Patent GB-191021485-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Paper Cutting, Laying, or like Machines.
Inventor: VICKERY FREDERICK WILLIAM
IPC: B65H29/22
Filed: 1910-09-15
Granted: 1911-10-16
Abstract: 21,485. Vickery, F. W. Sept. 15. [Cognate Application, 27,054/10.] Delivery apparatus.-A machine for delivering sheets from cutting and like machines of the kind described in Specification 17,257/06 in which the sheets are delivered by bands and rollers, and the edges of the sheets are curled by wedges to cause them to be delivered correctly on to tables fitted with side gauges, is constructed so that the delivery bands, rollers, wedges, and side gauges are all carried by a common support so that they can be laterally adjusted, or removed, bodily. As shown in Fig. 2, the sheets are forwarded by a belt 38 and by a positively-driven roller 10 coacting with a pressure-wheel 3, on the shaft of which is fitted a band 1, which coacts with wedges 27 to curl the edges of the sheets. The wedges 27 are carried by extensions 25 on brackets 21, which carry side gauges 22 so arranged by pins 24 and slots 23 as to be capable of rising and falling movements. The brackets 21 are carried by a rod 19 supported in a lug 15 connected by a jaw 16 and screw 17 to a transverse tube 12 carried by brackets 13. One tube 12 supports a number of bars 19 arranged at the proper distance apart to suit the width of the sheet. Each bar 19 also supports a bracket 28<a>, which embraces an arm 30, serving to steady the arm 19. The bracket 28<a> has pivoted to it an arm 4 which carries the pressure wheel 3, the movement of the arm 4 being limited by a forked-end 32 and stop 33. To the axle of wheel 3 is pivoted an arm 34 which carries a pulley 7 over which the band 1 passes, the band also passing over a pulley 35 fixed to the axle of the wheel 3. The movement of the arm 34 is limited by a screw 37 engaging a lug 36 on the arm 34 and resting on the arm 4. The bracket 15 is fitted with a handle 39, by means of which all the parts described above as being supported by the bar 19 may be adjusted laterally or removed from the machine. The wheel 3 may be fitted with a rubber tyre arranged at a slightly lower level than the wheel 35, or the wheel 3 may be provided with a V- or D-groove over which a band, acting similarly to a tyre, passes to the pulley 7, and replaces the band 1. The wheels 3 may be inclined to the vertical to prevent creasing of the paper, or the brackets 15 may be so arranged as to swivel in such a manner as to incline the wheels 3 to the vertical. In a modification, the bar 19 is arranged to support two sets of rollers 3 and bands 1, which co-operate with a wedge 27 arranged between them, so that one wedge may curl the adjacent edges of two sheets moving side by side. The distance of the bands 1 and wheels 3 from the wedge is adjustable. As shown in Fig. 6, the arm 34 may be fitted with wheels 45 driven by a band 1 from the wheels 3; or a series of rollers driven from the roll 10 may be used in place of the table 2, the band 1 being also dispensed with, and a guiding or smoothing device carried on the arm 34. To prevent the apparatus from being choked by torn paper, the table 2, Fig. 10, may be arranged to be raised by a lever 52 and link 51 so as to direct the paper out of the path of roller 10 and wheel 3. The arms 4 may be acted on by springs which may be adjustable.