Improvements relating to the Production of Printed Matter in Pamphlet or Book-like Form.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by Messieurs R. HOE & Co., of 504, Grand Street,
in the City of New York, United States of America, Printing Machine
Manufacturers.]
Improvements relating to the Production of Printed Matter in
Pamphlet or Book-like Form.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of The Office for Patents 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The principal object. of this invention is to provide printing machines of that class
which produce the component sheets of a book-like package, consisting of two or
more associated webs or sheets, with a delivery mechanism for the webs or sheets,
having means for uniting said webs or sheets, whether of the same or varying sizes,
whether folded or simply associated, and if folded, either before, after, or during
the folding operation, with one or more staples in, on, or along the ultimate binding
line thereof, so that the same be delivered as a pamphlet or book-like package, the
plies or leaves of which are securely bound together, so as to admit of their several
plies or leaves being turned one upon the other without separation at their liue of
union.
Ordinarily, this union of the various plies or sheets, constituting the leaves of
the book-like package or sheets composing a newspaper, are secured on their
common binding line by paste, which is applied during the movement of the paper
through the machine. Owing to the rate of speed at which printing machines are
made to operate, difficulties exist in properly applying the paste to the paper.
These difficulties are not serious in newspaper work, but they become, in the
production of books or pamphlets, a very great objection. All of the disadvantages
due to the use of paste as the means of uniting webs or sheets of paper are obviated
by uniting the plies thereof, on or along their ultimate binding line, by means of
staples passed through the plies of paper, and bent or clinched so as to secure them
in place.
The present invention obviates these defects, by inserting and clinching staples
at one or more points in, on, or along the line of ultimate fold of the united plies of
paper webs or sheets, as they are delivered from a rapid printing machine, such as
a web-printing machine, in which the parts are rotative in action, without reducing
the ordinary or fast speed of such machines, whereby the products thereof are
provided with a binding uniting their plies, by means which constitute a strong,
durable, and permanent fastening in one form, strictly within the double or bight
thereof, and, in the other form, accurately near and parallel with the edge of such
binding line.
To these ends, this invention broadly consists in the combination of a printing
machine, whereby one or more webs or sheets are printed upon one or both
sides, with a delivery apparatus that embodies a rotative stapling mechanism,
whereby the plies of the product, whether in the web or sheet, are secured together
by staples upon the binding line, either before, during, or after the same are one
or more times folded.
In combination therewith are, also, means for plicating a web or webs or sheets,
either by folding or associating; means for slitting the web or webs or sheets longi-
tudinally; means for severing the plicated web or webs transversely into sheet
lengths; means for folding the plicated products transversely on their stapled or
binding line.

page_text: The invention further consists in mounting the staple-setting devices, that is, the
guiding and inserting or driving devices, in a rotating carrier, whereby a wire staple
is inserted in webs, or sheets of paper or other material, while the same is moving
onward at a rapid surface speed for delivery.
In co-operative combination therewith, of a staple leg bending or clinching
devices, whereby the staple inserted through the paper sheets or other material,
while on the run, may, operating either in fixed supports, or mounted in a revolving
carrier, secure said staple in place, by turning its legs toward or onto said paper,
sheets, or material, without suspending or retarding its rapid feeding movement.
Also, in combination therewith, of means for supplying wire, means for cutting
off successive staple lengths thereof; means for carrying the staple lengths of wire
to the forming device, for conversion into staples, and means for conveying formed
staples to the setting devices of the aforesaid rotating carrier, whether such staples
are formed in the apparatus, or delivered thereto as made staples.
The invention also embraces not only novel wire staple forming, inserting, and
clinching mechanisms, and combinations thereof with the sheet carrying, delivering
cylinder, and means for folding the united sheets upon their line of binding, but
various mechanisms and combinations thereof entering into the performance of
the uniting or binding of two or more sheets, as will be hereinafter particularly
pointed out.
The foregoing statements comprehend the principal or more prominent features
of this invention, but other improvements, constructions, combinations of parts, and
mechanisms, and modifications thereof, are, however, also included within the scope
of this invention.
In carrying out this invention, the web or webs of paper are passed to a
rotary printing machine, in which they are printed on one or both sides, as may
be desired.
The webs are then plicated either by folding or by association, and are auto-
matically fed between stapling mechanisms, which are operated automatically to
insert staples through the webs or sheets, and clinch the legs down without arresting
the onward movement of the webs or sheets.
The webs may be folded longitudinally by a longitudinal folder, and divided
longitudinally by a slitter, before passing to the stapling mechanism, and the web
may afterwards be cut transversely into sheet lengths by a suitable cutting
mechanism.
Or the folding may be effected after the web has been cut into sheet lengths and
the staples have been applied by folding mechanisms, which will double or fold the
material on the stapled line of union, so as to produce a book-like product.
The staple-inserting mechanism is supported by a rotating carrier, and co-operates
with a staple leg clinching mechanism, which is supported by a second rotating
carrier, the latter carrier also supporting a folding blade which co-operates with
folding rollers, by means of which mechanism the staple is inserted and clinched on
the line of ultimate fold, and folded on the stapled line with the head or crown of
the staple on the outside and the clinched legs on the inside of the product, the
folding blade having parts removed to enable it to pass the stapling mechanism.
One of the rotating carriers before referred to, is provided with a cutter for
severing a staple length of wire, and also with conveyors for receiving, carrying
onward, and presenting this length of wire, between which conveyors the staple is
formed, the other carrier being provided with a forming anvil that moves between
the conveyors, and bends the wire into staple form, and also with means for
inserting the staple into the material.
The staple-forming, inserting, and clinching mechanism, may consist of three
rotating carriers, the first receiving and cutting off the staple length of wire and
carrying it on, the second being provided with the means for forming and inserting
the staple, and the third carrying leg clinching devices as well as means for folding
or doubling the sheets or plies of paper.
The rotating carriers before mentioned may form part of the delivery apparatus

page_text: for the associated sheets or plies of paper, the said carriers feeding onward the said
sheets, as well as stapling them.
The staple-inserting devices of one carrier, receive the staple at one point in the
rotative travel of the carrier, and transfer it to another, for setting the same.
Suitable wire-feeding mechanism will be provided to deliver the lengths of wire
within the range of action of the rotating staple-forming and the inserting
mechanism.
The conveyors are arranged to rotate, and co-acting therewith is a curved guard.
The staple-forming anvil is capable of swinging to engage the length of wire
presented to it, to convert it into a staple, and move it within the rotating carrier,
a rocking forked guide being provided to move the staple into the setting path, for
the purpose of being acted on by a setting tool or driver and the staple-clinching
device. The side walls of a recess in the rotating carrier, with the guiding ledges
thereof, act as a staple leg supporting guide, and the staple is moved by the anvil
onto a tumbling block, the forked guide or stripper bringing it into the setting
position. The anvil is provided with a projecting nose piece and staple-bending
arms, and the rotating carrier supporting the anvil is provided with means for
swinging it, as before described, to form the staple, and fix it between the conveyor
guides.
1000
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Production of Printed Matter in
Pamphlet or Book-like Form.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of The Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of London, Patent Agent, 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 principal object of this invention is to provide printing machines of that
class which produce the component sheets or leaves of a book-like package con-
sisting of two or more associated sheets, with a delivery mechanism having means
for uniting webs or sheets by one or more staples set in, on, or near the ultimate
binding line thereof, whether the webs or sheets are of the same or varying sizes,
and folded or simply associated, and if folded, either before, after, or during the
folding operation, so that the product will be delivered as a pamphlet or book-like
package, the plies or leaves of which are securely bound together, so as to admit of
their several plies or leaves being turned one upon the other without separation at
their line of union.
Advantageous results in a high degree arise from the present invention, first, in
accomplishing the union of the plies of the product delivered from a rapidly
operating machine, as a fast printing machine, by binding them together with wire
staples, and second, in performing the operation of presenting, inserting, and
clinching staples in, on, or near the line of binding fold in the paper, or near and
parallel with the binding edge of the plicated pack, without necessitating that the
moving paper or material shall be even momentarily brought to a state of rest
while being delivered.
The said invention consists in the combination with means for feeding plicated
material onward past a staple-inserting means, of a staple-inserting means operating
to insert a staple through the moving material.
It also includes, in combination therewith, means for clinching the staple legs.
It also consists in staple-holding and inserting devices of a staple mechanism, one
or both mounted in travelling, preferably rotative, supports, together with means

page_text: for feeding the material to be stapled past said devices in the direction of their
travel, preferably onward with them, so that the feeding movement of the material
need not necessarily be suspended even momentarily, whereby a staple will be
inserted in such material.
It also includes in combination therewith, a staple-leg clinching device, which
may be stationary, but preferably is mounted in a like support.
Also
It also embraces in combination with the foregoing mechanism for printing one
or more webs or sheets upon one or both sides, means for plicating the same, means
for slitting the same longitudinally, means for severing the same transversely, and
means for folding the stapled product in, on, or near its stapled line of union.
means for supplying wire, means for cutting off successive staple lengths thereof;
meaus for carrying the staple lengths of wire to the forming device for conversion
into staples, and means for conveying formed staples to the setting devices, whether
such staples are made in the apparatus, or delivered thereto as ready-made
staples.
The foregoing statements comprehend the principal or more prominent features
of this invention, but other improvements, constructions, combinations of parts, and
mechanisms, and modifications thereof, are also included within the scope of this
invention, are particularly herein after pointed out in the claims, and explained in
the course of the following detailed description of the modes in which the inven-
tion is or may be practically embodied or carried into effect, a ready understanding
of which description and claims will be aided by reference to the accompanying
drawings.
In these drawings, section lines mark the plane in which an illustration is made;
the reference number for the line indicates the figure which embodies the view;
and the arrow head connected with each section line points the direction in which
the picture is seen.
Feathered arrows show the direction of movement of the parts with which each
is associated, and like reference characters designate corresponding parts.
The views in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 26, 27, 28, and 29, are made up on a scale about one
quarter of that of the other views, but some of the views of details are upon
enlarged scales, to more clearly-show the parts and their operation.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of duplex printing mechanisms, the delivery apparatus
whereof is applied with a stapling mechanism for binding the plicated products
thereof, the side framing being removed from the main machine, to more clearly
show the mechanisms.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the delivery apparatus.
Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the delivery apparatus, removed from the machine,
and devoid of framework.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same, with the framework in place.
Fig. 6 is an enlarged side elevation.
Fig. 7 is a plan view of the staple-leg clinching mechanism.
Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional elevation thereof.
Fig. 9 is an end elevation thereof.
Fig. 10 is a cross sectional elevation, showing some mechanisms carried by the
cylinder or support C, and others that coact therewith.
Fig. 11 is a vertical elevation, on the section line 11, of Fig. 10.
Fig. 12 is a bottom face view of the parts shown in Fig. 10.
Fig. 13 is a cross sectional elevation, with the parts in another position.
Fig. 14 is a vertical elevation, on the section line 14 of Fig. 13.
Fig. 15 is a face view of that part of the cylinder or support B through which
a part of the stapling mechanism protrudes.
Fig. 16 is a horizontal sectional plan view on the section line 16 of Fig. 17.
Fig. 17 is a vertical sectional elevation on the section line 17 of Fig. 15.
Figs. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, are sectional details of the stapling mechanism
in various positions of its operation.

page_text: Fig. 24 is a horizontal sectional elevation of the staple clinching mechanism,
taken on the section line 24 of Fig. 22.
Fig. 25 is a similar view, taken on the section line 25 of Fig. 23.
Fig. 26 is a diagrammatic projection, in horizontal plane, of the run of the webs
or material to be stapled, and one mode of making a folded and staple-bound book-
like product, with mechanisms organized and arranged as in the preceding figures.
Fig. 27 is a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 28 illustrates the book-like product partially folded on its stapled binding
line.
Fig. 29 is a perspective view of the stapled and folded book-like product.
Other modifications of the invention are illustrated as follows:-
Figs. 30, 31, 32, and 33, are sectional views showing in detail a modified
construction of the staple-setting mechanism.
Fig. 34 is an end elevation,
Fig. 35 a side elevation, and
Fig. 36 a sectional elevation, of a modification of the rotating supports or carriers
of the delivery apparatus, and the mechanisms they support.
Fig. 37 is a face view of the clinching device.
Fig. 38 is an end or face view of the staple holder and inserting devices.
Fig. 39 is a sectional elevation thereof, on the section line 39 of Fig. 38.
Fig. 40 is a sectional view of the staple-forming devices, and staple holder.
Fig. 41 is an end elevation of the rotating carriers or supports for a stapling
mechanism that is adapted for setting staples longitudinally, or by so inserting
them in the material, that their legs are parallel with its run.
Fig. 42 is a plan view of a portion thereof.
Fig. 43 is a perspective view of the carrying stock for the staple-holding or
presenting tool.
Fig. 44 is a similar view of the staple holding or presenting tool, detached.
Fig. 45 is a similar view of the staple holding or presenting tool, within its
carrying stock.
Fig. 46 is a similar view of the lever for actuating the staple-holding or presenting
tool, detached.
Fig. 47 is a partial end elevation of one of the supports or carriers, a portion
being in section, to more particularly show the arms of the staple holder in their
relation to the openings in the carrier or support in which they operate.
Fig. 48 is a plan view of the same parts.
Fig. 49 is a partial longitudinal sectional elevation of a part of the same support
or carrier, showing an edge view of the carrying stock for the staple holder, the
latter being indicated by dotted lines.
Fig. 50 is a plan view of a part of the same carrier or support, showing more
particularly the openings in its periphery provided for the movements of the
staple holder.
Figs. 51 and 52 are edge elevations of the staple holder and its carrying stock
in two positions of their operative relation to the forming anvil and setting bed.
Figs. 53 and 54 illustrate folded products, the leaves or plies of which are
united to form a book by means of staples inserted through them, parallel with, and
hear their binding edge.
Figs. 55 to 62 illustrate a further modification of the invention, wherein the
taples are inserted longitudinally, or so that their crowus are parallel with the run
of the material receiving them.
Of these views, Fig. 55 is an end elevation of a delivery mechanism embodying
his modification, the carrier or support for the staple forming, holding, or presenting
and inserting, instrumentalities, being disc-like.
Fig. 56 is a side elevation of the same, the carrier which supports the staple
forming, holding, and inserting devices, being shown in longitudinal vertical section,
while the cams for imparting motion thereto, and their supporting brackets, are
hown in elevation.

page_text: Fig. 57 is an elevation of this disc-like carrier, or support, in which is mounted
the staple-forming, holding, and inserting devices, portions being broken away to
expose inner parts.
Figs. 58 & 59 are similar views of portions of said carrier or support, showing
the different positions of the mechanisms during the operation of forming and
presenting a staple.
Fig. 60 is a plan view, partly in section, of said disc-like carrier or support, and
its co-operating devices, as seen in the direction of the arrow 60 in Fig. 57.
Fig. 61 is a facial elevation of said carrier or support, showing more particularly
the levers for operating the staple mechanisms, as well as their actuating cams, as
seen in the direction of the arrow 61 in Fig. 57.
Fig. 62 is a sectional elevation on the line 62 of Fig. 60, showing more
particularly the wire guideway.
Figs. 63 to 78 illustrate a rotative stapling mechanism in which the wire-supplying
and feeding, the staple forming, holding, or presenting, and inserting, mechanisms,
are all supported by a single rotative carrier.
Fig. 63 is an end elevation of the principal parts of a delivery apparatus,
showing more particularly the stapling mechanism carriers or supports, when the
stapling mechanisms are approaching the staple-inserting point.
Fig. 64 is a side elevation of the cylinder carrier or support B, in a position equal
to a quarter turn rearward of that shown in Fig. 63.
Fig. 65 is a plan view, showing more particularly the wire-feeding plate, the shell
of the carrier being removed to expose it.
Fig. 66 is a sectional elevation of the staple-forming, presenting, and inserting
mechanisms, taken on the line 66 of Figs. 68 and 69.
Fig. 67 is a similar view, the section being taken in part on the line 67 of
Fig. 68.
Fig. 68 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 66, partly in section.
Fig. 69 is a face view, partly in section, of Fig. 66.
Fig. 70 is a section taken on the line 70 of Fig. 66.
Fig. 71 is a sectional elevation on the line 71 of Fig. 69.
Fig. 72 is a plan view of Fig. 71.
Fig. 73 shews, detached, perspective views of the inner or staple crown guide,
and of the wire guide.
Fig. 74 is a perspective view of the staple holding and inserting devices.
Fig. 75 is a rear view of the outer end of the operating lever for the staple-
inserting device.
Figs. 76, 77, and 78, are sectional elevations taken respectively on the lines 76, 77,
and 66 of Fig. 68.
Figs. 79 to 85 illustrate a further modification, wherein the staple holding and
inserting mechanisms carried by the rotating cylinder or support B, receive a made
staple from a suitable source of supply.
Fig. 79 is an elevation, partly in section, of a portion of the oylinder, or support,
illustrating the relation of the stapling mechanism thereto.
Fig. 80 is a similar view, with the parts in a different position.
Fig. 81 is a sectional detail taken on the line 81 of Fig. 79.
Fig. 82 is a face view of mechanisms carried by the cylinder or support B, as
seen in the direction of the arrow 82 in Fig. 80, when the shell of the cylinder is
removed.
Fig. 83 is a side elevation, and
Fig. 84 is a perspective view of the staple receiving, holding, or presenting, and
inserting or setting devices.
Fig. 85 is a perspective view of the guards connected with the staple feeding
wheel.
Figs. 86 to 93, inclusive, illustrate a further modification of this invention, in
which the staple holding or presenting and inserting mechanisms have the rotative
movement of oscillation.

