Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Wrappers for Bottles and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Wrappers for
Bottles and other Articles.
I, JOHN NEWTON BEACH of Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to machines for manufacturing wrappers for bottles and other
articles.
My said invention comprises the combination of a bed, a carrying-belt travelling
over a portion of the said bed, holding-wheels for maintaining the material to be
folded in contact with the bed before reaching the said belt, folders having their
opposite sides flared decreasingly from one end toward the other, and other folders
having flanges of increasing projection from one end to the other. I prefer to
employ adjustable holding-wheels for maintaining the material to be folded in
contact with the bed before reaching the belt.
I prefer moreover to employ covering folders. My said invention moreover
comprises means, for adjusting the two sets of folders independently of each other.
It also comprises mechanism, for applying paste or other adhesive substance to a
strip and directing the said strip to material folded by the said folders at the
meeting edges of said material, and to drying-rollers. It also comprises a steam
chest and rollers for holding the folded material in proximity, thereto. It also
comprises other improvements hereinafter mentioned.
The framing of the machine may be of any suitable construction. The said
machine comprises a roll, upon which a strip of corrugated paper or like material is
wound. This roller is supported in bearings, from which it may be removed to
permit the substitution for it of another roll, as occasion may require. Preferably
the strip of corrugated paper will have secured to one side of it a strip of plain
paper, so that it will be in fact a combined strip made up of a strip of corrugated
paper and a strip of plain paper.
The strip of material passes from the said roll between guide-rollers and thence
over a bed which is supported by the frame of the machine. The corrugated portion
is uppermost. After leaving the guide rollers it passes between guides secured to the
bed in such a manner as to provide for the adjustment of the guides at different
distances from the longitudinal centre of the bed, to suit different widths of material.
These guides direct the material to creasing-wheels which are arranged upon a shaft
which may be driven by a belt on a pulley with which it is provided. These creasing-
wheels crease or score the material longitudinally upon lines along which it is to be
folded. The said wheels are adjustable lengthwise of the shaft, so as to afford
provision for creasing material at different points. This adjustment is necessary
for operating upon materials of different widths. If desirable for any reason, a greater
or less number of such wheels may be used.
Beneath the creasing-wheels is arranged a roller covered with india-rubber or
analogous material. The creasing-wheels. in conjunction with this roller control the
speed at which the material travels, and cause it to travel at a uniform speed. For
this purpose the creasing-wheels and the said roller may be regarded as a pair of
rollers. After leaving the creasing-wheels the material passes between two folders.
These folders converge from the ends which are nearer to the creasing-wheels toward
the other ends. Their adjacent sides at the ends which are the nearer to the
creasing-wheels are flaring or wider at the upper edge than at the bottom edge.
This flare gradually decreases toward the ends which are distant from the creasing
wheels, and entirely disappears at the ends last named. Therefore as the material
passes over the bed between the folders, its portions which are laterally beyond the

page_text: creases produced by the outer creasing-wheels will be gradually folded upward, until
at the time of passing beyond these folders they will occupy a position at right
angles to the intermediate or central portion of the material. During the passage
of the material between the folders its central portion, which remains unaffected by
the folders, is held down upon the bed by holding-wheels fixed on rotary shafts.
These wheels are adjustably secured upon their shafts by means of set-screws or
otherwise, so that their positions may be varied to suit materials of different widths.
Obviously any number of these wheels may be employed, as circumstances may
render necessary.
The shafts of these holding-wheels are supported in bearing-
blocks, which may be adjusted, to cause the wheels to act with different pressures.
These holding wheels may rotate as the material passes beneath them.
The said folders are secured to the bed so that they may be adjusted widthwise
of the machine to adapt them for use with materials of different widths.
At
Int
Beyond the said folders are other folders supported upon the bed and having
inwardly-extending flanges at the upper edges of their inner or opposite sides.
the ends of these folders nearer to the first named folders these flauges have but a
slight projection and are high up; but the said flanges increase in projection toward
the other end of the said folders and extend downwardly close to the bed.
passing between the second pair of folders the portions of the material which were
beyond the outer creases and which were turned into upright positions by the first
pair of folders are folded downwardly against the intermediate or central portion of
the material.
