Improvements in Apparatus for Ruling Plain and Ornamental Lines, and Devices Arranged in or so as to Form Lines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Ruling Plain and Ornamental Lines,
and Devices Arranged in or so as to Form Lines.
We, JOSEF TEMLER, of Warsaw, in the Empire of Russia, and 30 to
34 Tabernacle Street, in the County of London, and MAX POHLE, of 30 to
34 Tabernacle Street, in the County of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to apparatus for producing a line or lines in ink generally
on paper, pasteboard or the like either continuous or intermittent, fine or broad,
straight, sinuous, or ornamental, or a series of devices repeated to form a line or
lines and is intended for use more particularly in the manufacture of paste board
boxes and the like the lines produced being well adapted to take the place of the
strips of paper, generally colored, which are often now stuck on or near the edges
and corners of the boxes to give them a finished appearance.
Our invention consists of an apparatus which may be attached to and used with
almost any pasteboard scoring or cutting machine of the usual known construction,
our apparatus taking the place of the usual cutting or scoring discs or knives
provided such machine has a bridge to which the apparatus may be attached a
table fitted with suitable guides, on which the paper or board to be ruled is placed,
and at or near the edge of the table a horizontal. feed cylinder for carrying the
paper or board forward.
The device by which the lines &c. are ruled or printed consist of a cylinder or
roller the circumferential surface of which is fitted for surface printing being cut
or made with the line or lines or with the pattern or device or devices to be produced.
On the same axle and revolving with the said ruling cylinder is a roller or friction
pulley of slightly greater diameter made of, or faced with, a yielding material,
preferably vulcanized rubber. The function of this rubber faced roller is to receive
motion from the feed cylinder attached to the bed of the machine or from the
paper passing over it and to turn the ruling cylinder.
The apparatus is made with suitable screw clamps or bolts for attaching it to the
bridge of the machine and with a screw arrangement for adjusting it to the thickness
of the paper or board to the marked.
The difference in the diameter of the ruling cylinder and the rubber faced roller
is only very slight, about corresponding with thickness of ordinary paste board, so
that when nothing is passing through the machine the feed cylinder is in contact
with the rubber surface and keeps it and with it the ruling cylinder revolving.
When a sheet of paper or board is passing through, the rubber yields sufficiently to
allow it to pass and at the same time keeps it firmly pressed on the feed roller, and
thus secures even motion and consequently the regular and uniform results. The
ruling cylinder being thus kept constantly revolving whether anything is passing
through the apparatus or not prevents an accumulation of ink on any one part of its
surface and secures that the lines commence properly without blot or smudge
when a fresh sheet is presented. The apparatus may be constructed without the
rubber faced friction roller the ruling cylinder being driven directly by the paper
passing under it, but this does not produce such good work the lines being often
défective or badly formed at the commencement of each sheet.
The ink is conveyed to the surface of the ruling cylinder by means of a roller,
preferably rubber faced, which in its turn receives its supply of ink from another

page_text: nearly similar roller the lower part of which dips into a vessel containing ink and
so arranged that as each part of the roller successively after having dipped into the
ink passed on towards the next roller it passes a bar or scraper which removes any
excess of ink and thus regulates and renders more uniform the supply of ink to the
other roller; screw adjustments are provided whereby the amount of pressure of
the ink rollers on each other and on the ruling cylinder may be regulated.
In some cases we use only one roller for carrying the ink from the ink vessel to
the ruling cylinder but better work is obtained by the use of two ink rollers and
we prefer this construction.
A reservoir for containing a supply of ink is provided with a tube and regulating
cock whereby a steady flow of ink into the ink vessel at about the rate at which
it is being used, is maintained, and this reservoir is so attached that it is easily
removable for the purpose of substituting another containing ink of a different
colour or otherwise. The ink vessel, into which the roller dips is also made easily
removable so as to admit of its being readily emptied and washed or the like.
Dated the 9th day of March 1894.
Improvements in Apparatus for Ruling Plain and Ornamental Lines,
and Devices Arranged in or so as to Form Lines.
We, JOSEF TEMLER, of Warsaw, in the Empire of Russia, and 30 to
34 Tabernacle Street, in the County of London and MAX POHLE of 30 to
34 Tabernacle Street, in the County of London, Manufacturers 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 :—
Our invention relates to apparatus for producing a line, or lines, in ink generally
on paper, pasteboard or the like, either continuous or intermittent, fine, or broad,
straight, sinuous, or ornamental, or a series of devices repeated to form a line or
lines, and is intended for use more particularly in the manufacture of pasteboard
boxes, and the like, the lines produced being well adapted to take the place of the
strips of paper, generally coloured, which are often now stuck on, or near, the edges
and corners of the boxes to give them a finished appearance.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings I have represented my said apparatus
and the attachment thereof to previously known machinery.
Fig. 1, represents one of the well known machines mentioned below with two of
my apparatuses mounted thereon.
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of my apparatus together with a section of the bridge
to which it is attached.
Fig. 3, is a front elevation.
Fig. 4, is a back elevation with a portion of the bridge shown in perspective with
the back cover removed.
Fig. 5, is a front elevation and Fig. 6, a side elevation of the ink reservoir.
Our invention consists of an apparatus which may be attached to and used
with almost any paste-board scoring, or cutting machine of the usual known
construction such as is represented in Fig. 1, such machine has a bridge, such as A,
to which the apparatus may be attached, a table such as B fitted with suitable
guides such as C, on which the paper or board to be ruled is placed, and at or near
the edge of the table a horizontal feed cylinder such as D for carrying the paper, or
board, forward, our apparatus taking the place of the usual cutting or scoring discs,
or. knives.

