An Improved Paper Folding Machine.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
An Improved Paper Folding Machine.
I, LOUIS PEYROUNIL, of Bois-Colombes, Seine, in the Republic of France,
Publicist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention relates to a paper or journal folding
machine.
In principle this machine receives the newspaper, journal, or other sheet of paper
unfolded, then causes it to pass between the slits arranged according to the
folds required of the paper so that this latter is delivered from the machine
completely folded.
One method of carrying my invention into effect is illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 shows the sheet unfolded as it is delivered to the folding machine.
Figure 2 shows the same sheet after the first fold has been effected.
Figure 3 shows the same sheet after the second fold has been effected.
Figure shows the sheet after the third fold has been effected.
Figure 5 shows the sheet after the fourth fold has been effected, and
Figure 6 shows the sheet after the fifth fold has been effected, that is to say, as
it leaves the machine.
Figure 7 shows a front view of the machine constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 8 is a plan.
Figure 9 shows the machine as seen from the left hand side.
Figure 10 is a right hand view of same.
As shewn in the drawings, the machine is composed at the upper part of one or
more cans a, covered or not with rubber or other suitable flexible material, acting
with the rollers a' arranged underneath, so as to take a firm hold of the paper or
journal. This arrangement receives the unfolded sheets as delivered from the
printing machine and draws them above a vertical slit b, into which, in describing
an arc of a circle of 90°, enters a flat arm c, which is hinged at d. This arm draws
the sheet into the said slit and places it vertically, and the first fold is achieved.
In order to obtain the movement of the arm c, the pinion e is keyed on the shaft f,
or I can employ other equivalent mechanical arrangement. The arms, after having
completed their work, are returned into position by means of the counterpoise g, or,
again, they can be operated and replaced by means of eccentric collars or by racks
acting upon them.
The principle of my invention being to make the arms to act in a combination of
slits such as that which I have just described for the first fold of the journal, it will
be sufficient to say that the same operation is repeated for all the other folds, but
it will be understood that the gearings are regulated with regard to the arms
which they operate so as to cause these several arms to work at the same time so
long as they do not interfere with each other. I will now explain how the sheet
or journal to be folded passes into all the slits of the machine to receive its complete
folding.
When the sheet or journal arrives at the machine the sheet is horizontal, the title
of the sheet or journal &c. being underneath and to the left as in Figure 1. After
the first fold is obtained when the sheet or journal &c. has passed, in descending,
into the vertical slit 6 of the machine, this sheet or journal is vertical, the front
title is at the top and the hinge of the fold at the left as in Figure 2.
To form the second fold a horizontal arm / parallel to the face of the machine,

page_text: by moving 90°, causes the journal or sheet to pass from the back to the front and
from right to left into a horizontal slit in order to fold it into four so that it has
the title above and the hinge of the fold to the left as in Figure 3.
The journal or sheet being in this position is seized perpendicularly in the front
of the machine at the third of its edge commencing from the hinge, by means of a
horizontal arm (Figure 7) acting from below upwards in order to form the third
fold by placing the sheet from back to front in a vertical slit k perpendicular to
the face of the machine, the title at the right, the hinge of the fold in front as at
Figure 4.
For the fourth fold a vertical arm working from above downwards and from
left to right in a vertical slit m, parallel to the face of the machine, places the
journal edgewise, the title at the back and the hinge beneath as at Figure 5.
At the fifth fold obtained by the vertical slit n perpendicular to the front of the
machine, and the action of the pusher o acting from front to back, the sheet or
journal is folded edgewise in two as indicated at Figure 6, the hinge of the fold
being at the back, that is to say, its folding is completed.
At the same time this sheet or journal is passed out of the machine to the right
whence it falls into a suitable receiver.
The mechanism is put into operation by the fly wheel p giving motion to the
cams a by means of the shaft g upon which they are keyed. This shaft carries at
its other end a lost motion wheel r which operates a pinions provided with a
connecting rod acting on a rack t.
The rack operates a lost motion pinion u, keyed upon the vertical shaft v
which transmits motion to the arm by means of the connecting rods x and
shaft x¹.
The same shaft v carries at its lower part a lost motion pinion y, which transmits
motion to a pinion z which gives motion to the arm by means of the connecting
rod 1.
