| Description | 23. Mint Machinery. Circa 1853-1854, 1863, 1870-1873, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1890, 1893. 42 items. Coining presses, parts of presses, moulds, counting machines, milling machines, mint machinery etc. for various customers.
Sydney Mint, Australia: Elevation and plan of the rolling mill and coining presses - tracing marked "Taylor & Allen", not dated [circa 1853-1854]. Milling machine - tracing marked "by Taylor & Allen", not dated [circa 1853-1854].
Lima Mint, Peru: Frame for holding moulds - coloured tracing, Sep. 1863. Weighing and sorting tables - coloured reverse drawing, Aug. 1871. Trucks for strips and blanks - partially coloured reverse drawing, Dec. 1871. Plan showing general arrangement of rolling mill, floor plates, shafting etc. -coloured tracing, Feb. 1872. Details of side rods for coining press - coloured tracing, May 1872.
Japan Mint: Punches and beds for cutting out press - partially coloured reverse drawing, Jan. 1870. Longitudinal and transverse sections of engines and rolling mill - 2 partially coloured tracings, Jun. ? [date and letter code torn away].
Brown Shipley & Co.: Filling table for counting machine - coloured tracing, May 1873.
Siam Mint: Silver pouring machine - partially coloured tracing, Jan. 1875. Carriage for ingot moulds - partially coloured tracing marked "Lima Mint patterns to be brought in", Jan. 1875. Front bars for carriage for ingot moulds - partially coloured tracing, Feb. 1875.
R. R. Symon & Co., Culiacan, Mexico: End of lever - tracing, Mar. 1879.
Zacatecas Mint, Mexico: Details of spur mortice wheel and pinion - partially coloured tracing, Sep. 1880. Section of foundations - copy on blueprint paper, Oct. 1880. Milling machine - partially coloured tracing, Nov. 1880. Details of shaft etc. for milling machine - copy on blueprint paper, Nov. 1880. Adjustable disc for feed gear of cutting out press - copy on blueprint paper, Dec. 1880.
Mexican Mint (de Gress' Order): Lever coining press for coining Mexican nickel coins for Francis de Gress - copy on blueprint paper, May 1882. Details of coining press - tracing and copy on blueprint paper, Jun. 1882. Sketch of steel lever - copy on blueprint paper, Jun. 1882. Details of counting machine - partially coloured tracing, Jul. 1882.
James Watt & Co., Soho Foundry (standard drawing): Details of tools for making small crucibles - copy on blueprint paper, Oct. 1882.
Bengal (Calcutta) Mint, India: Set of rupee ingot moulds - tracing (2 copies), Nov. 1890.
Miscellaneous: Unidentified parts of coining presses [lever ends?], as made for various customers - 2 tracings, not dated. Memorandum of sizes and content of silver melting pots for various customers - not dated. Memorandum of rough weights of coining presses for De Gress, Lima Mint and Zacatecas Mint - not dated. Details of self feeding apparatus for a milling machine - partially coloured tracing, not dated. Section of a coining press [?] - not dated. Sections of a coining press - pencil drawing, not dated. Small drawing of a hydraulic press, not dated. Bottom die dish for lever coining press as used in the United States Mint, Philadelphia - pencil drawing, not dated. Two card templates of levers. ? [parts of a coining press?] - tracing, not dated. ? [feeding tables?] - 2 tracings, not dated. |