A New or Improved Hand Continuous Self-inking, Rolling, Marking, or Impressing Machine.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Hand Continuous Self-inking, Rolling, Marking,
or Impressing Machine.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Patent Agent (a communication from abroad by
W. E. T. Bennett of Public Works Department, Nagpur, Central Provinces, India,
Assistant Engineer) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention which relates to a new or improved hand continuous self-inking
rolling, marking or impressing machine has for its objects to print, mark or impress
letters, figures, marks lines or any kind of devices on paper, parchment, cloth or
similar fabric. Thus it may be used amongst other purposes for printing handbills,
tickets, coupons, for obliterating postage labels for marking the names of places and
dates thereon, or on other papers or documents for impressing fac simile signatures on
letters and other documents, for printing any number of words or letters or figures
or marks in a particular order and for ruling lines and spaces.
The machine consists chiefly of the printing, marking or impressing roller, the
roller which distributes the ink or other marking material on the printing, marking
or impressing roller and the handle.
The printing marking or impressing roller is a metal or wooden roller or cylinder
with slots or holes in it for the reception of the type or other printing, marking or
impressing pieces, or appliances, the later being removable as pleasure.
The printing
or marking roller revolves parallel to and in close contact with the inking roller which
is merely a metal cylinder or roller covered with a cloth, felt, rubber or other
covering. This covering receives the ink or other marking material from the handle
of the machine, and as the printing, marking or impressing roller moves round, the
type or other marking pieces brush against the covering of the inking roller and
receives the actual quantity of ink or other colouring or marking material necessary
to make a clear mark or impression.
The handle is hollow and holds a tube of metal, which tube contains the ink, colour,
or other marking material. By means of a plug or piston working up and down the
tube inside the handle, the ink can be forced along the tube into a piece of metal,
transversely fixed at the lower end of the handle, which cross piece contains a
chamber which distributes through minute holes or slots cut through the metal,
the ink or other marking material on the covering of the inking roller.
The two rollers and distributing chamber are all parallel to each other, and at right
angles to the bandle of the machine.
. By means of thumb-screws the distance between the axles of the two rollers can be
regulated to a nicety. The two rollers are also supplied with cog wheels which
enable them to revolve simultaneously.
To work the machine, all that is necesary is simply to roll it along the material. to
be marked or impressed, and the number of impressions that can be obtained is only
limited by the number of revolutions of the mark or impressing roller.
Dated this 24th day of Decem
1980
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Hand Continuous Self-inking, Rolling, Marking,
or Impressing Machine.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 115 St. Vincent Street. Glasgow in the County of
Lanark North Britain Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(which has been communicated to me from abroad by W. E. T. Bennett of Public
Works Department Nagpur Central Provinces India Assistant Engineer) and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My invention which relates to a new or improved hand continuous self inking
rolling marking or impressing machine has for its objects to print mark or impress
letters, figures, marks, lines, or any kind of devices on paper, parchment, cloth or.
fabric or surface. Thus it may be used amongst other purposes for printing handbills,
tickets, coupons, for obliterating postage labels, for marking the names of places and
dates thereon or on other places or documents, for impressing fac simile signatures on
letters and other documents, for printing any number of words, letters, figures,
designs, drawings or other marks, in a particular order, and for ruling lines
and spaces.
The machine consists of an impressing roller carrying the types or design to be
printed and a roller for supplying ink to the said impressing roller, an ink containing
chamber from which the ink can be supplied to the inking roller as described, and a
handle by which the apparatus is held whilst in use and which can also be used for
ejecting the ink.
I will describe the apparatus with reference to the accompanying drawing,
whereon-
Figures 1 and 2 are views at right angles to each other.
Figure 3 is a vertical section.
Figure 4 is a transverse section on the line 1, 2 Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a part vertical section at right angles to the section Figure 3.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of the impressing roller.
Figures 7 and 8 are respectively a transverse section and an end view thereof and
Figure 9 is a part end view opposite to that shewn in Figure 2.
The printing marking or impressing roller is marked A and the roller which
distributes the ink or other marking material on to the printing marking or impressing
roller is marked B.
