IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF m T
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Tom Lund, John Gregg, and William Henry
Marks, all of Bingley, in the County of York, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
m
T
"
Scaled the 6th October 1875, and dated the 15th April 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Tom Lund, John
Gregg, and William Henry Marks at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th April 1875.
We, TOM LUND, JOHN GREGG, and WILLIAM HENRY MARKS, all of
Bingley, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF TUBES OF PAPER, LINEN, OR OTHER MATERIALS," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates more particularly to the manufacture of paper
tubes for spinning machinery, but is also applicable to the manufacture
of tubes of other materials, and to be employed for other purposes, and

page_text: it consists of an improved arrangement and combination of apparatus by
means of which the paper or other material is automatically fed along, if
necessary printed, pasted, cut into lengths, and wound upon a mandrel,
and finally removed or delivered from the latter a finished tube in a
more efficient manner, and with the use of mechanism of simpler con-
struction than heretofore.
In carrying out our Invention we provide a frame of suitable shape
and construction, in which frame there is mounted a shaft carrying fast
and loose pullies for receiving motion from any suitable prime mover,
and two other pullics for transmitting motion to various parts of the
mechanism. From one of such pullics motion is imparted by means of a
belt to a mandrel on which the tubes are to be formed, and which is
supported in suitable bearings in the upper part of the frame. The other
pulley is employed in connection with apparatus for wrapping the paper
or other material on the mandrel, as herein-after mentioned. On the
end of the driving shaft there is fixed a crank arm or disc carrying a pin
or stud which works in a slot formed in a vibrating lever arm having its
centre or fulcrum in the lower part of the frame. This lever arm is
provided on its upper end with a toothed segment in gear with a spur
wheel which is mounted looscly on a shaft or stud centre carried by the
frame, and arranged parallel with the driving shaft, so that a
reciprocating rotary motion is imparted from the driving shaft to the
spur wheel before mentioned. On the shaft or stud centre carrying the
wheel there are secured a ratchet wheel and a bevel wheel with
the former of which engages a pawl attached to the spur wheel, by
which means the shaft or stud centre receives an intermittent rotary
motion in one direction, whilst the bevel wheel is in gear with another
bevel wheel mounted on a longitudinal shaft, from which the inter-
mittent motion is transmitted by means of other bevel gearing to rollers
for guiding and feeding forward the paper or other material to be formed
into tubes. We prefer to employ three pairs of these rollers, which are
mounted on the upper part of the frame, one pair at one end thereof,
and the other two pairs at the opposite end thereof, and the paper or
other material is conducted from a reel or bobbin, on which it is wound
beneath a pasting apparatus (which is arranged in the manner herein-
after described) between one pair of rollers, and thence to the other end
of the frame, and between the rollers of the other two pairs in succession
to the mandrel.
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page_text: Between the two pairs of rollers lastly mentioned there is arranged a
blade or knife which is mounted on a centre and operated by means of a
lever from a cam carried on another longitudinal shaft which is driven
by bevel gearing from the driving shaft of the machine. This moveable
blado or knife works in connection with a fixed blade attached to the
frame, and is caused to descend upon or close against such fixed blade,
for the purpose of cutting off the length of paper or other material which
is to be formed into a tube, and to rise or open out from the same for
tho passage of a fresh supply of paper or other material at the required
1 periods. By varying the distance of the crank pin or stud from the
contre of the driving shaft the length of paper cut off and fed to the
mandrel may be regulated at will. On the driving shaft there is also
mounted a cam which acts upon one arm of a bell-crank lever working
upon a centre in the frame, and having attached to its opposite arm a
vertical rod or bar which carries two or any other suitable number of
rollers for the purpose herein-after mentioned. Over these rollers and
also over a pulley supported by a centre in the frame passes an ondless
cloth which is maintained at a suitable degree of tension by means of a
projecting rod or pin (carried by a lever arm which is mounted on such
centre) bearing against the cloth. The pulley is driven by means of a
cross strap from the before-mentioned pulley on the driving shaft, so
that a continuous motion is imparted to the endless cloth, and the bell-
crank lever being operated by the cam on the driving shaft the rollers
and with them the endless cloth are alternately elevated and brought
within the range of the mandrel, and allowed to descend again. The rod
or bar carrying the rollers is acted upon by a spring, so that when the
endless cloth is elevated it is caused to partially wrap round the mandrel
as the paper or other material is supplied thereto and form the tube
thereon. The tube having been formed is removed from the mandrel by
a doffer, made by preference of a V shape roughened on its inner
surface, and working on slides operated by means of a cam carried on
the longitudinal shaft which actuates the cutters.
