US43761A

US43761A - Ferrotype card-mount

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Publication number: US43761A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1864-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 1881-08-09

Description

NITED STATES JOHN n. nANiELs, or E TON, MASSA() HUSETTS.

FERROTYPE CARD-MOUNT.

rSpecification forming part of Iietters Patent No. t13,*76I, dated August 9, 1864.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN II. DANIELS, ot' Boston, in the count-y of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Card-Mounts for Ferrotypes or Metallic or other Plate Pictures 5 and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1,2, and 3 are respectively front elevation, side view, and plan (seen from underneath) of a tool or instrument used in the production of my improved card-mount, a perspective view of which is represented in Fig. 4.

(lard-mounts as heretofore most generally constructed, whether intended for ferrotypes or other photographic cards, consisted of two sheets of paper, the one comparatively thick and stift', perforated in the center or thereabouts, so as to form aframe surrounding the card or plate to be mounted 5 the other comparatively thin, also perforated in the center or thereabouts. The perforation or opening, however, is smaller and more or less ornamented, so that when the two papers are pasted together the former will form with the latter a recess in which the card or plate to be mounted is placed, while the latter will retain and suitably frame the card or plate. When the card is thus mounted, it is permanently secured by means of a leaf pasted or otherwise attached to the back of the mount. There are some objections to this mode of mounting y cardsor plates, of which I would mention, first,

the cost of producin gthe cardmount, involving separate operations of cutting the holes -or perforations in the two sheets composing the same, adjusting and pasting of the two together, and time required to dry and trim the same; second, the unpleasant effect produced by edge of the stiff paper being distinctly marked on the thin paper or face of themount. 5 third, the liability ofthe lace or thin and frail paper to tear, and of becoming detached from its support.

In my improved card or plate mount, I have overcome these objections in the manner as follows: I use card-paper or paper of the required size for the mount, and of a thickness equal or slightly exceeding that of the plaie or card to be mounted. In this I cut or punch a hole, a., which is the frame opening or aperture', with atool represented in Figs. l, 2, and 3. The tool is composed of three parts, first, a punch, p, of a sectional form, equal to the intended opening orframe in the card. In this caseit is shown to be oval. Second, ashoulder or embossing stamp, s, whose lower face is equal to the area of the recessed part of the mount, and which in this case is quadrangular; and, third, a shank, m, whereby it may be attached by means of a pin or other holding device passing through the hole nin a socket of a lever-press or other mechanism for operating the punch and stamp. The paper is laid on a die or support perforated correspondingly to the punch, so that an oval piece shall be cut clean and sharp out of the paper. The die may be recessed in conformity with the embossing-stamp s,- butl this is not absolutely necessary.

The eifect of stamping and punching the paper by means of the instrument described will be the simultaneous production in the mount of the framing-aperture in front and the recess in rear.

The paper may be ornamented by design printed on the face thereof and surrounding the edge of the opening, or by relief impression. The latter may be produced at one op eration with the recessing and punching by engraving the die.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as a new article of manufacture- 1. A plate or card mount made of a single sheet of paper, recessed 'for the reception of the card or plate, and perforated so as to frame the same in the manner substantially as herein set forth.

2. The method herein described of cutting and recessing plate or card mounts at one operation.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification before two subscrib` ing witnesses.

JOHN H. DANIELS.

Witnesses:

Enwn. E. TURNER, WILLIAM H. GABROW, Jr.