Improvements in or relating to Machines for Labelling or Marking Cotton Reels and other articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
CONT LEIDDI MUIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Machines for Labelling or Marking
Cotton Reels and other articles.
I, CARL ANDREAS VIKTOR HÄLLGREN, Master Workman, Grefmagnigatan 13,
Stockholm, Sweden, 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 machine is principally intended for labelling cotton reels, that is for
applying the small labels on the ends of the cotton reels, but at the same time it is
to be understood that other objects may also be labelled.
The following refers only to labelling cotton reels, because if other objects are
to be labelled, the machine needs only to be subjected to certain modifications as
to dimensions. The cotton reels are placed in rows upon a table and are fed
forwards one at a time, so as to arrive between two bands which being turned on the
edge are running around a paste roller and fetch the labels. When these arrive
in front of the reel, two wheels rotating in opposite directions near the ends of the
reel, press the labels provided with paste against the latter, whereupon the
machine brings the reel out upon another table. When this table, upon which
the reels are likewise arranged in rows, has become filled, it is emptied.
The machine also controls the labelling of the reels on either end or if a reel is
defective there is special provision for leading it out of the machine.
On the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a front view, Figure 2 a plan and Figure 3
an end view of the machine. The other figures show details.
The reels are placed upon the table a in rows going across the table, the
arranging of the rows being made by a box, the end piece of which is removable.
The filled box of the same width as the table is placed upon the latter, the end
piece is removed and the box withdrawn whereby the reels, that were disposed in
rows in the box, remain in rows upon the table. The latter is inclined, as it will
be seen in Fig. 4, and the reels roll down automatically towards the shoulder b
against which the first row of reels will thus rest. In front of the lower end of
the table a an endless belting a', Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5 is running. Upon this a row
of reels is let down, whereupon the belting, by its advancing by steps as shown by
the arrow in Fig. 1 brings a reel at a time into the machine. When the row is
consumed, another row is let down upon the belting. This letting down of one
row after another is effected in the following way. Across the table a there
are two bows and which can be raised having their pivots, the former at b*
and the latter at 6 at the sides of the table. The first row of reels is resting
upon the belting, the second against the bow and the third and following
against b. Further there is fixed at the side of the table a bent lever c, Figs. 2
and 4, which pivotted at c is with the one end resting against an eccentric fixed
on the shaft and with the other end being bent downwards standing straight
above the belting a¹. Against the horizontal part of the bent lever the screw
fixed at the bow b is resting and the screw c³, Fig. 4, fixed at the lengthened end
of the bow b¹ is resting against the pivot . At every revolution of the shaft F
the eccentric allows the bent lever to turn so as to lower its upper end. If there
are reels on the belting, the said end of the lever can evidently not sink lower
down than to the reel but if there is no reel under the same (the end of the lever),
which occurs, when all the reels upon the belting have passed the lever C, it sinks
lower. In the last event, the pivot 2 encounters the screw and the bow b¹ is
raised, so that the row of reels resting against the same can fall down upon the
belting a. At the following raising of the part c (higher than shown by Fig. 4)

page_text: effected by the eccentric the bow b is raised owing to the arrangement of the screw b³
mentioned above, and the next row of reels falls down against the bow. Such a
raising of the bow b takes place at every revolution of the shaft F, but a new row
of reels cannot fall down against the bow b¹ until the row resting against this bow
has been let down upon the belting a' in the described manner. The part c acts
thus as a feeler having care that the belting a¹ running in a gutter, is filled with
reels as long as there are any reels upon the table a.
From the belting a¹ the reel is brought up between the two parallel bands C
serving as label transporters and running around the roller C¹ provided with slots
for the bands and the pulleys C2. This transport is performed by the slide A¹
moving up and down and provided with a side shoulder A, Figs. 5-11, somewhat
hollow at the top.