The material operated upon is not in contact with the bed while passing between
the second pair of folders although the bed sustains it. Above the bed between
these folders an endless belt or carrier passes which is supported and driven by
rollers to which motion may be imparted by a belt or other means.
The upper
portion of this belt travels along the bed in a direction away from the first pair of
folders and returns under the bed in the reverse direction. The material is in
contact with this belt during its passage between the second pair of folders and is
carried forward by the belt.
On a roller mounted removably in bearings at a considerable distance above the
bed is wound a strip of plain comparatively thin paper, intended to unite the meeting
lateral edges of the strip of material folded as aforesaid. The strip after leaving
the said roller passes around a guide-roller and thence over another roller, which
rotates in a tank of paste or other adhesive material and has combined with it a
doctor-roller for removing superfluous adhesive material from it. After leaving the
pasting roller the strip passes around another guide-roller whereby it is forced
against the meeting edges of the folded material. Thence the said material with the
plain strip applied to it is moved along by the endless belt or carrier over the bed
and beneath a series of drying rollers which are preferably heated by steam-pipes
and driven by belts or other suitable means. There may be any desired number of
drying-rollers according to the speed at which the material with the applied strip is
to be moved along.
The drying rollers are journalled in adjustable bearings so that they may act upon
the material passing under them with any desired pressure.
The portion of the bed beneath the drying rollers is made in the form of a hollow
chest. At intervals between the drying rollers hollow bridges extend above the path
traversed by the material. Steam circulated through the chest and hollow bridges
nids in drying the adhesive material whereby the plain strip is secured to the folded
material.
It is not absolutely essential to use the steam chest in the bed in connection with
the other parts of the machine. Moreover the steam bridges and also, if desired, the
drying rollers may be dispensed with. In such case I prefer to substitute for the
latter rotary brushes journaled and arranged in the same manner as the rollers, but
rotating at an increased speed. If caused to rotate at such speed that their circum-
ferences will travel faster than the folded material with the applied strip they will
operate with an ironing or rubbing and smoothing action.

page_text: There is also a stationary knife and other knives which are fixed to a revolving
head or support, one being arranged on each end of the latter.
knives revolve they periodically move into proximity with the stationary knife and in
As the last named
conjunction therewith cut the finished material transversely thereby severing it into
short pieces suitable for wrappers. The head which carries the revolving knives is
rotated by a train of gear-wheels, some of which are carried by a swinging frame.
hung at one end on the shaft. which carries the driving pulley and supported at the
other end by a bolt or screw which passes through a slot in the said frame and enters
one of the side pieces of the main frame of the machine.
adjusting this swinging frame, in order that gear wheels of different sizes may be
Provision is afforded for
employed for the purpose of varying the number of revolutions of the knives in a
given time, and hence, the periods at which the finished material will be subjected to
the operation of the knives, the latter being caused to travel at a uniform speed by
the creasing wheels and one of the aforesaid rollers. Thus wrappers of greater or
less strength may be produced.
Instead of belts and pulleys for driving different parts of the machine chains and
sprocket wheels may be used.
Instead of the mechanism above mentioned for pasting the strip and directing it
to the meeting edges of the folded material I sometimes mount the roll around which
the strip is wound, in bearings so that it is removable at will, in order that a similar
roll may be substituted for it.
It is obvious moreover, that I can somewhat further modify the
of the machine
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London. Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Wrappers for
Bottles and other Articles.
We, JOHN NEWTON BEACH and JULIA BACKUS BEACH, both of 28 Pembridge
Crescent, Notting Hill Gate, in the County of Middlesex, executor and executrix of
the will of the late John Newton Beach. 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:-
The said invention comprises the combination of a bed, a carrying belt travelling
over a portion of the said bed, holding wheels for maintaining the material to be
folded in contact with the bed before reaching the said belt, folders having their
opposite sides flared decreasingly from one end toward the other, and other folders
having flanges of increasing projection from one end to the other.
adjustable holding wheels for maintaining the material to be folded in contact
prefer to employ
with the bed before reaching the belt. I prefer moreover to employ converging
folders.
