Patent GB-190225645-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Inserting Address Forms such as Stencils and the like in Bands or Strips for use in Addressing Machines
Inventor: RICHARDS GEORGE LIVINGSTON
Filed: 1902-11-21
Granted: 1903-02-12
Abstract: 25,645. Lake, H. H., [Richards, G. L.]. Nov. 21. Addressing-machines.-Relates to address-printing formes secured one to another to form a long band or strip, and consists of a machine for use in removing any forme, and replacing it with another, or securing the ends after the removal. The formes consist of flexible rectangular cardboard or like frames, having a thin stencil sheet secured over the opening in the frame. Fig. 1 shows a sectional side elevation of the machine, and Fig. 5 part of a vertical section on the line 5-5, Fig. 1. The strip of formes may be on a reel 21 in standards 20 on the table 8, and is passed round a roller 22, over a guide 26 and over other guides and a roller 17 to a winding-reel 14. The reel 14 may be rotated by a band 20 and pulleys from a shaft 18 having a crank-handle. The strip is moved until the line on which it has to be cut transversely is under a pivoted cutter 34, which is operated to cut the strip by a handle 35. The strip is then moved and cut at the other side of the forme to be removed. The forme or card to be inserted is placed on the guide, and is then fed into position to be attached, by adhesive strips of tape, to one end of the severed strip, by a reciprocating feedplate operated by a lever handle &c. This card a<1> is shown in Fig. 5 on the guide 30, which is slotted for the passage of the feed-slide. The end of the strip and the new forme are attached by a strip cut from the adhesive tape C<1> and folded round their adjacent edges. In the table 8 is a transverse opening on each side of which are frame members 58 connected at their ends by frames 59. In the frames 58 are shafts 60 on which are journalled arms or frames 61 connected to each other by arms 63 and springs 62. In the frames 61 are shafts 64 on which are pivoted pairs of folders 65, 66, having arms 65<1>, 66<1> connected by rods 71, 72 to levers 69 pivoted on the shafts 60. On the extensions 70 of the levers 69 are fixed arms 73, 74 connected by rods 77, 78 to a treadle 9 raised by a spring 11. When the treadle is depressed, the folders are moved inwards to the edges of the formes a<1>, until the frames 61 are stopped by the parts 68 engaging the upper edges 58<1> of the frames 58. The further movement of the levers 69 then operates the folders to cut off pieces of the adhesive tapes C', and fold them round the edges of the formes. The pieces of tape are cut off by cutters 67 on the lower folders 65, co-operating with fixed cutters 41, 42. The tapes C' pass from spools 81 through guide-tubes 86 carried by plates 85 attached to arms 84 of rock-shafts 82, and these shafts are rocked by connections with the arms 63, so as to move the strips up to the edges of the formes a' before the folders operate. Paste boxes 87 on the guides 86 apply the adhesive to the tapes C'. After the folders have operated, the tapes C' are fed up for the next operation by means of two pairs of grippers 108. Each pair of grippers 108 is carried by the upper end of a plate 99 having a reciprocating and a rocking movement in a frame or bracket carried by one of the rock-shafts 82. On the plates 99 are pivoted forks 105 provided with grooved rollers engaging slots 75, 76 in the arms 73, 74. The movement of the plates 99 is such that the grippers are moved downwards and in towards the strip, so as to embrace the guides 86, and are then moved vertically upwards, and nip and feed up the tapes. The pivoted jaws of the grippers are opened bv springs and are closed to grip the strip by cam-plates 94 engaging rollers on the jaws. The other side of the new forme is then attached to the severed end of the other part of the strip in the same way.