Improvements in Roll-paper Holders and Cutters.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roll-paper Holders and Cutters.
I, CHARLES KOSSUTH PICKLES of the City of St. Louis, in the State of
Missouri, one of the United States of North America, Draughtsman 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification :-
This improvement relates to that class of instruments in which a roll of paper is
supported on a roll or shaft, and a knife is supported in a position tangential to the
roll, so that the knife is adapted to cut a portion of paper from the roll. The
improvement consists, partly, in supporting the roll on gravitating arms, whose
position is such that the weight of the roll acts to keep its periphery in contact with
the knife. The invention embraces a novel device for causing the edge of the paper
to stand out from the periphery of the roll, after cutting, to enable its easy seizure by
the fingers, as explained and claimed herein-after.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine with a knife of the more simple
construction.
Figure 2 is an end view of the machine with the knife shown in its simple form
oy full lines and its more complex form, as shown in figure 3, by broken lines...
Figure 3 is a detail section taken at line 3, 3, figure 1, but showing the knife in its
more complex form.
1 is the base of the machine. 2 are standards, to which are hinged, by pintles 3,
the gravitating arms 4, which have, at their free ends, open bearings 5, to receive the
gudgeons 6 of the roller 7, upon which the roll 8 of paper is supported. 9.9 are
standards to which the knife 10 is secured, said knife or cutter extending the whole
length of the paper roll, so that, when the paper is drawn outward, a piece will be
severed from the roll at the line of the knife. It is, of course, understood that the
paper is drawn in a direction oblique to the knife, so that the cut will commence at
one edge and end at the other. The standards 2 are so constructed as to arrest the
backward movement of the arms 4 before they attain a vertical position, so that the

page_text: roll 8 will always gravitate to the knife, and its periphery be kept in contact with
the knife, whatever the diameter of the roll may be. 11, 11 are projections on the
arms which come in contact with the standards and arrest the backward movement of
the arms, as before mentioned.
The
In figure 3 is shown a recess 12 in the knife containing a spring strip 13, having
enough strength to lift the edge 14 of the paper, but so weak that when the edge of
the paper is drawn against the knife, the spring strip retreats into the recess.
purpose of this spring strip is to throw up the edge of the paper out of contact with
the knife, so that it may be readily seized by the fingers.
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. In a roll-paper holder and cutting machine, the combination of a fixed knife and
arms gravitating toward the knife, and adapted to support the paper roll substantially
as set forth.
2. The combination, in a roll-paper holder and cutting machine, of a knife,
gravitating arms with bearings adapted to receive the gudgeons of the roll upon
which the paper roll is supported, and standards preventing the backward swing of
the gravitating arms substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. The knife of a roll-paper holder and cutting machine made with a spring at its
inner side adapted to raise the edge of the paper from the knife substantially as set
forth.
4. The combination, in the knife of a roll-paper holder and cutting machine, of the
spring 13 and recess 12, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 17th day of September 1888.
CHARLES KOSSUTH PICKLES.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.
CHARLES KOSSUTH PICKLES.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.