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Description

(No Model.)

D. P. HULBERT.

BMBOSSI-NG PHOTOGRAPHS.

No. 589,260. Patented Aug. '31, 1897.

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DURAN F. IIULBERT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO T HE HULBERT BAS RELIEF COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

EIVI-BOSSING PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,260, dated August 31, 1897.

Application filed April Z6, 1897. Serial No. 634,03 (No model.) l

novel methods or processes hereinafter` illustrated, described, and claimed, and ofthe novel construction,co1nbination,and arrangement of parts hereinafter shown, described, v

and claimed.

The figure is a vertical sectional View through an ordinary letter-press, together with the male and female embossing forms or dies, the frame or chase, the male and fezo male patterns, and the photographic print, all

arrangedgas required to carry out the principles of my invention.

Referring by numerals to the drawing, l is the bed of the letter-press; 2, the female embossing form or die; 3, the frame or chase; 4, the female pattern; 5, the photographic print; 6, the male pattern; 7, the male embossing form or die; 8, the platen of the press, and 9 the screw for operating the platen.

3o In carrying out the principles of my invention I take a malleable-metal plate-such as asheet of lead, or an alloy of lead and tin, or a sheet of any similar malleable material, cut to the desired size and shape-and I paste a 5 5 photographic print upon said malleable-metalv plate, or I sensitize said malleable-metal plate and photograph a picture thereon, or I print a picture on said malleable plate from a printing-form, or I draw or paint a picture or de- 4o sign upon said malleable-metal plate. Then I clamp the edges of said malleable-metal plate in the open frame 3, as required, to hold said edges firmly. Then I take embossing-tools and press upwardly from below or downwardly from above, as required, to emboss the picture as desired, and thus I produce the female pattern 4. I then ll the space within the frame and above the pattern with plaster-of-paris or othersuitable plastic 5o material, which will hardenwhen cold or dry, and thus I make the female embossing form or die 2. After the female die or form has become sufficiently hardened, I turn the frame bottom upward and open it up and place a second malleable-metal plate upon the pattern 4 and depress portions of said second plate into the indentations of the pattern 4, thus forming the male pattern G, which exactly matches the female pattern 4. I then fill the space above the pattern 6 and within 6o the frame with plaster-of-paris or other suitable plastic material which will harden when cold or dry, and thus I make the male em.- bossing form or die 7. The patterns 4 and 6 may or may notI be removed. I prefer not to remove them, as theyform a substantial face for the forms 0r dies, making the dies resemble electrotype-plates. I then open the frame on its hinges, place a copy of the picture or fdesign'which I used in making the pattern 4 7o in position above the form 2, then close the forms, then place the frame upon the bed of the press and depress the platen, thus pressing the forms tightly together and embossing` the copy. After the copies have been embossed the depressions upon the backs of the copies maybe filled with anysuitable plastic material which will harden when cold or dry, or said copies may be stiffened by applying 8o coats of shellac, or in any suitable way, as desired, or the copies may be made or pasted upon sheets of stiff paper or cardboard, or upon a malleable-metal mount before being embossed, or they may be pasted upon a suitable mount after having been embossed.

The frame 3 may be removed from the forms 2 and 7, and said forms may be locked in chases and placed upon an embossing-press and operated in the usual way, said forms be- 9o ing in effect embossing-dies, which embossing-dies may be used in the ordinary way of embossing.

I claim-- I I. The improvement in the art of embossing, which consists of taking a malleablemetal plate having a pic-ture" or design upon one of its sides, embossing said picture or design with embossing-tools and thus producing a pattern, placing plastic material against one side of said pattern and allowing said material to harden thus producing a form or IOO die, placing a second malleable-metal plate against the irst plate and pressing said plate firmlyinto the indentations of the first plate thus producing a second pattern, placing plastic material against one side of said second pattern and allowing said material to harden thus. producing a second form or die, placing the copy to be embossed between said forms or dies and pressing said forms firmly together, substantially as specified.

2. In an apparatus or device for embossing photographs and the like, an embossing die o1' form consisting of a malleable-metal plate having a picture or design upon one of its sides, said plate being embossed to form a pattern, said pattern being outlined or indicated by said picture or design and said plate being backed by a mass of hardened plastic material, and an embossing die or form consisting of a malleablemetal plate adapted to be pressed rrnly against the first-mentioned malleable-metal plate and backed by a mass of hardened plastic material, substantially as specilied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DURAN F. I-IULBERT. litnessesz S. G. WELLS, EDWARD E. LONGAN.

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