page_text: Figs. 86 and 87 are opposite side elevations, showing the stapling mechanism.
Fig. 88 is a partial plan and sectional view, showing more particularly the wire
feeding and cutting mechanisms.
Fig. 89 is a longitudinal sectional elevation through the upper or staple forming
member of the stapling mechanism.
Fig. 90 is a similar view, but shows, in plan, the lower members of the stapling
mechanism, viz. :-the staple holder or presenting tool, and the staple driver it
carries.
Fig. 91 is a front end elevation of the staple inserting tool or driver, the arms of
the staple holder, which guide it, being in section.
Fig. 92 is a side elevation of the wire cutter.
Fig. 93 is a perspective view of the trigger cam.
Figs. 94 and 95 are front and side elevations of the staple leg clinching die or
block.
Of the many practical embodiments that may be made of this invention, those
shown herein illustrate the improvements as applied to a web printing machine, and
before explaining more particularly the construction and the operation of the staple
binding delivery apparatus, a printing machine adapted to produce and plicate
printed paper webs or sheets ready for the binding operation, will be described.
The example of the web printing machine shown, comprises printing mechanisms
that are adapted to print upon paper led from the roll, two rolls being used. Each
of the printing mechanisms has its forms disposed four plates abreast, and four
plates around its printing or type cylinders. For convenience of description, the
roll marked M will be considered as the main web, and the roll marked S will be
considered as the supplemental web, but it is to be remarked that webs of varying
widths may be employed.
The web printing mechanisms shown are, in general construction, of a prefer-
able form, and as that construction is well known in the art, they will be readily
understood by a description of the course of the webs through them.
The main web from the roll M, is led over guiding rollers 131, 132, and passes
thence between the impression cylinder O and type or form cylinder D, whereby
it is printed upon one side. From the impression cylinder O, it is led between
an impression cylinder E and a type or form cylinder F, whereby it is perfected
by being printed upon its opposite side.
The supplement web from the roll S is led over guiding rollers 135, 136, and
passes thence between an impression cylinder G and type or form cylinder H,
whereby it is printed upon one side. From the impression cylinder G, it is led
between the impression cylinder I and a type or form cylinder K, whereby it is
perfected by being printed upon its opposite side.
Although the printing mechanisms are illustrated herein as having their printing
cylinders each provided with four forms abreast and four forms around them, and
each form is adapted to print the matter for a page, thus capacitating them to
print a web four pages wide, it will be understood by a consideration of the printed
webs shown in Fig. 26, that the forms are, for convenience, duplicated in pairs
around the printing cylinders, and the two sets of printing mechanisms are shown
as of like capacity, in order to more fully illustrate the multiplex variety of
folded and bound book-like products that may be obtained therefrom; but the
supplemental printing mechanism may bear the relation to the main printing.
mechanism in the proportion as one is to two, or to three, or to four, or as two is
to three, or to five; or as three is to five, &c. Although the delivery mechanism
is shown as constituted, in part, by one longitudinal folder L, it might embody
two or more, as is common in the art, although one is sufficient to well illustrate
the present improvements.
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For a general description, we will consider each web to be of double width,-
the two thus being equal to the full capacity of the printing mechanisms.
In this case, the main web from the roll M, after being perfected, will be divided
longitudinally into two webs by means of a slitter, as 139, that co-acts with the

page_text: roller 133, whereupon one of the narrow webs (the nearer) will be passed over
roller 107, and be led directly onward over roller 134, to the longitudinal folder;
while the other narrow web will run out from the roller 133, and be turned up
over the turning bar W, and then up over the turning bar U, thus being shifted
or transferred laterally, under the nearer narrow web, the two narrow webs being
thus superimposed, so that they move onward together, as
one web, over the
roller 134, and onto the longitudinal folder L.
The supplement web from the roll S, after being perfected, will be divided
longitudinally into two narrow webs by means of a slitter 140, that may be swung
into coactive relation to a guide roller 137, whereupon one of these narrow webs
(the nearer) will pass from the roller 137 directly to the roller 134, and thence
directly onto the longitudinal folder L, and the other narrow web will pass upward
from the roller 137 to and over the roller 138, and be turned down over the
turning bar V, and down over the turning bar T, thus being shifted or transferred
laterally over the nearer narrow supplement web, the two narrow supplement webs
and the two narrow main webs thus being superimposed, so that they move onward
together as one web, the result being that as the roller 134 is passed, there will
be four superimposed two-page wide or narrow webs entering simultaneously onto
the longitudinal folder L. The roller 134 is also surmounted by a slitter 141, by
which the webs passing over said roller may be slit in their longitudinal centres
as they pass onto the longitudinal folder L, the result of which will be two side
by side streams of superimposed or plicated webs, each consisting of four plies.
The slitters 139, 140, 141, are mounted in swinging arms, so as to be moved, at
will, into and out of operative position.
This plication of the webs may be accomplished in other ways, as, for instance,
by means of triangular transferrers, although, in the production of some forms of
the product, the plication of the webs may be accomplished by simply leading
narrow webs, two pages wide or less, from one or both of the printing mechanisms
directly to the longitudinal folder, without using turning bars or other trans-
ferring device. Thus, webs or sheets from a multiplicity of printing mechanisms
arranged one above another, or otherwise, so that their webs may be led directly
to the delivery mechanisms, would accomplish plication, as would any means for
associating the products of printing machines of many varieties; thus the main
and supplemental printing machines might be arranged at right angles with
respect to each other, and supply printed webs or sheets to means for associating
or plicating them.
The longitudinal folder L, as herein shown, is constructed in conformity with that
shewn and described in the Specification of a Patent granted to William Conquest
dated December 5th 1885 (No. 14911), but may be of any other construction
adapted to perform the function of longitudinally folding or plicating material in
the web or sheet form. As illustrated, it consists of angularly arranged internal
turning bars 101, 102, which, in connection with external turners or rollers 103, 104,
and fold-laying rollers 105, 106, constitute a longitudinal folder, upon which
the paper webs enter directly from the printing mechanisms, and by which they
may be plicated by being longitudinally folded, or, if slit centrally by the
slitter 141 into two side sets of webs, they will be plicated by the turning or
lapping action of the said longitudinal folder. The associated or plicated webs
thence pass onward, to be cut transversely into sheet lengths, folded transversely,
and bound together in, on, or near, the line of such fold, by the stapling
mechanisms.
The transverse cutting of the webs into sheet lengths may be performed at any
convenient point of the machine which is reached by the webs after they are
printed. Formerly such cutting operation was commonly performed immediately
after the printing operations were complete, but this necessitated the use of
carrying tapes for the conduction of the sheets onward, and required the tapes to
compass the mechanisms intervening between the transverse cutting devices, and
such of the final delivery devices as was capacitated to hold each individual

page_text: sheet. Such an arrangement may be used with this invention, but it is preferred
that the paper shall remain in the web until that part of the delivery mechanism
is reached which holds each sheet length, as is herein illustrated, thus dispensing
with carrying tapes, which arrangement of the cutting devices and integrity of
the web, has long been the substitutive equivalent of first cutting into sheets and
then carrying the same onward in a taped pathway.
To aid a ready understanding of the various improvements included herein, the
general construction of the delivery apparatus illustrated in Figs. 1 to 29 will first
be explained.
It mainly consists of rotary sheet-cutting and folding mechanisms that are
supported by rotating carriers or supports A, B, which are preferably constructed
in the form of cylinders. The carrier A is, for convenience, of a size to provide
a circumferential extent equal to that of the length of two sheets to be operated
upon, and it therefore is provided at opposite points with folding blades rotative in
this carrier, and here shown as double membered, as the blades 48, 49 and 51, 52,
Fig. 4, which folding blades co-operate in performing the folding operation with
folding rollers 53, 54, as is common in this art. The carrier B, which, for con-
venience, is one half the size of carrier A, or equal circumferentially to the length
of one sheet, is provided with a cutting blade 20 of ordinary construction, which
co-operates in performing the transverse severing operation, with cutting
slots 21, 22, with which the carrier A is provided at equidistant points midway
between the folding blades.
Additionally, the carrier A is provided directly in the rear of the cutting
slots 21, 22, with sets of sheet impaling, carrying pins 23, 24, which are respectively
pivotted to rock arms 25, 26, that project from shafts 27, 28. These arms 25, 26
are rocked against the pressure of retaining springs 29, 30, by means of rock
arms 31, 32, that are actuated at proper times by means of a stationary cam 33,
which is so positioned with respect to the folding rollers 53, 54, that the said pins
are normally projected so as to impale the paper before it is severed, and thus
hold the leading end of the sheet, and carry it forward until it is to be folded,
and then withdraw in proper time to admit the leading portion of the sheet to be
drawn rearward, as it is folded upon the predetermined line of fold, through the
rotative protrusion of one of the folding blades beyond the periphery of the
carrier A, and into the nip of the folding rollers 53, 54.
These rotary folding blades 48, 49 and 51, 52, are constructed and operate
substantially as described and illustrated in the Specification of a Patent granted
to Henry Edward Newton and dated June 2nd 1891, No. 9335, and, though selected
here as illustrative of the folding operation, may have substituted for them any
other construction of folder, as is apparent.
The carriers A, B, are geared together, so as to run in unison, by means of
wheels 108, 109, and the rollers 53, 54, 105, 106, will be so geared together as to
run with a like surface speed. It will be obvious that the longitudinally folded
paper web, or associated webs, or sheets, from the rollers 105, 106, will be directed
between the carriers A, B, and be impaled by a set of the pins, as 23 or 24, as the
same pass the point of nearest contact between the carriers A, B, while at the same
time the cutting blade 20, co-operating with one of the cutting slots 21, 22, will
sever such
paper web or webs transversely, thus detaching a forward portion equal
to a sheet's length. The end of the web or webs from which a forward portion
has thus been detached, now held by the pins 23, 24, will be laid upon the surface
of the carrier A, as the latter revolves, and thus held, the paper will be carried
onward until the central portion of a sheet's length of the web or webs is
appropriately near to the folding rollers 53, 54, when the pins will be withdrawn
to release their hold upon the paper, and the latter will be doubled or folded, by
one of the folding blades, into the nip of the folding rollers; and when the
appropriate length of the web or webs has thus passed onward, the cutting blade 20
will sever the same transversely, and detach a sheet's length therefrom. This is
an ordinary cutting, folding, delivery operation, as performed in machinery of this
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page_text: class, and is introduced here to illustrate the co-operative relation with such
mechanisms, of the invention constituted by the present improvements.
The mode of performing the binding of the plicated webs or sheets, and means
therefor, will now be explained.
As has been stated, the plicated product is to be provided with means for uniting
its plies of paper, thus doubled or folded together, in, on, or near, its binding line.
Herein the union of these plies of paper, at such binding line, is effected by means
of wire staples, one of which, 5, is shown as applied to the folded sheet, as is seen
in the sheet shown issuing from the folding rollers, in Figure 4.
The mechanisms are shown as supported by cylinders C, B, A, all of which, in
so far as the stapling mechanisms are concerned, are mere carriers or supports for
the same, said cylinders being geared together to run in unison, so that the various
devices may perfectly co-operate, the carrier or support C being preferably
two or more short cylinders mounted upon a common shaft, that is geared by
means of a toothed wheel 110 with a wheel 109 on the shaft of the carrier or
support B.
In the example shown, Figures 1 to 33 inclusive, there are three sets of rotative
stapling mechanisms, arranged in longitudinal series, by which three staples are
formed, and inserted in, on, or near, the binding or fold line of each sheet or
product. For some products, two, or even one staple will suffice, while for others
three, and even a larger number, may be necessary, and hence the stapling
mechanisms may be duplicated accordingly, and preferably be made adjustable
with respect to each other.
In order to readily understand the construction and operation of the stapling
mechanisms, one set will now be described, it being understood that this descrip-
tion of one set applies to all, in the embodiment of the invention now being
described.
Wire of suitable size, according to the thickness of the plies to be bound
together, is wound upon a spool 35, mounted to turn freely in bearings projecting
from standards that are supported by a cross bar 36, secured to the frame of the
machine, in which standards are suitable pairs of feeding rollers 6, 8, which are
geared together by pinions 37, 38, and driven by means of a pinion, 39, on the shaft
of roller 8, that is engaged by the pinion 40 on a short shaft mounted on the
standards, which carries a worm wheel 41 that engages with a worm 42 on the
shaft of the carrier C.
This constitutes the wire feeding mechanism, and its feeding action is so timed
as to protrude a staple length of wire in front of the carrier or support C, at each
revolution thereof. This staple length of wire is, in the course of the operation of
the mechanisms, protruded to an appropriate length in front of the periphery of
the carrier or support C, at such time that it will be in place in advance of the
arrival of the cutting edge of one arm, as 44, of the hooked conveyor, which is
fixed to the carrier or support C, at the wire-feeding point. This cutting edge
forms part of, is constituted by, or may be attached to, one arm, as 44, of the pair
of arms 44, 45, which, in this instance, form the hooked conveyer referred to, which
arms are secured at opposite sides of the face of the periphery of the narrow rim of
the carrier or support C, and the cutting arm is located so that it travels past the
die 1 in shearing contact therewith; and from this wire-cutting point there extends,
nearly to the staple forming point, a guard 43, that is wide enough to fill the
central space between the hooked conveyor arms 44, 45; is curved to coincide with
the periphery of the carrier C; and preferably continues into the wire-protruding
plane. It is supported by a shaft secured to the framework, and is more or less
spring-like, as is required, but although it is preferably present, it may be omitted.
The hooked conveyor arms 44, 45 (see Figures, 3, 4, 5, 6 to 10, 18, and 19) are
shaped to receive the wire in their necks, and carry it onward while supported
upon the face of the periphery of the carrier or support C, aided by the guard 43,
first forcing the same against the cutting face of the die 1, to sever from it a
length suitable for the size of the staple it is to form, then carrying such wire

page_text: length onward in a circular path, to the point where the staple-forming devices are
to act upon it.
cam 302.
The carrier B supports a swinging forming anvil 46, upon or over which the
wire length is bent into staple form, as said anvil descends through or between the
booked conveyor arms 44, 45, which then act as staple-bending arms. This swinging
anvil 46 is mounted upon a shaft journaled in the carrier or support B, and is
provided with a rock arm 2, through which it is appropriately rocked by a stationary
The movements imparted to this swinging anvil are such, that as the
hooked conveyor arms 44, 45, are approaching the point where the carriers or
supports B, C, run nearest together, said anvil moving through a recess 80 in the
periphery of the carrier C, has the nib 3 at its end brought into contact and
engagement with said wire length, as in Figure 18, so as to momentarily embrace
the same between it and the hooked conveyor arms 44, 45.
The progressive swinging movement of the anvil 46, which is of a width to fit
between the hooked conveyor arms 44, 45, with a clearance space on opposite sides
equal to the thickness of the staple wire (see Figures 12 and 16), forces the wire
between said conveyor arms 44, 45, and thus not only converts it into staple form
about the anvil, with its legs between the anvil sides and the inner faces of said
hooked conveyor arms (Figure 14), but clears it from said conveyor, and transfers
it within the periphery of the carrier or support B, where its legs, embracing
the anvil 46, are confined within a recess in said carrier, formed by face
plates 74, 75. The legs of the moving staple are thus supported on both sides, as in
Figures 14, 15, and the staple momentarily rests on a holder or presenting tool,
that in this instance has the form of a rocking forked guide 47, whose arms also
embrace the anvil 46, and rest in the recesses between the sides of the anvil and
the face plates 74, 75.
This holder, presenting tool, or forked guide 47, has forwardly inclined bearing
guiding faces, and it is suitably rocked by means of a cam 55 into two positions,
one (see Figures 18, 19) when the anvil is moving into the carrier or support B,
and another, which is shown in Figure 21, to properly guide or direct the staple in
the presenting operation, as the carrier or support B rotatively moves, and is
approaching the position for inserting the staple. This forked guide 47, in moving
into this last position, operates to strip the staple from the anvil 46, and carry it
to, and present it in, the plane of insertion, where the legs of said staple stand
astride a spring-seated swinging guide block 10, that in part supports and sustains
the staple during the movement of its insertion, and this swinging block 10 has a
guiding face for the head or crown of the staple, that is slightly curved or recessed
to allow the unobstructed upward movement of the staple, as it is raised by the
forked guide 47, and which block 10 acts thereafter during its swinging movement
from the position of Figure 21, as a constant internal support for the staple, until
the staple leaves it just prior to its reaching the position of Figure 23, which
swinging movement of the block 10 is accomplished, against the force of a coiled
spring 81, by the forward movement of the staple driver or inserting tool 56,
supported by the carrier B, which driver moves in a right line guided by its side
rails 62, 63, which move in sliding contact with guiding ledges 64, 65, near the top
of the recess in carrier B, in which the anvil 46 swings. This driver 56
is reciprocated by means of a toothed rack and segment, the segment 9 of
which is rocked, for this purpose, by means of a rock arm that is driven by
A cam 57.
The clinching mechanisms, which are duplicated at each staple-setting point,
consist of pairs of reciprocating jaws 11, 12, which move to and from each other,
as follows (see Figures 4, 5, 7, 8, 24, 25):
The member 11 of each set projects from a bar 58, and the other member 12 of
each set projects from a bar 59, and the members 11 of one set overhang the
bar 59, so as to present them in the same plane with the members 12 of the other
set. These bars slide upon each other in opposite directions, in guideways cut in

