Improvements in Apparatus for Expressing Liquids from Solids.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1899 -Accepted, 8th July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Expressing Liquids from Solids.
I, LEE BAGGETT, Builder, of Cotton Seed Oil Mills, of Jackson, in the County
of Hinds, State of Mississippi, United States of America, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:--
My invention relates generally to presses for expressing liquids from solids
and particularly to that class of presses in which there is employed a series of
press boxes and a filtering material such as filtering cloth for enclosing the solids
preferably in a powdered or granular condition in which boxes the solids to be
treated are subjected to pressure the expressed liquid passing into a receptacle
beneath.
The objects of my invention are first to provide means for placing the filter
cloth in the press boxes and charging the said boxes with the material to be acted
upon, thereby dispensing with the present necessity, in the operation of presses
of this character, for the use of separate formers for moulding or forming the
material into cakes or blocks previously to charging it into the presses; second
to provide improved means of charging the boxes so that cakes of uniform density
throughout will always be obtained; third to provide means for automatically
closing the sides or tops of the boxes according to whether the press is what is
known as a horizontal, or what is known as a vertical press, and to prevent the
cloth and material contained therein from creeping when the pressure is applied;
thus avoiding breaking of the cloth by preventing the strain on the cloth to which
it might otherwise be subjected, and also avoiding displacement of any of the
material from the boxes at the open sides; fourth to provide means for charging
two or more presses by a single charging apparatus adapted to be readily shifted
from one press to another; fifth to provide means for ejecting the cakes of material
from the press box after the liquid has been expressed therefrom, stripping the
filtering cloth therefrom, and delivering the cake to a suitable place; and lastly
to generally improve the construction and mode of operation of the presses whereby
greater economy in the operation of the press with expenditure of the same, or
less, power, resulting in increased production and a material reduction in the
number of operators necessary to work each press are secured, thus reducing
the cost of labour, and further securing an increase in the durability of the parts,
particularly of the filter cloths.
With these general objects in view my invention consists first in means for
placing the filtering material or cloth in the boxes or chambers; second in
improved means for charging the boxes of the press with a predetermined amount
of material, and in means for charging a battery of presses by the use of a single
charging apparatus moveable from one press to another; third in the use of a
continuous filtering cloth in combination with means for forcing folds or portions
of the said cloth into a plurality of boxes which have open sides or tops and
particularly those open sides through which the material has been charged; and
lastly, in the details of construction hereinafter described with reference to the
accompanying drawings.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 shews a press in side elevation partly in section illustrating the application
of my invention thereto.
Fig. 1 is a perspective detail hereinafter referred to.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the press partly in section.
Fig. 3 is a diagram shewing the situation with reference to the press shewn
in Fig. 2 of another press to be charged by the same charging devices as herein-
after explained.
Fig. 4 is a sectional detail shewing the means for automatically closing the open
sides or tops of the boxes.
Fig. 5 is a similar view shewing the parts in the closed position.
Fig. 6 is a similar view of a modification thereof.
Fig. 7 is a sectional detail shewing the means for stripping the filtering cloth
from the pressed cakes.
Fig. 8 is a sectional detail of a part of the upper portion of the boxes illus-
trating the means for clamping the filtering cloth to the boxes.
Figs. 9 and 10 are plans shewing mechanism for closing the sides or tops of
the boxes (in the act of closing in Fig. 9 and closed in Fig. 10) and
Fig. 11 is a detail of a modification.
In the drawings I have shewn my invention as applied to a horizontal press as
that is a convenient form to which the improvements may be applied but my
invention is not limited thereto, as it can be applied to any form of press employing
boxes in which the material is subjected to pressure for expressing liquid there-
from, whether such boxes be arranged to receive the pressure in a horizontal,
vertical or other direction, and in this specification I shall use the term open side,
or top to designate that part through which the material is introduced into the
box, with the understanding that do not thereby limit the invention to the
horizontal press shewn.
