Machinery or Apparatus for Conveying Away and Collating into Packs the Cards Cut in Rotary Card-cutting Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1900
PACTADIONAL DICITIUAILION.
Machinery or Apparatus for Conveying Away and Collating into Packs
the Cards Cut in Rotary Card-cutting Machines.
We, JOHN JOINT, of 40, Greville Road, Southville, Bristol, Bookbinder, and
E. S. & A. ROBINSON, LIMITED, of Redcliff Street, Bristol, Wholesale Stationers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in machinery or apparatus by which cards cut in
rotary card-cutting machines are conveyed away after cutting and are collated
into packs. The collation is effected mechanically, the cards being collated in
a tray with their faces all one way and in proper disposition.
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The card-conveving and collating machinery or apparatus which constitutes
this invention is as follows: Behind the rotary cutter and at a suitable distance
therefrom is arranged an endless conveyer band. The conveyer, which is passed
at each end over rollers, is arranged parallel with the rotary cutter shaft. At
one side of the card-cutting machine is a pulley keyed on the main driving shaft.
Over this pulley is passed a band which is also passed over cond pulley
secured on a spindle supported in a bracket fixed to the machine table. This
spindle, which is parallel with the main driving shaft, has a bevel wheel centred
on it and with this bevel wheel gears a second bevel wheel carried upon a second
spindle which carries the roller over which the conveyer band runs at that side
of the machine. The roller at the other side of the machine is free and is
placed in suitable proximity to the tray which receives the cut cards.
The conveyer band is always in motion except at such times as it is arrested
to receive the cut cards, as hereinafter set forth.
The second spindle carrying the second bevel wheel is fitted with a clutch
brake to which are secured springs which, by their tension, keep, in the absence
of a counteracting force, the clutch brake in such position as to arrest motion
of the conveyer which, when freed from the restraint of the clutch brake, is
on motion.
Connected to the feed-bar lever is a rod which is telescoped into a sleeve which
is connected to the clutch aforesaid. The rod carries a stud which projects
through a closed slot in the sleeve and normally lies against the outer end of the
slot, the conveyer being then in motion.
When the operator of the card-cutting machine operates the feed treadle and
so moves the feed mechanism to present a sheet of cards to the cutter, as is
well understood, the rod above referred to as telescoped into a sleeve is moved
forward in the direction of the feed and, the sleeve acting upon the clutch,
causes the latter to arrest the motion of the conveyer, the driving band of the
conveyer mechanism "skidding" or ceasing to bind on the second pulley afore-
said. The cards, after having been cut, are delivered on to the conveyer, and
when the operator allows the treadle to resume its normal position the clutch
is again acted upon, giving motion to the conveyer which carries the cards to
the collating tray.

page_text: Suspended over the tray is a guard and guide so shaped and placed as, while
permitting the cards to pass into the tray, to act upon them in such manner that,
with the co-operation of a specially-shaped end to the tray, the cards become
piled in a pack with their faces all one way and in proper disposition, that is
to say, with their faces, sides, and ends corresponding throughout.
The tray is open at one or both sides so that the piled pack of cards is readily
withdrawn.
Machinery or Apparatus for Conveying Away and Collating into Packs
the Cards Cut in Rotary Card-cutting Machines.
We, JOHN JOINT, of 40, Greville Road, Southville, Bristol, Bookbinder, and
E. S. & A. ROBINSON, LIMITED, of Redcliff Street, Bristol, Wholesale Stationers,
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 fol-
lowing statement:-
This invention consists in machinery or apparatus by which cards cut in
rotary card-cutting machines are conveyed away after cutting and are collated
into packs. The collation is effected mechanically, the cards being collated in
a tray with their faces all one way and in proper disposition.
The card-conveying and collating machinery or apparatus which constitutes
this invention is as follows; Behind the rotary cutter and at a suitable distance
therefrom is arranged an endless conveyer band a. The conveyer, which is passed
at each end over rollers b, b', is arranged parallel with the rotary cutter shaft c.
At one side of the card-cutting machine is a pulley d keyed on the main driving
shaft. Over this pulley is passed a band e which is also passed over a second
pulley secured on a spindle g supported in a bracket fixed to the machine table.
This spindle g, which is parallel with the main driving shaft, has a bevel wheel h
centred on it and with this bevel wheel gears a second bevel wheel carried
upon a second spindle & which carries the roller b over which the conveyer band a
runs at that side of the machine. The roller at the other side of the machine is
free and is placed in suitable proximity to the tray which receives the cut
cards.
The conveyer band
is always in motion except at such times as it is arrested
as hereinafter set forth.
to receive the cut cards,
The second spindle which carries a second bevel wheel at one end, is
fitted at the other end with a clutch brake, which clutch brake is composed of
a bevelled socket m into which a leather faced plunger m¹ is forced by means of
two springs pp, thereby arresting the motion of the spindle and the conveyer
band a connected thereto, during the time the cut cards are being delivered upon
the said conveyer band w. After the cards are delivered on the conveyer
feed bar lever 9 returns to its normal position thus causing the sleeved rod r.
which connects the feed bar lever 9 by means of the sleeves and the stud t to
the plunger m¹ of the clutch brake m to release the pressure from the clutch and
so allow the conveyer band a to resume its motion and carry away the cut cards
to the receiving box 7.
the
When the operator of the card-cutting machine operates the feed treadle and
so moves the feed mechanism to present a sheet of cards to the cutter, as is

