Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1888
• Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Nov., 1888
EPAPHRAS SEAGE and FREDERICK SEAGE, engineers, of 17, Codrington Street,
and 5 Clifton Road, and FREDERICK TREERY REID, watchmaker, of 33, Howell
Road, all of Exeter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a metallic appliance for the purpose of fastening printers'
and other Tapes, so as to dispense with the ordinary mode of sewing, and thus enable
the operator to more readily connect the tapes & re-tighten them.
Our invention, in its simplest form, consists of a metallic plate, preferably of steel,
having the centre stamped out & leaving two or more teeth for the purpose of
penetrating the tape & holding it fast.
Fig. 1 clearly shews the fastener as ready for use.
Fig. 2 shews fastener with tapes attached.
Fig. 3 shews a fastener for wider tape, and to more securly hold the same. This
appliance has an end guard to secure end of tape running in advance.
Fig. 4 shews this fastener with tapes attached.
Fig. 5, shews a fastener with two end guards to admit loose ends of tape.
Fig. 6. shews same with tapes attached.
Fig. 7 is another plan of fastener which consists of a steel plate (or other suitable
metal having a number of triangular punctures suitably prepaired for the purpose of
holding the tapes as illustrated in Fig. 8.
Figs. 9, 10, 11, & 12 shew another mode of securing tapes by means of pointed
staples (as shewn in Fig. 9), of steel or other metal, the two pointed ends of which
enter the tape, when lapped over and by suitable pliars are brought towards the centre
and re-enter the tape the second time and are then finally closed by the flat portion of
the pliars.
Fig. 13 clearly illustrates the form of pliars used for the purpose of turning over
these points and fiatening the joint.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Fasteners for Printers' Tapes and other Purposes.
We, EPAPHRAS SEAGE and FREDERICK SEAGE both of 17 Codrington Street, and
5, Clifton Road, Exeter, in the county of Devon, printers' engineers, and FREDERICK
TREEBY REID, of Howell Road, Exeter, aforesaid, watchmaker, 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:-
This invention consists in an improved method of and in means for joining tapes,
bands and the like. It relates more particularly to joining the tapes, used in printing
machines for receiving the sheets of paper and transferring them from one part of
such machines to another, as is well understood. Such tapes are, under this
invention, united with greater rapidity than can be effected by sewing, and the joints
are stronger and more durable.
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In the provisional specification left with our application for Letters Patent to this
invention are described various methods of joining tapes or bands.
Referring to the drawings accompanying our said Provisional Specification, the
method of fastening which we have found in practice most advantageous and which
we prefer to adopt is that illustrated at Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the said drawings.
This method consists in the use of staples the pointed ends of which after penetrating
both of the overlapped portions of a severed tape are turned down upon and made
to re-enter the material, securely linking the tapes together. At Fig. 12 of the
drawings appended to our provisional specification is illustrated an instrument for
turning down the pointed ends of the staples upon the overlapped tapes.
instrument resembles a pair of pliers. One of the limbs is provided with two
recesses or cavities and when, after a staple has been made to penetrate the over-
lapped tapes, the pliers are closed, the pointed ends of the staple enter the recesses
or cavities in the pliers and are thereby turned down and made to re-enter the
fabric, the legs of the staple assuming a circular form as they re-penetrate the tapes.
A strong and durable joint or fastening is thus readily obtained.
This
At Fig. 1 of the drawing appended to our complete specification is represented an
end view, and at Fig. 2 a part section, of an instrument for turning down the pointed
legs of the staples. The instrument is a modification of that shown at Fig. 12 of the
drawings appended to our Provisional Specification.
To the top end of the limb a is linked a plunger & working in a guide c.
Formed
in one piece with or secured to the limb dis a magazine e on a block fin which are
ranged the staples g. Opposite the plunger is a slot o cut in that side of the
magazine e which is opposite the upper end of the limb d. Fitting over the block or
shelf is a a slide h, Fig. 2, which is inserted behind the last staple when the magazine
is charged. The slide is coupled by the strained india rubber band i to the limb d.
The elastic band is extended through the cylindrical hole k in the limb d and passed
over the stud 1. Extending into the magazine e from the plate m is a block n, Fig. 2,
the inner end of which coincides with one side of the slot o
Fig. 1. The other side

page_text: of the slot o, which is just wide enough to permit one staple to pass through it,
coincides with the inner end of the long block f of the magazine. Thus the slot is
between the blocks and n. By the tension exerted by the stretched elastic band i (or
an equivalent spring) a staple is always presented opposite the slot. The tape t is
represented as in process of being joined, the overlapping parts being placed for that
purpose in the jaw of the instrument. To compress the staple the pliers are closed
accordingly and the plunger bdrives the staple through the tape and the pointed ends
of the staples are turned down and back in the cavities or recesses provided towards
the upper end of the limb d. By these cavities the legs of the staple are each
bent to a circular form as they are doubled back to re-penetrate the material. The
staple next in succession is drawn up to the slot as soon as the plunger is allowed to
spring back.
At Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings appended to this our complete specification are
represented front and back views of tapes joined by staples in accordance with our
invention. Fig. 6 represents a view of a staple after having been acted upon by
the pliers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The use for uniting the divisions of printers' tapes and other like or analogous
bands, of staples the ends or legs of which are, after penetrating the overlapped
ends of such tapes or bands, turned or doubled down so that the point of one leg
is turned towards the point of the other, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The use for turning down the pointed legs of staples employed under the
preceding claim to unite printers' tapes and other like or analogous bands, of a
pair of pincers or pliers, one limb of which is recessed or provided with cavities
in which, as the instrument is closed, the pointed ends of the staples are received
and by means of which they are turned down upon the overlapped tape or hand
and caused to re-enter the same, substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. In combination with a pair of pincers or pliers for turning down the pointed
ends of staples used to unite printers tapes and other like bands, as set forth in
claim 1, of a magazine such as for containing a supply of staples and slotted as at o,
a slide operated by an elastic band such as, or the equivalent thereof, for feeding
the staples to the slot, and a plunger such as 6 for turning down the staples and causing
them to re-enter the tape or band, substantially as herein before described with
reference to the sheet of drawings appended to the complete specification.
Dated this 26th day of October 1888.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicants Agent.