AN IMPROVED METHOD ОР AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, COPYING, MULTIPLYING, AND SECURING PUBLIC AND OTHER RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Arthur Dillon, of the City of Dublin,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD ОР AND
APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, COPYING, MULTIPLYING, AND SECURING PUBLIC AND
OTHER RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS."
Scaled the 25th September 1874, and dated the 4th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Arthur Dillon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,.
on the 4th June 1874.
I; THOMAS ARTHUR DILLON, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, COPYING, MULTIPLYING, AND SECURING
PUBLIC AND OTHER RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS,' to be as follows:
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The object of the said Invention is by a proper selection and adapta-
tion of certain scientific and well-known appliances, such as photography,
ordinary type printing, and stereotype, joined with what I believe to be
a novel method of printing on thin metallic sheets, as also a new form
[ Price Sd7

page_text: of index to supersede the present manuscript writing and recording
system as far as possible, and in the manner herein-after described, and
thus to obtain a more accessible index and recording system.
In illustration I will describe my new method of registration as
applicable to a particular record office, namely, the Registry of Deeds
Office, Ireland.
I do not claim generally the use of photography, of type, or stereotype
printing, as these appliances are well known and understood, but I do
claim the combination and arrangement of the several parts as novel;
and I specially claim to be the originator of the peculiar index herein-
after described.
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Suppose a certain number of deeds and their abstracts called memo-
rials," to be lodged on any one day (each memorial should have, by
preference, an abstract of its contents written at foot or attached to it).
The "memorials" which are abstracts of deeds or condensed deeds so
to speak, and the abstracts of those said memorials which are as it were,
condensed memorials of memorials having been duly compared and
settled by and between the official staff of the department, and the
solicitor or other proper person lodging them, the first process will be to
take a photograph of these documents on prepared paper, glass, metal,
or other suitable substance, and of a readable size. The documents to be
photographed having been arranged in a case and flattened down with a
clear good sheet of glass, in such a way that photographic facsimiles of
each may be taken one after another in a very short space of time, and
of such size as may best suit a compositor of fair average sight to work
from; a microscopic copy of each memorial may also be then taken for
the purpose of subsequent enlargement whenever a facsimile of the
original document may be required.
If it be more convenient to photograph in the first instance on smaller
plates or paper the "copy" for the printer (meaning the photographed
copy) can be fixed on a stand or frame, and read through a magnifying
glass by the compositor. The larger sized photographs are then for-
warded to or put into the hands of the type printers, who set up from
the photographs and correct from the same, so that the difficulty hereto-
fore standing in the way of printing the records is obviated, as it is
evident that the original document need never be removed from the
custody of the registrar of deeds.
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page_text: Having set up and corrected the proof a stereotype is taken in the
ordinary way, and the printer returns the number of printed copies
required (printed from the stereotype only, and not from the original
type), together with the stereotype block or plate itself.
The object of taking the stereotype is to this end that the metallic
plates herein-after described may be impressed from same, and thus
afford at once a readable page on one side, that is, on the indented side of
the metallic sheet, and permit copies to be printed from the reverse or
raised side of same, and in this way to avoid the possibility of any injury
to the true type from which the stereotype was taken. Any number of
stereotype casts may of course be taken from the original matrix, and
thus if one stereotype be damaged another may be readily substituted.
The process of impressing the stereotype matter into the metallic
sheets is as follows:-Assuming a fly press to be the vehicle of trans-
mitting the required pressure the stereo block or plate will rest on an
evenly planed metal sole plate. The metallic plate is then to be laid on
the stereotype block, which will have been previously inked in the same
way exactly as in ordinary letter-press printing. Instead of using the
printer's "blanket" however one of lead, vulcanite, or any other
suitable material is used, so that when the pressure is brought to bear
the stereotype indents the metallic sheet into the softer metallic or other
cushion.
I will now describe my system of indexing herein-before alluded to.
