IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LAYING OUT PAPER, ENVELOPES, OR CARDS FOR BORDERING WITH BLACK OR OTHER PIGMENT."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Lyon, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Stationer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR LAYING OUT PAPER, ENVELOPES, OR CARDS FOR
BORDERING WITH BLACK OR OTHER PIGMENT."

page_text: When laying out open envelopes a cross bar is attached to the set
frame, such cross bar being provided with adjustable spring pins, against
which each envelope is in turn laid. A cover is fixed over the end of
the table so that the board passes freely under it, and the pile of
paper, envelopes, or cards is placed on this cover for convenience in
handling.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said William
Lyon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th January 1876
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
LYON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Stationer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Lyon, Her special
licence, that I, the said William Lyon, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Lyon, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
there expressed, should and lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR LAYING OUT PAPER, ENVELOPES, OR CARDS FOR BORDERING WITH
BLACK OR OTHER PIGMENT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Lyon, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office on or before the

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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Lyon, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement in writing, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, that is to say -
My said Invention relates to improved apparatus, by the aid of which
paper, envelopes, or cards can be laid out rapidly and with great
accuracy for being bordered with black or other pigment.
The apparatus comprises a table having on it an endless-cloth for
moving the board on which the articles are laid out, and this cloth
passes round rollers, one of which has fixed to it a ratchet wheel that is
acted on by a pawl lever, the stroke of which is adjusted in a peculiar
manner for different sizes of border. Each movement is accurately 1
defined through the stopping action of a strap which the pawl lever
tightons.
The paper sheets or other articles are laid by hand in succession into
the angle of a set frame, which rises with an angular movement, and
which is connected with the pawl lever, so as when rising to allow that ?
lever to act by a spring or weight and move forward the board, the
distance corresponding to the size of border in readiness for the laying of
the next sheet.
And in order that my said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet of a
explanatory Drawings to be berein-after referred to, and representing a
modification of my improved apparatus. In these Drawings the samo
reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever
they are repeated.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a plan, and Figuro 2 is a front elevation 3
of the apparatus, which comprises a table 1, having an endless cloth 2
passing along its top and round rollers 3, 4, at each end, and below a
Lightening roller 5 held by two arms 6, which are attached to the table,
each by a single screw to allow the whole weight of the roller to rest on
and keep the cloth 2 tightly stretched over the table and rollers. The 3
surface of one, 3, of the end rollers is roughened by coating with emery

page_text: powder so as to move the cloth 2 when the roller is turned, and by
means of a lever 7 centered on one of the end journals of the roller 3,
and having a pawl 8 jointed to it, which pawl acts on a ratchet feed
wheel 9 fixed to the roller 3 A step-by-step motion is imparted to the
endless cloth 2 and to a board 10 placed thercon A set frame 11, in
the form of a diagonal cross, is jointed to the table top at two of its
ends 12, 13, and a cord 14 attached to it passes over a guide pulley 15,
and is fastened by a screw nipper 16 to the lever 7 This cord 14
(shown at its extreme length) has to be shortened so as when the set
frame 11 is down, as shown in Figure 2, to bring the lower arm of the
lever 7 against a stop pin 17 in a quadrant 18, the pin 17 being placed
in a hole of the quadrant corresponding to the size of border required.
When the set frame 11 has been brought down upon the board 10 and
held there either by means of a handle 19 fixed on it, or by a treadlo 20,
to which it is connected by a cord 21, a sheet of the paper to be laid out
15 placed upon the board 10, with a corner of it in the angle formed by
the two shorter arms of the diagonal cross or frame 11, and with one
edge close against spring plates 22 and the other edge against a spring
pin 23 projecting down from the set frame. This frame is then liberated,
whereupon the lever 7 is drawn back by a rubber spring 24 to a stop
pin 25 in the quadrant 18, and the frame 11 is raised by the cord 14 at
the same time that the board 10 is moved forward a distanco corre-
sponding to the breadth of border required by the action of the lever 7
and pawl 8 on the ratchet wheel 9. As the lever 7 completes its stroko
it draws a friction strap 26 tight against the ratchet wheel, and thereby
prevents that wheel from being jerked too far. A pawl 27 fixed to the
table, and gearing with the ratchet wheel, prevents that wheel from
turning back when the set frame is brought down for the placing of the
next sheet of paper.
The extent of travel for the board 10 at cach stroke of the lever 7 1s
determined by the position of the stop pin 17 in the quadrant 18 and
the adjustment of the cord 14, as before described. The diameter of
the roller 3, acting on the endless cloth 2, may be modified by movable
rubber rings 28 so as to obtain a breadth of border for which the ratchet
wheel may not be otherwise adapted. The spring pin 23 fixed at one
side of the diagonal cross or set frame 11 is shown of its full size in
Figure 3, and the two spring plates 22 at the other side of the frame 11
are also shown full size in Figure 4, which is a vertical section, and in

page_text: Figure 5, which is an elevation The plates 22 work freely up and
down in grooves in a plate 29 fixed on the set frame 11, and arc acted
on by a spring adjusted by a screw 30, and bearing on pins fast on the
plates 22, and passing through slots in the plates 29. They are thus
enabled to accommodate themselves to inequalities in the paper and to
insure proper contact at both sides so as to prevent the next sheet laid
from getting under them Inclined wires or guides 31 arc fixed to the
plate 29 to correct any tendency to curl or turn up of each sheet as it
is being laid.
. When laying out open envelopes a cross bar is attached to the set 1
frame 11, as shown by red lines in Figure 1, by the screws 32, and is
provided with adjustable spring pins 33; a side-view of one of which is
shown in Figure 6, and which are fixed by screws closer or further apart
on the bar to suit the size of envelope. Onc Joint 12 of the set frame
11 is hinged to the table, and by removing the pin at the other joint 13 1
the set frame may be turned up to one side A cover 34 is hinged to
one end of the table, being shaped so that the board 10 passes freely
under it, and the pile of paper, envelopes, or cards is placed on this
cover for convenience in handling
Having thus particularly described my said Invention and the manner 2
of performing the same, I have to state that I do not restrict myself to
the precise details herein described or delineated, but that what I
believe to be novel and original, and claim as the Invention secured
to me by the hercin-before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1 The arrangement or combination of parts forming apparatus for 2
laying out paper, envelopes, or cards for bordering with black or other
pigment, wherein the board in which the articles are laid out is moved
by an endless cloth actuated by a roller which is turned by means of a
ratchet wheel and pawl lever having a stroke which is adjustablo for
different sizes of boider, as herein-before described.
2 The combination of a brake strap, with the pawl lever so as to
tighten against the wheel and stop its motion as the lever reaches the
end of its stroke, as herein-before described.
3
3 The arrangement of the set frame so as to lift with an angular
movement, and the connecting of the set frame by an adjustable cord 3
to the pawl lover so as when lifted to allow the lever to perform its

page_text: effective stroke by the action of a spring or weight, as herein-before
described.
4. The herein-before described arrangements for or modes of adjusting
the parts for different sizes of border.
In witness whereof, 1, the said William Lyon, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Nineteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Six