US651418A

US651418A - Embossing printing-press.

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Publication number: US651418A
Application number: US72047699A
Authority: US
Inventors: William Fullard; Cyrus Hawkins
Original assignee: WILLIAM E WEBER
Current assignee: WILLIAM E WEBER
Priority date: 1899-06-14
Filing date: 1899-06-14
Publication date: 1900-06-12
Anticipated expiration: 1917-06-12

Description

No. 65l,-4l8. Patented lune l2, I900 W. FULLABD &. C. HAWKINS.

EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

Application filed June 14, 1899.) (No Model.) 7 Sheets-Sheet'..l.

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N0. 65|,4|8. Patented June 12, I900. W. FULLARD &. C. HAWKINS. EMBOSSIN'G PRINTING PRESS. (Application fi 1ed June '14, 1899.)

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W. FULLARD & C. HAWKINS.

EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

(Application filed Julie 14, 1899.)

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Patented June l2, I900.

No. 615L418.

W, FULLABD 8:, C. HAWKINS.

EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

(Application filed June 14, 1899.)

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No. 65l,4|8. Patented June I2, I900.

W. FULLARD &. C. HAWKINS.

EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

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No. 65!,4I8. Patented lune l2, I900.

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EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

(Application fl'led June 14, 1899.)

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No. 65!,4l8. Patented lune l2, I900. W. FULLABD &. G, HAWKINS. EMBOSSING PRINTING PRESS.

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UNITED STATE PATENT C rrion.

WILLIAM FULLARD, oF ooLwYN, FEN NSYLVAN lA, AND oYRUS IIAWKInS, or II DoNF Lp, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR S BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO WILLIAM E. WEBER, on WYNOOTE, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMBOSSING PRlNTlNG-PRESSh SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,418, dated June 12, 1906.

Application filed June 14,1899. Serial No. 720,476. (No model.)

To aZZ zbhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM FULLARD, residing in Oolwyn, Delaware county, in the State of-Pennsylvania, and CYRUS HAWKINS, residing in I-Iaddonfield, Camden county, in the State of New Jersey, citizens of the United States of America, have invented certain new and usefullmprovementsin Embossing Printing-Presses, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

In certain of its features our invention relates to presses for embossing in general; butit has special reference to and hereinafter is illustratively described by a press for embossed printing.

Our said invention consists in the construction, combination, and cooperative relations of several devices hereinafter described, the whole combined in their preferred form as a positively-advancing automatic machine, of whichthe new and useful features will be .found segregated in the concluding claims. 2 5 Reference now being bad to the accompanying drawings,they will be found to illustrate our said invention, as follows:

Figure l is a side elevation of a press for embossing and printing embodying our said invention in its complete preferred form. Fig. 1 is a side elevation, upon an enlarged scale, of a fra'gmentof this structure. Fig. 2 shows, enlarged scale, the front end, with the lower portions truncated, of the machine. 5 shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view, partially in section, of the same, the plane of parts sectioned being indicated in Fig. 1 by line 3 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section showing details of certain parts included in Figs. 1, 1, and 3 and hereinafter designated the wiper action. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevat-ion showing, in enlarged scale, interior upper portion of the machine, the plane of section being the mid-longitudinal and indi- 5 cated by the line at 4. of Fig. 3. Figs. 4c and 1" are'end views and median cross-sections, respectively, showing the constructive detail of a certain subcombination of parts included in Figs. Fig. 5 is an end elevation, on a '50 further enlarged scale, of certain parts hereinafter called the ink-carriage. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a section on the mid-longitudinal of said ink-carriage, showing itin the act of mounting another part, hereinafter called the die-chuck, which part, with a chucked die, is also shown similarly sectioned in this figure. Fig. 7 is a cross-section of the housings, guides, ink-carriage, die-chuck, and die upon the same enlarged scale. The planes of section, Fig. 7, are indicated by oifset line 7 7 of Fig. 6, while in this figure line 6 6 indicates plane of section-in Fig. 6. Fig. 7" is a plan view of certain unassembled parts shown at the top of Fig. 7. Fig. 8 is an end View of a similar enlargement of parts of the machine, hereinafter called the die-wipers presser' device. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a transverse cross-section of the same on the line 10 10 of Fig. 8, and Fig. 11 is an enlarged plan view of the die-chuck. Figs. 12 to 17, inclusive, are diagrammatic views of modifications of certain hereinafter-specified details.

In the drawings, and first referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 4 thereof, A indicates the lower trestle-frame of the machine, to which at a a is journaled the main actuating mechanism, consisting of horizontal shaft S, loose beltpulley s, fixed belt-pulley s, and fixed pinion S, which pinion on its lower side meshes with a speed-reducing spur-gear s fixed to a second shaft S which shaft crosses the lower rear members of said trestle-frame and is. therein journaled parallel to the line of the aforesaid shaft S, in bearings of which only one, a is shown. (See Fig. 1.) Also fixed to the body of said second shaft S and between its bearings is a laterally-grooved cam 3 Of said actuating-cam s the outer and inner walls 8 s respectively, engage upon and, 0

when said cam is rotated by aforesaid connections, impart motion to a roller 7", journaled upon a pin 1", fixed to and laterally projecting from a rock-arm R. Of this arm B one end is pivotally connected at r to the frame A, while a pin r fixed to its other and upper vibratory end,engages,through a roller 0, with a gab or open-slotted eye 1, formed in the under body of a drag-link L. So engaged,

this linkbeing equipped with two other pins Ioo Z P, transmits motion acquired through link R fronrcam s to, first, a die-chuck carrying link-arm R, and, second,- to a link-and-lever action L L hereinafter described.

