IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR STAMPING. PRINTING AND EMBOSSING
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ingham Taylor, of the Cottage, Tuck's
Gardens, Sloane Street, in the County of Middlesex, Civil and Mecha-
nical Engineer, and George Butler, of 3, Carlton Street, Kentish Town,
in the County of Middlesex, Solicitor, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR STAMPING. PRINTING AND EMBOSSING."
Sealed the 28th August 1860, and dated the 9th July 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Ingham Taylor
and George Butler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 9th July 1860.
We, JOHN INGHAM TAYLOR, of the Cottage, Tuck's Gardens, Sloane Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE
BUTLER, of 8, Carlton Street, Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex,
Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS POR STAMPING, PRINTING, AND EMBOSSING," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists in the construction of a self-inking hand press for
stamping and printing, suitable also for embossing. The spindle attached to
the die or printing surface slides in the pedestal, and is supported by a spring,.
which raises it when the pressure is removed. At the same time the stamping
surface is replenished with ink or colour from a pad or a reservoir on a

page_text: lever hung on a pivot, and in connection with the spindle in such a manner
that when the spindle is raised the ink pad is pressed upon the die, and
removed aside when the die descends upon the table of the press. The spring
may be helical and placed around the spindle, or it may be of any other con-
venient form, as that of a detent spring, and applied to the pad lever; by either
arrangement the same result is obtained, as the die, spindle, and pad lever
work together in connection. The pad may be so hung as when removed from
the die to renew its supply of ink or colour from a reserve. Or a fountain.
reservoir covered with flexible material may be used, in which by its pressing
on the die the ink or colour will be forced against the die through the cover;
and this fountain may be inverted when the die is raised, in order to keep the
surface moist. This apparatus may be placed and worked in any position.
Two or more dies or printing surfaces may be fitted to one pedestal or frame,
to be worked together or independantly by direct pressure or by means of
levers. The apparatus is adapted by disconnecting the self-inking portions for
embossing operations.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Ingham Taylor and George Butler in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JoпN
INGHAM TAYLOR, of the Cottage, Tuck's Gardens, Sloane Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, and GEORGE BUTLER, of 3,
Carlton Street, Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, Solicitor, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John Ingham Taylor and George Butler, Her special licence that we,
the said John Ingham Taylor and George Butler, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Ingham Taylor
and George Butler, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN

page_text: APPARATUS FOR STAMPING, PRINTING, AND EMBOSSING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Ingham Taylor and George Butler,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
one of our, 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 samo 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 we, the said John Ingham Taylor and George
Butler, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that
is to say):
Our Invention consists in the construction of a self-inking hand press for
stamping and printing, suitable also for embossing. The spindle attached to
the die or printing surface slides in the pedestal, and is supported by a spring,
which raises it when the pressure is removed; at the same time the stamping
surface is replenished with ink or colour from a pad or a reservoir on a lever
or levers hung on a pivot and in connection with the spindlo in such a
manner that when the spindle is raised the ink pad is pressed upon the die,.
and removed aside when the die descends upon the table of the press. The
spring may be helical and may be placed around or within the spindle, or it
may be of any other convenient form, as that of a detent spring, and applied to.
the pad lever; by such an arrangement the die, spindle, and pad lever work.
together in connection. The pad may be so hung as when removed from the
die to have its supply of ink or colour renewed from a reservoir, or a fountain
reservoir covered with flexible material may be used, in which, by its pressing
on the die, the ink or colour will be forced against the die through the cover,
and this fountain may be inverted when the die is raised, in order to keep the
surface moist. This apparatus may be placed and worked in any position.
Two or more dies may be fitted to one pedestal or frame, and may be worked
together or independently by direct pressure or by means of levers. The
apparatus is adapted by disconnecting the self-inking portion for embossing.
Fig. 1 shows in side elevation, and Fig. 2 in section, a stamping self-acting
inking press.
a is the frame of cast iron or other metal fixed on a wooden
base a', fitted with a drawer to contain the dies or types; b is the spindle
carrying the box c, fixed on its lower end with a bayonet joint, and containing
the die or type, which may be secured in the box by a set screw or a spring;
d, the head of the spindle, which may be of ivory, wood, brass, or other

page_text: material; e, a helical spring, placed within the frame-head to sustain the
spindle ff, bell cranks, one on each side and pivoted on the frame at g,
connected to the spindle head by links h, and to the inking pad i, which may
be pinned to the links with a slight degree of freedom to adapt itself fairly to
the die surface; the pad is retained in a horizontal position, or nearly so, when
moved aside by the plate or shield ; over which it passes, and which also
intercepts the droppings from it. The spindle head d, to which the bell crank
is linked, is formed to slide within or upon the spindle to allow the pad to
follow up the die when home, auxiliary springs & being applied to the bell-
crank levers; 1, the stamping cushion, on which the object to be operated
upon is laid; the same press may be adapted for embossing by substituting the
ordinary embossing dies for the stamping die and cushion.
Figs. 3 and 4 shows in elevation and section a modification of the arrange-
ment in Fig. 1, in which simple levers fare substituted for the bell-crank
levers, and connected by a link h working within the frame, and pinned to the
central link within the spindle attached to the spindle head d, the lower end
working in a slot in the spindle as before. The spring k acts on the lever f,f,
through the cross tie.
Figs. 5 and 6 show in elevation and plan an arrangement in which two or
more inks or colouring material may be used in the same press. The frame
and spindle are substantially the same as in Fig. 1. A disc m is sunk into
the base, containing recesses n, n, n, in which the ink or colour boxes or pads
are deposited; the disc is turned on its centre by a milled edge through open-
ings in the base, so as to bring the required colour under the die, from which
it is charged. The die being raised, the stamping cushion returns to its
position over the ink box and under the die.
Figs. 7 and 8 shows a double press, in which the box c is fitted with a
duplex embossing die x, having the surfaces capable of being reversed, and a
corresponding reversible matrix l. The other spindle b¹ carries a box c' fitted
with a swivelled die a³, with two or more faces, to stamp various designs with
one die. The spindles are sustained by flat springs e, e, bearing on pins on
the spindles working in slots in the frame. A shifting lever z may be applied
to work the spindles successively, or a lever may be fitted to each spindle. The
spindles may be placed side by side.
Fig. 9 is an ink box or reservoir, made with a moveable pad supported by
a helical or other spring to bear against the die or type; Fig. 10 is an ordi-
nary ink pad, consisting of metal or wood covered with pieces of cloth or other
suitable material.
I do not intend to confine myself to the precise arrangements herewith shown,

page_text: as many mere variations may obviously be made from them; what I claim is
as follows:-
1. The application of a self-acting bell-crank or other lever motion in con-
nection with the spindle for applying and removing the inking pad or box to
and from the die or type.
2. The application of a spring pad in the ink box or reservoir.
3. The swivelled die or type box with two or more faces.
4. The revolving disc with two or more ink or colour boxes.
5. The general forms, arrangements, and combinations of parts or any mere
modifications thereof, whereby the objects above-named are to be effected.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Ingham Taylor and George Butler,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.