A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PRESSURE SUITABLE FOR TAKING COPIES OF LETTERS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS AND DRAWINGS, AND FOR MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, OR FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ralph Augustine Jones, of Brill, in the County of Bucks,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
APPLYING PRESSURE SUITABLE FOR TAKING COPIES OF LETTERS OR OTHER
DOCUMENTS AND DRAWINGS, AND FOR MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS,
OR FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES.”
Sealed the 19th March 1880, and dated the 23rd September 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ralph Augustine Jones at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd September 1879.
RALPH AUGUSTINE JONES, of Brill, in the County of Bucks, Gentleman. “A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PRESSURE SUITABLE FOR TAKING COPIES
OF LETTERS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS AND DRAWINGS, AND FOR MOUNTING
PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, OR FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to a simple and effective hand apparatus for applying a
rolling pressure when taking copies of letters or other documents and drawings, or
designs, applicable also to the mounting of photographs, drawings, and for similar
purposes, and consists of a frame or holder of any convenient construction and of
any suitable material, such, for example, as wood, papier maché, metal, porcelain, or
glass, the said frame or holder carrying two or more rollers placed side by side and
working loose within such frame, which rollers rest upon the surface intended to
receive the pressure and project slightly beyond or below the underside or surface
of the said frame or holder. One or more handles or bearing surfaces are provided
in or on the frame for the purpose of receiving through the hand or hands of the
operator the direct pressure required for the purpose, which pressure is imparted by
the two or more lines of contact of the rollers acting in the same direction, and
upon the same surface at the same time. By this simple contrivance I am enabled
to dispense entirely with the costly presses and other devices heretofore employed
for the purposes herein mentioned.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Ralph Augustine Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
March 1880.
RALPH AUGUSTINE JONES, of Brill, in the County of Bucks, Gentleman, "A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PRESSURE SUITABLE FOR TAKING
COPIES OF LETTERS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS AND DRAWINGS, AND FOR MOUNTING
PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, OR FOR SIMILAR PURPOSES."
My said Invention relates to a simple and effective hand apparatus for applying
a rolling pressure when taking copies of letters or other documents, and drawings
or designs, applicable also to the mounting of photographs and drawings, and for
similar purposes, and consists of a frame or holder of any convenient construction,
and of any suitable material, such, for example, as wood, papier maché, metal,
porcelain, or glass, the said frame or holder carrying two or more rollers placed side
by side and working loose within such frame, which rollers rest upon the surface
intended to receive the pressure, and project slightly beyond or below the under-
side or surface of the said frame or holder. One or more handles or bearing
surfaces are provided in or on the frame, or the frame itself and the handle or
bearing surface may be formed in one for the purpose of receiving through the
hand or hands of the operator the direct pressure required for the purpose, such
pressure being imparted by the two or more lines of contact of the rollers acting in
the same direction and upon the same plane at the same time.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the Figures on the explanatory Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, the same
letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings is a perspective view of one form of my hand
apparatus for applying rolling pressure; Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section
thereof. a, a, are two end pieces of wood or other suitable material connected
together by a cross piece b, which may either be made separately and secured to
the end pieces, or the ends and cross piece may be all in one, as shown, so as to
form a handle by which direct hand pressure is applied to the apparatus. The
parts a and b constitute a frame or holder containing two or more rollers c, c, of
hard wood or any other suitable material (two being shown in my Drawings) placed
parallel to each other side by side, the journals of such rollers turning freely in the
end pieces a and working either in recesses extending only partially through the
end pieces, or the said journals may turn in notches formed on the lower edges of
the end pieces a, as shown in Figure 1, in which latter case they may pass through
the end pieces, and be prevented from dropping out of their places by strips of
metal d screwed or otherwise secured across the notches, and along the lower edges
of the frame or holder. The rollers are so placed in the said frame as that their
pressing surfaces shall project slightly below or beyond the lower edge of the frame,
thereby maintaining the latter elevated clear of the surface to be acted upon.
In using or applying my said apparatus I place it with its several rollers c, c,
resting upon the copying book, or upon the photograph or drawings to be mounted,
or upon any other surface intended to receive the pressure, and I press it down-
wards by applying one or both hands to the handle or upper part b, at the same
time rolling the apparatus to-and-fro over the surface, by which means I obtain the
pressure required, thus dispensing entirely with the costly presses and other like
arrangements heretofore employed for the purposes above mentioned.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,

page_text: and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
First. The peculiar construction and arrangement of hand pressure apparatus
wherein a rolling pressure is applied along two or more parallel lines of rolling
contact, acting simultaneously in the same direction and upon the same plane,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated by my
Drawings.
Second. The application and use of the said hand pressure apparatus to and for
the taking of copies or impressions of letters, or other documents or drawings, and
mounting photographs or drawings, substantially in the manner herein before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ralph Augustine Jones, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
EDWIN P. ALEXANDER,
14, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
London, W.C.
R. A. JONES. (L.S.)