Referring now to the drawings in which the same reference characters relate
to the same, or corresponding parts in all the figures, A indicates an oil pan,
or trough, to receive the liquid as it passes from the press, the said pan also
serving the purpose of catching any leakage from the hydraulic connections where
hydraulic means are used for operating the press, and from which pan the drained
liquid can be lead through pipes or outlets to tanks or reservoirs.
The foundation, or supporting, structure of the machine, consists of the base
blocks B, upon which rest the stationary heads C, such heads being connected
by stay rods G thus forming a rigid and strong supporting structure.
E, indicates a portion of the hydraulic cylinder for operating the press boxes,
from which cylinder extends a ram D), carrying at its outer end a follower head F,
to which is secured the first plunger I, of the series of plungers which are adapted
to telescope into the several boxes. the said first plunger telescoping into the first
box of the series.
Each box consists of a plate to which is attached at its back a plunger I,
adapted to telescope into the adjacent rear box, the sides of the box being closed
by channel bars H, the inner flanges h of which (see Figures 9 and 10) constitute
the sides of the box the plate y being secured to the side of said bars opposite the
said flange, while the outer flanges h³ of the said bars, on the same side of the
press, are connected together by the usual slotted links .s.
consists preferably of a metal plate m which is provided with perforations i
The plunger plate I
situated between drainage bars, secured to the latter plate, and the bottom of
each box is closed by a channel bar K, having its flange perforated to permit
drainage from the box.
In order to maintain the press boxes in alignment as they are moved by the ram,
guide rods J, extending between the two heads C engage guiding cars carried
by the boxes.
The foregoing construction, with the exception of the specific form of the boxes
is or may be, substantially the same as that in common use and the details thereof

page_text: need not be specifically described, as it is well known that in such construction
the material from which the liquid is to be extracted is first placed in a former,
or mould, having therein a filter cloth, the said cloth being folded over the mass,
so that when it is subjected to pressure, the material will be pressed into the form
of a cake to fit the press box. From the former, the cake contained in the filter
cloth is at present removed and inserted into the press box, and when all the
boxes are filled one by one, pressure is applied through the medium of the ram,
thereby expressing the liquid. When the liquid is all expressed, the ram is
reversed, relieving the pressure and, at the same time, withdrawing the boxes
from one another. The cake in each box is then removed by hand and the filter
cloth stripped therefrom for further use.
Besides the great loss of time incident to this slow process of first forming
the cakes and then introducing them separately into the several boxes, frequent
accidents occur to the operator whose hands are not only subject to injury therein,
but are often burned in manipulating the hot cakes, particularly in treating
cotton seed meal for extracting cotton seed oil and considerable quantity of the
material is spilled around the former, and the floor adjacent thereto, which is
either lost, or partially deprived of its oil producing quality, through the necessity
of re-cooking, producing an inferior quality of oil.
By the improvements which I hereinafter particularly describe, I dispense
with this tedious process of first forming the cakes and then transferring them to
the press boxes, and I avoid the tedious and costly operation of stripping the
cloth from the cakes and overcome the serious objections herein before mentioned.
Mounted upon the heads C are grooved slideways L, which support base
blocks M, having screw-threaded perforations engaged by screws N, the said
base-blocks supporting rods d, connected, at their upper ends, by a cross piece
carrying the hydraulic, or other suitable power cylinder 7. Mounted to slide upon
the rods d is a cross-head to which is attached a series of plate plungers e,
corresponding in number to the boxes, and capable of being brought into align-
ment with the said boxes. These plungers are guided vertically by guides g
carried by plates g' fixed to the rods d. In order to provide for a limited amount
of yielding movement of the plungers e, with respect to the cross-head ³, I
preferably connect each of the plungers to the cross-head by a yielding connection,
which may consist, as shewn, of a spring attached to the cap on the upper
end of the plunger above the cross head, the lower end of the said spring bearing
upon the web of the cross head, which is preferably in the form of a channel
beam. The upper part of each plunger is cut away so that there is one member
of the fork, thus formed on each side of the cross head, guided in grooves therein.
The plungers may be operated by any suitable power exerting means, and such
means (for example the cylinder shewn) may be placed in any convenient position,
and be connected to the plungers, as the conditions may require.
