"Fanning" Out, Separating, or for Feeding Sheets of Paper or the like for Gumming, Bordering, Pasting, Ruling, Printing, or other like Operation.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1888°
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Fanning" Out,
Separating, or for Feeding Sheets of Paper or the like for
Gumming, Bordering, Pasting, Ruling, Printing, or other like
Operation.
Improved Appliances or Means for Spacing,
I, WILLIAM COWPER PELLATT, of 76 Endwell Road, Brockley, County of Kent,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates principally to the manufacture and employment of toothed
or studded rollers, spindles, or shafts arranged under or upon a pile of sheets of
paper or other material, said toothed or studded rollers, spindles, or shafts being used,
preferably, in conjunction with endless bands or with tapes, with means for fencing
the pile to assist in the "Register" or amount of overlap according to the intended
after operation.
The toothed or the studded rollers, spindles, or shafts, may have a continuous or an
intermittent motion imparted to them, singly or in pairs, and grippers or grip rollers
may be so arranged that by their speed, they take the spaced or fanned out, or the
separated sheet and deliver it to a machine.
If grippers be fitted for the purpose, they may have a reciprocating action for
taking the sheet and then delivering it.
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Avmment 1000
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said William Cowper Pellatt.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances or Means for Spacing, "Fanning Out,"
Separating, or for Feeding Sheets of Paper or the like. for
Gumming, Bordering, Pasting, Ruling, Printing, or other like
Operation.
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I, WILLIAM COWPER PELLATT, of 76 Endwell Road. Brockley, County of Kent,
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates principally to the manufacture and employment of toothed
or studded rollers, spindles, or shafts arranged under or upon a pile of sheets of paper
or other material, said toothed or studded rollers, spindles, or shafts being used,
preferably, in conjunction with endless bands or with tapes, with means for fencing
the pile to assist in the "Register" or amount of overlap according to the intended
after operation.
The toothed or the studded rollers, spindles, or shafts may have a continuous, or an
intermittent motion imparted to them, singly or in pairs, and grippers or grip rollers
may be so arranged that by their speed they take the spaced or fanned out, or the
separated sheet and deliver it to a machine.
If grippers be fitted for the purpose they may have a reciprocating or intermittent
action for taking the sheet and then delivering it.
My invention is clearly represented in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a part sectional elevation of an example of my invention. Figure 2 a
perspective elevation of sufficient of an apparatus to enable my invention to be under-
stood, supposing the apparatus to be fitted to that part of a machine into which sheets
of paper or other material have to be fed for ruling, printing, colouring, embossing,
or other analogous purposes.

page_text: A, A, are rollers which may be of metal, wood, or other material having on the
outer surface, at intervals, rings of studs B, B, and mounted on shafts C fitted in
bearings below a table D, so that the studs B project through apertures in the table D
to lift the paper, or other material from that part of the table from where the studs
are situate.
The sheets of paper when placed above the table D in superposed order are
retained against a fence E which is adjustable on the table D to suit the sizes of
sheets of paper to be placed thereon and held in the required position by the fly
nuts F, F.
Just in front of the fence E, I arrange a brake board G and by means of screws H,
said board as a brake can be adjusted as to height, so as to relieve the pressure of the
bottom edges of the paper against the fence E, it is also adjustable as to position to
suit large or small sheets of paper. The rollers A, A, on which the studs B are
arranged, are by means of gearing I, J, K, driven at the same speed but said gearing
and rollers may vary in speed, if it be necessary.
The studs B, B, on the rollers which rotate at a great speed bear the weight of the
pile of paper and from their rubbing or frictional contact, the bottom sheet of the
pile is moved toward and under a leather, rubber, a composition or other check
piece L which is hold between side cheeks M, M, of an appliance for regulating the
passage of the paper underneath it, the paper being gradually pressed forward by
the studs B on the rollers A and be passed through a couple of plates N, N, having
a narrowed outlet, so that as the paper projects therefrom it is caught between a
pair of rollers P, P, which carry endless tapes Q, Q, for catching the paper and
passing it along to any machine for the desired after operation on the paper.
R is a guide or fence for keeping the sheets of paper square while passing along
by the endless tapes Q, Q, particularly if the tapes be twisted in the direction of the
side register they carry the paper to said fence and ensure accurate delivery of
the sheets.
The leather, rubber, or composition guaging piece L is adjustable by screw S to
suit the different thicknesses of paper which may be fed by my apparatus or appliance
and to facilitate the spacing "fanning out" or separating of different qualities of
paper, such as glazed and unglazed, 1 hinge the front part of my table D to any
suitable frame by the lugs or cars T which enables me to adjust the angle at which
the table D shall be set for that purpose.
The appliances M and L are capable of adjustinent, so that they act together as a
check bar and the degree of hardness to the rubber strip L, if rubber be used, can be
determined by a compression of a screw U.
I have, in the annexed drawings, shown two rollers, each having three rings of
studs upon them and in similar order to each other but the order may be varied in
which the studs shall be placed, also the number of studs employed, and of number
of rollers employed for the purpose of my invention i.e. spacing, fanning out,
separating and feeding sheets of paper, or other material for gumming, bordering,
pasting, printing, ruling, or other like operation.
I have only shown my studded rollers as being under a pile of sheets for the
purpose but they may be placed above for spacing or fanning out the sheets from the
top of the pile.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The manufacture and employment of toothed or studded rollers as a means for
spacing or fanning out sheets of paper and in combining with such appliances a
means by which the sheets are separated, and fed singly for any after operation, such
as gumming, bordering, pasting, ruling, rolling, embossing, printing or other like
operation, as described and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
2. The manufacture and employment of toothed or studded rollers as a means for
spacing or fanning out sheets of paper and combining with such appliances, a means

page_text: by which the spaced, or "fanned out" sheets are conveyed in a spaced or "fanned
out "condition to any machine, within or by which the sheets of paper can be
afterwards operated upon, as described and substantially as shown in the annexed
drawings.
3. In conjunction with studded rollers, the check bar, and brake, the device by
which the table and pile of paper can be set at any angle, in order to relieve the
weight upon the studded rollers, and to retard the advance of the succeeding, yet
overlaying, sheets from the pile, as described and substantially as shown in the
annexed drawings.
The 1st dow of Mo 1880
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said W. C. Pellatt.