When the slide receiving its motion from the lever A' and the
eccentric A³, Fig. 3, is occupying its lower position, Fig. 1, the top of the
shoulder A is in a line with the top of the belting a', Fig. 10. A plate at
serves as a bridge between the shoulder A and the highest point of the pulley A³,
around which the belting a¹ is running. The reel having by the belting been
pushed upon the shoulder A, it stops against a shoulder ao and is raised by
the slide, so as to bring the reel in the position between the bands C indicated
by the circle a, Fig. 12, which together with Fig. 13 represents the band C
viewed from the side and in plan. The labels consisting of small round bits of
paper are placed one upon another in two receptacles B B, Figs. 15 and 16.
These receptacles being pipes, which at the top are provided with longitudinal
openings, are directed towards the roller Crunning in a paste box C³ and are
fixed at a pivotted bow C₁ so that they can be approached to or removed from
the roller. The labels are resting against a little hook d and leaning against
a tongue d¹ When the receptacles, being located directly in front of the
slots of the bands C C in the roller C₁ are lowered towaids the roller when
thus being at rest and then again raised, the downmost label will stick to the
pasted roller. In Fig. 13 two such labels are designated by means of dotted
circles d³. When roller and beltings afterwards are put in motion as indicated
by the arrow in Fig. 12, the labels will stick to the bands going out from the
oller, which likewise are pasted as they are passing through the box C³.
The bands and the labels have first a horizontal position, but are by and bye
turned on the edge by the rollers d ds. The labels brought along by the
bands arrive at last in front of the reel and rather close to the ends of this,
Fig. 12, where the circle a designates the label. The reel and the labels are
likewise indicated in Fig. 5 where also the bands Care viewed in transverse
section. The labels are stuck to the ends of the reel by means of two small
wheels D D serving as pressers-on and supported by the arms fixed at the
machine stand. The wheels have projections and are so located that they,
when rotating, with their projections encounter the upper edge of the labels and
press these against the reel. The diameter of the label is a little greater than
the width of the band C, wherefore the label exceeds the band as well at the top
as at the bottom. At the continued rotation of the wheels D D these wheels
bring the reel upwards, whereat the labels, dropping the bands, are following and
perfectly pressed on to the reel. When the reel has got so high, that it cannot be
raised further by the wheels D D it is by another part lifted upon the plane E,
Fig. 12, hereinafter described.
To the above mentioned operations belong some motions which will now be
described. The paste roller C¹ and the bands C are turned by steps by a toothed
whcel being fixed on the shaft of the roller into which wheel a pawl g' is engaging
fixed at a pulley g³ on the shaft g³, Figs. 2, 19 and 20. The shaft g receives its
motion from the main shaft F by means of the chain 9. Further the bearing g³ is
provided with two tracks raising the pawl g' when this is passing them. When the
pawl is raised in this way, it will be disengaged from the toothed wheel g, and the
roller C will stand still until the pawl again engages the toothed wheel. The

page_text: pulley g³ is at the same time an eccentric, raising and lowering the label receptacles
by means of an arm 7, leaning against the same, this arm being fixed upon the
shaft of the bow C, Fig. 2. The bands C are hell strained by the spiral springs e
acting upon the movable fastenings e of the wheels C2, Fig. 13. The plates e,
Fig. 12 prevent the reel from getting in contact with the bands, and the adjustable
supports are for giving a determined position to the labels. When the reel is
raised by the slide A' (the shoulder A) it gets in between the stationary side h
being the downwards bent end of the plane E, and the arm ', which can turn on
pivots 2 and is actuated by a spring h³. When the slide is descending the reel
will stick between the side and the arm in order to be provided with labels.