The paste or other adhesive solution or semi-fluid is contained in a
trough or receptacle having an aperture, in front of which is placed a
fluted wheel or roller. This roller is disposed in a cylindrical box or
casing fitted in front with a plate perforated with holes, through which
the paste which is supplied from the trough to the box issues on to the
paper or other material conducted beneath it. The fluted roller which

page_text: effects or facilitates the supply of the paste has an intermittent rotary
motion imparted to it from the longitudinal shaft which drives the
guide and feed rollers before mentioned, so that the paste is only or
mainly supplied while the paper or other material is being fed, and the
supply is wholly or partially suspended while the cutting operation is
taking place.
As a modification of the preceding arrangement the pasting may be
effected by conducting the paper or other material around a roller which
is mounted in bearings in the paste trough or receptacle, and is operated
from the longitudinal shaft before mentioned, so as to rotate intermittently
in the paste contained in such trough or receptacle.
In order to distribute or equalize the paste over the surface of the
paper or other material being operated upon another roller, which is
grooved circumferentially, is mounted in bearings in the paste trough or
receptacle in such a manner as to bear against the paper or other material
as it passes round the paste roller, and when on the point of emerging
from the paste, by which means not only is the surplus paste removed
but an adequate supply of the paste to the surface of the paper or other
material is constantly ensured.
We also propose to print the paper or other material with any suitable
marks, inscriptions, or devices during its passage from the recl or bobbin
to the pasting apparatus. For this purpose the paper or other material
is conducted between an impression cylinder (covered with sheet india-
rubber) and a type cylinder, which latter is supplied with ink from an
inking roller revolving in an ink trough by means of a distributing
roller which is mounted on a lever arm vibrating between the inking
roller and the type cylinder. Motion is imparted to the type cylinder
by means of a cross strap and pullies from the driving shaft, and the
inking roller and distributing roller are actuated by any suitable means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Tom Lund, John Gregg, and William Henry
Marks in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ToM LUND,
JOHN GREGG, and WILLIAM HENRY MARKS, all of Bingley, in the
County of York, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Tom Lund, John Gregg, and William Henry
Marks, Her special license that we, the said Tom Lund, John Gregg,
and William Henry Marks, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as wc, the said Tom Lund, John Gregg, and William
Henry Marks, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ircland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF TUBES OF PAPER, LINEN, OR OTHER MATERIALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Tom Lund, John Gregg, and William
Henry Marks, our exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and scals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Tom Lund, John Gregg, and
William Henry Marks, do hereby declare the nature of our said Inven-
tion, 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, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon, that is to say:—
Our said Invention relates more particularly to the manufacture of
paper tubes for spinning machinery, but it is also applicable to the
manufacture of tubes of other materials, and to be employed for other
purposes; and it consists of an improved arrangement and combination
of apparatus by means of which the paper or other material is auto-
matically fed along (if necessary printed), pasted, cut into lengths and
wound upon a mandrel, and finally removed or delivered from the latter
a finished tube in a more efficient manner and with the use of mechanism
of simpler construction than heretofore.

page_text: And in order that our said Invention may be fully understood we shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed three Sheets of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts
in all the Figures :—
Figure 1 (Sheet 1) of our Drawings is a diagram sectional elevation
illustrating the general features of our Invention.
Figure 2 is a diagram showing one modification of apparatus for
supplying and distributing paste or other adhesive solution or semi-fluid
to and over the paper or other material.
