IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL AND TRADE-MARK CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF VARIOUS COLOURS THERETO
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edouard Belmer, of Cambridge Terrace, Islington, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTAL AND TRADE-MARK CAPSULES FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER
LIKE RECEPTACLES, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING
THE APPLICATION OF VARIOUS COLOURS THERETO."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edouard Belmer at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th February 1882.
EDOUARD BELMER of Cambridge Terrace Islington in the County of Middlesex
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL AND TRADE MARK CAPSULES FOR
BOTTLES JARS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF VARIOUS COLOURS THERETO."
This Invention has for its object the production of ornamental and trade mark
capsules for bottles jars and other like receptacles and consists partly in the
application of various different colored lines or devices extending longitudinally
along the plain sides of such capsules either in a vertical oblique or slightly spiral
direction such an ornamental capsule being intended to be subsequently embossed
on the top or sides or both with any name Trade Mark or other device in the usual
manner.
In applying these vertical or oblique colored lines to the sides of a capsule I
mount a dividing plate on the spindle carrying the capsule mandril and I hinge a
thin flexible shield or stencil plate suitably perforated or cut out to an adjustable
table beneath. The spindle with its mandril and capsule thereon is rotated step
by step through the aid of the said dividing plate which is divided according to
the number and spacing of the vertical or oblique lines required round the side of
the capsule each line or pair of lines being colored in the same or different colors
according to taste by passing a suitable coloring roller by hand over or along the
corresponding cuts or openings in the shield.
According to another part of my Invention I color the raised portions of letters

page_text: names trade mark or other device embossed on the top or side of a capsule in
various different colors applied either to any one or more of the letters or devices
singly or to any one or more of the words or lines of letters constituting the
raised or embossed part of such capsule thereby obtaining the effect of a multiple
colored embossed capsule.
The improved machinery or apparatus which I employ for accomplishing in a
mechanical manner the coloring in a variety of colors the before mentioned raised
or embossed devices consists of a thin flexible or jointed shield which is made to
fit accurately over one half of the circumference and any convenient portion of the
length of the capsule when mounted on its mandril.
This shield according to one arrangement is suitably perforated or cut out to
expose only a single line at a time whether straight or curved to receive the
particular color required the shield being adjusted and moved from line to line
and the color applied line by line by hand by means of a suitable band roller each
line if desired being of a different color. When it is required to color a curved
line, Trade Mark, Coat of Arms Signature or other large device I employ another
form of shield consisting of a thin flexible plate having openings made therein to
embrace any device required to be colored separately. This flexible plate or shield
is adjustably attached at one end to an oscillating plate connected with the spindle
which carries the mandril of the capsulo whilst the other end of the said flexible
shield is hooked to one end of the said oscillating plate the intermediate portion
of the shield being pressed close up to the sido of the capsule by a rod or spindle
mounted at the ends in two vibrating adjustable arms which are actuated by a
hand lever working on an incline in such a manner as to effectually tighten the
shield against the curved surface of the capsule. The exact longitudinal position
of this shield is accurately regulated by an adjustable stop on the oscillating plate
so that the openings in the shield will always accurately coincide with the lines of
letters or other raised devices on the side of the capsule to be colored. In order
-to-register-or-ensure the exact proper_position_of_the_capsule on its mandril I
employ an adjustable removeable registering pin or point fitted so as to be readily
removeable into the front one of two quadrant plates which are disposed concen-
trically with the centre of the spindle carrying the mandril and are connected
with the said oscillating plate on the opposite side of the spindle and are free to
oscillate to-and-fro along with the said spindle and plate. The registering point
having been fitted into the quadrant it will coincide with some particular part of
the side embossed capsule so that on taking care that the same particular part of
the succeeding capsules shall coincide with the said point it will be obvious that the
capsulo will be in its proper registered position to suit the openings in the flexible
shield and for receiving the color. The object of making the quadrants and plates
to oscillate together is to enable that part of the capsule which is to receive the
color to be readily brought uppermost and be thereby more easily operated upon
by the coloring roller. Having separately colored in different colors the several
embossed lines of letters or devices on the side of the capsule with the exception
for example of say one or more letters therein which are required to be of a
different color to the rest in the same line I remove the shield and fit into the
front and back quadrant a horizontal bar carrying at its front end an adjustable
vertical guide for receiving a slide provided with a removeable pad of rubber or
other suitable material for receiving and applying coloring matter to the raised
surface of any particular letter or of any particular device or portion of a device
requiring to bear a distinctive color. An adjustable stop on the rear end of the
said bar which bears against the back quadrant plate serves to regulate or fix the
exact proper longitudinal position of the bar and guide before referred to.