The said invention moreover comprises means for adjusting the two sets of folders
independently of each other.
other adhesive substance to a
Ti also comprises mechanism for applying paste or
by the said folders at the meeting edges of the said material and to drying-rollers.
strip and directing the said strip to the material folded
It also comprises a steam-chest and rollers for holding the folded material in proximity
thereto. It also comprises other improvements hereinafter mentioned.
In the accompanying drawings we have shown how the said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a plan of one part of the machine constructed according to the said
invention showing the arrangement for folding the material of which the wrappers
are formed,

page_text: Figure 2 is a plan of the other part of the said machine showing the device
completing the wrappers.
Tor
Figures 3 and 4 are longitudinal elevations of the apparatus shown in Figures 1
and 2 respectively.
Figure 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of the machine on the
liness Figure 1.
Figure 6 shows a portion of the material of which the wrappers are formed, as the
same appears on arriving at the position indicated by the liner Figure 1.
Figures 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 show respectively transverse vertical sections on the lines rv:
2002; Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 12 shows a wrapper such as may be made by the machine.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a modified form of a portion of the machine.
A. is a roll from which the paper or other suitable material B is passed through the
rollers and other devices which serve to form the same into the finished wrapper.
This roller is supported in suitable bearings from which it may be removed to permit
the substitution for it of another roll as occasion may require. The material B is
preferably formed of two strips or lengths one upon the other the upper one being
corrugated while the lower one is plain so that a combined strip made up of a
corrugated paper superposed upon plain paper may be drawn therefrom.
The strip of material passes from the said roll A between suitable guide-rollers C¹ C
and thence over a bed D which is supported by the frame of the machine, the
After leaving the said guide rollers it passes
corrugated portion being uppermost.
between guides E 2 secured to the bed D in such a manner as to provide for the
adjustment thereof independently of one another towards or away from the middle of
the bed to suit different widths of material. These guides E' E² direct the material in
creasing wheels F F F secured upon a shaft F which is provided with a pulley
adapted to be driven by a belt from any suitable motor. These creasing-wheels serve
to crease or indent the material longitudinally along the lines at which it is afterwards
folded or bent over in the subsequent operation of the machine. The said wheels are
adjustable relatively upon the shaft F to provide for creasing or indenting the
material at different points, and for operating upon materials of different widths.
The number of such wheels or pairs of wheels may be varied as may be found
desirable.
Beneath the creasing-wheels is arranged a roller R covered with india-rubber or
analogous material. The creasing-wheels in conjunction with this roller may be
regarded as a pair of rollers and serve to control the speed at which the material
travels. After leaving the creasing-wheels the material passes between two ribs or
projecting pieces G1 G2 which serve as folders. The said ribs or folders are secured
to the bed of the machine so that they may be adjusted widthwise of the machine to
adapt them for use with materials of different widths, their adjacent surfaces being
cach inclined to one another so that they gradually converge from the ends the
creasing-wheels toward the other ends, and are flared or inclined to the bed of the
machine in opposite directions the extent of this flare or inclination gradually
decreasing from the end near the said creasing-wheels and entirely disappearing at
the other end of the folders when they stand vertically with regard to the bed of the
machine. Therefore as the material passes over the bed between the folders its
portions which are laterally beyond the creases produced by the outer creasing-wheel
will be gradually folded upward, until at the time of passing beyond these folders the
will occupy a position at right angles to the intermediate or central portion of th
material. During the passage of the material between the folders its central portion
which remains unaffected by the folders is held down upon the bed by holding
wheels H H H H carried upon the shafts H H.
These wheels are adjustably secured upon their shafts by means of set screws o
otherwise, so that their positions may be varied to suit materials of differen
widths. Obviously any number of these wheels may be employed, as circumstance
may render necessary. The shafts of these holding wheels are preferably supporte

page_text: in bearing blocks, which may be adjusted. by means of set screws h h or other
suitable means to cause the wheels to act with different pressures.
