A New or Improved Machine for Imprinting Measurements on the Border of Piece Goods, Paper, or other Materials.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL DE ECIFICATION
A New or Improved Machine for Imprinting Measurements on the
Border of Piece Goods, Paper, or other Materials.
We EMIL HAMANN and PAUL HANDEL, both of Greiz in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
The machine is intended to print on one of the borders of any material usually
Intended to be kept or stored in 1olls or otherwise in indefinito length, measurements
from which it may be ascertained readily how much is left in stock and by which
any desired length can be easily measured off.
The machine comprises guiding rollers for the material, over one of which uns a
measuing wheel geared to revolve with that roller the measuring wheel being movable
in conjunction with an edge guide for the material along its shaft or supporting
frame for its adjustment to the edge of goods of different width. The measuring
Bheel carries its circumference numbered types at the requisite distances apait
which types are preferably bedded on springs, and at one point of the circumference
of the wheel is a numbering machine so placed with regard to a finger on the frame
that at each revolution of the measuring wheel the type presented by the numbering
machine for printing on the goods represents the number of units of measure, for
instance yards, to be printed thereon. Thus if the circumference of the measuring
wheel is equal to one yard the consecutive numbers printed by the uumbering
machine will give the total length of the goods from the end at which the measure-
ment commenced, while the other types on the wheel print the subdivisions of the
yards which are repeated for each yard.
An inking device is provided for contact with the types as the measuring
wheel revolves, and a suitable crank and gear are arranged for operating the
machine.
Dated tlus 9th day of Mar 1895.
IIERBERT HADDAN & Co,
Agents to Applicants.
A New or Improved Machine for Imprinting Measurements on the
Border of Plece Goods, Paper, or other Materials.
We EMIL HAMANN and PAUL HANDEL both of Greiz, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what mauner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The purpose of this invention is to provide means for ascertaining the measure-
ments of cloth, paper or any other materials that are kept in the piece in the form
of 1olls or otherwise, for cutting off lengths of such materials or for ascertaining
the length of the material remaining rolled up, and the invention consists in an
apparatus of machine, by means of which the respective measurements of materials

page_text: up me piinted on the order of sen materiais in such
manner that the principal figures appear parallel to the longitudinal duection of the
material while the subdivisions may be read perpendicularly to the former.
The machine is constructed for inetric measure but may be adapted to any other
unit of measurement.
In the annexed drawings
Fig. I 18 a perspective view of the said machine. Fig. I is a sectional side
elevation thereof.
Fig. II is a detail view of the measuring cylinder, type wheel and edge guide.
Fig. V is a front elevation and Fig. Va side elevation of a modified form of
adjustable king roller.
The material intended to be imprinted with measurements 19 for that end
conveniently placed on a bench 1, and passing over the rollers 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, it
passes around the cylinder B where the measurements are imprinted from there
around the rollers 7 and 8 to the rolling board 9 which being kept in the cheeks E
may by means of the crank K and the gear work vv and be turned as desired
for the purpose of rolling up the material thus imprinted. The axles of the gear
wheels have no longitudinal movement in their bearings in the side frame A of
the machine but the gear wheels may be removed from or brought nearer to
the wheels vv according as the width of the material to be rolled up requires. The
rollers mentioned above are suitably jou nalled in the side frames A and A', the
upper portion of the latter frame being cut away in the drawing to show
the arrangement more clearly, the other side frame A being shown in its entirety
with the upper portion a.
These parts a and b may either be cast or bolted on to the respective frames A
and A¹ the latter mode of attaching them being the more advantageous in as much
as it allows of replacing the measuring wheel by any other of different division.
The cylinder B is at its end provided with a spur wheel C, said spur wheel engaging
with the spur wheel d.
The circumference of the cylinder B, as well as those of the spur wheels c and d
along their pitch line are, in the present instance, equal to one metre The wheel d
is solidly keyed on the shaft e while the type wheel may be displaceably attached
to said shaft. By this means measurements can be imprinted on materials of any
width as well as upou any desired part of the total width of the material which
cannot be done with other machines heretofore in use and constitutes the principal
novelty of this invention.
Along the circumference of the type wheel the figure types are arranged in such
a manner that, by means of a spring attachment they may easily be pressed
outwardly. The measurement of the cucumference of this type wheel over the
types is also one metre and it contains the numerals 1 to 9 and the numbering
apparatus m (Fig. 2). The object of this apparatus m which is arranged in the
known manner 18 to print the running number of metres on the material, the
current numbers being brought successively to place by a pin m' meeting the fixed
projection. Said wheelf may of course be so arranged as to imprint, if so
desired only full, half or quarter meters.
In turning the type wheel fits types rub against the lower of two ink or con-
position rollers g which turning between the frame cheeks h are moistened from the
ink reservoir. The frame h is movably attached to the bar s, its lower fork-like
extremity engaging with a groove in the nave w of the type wheel. The arm k of
this fork like frame projection has for its purpose the movement of the numbering
arrangement as aforesaid whereas the corresponding aim on the other side, as
allustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, guides the edge of the material with the aid of a fork o.
The rollers 6 and 7 tend to hold the material before and after the painting operation
tightly against the cylinder B.
In place of two iuking rollers only one may be inserted, as shown in Figs. IV
and V. The roller g constructed of wood, is surrounded by a layer of felt p which
as soaked with ink. The roller is keyed to a shaft w provided with annulai grooves,

page_text: said shaft to being supported by screws p' with flattened or bevelled ends which
at the same time allow of the shaft being brought nearer to or removed from the
type-wheelf. By means of the grooves in the shaft w the ink rolleı
may be held
and revolved in any position to which it may be laterally displaced. Springs tend
to press the ink roller g against the point of the screws p It 18 evident that this
ink roller may easily be replaced by any other roller soaked with differently
coloured mk.
As to the manipulation of the apparatus, it may be understood that the matorial
if very inelastic, can by means of the crank be drawn over all the rollers, as
intended to be shown on the drawing, but for more extensible or elastic materials
a simultaneous turning of the guide-iollers with the aid of toothed or chain wheels
18 to be preferred.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim 18
A machine or apparatus for imprinting measurements on the borders of piece-
goods, paper or the like, comprising in combination a measuring cylinder B,
shaft e, gear-wheels c and d, connecting same with a type wheel y, displaceable
longitudinally on said shaft e, and inking roller, numeral types acted upon by
spunge for imprinting the subdivisions and a numbeing machine mu the
periphery of said type-wheel having a pin m' together with a fixed projection & for
co-operation with said pin m' for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 8th day of February 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicants.