Improvements in Attaching Inking Ribbons to Rollers.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Inking Ribbons to Rollers.
I, THOMAS PINK, of Staple Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, in the County of
London, Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in attaching inking ribbons to rollers and
is especially designed for use in connection with the receipting and recording stamp
described in the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me No. 9192,
dated June 13, 1890, but my improvements are also applicable to the inking ribbon
rollers of type-writing and other machines.
According to my invention I form in each roller a longitudinal wedge or
V-shaped slot at the apex of which is a slit through which the ribbon passes. In
applying the ribbon the latter is passed through the slit into the slot; a pin is
then passed through the ribbon and the latter is pulled down to draw the più into
the slot below the surface of the roller.
In practice I prefer to form the slot at one side of the axis of the roller.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applican
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Inking Ribbons to Rollers.
I, THOMAS PINK, of Staple Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, in the County of
London, Manufacturer and 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in attaching inking ribbons to rollers and
is especially designed for use in connection with the receipting and recording stamp
described in the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me No. 9192,
dated June 13th 1890, but my improvements are also applicable to the inking
ribbon rollers of typewriting and other machines.
According to my invention I form through each roller a longitudinal wedge or
V-shaped slot the apex of which serves as a slit through which the ribbon passes.
In applying the ribbon the latter is passed through the slit of the slot; a pin is
then passed through the ribbon and the latter is pulled down to draw the pin into
the slot below the surface of the roller.
In the case of large rollers I find it advantageous to form the slot at one side of
the axis of the roller.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan; and,
Figure 2 a cross section of an inked ribbon roller constructed according to my
invention:
Figure 3 is an elevation of the roller shewing the ribbon passed through the slot
with the pin in the ribbon :
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section :
Figure 5 is a transverse section; and,
Figure 6 is an elevation of the roller shewing the ribbon pulled down with the
pin in the slot; and,

page_text: Figure 7 is a cross section of a larger roller shewing the slot formed at one side
thereof:
Figure 8 is a transverse section of the said roller shewing the ribbon in position;
and,
Figures 9, 10 and 11 are respectively an elevation, an end view and a transverse
section of a modified arrangement.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.
I will first describe the construction of the roller shewn in Figures 1 to 6; a is
the roller and the longitudinal wedge or V-shaped slot which I form through the
same. c represents the ribbon and, in order to apply this ribbon to the roller, one
end thereof is passed through the apex or slit d of the slot b, as shewn in Figure 3,
a pine is then passed through the ribbon and the ribbon being pulled down the
pin e will be drawn into the slot below the surface of the roller a, as clearly
shewn in Figures 4, 5 and 6.
Where a large roller is made use of the slot b is advantageously made at one
side of the axis of the roller as clearly shewn in Figures 7 and 8, and will be
understood without further description.
In the modification shewn in Figures 9, 10 and 11 instead of the slot b passing
entirely through the roller it is only made sufficiently deep to form a kind of
groove or channel to receive the fastening pin e, a wire f being fixed to the roller
so as to lie within the groove b. In this case the ribbon is passed under the wire
and the pin being passed through the ribbon as hereinbefore described will when
the ribbon is pulled down be drawn within the groove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The method of attaching inking ribbons to rollers hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 1 to 6, 7 and 8 and 9, 10 and 11 of the accompanying
drawing.
2. A roller for inking ribbons formed with a longitudinal wedge or V-shaped
slot as, and for the purpose, described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 6 and 7 and 8
of the accompanying drawing.
3. A. roller for inking ribbons provided with a groove and a wire within the
said groove substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 9, 10
and 11 of the accompanying drawing.
4. The manufacture and use of the improved rollers for inking ribbons as herein-
before described and illustrated in the Figures 1 to 6, 7 and 8 and 9, 10 and 11 of
the accompanying drawing.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.