Improvements in the Process of Producing Printed Labels or Tickets in Strips of Any Length, and in Machines to be Used for Part of said Process.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1896--Accepted, 28th Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Process of Producing Printed Labels or
Tickets in Strips of Any Length, and in Machines to be Used
for Part of said Process.
I WILLIAM RODOLPHUS LANDFEAR, of No. 258 Madison Street in the City
of Brooklyn in the County of Kings and State of New York, United States of
America, Mechanical Engineer, 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 :-
For applying printed labels, or, as they are commonly called, tickets, to spools
of cotton and other thread by machinery, it has been found convenient, and has
been quite common, to have the tickets printed in a single row on narrow strips of
paper of great length, from which the so-printed tickets are punched or cut, as the
said strip is fed, by devices which act in perforations produced in the strip towards
that point in the ticketing machine where the spools arrive for the reception of
the tickets, but the printing of the tickets on narrow strips of such great length as
is required, has not been found practicable for labels of many colors requiring as
many different printings.
The object of the present invention is the production of tickets printed in as
many colors as may be desired on narrow strips of paper of as great length as may
be desired, and to this end I print the tickets with as many colors as may be
desired by any suitable process, as, for example, by lithography, on sheets of
convenient size, in as many straight rows side by side, and parallel with each
other, as a sheet will contain. In these sheets, I may also produce, by any suitable
punching or perforating machine or device, rows of holes, one row for each row of
ticket impressions. I next form the said sheets into a continuous web, by placing
them end to end, and joining them by pasting or gumming across their backs, at
their meeting ends, narrow strips of thin paper, and finally I cut the said web
between the rows of ticket impressions by any suitable shears or cutting apparatus,
into strips, each containing one row of ticket impressions, and having in it, if the
sheet was perforated, a corresponding row of perforations to provide for feeding
the strip to the ticketing machine by a wheel or roller, having pins in its periphery,
to take into said perforations.
The principal part of my invention consists in the process hereinabove briefly
outlined, the successive operations in which may be performed by such machinery.
and appliances as will readily suggest themselves to the skilled mechanic, aided"
by the description which I will now proceed to give with reference to the
accompanying drawings; but there is one part of the said process, viz., the uniting
of the printed ticket sheets to form the continuous web, to be afterwards cut into
strips, for which I have designed a special machine, which constitutes also a part
of the present invention."
Fig. 1 represents a plan view of one of the printed and perforated ticket
sheets, A, such as are to be joined to form the continuous web of any length, of
which Fig. 2 is a plan view, Fig. 3 an edge view of the said web,
Fig. 4 a plan of the printed and perforated ticket strip, which is the completed
product of my invention; Fig. 5 an edge view of the same;

page_text: Fig. 6 a plan view of the machine for joining the ticket sheets;
Fig. 7 a transverse vertical section of the said machine in the line 7-7 of Fig. 6;
Fig. 8 à back view.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a a designate the printed ticket impressions produced in
several straight rows running lengthwise of the sheets A A between the ends bb
thereof. cc designate the perforations in the sheet in parallel rows corresponding
with the rows, of printed ticket impressions. d, d (Figs. 2 and 3) designate the
narrow transverse strips which are gummed or pasted across the backs of the
sheets at their meeting ends, making flush joints in their faces, and forming a
continuous web of any length, which, when cut lenthwise, midway between the
rows of ticket impressions, produces ticket strips such as shown in Fig. 4, each of
which contains a row of tickets and a row of perforations, through which the strip
may be fed to the ticketing machine.
may here remark that if the ticket strip is to be fed to the ticketing machine by
any feeding mechanism which does not require the strip to be perforated, the rows
of perforations ce may be omitted.
In Figs. 6, 7, and 8, which represent the sheet joining machine, B designates
a bed plate, having pivoted to it, by a shaft D, a yoke-formed presser E, which
extends all across the said plate, and which is furnished with a lever handle E'.
In the bed plate B, there are firmly secured, near each side, two register pins e e,
which project upwards a short distance above the plate, the said pins being so spaced
that they will enter perforations c c. provided near each side of two printed ticket
sheets, which are placed with their ends bb close together on the bed plate B.
On the top of the bed plate is placed a thin plate C of steel or other elastic metal,
to serve as a stripper, to strip the said sheets from the pins after they have been
joined, as will be presently described, the said plate being secured to the bed plate
near its rear edge by screws ff. Holes g, g, somewhat larger than the register pins e,
are made in the stripper plate C. In the presser E, there is fitted a strip or pad p
of indiarubber or other material, long enough to reach across the ticket sheets,
the said pad being so arranged that when the presser is brought down over the
bed plate and stripper plate, as shown in Fig. 7, when two ticket sheets are placed
end to end upon the said plate and over the pins e e, and the joining strip is
placed over the meeting ends bb of said sheets, the said pad will cover the said
strip, and press it down on said meeting ends, so that the said strip having been
properly prepared with adhesive material, will be caused to adhere to, and unite
the said sheets. The stripper plate, in its normal condition, lies flat on the bed
plate B. To provide for raising it, to strip the joined sheets from the pins e, it
has on its sides two projecting ears 11, and the two side arms E2 are furnished
with downward projections m m below the pivot D. By the act of raising and
throwing back the presser to permit the removal of the joined sheets, the two
projections are brought under the ears of the stripper, and so caused to lift the
stripper, and thereby to strip the joined sheets from the register pins e.
The strip of paper from which the joining strips d d are to be cut, may be
supplied to this machine from a reel (not shown) placed on one side thereof, the
strip being drawn from the said reel by hand, and laid across and over the
meeting ends of two ticket sheets placed face downwards on the plate C, over
the pins e e, while the presser E is raised. The strip so supplied is drawn on its
way to the plate C between two rollers hi suitably arranged at one side of the bed
plate B, the said roller running freely in a pan or boxj affixed to the bed plate,
and which may contain either water or a solution of gum or other adhesive
material, according as the strip may be previously gummed, or it may be desired
to apply the gum to the strip on its way into the machine. The roller i, which is
arranged above, and serves to press the strip against the roller h, is fitted to turn
freely in an arm & pivoted to a standard on the pan or box j. To cut off the
proper length of strip, there are secured on the sides of the presser, by screws n¹ n³,
two cutters nn, which, as the presser moves downwards, act as shears with
cutters o o secured by screws of o' to the bedplate. The cutters n, o, on the

page_text: opposite side of the machine to the rollers h, i, trim off any little surplus which
may have been drawn beyond the stripper plate.
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 within described process of producing printed ticket strips of any length,
which consists in first printing the ticket impressions in parallel rows on sheets,
afterwards placing the said sheets end to end, and joining them by transverse
strips applied to their backs with adhesive material, to form a continuous web, and
finally cutting said web lengthwise between the parallel rows of impressions into
strips containing each one row of ticket impressions.
2. In a machine for joining sheets, the combination of a bed plate provided with
register pins for registering the ends of two sheets to be joined, a presser with an
attached pad for pressing an adhesive joining strip onto said sheets, a stripper
plate arranged over the bed plate; for stripping the joined sheets from the register
pins, and projections on the presser for raising the stripper plate, substantially as
herein described.
3. In a machine for joining sheets, the combination of a plate for supporting two
sheets to be joined, means of supplying an adhesive strip to the meeting ends of
said sheets, a presser with an attached pad for pressing said strip onto said sheets,
and cutters operated by said presser for cutting the adhesive strip to proper length,
substantially as herein described.
Dated this 11th day of September 1896.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.