The upper frame of the machine sits fixed on the tabular top parts A of trestle-frame A and consists of two substantiallysimilar and parallel-sided housings A A, connected at the top by a cross-piece A. Within said housings fixed prismatic guides at a merge into horizontal beds a a of which the rabbeted sides (t a keep from lateral displacement the squared ends cl (1 of a movable diechuck D, which chuck located on said beds is engaged by its integrally-forked lug-eye d and a pin d to the pivot-apertured head '7 of a plunger R the solid prismatic body 4" of which plunger conforms to and fits snugly, but with freedom for endwise sliding, in a registering cavity 7, which cavity is sunk along the center line and in the swinging head of the rock-arm R aforesaid. The arm R, being pivoted to the frame A at 1' under the reciprocating movement of the connected link L and the aforesaid combined sliding and pivotal connections to the die-chuck D, slides said chuck endlong of the guides (L2 a from the fixed beds a a on which it seats, and thereby to the range and coaction of the three following later-described devices-to wit, to the range and coaction of, first, the ink-carriage, (indicated by I and 2' and their exponents;) second, to and in and out of the field of action of the die-wiper device, (designated by W and w) and their exponents, and, third, from the starting-pointthrough a reciprocal stroke to, if not the exact, at least an approximate position of impression. Said starting-point and an exact position of impression, wherein said die-chuck D and its connected parts are shown in Figs. 1 to 4, is, however, preferably defined by what we later describe under the name of the fine adjusting device for the die-chuck; In the die-chuck D a die of suitable character, as the steel intaglio D, Figs. 4 and 6, in form a parallelepiped, is reposed upon a central projecting table D and gripped laterally between opposing faces of movable vise-jaws d d, for which purpose said vise-jaws have tapped lugs (Z d of suitable section freely to slide in grooves (Z d, formed in the chuck-body, and are engaged thereby and concurrently and concentrically approached to or backed from the die-grasping positions by a squareheaded (c1 operating-screw (Z said screw having right and left hand thread parts 61 (Z of similar pitch that are located on either side of an unthreaded central part, which part passes with freedom for turning through an orifice d of the chuck -t-able D Reduced cylindrical necks (1 (Z both journal and collar from endwise movement said screw in and between blocks d and d flfixed to the fore and aft parts of said chuck-body. The vise-jaws 11* (Z extend laterally beyond the bed D and in end View (see Fig. 7) have a T-section, of which extended T-shaped laterals d to d the lower inner faces at to c1 embrace and are guided by the registering parallel sides (1 ol of the die-table D The upper faces of said margins of the vise-jaws we also form, preferably, as cams c1 to d, respectively, whereon rolls 2' z" 2' i", attached to aforesaid ink-carriage, may ride and impart to its ink-applying parts (later identified) what we shall designate their dab bing motion; but before going to that some-' what-small detail the interaction of the ma chines chief coiiperating devices logically takes the description to the second of the actions, which, being connected to the link L aforesaid, derive motion from the rotation of cam s '-namely, to the link L which link is also connectible at any length Within reach of said links longitudinal slot h by a clamping wrist-pin h(Whereof details being trite are not shown) to a forked rock-leverH, the peculiar shape of which lever, Figs. 1 and 3, gives clearer apprehension than words, and said lever, being pivoted at k 7&3 to brackets A A, that are fixed to or formed integrally with and extend from the upper rear of the framehousings A A is further pivoted on its upper ends at 71. 7&5 to twin links L L, that are by their gabbed ends, of which one gab Z is shown in Fig. 4, connectible manually at will to wrist-pins 2' 1. These pins are attached to a pair of forked lugs if 2' that form rearward extensions of the ink-carriage block 7;, which block being formed to register with squared ends thereby fits and slides along horizontal groove-guides a 6L7, formed be tween the embraced wall portions and rectangular projections a a of the housings A A, (see Fig. 7,) the whole situate on a higher plane than the die-chuck and its guides aforesaid. The length of said carriage-blocks stroke being determined by the throw of the links L L (which throw is adjustable under the limits of the slot h) is in all. events sufficient to cause, first, said ink-carriage block to range on the rear end of its guides over the exposed summit of a roller 1 (see Fig. 4,) which roller, partially immersed, is run independently of shifts on pulleysss' of a main belt (notsliown) by having fixed on its shaft 1 a pulley I of its own, which pulley, being engaged with a belt 1 Fig. 1, going to the constantly-revolving prime mover, is efficient constantly to run said roller in a bath of ink suitable for inking an impression-die like D aforesaid. Such bath of ink, being represented by heavy broken parallel lines in Fig. 4, is held in inktrough 1 Of this trough the ends (which being of themselves in no wise of my invention are not shown) carry bearings for the ink-rolls shaft I aforesaid. From these bearings, however, one end of said shaft projects to, clear of, and through an aperture (not shown) in. the housing A and on its there-exposed end is affixedto pulley I aforesaid, and, second, to pass therefrom and pursuing the guides a a under the positive syn I'IO ehronous' connections connecting their common source-to wit,the drive-cam s -to meet, pass, and repass the die-chuck D in its reciprocation and then to return to and by reason of the peculiar curvature of the thenactive part of the groove of cam s to dwell for a time over said ink-roller 1 During this dwell the ink-carriage takes and then vsubsequentlycarries off a portion of ink, as

follows, by either or both of two rollers 2' i which, formed as cylinders of the ordinary plastic material suitable forink-carrying rollers, are journaled and harnessed as follows: Beneath and within the sides formed by a longitudinal slot in the bottom of the block I screws t "6 pivotally connect a plate I, which plate forms a false and to some extent adjustable self-retractive bottom for said main body I, having on its back four vertically-apertured tubular bosses i to 6 located one each near each of said blocks corners, and a central tapped hole i has the plate I thereto harnessed by means of four countersunk holes 2' to 2' located in registering alinement with the apertnred bosses aforesaid, and in them engages the heads t to t of tie-rods t to F, the cleared shanks of which tie-rods, thence projecting above the crowns of said bosses, are there freely surrounded by spiral springs u to u which thrust against said bosses upper ends and the bottom sides of twin bridge-pieces 'l T, into which pieces screw the threaded tips t to t of the lateral pairs of said tie-rods. Thus equipped the harness tends to home plate I by lifting it at its four corners into the slot'z' aforesaid, but against this action a central thumb-nut T for locking and a milled-head bank-screw T (engaged therewith and alsoin said tapped central hole 1;) affords a combined stop and ready means of protrusive adjustment. The width of the slot i in the bottom of carriage-block I being somewhat greater than the width of the false bottom 1 allows room for the pivotal connection (by screws 1' t and clearance of roller-housings I I", which housings, being form ed as substantially-quadrangular plates, are pivoted, as indicated in Fig. 5, near their upper corners to sliding rods 25 to 15 each of which rods, being surrounded by spiral com pressing-springstt to M have their shank ends, as shown at 25 to 1 Fig. 5, slipped freely through registering apertures, of which 25 (see Fig. 5) only are shown, located in the cross-pieces of T-shaped twin rock-levers I 1 which levers are pivoted by pins 6 11 to snitably-apertured stanchions 1 1", formed integral on the transverse middle line of said blocks top. Of these inverted T- shaped levers the upper vibrating shanks are on their bottom parts broad and thin and being of, say, spring-tempered steel have capacity to be sprung on the plane lengthwise of their pivots, but are rigid in their transverse or natural swing planes, and each are upon their inner sides, at the level of the cross-pieces T-T, equipped with obtuse either hand of the vertical, which passes through the center line of both said levers pins and the underlying pivoted screws 2' 1' of the carriage roll-housing. By this means and four tappets located near the ends of the ink-carriages travel and in the range of said levers upper shanks (of which tappets two only are shown at 25 in Fig. 4) these levers are operative to throw and lock the tilting roll-housings I I to an angular position, such as that shownin Figs. atand 5hr to one wherein the roller (here roller 2') which is about to lead in the retreat is depressed.

