IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND REELING PAPER FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter William Colley, of Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING
AND REELING PAPER FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND OTHER PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter William Colley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th February 1882.
WALTER WILLIAM COLLEY of Camberwell in the County of Surrey " IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND REELING PAPER FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND
OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to apparatus for cutting a roll or web of paper of the
usual width into strips suitable for use in recording and printing telegraphic
instruments and for other purposes, and simultaneously reeling such strips.
The combined cutting and reeling apparatus consists mainly of a pair of
cylinders, the one a winding cylinder being quite plain, and the other a combined
cutting and winding cylinder being furnished with circumferential knives at proper
distances apart according to the desired width of the strips, these cylinders being
used in combination with a spindle carrying the bobbins on which the strips are
to be wound mounted over the interval between the two cylinders and pressed
down upon both cylinders by weighted levers or otherwise with freedom to rise
as the bobbins are increased in size by the paper wound upon them. The
combined cutting and winding cylinder is constructed preferably of a number of
circular disc cutters or knives slipped on a shaft alternately with rings of smaller
diameter which form the body of the cylinder and hold the knives at the proper
distances apart. The bobbins on which the strips are to be wound correspond in
width to, and come opposite to the intervals between the knives, and the two
cylinders are geared together and turn in the same direction and at the same speed
and the bobbins are driven therefrom.
The roll of paper as it comes from the maker is mounted on a shaft provided
with a suitable brake to regulate the tension of the paper, and the web of paper
is drawn therefrom and carried over guide and tension rollers and over and in
contact with the winding cylinder and with the knives of the cutting cylinder to
the bobbins, whereby the paper is cut into strips by the knives and the strips are
at same time wound on the bobbins by frictional contact with the two cylinders.
Instead of a cylinder with circumferential knives revolving with it, I may
use a plain cylinder built up of rings as before with straight stationary knives
between the rings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Walter William Colley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th August 1882.
WALTER WILLIAM COLLEY of Camberwell in the County of Surrey. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING AND REELING PAPER FOR TELEGRAPHIC AND
OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to apparatus for cutting a roll or web of paper of the
usual width as it comes from the mill into narrow strips suitable for use in
recording and printing telegraphic instruments and for other purposes and
simultaneously reeling such strips directly onto bobbins for use.
In order that my Invention inay be more readily understood, I have illustrated
it in the accompanying drawings and will proceed to describe it with reference
thereto. Figure 1 is a side elevation of my combined cutting and reeling apparatus,
and Figure 2 is a plan of the cylinders, the bobbins being removed. Figure 3
shows details of the bobbins and shaft.
The combined cutting and reeling apparatus consists mainly of a cylinder A.
furnished with circumferential knives, a plain cylinder B, and a spindle c carrying
the bobbins C on which the strips are to be wound, mounted over the interval
between the two cylinders A B and pressed down thereupon with freedom to rise
as the bulk of the bobbins is increased by the accumulation of paper wound upon
them. D is a framing of suitable construction in which the various parts of the
apparatus are mounted. E is a roll of paper as delivered from the maker having a
spindle e passed through its quill or spool with collars or journals e¹ placed upon
each end of said spindle and supported in bearings in frame D. e is a weighted
brake lever pressing on the collars e' to regulate the tension of the paper. The
cylinder A is constructed preferably of a number of circular disc cutters or knives a
slipped on a shaft a¹ alternately with rings or distance pieces of smaller diameter
which form the body of the cylinder and maintain the proper intervals between
the knives. The cylinders AB are mounted in bearings in frame D the cylinder A
being made readily removable to permit the readjustment of the knives by
substituting other distance pieces corresponding to the desired width of the strips.
These two cylinders are driven in the same direction and at the same speed from a
shaft F by gearing as shown in Figure 2. The bobbins C which are preferably of
wood, are slipped onto their shaft c which is guided in vertical slots d of the frame
and is pressed downwards by weighted levers c' bearing on journals at its ends,
said levers being jointed to rods c² jointed to the frame D. The bobbin spindle is
situated directly over the interval between the cylinders A and B as shown and
is constantly pressed down towards them. The bobbins correspond in width to
the intervals between the knives a and come between the latter so as to rest partly
upon both cylinders A and B and be driven by frictional contact therewith.
The web of paper is drawn from the roll and carried round and over guide and
tension rollers f, thence over the cylinders B and A to the bobbins which press the
paper down upon the knives a whereby it is cut into strips which are at same time
wound on the bobbins by frictional contact with the two cylinders.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing the
same I would observe that I am aware of the Invention for which Letters Patent
were granted to Edward Edwards Colley dated April 21st 1876, No. 1692, by
which the paper is cut into strips by circumferential cutters, but the strips are not
wound at same time on bobbins ready for immediate use as by my machine, but
what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the hereinbefore in part recited
Letters Patent is
In a machine for cutting paper into strips, the combination of the cutting

page_text: cylinder A furnished with circumferential cutters the plain winding cylinder B and
the bobbins threaded on a shaft and pressed towards the interval between the two
cylinders, the whole arranged to operate substantially as shown and described
whereby a roll of paper is cut into strips, and the strips are at same time reeled
on bobbins for immediate use.
In witness whereof I the said Walter William Colley have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty fifth day of August, A.D. 1882.
WALTER WILLIAM COLLEY. (L.S.)