An Improvement in Paging and Numbering Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Paging and Numbering Machines.
I, JOSEPH THOMAS PRICE of Wild Court, Great Queen Street, London W.C.
Wholesale and Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to machines for numbering the pages of account and other
books, and it has for its object to provide means whereby a paging machine
operated by hand may be readily converted into a treadle-operated machine
without the employment of a special supporting stand as employed in treadle-
operated machines now in use.
By means of my improvement any ordinary hand paging machine fixed in the
usual manner upon an ordinary work-bench may be readily adapted to be worked
by foot-power, so as to leave both the operator's hands at liberty, without involving
the expense of a special stand.
In carrying out my invention, I connect, to the swinging frame in which the
numbering wheels are mounted, (at about the place at which the ordinary handle is
attached) a joint, to which is coupled a connecting-rod, extending rearwardly over
the bench or table, jointed at its other end to the upwardly-rising member of a bell-
crank lever pivoted below the bench and whose other member constitutes the
treadle, by depressing which the numbering-wheel mechanism is brought into
operation.
A spring is applied, preferably to the bell-crank, to return the mechanism to its
normal position.
Dated this 30th day of March 1892.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Paging and Numbering Machines.
I JOSEPH THOMAS PRICE of Wild Court, Great Queen Street, London, W.C.
Wholesale and Manufacturing Stationer, 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 aud by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the means of operating machines for numbering the
pages of account and other books, which are numbered after they are bound, and it
bas for its object to provide means whereby a hand operated paging machine may
be readily converted into a treadle-operated machine without the necessity of
providing a special supporting stand as employed in treadle operated machines.
Thus any ordinary hand operated paging machine now in use and which is fixed
in the usual manner upon an ordinary work bench may be readily adapted to be
worked by foot power so that both the operator's hands will be left at liberty for
turning the leaves of the book as the numbering proceeds without involving the
expense of a special stand.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification in which Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation and Figure 2 a rear
elevation of an ordinary hand operated paging machine fixed on a work bench and
provided with my improved treadle attachment. The same letters of reference
indicate the same parts in both figures.

page_text: The paging machine is of the ordinary construction and does not need to be
described, but in place of the usual bandle for working it there is connected to the
swinging frame a in which the numbering wheels bare mounted a joint knuckle e to
which is coupled a connecting rod d extending rearwardly over the bench or table
and jointed at its other end e to the upwardly rising member of a bell crank
lever carried by a rock shaft g mounted in A frames fixed to the floor or other
convenient point the other member of the bell crank lever constituting the
treadle, by depressing which the numbering wheel mechanism is brought into
operation in the same way as by pulling forward the handle for which this
mechanism is substituted and which is represented in dotted lines, the joint
knuckle c being supposed to be fixed by a set screw screwing into the handle
socket.
A spring is applied preferably by being connected to the treadle to return
the mechanism to its normal position when the pressure is removed from the
treadle.
In order to enable the treadle mechanism to be adapted to benches of different
heights, the member of the bell crank is constructed in two lengths f', f
connected together by two bolts passing through a longitudinal slot in the one and
holes in the other so as to admit of this member being lengthened or shortened us
required, the necessary stiffness being obtained by a strut connected to the lower
part and to the treadle. The upper part f¹ is bent to a swan neck form so as to
enable it to clear the leaves of the book being numbered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination with a hand operated paging or numbering machine, of treadle
mechanism capable of being adjusted to suit the height of the bench on which the
machine is fixed, and which is connected to and operates the swinging number
wheel frame in the manner described.
Dated the 904 1.
Desemb
1000
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
J. T. PRICE,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.