Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Sheets of Paper Issuing from Ruling or other Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Adjusting Sheets of Paper Issuing
from Ruling or other Machines.
I, JULIUS ROSENTHAL, of 97 Alexandrinen Strasse, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to apparatus for adjusting sheets of paper issuing from
ruling and other machines.
It is a serious defect that the sheets of paper issuing from a ruling or similar
machine are not laid exactly upon one another, as the paper is liable to be damaged.
The work of adjusting this paper has heretofore caused much trouble and time, and
required a great amount of skill on the part of the workman. To remedy this
inconvenience in a simple manner is the object of my said invention which is
represented in the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the apparatus constructed according to
this invention.
Figures 2 to 7 are details:
At the front edge of the discharge box A of the ruling machine I secure by
screws a bar of dove-tail shape in transverse section, which is provided for this
purpose with tapped holes c. Two jointed arms d and e, which are furnished at
their rear ends with dove-tail recessos in such a manner that they fit upon the said
bar b, are slid upon the latter and, according to the size of the paper, can be fixed
in a convenient manner by the aid of the screws and e¹ at any desired distance
from each other.
On the jointed arms d and e I arrange upright guide plates 9 which are bent out-
wards and formed in such a manner that the sheets falling obliquely from the machine
will surely be conducted between the two jointed arms d and e, thereby rendering
the jamming or catching of the paper impossible.
The lower part of the jointed arm is rivetted to the upper part by means of the
pin or bolt so that it can be turned about the same with difficulty; fixing screws
may here be provided. When a whole packet of paper has collected in the discharge
box A the jointed arm is turned round and brought to the position I indicated in
dotted lines Figure 5, thereby enabling the discharge box to be conveniently
emptied.
The jointed arm e is made to correspond to the jointed arm d, but with this
difference that the lower part carrying the guide plate g can be very easily moved
about the pin or bolt f so that the spring i acting upon the outer surface of the
arm can always cause the latter to return to its original.position directly after it
has been moved from the same.
By a crank m arranged on the driving shaft of the machine I impart to the
jointed arm e a continuously oscillating movement, which takes place by means of
a belt & passing round a pulley / and attached at one end to the crank m and at the
other end to the jointed arin e. It is fixed to the latter simply by a hook s, whilst
on the crank a loose sleeve n is provided through which the end k of the belt is
drawn in the manner indicated in Figure 2. By means of a hook o, which is caused
to engage with one of the holes p, the belt k may be readily lengthened or shortened
according to the size of the paper or the position of the arm e. Owing to the loose
sleeve the winding of the belt upon the crank is obviated. For enabling the belt
to be adjusted the friction roller is carried by a sleeve which can be shifted upon
a rod screwed to the frame of the machine and can be fixed thereon in any desired

page_text: position by the aid of a screw 13. As will be readily understood, the belt may also
by this means be tightened or slackened.
My improved apparatus operates as follows, that is to say, when the ruling
machine is set in motion the belt k, in the turning movement of the crank m, draws
and
outwards the front part of the jointed arm e, which carries the guide plate 9:
which, as soon as the position of the crank m allows, is forced inwards again by
the spring i, Figure 1. By this movement the sheet of paper, which has meanwhile
passed into the discharge box A, is forced by the jointed arm e against the fixed
jointed arm d and pushed straight. As at the same speed of the machine and with
continuous lines the paper of smaller size falls more rapidly than that of larger size
I arrange that the crank driving mechanism shall set the arm e in oscillation once
in the case of the smallest size and several times in the case of larger sizes, so that
the adjustment will be absolutely ensured.
It is clear that by tightening or slackening the belt & the movement made by the
jointed arin e may also be regulated.
In order to be able to work with equal certainty, irrespective of the length of
the paper, the front parts of the jointed levers d and e are also adjustable
lengthwise, for which purpose they are made in two parts so that the outer part
can be shifted upon the inner part d² and fixed in any desired position by the aid of
a screw ³, (Figure 6).
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 :-
An apparatus for adjusting sheets of paper issuing from ruling and other
machines, comprising the jointed arms de adapted to be shifted upon the bar b
and adjustable to several lengths, which arms carry the guide plates g extending
towards each other in front, one of these arms being arranged to turn loosely about
the pin or bolt fand, with the aid of a crank and spring, in combination with an
adjustable belt whereby the amplitude of the movements can be determined, set in
oscillatory movement by the machine, which causes the paper to be adjusted, while
the other jointed arm d is arranged to turn with difficulty about its pin or bolt or
can be fixed by a screw and is turned outwards after the finishing of a packet of
paper so that it will then enable the paper to be easily removed.
Dated this 29th day of March 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.