IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR CUTTING AND ARRANGING CARDS OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Josiah Montague Goodall, of Great College
Street, Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR
CUTTING AND ARRANGING CARDS OR OTHER ARTICLES."-A communication
from abroad by Victor Eugene Mauger, of Tourlaville, France.
Sealed the 15th September 1871, and dated the 19th July 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Josiah Montague
Goodall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th July 1871.
I, JOSIAH MONTAGUE GOODALL, of Great College Street, Camden
Town, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO
MACHINES FOR CUTTING AND ARRANGING CARDS OR OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
The Invention consists, first, in an improved arrangement for
"pointing" cards fed to a cutting machine; secondly, in the addition

page_text: to a cutting machine of rolls or pressers for bevelling the edges of the
cards; and, thirdly, in the addition to a cutting machine of apparatus
so arranged that the cut strips or cut cards shall be placed or laid in
regular or consecutive order, whereby it becomes unnecessary to arrange
them by manual labor after they have been cut.
My improved arrangement for pointing consists in the employment
of springs of lance wood or other suitable material through which the
points work; the sheet to be cut being placed upon the points the table
is moved forward, and in this movement the springs are raised by
wedges so that the sheet is freed from the points at the precise time that
it is engaged by the rollers of the cutting machine.
My arrangement for bevelling the edges of the cards consists in
placing in front of the cutters rolls or pressers which have projections
of proper form to compress the sheets in a line with each cutter; the
cutters then cut through the centre of the compressed portions, and
the cut cards thus have compressed and consequently bevelled edges.
The third part of my Invention may be carried into effect as follows:
-Supposing the sheet to be cut contains thirty playing cards, and it
is required to cut it as usual first into six strips of five cards each, and
afterwards to cut three strips into separate cards, the sheet is fed to
the cutting machine, and after it has been cut by the ordinary mechanism
into 6 strips these strips pass down a shoot, the face of which is com-
posed of 6 inclined surfaces, each of which receives one strip. From
the shoot the strips fall upon a horizontal table which is gradated, being
likewise composed of inclined surfaces or gradations, each of which
receives one strip. When the strips have been received upon the
table arms or fingers are caused to travel along the two sides of the
table so as to carry the strips to one end thereof; in this movement
the arms carry the first strip up its incline until it falls over upon the
next strip; these two strips are then carried on until they fall upon the
third strip, and so on; the 6 strips are thus superposed in regular order,
and they fall in this order into a receptacle at the end of the table; this
receptacle being adjustable so that it gradually descends as it becomes
filled with cards. It is now necessary to cut the 6 strips into the separate
cards. They are for this purpose removed from the receptacle and fed
singly to another cutting machine; the 5 cards into which each strip is
thus cut fall down guides in a shoot and then into a box; this box

page_text: is provided with five inclined plates which are set at right angles to the
shoot, and which guide the five cards to a gradated plate placed below.
When the six strips have been thus cut each gradation of the plate
will contain six cards, and these sets of six are then carried by a
traverser to the end of the gradated plate, where they are superposed
one above another in regular order into a pack of 30.
The Invention applies not only to arranging playing cards and other
cards delivered from a cutting machine, but also to other articles
which require to be arranged in a particular order on leaving a cutting
machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Josiah Montague Goodall in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th January 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSIAH
MONTAGUE GOODALL, of Great College Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Josiah Montague Goodall, Her special
licence that I, the said Josiah Montague Goodall, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Josiah Montague
Goodall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO MACHINES FOR CUTTING AND ARRANGING CARDS OR
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Josiah Montague Goodall, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Josiah Montague Goodall, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
The Invention consists, first, in an improved arrangement for
"pointing" cards or sheets and feeding them to a cutting machine;
and, secondly, in the addition to a cutting machine of apparatus so
arranged that the cut strips or cut cards shall be placed or laid in
regular or consecutive order, whereby it becomes unnecessary to arrange
them by manual-labour after they have been cut.
My improved arrangement for pointing consists in the employment
of springs of lance wood or other suitable material through which the
points work; the sheet to be cut being placed upon the points the table
is moved forward, and in this movement the springs are raised by
wedges so that the sheet is freed from the points at the precise time that
it is engaged by the rollers of the cutting machine.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings represents a vertical transverse
section of my improved arrangement for pointing taken on the line c, c,
of Figure 2; Figure 2 is a plan or top view of the same; Figure 3 is an
oblique section of the same on an enlarged scale on the line k, k, of
Figure 2; Figure 4 is a detail section on the line c, k, of Figure 2.
Similar letters of reference in these Figures indicate corresponding
parts.
A represents the stationary frame of the cutting apparatus; B, B, are
the cutting rollers hung to the forward end of the frame and provided
with series of circular knives a, a, whereby sheets are cut into a suitable
number of strips. C, C, are the feed rollers hung directly behind the
cutters for feeding the sheets to the latter; D, D, are rollers hung
directly in front of the cutters for carrying off the strips cut. All the
apparatus thus far described may be of other suitable construction or
arrangement, and I do not confine myself to the connection of my
improvement with any special kind of cutting machine. E is the feed
table of the machine movable transversely on the frame A behind the
feed rollers C, C, and by preference guided on fixed rails or tracks b, or

