An Improved Combined Die and Cutter for Embossing and Cutting Out Medallions and other Small Articles from Sheets of Card- board or other Material at One Operation.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Die and Cutter for Embossing and Cutting
Out Medallions and other Small Articles from Sheets of Card-
board or other Material at One Operation.
We, ERNEST HOSKING, of No. 489 Flinders Lane in the City of Melbourne in
the Colony of Victoria Printer, and GEORGE DICK MEUDELL, of No. 59 Queen
Street, Melbourne aforesaid, Sharebroker, 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 has been devised for the purpose of providing a contrivance which
will simultaneously emboss and cut out medallions and other small articles from
sheets of mill-board or other material at one operation, instead of as hitherto,
necessitating the employment of two different machines or contrivances, one for
embossing the articles required and one for stamping or cutting them out.
It comprises a vertically sliding die working within a cutter extending around
its edge or circumference, and fixed in any convenient manner, whilst the die when
not in use, is normally held above the surface of the edge of said cutter by means of
a spring or otherwise, in order to enable the article or the strip or sheet of material
from which it has been cut to be released or removed from the cutter.
Means are provided for regulating the movement of the die relatively with the
cutter so as to ensure on the one hand the die acting efficiently upon the material
to emboss it, and on the other to prevent its being raised higher than just enough
to lift the medallion (or other article being formed) out of the cutter. A spring
or other sheet or table may be arranged around the combined die and cutter
described in order to raise the strip or sheet of material from which the articles are
to be formed above the level of said contrivance after each operation.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,-
Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of our improved combined die and
cutter for embossing and cutting out medallions and other small articles from sheets
of cardboard or other material at one operation illustrating same in its normal
position.
Figure 2 is a similar view to Figure 1, but showing said combined die and cutter
as it would appear when in use.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of an ordinary embossing press fitted with our
improved combined die and cutter.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
A represents the die, which is arranged to slide within the casing or cutter B,
whose upper edge is sharpened, as indicated at b, and which when in use projects
slightly beyond or above the top of said die as illustrated in Figure 2, a spring C
being arranged underneath said die so as to tend to keep it in its raised position, as
shown in Figure 1, said spring being arranged to bear against the back plate c
whilst the upward or outward movement of said die is limited by its being made
slightly tapering, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, so that it can only project beyond
or above the cutter to a certain extent.
In practice, we propose to place the contrivance which we have described upon
the bed plate of an ordinary embossing press, for which purpose the base is
provided with projecting studs D fitting into holes or recesses in said bed-plates.
The counter-part E may be constructed in the ordinary manner, and have
several thicknesses of card-board or a piece of soft metal secured upon it, as will
be well understood by embossers.

page_text: In order to lift the strip or sheet of material clear of the die after the medallion
or other article has been embossed and stamped out of it, a plate or table F is
so arranged as that normally it stands at a slightly higher level than the top of the
die A, as illustrated in Figure 1, whilst it can give sufficiently (as shown in
Figure 2) to allow the article to be embossed and stamped out, as will be well
understood. A stout piece of mill-board supported at each end, will for instance,
answer the purpose, or a metal plate supported upon springs may be used.
If, however, a large number of medallions or other articles are required to be
stamped out, several of these contrivances can be fixed in any suitable kind of
press, so that they will simultaneously emboss and stamp a number of articles
at once.
By using our improved contrivance it will be evident that only one operation is
needed to cut out and emboss the articles required, instead of, as heretofore, having
to first emboss the articles in one machine, then to place the strips or sheets from
which they are to be stamped in another machine and cut then out.. By this
means we are enabled to effect a considerable saving in the cost of the manufacture
of this class of article, as will be well understood.
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 :-
An improved combined die and cutter for embossing and cutting out medallions
and other small articles from sheets of cardboard or other material, at one
operation, consisting essentially of a die (such as A) contained and sliding within
a knife or cutter (such as B) said die being normally pressed upwards by a spring
or other equivalent device, and the whole being constructed and arranged
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and explained and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fifth day of September One thousand eight hundred
and Dinety-three.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.