page_text: well understood, the rod r telescoped into the sleeve s is moved forward in the
direction of the feed and, the sleeves acting upon the clutch m, m causes the
latter to arrest the motion of the conveyer a,. the driving band of the conveyer
mechanism skidding" or ceasing to. bind on the second pulley f aforesaid.
The cards, after having been cut, are delivered on to the conveyer a, and when
the operator allows the treadle to resume its normal position the clutch m is
again acted upon, giving motion to the conveyer a which carries the cards to
the collating tray 1.
The collating tray / is a shaped metal box consisting of a flat bottom, an
undulated side u, and an adjustable side . The side u¹ is adjusted by means
of set screws 11. to the size card being collated. Over the shaped side u is sus-
pended a guard and guide w consisting of a thin piece of sheet metal, so shaped
as to form in conjunction with the side u, a passage for the cut cards as they
are being delivered from the conveyer band. The object of the sheet metal guard
and guide w is to keep the cut cards face upwards as they are being delivered,
and to prevent the cards turning over, while they are dropping into the tray 1.
The tray is open at one or both sides so that the piled pack of cards is
readily withdrawn.
Having now described and ascertained our said invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. In a new and improved attachment for rotary card-cutting machines for
conveying away and collating the cut cards the combination of a conveyor band,
means for intermittingly operating the same and a collating tray in connection
with said band, substantially as described.
2. In a
new and improved away-conveying and collating attachment for
rotary card cutting machines, the combination of an endless conveying band,
means for driving the same and a friction brake in connection with said band
and adapted to regulate the motion of the same so as to properly conform with
the working of the said machine, substantially as described.
3. In a new and improved away-conveying attachment for rotary card-cutting
machines, the combination of a pulley mounted upon the driving shaft of the
machine, a spindle parallel to said shaft a second pulley thereon, a band con-
necting said pulleys, a second spindle in gear connection with said first, a roller
on said second spindle, a second roller, an endless conveying band, and a fric-
tion brake engaging said second spindle and adapted to regulate the motion of
said conveying band to the requirements of said machine substantially as
described.
4. In a new and improved away-carrying and collating attachment for rotary
card-cutting machines, the combination of a tray, an endless conveying band
adjacent thereto, means for transmitting driving power to said band from the
driving shaft of said machine and a clutch brake adapted when closed to
neutralize said driving power, arresting the motion of said band while loading
the latter, substantially as described.
5. In a new and improved away-carrying and collating attachment for rotary
card cutting machines, the combination of a pair of rollers, an endless con-
veying band engaging the same, a governing rod secured to the feel bar of said
machine, a sleeve surrounding the opposite end of said rod and provided with
a slot therein, a stud on the enclosed end of said rod passing through said slot,
a clutch brake secured to said sleeve and adapted to engage one of said rollers,
and means for transmitting motion to said conveying band and regulated by said
brake, substantially as described.
6. In a new and improved away-carrying and collating attachment for rotary
card cutting machines, the combination of a tray, an adjustable side and a
peculiarly shaped end piece thereto, a specially shaped guide piece in connec-
tion with said tray, a conveying band passing to said guide, and means for con-

page_text: trolling the motion of said band in conformity with the action of said machine,
substantially as described.
7. In a new and improved away-carrying and collating attachment for rotary
card cutting machines, the combination of a tray, an adjustable side and a par-
ticularly curved end piece thereto, a compound curved guide which in combina-
tion with said end piece is adapted to stack said cards in a successively similar
'position and an intermittingly conveying band adjacent thereto substantially as
described.
Dated this 28th day of August. 1899.
E. S. & A. ROBINSON, LIMITED,
ARTHUR ROBINSON,
Managing Director,
JOHN JOINT.
HENRY ADDISCOTT,
Secretary.