US54515A - Improved machine for embossing napkin-rings - Google Patents

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E. H. ELDRIDGE 81;, T. LEAOH. MACHINE FOR EMBOSSING NAPKIN RINGS.

No. 54,515. Patented May 8, 1866.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI ,H. ELDRIDGE AND THOMAS LEACH, or TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED-MACHINE FOR EMBOSSING NAPK-IN-RINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,515, dated May 8, 1866;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELI H. ELDRIDGE and THOMAS LEACH, of Taunton count-y of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful machine for performing the chased or embossed work. on napkin-rings and other articles to imitate engine-turning; and we do hereby declare the-same is fully described and represented in the following specification and accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 represents a top view of our invention; Fig. 2, a. horizontal section, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and FigAa vertical seetiomof same.

The nature of our invention consists in the construction of two, plain rollers with appropriate appendages, on one of which we place the article to be embossed, and through which we convey the power to revolve both. 011 the other, which is also adjustable, we place a metallic ring, on the periphery. of which, or on the roller itself, is engraved the device or pattern .to be chased or embossed on the said article. \Ve now, by turning the set-screw,

bring up both rollersin close contact, and by means of the crank revolve both rollers, when pattern-rm g roller'in relation to the roller containing the article to be embossed; H H, slots in the legs of theslide-bearin g E, which straddles the block A; and I I are pins in the block A, both pins and slots tending to secure the horizontal movements of the pattern-roller.

It is well known to persons acquainted with the art of engine-turning that the machinery used for the purpose is not only very expensive, but very liableto get out of order on 210-- count of its being very complicated. Besides this, a design or configuration is seldom completed by the engine alone without resorting r to hand-labor, consuming both time and profit.

imparting to the napkin-ring or other article a superior accuracy and elegance of ornamentation, whereby we are enabled not only to coinpete with the best in the market, but' to sell for fifty per cent. of their cost.

What we claim, and desire .to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The abovadescribed chasing or embossing ,machine, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereofwe have hereunto set our signatures. 1

ELI H. ELDRiDGE. THOMAS LEAOH. Witnesses:

PHLLANDER WILLIAMS,

ELISHA 'I. JACKSON.

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