IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS "
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of 16,
Castle Street, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Edouard
Loradoux Bellford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 17th January 1853.
I, AUGUSTE LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 16, Castle Street, Holborn, in
the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS FOR
PRINTING MUSIC" to be as follows:-
The five horizontal lines which form the stave or system are omitted
in the composition of the notes, which then become as simple as any
other kind of typographical composition. When the composition and
corrections are made in, a plaster mould is taken and placed in an iron
frame of the form the latter, and the mould which it bears are placed

page_text: on an instrument represented in the Drawing, and in which a, a, is the
iron frame; b, b, the plaster mould; c, is a distance equal to the difference
between the height of the letters and that of the spaces of the form; d, is
a spring which diminishes the pressure of the upper part of the mould;
e, e, are systems or staves composed of five files placed exactly an equal
distances from each other, and which slightly touch the plaster mould.
By moving the iron frame a, a, backwards and forwards the files c, e
enter into the plaster mould, which they channel precisely at the places
where the lines ought to be in the stave or system five lines of the same
depth as the notes or letters. Then pour into the mould thus obtained
the material intended to form the block.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th July 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
AUGUSTE EDOUARD LORADOUX BELLFORD, of 16, Castle Street, Holborn,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto mc, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, Her
special licénce that I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradonx Bellford, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise; and vend, within the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention, communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad;
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLOCKS FOR PRINTING MUSIC,"
npon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Auguste Edouard

page_text: Loradoux Bellford, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Auguste Edouard, Loradoux
Bellford, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be 'performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and-by the following statement (that is to say..) (reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed):
This is a new process in the manufacture of blocks for printing music
by means of a typographical press. The five horizontal lines, which con-
stitute in music what is called a stave or system, have been a great.
obstacle up till the present period against all endeavours to obtain a
simple and fine composition of music for typography. This is a new
process by the aid of which this obstacle is avoided. These five lines
are entirely omitted in the composition of notes, which thus becomes as
simple and as easy as that of all other typographical compositions.
When the composition and the correction are made the plaster mould
obtained with this composition is taken up in an iron frame, and these
are placed on an apparatus of my Invention represented in the Drawing.
a, a, is the iron frame; b, b, the plaster mould; c, is a distance equal to
the difference between the height of the letters and that of the spaces
of the composition; d, is a spring which diminishes the pressure of the
upper part of the mould, without however opposing itself entirely to its
lowering; e, e, are systems or staves composed of five lines placed
exactly at the same distance from each other, and which just touch the
plaster mould. In giving a to and fro motion to the framework a, a, in
this apparatus the lines e, e, are caused to enter into the plaster mould,
where they indent precisely at the places where the lines of the staves or
system are to be placed, five lines having the same depth as the notes or
letters. After this operation the material employed to form the block has
only to be poured in the mould thus obtained, and then the lines
passing beyond the column are cleared away with a chisel.

page_text: I claim the herein described mode of manufacturing blocks to be
employed in printing music.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bell-
ford, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day
of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.