Improved Mechanism for Binding together the Products of Printing Presses.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1897
Commiata: CunniAnation Loft 10th no 1000 Ancated 6th And
1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mechanism for Binding together the Products of Printing
Presses.
I, GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, Consulting Engineer, of 18, Southampton Buildings'
London, W.C. (a communication from the Campbell Printing Press and
Manufacturing Company, Corporation organised under the laws of the State of
New York, of 1, Madison Avenue, City, County, and State of New York, U.S.
America, Manufacturers,) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in combining with means for assembling the product of a
printing press or printing presses, a stationary wire stapling device, so that the
finished product will be permanently stapled together, and to accomplish this wire
stapling automatically without limiting the speed of the printing press or printing
presses, or the subsequent actions of folding and delivering the printed product.
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By the use of the word "assembling is meant to include means either for
collecting sheets or associating webs.
The word " collecting" is used to mean the superimposing of a number of
sheets, which may be severed from a web, or otherwise taken into the mechanism,
so that the product when acted upon consists of a number of sheets laid one upon
the other.
By the term "associating" is meant the laying together of a plurality of different
webs, or the slitting or laying together of parts of a wide web so as to form a plurality
of superimposed narrow webs.
With this explanation, it may be said that the invention consists in combining
with an assembling mechanism of a stationary wire stapling device, and so
arranging the mechanism that the assembled product will be held momentarily
stationary while passing through the stationary wire stapling device, so that the wire
stapling device may properly act.
It is a further aim of this invention to combine with the above devices means
whereby a cover may be added to the assembled and finished product.
So far as the broad scope of the invention is concerned, the printing mechanism
may be of any approved form, either for printing a continuous web or webs, or of a
separate sheet printing mechanism.
The assembling mechanism may be of any approved form, and the stationary wire
stapling device may be of any approved form.
The first form of my invention consists in providing means for severing a web
issuing from a printing press into sheets, means for then collecting the sheets,
means SO that the collected sheets will be then carried forward through a
stationary wire stapling device, and means for momentarily stopping the collected
sheets as they pass through the wire stapling device, so that the same can properly
act.
The stapled product is then carried to a folding machine, and preferably first
folded on the line of staples inserted by the stationary wire stapling device.

page_text: This mechanism is also preferably arranged so that a cover-sheet can be fed to
the collected product, so that the same will be secured or fastened thereto.
A second form of my invention consists in so arranging a plurality of web printing
machines that a plurality of associated webs will issue therefrom.
The plurality of associated webs are then led through a device which will cause a
section of the webs to momentarily stop and advance, without checking the uniform
advance of the associated webs as a whole.
A convenient mechanism to do this consists of two loopers around which the
associated webs may be looped in opposite directions, whereby, when the loopers are
vibrated, that section of associated webs between the loopers will alternately advance
and stand still.
A stationary stapling device is arranged to act on the associated webs between the
loopers, so that staples will be inserted in the associated webs while they are
held momentarily stationary.
After passing from this mechanism, the associated webs may be folded, cut and
delivered in the ordinary way.
It is preferred to give the first fold to the associated and stapled webs on the line
on which the staples are inserted.
A modification of this forin consists in printing a wide web on a printing machine,
and then slitting the wide web into a number of narrow webs, and associating or
bringing the narrow webs one over the other, and then passing the associated narrow
webs through the looping and stapling devices, as before described.
With this last modification, a separate narrow width web may be used to form a
cover, if so desired.
This cover web may be either stapled to the other webs or can be separately pasted on
to the other webs after they have been stapled together.
The size of the product and number of pages of course can be varied by
varying the associated mechanism, which generally consists of a number of turner
bars.
In some instances, I intend to use a plurality of stationary stapling devices between
the two loopers, so that, as the associated webs are momentarily held stationary, a
plurality of staples will be inserted therein.
The form of stationary stapling device is not material to the invention, the invention
consisting in the combinations whereby a wire stapling device is put to this
advantageous use.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.
Improved Mechanism for Binding together the Products of Printing
Presses.
I, GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, Consulting Engineer, of 18, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C. (a communication from the Campbell Printing Press and Manufac-
turing Company, Corporation organised under the laws of the State of New York, of
1, Madison Avenue, City, County, and State of New York, Manufacturers, 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 —
The aim of this invention is to produce new and improved devices for assembling
the product of a printing press or printing presses, and further consists, in connec-

page_text: Lion with the above, of a peculiar means for permanently securing the assembled
product; and this peculiar means consists of a wire-stapling device, which may be,
if desired, of the form hereafter described.