Beyond the said folders G G are other folders G3 G4 supported upon the bed D
and having inwardly extending flanges g³g at or near the upper edges of their
inner or opposite sides. At the ends of these folders G³ G adjacent to the first
named folders G G these flanges have but a slight projection and are high
up but the said flanges increase in projection toward the other end of the said
folders G G and extend downward close to the bed. The construction of the
flanges may be more clearly shown by reference to Figures 9 and 10. In passing
between the second pair of folders the portions of the material beyond the outer
creases or indentations, which were turned into upright position by the first. pair of
folders GG are folded downwardly against the intermediate or central portion of
the material as shown in Figure 10.
The material B operated upon is not in immediate contact with the bed while
passing between the second pair of folders G³ G. An endless belt or carrier I
passes above the bed between these folders, which belt is supported and driven by
rollers to which motion may be imparted by a driving belt or other means.
The upper portion of this belt travels along the bed in a direction away from the
first pair of folders and returns under the bed in the reverse direction. The
material is in contact with this belt during its passage between the second pair of
folders and is carried forward by the said belt.
On a roller mounted at a considerable distance above the bed in bearings, which
admit of its being readily removed therefrom, is wound a strip K of plain com-
paratively thin paper intended to unite the meeting lateral edges of the strip of material
folded as aforesaid. This strip K after leaving the said roller J passes around a guide
roller and thence over another roller J2 which rotates in a tank J³ of paste or other
adhesive material and has combined with it a doctor-roller for removing any super-
fluous adhesive material therefrom. After leaving the roller the strip passes around
another guide-roller J whereby it is forced against the meeting edges of the folded
material B. Thence the said material B with the plain strip K applied to it, is moved
along by the endless belt or carrier I over the bed D and beneath a series of drying-
rollers L L L L L L which are preferably heated by steam pipes and driven by
belts or other suitable means. There may be any desired number of drying rollers
according to the speed at which the material with the applied strip is to be moved along.
The said drying-rollers L L L L L L are journalled in suitable adjustable
bearings so that they may be caused to bear upon the material passing under them
with any desired pressure.
Beneath the portion of the bed D immediately under the drying rollers is a hollow
casing d adapted to serve as a steam chest. At intervals between the drying rollers (
hollow casings or bridges R extend above the bed E, steam being circulated through
the chest. d and hollow bridges to aid in drying the adhesive material, whereby the
plain strip K is secured to the folded material B. The steam drying arrangements in
the bed and the steam casings or bridges R and also the drying rollers may however
be dispensed with, if desirable. It is preferable in these cases to substitute for the
latter rotary brushes journalled and arranged in the same manner as the rollers, but
rotating at an increased speed. sufficient to cause their circumference to travel faster
than the folded material B, with the applied strip K, so that they will operate with a
rubbing and smoothing or ironing action.
A stationary knife O is provided on the machine in combination with two or more
rotary knives or blades which are secured to a revolving frame or support carried
upon a suitable shaft the said rotary blades being arranged on opposite sides of the
latter. In each revolution of the frame each of the knives O' is moved into
proximity with the stationary knife and in conjunction therewith cuts the material
iransversely as it is fed from the series of drying rollers, dividing it into short pieces
suitable for wrappers.
It is obvious that by varying the speed of rotation of the frame relatively to the
speed at which the material is fed from the rollers O, the said material will be

page_text: divided by the knives S₁ into pieces of greater or less length. For this purpose the
frame which carries the knives O is adapted to be rotated by a train of gear
wheels o¹ 0º 0³ the last of which, of is fixed to one of the journals of the
revolving frame and the gear wheel o' to one of the journals of the pulley 13
around which the belt I passes; 020 are intermediate and supported by studs on a
swinging frame n. This frame is secured at one extremity on the shaft which
carries the driving pulley I and is supported at the other end by a bolt or clamp a
which passes through a slot in the said frame and enters one of the side pieces of the
main frame of the machine. Provision is thus afforded for adjusting the said
swinging frame in order that gear wheels of different sizes may be employed for the
purpose of varying the number of revolutions of the knives O in a given time, and.
hence, the periods at which the finished material will be subjected to the operation of
the knives, the latter being caused to travel at a uniform speed by the creasing-
wheels and one of the aforesaid rollers R. Thus wrappers of greater or less length
may be produced.