Figure 3 is a diagram shewing an arrangement of apparatus which we
in some cases employ in combination with the other parts of our
machinery for printing the paper or other material during its passage
from the reel or bobbin on which it is wound to the pasting apparatus.
Figure 4 (Sheet 2) represents a side elevation of a machine for the
manufacture of paper tubes, constructed and arranged in the manner in
which we prefer to apply our Invention.
Figure 5 (Sheet 2) is a plan, and Figure 6 (Sheet 3) is an end view
both corresponding to Figure 4.
Figures 7, 8, 9, and 10, Sheet 3, are details which will be herein-
after referred to.
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Referring to Figure 1 of our Drawings A is a frame of suitable shape
and construction in which there is mounted a shaft B carrying fast and
loose pulleys for receiving motion from any suitable prime mover, and
two other pulleys C, D, for transmitting motion to various parts of the
mechanism. From one of such pulleys, vidclicit, that C, motion is
imparted by means of a belt E to a mandrel F on which the tubes are to
be formed, and which is supported in suitable brackets or bearings a
formed in or attached to the upper part of the frame A. The other
pulley, videlicit, that D, is employed in connection with apparatus for
wrapping the paper or other material on the mandril F, as herein-after
described. On the end of the driving shaft B there is fixed a crank
arm G or disc carrying a pin or stud H which works in a slot I formed
in a vibrating lever arm K having its centre or fulcrum L in the lower
part of the frame A.; this lever arm is provided on its upper end with a
toothed segment M in gear with a spur wheel N which is mounted

page_text: loosely on a short shaft carried by the frame and arranged parallel
with the driving shaft so that a reciprocating rotary motion is imparted
from the driving shaft to the spur wheel N. On the shaft 6 carrying
the spur wheel N there are secured a ratchet wheel, not shewn in the
5 Drawing, Figure 1, and also a bevel wheel O, with the former of which
engages a pawl attached to the spur wheel N, by which means the
shaft b receives an intermittent rotatory motion in one direction whilst
the bevel wheel O is in gear with another bevel wheel P mounted on a
longitudinal shaft Q, from which the intermittent motion is transmitted
0 by means of other bevel gearing O', 0%, O³, to rollers for guiding and
feeding forward the paper or other material to be formed into tubes.
In the arrangement shewn in Figure 1 three pairs of these rollers R, R',
S, S', T, T¹, are employed, which are mounted in bearings at c, d, e,
respectively on the upper part of the frame A, one pair R, R³, at one
5 end thereof, and the other two pairs S, S', T, T', at the opposite end
thereof, and the paper or other material which is wound upon a reel
or bobbin U carried by brackets b₁ on the frame A is conducted beneath
a pasting apparatus V, arranged in the manner herein-after described,
where it becomes coated with paste or other adhesive material between
the pair of rollers R, R', and thence to the other end of the frame A,
and between the rollers S and S', and T and T of the other two pairs in
succession to the mandrel F.
Between the two pairs of rollers S, S', T, T', there is arranged a blade
or knife V', which is mounted on a centre and operated by means of a
lever from a cam carried on another longitudinal shaft W, which is
mounted in bearings in the frame and driven by bevel gearing from the
driving shaft B of the machine. The movable blade or knife V¹ works
in connection with a fixed blade V attached to the frame A, and is
caused to descend upon or close against such fixed blade for the purpose
of cutting off the length of paper or other material which is to be formed
into a tube, and to rise or open out from the same for the passage of a
fresh supply of paper or other materal at the required periods. By
varying the distance of the crank pin or stud H from the centre of the
driving shaft B the length of paper cut off and fed to the mandrel may
be regulated at will. On the driving shaft B there is also mounted a
cam X, which acts upon a roller ✗' carried on one arm of a bell-crank
lever Y; this lever works upon a centre or fulcrum 9 in the frame A. and
has attached to its opposite arm at o' a vertical rod or bar Z carrying

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rollers h, h, the function of which will be hercin-after explained.
