IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR De An PRINTING ADDRESSES FOR NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild, of Farringdon
Street, in the City of London, Printers' Composition Roller Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR
De An
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Harrild and
Horton Harrild, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 8th February 1861.
We, ROBERT HARRILD and HORTON HARRILD, of Farringdon Street, in the
City of Loudon, Printers' Composition Roller Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES FOR
PRINTING ADDRESSES FOR NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists in the combination and method of action of parts as
hereafter described, that is to say :-
We set up in a long frame in the manner well understood by compositors
the types to compose the addresses required, and leave a space between every
two addresses. We place this frame on a bed, the bottom of which is furnished
with a rack. We so arrange a treadle in connection with a lever or arm
carrying on one end thereof the platen, and with a paul, click, or ratchet lever,
that on working the treadle it not only brings down the platen over the label-
previously placed in a frisket and impresses the address thereon, but it also
drives forward the frame one tooth of the ratchet and presents a fresh address
to be printed by the next descent of the platen, and so on until the whole of
the addresses set up in the frame have been printed. The bed is then drawn

page_text: back, a fresh frame laid thereon, and the printing is proceeded with as before.
An inking roller is placed over the end of the apparatus at which the frames
are entered, the types in which become inked by being drawn to and fro or
simply by contact therewith in their onward progress under the platen to the
other end of the apparatus. The frame of the apparatus is provided with
tables or holders, one for containing the labels, and from which they are fed
by an attendant under the platen, and the other for receiving the labels after
being addressed.
Instead of a treadle other means of communicating motion to the platen
and to the bed carrying the address frame in manner before mentioned, may
be adopted, but we prefer the treadle arrangement as being simple and as tho
means of enabling one person to work the apparatus, the motions being com-
municated by the foot while the hands are free to feed and take off the
labels.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
HARRILD and HORTON HARRILD, of Farringdon Street, in the City of London,
Printers' Composition Roller Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild, Her special licence that we, the said
Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild, our
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUSES POR PRINTING
ADDRESSES FOR NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild,
or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of our or their hands and seals, should parti-

page_text: cularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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 immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in the combination and method of action of parts as
hereafter described.
We set up in a long frame in the manner well understood by compositors
the types to compose the addresses required, and leave a space between every
two addresses. This frame is placed on a bed, the bottom of which is furnished
with a rack, and a treadle is so arranged in connection with a lever or arm
carrying on one end thereof the platen, and with a paul, click, or ratchet lever
that on working the treadle it not only brings down the platen over the label
previously placed in a frisket and impresses the address thereon, but it also
drives forward the frame one tooth of the ratchet and presents a fresh address
to be printed by the next descent of the platen, and so on until the whole of
the addresses set up in the frame have been printed. The bed is then drawn
back, a fresh frame laid thereon, and the printing is proceeded with as before.
An inking roller is placed over the end of the apparatus at which the frames
are entered, the types in which become inked by being drawn to and fro, or
simply by contact therewith, in their onward progress under the platen to the
other end of the apparatus. The frame of the apparatus is provided with
tables or holders, one for containing the labels, and from which they are fed by
an attendant under the platen, and the other for receiving the labels after being
addressed.
Instead of a treadle other means of communicating motion to the platen
and to the bed carrying the address frame in manner before mentioned may be
adopted, but we prefer the treadle arrangement as being simple and as a means
of enabling one person to work the apparatus, the motious being com-
municated by the foot while the hands are free to feed and take off the
labels.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a perspective view of an
apparatus for printing addresses constructed according to our Invention, and
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of so much of the internal frame as will be
necessary to illustrate the manner in which that part is constructed.

page_text: a is the frame for carrying the "galleys" or "trays" in which the addresses
are set up. This frame a is free to travel on rails b, b, connected to the frame
of the apparatus, and carries a rack c on its under side, as shown at Figure 2;
d is a weighted paul free to move about the point d', and taking into the teeth
on the rack. The weighted end of the paul rests upon a rod e extending
across the apparatus, and motion is communicated to the paul through the bell
crank lever fand the rod g in connection with the front part of the treadle h;
i is a rod jointed at its upper end to the other end of the treadle, and connected
to a lever k, free to move about the point k¹, and carrying the platen at its
other end; is the frisket supported on the frame by four vertical pins c¹, c¹;
m is the inking roller, and n is the table from which the ink is taken; o is the
table on which the paper to be addressed is laid, and p is the table on which
the paper after being addressed is placed. The tables o and p are arranged to
turn about the points o¹, p', so that they may be turned out of the way or
brought forward over the apparatus as required.
The operation of printing and changing the address is effected by the treadle
in the following manner :-Upon depressing the fore part of the treadle the
rod g descends, carrying with it the bell crank, whereby the paul is drawn
back to engage into a tooth in the rack. The rod i being connected to the
upper part of the treadle now acts upon the platen by forcing it down upon
the paper to be printed. On the return of the treadle to its original position
which is effected by a spring 9 on the treadle shaft the platen is removed from
the paper, and at the same time the paul pushes the table forward one tooth,
exposing a fresh address of type through an aperture in the frisket.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim the combi-
nation and method of action of the parts of apparatuses for printing addresses
for newspapers and other similar purposes substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Robert Harrild and Horton Harrild
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
ROBT. HARRILD.
(L.S.)
HORTON HARRILD. (Ls.)