Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper or "Tape" Coils, adapted for use in Telegraphic Printing Instruments.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper or "Tape" Coils, adapted
for use in Telegraphic Printing Instruments.
I, MORRIS HART, of 40 and 41, Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows: -
In telegraph and other instruments wherein ribbon-like paper or "tape" is
employed for the reception of printed matter, the coil of paper is frequently
concealed from view; and, if the operator does not know when the reel is approaching
exhaustion, there is risk of the supply of the tape to the printing device suddenly
failing. Under such circumstances, it might become necessary (with
instrument of the "Morse ink-writer" type, for example) for a portion of the message
telegraph
to be repeated. My invention is designed to overcome this objection.
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In cutting webs of paper into narrow widths or ribbons and reeling the same for
the purpose above referred to, a machine of the kind described in the Specification
to Letters Patent dated 27th February, 1882, No. 958, may be employed. When
the reels of paper in course of manufacture have assumed a given diameter, I apply
to the exposed portion of the paper web a serving of some distinctive colouring
matter; same being brushed across the whole width of the web and extending a
certain distance in the direction of its length. I prefer to employ a solution of
aniline in spirit; and, inasmuch as the paper web will not bear the requisite tension
whilst wet, I apply a heated roller or other suitable means for effecting rapid drying.
Instead of applying a liquid colouring matter, powdered graphite, minium, litharge,
indigo or other suitable dry substance may be applied. The cutting and reeling of
the paper is then proceeded with; and each coil or dise when complete, will have a
certain portion of its length distinctively coloured, such coloured portion being
located at a suitable distance from the inner end of the coiled tape, according to
the length of paper already cut and reeled before the colouring matter is applied.
When a coil of ribbon-like paper or tape prepared in the manner above described
is employed for such a purpose as receiving printed matter from a Morse receiving
and writing instrument, the appearance of the distinctively-coloured portion of the
tape warns the operator that the reel is approaching exhaustion; whereupon he has
sufficient time to procure and substitute a full coil before the supply to the
instrument of the material to be printed on is interrupted.
Dated this 10th day of March 1890.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Paper or "Tape" Coils, adapted
for use in Telegraphic Printing Instruments.
I, MORRIS HART, of 40 and 41, Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, 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:-
In telegraph and other instruments wherein ribbon-like paper or "tape" is
employed for the reception of printed matter, the coil of paper is frequently
concealed from view; and if the operator does not know when the reel is approaching
exhaustion, there is risk of the supply of the tape to the printing device suddenly
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page_text: failing. Under such circumstances, it might become necessary (with a telegraph
instrument of the "Morse ink-writer" type, for example) for a portion of the message
to be repeated. My invention is designed to overcome this objection.
In cutting webs of paper into narrow widths or ribbons and reeling the same for
the purpose above referred to, a machine of the kind described in the Specification
to Letters Patent dated 27th February, 1882, No. 958, may be employed. When
the reels of paper in course of manufacture have assumed a certain diameter, I apply
to the exposed portion of the paper web a serving of some distinctive colouring
matter; same being brushed across the whole width of the web and extending a
certain distance in the direction of its length. I prefer to employ a solution of
aniline in spirit; and, inasmuch as the paper web when so treated will not bear the
requisite tension whilst wet, I apply thereto a heated roller or other suitable means
for effecting the rapid drying thereof. The cutting and reeling of the paper is then
proceeded with and each coil or disc, when complete, will have a certain portion
of its length distinctively coloured, such coloured portion being located at a suitable
distance from the inner end of the coiled tape, according to the length of paper
already cut and recled before the covering matter is applied.
Instead of employing a liquid colouring matter as and for the purpose before
referred to, powdered graphite, minium, litharge, indigo or other suitable dry
substance, may be applied to the paper web and a similar result arrived at.
When a coil of ribbon-like paper or tape prepared as above described is employed
for such a purpose as receiving printed matter from a Morse receiving and writing
instrument, the appearance of the distinctively-coloured portion of the tape warns
-the operator that the reel is approaching exhaustion; whereupon he has sufficient
time to procure and substitute a full coil before the supply to the instrument of the
material to be printed on is interrupted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 claim :
The manufacture of paper "tape" coils, having, at a suitable distance from the
inner end of the tape (when coiled), a portion marked with distinctive colouring or
equivalent matter, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated the 19th day of November 1890.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.