page_text: the face of the carrier or support A, and are slotted to receive guiding screws 60,
that pass through elongated slots in the bars. These bars project, at one end, beyond
the cylinder head, and are bifurcated to straddle a shaft which carries at one end a
pinion 13 and at the other a rock arm 61. On opposite side of these bars are
provided short racks 14, 16, which respectively engage pinions 15, 17, that are
mounted on companion shafts turning in fixed supports, and which respectively
mesh with said rack bars and with the pinion 13. This pinion 13 is on a shaft that
is rocked by means of a rock arm 61, whose stud runs in the face cam 115, the slot
of which is so shaped that it will cause timely oscillations of the pinion 13, and
thus reciprocate the jaws 11, 12 to and from each other at proper times, thus
spreading them, as in Figure 24, to admit the entrance between them of the staple
legs, and drawing them together, as in Figure 25, to bend inwardly the two legs
of the staple, that protrude through the paper, and stand between them, and press
down and clinch said legs upon the paper.
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The operation is as follows:-
It will now be understood that while the plicated webs or sheets Z, which are to
be united by the staples, and then folded in, on, or near, the line of stapling, are
running onward from the rollers 105, 106, to and between the rotative carriers or
supports A, B, to an extent equal to a sheet's length, wire from the spool 35 will
bave been protruded across the peripheral face of the carrier or support C, to a
sufficient length to form a staple, by the feeding action of the rolls 6, 8, which
length of wire will have been lodged in the hooked conveyor arms 44, 45, and cut
off by the action of the shearing side of the conveyor arm 44, and the die plate 1,
and this staple length of wire thus detached and held in the embrace of said hooked
conveyor, will have been conveyed round with the carrier, cylinder, or support C,
while supported between its surface and the guard 43, and brought into the position
shown in Figure 8; and that during the same period of time, the swinging forming
anvil 46, then moving toward the carrier or support B, will have been swung
outward and entered within the recess 80 in the cylinder C, so that its nib and
swinging guide block will be above said staple length of wire supported in the
hooked conveyor, as in Figures 10, 18. Said swinging anvil will then begin its
reverse movement, or swing inward, and in so doing it will, as it moves through or
between said arms of the hooked conveyor, press the central portion of the wire,
then lying beneath its under face, as in Figure 18, between the hooked conveyor
arms 44, 45, and the recessed sides of the anvil, as in Figures 13, 14,-thus
bending the end portion at right angles to the body of the wire, thereby forming
a staple, the legs of which staple, then supported throughout their length by the
sides of the anvil and the inner faces of the hooked conveyor arms, will have such
support continued, as the further swinging movement of the anvil brings it into
its normal position, coincident with the periphery of the carrier or support. B
(Figures 15, 17), and carries the staple legs between the face plates 74, 75, of, and
into, the recess in the cylinder or support B, as in Figures 16, 19.
In thus swinging into the recess in the cylinder or support B, the anvil moves
into the embrace of the opposite arms of the forked guide 47, which then rest
between the slightly recessed sides of the anvil and the face plates 74, 75, with
their adjacent faces near the staple legs (see Figure 15).
As the setting point for the staples, or that where the carriers, cylinders, or
supports, B and C, run nearest in contact, is being approached, the forked guide 47
is being moved toward the guiding ledges 64, 65, and finally rests in a plane that is
a staple's thickness below the ledges 64, 65, which ledges, in conjunction with the arms
of said forked guide 47, form channels in which the staple legs are guided, and in
which the staple driver 56 reciprocates. As the forked guide 47 thus moves, it strips
the staple from off the anvil 46, moves it bodily upward, and forces it onto the
swinging or tumbling guide block 10, as in Figure 20, where it rests in alignment
with the driver 56, its head then bearing against the rear face of the guide block 10,
and being in front of the driver 56, while its legs, then embracing the sides of the

page_text: said guide block, are supported laterally between said block and the face
plates 74, 75, and vertically between the arms of the forked guide 47 and the
guiding ledges 64, 65, of the recess in the carrier or cylinder B.
Thus encompassed by holding surfaces, this staple will be moved outward for
insertion by the like action of the driver 56, (see Figure 21), the quick forward
movement of which will force the staple outward, and project its legs through the
paper or material opposed to them, and protrude said legs into the carrier, cylinder,
or support A, as in Figure 22, during which inserting movement of it, the driver
will also press forward, and swing over or rock the guide block 10, so that its sides
and rear faces will continue to afford an internal support for the staple progressively
decreasing, during, and until the protrusion of the legs of the staple into the
carrier or cylinder A, is about complete, said block leaving the staple an instant
before the head of the staple rests against the paper, sheets, or material, through
which it has been protruded.
As the rotating carriers, cylinders, or supports, A, B, are rotatively moving the
staple holding, or presenting, the inserting, and the clinching devices, or mechanisms,
onward, and these devices are approaching the setting point for the staple, which
is where these two carriers or cylinders run nearest together, the jaws 11, 12, of
the clinching mechanism will have been opened, as in Figures 22, 24, and when the
protrusion of the staple legs is complete, as in Figures 23, 25, the jaws 11, 12,
will quickly move toward each other, or close, and, engaging said staple legs, will
bend them toward each other, and clinch them down upon the surface of the
paper or sheets in opposition to the head of the staple which rests upon the opposite
surface of said paper or sheets, as in Figures 23, 25.
The stapling of the paper, sheets, or material, in, on, or along the binding or
line of ultimate fold, being finished, while the same is being carried onward to the
folding devices, the wire feeding, staple-forming, holding, or presenting, driving, or
inserting, and clinching devices, begin their reverse movements, and complete the
same in time to perform or repeat their operations just described, in stapling the
succeeding sheet length of material.
This binding line, or that of ultimate folding of the material, overlies that part
of the carrier A where a folding blade, as 52, is positioned, and a portion of the
edge of such folding blade is therefore removed to accommodate both the
protrusion of the staple legs within the peripheral surface of the carrier or
cylinder A, and also provide for the presence and operation of the clinching
devices.
The plicated sheets, or sheet lengths of plicated webs, stapled together on their
transverse binding line, are carried onward in the usual manner until said stapled
binding line, or that of ultimate folding, is, by the rotative movement of the
carrier or cylinder A, brought over the folding rollers 53, 54, whereupon said
folding blade, as 52, will be moved outward to double the plies of paper or sheets
on the stapled line of their union through said folding rollers, the impaling pins,
as 23, holding their leading ends, simultaneously releasing the paper or sheets.
The product thus doubled or folded transversely upon its stapled or binding line of
union of the plies composing it, as in Figure 4, will be delivered from these
rollers 53, 54, and the folded and bound pack may pass outward therefrom, for final
delivery, as between tapes 70, 71 (see Figure 3), the former running from a roller
beneath the folding roller 54, and the latter running from a companion roller
beneath the companion folding roller 53, which tapes, as here shown, run over
suitable pulleys or rollers, and form a pathway, carrying the plicated staple bound
packs to an S-fly 50, whereby they are deposited upon delivery tapes 315, but they
may be delivered in any common manner.
Before entering upon a description of the various modifications which may be
made in the practical embodiment of this invention, a general description will be
given of the making of some of the bound book-like products, which the mechanisms
thus far described will produce.
With this object in view, we will assume, as is indicated by the printed webs

page_text: shown in Figure 26, that the main printing mechanism has its type or form cylinders
each provided with eight printing plates or forms, four abreast and two around it,
(taking no note of their duplication around the cylinder), which plates are appro-
priate for the production of the main web for a twenty page pamphlet or book-like
product, each set of sheets, cut from which main web, will constitute the sixteen
inside pages of the ultimate product; and that the supplement printing mechanism
has its type or form cylinders each provided with two printing plates or forms
around it, (taking no note of their duplication around the cylinder), which plates
are appropriate for the printing of four pages of such twenty page product, cach
sheet cut from which supplement web, will constitute the outside pages or cover of
the ultimate product; and, for the purpose of better distinguishing the supplement
web and the cover made from it, we will assume that it is printed upon green paper
(indicated in Figures 26, 27 and 29 by shading), while the main web is printed
upon white paper.
In this case, the white main web from the roll M will be four pages wide, and
the green supplement web from the roll S will be one page wide.
The main or white web M will be printed on one side in passing the printing
cylinders O, D, and be printed upon the other side in passing the printing
cylinders E, F. This perfected white main web will be divided in its longitudinal
centre, in passing over the roller 133, and under the slitter 139, and thus be
divided into two narrow or two page wide webs. - One of these narrow webs, the
nearer, will be led over roller 107, and pass thence over roller 134, on to the
longitudinal folder L, while the other narrow web passes from the roller 133, to,
and is turned up at an angle of 45° over the turning bar W, and again turned up,
at a like angle, over the turning bar U, and then runs onward on top of its
companion narrow web, and with it enters upon the longitudinal folder L. The
single page wide green supplement web S is printed on one side, in passing
between the printing cylinders G, H, and then on the opposite side in passing
between the printing cylinders I, K, but it might be printed upon one side only,
and upon the area of one page only, if so desired. This perfected web runs over
roller 137, and passes between the turning bars T, U, and joining the two narrow
main webs, it lies on the top of them, over the nearer half of the narrow main
webs, and these associated webs run over the roller 134 onto the longitudinal
folder. In passing this roller 134, the two associated narrow or two-page wide
main webs are divided longitudinally by the operation of the slitter 141, and the
side by side streams of narrow or one-page wide webs, one, (the right hand stream
as the longitudinal folder is viewed from the front), consisting of three webs, and
the other consisting of two webs, are combined or plicated by the lapping operation
of the longitudinal folder. As these one-page wide webs emerge from between the
laying rollers 105, 106, their plies are five in number, four upon white paper from
the main web roll, and one upon green paper from the supplement web roll, and as
these plicated webs pass between the carriers A, B, the supplement or cover web
is upon the side facing the carrier B.
This plicated pack (represented, for convenience of illustration, in Figures 4,
20, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31 and 32, as composed of but two plies) will have its leading
ends impaled by the pins 23 or 24, and thus be laid upon the surface of the
carrier A, and be carried around with it in its circular path, and when the plicated
pack of five plies has suitably passed between the carriers A, B, so as to properly
present its binding or folding line thereto, the stapling devices will insert staples
through the pack from the cover side, and clinch the same upon the opposite side,
as is indicated in Figures 27, 28, 29.
When a length of the plicated pack equal to the length of an unfolded sheet passes
between said carriers A, B, the cutting blade 20 will, co-operating with the cutting
slot 21 or 22, cut the plies transversely, and thus detach from the webs the
component parts of the twenty-page product, which will, when properly presented,
in its circular travel to the folding blade, as 48, 49, or 51, 52, and the folding
rollers, 53, 54, be doubled or folded upon its stapled line of union, and be delivered

page_text: folded, as is shown in Figures 4, 20, 29, with the heads or crowns of the staples on
the outside of said binding line, and the legs of said staples clinched within the
bight of said folding.
While a printing machine capacitated to carry out the operation just described
comprehends a practical demonstration of the great utility of this invention,
although it requires a supplement printing machine adapted to print but a single or
one-page wide web, it will be observed that when the supplement machine is equal
to the printing of a four-page wide web, a great variety of staple-bound folded
products may be obtained. Some of these are:-
Either printing machine provided with plates therefor, and printing a double or
two-page wide web, would make a folded stapled product of four leaves or eight
pages, and the same product would be made, if each machine printed a single
wide web.
The main printing machine printing a two-page wide web and the supplemental
printing machine printing a single wide web, would make a folded stapled product
of six leaves or twelve pages. Either machine printing a four page wide web
would make a folded stapled product of eight leaves or sixteen pages.
The main machine printing a four page wide web, and the supplement machine
a two page wide web, would make a folded stapled product of twelve leaves or
twenty-four pages.
The main machine printing a four page wide web, and the supplement machine
a three page wide web, would make a folded product of fourteen leaves or twenty-
eight pages.
Both machines printing four page wide webs, would make a product of sixteen
leaves, or a thirty-two page product.
Staple forming, holding, or presenting, inserting, and clinching mechanisms,
having the general characteristic construction of those heretofore described, may
be modified greatly.
Of the modifications, those shown in Figures 30 to 33, will now be described :
In such construction, the spring-seated swinging guide block 10 is a long, lever-
like arm pivoted to the cylinder B, instead of to the swinging anvil, and
consequently is forced upward as the staple is driven outward, but, like the device
for which it is a substitute, it constitutes an internal support for the staple,
constantly decreasing in extent as the said staple is advanced or protruded from
the carrier or support B, until the staple finally passes off from its end, as the
staple is forced home, or completely set in place with its head against one side of
the paper or sheets through which it has been passed.
Thus, it is normally pressed against the end of the swinging anvil, ready to
receive the staple, as in Figure 30, and remains in that position while the staple is
carried onto it, and brought into its horizontal or presenting plane, by the action of
the forked guide 47, as the latter is swung upward, see Figure 31, and this block 10
is progressively raised as the driver 62 moves forward, until it finally moves out of,
or from behind the head of the staple, as the latter is inserted in and forced home
upon the surface of the paper, as in Figure 32.
Other modifications are embodied in Figures 34 to 40 inclusive.
In this embodiment of the invention, the rotating carrier C is omitted, and the
carriers or supports A, B, which support all of the stapling mechanisms, are made
of equal size, and each carries a duplication of mechanisms, and the wire from
which the staples are to be formed is delivered within the range of action of the
mechanisins supported in carrier B, from a wire feeding mechanism attached to the
framing.
The carrier or support A supports two cutting blades 90, 91, that co-operate
with two cutting slots 92, 93, provided in the carrier or support B. The pins 23, 24,
for holding the leading ends of the plicated webs and sheets are the same in their
construction and operation as those hereinbefore described, as are the rotative
folding blades 48, 49, and 51, 52, and their co-operating folding rollers 53, 54.
The staple leg clinching device, however, is modified, and consists simply of

page_text: properly shaped grooves 66, 67, that preferably are inclined on all sides to adapt
them to receive, and their ends near their bottoms are slightly curved to capacitate
them to appropriately turn or bend, the staple legs toward each other, or down
onto the plicated webs or sheets. As here shown, these clinching grooves 66, 67
are formed in metal blocks that are attached to the carrier A by means of screws,
as is shown in Figure 37.
There is a wire feeding mechanism for each set of stapling mechanisms, con-
sidered in their longitudinal arrangement in the carrier. Each consists of a pair
of feeding rollers 68, 69, between which the wire passes, and is frictionally driven
forward from a reel or spool 72, and protruded through a tubular guide block 77,
and within the range of rotative travel of the stapling mechanisms supported by
the carrier B. The larger roller 68, against which bears the roller 69, is
fast upon, and is driven by means of, a worm wheel 73, that is rotated by a
worm 76.
The worms 76 are fast upon a shaft 114 that is so geared with the carrier B that
the feeding action of the rollers 68, 69, during each half revolution of the carrier B,
is such as to deliver a staple length of wire through the guide block 77, and
protrude the same across the pathway in which the stapling mechanisms of the
carrier B rotatively travel, and beneath the forming anvil 82, as in Figure 35.
The forward edge, 4, of one arm 78, of the two-armed travelling staple holder
or presenting tool, acts as a shearing cutter in passing the end of the slotted wire
guide 77, and severs a staple length of wire, which is thus detached while within
the range of action of the forming anvil 82, which is curved over the top of the
carrier B, where it hangs fixedly pendent from the framework-(see Figure 34).
This anvil 82 (see Figure 40) has a width equal to the inside length of the crown
of the staple to be formed, a thickness preferably at least equal to the length of
the staple legs, and an under or face surface, the forward or main portion of which
is coincident with the periphery of the carrier B, (see Figure 36), and it is
sustained in proper relation to the moving devices of the stapling mechanisms, by
means of shafts or rods that are secured to the frame-work, upon which it is made
adjustable by means of set screws. It is, in addition, preferably shaped at its
rear end so as to form wings or sidewise projections, 18, 34, see Figure 35, to guide
the incoming wire, and act as a support for the entire wire length delivered
beneath it, which support is continued a short distance forward from its rear end,
and this rear end is shaped to form a wedge-like pathway or entrance beneath it
for the rotatively moving staple holder, or presenting tool, during the formation of
the wire into a staple. The forward end of this anvil 82, where the staple leaves
it, is cut away so as to provide for the passage of the plicated material between the
carriers A, B.
Thus cut away, this forward end of the anvil forms a wedge or continuously
decreasing guide for the staple during its insertion through the material, and its
setting and clinching, and preferably this wedge-like guide will be continued
downward so far that the travelling staple will leave its end just at the moment
the clinching of said staple is completed.
The staple holder or presenting tool, and the mandrel or inserting tool 85, are
contained in carrying stocks, as N, which are fast on the shaft of the carrier B,
and thus are moved therewith, and rotatively carry the said stapling tools to and
from the setting point for the staples.
In this example, the two arms 78, 79 of the holder or presenting tool, project
from a hollow shank that slides to a slight extent in the carrying stock N, in which
it is seated upon a spring 316, that constantly presses it outward, as will yet appear;
and the inserting tool, driver, or mandrel 85, not only slides between the arms 78, 79
of the staple holder, but is provided with a shaft-like stem 317, that plays within
the hollow shank of the holder, and in a bottom guide 86, aud it is seated upon a
spring 320, by which it is moved outward, after the staple has been inserted in the
material, so as to be in position to aid in the formation of a new staple.
Those parts of the arms 78, 79 of the holder, and that part of the inserting