The stereotype blocks or plates being stamped on thin sheet metal,
which may be enamelled in white or other colour, an abstract of each
memorial or the entire memorial, or of both memorial and abstract of
the same are stamped on separate sheets or continuous rolls, as may be
deemed most convenient.
Now as to the abstract only, each abstract is printed on a separate
slip of enamelled prepared or plain metal sheet from the stereotype
blocks or plate. These slips or plates are fastened by thin letter clips,
hooks and eyes, or fine rivets, or such like convenient methods, to each
other, and can be reseparated and rejoined in different order, so as
always to preserve and indicate the true position in alphabetical and
dictionary order of the names or lands in the memorial and abstract.
I propose to supply a daily or weekly record of names or lands
arranged alphabetically in type character or in manuscript, but by

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preference in type character, by continually rearranging this index in a
safe and reliable manner, as thus:-A series of the metallic strips just
mentioned, each containing the name of the "grantor or grantors
set forth in the memorial and abstract of the memorial of a particular
deed, are arranged in dictionary order, say, on Monday; on Tuesday a
fresh relay of names or lands comes in. By adding to and interchanging
the metal sheets here and there, as if one interchanged and added to the
links of a chain, the daily or weekly index of names or lands is always
presented to the public in regular dictionary order, each name and each
land having an abstract of the memorial attached to it by preference..
The foregoing process may be imitated in manuscript or by means of
style writing, or with steel or other type. For example, the metallic
index plates, whether used enamelled or plain, can be written on or
printed on without being indented by force, simply by being engraved,
scratched, etched, or written on by hand. They may be so prepared as
to be photographed on or allow of photographs being fastened or
printed on them. Similarly as regards lithographic or any other mode
of writing or printing. By preference I use type character and the
stereotype plate and thin metal sheets above alluded to..
This index, so consisting of a series of joined or linked plates capable
of being interchanged, is placed in a desk, the lid of which is of
sufficiently strong plate glass. By means of any ordinary rotating
mechanism each plate can be brought under the glass lid of the said
desk, so as to be readable through it. The chain of metal plates coils
from one roller on to another and back again, as required.
It is obvious that any convenient number of desks may be used.
In printing from the metal sheets above mentioned type ink may be
used, manifold paper may be used, or if the plates be of thin iron and
an electric current be passed the impression will be made on chemically
prepared paper, as in the case of certain forms of telegraph printing.
Instead of metallic slips parchment or linen slips may be used. The
printing may be in different colours by bronzing or dusting with different
bronzes or colours over the type ink, which may be the ordinary black
ink.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Arthur Dillon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
Arthur Dillon, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Hér heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as 1, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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
"AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING, COPYING, MULTIPLYING,
AND SECURING PUBLIC AND OTHER RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, 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 immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, 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:-
The object of the said Invention is by a proper selection and adaptation
of certain scientific and well-known appliances, such as photography,
ordinary type printing and stereotype, joined with what I believe to be
a novel method on printing on thin metallic sheets, as also a new form of
index to supersede the present manuscript writing and recording system

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as far as possible and in the manner herein-after described, and thus to
obtain a safer and more accessible index and record system.
In illustration I will describe my new method of registration as
applicable to a particular record office, namely, the Registry of Deeds
Office, Ireland.
Suppose a certain number of deeds and their abstracts, called
memorials," to be lodged in such office (each memorial should have
by preference an abstract of its contents written at foot or attached to
it): The "memorials," which are abstracts of deeds or condensed deeds
so to speak, and the "abstracts" of those said memorials, which are as
it were condensed memorials of aforesaid memorials, having been duly
compared and settled by and between the official staff of the department
and the solicitor or other proper person lodging them in the office, the
first process will be to take a photograph of these documents on prepared
paper, glass, metal, or other suitable substance, and of a readable size,
the documents to be photographed having been arranged in a case and
flattened down with a clear good sheet of glass, or otherwise conveniently
arranged in such a way that photographic facsimiles of each may be
taken one after another, or by using several cameras that several copies
may be taken in a very short space of time, or in as short a time as
possible, and of such size as may best suit the general reader or
compositor of fair average sight to read or work from. A microscopic
copy of such memorial may also be then taken for the purpose of sub-
sequent enlargement whenever a facsimile of the original document may
be required.
