New or Improved Machinery for Sticking Pins.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
[Communicated from abroad by Thomas Atwood, of Waterbury, Connecticut,
United States of America, Pin Manufacturer.]
New or Improved Machinery for Sticking Pins.
I RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD, Managing Director of Kirby, Beard & Co.
Limited of Ravenhurst Works Bradford Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Pin and Needle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
"
The said invention consists of machinery constructed and operating as hereinafter
described for sticking pins in strips or bands of crimped paper, which process is
commonly called sticking pins." Machinery constructed according to the said
invention is to a large extent automatic; that is, the crimping of the paper and
several of the stages of the process of "sticking" which have been heretofore done
by hand are effected by the machine.
For the sake of brevity I will for the most part trace a single pin through the
machine but it must be understood that the number of pins constituting a row on
the paper of stuck pins are in most of the stages operated upon simultaneously.
The pins to be stuck are fed into the machine from an inclined hopper the
bottom of which consists of a slotted rail in the slot of which the stems or bodies
of the pins bang vertically the heads resting on the sides of the slot. At the
bottom of the feeding slotted rail is a horizontal square threaded screw. Imme-
diately over this screw a curved plate is situated the said plate extending for a
short distance along the screw and following the curvature of the screw.
The pin
is received at the bottom of the slotted rail by the said screw, the stem or body of
the pin occupying the trough of the screw thread, the head of the pin resting
on the summit of the screw thread and between the said screw thread and the
curved plate described. As the pin advances by the rotation of the screw the
curved plate immediately over its head slowly changes the position of the pin from
a vertical into a horizontal position. The pin now rests by its middle in a
horizontal position and is carried across the machine in that position by the action
of the screw, the head of the pin bearing against the vertical face of a sliding plate
hereinafter described, the said face being parallel to the axis of the screw. The
said sliding plate is capable of a sliding motion by which it travels slowly backwards
and forwards across the bed of the machine and also of a rising and falling motion.
The upper part of the face of the plate has a horizontal row of holes equal in
number to the number of pins in each row of pins, the said holes being of a size
suitable for the reception of the heads of the pins and at a distance apart equal to
the distance apart of the pins to be stuck. A row of pins having been brought
into the horizontal position indicated, the plate descends until its holes are opposite
the heads of the pins. The said plate commences its sliding motion, which is at
the same rate as the advance of the thread of the screw. The rotation of the
screw pushes the pins into the said holes until about two thirds of the stem or
body of the pin is in the hole. The plate, each hole in which contains a pin, now
rises to the level of the crimping made in the paper in which the pins are to be
stuck. A series of pistons in the rear ends of the holes in the plate advance and
push forward the pins which are thereby forced through the crimped paper and
the sticking of the row of pins is thereby completed. The operations described

page_text: are repeated until the arranged number of rows of pins have been stuck in the
crimped paper.
The crimping of the paper is effected by an automatic crimper differing in no
essential respect from that ordinarily employed.. The strip or band of paper is
passed through the machine with the required intermittent motion by means of a
drum at the rear of the machine. The plain band of paper is passed by hand
down an incline and its end gripped by a spring on the drum. By the intermittent
motion of the said drum the paper rests while being crimped and while the pins
are being forced through the crimpings; it then advances through a distance equal
to the distance between the rows of pins and again comes to rest for the
reception of another row of pins. The distance through which the paper travels
is greater at about its middle or other part where it is required to have a printed
label so that that part shall not be crimped or have pins stuck in it.
The motions of the different parts of the machine are taken from a driving shaft
and countershaft by means of trains of wheels and a system of cams arranged
to produce at the required times the described motions of the several parts of the
machine as described.
Dated this 5th day of May 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD Managing Director of Kirby, Beard & Co.
Limited of Ravenhurst Works, Bradford Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Pin and Needle Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of the said
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 consists of machinery constructed and operating as hereinafter
described for sticking pins in strips or bands of crimped paper, which process is
commonly called " sticking pins. Machinery constructed according to the said
invention is to a lage extent automatic; that is, the crimping of the paper and
several of the stages of the process of "sticking" which have been heretofore done
by hand are effected by the machine.
For the sake of brevity I will for the most part trace a single pin through the
machine but it must be understood that the number of pins constituting a row on
the paper of stuck pins are in most of the stages operated upon simultaneously.
