Improved Device for Gumming Tickets, Labels, and the like, and for Moistening the same.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1897-Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Gumming Tickets, Labels, and the like, and for
Moistening the same.
I, BERNHARD FRIEDRICH MICHAEL MAYKEMPER of Krenznach in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant, 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 :-
Hitherto in order to use gummed tickets, labels and the like for commercial
purposes, it was necessary to moisten them. The tickets required thus a double
manipulation, as they had first to be gummed and dried and then moistened when
required for use. Moreover it often occurred that when such tickets or labels were
stored they readily adhered one to the other and thus became useless.
The new apparatus which forms the object of this application combines the two
manipulations, as when a ticket or label is taken up for use out of this apparatus it
is at once coated with damp adhesive material or water and is then ready to be affixed
wherever required.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention Figure 1 shows such
an apparatus in plan, Figure 2 is a central longitudinal section, and Figure 3 is a
front view of the same.
A flat box A contains a space A¹ closed by means of a hinged or sliding cover B
wherein the tickets or labels are stored and another space A³ to receive a small box C
containing the adhesive material or water. In the sides of the space or compartment A²
or of the box C is arranged a roller D provided with journals in such a manner that
the roller dips sufficiently with its lower part into the adhesive material or water in
order to be moistened therewith as it turns round. The higher or raised bottom of
the space A¹ slopes upwards towards the roller D in order to facilitate the removal of
the ticket or label through the opening 6 formed in the lid B when this ticket or label
is seized by the fingers. On the opposite side, the lid B is furnished with an inclined
flap B in order to allow the space A¹ to be refilled with tickets or labels without
having to open the said lid.
In bearings 6¹ upon the lid B a wire axis F is arranged upon which are moveably
secured two weighted arms G the ends of which are made adjustable by screws g¹
having heads with milled edges. These arms G have for their object to press by
gravity with their points g upon the tickets or labels during withdrawal, thereby
holding the tickets down upon the roller moistened with adhesive material or water,
in order to make sure of these tickets or labels being uniformly moistened. The
arms G can be displaced on the wire axis F according to the width of the tickets or
labels and for the same purpose adjustable guides J are secured to the bottom a of
the space A' by means of screws i. In the box A a small water receptacle H is
arranged at the side in order to be able to moisten the fingers to readily remove the
tickets or labels.
The box as well as the roller or cylinder may be made of wood, metal glass,
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page_text: porcelain or of any other suitable material and the apparatus may be used for gumming
or moistening several adjacent tickets of labels, by suitably increasing its size.
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. Improved apparatus for gumming tickets or for moistening gummed tickets
wherein the tickets or labels as they are withdrawn from the box A over a roller D
turning in a receptacle C containing adhesive material or water, are moistened on
their underside by this material or water in order to be ready to be affixed anywhere,
said roller dipping at its lower part into the adhesive material or water and thereby
conveying the water to the ticket or label.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.