Process and Machine for Providing Cards of Any Size with a Slanted Gold Edge.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1891-Accepted. 19th Sent
1004
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Process and Machine for Providing Cards of Any Size with a Slanted
Gold Edge.
I, ANTON KÜFNER of Wasserstrasse No. 20 Munich, in the Empire of Germany,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to a process and appliances for producing a slanted or
inclined gold edge on card board and has for its purpose to effect the bevelling and
smoothening of the edges in a better and simpler manner than heretofore.
The card board piece to be slanted is placed with the respective edge or edges
between two cylinders or discs, the lower of which is smooth while the upper has
a slanting. By the pressure of the upper disc on the rim of the card, the latter is
compressed so as to assume an inclined shape. Thus a durable and smooth slanting
produced in a simple manner.
an ornamental engraving, corresponding ornaments can be produced on the slanting
By providing the slanted surface of the disc with
of the card. The discs or cylinders may also be so shaped and disposed that the
edges of the card are not only slanted but also somewhat bent round. The slanting
can be effected simultaneously on two parallel edges. The machine consists of two
journal blocks in which the shafts of the gearing and of the cutters and stamping
discs are so lodged as to be displaceable upward and downward in order to allow
the discs to be removed and replaced by other ones.
The shafts of the two feed rollers carry also pulleys for the endless band guiding
by which the cards are passed through the machine. Each of the upper and
lower guide bands of suitable material runs over or with, one of the guide pulleys,
wo or more of which receive motion by the gearing at a speed corresponding to
the cutting and stamping discs. The guide pulleys are displaceable on their guide
haft in order to allow the bands to be respectively approached to and removed
rom each other for narrower and broader cards. To cause the bands to be pressed
niformly upon each other and to attain a straight guiding, little rolls are arranged
etween longitudinal rails which are vertically adjustable on cross rails. On the
pper and lower longitudinal rails being pressed against one another, if required
y aid of spring action, the rolls press the band guidings against each other,
hereby a secure guiding and transporting is attained.
isplaceability of the bands on their guide pulleys also the longitudinal rails with
Corresponding to the
lis are
laterally displaceable.
The gold or colour is put on the card board edges before the latter are slanted.
Dated this 11th day of Novembe- 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Process and Machine for Providing Cards of Any Size with a Slanted
Gold Edge.
1, ANTON KUFNER of 20 Wasserstrasse, Munich, in the Empire of Germany,
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 object of this invention is a process and machinery for producing a slanted
gold or coloured edge on card board and the like in a more efficient manner than
heretofore.

page_text: edge prejudiced. Moreover the cutting by knife is troublesome and necessitates
particular smoothening.
The present invention has for its purpose to dispense with the cutting and sub-
sequent smoothening by slanting and simultaneously smoothening the edges as
follows, reference being had to the annexed drawing, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section
Fig. 3 a cross section, and
Fig 4 a detail of the improved machine.
The card is placed with the edge or edges to be slanted between two rollers or
discs, the upper of which has around its periphery a projection or collar of corre-
sponding cross section, while the lower disc has a groove fitting thereto. By the
pressure of the upper disc the rim of the card is pressed down and the slanting
produced in the simplest manner. The edge, by being compressed receives greater
solidity than the material of the card itself, and the great liability of the outer
rims, in the slantings hitherto produced, to be injured is considerably reduced.
Moreover with the improved process the slantings may be at the same time provided
with elevated or impressed ornaments by giving the inclined surface of the
upper disc a corresponding engraving or arranging a second pair of discs especially
for this purpose.
Each edge had heretofore to be cut separately, whereas by the improved process
four or more parallel edges can be slanted simultaneously as shewn by Fig. 3.
The improved machine consists of two blocks A carrying the bearings for a
number of shafts which are connected with each other by means of toothed wheel
gearing Z and are set in rotation by haud or motive power. The front pair of shafts
carries the feeding rollers a which seize the card to be treated and pass it into the
machine. On the following shafts are mounted the pressing discs b and c, the cutter
discs d and the slanting discs e. In addition to the pressing and cutter discs each
shaft carries two transport discs i surrounded with indiarubber tyre for moving the
card through the machine. All these discs have corresponding rotary counter
discs under them, the counter discs of the pressing discs and c being hard and
smooth, while those of the cutter discs d are again cutters and form circular scissors
therewith, and those of the slanting discs e are grooved corresponding to the
projecting collar thereof. The counter discs of the indiarubber-tyred discs i are
exactly like these and together with them convey the card through the machine.
The discs n provided at the end of the machine serve to pass the finished cards
out of the same.
z
The machine works as follows: The cardboard piece to be treated is seized by the
feeding rollers a introduced into. the machine and, moved along by the transport
discs arrives between the discs b and c, which impress it with ornaments of any
kind along the iniddle and at the two edges. Hence the cardboard is moved
between the cutter disc pairs d, Fig. 4, the middle pair of which cuts the card-
board exactly in the middle of the impressed middle ornament, while the lateral
pairs of cutters cut off any rim projecting beyond the lateral ornament. The two
cardboard halves, each with two ornamental rims thus formed are now passed
between the discs e and provided with slantings as shewn in Fig. 3, o representing
the cardboard. Hence the cards arrive between the discs n which are surrounded
with india-rubber the same as the transport discs i and pass the strips out of the
machine.
The piece of cardboard introduced has now, by its passage through the machine,
been cut through lengthwise, and each of the two strips formed thereby is slanted
and ornamented on both sides.
By passing these strips now crosswise again through the machine, they are cut
and impressed in the same manner and leave the machine in the shape of cards
slanted and ornamented on all four sides.

page_text: In order to allow different sizes and shapes of cards to be produced, the
slanting, pressing, and cutting discs are made adjustable on their shafts. It is
evident that the various manipulations, for each of which a special disc is provided
in the above machine, may also be executed by a single disc or by two discs, which
are then correspondingly arranged; but in practice the arrangement as shewn
proves more rational, especially with regard to neat and exact work.
As described above, four cards are produced by only two introductions of the
cardboard. When coloured or gilt edges are to be produced, the gold or colour is
printed on the cardboard before the latter is introduced into the machine, whereby
the finished edges have a far better appearance than those of similar cards hitherto
produced.
With the improved process and machine, the time-wasting cutting and smoothening
of the slanted edges is avoided; the machine works rapidly and can be easily
adjusted for all sizes and forms of cards, while the transporting system works very
uniformly.
While formerly the slanted edges had to be first cut, then smoothened and
ultimately coloured or guilt, now the cardboard, when coloured or gold edges are to
be produced is merely imprinted with the respective colour or gold, and the
machine delivers the cards with the finished coloured or gold edge.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1) Process for producing plain, coloured or gilt slanted edges on cards,
characterised by the card edges being slanted by the pressure of a disc or roller,
which may be provided with engraving, while for coloured or gilt edges the card-
board is previously imprinted with colour or gold, substantially as set forth.
2) A machine for executing the process referred to in Claim 1, consisting of
adjustable cutting-, pressing-, and stamping discs mounted on rotary shafts and
provided with corresponding profile, through which discs the cardboard
passed,
said dises being provided in single or multiple arrangement, substantially as set
forth.
Dated this 8th day of August 1891.
ANTON KUFNER,
By Huelser & Co.,
His Agents.