Patent GB-190217606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Machines for Addressing and Sorting Newspapers, Magazines and the like.
Inventor: RICHARDS GEORGE LIVINGSTON
Filed: 1902-08-11
Granted: 1902-10-16
Abstract: 17,606. Lake, H. H., [Richards, G. L.]. Aug. 11. Addressing-machines. -The machine prints the addresses on newspapers &c. through perforated stencils 10 iu the strip 9. Each stencil is attached to a cardboard frame 11, and these cards are attached one to another to form the continuous strip 9, by adhesive strips 12, so that stencil cards may be readily removed and introduced at any part of the strip. Some of the cards 11 have perforations 67 which operate, as described later, to cause the addressed newspapers &c. to be delivered in assorted batches. The strip 9 is wound on a supply reel 7, and passes through a guide 13, formed of bent metal plates, to an intermittentlyrotating feed-roller 15, which is formed with projections which engage the edges of the stencil openings in the cards 11. The roller 15 is operated, to move the stencils succe,sively into printing position, by means of a disc 17, on its shaft, having straight grooves 19 and curved grooves 20. The grooves 19 are engaged, and the disc turned, by a pin on an arm 21 on a shaft 24 driven by a chain &c. from the driving-shaft 2. On the shaft 24 is also a segmental disc 22 having a circular rib which engages one of the grooves 2u, as the pin passes out of the groove 19, and holds the disc 17 stationary until the pin again comes into engagement with a groove 19. The strip passes on to a winding-reel 8 drawn by a slipping-band 26. The articles to be addressed are placed on two endless travelling bands 5 on pulleys 4, on the shaft 2, and pulleys 6. The articles are aligned on the bands by fingers 27 on a pivoted arm 28 operated by a cam-groove in one of the pulleys 4, and, when released by the fingers 27, they are carried on until arrested by fingers 52 over a printing-table 31. The table 31 is mounted to move vertically, and is raised and lowered by a lever 33 and cam-groove in one of the pulleys 4. The newspaper is lifted by the table 31, and is then printed through the stencil by a printing-roller 14 in sliding bearings in arms 41 on a shaft 48 rocked by an arm 47, rod 46, lever 45, and cam-groove in one of the pulleys 4. The roller 14 is guided by cam slots 42, and is inked by a roller 37, in an ink trough, driven by a chain 38. A spur-wheel on the shaft of the printing-roller gears with a wheel on the shaft of the inking-roller when they are in contact, and the wheel also gears with a rack on a spring-pressed arm to cause the roller 14 to rotate as it moves over the stencil. The fingers 52 are depressed by the operation of a cam on the shaft 24, and the newspapers are carried on by the bands 5 and delivered to the receiving-table 58. The table 58 is mounted to rotate on a vertical pivot, and an endless slipping-band 61 tends to rotate it. It is normally held stationary by a pivoted lever 59 engaging one of the cam arms 60 fixed to rotate with the table. The lever 59 is connected by a rod 65 to the lever 66 in the path of the holes 67 in the stencils, and, when this lever 66 drops into a hole 67, it operates the lever 59 to release the arm 60, and the table is rotated to bring a fresh portion into receiving position, the lever 59 on returning to position engaging the next arm 60.