Improvement in Typewriting Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Typewriting Machines.
I, WILLIAM LUMSDON BYERS, of 11, Norfolk Street, Sunderland, in the County
of Durham, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention has for its object the production of a means whereby labels,
newspaper or circular wrappers or the like, either plain or impressed with postage
stamps, may be fed to typewriting machines, from a roller attached thereto, in
order to be addressed or written upon with much greater dispatch than is the
case by methods generally in use at the present time.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I wind a band or strip of paper
or the like, suitably perforated so as to form a number of labels, newspaper or
circular wrappers or the like, upon a central axle. The paper roll thus
formed is mounted on a suitable frame and supports attached to the carriage of
the typewriter roller, and consequently travels with the latter. These supports may
be attached to the carriage of the typewriter roller by having their ends in the form
of spring clips to grip the said carriage, or they may be attached by means of set
screws, or in any other convenient manner.
The roll of labels, wrappers, or the like, is placed so as to be capable of revolving
in a plane parallel to that of the typewriter roller, so that the perforated band.
can be drawn therefrom on to the typewriter roller and a label or wrapper
torn off, when addressed or written upon in any desired manner, leaving the next
label or wrapper in position on the typewriter roller to receive its address or other
written matter, or the whole strip or roll may be addressed and each label detached
afterwards. Or I may address, or otherwise write upon, the whole strip or roll
and afterwards rewind the typed strip or band upon another suitable roller, to be
ready for use when required.
When for use as labels, the paper forming the roll may have one side thereof
gummed if required, or when for use as wrappers, the paper may be gummed along
the lines of perforations only, so that each wrapper may have a gummed edge. The
roll of paper or the like may have postage stamps impressed upon or affixed to
it, so that each label or wrapper carries a postage stamp. The postage stamp may
be perforated on three sides, to be used without the label if required. may also
similarly use a suitable perforated roll of paper for memoranda or any other
desired purpose, or the roll may contain combined envelopes and note paper, or
envelopes alone.
If preferred, I may use a roll of paper not having the before mentioned
perforations therein, so that convenient lengths thereof may be cut off as required
with scissors.
By means of winding two bands or strips of paper upon the same axle, and
having a carbon paper or the like placed between them, two labels or wrappers may
he printed at once.

page_text: Every label, wrapper, or the like may be previously printed with the name of the
firm using them, or with any other suitable matter.
In order to facilitate the feeding of the paper roll to the typewriter roller, I
may attach to the latter a suitable handle whereby it may be revolved.
improvement in Typewriting Machines.
I, WILLIAM LUMSDON BYERS, of 11, Norfolk Street, Sunderland, in the County
of Durham, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
This invention has for its object the production of a means whereby labels,
newspaper or circular wrappers or the like, either plain or impressed with postage
stamps, may be fed to typewriting machines, from a roller attached thereto, in
order to be addressed or written upon which much greater dispatch than is the
case by methods generally in use at the present time.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I wind a band or strip of paper
or the like, suitably perforated so as to form a number of labels, newspaper or
circular wrappers, envelopes, or the like, upon a central axle. The paper roll thus
formed is mounted on suitable supports attached to the carriage of the typewriter
roller, and consequently travels with the latter. These supports may be attached
to the carriage of the typewriter roller by having their ends in the form of
spring clips to grip the said carriage, or they may be attached thereto by means of
set screws, or in any other convenient manner.
The roll of labels, wrappers, or the like is placed so as to be capable of revolving
in a plane parallel to that of the typewriter roller, so that the perforated band
can be drawn therefrom on to the typewriter roller and a label or wrapper
torn off, when addressed or written upon in any desired manner, leaving the next
label or wrapper in position on the typewriter roller to receive its address or other
written matter, or the whole strip or roll may be addressed and each label detached
afterwards. Or I may address, or otherwise write upon, the whole strip or roll
and afterwards rewind the typed strip or band upon another suitable roller, to be
ready for use when required.
When for use as labels, the paper forming the roll may have one side thereof
gummed if required, or when for use as wrappers, the paper may be gummed along
the lines of perforations only, so that each wrapper may have a gummed edge. The
roll of paper or the like may have postage stamps impressed upon or affixed to
it, so that each label or wrapper carries a postage stamp. The postage stamp may
be perforated on three sides, to be used without the label if required. I may also
similarly use a suitable perforated roll of paper for memoranda or any other
desired purpose, or the roll may contain combined envelopes and note paper, or
envelopes alone.