page_text: tool or mandrel 85, which are in advance of the wire-bending or staple-forming
portion of them, are recessed or bevelled so as to admit of their unobstructed
movement past the protruded wire, (see Figures 36, 38), but those parts of the
holder and mandrel that are rearward of their wire bending or staple forming
line, are extended outward, so as to sweep, in their rotative travel, into the plane
occupied by the protruded wire,-the arms 78, 79 passing close to the under face of
the winged rearmost portion of the forming anvil 82, (see wings 18, 34, Figures 35
and 36), and the inserting tool or mandrel all passing close to the under face of
said anvil. These parts thus come into contact with a staple length of the -pro-
truded wire, which wire length, while momentarily supported between the outer
faces of the arms of the moving holder or presenting tool and the face of the
inserting mandrel or driver, and the under faces of the wings 18, 34 of the anvil,
will be severed by the action of the cutting edge 4, in passing the wire slot in the
block 77.
This detached staple length of wire will thus be carried onward in a circular
pathway by the rotative travelling movement of the presenting tool or holder and
inserting tool, mandrel, or driver. During this onward movement, the arms 78, 79
of the holder will maintain their position of outward protrusion by means of the
efficient power of their supporting spring 316, and progressively overlap, and travel
close to the sides 83, 84 of the anvil 82, while the wedge-like pathway or rear end
of the curved anvil 82 will operate to press inwardly the central portion of the
wire length that has entered beneath it, thus forcing its central or crown portion,
and the mandrel or inserting tool, beneath it, upon which it rests, within the
vertical channels cut in the facing sides the arms 78, 79 of the holder. As the
wedge-like portion of the curved anvil thus presses the wire length and mandrel
inwardly, the central portion of said wire length, which is to constitute the head
or crown of the staple, then held clamped between the inner face of the anvil and
the outer face of the mandrel, will remain straight or horizontal, and be carried
bodily within the arms of the holder, during which operation opposite ends of the
wire length, which primarily lie over the ends of the arms 78, 79, will be forced
into bending guiding channels, which are cut vertically in the inner faces of the
arms of the holder, said ends being thus forced or bent outward, or at right angles
to the central crown or body portion of the wire length, to convert them into staple
legs. In this staple-forming operation, in which the arms 78, 79 act as benders, in
conjunction with the anvil 82, these wire ends or staple legs will progressively
descend into said channels, until the thickest part of the anvil 82 is reached,
when the staple will be completely formed, and be enclosed on all sides, as in
Figure 40.
The formed staple, thus seated with its crown or head resting upon the inserting tool
or mandrel and having its legs embraced in the channels of the arms 78, 79, of the
holder, will, in consequence of their protrusion beyond the periphery of the carrier B,
in approaching the setting point, come into contact with the plicated material near
the point where the forward end of the anvil 82 begins to assume the wedge shaped
termination, but the relation of the parts is such, that at this time the staple legs
are presented at, or directed toward, the stapling point, or line of ultimate folding
or binding of said material, in such a plane that the insertion thereof will then be
accomplished by a true forward movement, and as the material, and the stapling
mechanisms, then all move concertedly onward to the actual staple-setting point,
the ends of the arms of the holder or presenting tool will press the material
towards, and finally against the surface of the carrier A, and, opposed by said
surface, the carrier A, or the clinching device, will, in turn, press the arms 78, 79
inwardly against the action of their spring 316, while the material runs onward
between the carriers A, B.
The result of this is, that the staple legs are progressively inserted through the
material, entered into the groove of the clinching device 67, and moved towards
the carrier A, until the crown or head of the staple is pressed against the material
on one side, and its legs are clinched against it on the other side. The clinched
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page_text: staple will then be carried wholly by the material in which it is set, and, as the
carriers A, B move onward, the arms of the holder or presenting tool, and also
the inserting tool or mandrel, will be protruded or moved outward by the action of
their springs, and, during their rotative travel, they will assume their first described
positions, and repeat the operations just described.
The stapled inaterial will be carried onward by the pins 24 or 23, be severed
into sheet lengths by the cutters 90, 93 or 91, 92, and the associated stapled sheets
will be folded in, on, or near, their stapled line of union, substantially as set forth
with respect to the first delivery apparatus described.
The arms 78, 79 of the holder may be nicely fitted, so as to travel close to, but
not in wearing contact with the sides of the stationary anvil 82, and the inserting
tool, driver, or mandrel 85, will, although it is pressed inward by the action of the
said anvil, be protected from frictional wear therefrom, by reason of the inter-
position of the wire length to be acted upon, each wire length, instead of the tools,
receiving the frictional wear incident to its conversion into a staple and carriage to
the setting point.
As thus far described, the mechanisms are adapted for setting staples whose
heads or crowns lie transverse to or at right angles with the path of travel of the
plicated material.
Another modification of this invention, now to be described, is illustrated in
Figures 41 to 54 inclusive, and provides for the setting of staples with their heads
or crowns in planes parallel with the path of travel of the material to be stapled.
In this modification, webs or sheets, doubled longitudinally in passing the longi-
tudinal folder L, and thus consisting of a number of plications united by a doubled
or folded edge, or of webs or sheets which are plicated in passing over the
longitudinal folder, slit centrally, and thus given free binding edges, or consisting
of two or more sets of plicated webs or sheets having doubled or folded binding
edges, led from two or more longitudinal folders, and brought together or super-
imposed, may be united near to, and parallel with, their binding edge or edges, by
means of staples passed through them, so that the heads or crowns of the staples
rest upon one surface of the pack, while their legs are clinched down upon the
opposite surface of the pack.
The mechanism shown for carrying out this method of binding a plicated product
with staples, will now be described. In this construction, the wire length cutting
mechanism, the staple forming, holding, or presenting and driving, or inserting,
mechanisms, are all supported by the carrier B, and the wire is fed to them, by
means of suitably moved feeding rollers 116, 117, through a circumferential
groove 118 that is cut into the periphery of the carrier B, and in which the wire is
held by a spring bearer 119.
The staple holder or presenting tool 100 (see Figure 44) is recessed transversely,
so as to provide it with arms 95, 96, which provide between them a suitable recess
whereby the holder is adapted to embrace the forming anvil 94, and setting bed 99,
(see Figures 47, 52). Its said arms 95, 96 are also provided with grooves that
coincide with, or form a continuation of, the wire receiving feeding groove 118, and
said arms are furthermore provided, in their inner faces, with longitudinal grooves,
(see Figures 44, 45), into which the wire is first forced to form the staple legs,
when these arms act as benders in conjunction with the anvil 94, which arms also
act to carry the staple onto the setting bed, and, as a guiding, presenting tool for
the staple during its presentation to and insertion through the material.
This holder or presenting tool 100 is supported so as to slide longitudinally in a
carrying stock 120, that has, at its outer ends, pairs of arms 143, 144 and 145, 146,
between which the arms 95, 96 of the holder or presenting tool are guided, and
these arms 143, 145 and 144, 146, form a recess that enables the carrying stock to
pass the forming anvil 94 and setting bed 99.
The arm 95, of this presenting tool 100, and the arms 143, 145 of its carrying
stock 120, protrude into a recess 97, and the arm 96 of the presenting tool and the
arins 144, 146 of the carrying stock protrude into a recess 98, said recesses 97, 98

page_text: being cut lengthwise through the shell of the carrier B, and made long enough to
enable the presenting tool, and its stock, to swing therein in the direction of the
shaft of the carrier B.
The holder or presenting tool and its stock are mounted to swing concertedly by
means of studs 121, 122, by which they are journaled in socket arms 123, 124, that
project from a bracket 125, that is fast upon the shaft of the carrier B, and this
holder or presenting tool is rocked at suitable times, and to an appropriate extent.
to perform its various functions, by means of a rock arm 126, and a face cam 127.
whose retaining sleeve, embracing the shaft, is fixed to the framework, and the said
holder 100 has its bifurcated lower end pivoted to a rocking lever 128, that has
one end pivoted, by a shaft 129, in arms of the bracket 125, while the free opposite.
arm of said lever 128 bears upon a fixed cam 130, by which the requisite movement.
of reciprocation of the holder 100 is accomplished, while admitting of a concerted
rocking action with its carrying stock 120.
Normally, the stock 120, and with it the holder 100, are held in the vertical
position of Figure 52 by the action of the cam 127, aided by the spring-seated
rod 346, and the holder is maintained within its stock by reason of its lever 128,
resting upon the low part of the cam 130, held by the pressure of the spring-seated
rod 147 on the heel of the lever 128.
The shell of the cylinder or support B, between the recesses 97, 98, is perforated
to form a wire passage between the forming anvil 94 and the staple head supporting
or setting bed 99, the under surface of which anvil 94, and the upper surface of
which setting bed, are suitably inclined to admit the traverse of the wire and staple
head over thein.
of the
As these mechanisms are introduced here simply as illustrative of a modification
of the broad invention, it will only be necessary to add a description of their
operation. The carrier B constantly rotates, as in the other embodiments of this
invention. The wire from which the staple is to be formed is appropriately fed
onward, at suitable intervals, to cause a suitable length of it to be presented to
each of the staple forming mechanisms, at the wire receiving point, said wire being
constantly maintained in the guiding groove 118 by means of the spring bearer 119,
and is thus directed within the groove in the arms 95, 96 of the holder 100, as the
latter passes beneath it, in its rotative onward travel, which holder normally stands
with the grooves in its arms aligned with the wire groove 119, as in Figure 48, it
being thus held during the appropriate portion of its rotative onward travel, to
receive the wire, by its arm 126, traversing the intermediate part p
stationary triple-part cam 127. As its rock arm 126 passes onto the low part of
said cam, the holder will be moved to and be held in its extreme left hand position,
to co-operate with the anvil 94 in forming the staple; and when said rock arm 126
passes up onto the highest part of said cam 127, it will cause the holder to move
to its extreme right-hand position, to carry the formed staple onto the setting bed.
When the rotating carrier B has brought a carrying stock 120, with its staple
holder 100, into the position of Figures 47 and 49, it will have embraced a wire
length, and thereupon the low part of cam 127 will be entered and traversed, thus
permitting the spring rod 346 to rock the carrying stock 120 and the holder 100 it.
contains, and this movement will be to the left, and consequently the holder will
swing in a direction toward the forming anvil 94. The first slight movement thus
performed will, as may be better understood from Figure 48, cause the arm 96!
of the holder to quickly force said wire length past the contracted mouth of the
groove 118, or die plate 89, and thus sever the wire length resting within the
groove in the arms 95, 96 of the holder, which wire length will be held and carried
thereby, aided by the arms 145, 146 of the stock 120, underneath the anvil 94, as
in Figure 51, and, while the parts are passing beneath, or momentarily rest under
said anvil, the cam 130 will rock the lever 128, to cause the holder 100 to
move outwardly, its arms 95, 96, then operating to force the outer ends of the
wire length upward around the forming anvil 94,-thus causing the wire length to
be bent into a staple, by providing it with legs bent at right angles to its body or
į.

page_text: crown portion, which legs will then be confined in the inner side grooves of the
arms 95, 96 of the holder, by their own resilient action.
When the staple has thus been completely formed, it is supported in the grooves
of the holder arms, and protruded considerably beyond the periphery of the
carrier B.
A reverse rocking movement of the stock 120 is now effected, as the rock arm 126
passes onto the highest part of the cam 127, thus carrying the formed staple to the
right, the staple being thereby stripped from off the forming anvil 94, and caused
to slide up over the inclined upper face of the setting bed 99, which thus operates
as, a wedge to force the staple upward or outward in the inner side grooves of the
arms 95, 96 (but still maintained therein), until the radial position of the holder, or
that of Figure 52, is reached, when the head or crown of the staple will rest on its
final seat upon the setting bed, or substantially upon a portion of the periphery of
carrier B, in its setting position, at which time, if desired, the cam 130 may move
the holder slightly outward, to compensate for this outward movement of the
staple, but this final movement of the holder, although advantageous, need not take
place.
In this position of the parts, the staple rests upon the periphery of the carrier as
a solid setting bed, and protrudes a distance therefrom equal to the length of its
legs, which are confined in the grooves of the arms of the holder or presenting tool,
and the staple is thus carried onward or toward the carrier A, to be presented to
and inserted through the material.
After its legs have entered through the material to be bound, and the arms of the
holder come nearly in or into contact with the periphery of the carrier A, or the
opposed clinching device, the said holder will retire by means of the suitable shape
of the cam 130, concertedly with the cam-like action which the carrier A, or the
clinching device, thus performs, the result being that the protruded legs of the
staple are thus presented to and entered through the material, and projected within
the peripheral line of the carrier A, until the head or crown of the staple rests
snugly against the inserting side of the material, its legs being progressively
clinched, and the holder concertedly retiring.
As soon as the clinching action is complete, and the holder is making its return
rotative movement to receive and act upon a new wire length, the intermediate
part p of the cam 127 is traversed, and causes the rock arm of the carrying
stock 120 to rock the holder 100 into the position of Figure 49, in readiness to
repeat the operation described.
As in the other constructions, any form of clinching devices may be used.
Herein, however, a modification of the clinching device is shown. This consists
of a clincher which is in the form of a pendent arm 148 that rests in a groove cut
for it in the cylinder A, and at its bottom end this arm presents a rigid downwardly-
curved surface, which the protruded staple legs engage as they are carried past it.
The staple legs, in passing it, are forced against the face of the clincher, contact
with which causes said legs to be bent in succession in rearward directions, and thus
to be clinched down upon the material.
In using this construction of clincher, it is preferable, to construct the leading
arm 95 of the holder somewhat shorter than its fellow, 96, (see Figure 41), for the
reason that, as they are connected together, they must move concertedly; hence,
by shortening the arm 95, it will not contact with the clincher, or the periphery of
the cylinder A, until the leading staple leg has been so far bent downward to secure
its position, while its rearward leg is fully supported in the groove of the arm 96
acting as a retaining wall, and the rearward leg of the staple will be similarly
supported while it is being bent downward or clinched. The appropriate retiring
movement of the holder is provided for by a suitable shape of the cam 130, but it
might be spring seated, so as to be pressed inward, and recover its operative
osition by the resilient action of a spring.
When the arm 148 is used, it will be wide enough to afford contact bearings for
the arms of the bender.

page_text: In this modification, the carriers or supports A, B are provided as before with
cutting mechanisms for severing the sheets, but if desired, an auxiliary mechanism
for severing the sheets, independent of these carriers, may be provided.
If the cutting mechanism is carried by these cylinders A, B, as is shown, it will
be apparent, since they co-act at the point where the staple leg clinching is
performed, namely, where the cylinders run nearest together, that the pendent
clinching arm 148 must be moved to accommodate this cutting operation. For that
purpose, this arm is hung on a pivot, as 149, projecting from a bracket and pressed
to duty, as a clincher, by means of au arm 150 that rides upon the surface of the
cylinder A, and is retired within a recess in that cylinder by the action of a
spring 151, and a rock arm, when the rock arm enters a cam depression 308 in the
cylinder A, whence it results, that when the cutting blade is passing the point
occupied by it, the clincher will not interfere with a proper cutting or severing of
the material, (see dotted lines Figure 41).
As the stapling operation, when performed as in this modification of the
invention, causes the staples to be set longitudinally, or in the direction of the run
of the material, the carrier B supporting the stapling mechanisms, should have a
circumferential extent equal to the length of a sheet, but it might be less or it
might be greater. A companion carrier, as A, may also be present or absent, as is
best suited to the character of the work to be performed. The carriers A, B,
shown, are each of double size, or have a circumference equal to the length of two
sheets, and hence they are provided with two transverse cutters 90, 91, that
co-operate with two cutting slots, as 93, to sever suitable sheet lengths. When the
cylinder B is of double size, it will be necessary to provide it with a suitable
number of stapling mechanisms, according to the nearness of, and consequent
number of staples which it is desired that each sheet shall have. Thus, four
stapling mechanisms are shown in Figure 41, and they are so positioned as to
insert two staples in each pack of sheets, as is shown by Figure 53, but in large
sized products three, four, or more will be desirable.
The carrier A may be provided with double folding blades, as is the carrier A
in the preceding figures, if it is desired to fold the product across its binding edge
after it is stapled, as is indicated by the double folding blade shown. But
ordinarily such folding will not be desirable except when the printed product
is large, and therefore the staple bound product will preferably pass from the
stapling mechanism to any suitable final delivery or piling apparatus. In case
cylinder A is provided with one or more folding blades, as stated, the same must, if
a fixed clincher is used, be cut away, to unobstructedly pass it, as hereinbefore
explained. If, now, the printing plates or forms be disposed so that their columns
run around the type or form cylinders, the plicated webs, whether split and
associated either before or in passing over the longitudinal folder L, or, remaining
intact, are longitudinally folded thereby, but delivered by this mechanism, they
will be united, by a line or row of two or more staples inserted through them
parallel with, and close to, their binding or folded edge.
This will give a large number of book-like products plicated or folded, and
stapled, as will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art of printing.
Thus, if one of the printing mechanisms is provided with plates therefor, and
prints a double or two page wide web, and the other printing mechanism with plates
therefor, and prints a single or one page wide web, or one of said printing
mechanisms is provided with plates therefor, and prints a three page wide web, a
folded stapled product will result consisting of three leaves or six pages.
If either printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor, and prints a four
page wide web, or if each printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor,
and prints a double or two page wide web, the folded stapled product resulting
therefrom will consist of four leaves or eight pages. If the main printing
mechanism is provided with plates therefor, and prints a four page wide web, and
the supplement printing mechanism prints a one page wide web, or if the main.

page_text: printing mechanism prints a three page wide web and the supplement printing
mechanism prints a two page wide web, the folded stapled product resulting there-
from will consist of five leaves or ten pages.
If the main printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor, and prints a
four page wide web, and the supplement printing mechanism is provided with
plates therefor, and prints a two page wide web, the folded stapled product will
consist of six leaves or twelve pages.
If the main printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor, and prints a
four page wide web, and the supplement printing inechanism is provided with
plates therefor, and prints a three page wide web, the folded stapled product will
consist of seven leaves or fourteen pages.
If the main printing and supplement printing mechanism are each provided with
plates therefor, and print a four page wide web, the folded stapled product
resulting therefrom will consist of eight leaves or sixteen pages.
All of these folded or plicated webs or sheets received from the longitudinal
folder, will be united by a seam of stapling parallel with, and near the binding
edge of each, as appears in Figs. 53 and 54, according to the number of stapling
mechanisms with which the carrier B is provided.
In the modification shown in Figs. 55 to 62, is illustrated a substitute for the
carrier or support B, which is disc-like in character, and which carries staple
forming, presenting, and inserting mechanisms, adapted to set a staple parallel with
the run of the material to be stapled, as will now be explained.
It should first be stated, that the longitudinal folder 194 herein shown, though
of ordinary construction, being substantially the structure shown and described in
the Specification of a Patent granted to Wm. Conquest dated 5th December 1885,
No. 14948, may be of any suitable construction.
It is here shown as operating simultaneously upon a multiplicity of webs, as the
four marked W, E, B³, S', which may be the product of as many printing or
other web delivering machines. These webs will, although shown by single lines,
as they pass between the external turners or rollers- 195, 196, the carriers or
supports A, B, fold-laying rollers 197, 198, and cutting, folding cylinders 199, 200,
consist of twice as many plies as there are webs. There might be two, or even
more of these longitudinal folders, and the plicated products from each be brought
together, before being subjected to the stapling operation.
In this modification, the carriers or supports A, B, are disc-like, and thus bear
on a narrow width of the material, near and including its folded edge, all of the
plies of the material Z being pressed together in passing between the rollers 197, 198,
while they are, or may be, compacted at or near their binding line by the carriers or
supports A, B.
The cutting, folding cylinders 199, 200, carry respectively a cutting knife or
blade 201, and a cutting groove or slot 202, by which the web or webs will be
severed transversely along lines a sheet's distance apart; and although not shown, it
is to be understood that these cylinders may be provided with sheet-carrying,
cutting, and folding devices, substantially as are the like cylinders or carriers in
some of the preceding embodiments of the invention.
The cylinders 199, 200 are geared together by toothed wheels, one, 204, on the
shaft of cylinder 200 only being shown, and the carriers or supports A, B are
likewise geared together by toothed wheels, only one, 205, on the shaft of carrier B,
being shown, and the said wheels on the cylinder 200 and carrier B are connected
by an intermediate 206. Said parts thus run in unison, and they will be geared
with and driven from the main or printing machine, so as to move concertedly with
such of its parts over or between which the paper web or webs or sheets pass.
The external turners 195, 196, when in roller form, as shown, and the fold laying
rollers 197, 198, may, if desired, be so geared as to be driven in unison with the
other web guiding or carrying devices.
It will be understood that a web or webs caused to pass over the longitudinal

