Patent GB-270821-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to web-feeding and renewing mechanism for printing presses
IPC: B65H19/18
Filed: 1926-02-16
Abstract: 270,821. Marks, E. C. R., (Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation). Feb. 16, 1926. Feeding webs.-In a web-renewing apparatus for a printing-press the running web is attached to a new roll rotating at web speed in close proximity thereto by a pressing device adapted to deflect the web out of its normal path. The running and new rolls may be mounted on a frame rotatable to bring the rolls successively into engagement with a feeding belt, and the motion of the pressing device may be timed by the bodily and rotational movements of the new roll. After the join is effected, the old web is severed and the new roll brought into the running position. Fig. 2 shows the general arrangement of the apparatus in normal position and Fig. 5 shows the position of the parts while the joining of the webs is being effected. The running roll A, the reserve roll B, and a third roll Care mounted on a rotatable support 58 and the web is fed to the press by belts 53 engaging the roll A and by a driver roller 52, the web passing round a spring-mounted idle roller 51. Thus, as the web is unwound it gradually approaches the surface of the roll B. Arranged above the roll B are endless tapes 56 driven at the speed of the press and, when a new web is joined to an expiring web, they are lowered into engagement with the new roll to bring it to the speed of the web W. At the same time a brush 54 or other suitable member is lowered and the support 58 rotated to bring the web and the new roll closely adjacent to each other, and the brush is then turned upon a pivot to press the web into contact with the roll to effect the join. A knife is then actuated to cut the web W at one edge and a brake is simultaneously applied to the spindle of the roll A so as to break the partly severed web. The support 58 is then further turned to bring the roll B into the position previously occupied by the roll A. The belts 53 are driven by a chain 62, Fig. 9, from the shaft of the feed roller 52 and the tapes 56 by a chain 64. These tapes are carried by arms 70 pivoted on a shaft 66 so that they can fall into the operative position when desired but are normally held in the position shown by slotted links 74 engaging rods 76 on the arms 70 and pivoted to arms 73 on a rock-shaft 72 operable by a handle 15. The shaft 72 is also provided with an arm 78 connected by a link 79 to an arm 80 loose upon a shaft 81 and provided with a pawl 82 engaging a tooth 83 on a disc fixed to the shaft so that simultaneously with the lowering of the tapes 56 the shaft 81 receives a partial turn. Grooved cams 88 on the shaft 81 are thus turned to allow the rise of cam arms 92 on a shaft 93 having arms 94 connected to a slide 98 to which the bush 54 is pivoted. The downward movement of the bush is thus begun. The further operation of the apparatus is effected automatically upon closing a switch 31, Fig. 26, in a circuit including a generator 45, a motor 30, and a spring-closed switch 32. The closing of the switch 31 starts the motor which, through worm gear 124. 123. rotates the support 58 until the new roll B, by engaging a switch 28, excites a solenoid 33 to open the switch 32, whereupon a motor 30 stops and the support 58 is brought to rest. As the roll B rotates, an arm 140 upon its pivot 122 closes a switch 27 and a circuit is completed from the generator lead 46, brushes 48, 24 engaging a contact ring 49, lead 25, solenoid 26, switch 28, and return lead to the generator. The solenoid 26 thus closes a switch 40 which short-circuits the switches 27, 28, and a switch 21 which thereby completes a circuit through lead 46, brush 48, leads 22, contact ring 20, and return lead to generator. This circuit operates an electromagnetic clutch 42, 44 connecting constantly driven gears 86 to the cam shaft 81, which is thereupon further rotated by power. The downward movement of the brush 54 is thus completed and at the bottom of its stroke it is turned on its pivot by a cam into the position shown in Fig. 5, pressing the web against the new roll and effecting the join. A gap in an insulating strip 34 on the contact ring 49 then allows the completion of a circuit through a solenoid 35, Figs. 24 and 26, which acts through a three-armed-lever 36 and cable 37 to swing' a knife 57 to sever the old web partly from one edge. At the same time a pin 136 on one arm of the lever 36 engages an arm 135 on a latch 134 which is thereby released from a member 133 which normally holds up a weight 132. The fall of the weight applies a brake 128 to the spindle of the old web roll and completes the severance of the old web. As the shaft 81 continues to turn, the brush 54 is raised to its original position, and an insulating segment 23 on the contact ring 49 then breaks the circuit through the solenoids 26, 33 so that the switches 21 and 32 are opened and closed respectively. The clutch 42, 44 is thereby opened to stop the cam shaft and the motor 30 is restarted to bring the new roll into the running position. The switch 31 is then opened and the operation completed.