Improvements in Post Marking and Stamp Cancelling Machines
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Post Marking and Stamp Cancelling Machines"
I, ALFRED EDWIN WHITEHEAD, of 194, Clinton Street, in the City of Brooklyn,
County of Kings, State of New York, United States of America, Salesman, 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 :-
This invention relates to stamp cancelling machines, that is to say, to machines
adapted to handle mail matter in post offices and effectually cancel each of the postage
stainps thereof.
To aid a more intelligent understanding of the improvements a detailed description
of a practical embodiment thereof will now be given, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings forming a part hereof. In said drawings :-
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Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine provided with the improvements, portions
of many of the toothed wheels being indicated by dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side of the machine.
Fig. 3 is a detail of the means for vertically adjusting the cancelling burr or tool.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the machine.
Fig. 5 is an end view thereof looking from the left of Figs. 1 and 4, showing the
feeding in end of the machine.
Fig. 6 is an end view thereof looking from the right of Figs. 1 and 4 showing the
delivery or discharge end of the machine.
Fig. 7 is a cross section on the line 7, 7, of Fig. 4, the rolls and gears being shown
in elevation.
Fig. 8 is a similar section on the line 8, 8, of Fig. 4, the rolls and gears being shown
in elevation.
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Fig. 9 is an enlarged elevation of the front gage or stop removed from the machine;
and Fig. 10 is a side elevation thereof.
Fig. 11 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on the line 11, 11, of Fig. 4.
Fig. 12 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the cancelling barr or tool, its guard
or grid and the coacting roll removed from the machine.
Fig. 13 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the feeding mechanism showing a piece
of mail matter in the act of being fed.
Figs. 14 and 15 are similar views showing different positions of the piece of matter
being fed and of the feeding instrumentalities.
Fig. 16 is an end elevation (partly in section), and Fig. 17 is a side elevation (partly
broken away) illustrating means for inking the abrasions made by the abrading tool
of the machine.
Fig. 18 is a face view of a piece of stamped mail matter with the stamp cancelled
after the manner of this invention, and Fig. 19 is an enlarged cross section of the
same on the line 19 of Fig. 18.
The operative parts of the machine are mounted in a suitable framework A, and
consist in the main of a receptacle or feed hopper B for a quantity of matter to be
operated upon; a separating, timing and gauging device C for separating individual
pieces of matter from the receptacle into position to pass through the machine; a

page_text: marking die or stamp D for printing or embossing the post office name and date upon
each piece of mail matter; a stamp cancelling device E for removing or abrading the
surface or body of the stamp or stamps on the mail matter; and a discharge chute F
for directing the cancelled stamp matter from the machine.
The mail matter receptacle B consists of a two-sided structure-one side 10 and
an end 11-in which a quantity of mail matter is deposited with its stamps upper-
most and all disposed in the present instance at the further right hand corner of the
receptacle viewed from Figs. 1, 4 and 11, and resting upon the bottom of the
receptacle consisting of a movable plate 12 which inclined downwardly from its rear
end, the lowermost forward end of which projects slightly beyond the lower portion
of the receptacle-end 11 and serves as a guide for directing in its proper channel the
piece of matter being fed. This movable plate is mounted at its rear end on a
piyot 13 allowing its front portion to rise and fall to open and close the mouth of the
receptacle formed by the end of said plate and the lower edge of the receptacle-
end 11. Instead, however, of extending the receptacle-end down to or adjacent to
the plate, its lower portion is continued by a flexible downhanging guard 14 which is
capable of yielding to allow the passage of relatively thicker pieces of matter than
the opening formed by the movement of the plate from the lower edge of the guard
would ordinarily permit.
It is, however, desirable to provide means for regulating the width of opening of
the mouth formed between the guard 14 and the plate 12 irrespective of the yielding
_capacity of the guard; and for this purpose the receptacle-end. 11 and the guard are
mounted to be adjustable relative to the plate 12. Thus, there is provided rigid with
the framework A a cross bar 15 to which the end 11 is movably connected by guide
pins or screws 16 entering slots in the bar (see Fig. 6); and the.end 11 with the
guard is moved with respect to said bar by nuts 17 which embrace rods 18 rigid with
and projecting from the cross bar 15. The rods 18 pass through lugs 19 projecting
from the end 11 and the adjusting nuts 17 which are in pairs are located on
opposite sides of each lug so that said end 11 may be adjusted positively in both
directions.
