IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OUT AND AFFIXING LABELS TO BOBBINS AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Paterson, of Paisley, in the County
of Renfrew, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CUTTING OUT AND AFFIXING LABELS TO BOBBINS AND IN APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
Scaled the 30th June 1871, and dated the 7th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Paterson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th January 1871.
I, HENRY PATERSON, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North
Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of “IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CUTTING OUT AND AFFIXING LABELS TO BOBBINS AND IN APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREFOR," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention, which relates to a rapid and efficient mode of cutting
out labels from the sheet and affixing them to the ends of bobbins
whereon yarns, cotton, silk, or thread' are wound and in the means
employed for effecting these operations, consists in placing the bobbins
on the ends of which the labels are to be affixed into a plate or recep-

page_text: tacle provided with circular recesses corresponding to the diameter of
the bobbins. The said plate or receptacle is placed in or upon a litho
graphic or other press. The sheet having the labels printed or lithographed
thereon and provided with gum on its under side is placed between plates
or in a receptacle having circular holes therein corresponding to the
diameter of the said labels, the centres of the holes in the said plate
or receptacle and the centres of the labels on the printed or litho-
graphed sheet corresponding to the centres of the holes in the plate or
receptacle wherein the bobbins are placed. When the sheet of labels
is placed between the plates or in a receptacle, as herein-before described,
the gummed side is exposed to the action of steam and the gum is
thereby moistened over the exposed part, after which the plate or
receptacle containing the moistened sheet is placed over the plate
containing the bobbins, and cutters are then placed in the holes over
the labels, after which the plates or receptacles containing the bobbins,
sheet of labels, and cutters are passed through the press, which has
the effect of cutting the labels out of the sheet and affixing them on
the bobbins.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,'
filed by the said Henry Paterson in the Great Seal Patent Office 2
on the 6th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
PATERSON, of Paisley, in the County of Renfrew, North Britain,.
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 35th
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henry Paterson, Her special license, that I,
the said Henry Paterson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or a
such others as I, the said Henry Paterson, my executors, administrators,
or assigns; should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully. might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
.
"

page_text: and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OUT AND
AFFIXING LABELS TO BOBBINS AND IN APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Paterson, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Paterson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention which, relates to a rapid and efficient mode of
cutting out labels from the sheet and affixing them to the ends of
bobbins, whereon yarns, cotton, silk, or thread are wound, and in
the means employed for effecting these operations, consists in placing
the bobbins on the ends of which the labels are to be affixed into a
plate or receptacle provided with circular recesses corresponding to
the diameter of the bobbins. The said plate or receptacle is placed
in or upon a lithographic or other press. The sheet having the labels
printed or lithographed thereon and provided with gum on its under
side is placed between plates or in a receptacle having circular holes
therein corresponding to the diameter of the said labels, the centres
of the holes in the said plate or receptacle and the centres of the
labels on the printed or lithographed sheet corresponding to the
centres of the holes in the plate or receptacle wherein the bobbins
are placed. When the sheet of labels is placed between the plates
or in a receptacle, as herein-before described, the gummed side is
exposed to the action of steam and the gum is thereby moistened
over the exposed part, after which the plate or receptacle containing
the moistened sheet is placed over the plate containing the bobbins,
and cutters are then placed in the holes over the labels, after which
the plates or receptacles containing the bobbins, sheet of labels, and
cutters are passed through the press, which has the effect of cutting
the labels out of the sheet and affixing them on the bobbins.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood,
I now proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner,