The pins to be stuck are fed into the machine from an inclined hopper the bottom
of which consists of a slotted rail in the slot of which the stems or bodies of the
pins hang vertically the heads resting on the sides of the slot. At the bottom of
the feeding slotted rail is a horizontal square threaded screw. Immediately over
this screw a curved plate is situated the said plate extending for a short distance
along the screw and following the curvature of the screw. The pin is received at
the bottom of the slotted rail by the said screw, the stem or body of the pin
occupying the trough of the screw thread, the head of the pin resting on the
summit of the screw thread and between the said screw thread and the curved plate
described. As the pin advances by the rotation of the screw the curved plate
immediately over its head slowly changes the position of the pin from a vertical
into a horizontal position. The pin now rests by its middle in a horizontal position
and is carried across the machine in that position by the action of the screw, the
head of the pin bearing against the vertical face of a sliding plate hereinafter
described, the said face being parallel to the axis of the screw.
The said sliding

page_text: plate is capable of a sliding notion by which it travels slowly backwards and
forwards across the bed of the machine and also of a rising and falling motion.
The upper part of the face of the plate has a horizontal row of holes equal in
number to the number of pius in each row of pins, the said holes being of a size
suitable for the reception of the heads of the pins and at a distance apart equal to
the distance apart of the pins to be stuck. A row of pins having been brought into
the horizontal position indicated the plate descends until its holes are opposite the
heads of the pins.
The said plate commences its sliding motion, which is at
the same rate as the advance of the thread of the screw. The rotation of the
screw pushes the pins into the said holes until about two thirds of the stem or body
of the pin is in the hole. The plate each hole in which contains a pin, now
rises to the level of the crimping made in the paper in which the pins are to be
stuck. A series of pistons in the rear ends of the holes in the plate advance and
push forward the pins which are thereby forced through the crimped paper and
the sticking of the row of pins is thereby completed. The operations described
are repeated until the arranged number of rows of pins have been stuck in the
crimped paper.
The crimping of the paper is effected by an automatic crimper differing in no
essential respect from that ordinarily employed. The strip or band of paper is
passed through the machine with the required intermittent motion by means of a
drum at the rear of the machine. The plain band of paper is passed by hand down
an incline and its end gripped by a spring on the drum. By the intermittent
motion of the said drum the paper rests while being crimped and while the pins
are being forced through the crimpings; it then advances through a distance
equal to the distance between the rows of pins and again comes to rest for the
reception of another row of pins. The distance through which the paper travels
is greater at about its middle or other part where it is required to have a printed
label so that that part shall not be crimped or have pins stuck in it.
The motions of the different parts of the machine are taken from a driving
shaft and countershaft by means of trains of wheels and a system of cams arranged
to produce at the required times the described motions of the several parts of the
machine.
Figures and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent respectively in plan
and end elevation the machinery for sticking pins constituting the said invention;
Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 represent parts of the same drawn to a larger
scale than Figures 1 and 2.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawings.
The
u, a is the inclined slotted rail down which the pins to be stuck pass from the
hopper to the sticking machine, the bodies or stems of the said pins hanging
vertically between the two bars of the said rail the heads of the said pins resting
upon and being supported by the said bars. On reaching the bottom of the
slotted rail a, a the said pins are received between the threads of the square
threaded feeding screw the heads passing onto the edge of the curved
screw-like guide plate c (sce the enlarged views Figures 4, 5 and 6).
edge of the feeding screw adjacent to the slotted rail a is conical and the
distance between the threads at that part is but slightly greater than the thickness
of the stems or bodies of the pins, so that only one pin can occupy the space
between adjacent threads of the screw. As the feeding screw & is slowly
rotated the pins travel along the screw and by the action of the said guide
plate e on their heads the position of the said pins is changed from a vertical into
a horizontal position is a stop plate against which the heads of the pins
strike should they tend to travel in a transverse direction on the screw and
cand e are supporting plates for the point ends of the screws.
:
The heads of the said pins as they are carried forward in their horizontal
position by the screw 6 bear, when they pass the stop plate c², against the vertical
edge of the sliding plate & which constitutes a pin receiving and carrying plate as

page_text: nereinafter particularly described. The pin receiving plate d has a reciprocating
motion in a horizontal plane and also an angular motion in a vertical plane. The
1ow of pins are fed into a row of holes in the pin receiving plate d and are
carried by the said plate and presented to the crimped paper in the following
manner.
When a sufficient number of pins (say thirty) to form a row have been carried
forward each pin occupying a trough in the feeding screw, the point ends of the
said pins resting on the plate (Figure 3), the pin receiving plate d is in the
position indicated in dotted lines in Figure 3 and in the back position indicated in
dotted lines in the plan Figure 1. In this position of the pin receiving plate d
the row of holes in the said plate is presented to the heads of the row of pins
which have been brought forward by the feeding screw, so that on the continued
rotation of the said screw b the said pins are gradually and simultaneously
advanced into the said holes in the plate d, the said plate now travelling forward
at the same rate as the pins on the screw. By the time the pin receiving plate a
has reached the end of its forward motion (represented in the plan Figure 1)
the pins have passed from off the screw into the holes in the said plate d. The
pin receiving plate d now rises into the position represented in Figure 3 and
commences its back motion, in that raised position, at the end of which motion
the row of pins is brought opposite the crimping 2, f2 in the paper in which the
pins are to be stuck (see Figure 3). By the projecting motion of a series of
pistons g, the fore ends of which in the normal position of the parts are
situated behind the heads of the pins in the holes in the plate d, the said
pins are forced forward out of the said holes and are stuck in the crimped
paper (see Figure 3). The pistons g being withdrawn, the plate d falls
and the unoccupied row of holes is presented to the next row of pins which
have been brought forward by the feeding screw b and the operations before
described are repeated.