page_text: folder 194, will be doubled or folded longitudinally, and that said fold will be
pressed flat or laid smooth in passing between the carriers or supports A, B, or the
fold laying rollers 197, 198; also, that suitable lengths of such folded or plicated
web or webs will be severed to constitute sheet lengths by the action of the cutting
devices 201, 202, and that such sheet lengths will be carried within the range
of action of the rotative folding blade, and be folded transversely thereby.
And it will be obvious that the said rotative folding blade may be omitted, if
desired, and the longitudinally folded sheets be delivered, after the cutting devices
have formed them, by any suitable mechanism.
To perform the operations of forming, presenting, and inserting tho staples while
the web or webs or sheets Z are on the run, so that said staples will lie in, near,
or be aligned with said binding liue, the carrier or support B is provided with
novel mechanisms for forming, presenting, and inserting the staples, and, preferably,
a co-operating carrier or support is provided with a co-acting clinching device,
whereby the legs of the staple are clinched down upon the webs or plicated
material.
This carrier or support B is disc-like, and is mounted fast upon the shaft 207.
It is provided with a rim having cut into it, concentric with its periphery, a wire-
guiding groove 211, into which is fed the wire 210, from which suitable lengths
are to be cut to form the staples. This wire is fed forward in this groove from
a spool, by means of feeding rollers 208, 209, driven at a suitable speed, from
which rollers said wire is entered through a stationary guide block 212, having a
laterally bent channel 213 (see Fig. 61). This guide block is supported by a
bracket 214, and consists of two members, between which are embraced a plate 215,
the forward of which has an inner edge parallel with the inner wall of the
groove 211, and so curved that it enters into said groove, and practically forms
with said inner wall a continuation of the wire channel (see Fig. 62).
The web or body of the carrier or support B has a part or section removed, to
accommodate the swinging movement of some of the devices, which are supported
by an arm 217 fixedly secured to the carrier shaft 207, and which arm carries
journal bearings for the rock shaft 218 that supports the levers carrying the two
arms m, n of the staple holding and presenting tool, and the staple-inserting tool
or driver 219, all of which levers are capable of independent movement, either with
or upon that shaft, as will presently appear.
The rim of the support or carrier B has a section removed that will accom-
modate the movements through it of the arms m, n of the holder or presenting
tool and the driver 219, and to provide for a lateral movement of the forming
anvil 220, (see Figs. 58, 59, where the side of this opening is shown).
The forming anvil 220 is a block of metal having a length equal to the distance
between the outsides of the two legs of the staple which is to be formed about it, a
width about equal to that of the rim from its inner face to, and inclusive of the
wire channel therein, and a thickness equal to that of the carrier rim between its
periphery and the outer wall of the wire channel 211, or as great as the length of
the staple legs which are bent over it. It is securely attached at one side of a
curved spring plate 221 that spans one side of the recess cut through the rim of
the carrier (see Fig. 60), which spring plate 221 is provided with elongated holes
by which it is secured to one side of the rim by means of screws that
said holes, the anvil being thus enabled to have considerable lateral movement.
pass through
Thus constructed and mounted, this anvil normally forms, by its under or interior
curved surface, a continuation of the outer wall of said wire channel 211, and its
exterior surface forms a continuation of the periphery of the support or carrier.
This lateral movement is imparted to the spring plate 221, and to the anvil 220,
by means of curved enlargements 234, 235, on the arms m n of the holder or
presenting tool, which arms, when moved, press the plate 221 sideways, and hence
move the anvil correspondingly.
The arm m, of the holder or presenting tool, is carried by a lever 222 fast to
the shaft 218, and the companion arm n of said tool is carried by a lever 223 that

page_text: is pivotted on the shaft 218, but preferably connected therewith by a spring 224,
that is fast to, and coiled about said shaft, and has its free end bearing against the
rear side of said lever 223, which lever 223 is held in its appropriate relation to
the lever 222 by the action of this spring constantly pressing it against a stop
plate 165 attached to the lever 222, by which construction said arm n will be moved
outwardly by the said shaft, concertedly with the like movement of the arm m, but
may be moved inwardly independently of it.
These arms m n have their inner faces or sides grooved to provide for the
reception and guidance of the staple legs, and the extremity of the arm m is
bevilled or otherwise fashioned into a cutter, as t, which co-acts with the edge u of
the rim of the carrier at one side of the recess cut through said rim, the cutter t
acting to sever the wire as it forces it against the edge u.
The shaft 218 is rocked to swing the arms m n to and from the periphery of the
carrier B by means of a rock arm 225, the bowl or stud upon the end of which
travels in the path of a cam 226, fixed by a bracket 227 to the framework.
The staple-inserting tool or driver 219 is carried by a lever 229 that turns upon
the shaft 218, which lever has a laterally projecting stud 230 that enters into the
path of a cam 231, fixed by a bracket 232 to the framework. This lever 229 has
its free end bent inward, to properly position the driver 219, and the sides of the
latter are suitably shaped to enable them to play in the inner side grooves of the
arms mn, and it, like them, has a movement in a direction slightly tangential to
the periphery of the carrier or support B. The arms m n of the staple-holding or
presenting tool also perform the function of staple-leg bending arms, in co-action
with the anvil 220, as will presently appear, one of them, m, being also made to act
as a cutter, as has been stated.
The normal position of the parts being as shown in Fig. 57, it will be apparent
that wire from a supply reel, will, by a suitable rotation of the feed rollers 208, 209,
be appropriately fed onward into the channel 213, and being forced through the
laterally bent channel in the guide block 212, will be carried into the circular
groove 211 in the rim of the carrier, and be held in said groove by the inner face
of the guide plate 215. Thus entered and guided in the groove 211, the forward
end of the wire will be entered between the inner surface of the forming anvil 220
and the face of the driver 219, which latter may, if desired, be grooved to so guide
it. As the interior surface of the anvil 220 forms a continuation of the outer wall
of the groove 211, the path of cam 231 will preferably be shaped so as to normally
hold the face (or the groove therein) of the driver 219 in a position to form a
continuation of the inner wall of said groove 211.
As soon as the staple-forming devices or mechanisms have reached a proper position
in their rotativeitravel, this driver 219 may, if desired, be slightly moved outward
by a suitable shape of the cam 231, and thus gently clamp the wire against the
underside of the anvil 220, the cam 231 being so shaped as to immediately there-
after act upon the rock arm 225, and move the arms mn of the holder or presenting
tool outward, at which time they may act as bending arms.
The cutter t on the arm m will then first bear against the wire, and force the
same against the edge u of the rim of the carrier, and sever the wire, thus
detaching a length suitable for the formation of a staple. The ends and faces of the
arms m n will about simultaneously bear against those portions of the wire length
that extend each side of the anvil 220, and operate to bend the same outwardly
against the sides of said anvil, as in Fig. 58, thus forming outwardly-extending legs
which will lie in the grooves in the inner faces of said arms m, n.
When this is accomplished, the cam 226 causes the driver 219 to take up its
outward movement, and to advance concertedly with the arms m n, and as the
concerted outward movement of the driver and arins is made, the cam-like pro-
jections 234, 235 on the latter, will press upon and laterally displace the anvil 220,
by bearing against its retaining spring plate 221, thus permitting the crown of the
staple, and the driver 219 behind it, to move past the anvil, at one side thereof;
and to aid the speedy movement or lateral displacement of the anvil, its inner side

page_text: may be slightly bevelled, so that the staple will somewhat readily pass onto its side
surface. When the staple has cleared the anvil, the driver may, if desired, be
retracted, as the resilient action of the staple legs will hold the staple in place, and
the spring-seated anvil 220 may be pressed back to place by the action of spring
plate 221, and rest underneath the crown of the staple. But practically, since, for
the perfect setting of the staple, a solid bed is desirable, it is preferred to have the
cam 226 hold the driver 219 in its protruded position, until the staple legs are
clinched, and sometimes it is desirable for it to have, and the cam 226 may be
shaped to impart, a very slight additional outward movement to the driver, to aid
in forcing the staple legs well home after they are bent down, or while that
operation is being finished.
Protruded in its position shown in Fig. 59, the staple will be within the embrace
of the arms m n of the holder or presenting tool, and practically stand on the
periphery of the carrier, with its legs standing tangentially therefrom, and directed
at the points in the material which they are to enter, and toward the clinching
groove or die 236 that is cut into the periphery of the carrier A, and by which
they are to be clinched, in other words, be properly presented in inserting
position.
This clinching groove 236 has its ends curved inward, so as to turn the staple
legs toward each other, and acts, as the carriers or supports move onward
concertedly with the plicated webs running between them, to gradually bend said
legs, as they are protruded through the plicated webs, and enter into said groove
or die 236, while the staple is securely held in the arms of the holder or supporting
tool, with its crown then resting upon the driver 219, said groove finally acting to
press the staple legs snugly down onto the webs, as the point of nearest contact of
the two carriers or supports is passed, which is the time when the driver 219 may
move slightly outward, to aid such clinching.
The various substitutes for this clinching groove hereinbefore described, may be
used in connection with the other stapling mechanisms last herein shown and
described.
It will now be perceived that, in consequence of the distance of separation of
the two arms m n of the holder or presenting tool, which act as sustaining supports
for the staple legs while being set and clinched, it may not be practical to have
them move rearwardly, or retract in concert, and hence it is that the arm n, which
is the first one that has contact with the periphery of the carrier A, or the clinching
device, is not only made the shorter, so that it may not move backward until after
the staple leg it supports enters into the clinching groove or die 236, but is spring-
seated, so that it may move backward without affecting its companion arm m. The
arm m might also be independently spring-seated, so as to be pressed backward
by its contact with the carrier A, or the clinching die, but since these arms m and n
must be positively withdrawn within the carrier or support B, so as to repeat the
operations of cutting the wire, bending the same into staple form, protruding,
presenting, and guiding the same for insertion, it is preferable to perform the
retraction of the arm m by means of the cam 226, and it is accordingly shaped to
withdraw the arm m progressively, so that said arm shall just clear the face of the
carrier A as it approaches and moves past it.
All of the stapling devices will now make their rotative circuit, and the
wire being continuously fed into the carrier B, the operations described will be
repeated.
The size of the carrier or support B circumferentially, relative to the length of
a sheet, will of course determine the number of sets of stapling mechanisms required
to suitably fasten the plicated sheets together, and since two staples in each sheet
will ordinarily suffice, the carrier is shown as supplied with two sets or stapling
mechanisms, the duplicate set being shown in dotted lines, see Fig. 55 (omitted in
Fig. 57), but it must be understood that the number of stapling mechanisms may
be greater, according to the bulk of the product, it being practical to make the
surface of the carrier less and greater than the length of a sheet, in each case a

page_text: suitable number of sets of stapling mechanisms being used and the inward feed of
the wire timed accordingly.
The webs, as the four shown, folded longitudinally by the longitudinal folder 194,
will consist of eight plies, and their doubled or binding edge will pass near to the
line of travel of the stapling mechanism, and thus have the staples entered through
said plies parallel with, and near to said edge..
While the foregoing description, and the illustrations referred to, apply to the
use of this longitudinal stapling mechanism in connection with one longitudinal
folder, it is apparent that such a stapling mechanism may bind the plicated webs
received from a number of longitudinal folders, the product from each of which
may be one, or a number of associated webs, and these collected, plicated webs
consisting of a number of associated folded webs may be united together by one
stapling parallel with their common binding or folded edges.
The carriers or supports A, B, might additionally be provided with cutting, or
cutting and folding mechanisms, as is herein before shown and described.
The stapled bound webs may be carried to any suitable cutting, or to combined
or separately operating cutting and folding mechanisms, of any approved
construction.
A further modification of this invention is illustrated in Figs. 63 to 78,
inclusive.
In this modified embodiment of the invention, the cylinder or support B carries not
only the staple-forming, holding, and inserting mechanisms, but the means for
supplying wire lengths thereto.
The staple-forming devices are in part supported and operated by a longitudinal
shaft 152, that is journalled in the heads of, and near the periphery of this cylinder B,
and they are in part supported by housings Q, that are inserted in recesses of proper
size cut into the cylinder, and they are in part embraced within recessed portions of
said shaft. These housings are secured in place, so that their outer faces form a
continuation of the peripheral surface of the cylinder or support B (see Figs. 66
and 71), and they provide a guideway for the holding or presenting tool and the
inserting tool or driver.
This shaft 152 is rotated in proper time by a wheel 173 fast upon it at one end,
and geared with a toothed ring 174 surrounding the shaft and fixed to the frame,
from which it results that as said shaft 152 is carried around with the cylinder, the
said gearing will impart to said shaft the requisite rotary motion to properly operate
the mechanisms it actuates.
There will be as many sets of the staple-forming, holding, and inserting mechanisms
as may be desired, according to the width of the material to be operated upon;
three being shown, as in Fig. 64, and these, or some of them, may be made adjustable
with respect to others, so that the distance between the stapling points, or between
adjacent staples, may be varied.
As these staple-forming, holding, and inserting mechanisms are duplicates, a
description of one of them will apply to all.
The housings for each of these stapling mechanisms carries a circular die con-
sisting of an outer section 180, and an inner section 166, and two side sections 178, 179,
between which is provided a curved guideway for the guidance of the staple. One
side section 179 has a wire-feeding slot 169, and a wire-receiving recess io, and the
side section 178 has extending partially through it, a wire-receiving recess (see
Fig. 70), which recesses are thus separated, and made long enough to limit the
entrance of the wire to an extent just equal to the length required to form a staple.
The inner portions of the side sections 178, 179, when the wire receiving recesses w
cut the same, constitute stationary staple-leg bending arms b, (see Fig. 70), which
operate to turn or bend the ends of the wire length at right angles to the body
portion, as the rotating bending anvil carries the body portion onward, and the
section 179 is provided circumferentially with a recess 228 that provides a
circular pathway in which travels a rotary wire cutter 167, that is fast cn the
shaft 152.

page_text: Each stapling mechanism, also, has a rotary staple bending anvil, shown as con-
sisting of two rings (see Figs. 68 and 77), that is fast upon the shaft 152, and which
are respectively provided with bearing arms 175, 176, which rotary anvil arms
move on opposite sides of the inner section 165 of the circular die, (see Fig. 73),
that embraces, but does not move with, the shaft 152, the same being held rigidly
in place by a back strap 177, secured to the housing Q (see Fig. 78). These anvil
arms 175, 176 are thus held apart a distance equal to the length of the staple to be
formed, and they project outward a distance about twice that of the thickness of the
wire from which the staple is to be formed.
The side sections 178, 179 of the circular die, have cut into their inner side faces,
curved recesses that face each other, and in which are secured cheek pieces d, h, that
project inwardly therefrom, suitable distances, to provide, in conjunction with other
parts, channels for the guidance of the staple legs (see Fig. 68). Thus, these cheek
pieces d, h form inside or rear walls; the outer section 180 forms outer or front
walls; the side sections 178, 179, beyond the cheek pieces d, h, form outer lateral
or outside walls; and the arms 175, 176 of the rotating anvil form inner lateral or
inside walls, which walls together constitute curved conducting, guiding channels
for the staple legs, and the outer section 180 is of a thickness that provides, between
its inner face and the outer face of the inner section 166, a curved guiding recess or
pathway for the crown of the staple, that is suited to the size of the wire used.
The outer or bearing face of the inner section 166, and the co-operating inner
face of the outer section 180 of the circular die, are so shaped as to form not only a
curved channel or guide-way for the staple crown, but one that is excentric with
the shaft 152, see Fig. 66, the outward curvature of said guideway being progres-
sively increased in a direction toward the staple holder or presenting tool, see
Figs. 66, 67, and the cheek pieces d, h are of corresponding form, see Fig. 76, so
that while the arms 175, 176 of the rotary bending anvil will force the formed
staple onward, the increasing arc of its pathway formed by the cheek pieces d, h, or
the inner section 166, constitute an elevator that will carry the staple into the open
end of the presenting tool.
The staple-receiving, presenting tool or holder, and the inserting or setting tool,
both reciprocate in a right line in a recess or guiding way cut through the housing Q;
the same being partly formed in the side sections 178, 179, and covered by a
central removable cap piece 181, see Fig. 66, 67, and 72,
The staple-presenting tool or holder consists of a head having bearers 257, 261,
curved to fit correspondingly shaped bearings formed in the side sections 178, 179, and
from opposite sides of this head there are forwardly projecting arms 182, 183, that
have their inner faces recessed to provide a channel way to receive the formed
staple, and these recesses each have one side wall, that which is nearest to the
staple-forming devices, curved to form, when the arms are in their rearward
positions, as in Fig. 66, continuations of the inner surface of the excentric guide
or pathway formed between the faces of the outer section 180 and the cheek
pieces d h, and the body of the presenting tool or holder has curved recesses 191,
192 cut in its face, to provide for the unobstructed movement of the anvil
arms 175, 176 past it. By this construction, the formed staple carried through the
curved pathway by the arms 175, 176 of the rotary anvil, will be raised to clear
said arms, by the section 166, or the cheek pieces d, h, acting as an elevator, and
be landed in the channel-way within the receiving arms 182, 183, wherein the staple
will be deposited with its crown resting in front of the driver 172. This driver or
inserting tool reciprocates within these arms, guided, in part, in a way cut in the
cap piece 181, and the driver as well as the staple-presenting tool or holder, are
concertedly moved forward at appropriate times by means of a lever 171, fast on a
rock shaft 185, in the slotted free end of which lever the shank 184 of the driver 172
is pivotted (see Figs. 74, 75), and this shaft 185, which is journalled in the heads of
the cylinder B, is appropriately rocked at suitable intervals by means of a rock.
arm 186 on its outer end, the stud or friction bowl of which runs on a stationary
cam 170 that is secured to the fixed wheel 174.