To these ends, the invention consists of the devices described and claimed in this
Specification, and illustrated in the accompanying five sheets of drawings, in
which,
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation on an enlarged scale of the preferred form of wire-
stapling device,
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same,
Fig. 3 is a section of the plunger which sets the staples,
Fig. 4 is a detail of the feeder,
Figs. 5 to 7 are diagrams illustrating the way in which the staples are set or
closed,
Fig. 8 illustrates the combination of two printing mechanisms, an associating
mechanism, and a stapling device,
Fig. 9 illustrates in plan how the product of one press may be associated,
Fig. 10 illustrates the way the associated product of a single press is handled,
Fig. 11 is a diagramatic plan showing how a double cover may be used in connec-
tion with the device shown in Fig. 10, and
Fig. 12 is a view similar to Fig. 10, showing how a plurality of stapling devices
can be arranged.
Before describing the invention, this division and definition of the terms hereafter
used will be made;
By the use of the word " assembling" is meant broadly either collecting or
associating either sheets or webs.
By the use of the word "collecting" is meant the superimposing of a number of
sheets which may be severed from a web, or otherwise taken into the mechanism,
on the
so that the product will be a number of sheets superimposed one
other.
By the term "associating" is meant the laying together of a plurality of different
webs, or the slitting and laying together of parts of a wide web so as to form a
plurality of imposed narrow webs.
With this explanation, it may be said that the invention consists in the combina-
tion with an assembling mechanism of a stationary wire stapling device which is
adapted to permanently secure or fasten the assembled product, and this assembled
product inay be obtained either by associating webs or collecting sheets.
It is the further aim of the invention to combine with the above, devices whereby
a cover may be added to the assembled and finished product.
In the drawings is shown a number of ways by which the invention can be
practiced.
So far as the broad scope of the invention is concerned, the printing mechanism
may be of any improved form either for a continuous web, or a separate sheet printing
mechanisın. The assembling mechanisin may be of any approved form, and the wire
stapling device may be of any approved form.
The specific wire stapling device which is preferably used will be first described,
and reference to follow this description should be had to the first two sheets of
drawings, which show a single stapling device, which may be nicely used to carry out
the invention.
In the drawings, 20 and 51 are supposed to represent transverse beams or
supports, upon which the stapling device may be mounted.
As hereafter described, a single stapling device may be used to insert a longitudinal
row of staples in the assembled product, or a plurality of stapling devices may be used
side by side, so as to insert a transverse line of staples into the assembled product;
or a plurality of stapling devices arranged parallel to the movement of the
assembled product may be used to thereby insert a longitudinal line of staples.
The further description of the specific wire stapling device will be confined to one

page_text: stapling device, the necessary changes where a plurality are used being hereafter
specified.
The upper transverse beam or support 20 has depending arms or brackets 21, in
which is mounted a short shaft 22.
On this short shaft 22 is fulcrumed a vibratory lever or arm 23, which arm is
actuated to insert the staples, as hereafter described.
Extending up from the left hand portion of this arm 23 are the brackets or arms 24,
in which is journalled the shaft 25 on one end of which shaft is secured the piece 26
which has gear-teeth as 27 formed thereon; and this piece 26 may be pinned as by
pin 340 or otherwise securely fastened to the shaft 25.
The transverse beam 20 has an inclined cut-away portion 28 as indicated, fitting on
which is the segment 29, which has an extending ledge or shoulder 30, in which are
formed slots 31, through which are passed screws 32, which are tapped into the
beam 20, and which serve to hold the segment 28 in place.
The teeth of this segment are preferably arranged approximately concentric to the
shaft 22, for a purpose hereafter described, and it will be seen that by loosening
the screws 32, the segment 29 can be adjusted up and down the ledge 28, and by
this means, the relative position of the mallet to the plunger can be adjusted.
Also mounted upon the shaft 25, and between the bearings 24 is a mallet or
striking piece 33, which may be securely fastened to the shaft 25, as by means of
pin 341.
On the end of the vibrating arm or lever 23 is formed the stapling head 34,
which consists of a hollow tube as shown, which has a solid or reinforced bottom
as 35.