Instead of belts and pulleys for driving different parts of the machine chains
and sprocket wheels may be used.
Instead of the mechanism above described for pasting the strip K and directing it
on to the edges of the folded material I sometimes mount the roll around which the
strip is wound, in the manner shown in Figure 13. The strip of paper in this case
after leading the roller J. a strip K passes around a roller and thence over a
roller J the under part of which dips into a tank J³ of paste or other adhesive
material. A doctor roller J serves to remove any superfluous paste from the
roller 02 and also to more effectually distribute the paste over the strip of paper.
The said strip then passes over a series of rollers J J JS J the last of which serves
to direct the said strip on to the folded material. The advantage of this particular
mode of arrangement is that it allows of the partial setting or drying of the paste
before the strip K reaches the material B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what wo
claim is
First. A machine for the purpose above specified, comprising folders which project
upward from the bed of the machine and which gradually fold or turn the paper or
similar material upward at both sides, and other folders having flanges or projections
for gradually bending inward and downward the parts thus folded substantially as set
forth.
Second. A machine for the purpose above specified wherein the paper or similar
material is first indented or creased along longitudinal lines and is then passed
between folders which gradually raise or turn upward the sides of the same into a
vertical position and then between other folders having flanges thereon, which
gradually fold the said outer portions inward and downward and is then passed
under a roller whereby the edges thus brought together are united by pasting
thereon a strip of paper or similar material substantially as set forth.
Third. In a machine for folding paper or like material the combination of a bed,
a carrying belt travelling over a portion of said bed, holding-wheels for maintaining
the material to be folded in contact with the bed before reaching said belt, folders
having their opposite sides flared decreasingly from one end toward the other, and
other folders having flanges of increasing projection from one end to the other sub-
stantially as specified.
Fourth. In a machine for folding paper and like material the combination of a bed,
a carrying belt travelling over a portion of the bed, adjustable holding wheels for
maintaining the material to be folded in contact with the bed before reaching the belt
folders having their opposite sides flared decreasingly from one end toward the other
and other folders having flanges of increasing projection from one end to the other
substantially as specified.
Fifth. In a machine for folding paper and like material the combination of a bed,

page_text: converging folders having their opposite sides flared decreasingly from one end
toward the other, other folders which have on their opposite side flanges which
increase in projection and extend progressively nearer the bed from one end toward
the other, and means substantially such as described for adjusting the two sets of
folders independently of each other substantially as specified.
Sixth. In a machine for folding paper and like material the combination of a bed a
pair of folders having their opposite sides converging and flared decreasingly from
one end toward the other holding wheels above the bed between these folders another
pair of folders having on their opposite sides flanges which increase in projection
and extend progressively near the bed from one end toward the other, and a belt
travelling over the bed between the last-mentioned pair of folders, substantially as
specified.
Seventh. In a machine for folding paper and like material the combination of
folders substantially such as described, and mechanism substantially such as described
for applying paste or other adhesive substance to a strip and directing said strip to
material folded by said folders, at the meeting edges of said material, and drying-
rollers substantially as specified.
Eighth. In a machine for folding paper or like material the combination of
folders, substantially such as described, mechanism substantially such as described for
applying adhesive material to a strip and directing said strip to the folded material
and a steam-chest and rollers for holding the folded material in proximity thereto,
substantially as specified.
Ninth. In a machine for folding paper and like material the combination of
folders substantially such as described, mechanism substantially such as described.
for applying adhesive material to a strip for uniting the meeting edges of the folded
material, a steam-chest, and steam-bridges for drying the material substantially as
specified.
Tenth. The improved machine constructed substantially as described with reference
to the accompanying drawings and operating, as, and for the purposes above
specified.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.