IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BORDERING PAPER, ENVELOPES, AND CARDS WITH BLACK OR COLORED BORDERS.
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Green, of Rose Cottage, North Road, Forest
Hill, Parish of Lewisham, Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BORDERING PAPER, ENVELOPES, AND CARDS
WITH BLACK OR COLORED BORDERS.'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Green at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
February 1862.
I, ALFRED GREEN, of Rose Cottage, North Road, Forest Hill, Parish of
Lewisham, Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR BORDERING PAPER,
ENVELOPES, AND CARDS WITH BLACK OR COLORED BORDERS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to improvements in the method of and apparatus
for bordering paper, envelopes, and cards with black or colored borders by
the following means:-On each side of a table of a suitable length and
width is a moveable guide formed by a series of pins arranged at the width
which the paper, envelopes, or cards are required to be bordered. The guide
works in slots on screws inserted in the table, and by means of a ratchet
wheel connected to it can be raised above the surface of the table or lowered
to a level with it when required. The paper, envelopes, or cards are placed in

page_text: the spaces marked by the pins, and the guide being lowered to a level with
the surface of the table by means of the rachet wheel, the black or colored
ink is applied in the usual way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Green in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
GREEN, of Rose Cottage, North Road, Forest Hill, Parish of Lewisham, Kent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Green, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Green, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alfred Green, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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
THE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BORDERING PAPER, ENVELOPES, AND CARDS
WITH BLACK OR COLORED BORDERS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alfred Green, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly 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 inmediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Green, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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:-
My improvements in the method and apparatus for bordering paper,
envelopes, and cards with black or colored borders, consist in fitting to each
side of a table or bed of any desired length and width a movable guide

page_text: carrying a series of pins, their distance apart being regulated according to
the width or depth of border desired; or instead of pins corrugated metal or
other suitable contrivances may be fixed in the guides. The guides are
free to move up and down in slots over screws which enter the sides of the
bed. Bars connect each end of the frame and support a shaft extending
beneath the bed the whole length thereof, and carrying a toothed wheel at
each end, into the teeth of which a ratchet works, whereby the frame is
raised to raise the pins above the surface of the table, or lowered to lower
them and let them lie flush with or below the surface thereof. The paper,
envelopes, or cards are placed in the spaces between the pins, the guide is
lowered, the ink or color applied in the ordinary manner, and the paper
removed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2
is a plan of so much of an apparatus for bordering paper, envelopes, and cards
as will be necessary to illustrate the manner in which my Invention is carried
into effect; Figure 3 is an elevation of one end of the same; Figure 4 is
a longitudinal section through the line x, y, and Figure 5 is a vertical
section through the line v, w, both of Figure 2. The same letters of reference
indicate like parts in all the Figures.
a is the table or bed, with a brass or other metal bar 6 screwed to each
side of it; c, c, are the side bars of the movable frame united at each end
by the cross bars d, d, which are united and secured to the side bars by
meaus of thumb-screws e, e. These bars c, c, have slots f, f, cut in them,
which ride on or travel over screws g, g, which screw into the bar b and
blocks o, o, supporting the table or bed a, as seen in Figure 5. h, h, are
the pins inserted in the bars c, c; in each Figure these pins are shewn set
at the same distance apart, but this distance must be regulated according to
the width of border to be given to the paper. i is a shaft extending from
end to end of the bed and on the under side thereof, carrying at each end
a toothed wheel k, into the teeth of which a ratchet / takes. m is a key
for communicating motion to the shaft i, whereby the movable frame is raised
or lowered according to the direction in which the key is turned. p, p, are
screws at the ends of the bed or table a, for supporting metal end pieces
9, 9, one only of which is shewn. These end pieces are cut at an angle, and
support the portions of the end sheets of paper which overlap the bed; r is
a metal plate, by preference zinc, laid on the surface of the bed or table a, to
receive the paper, envelopes, or cards to be bordered.
To use the apparatus, raise the movable frame by means of the key m
until the pins are above the surface of the bed a, as indicated by the dotted

page_text: lines in Figures 1 and 3, and by the full lines in Figure 5; place the metal
plate on the surface of the bed a, and lay the paper, cards, or envelopes
thereon between the pins, as indicated at 3, s, Figure 2, until the whole plate
is covered; this done lower the frame until the pins lie flush with the surface
of the bed, color the edges in the ordinary manner, and remove the plate r
with the bordered paper on it, the apparatus is then ready to receive another
charge of paper, and so on.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the employment
in apparatuses for bordering paper, envelopes, and cards of a movable guide
or frame carrying pins, corrugated metal, or other like contrivances, the said
frame being caused to rise and fall substantially in manner and for the pur-
poses herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Green, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.