The rollers 2' t have cylindricalbodies, as aforesaid, suitable for taking ink, and from the fact of their riding in this way against and being rotated by exposed portions of the aforesaid constantly-running ink-immersed roll I take ink in a manner later described. Extensions of shafts t 2' (by which the rollers 2' t are freely journaled in the housings I 1 beyond said housings, form axles for the aforesaid (pin-collared) rolls t The gage of these rolls registers with the distance apart of the cams 01 to 01 on the vise-jaws d d of the die-chuck aforesaid, and they on meeting therewith act as follows:

The curvature of the groove between the walls 8 s of the cam 8 (see Fig. 1) at the part now referred to is substantially a circle concentric to the axis of said canis revolution and affords, through roller-pin r a", to the rock-arm R no movement. Similarly for some time before and after the position in, which said pin is shown in Fig. 1 there is a dwell, and the linked actions connecting said arm with the die-chuck D and with the ink-carriage (identified by'its principal block or cross-head I) are such that the said carriage and chuck are then at and rest in their farthest stroke and distance of separation, and there, with the die-chuck on its bed and the ink-carriage over the trough-roll 1 the pendent and somewhat intrinsicallyand elastically connected ink-rollers t 2' contact, ride on, and are rotated by friction of said roll, which facts of course very evenly and uniformly coats the rollers t'Fand t with ink from the trough 1 Then as the cam s is re volved, (by the actuation of the main drivegear, which, as first described, lies between it and the prime-moving fixed belt-Wheel 8,) the eccentricity or change of direction of the groove of said cam s by its outer wall 3 exerts a cam-center-seeking force through the roller 0' on pin 1'', and therebyswings the arm R positively toward theshaft S which arm, by the gab connection Z of the link L, causes the remainder of the die-chuck action R R to carry said chuck, with the grasped die D, toward the ink-carriage l, which carriage, by reason of its positive enlinkments (the gab-links L L being engaged on their 4t etiais rollers t 2 from the trough-roll 1 goes to meet said die-chuck and die. Then the levels of said die-chuck and ink-carriage guides and the dimensions of their several parts being as is well shown in Figs. 4, 6, and 7, the chuck and carriage soon meet and cross as follows: The axle-rolls t' i of the meetingand pendent ink-roller i meeting the leading vise-cams r1 (Z mount thereon by means of the joint yield of said rollers own somewhatelastic body (say felt or glue and molasses) and that of the tilting-roll housingF' I, which latter yield takes place against the resistance of the springs u to M. (See Figs. 5 to 7.) Then said axle-rolls having crossed the said cams, the resilient nature of the roller 1' and the recoil of said springs taking advantage of said rolls release promptly forces the roller 1' downward upon the face D of the die D or with the dab motion aforesaid. Now as the roller-pin r has not yet reached the lowest point of the cam side 8 this motion at once merges into a rolling of the now inkapplying roller i which rolling goes lengthwise the face of the die, and that face bein traversed the second pair of vise-cams (1 al (which, chiefly to show the great variety of their forms, have inward as well as outward inclines) by meeting with their inward inclines the rollers t' t" lift, and with them, in a manner that should now be so obvious as not to require what would be in substance redescription of the prior act, the roller i and they having passed the contrivance permits a second recoil of said housings, &c. Soon after this passage the pin 0' of the link R is reached by that point in the groove of cam s which is directly opposite to the point in which said pin 9" is shown in Fig. 1. Then in consequence of the sharp change to an outward or centrifugal direction at this most eccentric part of the cam 8 its wall 3 begins to bear on the roll 7* and through it forces pin 1" and link R in a backward swing. This of course sets up a reverse or reciprocal movement in the aforesaid actions of the ink-carriage and die-chuck, and these parts return toward each other; but before passing to what then happens it is proper to first describe that near the end of the first half of the full motion of said chuck and car-. riage the free shanks of both T-levers I I collided with the inmost pair of the tappetsviz., Z t -and said levers by the cam action of their wedge-lugs I I were sprung from the cam-seats T T in which they previously were lightly held; and being so rocked by said tappets were brought to and engaged, each of its own recoil spring action, with the previously-unoccupied V-cam seats T T, and so the roller 6 which is now (in retreat) the leading roll, becomes also the pendent one, for

such swing of the T-levers I I causes the housings I I to tilt and hook up in the oppo site posture to that shown in end view, Fig. 5. In this position the rolls 2' 71 of the now pendent inkroller 11, which by reason of its prior ascendant position has not yet contacted the die, meet, rise on, and pass the vise-cams (Z (Z and so produce in manner correlative to the formeract a second dab motion, which motion merges into a rolling facewise of the die of a second ink-charged roller 2'. Now when this second ink-charging roller rolls the die-race D in opposite direction it not only applies more ink, but also distributes that ink which the former roller had left charged thereon. Then, and to continue the general mode of operation, the rolls t t of the pendent ink-carriage roller 2' meet, in this case, the substantially-vertical back ends cl (1 of the now trailing vise-cams C1 at, and the said rolls lift the ink-carriers and, passing said cams, cause the inevitable release and spring recoils thereof. Thence with a second or retilting of the carriage-roll housings, caused by collision of the shanks of T-levers I I on the second or outer pair of tappets-viz., 23 Fig. 4-the action of the grooved side 5 of the cam s is, on gaining its maximum and there substantially circular are, such as to relocate in their places of beginning the rock-arm R, carriage I, and die-chuck D- that is, to the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Having so inked and, as we shall call it, roughly, relocated the die D on its fixed beds (1 d as a result of its first turning, it is obvious that the above functions are repeated on every revolution of the cam 8 and the description turns to otherinteracting devices.

The die-wiper consists of a long strip of flexible material, preferably paper, initially rolled on a removable reel, of which, being otherwise familiar in machines of this class, the axle w alone is shown journaled horizontally in blind ended gab bearings (indicated by broken outlines at 10 10*, Figs. 3 and 4) and located in the chops of the lower projecting ends of the housings A A The bottom of this supply-reel w when full of wiper W, although perfectly close to their paths, is sufficiently high to clear the die-chuck and die when moving, and the free end of said wiper being thence led with oblique downward tread is run under a presser device (later to be described, but of which the cross-head P is now mentioned for identification) and thence in an upward direction to and overafeed-roll W. Then said strip passes in a reverse direction and is attached in usual manner for winding strips on reels to a used-wiper-winding reel. Here a mere axle V8 is adapted to be removable from the machine by being mounted at one end in a vertically-gabbed bracketbearing w and at the other end entered in and held by a set-screw "(U7 of a coupling-collar w, which collar (shown quarter-sectioned in Fig. 3) when coupled by another set-screw w connects the used-wi per reel-with a laterdescribed winding action. The otherwise-cylindrical surface of the wiper feed-roll W is preferably formed with a large number of fine lengthwise grooves. Against this surface, at the level of the rolls axle W (to which the roll is fixed) and where the wiper W' first comes tangent to it, a pair of preferably similarly-grooved narrow rolls 20 are carried fixed to a single axle 20 and grip and hold the margins of such wiper W, for which purpose the ends of said axles 10 are carried in die-bear-f ings 10 w, movably fitted in short horizontal guide-grooves 10 10 formed by projections and embraced inside portions of housings A A In these guides said die-bearings are constantly forced toward roll W by the recoiling of spiral springs U U movable abutments U U, and the lock-nut-provided screws w w, which screws thread through cross-pieces an 1017, fixed to the rear ends of said guide projections.

