IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY APPLIED TO EMBOSSING OR CUTTING PRESSES FOR THE BETTER AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MANUFACTURING ORNAMENTAL CUT-OUT AND EMBOSSED WORK IN PAPER, LEATHER, PARCHMENT, CLOTH, FOIL, AND OTHER MATERIAL.
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Mossman, of No. 50, Cumming Street,
Pentonville, in the Parish of Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturing Stationer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY APPLIED TO EMBOSSING OR CUTTING PRESSES FOR THE BETTER AND
MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MANUFACTURING ORNAMENTAL CUT-OUT AND
EMBOSSED WORK IN PAPER, LEATHER, PARCHMENT, CLOTH, FOIL, AND OTHER
MATERIAL.
Sealed the 31st August 1859, and dated the 29th March 1859.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Mossman at the,
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Do-
claration, on the 29th March 1859, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MOSSMAN, of No. 50, Cumming Street, Pentonville, in the Parish of
Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Stationer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY APPLIED TO EMBOSSING OR CUTTING PRESSES FOR THE BETTER AND MORE
EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MANUFACTURING ORNAMENTAL CUT-OUT AND EMBOSSED WORK
IN PAPER, LEATHER, PARCHMENT, CLOTH, FOIL, AND OTHER MATERIAL," and have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
declaration that I am the true and first Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Mossman, do hereby declare that
the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal fully describes and
ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in improvements in machinery applied to embossing
or cutting presses for the better and more expeditious manner of manufacturing
ornamental, cut, and embossed work in paper, leather, parchment, cloth,
foil, &c. The manner in which such improvements in the embossing or cutting
press is effected is,―
1st, by means of a plate or block of metal being affixed to the face of
the dab or placed between the dab and the die whereby the inequalities
(if any) of the cutting edges of the die or dies are met by adapting such
plate or plates on blocks to press equally (when the screw is forced down)
upon the whole of the cutting edges of the dic or dies.
2nd, the using of thin plates of metal such as copper, brass, lead, tin,
zinc, &c., placed between the paper, leather, parchment, cloth, foil, &c., to bo
cut and embossed, and the plate or block of metal is placed between the dab
and the die whereby when the dab is forced down by means of the screw the
cutting edges of the die or dies are pressed through the paper, leather, parch-
ment, cloth, foil, or other substances used into the thin plate of metal without
cutting into the surface of the dab, or plate, or block between the dab and
the die.
3rd, a framework adapted to such embossing or cutting presses wherein
the die or dies are fixed, having a lid or cover on joints to cover or uncover the
die or dies. This framework is fitted to slide easily to and fro under the press,
that the die or dies thereby may be placed under the dab to receive the
pressure and withdrawn for the purpose of placing and removing the paper
(or other substance to be cut and embossed) and also placing and removing
the thin plate of metal. At each alternate withdrawal of the frame, the lid or
cover (with a force thereon) is shut down, then being placed under the dab
and the screw forced down the already cut paper or other substance is
embossed without removing the same from the die; the lid or cover is kept in
placo by means of points on moveable joints, which points enter the lid or
cover and enable it to act the same as a hinge.
What I claim by my Invention is the affixing a plate or block of metal. to
the dab of the embossing or cutting press or placing between the dab and the
dic a plate or block of metal adapted so as to bear or press equally on all the

page_text: cutting edges of the die or dies. Also, the using in the manufacture of such
ornamental work, thin plates of metal, especially zinc, for the cutting edges of
the dies to press against. Also for the sliding framework and moveable points
or joints to the lid or cover. Also for the paper or other substances when
cut remaining in the die until embossed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mossman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLIAM MOSSMAN. (L.s.)