Fitting in the stapling head 34 is a striking head or plunger 36, the end of which
is screw-threaded, as shown, and fitted upon which are the nuts 37 and 38.
Surrounding the plunger beneath the nut 38 and bearing on the reinforced
portion 35 is a spring 39, which tends normally to keep the plunger elevated; and
by means of the nuts 37 and 38, the tension of this spring can be regulated.
The striking head 34 is cut away as at 40, so that the mallet 33 can move down
a considerable distance into the striking head.
The lower end of the plunger 36 is drawn down as at 41 so as to form a thin
smooth piece, which fits into a hole 500 formed in the lower part of the reinforced
striking head, as shown; and this drawing-down portion 41 is made of just the width
in its narrow way of the staples, which it is desired to use.
The striking head 36 has an extending reservoir 42, in which the staples may be
placed, or to which they may be fed; and fitting on top of this reservoir are the
covers 43.
Formed in the reservoir 42 are slots 44, which slots, with the covers 43, form
perfect guide-ways for the staples S.
Fitting into the slots 44 and under the covers 43 is the feed 45 which bas
extending wings 47, which fit down into the slots 44, and which thus feed the staples
into the striking head.
Soldered or fastened on top of the feeder 45 is a wire 46, and arranged between this
wire and a projection 49 carried by the head 34, is a spring 48, which tends to pull
the feeder towards the striking head, and to thus feed the staples under the
plunger.
The anvil or device for receiving and bending the staples is arranged on the trans-
verse beam 51 below the striking head 34, and consists of a piece 52, which is secured
to the beam 51 by means of screws 53, and which has a projecting, hollow, cylindrical
piece 54.
Fitting on this projecting, hollow, cylindrical piece 54 is the piece 55, which has
an extending, hollow cylindrical part 56 which is adapted to strike or come into con-
tact with the collar 57 formed on the piece 52.
The cylindrical piece 54 has a slot 58 formed in the same, and a screw 59 is
inserted in the piece 55, and prevents the piece 55 from turning.

page_text: A spring 60 is arranged between these two parts and tends to normally force the
piece 55 to its highest position, the screw 59 limiting the upward movement of the
piece 55.
The piece 55 has suitable grooves 61, or is suitably adapted so that when the
staple is inserted through the assembled product, the staple will be headed over in
the groove 61.
The piece 55 is preferably reinforced as at 62 under the cut-away portion 61 as
shown.
The operation of this stapling device is as follows:
The assembled product, which may consist of a plurality of sheets P, P¹, or
webs a, b, is led in, in any suitable manner, between the anvil and the striking head.
The right-hand end of the arm 23 is then forced quickly upwards by any suitable
means, as by an eccentric, as hereafter described, which will cause the striking head
to descend, and to hold the assembled product between the striking head and the
yielding anvil, but, as the striking head 34 descends, the mallet 33 will be given an
accelerated downward movement, due to the action of the gear-teeth 27 running
down the stationary gear-teeth 29, and thus the staple under the plunger will, as the
striking head descends, be forced outward, and forced through the assembled
product.
As soon as the ends of the staples pass through the assembled product, they will
come into the grooves or channels 61 formed in the yielding anvil 55, and will be
headed over and set, as shown in the diagrams in Figs. 5, 6 and 7.
As the striking head is raised, the plunger 41 will be lifted by the spring 39 above
the line of staples, and a new staple will be fed into the slot 500, by means of the
spring 48.
The yielding anvil 55 forms a nice and easy means for setting the staples, and it
will be seen that the device admits of adjustment, so that the whole device can be
arranged and set to operate very rapidly and nicely.
In some cases, where the stapling device must operate for a long time, a stapling
former and feeding device, which will continuously form and feed the staples beneath
the plunger is used, many such forms being well known, and not necessary here
to detail, the invention contemplating the use of any form of stationary wire
stapling device, which will permanently fix and bind together the assembled
product.
In some cases, if desired, the mallet of the device before described may be
driven by other means, which means may be independent of the movement of
the arm 23.
The device shown in Fig. 8 will now be described, which covers a device by which
different webs are associated, momentarily stopped and stapled, and then thereafter
folded.
Referring to Fig. 8 it will be seen that A and B represent two sets of printing
couples, which may be substantially the same as before described, the web a being
printed from the couples A, and the web b being printed from the couples B.
From the first printing couples, the web a is led around the guide rollers 170
and 171 to the guide roller 172; and from the second printing couples, the web b,
printed thereby, is led to the roll 172, and at the roll 172, the two webs a and b are
associated together.