For the feed of the die-wiper XV motion is taken off from the main drive-pinion S by intermeshing with it a speed-reducing spu rgear N, which is the equal but oppositelymoving mate. The spur s is fixed to one of the protruding ends of a shaft N, which shaft, being journaled horizontally, lies across the upper rear of housings A A and carries, besides a stam p-actuatin g cam N &c. a faceplate N that is fixed to said shafts opposite protruding end. On the outer face n of this face-plate a radial T-slot 12' serves to engage in manner so familiar as not necessary to describe a readily-adjustable and laterally-collaring pin M, which pin, according to its adjustment along said slot, acts as a crank of varying throw to a pitman N". This pitman has a stem n of rectangular section, Fig. 3, and on the outer upper face thereof a rack n, the teeth of which rack are guided to and mesh on those of an idler-pinion N by means of the guide afforded to said rack on its lower face a and sides a n by a registering flat groove n formed in a sheave N which sheave isjournaled on a laterally-collaring horizontal pivot-stud n fixed to outside of the housing A and at'proper distance beneath said gear. A spring-ad vanced pawl at Fig. 1, pivoted to a face of said loosely-journal'ed pinion N acts on the rearward motion of the rack n to engage on the teeth of, and im partintermittent rotary -motion to, a ratchet-wheel N which wheel,

as shown in Fig. 3, is by screw a fixed to a grooved belt-wheel N which is fixed to the protruding end 20 of shaft W of the wiper guide-roll W and thereto imparts with each revolution of spur-gear N a ratchet motion (the amplitude of which is governed by the location of the pin a in the slot at) and tends to pull the wiper-strip W under the presser device and off of the axle w, on which it is initially wound. For effecting such intermittent pulls without slipping the grip on the guide-roll W of the springad vanced rolls W is a provision. Upon the grooved belt-wheel N thus intermittently rotated in the direction indicated by arrows adjoining unreeled fixed b screw w on its inner end the afore- 1 said coupling to, which normally connects the unjournaled end of the used-wiper-reels axle W aforesaid, and to which it imparts ratchet motion by a frictional clutch consisting of the other outer face'm of said idler belt wheel M, some intermediate leather washers m and a face-plate M which, having a suitable boss-eye, is fixable by a setscrew m to said shaft for rotation and with clamping pressure against said washers and belt-wheel face. By this means, concurrently with the feeds of the wiper, if necessary, yielding winding action of increased speed is imparted to the axle of the waste-wiper reel. This is done because, as the diameter of the axle W and such portion of the Wiper W as may at the outside bewound upon it are of smaller diameter than is the body of the unused wiper on its reel W, the amounts wound on at each motion of the axle W are thus made ample to take up the excess thrown off by the feed-roll to. Then as the operation progresses the natural increase of the wiper W, rolled up on the reel W obviously brings aboutanotl1erconditionviz.,excess of wind ing action of the axle W This, too, is provided for in the slip of the clutch M m M in its actuating train. The importance of this constant removal of the used wiper \V is measurable in terms of the disastrous ink scattering of loose bellies of ink-soiled paper, which, contacting on the other portions of the machine or work, might be most pernicious. The short amount of unreeled inky wiper afforded by above construction is also a great advantage. Turning to the ink-wipers presser device, and first referring to Figs. 3 and 4: in connection, the saidhousings A A just beyond the ends of the ink carriage guides aforesaid, have vertical projections forming, with embraced side-wall portions of said housings, opposite vertical guides 19 19, wherein the cross-head P aforesaid is slidable up and down, so as to move only toward and from the path of the die. This cross-head,however, by its own weight normally keeps at the lower end of said guide and is there borne on the adjustable elastic support of spiral springs P 1, which springs, standing on parts of the die-chuck guides a a that are without the gage of said die-chuck, have their heads capped with bolster-disks 19 p sliding in cylindrical cavities 13 12 that are sunk into the under side of the guide-engaging lugs 11 19 of said cross-head. On these bolster-disks are swiveled the noses of a pair of set-screws 138 19 that are threaded through verticallytapped apertures leading into the said cavities p 19 So borne, with its lower part well above the range of the face of the udie D, this cross-head is equipped with a shoe-plate 13 formed of rigid material, but attached in an elastic yielding man ner-viz. ,by upward-bent and slotted lugs p p, which engage with free vertical sliding shanks of fiat-headed screws 19 19 threaded into the sides of said cross-head, an india-rubber compression-pad or distance-piece 1), locked between said cross-head and plate on the fore or near side adjoining the wiper-reel in and on the oppo' site or aft side by a line of three adjustable advancing pressers consisting of screws 2), follower-disks 13 and springs 13, which are pocketed in cavities p sunk in line across the rear of said crossheads bottom part. The edges of the shoe-plate P project fore and aft of the crossheads bottom. To the top of its rear projecting part screws 29" draw a clamp p onto an underlaid en d of a felt p which felt in the form of a strip is then carried under plate P and up around its opposite projection, from which it is next led to and fixed for winding on a drum p This drum is fixed to an axlep of which the protrudingends are removably journaled in gabbearin gs p p sunk vertically in the forward shoulders of the presser cross-head. To one of these shoulders 11 a gravity-pawl p is pivoted, and by means of said pawls engagement with the teeth of a ratchet-wheel p fixed in line on and to said drums, acts to hold whatever is wound on of the felt by the manual rotation of said drum p A cranked extension 1) of the pivoted part of the pawl 19 (which is integral) forms a trip-handle. By this Windlass when the felt p becomes slack from use it can be tightened, and kept to a suitable degree of tension to form the contact-surface of our wipers presser.