If it be more convenient to photograph in the first instance on smaller
plates or paper the "copy" for the printer (meaning the photographed
copy) can be fixed on a stand or frame and read through a magnifying
glass by the compositor. The larger sized photographs are then
forwarded to or put into the hands of the type printers, who set up
from the photographs and correct from the same, so that a difficulty
heretofore standing in the way of type printing the records is obviated,
as it is evident that the "original document" need never be removed
from the custody of the Registrar of Deeds or his officer.
In case it be desired to preserve metallic facsimiles of the original deed
or memorial, any photo-mechanical process, such as Dallastype, heliotype,
autotype, Woodburytype, &c., may be used to impress the photographic
copy into the metallic sheets herein-after described.

page_text: Having set up in type and corrected the type proof a stereotype is
taken in the ordinary way, and the printer retains the number of printed
copies required (by preference printed from the stereotype only, and not
from the original type), together with the stereotype block or plate
itself.
The object of taking the stereotype is to this end, that the metallic
plates herein-after described may be impressed from same, and thus afford
at once a readable page on one side, that is, on the indented side of the
metallic sheet and permit copies to be printed from the reverse or raised
side of same, and in this way to avoid the possibility of any injury to
the true type from which the stereotype was taken. Any number of
stereotype casts may of course be taken from the original matrix, and
thus if one stereotype be damaged another may be readily substituted.
The process of impressing the stereotype matter into the metallic
sheets. is as follows:-Assuming a fly press to be the vehicle of trans-
mitting the required pressure the stereo block or plate, which may be
made sufficiently hard by using a larger quantity of antimony, will rest
on an evenly planed metal sole plate. The thin brass or metallic plate
is then to be laid on the stereotype block, which will have been previously
inked in the same way exactly as in ordinary letter press printing.
Instead of using the "printer's blanket" however one of lead, vulcanite,
or any other suitable material is used, so that when the pressure is
brought to bear the stereotype indents the metallic sheet into the softer
metallic or other cushion.
The mode in which I print or take copies from the reversed and
embossed side of the said sheets is as follows:-In printing from the
metal sheets above mentioned type ink may be used, manifold paper
may be used, or if the plate be of thin iron and an electric current be
passed the chemically prepared paper will be stained as in the case of
certain forms of telegraph printing. By preference I adopt the following
method of taking impressions:-I employ ordinary white writing paper
or blotting paper if of a light colour, and when such writing or blotting
paper is free from any injurious chemical; also linen or calico or silk
may be used. To take off the impression from the raised size of the
brass I prefer to use a fine close-threaded linen. I first saturate or
sufficiently moisten the paper or linen or calico with a solution of nitrate
of silver, and lay such paper, linen, calico, or other suitable material

page_text: gently on the raised surface of the brass. I cover this with a sheet of
blotting paper and then lay on the latter a sheet of india-rubber one-
eighth of an inch thick or thereabouts. By applying a steady moderate
pressure the metallic raised or embossed letters on coming into contact
with the nitrate of silver will turn it black wherever they so touch it.
The superfluous nitrate of silver is then to be washed out of the paper
or linen by rinsing in plain water, distilled, rain, or boiled water. This
method may be varied in so far as the nature of the chemical used to
moisten or saturate the paper or linen is concerned, and likewise the
brass raised letters may be rubbed with suitable bronze or similar powder
before coming in contact with the chemically saturated paper. Vapours
of sulphur may be used so as to deposit a fine coating on the metallic
raised letters previous to their touching the prepared paper, the object
being to create a sufficiently distinct type impression by contact of the
metallic letters with the chemically prepared substance which is meant
to receive the impression.
