Improved Apparatus for Applying Water or Adhesive Matter to Boxes, Bottles, Tinned Goods, and the like for Labelling.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Applying Water or Adhesive Matter to
Boxes, Bottles, Tinned Goods, and the like for Labelling.
TOM EDWARD BOWER Civil Engineer 92 Bellott Street Cheetham Manchester
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a trough to receive bowls in bearings to carry an endless
belt of cloth or other flexible material through water or adhesive matter with a
tension weight inserted inside the endless belt causing the belt to give and take
to various gauges of articles of a circular section requiring damping gumming or
pasting. The tension weight rises and falls when pressure is applied and taken
off the endless belt. A brush is fixed at one end of trough above the contents of
the trough to regulate quantity of the contents on the upper portion of the belt.
I also claim the principle of moving the bowls in bearings to various distances to
give larger or smaller damping gumming or pasting surface to the article from the
endless lubricating belt.
T. E. BOWER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Applying Water or Adhesive Matter to
Boxes, Bottles, Tinned Goods, and the like for Labelling.
TOM EDWARD BOWER 92 Bellott Street Cheetham Manchester Civil 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 :-
My invention consists of a trough to receive bowls.in bearings to carry. an endless
belt of cloth or other flexible material through water or adhesive matter with a
tension weight inserted inside the endless belt causing the belt to give and take to
various gauges of articles of a circular section requiring damping gumming or
pasting.
The tension weight rises and falls when pressure is applied and taken off the
endless belt.
A brush or scraper is fixed at one end of the trough above the contents of the
trough to regulate the quantity of the contents on the upper portion of the belt.
The bowls can be moved in bearings to various distances to give larger or
smaller damping gumming or pasting surface to the article from the endless belt.
The endless belt is caused to revolve round the bowls through weight being
applied in such manner by the article to be damped gummed or pasted and by
accurately setting the brush or scraper in such position as to cause tension weight
to roll somewhat when the article is taken off.
I will now describe my drawing.
Fig. 1 is the plan of Fig. 2.
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Fig. 2 is a section of elevation in which "
a is trough for holding water gum or
paste. b, b, are the bowls working in bearings on a. c is the endless belt working
round the bowls b, b, and tension weight d passing through water gum or paste in
trough a. e is the article to be dainped gummed or pasted. f is brush or scraper
fixed in bearings in trough a.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A tension weight in an endless belt revolving round bowls.
2nd. A brush or scraper fixed in such position to regulate the amount of water
gum or paste to be carried round an endless belt revolving round bowls.
Dated this 19th day of July 1002
T. E. BOWER,
Applicant.