The joint action of the wiper W and the aforesaid presser device is as follows: On its retreat from the ink-carriage the charge of ink on the die is so excessive as to coat the flat parts of its face as well as to overfill for proper use its cut work. This excess the wiper removes by a joint action with the presser device, for which latter device motion is taken off the shaft N by a cam O, fixed between the spur N and the adjoining bearing 71 of said shaft in the housing A Now this cam, as shown in detailin Figs. 4 and 4", is preferably of two (save for their journal members) peripherallysimilar parts 0 0, respectively. These parts, which closely adjoin,are convenientlyinterlocked by a headed set-screw o screwing into one of said parts and having its shank freely passed through a circumferential slot 0 formed in registering radius on the other. By this means the slotted member 0', which journals on the eye-boss of its shafts fixed mate, can have its most eccentric cam-surface (which is a concentric cylindrical portion) fixed coincident with or in a variable angular position as regards said laterally-adjoining mate and therefore to afford a variable range in the circumferential extent of said cams higher part. Thus a greater or less extent of dwell is given by adjustments of the parts 0 0 of the cam O to a rock-arm O-viz., by means of a roll-shod laterally-projecting stud 0 with which the adjoining side of said arm is equipped and against which said cams composite periphery bears. The bottom of this arm 0 being pivoted at O to the outside of the housing A its forked upper end 0 vibrates and is pivotally connected at O to an adjustably-extensible link 0, which link, composed of right-andleft screws o 0 with a correspondingly righ tand-left-threaded connecting-sleeve nut 0 is by its eye 0 and pivot 0 connected to the forked and pinapertured end 0 of another rock-arm which arm is fixed at its other extremity to a horizontal shaft 0 that is journaled across, above, and slightly to the rear of the die presser guides aforesaid. Fixed to the body of this rock-shaft midway of its bearings is one member o of a toggle O", of which toggle said part 0 has a female joint 0 in form a segment of a cylindrical groove, into which the solid cylindrical head 0 of the other toggle member 0 fits and works. This second toggle part 0 has a broad plate-like but stoutbody and by a similar cylindrical segment-foot 0 bears and works on a corresponding and laterally-collaring female seat 0, sunk in the top of the die'pressercross-headPaforesaid. Equipped with this action it is obvious that when the arm 0' is rocked by the rotation of the composite cam O the toggle 0 acts to force down the springs P P under the cross-head and dab the wiper W on the die D, which die by the timing of the parts is then on its retreating passage under said presser, and the wiper W, being moved at this time by the synchronized connections of its feed-roller W, is drawn with a sliding motion and wipes the oppositely-moving face D of the die D. By this means the wiper very perfectly removes the smearing from the face, as well as of the composite cam 0 past pin 0 releases the forcing rock-lever O, which release suffers the retreat of the cross-head P, with its equipment, under the recoil of the seated springs P P Brought approximately to place on its bed for impression we prefer to arrest the die-chucks hammer shock, otherwise absorbed in the chucks action, by a bu fferblock 7r, screwed by screws 75 it to the IIO requisite amounts of ink from the hollows, of

frame end. Also as the fetching home of said chuck by a jointed action such as that shown, especially when worn with use, is provocative of slight mislocations in the alinement of said chuck (which for coaction with the stamp next to be described should be exact) we therefore further equip said die-chuck with a fine adjusting device, which consists of plate-springs V V, the rear endsv c of which are rigidly fixed to the said housings A A respectively, and extend their springshanks and V-bent unattached outer ends r it out over the top of said chuck, on which top on each side in registeringalinement corresponding hollow V-cams 21 17 are formed, and by the combined cam and alining nature of their engagements with the V-bent ends of the springs V V aforesaid act when said chuck is brought with said sunk cam Vs within range of the hanging apices of said bent Vs to cause the same to enter therein and by their complete contacting to aline and sufficiently hold the said die in its exact position of impression. On the subsequent withd rawal of the die-chuck by the revolutions of the cams 5 these obtuse and spring-borne V- cams force apart and allow the chuck to travel from its bed in the manner first described. WVhen so exactly localized, the temporarilyheld impression-die D is fed with the mate- -rial to be embossed and printed in manner usual for such acts; but since how said material which is fed and localized on the impression D and likewise since how said material is retreated therefrom after impression, &c., forms no part of my present invention, save that it is a necessary adjunct, it is here passed and only so far stated for the sake of its bein g understood that when it is so bedded and fed the inked andwiped die D is then acted upon by the stamp or impression device. This impression device, which then comes iuto play, consists and acts as follows: WVithin the lower front chops of the said housings A A heavy L-shaped inwardlyfaccd projectionsbb have formed in them and in common central alinement across the die D when localized vertical guide-grooves B B, in which the prismatic rectangular ends of a solid heavy die-holding cross-head B fits slidingly. This die-holder head is kept normally lifted in said guides by means of the tension of spiral springs c c, hooked below to ringbolts 11 b (that screw into the top of said cross-heads ends) and above to two screwhooks 11 6 attached, with vertical adjustability, by nuts I) b to perforated Z-shaped brackets b. In such lifted position a suitable stam ping-die, such as the fiat D (shown in Fig. 4,) may be engaged by keys and an integral dovetail, (not shown, but presumably registering with the female dovetail b which is slotted longitudinally across the under face of said die-holding cross-head B Likewise a sufficient gap for the works entry and withdrawal between the Hat D andthe impression-die D is normally provided for in this lift of the cross-head B Fixed to alongitudinal slot I), located across the top of said cross-head, there is a cross-pin I), by which said cross-head is pivotally connected to an adjustably-extensible ram consisting of twin, but right and left screwed, cylindrical eyebars I) I), a correspondingly right and left threaded sleeve-nut b and 'said bars severally appropriatelythreaded jam -nuts 12 b", which nuts when adjustments are perfected by rotation of the sleeve Z3 lock and give rigidity to the whole. Then by eyes 11 b formed in the forked member of said eyebarb and a pin 12 there is connected one end Z1 of a working beam B This beam having a massive crossshaft B (to which it..

is fixed) is thereby journaled for rocking in preferably adjustably-lined pillow-heads e @1 forming the summits of the housings A A Thence extending to the rear, said beams other end is forked and carries a pivot b and on it a roller Z). This roller, by reason of the upward pull of the springs c 0, attached to the stamp cross-head B always sits without lost motion on the face of the cam N fixed, as aforesaid, to the shaft N. The top of the eccentric lobe of this cam being formed with a short substautiallyconcentric are, thereby gives a dwell to the acts of impression which take place when the roller b of the working beam aforesaid is, as shown in Fig. 4, mounted thereon. Beyond this higher part of said lobe the quick drop to the substantially-circular arc of least eccentricity of said cam N gives a quick release to the parts actuating said cross-head, and so allows the springs c c, which support it as aforesaid, to lift it promptly. It is also to be noted b'yinspection of Figs. 1 and 4 that the cam N has its high lobe aforesaid diametrically opposite to both those of the cam O and also to the wrist-pin slot at of the face-plate N both of which secondary drivers arefixed to the same shaft N as said walking-bearns drive-cam N For this reason the movements of the parts which, through these three drivers are urged to their work, are synchronized and occur at appropriate successive periods,and all three said secondary drivers by the intermeshing of their common drive-spur N on the pinion S of the main actuating mechanism are timed with relation to the die-chuck and ink-carriage movements aforesaid- With the preferred liners c c aforesaid, which, being outwardly cylindriform, fit with freedom for rotation in the cylindrical apertures e 00 of the pillows a 6& aforesaid and have similar shaft-bearing. holes 0 c bored through them parallel to but with common eccentricity to the axes of their own similar outer surfaces aforesaid, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, there is combined a manual shifter consisting of integral cranks 0 formed on the outer and for thispurpose projecting ends'of said liners, each of which flanges is provided at corresponding points with wrist-pins, of which one, C is shown inFig. 2,

while its mate for unobstructed view of otherwise-concealed parts is removed by fragmenting. On these pins are engaged a pair of connecting-links, of which only one, 0 is shown in Fi 2, which links at their lower ends, as 0 are connected by pins, as 0 to a pair (only one shown) of similar rock arms, as 0 fixed to the outwardlyprojecting ends of a rock-shaft C, which shaft, journaled horizontally across, protrudes from the outside of the trestle-housing A. Upon the rear of one of the arms 0 there is formed an integral handle or lever member 0, which furnishes means for-throw ing (under its aforesaid connected linkages) the liner-housings O O into varying angular "positions around the reduced axle ends of the walking-beam shaft B which they support. 13y this means the stamp and die, as D which it holds, may be lifted out of such range, as the extensible member of its action may otherwise determine for it, and we afford an independent and very improved device for tripping the impression without disturbing the range of the stamp-die.