I will now proceed to describe my system of indexing herein-before
alluded to as regards an index of names of persons and as regards an
index of names of places, which are commonly termed
names index"
and "lands index" in the Registry of Deeds Office.
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I propose to supply a daily or weekly record of names or lands
arranged alphabetically in type character or in manuscript, and scale out
from reliable data such as the Dublin Official Directory and the Name
List of the Deeds Office, Ireland, of the Probate Office, Ireland,
or such like departments in Ireland or elsewhere, the average space
usually occupied by surnames. Certain names such as Murphy,
Hamilton, or Smith requiring obviously more room than Winslow
or Ray, or Alleyn, which are not so common. Having averaged the
number of inches on the band of brass, linen, or other material about
being used, the indexing will proceed as follows:-Let Hamilton be the
name selected for the purpose of illustration. The name Hamilton will
stand at the top of Ha in letter H division. Having previously decided
the average space likely to be required under Ha, since we knew that
Hamilton would almost certainly drop into that section, we impress or
print under the given head Hamilton," every abstract of a deed in
which Hamilton occurs so that a consecutive registry of deeds, history of
the race of Hamilton will be found under that given surname, and so of
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page_text: the other surnames of grantors and if so desired of grantees.
Hamilton, of Jones, of Edwards, the same method is to be adopted.
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In order to render more secure and to cheapen and simplify the
indexing of surnames, whether an abstract be appended to same or not I
adopt the power or law of transposition of type which I will now
describe. Given the abstract of a memorial containing several surnames
of grantors, say Brown, Jones, and Robinson, it is clear that such an
abstract of a deed should be found, and consequently must be indexed
under letters B, J, and R. Once the abstract is set up in type and
accurately compared the process of so indexing becomes practicable,
since the compositor simply shifts the surnames with their particular
Christian names attached, so that under B, the name Brown will take
precedence, and under letter J, Jones will be the leading name. The
compositor will just lift bodily one entire surname with its own Christian
names, and sliding the other surnames and their proper Christian
names back on his stick, chase, or galley, he will arrange that the
rignt surname shall be whether "struck," "printed," "indented," or
moulded," be found under its own letter and in its proper place in the
index of names.
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The type compositors' work must eventuate in a stereotype or
electrotype plate, so long as the stereotype or electrotype plate is to be
the material employed for printing on a metallic band, but in case
of a linen, paper, parchment, or such non-metallic band being used,
the stereo plates may be dispensed with and the impression taken direct
from the ordinary type likewise, in case it be found convenient to print
on tapes or slips of linen, calico, parchment, paper, gutta percha, or such
like non-metallic media, and where such slips are meant to be pasted
down on the band or otherwise fastened to it, in such case the stereotype
or electrotype plates may be dispensed with since the original type itself
may be used.
Printing on the band of linen or non-metallic substance, or printing
on the brass or other metallic substance, does not of necessity require
such band or bands to be withdrawn from the "cabinet index" herein-
after described. It is only needed that the printing machine, or fly
press, or other convenient apparatus be taken to the front of the index
cabinet, the band is to be drawn out either through an aperture in the
cabinet above, in front or below, until there is sufficient slack in the

page_text: form of a bight. We then seize the portion of the material to be
printed or stamped securely and evinly, and either by register hole or
guide pins, and bring down the ordinary platten press or fly press, or
hydraulic press, or stamping press, or other suitable and convenient
apparatus in such a way as to print abstract after abstract evenly and
regularly in its proper place on such band. A printing press, or fly
press, or stamping or hydraulic press of sufficient power but having
only one arm will suit best for printing or impressing the rolls when they
are attached on to the rollers of the machine and arched fly or other
press would obviously necessitate the loosening or opening of the brass
or other bands contained in the cabinet.