At the slide A¹ there are fixed two hooks and an arm and the wheels D are
provided with pins. When the slide is almost at its lower turning point, the
hooks are catching the outer pins of the wheel D these pins being at the same
height as the centre of the wheels whereby the latter are caused to make a quarter
of a revolution. The label is then pressed on the reel and the reel is raised
somewhat between the side h and the arm h¹. When the slide A¹ is then mounted
for bringing up the next reel, the arm his pushing the above reel now provided
with labels so that it (the reel) gets above the end of the plane E, along which it
is rolling down towards the shoulder G. A little arm which is raised by the reel
when pushed upwards, causes the reel to roll down upon the plane E, as soon as it has
got sufficiently high. In order that the wheels D D may get off, if the pressure
against the reel be too great the arms have the shape of bent levers, actuated by
spiral springs. The band a¹ is driven by steps by the cam wheel i, Fig. 1,
actuating the arm with which the bar is connected. This is united with an
arm at which is fixed the pawl engaging in the toothed wheel on the shaft of
the pulley. At each step of the pulley and consequently of the band a reel is
pushed upon the shoulder A.
On the plane E the reel is stopped first by the shoulder G and then by the
shoulder G' by the latter however only in so far as it has been provided with a label
on both ends, which is ascertained while the reel is remaining against the
shoulder G. The device for that purpose consists of a scissor-like part the upper
legs of which enter (Fig. 1) into the fork-shaped end of a lever ', viewed in plan in
Fig. 22.
The lower ends of the scissors are provided with pins placed opposite
one another which are adapted to enter the hole made through the cotton reel.
The shoulder G¹ consists of the upwardly bent end of an arm fixed under the plane,
and resting upon a bar k³. This bar is supported by a lever resting against a
shoulder fixed at the slide A¹. If the bar is lowered, which is the case, when
the slide A¹ is pushed up, the lever being then deprived of its support, the
shoulder G¹ remains nevertheless in its high position as the same is supported also
by the two levers, Figs. 12 and 14, which are pressing against the edges of the
shutter-shaped arm G. The lever A is provided with a bar 7 having partly an
When the arm A² is
arm bent upwards partly a pivotted shoulder 1, Fig. 3.
the hind end of
travelling upwards, the bar I brings, by means of its projection
the lever also upwards. The scissors k which a spring tends to close, are then
closing, the descending fore end of the lever ¹ then holding the scissors no longer
open. If there are no labels on the ends of the reel resting against the shoulder G,
the scissors enter with their pins into the hole of the reel. If on the contrary
there are labels on the reel the pins encounter the labels. In the first case, when
there are no labels, the scissors close more than in the latter case, the scissors
bringing in the first case, the ends of the levers together. The other ends of
the levers are thereby removed from the shoulder G wherefore this falls down.
The slide A' is at the same time pushed up. The barbeing then pulled down it
brings the lever k¹ upwards so as to open the scissors. The bar raises further, by
means of the shoulder the shoulder G disposed as a lever Fig. 3, and the reel
missing the labels, falls without obstacle from the shoulder G¹ down to the gutter /^
and through this out of the machine. The shoulder G' is then brought up to its

page_text: former position by the bar k³. If the reel resting against the shoulder G is
provided with labels the scissors can as already mentioned, not be closed as much
as otherwise. The scissors do not then touch the levers k and the shoulder G'
remains in its raised position. The reel falling past the raised shoulder ( stops
then against the shoulder G¹. If there be no label on the one end of the reel, the
shoulder falls down nevertheless as only one of the levers is not able to keep the
shoulder in its raised position.
The ready made reels are fed out upon the table H. For this purpose the arm m
is bent down at one end and fixed to the lever m² actuated by the cam wheel m'and
moved to and fro immediately in front of the shoulder G' Figs. 1 and 2. As soon
as a reel stops against the shoulder G¹ it is brought by the arm m acting as a rake
through a gutter ms to the table H. Upon the latter a row of reels is pushed in
the following manner. At the lower end of the table II there is a cross-piece m³
fixed at the top of the lever m³ actuated by the eccentric m. A spring mⓇ actuating
the lever tends to bring the cross-piece in over the table, but a slide n provided
with a roller n' holds the cross-piece back by entering with the roller n¹ under the
top of the lever. The row of reels reaching almost across the table H pushes
against a shoulder n² on the slide n whereby the latter is brought to the right so
that the roller n' gets on the side of the lever m³, Figs. 1 and 2. The cross-piece
then goes over the table pushing up the row of reels. A pivotted plate n*, Fig. 23,
then stops the latter, while the parts m³ and n regain their former position as the
eccentric actuates the lever m³ and a spring n', Fig. 1, brings the slide n to the
left. The table H having been filled, it is emptied by means of a box resembling
that used for filling the table a as already described.
