Patent GB-190614136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Addressing Machines.
Inventor: OWENS CHARLES
Filed: 1906-06-20
Granted: 1907-05-09
Abstract: 14,136. Owens, C., and Montague, D. P. June 20. Addressing-machines ; feeding sheets. -Relates to stencil addressing-machines in which'the marking- apparatus is normally at rest but thrown into operation by the advancing magazine &c. The magazines are conveyed to the marking-apparatus by a belt 1 passing between a pressure roller 3 with spring stops 64<1>, and a drum 5 which carries the stencils, Fig. 1. The. machine is driven by means of a shaft 7 carrying a wheel 8 which meshes with a gear-wheel 9 on the drum 10, turning freely on the hub of the disk 11 keyed on the shaft 12, which shaft carries a pinion 12<1> meshing with an internal gear 12<11> on the drum 5, Fig. 7. The drum 10 is provided with a spring pin 13 normally held out of engagement with the disk 11 by a lever 16. As the paper &c. advances, it is turned over by a " reverser " 17 on a shaft 19, oscillated through 180 degrees by a link 18, and in turning engages a trip arm 20, by means of which the lever 16 is disengaged from the pin 13 and the drum 5 caused to rotate. After having. been withdrawn from the pin 13, the lever 16 is retained in that position during a revolution of the shaft 12 by a pin therein riding on a ring 16<1>. The drum 3 is driven from the drum 5 by intermittent gearing. The advancing magazines on the belt 1 are momentarily arrested by segments 2 on the shaft 19. The drum 5 is formed with two ribs 24, provided with four equally-spaced recesses 25 for receiving a stencil from the bottom of the magazine 6. The stencil is retained in position by a curved guide 35 and by being, held by stationary fingers 26 and fingers 27 secured to an abutment 30 on a transversely-sliding frame 28 actuated by a cam 33. The removal of the stencils from the drum after use is assisted by cords 36, which encircle the drum 5 and pulleys 38 and drop the stencils on to a belt 39, the latter belt then depositing them in a trough 45, where they are stacked against a block 42 by an eccentric 43 and a fluted india-rubber roller 42<1>. In order to deliver the addressed articles in batches according to districts, there are disposed among the stencils in the magazine 6 others having in one end thereof recesses adapted to receive the abutment 30 on the frame 28. This causes the frame to project at the opposite side and an abutment 31 thereon to engage a trip arm 47 and actuate through a crank 47<1> and a link 47<11> a lever 49 to release a clutch pin, adapted to couple a disk 51, Fig. 7, to the drnm 10. The disk 51 thus actuated makes a semirevolution, and operates by means of a rod 52 and gearing 53 a distributing-shoot 55, Fig. 10, capable of delivering into either of two receptacles A, B. When the drum fails to take a stencil, the abutment 31 projects to a greater extent and engages an electric switch 81, thereby stopping the driving- motor. The ink-pads comprise a box 57 in which is a perforated reservoir 60; surrounded by felt secured by a block 62, The reservoir is secured in the box by screws 64. As the ink pads pass the impression point, they are projected radially against the stencil by a roller 59. In a modification, inking-rollers, fed from a continuously rotating duct roller and pressed outward to make an impression by a roller on a radial arm, are employed instead of the pads above described.