.
It has been found in practice that in the movement of the pieces of matter from
the receptacle there is a strong tendency in each piece to assume a position out of
alignment or parallelism and thus be fed inaccurately, to prevent which there is
provided a bearer or weight represented by a vertical rod 20 mounted loosely in a
guide 21 carried by the receptacle-side 10 so that the lower end of the rod may rest
with light pressure upon the rearward forward corner (when viewed as in Figs. 1, 4
and 11) of the pile of mail matter in the receptacle to act as a means for slightly
retarding the movement of one side of each piece of matter from the receptacle.
The separating and timing device C for the mail matter preferably consists of two
parts, a separating roll 22 and a pair of coacting rolls 23, 24. The separating roll 22
consists of a roller upon the periphery of which the free end of the plate 12 rests by
gravity. This end of the plate is formed with a number of spaced fingers 12ª, and
the roller 22 has portions of its periphery underlying the fingers cut away as at 22ª,
so as to prevent high and low parts under the fingers of the plate, and thus during
the rotation of the roller to alternately allow the plate to fall by gravity to permit
a feeding movement of the piece of matter resting on said plate and to raise or
return the plate to its normal position preventing the feeding of a piece of mail
matter. The portions of the roller 22 between the fingers of the plate 12 are not cut
away, so that when the plate falls into the cut away portions directly underlying the
fingers the uncut portions project above the plate to bear with sufficient frictional
contact on the piece of matter in contact with the plate to move it outward from
the receptacle through the open mouth provided for its passage between the lower
end of the guard 14 and the then lowered plate. The feeding action of the roller 22
continues so long as the plate 12 is in its low position, which, as shown, is about the
length of one-half of the rotation of the roller; while in the remaining half of its
rotation the high part of the roller raises the plate and with it the pieces of matter
resting on it, so that the uncut portions of the roller between the fingers of the plate

page_text: can not touch the adjacent piece of mail matter with sufficient frictional contact to
impart any movement thereto even should the guard 14 be yielding enough to permit
a movement of the piece of matter. On the other hand it is obvious that the
raising of the plate may be simply sufficient to lessen the frictional contact between
the roller and the lower piece of mail matter, the end of the plate 12 being raised
toward the guard 14 to close the mouth of the receptacle and the guard 14 be
sufficiently rigid as to resist the passage of a piece of matter inadvertently. The
separating roller 22 thus acts as a timer to feed a piece of matter from the
receptacle at a certain fixed time in its revolutions and is inactive at other times.
The coacting forwarding rollers 23, 24, forming the other part of the device C, are
mounted just in advance of the roller 22, the high parts of the pair of rollers meeting
at the bight simultaneously with or soon after the end of the piece of matter moved
by the roller 22 arrives between them. The rollers 23, 24, each consist of coacting
high and low parts; during the coaction of the high parts thereof the piece of matter
is noved, while during the coaction of the low parts no feeding movement occurs.
The low or inactive parts of the rollers 23, 24, are so disposed with relation to the
feeding movement of the roller 22 that they present an open space for the entrance
of the piece of matter fed by said roller 22, so that when the high or active parts
thereof come into position the piece of matter already projected between them will
be gripped and moved forward; the high parts of the rollers 23, 24, acting after and
immediately in succession to the feeding movement of the roller 22; the pair of
rollers 23, 24, thus acting alternately with the roller 22.
It is preferred to provide a head gage 25 arranged to meet the leading end of the
piece of matter fed by the roller 22, align it properly with the axis of the
rollers 23, 24, and to stay its onward movement temporarily until the said
rollers 23, 24, or their active portions come into position to move the piece of matter
forward. The head gage 25 is arranged in the path of movement of the matter
through the machine and in the present embodiment of the invention is in position
just forward of the bight of the high or active parts of the rollers 23, 24, so as to stop
the piece of matter with its leading end just beyond the line of bight of said
rollers.
The head gage 25 consists as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, of a cross bar extending
between the sides of the framework of the machine and carried by the upper ends of
a pair of levers 26 that are mounted on pivots 27 eccentric to the axis of the roller 24
and projecting in this instance from the boxes carrying the journals of said roller 24,
the lower ends of said levers being connected to springs 28 tending to hold the head
gage cross bar in normal position, as in Figs. 11 and 14. The head gage is free to
assume and remain in its normal active position during the passage of the low part of
the roller 24 beneath it, ready to be met by the leading end of the piece of matter
fed by the roller 22; but is moved or rocked away from the path of movement of the
piece of matter, against the tension of its springs 28 by the abutment of the leading
end of the high part of said roller 24 which in the rotation of said roller will rock the
head gage downward out of the path of movement of the matter then being within
the control of the roller 23, 24, and is held out of such path of movement during the
feeding action of said rollers, and then permitted to speedily return to its normal
position, by the action of the springs 28 as soon as the high part of said roller 24
passes the head gage. The active face of the head gage cross bar 25 is extended by
fingers 25 which extend into circumferential grooves in the roller 24 as in Fig. 7, so
that the piece of matter is ensured meeting it.
From the separating and timing device the piece of matter passes beneath an
upper guide 29 and thence to the printing device D between its impression roll 30
and the printing roll 31, of which said device in the main consists. The printing
roll carries on its periphery a marking die or surface 9 which bears characters such as
type or the like to print or mark on the piece of matter any desired indication such
as, in the case of mail matter, the post office name, date, etc. The printing roll is
carried by a shaft 8 having a journal 7, see Figs. 11, 13, 14 and 15, eccentric to the
periphery of the roll and the marking die or surface 9 is arranged at the greatest radius

page_text: from the axis of the journal, so that it will be the only part of the roll that will bear
upon the piece of matter on the platen roller. This setting of the roller and its
marking die also adapts it to coact with an ink roller 32, of any ordinary form,
mounted above the printing roll 31 in position to be met and inked by the ink
roller.
The ink roller 32 is secured to a spindle 33 that is mounted in a proper bearing 34
(see Figs. 4 and 6) rising from the framework so as to rotate by the frictional contact
of the printing roll 31 therewith. The spindle 33 of the ink roller is mounted in an
eccentric sleeve 36 (see Fig. 2) by turning which sleeve more or less in either
direction in the bearing 34 the inking roll may be adjusted with relation to the
marking surface of the printing roll.
From the printing roll 31 and impression roll 30 the piece of matter passes forward
under a bridge 35 and thence between a pair of feed rollers 37, 38, which, as will
hereafter appear, are positively driven so as to carry the piece of matter forward to
the stamp cancelling device now to be described.
From the feed rollers 37, 38, the piece of matter passes within the plane of action
of the cancelling device E which in the present and preferred embodiment of the
invention is made up or composed of a series of channelling, abrading or cutting
burrs, discs or tools e, separated a distance apart by spacing washers a (see Fig. 8)
of such diameter as to allow a more or less projection of the abrading discs e there-
from. The discs and spacing washers are securely clamped upon a spindle 39 to
rotate therewith by means of a nut 40 and opposed shoulder on the spindle, and the
latter is mounted in a suitable bracket 41 carried by the framework of the machine
in such position that the abrading discs of the cancelling device directly overlie the
path of movement of the pieces of matter through the machine. The spindle of the
abrading discs is directly carried by an eccentric sleeve 42 (see Fig. 3) seated in
the bracket by means of which sleeve the abrading discs may be adjusted relative to
the surface of the piece of matter to be operated upon.