page_text: The machine represented in Fig. 1. is driven by the operator's foot on a treadle,
but obviously the machine may be fitted with a pulley and driven by a belt from
shafting or otherwise.
The device by which the lines &c. are ruled or printed consists of a cylinder, or
roller E the circumferential surface of which is fitted for surface printing being cut
or made with the line, or lines, or with the pattern, or device, or devices, to be
produced. On the same axle and revolving with the said ruling cylinder is a roller,
or friction pulley F, of slightly greater diameter, made of, or faced with a yielding
material, preferably vulcanized rubber. The function of this rubber faced roller F
is to receive motion from the feed cylinder D attached to the bed of the machine or
from the paper passing over it and to turn the ruling cylinder E. The apparatus
is made with suitable screw clamp, or bolts, for attaching it to the bridge of the
machine as is shown in Figs. 2. 3 and 4, in which A is the bridge seen in cross-
section in Fig. 2, with an undercut slot a, in which the head of a screw-bolt 6'
works, a screw nut d serving to tighten the bolt and fix the whole. A portion of
the bolt is made square and fits so as to slide, easily in a slot e within which
works the screw for adjusting the height of the apparatus and thereby regulating
the pressure of the ruling cylinder on the pasteboard or other material to be
printed.
The difference in the diameter of the ruling cylinder E and the rubber faced
roller F is only very slight, about corresponding with thickness of ordinary paste-
board, so that when nothing is passing through the machine the feed cylinder D is
in contact with the rubber surface and keeps it and with it the ruling cylinder
revolving. When a sheet of paper, or board, is passing through, the rubber yields
sufficiently to allow it to pass and at the same time keeps it firmly pressed on the
feed roller, and thus secures even motion and consequently regular and uniform
results. The ruling cylinder being thus kept constantly revolving whether
anything is passing through the apparatus or not prevents an accumulation of ink
on any one part of its surface and secures that the lines commence properly
without blot or smudge when a fresh sheet is presented.
The apparatus may be constructed without the rubber faced friction-roller the
ruling cylinder being driven directly by the paper passing under it but this does
not produce such good work the lines being often defective or badly formed at the
commencement of each sheet.
The ink is conveyed to the surface of the ruling cylinder E by means of a roller h,
preferably rubber faced which, in its turn, receives its supply of ink from another
nearly similar roller i, the lower part of which dips into a vessel g containing ink
and so arranged that as each part of the roller, after having dipped into the ink,
passes on towards the next roller it passes a bar, or scraper, which removes any
excess of ink and thus regulates and renders more uniform the supply of
ink to the other roller h. Screw adjustments are provided whereby the amount
of pressure of the iuk rollers on each other and on the ruling cylinder
may be regulated, for which purpose the axle of the roller is mounted in a
swinging frame k, which is mounted so as to be capable of a slight oscillation on a
pink, the adjustment thereof being obtained by means of a milled-head nut 1,
working on a fixed screw, the said nut having an annular groove corresponding
with a slot in the frame k, whereby the latter is carried backwards or forwards
along the screw by the rotation of the nut and the adjustment of the pressure of
the roller against the cylinder e is effected. The roller is similarly mounted
on a swinging frame m which is controlled by the milled-head nut n working on a
fixed screw and holding the sides of a slot in the frame in a neck or angular groove
in the nut n. A cover o hung over the pin o¹ serves to cover the ink pan and protect
it from dust. The ink dish g is suspended by straps p from the pin p'.
In some cases we use only one roller for carrying the ink from the ink vessel to
the ruling cylinder but better work is obtained by the use of two ink rollers and
we prefer this construction.
An ink reservoir G is mounted on a plate G¹ in which are two slots through

page_text: which screws pass to attach it to a slide working in the slot a in the bridge A. The
reservoir is provided with a close fitting plug or cover q and with a tube r provided
with a cocks and it is so adjusted for use that the end of the tube just dips into
the ink in the dish g, by which arrangement the ink in the dish is kept at a
tolerably uniform level.
It will be seen that both the ink reservoir G and the dish g are readily
removable for the purpose of changing the color of the ink or for cleansing or
other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :
1. The apparatus for ruling plain and ornamental lines and devices arranged in,
or so as to form lines, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.
2. In an apparatus for ruling lines, or patterns forming lines, in connection with
machinery such as is shewn in Fig. 1. the apparatus hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figs. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
3. In apparatus for ruling lines or patterns forming lines in connection with
machinery for cutting or scoring pasteboard, or the like or machinery of a like
kind the printing or ruling cylinder E, the rubber faced roller F whereby the
cylinder E is kept continuously rotated as long as the machine is turning whether
anything is being fed through the machine or not and the device for inking the
cylinder E all substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated the 8th day of December 1894.
JOSEF TEMLER,
MAX POHLE,
By Newnham Browne,
Agent.