Improvements in Apparatus for Binding or Fastening Together and Marking Sheets or Strips of Paper or other Material.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Binding or Fastening Together and
Marking Sheets or Strips of Paper or other Material.
I, EDWIN TRUMAN GREENFIELD of No. 44 Broad Street, New York City,
New York, United States of America, Electrician, 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 particularly to a novel device for binding or uniting
together sheets of paper such as legal or analogous documents; samples of goods;
leather belting, and the like.
The object of my invention is First. To produce a binding machine of the type
indicated having staple-forming and staple-driving devices and a sliding or moving
anvil provided with a wiper or lifting cam and an operating handle whereby the
article or articles to be bound may be firmly held in place and quickly and readily
inserted and Second. To produce a machine of this type which shall also
automatically print or otherwise mark upon the material thus bound or united a
characteristic mark or indication of the nature or class of the goods or material
thus joined.
These objects are accomplished by means of the apparatus hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the machine illustrating parts
in elevation.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the same, the operating handle, the printing or
marking apparatus, staple-former and staple-driver and forming mandrel being
removed.
Figure 3 is a cross section taken through Figure 2 near the right hand end
thereof the wire feeding mechanism not being shown.
Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken through the upper part only of Figure 1.
as seen looking from left to right.
Figure 5 is a sectional view illustrating the moving clamping anvil in the base of
the machine and showing also how the staple is clinched through the material to be
bound or fastened together.
Figure 6 is a detail side elevation of the wire feeding attachment as seen looking
toward the right of Figure 4.
Figures 7 and 8 are sectional views of the staple-former, staple driver and
attachments illustrating said parts in different positions and the staple as completed
preparatory to clinching.
Figure 9 is a plan view of the top of the clamping anvil and clinching plate, and
Figure 10 is a detail view of the notched clinching plate or block carried in the
top of this anvil.
Figure 11 is a side view of the wiper cam which lifts and lowers the anvil.
Figure 12 is a side elevational view of the anvil itself illustrating also the wiper
cam and its operating lever in section.
Figures 13 and 14 are top and bottom plan views of the staple former, the
plunger and staple-driver and operative parts being detached.
Figure 15 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the inking, printing and
feeding rolls for the printing attachment.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
B is the base of the machine made preferably of cast metal and having upward y
extended parts to which the major portion of the operative parts are attached by
bolts extending from below into the paper guide Z (see Figures 1 and 3).

page_text: C is a cylindrical shaped anvil having vertical movement through the base B and
provided with a clinching plate m notched or curved at two places in its upper edge
said plate being secured by a pin m' as shown in Figure 5.
D is a wiper cam journalled by an upright shaft F in the base B and in such a
manner that when the handle H¹ carried by the shaft F is rotated, the anvil C
will be raised or lowered at will. K is a chisel or cutter carried at the upper end
of anvil C, see Figure 1.
H is the operating handle pivoted at P³ to the body A and provided with a
strong restoring springs for causing it to assume the position shown in Figure 1
after each operation.
G is a cylindrical staple-former having vertical movement through the body A
and in alignment with the anvil C which has a similar movement in the base Bas
already described, h is a detachable hook or stop for preventing the staple-former
and driver from being withdrawn from the body A. R¹ is a metal ring having an
internal diameter equal to that of the staple-former plunger G at its lower end and
an external diameter equal to that of the upper end of the same staple-former
plunger; the arrangement being such that this ring acts as a seat for a strong
spiral spring S which in turn sustains the staple-former plunger, see Figures 1
and 4.
One edge of this ring is lower than the other as shown, for the purpose of acting
as a stop for the binding wire w, as it is fed forward into positon. The ring is
secured to the inner face of the guide way W the upper end of which is hollowed as
shown to receive the free ends of two arms D1 D2 pivoted to the upper ends of the
staple-former plunger G. Staple forming devices e and e' are secured to the lower
end of the plunger G and located directly over the wire or strip of metal w; the
one on the left e being notched or grooved so as to permit it to shear off the wire
from which the staple is made when in the position shown in Figure 4.