The caps fixed to the upper end of the plungers serve to limit the downward
movement of the plungers, and under ordinary conditions are in contact with the
upper face of the cross-head. Each of the plungers is preferably provided with
an anti-friction roller f at the lower end.
Journalled in bearings at each end of the press is a reel over which the filter
cloth in a continuous web V is wound such reels being preferably provided with
means for rotating them such as a belt and pulley Y driven from any suitable
source of power and provided with clutches or shifting mechanism for throwing
them into and out of action.
As shewn in the drawings the web of filter cloth rests over the open sides of
the boxes, the said sides of which boxes are preferably provided with anti-friction
rollers Xmounted in bearings W, secured to the said boxes in any suitable way
in contact with which rollers the cloth moves so that its passage into the boxes
is facilitated.
Whilst my invention is not limited to the use of anti-friction rollers on the
boxes or on the ends of the plungers I deem it desirable to use them both because

page_text: by the use of the former the introduction of the cloth into the boxes is accom-
plished with the least expenditure of power and the least strain on the cloth and
by the use of the latter not only are these advantages obtained but the removal
of the cakes and the stripping of the cloth from the cakes are greatly facilitated
while the strain upon the cloth incident to the operation of removing the cakes
and stripping the cloth therefrom is reduced to a minimum.
Mounted between the rods above the press boxes is a structure consisting in
the example shewn of a series of funnels Q connected together and having at
each end a table extension Q', underneath which extension at each end of the
press is a shaft carrying a cam engaging the under side W (Fig. 8) of the
table extension Q, the said shafts being preferably journalled in the base-
blocks M, and each having a handle P (the two handles being connected by a
rod S) for raising and lowering the funnel structure to a limited extent as hercin-
after more particularly described.
Slidably mounted upon the funnel structure is a carrier, or hopper, R, which
can be traversed backwards and forwards over the series of funnels such hopper
being laterally confined by guide rails y on the funnel structure. This hopper
when out of action rests upon the table extension Q', of the funnel structure at
either end. Attached to the hopper R, is an arm T carrying a pin u to engage
with a lever T pivoted upon the side of the funnel structure. The lower end of
which lever is provided with a fork engaging with a pin upon a slide bar
carrying a series of plates Z sliding in slots, or grooves, see Fig. 1^ adapted to
be brought into register with the funnels for closing the said funnels to prevent
the flow of material into the press-boxes. When the hopper R is moved, for
example, from the right hand table Q to the left, the pin u engaging the lever T
causes the latter to move the slide thus closing the funnels the further traverse
of the said hopper effecting the filling of the funnels in succession and on the
reverse movement of the hopper the said pin u by coming into contact with the
lever T will move the slide thereby moving the plates or valves Z carried by
the said slide z away from the funnels permitting the material to be discharged
into the press boxes.
Instead of employing the plates Z attached to a slide as shewn in Fig. 1 a
plate (as shewn in Fig. 11) having perforations adapted to register with
the funnels may be employed the lever T in this case engaging a pin on the
plate the imperforate portions of which act as the closing valves for the funnels.
In order to place the filter cloth within the press boxes the funnel structure
with the plates withdrawn from register with the funnels is raised by the
cams so that the lower ends of the funnel will be slightly above the filter
cloth which extends over the open sides or tops of the press boxes. Power is
then applied to the cross head thereby lowering it and the plungers e the lower
ends of the said plungers engaging the filter cloth and in their further movement
carrying the said cloth in a series of folds into the press boxes one fold in each
box thus lining the said boxes with the cloth.
The cams are then operated to lower the funnel structure so that the lower
edges of the funnel will clamp the cloth against the upper edges of the said
boxes. The plungers are then raised leaving the filter cloth in a series of folds
within the several press-boxes as shewn in Fig. 1.
The boxes are then filled by the hopper and the funnel structure is raised out
of contact with the said boxes and cloth. Pressure is then applied in the usual
way through, the medium of the ram and the liquid is expressed from the material
contained in the said boxes within the filter cloth such liquid flowing out through
the perforations or slots in the plunger plates I and through the perforated
bottoms, or sides of the boxes into the pan A.