It is evident that the machine can be used if wanted to stick a label only on one
end of the reel or object to be labelled, as for this purpose only one of the label
receptacles needs to be removed and if desired the one band C.
In the event of the cotton reels having to be stamped previous to being labelled
as is very often the case, the machine is provided with the stamping device
represented in Figs. 25, 26 and 27. This is adapted in front of the table a which
is somewhat retired and consists of the die P and the piston Pl which guided by
the guides P are clasped by one and the same fork-shaped piece p' fixed at a
slide P. Forming an angle to the band a¹ there is a trifurcated lever, the lowest
branch of which p³ is resting against a cam wheel fixed upon the shaft F, its middle
branch p supporting a shoulder p mounting through the inclined plane and its
upmost branch supporting a shoulder p angle-shaped as well in the longitudinal as
in the transverse section. The cotton reel fed forward by the band a¹ stops at last
against the shoulder ps. When the arm is brought upwards by the cam wheel
the reel rolls down the plane p° and stops against the shoulder p. The cotton reel
is then in a line with die P which advances and stamps the same. The shoulder g
which also can constitute a die, in the case the reel is to be stamped on both ends,
serves then as a support to the reel. The die then returns and the arm p³is turned
so that the shoulder is lowered under the inclined plane p. The reel then falls
down into the gutter r and is then fed by the piston P¹ to the shoulder A of the
slide A' this shoulder A being in a line with the gutter as shown by the Figue 25.
The reel is then brought up by the slide for being labelled as before described.
The slide p receives its motion from the cam wheel actuating the lever ³,
Fig. 27, connected with the slide. R designates a colour-1eceptacle and R₁ a
colour-roller, which fixed at an arm s, descends towards the colour distributing
roller of the receptacle and receives colour, when the die is returning. When
the die advances the ascending roller R' passes its end and imparts colour to the
A vertical edge s² ending at the plane p guides the reels following the
band a¹ and the plane p is likewise provided with such a guiding edges. Finally
it should be remarked, that the labels may previously be gummed and then
moistened by means of the roller C₁ running in a water box and the band C C.
same.
The described machine can also be used for stamping cotton reels in such cases

page_text: To that end
The belts C C are
when the reel shall not be provided with labels but only be stamped.
both wheels D D can be used inasmuch as they serve as stamps.
then taken away but the removal of the reel from the inachine takes place in the
manner before described.
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 what I
claim is ;-
1. The method of labelling cotton reels and other small objects whereby by a
machine arranged substantially as shown and described labels pasted or gummed
and moistened are simultaneously fixed on both ends of the reel or on two different
sides of the objects.
2. A machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects of a determined
shape provided with label transporters (CC) connected with a paste or moistening
roller (C) and bringing along the labels stored in receptacles (BB) and pasted or
noistened owing to their contact with the roller two wheels (D D) located at an
angle to the transporters and opposite one another and a slide (A') conducting the
reel in between the transporters and the pressers-on in order that the labels
supported by the transporters may be pressed against the ends of the reel by the
pressers-on (DD) put in motion substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
3. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objets the arrangement
of an inclined table (a) upon which the reels are placed in rows going across the
table belting for receiving a row of reels at a time from the table (a) and which by
its step-like motion brings a reel at a time upon a slide (A') located in front of the
one side of the belting and provided with a piece (A) suitable for receiving the
reel substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
4. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment for letting down a reel at a time upon the belting (a') consisting of a
shoulder (1) extending across the table (a) against which shoulder the reels are
resting, a feeler in the shape of an arm (c) resting upon the reels upon the
belting but being raised by a cam wheel or equivalent before the belting is put
in motion and which arm (c) by its further lowering when the reels on the
belting are consumed raises the shoulder (b) so that the row of reels resting
against it can drop down upon the belting substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
5. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of a second shoulder (6) going across the table (a) which shoulder owing
to its being raised by the arm (c) alternately with the shoulder (61) lets forward
a row of reels at a time against the latter shoulder substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
6. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of endless bands (C C) running around a roller (C') and serving as label
transporters and of wheels (D D) located outside of the bands and opposite one
another these wheels pressing the labels brought along by the bands between
the reel and the wheels against the ends of the reel substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompany.ng drawings.