page_text: otherwise arranged to have a steady motion towards and away from the
feed rollers when thus moved by hand or other mechanism. From the
face of the table E project two pointed pins d, d, one near each end;
e, e, are spring plates made of wood or metal and affixed to the table E.
The pins d project through the perforated loose ends of the spring
plates e, as shewn, and extend above the same when the spring plates
are held down by their own spring or the aid of additional springs f.
F, F, are sliding plates applied to the face of the table as in Figure 2.
Their back ends are wedge-shaped and fit under the spring plates e, e,
respectively, as is clearly shewn in Figure 3. When the slides F are
pushed back in the table they carry the thicker parts of their wedges g
under the plates e and raise the latter so as to bring their faces above
or at least flush with the points of the pins d; h, h, are springs of
suitable kind which draw the slides F forward into the position shewn
in Figure 2. The sheet to be cut is provided with perforations which
indicate where it should be placed upon the pins d, and the sheet when
placed on the table is so adjusted that the pins d will pass through such
perforations and hold the sheet secure to the table, causing it to be fed
in the desired exact position to the feed rollers, and from them to the
cutters. Thus, even if the front edge of the sheet is uneven, or untrue,
it will be properly fed to the cutters. The sheet having been applied
to the feed rollers is not necessarily any longer held by the points
or pins d. Therefore the slides F as soon as their front ends strike
posts i, i, of the frame A are pushed back to raise the plates e in the
manner above stated and to thereby detach the sheet from the pins,
allowing it to be carried forward by the feed rollers without further
connection with the table. The latter can by a spring j or otherwise
be drawn back when the sheet has been detached from it and thereby
relieves the ends of the slides F, which are drawn ahead again by their
springs h. 1, 1, are buttons or guards which prevent the plates e from
being elevated too far.
The other part of my Invention may be carried into effect as follows:
-Supposing the sheet to be cut contains 30 playing cards, and it is
required to cut it as usual, first into 6 strips of 5 cards each, and after-
wards to cut these strips into separate cards, the sheet is fed to the
cutting machine, and after it has been cut by the ordinary mechanism
into 6 strips, these strips pass down a shoot the face of which is com-
posed of 6 inclined surfaces, each of which receives one strip. From

page_text: surfaces or shoots b, b, as there are spaces between the pairs of cutters.
Each strip is therefore deposited in a separate shoot b. E is a gradated
table or plate affixed to the frame A at the foot of the shoot D; it has
as many steps or gradations d, d, as there are shoots b, b, (see Figure 6)
one step or gradation under and in line with each shoot. The strips cut
from the sheet are by the shoots guided to and finally deposited upon
the several steps of the gradated plate E respectively. An endless
apron For a sliding carriage having a projecting finger e is moved so
as to carry the said finger along the gradated edge of the table E or
through a slot in the said table with such effect that such finger will
first push the strip on the uppermost step of E off and deposit it upon
the strip on the adjoining step, then take the two strips on the latter
and carry them to the step next below, and so on, until finally all the
strips have been super arranged in the desired succession, when they fall
from the inclined end ƒ of E into a box or receptacle G. I have in
Figure 5 shewn two aprons F one on each side of the plate E so that
by their fingers both ends of the strips may be pushed. The box G
I prefer to connect with rack and pinion or otherwise in such manner
that it will be gradually fed downwards as it becomes filled. The aprons
or equivalent slides receive their motion from suitable mechanism.
Figures 7 and 8 shew similar cutters C¹, C', on shafts B, a similar or
equivalent system of shoots b, b, on a table D, and substantially the
same gradated plate or table E at the foot of the shoot table D, also a
carriage F having a finger or traverser e. The strips are taken from
the box G (Figures 5 and 6) to the cutters C₁, and by them cut into
cards which slide down the shoots upon the gradated plate E and
deposited on the steps of the same, the sliding fingers e then causing
them to be placed one above the other in proper succession, and finally
to be discharged into a suitable receptacle.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First. The improved arrangement for pointing and feeding sheets,
substantially as herein-before described and represented in Figures 1
to 4.
Second. The addition to or combination with a cutting machine of
apparatus so arranged that the cut strips or cut cards or other cut

page_text: pieces shall be placed or laid in regular or consecutive order, substantially
as herein-before described and represented in Figures 5 to S.
In witness whereof, I, the said Josiah Montague Goodall, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January,
One thousand cight hundred and seventy-two.
JOSIAH M. GOODALL. (L.S.)