; E is a lever arm
mounted on a metal piece (a) fixed on the frame of the press and turning on
a pivot; one end of this lever is arched or curved, and is acted on by the screw
shaft C, which indescending forces it down causing the other end to rise, atthis
extremity of the lever is a bar of metal (6), also turning on a pivot; the upper
end of this bar is bent in order to catch in the teeth of the ratchet wheel D,
and thus force it round; (c) is a piece of steel or other metal placed and fixed
in such a manner at the end of the lever as to act as a check in order to pre-
vent the bar (6) from flying backward. F is the stamping plunger; G is the
metal tube or reservoir for supplying the color; G' is the supply cylinder,
round which the strip or band of paper or other suitable material is coiled; G²
is the small roller which presses the paper on the die; G³ is the cylinder on
which the paper is collected or wound off from the supply cylinder G¹. The
cylinders or rollers turn on pivots fixed to the frame of the press in any

page_text: suitable position, and the number of which may vary according to necessity or
desire. (d, d,) are supports fixed to the bed of the press and in which the
shaft of the smaller roller G2 turns; H, H, H, is the band or strip of thin
paper or other material; I is the revolving circular die, made to fit by means
of a projecting piece into a similar space made in a corresponding circular
block of metal J, round the exterior of which are cut a number of cogs which
gear with a small wheel K let into the bed of the press for that purpose and
turning on a pivot; attached to this wheel is a small ratchet wheel L which is
forced round by an iron rod M fixed to the stamping plunger, which in
descending presses it on the ratchet causing it to revolve, and with it the small
cog wheel K gearing with the cogs on the metal block J bearing the die, and
thus communicates to it a rotatory movement. The metal block J is furnished
with a shank or projecting piece of metal, which is let into a circular hole in
the bed of the press; round this shank are cut a number of grooves correspond-
ing with the number of devices on the die; fitting and catching in these
grooves is a metal peg or pin O which is made to pass through the front of the
bed of the press in a horizontal position, an aperture for its reception being
made for that purpose; round this peg is a spiral spring, one end of which is
inserted into the peg, and the other is fixed to a boss in the aperture. The
object of this spring is to facilitate the backward and forward motion of the
peg; for instance, while the die is in motion the shank of the block J, turn-
ing in the circular opening made for its reception, forces the peg out of one
of the grooves by pressing it into the spring, and, as soon as the next groove
is presented to it, the peg by means of the spring flies forward and catches in
it, and so on in succession, the object of which is to maintain the die in a
stationary position a sufficient length of time to allow of the stamping process
being completed, and it is for this reason that the number of grooves on the
shank are made to correspond with the number of devices on the die, which
may vary according to desire.
Those parts not mentioned, but shown in the accompanying Drawings, are
well known as forming the ordinary screw press.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be carried into effect, I wish it to be distinctly
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein described,
as such may be varied or modified without departing from the principle of
action thereof; what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-
1st, a revolving circular die having two or more duplicates of one device
engraved or punched upon it, and so arranged that they shall come suc-
cessively under the embossing or stamping plunger.

page_text: 2nd, supplying the color to such devices by means of a reservoir of color
attached to the embossing plunger, or placed in any other convenient position
for that purpose.
3rd, removing the superfluous color by means of paper or any other suit-
able material from the surface of the die, in such a manner that a fresh
surface of paper is presented to the die at every operation.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Kendrick, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
10
Witness,
A. C. HENDERSON,
31, Charing Cross.
RICHARD KENDRICK. (L.s.)