Improvements in Machines for Finishing Type-writer and similar Ribbons.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by ROBERT GARDINER HOPKINS, of Somerville, in
the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, United States of
America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Machines for Finishing Type-writer and similar
Ribbons.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex,. 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:-
It is very desirable that typewriter ribbons and other similar ribbons be provided
with a constitution which shall be in respect to the fibre and inking ribbon as
nearly homogeneous or of even or uniform consistency throughout as is possible,
and of course this condition must be the one which it is best that such ribbons
should have, and my invention relates to means for providing typewriter ribbons
with this condition and with this uniformity and finish.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a machine constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 2 is a view in plan thereof, and
Figure 3 is a view in longitudinal vertical section.
The ribbon A saturated with the inking composition which has been compressed
into the fibres of the ribbon and upon its surfaces is passed over a bed B beneath
a brush C, then under a bed D and over a brush E to the reel F. The beds B, D
preferably are convex or have rounded corners and they preferably are arranged
out of line with each other. The brushes C, E Figures 1 and 3 are mounted on
Buitable supports and are automatically turned by belts rubbing over the pulleys c, d
respectively, Figure 2, the brushes being turned in the direction of the feed of the
ribbon or towards the reel F. The brushes are adjustable in relation to the beds
in order that they may be set against the ribbon with any desired stress, and the
shaft supporting each brush is mounted upon an adjustable hanger attached at its
inner end to the bracket G. c' represents the hanger of the roll C; the hanger
of the shaft of the brush E. Each hanger has an extension provided with a curved
alot, the hanger of having the extension, Figure 1 and curved slot and the
hanger el having the extension e and the curved slote. In each of these slots there
extends a clamping uut to lock the hanger to the bracket or frame in any desired
position. indicates the clamping nut for locking the hanger c' and the
clamping nut for locking the hanger e. The brush C acts upon one surface of
the ribbon and the brush E upon the other, and the brushes are rapidly rotated,
and in connection with the beds they serve to provide the ribbon and its composition
with the uniformity, texture surface and finish desired and required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A device for finishing typewriter ribbons consisting of the beds preferably

page_text: curved and out of line with each other, oppositely arranged, over and under which
the inked ribbon is drawn by the receiving reel, with a revolving brush opposite
each bed, running in the direction in which the ribbon is fed, each of which
preferably is adjustable in respect to its bed.
2. In a machine of the character specified, the combination of the beds B, D,
the rotating brushes C, E and means for adjusting the brushes in relation to the
surfaces of the beds.
3. In a device for finishing typewriter ribbons the combination of a bed over
which the ribbon after it has been filled with the inking composition is drawn and
a rotary finishing brush of the character specified arranged in line with the bed and
adapted to operate upon the ribbon as it is passing over the same.
Dated this 13th day of October 1896
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.