7. In a machine for labelling cot on reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of two label receptacles (B B) which may be raised or lowered and which are
located above the roller in front of the bands (C) said receptacles being open
below but provided with a little hook supporting the labels so that when the
receptacle is lowered against the pasted roller the downward label may stick to this
across the band (C) running in a slot made in the roller substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
8. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of two pairs of rollers (d) between which the bands (C) are advancing and

page_text: which rollers compel the position of the band transporting the label from the paste
roller to the reel to turn so that the label gets parallel with the end of the cotton
reel substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
9. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of pins (48) on the sides of wheels (D D) and two hooks (*) on the slide (A')
with the view that the slide when descending may with its hooks seize the wheels at
the pins and cause them to turn round substantially as described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
10. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of a spring arm (¹) which by means of an opposite stationary side (7) seizes
and retains the reel brought up between the bands (C) by a slide also of an inclined
plane (E) and an arm (1) fixed at the slide which arm when the reel has been
provided with labels at the mounting of the slide pushes the reel upon the plane (E)
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
11. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects a device for
separating such reels as have not received a label at one or both ends consisting of
a shutter-like shoulder (G') mounting above the plane (E) and supported by two
levers (kk) and a scissor-shaped part (k) which (one of its legs being provided
with pins (2) corresponding to the hole of the reel) enters with said pins in the
hole of the reel when this is not closed by a label thus actuating the lever so that
the shoulder (G¹) falls down and allows the disengaged reel without obstacle from
the shoulder to fall down into a gutter leading out of the machine substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings
12. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of a fork-shaped lever (k¹) clasping the legs of the scissors and of a bar (1)
actuating the said lever together with a lever shaped shoulder (G) located above
the plane (E) and stopping the reel when this arrives between the pins (2) with the
view that the motion of the lever (¹) may cause the scissors (k) to be opened and
closed and that the sliding bar after the scissors having by means of their pins (2)
investigated the reel may raise the shoulder (G) so that the reel may fall down
against the shoulder (G¹) substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
13. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of an inclined table (H) and arm (m) having an alternate motion in an angle
to this table in front of the shoulder (G) which arm brings the reel having stopped
against the shoulder (G') through a gutter (m³) upon the table (H) substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
14. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects the arrange-
ment of a cross piece (m³) located in front of the end of the table (H) and fixed to
a lever (m³) and a slide (n) provided with a shoulder (n) which slide with a
roller (n¹) enters under the arm (m³) so that when the row of reels formed by the
feeding in of reels upon the table encounters the slide (n) this slide with its
roller (n¹) may be brought off the cross piece (m³) and that this by the action of a
spring or equivalent may press up the row of reels above a movable cross piece (n)
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
15. In a machine for labelling cotton reels and other small objects a device for
stamping the reels consisting of a die (P) located at the side of the belting (a')
a movable shoulder (p) causing a reel at a time on a plane (p) to fall down from
the belting against another movable shoulder (p) so that it arrives in a line with
the die (P) further a gutter (?) into which the reel let forwards by the shoulder (p)
falls down in order to be brought to the slide (A¹) by a piston (PI) united with
the die (P) substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
16. In a machine for stamping cotton reels and the like the employment of the
pressers-on (D D) as stamps substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings,

page_text: 17. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete
labelling machine substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1893.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.