A NEW APPARATUS FOR TAKING OFF FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE MACHINES RULED OR PRINTED PAPER IN A DRY STATE
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred John Parker at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1877.
ALFRED JOHN PARKER, of 5, Arlington Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer. "A NEW APPARATUS FOR TAKING OFF FROM THEIR
RESPECTIVE MACHINES RULED OR PRINTED PAPER IN A DRY STATE."
This apparatus is intended for the purpose of keeping the ruled or printed sheets
of paper separate from each other after leaving the ruling or other machine
sufficient time to enable them to dry before being packed together.
The apparatus consists of two vertical standards secured to each other by suitable
frames, and placed parallel to the ruling or other machine, the standards being
separated from each other a distance somewhat greater than the width of the
largest sheet of paper for which the machine is intended.
Between these standards revolve two horizontal rollers fixed on axles working in
suitable bearings, the one roller being placed some distance above the other.
Motion is conveyed to these rollers by machinery gearing in connection with the
ruling or other machine; by means of toothed wheels both rollers are caused to
rotate at precisely the same speed.
Two endless bands, belts, or flat chains work on the rollers at equidistant points,
and to these belts, bands, or chains, are attached at regular distances apart a number
of carriers, each carrier being formed of six or more metal, wooden, or other light
rods, and supported by small brackets in such a manner that they are held in a
horizontal position when they receive the sheets from the ruling or other machine,
in which position any required number of sheets are carried a distance equal to
that which separates two axles of the rollers from each other. Thus the lowest
carrier receives the sheet, which being elevated the necessary height, the second
carrier and all the others in rotation receive their respective sheets, which, by the
action of the endless band or chain, are carried to the upper roller, when they
gradually change from the horizontal to the vertical position, and eventually again
assume the horizontal position on the opposite of the endless chain when the sheets

page_text: are reversed, and on reading the bottom are discharged by a cord on an inclined
plane.
The method of operation is as follows:-The sheets on leaving the ruling or other
machine are conveyed in succession by a series of endless cords in a horizontal
position put in motion by two groved rollers, the rods forming the carriers passing
freely between and parallel to the cords, the upper part of which is slightly above
each of the carriers as they come in succession to receive their respective sheets.
A roller, to which the endless cords are attached, and which is set in motion by
a band or chain, is in immediate contact with the ruling or other machine, from
which it takes off the sheet and conveys it on to the carriers, which is immediately
lifted by the action of the endless chain, when another carrier is ready for another
sheet, and thus the action is continuous.
By these means all the sheets in succession are kept separate whilst passing
from the lowest part of the endless band or chain over the top roller and
descending on to the other side of the endless band, thus allowing sufficient time
for the ink thereon to dry.