Year: 1897

page_text: We, FRED WAITE, of 32, Mount Pisgah, Otley, in the County of York, Printer's
Engineer, and WAITE & SAVILLE, LIMITED, of Falcon Works, Otley, aforesaid,
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for making and printing that
class of label commonly known as "American washer tags" that is to say: luggage
and similar labels with washers cemented round the eye or perforation by which they
are intended to be attached.
We prefer to make the labels from a roll or web of paper or other suitable material.
This roll may be mounted on adjustable cones fixed upon a spindle at the feed end of
the machine and preferably capable of longitudinal adjustment. The web of paper
is drawn through the machine by an intermittently operated feed roller or its
equivalent the movement of which is adjustable to enable labels of different widths
to be made. These rollers may be located between the washer applying mechanism
and the printing press.
The material from which the washers are punched or formed is preferably also
drawn from a roll or web and the washers on both sides of the label may be formed
from the same web. For this purpose the washer web is drawn off the roll and passes
into the machine at one side right across the label web then round or against a
suitable guide roller or rollers, back across the other side of the label web and thence
to the feed roller operating it. This roller is intermittently operated to feed the
washer web and is arranged at each movement to feed sufficient web to form the
washers for both sides of the label. To this end the position of the guide roller or its
equivalent guiding the washer web from one face or side of the label web to the
other is such that the washer web is presented to the second punch with two of the
apertures formed by the "punchings" previously removed by the other punch equi-
distant or approximately equi-distance on opposite sides of the second punch.
The washer formning punches are preferably arranged vertically one above and the
other below the label web on the most convenient side a suitable distance within
the edge of the web. The edge of the label web passes between the bolsters of
the punches; consequently the "punchings" removed by the punches may be
thereby brought with more or less pressure against the opposite faces of the label
web whilst it is stationary. The upper punch is preferably hollow and is fitted
with an internal punch which is operated to punch the eye through the label
and washers whilst the latter are held in position by the washer punches. The
lower punch is also hollow to form a bolster and to allow the punchings from the eye
to fall through.
The washer punches may be operated to punch the washers by arms pivoted
to the framework.
These arms are preferably moved by rods connecting them to

page_text: opposite arms of the same lever which is intermittently operated by a suitable
cam.
The washer web is made wider than the washers formed therefrom and is gummed
or charged with adhesive material on the face next to the label web by any
suitable gumming device adapted to leave a narrow margin along each edge without
gum. The rollers against which the gummed side of the web passes as the web
is drawn through the machine are reduced in the middle so as not to touch the
gummed part of the web.
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The label web with the washers attached is pushed by the feed rollers through the
"form
printing press. This press may be made with an inverted type bed or
holder which is raised sufficiently between each impression to allow the inking rollers
to be passed beneath. The type bed is made large enough to allow the form or
type to be adjusted or located thereon in a suitable position to give the impression
in the right place on the label.
The labels may be severed from the web by a thin punch extending across the web
and passing into a suitable bolster beneath. This punch is preferably placed on the
delivery side of the printing press and constructed to remove a narrow strip of
material between each label. To corner or mitre the corners of the label at the
washer end the punch widens out at a suitable angle on each side. The punch
may be formed to give any desired shape to the label besides answering the
purpose of severing the label from the web.
The labels when severed may be arranged to fall or slide down a suitable
incline or be delivered in any other convenient way.
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DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
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Improvements in Label Making and Printing Machines.
We, FRED WAITE, of 32, Mount Pisgah, Otley, in the County of York, Printer's
Engineer, and WAITE & SAVILLE, LIMITED, of Falcon Works, Otley, aforesaid,
Engineers, 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 relates to improvements in machines for making and printing that
class of label commonly known as "American washer tags" that is to say: luggage
and similar labels with washers cemented round the eye or perforation by which they
are intended to be attached.
To fully describe our invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation of our improved machine.
Figure 2, is a plan view and Figure 3, is a front or end view of the same.
Figure 4, is a view of the opposite side to that shown in Figure 1 of a portion of
the mechanism.
The side frames A and A2 forming the main framework of the machine are
connected together by the cross stays A³, A+, A³, A and A'. The stay A3 is omitted
in Figure 3.
The paper or its equivalent from which the labels are made is represented by the
broken line B Figure 1, and is drawn off the roll B2 by the intermittently operated

