Improvements connected with Transparent Soap and Appliances for Fixing Labels therein for Advertising Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Transparent Soap and Appliances for
Fixing Labels therein for Advertising Purposes.
I, ALFRED ERNEST WEBB, of 59 Sandbrook Road, Stoke Newington, London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, arranging labels in tablets, or cakes and bars of
transparent soap for advertising purposes.
According to one part of my invention, the labels can be first arranged in the moulds
in which the soap in a fluid state is poured, so that said labels become embedded therein
and can be seen and read from either side of the bar, the labels being so printed that
each advertisement is intact when the bar is cut up into several pieces.
If I arrange labels in tablets or cakes of soap, I either first by a thin steel blade
make a slit from the end or side edge to the required distance and then by another
thin blade with edge teeth push a label into the slit, or I simultaneously by a tooth
edged blade make the slit and push the label in. This may be effected by hand but I
prefer to do so mechanically. For this purpose, I construct a press within the jaws of
which, 1 place a tablet or cake of soap on edge and then by foot, or other gear put
pressure upon or against the flat portions of the cake to confine it, an opening being
left for the entry of a piercing blade and the label carrier blade, or the label carrier
blade alone, which is operated by hand lever, or otherwise.
The labels in such case could be from a reel in web form and be fed and cut off at
the required length in succession by a knife also actuated by the hand lever, the
required length being drawn from the reel at each up stroke of the lever and severed
and pushed into the soap at each down stroke.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Ernest Webb.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Ernest Webb.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Transparent Soap and Appliances for
Fixing Labels therein for Advertising Purposes.
1, ALFRED ERNEST WEBB, of 59 Sandbrook Road, Stoke Newington, London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has for object arranging labels in tablets or cakes and bars or other
shapes of transparent soap for advertising purposes.
According to one part of my invention, the labels can be first arranged in the
moulds in which the soap in a fluid state is poured, so that said labels become embedded
therein and can be seen and read from either side of the bar, the labels being so
printed that each advertisement is intact when the bar is cut up into several pieces.
If I arrange labels in tablets or cakes, or other shape of soap, I either first by a thin
steel blade make a slit from the end or side edge to the required distance, and then by
another thin blade with or without edge teeth push a label into the slit or I
simultaneously by a tooth edge or plain blade make the slit and push the label in.
This may be effected by hand but I prefer to do so mechanically. For this purpose,
I construct a press within the jaws of which I place a tablet or cake of soap on edge
and then by foot or other gear put pressure upon or against the flat portion of the
cake to confine it, an opening being left for the entry of a piercing blade and the label
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carrier blade, or the label carrier blade alone, which is operated by hand lever or
otherwise.
The labels in such case could be from a reel in web form and be fed and cut off at
the required length in succession by a knife also actuated by the hand lever, the
required length being drawn from the reel and severed and pushed into the soap at
each operation.
The invention will be clearly understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a complete apparatus by which soap
tablets in succession can be withdrawn from a reservoir and be fed into and between a
pair of dies, also be moved along and then cramped in position under a piercer blade,
a simultaneous feed of labels over the selected tablet froin a reel or web of paper being
effected by the movement of a pedal or lever operating a quadrant and rack.
By operating another pedal or lever, the label is severed from the reel, taken by
the piercer blade and forced into the soap tablet, a return motion of the lever leaving
the label in the soap tablet and returning the cutter blades to their first position, the
first mentioned pedal or lever is then again operated forwardly to open the dies for
the discharge of the soap tablet from between them, said second forward movement
feeding the next label up to the piercer blade or half its distance, this being completed
when the rack moves forward over the first portion of its travel.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the apparatus at right angles to Figure 1, and Figure 3
is a detached plan view of the two half dies and the grooves in the base plate by which
the opening and the closing of the dies are effected as the dies move along both in
their forward and backward travels.
A is a standard. B an extension or base plate provided with sinuous grooves C, C,
in which studs D, D, of the two half dies E, E, move to open or to close the dies as
desired. The dies E, E, are held in a kind of box F, a portion G of which serves as
a table on which the lower one of a superposed series of soap tablets in a pillar I rests.
J is a rack attached to the underside of the table and is in gear with the quadrant K
capable of being actuated by a pedal from the lever L, or it may be otherwise
operated.
The axle M on which the quadrant is keyed carries a bevel wheel N gearing into
the loose fitting pinion P on the vertical shaft Q. This pinion P has a paul R on its
boss to engage in the rack wheel S to turn the paper feed roller T while moving in
one direction only and to slip over the rack teeth in the reverse direction.
The piercer blade U is affixed to the rod V and is depressible by the lever Was is
also the paper cutter X by the cam Y. The paper comes from the reel Z.
Sheet 2 of the drawings show at Figure 4 a box a with a series of doubled papers b, b,
on wires c, c, at top and bottom and with the upper wires resting on a rubber cushion
or springs, if single papers be used they can be held by clips which keep the papers b, b,
stretched sufficiently to prevent them buckling when the soap is poured into the
box a.
By this arrangement, the labels are incorporated in the block of soap which when
"sett" and the holders withdrawn can be cut into slabs and then transversely into
bars, from which pieces can be cut into suitable sized tablets, sticks, bars, a label
being in each piece.
In the case of soap in bars without labels moulded into them, labels can be inserted
by the piercer blade as in the previously described machine, or be fed by hand, as by
Figure 5, in which case as each label is inserted, the lump in advance and containing
a label can be cut by the cutter and be allowed to fall into the receptacle.
The bar can be moved along the trough by the balance weight d and pusher
plate e.
Any tendency of the piercer blade to cling to the soap can be prevented by
glycerine or its equivalent on the rollers f, f, against which the piercer rubs, said
rollers serving also to prevent the piercer blade buckling if of thin steel.
Figure 6 represents a detail view of a bracket g attachable to the bed plate of the
machine shown at Figure 5, which bracket can be substituted for the trough wher
cakes or tablets of soap have to be labelled.

page_text: The bracket g has a top plate i, beneath which is a vertical plate j adjustable to suit
different thicknesses of soap tablets, and affixable by the fly nut k.
The top plate is slotted for the piercer blade U to pass through to carry the label,
placed in position by hand, into the tablet. I prefer to arrange cach label under the
strips 1, 1, the other strip m being set by screws to the desired position to suit the
length of the label which is preferably doubled by folding from the middle by
the blade U.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The apparatus shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, the parts being
arranged for performing a cycle of operations as follows; taking a tablet, feeding
same to a position under press head, and compressing said tablet; feeding paper over
same, severing a label from the paper, forcing it into tablet, and discharging said
tablet, as described.
2. The arrangement of box, wires, or holders, and double or single paper described
with reference to Figure 4 of the drawings for enabling labels to become embedded in
soap and be afterwards cut up into pieces, each containing a label, as set forth.
3. The apparatus shown at Figure 5 of the drawings for inserting labels into soap
bars at specified places and the simultaneous severance of the labelled parts, as
described.
4. The appliances shown at Figure 6 applicable to the machine shown at Figures 1
and 2 when cakes, tablets, or the like have to be labelled, as described.
The 10th day of July 1890.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Ernest Webb.