these rollers, and also over a pulley i supported by a centre k in the
frame A passes an endless cloth 2, which is maintained at a suitable
degree of tension by means of a projecting rod or pin carrying a roller
or pulley m bearing against the same, such rod or pin and roller or
pulley m being carried by a lever arm n mounted on the centre k. The
pulley i is driven by means of a cross strap o from the pulley D on the
driving shaft B, so that a continuous motion is imparted to the endless
cloth I, and as the bell-crank lever Y is operated by the cam X on the
driving shaft B the rollers h, h, and with them the endless cloth Z, are
alternately elevated and brought within the range of the mandrel F and
allowed to descend again. The rod or bar Z carrying the rollers h, h, is
acted upon by a spring, so that when the endless cloth is elevated it is
caused to partially wrap round tho mandrel F as the paper or other
material is supplied thereto and form the tube thereon.
The tube
having been formed is removed from the mandrel by a doffer, made by
preference of a V shape roughened on its inner surface and working on
slides operated by means of a cam or cams carried on the longitudinal
shaft W, as hercin-after more fully described.
The apparatus for supplying and distributing the paste or other
adhesive solution or semi-fluid to the paper or other material may be
arranged in various ways, one modification of which is shown in Figure 1.
According to this arrangement the paste or other adhesive solution or
semi-fluid is contained in a trough or receptacle pattached to the frame A
and having an aperture 2, in front of which is placed a fluted wheel or
roller. This roller is disposed in a cylindrical box or casing V fitted
in front with a plate perforated with holes, through which the paste
which is supplied from the trough p to the box V issues on to the paper
or other material f conducted beneath it. The fluted roller 7, which
effects or facilitates the supply of the paste has an intermittent rotatory
motion imparted to it from the longitudinal shaft Q by means not shewn
in the diagram, so that the paste is only or mainly supplied while the
paper or other material is being fed, and the supply is wholly or partially
suspended while the cutting operation is taking place.
According to another modification of the pasting apparatus, which is
illustrated by the diagram, Figure 2, the pasting is effected by con-
ducting the paper or other material ƒ around a roller s, which is mounted
in bearings in the paste trough or receptacle p, and is operated by means

page_text: of bevel gearing from the longitudinal shaft Q, so as to rotate inter-
mittently in the paste contained in such trough or receptacle. In order
to distribute or equalize the paste over the surface of the paper or other
material being operated upon another roller t, which is grooved circum-
ferentially, is mounted in bearings in the paste trough or receptacle p in
such a manner as to bear against the paper or other material f as it
passes round the paste rollers and when on the point of emerging from
the paste, by which means not only is the surplus paste removed but
an adequate supply of the paste to the surface of the paper or other
material is constantly ensured.
We shall now proceed to describe the arrangement of machine illus-
strated by Figures 4 to 10 of our Drawings, in which Figures we have
shown such variations in the details of the parts as have been found
desirable in practice. In this arrangement we have also shewn applied
a further modification of the pasting apparatus herein-before described.
s is the paste roller mounted on a shaft u which is supported in bear-
ings v, v, in the paste trough p, and carries a bevel wheel w for receiving
motion from a bevel pinion ¹ fast on the longitudinal shaft Q. t is the
roller for distributing or equalizing the paste, which roller in lieu of
being partially immersed in the trough, as in the arrangement, Figure 2,
we prefer to mount above the same, as shown in Figures 4 and 5, the
roller t being supported in adjustable bearings x in brackets y extending
up from the trough p. The paper ƒ (for example) from the reel or
bobbin U first passes over guide rollers Z, Z, carried in an adjustable
segmental bar 1 attached to the frame at 2, and is thence conducted
partially round the roller t and in contact with the paste roller s against
which it is pressed under the action of helical springs 3 operating
against the bearings a of the roller t, after which the paper passes over
and under projecting guide pins R, R', respectively carried in bars 4, 5,
extending up from the frame A to the feeding rollers S, S¹, T, T¹, as
before.
