A Machine for Putting Calico, Paper, or other Binding Material upon the Corners of Paper, Strawboard, or other Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1888 .
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Machine for Putting Calico, Paper, or other Binding Material
upon the Corners of Paper, Strawboard, or other Boxes.
WILLIAM STRAIN Ingleside Windsor Park, Beifast Fancy box manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A machine to be used in the manufacture of Paper strawhoard or other boxes, its
purpose being to supersede the present manual mode of applying the binding material
to the corners of boxes.
The material gummed or glued previously and cut to a width to suit depth of
corner, is fed continuously off a roll and is moistned upon the gummed side by
rotery dampers as it passes unto the machine which machine is in the form of a
wheel.
As the machine revolves (by treadle or steam) the material is drawn on and pressed
upon small pin points and then cut across by a descending knife. Being still held by
the pin points each separate peice of material is carried round until it passes
between a saddle (under) on which the box to be cornered is placed and a presser
(above).
This presser then descends transferring the material from the pin points to the
corner of box and pressing it firmly thereon.
TL 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Machine for Putting Calico, Paper, or other Binding Material
upon the Corners of Paper, Strawboard, or other Boxes.
I, WILLIAM STRAIN of Ingleside, Windsor Park, Belfast, Ireland, Fancy box
manufacturer, 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 :-
Hitherto in manufacturing paper, strawboard and like boxes it has been the
practice to apply the linen or other binding material to the corners of the boxes by
hand.
The object of my invention is to perform this operation by means of machinery
whereby I am enabled to effect a great economy in labour and carry on the operation
at a much quicker rate of speed and with greater cleanliness.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation and
Figure 2 is a front elevation of a machine for applying calico, paper or other
binding material upon the corners of paper, strawboard and like boxes according to
my invention.
"Figures 3 to 11 are views of some of the parts drawn to an enlarged scale.
Figure 12 is a section of apparatus for applying cement to the binding material.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
The said machine comprises an intermittently revolving wheel a having a number
of radial arms or spokes b, b, b carrying horizontal arms c, c, c formed with slits d, d, d
on each side of which is a row of pins e, e, e.. This wheel receives a strip a¹
(figure 2) of binding material coming from an apparatus hereinafter described by
which it is coated with glue or other cement and the said wheel serves to feed
the strip forward, the distance between the spokes 6 being the width to be given
to the pieces of material. The pins e enter the material and hold it upon the wheel.

page_text: Above the wheel a is a knife blade ƒ fixed in a bar 9 on a vertically recipro-
cating slide h working in a guide i on the frame of the machine. This knife
blade is adapted to enter the slit d of each of the arms c as the latter is brought
beneath it thereby cutting the material a stretched between the spokes b and held by
the pins e. Figure 3 represents a side elevation of the knife blade fentering the slit
of one of the arms c. Figure 4 is a plan of the arm shewing its slit d and rows of
pins e.
The required up and down motion is given to the slide h by means of a crank
dise & shewn in figure 1 and in figure 9 which is a sectional front view of the machine
with the lower part broken off and the wheel a removed. The crank disc k is
also shewn detached in face view at figure 8. It is mounted on a shaft / driven by
any suitable means and the crank pin m thereof works in a recessed bearing n on the
back of the slide / as shewn in figures 1 and 9.
The wheel a is intermittently revolved by means of a connecting rod 61 jointed to a
pin e sliding in a slot formed in the guide i and to a lever d¹ working loosely on
the boss or sleeve a* of the wheel a and carrying a pawl n¹ for operating a ratchet
wheel e secured to the boss or sleeve a* of the feed wheel a.
The pin crests on the bearing n and, consequently, while the slide h and knife f
are rising, the connecting rod 61, lever d¹, pawl n¹ and ratchet wheel e¹ cause the feed
wheel a to revolve the distance between two of the arms c c. The pawl-lever d¹ is
lowered, when the slide h descends, through the medium of a spring m' attached to
the pin c and to the guide i. To ensure the wheel a stopping at the proper point, a
toothed disc f (shewn in figure 10 which is a plan of the disc, ratchet wheel, lever
and sleeve) is fixed to the boss a* and in this toothed disc engages a spring pawl or
detent o, figure 9, at each revolution of the main shaft l.
o is a spring-operated bar provided on its underside with blunt wire pins p and
carried on an arm q pivotted at r to the guide i. It has an arm s which bears
upon the periphery of the crank disc k, as clearly shown in figure 5 which is an
elevation of the bar and crank disc. The periphery of the crank disc is formed
with a depression t into which, at each revolution, the arm s enters, thereby causing
the bar to bear upon the material and, by its weight, press the same onto the
pins e of the arm c immediately following the one under the knife.
The pieces of material a², (figure 2) as they are cut off by the knife f, are retained
upon the spokes & by means of the pins e, and each one is successively carried round
by the wheel until it arrives at the lowermost position of the spokes which carry it;
and immediately over a saddle u adapted to receive and support the corner of the
box to which the piece a² of material is to be applied.
The lower end of the slide carries a pair of rectangular arms v, vl, v, v₁ pivotted
thereto at ww, and the horizontal portions of these arms have spring rollers x, x
mounted therein, as shewn in figure 6 which a front elevation of the lower part of
the slide and its guide together with the said arms, rollers and saddle; also in
figure 7 which is a longitudinal elevation of part of the saddle and of one of the arms
with its roller, and also in figure 11 which is a similar view, drawn to, a larger scale,
of part of the said arm and roller. The rollers a, a, as they are moved downwards by
the slide h, press the piece a², of material off the pins e and onto the corner of the box,
thereby properly stretching it over the said corner. The rollers, as clearly shewn in
figure 11, are so mounted in the arms v, v¹ that they will not revolve while they are
moving down over and pressing the material but will revolve as they return in order
to avoid dragging the material back. This is effected by forming the inner end of
each roller a with ratchet shaped teeth engaging with similar teeth on a non-rotating
disc p¹ sliding on the pivot pin 9' of the roller .. The disc is kept in engagement
with the roller by a spring r. It will be obvious that the rollers a are free to revolve
in one direction but cannot revolve in the other direction.
The apparatus for glueing or cementing the strip a' of material is represented in
figure 12 and comprises a vessel y for containing water heated by gas or steam in a
chamber beneath the same.
glue in which rotates a roller h¹ in contact with another roller
Within the vessel y is another vessel containing th
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between which

