Improvements in Stamping or Marking and Cutting Apparatus for Samples and other like Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 19th Oct., 188
Improvements in Stamping or Marking and Cutting Apparatus for
Samples and other like Purposes.
I, THOMAS CHARLES THOMPSON, of Britannia Mills Lower Mosley Street,
Manchester, Printers Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The improvements relate to apparatus for stamping or marking samples and other
like purposes, and are applicable to samples or lengths of wall or other papers, and of
woven goods and other fabrics, and have for object the intermittent stamping or
marking of such goods with trade marks, numbers, letters, qualities or other marks,
by mechanical means instead of by manual action as for the most part at present
obtains.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I mount two pairs of rollers, or
it may be in some cases one pair of rollers, in connection with a table or platform,
between which rollers the length of substance to be intermittently stamped or marked
is placed, in such manner that when motion is given to the rollers the paper or other
fabric is drawn forward a given distance.
Intermittent motion is given to these rollers by means of a paul and ratchet or
equivalent device either placed upon the axle of one roller, or, by preference, on a
geared connecting wheel for multiplying distance of travel.
While the fabric is travelling forward the stamper is receiving ink or colouring
matter by being caused to press against a pad or ink rollers, or to be pressed thereby,
and when the rollers come to rest a can or cams upon the driving or other shaft
actuates the stamper and brings it down upon the table or platform over which
the paper or fabric is drawn, and thus marks the goods.
I also, when desirable, provide a knife, or knives, which may be either of the
guillotine or revolving type, in any suitable position, and so actuated that between
every intermittent motion of the rollers it is caused to cut off the sample or other
length of paper or fabric being marked.

page_text: Variations in detail together with the mode of actuating the parts may be made
without departing from the peculiar character of the invention and the apparatus may
be used or constructed with or without the knife or cutting arrangement.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1887.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stamping or Marking and Cutting Apparatus for
Samples and other like Purposes.
I, THOMAS CHARLES THOMPSON, of Britannia Mills, Lower Mosley Street,
Manchester, Printers Engineer, 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 improvements relate to apparatus for stamping or marking samples, and other
like purposes, and are applicable to samples or lengths of wall paper, or other papers,
and to samples or lengths of woven or other fabrics; and have for object the
intermittent stamping or marking of such goods with trade marks, numbers, letters,
headings, quantities, or other marks, by mechanical means, instead of by manuel action,
as for the most part at present obtains.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I mount two pairs of rollers, by
preference or it may be more or only one pair, in connection with a table or platform,
between which rollers the length of material to be intermittently stamped or marked
is placed, in such manner, that when motion is given to the rollers, the paper or other
fabric is drawn forward a given distance.
Intermittent motion is given to the rollers by means of a paul and ratchet, or
equivalent device, either placed upon the axle of one roller, or, by preference, on a
geared connecting wheel; or shaft thereof, for multiplying distance of travel.
While the fabric is travelling forward, the stamper is receiving ink or colouring
matter, by being caused to press against a pad or pads, or ink roller or rollers, or it
inay be to be pressed thereby, such ink pad or pads or rollers being actuated by a cam
or cams on the driving or other shaft, and when the rollers come to rest, a cam or
cams upon the driving or other shaft, actuates the stamper and brings it down upon
the cloth, paper, or other fabric resting on the table or platform before named, and
thus marks the goods.

page_text: men may be of the guinotie
or revolving type, in any suitable position, and so actuated that between every
intermittent motion of the rollers, or otherwise, it is caused to cut off the sample or
other length of paper or fabric being marked.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. shews a side elevation, and Fig. 2. a plan of apparatus arranged in
accordance with my improvements; while Fig. 3. shews a sectional plan on line A. B,
and Fig. 4. a transverse section at line C, D, of the same. Fig. 5. is a detail
separately shewn, and Fig. 6. illustrates the action of one type of knife or cutter.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is the main framing of the apparatus, and b, b, bx, bx, are the revolving
rollers which draw forward the fabric to be marked upon the table or platform c, c.
Motion is given to the rollers b, b, by means of geared wheels b', 6, 12, 12, actuated
by the paul and ratchet d, d, connected to the shaft e, e, (geared to the driving
shaft e e,) by the link ff, and crank pin g, g. h, h, are the ink pads employed
in the example shewn, and j, j, the stamper or stampers, actuated by cam or
cams k, k, on the shaft e, e.
As the stamper or stampers rise they are caused to partially turn by means of
the rack and pinion motion, shewn in detail in Fig. 5. As the slide ¹, k¹, is
raised by the cam, the fixing or projection 1, 1, is resisted by the pin m, thus
putting the toothed portion of the pinion into gear with the rack, and by that means
turning the stamper to the correct position for pressing, or being pressed by, the
inking pads h, h.
The knife n, n, is connected by the links o, o, o¹, o³, to the lever p, p, provided with
a counterbalance weight, and actuated from the shaft e, e, as shewn.
Variations in detail, together with the mode of actuating any or all the parts
of the apparatus may be made without departing from the peculiar character of the
invention; and the apparatus may be used or constructed without the knife or cutting
arrangement if desired.
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
1. The combination of rollers, intermittently actuated, with inking pads or rollers
and stampers, for the purpose of stamping or marking samples or other lengths of
materials, in manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
2. The combination of rollers, stampers, inkers, and cutting knife, or apparatus, for
the purpose and in manner substantially as herein shewn and described.
3. The combination of apparatus and paris, for the purpose named, substantially as
shewn in the drawings annexed, and decribed herein.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1888.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
Agent.