Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Marking Tags.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1895-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1896
COMPLEIE
DIECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CHRISTIAN J. WEINMAN and EDWARD É.
EUCHENHOFER, both of Dayton, State of Ohio, United States of America,
Machinists.]
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Marking Tags.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 31, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondents, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention has for its object to construct an improved machine for the
manufacture of marking tags.
These tags consist as shewn in Figure 20 of a piece of paper or the like having
a staple secured to one end and holes in the other end through which the staple
may be passed to secure the tag to any desired article.
The improved machine only requires to be supplied with a roll of paper
and a spool of wire and when set in motion automatically manufactures the tags
without further attention until the supply of paper or wire is exhausted.
The machine is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tag-machine.
Figure 2 is a top view of the same.
Figure 3 is a rear end view with a portion cut away.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal.vertical section on line x x Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a top plan, all the mechanism above the bed-plate being removed.
Figure 6 is an enlarged front end view of the staple forming mechanism.
Figure 7 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the same.
Figure 8 is a similar section through the staple former.
Figure 9 is a similar section through the punch.
Figure 10 is an enlarged detail view of mechanism for bending up the staple.
Figure 11 is an enlarged top plan of the wire guide and cross section of the
former.
Figure 12 is an enlarged cross section of the wire guide.
Figure 13 is an enlarged end view of the wire tension device.
Figure 14 is a side elevation of same.
Figure 15 is an enlarged side elevation of the registering device.
Figure 16 is a central vertical section of same.
Figure 17 is a modified form of mechanism for bending up the wire staple.
Figures 18 and 19 are front elevations showing the operation of the machine.
Figure 20 is a perspective of the tag made by the machine.
Like letters and numerals designate like parts throughout the several views.
A is a cast iron frame and may be mounted on legs or otherwise. Near the
centre of the frame are the uprights A2, and near the front end are the uprights A¹.
At the rear and external to the frame is attached a support for a roll of paper-
not shewn in the drawing.
The guide 17 is attached to the frame and near this are standards holding the
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page_text: The top one of the feed rollers which is loosely mounted upon its shaft is slightly
eccentric from its bearing in the uprights; and to the bearing shaft is attached
the handle 16 by which the top roller is forced down against its fellow, and thus
the paper is held snugly between the two rollers.
In bearings in the rear portion of the frame is supported the shaft 48 to which
is attached on the near side of the frame, in the order named, the balance wheel 6*,
cog wheels and 5; and to the rear side the cam 9, the driving pulley 8 and loose
pulley 7. The arm 10 which engages the groove of the cam has a fixed pivot
which has a bearing in the axle of the roller 14. To this arm is pivoted the
pawl 11, which engages the ratchet-wheel 12 fixedly attached to the axle of said
roller. The rotation of the cam gives a reciprocating movement to the arm, and
through the agency of the pawl, the paper is carried forward between the rollers;
and thus intermittently paper from the roll is supplied to the machine. The action
of the rollers is to carry the paper over the tympan 19 through the guide 18 over
the plate 47 where the wire clasp is inserted and the completed tag is cut off by
the shears.
A well known form of printing device is attached at the centre of the machine,
the driving shaft 49 being supported in bearings in the side of the frame, and the
motion is derived from the principal shaft 48, the two shafts being connected by
the cog wheels 5 and 6. To the latter, and its fellow wheel outside of the back
of the frame, are attached crank pins and the pitmans 21, connect said pins with
the axles of the cylindrical bed-plate 20. In the under side of this plate is the
bed in which the type are locked. External to the ends of this bed-plate is a
frame, the centre of which embraces the axles of said bed-plate; and the cog
wheels of said frame engage a rack attached to the inside of the principal frame.
Within this inking frame are held a series of rollers, and a supply roller with
basin, and these rotate over the surface of the bed-plate and type to supply the ink
for the impression made on the tag, when the bed-plate is brought down to the
tympan 19. Near the top and on the back of the frame is attached a well-known
form of register. The same is operated by a pin in the end of the shaft 51, and
the gear is so arranged that the hammer strikes the gong when one thousand tags
have been made.
The series of cog-wheels, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are all of the same diameter, and
effect their revolutions in the same time. The wheels 2 and 3 are idlers supported
on hubs attached to the part of the frame A2, and through these wheels are com-
municated the power from the driving-shaft 48 to the shaft 51 through their
respective cog wheels. To the shaft 51 are attached the two cams 34 and 35. On
the cross-bar of the part of the frame A¹, are the adjustable standards 52 and 53,
in which the arms 21 and 22 are pivoted. The latter through an intervening
link connects the cam 35 with the slide B, held in the grooves of the parts CC.
The said cam communicates to said slide an irregular reciprocating motion. To
the lower part, and to the right of the centre of said slide, is a holder-see
Figure 6-in which are held the two punches 30. These with their entering plates
serve to punch two holes in the end of the tag.
The cam 34 gives an irregular reciprocating movement to the arm 21 which is
connected by a link to the rod 54, which is held in a bearing in the top of slide B,
and in the former 28, held rigidly in the lower part of said slide. On the back of
this slide is attached a slotted plate 31, on two lugs, which engage a short arm 60
supported on a shaft 61 in part A' of the frame. On the same shaft extending
obliquely downward is an arm 33 to which a square bar 33* is attached, and which
slides in a lug of the side of the frame. As the slide is raised by the cam, the
short arm 60 is engaged and the bar 33* is thrust forward; and after a staple
of wire is formed over the same, the same is withdrawn by the downward
movement of the slide, the upper lug engaging said short arm.
To the arm A3 of the frame, at its end, is the binding-plate 46, beneath which
the wire W passes, and which gives a degree of tension to the same.
pivoted the arm 43, one end of which connects with the cam 42, and the other is
On a lug is

page_text: connected with the arm 44, and to the outer end of which is connected the clamp 45,
which engages the wire and alternately feeds the same into the machine. A side
view of the clamp is shown at Figure 5.
The cutter-guide 34* is held rigidly in the side of the frame, and is in two
parts, divided horizontally, and having a groove on the inner face of one part,
which is traversed by the wire as the same is drawn into the machine. A part of
the inner end is bevelled and an incline of the former 28 abuts the same, and as
said former is being carried downward, the wire is cut off obliquely, thus forming
fine points on the clasp. The instant the wire is cut, the former engages the
severed piece and carrying the same over the square bar 33* thus forming a staple.
Previously, the paper has been carried on to the base-plate 47, the bar is with-
drawn to the rear and the further downward movement of the former carries the
wire staple down through the paper, and at this instant, the arm 23 strikes the
rod 24, which causes the arm 26 to rise, and one point of said wire staple is closed
against the under side of the paper; thus leaving one of the points in the slot in
the base-plate, which is carried forward in a vertical position. This is the point
which enters the opposite end of the tag and forms the fastening to merchandise.
In Figure 10 is a detailed view of the parts that close one point of the clasp. The
rod 24 is held up by spiral spring 27, and the same is carried down as before
described. The closing arm 26 and the operating arm 25 are held on the shaft,
having a bearing in the base-plate 47. At Figure 17 is shown a modified form of
the device, the rod would strike the top of the operating arm, and the spring 27
would carry up said arm. In Figure 10 w¹ is the staple form of the wire before it
pierces the paper and w² is the form when fastened to the paper. On the shaft 49
inside of the frame is attached the cam 37, this gives an irregular reciprocating
motion to the arm 38, pivoted to the shaft 50. In the end of this arm is a slot in
which the pin 39 moves. This pin carries the pivotal arms held on the same shaft,
and to the outer ends of which is attached the cutter-blade 41, held in grooves of
the frame. The plate 32 is bolted to the frame and against the edge of this, the
cutter acts to separate the paper, thereby delivering a completed tag. The
functions of the respective parts are given with a description of the mechanism,
and it is only necessary to add that the distinct operative. parts perform their
functions in a regular succession or simultaneous, in one revolution of the driving
shaft.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a tag-machine the combination of the cam 35, arm 22, slide B, carrying
punches 30, as a means of perforating paper on the base 47 having therein punch-
orifices; the cam 34, arm 21, rod 54, to which arm 23 is attached, and at the lower
end the former and cutter 28, the square bar 33* with pivotal parts, and arm to
engage lug 31 of the slide to operate the same, to form a staple of the wire; the
rod 24 with spiral spring 27 to elevate said rod, arms 25 and 26 to bend up one
point of the clasp; the wire feed comprising cam 42, arm 43, reciprocating arm 44
and catch 45; the wire guide and cutter-plate 34, with suitable mechanism to
supply paper to the base 47, substantially as set forth.
2. In a tag mechanism the combination of the cam 37, arm 38 with slotted end,
the pin 39, arms 40 held on said pin, the cutter 41, with its adjacent plate 32 as a
means to cut off a portion of paper for a tag and suitable mechanism to feed said
paper alternately from a roll, substantially as set forth.
3. In a tag-machine, the combination of the cam 35 with its connecting
arm 22, the vertical slide B, the cam 34, with its connecting arm 21; the
vertical sliding rod 54, to which arm 23 is attached, the former 28, the bar 33*
with pivotal parts, the lugs 31 of the former slide, the rod 24 to elevate the same,
and the arms 25 and 26 to bend up the point of the formed staple, substantially
described.

page_text: 4. A machine for making marking tags constructed substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings and operating as specified.
Dated this 31st day of December 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
31, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.