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United States Patent Office.

JOHN SCHAFFER AND EDWARD SPENCER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HAND PRINTING-PRESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,166, dated January 14, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, John Schaffer and Edward Spencer, of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Hand Stamping-Press; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which—

Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, thereof.

The object of our invention is to print the usual stamp on the back of railroad tickets or coupons with the face of the ticket turned upward, and at the same time make a row of perforations between the tickets when a number of them are printed togetheron one strip of paper, so that the conductor may the more readily detach them, and to otherwise improve the hand stamping-press.

The following description of our invention will enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Similar letters of reference represent corresponding parts of the different figures of the drawings annexed..

The ram in the top of which the form, is placed or made is represented in the drawings by A. It is fixed in a suitable frame in a vertical position, and is operated by the lever B, which forces it up by the application of power to the upper end of the rod C, and which draws it down to its represented position by the action of the spring D, secured to it and the frame in the manner shown. The stamp having been thus made and arranged and its operation provided for, the inking-roller E is now made and placed over the form in the relation shown and on a vibrating axis, about which it freely revolves. The axis of the said roller consists of the upper end of the vibrating rod F, bent at right angles with its axis, so as to make the roller lay horizontally over the forrnr, the axis of the rod being parallel with the side of the frame, to which its lower end is pivoted. Now when the ram moves up the form strikes the roller, which, lying behind its center of vibration, rolls forward over the form and against the distributingroller G, its axis traveling through the slot-H, cut in the side of the frame for that purpose. On the end of the inking-roller a flange a is made, which as the roller moves forward travels on the edge of the ram at the side of the form and keeps the roller from striking its front edge, preventing the roller from being injured by the contact and the ink from running down the side of the ram and gumming it so as to interfere with its operation. The inking-roller after having been pressed forward to ink the form and receive a fresh supply from the distributing-roller G is brought back to its represented position by the action of the spring I, the one end of which is fixed to the vibrating rod F and the other to the frame, as shown.

The distributing-roller is located in the inkbox J. It is made to revolve by attaching it to the vibrating rod F by means of a lever or otherwise. There is no lever shown in the drawings, as it is unimportant how the attachment is made. A supply-spoon Kis put in the ink-box to throw the ink against the roller.

The working parts of the press having been thus prepared, the perforating attachment is now made and applied. It consists of a thin plate L with a pointed upper edge. It is located against the outside of the frame, (on the reverse side from the lever F,) so as to be close enough to the form to perforate the ticket in the proper place. Itis fixed in suitable guides, and is pressed upward by a shoulder M, made on the side of the ram, and which works in a slot N, made in the side of the frame, the ram having more motion than the perforator. The slot is made long enough for the shoulder to descend with the ram after it has left the perforator, which is brought down to its represented position by the action of a spring S, one end of which is fixed to a tappet 0 in the frame and the other to the cleat P, attached to the perforating-knife. The working parts of the machine being thus complete, the stamping and perforating bed Q is made and located over the top of the form and perforator and attached to a part of the frame projecting forward for that purpose. This bed is faced with some soft material—such as velvet and the like—for the stamp to act· against and to keep the card or ticket from being- bruised or cut.

A guide-plate R is fixed under the face of the stamping-bed to hold the ticket up against

34,166 it while the operator draws it through with one hand and stamps it with the other. The said guide-piece is cutout in tlie center to let the form up against the ticket or card.

The press-bed is sb made' and arranged that its edge furnishes a guide by which to regulate the position of the ticket when stamped and perforated.