From the roll 172, the two associated webs pass to the continuously running
rollers 173, 174, and 175, then down around the looping roller 177, which is mounted
in arms 178 which arms 178 are mounted upon the shaft 179, and a spring 180 is
arranged so as to keep the looping roller 177 normally in its lowest position.
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Connected to one of the arms 178 is the yoke 181, which carries a roller 182, and
this yoke straddles and engages the shaft 183, which carries a cam 184, against
which cam 184, the roller 182 bears.
Mounted on the other end of the arms 178 is the looping roller 185, and it will be
seen that by this means, the looping rollers 177 and 185 are oppositely moved.
From the looping roller 177, the webs are led up over the stationary roller 176.to

page_text: the stationary roller 186 down under the looping roller 185, then in through the bite
of the continuously running rollers 187, 188, and 189, and from these, the associated
webs may pass to a longitudinal former 190, which has the usual presser-rolls or
drums 191 and cutting cylinders 192, from whence the assembled, stapled, folded,
and cut-off product may be delivered by any suitable means not necessary here to
show.
A stapling device is arranged in the path of the associated webs between the
rollers 176 and 186. It will be seen that by means of the looping rollers 177
and 185, the associated webs between the rollers 176 and 186 are kept momentarily
stationary, and are thereafter fed forward at an accelerated speed.
The cam, which actuates the looping rollers may be, if desired, approximately
heart-shaped.
When the associated webs are stationary between the rollers 176 and 186, the
stapling device is caused to act, and, by this means, it will be seen that a longitudinal
line of staples can be inserted in the associated webs, and, also, it will be seen that,
if desired, a transverse stapling arrangement could be arranged between the rollers
176 and 186.
By this mechanism, it is possible to associate webs, and nicely staple the same
together, the momentary stationary relation between the associated webs and the
stapling device being effected by the looping device.
After the associated webs have been stapled, they can be given a longitudinal fold
on the line of the staples. As many staples can be inserted into the part of the
webs that is, to constitute one product, as desired, depending upon the number of
times that the webs are held stationary between the looping rollers 176 and 186, and
two, three, or more staples can be inserted, if desired, or a plurality of stapling
devices may be used between the rollers 176 and 186, as hereafter described.
Of course to effect this, the speed of the shaft 183, and the shape of the cam will
be arranged to accomplish the desired result.
Thus, by means of this simple and effective apparatus, it is possible to easily and
nicely fasten the associated webs permanently together.
Instead of associating a plurality of different webs together, it is possible to sever
a wide web into a plurality of narrow webs, associate the narrow webs, and then staple
these associated webs; and also, with either device, one web can be made a cover or
supplement, or, in the last referred to device, a separate web can be run, which shall
be used as a cover.
This last described form of the device is shown in Figs. 9 and 10.
In this device wide printing couples are used, which are adapted to print and
perfect a wide web d, and a narrow web e, the webs being led from the web-rolls D
and E respectively.
This narrow web e may be used, if desired, for a cover or outside supplement.
The web d may be slit three times, if desired, so as to form four narrow webs, and
the web e can be either the width of one of these narrow webs, or twice the
width of one of these narrow webs, to get different products, as hereafter
described.
The web d from the last impression cylinder 75 is split into a number of narrow
webs, as by means of the cutters 201, 202, and 203, mounted upon the shaft 200,
which cutters operate with similar cutters arranged underneath the web, thus
forming four narrow webs d¹, d², d³, and dª.
These narrow webs are then led over the roll 500 to the turner bars 204, 205, 206
and 207, which serve to associate the narrow webs, as is well understood.
From the last impression cylinder, the cover e is led around the roll 501, then
around the turner bar 209, then around a roll 214 to a roll 215; and interposed
between the rollers 214 and 215 is a pasting device, which may consist of a suitable
paste-box 210, which has a suitable pasting roller 211, which deposits paste upon the
lining roller 212, between which rollers 212 and 213, the web e is led.
From the turner bars, the associated narrow webs are led through a looping
device, and through a stapling device, which are substantially the same
as

page_text: described, in connection with the device shown in Fig. 10, and at the roll 189, which
is placed close to the roll 215, the cover with its lining of paste may be added to the
associated stapled webs, and then thereafter this product, with its cover, may be folded,
cut off and delivered.
