Improvements in Machines for Stamping or Marking Piece or other Goods.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, ist Oct., 1895-Accepted. 2nd Nov.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Stamping or Marking Piece or other
Goods.
I, ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY, of 2 Malvern Villas, Chesham Road, Bury, in
the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :—
My invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient machine for
stamping or marking folded piece goods in one color or more than one color, and
consists of an arrangement of cams and levers whereby the stamps are caused to
move onto pads to receive color and after receiving the color move onto and transfer
the color onto the goods to be marked. According to one arrangement the color
pad or pads and the goods to be stamped or marked are placed on a table to which
a to and fro motion is given so as to first bring the color pad or pads into position
beneath a reciprocating stamp or stamps or markers which are then brought into
contact with the pad or pads to receive color therefrom after which the stamp rises
or stamps rise, and the table moves so as to bring goods to be marked into position
beneath the stamp or stamps or markers which then descends or descend onto the
goods and print or mark the same with the design on the stamp or stamps. Any
desired number of stamps may be provided on the reciprocating frame a corre-
sponding number of color pads being provided on the reciprocating table each
being provided with a different color to the others and arranged in position
corresponding to the positions to the stamps or markers so that at each alternate
descent of the stamps or markers each stamp will receive a supply of color and
at the next descent transfer the several colors onto the goods in their required
position. Thus a mark containing two or more colours may be printed or marked
on the goods at one and the same time.
Instead of arranging the color pad or pads and the goods to be stamped or
marked on a reciprocating table as described the table may be stationary and
a horizontal as well as a vertical reciprocating motion be given to the stamp or
stamps or markers, means being provided for guiding the said stamp or stamps
or markers alternately onto the color pad or pads and then onto the goods to be
marked.
Dated this 1st day of January 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
CUMI LEID DIUITIATIVA
Improvements in Machines for Stamping or Marking Piece or other
Goods.
I ALFRED AUSTIN WHITLEY, of 2 Malvern Villas, Chesham Road, Bury in
the County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :—
My invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient machine for

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stamping, or marking, folded piece goods in one colour, or more than one colour
and consists of an arrangement wherein, by cams and levers, the stamp, or
stamps, is, or are, caused to move onto a pad, or pads, to receive colour, and, after
receiving the colour, to move onto, and transfer the colour to, the goods to be
marked.
The accompanying drawings represent a machine, or apparatus, constructed in
accordance with my invention, Figure 1 being a side elevation, Figure 2 a longi-
tudinal section, and Figure 3 a front view. The colour pad, or pads a, and the
goods a² to be stamped, or marked, are placed on a table A, to which a to- and fro
motion is given so as to first bring the colour pad, or pads a, into position beneath a
reciprocating stamp, or marker, or stamps, or markers B, which is, or are, then
brought into contact with the pad, or pads, a, to receive colour therefrom after
which the stamp rises, or stamps rise, and the table moves so as to bring
goods a², to be marked, into position beneath the stamp, or stamps, which then
descends, or descend, onto the goods, and prints, or print, or marks, or mark, the
same with the design on the stamp, or stamps. Any desired number of stamps
may be provided, and a corresponding number of colour pads be employed and each
pad can have applied to it an ink of a different colour to the others and arranged in
position, corresponding to the positions to the stamps, or markers, so that at each
alternate descent of the stamps, each will receive a supply of colour, and at the
next descent transfer the several colours onto the goods in their required position.
Thus a mark containing two, or more, colours may be printed, or marked, on the
goods, at one and the same time.
The table A is arranged so that it can slide in guides c in the frame C from front
to back of the machine, and vice versa. On the frame C, are mounted standards C²
constituting guides, along which the carrier of the stamp, or stamps B, can move
upwards, and downwards. D is the first motion shaft giving motion by means of
gearing to a shaft D2 which carries crank discs d which, through the connecting
rods d, actuate the stamp, or stamps, by the said rods being connected to projections
from the carrier thereof.
The table A is reciprocated by the lever E and connecting rod F the said lever E
being centered at e, and being actuated by a stud, or roller 2 thereon, engaging in a
cam groove g, in a wheel G fast on a shaft G2 driven from the shaft D2, by gearing
arranged in such a way, that the stamp carrier rises and descends twice, for each
double, or backward and forward reciprocation of the table A, the cam groove being
so shaped, that the table remains stationary, whilst the stamp, or stamps, is, or are,
in contact with the pad, or pads, and cloth respectively.
c² represents a brush secured to the standards C2 so that the ink is, or inks are,
spread over the pad or pads evenly thereby as it or they move or moves in contact
therewith.
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 I
claim is
1. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting a machine for stamping,
or marking, piece, or other goods; substantially as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. A machine for stamping, or marking piece, or other goods, the said machine
having a reciprocating table for carrying the inking pad, or pads, and the goods,
and a rising and descending stamp, or stamps, and gearing so arranged, as to alter-
nately bring the stamp, or stamps, onto the pad, or pads, and the goods, substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 1st day of October 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.