The motious of the feeding screw and pin receiving plate are effected as
follows: :―
The feeding screw is rotated by the gearing of the pinion 62 with the toothed
wheel on the main or driving shaft h. The driving shaft gives motion through
the toothed wheels h² 2, 3, e² to the shafts and e. Say, the pin receiving plate d
is in position to receive a row of pins, that is, in the positions indicated in
dotted lines in Figures and 3. On the rotation of the shaft e the acting
part of the face cam on the said shaft e coming in contact with the stud d³
on the pin receiving plate d the said plate is made to travel in the direction
of the pins on the screw and at the same rate as the said pins on the
screw. During this motion as before stated, the pins are gradually and
simultaneously passed into the holes in the edge of the plate d. When the pin
receiving plate d has reached the end of its forward motion the "rise" of the cain k
on the shaft i acting on the lump or projection d² on the underside of the plate d
raises the said plate into the position represented in Figure 3, the said plate
turning by means of its knuckles d' on the shaft e as a centre. The acting part
of the face cam retiring from off the stud the spring m which has been
compressed by the forward motion of the plate d causes the return or back motion
of the plate by which motion the row of pins in the holes is brougnt opposite the
crimped part 2 of the paper f
The pistons for ejecting the pins from the holes in the plate d and for sticking
the ejected pins into the crimped paper are operated by the following arrangement
of parts.
On the shaft e is a disc or plate n having a wiper n² and a looper n³. The plate d
having reached the end of its back stroke the wiper m² comes in contact with the
arm of the piston carrier 93 and forces the said piston carrier g' and
pistons g forward (see Figure 3) by which motion the row of pins is stuck in the
crimped paper f. The wiper n' escaping the arm 9 the hook shaped end of the
looper (see Figure 7) engages with the arm ³ and withdraws the piston

page_text: carrier g² and pistons y into their back or normal position. The cam k permits the
plated to descend to the plane in which the pins on the screw are situated and the
face cam again coming into operation the said plate moves in the direction of
motion of the said pins and the actions before described are repeated.
The crimping and paper feeding mechanism of the machine are represented
drawn to a large scale, in Figures 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
The crimping tool u differs in no essential respect from that ordinarily employed
and is actuated by means of the cam v acting on the bell crank lever o connected
to the vertical rods ', ' on which rods the crimping tool u works as will be well
understood by an examination of the drawing. The said crimping tool is shown
in its normal or out of action position in Figures 3 and 8 and in its acting or
crimping position in Figure 9.
The band or sheet of paper f (see Figure 3) on which the pins are to be stuck
is intermittently fed forward by the mechanism hereinafter described, the said
paper being brought to rest while the crimping tool operates and while the pins
are stuck.
The paper is then advanced through a distance equal to that which is
required to separate the rows of pins from one another when it again comes to
rest. When the whole band or sheet of paper has been stuck it is automatically
released in the way hereinafter described and falls from the machine.
The band of paper fis fed down the incline p (see Figure 3) by hand the end
of the band passing under the end of the open paper gripping lever (see
Figure 8) turning on the pivot q' crossing the drum from side to side. The
said paper gripping lever is supported in its open position against the action
of its spring by the spring bolt 1 working in the bearing block 2, the lump
or enlargement 2 on the lever q on the rotation of the drum coming against
the said spring bolt 1. On the descent of the crimper u, a pin u² acting on an
incline on the lever y (see Figure 10) effects the withdrawal of the spring
bolt 1 and the lever is closed by the action of its spring y the free end of
the said lever 7 snapping on the end of the band or sheet of paper and securing the
said sheet of paper to the drum. The first row of pins having been stuck the
drum commences its intermittent rotary motion, the said intermittent motion being
effected in the manner hereinafter described. The paper coiled on the drum is
prevented from buckling or becoming slack by the weighted lever z which drops,
on the drum commencing its rotory motion, from the position represented in
Figure 8 into that represented in Figure 9, the pin R' on the drum r passing from
under the arm by which the said weighted lever is raised.
