Improvements in Box-covering Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Box-covering Machines.
We, ALBERT HUGH STEVENSON, of the Firm of Hugh Stevenson and Sons, of
62 to 66, Ogden Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Paper
Box Manufacturer, and NATHANIEL BOTT CHADWICK, of 64, Bramall Lane, Stock-
port, in the County of Chester, 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:-
"box
Our invention relates to improvements in what are known in the trade as
covering" machines for applying at one operation a covering strip, or two or more
covering strips of paper, cloth, or other material to a paper or other box or lid.
In such machines the box or lid to be covered is placed on a suitably shaped
"form" secured adjustably on a shaft driven by the machine. This form, prior
to our present invention, has been secured in position by passing the threaded end
of the shaft through a hole formed for its reception in the bottom of the hollow
rectangular form and then applying a nut to the screwed end of the shaft. In
this arrangement the screw is very apt to work loose, and it is difficult especially
when the boxes to be covered are all of small size, to get the hand, which is the
left hand, inside the hollow form in order to tighten or slacken the nut, and also
to adjust and set the form in order that the trimming and covering strips may
be cut off at the proper point.
The object of our improvements is to overcome this defect and we accomplish
this object in the manner and by the means hereinafter described with reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which—
Figure 1 is a side elevation of part of a box covering machine to which our
improvements are applied.
Figures 2 and 3 are details of parts of the same.
In these views,-a designates the frame or table of the machine, b the shaft
from which the box form is rotated, and d the treadle for starting and stopping
the same. According to our improvements we make the shaft e, on which the
box form c is secured, hollow, and on it at one end we form or fix a flanged boss e¹,
and we secure the box form c in position by passing through the hole in it and
through the hollow shaft e a bolt f upon the threaded end of which projecting
beyond the opposite end of the hollow shaft e we screw a milled nut g, or a thumb
screw or other suitable device which is put on or taken off as required by the right
hand of the operator.
By this arrangement we can readily put on or take off the box form and as
readily adjust it in position without having to place the hand inside it, and with-
out any risk of spoiling a box through wrong adjustment of the form or through
the form getting displaced on account of the nut working loose.
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

page_text: 1. Employing a hollow shaft on which the box form is secured and by which
it is rotated and securing the form in position at one end of the hollow shaft by
a bolt the shank of which passes through the hollow shaft and is secured by a nut
screwed thereon or by an equivalent device at the end opposite the box form.
2. The combination with the box form and the hollow shaft e, of the bolt f 5
and milled nut g all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 4th day of March 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & 'GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
H. B. BARLOW & 'GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.