IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING MATERIAL TO PRINTING MACHINES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN PART APPLICABLE TO EMBOSSING, STAMPING, AND OTHER LIKE MACHINES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John James Allen, of Halifax, in the County of York,
Iusurance Broker, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
FEEDING MATERIAL TO PRINTING MACHINES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN
PART APPLICABLE TO EMBOSSING, STAMPING, AND OTHER LIKE MACHINES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John James Allen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th December 1881.
JOHN JAMES ALLEN, of Halifax, in the County of York, Insurance Broker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING MATERIAL TO PRINTING MACHINES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN PART APPLICABLE TO EMBOSSING, STAMPING, AND
OTHER LIKE MACHINES."
This Invention relates to an improved combination of apparatus for automatically
feeding and stamping paper or material supplying and to be operated upon in
printing, or in embossing, stamping, and other like machines.
Apparatus for purpose as aforesaid according to this my Invention comprises a
table or platform adjustable and supported upon springs and guide rods, or
supported by counterbalance weights and levers; and over or above the said table
or platform is a feed roller composed of or covered with india rubber or other
elastic material, such as woven fabrics, or if metal be used, such roller or rollers
must be roughed or draw filed. The entire surface or portions longitudinally of
such roller are covered, as aforesaid, or corrugated or draw filed, and in some cases
one or more additional feed rollers or discs similar to loom "temples
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employed. There is also an adjustable delivery plate in combination with the
table or platform. The table or platform at its delivery end is provided with
guides of form suitable to the machine, and the grippers or the dies and stampers
of the machines with which it is to be used, so that on a number of sheets of paper,
card, sheet tin, or metals being arranged on the said table, and rotation applied to
the roller or rollers, such sheets, cards, and the like will be automatically passed in
succession to the guides, or grippers, dies, or plungers of the machine. In com-
bination with the above when material operated upon requires to be damped, there
is used a roller rotating or rotated in a trough containing water, oil, or other
liquid, the supply of liquid being maintained at a uniform level or height by use of
an air tight feeding or supply cistern.
When damping paper or fabrics a tension device is applied in combination with
the damping roller above referred to.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John James Allen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th June 1882.
JOHN JAMES ALLEN, of Halifax, in the County of York, Insurance Broker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING MATERIAL TO PRINTING MACHINES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN PART APPLICABLE TO EMBOSSING, STAMPING, AND
OTHER LIKE MACHINES."
This Invention relates to an improved combination of apparatus for automatically
feeding and damping paper, or material supplied and to be operated upon in
printing, or in embossing, stamping, and other like machines.
Apparatus for purpose as aforesaid according to this my Invention comprises
a table or platform adjustable and supported upon springs and guide rods, or
supported by counterbalance weights and levers; and over or above the said
table or platform is a spring feed roller composed of or covered with india
rubber or other elastic material, such as woven fabrics.
In some cases one or more of such spring feed rollers or discs are employed.
The table or platform at its delivery end is provided with guides of form suitable
to the machine, and the grippers or the dies and stampers of the machines in
connection with which is to be used, so that on a number of sheets of paper, card,
sheet tin, or metals being arranged on the said table, and rotation applied to the
roller or rollors, such sheets, cards, and the like will be automatically passed in
succession to the guides, grippers, or dies, or plunges of the machine.
In combination with the above, when material operated upon requires to be
damped, there is used a roller rotating or rotated and fed by a wick from a trough
containing water, oil, or other liquid, the supply of liquid being maintained at a
uniforin level or height by use of an air tight feeding or supply cistern.
Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, I will now proceed
to describe the same in detail; and in order that the Invention may be fully
understood I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrating same, and
have marked same with figures and letters of reference, like figures denoting like
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of machine constructed according to this my said
Invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of same; Figs. 3, 4, 5, are elevations of improved
spring roller.
At A is a platform or table self adjusting by means of the springs B, B, the table
moving upon its centre or fulcrum C; at D is the paper to be damped and printed
or operated upon; at E is a roller employed for the purpose of passing the several
sheets one by one forwards to the creeper or endless travelling sheet F during
transit on the creeper F. The sheet is damped by means of the roller G, the latter
being supplied with water by means of the pendant fibrous material H fringed at
its lower extremity (by preference, similar to lamp wick), receiving its supply of
moisture from the trough J, whence by capiliary attraction and gravitation it
passes to the roller G. The water in the trough J is maintained at a uniform height
ensuring regular delivery to the roller G by means of the air tight vessel K and its
regulating sluce valve L, this apparatus being similar to that described in the
Specification of Patent granted to me, dated May 13th 1881, No. 2096. At M is
the ordinary gripper roller of the printing machine, and N the type table.

page_text: For the purpose of readily adjusting the machine so as to be capable of taking
sheets of shorter or longer lengths, slot holes P, P, are provided in the outer portion
of the frame R, whereby the general framing S and platform A may be set nearer
to or removed further from the rollers C and M. At T, T, are guides adjustable in
the slots V, V, so as to adapt the table to any width of sheet.
The roller E consists of an outer rim of india rubber having a metallic boss; its
arms consists of springs attached to the rim and boss by screws. This construction
of roller admits of a large portion of the surface of the roller bearing upon and
gripping the paper or material to be operated upon, by reason of the partial
collapse of the said roller, as shewn at Fig. 5, or a like roller may consist of india
rubber rim having a disc or arms and boss of india rubber in lieu of the metallic
spring arms.
The machine is geared as follows:-The wheel 1 is driven from the main
machine; 1 gears with 2 on axis of damping roller G; on the same axis is a pinion
wheel 3 gearing with stud wheel 4; the wheel 4 also gears with and drives the
wheel 5 on the feed roller shafts E.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried
into practical effect, I would have it understood that I do not claim any of the
parts considered separately, but what I do claim is,-
Firstly. The compressable or cushion roller E in combination with the spring or
self adjusting table or platform A, in manner described and illustrated by
Drawings or the purposes herein set forth.
Secondly. The damping apparatus comprising parts K, J, H, and G combined,
and in manner illustrated by Drawings and as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John James Allen, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
JOHN JAMES ALLEN. (L.S.)