upon Letters and other Articles
Year: 1886

page_text: ولان
Avang
Stamps,
апа ше пке,
upon Letters and other Articles.
We, HEINRICH BECKER, Watch Maker and HERMAN MELLIN, Goldsmith both of
Burgdorf, Province of Hanover, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR
APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING, CUTTING OFF AND ATTACHING STAMPS, LABELS AND
THE LIKE UPON LETTERS, AND OTHER ARTICLES," and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Our invention relates to machines or instruments for damping, feeding, cutting
off, and attaching or sticking on to various objects stamps, labels, tallies and the
like; which stamps or labels may be composed of paper fabric or other suitable
material; so that our said invention consists of an instrument for attaching
adhesive stamps and labels fast upon articles of various kinds.
The stamps or labels to be used, are delivered in a continuous length, and wound
upon a roller, having gummy or adhesive properties at the back.
We will describe our invention in connection with an ordinary adhesive stamp,
and the operations for the sticking on are as follows.
1. The damping of the position on the article where the stamp is to be stuck on
or attached.
2. The unwinding of the stamp length from the roller or drum.
3. The cutting off, or severance of a stamp from the length.
4. The pressing on or attachment to an article of the stamp severed or cut off.
Having described the nature of the invention, we will proceed to describe with
reference to the accompanying drawing, the manner in which the same is to be
performed.
Figures 1 and 2 are sections through a b and c d, Figure 5 of an instrument.
constructed according to our invention.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 4 is a front elevation without the measure drum as hereinafter referred.

page_text: Figure 5 is a horizontal section also with a portion removed and Figures 6 and 7
are details of the instrument or machine.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
1. The damping of the place on which the stamps are to be stuck.
The damping is effected by water, either by means of brushes, damp rolls of
flannel, or other suitable stuffs. In the present case the water receptacle W serves
for it, in the under slit W 1 of which, the strip of flannel W 2 is placed, which is
saturated from the water in W. W is on both sides hung upon H on the pivot h,
and moves with H, mutually round h. Since by this W 2 makes a circle round h,
so W turns underneath in H and is by means of the springs H 2 on H, and also by
means on the pin W 3, fastened on W, always pressed against the surface to be
damped. His situated above the angle H.1, which is described later on, effects
the motion of W.
2. The unrolling of the stamps from the roller.
For this purpose a cylinder C roughened upon its surface is employed, and over
which the stamps in the form of a continuous length come from the roller B, and
which is led and pressed against this said roller through the tension of the stamp
band or strip on being fed forward by means of the necessary pressing apparatus.
For example the pressing roller D figure 1 and 2 for the production of the necessary
friction between c and B. The cylinder is turned in a suitable manner to the
extent of a stamp. In the present case, the circumference of C takes four stamps
length, and upon the axle C1 of C, a disc C2 with four pins C 3, and four slots C4
is made fast. The pins C3 are worked by the lifter K1 situated on K, and the
disc C 2 will be moved exactly a quarter of a revolution further on.
To make the turning of the pin disc precise, the slots C4 are exactly at right
angles, and diametrically opposed to another, and the piu u situated in the lever U
(Figures 2 to 5) falls in the slot then at the top, so that it is impossible for the
cylinder C, or other parts, to turn further by the motion applied. According to
this, it can only be unwound to the length of one stamp.
For the better leading of the band B 1, the removable small cylinder V is brought
into use, whilst the underneath pieces T T1 effect the leading of the said band B 1,
between the roller C and the pressing pulley D, and from this position it is fed
between the arms of a cutter S S 1.
3. The cutting off of the stamp.
The cutting off is effected by means of the cutters SS1 of which the undercutter
is fast, and the upper cutter is arranged as follows. On S1 is placed the pin 8,
which works in a slit of the pressing plate P. If P is moved downwards, the
pin 8 will be taken through the horizontal surface p¹ of the slit, until S 1 has come
out over the cutting edge of S. Herewith s reaches as far as the vertical arm of p,
which is made longer by means of the guide P2, fastened upon P figure 5. Instead
of lever cutters, a parallel cutter can also be applied and used in a suitable manner.
Also the turning of the cutters may be made to follow from the lever Has
hereinafter described.
4. Pressing on of the Stamp.
The stamp cut off in the cutter S S 1 is pressed by the plate P upon the damp
place, where it is secured by means of the adhesive coating. Upon the above
plate G2 rests the tube R, in which are situated the spiral springs R1 and R2.
The first abutting against the under plate F1 of the box F in the handle E, the
latter R2, on the other hand, is on the ring P3 which is bound on the rod Pl
fastened to P and conducted in G2 and F (see figure 1). Under E is placed the
fork I, which is fastened outside the frame G. G 1, and with the sliding pieces II 1,
is led into the slides g g 1 of the side plates G G 1, see figures 1, 2, 3, 5. On the
outside of G a slotted arm is situated at A, which is secured but movable with

