Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 1st Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th Apr., 1888
I, WILLIAM BLAND of 24 Berners Street, Leicester, Agent do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:―
The object of my invention is to provide a machine for expeditiously producing
copies of matter previously written or printed on prepared paper.
To carry out my invention I mount upon suitable standards or framework a cylinder
or drum upon the periphery of which is a transverse slot or recess to receive a
movable strip or bar.
At each end of the said cylinder or drum may be a suitable circular plate or disc
capable of being independently rotated carrying preferably springed clips or catches
one end of which ledges on the cylinder before referred to. At the front of the
cylinder or drum is a roller made preferably of composition and having its bearing
in the ends of two horizontal bars or rails mounted upon a transverse axis supported
from the standards or framework.
The distance between the composition roller and the drum may be regulated by
means of a vertical screwed spindle and hand wheel fixed to a cross piece at the other
end of the horizontal bars or rails.
At the back of the cylinder and supported on brackets which may form part of or
be secured to the standards or framework is a smaller cylinder on the periphery of
which is a suitable clip or catch carried on an axis in the interior of the cylinder and
capable of opening and closing during the rotation of the cylinder.
The machine is operated by means of a suitable hand toothed wheel fixed on the
axis of the larger or centré cylinder and gearing into a smaller toothed wheel fixed
on the axis of the back or delivery cylinder. The machine above described is used
as follows:-
One end of the prepared paper or other material containing the written or printed
matter from which copies are to be produced is placed within the transverse slot or
recess on the periphery of the centre or larger cylinder and secured therein by means

page_text: of the movable strip or bar pressing upon it, the other end of the paper being kept in
the required position on the larger cylinder by means of the clips or catches carried
on the adjustable circular plate or disc.
The position of the cylinders and roller is then adjusted for working and the blank
sheets or papers are placed on the feeding or composition roller which is rotated by
means of the friction of the revolving centre cylinder containing the original copy
and by which pressure the fac-simile is produced.
The sheet containing the transcript is then received under the clip or catch on the
periphery of the delivery or smaller cylinder and on the opening of the clip during
rotation is delivered from the machine ready to be dealt with as required.
To facilitate the feeding of the sheets into the machine a suitable tray is placed in
front of the composition roller.
The machine may also be adapted for treadle or steam power if desired.

page_text: Improvements in Machines for Taking Copies of written or
Printed Matter.
I, WILLIAM BLAND of 24 Berners Street, Leicester, Agent 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a machine for expeditiously producing
copies of matter previously written or printed or transferred on prepared paper or
other material.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine with the nearest standard removed.
Figure 2 is a vertical section through the centre of the cylinders.
Figure 3 in an elevation of the back of the machine.
Figure 4 is a view of the driving gear and the cam for opening the clip or blade
on the delivery cylinder.
Figure 5 represents a crossbar in front of the machine, carrying the cam for
adjusting the position of the feeding roller.
Figures 6 and 7 represent the device employed to hold in position, the ends of the
paper containing the matter from which copies are to be taken.
A represents the standards or framework of the machine.
B is a cylinder or drum having its bearings in the upper part of the standards or
framework and which carries on its surface, the prepared paper or other material,
containing written or printed matter from which copies are to be taken. B¹ are two
transverse slots in the periphery of the cylinder B and in which the ends of the paper
containing the written matter are placed, each end being held secure by a clip device
(as shewn in Figures 6 and 7) one of which is placed within each slot.
The part B3 of the periphery of the cylinder B, between the two transverse slots B',
is made detached from the remainder of the periphery, and is capable of being moved
either way, thereby closing up one of the transverse slots and correspondingly
increasing the width of the other.
The increased width in the slot thus obtained enables the clips or lockers shewn in
Figures 6 and 7 to be more easily inserted within, or removed from the cylinder B.
The ends of the movable part B³ of the periphery of the cylinder B rest on a ledge
or flange B formed on the inner side and near the edge of the ends of the cylinder B
and the part B is kept in position by means of two spiral springs B³, or equivalent
means.
() is a roller covered with rubber, composition or equivalent, and hereinafter referred
to as the feeding roller, having its bearings in the side bars D' of the adjustable
tray D, by means of which the roller can be placed nearer to or further from the
cylinder.