page_text: feed rollers C and C between which it passes. The roll B2 is mounted on the
arbor B3 supported by the brackets B, B+ fixed to the side frames. The punches D
and D2 between which the edge of the paper also passes are located immediately in
front of the feed rollers C and C².
The paper or its equivalent from which the washers are formed is represented by
the broken line E Figure 3. This paper is drawn off a roll E2 supported by the
bracket E3 fixed to the side frame A and is passed under the guide roller E* between
the gumming roller E and the press roller E, then between the feed rollers E' and E8,
through an opening in the side frame A and over the bolster D³ of the top punch D.
The paper
is then passed across the machine round the guide roller E⁹ fixed to the
side frame and back immediately underneath the bolster D₁ of the bottom punch D².
The paper then passes back again through the frame A and between the feed
roller E and lower feed roller E10 and down the guides E12 The gumining roller E5
dips down into the trough E13 containing a suitable adhesive material and a
scraper E14 is provided to scrape surplus material off the sides of the roller. The
roller E is inade the same width or only a little wider than the diameter of the
washers to be fixed to the labels and the paper E is made wider than this consequently
there is a margin along each side left ungummed and the rollers Es and E⁹ have
the centre portions reduced in diameter so as not to touch the paper excepting along
the ungummed margins. The rollers E10 and E' are mounted in arms E15 and E16
and the spiral spring E" stretching between said arms is provided to press these
rollers against the roller E8. The rollers E8 and E5 are mounted in bearings formed
in the bracket E18 and are geared together by the toothed wheels E, E, and E.
The roller E8 is driven by the ratchet wheel E20 fixed upon its arbor and operated
by the pawl E21 actuated by the rod E22 connected to the lever E23 vibrated by the
cam E24 on the shaft N2 A hand wheel E25 is provided on the arbor of the
roller E5.
The paper B from which the labels are formed passes between the two layers of
washer paper E crossing the machine and at each movement of the feed rollers C
and C² sufficient paper is drawn into the machine to make a label. At the same time
sufficient of the washer web paper E to make two washers is fed to the machine and
the position of the guide roller E9 is such that the washer web is presented to the
lower punch D2 with two of the apertures formed by the "punchings" previously
removed by the upper punch D equi-distant or approximately equi-distant on
opposite sides of the punch D2 so that there is sufficient material from which to
punch the underneath washer. Each time the rollers C and C² are at rest the
punches D and I² are operated and each punch a disc from the web E and them
firmly against opposite sides of the paper B and whilst firmly held in this position
the internal punch G fitted in D is brought down and punches the hole or eye
centrally through both washers and through the label paper between them. The
punch D² is made hollow and forms the bolster for the punch G and the punchings
made by G fall through D².
press
The punches D and D2 are mounted in the bracket D' fixed to the side frame A.
Springs H and H2 are provided to move the the punches apart and they are actuated
by the levers H3 and H4 fixed on the cross shafts H5 and He and their forked ends H
bear upon the collars D8 formed upon the punches. The ends H° are forked so as to
leave the end of the punch G free and the hole through the punch D² clear and open.
The levers H3 and H4 are connected together by the rod H10 and are actuated by the
box cam H2 on the shaft F. The punch G is depressed by the lever G2 pivoted on
the shaft G³ and connected by the rod G+ to the lever G5 mounted on the shaft Go
and arranged to be vibrated by the cam G7 on the shaft N². A spring G8 is provided
to keep the anti-friction roller G on the lever G³ against its cam and an internal
spring is fitted inside the punch I adapted to withdraw the punch G when the
lever G2 is lifted.
The rollers C and C² are geared together by the wheels C³ and the roller C is
intermittently operated by the ratchet wheel C fixed upon its arbor. The pawl C5
engaging the wheel C is mounted upon the lever C connected by the rod C7 to the

