US237054A - setchell - Google Patents

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G. G. SETOHELL. Method of Making Wood' Borders.

Patented Jan. 25,1881.

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U ITED STATES PATENT GEORGE C. SETCHELL, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WM. H. PAGE WOOD TYPE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF MAKING WOOD BORDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,054, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed September 24, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. SETGHELL, of the city of Norwich, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in Wood Borders for Letter-Press Printing, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in making wood borders by a new, cheap, and speedy method of stamping into the wood with a small stamp of such form that by means of overlapping the impressions made by the stamp, as well as by changing its position, a great variety of beautifully-designed borders are produced, finished ready for use, and by substituting another stamp another great variety of designs may be produced; but the number made with a single stamp, by changing its position-that is, turning it more or less about an axis at right angles to its face, and by overlapping its impressions'more or less-are almost innumerable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and'2 show borders made by one row of impressions of the same stamp, and Figs. 3 and 4 show three rows of impressions, all these being made with the same stamp, of which Fig. 5 shows a side view of the head, and Fig. 6 shows the exact size and shape of the face of this stamp, which also is the only stamp used to make every figure. 4

In my improved method the wood is first dressed off the same as if the borders were to be cut in the ordinary manner. The Wood is then placed under the stamp andan impression made in it by a quick sharp blow, which leaves the outline of the impression perfectly sharp and well defined. The wood is then moved, by means of a gage, a distance equal to a certain part of the breadth of the face of the stamp and another blow given, and so on through the length of the border. Thus a part of each succeeding impression is made in theisolid wood, while the remainder extends back into and overlaps the preceding impression. Thus two or more like impressions, according to the amount-of the overlap, are combined and blended together, producing a figure entirely unlike the shape of the stamp, and by changing the overlap and position of the same stamp there may be produced an almost endless variety of elaborate designs, finished ready for use, and entirely dispensing with the tedious and expensive hand-trimming, which has always been necessary in cut borders.

If it is desirable to make a wider border, it may be made with the same stamp by stamping a second row or series along the border parallel with and contiguous to the first series, and in this case, also, very curious, artistic and desirable effects are produced by causing the second row of stamps to overlap more or less into the first.

A third and even a fourth parallel row may be made in the same border, either with the stamp in the same position or changed accordin g to the nature of the design desired.

Inasmuch as the angles and figure of the stamp (which should be made of steel) may be made very sharp, the design produced in the border may be made as delicate as lacework in fineness of lines and accuracy of finish, far exceeding the possibilities of cut and trimmed borders.

It is evident that at the pleasure of the designer the stamp may be made in such form as to stamp down the background of the design, leaving all the figures raised, or, vice versa, the figure may be sunken.

It is also evident that the depth of the impressions will vary slightly, according to the force of the blow and the hardness of the wood, which is no objection, as only the surface isused in printing.

By my new method of stamping, borders are made not only far superior in beauty and in elaborateness of design to the ordinary cut and trimmed borders as now made, but they are also tenfold cheaper, inasmuch as they are stamped with great rapidity, wholly dispense with hand-trimming, and require no skilled labor.

I am aware that a simple separate star figure has been stamped in wood borders 5 also, that single figures have been stamped in wood type as ornaments for the letters, so thatI do not claim the stamping of single disconnectedfigures in wood borders; but

I do claim as my inventionfirst made, substantially as and for the pur- The process herein described of stamping pose set forth. wood border for printing, consisting in strik ing one impression and then striking another i SETGHELL' 5 impression partially overlapping the first im- Witnesses:

pression, and, further, forming impressions in WILLIAM H. PAGE,

any direction upon the row of impressions WEBSTER PARK.

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