page_text: The tray D which is supported on an axle 1³ the ends of which have bearings in
the standards or framework, may be raised or lowered by means of the pin or pro-
jection D, on the cross bar D working in the grooved cam E, the groove in the latter
being so formed or inclined, that when the cam is moved in one direction, the tray
and with it the feeding roller C are lowered, and are raised when the cam is moved
in the opposite direction.
F is the delivery cylinder, having its boaring in the standards or framework and
carrying a blade Froaching across the whole length of its periphery.
The blade F is opened to receive the end of the sheet of copy by means of a jaw
or forked lever G₁ carried on a shaft G, working in the interior of the delivery
cylinder F.
The shaft G is extended through one end of the delivery cylinder F and carries a
cam H which on revolving comes into contact with a pin 12 fixed to the framework
or standard A and is caused to yield, thereby imparting a slight rotatory movement to
the shaft G and forked lever G₁; the latter presses against the arm F and opens the
blade F. The blade is kept open and the delivery cylinder stationary and in position
by means of the pin H2, resting in the hollowed portion H³ of the cam II, until the
sheet containing the impressed copy is delivered under the blade.
The delivery cylinder F receives its motion from a spur or toothed wheel J fixed
on the end of the shaft of the former and gearing with the wheel K.
The toothed wheels J and K are constructed to enable the cylinders B and F to
revolve at the same speed.
The mutilated or toothless portion of the wheel K is provided in order that the
cylinder B and feeding roller C may alone revolve and deliver the sheet of copy
under the open blade F of the delivery cylinder while the latter is kept at rest by
the hollowed portion H³ of the cam H engaging with the fixed pin H2. The blank
sheets are fed into the machine between the cylinder B and the feeding roller C, the
latter being rotated by bearing against the periphery of the former, and the fac-simile
is produced on the blank sheet by the frictional pressure between the two.
The machine is shown in the annexed drawings in the position for feeding and
when set in motion the two toothed driving wheels have a sufficient number of teeth
in gear (Fig. 4) to cause the hollowed part H³ of the cam H to engage with the fixed
pin H2 and thereby open the blade F. The delivery cylinder F and toothed wheel J
will now remain stationary while the mutilated toothed wheel and the cylinder B
continue to revolve and until the teeth of the two wheels again engage by which time
the end of the sheet containing the transcript will have been delivered under the open
blade F.
2
The toothed wheels having again geared and continuing to revolve, the cam H
becomes released from and passes the pin H2 and is caused, simultaneously with the
blade, to resume its original position, by means of the spiral spring L.
The blade F has now closed upon the end of the sheet containing the transcript,
which is held secure until the former is again opened during the next revolution, when
it becomes released.
Mis the inking roller, composed of any suitable material and constructed preferably
as shown in Figure 2 and is carried in bearings in the standards or framework A.
At each end of the roller M is a disc M₁ of convenient size to come into contact
with the projecting rim or flange B on the ends of the cylinder B for the purpose of
keeping the surfaces of the roller M and the cylinder B apart during such time as it
is not required to ink the prepared paper. When the prepared paper containing the
original written or other matter, is such that it requires to be inked previous to each
copy being taken off it, the surfaces of the inking roller M and the cylinder B are
kept in contact with each other by means of the spiral springs M².
When the inking roller is not required to be used it may be withdrawn from contact
with the cylinder B and its ends allowed to rest in the recesses or bearings M³ formed
in the standards or framework.
Figures 6 and 7 represent a view of the device employed to hold the paper on the
cylinder B.

page_text: It consists of a grooved or channelled metal plate N and a movable strip or bar N2.
One end of the paper is placed within the groove er channel N and the strip or bar N2
is placed upon it and held tightly down by the lock plates N³ being turned on their
axis over the strip N².
The clip device is then placed within the transverse slot F in the cylinder B and
retained in position by the thumbscrew N leing tightened upon the end of the
cylinder D; the paper is then carried round the cylinder B and the clip device con-
taining its opposite end is placed within the empty slot and secured as just described
by means of the thumbscrew N.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a machine for printing or copying a cylinder such as B having two transverso
slots B, to contain lockers or clip devices a movable portion of the periphery and
operated by a mutilated toothed wheel K substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
2. In a machine for printing or copying the combination with a cylinder such as B
of a delivery cylinder F provided with a gripping blade F¹ operated in the manner
and for the purpose substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
3. In a machine for printing or copying a feeding roller such as C in combination
with a rocking tray such as D and adjusting cam E substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In a machine for printing or copying a cylinder such as B naving flanges B for
keeping the inking roller out of contact with the surface of the cylinder substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
5. In a machine for printing or copying the devices for securing the paper upon
the cylinder B constructed substantially as described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
6. The complete machine for printing or copying comprising a cylinder such as B
provided with clips for hol·ling the paper copy a feeding roller such as Cadjustable
by means of a cam F inking roller M and delivery cylinder F provided with a
gripper F¹ the whole constructed and operating in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of February 1888.
WILLIAM BLAND.