\Vhile we prefer and specifically claim the above form of device for tripping the impression, we do not mean thereby wholly to limit ourselves, and for another example of how to do it state that by endwise collaring but rotatively journaling the beam B 011 the shaft B and using fixed bearings therefor in housings A A the beam-shaft B may have a lifting motion given it by having alined journal ends formed eccentric to said shafts general axis and some exposed part .of said shaft equipped with a manual or mechanical shifter C but as such modification is in form similar to the 'in and out of mesh motion of the ordinary engine-lathes l)ack-gea1"itis only diagrammatically figured in Fig. 12 and need not be further described.

Instead of using both the rollers 2' i it is within the plan and contrivance, especially in case of small or certain peculiarly-cut intaglio dies, to dismount one of said rolls from the housings l I and to do the inking with the remaining roller only, or in cases where rollers are not proper by withdrawing screws F F to dismount both said rolls, their housings, &c., and in their place in the carriageslot to mount, as by screwing therein with the screws i i a brush. On account of such brushs familiar combination in machines of this class this modification is shown diagrammatically only in Fig. 13, but of which brush, however, it should be noted that the bristles or pile should reach when so mounted as to ride and be inked by the rail I -as well as on the carriage-passages to reach and wipe the die D.

It the machine should be desired to produce uninked embossed impressions, it is only necessary to throw out the gab-links L Z, which terminates the function of the ink-carriage. The wiper under these circumstances will, however, run idly and take care of itself, &c. Embossing without ink may also call for a male or cameo die instead of the flatter D by exposing it of great usein aiding the operator to strip from the dies thus separated the work. It is also within the purview of my invention with such a fully-actioned machine as above described to use, especially in connection with the embossing of metallic sheets, unguents instead of ink in the inktrough l and thereby to markedly increase the speed of the metal-drawing dies, as well as the easy stripping from the dies of the work when stamped.

Among the drive actions provided in the preferred form it should be noted that the gab Zin the link L, Fig. 1, is on its rear side shorter than it is on the other, and that from said shorter gab side the link L extends rearward with a flat bottom Z This prolongation acts as a handling part for lifting the gab in and out of connection of the pin r and, second, when lifted to swing the connected work-levers R R manually and then to repose on the rollerpin 0' the said fiat Z and so idly to unhook the die-chuck and ink-carriage connections. On the reverse manipulation the long side of the gab l limits the endlong pull on link L. Then the gab alines its pin 1' and quick and certain rehooking occurs.

As to the preferred form, unless by specific limitations of certain following claims,we do not limit ourselves to the precise construction above shown. For example, the groove side 3 of cam s in the described case at every stroke effects the mutual meeting of die-chuck D and ink-carriage I. Now said side of cam 5 may be-in fact, by us in practice has beendone away with, and in place thereof cushion-springs s compressed by or through the activity of cam-groove side s, have been employed; but as such springs are substantially analogous in construction, location, and operation to the springs P P of the wiper-presser P they are not diagram matically figured and only mentioned to note that, if applied, they, like springs P P, tend to take up lost motion and keep the jointed parts, against which they react, tense, and therefore on release are more prompt to respond than if retraction is by a complete or closed groove of cam 3 Again, as indicated in Fig. 15, said springs P l? of presser P can be removed and in place of the open unilaterally-acting cam 0 have a closed-groove cam O productive of a to-andfro movement like cam 3 This of course is most readily done by forming said cam of one integral piece and sacrificing the adjustable range of said modified cams high extent.

Such a cam coupled to arm 0, with a roller and pin 0, similar to r r of arm R, affords a positive retractive as well as a positive advance action for the presser. Likewise, a closed-groove cam and its positive engaged pin can, if desired, be used in place of the peripheral open arrangement of cam N and cushioned rock-lever B of the stamp; but these changes (shown in side elevation in Fig. 16, and in Fig. 17 cross-sectioned on median line of Fig. 16,with the modified parts, as those also of Figs. 12 to 15, inclusive, and differentiated by as an ultimate exponent) need be indicated only and not further illustrated or described. If, however, the said modifications are made as to cams O and N and their equipment and otherwise the machine be as illustrated in the figures, it will then have no cushioning-springs and combine in positive enlinkment all parts connected with the main shaft S. Nevertheless, in this entire closed cam arrangement there is, paradoxical as it may seem, a less positive and prompt advance of the actions than in the cushion ed-spring arrangement aforesaid, due to lost motion at the moments of reversal.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination ofa movable die-chuck, as D, a die, as D, chucked therein, a fixed bed or beds for said chuck, a movable inkcarriage, as I, a relatively-fixed source'of ink, as 1 means 'for transferring ink from said source to said carrier, as roll 1 and means for concurrently moving said chuck and carriage toward and past each other and causing them to reverse and repass each other substantially as described.

2. The combination of a movable die-chuck having a guide part or parts also a bed-cont-actin g surface or surfaces, and, integral with or attached to said die-chuck, one member of a fine-adjusting device, as female cams o c a fixed bed or beds, as a a guides, 3.80/ a for said die-chuck; an action connecting with said die-chuck and operative, by way of said guides, to withdraw it from and to return it to said bed or beds, mechanical means whereby said die-chuck can be roughly located on said bed or beds; and the other and relativelyfixed member of said fine-adjusting device, consisting of self-acting cams, as 12 operative when said action has so roughly located said die-chuck, to impart a fine adjustment to andto hold in exact position of impression said die-chuck substantially as described.

3. The combination of a movable bed or platen, as D, carrying a die, as D, chucked therein, a movable inking device, means for moving said die-carrying platen and inking device toward and past each other, and cansing them to reverse and recross each other and means for presenting a different inkingsurface to the die on each movement of the inker.

4. The combination of a movable bed or platen, as D, carrying a die, as D, chucked therein, a movable carrier, as I, carrying inkin g-rollers, as '6 1 means for moving said diecarrying platen and roller-carriage toward and past each other and causing them to reverse and repass each other, and means for presenting one of said rollers to the die as the carriage moves in one direction, and the other roller to the die as the carriage moves in the reverse direction 5. The combinationof a movable die-chuck, as D, a movable ink-carrier, as 41 means for causing said die-chuck and ink-carrier to move.

concurrently toward and past each other, and to reverse and repass each other, the ink-carrier operating to reink the die on the reverse movement, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a movable die-chuck, as D, having a guide-engaging part or parts, a die, as D, a movable ink-carriage, as I, having a guide-engaging part or parts, parallel flanges projecting from the sides of the press forming systems of guides of which one system, as (t a is the directrix of said chuck and the other system, a d of said carriage, mechanical means to impart movements to said chuck and carriage along said guides, said guide systems, located at different levels, whereby said ink-carriage may travel over said die, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a movable die-chnck having a guide'engaging part or parts, a die, as D, a movable ink-carriage having a guideengaging part or parts, as I, parallel flanges on the sides of the press forming systems of guides of which onesystem is the directrix of said chuck and the other system of said carriage, mechanical means to impart reciprocal movements to and fro of said guides,

and said guide systems being located at different levels, whereby during each half of said reciprocal movements said ink-carriage may travel over and act on the face of said die.