2
The drum r is mounted loosely on the shaft t turning in the bearing blocks 2, 2
the said shaft having on one end the arm t² connected by means of the connecting
rods (see Figure 2) to the crank pin s2 on the toothed wheel 2. The said shaft t
has a disc on it to which is fixed the plate spring t carrying the stud t³. Fixed
on the side of the drum r adjacent to the disc 3 is a studed disc R the number of
studs on which is equal to the number of rows of pins to be stuck on the sheet or
band of paper. The arrangement represented is designed to stick twelve rows of
pins on the sheet the studs on the disc R being marked respectively rl, 2, 3 and so
on up to 12 In order to provide a spare or blank at the middle of the sheet for a
label or printed advertisement, a greater space is arranged between the studs
and. than between the other studs and the stud is of a greater length than the
others for the purpose hereinafter described.
Around the disc R is a ring o of such a thickness that its outer edge or face
projects slightly beyond the ends of the studs on the said disc R. The said ring o
has a cut away part at o2 the upper shoulder of which is inclined as represented in
the plan Figure 11. The ring o is retained in the position represented by the
spring of attached to the projection of and by the rod or prop o' on the top of the
ring o bearing against the fixed stop 3.
11
The stud on the spring passes through a hole in the disc t³ and its head bears
when opposite the slot o³, partly on the disc R and partly on the outer face of the
ring o. The upper edge of the head of the stud ts is bevilled. On the motion of

page_text: the arm 2 in the direction of the arrow in Figure 9 the disc 3 together with its
spring and stud to move over the disc R and ring o. On the bevilled edge of the
edge of the head of the stud to striking against the stud of the disc R opposite the
slot o² the spring yielding the said stud to escapes the stud of the disc R and
riding up the inclined edge of the slot o² passes from off the disc R and moves
into the position represented in Figure 8 without communicating any motion to the
said disc R. On the back motion of the arm t2 and disc t³ and parts carried by it,
that is, on their motion in the direction of the dotted arrow in Figure 8 the head
of the stud travels over the ring o without giving motion to the disc R until the
said stud to reaches the said slot o2 when its head engaging with the stud of the
disc R situated opposite the said slot o² namely the stud in Figure 8, the said
disc R receives a partial rotation.
The operations described are repeated until six rows of pins have been stuck.
When the sixth row of pins has been stuck the stud takes the position occupied
by the stud in Figure 8 and the stud takes the position of the stud in the
said Figure 8. As the stud is of greater length than the others and projects
beyond the ring the stud t, on the back motion of the arm 2 (that is, in the
direction of the dotted arrow in Figure 8) engages with the stud before reaching
the slot o² and draws the disc R and drum through a distance equal to three
divisions, the stud 8 at the end of this motion occupying the middle of the slot o
By this means the middle portion of the sheet or band of paper carrying the label
or printed advertisement is coiled on the drum without being crimped and stuck
with pins. The operations described are repeated until the drum r has completed
its rotation.
When the drum r has nearly completed a rotation the lump or enlargement q² on
the lever q coming against the bolt 1 the said lever is opened and the end of the
paper engaged in it is liberated; simultaneously the pin R' coming under the
arm of the weighted lever the weight is raised from off the rear end of the paper
and the pin stuck sheet or band falls from the machine.
Another sheet of paper being passed from the incline p into the machine the
operations hereinbefore described are repeated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as the said invention of "New or improved machinery for sticking
pins";-
First. In pin sticking machines the use of the feeding screw and guide plate
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings by which the
pins are fed forward at the required distances apart and are turned from a vertical
into a horizontal position substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Secondly. In pin sticking machines the combination with the feeding screw of a
pin receiving plate having in it a row of holes for receiving the row of pins brought
forward by the feeding screw and presenting the said pins to the crimped paper
into which they are to be stuck and the combination with the said pin receiving
plate of a series of pistons for ejecting the row of pins from the said plate and
pushing them at the proper time into the crimped paper, the said pin receiving
plate and ejecting pistons being combined and worked substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. The arrangement or combination of parts of mechanism hereinbefore
described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings for giving the reciprocating
and rising and falling or angular motion to the pin receiving plate substantially as
herein before described and illustrated.
Fourthly. The arrangement or combination of parts of mechanism hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings for operating the piston
carrier and pistons for ejecting the said pins from the holes in the pin receiving
plate and sticking them in the crimped paper substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated.

page_text: Fifthly. In pin sticking machines the use of a drum for receiving the pin stuck
paper, the said drum receiving an intermittent rotary motion; and the combination
with the said drum of a paper gripping lever which is automatically closed and
opened substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Sixthly. The arrangement or combination of parts hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 2, 3, 8, 9 10 and 11 for effecting the intermittent motion of
the paper winding drum and the gripping and releasing of the paper thereon
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-sixth day of January 1895.
RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD