US1084313A - Process for simultaneously making a master printing plate or form and a cross-reference index-card. - Google Patents

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W. E. OHOATE. PROCESS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MAKING A MASTER PRINTING PLATE 0R FORM AND A CROSS REFERENCE INDEX CARD. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1907.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

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WILLIAM E. GHOATE, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PROCESS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MAKING A MASTER PRINTING PLATE R FORM AND a A. GROSS-REFERENCE INDEX-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 13, 1914.

Application filed March 7, 1907. Serial No. 361,069.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. CHOATE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Melrose, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Processes for Simultaneously Making a Master Printing Plate or Form and a Cross-Reference Index-Card, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to a method for the simultaneous production of a master printing plate and a cross reference index card having a recorded facsimile of the subject matter of said printing plate.

So far as known to me, cross reference index cards have hitherto been made subsequently to the production of the printing plate, thereby necessitating a second operation with the added cost of producing the same.

lit will be understood by those familiar with filing systems, employing printing plates or index cards, that at least two are usually employed, for instance, in the card indexes of libraries, one is classified relative to its origin or author and the other relative to the subject matter. In commercial practices, it is also desirable not only to employ two such reference cards or devices as described, one being a copy of the other, but to provide for the subsequent production of any number of copies. In bibliographic supplements also, many magazines contain, for the benefit of their subscribers, references to important works and authors, which have to be cut out and pasted on a card and filed away for future referencejif it is desired to preserve a record of the same.

By my invention, I aim to provide a method that will provide the usual cross reference devices or cards and that will also enable the publishers of such magazines to supply their subscribers with index cards containing the subject matter of the'references and without the necessity of againsetting type to print them, which because of the expense is unusual at the present time. All the above, however, with other features and ob ects characterizing my invention will be best understood and appreciated by reference to the following description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, illustrating one method of carrying out my invention, its scope being more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1, represents, in slde elevation, a suitable support and superimposed card and stencil plate, with the stencil cutting tool for forming the characters therein and illustrating one method of carrying out my invention; Fig. 2, a plan of a master form or stencil plate produced by my method showing also the support and gages for positioning and retaining the same; Fig. 3, a similar view of the underlying card showing the slugs cut out of the stencil plate inlaid or embodied therein and forming a facsimile or copy of the subject matter thereof; Fig. 4, a vertical section, on the line 4-4, Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a similar view of a modification of my process, showing a tool adapted to form a cameo-intaglio printing plate character and indenting a facsimile of the subject thereof in the card underlying; and Fig. 6, a partial plan of the latter showing the indented character or letter.

Referring to the drawings (Figs. 1 and 4) and to the particular embodiment of my invention therein illustrated, 1 represents any suitable support, preferably metallic, on which a slfeet or card 2, of any desired size, is supported, said card being of a yielding material and preferably similar to that em ployed in card catalogues or index systems. Over 0r superposed upon this card, is a card or sheet of suitable stenciling material 3, which may be of any desired material such as the usual metallic plate, cardboard,

celluloid or the like, the support preferably being provided with-adjustable end and side gage and retaining devices l and 5 respectively, for positioning said cards and holding them in place. The cards being thus supported, I then take character forming tools 6, in the present instance stencil cut ting tools, and cut the desired letters or characters in the stencil card or blank, and in desired order with whatever spacing is desirable. Each tool/is driven in to cut through the stencil blank by means of a hammer, mallet or other tool, the slugs 7 cut out from the stencil blank being forcibly driven into and inlaid in'the surface of the underlying card. The underlying card forms a yielding bed for the cutting tool to cut against and is preferably thicker than the stencil blank, so that the slugs are not driven through but firmly held and retained in place, and presenting visible and legible characters together constituting a facsimile of the stenciled subject matter of the stencil blank. The cards employed, both for the stencil and index card, may, if desired, be of different colors so that the embedded slugs will stand out in contrast to the surface of the card in which they are retained. Obviously, such feature is not limited to employing cards of difierent colors, as similar results may be obtained by using different material. The stenciled card or blank and its facsimile copy may then be removed from the support and filed away and when duplicates are desired, the stencil blank may be used to produce them in the usual manner.

My method contemplates-the use of stencil orming tools of any desired type and is not limited to that herein shown or illustrative purposes only, nor to the use of stencil forming tools but any other character forming tool may be employed. For example, in the modification of my method illustrated in Figs; 5 and 6, I use a tool adapted to form cameo-intaglio type and a printing plate of suitable material, preferably a thin sheet of metal. In this instance, the card 2, which forms the yielding bed, is placed on the rigid support 1 and the printing plate blank 8 superposed in the manner already described, the cameo-intaglio faced tool 9 being driven in by any suitable means or a tool, such as a hammer, and as described to form the type character and to simultaneously indent the underlying card with a facsimile of its character. The plate thus formed, as well as the cross reference index card thus simultaneously produced, may then be filed for usage in the customary manner. Obviously, the printing plate thus formed may be of any desired size, containing more or less type surface, and it may be advantageously used by itself or collectively with others to form a printing form for printing the subject matter of the typed face thereof. This is especially desirable in printing the pages or fly leaves of magazines which contain desirable reference matter and which have been hitherto cut up to separatethe different subject matters for reference purposes, the separated slips being pasted on cards for filing. By my method, I do away with the necessity for this labor, providing the publisher, who uses my method, with simple means for the inexpensive reproduction of a large number of cross reference index cards and enabling him to supply his subscribers or the trade therewith, at a. cost slightly in excess of that of the usual index cards. The pages 1 card against or fiy leaves referred to, or any printed matter, may first be produced for publication in a similar manner by theuse of the stenciled plates thus also providing for subsequent reproduction.

' Another instance in which my method is advantageously employed is in conjunction with the use of insurance cards or manufacturers tags which contain printed matter and blanks to be filled out and where one or more copies are utilized. Where but two are employed the simultaneous production of the printing plate and cross reference card provides them, said printing plate providing a master printing form rom which any number of copies may be made, the blanks in said insurance cards and manufacturers or other tags bein filled out by previously stenciling in the esired address or other subject matter by my method.

While in the described process of carrying out my invention, I have employed the char- 'acter forming tools singly, it is obvious that taining a facsimile of the subject matter represented by the character of said form, this method being ada ted for application wherever index cards, ling systems, manufacturers tags orthe like are employed.

Having thus described my invention with reference to a single selected embodiment thereof, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

1. A method for producing simultaneously a master printing form and a cross reference card, which is characterized by superposing a card or blank on a second card; punching one of the cards by a character forming tool and removing material from said card and forcing it into the surface of said second card; and confining the material of said second card against displacement in the direction of movement of the character forming tool.

2. Amethod for roducing simultaneously a master printing orm and a cross reference card, which is charaeterizedby superposing a card or index blank on a second card; forcing a character forming tool onto the face of one card and thereb removing material from said card and em edding the same in the second card by displacing the material of the second card ina direction substantially parallel to the surface of the card; and restrainin the material of the second isplacement in the direction of pressure of the character forming tool.

3. Ametho'cl for producing simultaneously a master printing form and a cross reference In testimony whereof, I have signed my card which is characterized by superposin name to this specification, in the presence of 10 a master printing blank on a fibrous an two subscribing witnesses.

ductile cutting bed cutting stencil slugs out of the master printing blank and embedding WILLIAM CHOATE' them in the fibrous ductile bed; and re- Witnesses: straining said bed against transverse dis- SIDNEY F. SMITH,

tortion. HEVERE'IT S. EMERY.

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