IMPROVED STAMP INKING APPARATUS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Cadet, of No. 36, College Street North;
Camden Town, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVED STAMP INKING
APPARATUS."A communication.
Sealed the 2nd December 1856, and dated the 2nd June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Cadet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
June 1856.
I, AUGUSTE CADET, of 36, College Street North, Camden Town, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVED STAMP INKING
APPARATUS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in constructing a self-supplying inking bed for
stamps for making impressions on letters, envelopes, and other like purposes.
The inking bed is enclosed in a tin box, and consists of a block of wood of the
required formi and dimensions. Upon the top of this block sheets of wodding
are applied and fixed to it; grease is placed above the wodding, and then the
necessary quantity of ink is introduced above the grease, and an oil-cloth is
applied over the whole so as to enclose it tightly.
An apparatus is employed in connection with the said inking bed, which
consists of a semicylindrical tin box, with two or more flannel rollers, tho
pivots of which are set in holes made at its two extremities, in which they turn

page_text: when being passed over the ink bed. This cylindrical box is made to fit to
the sides of the ink bed, so as to press on its surface at will. By causing the
rollers to press on the bed, ink is caused to flow to the surface, or when in
excess, by avoiding that pressure, it is absorbed by the flannel rollers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Auguste Cadet in the. Great Seal l'atent Office on the
2nd December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTE
CADET, of No. 36, College Street North, Camden Town, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the: nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Auguste Cadet, Her special license that I, the said Auguste Cadet, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others.as I, the said. Auguste
Cadet, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED STAMP INKING APPARATUS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Auguste Cadet, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Inventien, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and inmediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent."
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Auguste Cadet, do hereby, declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following "statciment
thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in constructing an inking bed for stamps for making
impressions on letters, envelopes, and other articles of paper, and on linen.
The inking bed is enclosed in a box of tin, wood, or other material, and
consists of a block of wood of the form and size of the inking bed required,
about one inch and a half thick, raised from the bottom by two pieces

page_text: of wood fixed to it, one at each end. Upon the top of this block two or more"
sheets of wadding are placed, and covered over by a black oilcloth, greased on
its under surface, which, after being drawn tightly down round the sides of the
block, is nailed thereto. The inking bed may then be fitted into a tin box and
firmly fixed.
The bed may be made self-supplying with ink by imbibing it therewith
before applying the oil-cloth. I have, however, found it more advantageous
to lay the ink on the outer surface of the oiled cloth, according to requirement.
An apparatus is employed in connection with the inking bed, either for pressing
out the ink to the surface when the ink is applied internally, or for equalising
it when laid on externally; it consists of a semicylindrical tin box of the same
length as the width of the inking bed, with two or more rollers, set horizontally,
and covered with flannel, the pivots of which are set freely in holes made at its
two extremities, in which they turn when being passed over the ink bed. This
cylindrical box is provided at its two ends with two circular tin pieces, which
fit to the outsides of the ink bed, and serve as guides to the flannel rollers.
The tin box is made with a compartment in the length or breadth to receive
the roller apparatus and stamp. The ink employed is that in general use for
stamping and marking.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the construction of an inking bed and ink equalliser, applicable for inking
stamps for linen and paper, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Cadet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.