said bar is maintained firm and steady by the aid of removeable notched rests fitted
for that purpose to the front quadrant plate. The coloring pad always works
radially to the curved surface of the capsule on the mandril whatever may be the
position of the particular part requiring to be colored by such pad which is
actuated by hand along the before mentioned adjustable guide and is changed for
The

page_text: each different color that may be required. By the mechanical arrangements above
described or slight modifications thereof I am enabled to apply in an accurate and
expeditious manner any number of different colors to any given portions of the
raised embossing on the sides or top of an embossed capsule imparting to the
capsule a specially ornamental appearance which could otherwise only be obtained
in a slow and tedious manner by hand labour.
Or the said horizontal bar may be adjustably fitted into a fixed standard so that
the slide carrying the coloring pad shall always be (by preference) vertical over the
capsule which capsule is mounted on a mandril provided with a handle and
registering arm and resting in notches of a standard of its own. This standard is
provided with a quadrant slot containing an adjustable pin which can be set in any
position along the said slot. In using this last described modification of apparatus
as many repeats are required as there are different colors to be applied each
apparatus being used for one color alone and worked by a separate attendant.
Having set the mandril and capsule as well as the horizontal bar carrying the
coloring slide so as to register properly for the first color the capsule having been
already registered on its mandril the mandril and capsule are passed from hand to
hand and dropped into the several standards to receive the different colors each
standard with its horizontal bar in connection therewith having been previously
set or adjusted so as to ensure the capsule always taking its proper position
according to the part requiring to be colored. In operating on the top of a capsule
the mandril will be placed vertically under the coloring pad.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edouard Belmer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
August 1882.
EDOUARD BELMER of Cambridge Terrace Islington in the County of Middlesex
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL AND TRADE MARK CAPSULES FOR
BOTTLES JARS AND OTHER LIKE RECEPTACLES AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
FOR FACILITATING THE APPLICATION OF VARIOUS COLOURS THERETO."
My said Invention has for its object the production of ornamental and trade
mark capsules for bottles jars and other like receptacles and consists, First in
facilitating the application by the aid of certain specially devised mechanical
contrivances hereinafter describod of various different coloured lines or devices
extending longitudinally along and at regular intervals round the plain sides of
such capsules either in a vertical oblique or slightly spiral direction such an
ornamental capsule being intended to be subsequently embossed on the top or
sides or both with any name Trade Mark or other device in the usual manner.
Secondly. In producing a multi-coloured embossed capsule in a more simple and
expeditious manner than can be accomplished by hand alone by colouring in various
different colours by the aid of suitable stencil plates and rollers or colouring pads
and specially devised mechanical arrangements hereinafter described the raised
portions of letters names trade marks or other devices which have been previously
embossed in any suitable or well known manner on the top or side of a capsule
the different colours being applied either to any one or more of the letters or
devices singly or to any one or more-of-the-words-or-lines-of-letters_constituting
the raised or embossed part of such capsule.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed moro particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the explanatory Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed the
same letters of referenco indicating corresponding parts in all the corresponding
Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings is a side elevation of my peculiar apparatus referred
to under the First head of Invention for facilitating the production round the sides
of a capsule in an expeditious regular and accurate manner of any given number
of lines of the same or different colours extending longitudinally along the sides of
the capsulo whether such lines be parallel to each other and to the axis of the
capsule or disposed obliquely that is to say in a slightly spiral direction or of a
zig-zag or other patttern.
Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section taken along the line 1-2 in Figure 1.
Figure 4 is an elevation of the left hand end of the apparatus showing the
dividing plate.
Figure 5 is a transverse vertical section of the said apparatus taken along the
line 3-4 in Figure 1.
Figures 6 and 7 are separate details of a shield or stencil plate and its carrier
as adapted for producing oblique colored lines along the sides of a capsule in the
said apparatus.
This
a is a hollow spindle carrying the mandrel b and mounted in bearings c c.
spindle is rotated step by step by hand by the pall lever d and ratchet wheel c.
On the left hand end of the said spindle there is fixed a dividing plate f consisting
of a notched disc into the notches of which engages the end of a stop spring g for
holding the disc and mandrel steady at any desired fractional part of its revo-
lution. represents one form of curved shield or stencil plate fitted by screws or

page_text: otherwise into the frame or carrier i so as to be easily removed therefrom and
replaced by one of another pattern. This carrier works freely on a hinge pin ¿¹ in
the support and slots or longitudinal openings are made in the shield in
accordance with the required pattern and direction of the coloured lines to be.
produced. Along one side of each slot a raised guiding rib or flango m is formed
for guiding the hand colouring roller n of rubber or other suitable material (one of
which is shown as an example at Figure 8) during its passage over or along the
slot. The capsule to be ornamented is first placed on the mandrel b and the shield
carrier with its shield h brought down and held firmly pressed on the upper sido
of the capsule. The attendant then passes the roller suitably coated with the
requisite colour or pigment along the slot in the shield. The shield is then lifted
and the mandrel with the capsule is rotated until the spring g engages with the
next or any other determined notch in the dividing plate when the shield is
again brought down on the capsule and the operations are repented until
the requisite number of ornamental coloured lines have been produced at regular
intervals round the sides of the capsule. A separate roller is employed for cach
colour and it may if desired be wide enough to take either two slots at a time in
the plate or a single one only according as the lines are to bo produced singly or in
pairs. In Figure 2 the shield is formed with a single slot and guiding rib or flange
and in Figures 6 and 7 it is formed with double parallel slots and ribs so that by
using an extra shield of a different pattern the hinged carrier of which is slotted at
its fulcrum end (see Figure 6) so as to be capable of being readily fitted onto and
removed from the hinge pin (Fig. 3) as required a great variety of patterns
can be obtained in the same apparatus. Of course when the colouring roller is
intended to produce two lines simultaneously and of the saine colour_only one of
the two slots will require to be provided with the guiding rib or flange. The
capsule having been thus ornamented it is pushed from off its mandrel by the
central plunger or discharger o working inside the hollow spindle and mandrel as is
well understood and may then be embossed on the side if desired in any well known
manner.
In carrying out the second head of my Invention I colour the raised surfaces of
this side embossing in various different colours according to taste whilst the capsule
is mounted on its mandrel by the aid of suitably prepared thin flexible or jointed
curved shields or stencil plates h¹³ shown in detail at Figures 9 and 10 as adapted
for separate application or adjustment by hand upon the side of the capsule whilst
on its mandrel. These shields are each made to fit accurately over the side of the
capsule and according to one arrangement are suitably perforated or cut out to
expose say only a single line of letters or portion of a line or other device at a timo
whether straight or curved to receive the particular colour required a separate hand
adjustment of the same or different shields being necessary for each part requiring
a different colour such colour being applied by hand by means of a suitable hand
roller consequently each line or part of a line may be of a different colour.
2 (Figure 10) represents one of such cuts or openings and q is a guiding rib or
flange for guiding the colouring roller whilst being traversed along the said cut or
opening.
