Improved Mounting Beds for Stereos, Electros, Zincos, and all kinds of Process Plates.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mounting Beds for Stereos, Electros, Zincos, and all kinds
of Process Plates.
WILLIAM PANTER 29, Laurel Grove, Penge, Surrey, Printers Overseer do
follows:-
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hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
I make the beds of iron planed on both sides true level. On the upper side
lines are marked or scored both horizontally and vertically which are guides for
laying down plates. Instead of fixing the plates by clips or composition I drill
holes in the beds in which I insert pieces of wood so secured that it is imposable
for them to fall out, to which the plates are fastened by the aid of screws. By
this means each individual plate can be taken off for making-ready purposes
without interfereing with any other plate on the bed. The holes with the wood
I am now
pegs are arranged so that plates of various sizes can be mounted.
making two beds for mounting octavo, quarto, folio, broadside and double for either
foolscap, post, or crown. The beds can be made to suit any particular job or to
suit a number of jobs of different sizes. When the plates are laid down and
fastened they remain firm and solid untill the job is finished.
TL 10th day of March 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mounting Beds for Stereos, Electros, Zincos, and all kinds
of Process Plates.
I, WILLIAM PANTER, 29 Laurel Grove, Penge, Surrey, Printers Overseer, 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:
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in the method of mounting
stereos, electros, zincos, and all kinds of process plates, upon the beds for printing,
and in the construction of the mounting beds for effecting the same.
I make the beds or plates of iron or other metal, truly planed on both sides so
to have parallel faces. The upper side of the bed or plate is marked or scored
with lines both horizontally and vertically for the purpose of guiding the laying
down of the plates.
Instead of fixing the plates by clips composition, or other known means, I drill
or cast holes in the beds, in which holes I insert pieces of wood, by driving the
same into the holes, and secure the plates to these plugs of wood, by ordinary
screws or brads passing through the plates and screwed or driven into the plugs of
wood.
By these means any number of plates may be readily attached to or detached
from the bed or plate without interfering with any other plate or plates attached
to the bed.
The holes for the insertion of the wooden plugs are arranged so that plates of
various sizes may be mounted upon the same bed.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of a mounting bed or plate constructed in accordance with
my invention, shewing the upper surface of the bed or plate.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the underside of the same bed or plate.

page_text: a a are the holes formed in the bed or plate for receiving the wooden plugs.
bb are marks or lines formed upon the upper surface of the bed or plate. These
lines may be drawn for mounting octavo, quarto, folio, broadside, double and other
sizes. cc are saw-cuts or nicks formed in the plate to receive stretched cords or
lines for further guidance in laying down the stereos &c. in the required positions
for printing. Holes are formed in the stereo-plates, corresponding with the positions
of the plugs. Through these holes screws or brads are passed and screwed or
driven into the plugs, whereby the plates are firmly held to the mounting bed.
I do not limit myself to the precise form of bed plate, or to the positions or form
of the holes and scorings shown in the drawings, as it is obvious that the same may
be very much varied in shape and details.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. An improved mounting bed for stereotype, electrotype, zinco, and all kinds of
printing plates, consisting of a parallel sided metal block, having a number of holes
formed therein, into which holes wooden plugs are driven, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The improved mounting beds, for stereos, electros, zincos, and all kinds of
process plates, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.