Patent GB-383572-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in laundry tabbing machines
IPC: D06H1/04
Filed: 1932-06-08
Abstract: 383,572. Machines for attaching labels. NATIONAL MARKING MACHINE CO., Ltd., 34, Clifton Road, Harlesden, London.-(Assignees of Griesinger, J. ; 615, Redfield Avenue, Los Angeles, U.S.A.) June 8, 1932, No. 16233. Convention date, June 8, 1931. [Class 112.] A machine for of pliable material affixing tabs to laundry articles comprises means for feeding a strip of tabs and for severing the end tab which is affixed by passing a short length of thread through the article and a pair of holes in the tab, the ends of the thread being secured by bending in the side edges and rear end of the tab; the machine is driven through a clutch which is thrown into operation manually and is automatically disengaged after each affixing operation, and means are provided for printing identification marks on the tabs. Figs. 2 and 3 are end views, and Fig. 1 a side view of the machine which comprises upper and lower shafts 52, 53, Fig. 1, driven from a motor through reduction gear and clutch mechanism consisting of a detent engaging an internally-wound drum 61 and provided with a spring-influenced arm 62 adapted to engage the teeth of a stop disc 65 to throw the detent out of engagement. The stop disc 65 can be moved by a hand-lever 69 to allow the arm 62 to pass through a gap between the teeth, this movement effecting the drive of the shafts 52, 53 through one cycle, at the end of which the arm 62 engages the next tooth of the stop disc which has been moved in the interval by a cam 64 on a pinion 58. The strip of tags 76 is fed by a finger 102, Fig. 22, carried by a frame 100 and reciprocated by a cam 97. As the strip passes through the machine the side edges 78 of the tags are bent up by means of a cam-actuated block 85, Fig. 38, having arms 86 which co-operates with a cam-actuated bar 89 ; the side edges 78 are engaged by the feeding-finger 102. The end tag is severed by cam-actuated shearing means and the thread is inserted by reciprocating crochet needles 146, Fig. 2, which pass through holes in a guide 188, Fig. 22, the tag and article to which it is affixed being held firmly during this operation by means of a cam-actuated presser 104. The thread is led from a spool 150, Fig. 2, past a tensioning- device 151 and threader 176, by means of a rotating arm 161 having on its end a gripper actuated by fixed cams 171, 172. The thread is severed by a cutter 153 the ends, after being drawn by the needles 146 through the tag, during which operation the middle underpart of the thread is held by a spring member, are secured by folding the sides and end of the tag. The ends of the thread are laid along the tag by the feeding forward of the strip, and the side edges of the tag are folded by means of pivoted members 143, Fig. 21, which are provided with cam slots 144 engaged by pins 145 in a camactuated, reciprocating frame 140. The rear end of the tab is turned upwardly by a camactuated folder bar immediately after the tab is severed from the strip, and is subsequently folded over the inturned side edges by a reciprocating slide bar the curved end of which is pivoted. Indentification marks are stamped on the tags by means of dies carried by pivoted, cam-actuated replaceable members 127, Fig. 1 operated by cams on the upper shaft.