page_text: latter roller and a smaller roller
glue is thus transferred from the
material a¹. A pair of adjustable
as to scrape off the glue from all
into contact with it.
passes the material unwound from a reel k¹. The
roller h¹ to the roller ¹ and from the roller to the
scrapers are arranged at each end of the roller i¹ so'
parts of the roller except where the material comes
11.
The operation is as follows:
The strawboard or other material to forin the box having been cut and scored and
the edges bent up all round in the usual manner until the corners meet, the box, thus
partly formed, is placed upon the saddle u with the apex of the saddle under the
corner to which the material is to be applied.
The machine being set in motion by any suitable driving mechanism applied to the
main shaft 1, the end of the strip a¹ of calico or other material coming from the
glueing apparatus, figure 12, is first placed under the bar o, the glued surface being
upwards, and the wheel a remains stationary while the bar descends and presses the
material onto the pins e of the arm c which is immediately under the same. The
wheel a then revolves the extent of one spoke thereby bringing the end of the
strip a under the knife f which descends and cuts it off and the following arm c
under the bar o which then fixes the material on the pins e thereof, the knife mean-
while being raised; the wheel a again revolves the extent of one spoke, the knife
descends and cuts off a piece or strip of the material, and the bar o presses the
material onto the pins of the arm c which is now beneath it. The knife fagain rises,
the material is again fed forward, another strip is cut off by the knife, and so on, the
strips of material a² being successively carried round upon the arms c of the wheel a
until they come immediately over the saddle u when the reciprocating slide h, during
the dwell of the wheel a, carries down the rollers x, x which press the strip a², now
having its glued surface downwards, off the pins e and onto the corner of the box.
The rollers then rise, another corner is presented on the saddle u, the wheel brings
another glued strip over the same and the rollers press it onto the corner of the box
and so on.
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It will be observed that while the rollers x are descending and applying a strip a²
to a corner of the box the knife is simultaneously descending and cutting off a strip
so that the action of the machine is continuous.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :---
(1) A machine adapted to sever portions of paper or other binding material from a
continuous strip and to apply the severed pieces to the corners of boxes substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
(2) A machine for applying pieces of calico, paper or other binding material upon
the corners of paper, strawboard and like boxes the said machine comprising a
revolving wheel on which the strip of material coming from a cementing apparatus is
held and upon which the severance of pieces from the strip is effected, the wheel then
carrying the pieces to the required position for being applied to the corner of the box
substantially as herein before described.
(3) In a machine for applying pieces of calico, paper or other binding material
upon the corners of paper, strawboard and like boxes, the use of a wheel having an
intermittent movement upon its axis, and the spokes of which carry horizontal arms
provided with pins for holding the material, in each of which arms a slit is formed for
receiving a knife blade, serving to sever the pieces of material to be applied to
the box corners, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
(4) In a machine for applying pieces of calico, paper or other binding material
upon the corners of paper, strawboard and like boxes the combination with an inter-
mittently operating wheel such as a of a reciprocating knife serving to sever the
material to be applied to the box corners, reciprocating pressing rollers for pressing
the pieces on the corners and a saddle for supporting the box whilst the said pieces

page_text: are being applied substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
7.
(5) The use in combination with,a,machine of the kind herein before described, of
the mechanism for applying glue,or cement to the material substantially as set forth
and illustrated in figure 12 of the accompanying drawings.
(6) The improved machine herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings and operating, as, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 19th CA: 1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.