US269830A

US269830A - Fkank b

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Publication number: US269830A
Authority: US
Current assignee: SABIC Global Technologies BV
Publication date: 1883-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1900-01-02

Description

(No Model.)

F. B. GLENGH.

DEVICE FOR EMBOSSING PHOTOGRAPHS.

No. 269,830. Patented Jan.- 2, 1883.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. OLENCH, OF LOOKPORT, NEiY YORK.

DEVICE FO R EM BOSSI NG PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,830, dated January 2, 1883.

Application filed October 30, 1882. (No model.) I

10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. ULENcH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lockport, county of Niagara, and State of New York, have made certain Improvements in Devices for Embossing Photographs and Photographic Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device by which photographs or a portion of photographic cards can be stamped or pressed into an oval concavity or matrix and surrounded by a raised rim or ring, giving a plaque effect to such cards, and having,in connection with said device, a removable slide, which has an opening corresponding with the circle or oval in the bed or block, and which runs in grooves in the sides of said blockjust above the ring, by which the exact position of the card to be embossed into a plaque can be determined and the card set so that the embossing will be in the right place, as fully hereinafter explained.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation, the slide in cross-section; Fig. 2, a plan of the D016; Fig. 3, a side elevation in central cross-section through line so a}, Fig. 2.

A represents the bed or block, made of wood or metal, and nearly square, with upright sides a a, in which are grooves 11 b for a removable slide, 13, to run in. The face of the bed A is beveled off on all sides, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, as at c c, (the object to be presently explained,) and in the center of the bed a rounded-out or concave depression, 0, is made, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) and around this is a raised ring or rim, r1. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) The slide B has an opening, 9, in the center, corresponding in shape and size to opening and rim'O din the bed A.

In the grooves l) b are pinsff for the ends of the slide B to strike against, andwhich are so placed as to bring the center of the slide exactlyover the center of the depression in the bed. Between the slide and the rim d beneath is a space, in which the card is put.

The working of the device is as follows: The slide B is first put into the grooves 12 b and pushed againstthe pins ff. Then the card or photograph is slid into the space between the slide B and bed A, and resting on the rim d. It is adjusted in exactly the right position to receive the embossing by the ring or opening in the slide. It not for this, it would be impossible to set the card exactly in the right place over the rim, &c., beneath; but by this slide and opening therein it is done in a moment. After it is set, then the slide B is withdrawn and a rubber cushion (not shown) is set carefully on top of the card. This cushion is made to exactly till the space between the sides a, a of the bed, but rises above the sides a little to allow for the after pressure. The wholeisthen set into a press, and on Withdrawing it the photograph will be found to have received a concave depression and a raised or convex rim all around it, caused by the simple devices above described.

The beveled face 0 0, before referred to, is to allow the card to be pressed thereon, thereby curving the card backward a little from the central rim, (1, as the beveled face of the block A extends in all directions from the rim d. (Shown at o 0, Fig. 1, and e c, Fig. 3.) This gives a better appearance to the cards and overcomes somewhat the tendency of all photographs to curve forward.

I claim 1. The former or embosser consisting of the bed A and raised sides a at, having the grooves b therein, the central concave or rounded-out depression, 0, the raised ring or rim (1, and the surface 0 0' of said bed A, beveled oft, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the former or embosser A a a, the removable slide or adjuster B, having the central opening, g, therein, corresponding to the opening 0 in the bed or former A, and running in grooves b b, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK B. OLENOH.

Witnesses 4 J. R. DRAKE, '1. H. FARSONS.