P2 is a staple-driver having a vertical movement within the staple-former
plunger G and provided with a spiral restoring spring S' connected at the top end
to a collar secured to the inner wall of the staple-former plunger G and at the
other to a second collar carried by the staple driver. S is a cushion spring
located between the collar carried by the male plunger and an inwardly projecting
ledge at the bottom of the staple-former C.
The upper end of the staple-driver plunger rests normally between the lower
inner faces of the two upper ends of the pivoted arms D' and D' their free ends in
turn resting against the inner wall of the guideway W.
A lug or extension N carried by the handle H bears on the upper ends of the
pivoted arms D1 D2 and gives them downward motion as will be more fully
described in connection with the description of the mode of operation.
P is a block or mandrel of rectangular cross section at its free end and having
longitudinal sliding motion into and out of the path of the staple-former and
driver G and P'.
It is bevelled at its free end and notched on the under side; the bevel corre-
sponding to a similar bevel on the lower end of the staple-driver P* and the notch f
lying in the path of the chisel or cutter K. This mandrel is given positive longi-
tudinal motion by a pin secured through a screw s¹ to one end of a lever L pivoted
to the part A, the other end thereof carrying a pin p' lying below and in the path
of the operating handle H. This mandrel is returned by a retractile spring s
connected to the arm and a second arm secured to the body of the machine. See
Figure 2.
To the outer end of the mandrel P' is attached a pivoted rack t the teeth of
which are adapted when the rack moves inward in the direction of the arrow, to
give forward motion to a ratchet wheel carried by a shaft journalled in side
supports R, said shaft carrying also a feed roll P* adapted to feed forward a strip
of stiff paper from a roll carried on a parallel shaft. P is a printing roll having
any characteristic mark on its face as for instance the number and grade of the
sample of goods to be bound and Ps is an inking roll said rolls being supported in

page_text: journal hearings by the side supports R which sustain the ratchet wheel and feed
roll P. a is a guide groove through which the tag paper passes before it is cut
off by the knife K.
F is a feed wheel for the staple forming wire w. It is journalled at one side of
the machine and is provided with impelling mechanism consisting of a pawl t',
ratchet wheel operating link or arm L' slotted at its upper end and operatively
connected to a rigid arm A' secured directly to the operating handle H.
g' is a grooved guide wheel for the wire w pivotally secured beneath the feed
wheel F' and provided with an adjustable springs for varying the pressure on the
wire or metal strip between said wheels.
D, Figures 5, 7 and 8 represents a staple as produced during the various steps of
the operation of the machine which operation will now be described.
The steel wire or thin metal strip w of which the binding staples are to be made
is first fed forward by hand from a roll of the material not seen and passed between
the feed wheel F¹ and pressure wheel gi to the position shown in Figure 4 its free
end resting against the tip or projection of the ring R' seen on the right.
In like manner the marking paper from roll R2 is drawn forward by hand
between the feed roll P and printing roll P, each complete revolution of the roll P
making one impression, the character appearing on the upper surface of the strip
as it is fed forward.
The inner end of this marking strip at starting will therefore be allowed to rest
near and beneath the free end of the bolt P¹.
The material K to be bound or fastened (say for illustration several sheets of a
legal document) are now inserted with the top of the sheets resting on the clamping
anvil C, (see Figures 1 and 5) against the lateral face of the chisel or cutter K.
The handle H' of the cam D is now rotated so as to cause the latter to lift the
anvil and firmly clamp the sheets between it and the free rectangular end of
the sliding mandrel P¹.
The chisel or cutter K therefore severs the marking tag and the latter is held
securely between the upper sheet and the bolt.
The operating handle H is now forced suddenly downward.