In order to close the open sides or tops of the boxes through which the filter
cloth and the material have been fed. I provide mechanism controlled by some
moving part of the machine (so as to effect the closure as the pressure is applied)
preferably by the pressure operating mechanism, so that, as the boxes begin to

page_text: move under the influence of the pressure device, they will be closed sufficiently
in advance of the extreme pressure to prevent creeping. In the drawings I have
shewn means, operated by the movement of the boxes, such means constituting
connections between the boxes and the pressure device. A convenient form of
this closure mechanism is that shewn in Figs. 1, 4 and 5. Slidably mounted in a
slot at the upper end of each of the plates y is a closing or cut off plate «, which
is normally retracted by a spring 6 connected at its lower end to the adjacent
channel bar H and having its upper end bearing against and preferably attached
to the said plate a the said spring being of such strength that when pressure is
applied by the ram and the boxes begin to move so as to telescope one within the
other, the tension of the spring will cause the plate a which bears against the
filter cloth to move and confine the filter cloth against the plunger plate I of the
box in front of it thus effectually closing the opening of the box. If the press
be used to operate upon material not needing a filter cloth the cut-off plates will
be moved so as to completely cover the open sides or tops of the boxes.
By this construction the creeping of both cloth and the material under treat-
ment is prevented, thereby obtaining uniformly dense cakes and also preventing
undue strain upon the cloth when a cloth is used whereby I am enabled if desired
to use a cloth of less strength than has been hitherto necessary, thus dispensing
with the necessity of using an expensive filter cloth such as that made of camel's
hair hitherto commonly employed.
In order to facilitate the return of the closure plates to their normal position
I provide a lighter spring e acting in opposition to the spring b. In some cases
as a modification of this closing device I use a part p (Fig. 6) attached at its
upper end to the closure plate a and at its lower end to the channel bar of the
same box and confined at, or near, its middle portion by a pin y passing through
ears on the back of the channel bar of the closing box. This construction may
be preferable where quicker and more positive action is deemed necessary, in
which case the part 7 instead of being a spring, may be in the form of a rod as
illustrated in Fig. 6.
After the liquid has been expressed from the material, in the several boxes,
and the ram retracted I can readily strip the filter cloth from the cakes and
remove them from the boxes by throwing into action mechanism for rotating in
reels on which the cloth is carried such for example as the pulleys X under
which action as shown in Fig. 7 the cloth moving in the direction of the arrow, is
stripped thoroughly from that side of cake n and partially from the opposite side,
at the same time drawing the said cake out of the press box and carrying it to
the end of the machine where it is discharged. The boxes are discharged in
succession in this manner and both reels may be operated at the same time,
thus dividing the work of stripping the cloth and removing the cakes equally
between them at the same time rewinding the cloth on the said reels for another
operation.
The plungers for acting on the filter cloth to insert it into the press boxes the
hopper, and the funnel structure, may be removed from any one press to another
by means of the screws N, operated by any suitable power which will cause the
whole structure to slide longitudinally upon the slide ways L, and the shifting
of this mechanism may be accomplished as soon as the press is charged, so that
in a battery of presses, little time is lost in charging the said presses. In Fig. 3
I have shewn in a diagram the relative situation of a second press; for the above
purpose the way L being extended from the press shewn in Fig. 2 to that indi-
cated in Fig. 3, and it is obvious that more than two presses may also be
arranged in the same or a similar manner.
The plunger plates e are intended mainly to place the filter cloths in the boxes
but they may be utilized with advantage for forcing the material to be operated
upon into the boxes, particularly when the said material is in a moist condition.
Furthermore when it is desired to charge the boxes with material under initial

page_text: compression these plungers may be used to ram successive charges into the boxes
before applying the main pressure.