In some cases the rollers may be kept in a separate chamber vault
either on a level above or below the cabinet index herein-after described,
and on one or several rollers, as found convenient. At first the 26
letters of the alphabet may be started on the index rolling to and fro
-from one roller to another. As time goes on and the rollers fill up
too much, and the extension of the band becomes inconveniently long,
the roll may be divided; and I so divide it into letters or sections
and roll each letter or section on a separate roller. The cabinet in
such case is to be fitted with a tabulated perforated board or plate
conveniently placed before the eyes and within the reach of the person
searching or using the cabinet index, so that if letter M be required
a ring, or cord, or stop is pulled out as though an organ stop, or
window blind cord, or map were drawn out, then the linen, or brass,
or other band followed it, and then being attached to a hook, which
hook or other suitable appliance being connected with a winding roller
and handle, the reader or searcher may wind out from its receptacle
and off its roller the letter required, which when done with can be
allowed to roll back to the roller it was drawn off. The foregoing
description applies to surnames only.
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As to Christian names the plan I adopt is as follows:-At the end of
each year, or shorter or longer time, as may be found convenient, I put
the Christian names of that period into dictionary order and print or
stamp them at the head of each surname on the roll in table of Christian
names belonging to the surnames in question. Having affixed to each
entry or abstract a consecutive number I arrange the Christian name
table alphabetically, and give a reference number opposite each name.
To illustrate this take Hamilton as the surname, then the first Hamilton

page_text: of, say 1850, would be No. 1, second, No. 2, and so on. If one is
searching after Elizabeth Hamilton, of County Dublin, for 1850, the
first search will be a search on letter E in Christian names of Hamilton.
If Elizabeth be found the number standing opposite to her name as well
as the county or city, will indicate whereabouts in the year 1850 the
abstract wherein Elizabeth appears is to be found, as a searcher almost
invariably seeks after the individual as belonging to a particular locality.
The Christian name index will afford an easy reliable answer to the
searcher's enquiry. I head this Christian name abstract with an initial
letter table still further to cut short a searcher's trouble.
What I have described as appertaining to a names' index applies
equally to a lands' index with this difference, that I treat the counties,
baronies, parishes, and town lands, as generic or root divisions. I divide
the lands' roll into 32 counties, averaging the space to be left for each
by referring to the Ordnance Survey and other such sources of
information, in order that an approximately true degree of space may
be given to each county. Similarly I subdivided the thirty-two Counties
into baronies, and the cities into parishes, and finally, if the Ordnance
Survey name be adopted, I may subdivide into town lands, leaving
space for places and premises if needful, for which neither barony or
situation" could be discovered.
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The stereotype plates, in case of the lands indexed, are to be cut,
arranged, and sorted under counties, baronies, and parishes, and printed
from and struck on the index rolls alluded to, by preference after the
names' index has been finished off.
It will be obvious that in frequently recurring words such as names
of counties, baronies, parishes, or town lands, a word stereotype called
logotypes" may be conveniently used, and I so use them. The system
which I use by preference is a logotype of copper; brass, or similar
strong metal, or type metal specially hardened.
In order to reduce the weight of expense of the logotype I either
cast the said logotype with a space square or arched or I punch or drill
out or otherwise lighten and remove as much of the superfluous metal
as can be safely spared. Sometimes I electrotype and sometimes I
stamp brass faces for the logotype and solder or fasten the same to any
convenient suitable metal or substance. As there occurs loss of time

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and manifest danger in searching through abstracts containing several
lands or names not arranged in alphabetical order I in all cases get
those names and lands arranged as nearly as possible in alphabetical
order; and in order to do so effectually and reliably I adopt a ruled scale.
or form having letters of the alphabet at top of page and numerical
figures down one or both sides of such form. One illustration will
suffice to demonstrate the use of this scale. I begin at first line of
lands and under "A" column I note how many
line and under "B" similarly (if any) and so on.
continue all down the page until the lands are exhausted, when at the
close by cross totting I find I have a scale most useful to the compositor
engaged in transposing the compared printed proof into alphabetical
order without such a scale or form it would be a very troublesome process
so to arrange the names of lands given in the proof after transposition into
alphabetical order.
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A's" occur in that
This process I
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With reference to the construction of the "cabinet index" mentioned
I prefer to divide each cabinet into a names index" and "lands index
desk, so that a searcher may have a certain number of names, say the
names of five years or ten years at command at his left hand and the
lands index for the same period at his right hand.
The mode of working this cabinet index is two-fold, by hand or by
steam, or other convenient power.
Under the hand power method I will subdivide said method for better
illustration into the following:-Single wheel driving, double wheeled.
driving, silent wheel driving, ratchet wheel driving methods, chain
driving bands, toothed gearing wheel system, the alternating or to-and-
fro mode of causing the metallic or other band to roll off and on by the
hand action, as will be understood by reference to the turning of an
ordinary winch handle working both ways, or to two winches, one
working towards the workman and the other away from him, to one
winch having pall-and-ratchet system and another devoid of it, to a
lathe working with a strap or belt or with gearing toothed wheels. By
preference I use cable linked copper chains radiating from a single
wheel having two chained grooves cut on it, one chain belt from one
groove working one roller, the second chain working the second roller.
I prefer having the rollers in a separate room. In the first place the
noise of the ratchet wheels which are necessary in the single wheel

page_text: method is no longer any annoyance to the searcher; and again the rollers
may be made much longer than if they were contained in the cabinet..
They likewise can be divided as herein-before described when the band
grows inconveniently long.
The object of the ratchet arrangement is to obviate the locking and
straining which would occur were it attempted to work both rollers at
equal speed. The ratchet arrangement works one wheel and frees the
other alternately, and so enables the rollers to accommodate their speeds
to the varying diameters. Several rollers can be easily rotated by any
ordinary steam or other power shaft by reversing gearing.
A further addition to the cabinet index is a keyboard, which I will
now describe, the object being to enable the searcher to cause the rollers
to stop when a particular letter or name of person, county, barony, or
town land is required. This keyboard resembles the ordinary lathe slide
rest, wherein a screw being turned a nut or collar on the screw carries
the tool either way.
The letters of the alphabet being set out or engraved on a plate before
the eyes of the searcher and the latter desiring to stop the rollers at a
certain letter pulls out a stop and presses it down over the letter required,
the rollers being in connection with the screw as they rotate, it turns,
and as it turns the index attached to the traversing nut moves to the
right or left along the keyboard. The searcher watches the index
moving and he stops the machine by hand when the index comes up
to the stop. This action may be rendered automatic. The same principle
applies to lands' index, only that I divide the keyboard into counties
and baronies.
The enamelling, colouring, or painting of the brass or metal plates
which I use by preference is a mixture of white zinc and copal varnish
laid on with a brush or pad and smoothed down with pumice or by any
other suitable mechanical method. Sometimes I glue or cement or rivet
linen or calico to the brass and print on both materials at once.
I prefer in all cases to varnish the side of the brass from which I take
the printed impression so as to print cleaner.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, I wish it to be understood that what I consider in the said Invention
and therefore claim is,―

page_text: First. An improved method of and apparatus for indexing, copying,
multiplying, and securing public records and other documents, sub-
stantially as and in the manner herein-before described.
Secondly. The particular form of cabinet index, substantially as and
in the manner herein-before described:
Thirdly. The combinations of photographic copying, type, stereotype,
electrotype printing, substantially as and in the manner herein-before
described.
Fourthly. The methods and apparatus for printing on and from the
brass or metal sheets, substantially as and in the manner herein-before
described.
Fifthly. The keyboard with index and stop, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Arthur Dillon, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
THOMAS ARTHUR DILLON. (L.S.)