page_text: in or under which the same is or may be used or practically carried into
effect, that is to say:
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Upon the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended, Figure 1 is a
vertical section shewing certain parts in elevation of my improved
apparatus for cutting out and affixing labels to bobbins, having a
series of bobbins in position for being operated upon; Figure 2 is a
plan of that part of the apparatus herein-after described as the bobbin
receptacle A, with the bobbin situated thercon; Figure 3 is a plan
of the upper or stamp carrying plates B and B', with the stamps. or
cutters a placed therein; and Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a
part plan and a transverse section of that part of the apparatus herein-
after described as the steaming plate C. The same letters of reference
mark the same parts upon the different Figures on which they occur.
The lower part of the bobbin receptacle A is constructed of wood or
other suitable material having a. thin plate 6, of iron or other metal
secured to its upper surface by means of screws c, shewn in plan at
Figure 2, the plate having a series of holes drilled or otherwise
accurately formed therein equidistant from each other, and into each of
which the end of a bobbin D, opposite to that upon which it is desired
to have the label affixed is inserted, and thereby maintaining in a vertical
position as shewn at Figure 1. And my apparatus further consists
of a pair of upper or stamp carrying plates B and B', held at a short
distance apart from each other by means of the screws d, Figures 1
and 3, the distance apart corresponding to the thickness of the heads
or solid washers e formed upon the stamps or cutters a, the stems of
which are passed through holes drilled or otherwise accurately formed
in the plate B¹, the holes being equidistant from each other and having
their centres accurately pitched to correspond with the centres of the
holes formed in the plate b. In conjunction with the several parts
of my apparatus herein-before described I employ a steaming plate C,
a part of which is shewn in plan at Figure 4, and in transverse section
at Figure 5. This plate is of about the same superficial dimensions
as the plate B¹ and similarly perforated with holes f as shewn, the
object for which will herein-after be more particularly set forth.
Having now described the form and construction of the apparatus
constituting my said Invention, the manner whereby it operates will
be more clearly understood, as follows:-The bobbins D, upon one end
of which it is desired to have labels affixed, are arranged by the hand

page_text: of an attendant upon the receiving plate A, as shown at Figures 1 and 2,
after which a sheet of about the same superficial dimensions as the
stamp carrying plate B₁ and steaming plate c, whereon the labels to
be affixed have previously. been printed or lithographed in rows, and
pitched so that their centres will correspond with the centres of the
perforations in the steaming plate C is stretched, the side of the sheet
opposite to that upon which the labels are printed or lithographed being.
covered with a thin layer of gum is placed upon or next to the metal
and so adjusted that the labels will be accurately placed over the
perforations. The plate C is then placed upon a steaming box or
chest, which may be of any convenient form or arrangement, and the
steam rising therefrom and passing up through the perforations fin
the plate. C moistens the gum upon those parts of the sheet, namely,
at the back of the labels which are exposed to its action, after which'
the plate C, and with it the sheet of labels is removed and placed over
the upper ends of the bobbins D with the labels upwards. Thus a
label becomes accurately situated at the centre of each bobbin, which
position is at once obtained by means of register marks being printed
or lithographed on the margin of the sheet. These marks being placed
over perforations h in the edge of the plate C, which receive the
extremities of the vertical studs g projecting upwards from the receiving
plate A. When this adjustment of the labels has been effected, the
upper parts of the apparatus, namely, the stamp carrying plates B
and B, and with them the stamp or cutters a, are placed in the
position shewn at Figure 1, and being subjected to a pressure either
by hand or by means of being placed into a lithographic or other press
(preferably, one with a vertical action) the lower face of each of the
cutters or stamps a, accurately covering a label cuts it out from the
sheet and carrying it downwards through a perforation fin the plate
C, finally presses it down upon the end of a bobbin D, to which it
adheres by means of the moistened gum upon its lower face, as herein-
before set forth.
It is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the seant form

page_text: that although in the foregoing description the centres of the labels
as printed upon the sheets have been described as corresponding to
the centres of the bobbins when arranged upon the receiving plate,
yet labels filling the intervening spaces may be printed or lithographed
upon the same sheet and after the first set of bobbins has been labelled
the sheet can be shifted and what was previously the intervening
labels brought to correspond with the centres of a new set of bobbins.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the
system, mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion
that what I consider novel and original and therefore claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the cutting out and affixing of labels to bobbins and the
apparatus employed therefor, substantially as herein-before set forth
and shown upon 'the accompanying Drawings or any mere modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Paterson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of July One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.