The shaft B is supported in bearings 6, 6, in the frame A and
carries driving pullics 7, 7, for receiving motion from any suitable
prime mover, which motion is, by preference, transmitted to the
mandrel F and to the wrapping apparatus by means of toothed gearing
in lieu of by belts and pullies, as in the arrangement, Figure 1. For
this purpose we mount on the shaft B a spur wheel D engaging with a
spur pinion D' fast on the shaft k which is supported in bearings 8, 8,

page_text: in the frame A, and carries the pulley i around which the endless cloth
passes. On the shaft / there is also mounted a spur wheel 9 which
transmits motion through the intervention of change wheels 10, 11,
carried on an adjustable segmental bar 12 attached to the frame at 13
to a spur pinion 14 mounted on the shaft 15 which carries the
mandrel F, whereby a continuous rotary motion is imparted to the latter
from the shaft B. The crank arm G has formed in it a slot 16 so as to
admit of the adjustment of the position of the pin or stud H relatively
to the shaft B, and the vibrating lever arm K in the slot I of which the
pin or stud H engages is fitted adjustably to the frame at its fulcrum
by means of the slotted jointed projection 17 and bolt 18, as shewn.
The spur wheel N with which the toothed segment M. engages has
formed on or attached to it a box or casing 19, in the interior of which
there is pivotted a pawl 20 which engages with the teeth of a ratchet
wheel 21 carried on a disc 22, the latter forming a cover for the box or
casing 19, and thus with it enclosing the pawl 20 and ratchet wheel 21.
The disc 22 with its ratchet wheel 21 is fast on the shaft b, whereas the
spur wheel N is mounted loosely on such shaft so as only to impart
motion thereto in one direction by the pawi 20 engaging with the
ratchet wheel 21 and partially rotating the same, the pawl 20 passing
over the teeth of the ratchet wheel when the spur wheel N is per-
forming its motion in the contrary direction. The shaft thus receives
an intermittent rotary motion in one direction, which motion is trans-
mitted by the bevel wheels O, P, to the shaft Q, and thence by the
bevel gearing 0%, 0³, respectively to the rollers S', T¹, so as to feed the
paper forward the required distance corresponding to the length of
the strip which is to form the tube.
The rollers S, T, which rotate by frictional contact only are
grooved on their periphery and mounted in adjustable bearings d², e³,
respectively.
In order to prevent the paper from rising we prefer to fit in the
grooves of the rollers S, T, a suitable number of longitudinal wires 23,
24, respectively connected together by cross wires 25, 26, secured to the
frame below, which series of wires we arrange at the exterior of the
rollers S', T', plates 27, 28, 29, 30, so that the paper fis conducted from
the guides R, R¹, between the wires 23 and the plate 27, then between
the roller S with the continuation of the wires 23 and the roller S¹,
thence between the continuation of the wires 23 and the plate 28 to the

page_text: knives V¹, V³, where the length required to form the tube is severed
from the web f, after which the length of paper so cut off is thence
conducted between the wires 24 and the plate 29, then between the
roller T with the continuation of the wires 24 and the roller T, and
finally between the continuation of the wires 24 and the plate 30 to tho
mandrel F.
The arrangement of the cutting blades is shewn in detail in Figures
7, 8, and 9, Sheet 3 (Figure 7 being a side elevation of the cutting
mechanism complete, and Figures 8 and 9, plans of portions thereof),
the moveable blade V¹ is jointed to the fixed blade V* at 31, and its
outer end is attached to one end of a connecting rod 32, the opposite
end of which is jointed to a vibrating lever arm 33 mounted on a fixed
centre at 34, and operated by a grooved cam 35 fast on the longitudinal
shaft W. This shaft receives its motion through the intervention of
bevel gearing 37 from the driving shaft B.
