An Improved Machine for Punching Out Labels and Securing the same to Thread-spools.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by GÜTERMANN & Co., of Gutach Waldkirch, Baden,
in the Empire of Germany, Silk Manufacturers.]
An Improved Machine for Punching Out Labels and Securing the
same to Thread-spools.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., 45 Southampton
Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 to a machine for punching out labels and securing the
same to thread-spools.
The punching of labels from sheets of paper and the pasting of the same upon
thread-spools by hand takes very much time, and up to the present time no machine
has been used for performing this work.
This want is supplied by the aforesaid invention, the essential feature of which
consists in passing a great number of spools into the holes of a perforated plate
which is placed upon a piece of felt, whereupon their upper ends are gummed.
In this state the perforated plate with its piece of felt is put in a punching
machine, which punches the labels from a sheet of paper and pastes them upon the
thread-spools.
In carrying the said invention into practice a strong frame 1 is provided which
has a head plate 2 wherein punches 3 are secured.
A plate 4 is adapted to move by means of a guide 5 on the frame 1 and has a
number of round conical holes 4ª of the size of the labels to be punched out. This
plate can be raised and lowered by a lever mechanism 7.
Upon the second plate 8 is placed a wooden plate 9 together with the piece of
felt 10 and the thread-spools.
This second plate is raised and lowered by a cam 11. Its guide 6 forms part of
a projection 5ª on the guide 5 of the plate 4 so that the plate 8 may be raised by
itself until the thread-spools pass into the holes of the perforated plate 4, where-
upon the latter in the continued upward movement of the plate 8 will also be
raised. The holes in the plate 4 are conical in order to centre the thread-spools.
A plate 13 under the action of springs is provided with holes through which
the punches can pass, and serves for holding the sheet of paper 12 for the
labels.
The operation is as follows, that is to say the wooden plate 9 is first placed at a
side table upon the piece of felt 10, and the thread-spools are introduced into the
holes in the said plate, whereupon the upper side is gummed by means of a
roller.
This wooden plate is then placed with the piece of felt 10 and the gummed
thread-spools upon the plate 8 and is raised by turning the cam 11.
In Figure I the said plate is in its lowest position. In Figure II it has risen to
such an extent that the thread-spools are centred in the holes 4*. If now the
plate 8 is raised further it will also carry along the plate 4 and move it upwards
so far that the punches 3 will punch out the labels from the sheet of paper 12
and press them upon the thread-spools (Figure 11I), thereby causing them to
adhere.
If the plate 8 were now drawn back, many of the thread-spools would stick in
the holes 4ª of the plate 1

page_text: In order to obviate this, the plate 4 is raised still further by the lever mechanism 7
(Figure IV) so that the punches 3 will force the thread-spools from the holes in
the plate 4, whereupon the plate 8 may be lowered.
Then the wooden plate is removed and turned round upon a second piece of felt,
so that the unlabelled ends of the spools will be at the top, after which the before-
described operation in the press is repeated.
The movement of the plates 4 and 8 may also be effected by other means, such
as for instance by the pressure of water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
For punching out labels from a sheet of paper and securing the same to the
ends of thread-spools, a machine comprising the fixed upper punches 3, the pressing
plate 8 and the perforated plate 4, so arranged that in the upward movement of
these plates the labels will be punched from a sheet of paper 12 and pasted upon
the thread-spools, which are then forced from the perforated plate 4 in the
continued upward movement of the latter, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of March 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.