An Improved Machine for Use in Bevelling and Gilding the Edges of Photographic and other Cards or Mounts.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1888
An Improved Machine for Use in Bevelling and Gilding the Edges
of Photographic and other Cards or Mounts.
I, FRANK BISHOP, of the firm of Marion & Co., of Solo Square in the County
of Middlesex, Wholesale Stationers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from abroad by THEOPHILE MONCHAU, of Paris, France,
Card-Edge Gilder) to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to apparatus for use in bevelling and gilding the edges of
photographic and other cards or mounts. Such cards are at present usually held in
a pile in a screw-clamp or press similar to the presses used by book-edge gilders and
the cards are chamfered, or bevelled by means of a cutter while the workman holds
the press in a slanting position. There are certain objections to the employment of
such clamps or presses, the chief of which is the comparatively small number of cards.
which can be properly held by a single press owing to the fact that the cards must be
If more than a certain
arranged so that their edges may overlap one another.
number of cards be placed in the press at one time the pile of cards would be liable
to become displaced by the pressure of the screw upon them, and it is therefore
necessary to employ a large number of such presses.
The object of the present invention is to provide apparatus capable of holding a
considerable number of cards or mounts.
The apparatus is composed of a series of carriers for the cards constructed as
hereafter described, mounted to slide upon a horizontal bed and serving to sub-divide
the cards into separate packs. The whole of these carriers and the cards which they
contain, are secured together by a pressure screw which is applied to the front carrier
and clamps the intermediate carriers and the cards together against the rear carrier
which abuts against a stop on the bed of the apparatus. By this means the cards are
securely held to form a solid structure capable of being slid along the bed of the
machine, to bring the edges of the packs of cards successively under the action of
the entter

page_text: These carriers each consist of a saddle-piece secured by dovetail guides to the bed
of the machine and an inclined back made in one with the saddle piece against which
each pack of cards rests. The adjacent carriers are connected together by fingers or
teeth on the one carrier engaging with corresponding teeth or fingers on the other
carrier, so that the whole assemblage of carriers is extensible and the cards may be
placed in the carriers without liability of falling between them.
The cutter may be the ordinary hand cutter, but I should preferably employ a
rotary cutter or milling tool with helical blades mounted to rotate in bearings above
the cards. The carriers would be drawn upon a horizontal table beneath this cutter, so
as to present the edges of the cards, which project slightly above the top edges of the
backs of the carriers, to the action of the cutter.
The apparatus may be used for holding cards for gilding the edges. In this case,
the backs of the carriers would be vertical.
Dated this 13th day of September 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Machine for Use in Bevelling and Gilding the Edges
of Photographic and other Cards or Mounts.
I, FRANK BISHOP, of the firm of Marion & Co., of Soho Square in the County of
Middlesex, Wholesale Stationers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a
communication to me from abroad by THEOPHILE MONCHAU, of Paris, France, Card
Edge Gilder) and in what manner the same is to bo performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention relates to apparatus for use in bevelling and gilding the edges of
photographic and other mounts or cards. Such cards are at present usually clamped
in a screw-press similar to those used by hook-edge gilders but there are certain
objections to the employment of such clamps or presses, the chief of which is the
comparatively small number of cards which can be properly held by a single press
owing to the fact that the cards to be chamfered or bevelled must be arranged so that
their edges overlap one another step-wise, consequently if more than a certain number
of cards be placed in the press at one time they would be imperfectly clamped and
liable to be displaced, and it is therefore necessary to employ a large number of such
presses.
The apparatus of the present invention is capable of holding a considerable number
of cards or mounts. It is composed of a series of sliding clamps or carriers for the
cards, constructed as hereafter described fitted to slide upon a bed and serving to sub-
divide the whole bulk of the cards into separate packs, the whole being subjected
however, to one pressure and constituting one single compact mass.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein figure 1 is a side elevation, figure 2 a cross section, and figure 3
a plan, (partly in section) of the improved apparatus. The same letters of reference
serve for like parts in all the figures.
A is the bed and B are saddle pieces fitted to slide on dovetailed guides along the
bed whereby the carriers or clamps are securely held to the bed. Each saddle piece
carries an inclined plate C for supporting and clamping the cards, the plate being set
at such an inclination as to present the edges of the cards (which project slightly
beyond the plate C) at the proper angle to give the required bevel. Each saddle piece
is provided with projecting fingers a which pass between similar fingers on the
adjacent saddle piece so as to fill up the gaps between the adjacent carriers and
support the cards whilst permitting of the adjustment of the carriers at various
distances apart along the bed. The first of the series of carriers or clamps is acted
on by a pressure screw D working through a nut E in a bracket carried by the bed A
and the last of the series abuts against a stop F fixed to the opposite end
of the bed. The cards being clamped in the press, as shewn, are securely held in the
proper position and their upper edges, which project slightly beyond the plates C,
may be bevelled by cutting them in a plane parallel to the bed A by means of the

page_text: ordinary hand cutter, or preferably by a rotary milling tool or cutter with helical
blades & mounted in a suitable frame, as indicated in dotted lines, along the bed of
which the clamp or press filled with cards is caused to travel and so present the cards
to the action of the tool, the tool and press being operated either by hand or
mechanically. The operation is repeated for each of the four edges of the cards,
two presses only being required, corresponding to the length and breadth of the
cards.
The apparatus may be made of sufficient width to receive, and operate on
simultaneously, two or more sets of cards of the same dimensions, placed side by
side.
For the purpose of gilding square-edged cards (i.e. not bevelled) the plates Cof
the carriers would be perpendicular to the bed of the press.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The herein-described multiple press for clamping cards to be bevelled or gilt
edged, consisting in the combination of a series of sliding clamps or carriers with a
guiding and holding bar or bed and with means of applying pressure to the cards
placed therein, substantially as, and for the purpose. specified.
2. The combination with the herein described multiple press for clamping cards to
be bevel-edged, of a revolving cutting or milling tool and guiding bed for the press,
substantially as specified.
antahan 1000
F. BISHOP.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.