IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FOLDING ENVELOPES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jonathan Charles Goodall, of 12, Great College
Street, Camden Town, and John Beale, of East Greenwich, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FOLDING ENVELOPES."
Teit
the said Jonathan Charles
Goodall and John Beale at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 16th November 1861.
We, JONATHAN CHARLES GOODALL, of 12, Great College Street, Camden
Town, and JOHN BEALE, of East Greenwich, do hereby declare the nature of
the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FOLDING ENVELOPES," to be
as follows:-.
This Invention has for its object improvements in machinery for folding
envelopes. For these purposes a revolving disc or table is used, in which four
recesses are formed, each of the size of an envelope, and each recess has four
guides or pins at the four angles to facilitate the reception and correct placing
of the pieces of paper, cut to the proper size and form for an envelope. This
table or disc is caused to make one-fourth of a rotation at each action of the
machine, and provision is made for correctly holding the table or disc-after-
each partial revolution. The machinery is so arranged and combined that the
apparatus for embossing the seal flap, for applying gum or cement to the other
flaps, for creasing the paper, and for pressing down the flaps are all carried by
and are simultaneously caused to act by a lever, so that at each action of that

page_text: lever (when the machine is at work) there will be three pieces of paper simul-
taneously acted on, and a fourth will be fed into the machine. A completed
envelope will also be delivered at each action of the machine, supposing
properly cut pieces of paper be fed regularly into the machine. The apparatus
for embossing, for gumming or cementing the flaps, for creasing the paper, and
for folding down the flaps are not separately new, but are similar to what have
been before employed in envelope folding machines.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jonathan Charles Goodall and John Beale, in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JONATHAN
CHARLES GOODALL, of 12, Great College Street, Camden Town, and JOHN
BEALE, of East Greenwich, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Jonathan Charles Goodall and John Beale, Her special licence,
that we, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall and John Beale, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jonathan Charles
Goodall and John Beale, our 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 "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR FOLDING ENVELOPES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall and John Beale, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their
hands and seals, or under the hand-and-seal of one or us, or them, 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 calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. .
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, on behalf of
myself and the said John Beale, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti

page_text: the intervals between each quarter revolution being secured by the convex
portion of the piece J fitting into one or other of the hollows formed in H.
The table G has four rectangular openings through it; and is provided with
four sets of pins to act as guides to the attendant in laying on an envelope
blank each time the table completes a quarter revolution. When a blank
after having been fed on to the rotating table over an opening thereon at O
has been carried a quarter revolution, the lever C descends and embosses it
by pressure between the die K, fixed on a projection from the frame on a level
with the rotating table, and a piece of gutta percha confined in the piece L on
the lever. Carried on the lever C is also the gum vessel M, from which two
tubes descend to the level of the top of the table G, the outlets are shaped and
placed so as to press the gum on the blanks at the desired parts;
the openings
in the outlets of the gumming tubes need not much exceed, say, the hundredth
of an inch in width, and with a very thick solution may be used without
being covered; but if from too wide an opening or too thin a solution the gum
flows too fast, one or more thicknesses of linen or other suitable material may
be drawn over the outlet and gummed on to the tube. To prevent gumming
the table G in the absence of a blank, openings may be cut in the table at the
necessary points, and to prevent the blanks adhering to the gumming outlets a
bar of sufficient weight may be carried by uprights passing freely through
tubes in the gum vessel M, and resting on and holding down the blank until
the gumming outlets have risen well clear. Another quarter revolution of the
table carries the blank over the creasing box. The creasing is effected by the
palm N, which rising and falling as part of the lever C, descends and forces
the blank through the opening in the table G, and
into a box below carried by the stationary table,
which and the palm N the blank will be creased.
is caused by springs, which support it to rise with the creased blank to the
level of the bottom of the table G. The creased blanks will have a great ten-
dency to rise through the openings in the table by the outward spring of the
four flaps, but this is prevented by providing dovetailed recesses in the sides of
the opening in the table G for the flaps to spring into. It will be sufficient if
two sides of each of the four openings-in-the-table are so recessed, as shewn by
the double lines on the plan at O, whilst the palm N is in the creasing box,
the flaps of the blank will tend to stand upright, and to insure their entry into
the holding down recesses before the palm rises too high, projections P, P, are
provided to force the flaps outward; these projections are fixed to the arm
carrying the palm. Another quarter revolution of the table G carries the
creased blank under the folding palm Q, as the machine is herein set out, the
th of an inch, more or less,
and between the sides of
A false bottom to the box

page_text: first flap laid will be the one opposite the embossed flap, its inclination inwards
being secured as it is carried round by the table G, by its pressing against the
longest of six loose square pins or fingers R; these fingers pass through holes
in the palm, through which they are able to rise and fall freely; two other
shorter fingers S, S; will as the lever C descends, assist in laying this flap. One
of the end flaps will be inclined inwards by its pressure as it is carried onwards
by the table against the long finger T; the other end flap-will pass under
the short finger U, and will be gathered inward and laid by it on the descent
of the lever C; the lower end of this finger being suitably formed, as is clearly
shewn at Figure 2. The short finger V, when the lever is raised, will from
the form given to the under side of its head and to its stem project outwards
from the palm Q, and on the descent of the lever it will gather in and, lay the
last or embossed flap of the envelope. An incline must be provided at. W
from the top to the bottom of the thickness of the table G for the finger V to
slide down to guide its end inwards, and an opening must be made at X for
the descent of the projection on the lower end of the finger U. The necessary
pressure to complete the folding of the envelope will be given between the
folding palm Q and the top of the stationary table. The next quarter revo-
lution of the table G will cause the blank or rather the finished envelope to be
carried to the point where it was first laid on, and it will fall through, there
being an opening in the stationary table at this point to allow it to do so. Thus
at each succeeding quarter revolution of the table G a finished envelope will
be delivered, and a fresh blank will be laid on.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jonathan Charles Goodall, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JONATHAN CHAS. GOODALL. (L.S.)