Im- PROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER OR OTHER SURFACES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Beard, of Pall Mall, in the City of West-
minster and County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER OR OTHER
SURFACES."
Sealed the 9th April 1858, and dated the 12th October 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Beard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th October 1857.
I, GEORGE BEARD, of Pall Mall, in the City of Westminster and County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR PRODUCING IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER OR OTHER
SURFACES," to be as follows:-
This mechanism consists of a movable or other pad or pads, or inking
cushion or cushions supplied with ink or coloring matter, a roller or rollers
rubbing against the same and taking up the ink or coloring matter, and
inking or coloring the impression, dye, or type hereafter mentioned. This is
worked by suitable mechanism in connexion with a piston or plunger, at the
end or bottom of which is a frame or case containing the said impression, dye,
or type. Motion may be communicated by the hand applied to a lever or by
engine power.
By these arrangements a good impression or good impressions will be
produced on the paper or other surface with certainty and celerity.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Beard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
April 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BEARD, of Pall Mall, in the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Beard, Her special licence that I, the said George Beard, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Beard, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM
FOR PRODUCING IMPRESSIONS ON PAPER OR OTHER SURFACES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Beard, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 George Beard, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The nature of this Invention, as hath been already set forth in and by the
Provisional Specification left and recorded on application for Letters Patent,
consists of a moveable or other pad or pads, or inking cushion or cushions,
supplied with ink or other suitable coloring matter, and a roller or rollers to
rub against the same and take up the ink or coloring matter, and press against
the impression dye, type, or block, the same to be worked by connection
with a plunger, at the end or bottom whereof is a frame or receptacle to
contain the aforesaid impression dye, type, or block. For working this
mechanism motion is to be communicated by the hand applied to a lever, or
by engine power.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I now describe
in what manner the same is to be performed, wherein I shall refer to the
accompanying Drawings as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, side elevation, &c.; Fig. 2, front elevation, &c. of the apparatus:
before referred to.
In these Figures A is the base of the machine; B, supporting pillar,
from which the other parts of the framing proceed; the upper projecting
portion of which (C) is rectangular, and has a curved lever (D) secured:
thereto by a pin or axis (E), such curved lever having a slot (D¹), through
which a pin (F) passes, so as to connect therewith the plunger (G), the
bottom or end of which is provided with a screwed receptacle for the impression
die; (the mode of securing the die to the plunger being the same as the
mode adopted in lathes for attaching drill or other chucks to the mandril.
This plunger passes through a guide collar H¹ at the end of the lower pro-
jecting portion (H) of the framework, the underside of which is provided with
two grooves to receive the flanges of the inking pad; K is a peculiarly
formed lever, hung upon an axis K', which secures it to the part of the frame
marked C, this lever (K) having a slot in which the guide pin (L) c
on the
plunger (G) works. At the end of this lever (K) is an inking roller (k),
which is secured to it by a rod (¹) connected to the said lever by the collars
(K2 and K³); such rod having thereon a screw nut (M) with a milled head,
which has a spring coiled around it, which abuts against this nut, and also
against a projecting collar (K³) and the lever (K), and through which the said
rod (K) passes; N is another coiled spring, which is secured to the pin x in
the framing C; and another pin X, X, on the plunger; O is a projection on
the inner side of the plunger, in which is secured a piece of india-rubber (P),
which, upon the plunger being moved up, strikes the under side of that part
of the framing C, to which the lever K is secured, easing the concussion and
deadening the sound. A catch R is secured to the framing C, nearly against
K, and which being made to press against the framing and the pin R' enables
the operator, when requisite, to keep the mechanism in the position shewn by
the full lines at Fig. 1, in order to change or handle the impression die, &c.
Qis a binding screw for setting the die in its socket; S, a handle for working
lever D; it will be evident, that if the handle S be left quiet, the roller will
remain under the pad (I); but immediately it is lifted, it will pull up the

page_text: plunger (G), which will raise the spring (x, x), causing it to press up and
compress the spring secured thereto, and raise up the plunger (K) with the
die, &c., and at the same time the pin (L) will press the slot of the lever (k),
throwing that part up and the long part forward, whereby the roller will pass
under the die, &c., and upon pushing down the handle, the machine will be as
shewn when quiet, throwing the lever R back again.
The mechanism exhibited by the Drawing, and just described, is specially
adapted for postal purposes; but it would be useful for printing labels and for
other purposes.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction of an
apparatus having a pad or pads, or inking cushion or cushions, and inking roller
or rollers, acting in conjunction with impression die or dies, type or types,
plate or plates, block or blocks.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Beard, have hereunto set my 1
hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
GEORGE BEARD. (LS.)