page_text: The staple-presenting tool or holder, which has the arms 182, 183, is attached to
a lever 171 by means of two rods 187, 188, that play in cars 189, 190, projecting
from the sides of the free end of said lever, its position with respect to said lever
being secured by means of spiral springs that encircle said rods, and bear at one
end against the rear of the head of the said instrument, and at the other against
said ears.
The rotary wire-cutter 167 is carried by a ring 264 (see Fig. 73), which is fast
upon the shaft 152, and said cutter 167 projects sufficiently to cause it to intercept,
at right angles thereto, the plane of the transverse wire passage 169, in the side
section 179, and the arms 183 of the staple-presenting tool is recessed to provide a
clearance for said cutter. The staple length of wire enters through the passage 169,
extends past the cutter 167, and entering into the wire slots w, x, reaches across the
guideways in which said cutter and the arms 175, 176 of the rotary anvil move, and
has its leading end abutted against the inner end of the wire passage, and thus
portions of the wire length are provided each side of said anvil, sufficient for the
formation of the staple legs; and in its rotative travel, this cutter 167 co-operates
with the side wall of the recess 228, when the wire passage 169 joins it, to perform
the cutting operation, and sever a staple length.
The wire g from which the staples are to be formed, is wound upon spools a, c, e,
supported at one end of the cylinder or support B, there being as many spools as
there are staple forming mechanisms employed. The spools are journalled in
brackets, and the wires from them are led about feeding rollers whose shafts are
rotated by a train of gears, 153, 154, 155, 156, the shaft of the latter having at
its opposite end a worm wheel 157 engaged with a worm 158 that is on a shaft
which is geared by pinions 159, 160 with a toothed wheel 161 encircling the
shaft of the cylinder or support B, and fast to the side frame, by which gearing said
roller shafts are continuously and concertedly moved.
As the wires must be brought into the same plane or common feeding line, the
wires from all the spools are passed between guide rollers v, i,-thence between
rollers i, o, and thence between guiding rollers o, 8; so that the three wires enter
the cylinder in a common plane, see Figure 64, where the gears 153, 154, 155,
and 156, are omitted, so as to expose to view the rollers y, i, o, s.
Within the cylinder B, there is provided a wire guide plate P, in which are the
grooves 162, 163, 164, that so guide and direct the wires, that they all enter, and
are presented to the wire passages and cutters of the several staple forming
mechanisms, at points correspondingly related to each, as in Figure 65.
It being understood that the cylinders or supports A, B, are geared and driven
so as to revolve in unison with the other moving parts with which the material
must concertedly run; that the cylinder B carries a number of staple forming,
holding, or presenting and inserting mechanisms aligned longitudinally in the said
cylinder; and that the circumference of the cylinder is equal to the length of a
sheet; and that the cylinder or support A is provided with as many co-operating
staple-leg clinching devices as there are staple-holding or presenting mechanisms,
which clinching devices may be the shallow channels or grooves with curved ends,
as shewn, the operation will be as follows:-
The plicated material will be fed onward between the carriers A, B ; suitable
staple lengths of the wires will be fed to the mechanisms carried by the cylinder B;
and the wire-cutting, staple-forming, presenting, and inserting mechanisms, will
progressively act as follows:-
The wire will be fed through the slot or channel 169, and into the wire
recesses wa, or until it is stopped by abutting against the inner end of the recess a,
whereupon a staple length of it will be cut off by the action of the rotary
cutter 167. This severed wire length will immediately be intercepted or caught
by the arms 175, 176 of the rotary anvil, and its central body or crown portion
will be carried into the guideway between the side sections 178, 179, the
arms 175, 176 of said anvil, the inner faces of the central section 180, and the
outer face of the curved central guide 166, while its projecting ends will be

page_text: forced against, and turned over the slightly curved corners of the bending
arms, which form the junctions between the wire recesses w, xr, and such
guideway. As the wire length is thus carried forward by the rotary anril, its
ends or leg portions will be turned rearward by the bending arm, so as to be
at right angles to its body or crown, see Figures 68, 69, and 70,-thus providing
it with legs, and completing the staple. This staple will be carried onward by
the arms of the rotary anvil, and will be progressively moved outward bodily
and finally, following the excentric pathway; be swept into the embrace of the
arms 182, 183 of the presenting tool or holder by the elevating action of the cheek
pieces d, h, or the inuer section 166, or both, as the case may be, the staple being
thus gradually withdrawn from contact with the arms 175, 176 of the rotary anvil,
which arms pass onward, in their circular travel, through recesses 191, 192, cut for
this purpose in the body of the presenting tool or holder. The formed staple
will then rest in the presenting tool or holder, with its legs embraced by the
arms 182, 183, and pointing outward, with its crown resting in front of, and against
the face of the driver 172.
At the proper time, while the carrier B is moving onward, this presenting tool
or holder will be moved outward by the action of cam 170, and be protruded
beyond the periphery of the cylinder B, as in Figures 63 & 67, and reach this
position while that part of the cylinder B which carries the presenting tool or
holder, is approaching the setting point, which is where the cylinders A, B, roll in,
or nearly in, contact in this position of the presenting tool; its arms 182, 183, will
support the staple 5 outside the cylinder, as shewn in Figure 63. When this
presenting tool or holder, in its circular path or rotative travel, meets the material
passing between the cylinders A, B, it will cause the staple held therein to enter
the material, and be progressively inserted therein, as the said cylinders roll
onward, contact of the cylinder A or the staple leg clinching device, with these
arms 182, 183, causing their retiring movement against the resistance of the springs
on the rods 187, 188, while the cam 170 holds the driver rigidly until the staple-
legs are bent or clinched by the action of the clinching grooves 193 in the surface
of the cylinder A, or other equivalent clinching device.
In all of the preceding embodiments of this invention, mechanisms for forming
the staple have been included.
In Figures 79 to 85, is illustrated an adaptation of the invention wherein
previously-made staples are fed to the staple-holding or presenting, and inserting
mechanisms, which, as in the preceding examples of the invention, are supported in
a carrier or support whose movement is rotative.
The holding or presenting, and inserting mechanisms of the rotating carrier or
support B, are supplied with made staples by means of a rotating feeding
wheel 237, that is moved in timely unison with said carrier. The function of this
feeding wheel 237 is to receive the staples from a quantity that are piled one
upon another, heads and points in the like direction, so as to descend by
gravity in a feeding shute 233, the open bottom of which rests over said feeding
wheel 237, and transports the staples in succession to the holding and inserting
devices.
This feeding wheel 237 is provided in its periphery, at equal distances apart,
with carrying hooks 238, which are formed by cutting suitable recesses into the
face of the wheel, the hooks 238 thus projecting sufficiently to engage, and each
recess being of a depth to receive but one staple, the legs of which will extend
rearward along each side. This wheel, however, is made of less thickness than the
distance between the staple legs, so as to provide spaces between them and the
sides of the wheel, for the entrance of the carrying arms of a staple conveyor 243,
that transfers the staple to the staple holding and inserting devices.
In order to ensure the correct position of the staples with respect to the
conveyor 243, and to the devices to which the conveyor delivers them, side guides
or plates 241, 242, are arranged about a portion of the feeding wheel 102, and set
apart a sufficient distance to provide staple-leg spaces between them and the arms
ว

page_text: of the conveyor 243. To ensure the retention of the staples in the recesses of this
wheel 237, a supporting guide plate, 239, extends from the shute 233 to the
guides 241, 242, and it is supported coincident with the periphery of the wheel 237,
and may be continued to a point still nearer to the periphery of the support or
carrier B, if desired.
The row of staples piled in the shute 233, is constantly pressed downward,
preferably by gravity, against the periphery of the wheel 237, and the lowermost
staple will be detached, and its crown caused to enter into a recess of the wheel 237,
as a hook passes, and its recess is brought beneath the staple, its crown being
entered in front of, and thus engaged by a hook 238, while its legs will extend at
each side of the said wheel. Thus, each lowermost staple will be detached from
the row of staples, and be carried onward to be set, its crown being foremost, and
its legs trailing rearward, while the succeeding staples will be fed downward
against the wheel, to be similarly operated upon. Each staple so detached from
the row, and carried onward by the rotating wheel 237, for delivery to the
presenting and setting devices, is held in place for a distance by the supporting
guide plate 239. As the legs of made staples tend to spring apart, or stand at
slightly obtuse angles with respect to their crowns, it follows that, as each staple is
carried onward by a hook 238, its slightly expanded legs will press against the
inner surfaces of the side guides 241, 242, with sufficient force to insure the
centering of the staple, and its being moved forward in correct position up to
the surface of the carrier or support B, and thus be accurately presented at the
point where it is engaged by the carrying arms of the staple conveyor, which
deliver it to the stapling mechanisms.
This carrier or support, B, travels at a much greater surface speed than the
feeding wheel 237, and the surface speed of the latter is such that each of its staple-
carrying hooks will be brought into position to deliver a staple thereto at each
revolution of the carrier or support B, when the staple-receiving conveyor of the
latter arrives into suitable co-operative relation thereto.
The staple-detaching conveyor 243 is a vibrating device pivotted in one end of a
swinging lever 244, and it has, at its inner end, a tail piece 252, that co-operates
with a fixed stud 251, and its outer end is composed of two arms or plates
(see Fig. 81), preferably elastic, which arms are curved or hook-like, and are
separated sufficiently to enable them to enter behind the crown of the staple,
between its legs, and within the side guides 241, 242, as a hook 238 of the wheel 237
brings a staple within the range of action of this conveyor 243, at which time it is
protruded from the surface of the cylinder B, in its rotary movement therewith.
The legs of the staples will be pressed against the side guides 241, 242, as the
wheel, with its hooks, each carrying a staple, slowly approaches the periphery of
the cylinder or support B, while the rapidly advancing conveyor 243 will enter
within the side guides, between the staple legs, and behind its crown, and swinging
inwardly, it will remove a staple from the co-operating hook 238 of the wheel 237,
the legs of which staple, pressing against the side guides 241, 242, will trail
rearward, and be prevented from being thrown beyond control by the sudden
contact therewith of the conveyor, or by its rapid detaching movement; and these
side guides are extended about the periphery of cylinder B, sufficiently to form a
continuous guide for the staple, until it is delivered therefrom to the staple-
receiving devices of the cylinder B. The conveyor 243 should be made of two
elastic arms or plates, for the purpose of enabling them to adjustably move, in
passing between the side guides 241, 242, and so as to ensure their entering between
the staple legs. Their slight lateral contraction may be attained by making the
opening in the periphery of the cylinder or support, B, through which they rock,
of such form as to cause this slight movement at the very last part thereof, or just
at the time of the extreme outward movement of the conveyor, as by a slight swell
on their sides, or the inner surfaces of the side guides 241, 242, may be contracted
along their edges nearest to the cylinder, carrier, or support B, to ensure this
■light movement.

page_text: As soon as the staple is engaged by the conveyor 243, the rock shaft 245,
actuated by a rock arm 247 and a cam 249, will be moved to vibrate the arm 246,
which rocks the swinging lever 244 in which the conveyor 243 is pivotted; the
movement being made against the pressure of a spring 254. The lever 244 thus
causes the staple-conveyor 243 to swing inward, and bring the staple it has engaged
within the cylinder or support B, and deposit it between two spring-seated end-
guides 249, 250, of the staple holding, presenting, inserting mechanisms. These
end guides are carried by a fixed bracket, and have inner faces provided with
flaring slots, which so guide the staple, that it will assume an upright position
within them, while held by the conveyor 243, in which upright position said staple
may readily enter the channel-like guide formed between the sides 258, 259 of the
staple-holding or presenting tool, and rest upon the inserting tool or driver 255,
that stands in said channel-like guide of said presenting tool or holder, and over
which driver said tool moves outward to strip the staple from the embrace of the
side guides 249, 250 and conveyor 243. This staple-presenting tool or holder is
sheathlike, and it moves in a hollow fixed bracket 260; and between its sides 258,
259, or within the channel-like guide it forms, the inserting tool or driver 255
reciprocates, said inserting tool 255 having depending actuating arms 256, 279,
carrying a friction roller 303, that is embraced by the arms of a bifurcated
lever 304, fast on the rock shaft 245, and said presenting tool being seated upon
springs 305, 306, that surround the arms 256, 279. In this operation of stripping
the staple from the wheel 237, the stud 251, and curved tail piece or arm 252 of"
the conveyor, together with the spring 253, which tends to press the conveyor
forward, and the spring 254 which tends to press it outward, co-operate to facilitate
the holding and releasing action of these parts.
The tail 252 of the conveyor is so curved as to give to it, on the primary move-
ment of the shaft 245, only the required range of outward movement that will
cause said conveyor to be in correct position to engage and detach a staple from
the feeding wheel 237, and carry it within the carrying cylinder or support B.
When, however, the staple has been brought well within the cylinder, the con-
tinued movement of shaft 245, while it will no longer move the conveyor by reason
of the curved end of its tail 252, the continued movement which it imparts to the
lever 246, will, through its rock arm 304, press outward upon the friction roll of
the actuating arms 256 of the inserting tool or driver 255, and cause the same to
advance, and through the springs 305, 306, carrying the holder or presenting
tool 258 259 with it."
As the holder or presenting tool advances, it engages the end guides 249, 250,.
and presses them apart laterally, thus causing the staple to become embraced
within the channel like guide of the holder or presenting tool, with its crown resting
upon the end or face of the inserting tool or driver 255. Simultaneously with this
advancing movement of the holder or presenting tool, the conveyor is swung
rearwardly out of the way by the traverse of the curved or hook-like arms, at its
lower end, over the face of the slide 258 of the staple holder, as is seen in'
Figure 80. When the staple presenting tool has received the staple, it continues
to move outward until the staple is protruded beyond the surface, of the cylinder B,
as in Figure 80,-its limit of movement being controlled by a suitable stop 270,
which arrests its further progress, and the staple inserting tool or driver 255 will
thereafter act in proper time to constitute a setting bed or driver operating to force
the staple through the paper into engagement with a coacting clinching device, such
as may be carried by an opposite support or coacting cylinder, or otherwise
provided, as bereinbefore explained.
The holder or presenting tool carrying the staple will move the staple into
contact with the material to be stapled, insert the staple legs through the material,
and project them into the clinching device, and, under the pressure of its contact
with the coacting cylinder or the clinching die, the presenting tool will gradually
retire against the pressure of its supporting springs 305 306, while the inserting
tool is held stationary. The setting of the staple having been completed by the

page_text: clinching of its legs, the cam actuating the lever 304 on the shaft 245 will cause all
the parts to assume their first described positions, and the operations set forth to
be repeated.
In
In the modification illustrated in Figures 86 to 95, the moving stapling
mechanisms are rotative, as in all of the other embodiments of this invention,
although the rotative feature of this modification is embodied in oscillation.
this stapling apparatus, the staple is formed, carried to, and presented at the staple-
setting point, by an oscillating holder or presenting tool, and is there inserted, and
set into the running material, by means of a reciprocating tool or driver, and a
stationary co-operating clinching die. The oscillation of the holder is so timed,
that as it approaches, reaches, and passes the staple-setting point, its direction of
and speed of travel is that of the moving material through which the staple is to
be inserted, and in which it is to be clinched or set. In the return movement of its
oscillation, this holder returns to the wire feeding mechanism, cuts off a staple
length of wire, and said wire is formed into a staple, and delivered within this
holder, ready for a repetition of the downward movement or carrying, holding, or
presenting, inserting, or driving, and clinching operations.
The wire-feeding, staple-forming, holding, or presenting, and inserting instru-
mentalities or devices are all supported upon a stationary plate bracket 265 which
projects from an arm 266 that is secured to the frame of a delivery apparatus, as,
for instance, that which supports the fold-laying rolls 105, 106, through which the
plicated material to be stapled is fed onward for delivery, as in the preceding
embodiments of this invention. The movements of the stapling mechanisms are
imparted herein by means of a connecting rod 267, that is reciprocated by timely
movements imparted by a cam 268, which is, for convenience, shewn as guided upon
the shaft 207 of the, cylinder or carrier B, which corresponds with the similar
carrier in the preceding views, where said carrier is shewn as containing cutting and
folding mechanisms, said cam 268 being suitably shaped to give the requisite move-
ment to the carrier or support for the staple-holding or presenting and inserting
devices, instrumentalities, or tools, so that their speed of onward movement, at
the time of the setting of the staple, shall coincide with the like movement of the
material in which the staple is to be set. With this preliminary statement, the
operation of the mechanisms will be readily understood.
The stationary plate bracket 265 is provided with a wire-feeding slot 269,
through which the wire is fed by means of a reciprocating clamping slide 260, that
is guided in an arm 277. The wire being received from a reel, is passed through
said slot, and nipped in the feeding direction by the pawl 271, carried by the slide,
and held against any return movement by a pair of spring-seated dogs 272, 273,-
the necessary reciprocatory motion being given to the slide 260 by means of a bell-
crank 274, and a reciprocating rod 275, a bowl attached to which runs in the slot
of a vibrating cam 276, which cam swings on the shaft 207, over which shaft the
rod 275 slides by means of its bifurcated end.
The stapling mechanism consists of two members that have their centre of motion
upon a shaft 301, so as to have a rotative movement, namely an oscillation. One
member 280, which contains the forming anvil 281, and co-operative bending
arms,
is shewn in section in Figures 88, 89, and 90, and has a head which is
provided with a wire slot for the reception of the staple length of wire protruded
through the directing slot 269 of the feed plate 265.
This upper or staple-forming member 280 has a downward movement, the extent
of which is determined by a rest block 278, that supports said head with its wire
slots aligned with the slot 269, so that the staple length of wire may be fed into
said head to a distance suitable for the formation of a staple, and said member 280
is capable of rising above said block 278 a suitable distance, in aid of the operation
of forming a staple, as is hereafter explained.
The head of the staple forming member 280 is made hollow to a size adapted to
receive, support, and guide a reciprocating anvil 281, that carries on its upper side
a rack 282, through which it is moved to and fro by means of a rocking segment 283,