Coacting with the cancelling device is an opposed bearer or support 43, the function
of which is to properly support the piece of matter in position for its stamp to be
abraded by the cancelling device. To avoid the action of the abrading or cancelling
device upon the mail matter for a distance longer than sufficient to cancel the length
or width of the stamp or stamps thereon, the opposed support 43 is preferably an
intermittently acting one, such intermittent action being provided in the present
instance by cutting away a portion of the periphery of the support. Thus the
support is represented by a revoluble roll, having only a portion of its circumference
directly coacting with the cancelling device of the full diameter of the roll so that
while the letter is passing between this full diameter portion and the cancelling
device, the letter will be properly supported with its surface or stamp held in such
position as to be abraded or otherwise operated upon by the cancelling device, and
during the passage of the cut away portion of the roll the letter or that portion of
the letter directly beneath the cancelling device will be unsupported and thus no
action of the cancelling device thereon occur. The circumferential length of the full
diameter portion of the roll is suited to the extent of abrasion it is desired the
cancelling device should impart to the surface or stamp or stamps of the piece of
matter moving below it. And in order to adapt the machine to cancel or abrade a
varying number of stamps on the piece of matter, the support 43 is made removable
and interchangeable with other supports having circumferences of the full portion of
the roll of greater or less extent. And for this purpose the shaft 44 on which the
roll is mounted may be made removable longitudinally from the roll so that the roll may
be removed from the machine, another roll put in its place, and the spindle returned
in position to support the changed roll.
Of course, many other modes of changing the roll may be adopted without
departing from this invention.
In order to limit the extent of projection of the cancelling device or the amount of
surface of the cancelling device that is exposed to the passing mail matter and to
guard the mail matter from any undue or extreme action of the cancelling device,

page_text: there is associated with the cancelling device a guard or grid 45 in the form of a
plate underlying the cancelling device and slotted longitudinally to permit the pro-
jection of a limited portion of the cancelling or abrading discs through the plate.
This plate is supported upon either side of the cancelling device by suitable cross
5 bars 46 carried by the framework and by an intermediate bracket 47. This guard or
grid also acts during the passage of the full portion of the roll 43 to keep the piece
of matter down in firm contact with said roll and prevent the abrading discs from
abrading too deeply through the surface of the stamp or wrapper of the mail
matter.
The cancelling device may be adjusted as it or its discs wear, and may also be
adjusted to vary the depth through the stamp or material of the stamp or wrapper to
which the channelling or abrasion may take place; it being obvious that the adjust-
ment may be so delicate as to enable the cancelling device to abrade only the upper
film of the surface upon which it acts. Owing to this capacity for delicate adjustment
it is perfectly feasible to cause the cancelling device to act only on the stamp and not
on the remaining surface of the mail matter.
From the cancelling device and its co-operating support the now cancelled piece of
mail matter may pass between a pair of delivering feed rolls 49, 50, and thence into
a delivering chute F which may form a collecting box for the delivered matter, or as
shown, be provided at its lower end with a discharge mouth 51 through which each
piece of mail matter may pass into some other receptacle arranged for the purpose.
The chute having a forward end, the pieces of matter delivered therein at con-
siderable speed are stopped thereby, allowed to gravitate to the bottom of the chute,
and then pass out through its discharge mouth at a much reduced speed.
In the feeding of the pieces of mail matter through the machine it is preferred
when once the piece of matter to be cancelled is fully within the control of the
feeding instrumentalities of the machine or is just about to be presented to the
cancelling device, that its upper surface, or the surface which bears the stamp to be
cancelled shall occupy a constant fixed position, say horizontally, with respect to the
active portion of the abrading surface or tool constituting the cancelling device, and
hence in the present embodiment of the invention the upper feed roller 37 is mounted
in fixed bearings as indeed are the feed roller 23, the printing roller 31 and the
delivery roller 49. In order, however, that the machine may be adapted to feed
pieces of matter of different thicknesses the opposed roller or rollers of those men-
tioned such as the feed roller 38, the roller 43, the discharge feed roller 50, the
roller 30, and the feed roller 24 are each mounted to yield vertically with respect to
their coacting roller or device. Thus, as illustrated in Fig. 7, in connection with the
roller 24 the journals of the shaft of the said roller are each mounted in a vertically
sliding box 52 mounted in guides in the framework and supported upon springs 53
which normally hold the roller in biting contact with the opposed roller but permit
the roller so mounted to yield with respect thereto, according as the thickness of the
passing matter may determine. While this yielding feature of the rolls 24, 30, 38,
43 and 50 is only shown in full with respect to the roll 24 it is to be distinctly under-
stood that each of said rolls is similarly mounted, as indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 11.
In addition to the rolls already described it is preferred to provide a roll 54
mounted in axial alignment or substantial axial alignment with the printing roll 31
(see Fig. 4), the inner journal of this roll 54 being mounted in a bracket 55 supported
by the framework or by the guides 29, 35, which extend transversely between
the side frames. There is also another roll 96 mounted above the roll 43 and
coacting therewith to carry the letter forward as it passes in the plane of action of
the cancelling device. The inner journal of this roll is supported in bearings in the
bracket 47.
It is preferred that the several rolls shall be positively geared together in order
hat they may act in unison and in proper time, especially to effect the timely
cooperation of the roll 43 in its support of the passing piece of mail matter to the
ction of the abrading or cancelling device with the time of feed of the rolls 23, 24.

page_text: Thus the feed rolls 23, 24, have secured to their shafts the intermeshing gears 56, 57,
see Fig. 1; the roll 54 and coacting roll 30 provided with the intermeshing
gears 58, 59; the feed rolls 37, 38 with the intermeshing gears 60, 61; the roll 96
and roll 43 with the gears 62, 63; and the discharge feed rolls 49, 50 with the
intermeshing gears, 64, 65; so that the rollers shall move with the same surface
speed. The means of driving the different rolls of the present machine in timely
relation with one another and at the proper speed is best seen in Figs. 2 and 4; thus
the shaft of the feed roll 22 is provided with a driving pulley 66 receiving a belt not
shown driven by any suitable motor. The same shaft carries a gear 67 meshing with
a gear 68 fast to the shaft of the printing roll 31. This same shaft of the printing 1
roll carries a gear 69 in mesh with a gear 70 fast to the projecting end of the shaft of
the roll 30; this same shaft having a toothed wheel 71 in mesh with a toothed
wheel 72 fast to the shaft of the roller 23 and with a gear 73 fast to the shaft of the
upper feed roll 37.
The latter gear 73 in turn is in mesh with the gear 74 carried
by the shaft of the roll 43 and this latter gear is in mesh with the gear 75 carried by
the shaft of the upper discharge roll 49. In order to obtain the preferred high
velocity of the cancelling device a countershaft 76 is interposed' between the driving
shaft and the spindle of the cancelling device; thus the driving shaft carries a
pulley 77 from which is stretched a belt 78 to a small pulley 79 on the countershaft,
and on this countershaft is a larger pulley 80 from which is stretched a belt 81
around a small pulley 82 fast to the cancelling device spindle 39. It is to be
understood that the speed of rotation of the cancelling device is preferred to be very
much higher than the speed of movement of the mail matter through the machine,
in order to thus obtain a relatively smooth abrasion. So also the direction of rotation
of the cancelling device is preferably with the direction of movement of the mail
'matter which prevents the cancelling device catching any projection on the mail
matter tending to destroy it or affect its orderly passage through the machine.
In the preferred embodiment of the invention the abrading discs e of the cancelling
device are made of emery of sufficient fineness that the abrading or tearing action
upon the stamp to be cancelled will not tend to destroy the wrapper enclosing the
mail matter. It is, however, entirely feasible to use other forms of abrading, cutting
or puncturing instruments or tools, such as steel burrs of well known form, having
toothed or serrated peripheries, or of any other form capable of imparting a cancelling
mark or marks to the stamp. So far as other features of the present invention are
concerned it is apparent that the abrading, cutting, puncturing or channelling action
of the cancelling device may be absent, and the discs of the cancelling device arranged
to apply inked lines to the stamp. And it is also obvious that the improved can-
celling device for channelling or abrading or otherwise destroying the surface of the
stamp may be employed in connection with a marking device such as projections d
carried by the roll 49, arranged for a suitable inking device (as, for instance, the
inking roll 98) to apply ink in the channels or abrasions formed in the stamp by the
discs of the cancelling device. The location of these projections is indicated in dotted
lines in Fig. 4, and the general arrangement is shown in detail in Figs. 16 and 17.