Or in lieu of using a separate hand adjusted curved shield for each differently
coloured part I may employ a single thin metal flexible shield or stencil plate applied
by a mechanical arrangement hereinafter described and cut out so as to expose at one
and the same time the whole of the raised or embossed devices on the side of the
capsule with the exception say of one or more of the letters devices or portions of
a device which are to receive a distinctive colour from that applied by the hand
roller this distinctive colour being subsequently applied by a separate operation
and special devices hereinafter described. This latter forin of stencil plate is more
particularly suitable for curved lines trade marks signatures and other large devices.
Figure 11 is a side elevation Figure 12 a plan and Figure 13 a front end elevation
of a machine or apparatus in which the said flexible stencil plate is employed the
said machine serving also for facilitating the subsequent application of different

page_text: colours to those portions of the embossing which have been previously stopped out
by the said thin flexible stencil plate. In these Figures 'a is a hollow spindle
capable of rocking in the split bearings c and carrying a capsule mandrel b at its
front end. dis an oscillating plate secured by the bracket e to the underside of
the spindle and rocking with it as indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 13. fis
the flexible stencil plate or shield of thin metal provided at one end with a rigid
beaded bar g the enlarged edge of which slips longitudinally into a rounded slot in
the surface of the oscillating plate thereby securing that end of the flexible shield
to the said plate. h is an adjustable stop for regulating the exact longitudinal
position of the shield over the capsule. The free end of this shield is brought over
the upper surface of the capsule on the mandrel and is hooked at i to the end
of the oscillating plate and the intermediate part is pressed close home against
the capsule by the rod k curried by two short vibrating lever arms 2 mounted
on a rocking spindle m. This spindle carries a lever handle n for applying the
requisite pressure to the stencil plate and maintaining it firm and steady by
bringing the said handle along the inclined surface of the retaining catch o.
The main spindle a with its mandrel can be locked in any desired position in the
split bearings c by a screw and lever handle p. 9 (Figure 14) is a separate detail
of a removeable registering point which is fitted into holes r in the front one of
two quadrant plates 88¹ secured to the upper side of the main spindle for the
purpose of accurately registering the correct position of each capsule on the
mandrel
The object of making the quadrants 8 8 the plate d and the mandrel & to
oscillate together is to enable that part of the capsule which is to receive the colour
to be readily brought uppermost or into any other convenient position for being
more easily operated upon by the colouring roller.
The colouring roller or rollers having been passed over the required exposed parts
of the embossing on the capsulo the stencil plate f is released by shifting tho
linndle and the capsule pushed from off its mandrel in the well known-manner-
after which a fresh capsule is adjusted on the mandrel and the operations arc
repeated. In order to apply a distinctive colour or colours to those letters or
portions of the device which have been blocked out for that purpose by the stencil
plate I remove the said stencil plate from the machine and mount a horizontal
bart in the quadrant plates 8 8'. This bar carries at its front end an adjustable
angular guide v which receives the hand worked slide w (see Figure 14º) composed
of two angular pieces joined together longitudinally by thumb nuts and screws
and enclosing a rubber colouring pad as shown more clearly in detail at
Figure 14 (Sheet 1). y is an adjustable regulating stop on the rear end of the
horizontal bar to regulate its longitudinal position and zz are notched rests or
supports adjustably fitted by screws a¹ either to the face of the front quadrant
plate s or to its periphery such screws entering the holes or as may be
required the rests z serving for steadying the said bar t whilst leaving it free to be
quickly removed and replaced as required, uu being holes in the back quadrant
plate through which the rear end of the bar t is passed as shown in Figures 11
and 12. This bar is placed in one or other of the notches or holes in the quadrant
plates and is also longitudinally adjusted so that the angular guido v shall be in
such a position as to ensure the radial action of the colouring pad opposite to any
given portion of the embossed design but should the nature of the design be such
as to necessitate a greater number of different radial positions of the bar than the
notched rests can accomodate without being too crowded together then I use a
supplementary quadrant shaped removeable frame A (Figures 15 and 16)
temporarily fitted to the oscillating plate d and provided with a slide and set
screw B capable of adjustment to any ininute extent round the arc of the quadrant.