8. Thecombination of a means of ink-supply, as trough-roll 1 a movable ink-carriage as I, a movable die-chuck, a die, as D, mechanical means for concurrently moving said ,die-chuck with said die grasped therein and said ink-carriage to and fro toward and past each other, a plurality of ink-carriers as t 2' attached to said carriage and operative when said die and carriage are passing each other to ink said die, the carrier 2' contacting with the die when the carriage I moves in one direction and the carrier t contacting with it on the reverse movement of the carriage, substantially as described.

9. The combination of a movable die-chuck, as D, an ink-carriage, as I, a housing or housings, as I I pivotally connected to said carriage, carrier-rollers as t t journaled therein, mechanical means for moving said diechuck and carriage to and fro past each other, a source of ink, as trough I and means for applying ink from said source to said carrierrollers, substantially as described.

10. The combination of a source of ink, as

trough 1 means of supplying ink therefrom, as roll 1 a movable die-chuck provided with a guide-engaging part or parts, also a cam or cams, as c1 d, a die, as D, grasped in said chuck, an ink-carriage provided with a guide part or parts, a system of guides for said chuck, a system of guides for said carriage, an ink carrier or carriers, as rollers i 6 provided with cam-engaging parts as rollers t' i i i a harness operative to suspend at certain depth from said carriage said ink carrier or carriers but on contact of cam-contacting part or parts with cams aforesaid to yield lift, and, on release of said cams and camengaging parts, to suffer the said rolls to contact with a dab-motion on the face of said die, substantially as described.

11. The combination in a press of the class indicated of a main actuating mechanism, a belt-shifting mechanism or equivalent means of starting and stopping said main actuating mechanism, an impressioirdie, as D, a stampdie, as D a movable ink-carriage having an ink-carrying part or parts as I, mechanical means for moving said carriage to and fro of said die and a source of ink-supply, and said source consisting of a receptacle, as inktrough 1", a body of ink or its equivalent therein, an ink-applier, as rollerliand means, as belt-pulley I for constantly running said applier independently of starting and stopping shifts of said main actuating mechanism, substantially as described.

12. The combination with a die movable in a determined path, a d ie-Wiper, as \V, a wiperpresser adapted to move only toward and from said die-path, and means for causing a varying dwell in the action of the presser.

13. The combination with a die movable in a defined path, as D, and means for inking the same, of a movable strip-wiper, as W, a holder therefor, as w, a transversely-movable presser, as P, mechanical means for intermittently actuating said wiper with a reciprocal movement of ad justably-variable amount as the slotted face-plate N clamp ing wrist-pin n pitman-rack N a, pawl carrying loose pinion N shaft W and ratchetwheel N fixed to said shaft, substantially as described.

14. The combination with a die moving in a determined path of a die-wiper, as W, a presser adapted to move only toward and from said die-path, mechanical means for so moving it in relation to the passage of said die along said path, and a composite cam, as 0, whereby said pressers location in its nearest range to said die-path may be of adjustably-variable length, substantially as described.

15. The combination with a die-chuck movable in a determined path, as D, a movable die-wiper, as W, a wiper-presser adapted to move only toward and from said die-chucks path, a main driving-shaft, as S, an action operatively connectingsaiddie-chuck and shaft, a counter-shaft, as N, an adjnstably-extensible member, as 0 0 0 operatively connected with said presser on one hand and on the other with said counter-shaft, and an adjustable cam on the counter-shaft for causing a variable dwell in the action of the presser, substantially as described.

16. The combination with a die movable in a determined path, a movable die-wiper, as W, a wiper-presser adapted to move only toward and from said die-path, a cam having an adjustably-extensible summit, as cam O,

mechanical means for operatively connecting said cam and presser, and synchronized mechanical means for moving intermittently, but during the act-ion of said eams summit, said wiper, substantially as described.

17. The combination with a die, as I), movable in a defined path, and means for inking the same, of a die-wiper, as \V, a movable die wiper presser, having a guide part or parts, a guide or guides therefor, said guides, as 12,1), being transverse to the path of said die, adjustable elastic abutments consisting of springs P P, bolsters p 1') and adjustingscrews p 1) their equivalents operative to form adjustable reactive elastic abutments whcreon said. presser may sit, and a jointed action operative on occasion of said dies passage to advance said presser against said abutments and to press said wiper on said die substantially as described.

18. The combination with a die, as D, movable in a defined path and means for inking the same of a movable strip-wiper, as \V, a holder therefor, as reel to, a diewiper presser, as P, a wiper feed-roll as W, a gripping roll or rolls as W VV a shaft therefor, as 10 shaft-bearings, as 10 w, movable in transverse alinement with said wiper feed-roll,an adjustable elastic abutment or abutments, as screws 10 w, followers u it, and springs a U9 whereby said shaft-bearings may be adjustably yet yieldingly pressed toward said wiper feed-roll, and mechanical means for drawing said feed-roll, substantially as described.

19. The combination with a die movable in a defined path and means for inking the same of a movable strip-wiper as W, an intermittently-actuated presser as cross-head P, movableonly transversely with respect to the path of the moving die, said pres'ser being provided with a cushioned foot-plate and a tense covering-pad, a wiper feed-roll, as W, a roll or rolls, as W VV operative to grip, the passing wiper thereon, and mechanical means for driving said feed-roll only while said presser is advanced, and pressing said pad-covered cushioned plate upon the die substantially as described.

20. The combination with a die, as D, and a die-table, as D of a movable cam or cams, as (Z or (1 (1 a movable vise-jaw, as d, to which said cam or cams is attached, and means, as the threaded lug, as cl, and corresponding threaded part, as d, of an operating-screw, as D, whereby said vise-jaw and ICC IIO

cam or cams can be approached to or removed from an abutment, as jaw 61 also an inkcarriage, as I, movable relatively and into passage with said die-table and an ink-carrier, as Z, said carrier being elastically cushioned on said carriage and provided with a part or parts as rolls 2 t" operative onengaging said cams to force back said cushion and on disengagement of said cam or cams to produce a dab-motion of said carrier on the face of said die, substantially as described.