In Figs. 18 and 19 is illustrated an envelope V with its postage stamp x channelled,
abraded or its surface removed on the parallel lines y. In this instance, as seen in
Fig. 19 the cancelling device has been so adjusted that only the upper film or surface
of the stamp has been removed in separated places, still leaving a portion or lower
film of the stamp adhering to the surface of the envelope; and in this manner all
danger of the cancelling device injuring the envelope is avoided.
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
claim is :-
1. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, of feeding
devices for carrying individual pieces of mail matter, said feeding devices being so
located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and progress the
mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action.

page_text: 2. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, of date-
marking mechanism, feeding devices for carrying individual pieces of mail matter
into contact with the abrader and the date marker, said feeding devices being so
located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and progress the
mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action.
3. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader provided with
means for determining and regulating the depth of the abrasion effected, of feeding
devices for carrying individual pieces of mail matter, said feeding devices being so
located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and progress the
mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action.
4. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, of feeding
devices for carrying individual pieces of mail matter, said feeding devices being so
located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and progress the
mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action, and being further provided
with timing and gauging mechanism to present the individual pieces of mail matter
seriatim and in proper alignment to the action of the abrader.
5. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an intermittently acting
abrader, of continuously acting feed rollers so located with respect to the abrader as
to positively hold and progress the mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading
action.
6. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, consisting of
a rotatory abrading, burr or tool and an intermittently-co-operating bearer or support,
of feeding devices for carrying individual pieces of mail matter, said feeding devices
being so located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and
progress the mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action.
7. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, consisting
of a rotatory abrading burr or tool, an intermittently co-operating bearer or
support, and an intermediate grid for the abrading burr or tool, said feeding devices
being so located with reference to the abrader that they will positively hold and
progress the mail matter past the abrader, during the abrading action.
8. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, a mail-
matter supply receptacle, intermittently-acting separating mechanism for withdrawing
and forwarding individual pieces of mail matter from the receptacle, and continuously
acting feed rollers receiving the mail matter from said separating mechanism, and
so located with respect to the abrader as to positively hold and progress the mail
matter past the abrader during the abrading action.
9. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, a mail-matter
supply receptacle having a drop bottom, a separator roller, located beneath the drop
bottom and having high and low portions alternately raising and lowering the bottom
so as to render the separator roller alternately operative and inoperative, forwarding
rollers located in advance of the separator roller, a gauge for timing and aligning the
individual pieces of mail matter, located at the bight of the forwarding rollers, and
continuously acting feed rollers receiving the mail matter from the forwarding rollers
and carrying it past the abrader.
10. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination of a series of progressively-
acting feeding devices, a continuously moving burr or abrader, a co-operating support,
and mechanism for intermittently moving said support into co-operation with the burr
or abrader.
11. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination of a burr or abrader, mail
matter feeding devices, carrying and holding said matter into contact with said burr
or abrader, and mechanism for moving said burr or abrader in the same direction as
nd at a greater speed than the feeding devices.
12. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with a mail-matter supply
receptacle, of intermittently acting separating mechanism, an intermittently acting
brader, and continuously acting feeding devices for progressing the mail matter
aninterruptedly from the separating nechanism past the abrader.

page_text: 13. In a stamp cancelling machine, the combination with an abrader, of an inking
device located beyond the abrader and adapted to ink the abraded surface.
14. In a stamp cancelling or mail marking machine, the combination with the mail
receptacle and its separating mechanism, of forwarding rollers, one of which is pro-
vided with peripheral grooves, and a timing gauge co-operating with said forwarding 5
rollers, said gauge comprising a cross bar having depending fingers extending into
the grooves.
LOOLL
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.