The body of the roller A which may be of metal wood or other suitable material is
provided with slots holes or recesses a for the reception of the type or. other
printing marking or impressing pieces or devices as shewn in Figures 1 and 3,
the said pieces or devices being fixed in position by a ring a² pressed against the
printing devices by screws a³ in such a manner as to be capable of being removed and
replaced by other pieces or devices when required. Or if desired the printing
surface may consist of a cylindrical or other shaped piece of india rubber or other
suitable material provided with the printing or marking devices and being placed on
the body of the roller A and fixed thereon by cement or any other suitable means so as
to be capable of being removed when required to renew or alter the printing surface.
The printing or marking roller A and inking roller B are mounted so as to revolve
parallel to and in close contact with each other in a frame C provided with a handle D.
The inking roller may consist of a cylinder or roller of thin metal or other material
covered with cloth, felt, rubber or other suitable yielding material 62. Ink or other
marking material is 'supplied to the surface of the covering 62 from a trough F
supplied with ink from a reservoir G in the stem of the handle D, the ink being
transferred from the roller B on to the type or other marking devices carried by the
roller A continuously, when the machine is in use.
The rollers A and B are geared together as shown at c so that when the roller A is

page_text: otated the roller B will receive a positive rotation by the gearing and in the Surface
of the printing or marking devices.
The part D of the handle which may be of wood is fitted to the stem c² (constituting
ho ink reservoir) so as to be capable of being rotated thereon and is provided
with a block e preferably of metal having a square or equivalently shaped hole or
recess to receive the square or equivalently shaped end g of a screwed spindle h
which passes longitudinally through the stem c² and has a bearing in a plate or bar i
n the top of the frame C
The part D of the handle is connected with the stem c² by the collar o which is in two
or more pieces or segments and is fixed to the handle D by two or more screws p p.
The collar is therefore removeable at pleasure and the reservoir or chamber G may
be cleaned as desired. The block e is provided with a screws by which it is fixed to
the handle D and is further held by the pins t t that traverse the handle D and
screws at right angles to each other."
Fitted to slide up and down in the ink reservoir G is a piston E provided with an
internal screw thread in which the screw works so that by turning the screw in one
direction the piston (which does not turn with the screw) will be caused to descend
and thereby force ink from the reservoir through the trough F formed in the upper
part of the frame and through a slot or a number of minute holes or slots in the
bottom of the trough onto the covering 2 of the inking roller B and conversely by
turning the handle D in the opposite direction the piston E will ascend and the
pressure on the ink or marking material be relieved.
The distance between the axles of the two rollers and B can be regulated as required
by means of screws m. A hole n is provided in the end of the trough F through which
hole the reservoir may be charged with marking material or the trough be cleaned
out the said hole being closed by a screw-plug when the machine is in use.
The perforations 11 may be provided with a cover or slide pierced with holes or
slots corresponding to those in the bottom of the trough F and arranged in such
a manner that when moved in one direction the slots or holes in it will coincide with
those in the bottom of the trough F and thus allow, the ink or marking material to
escape on to the inking roller B. With such an arrangement of cover or slide
the piston E could be forced down by a spring instead of by hand as described.
To print or mark with this machine all that is necessary after charging the
reservoir G with ink or marking material, is simply to roll or travel the roller A
over and in contact with that part of the material to be marked or impressed with
the markers or devices carried by the roller, the number of impressions that can be
obtained being limited only by the number of revolutions of the impressing roller.
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. In a hand printing or marking machine, providing in the handle of the machine a
reservoir for ink or marking material and means for causing a supply or delivery of
the marking material (when the machine is in use) to the inking roller by which the
printing or marking devices are inked substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In a hand printing or marking machine, gearing the printing roller A to
the inking roller B so that when the roller A is traversed over and in contact with
the surface to be printed, the roller B will also be caused to revolve and
supply ink to the printing devices as the printing proceeds substantially as
hereinbefore described.
3. In hand printing machines, the combination with the printing roller A and
inking roller B; of a trough to contain marking material, formed in the frame
in which the rollers rotate, the said trough being provided with perforations through
which the marking material passes to the surface of the roller B substantially as
hereinbefore described.
4. In hand printing machines, the combination with the printing roller A inking
roller B and frame C with its ink trough F of the handle D having in its stem

page_text: an ink reservoir provided with a piston operated by the handle substantially as
herein before described so as to force ink from the reservoir through perforations
in the trough F on to the inking roller, substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
5. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts constituting an
improved hand printing or marking machine wherein a continuous supply of
marking material is fed to the printing or marking devices, substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of September 1890
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.