This slide carries a bar or rod C having a similar function to the bar t previously
referred to on which is mounted the adjustable angular guide v for the colouring
pad slide was before described. When using the sliding colouring pads in this
machine the main spindle a and mandrel b should be fixed by the tightening screw

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and small handle they being only required to rock or turn partially when using
the flexible stencil plate fin order to present the capsule and stencil plate in the
most convenient position to the operator when using the colouring roller n. The
bar t or C as the case may be having been adjusted to suit the particular part of
the capsule to be coloured in any given colour by the colouring pad x (Figure 140)
the attendant has merely to take up the requisite colour on the end of the pad and
when properly charged to place it in the angular guide v (already accurately
adjusted) and bring it down upon the particular raised letter or ornament required
to receive such colour each capsule being first properly adjusted on the mandrel by
the registering pin 7 (Figure 14). After colouring one particular part or letter in
each capsule the horizontal bar t or C and angular guide v are again adjusted to
suit another given part or letter and the operation is repeated either with the same
or with a different colour a different pad x of any required size being used for each
change of colour required.
According to another and more simplified mode of facilitating the application by
hand of various colours to different parts of the embossing on the side or end of a
capsule I employ a rotary adjustable mandrel in combination with a stationary
colouring pad guide by preference maintained always in a vertical position over
the mandrel in lieu of changing or adjusting the position of the colouring pad
guide round a fixed mandrel as previously described. I thus simplify the operation
as well as the apparatus employed therein by dispensing with the use of the
perforated shields or stencil plates also with the quadrant plates the several
adjustable notched rests or supports the removeable adjustable horizontal bars
and the supplementary quadrant frame herein before described and illustrated on
Sheet 1 of my Drawings.
Figure 17 (Sheet 2 of my Drawings) is a side elevation and partial section of a
registering apparatus which constitutes the first of a series of hand appliances of
simple construction for facilitating the application of various different colours to
capsules by the division of hand labour.
Figure 18 is an elevation of the front end of the said registering apparatus and
Figure 19 is a plan thereof corresponding to Figure 17. A A are two fixed
standards formed with a V notch at their upper ends within which notches rest
the opposite ends of a wooden or other handle B carrying a capsule mandrel C the
handle and mandrel being thus free to rotate in their bearings and to be readily
lifted out and placed successively in the standards A A. of other apparatus
(Figures 20 and 21) hereinafter referred to of somewhat similar construction to
the registering apparatus to enable the various colours to be readily applied with
accuracy and despatch by hand. D is a stop pin which is adjustablo along a
quadrant slot E formed in one of the standards of the registering apparatus. F is
a regulating or registering arın fixed to the handle B of the mandrel the free end
of which arm by being brought against the stop pin D and locked by the catch
lover G serves to hold the mandrel C steady in its bearings whilst the capsule is
being adjusted thereon. The exact position of the capsule on its mandrel is
registered by bringing any given part of the capsule under the point of the
hinged registering pin H the corresponding part of each succeeding capsule being
also brought under the same point. The registering point is now turned up out of
the way as shown by the dotted lines in Figure 18 and the handle B and
mandrel C with the capsule upon it is lifted out of the standards A A and placed
in corresponding standards A in the first of a series of holders one of which is
shown in side elevation at Figure 20 and in corresponding end elevation at
Fig. 21. This holder contains two V notched standards A. A liko those of the
registering apparatus for the reception of the bandle of the mandrel. It is also
formed with a quadrant slot E and a stop pin D capable of being adjusted to
any desired position along such slot and fixed when properly adjusted by a nut.
