IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPLIANCES FOR
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Henry Hewson, Machine Minder in the employ
of Messieurs Harrison and Sons of 45 and 46 St Martins Lane in the County
of Middlesex Printers for an invention of IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT
OF
APPLIANCES FOR
"
"
KNOCKING UP SHEETS DELIVERED FROM PRINTING AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Henry Hewson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May 1882.
THOMAS HENRY HEWSON Machine Minder in the employ of Messieurs Harrison
and Sons of 45 and 46 St Martins Lane in the County of Middlesex, Printers
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPLIANCES FOR "KNOCKING UP SHEETS DELIVERED
FROM PRINTING AND OTHER MACHINES
"
"
The object of this Invention is an improved arrangement of appliances applicable
to printing and other machines in which sheets of paper &c are delivered and laid
in succession on each other in a pile, the back edge or the side edge or both of
them being acted upon by my appliance so as to keep the edges of the sheets in an
even pile like form.
My Invention consists of a forked or a plain strip of metal or other material
hinged or otherwise fitted on the board or table close to where the back edge of
the sheets fall. This strip of metal or other material is connected by rods or cords
to a crank, lever, cam or other mechanical contrivance so as to receive a motion
therefrom to pull it close up to the back edge of the pile and in doing so to shift
the top sheet or sheets to form an even pile with those below. The strip of metal
is moved in the opposite direction by a spring or other appliance.
I purpose arranging a similar strip of metal or other material having a
corresponding motion against the side edge or edges of the paper to form an even
pile, or the back strip and the side strip may work in combination and act
simultaneously if desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Henry Hewson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd November 1882.
THOMAS HENRY HEWSON Machine Minder in the employ of Messieurs Harrison
and Sons of 45 and 46 St Martins Lane in the County of Middlesex, Printers
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPLIANCES FOR "KNOCKING UP
" SHEETS DELIVERED
FROM PRINTING AND OTHER MACHINES
The object of this Invention is an improved arrangement of appliances applicable
to printing and other machines in which sheets of paper etc: are delivered and laid
in succession on each other in a pile, the back edge or the side edge or both of them
being acted upon by my appliance so as to keep the edges of the sheets in an even
pile like form.
: My Invention consists of a forked or a plain strip of metal or other material
hinged or otherwise fitted on the board or table close to where the edges of the
sheets fall. This strip of metal or other material is connected by rods cords or
chains to a crank, lever, cam or other mechanical contrivance so as to receive a
motion therefrom to pull it close up to the edge of the pile and in doing so to shift
the top sheet or sheets to form an even pile with those below. The strip of metal
is. moved in the opposite direction by a spring or other appliance
I purpose arranging against the side edges of the paper either fixed stops, or a
similar strip of metal or other material having a corresponding motion to form an
even pile, or the back strip and the side strip may work in combination and act
simultaneously if desired.
My Invention will be clearly understood by the annexed sheet of drawing in
which A represents the table or board which receives the printed sheets from a
"flyer." The table or board A is grooved at B B or otherwise prepared for the
reception of adjustable blocks C C in which screws and thumb buttons D D are
attached. E E are plates, formed in a piece with or having hinged to them upright
strips of metal or other material F, against which the sheets of printed paper are
successively arranged in even pile by a knocking up action of the hinged plate F
this being pulled up to the edge of the sheets by the cord or wire G whose opposite
end is connected to the axis of the flyer in such a manner that at each return
movement of the Byer for a fresh sheet the previous sheet is knocked up and so on
'in succession.
The spring H is slightly expanded (or it may be compressed) by this motion and
when the flyer begins to return the cord or wire becomes loosened, the rebound of
'the spring H then withdrawing the strip or plate F away from the pile.
I have only shown one of the strips or plates F as hinged to the plate E but
they may all be thus fitted and be caused to act separately or in conjunction from
the same or from separate cords as desired.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim :-
The improved arrangement of appliances for knocking up" sheets delivered
from printing and other machines as described and shown the principal feature
being, the adjustable plate E with the hinged strip F whose action is controlled by
a cord and returned by a spring as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas Henry Hewson have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty second day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.