Patent GB-191030237-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Simultaneously Writing a Plurality of Signatures or Inscriptions.
Inventor: MILLS CLAUDE KENNEDY
IPC: B43L13/12
Filed: 1910-12-29
Granted: 1911-06-29
Abstract: 30,237. Mills, C. K., [Signature Co.]. Dec. 29. Manifold writing-machines.-Relates to machines of the kind described in Specification 28,343/06, for writing a number of signatures upon a number of checks, stocks, or other documents in a single operation, and comprises a bed or table on which the documents are laid and a carriage supporting a number of pens provided with a monitor controlling-handle and connected with the bed by pantographic links; and consists in improved means for controlling the pens and for moving the documents into and out of writing position, in means for holding the documents against displacement during the writing operation, and in means for supporting them while the written matter dries. The end frames 10 of the pen carriage are supported anti-frictionally on side plates 4 of the table 5, to permit transverse and longitudinal movements, by means of rolls 20 bearing upon track bars 23 and other rolls 15 bearing upon plates 16<a> fixed in the ends of openings 16 in the side plates, and are connected thereto by the parallel links 30, 31, 32, 33, the links 32, 33 pivoting on the plates 4 at 34 and 35. Journal brackets 40 are adjustably secured to the main carriage bars 11 and carry the pensupporting rock-shafts 41, each of which is provided with a dependent rock arm 50 pivotally connected at 51 to a link 52 which ensures simultaneous movements of all the rock-shafts. The rock-shaft nearest one side of the machine is provided with an adjustable arm 55 connected by a toggle 57, 58 to a post 59 rigidly secured to a carriage bar 11, and the toggle is connected by a link 70 to a pivoted controlling- lever 67 forked at its other end 79 to engage a plate 78 on a sliding pin 77, to which is pivoted at 82 the monitor handle 80. By depressing this, as shown in Fig. 5, all the pens are brought down into writing position, and, if the arrangement is such that the toggles straightens, the pens are locked in this position. An adjustable screw 85 is provided to limit the motion of the lever 67 when this effect is not desired, and a second adjustable screw 90 is adapted to limit the movement of the writing members awav from the bed. The sheets ot documents, fed on to the end 6 of the table between the guides 105, 106, are carried along into position for writing by fingers 111 on endless chains 112 moving along slots 110 in the bed 5 and operated by a handle 119 geared to the sprocket-wheels 113. Displacement of the documents during writing is prevented by a series of spring strips 135 carried by, and adjustable transversely upon, a bar 132, which is pivoted at both ends to parallel links 131 mounted adjustably on the bed. When the chains are operated to bring another series of documents into position for writing, the series just written upon is moved by the chains under the spring fingers 126, round the curved strips 125<a> and on to the strips or bars 125 under the table of the machine, and is thus allowed to dry during the next writing operation before being deposited in a drawer arranged under the part 6 of the table.