page_text: eccentric stud C8 in the wheel F2 tixed on the shaft F. The wheel F2 is driven by
the spur wheel F on the driving shaft F5.
The roller C is fixed upon the shaft C and the latter is mounted in bearings
formed in the ends C10 of the levers C12, C12 fixed on the ends of the shaft C¹³. The
spiral springs C1, C₁ are stretched between the studs C 15, C 15 (projecting from the
side frames A and A2) and the ends C¹ of the levers and keep the roller C² pressed
down upon the roller C.
The paper leaving the feed rollers is pushed beneath the inverted type bed K which
is brought down each time the paper is held for the washers to be fixed. The bed K
is fixed to the vertical slide K2 sliding in guides K³ in the cross stays A and A7 and
the spiral spring K is provided to lift the slide and bed. To depress the bed K to
print the paper the top of the slide K2 is connected by the rod K5 to the lever K
imounted on the rocking shaft K7, and a clutch K8 keyed to the shaft K' is preferably
provided to engage the lever K and enable the latter to be thrown in or out of
operation according to whether the labels are required to be printed or not.
shaft K' is rocked by its arm K connected by the rod K10 to the arın K12 and
the arm K12 is vibrated by the cam K13 on the shaft F engaging the anti-friction
roller K14 on said arm.
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The bed K is lifted sufficiently each time to allow the inking rollers L to be passed
underneath each time it is lifted. The rollers L are mounted upon the arins L² fixed
on the rocking shaft LS mounted in bearings in the side fraines and the shaft is
rocked by the cam 1 on the shaft F engaging the antifriction roller 1.5 on the
.arm Lo rigidly fixed to L³. The inking rollers L receive their ink from the cylinder M
fed by the distributing roller M2 and and the ductor roller M³ supplied with ink from
the ink roller M' revolving in the ink duct M5. The roller M4 is driven by the
ratchet wheel M° fixed on its arbor and operated by the pawl M7 on the lever M8
connected by the rod Mº to the eccentric stud N on the wheel N³ fixed on the
shaft N2 and driven from the wheel F2. A strap O from the pulley 02 on 'the other
end of N2 drives the pulley 03 fixed on the arbor 0% of the cylinder M. The roller M²
has a slight longitudinal movement imparted to it by the arm 05 projecting from the
rocking shaft ( which shaft is rocked by its arm 07 engaging a cam grove formed
round the periphery of the cam 08 fixed on the shaft N².
The labels are cut off by the thin punch R working through a bolster on the
bed R2 across which the labels are pushed. The punch is secured to the slide R³
working in slots R4, R4 formed in the standards R5, R5 projecting from the adjustable
bed R2 spring R7 is provided at each end to raise the slide and it is depressed to
lower the punch by the arms T, T on the rocking shaft T2 operated by its arm T³
connected by the rod T4 to the lever T5 pivoted on the cross shaft To. The arm To is
vibrated by the cam T on the shaft N2.
Figure 5, represents a cross section on a larger scale of the punch the mitre shaped
part being provided to mitre the corners of the label. It is obvious that the
shape or form of the punch may be varied to produce labels of different shapes.
The labels cut off by the punch drop down the slide W and may be collected in any
convenient way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. A label making machine having two hollow washer punches directly operated
by levers actuated by the same cam, substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A label making machine in which the washers for each side of the labels are
punched from the same web, substantially as herein shown and described.
3. A label making machine in which the gumming roller or its equivalent is made
narrower than the washer web and the feed roller is reduced in the middle to clear
the gummed part of the said web, substantially as herein shown and described.
4. A label making machine having a printing press located between the washer
affixing mechanism and the device for cutting off the labels, which press is provided

page_text: with an inverted type bed constructed to be lifted high enough between each stroke
to allow the inking rollers to pass underneath to ink the type, substantially as herein
shown and described.
5. A label making machine in which the labels are cut or severed off by a punch,
substantially as herein shown and described.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.