An Automatic Counter Paper Printing, Inking, and Cutting Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Counter Paper Printing, Inking, and Cutting
Apparatus.
ROBERT JAMES WHITE 1564 Blackstock Road Finsbury Park London N.
Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improvement in apparatus for printing, inking the same, and cutting rolled
counter paper automatically.
A square oblong or three sided frame or case so arranged with two slots or
grooves extending nearly from top to bottom of two sides so as to admit of a
number of rollers with spindle ends fitting grooves or slots resting upon each
other so as to communicate a rotary motion, the bottom roller, which for
convenience hereinafter I call the ink roller and under which an ink well is
placed extending the whole length of the roller, so that the whole of the under
part of the roller is immersed in the ink to be used, the next roller immediately
above and resting on the ink roller is one I call a squeegee roller and is for the
purpose of squeezing the over quantity of ink off-that the roller may have
picked up yet still retaining enough for inking the printing or third roller which
in its turn rests and rotates on the squeegee roller and is so arranged with ordinary
type steriotype rubber or any other printing type, that I call this the printing
roller.
A roll of paper with spindle centres that fit in slots or grooves is placed on the
printing roller so that its centres have free play up and down in the grooves or
slots, the paper printing to the last. The paper when pulled causes all the rollers
to rotate, the paper to be printed and to pass out of the front of the apparatus
between the knife and knife and knife board the knife of which is swung at the
centre of the two ends so that when the paper is being cut the pressure throws the
back edge of the knife on the paper a little farther back which prevents it from
shifting, the knife also projects a little over the board allowing you to get hold of
the paper again after the last was cut off.
For use in places where any length of time elapses before the paper is used
again or when it is left all night and particularly if the paper is of a thin texture
the ink is apt to stick to or tare the paper therefore making it necessary. to
disengage the printing roller from the paper directly after each turn or use of the
paper. Therefore the roll of paper is rested on an independant small roller fixed,
not for the purpose of printing right to the end, but for the purpose of moderating
the speed and preventing too much coming off at each pull.
Another plain and independant roller is fixed immediately between the last
named roller and the printing roller between which the paper is carried, then over
a little roller for the purpose of leverage-at the end of a lever or crank acting
excentrically on the frame for the purpose of raising the three rollers, ink,
squeegee, and printer which still rest on each other in a groove or slot made to rise
and fall in a groove or slot or between guides so that the printing roller comes into
contact with the paper running against the fixed roller above it caused by the
pressure of the paper on the the roller at the end of lever or crank, and prints.
The rollers can be padded rubbered gellatined typed &c. to be discribed here-
after, the grooves can be divided and removeable in slots or placed and fastened
onto the frame and can have screw holes at the back so that stops can be inserted
in the grooves for the purpose of making any of the rollers or roll of paper an
independant fixture.
The frame can have two sides only if desired.

page_text: The ink well or dis can be made part of or fixed to the bottom of the grooves
for the purpose of making the apparatus changeable for either mode as explained.
Dated this 11th of October 1892.
ROBERT JAMES WHITE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Counter Paper Printing, Inking, and Cutting
Apparatus.
ROBERT JAMES WHITE 156* Blackstock Road Finsbury Park, N. Inventor
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:
Since sending in my Provisional Specification I find the apparatus as shown in
the annexed drawings to be the most satisfactory and therefore shall confine myself
to describing the manner in which it is worked.
Figure 1 in drawings shows front elevation.
Figure 2 is a cross section.
Figure 3 is a plan showing grooves in castings.
Figure 4 shape of rollers plain.
Figure 5 shape of rollers preventing pads &c. working to one side or the other.
Figure 6 shape of rubber stamp.
Letters A are two upright frame castings with grooves as shown in Figure 3 and
strengthened as shown in Figure 1 standing on & fastened to a wooden or other base,
they are made alike so that the rollers can be used on either side. There are three
rollers working in the long or principal groove C the ink pad & weight carrying
roller B the printing roller which carries the rubber H Figure 6 or other stamp
& G the roll of paper which is so placed that when in motion it prints from the
roller B & unrolls by way of guide rollers F which are ordinary rollers allowing
the ink to dry before being used.
:
The paper is cut by knife L which is swung under roller F 2 & one side of which
presses against the roller F 2 & keeps the paper & roller firm while the paper 18
pulled down & cut with the other side, the knife can be swung so that the paper
can be cut upwards or downwards.
The ink is conveyed from the duct K, by roller E (which has upon its smaller
periphery a narrow band J. Figure 2) to roller D. which rests on rollers C & E
not going to the bottom of the groove which is only meant to keep it in its place
(different sized rollers can be used). Roller D distributes the ink on roller C &
inks the stamp & thence to the paper the distributing roller D can be easily removed
& inked seperately if prefered.
The inking pads are put round the small periphery of the roller Figure 4 a little
under a little wider than the rubber stamp or between guides as shown on Figure 5
which prevents the pads from working to one side or the other.
All the rollers are made one shape so that the pads & stamp can work without
the ink getting on the ends of the rollers (which carry the weight) & making a
mess on the paper.
The rubber stamp I should have a wide flange beyond the type as shown in
Figure 6 so that it can have eyelett holes for the purpose of taking on & off or
changing stamps.
The rollers are pinned at each end & the whole weight is on the pins of the
bottom roller.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said invention
& in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim to is:-
1st. Rollers so shaped as described & shown in drawings, Figures 1, 4 & 5 for
the purpose of printing or conveying the ink therefore.

page_text: 2nd. Two or more such rollers working in two perpendicular grooves as shown in
Figure 3 for the purpose of carrying inking & printing a roll of paper & obtaining
their motion from unrolling the paper by pulling the end & without the use of cogs
or other force.
3rd. I also claim the mode in which the roll of paper is placed in the same long
groove (as shown in drawings) & printed direct.
4th & last I claim the swing knife (as shown in drawings which holds the paper
tight at one side & cuts it at the other.
Dated this 11th day of July 1893.
ROBERT JAMES WHITE,
Applicant.