By means of the arrangement heroin-before described the blade B¹
is caused to descend and cut off a length of the paper, and then rise
again for the passage of another length to again descend and cut off
the fresh length, and so on in succession. The endless cloth Z passes
round a guide roller 36 at the upper part of the frame round the
pulley i, as herein-before described, round a pulley m mounted in
adjustable bearings 38, and acted upon by a weighted lever n pivoted
to the frame at 40, and also round the roller (one only being employed
in the present modification) carried by the rod or bar z, and operated
in the manner herein-before described with reference to the arrange-
ment, Figure 1. In the latter Figure the rollers were represented
in their lower position, whilst in Figure 4 the roller / is shewn as in the
act of wrapping the cloth round a tube in course of formation on
the mandrel F, to which action when elevated it is impelled by the
spring 41.
The doffing apparatus for removing the tube from tho mandrel is
illustrated by the general views, Figures 4, 5, and 6, and by the detail,
Figure 10 (Sheet 3). The apparatus consists of a V shaped bar 42
carried on the end of a longitudinal slide 43 working in grooves in a
carrier ¹, which itself slides transversely over a dovetail bar 44 attached
to the frame A, so that the doffer 42 is susceptible both of a longitudinal
and of a transverse motion.

page_text: The longitudinal motion of the slide 43 is obtained in the following
manner-On the shaft W we mount a cam 45 against which bears
a roller 46 mounted on one arm of a bell-crank lever 47 having its
fulcrum at 48, and to the other arm of which there is attached a bar 49.
To the upper end of the bar 49 there is adjustably connected a lever
arm 50 mounted on a rocking shaft 51 which is formed with a longi-
tudinal projection 52 arranged opposite a friction bowl 52 carried on the
slide 43, so that when the bell-crank lever 47 is operated by means of
the cam 45 the projection 52 is caused to act upon the friction bowl 53,
and thus draw back the slide 43, carrying the doffer 42 clear of and
away from the mandrel F during the time that a tube is being formed
thercon. When however a tube has been formed the roller 46 on the
bell-crank lever 47 is released from the operation of the cam, and the
doffer 42 is brought under the action of india-rubber springs 53 attached
to the carrier x', and passing round a stud 54 fixed to the slide 43 into
contact with the tube, then formed so as to grip the same and effect
its removal from the mandrel F by means of the transverse motion of
the carrier x¹ before mentioned. This transverse motion of the carrier x¹
with the slide 43 and the doffer 42 is obtained by means of a grooved
cam 54 (scc Figure 6) mounted also upon the shaft W, and which, by
acting upon the stud 55 of a vertical lever 56, imparts a vibratory
motion to such lever around its fulcrum 57. The upper end of the
lever 56 is attached at 58 to the carrier x¹, and suitably slotted so that
when its stud 55 is acted upon by the cam 54 on one side the carrier ×¹
is moved transversely across the machine, thus causing the doffer 42
to slide longitudinally along the mandrel, carrying with it the tube
which has been formed thereon, after which, by the continued motion
of the cam, it is returned to its original position to be again acted upon
as before, and so on for succeeding operations.
When we require to print the paper or other material with any marks,
inscriptions, or devices, we effect this operation during its passage from
the reel or bobbin U to the pasting apparatus. For this purpose the
paper or other material f is conducted between an impression cylinder
59 (Figure 3, Sheet 1) (covered with sheet india-rubber), and a type
cylinder 60, which latter is supplied with ink from an inking roller 61
revolving in an ink trough 62 by means of a distributing roller 63 which
is mounted on a lever arm 64 vibrating between the inking roller 61 and
the type cylinder 60.

page_text: Motion is imparted to the type cylinder 60 by means of a cross
strap 65 and pullies, or otherwise from the driving shaft B, and
the inking roller and distributing roller are actuated by any suitablo
means.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, we would observe in conclusion that what we
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the general construction, arrangement, and combination of machinery
or apparatus for intermittently feeding along a band or strip of paper
or other light material, pasting the same, cutting it into lengths, and
wrapping or winding each length round a mandrel so as to form a tube,
and finally removing the finished tube therefrom, in conjunction or not
with means for printing such paper or other material during its
traverse, all substantially as herein-before described and illustrated
by our Drawings.
In witness whercof, I, the said Tom Lund, on behalf of the said
Jolin Gregg, William Henry Marks, and myself, have to this
our Specification set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.