page_text: Tormed on the pendent end of a lever 284, which is pivotted in arms 285 fast to the
anvil 281, the slotted upper end of which lever 284 is controlled by a pivot 286
fixed to the plate 265.
This
The other member 290, which is the staple-holding or presenting tool, and carries
the inserting tool or driver 288, is shewn in Figures 88 and 90 in section. It is
hung to oscillate upon the shaft 301, and has the cam 276 attached to it.
holder 290 is capable of moving downward to, or slightly beyond the staple setting
point or dotted position of it, shewn in Figure 86, and upward to a position slightly
above that shewn in full lines in Figure 86.
This holder or presenting tool 290 is recessed longitudinally to form holding
arms ky, the inner sides of which are provided with longitudinal slots approximately
of the size of the wire from which the staple is formed, into which the staple legs
of the formed staple are carried or drawn by the forming anvil, as will presently be
explained (see Fig. 91).
This holder 290 is also provided, in its inner sides, with longitudinal guide slots,
in which the inserting tool or driver 288 reciprocates. This inserting tool 288 is
provided, between the base of the holder 290 and its own rear end, with a strong
spring 289, preferably supported on a rod, as shewn, and on one side there projects
from the presenting tool or driver 288 an arm 291, which engages a fixed cam
plate 292, as the holder or presenting tool moves upward, and a trigger cam 293,
as the holder or presenting tool moves downward. This trigger cam 293 is
pivotted so as to slightly swing, it being held in its forward position against a
stop 310 by means of an arm 294 attached to its shaft, and borne by a spring 295.
The oscillating movements of the holder or presenting tool, are imparted
thereto by means of the cam 268, through the connecting rod 267, which vibrates
a two-armed swinging lever, to one arm, 296, of which, the connecting rod is
attached, and the other arm, 297, of which is connected by a link 298 with a rock
arm 299, attached to the carrying stock of the holder or presenting tool. When
the said holder or presenting tool 290, which transports the staple from the forming
point down to the setting point, makes its upward or return movement, it will not
only come in contact with the upper member or staple-former 280, but lift the
same from off the rest block 278, to a distance sufficient to enable the cutter 300,
which is fixed to the holder or presenting tool, to sever a staple length of wire
by the movement of said cutter past the wire feeding slot 269, and immediately
following the cutting of the wire, as the upward concerted movement of the
holder or presenting tool 290 and the member 280, is continued, the slotted
arm 284 will move over the stud or pin 286, which will act to rock the
segment 283 rearward, and, through the rack 282, impart a like movement to
the forming anvil 281, which will, in such rearward movement, draw the wire
length inward, thereby causing the bending arms 9, 2, to bend the ends of the
wire length at right angles to its central body portion, thereby converting the
same into a staple. This formed staple is carried bodily, by the continued move-
ment of the anvil, into the staple holder or presenting tool, where its legs are
entered into the grooves in the inner faces of the holding, guiding arms ky of said
holder, while the crown or head of the staple rests against the end or face of the
inserting tool 288, as seen in Figure 90; which inserting tool 288 is then held in
its rearward position by means of its arm 291 bearing in contact with the cam
plate 292.
As the downward or return movement of the stapling tools is made, to seat the
member 280 upon the rest block 278, the lever 284 will be rocked to swing the
segment 283 in the opposite direction, and cause it to restore the forming anvil to
its forward position in advance of the wire slot 269, ready to repeat the operation
of forming a staple.
The staple thus formed is securely held in the grooves of the arms k y of the
holder or inserting tool, and as that tool further descends, the staple will be
transported by it to the setting point. Now, while this holder 290 is making its
downward movement, its arm 291 will pass onto the rear face of the trigger
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page_text: cam 293, the curvature of which will slightly, but still further, compress the
spring 289, and when the forward end of the holder 290 has reached the setting
point for the staple, the arm 291 of the inserting tool or driver will pass off from
the lower end of the trigger cam 293, thus releasing the spring 289, which will
suddenly and with great power, quickly expand, to thrust the said inserting tool or
driver forward, until it is arrested by the rear ends of the arms k thus carrying
before it the staple, and causing the same to be inserted into or through the
material, and the legs thereof to be clinched by a suitable co-operating clinching
mechanism, which will be hereafter described.
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This setting action, will, therefore, be performed while the staple holder or
presenting tool is moving in the same direction, and with the same surface speed at
which the material to be stapled is travelling, and hence be performed without
injury to the moving material, and as soon as the staple is inserted and has its legs
clinched down, it will be relieved from any hold by the presenting and inserting
tools, so that the same may be retracted or moved inwardly and upwardly while the
material carrying the staple moves onward.
During this downward movement of the holder or presenting tool 290, and it may
be during its partial return, a staple length of wire is again fed onward into the
head of the upper or staple forming member 280, and when the holder 290 moves
upward, its arm 291 will pass in front of the trigger cam 293, and making contact
with the cam plate 292, will be gradually moved rearward, thereby compressing
the spring 289, and when the holder 290 comes in contact with the staple forming
member 280, it lifts the same, causes the cutter 300 to sever the wire length, the
segment 283 to rock and draw the forming anvil 281. rearward, thus bending
such wire length into staple form, and depositing the same in the grooves of
the arms of the holder 290, with its crown or head resting in front of the
driver 288.
The clinching mechanism may be of any suitable form, but, as herein shewn,
and as
preferred, since the operation of the inserting tool or setting driver is a
very rapid one, said clinching mechanism may be a simple block, having clinching
die 311, as shewn in Figures 86, 94, and 95, the face of which is provided with a
transverse recess, the ends of which are slightly curved to cause the staple legs to
bend inward, or toward each other, and which recess is continued downward in the
block, so that the clinched staple legs may pass out of or off from the same without
obstruction, and it is preferable to continue the curvature or inclination of the ends
of this recess throughout the depth of the block, so that the actual clinching may
be prolonged slightly, to ensure a perfect operation.
The cylinders A B are shown by partial peripheral lines only, since they may be
provided with simply cutting mechanisms, or with cutting and folding mechanisms,
as hereinbefore set forth.
The various structures of stapling mechanisms herein shewn and described,
though designed for cooperation with fast printing machines, will be found to be
well adapted to the stapling of material automatically fed to them from any other
mechanism, or by hand.
Although only two printing mechanisms are shewn as the means for printing the
web or webs which are to be severed into sheets, and a number of which sheets,
associated together or plicated, are to be united by stapling, so as to form a bound
book-like package, it is to be understood that many printing machines provided
with means for plicating the same, may be employed to deliver either webs or
sheets to the stapling mechanisms, whereby the printed and plicated material will
be bound together by staples. It is to be further understood that a web or webs,
or sheets, from a number of printing machines, may be conveyed over two or more
longitudinal folders, and thus be plicated by association or folding, so as to be
simultaneously acted upon and bound together by the stapling mechanisms. Or a
web or webs, or sheets, from one or more sources of supply independent of the
printing of said web or webs or sheets by single or multiplex printing machines,
may he plicated either by associating bars, combining rollers, or longitudinal

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folders, and delivered to the stapling mechanisms, to be bound together as a single
product. And in any of the above cases, there may be one or more supplements,
such as a plain or coloured web, webs, or sheets, or a fancifully printed or
ornamented web, webs, or sheets, adapted to be used as an ornamental cover, or
advertising page or pages, which supplement or supplements may be combined with
the main web, webs, sheet, or sheets, as a component part of the plications, hy
leading the same into association therewith at any convenient point, as over.
final longitudinal folder or folders, or by leading the same into association with the
plicated material, as it passes into the range of action of the stapling mechanism.
In short, the plication of the material, whether printed in one or more printing
machines, upon one or both sides, in part upon one side, and in part upon both
sides, or, received unornamented, or in any condition of ornamentation, from one or
more sources of supply, may be accomplished in any suitable way. Thus, sheets
may be collected on a cylinder, or be associated in a common pathway, or be com-
bined as a pair of cylinders, or be plicated by folding; and webs (or sheets
conveyed in pathways the equivalent of webs) may be plicated by associating bars,
turning devices, combining cylinders, longitudinal folders, or by simply leading two
sets into association.
In all of the illustrations of the embodiments of this invention, the transverse
severing of the webs into sheets is shewn as performed after the web or webs have
left the longitudinal folders, and been stapled.
This method is adopted, because of the convenience resulting from conducting
the material onward in the web, but it is obvious that this transverse cutting may
be performed immediately following the last printing operation upon the web or
webs, although the sheets thus formed will then require conducting pathways, to
Where transverse cutting is
properly convey or direct them through the machine.
referred to, therefore, it is to be considered that it may be performed before,.
during, or after plication or longitudinal folding or stapling, or as an operation
accompanying transverse folding, being performed before, during, or after such
folding, whether the cutting devices are supported in the folding blade carrier
or otherwise.
The transverse folding is shewn or described as accomplished in an apparatus in
which the stapling mechanisms are embodied, and although this is highly advan-
tageous, it may be performed quite independently thereof, by simply providing
means for conducting the staple-bound sheets in succession to any folding machine,
or it might be the staple-bound material, in web form, to a combined cutting
and folding machine, or first to a cutting and then to a folding machine.
It will of course be obvious that the stapling mechanisms may be one set or a
number of sets, as may be desired. Where the support for the stapling device is a
cylinder, as shewn in some of the figures of the drawings, there will be as many
sets of stapling mechanisms, as the circumferential path of travel of the carrier, or
support therefor, is equal to, less, or greater, than the length of the sheet, the same
being suited to the appropriate stapling of the sheet to be operated upon; and
when the machine is capacitated to produce sheets of different sizes, as it may be,
the stapling mechanisms may be adapted for adjustment to suit the situation
required by such changes.
In stapling upon a line transverse to the run of the material, it will be found
advantageous, where a change in the size of the product is provided for, to have
one or more of the stapling mechanisms adjustable laterally.
Although, in the embodiments of the improvements herein shewn, a primary
longitudinal folder or folders are provided for, it will be readily apparent that,
although this is advantageous for many reasons, it is not an essential characteristic,
since the webs or sheets may be stapled together on their ultimate binding line,
before any folding operation is performed upon them, or after they have been one
or more times folded, as by a rotating folding machine, so long as one fold is
imparted to them iu, on, or near the stapled line of union or binding.
The preferred mode of bending the staple legs to clinch them, is that commouly

page_text: practised, and it has therefore been adopted in the principal illustrations of this
invention.
But any of the clinching mechanisms herein described may so perform the
clinching operation, as to bend the legs of the staple toward each other, as in the
principal illustrations, or they may so operate as to bend said legs in opposite
directions, or away from each other, or to bend both of the legs in the same or any
desired direction. By using staples having but one leg that protrudes beyond the
pack or plies through which it is inserted, the clinching operation might be so
performed by bending said leg parallel with the head of the staple, and in the same
or a contrary direction thereto, or otherwise.
The swinging anvil 46 might detach a wire length from a suitable holder, and
convert it into a staple, as it moves into the carrier or support B, by bending the
ends of the wire at right angles to its body portion, thus forming the legs between
the sides of the anvil and the walls 74,75 of the recess in the carrier or support B;
and the nib 3 of this anvil may be replaced by a slight recess in or near the end of
the swinging anvil, and even this, as well as the nib, may be omitted, since
neither is essential, though advantageous in the rapid working of some of the
mechanisms.
The guard 43 is not requisite for the successful carriage of the staple length of
wire from the point at which it is cut from the body of the wire to that at which it
is acted upon in forming it into a staple, but this guard may act to ensure a steady
presentation of the wire for and during cutting, and certainty in the transfer
movement of the staple length of wire, without said wire being bent or worked out
of place.
It is practical to allow the staple legs to project considerably beyond the arms
of the holder, as in Figures 41, 52, 59, & thus provide for a very short movement
of said arms.
The carriers A, B, C, which have been referred to, serve principally as supports
for the devices, tools, or instrumentalities they carry, & the cylinder form of them
has been stated to be preferred, but it is to be understood that when they serve as
such supports only, they need not be cylinders, but if it is desired to utilize any
portion of their peripheries, then such portions may be retained, and so far as this
invention is concerned, only such portions of them as are necessary to afford support
for the stapling mechanisms need be present, but it will be apparent that when
these carriers or supports are in cylinder form, they may well act as the means for
moving the material past, the stapling mechanisms, as they will operate as carriers
whenever the material is so fed to them, that it is held upon one or the other, or
nipped between them. In this case, the material need not pass between the feeding
rollers as herein shewn. By thus giving the support for the stapling mechanisms
the form of a cylinder, said cylinder may also act to collect many sheets upon its
surface before the same are stapled.
It is to be observed from the foregoing description, that the staple-inserting
means consists generally of a staple holder or presenting tool, which holds or
presents, and sometimes guides, the made staple, so that its legs shall properly
enter the material, and a tool or driver which acts to compel the entrance of the
staple into the material. It is to be understood, however, that the staple holding
or presenting tool may also act as a tool or driver for inserting the staple into the
material to be stapled.
In some forms of construction herein shewn and described, one device per se
performs more than a single function, as, for instance: One of the conveyor
arms 44, 45 may act as a wire cutter as well as a conveying arm, and said conveying
arms may also act as bending arnis constituting one member of the staple-
forming mechanism. Again, as before stated, the staple-holding device which
holds or presents the staple, may also act as the means for inserting the same into
the material to be stapled. It is therefore to be understood, that in carrying out
this invention, the constructor is at liberty to make any one single device to
perform one, two or more functions as he sees fit; also, that in this Specification,

page_text: where any single device is particularly referred to, it is to be understood to be the
device which is characterised by the function it then performs, although that
function may be but one of its many functions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination, substantially as described, of means for feeding plicated
webs or sheets onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting means
operating to insert a staple through the moving webs or sheets.
2. The combination, substantially as described, of means for feeding plicated
webs or sheets onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting and
clinching meaus operating to insert a staple through the moving webs or sheets and
clinch its legs.
3. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing the
material, means for plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated material
onward past a staple-inserting means, and, staple-inserting means operating to
insert a staple through the moving material.
4. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing the
material, means for plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated material
onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting and clinching means
operating to insert a staple through the moving material, and clinch its legs.
5. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing the
material, means for plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated material
onward past a staple-inserting means, staple-inserting and clinching means operating
to insert a staple through the moving material and clinch its legs, and, mechanism
operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on, or near its line of union.
6. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing a
web or webs of material, means for plicating the same, means for feeding the
plicated material onward past a staple-inserting means, staple-inserting and clinching
means operating to insert a staple through the moving material and clinch its
legs, cutting devices severing the material transversely into sheet lengths, and,
mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on, or near, its line
of union.
7. The combination, substantially as described, of means for plicating material,
means for feeding the material onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-
inserting means operating to insert a staple through the moving material.
8. The combination, substantially as described, of means for plicating material,
means for feeding the material onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-
inserting and clinching means operating to insert a staple through the moving
material, and clinch its legs.
9. The combination, substantially as described, of means for plicating material,
means for feeding the material onward past a staple-inserting means, staple-inserting
and clinching means operating to insert a staple through the moving material and
clinch its legs, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in,
on, or near, its line of union.
10. The combination, substantially as described, of means for plicating a web
or webs of material, means for feeding the material onward past a staple-inserting
means, staple-inserting and clinching means operating to insert a staple through
the moving material and clinch its legs, cutting devices severing the material
transversely into sheet lengths, and, mechanism operating to double or fold the
stapled material in, on, or near, its line of union.
11. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing
the material, a longitudinal folder plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated
material onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting means operating
to insert a staple through the moving material.
12. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing

page_text: the material, a longitudinal folder plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated
material onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting and clinching
means operating to insert a staple through the moving material and clinch its
legs.
13. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing
a web or webs of material, a longitudinal folder plicating the same, means for
feeding the plicated material onward past a staple-inserting means, staple-inserting
and clinching means operating to insert a staple through the moving material and
clinch its legs, cutting devices severing the material transversely into sheet lengths,
and, mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on, or near, its
line of union.
14. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing
the material, a longitudinal folder plicating the same, a slitter dividing the inaterial
longitudinally, means for feeding the plicated material onward past a staple-
inserting means, and, staple-inserting and clinching means operating to insert a
staple through the moving material and clinch its legs.
15. The combination, substantially as described, of a printing mechanism for
printing a web or webs, a longitudinal folder plicating the same, a slitter dividing
the web or webs longitudinally, means for feeding the plicated web or webs onward
past a staple-inserting means, staple-iuserting and clinching means operating to
insert a staple through the moving material and clinch its legs, a cutting mechanism
operating to sever the stapled material transversely into sheet lengths, and, a
mechanisin operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on, or near, its line
of union.
16. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing or
delivering two or more webs or sheets, means for associating said webs or sheets, a
longitudinal folder plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated material
onward past a staple-inserting means, and staple-inserting and clinching means
operating to insert a staple through the moving material, and clinch its legs.
17. The combination, substantially as described, of a mechanism for printing or
delivering two or more webs, means for associating said webs, a longitudinal folder
plicating the same, means for feeding the plicated material onward past a staple-
inserting means, staple-inserting and clinching means, operating to insert a staple
through the moving material and clinch its legs, a cutting mechanism operating to
sever the webs into sheet lengths, and, mechanism operating to double or fold the
stapled material in, on, or near, its line of union.
18. In a stapling mechanism, a staple-holding device moving in the direction of
the travel of the material to be stapled while the staple is being inserted therein,
and a staple-leg clinching device, substantially as described.
19. In a stapling mechanism, a staple-holding device moving onward with the
material to be stapled while the staple is being insérted therein, and a staple-leg
clinching device substantially as described.
20. In a stapling mechanism, a staple-holding device moving rotatively with the
material to be stapled while the staple is being inserted therein, and a staple-leg
clinching device, substantially as described.
21. In a stapling mechanism, a staple-holding device moving in the direction of
the travel of the material to be stapled, while carrying the staple into position to
be inserted, a tool or driver for inserting the staple therein, a staple-leg clinching
device and means feeding the material onward with relation thereto, substantially
as described.
22. In a stapling mechanism the combination substantially as described, of a
staple-holding device moving rotatively with the material to be stapled, a staple-
inserting device, a staple-leg clinching device, and means feeding the material
onward past said devices.
23. In a stapling mechanism, a staple-holding device moving onward with the
material to be stapled while the staple is being inserted therein, substantially as
docaribed

page_text: 24. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of
a staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be stapled while the
staple is being inserted therein, and a tool or driver for inserting the staple-
therein.
25. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of a
staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be stapled while the
staple is being inserted therein, a staple inserting device, and means feeding the
material onward past said devices.
26. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of a
staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be stapled, a staple-
inserting device, a staple-leg clinching device, and means feeding the material
onward past said devices.
27. In a stapling mechanism, staple-inserting means moving onward with the
material to be stapled while the staple is being presented and inserted,.
substantially as described.
28. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of
staple-inserting means, and a staple-leg clinching device, all moving onward with
the material to be stapled while the staple is being carried into position to be
presented, inserted, and clinched.
29. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of
staple-inserting means moving onward with the material to be stapled while the
staple is being presented and inserted, and a staple-leg clinching device.
30. In a stapling mechanisin, the combination, substantially as described, of
staple-inserting means moving onward with the material to be stapled, and means.
feeding the material onward past said devices.
31. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of
staple-inserting means moving onward with the material to be stapled, means.
feeding the material onward past said devices, and a staple-leg clinching
device.
32. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of
staple-inserting means, a staple-leg clinching device, all moving onward with the
material to be stapled, and means feeding the material onward past the said
devices.
33. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of
a staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be stapled, a staple-
inserting device, and cutting devices severing the material into sheet lengths.
34. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of a staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be
stapled, a staple-inserting device, and mechanism operating to double or fold the
stapled material in, ou, or near, its line of union.
35. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of a staple-holding device moving onward with the material to be
stapled, a staple-inserting device, cutting devices severing the material into
sheet lengths, and mechanism operating to double of fold the stapled material in,
on, or near its line of union.
36. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of a staple-holding and a staple-leg clinching device, both moving
onward with the material to be stapled, means feeding the material onward past
said devices, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on,
or near its line of union.
37. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of a staple-holding and a staple-leg clinching device, both moving
onward with the material to be stapled, means feeding a web or webs onward past.
said devices, cutting mechanism operating to sever the material transversely into
sheet lengths, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in,.
on, or near, its line of union.