page_text: the arm I2 of the fork I. Upon the axle A 1 of A a sector K is situated. The
partition Q divides the driving from the other part of the apparatus, and serves as
bearing for the axles A1 and h. The functions of the apparatus are as follows:-
If the handle E be pressed downwards, the lever U will be caught next by the
pin i situated in the fork I, and the pin u lifted out of the slot in the disc C 2
At the same time the sector K turns itself with the arm A and the thumb K'1, and
catches under the pivot exactly at the moment when C 2 becomes free, and turns
the axle C1 of the drum 90 degrees. The pin u lies during this turning, upon the
edge of C2 and at the moment when a stamp's length is unwound, is pressed into
the slot C4, by means of the spring U 1, under the lever U. By this means the
drum again stops.
By the turning of Al the sector K pushes the arm H 1 and with it the water
case W, lying under the apparatus, and over the letter etc. lying thereunder which
is damped in the place for the sticking on of the stamp.
When the handle E. has been pressed down so far, and the underplate F. having
reached the ring P3 of the pressing rod P1 then will this, and with it the pressing
plate P be pushed down, and by means of the cutter, the stamp which was before
pushed forward is cut off and pressed on.
If the pressure be relaxed on E, then will the pressing plate P by means of the
spring R 2, be lifted. At the same time the cutter, by means of the curved guide
and the weight of the water case, will reach its downward position, since the
thumb K presses against the pin C3 so must K 1 yield and turn itself on the pin k.
The pin 1 gives to the thumb the forward or fixed position by its pressing effect
upon the disc C2 whilst the angle k 2 on K1 serves that of the spring K 2. This
effects in every position the coming back of K1; and after it has passed the
pin C 3, it again returns into the drawn position, see figures 2, 4, 5 and 7.
In order that the pivot i situated in the fork I can pass by latter when the
former goes upward, it is connected with the spring il secured on I which makes
the necessary yielding possible. i can also be made fast on I, and the end of U to
yield. In order to make it easy to bring the stamps etc between the drum and
pressing pulley D which must be moved downwards and to this end the fork D1
in which D lies is provided with a springed arm D 2, which lies under the
excentric D 3. The latter is to be turned from outside by means of the arm D4
situated on its.axis so that the pulley D is moved downwards, see figures 3 to 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. Providing stamps labels and the like in a continuous or ribbon like
lengths, with adhesive backings, which said lengths are wound or wrapped upon a
roller and automatically uncoiled therefrom, and the length uncoiled, and fed
forward is cut off delivered and secured upon a damped part subsequently
prepared, upon an article to which a stamp label or a portion of the stamp length
is to be attached substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. Automatic instrument or apparatus for the sticking on of stamps
labels and the like made of paper, fabric or other suitable substances with adhesive
backings as described and illustrated in figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the drawing;
consisting of a water receptacle W for damping the desired place upon an article,
where a stamp etc. is to be attached, also the measure drum C for taking from the
band a stamp's length, by means of the lever A, and cutters S S1; which latter
cuts off the stamp etc. and which said stamp is subsequently pressed upon the
damped part of an article by the descent of a plate elevated above, and operated by
a handle E while the parts are returned to their normal positions by coiled springs
substantially as described and illustrated.
Thirdly. The motion of the cutter S1, by means of the slot in the pressing
plate, in connection with the pin guide P 2 as described and illustrated.

page_text: Fourthly. The motion of the measure drum C by means of the thumb K1
situated on sector K acting upon the pin C 3 of the disc C2 and upon the axle C1
of C as described and set f. rth.
Lastly Insuring of a quarter rotation or the proper turning of the measure
drum C by means of a click and ratchet wheel arrangement, consisting of the
lever U with pin u spring U1 and the slots C4 in the pin disc C2 and also the
pin i situated in the fork I operated and worked substantially as described and
illustrated.