21. The combination with a die, as D, a dietable as D having a guide part or parts, as (Z (Z of two movable cam members, as d 01 and (Z (Z respectively, said members having part or parts to engage slidinglythe guide parts aforesaid, mechanical means for concurrently and adjustably approaching and retreating as well as alternately thereto of holding in adjustment said cam members and consisting of right and left tapped parts, as lugs d 01 formed integral with said cam members, and right-and-left screws, as the threaded parts (Z (Z of screw D or said mechanisms equivalent, also an ink-carriage'as I movable relatively and into reciprocal passages with said die-table, and an ink-carrier as '6 said carrier being elastically cushioned on said carriage and provided with a part or parts, as rolls i 'i', operative on engaging said (331118130 force back its cushion and on disengagement of said cams to produce a dab-motion of said carrier on the leading margins of said die, substantially as described,

22. The combination with a die, as D, of movable die-chuck D having a table as D jaw-guide parts, as (Z d, die-gripping jaws d d guided thereby and carrying with them cams, as Z to (Z and a screw or screws operative to move and hold said jaws, also a movable ink-carriage, as I, said carriage be ing provided with a guide part or parts, guides therefor, means for reciprocating said die chuck and carriage to and fro past each other, an adjustable self -rctractive bottom harnessed to said carriage in the described elastically-yielding manner, roller-housings, as I I, pivotallyconnected thereto, ink-carriage rollers, as 2' 2' journaled therein and provided with parts, as rolls '0' t and t t for engaging on said cams, T-shaped twin rock-levers, as I I pivoted to said carriage, harnessed as described, and provided with cams I 1 relatively-fixed carriage members, as cross-pieces T T, provided with opposite pairs of separated cam-engaging counterparts, springs, as the described shanks of said T-levers, operative to yield to travel force of said carriage but otherwise to keep said lever and cross-piece cams in contact with one or other said separate pairs of cams, and opposite pairs -of terminal tappets operative on the travel of said carriage to collide with and rock said T-levers; the whole operative substantially as and for the purposes described.

23. In an embossing printing-machine, the combination of an ink-carriage, as I, a falsebottom plate, as I ,an adjustable central abutment, as T and a resilient harness consisting oftie-bolts, as t 25 cross-pieces T T, and springs, 'Lt Ll/ or their equivalents, operative to draw the margins of said false-bottom plate toward said carriage,substantially as described.

24. In an embossing printing-press the combination of a presser-block, as P, a cushion distance-piece, as p a line of springs, as 11 1)", a shoe-plate, as P adapted for sliding to and froas to the bottom of said block, a felt strip, as 93 at one end fixed to said block and thence passed as an outward bandage about said shoe-plate, and means, as the described windlass, for hauling and holdingsaid strip at its other end, the whole substantially as and for the purposes described.

25. In an embossing printing-press the combination of a presser-block as P, a forward cushion distance-piece, as p a rearward presser of adjustable intensity,as springsp", follower-disks p and screws 29 or their equivalents, a shoe-plate as Pj adapted to engage slidingly to and fro as to the bottom of said block, and a felt strip, as p stretched about said plate as a wiper contact-surface, the whole substantially as and for the purposes described.

26. In an embossingpiintingpi'ess the combination with an adjustably and intermit tently rotated wiper-feed mechanism of a waste wiper-reel, as W, a rotary mandrel, as M means for removably uniting said mandrel and reel, as set-screw-provided coupling to, an adjustable rotary friction, consisting of an adjustably-fixable clamping-plate, as M washers, as m", and a combined rotatively mounted drive part and endwise-collared abutment, as M, and increasing-speed-transmitting mechanism operatively connectingsaid frictions drive part M with said a'djustably and intermittently rotated wiperfeed mechanism, substantially as described.

27. In an embossing-machine of the class indicated the combination with a die-bearing bed or beds, as a c of a transversely-movable die-engaging cross-head, as B, guides therefor, as B B, apitman or ram positively engaging said head and a working beam as B said beam, an axle therefor as shaft I2 cylindrically apertured and alined pillowblocks, as Q22 (0 eccentrically-bored axleliners, as O C, said liners being adapted to be rotatively movable in said pillow-apertures, and cranks c 0 whereby a manual shifter, consisting of links, as 0 rock-arms, as c ,and operating-handle 0 or their equivalents may be operatively engaged, the whole operative substantially as described.

28. In an embossing-press of the class indicated the combination with a movable stampdie cross-head,as B ,of relatively-fixed guides, as B B, a transversely-sliding impression-die chuck, as D, fixed die-beds, as a a therefor, means for reciprocating said chuck to and fro from said beds, a walking-beam, as B ram-pitman pivotally connecting said beam and said cross-head, a pivoted beam -end roller, as b, an open actuating-cam, as N operating to bear on said roller and thereby to rock said beam in advance and retractive springs as C C operatively connecting said cross head and parts connected with said guides substantially as described.

29. The combination with a cam, as having a groove side 8 of a drag-link, as L, operatively connected therewith, a movable diechuck, as D, and a movable ink-carriage, as I, said chuck and carriage being adapted to travel and pass as described, guides as on a and a a controlling said travel, a transmitting mechanism operatively connecting said die-chuck and link, a transmitting mechan' ism containing a change-of-motion lever, as II or its equivalent, operatively connecting said ink-carriage and link, and means, as described, for retracting said link after passage of said cam side 8 whereby said die-chuck and ink-carriage are advanced, passed, reversed, retreated, repassed and made to repeat said acts substantially as described.

30. The combination with a drive-shaft, as N, of open cam 0, open cam N and slotted face-plate N also a die-wiper presser movable in a determined path, as P, a die-holding head movable in a predetermined path, as 13*, a rotative die-wiper-feed mechanism consisting of a roll, as WV, and gripping-rolls, as W W or their equivalents, jointed mechanism positively connecting said cam O with said presser for advance, jointed mechanism positively connecting said cam N with said die holding head B for advance, and mechanism productive of an intermittent rotatory motion operatively connecting any desired point in the slot, as n, of said face-plate, with said rotative die-Wiper-feed mechanism, springs as c c and P P respectively operative to react after the advance of said cam-driven die-holding head and presser, and thereby to retreat the same; the whole interacting substantially as described.

31. The combination with a frame as A and housings as A A of a main drive-pinion, as S, oppositely-rotating equal spur-gears, as N and s shafts, as N and S driven respectively by said spurs and carrying, the one s the cam s with its enlinkment as desired operative reciprocally to travel a die-chuck, as D, as well as reciprocally to travel an inkcarriage, as I, said chuck and carriage adapted to move along guides, as a a and a a said guides; and the other (shaft N) carrying a cam as O, a cam, as N and a slotted faceplate as N their connected mechanisms operative to advance as described the presser P, the die-holding cross-head B and to drive the die-wiper-feed and used wiper-reel mechanism with ratchet motions as described said presser cross-head wiper-feed and used wiper, and means for retracting said presser and cross-head, substantially as described.

32. The combination of a movable bed or platen, as D, carrying a die, as D, chucked therein, an 1nkroller, as 1 a movable carrier, as I, carrying die-inking rollers, as 2' 1', guides in which said carriage is reciprocated toward and from the roller 1 means for concurrently moving the die-carryin g platen and the inking-roller carriage so that they approach and pass each other and are then reversed and repass each other, and means for varying the positions of the rollers 2' 11 at opposite ends of the traverse of the carriage so as to present one of the rollers to the die as the carriage approaches it from one direction, and to present the other roller to the die as the carriage moves in the opposite direction.

WILLIAM FULLARD. CYRUS HAWKINS. Witnesses:

CHAS. F. MYERS, D. STEWART.