The stop pin D must be so adjusted as that when the handle of the mandrel is
deposited in its V notches and the arm F is brought to bear against the pin D the
particular part of the capsule to be coloured in that holder or apparatus will be

page_text: found to be on the top or upper side of the mandrel. The attendant then adjusts
longitudinally in the fixed standard v' the bart which carries the colouring pad guide v
until the said guide v is immediately over and radial to the particular letter or part of
the embossing to be coloured. The colouring pada having been properly charged
with the requisite colour is then placed in the guide vand brought down as before
described onto the raised or embossed part of the capsule by hand. The mandrel
with the capsule still upon it is then transferred to the next holder or apparatus of
the series precisely similar to the one last described the stop pin D therein being
then set or adjusted so as to ensure another letter or part of the embossed design
intended to be coloured being brought into a vertical position over the centre of
the mandrel. The colouring pad guide is also if required adjusted longitudinally over
the capsule by sliding the bar t in its standard so as to bring the angular
guide v into the proper position over the next letter or part to be coloured and the
operation is repeated as before the mandrel with the capsule upon it being passed
from hand to hand and placed in successive holders or apparatus of the same
description until the whole of the requisite parts of the capsule have been coloured
there being as many different holders employed as there are different parts of the
capsule to be coloured or different colours to be applied. As each capsule is com-
pleted it is pushed from off its mandrel by the central plunger or discharger o as
is well understood and the mandrel is returned to the registering apparatus
Figures 17, 18, and 19 to receive a fresh capsule when the operations are repeated
thereon as before. The entire series of holders or apparatus having been once set
or adjusted to suit a given pattern of capsulo no further alteration or adjustment
will be required until a different pattern is to be coloured.
In operating upon the end of a capsule the mandrel will be held by hand or
otherwise vertically under the colouring pad in lieu of horizontally as shown in
Figure 20.
By the mechanical arrangements or appliances herein before described or slight
modifications-thereof-I-am-enabled-to-apply in an accurate and expeditious manner
by hand without the necessity for skilled labour any number of different colours
to as many different portions of the raised embossing on the sides or top of a
capsule thereby imparting to the capsule a specially ornamental and distinctive
appearance which could otherwise only be obtained by a slow and tedious
operation.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into offect
I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein before in part recited
Letters Patent is :—
First. An ornamental or Trade Mark Capsule having coloured devices or patterns
produced longitudinally at determined intervals round the sides of the capsule by
the combined aid of a step-by-step rotating mandrel a stencil plate or perforated
shield and a notched dividing plate and spring catch substantially as specified.
Secondly. In an apparatus or machine for facilitating the production of the
above mentioned coloured devices or patterns along the sides of capsules I claim
the combination of a step-by-step rotating mandrel a central plunger or discharger
a stencil plate or perforated shield a notched dividing plate and spring catch
arranged to operate together substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
on Sheet 1 of my Drawings.
Thirdly. A multi-coloured side or end embossed Trade Mark Capsule in which
different colours are applied to the surfaces of the various different raised portions
of the embossing by the aid of colouring pads or rollers and mechanical appliances
combined and arranged to operate together substantially in the manner herein-
before described and illustrated on Sheets 1 and 2 of my Drawings.
Fourthly. The combination of a spindle and mandrel free to rock more or less in
bearings with a central plunger or discharger a thin flexible curved adjustable
stencil plate or perforated shield either applied by hand alone or secured to a plate

page_text: rocking along with the mandrel and pressed against or over the surface of the
capsule whilst on the mandrel by a rod or bar carried by levor arms substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figures 11, 12
and 13 of my Drawings.
Fifthly. The combination of a mandrel provided with a central plunger or
discharger and a radial guide adjustable round the said mandrel for receiving a
sliding colouring pad substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and illustrated by Figures 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of my Drawings.
Sixthly. The application and use of rigid or flexible or jointed curved stencil
plates or perforated shields provided with flanges or projections along the edge of
the cut or opening therein for guiding a colouring roller in its passage along
the said cut or opening substantially as and for the purpose herein before described
and illustrated by Figures 6, 7, 9 and 10 of my Drawings.
Seventhly. The peculiar mechanical appliances heroinbefore described and
illustrated on Sheet of my Drawings for facilitating the application by hand in a
more simple accurate and expoditious manner than heretofore of various different
colours to the different raised portions of a side or end embossed capsule.
In witness whereof I the said Edouard Belmer have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fifth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.