Improvements in and relating to Machines for Spacing Paper Ready for Gumming or Black Bordering.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 10th July, 1897
Improvements in and relating to Machines for Spacing Paper
Ready for Gumming or Black Bordering.
We, JAMES LAWRENCE GEDDES of Cairnlee, Cults, and GEORGE ROBERTSON of
Church Terrace, Culter, both in Aberdeenshire, Paper Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of our Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to improvements in and relating to machines for
spacing note paper, flat or folded, Envelopes, flat or folded, and flat sheets of paper
into various widths ready for gumining or black bordering.
The machine consists of a main frame, moveable table and suitable checks and
adjusters for the regulation of the spacing.
In these machines forked or slotted adjustable links are used, and outside cams
are mounted by stud axes to work eccentrically in the slot of links, while a pulley
or roller is mounted on the link to bear on circumferential edge surface of cam, and
a spring attachment is fitted to keep these in surface contact. An adjustable
connecting rod is jointed to the forked link, having its other end mounted in the
slot of a lever coupled to a shaft, while other levers would be mounted on same shaft
so as to give motion to the carriage, the bar which carries the back adjusters being
mounted in bearings at the top of these levers and held in position by spiral springs.
The moveable table has a cord or band passing along the whole length of the
work, and this cord or band is actuated by the motion of the table. The spring
tackling and vertical lift motion keeps the paper or envelopes in position after
these have been set up by the adjusters and so prevents same from slipping when
the table moves. And the roller bearing on back carriage is so arranged as to admit
of outside cams being utilized for the motion of said back carriage.
As the work
A slot adjustment is provided for the gripper mechanism.
accumulates under the gripper the stud to which the one end of the recoil acting
spiral spring is attached moves higher up this slot and thus allows the pulley on
forked link to remain on cam through the whole revolution.
Dated the 9th day of July 1896.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Machines for Spacing Paper
Ready for Gumming or Black Bordering.
We, JAMES LAWRENCE GEDDES, of Cairnlee, Cults, and GEORGE ROBERTSON, of
Church Terrace, Culter, both in Aberdeenshire, Paper Manufacturers, do hereby.
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page_text: declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
This Invention has reference to improvements in and relating to machines for
spacing note paper, flat or folded, envelopes, flat or folded, and flat sheets of paper
into various widths ready for gumming or black bordering.
The machine consists of a main frame moveable table and suitable checks and
adjusters for the regulation of the spacing.
In these machines forked or slotted adjustable links are used, and outside cams are
mounted by stud axes to work eccentrically in the slot of links, while a pulley or
roller is mounted on the link to bear on circumferential edge surface of cam, and a
spring attachment is fitted to keep these in surface contact. An adjustable
connecting rod is jointed to the forked link, having its other end mounted in the
slot of a lever coupled to a shaft, while other levers would be mounted on same
shaft so as to give notion to the carriage, the bar which carries, the back adjusters
being mounted in bearings at the top of these levers and held in position by spiral
springs.
The moveable table has a cord or band passing along the whole length of the
work, and this cord or band is actuated by the motion of the table. The spring
tackling and vertical lift motion keeps the paper or envelopes in position after these
have been set up by the adjusters and so prevents same from slipping when the
table moves, and the roller bearing on back carriage is so arranged as to admit of
outside cams being utilized for the motion of said back carriage.
A slot adjustment is provided for the gripper mechanism. As the work
accumulates under the gripper the stud to which the one end of the recoil acting
spiral spring is attached moves higher up this slot and thus allows the pulley on
forked link to remain on cam through the whole revolution.
And in order that our said Invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood we have hereunto appended an explanatory
drawing representing a perspective elevation of a machine as constructed in
accordance with our improvements.
Referring to said Drawing:-
The side frames A are bound together by two end stays B. When frame and
stays are bolted together the table C is put in. The table is carried preferably on
12 rolls D six on each side which are fixed by screws to inside of frame. The table is
actuated by a cam E through the means of a fork F on which the pulley which bears
against the cam is fixed. To the fork the screwed end of connecting rod is attached.
The round end of connecting rod is secured to a stud which stud is fixed in a bell
crank lever with slot. This slot allows stud to be shifted so as to give more or less
throw to the point of bell crank lever to which the pawl G which actuates ratchet
is attached. The ratchet wheel H is fixed to a shaft I which passes between the
two side frames. A cord or band is attached to each end of table of machine and
passes two or three times round the shaft aforementioned. As ratchet is moved the
cord moves round with shaft and thus makes table travel. The front pointer bar J
has a vertical motion which is transmitted by a cam through pulley, fork, K and
connecting rod L on to levers M which are fixed to each end of bar N. The back
pointers have a horizontal motion which is also transmitted by cam P through
pulley, fork q and connecting rod R on to lever 8 on shaft t on which shaft is fixed
the levers U which support the pointer bar V which is fixed to roller carriage W.
The blank sheet is thrown on table, the front pointers X at the moment resting on
table. The back pointers travel forward and adjust the blank sheet between the
front and back pointers. The back pointers travel back and the gripper y as shown
in drawing comes down on adjusted sheet and holds it there while the table is moved
through a certain space. After the table has moved the gripper rises and the front
pointers come down, the blank is then thrown on table to be pushed forward and
adjusted and then follows the same operation right through until the table is filled

page_text: from end to end with filled blanks. It will be noticed the cord 2 passing round
gripper attached one end to end of table the other end to spring tackle shown in
drawing rests on the work the whole length of board when gripper is down and thus
controls the work when the table is moving thus preventing the work from being
shifted by the motion of the table.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. A machine for spacing paper ready for gumming or black bordering
constructed and actuated substantially as herein described in reference to and shown
in the accompanying drawing.
Second. In a machine for spacing paper ready for gumming or black bordering,
the arrangement and combination of inain frame, movable table, checks and adjusters
for the regulation of the spacing, substantially as herein described in reference to and
shown in the accompanying drawing.
Third. In a machine for spacing paper ready for gumming or black bordering, the
combination of moveable table and spring tackling devices for keeping work in
position, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated the 0th do of Amil 1907