If preferred, I may use a roll of paper not having the before mentioned
perforations therein, so that convenient lengths thereof may be cut off as required.
It is obvious that by means of winding two bands or strips of paper upon the
same axle, and having a carbon paper or the like placed between them, labels or
wrappers may be typed in duplicate.

page_text: In this modification the axle cis shown without a milled head at one end thereof.
When it is required to fit a fresh roll of paper to this axle, the latter is sprung out
of the supports d, d, and a fresh roll of paper is passed on to it, after which it is
again sprung into its bearings in the upper extremities of the supports d, d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) A typewriting machine having a roll of paper removably attached to the
roller frame or carriage thereof and suspended in a plane parallel to the said roller,
and having a crank and handle fitted to one end of the said roller, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
(2) A typewriting machine having a roll of paper removably attached to the
roller frame or carriage thereof and suspended in a plane parallel to the said roller,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
(3) A typewriting machine having the roller thereof fitted with a crank and handle
substantially as described.
(4) Apparatus or attachment, for use with typewriting machines, consisting of
a paper roll such as a mounted upon an axle such as c carried by supports such as d,
substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of Manal 1900
66
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Every label, wrapper, or the like may be previously printed with the name of the
firm using them, or with any other suitable matter.
In order to facilitate the feeding of the paper roll to the typewriter roller, I
may attach to the latter a suitable handle whereby it may be revolved.
I will now proceed to further describe my invention with reference to the
accompanying drawings, in which the same letters of reference indicate like parts
in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a type-writer having my invention attached
thereto.
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Fig. 2 is an end view of a typewriter roller and part of its frame or carriage
having my invention attached thereto.
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Figs. 3 and 4 are a front elevation and an end view respectively of a type-
writer carriage and roller having a modified form of my invention attached
thereto.. 1...
A band or strip of paper, suitably perforated at intervals, is wound upon the
tube b so as to form the roll a. This tube is mounted so as to be capable of revolv-
ing upon the axle c, which has its ends respectively carried by suitable supports d,
the lower ends of which latter are attached by means of clamps e, e, and milled set
screws f,f, to the roller frame or carriage g. The spindle or axle of the type-
writer roller h may be prolonged at one end and be fitted with the crank and
handle k.
When it is required to write addresses or other matter upon the strip of paper
forming the roll a, the end of this strip is adjusted round the roller h and the
required matter typed thereon in the usual way. The roller his now rotated either
by means of the usual mechanism supplied with the typewriter, or more con-
veniently and rapidly by means of the crank and handle k, when the typed label or
wrapper or the like will be passed clear of the roller and a fresh label, wrapper,
or the like drawn into position to be typed upon. The typed label, wrapper, or
the like, may now be torn off the end of the strip along one of the lines of
perforations, or, if preferred, all the labels, wrappers, or the like forming the
roll a may be addressed and the strip subsequently rewound and kept for use
when required.
When the roll a is exhausted, a fresh strip may be wound upon the tube b or a
fresh tube and roll placed upon the axle c, ready for use.
For this purpose the end of the axle c has a milled head m attached thereto,
and when the paper roll is exhausted, this milled head is taken in the thumb
and fingers and the opposite end of the axle c withdrawn from its support; the
tube b can then be removed and a fresh tube and paper roll, or a paper roll without
such tube, passed on to the axle c, after which the latter is readjusted and the roll
is ready for use as before.
The strip of paper forming the roll a may if preferred be made without perfora-
tions. If preferred the strip of paper may be wound directly upon the axle c, the
ends of which may be journalled to revolve in suitable bearings formed in the
upper ends of the supports d. The clamps e and milled set screws f may be replaced
by spring clips, or other mechanical equivalents, and it is obvious that the
apparatus may be modified to suit the various classes of typewriting machines
without departing from the spirit of my invention.
In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the roll a is supported from the
front bar of the frame or carriage by means of supports d, d, having at their
lower ends clips j, j, the bar g being in this case circular in cross section and
the clips j, j, fitting it loosely. The supports d, d, are connected by a cross bar b
having its upper surface serrated. The paper strip or the like is passed round the
roller in the direction indicated by the arrows, and its free end is passed over
the serrated edge of the cross bar b. When the apparatus is operated as previously
described, each label or the like as it is typed, or any number of such labels
(whether the strip forming the roll a is perforated or not) may be torn off across
the serrated bar b.