IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CON NECTION WITH MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Andrew Peacock, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Paper Bag Manufacturer, for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CON
NECTION WITH MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS."
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NECTION WITH MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS."
Sealed the 20th April 1879, and dated the 2nd November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Andrew Peacock at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1878.
ANDREW PEACOCK, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Bag Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH MACHINERY FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS."
The object of this Invention is to provide machinery which shall be capable of
forming paper bags from sheets or from a web of paper, and which shall print
designs and impressions on and number such bags, and shall finally deliver such
bags strung or threaded together in any desired number.
For the above purpose I employ machinery or apparatus of any desired or well
known kind for forming and printing the bags, either when such bags are formed
from the sheet or from the web, and I use in combination with such inachinery
numbering apparatus to impress a number in consecutive order on each bag; I
operate such numbering apparatus and the printing apparatus together or separately,
I also use such numbering apparatus with or without the printing apparatus in
bag making machinery, although I prefer to use both.
In combination with machinery operating as above described I use apparatus or
appliances for threading a number of bags together, or I use such apparatus in com-
bination with bag making machines which do not print or number the bags.
In bag making machines I prefer to employ a platen printing press instead of a
rotary printing press as has heretofore been the custom. The object being to

page_text: simplify the machinery, for by the use of a platen machine I am able to cause the
up-and-down motion which serves for printing to operate the devices for severing
the sheets into lengths when a web-is used; the said motion also serves to operate
the mechanism.for pasting and turning over the bottom of the bag.
For stringing or threading the bags together I employ a needle with its eye near
the point, and-cause the bags either separately or after a sufficient number have
been collected together to be lifted against-such needle, which is secured in a support.
The needle penetrates the bags and carries with it string or thread which is supplied
from a reel. The needle may be made to move towards the bags, or both may
-move, the string or thread is then cut and the bundle tied together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Andrew Peacock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
May 1879.
ANDREW PEACOCK, of Liverpool; in the County of Lancaster, Paper Bag Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND IN CONNECTION WITH MACHINERY FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BAGS."
The object of this Invention is to provide machinery which shall be capable of
forming paper bags from sheets or from a web of paper, and which shall print
designs and impressions on and number such bags, and shall finally deliver such
bags strung or threaded together in any desired number.
For the above purpose I employ machinery or apparatus of any desired or well
known kind for forming and printing the bags, either when such bags are formed from
the sheet or from the web, and I use in combination with such machinery numbering
apparatus to impress a number in consecutive order on each bag. I operate such
numbering apparatus and the printing apparatus together or seperately, I also use
such numbering apparatus with or without the printing apparatus in bag making
machinery although I prefer to use both.
In combination with machinery operating as above described I use apparatus or
appliances for threading a number of bags together, or I use such apparatus in
combination with bag making machines which do not print or number the bags.
In bag making machines I prefer to employ a platen printing press instead of a
rotary printing press as has heretofore been the custom, the object being to simplify
the inachinery, for by the use of a platen machine I am enabled to cause the up and
down motion which serves for printing to operate the devices for severing the sheets
into lengths when a web is used, the said motion also serves to operate the
mechanism for pasting and turning over the bottom of the bag.
For stringing or threading the bags together I employ a needle with its eye near
the point, and cause the bags either separately or after a sufficient number have
been collected together to be lifted against such needle, which is secured in a support.
The needle penetrates the bags and carries with it string or thread which is supplied
from a reel. The needle may be made to move towards the bags or both may
move, the string or thread is then cut and the bundle tied together.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation; and Fig. 3, a plan view,
all of machinery constructed under my Invention. A represents apparatus for
forming and printing bags from the web, consisting of bottom folders, 1; pasters, 2;
knives, 3; grippers, 4, and printing platen, 5, the apparatus for giving the longi-
tudinal fold to the bag not being shown, all operating in any well known or
convenient manner, or any well-known apparatus for forming bags may be
used.
In combination and operating conjointly with the bag making apparatus I
employ the numbering appliances B, constructed as shown, and operated from
the platen 5 by the lever 6, or constructed and operated in any usual
or desired manner to print or impress a consecutive number on cach bag as formed.
The numbering apparatus may be attached to the type-bed, as shown, or may be
operated seperately.
Threading apparatus to be used with bag making machines, constructed and
arranged as above described or otherwise, is shown at C, and is constructed as
follows:-
A needle 7, with its eye near the point is fixed in a table 8 and supplied with
thread from a reel 9; a gripper 10 is arranged to draw the bags into the required
position, and a flyer or arm 11 is used for forcing the needle 7 through the bags.

page_text: When a bag has been printed by the platen 5, the gripper 10 advances, seizes the
bag and draws it into the position shown at 12. The bar carrying the gripper 10
then strikes against-the-levers 13 of the flyer 11, and moves the said flyer
downwards so as to force the bag on to the needle-7, as shewn. When the flyer
11 is not being operated it is raised out of the way of the gripper 10-by-the
springs 14.
Having now described and illustrated the nature of the said Invention in
such-manner that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect
I claim,
First. The combination of bag making and numbering apparatus or appliances
operating conjointly, substantially as set forth.
Second. The combination of bag inaking, printing, and numbering apparatus or
appliances operating conjointly, substantially as set forth.
Third. The combination of bag making and threading apparatus or appliances.
operating conjointly, substantially as set forth.
Fourth. Constructing apparatus or appliances for threading or stringing together
bags constructed substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Andrew Peacock, have hereunto set my hand.
and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy nine.
J. JOHNSON,
Patent Office,
Clayton Sqr.,
L'pool.
ANDREW PEACOCK. (L.S.)
Witness.