The rack t operates an arrangement of connecting rods and levers 2, 2 which
put in motion the shaft 3 carrying the pinion 4 gearing with the pinion e keyed upon
the shaft at the end of which is the arm c.
The shaft 3, is provided with the lever 5 and with the connecting rod 6 which
operates the arm j. The shaft 3 is also furnished with the lever 7 and connecting
rod 8 giving motion to the toothed segment 9, which operates the pusher rack o.
The counterpoise g mounted at the extremity of the shaft 3 is intended to bring
back all the mechanism in the required time.
All the slits of the machine are shaped a little like a reversed funnel so as to
facilitate the passage of the paper and the clearing of the machine in the event of
a sheet or journal becoming torn.
I could arrange multiple folding machines formed of a collection composed of a
certain number of machines. This collection receiving as many sheets or journals
at one time as there are of combined machines. These sheets journals &c. would
form a band and would be cut on the machine by means of cutters arranged for
this purpose.
I have above stated that the sheet or journal completely folded is delivered
from the machine by the pusher o.
I can utilize this pusher to place the sheet or journal in a band or wrapper
provided these bands are all cemented and that they are presented conveniently in
front of the last or exit slit.
For this purpose I can place near the said slit a roller which receives the bands
already cut.
This roller is composed of a certain number of forks four for example which
present themselves in front of a mandril carrying the bands threaded above and
forming a flat tube. This band tube can be of any desired length but in all cases
it is formed of a rectangle of paper cemented on its long edges and upon which
are previously printed a certain number of addresses to form as many bands or
wrappers when they are divided.

page_text: The bands are cut by means of cutters in proportion as they are disengaged from
the mandril by any appropriate mechanical arrangement.
Dated this 30th day of June 1893.
LOUIS PEYROUNIL,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
An Improved Paper Folding Machine.
I, LOUIS PEYROUNIL of Bois-Colombes, Seine, in the Republic of France,
Publicist, 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 :-
The object of the present invention relates to a paper or journal folding
machine.
In principle, this machine receives the newspaper, journal or other sheet of paper
unfolded, then causes it to pass between the slits arranged according to the folds
required of the paper so that the latter is delivered from the machine completely
folded.
One method of carrying my invention into effect is illustrated in the drawings
accompanying my Provisional Specification in which :-
Figure 1 shows the sheet unfolded as it is delivered to the folding machine.
Figure 2 shows the same sheet after the first fold has been effected.
Figure 3 shows the same sheet after the second fold has been effected.
Figure 4 shows the sheet after the third fold has been effected.
Figure 5 shows the sheet after the fourth fold has been effected, and,
Figure 6 shows the sheet after the fifth fold has been effected, that is to say, as
it leaves the machine.
Figure 7 shows a front view of the machine constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 8 is a plan.
Figure 9, shows the machine as seen from the left hand side.
Figure 10 is a right hand view of same.
As shown in the drawings the machine is composed at the upper part of one or
more cams a or wipers, see Figures 7, 8, 9 and 10, covered or not with rubber or
other suitable flexible material acting with the rollers a¹ arranged underneath so as
to take a firm hold of the paper or journal.
This arrangement receives the unfolded sheets as delivered from the printing
machine and draws them above a vertical slit or channel into which, in describing
an arc of a circle of 90°, enters a flat arm c which is fixed at d to end of shaft f.
This arm draws the sheet into the said slit or channel and places it vertically, thereby
completing the first fold.
In order to obtain the movement of the arm e the pinion e is keyed on the shaft f
or I can employ other equivalent mechanical arrangement.
The arms after having completed their work are returned into position by means
of the counterpoise g or they can be operated and replaced by means of eccentric
collars or by racks acting upon them.
The principle of my invention being to make the arms to act in a combination of
slits or channels such as that which I have just described for the first fold of the
journal, it will be sufficient to say that the same operation is repeated for all the
other folds, but it will be understood that the gearings are regulated with regard to
the arms which they operate so as to cause these several arms to work at the same.
time, so long as they do not interfere with each other.

page_text: I will now explain how the sheet or journal to be folded passes into all the slits
or channels of the machine to receive its complete folding.
When the sheet or journal arrives at the machine the sheet is horizontal, the
title of the sheet or journal &c. being underneath and to the left as in Figure 1.