page_text: 38. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of staple-inserting means moving onward with the material to be
stapled, a staple-leg clinching device, means feeding the material onward past
said devices, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in,
on, or near, its line of union.
39. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of staple-inserting means moving onward with the material to be
Etapled, staple-leg clinching device, means feeding the material onward past
said devices, cutting devices severing the material into sheet lengths, and
mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in, on, or near, its
line of union.
40. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, of a staple-holding and a staple-leg clinching device, both moving
rotatively with the material to be stapled, means feeding the material onward
past said devices, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material
in, on, or near its line of union.
41. The combination, substantially as described, of means for automatically
feeding plicated material onward past staple-inserting means, staple-inserting and
clinching means operating to insert a staple through the moving material and
clinch its legs, and mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material in,
on, or near its line of union.
42. The combination, substantially as described, of means for automatically
feeding a plicated web or webs onward past staple-inserting means, staple-inserting
and clinching means operating to insert a staple through the moving web or webs
and clinch its legs, cutting devices severing the material transversely into sheet
lengths, and a rotary mechanism operating to double or fold the stapled material
in, on, or near, its line of union.
43. The combination, substantially as described, of a staple holding device
which moves rotatively with the material to be stapled while the staple is being
inserted therein, means for automatically feeding plicated material onward past
the staple-holding device, and, a rotating folding mechanism operating to double
or fold the stapled material in, on, or near, its line of union.
44. In a stapling and folding mechanism, the combination, substantially as
described, with staple-inserting and clinching devices, of a folding blade having
parts removed to enable it to pass the inserting or clinching device.
45. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination substantially as described,
of a device provided with means for receiving a staple length of wire, and
operating as one member of a staple-forming device, and a rotating device which
is provided with the other member of the staple-forming device, one of said
members moving co-operatively relatively to the other in forming the staple, while
transferring said wire length from one member to the other.
46. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
with a rotative conveyor, between whose arms the staple is formed, which conveyor
receives, carries onward, and presents a staple length of wire thereto, of a support
provided with a forming anvil that moves co-operatively between said arms in
forming a staple.
47. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of a
device provided with means for receiving a staple length of wire and operating as
one member of a staple-forming device, a rotative device which is provided with a
co-operating forming anvil that moves relatively to said member and forms the
staple, in transferring said wire length from the former to the latter device, and
means for inserting the staple into the material.
48. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a
rotative device provided with means for receiving a staple length of wire and
carrying it onward thereto, and with one member of a staple-forming mechanism,
of a second rotative device provided with the other member of the staple-forming

page_text: mechanism, and which co-operates with said first member to form the staple, in the
transfer of said wire length from one member to the other, and means for inserting
the staple into the material.
49. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with
a rotative device provided with one member of a cutting mechanism for severing a
staple length of wire, and means for carrying said wire length onward, of a device
provided with co-operating means for forming said wire length into a staple, and
staple-inserting and clinching means for inserting the staple into the material and
clinching its legs.
50. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, with a
rotating staple-holding device, means for supplying staples to the same at one point
of its rotative travel, and carrying them to another point to present them for
insertion in the material to be stapled, and, one member of a cutting mechanism
carried rotatively with said holding device, of a rotating staple leg-clinching device,
and a co-operating member of the cutting mechanism carried rotatively with said
clinching device.
51. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
of a rotative conveyor provided with arms that receive and transport staple lengths
of wire within the range of action of the staple-forming mechanism, and a curved
guard co-operating with said conveyor arms, in transporting the wire length
onward.
52. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
of a rotative conveyor provided with arms that receive and transport staple lengths
of wire within the range of action of the staple-forming mechanism, one of which
arms acts as a cutter to sever the wire, and a curved guard co-operating with said
conveyor arm in cutting and transporting the wire length onward.
53. In a staple forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of
a wire-feeding mechanism advancing staple lengths of wire within the range of action
of a cutting mechanism, a rotative conveyor operating as one member of the cutting
mechanism, and to carry a staple length of wire onward to the staple-forming point,
a member of a staple forming mechanism, and a rotative device provided with a
forming anvil, which swings therein, and operates as the other member of the staple-
forming mechanism.
54. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with its
co-operating member, of a moving anvil upon which the staple is formed, means
moving the staple from the anvil, a moving staple driver, and a support for said
anvil and driver having a recess providing side walls which guide the staple legs as
the staple is moved.
55. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of staple
forming devices, one of which is a swinging anvil, and moves relatively to the other
in forming the staple, and brings the staple within the range of action of a stripping
guide, a stripping guide operating to move the staple into the plane of insertion, and
onto an internal guide, and, an internal guide for the staple, consisting of a
rotatively moving device, the construction of which is such, that while it is moved
with the staple, as the same enters the material to be stapled, its staple-leg
supporting parts diminish as the staple progresses into the material.
56. The combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated
webs or sheets onward, and an anvil, of a travelling holder or presenting tool
sweeping longitudinally over said anvil, to form a staple, and carry it into position
relative to the material, for its insertion therein, and a staple-leg clinching
device.
57. The combination, substantially as described, with a longitudinal folder or
folders, for folding or plicating material, means for feeding the material onward,
and an anvil, of a travelling holder or presenting tool sweeping longitudinally over
said anvil, to form a staple, and carry it into position relative to the material, for
its insertion therein, and a staple-leg clinching device.
58. The combination, substantially as described, with two or more longitudinal
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page_text: folders, and means for associating the material therefrom, of an anvil, a travelling
tool, and means causing it to sweep longitudinally over said anvil, to form a staple,
and to carry it into position relative to the material, for its insertion therein, a
coacting staple-leg clinching device, and means for advancing the material between
said tool and clinching device.
59. In a staple-forming mechanism the combination, substantially as described,
of an anvil, a travelling tool, and means causing it to sweep longitudinally over
said anvil, in forming a staple.
60. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of an
anvil, a travelling tool sweeping longitudinally over said anvil, to form a staple,
and carry it into position relative to the material, for its insertion therein, with
means for clinching the staple legs.
61. In a stapling mechanism, the combination substantially as described, of a
curved anvil, a travelling tool, and means causing it to sweep rotatively over said
anvil, in forming a staple, and in carrying the staple into position relative to the
material, for its insertion therein, with means for clinching the staple legs.
62. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with
means for feeding material onward, of a curved anvil, a travelling tool, and means
causing it to sweep rotatively over said anvil in forming a staple, and in carrying
the staple into position relative to the material, for its insertion therein, and a
staple-leg clinching device moving rotatively in co-operation therewith.
63. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
of an anvil having a wedge-like entrance end therefor, a travelling tool
co-operating therewith, and means causing the latter to sweep longitudinally over
said anvil in the operation of forming a length of wire into a staple.
64. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of an
anvil having a wedge-like exit end to enable the material to be stapled, to run close
to the plane in which the staple crown moves, a travelling tool carrying the staple,
means causing the tool to sweep longitudinally over said wedge-like exit end
during the insertion of the staple into the material, and means causing said tool to
retreat, as the staple is progressively inserted therein.
65. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with
means for feeding material onward, of an anvil having a wedge-like exit end, to
enable the material to be stapled to run close to the plane in which the staple crown
moves, a travelling tool carrying the staple, means causing the tool to sweep
longitudinally over said wedge-like exit end during the insertion of the staple into
the material, a device for clinching its legs, and means causing said tool to retreat,
as the staple is progressively inserted therein.
66. In a staple-forming and inserting mechanism, the combination, substantially
as described, with means for feeding material onward, of a curved anvil having a
wedge-like entrance and exit ends, a travelling tool, means causing the tool to
sweep an arc longitudinally over said anvil, in forming a staple, and carrying it
onward for insertion into the material, and means causing said conveyor to retreat
as the staple legs are progressively inserted into the material, while the wedge-like
exit end of the anvil is traversed.
67. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of a
travelling tool, means causing it to sweep rotatively in carrying the staple into
position relative to the material, for its insertion therein, means for inserting the
staple, a staple-leg clinching device, and means causing said tool to retreat as the
staple is progressively inserted.
68. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with
staple inserting means, the holder or presenting tool whereof is protruded from its
stock while travelling onward and approaching the staple setting point, of an
opposing co-operating device, contact with which operates to retract or retire said
tool, and cause the legs of the staple to progressively enter through the material.
69. The combination with a wire feeding mechanism, and a cutter for severing
staple lengths of wire, of an anvil and travelling tool co-operating therewith, and

page_text: means causing the latter to sweep longitudinally over said anvil in forming the
staple, substantially as described.
70. The combination with a travelling staple-inserting means, of a staple-leg
clinching device open in the direction of the movement of said tool, to provide for
the clearance of the staple during the clinching operation, substantially as described.
71. The combination, substantially as described, with a stationary anvil, and a
tool-operating to sweep longitudinally over said anvil in forming a staple, of an
interposed wire length, whereby the wear of the tool is prevented.
72. The combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated
material onward past staple-inserting means, of staple-inserting means the holder
or presenting tool whereof is constructed and operated to travel rotatively in
carrying and presenting a staple to the material, for insertion therein with its head
or crown parallel with the run of the material, and a staple-leg clinching device.
73. The combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated
material onward past a staple-inserting means, the holder or presenting tool of
which is caused to travel rotatively to and from the setting point, of means for
vibrating the said tool laterally during the operation of forming the staple, and
while transferring it into position on the setting bed, and a co-operating staple-leg
clinching device.
74. The combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated
webs of material onward past staple-insorting, means, constructed and operating to
insert staples through the plicated material, with their heads or crowns parallel with
the run of the material, and a staple-leg clinching device, of a transverse cutting
mechanism for severing the plicated webs into sheets, and means for folding the
same transversely.
75. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a
wedge-like forming anvil, and a wedge-like setting bed, both stationary with respect
thereto, of a holder or presenting tool, and means for vibrating the same over the
sides of the anvil.
76. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a
wedge-like setting bed, stationary with respect thereto, of a holder or presenting
tool, and means for moving its arms over the sides of the setting bed, whereby the
staple is transferred into setting position on said bed.
77. The combination substantially as described, with a circularly-arranged series™
of rotatively travelling staple-forming mechanisms, and means for supplying a
staple length of wire successively to each mechanism of the series, of means for
severing staple-lengths of said wire.
78. In a staple-forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
with means feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided
with grooves to receive the wire, and recessed to pass over a forming anvil, of
a stationary forming anvil, and means vibrating said tool to and from the wire-
receiving point, to carry the wire into position to be formed into a staple, and to
reciprocate over said anvil, to bend it into staple form.
79. In a staple forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described,
with means feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided
with grooves to receive the wire, and recessed to pass over a forming anvil
and a setting bed, of a stationary forming anvil and setting bed whose facing
parts overlap and form a wire passage, means moving said tool from the wire-
receiving point, to carry the wire to the anvil in staple forming position, means
causing the arms of the tool to force the wire ends over the sides of the
anvil, to form a staple, and means causing the tool to carry the staple onto the
setting bed.
80. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with
a staple holder or presenting tool, a setting bed upon which the tool supports
the staple while moving rotatively to carry the staple into position for insertion,
and a co-operating clincbing device.
81, In a stapling mechanism, a two-armed staple holder or presenting tool

page_text: travelling rotatively to carry the staple into position for insertion, the leading
one of which arms is shorter than its companion, and a co-operating clinching
device, substantially as described.
82.. The combination with means for plicating material in the sheet or web,
and means for feeding the material onward past staple-inserting means, of a
staple-inserting means operating to carry staples to the point for their insertion
into the material, and insert them through the same, with their heads or crowns
parallel with the run of the material, and a staple-leg clinching device, substantially
as described.
83. The combination with a longitudinal folder for plicating material in the
sheet or web, of a rotative staple-inserting means operating to carry staples to
the point for their insertion into the material, and insert them through the same,
with their heads or crowns parallel with the run of the material, and a staple-leg
clinching device co-operating therewith, substantially as described.
84. The combination with a multiplicity of longitudinal folders, operating to
plicate material in the sheet or web, of a rotative staple-inserting means operating
to carry staples to the point for their insertion into the material, and insert
them through the same, with their heads or crowns parallel with the run of the
material, and a staple-leg clinching device co-operating therewith, substantially
as described.
85. The combination with means for plicating material in the sheet or web,
and a slitter for dividing the same longitudinally, to provide free binding edges,
of staple-inserting means operating to carry staples to the point for their insertion
into the material, and insert them through the same, with their heads or crowns
parallel with the run of the material, and a staple-leg clinching device co-operating
therewith, substantially as described.
86. The combination with a rotating carrier, in which the same are supported,
of a staple-holder or presenting tool supported thereby, means for moving its
arms to and from, and protruding them beyond the periphery of the carrier into
position, to carry the staple onward and present it to the material, for its insertion
therein, a forming anvil, means for moving said anvil into co-operative relation
with said arms during the formation of a staple, and removing the same from
the pathway of the formed staple, when said arms are being protruded, and
operate to aid in the insertion of the staple, a co-operative driver and a staple
clincher, substantially as described.
87. The combination with means for feeding material thereto, of a rotating
carrier therefor, and a staple-holding a presenting tool, the arms of which move
in an arc, to present the staple with its legs pointed at the material where they
are to perforate the same, when brought into contact therewith, while moving
rotatively onward with the material, substantially as described.
88. The combination with a rotative carrier therefor, and a co-operating staple
leg clinching device, of a staple-holder or presenting tool, the arms of which are
constructed to be moved rearward independently during the setting operation,
substantially as described.
89. The combination with a longitudinal folder, of a rotating carrier provided
with staple-inserting means constructed and operating to set staples in the
material passed over said folder, and having means for throwing it into and out of
co-operative relation to said folder, substantially as described.
90. The combination with a rotating carrier operating to move the staple holder
or presenting tool to and from the staple setting point, of rotative staple-forming
devices supported by said carrier, and operating to supply staples to the presenting
tool, and a co-operating staple-leg clinching device, substantially as described.
91. The combination with a rotating carrier operating to move the staple holder
or presenting tool to and from the staple-setting point, wire feeding devices, and
rotative staple-forming devices supported by said carrier, and operating to make
staples from the wire, and deliver the same to the presenting tool, of a co-operating
staple-clinching device, substantially as described.

page_text: 92. The combination with a rotating carrier provided with a staple holder or
presenting tool, and a staple driver or inserting tool, and operating to move the
same to and from the setting point, of means for reciprocating the staple-
presenting tool and setter, rotative staple forming devices supported by said
carrier, and operating to supply staples to the presenting tool, and a co-operating
staple-leg clinching device, substantially as described.
93. The combination with a rotating carrier provided with a staple holder or
presenting tool and a staple driver or inserting tool, and operating to move said
tools to and from the staple setting point, of wire-feeding devices and rotative
staple-forming devices supported by said carrier, and operating to supply staples
to the presenting and setting tools, means for reciprocating said tools, and a
co-operating staple-leg clinching device substantially as described.
94. The combination with a rotating carrier provided with a staple holder or
presenting tool, and a driver or inserting tool, and operating to move said tools to
and from the staple setting point, of wire-feeding and cutting devices, rotative
staple-forming devices supported by said carrier, and operating to supply staples
to the presenting and setting tools, means for reciprocating said tools, and a
co-operating staple-leg clinching device, substantially as described.
95. The combination with a rotating carrier supporting a multiplicity of staple-
forming and holding or presenting mechanisms, and carrying the same to and from
the setting point, and a co-operating set of staple-leg clinching devices, of a like
number of spools supplying wire thereto, means for feeding the wire thereto, and
independent wire guiding channels leading to the staple forming mechanisms,
whereby a number of staples are formed, inserted, and set in an aligned row in the
material, substantially as described.
96. The combination, in a stapling mechanism, with stationary bending arms,
and a forming anvil which moves rotatively to form the staple, and with a staple
holder or presenting tool, and a driver or inserting tool, of an excentric guideway
leading to the presenting tool, whereby the staple is carried outward from the
plane in which it is formed, and delivered to the presenting tool in front of the
setting tool, substantially as described.
97. The combination, in a staple-forming mechanism, with bending arms, and a
forming anvil which moves rotatively to form the staple, a reciprocating staple
holder or presenting tool, and a driver or inserting tool therein, and a co-operating
staple leg clinching device, of an excentric guideway leading to the presenting
tool, whereby the staple carried onward from the plane in which it is formed,
delivered to the presenting tool in front of the inserting tool, conveyed into setting
position, and set in the material, substantially as described.
98. In a stapling mechanism, the combination with bending arms, and a forming
anvil which moves rotatively to form a staple, and with a holder or presenting tool
to which the staple is to be delivered, of a curved guideway leading to the
presenting tool, a curved or inclined wall in said tool co-operating with said
guideway, and an elevator to control the staple, substantially as described.
99. The combination with means for feeding the material onward within the
range of action, of staple-inserting means, a staple-leg clinching device operating
at the staple-clinching point, and a staple-inserting means moving rotatively to
and from the setting point, of means for supplying made staples in succession to
the holder or presenting tool substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of December 1893.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.