Improvements in. Machinery and Apparatus for the: Ruling of Paper
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1896.
Complete Specification Leit, 6th May, 1897--Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897*
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in. Machinery and Apparatus for the: Ruling of Paper:.
WILLIAM JAMIESON of 5, Foley Place, Longton, Staffordshire Engineer and WILLIAM:
HOWARD of 30, St. Bride Street London E.C. Stationer do hereby declare the nature
of this invention.toj be, as follows:-.
The machine consists of a convex or arched table,, over which an endless, cloth: is.
caused to travel,, carrying the sheets of paper towards & through the ruling apparatus,.
which includes the usual pens for ruling the lines which are raised, from. &lowered.
onto the paper according to the pattern required by, a. Cam arrangement, which, is.
adjusted to suit each pattern-but to ensure greater accuracy in. the ruling so that
the point of the pens may descend on the exact point or position on the sheet desired:
we place in front of the. pens-that. is. to say-further on in, the. machine: than the
pens a series of four or more adjustable "gates" or sets of fingers extending across
the machine & resting on the travelling cloth, these "gates" are caused to lift up.
and drop down by means of the cam arrangement which actuates the ruling pens,.
and when any one of them is down, the sheet of paper.is arrested in its course in
such a position, that the pens will fall on the exact spot desired, which they having.
done, by means of the cam, the gate." is raised.& the sheet allowed to proceed until
another "gate" stops it, when the motions are repeated..
It is usual to rule four "stops" or headings in the length of a sheet of paper--and
our invention provides that for each of them the position of the sheet with regard to
the pens, is adjusted-by having a "gate" for each stop, the gates being adjustable.
at any distance from the point of the pens - to the full ruling extent of the.
machine.
Dated this 7th day of August 1896.
WILLIAM JAMIESON:
WILLIAM HOWARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Machinery and Apparatus for the Ruling of Paper.
We WILLIAM JAMIESON, of No. 5 Foley Place, Longton in the County of 'Stafford,
Engineer, and WILLIAM HOWARD of 30 St: Bride Street London in the County of
Middlesex; Stationer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and' in what
manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in.
and by the following statement':-
The invention relates. to improvements in the Machinery and Apparatus: for.ruling
paper for Account Books, Billhead forms, and other purposes; more particularly when
such ruling, or portions of it is required to extend over part of the paper only, and

page_text: not entirely from end to end. When such intermittant ruling is desired, it is obvious
that the point or points at which the ruled lines commences and stops should be
exactly in the same position relative to the edge of the sheet of paper-on all the
sheets ruled that is to say that every sheet of the particular job in hand should be
exactly alike. Referring to the accompanying two sheets of Drawings and to the letters
of reference marked thereon,
Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of the machine constructed and arranged according
to this invention and consisting of the Feed Roller A, first gate B pen frame C pens Ci
stopping gates D E F G with the accompanying friction rollers D, lifters P and Pi
and lifting bar N. Grouped and arranged over and in relation to a travelling cloth I
running over a convex or flat table.
Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same parts.
One of the characteristic points of this invention is the placing of the gates DEFG
in front of the pens, so that they may arrest the progress of the sheet of paper and
hold it at rest until the pens have descended on the exact spot which is desired, the
said gates are moveable and adjustable at any distance from the pens, to the
full extent of the machine by means of the blocks M which slide on the frame
work "a."
When a sheet of paper is placed between the feed rollers A and A Figure 2, it is
carried by the travelling cloth I and the threads J towards and up to the Gate B,
which being closed, stops the sheet until the cam H is in a certain relative position,
when the pin L opens the said gate and the sheet goes forward towards and up to the
gate D which stops it, the pens CC meanwhile being raised up from aad out of con-
tact with the paper, then the cam H acting on the lever O lowers the pens on to the
paper while the said paper is at perfect rest and then by raising the lifting bar N
simultaneously raises the lifters 1 and P which acting on their respective parts opens
the gates D2 and presses the friction rollers D¹ on to the paper which causes it to travel
forward the pens ruling the lines from that point onwards until they are raised up by
the cam arrangement. The movements performed by the parts thus briefly described
are all controlled by the cam I which revolves on a spindle and is immediately con-
nected with the motive power which drives the machine, the lever O is attached to the
solid frame of the machine by a stud through its central boss, on which it revolves,
the upper end resting on the cam H and the opposite end attached to the lifting bar N,
it then follows that as the cam H revolves and presents a promenency to the lever O it
raises it up and consequently depresses the opposite end, which as already stated, a
being attached to.the lifting bar N, lowers it, the movement is not great, about one
inch being the difference between the highest and lowest points of the lifting
bar N.
The lifting bar N consists of a flat rod placed along the inside of the frame of the
machine and supported by the lever O as before described and its purpose is to lift
and lower the lifters P and P¹ which are fastened to the end of the spindles which
carry the gates D and rollers D' respectively. The block M supports a spindle which is
the fulcrum for both the gates D2 and their lifter P in the one series and the rollers D¹
and their lifter P¹ in the other series and as these lifters are at opposite sides of the
said fulerum on Block M and their ends resting on the lifting bar N, it follows that
when the said lifting bar is raised up by means of the cam H and through the
agency of the lever O the gate D will be depressed and the rollers D will be
raised up."
Two, three or four stops or sets of ruled lines are often required on one sheet,
therefore we provide four sets of stopping gates as shown on Figure 1 DEFG each
of which act precisely in the same manner as D already described above.
After the sheet has been dealt with as above described it is carried by threads back-
ward and forward in the under portion of the machine in order to dry the ink and is
then led into a "Tayboy" or delivery Apparatus which is formed of two sides made of
sheet metal bent spiral shape and adjustable as regards distance [from each other, a
according to the width of the sheet of paper to be dealt with, the paper entering this
enclosure is caused by reason of the spiral and gradual contracted form of the said

page_text: sides to be bent up at the edges and in that shape capable of supporting itself until
finally discharged and falls on to a table conveniently placed for its reception, each
successive sheet falling on the top of the preceding one in an orderley manner.
principal is that when a sheet of paper is bent scoop shape it can be supported in a
horizontal position by one edge and can be laid on a table without any sliding motion,
which would be liable to disarrangement of the sheet if the paper was thin. The
threads J are kept at an equal tension by means of weights Q as shewn in Figure 3.
This is an important feature, as by the old system of simply tying the threads on
tightly there was a liability for the threads on one side of the machine to be tighter
or looser than the other and consequently liability for the sheets of paper to be turned
out of square with relation to the pens, by reason of the extra friction of the tight
threads.
The table R Figure 3 being convex ensures an equal pressure of the threads on all
parts of the sheet of paper therefore the threads need not be nearly so tight, thereby
obviating the danger or liability of marking or indenting the paper.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the value of our inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. A machine for accurately ruling paper in stopped or intermittant patterns by
means of stopping gates as shewn in Figures 1 and 2 and the employment of
friction rollers working in conjunction with the said stopping gates.
2. A machine for ruling paper in which the travelling cloth is run over a convex
or arched table instead of a flat surface ensuring equal pressure of the threads on the
paper and confequently uniformity of movement.
3. A machine for ruling paper in which the threads are stretched by means of
weights.
4. The delivery of sheets of paper on to a table in an orderly manner by
means of an Apparatus consisting of scoops which receive and bend the paper into a
circular formn and so discharge it.
Dated this fith day of May. 1005
WM. JAMIESON.
W. HOWARD.