The first movement imparted to this handle causes the staple-former G to be
forced forward through the action of the lug N and arms D' and D'
This causes the former e to shear or cut off the wire 10 and the continued motion
bends the staple in the manner shown in Figure 7 the staple-driver having during
this downward stroke remained at rest on the body of the staple carried by the top
face of the bolt P₁, the spring S¹ being of sufficient strength to maintain the driver
in this position and to thrust the completed staple into the position shown in
Figure 8 which occurs as soon as the mandrel P¹ is withdrawn.
This withdrawal of the mandrel P' is brought about as the handle H descends
through the agency of a pin p¹ and lever L acting on the arm secured to the
mandrel by a screw s
As the mandrel P' is withdrawn from under the staple the spring S¹ forces the
staple-driver forward into the position shown in Figure 8. A further advancement
of the handle H now brings the lug N into actual mechanical contact with the
upper end of the staple driver, the enlarged inner portion of the guideway W
allowing the arms to spread into the position shown in Figures 7 and 8. The legs
of the staple are therefore forced through the paper one on each side of the
indicating tag and into contact with the curves or notches in the block m and are
turned up or clinched into the paper as shown in Figure 5.
The last portion of the downward stroke of the lever or handle H causes the
arm A to strike the lower end of the slot in link or arm L', and to impart to its
pawl t one forward step into the next succeeding tooth of ratchet wheel r¹ so that
when the handle H is released and allowed to return under the influence of the
spring this pawl will impart to the feed wheel F' one step forward and again feed
the wire or strip w into the position shown in Figure 4 where it is ready for a
repetition of the act described.

page_text: At the same time the liberation of the handle H allows the springs S and S¹ to
restore the parts to their normal position and the mandrel P' is returned to its
normal position under the influence of spring s2, the marking paper having been fed
forward one step and a new tag printed.
The cam is now released and the document removed, the same operation being
repeated as many times as desired dependent of course upon the number of staples
or binders deemed necessary for each article to be bound.
It will be apparent that this device may be used for many purposes such for
instance as binding papers; samples of goods; joining leather belting and in fact
in any place where it is desired to unite two or more pieces of material whether laid
one or more upon another or side by side or end to end.
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. A binding machine having a staple-forming plunger, a staple driver and a
single operating handle for moving the plunger and driver in combination with
a staple-forming mandrel adapted to slide into the path of the plunger and driver,
said mandrel being connected through a pivoted lever with the operating handle,
substantially as described.
2. A binding machine having a staple-forming plunger provided with pivoted
arms at its upper end and adapted to move vertically in a hollow guide-way, a
staple-driver, a movable or sliding staple-forming mandrel and a single operating
lever operatively connected thereto and provided with means for forcing the plunger
forward to form the staple, separating the pivoted arms and driving the staple into
place substantially as described.
3. A binding machine having a staple-forming plunger, a staple driver, a single
operating handle for moving both, a staple-forming mandrel adapted to slide into
and out of the path of the plunger and driver, an. anvil located beneath the plunger
and driver, a wiper cam on which the anvil rests, a rock-shaft to which the cam is
secured, and an operating handle or lever for moving the cam and imparting
vertical motion to the anvil, substantially as described.
4. A binding machine having mechanism for forming and securing a binding
staple through the material to be bound, additional mechanism for printing a tag or
label, and mechanical connections between the binding and the printing mechanism
whereby the machine simultaneously binds the material and marks or labels it with
a distinguishing mark or character, substantially as described.
5. A binding machine having mechanism for forming and. clinching a staple
through the material to be bound or united, printing or recording apparatus for
printing or recording a definite mark or record on a tag held between each staple
and the bound material, a strip of metal from which the staples are formed, a strip
of paper on which the record is made, and mechanical connections between the
staple-forming and binding mechanism and the printing apparatus whereby the
parts all act conjointly to bind the material and label it, substantially as described.
Dd this 97th day of December 1802
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.