US1168739A - Card-printing outfit. - Google Patents

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E. E. POLLOCK.

CARD PRINTING OUTFIT. APPLICATION FILED JAN-2,1915.

1 16339. Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, rate.

Application 'filed January 2,1915. Serial 110.194.

To all whom it may 0mm 1' Be it known that I, EDWARD FoLLooK,

a citizen of th'e Unite'd States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county-,-'and signs for shop windows and advertising and other notices.

According to my invention the signs are produced by cutting out a colored sheet of paper and in the same operation pressing it into the face of the card, thus producing an embossed character. Special embossing type are required for this purpose and the object of my invention is mainly to provide an improved construction of the embossed printfing type and means for alining and setting them up. Heretofore the alinement of such type has been efiected by arranging them in chases or other clamping frames which embody more or lessparaphernalia but according torny invention the type are free of any restraint except in the direction of alinement and may be readily moved and adjusted into any desired positions, and the direction of alinement may be selected to. suit the requirements of artistic eifect without limitation. 5

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of two type, one illustrating the face and the other the back of the type; Fig. 2 is a plan view looking down upon four series of type arranged upon the colored paper and card and in the position of printing; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section through one of the type in position within the press, representing the completion of the printing movement, and

Fig. 1 is a face view of a partially completed sum.

Referring more specifically to said drawings 10 indicates a cutting and embossing character formed on the base block 11, which block has a projecting flange 12 at, for example, the lower edge of the type and a" groove 13 extending transversely across the back of the type near, for example, the lower Such printed edge thereof; :The flange 12 serves to facili ftate removal of the type from the card after the embossing and printing operationhas been effected and the groove 13 serves first as an indicator of'the upright position of the type and at the same time as an alining recess readily accessible to an alining pin or rod 14:, which extends across a series of type to maintain them in the desired alinement. A suitable number of the type and alining pins or rods are provided to enable the user to make upthe desired combinations and to permit of ahnmg one series of the type inde pendently of the other series to gain the desired artistic efi'eets as illustrated, for example, in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that the type are rela tively flat,-that is to say,'their height with respect to their cross section is relatively, small andin'practice the type are preferably something less than onehalf as high as they are wide. In view of this fact, the type readily stand in any position in which. they are placed, and can be readily adjusted in proper'relation with each other to make up the desired combination without the necessity of a special retaining frame. After the type have been. placed in the desired position, the alining rods ltmaintain those of each series n proper alinement.

In produclng a sign card with the outfit,

' the type are arranged, for example, as illustrated in Fig. 2, with'their faces 10 resting upon a sheet of colored paper 15, which is superposed upon the card 16 into which the characters are to be pressed. Preferably the under face of the colored paper 15 is provided with the suitable materlal which becomes adhesive under the pressure of the operation, so as to firmly secure the characters in the card. The pressure is effected, by any suitable press, embodying for ex ample the supporting and pressing table 17 and the stationary platen 18. After the impression has been made, the sheet of colored paper 15 is removed from the card 16, leavingin place the portions of the colored paper out out and impressed by the type. The.

eflect, when, for example, a plain white card and a colored paper are employed, is to producean embossed inlaid impression of striking clearness and neatness of finish. It will be understood that the operation presupposes a card 16 of suitable compressibility and that the edges of the letters procombinationa plurality of type having aiining grooves extending in the same relative direction in'fthe backs the severa-lltype, and an a lining rodladap ted to lie Within said grooves and engage a plurality of said type 'to maintain their alinement.

I EDWARD E. PoLnoeK. Witnesses;

, 'duced are confinedwithin themarg'ins of the impressions made in the card. i

Iclaim: a e 1. A card printing ,out'fitcomprising-in 5 combination a plurality of cutting and embossing'type having alining grooves extend ing transversely in the backs of the type, andf an alining rod adapted to lie Within said grooves and extend across a 'seriesvofsaid 10 type. a

2. A. card printing Outfitcomprising in WM. A. COURTLAND, Oo'ravms x (logic; 0! this batent may beobtai-ncd for five cents each, by 'addressing the "'Gqmmhsi'oner 0! Patents,-

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