IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RETAINING ELASTIC TYPE IN ENDORSING AND OTHER STAMPS AND HOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I GEORGE COPE DIXON of 58 Southgate Road De Beauvoir Town in the
County of Middlesex Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RETAINING ELASTIC TYPE IN
ENDORSING AND OTHER STAMPS AND HOLDERS to be as follows:-
The object of the improvements is to provide improved holders for India rubber
blocks or types or moveable India rubber or elastic printing surfaces and spaces
for use in printing or "endorsing" by means of such surfaces.
For this purpose I provide a channel having inclined sides the wider diameter
being inwards so that type bodies of similar wedge section being slid therein will
be prevented from movement except endwise and the endwise movement may be
controlled by means of a screw clamp or tightening piece.
"
Where the channelled wedge shaped receptacle, or holder is formed as a
stick"
or straight piece or row of types and spaces (and for cheapness) a screwed stem
working in a block or flange may press against a wedged metal block which
presses against filling pieces or spaces to make up the entire length of the
channel.
Or instead of a tightening appliance being applied at one end only it may be
applied at each end.
Or the tightening screw or screws may be applied in blocks or pieces and being
capable of sliding along the channel and of being retained therein by their wedge
form whilst an abutment for each screw block may be obtained by means of pins
or stops in the sides of the channel.
The types and spaces may be inserted most conveniently by means of a space or
opening left in one or both sides of the channel for a sufficient distance preferably
near the end of the channel next the screw.
Or in place of one row of types arranged in one channel being employed other
number of such channels having bevel or wedge formed sides may be employed
and by means of my invention facility is afforded for the arrangement and holding
of such types and spaces during printing, or whilst taking impressions from the
surfaces of such types, in a variety of designs, either in straight, circular, curved or
other lines.

page_text: A handle or handles applied to the back or other parts of the holder afford
means for readily applying the printing surface to a surface to be printed.
For lightness a wooden material may be employed as the bed or base of the
channel and plates of metal screwed to its wedge shaped sides may form the type
retaining walls.
Or the whole may be cast, stamped, or otherwise formed of metal or built up
in parts.
In place of the types being retained from displacement in the channel other
than endwise by means of walls or sides inclined inwards, holding the type bodies
similarly wedged, the type bodies may be formed with walls, or sides parallel or
otherwise and be retained by a projection or projections or flanges from the type-
bodies passing into the walls or vice versa.
Or the sides or walls may be turned over or flanged so as to clip or retain those
type bodies.

page_text: I GEORGE COPE DIXON of 58 Southgate Road, De Beauvoir Town, in the
County of Middlesex Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of my.
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR RETAINING ELASTIC TYPE IN
ENDORSING AND OTHER STAMPS AND HOLDERS, 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 the improvements is to provide improved holders for India rubber
blocks or types or moveable India rubber or elastic printing surfaces and spaces for
use in printing or endorsing" by means of such surfaces adapted to enable such
types or blocks to be held securely and correctly in relation to cach other
during use.
In carrying out my invention I employ a holder for the types and blocks
adapted to receive such pieces into a channel or channels formed in parallel rows
curves or otherwise according to design.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing indicates a holder having one row of
printing and filling pieces a respectively, the first three from the stop piece c
being supposed to be formed as the letters YX d indicates the side walls of
the channel and e the bed or base wall. f indicates a gate or openway through
which the types or pieces ab are transversely inserted into the plane of the
channel and then pushed longitudinally along the channel until it be more or
less full.
The stop piece c is controlled in its movements by the stem c¹ carrying the
thumb nut c, which stem slides in the end d¹ of theh older and is encircled by the
spring located between the inner end d¹ and the side of the stop piece c pressing'
that stop normally to a position across the gateway f to prevent accidental egress
of the pieces a b. On pulling out the thumb nut c² the stop piece c is drawn away
from the gateway f and the pieces a, b can in succession be withdrawn or
replaced, meanwhile the thumb piece c² may be given a partial turn to bring a
piece on the stem c¹ out of relation to its groove c and onto the wall d² so that
the stop c is kept back.
Figure 2 shews a side view. Figure 3 an end view on the line C. C. of Figure 1.
and, Figure 4 a section of the same, whilst Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 indicate various
examples of the many forms of blocks to the shapes in cross section of which the
side walls may conform to, in place of the simple curves of Figures 3 and 4.
This channel having inclined sides & their wider diameter being inwards or at
the base e the type bodies or blocks a b Leing of similar section are when slid
therein prevented from movement except end wise and this endway movement is
controlled by means of the piece c. The piece c may be controlled by a screw
stem (c) or other tightening piece, instead of a spring, working in a block or flange
at d' or either device may be applied at both ends of each channel or this adjusting
spring, screw or wedge piece c may be loose so as to be roughly adjusted in the
holder and then a pin passed through behind or back of it, from wall to wall d
through holes therein and then the fine adjustment obtained by the spring, screw
or wedge of the piece c.
The open ways for the entry of the types may be on one or both sides of a
channel and where most convenient.
Figure 9 shews by a face view Figure 10 by a longitudinal section and Figure 11
by an end or cross section a holder arranged for a series of channels for types or
blocks a b, in this instance four channels are shewn for use in place of the one
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page_text: row of types arranged in the "stick" or single straight holder of the preceding
illustration but the number that can be used is only limited by convenience and
the arrangements of the rows of types and blocks and channels admits of great
variety in design either in straight circular curved or other lines or combinations
of them.
The pieces a b in this form of holder are locked in by the hinged gate or door g
hinged at g¹ and caught or held by a snap at g² but this form of closing the ends
of the channels may be arranged in a variety of ways such as the snap being on
the gate engaging with a projection on the side of the holder, or by screws,
A handle or handles give facility for manipulations of the implement and
may conveniently be placed as shewn on the back of the holder but this may be
varied.
In some instances the bed e may be of wood and the wall d of metal screwed or
fastened together or the whole may be cast or otherwise formed from metal or
other combination of materials.
In place of the types or blocks being retained from displacement in the channel
other than endwise by means of walls or sides to the holder inclined or bevelled
inwards to their own contour, the pieces ab may have walls parallel or partly
parallel or the type bodies may be of much less thickness and be retained by pro-
jections a¹ below them taking into corresponding wedge formed or recessed grooves
in the under part d² of the holder as shewn by Figure 14. Figure 15 indicating an
edge view end wise of one of such type pieces.
These figures indicate the parts as being formed as they may be by casting or
building up or planing but they may be made very lightly by the sides or walls
being flanged or turned over from plate or sheet metal so as similarly to clip or
retain the type bodies.
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 The arrangement or construction of means for retaining elastic type in
endorsing stamps and holders with channels having recessed or dovetailed sides
or walls, formed by or in the sides or underside thereof substantially as set forth.
2 The general arrangements or constructions of means for retaining elastic types
in endorsing stamps and holders substantially as and for the purpose herein
set forth.
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