After the first fold is obtained when the sheet or journal &c. has passed, by
descending, into the vertical slit or channel of the machine, this sheet or
journal is vertical, the front title is at the top and the hinge of the fold at the left
as in Figure 2.
To form the second fold a horizontal arm parallel to the face of the machine,
by moving 90° causes the journal or sheet to pass from the back to the front and
from right to left into a horizontal slit or channel i in order to fold it into four so
that it has the title above and the hinge of the fold to the left as in Figure 3.
The journal or sheet being in this position is seized perpendicularly in the front
of the machine at a third from its edge commencing from the hinge, by means of a
horizontal arm j articulated at j¹ (Figure 7) acting from below upwards in order to
form the third fold by placing the sheet from back to front in a vertical slit or
channel k perpendicular to the face of the machine, the title at the right, the hinge
of the fold in front as at Figure 4.
For the fourth fold, a vertical arm articulated at working from above
downwards and from left to right in a vertical slit or channel m parallel to the face
of the machine, places the journal edgewise, the title at the back and the hinge
beneath as at Figure 5.
At the fifth fold obtained by the vertical slit n, perpendicular to the front of the
machine, and the action of the pusher 10 working from front to back, the sheet or
journal is folded edgewise in two as indicated at Figure 6, the hinge of the fold being
at the back, that is to say, its folding is completed.
At the same time this sheet or journal is passed out of the machine to the rear
whence it falls into a suitable receiver at R.
The mechanism is put into operation by the fly wheel p giving motion to the
cams a by means of the shaft 7 upon which they are keyed. This shaft carries at
its other end a lost motion or segmentally toothed wheel which operates a pinion
provided with a connecting rod acting on a rack t see Figures 8 and 9.
The rack t operates a lost motion pinion or segmentally toothed u
keyed upon
the
vertical shaft v, which, by means of cranks v', transmits motion to the arm / through
the medium of the connecting rods a¹, ", and shaft "".
The same shaft v carries at its lower part a lost motion pinion y which transmits
motion to a pinion z, which gives motion to the arm / by means of the connecting rod 1.
The rack t operates an arrangement of connecting rods and levers 2. 2, by means
of a slide see Figure 9, which put in motion the shaft 3 carrying the pinion 4
gearing with the pinion e sce Figure 7 keyed upon the shaft f, see Figure 8, at the
end of which is the arm c. The shaft 3 is provided with the lever 5 and with the
connecting rod 6 which operates the arm; see Figures 7 9 and 10.
The shaft 3 is also furnished with the lever 7 and connecting rod 8 giving motion
to the toothed segment 9 which operates the pusher 10 by gearing into its rack see
Figures 9 and 10.
The counterpoise g. mounted at the extremity of the shaft 3 is intended to bring
back all the mechanism at the required time.
All the slits or channels of the machine are shaped a little like a reversed funnel
so as to facilitate the passage of the paper and the clearing of the machine in the
event of a sheet or journal becoming torn.
I could arrange multiple folding machines formed of a collection composed of a
certain number of machines. This collection receiving as many sheets or journals
at one time as there are of combined machines.
These sheets journals &c. would form a band and would be cut on the machine
by means of cutters arranged for this purpose.
I have above stated that the sheet or journal completely folded is delivered from
the machine by the pusher 10.

page_text: 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 an arrangement of paper folding machine baving arms acting with a
combination of slits or channels which give the folds to the paper, the feeding
means consisting of cams or wipers a, covered or not with india-rubber, in com-
bination with rollers a' acting to push the, as yet, unfolded paper into the machine,
substantially as herein shown and described.
2. In an arrangement of paper folding machine having arms acting with a.
combination of slits or channels which give the folds to the paper, the combination
of slits or channels such as b, into which the paper is introduced and doubled, and
so on according to the number of folds it is to receive, by means of flat arms such
as c fixed at d to a shaft f and put in motion by pinions such as e, these arms being
returned to their starting position, after having given the fold to the paper, by
means of counter-weight 9, eccentric collars or by racks, substantially as herein
shown and described.
3. In an arrangement of paper folding machine having arms acting with a
combination of slits or channels which give the folds to the paper, the application
of a pusher 10 for pushing the completely folded paper out of the machine,.
substantially as herein shown and described.
LOUIS PEYROUNIL,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.