Patent GB-190724197-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for the Automatic Distribution of Telegraphic Messages.
Inventor: LEMOINE ALPHONSE
Filed: 1907-11-01
Granted: 1909-02-01
Abstract: 24,197. Lemoine, A. Nov. 1. Feeding sheets ; folding paper.-Relates to the apparatus described in Specification No. 2762, A.D. 1907, for preparing telegrams for delivery, and includes improvements in the feeding and folding devices. Figs. 4 and 8 show the feeding- mechanism. The telegrams are arranged on a table 2 and beneath a weighted plate 3 ; a gap in the table 2 presents the bottom sheet to a roller 6, and a plate 4 supports the free edge of the sheets. The roller 6 is carried by cranks 9 on a spindle 10, and normally rests under gravity in the position shown in Fig. 8. A rotating sector 43 carries an arm 8 provided with teeth which engage teeth carried by a pinion 7 on the spindle 10 and turn the latter through half a revolution ; gravity completes the revolution. The rotating roller 6 frees the bottom sheet from the plate 4, and the sheet then rests on a continually-rotating feed-roller 12. A tappet 21 on the sector 43 then rocks a lever 19 about its spindle 27 and thus presses a roller 17, carried on the end of the lever 19, on to the roller 12 ; the sheet is thereby fed to the cutting and stamping rollers 35, 36. A tappet 23 on the cam 43 strikes a tappet 24 on a spindle 28 geared to the spindle 27 and returns the lever 19. The folding-mechanism is shown by Figs. 4, 8, and 12. The sheet is folded in three parallel lines by vertically-reciprocating plates 66, 67, 68, and then in a line at right-angles to the other folds by hinged shutters 110. The plates 66, 67, 68 are reciprocated by tappets on a horizontally-reciprocating rod actuated by a cam on the spindle of the roller 35. The rollers 35, 36 feed the sheet along a guide 78 to the plate 66, which starts the fold and presses the sheet between rollers 73 ; these rollers feed it along a guide 79 to receive the next fold, after which it is fed to receive the third fold in a similar manner. The fourth fold is made in the manner described in the prior Specification, but the method of operating the shutters 110 is different. A cam 89 on the sector 43, Fig. 8, rocks a lever 90 connected to a bent lever 94 on a spindle 95 by a rod 92, thereby rocking a lever 99 carried by the spindle 95, Figs. 4 and 8. A bar 102 reciprocated by the lever 99 is hinged to two bars 108 connected to the shutters 110 and serves to open and close the latter. The shutter hinges 116 are carried by a carriage 113 slidable in guides 117 ; an adjustable stop 114 limits the travel of the carriage, which moves to allow the thrice - folded sheet to fall in front of the opened shutters. When the shutters are open, a fixed nose projects between arms 112, Fig. 12, carried by the hinges, and prevents the shutters from closing until the carriage 113 is drawn to its extreme forward limit. The hooked edges of the shutters for holding the sheet in position, described in the prior Specification, are replaced by a semicircular guide 122, in which the shutters work. Apertures 111 in the shutters allow the meeting edges of the sheet to be sealed by an adhesive label as described in the prior Specification.