Although I have shown and described my invention as applied to a press having
a series of boxes the essential feature of my invention are not limited to such
application, as they may be applied to a press with a single box, should it be
desired, without departing from the nature of my invention although it is
preferable for obvious reasons to utilize a series of boxes and hence the use of
the plural number in the claims and specification is to be understood as including
the singular whenever such may be preferable and desireable and it is obvious
that changes may be made in the details of my invention without departing
from its nature.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with the
press boxes to hold the material to be treated and means for subjecting the said
material to pressure in the said boxes, of means for forcing filtering cloth into the
said boxes substantially as herein before described.
2. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes to hold the material to be treated and means for subjecting the said
material to pressure in the said boxes, of a continuous web of filter cloth extending
over the open sides or tops of the said boxes, and means for forcing folds or
portions of the said cloth into the boxes; substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes to hold the material to be treated and means for subjecting the material
to pressure in the said boxes, of means for filling the said boxes through the open
sides or tops thereof, and means for closing the said open sides or tops, in
succession, as the pressure is applied to the boxes; substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes to hold the material to be treated and means for subjecting the said material
to pressure in the said boxes, of means for filling the said boxes through the open
sides or tops thereof, and means for closing the said open sides or tops operated
by the movement of the said boxes as the pressure is applied; substantially as
herein before described.
5. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with press
boxes to hold the material to be treated and means for subjecting the material
in the said boxes to pressure, of means for filling the said boxes with the material,
and sliding plates adapted to close the open sides or tops of the said boxes and
connections between the said plates, and a moving part of the pressure mechanism
to close the boxes successively as the pressure is applied, substantially as herein-
before described.
6. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with boxes
adapted to hold the material to be treated and means for applying pressure
thereto, of means for introducing the filter cloth into the said boxes, means for
filling the said boxes with the material to be treated after the said cloth is placed
therein, and means for clamping together the two portions of cloth in each of
the said boxes substantially as hereinbefore described.
7. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with boxes
to hold the material to be treated and means for applying pressure thereto, of
means for introducing the filter cloth into the said boxes, means for filling the
said boxes with material after the said cloth has been placed therein, plates
slidably mounted at the open sides or tops of the said boxes; the connections
between the plates and the pressure applying mechanism, whereby the said
plates are caused to clamp the two portions of the cloth together at or near the

page_text: open sides or tops of the said boxes so as to close the said boxes substantially as
hereinbefore described.
8. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with each
press box, in which the material is subjected to pressure, and having an open
side or top, of a filter cloth extending over the said open side or top, and a plunger
in line with the said box, and means for acting on the said plunger to cause it
to force the filter cloth into the box substantially as hereinbefore described.
9. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with the
press boxes in which the material is subjected to pressure and having open sides
or tops, of a filter cloth extending over the said open sides or tops and funnels
moveable toward and from the said boxes, plungers in line with the boxes,
means for forcing the plungers into the boxes so as to force the cloth there into
and means for moving the funnels into contact with the cloth so as to clamp
it to the boxes and hold the said cloth in place as the plungers are withdrawn,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
10. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with
press boxes having open sides or tops, of funnels registering with the said open
sides or tops, and valves or cut off plates carried by the said funnels, and a
charging device adapted to traverse the said funnels, to charge them with
material to be treated, and connections between the said charging device and
the valves or cut off plates, to close the said valves or plates prior to the charging
of the funnels, and to open them to permit the material to pass from the funnel
into the boxes, substantially as hereinbefore described.
11. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes having open sides or tops through which material is fed, and means for
compressing the material in the said boxes; of reels mounted in bearings at
each end of the press and a filter cloth extending from the said reels and over
the open sides or tops of the boxes, the said reels being rotatable to cause the
cloth to remove the compressed material from the boxes, and strip the cloth from
the said material, substantially as hereinbefore described.
12. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes having open sides or tops through which the material is introduced, of
a filter cloth extending over the open sides or tops of the boxes, a cross-head
mounted to move towards and from the said open sides or tops, plungers carried
by the said cross-head, anti-friction rollers at the ends of the said plungers, and
at the open sides of the boxes, for the cloth to bear on and means for moving
the cross-head to cause the plungers to place the cloth in the boxes, substantially
as herein before described.
13. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with press
boxes having open sides or tops through which the material is introduced, of a
filter cloth extending over the open sides or tops of the boxes, a cross-head move-
able towards and from the open sides or tops of the boxes, plungers carried by
the said cross-head and having a yielding connection therewith, and means for
moving the cross-head to cause the plungers to force the cloth in the boxes, sub-
stantially as herein before described.
14. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with press
boxes having open sides or tops through which the material is introduced, and
means for filling the said boxes, and means for applying pressure to the boxes;
of sliding plates mounted at the open sides or tops of the boxes, and springs inter-
posed between the said plates and boxes, whereby, upon the application of pres-
sure, he said plates are caused to close the open sides of the said boxes,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
15. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination of two
or more presses with press boxes having open sides or tops through which the
material is fed to the boxes, and a filter cloth extending over the open sides of
the said boxes, and slide-ways connecting the said presses, and means for filling

page_text: the boxes with material, and mechanism for moving the charging mechanism
from one press to another along the said slide ways, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
16. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with a
base, and stationary heads, of a series of boxes having rigid sides, guide rods for
the said boxes, a series of plungers carried by the backs of the boxes and adapted
to telescope into the fronts of the adjacent boxes, the said plungers being formed
of perforated plates, drainage bars interposed between the same and the backs
of the boxes, perforated bars forming the bottoms of the boxes, means for filling
the boxes, and means for applying pressure to the boxes, substantially as herein-
before described.
17. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids the combination with
boxes to hold the material to be treated, of a filter cloth in a continuous web
having separate folds thereof in each box, and means for filling the said boxes
with material, and means for subjecting the said material to pressure in the said
boxes, substantially as hereinbefore explained.
18. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with
boxes to hold the material to be pressed, of a filter cloth or cloths in the said
boxes, portions of the said cloth or cloths projecting from the boxes and separable
to permit the filling of the boxes, and means for clamping the projecting portions
of the cloth together, and means for subjecting the material to pressure in the said
boxes; substantially as hereinbefore explained.
19. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with press
boxes open at one side or top, of a filter cloth arranged over the open sides or
tops, plungers, each provided with an anti-friction roller, and means for moving
the plungers to cause the rollers to bear on the cloth whilst the plungers force
it into the boxes, substantially as hereinbefore described.
20. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with press
boxes to hold the material to be treated, of a funnel structure, adapted to be
moved into alignment with the boxes, for filling the same, plungers in align-
ment with the boxes, and means for forcing the plungers into the boxes, substan-
tially as hereinbefore described.
21. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with
press boxes, each having an open side or top, through which the material can be
fed, of a filter cloth extending over the same, and adapted to have a separate
fold in each box, means for filling the boxes, mechanism for compressing the
material therein and mechanism for withdrawing the cloth, whereby the com-
pressed material is ejected from the boxes, substantially as herein before described.
22. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with
press boxes each having an open side or top, through which material can be
fed, of anti-friction rollers at the open sides or tops of the boxes, and a filter
cloth extending over the said rollers, and adapted to have separate folds thereof
introduced into each box; substantially as herein before described.
23. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with
press boxes having open sides or tops through which the material can be fed,
of a cross-head mounted to move toward and from the said, boxes, plungers
carried by the said cross-head, anti-friction rollers mounted at the open sides or
tops of the said boxes, a filter cloth extending over the same and means for
moving the cross-head to cause the plungers to force the cloth into the said boxes,
and to pack the material therein; substantially as hereinbefore explained.
24. In apparatus for expressing liquids from solids, the combination with press
boxes having open sides or tops, through which the material can be fed, and
means for applying pressure thereto, of plungers operating substantially, as and
for the purposes, hereinbefore described.
25. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting an apparatus for
expressing liquids from solids substantially as hereinbefore described and illus-

page_text: trated in the accompanying drawings whether the charging portion be arranged
to act in connection with but one, press, or with more than one press.
Dated this 6th day of June 1899.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.O., Agents.