Of course this cover e could be a part of the main web d, if desired, or could be led
in from a separate and different machine, as desired.
With a machine organized as shown in Figs. 11 and 12, either a four-page, eight-
page, twelve-page, or sixteen-page pamphlet can be run, with or without a cover,
these various arrangements being obtained, of course, by using wide or narrow webs,
and by properly placing the plates upon the type-cylinders.
Thus, this press last described, is especially adapted for a large variety of pamphlet
work.
The product of this last described mechanism is a pamphlet, the various parts of
which are stapled together, and which, if desired, may have a cover which is pasted
on to the pamphlet, so as to hide the staples. This produces a very neat and
attractive pamphlet, and the cover, of course, may be printed of a different color from
that of the body, or upon a differently colored paper.
It will be seen that in the device shown in Fig. 10, the product could be made of
double the width of that there described.
This could be done by arranging a slitter and turner bars, as shown in Fig. 11.
Only one slitter 202 is used upon the web d to cut that web into two narrow portions;
and, if a cover is to be used, a cover e¹, of double the width of the cover e of the
previous device will be used.
With this arrangement, the turner bar 209 is preferably moved to the position
shown at 2090, or a separate turner-bar 2090 is used; and the turner-bar 205 is
moved to the position shown at 2050, or a separate turner-bar 2050 is used; and the
turner-bar 207 is moved to the position shown at 2070, or a separate turner-bar 2070
is used; the object of this different arrangement being to keep the centre of the
associated webs the same, so that the stapling devices can act in the centre, and so
that the associated product will come properly to the folding machine.
Thus, by this arrangement, a two-page or a four-page product can be produced,
with or without a cover, of double the width of that produced by the previous
arrangement of turner bars.
It will be seen that the cylinders of the printing machines are made long enough,
so that this double-width cover e¹ can be printed thereby.
It has been before stated that a number of stapling devices could be placed
between the rollers 176 and 186, and three such stapling devices as K, K', and K2
arranged between the rollers 176 and 186 are shown in Fig. 14.
In this device, it is preferred to operate the looping rollers by separate
cams.
Thus, the looping delivery roll 185 could be mounted in arms 300, which would he
kept normally in their lowest position by means of springs 301, and these arms would
be yoked at their lower ends to straddle a shaft 303, and carry rollers 302, which
would bear on the face of the cams 304.
The looping roller 177 would be arranged in similar yoked arms 305, which would
have springs 306 and rollers 307, which would bear upon cams 209 mounted upon
shafts 308.
The cams 309 would be oppositely set relatively to the cams 304, so that one
looping roller would move up, as the other looping roller would move down, and
thereby the associated webs would be intermittently pulled forward between the
rollers 176 and 186.
The stapling devices could be so set and proportioned that staples would be
inserted as often as desired into the associated webs, depending of course, upon the
stroke of the looping rollers, and of the various relative positions of the stapling
devices.
This device shown in Fig. 12, enables the machine to run very rapidly, and is the
preferred form of the invention.

page_text: Thus, it will be seen, that, broadly speaking, the invention may be applied and
used on many different forms of machines.
The results that can be obtained by the various forms of mechanisms will now be
recapitulated.
First. Webs slit from one web, or produced from two or more machines may be
associated and stapled and folded, as in Figs. 8 and 9.
Second. Webs may he associated, and sheets severed therefrom, and collected,
and then stapled and folded, thereby having as one product the entire lateral and
longitudinal product of a press or presses furnishing the web or webs.
Third. Covers or supplements may be inserted with the collected sheets, the said
covers or supplements being not necessarily in dimensions an equal division of the
circumference of the type-cylinders; and the same bound with the product.
Fourth. All the pages of a pamphlet may be associated, stopped and stapled, and
thereafter a cover pasted on the stapled product. The cover web may be fed by the
main machine, or may be the product of another and separate press.
Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is :-
1. The improvements in assembling and stapling mechanisms described in the
foregoing Specification and illustrated in the drawings.
2. The combination with a device for assembling printed products coming from a
printing press, of a stationary stapling device, and means for effecting a stationary
relation between the assembled product and the stapling device, as the same acts,
substantially as described.
3. The combination with a device for assembling printed products, of a stationary
stapling device for binding the assembled product together, and means for
momentarily stopping the assembled product while the stapling device acts, sub-
stantially as described.
4. The combination with a web associating mechanism of a stationary wire
stapling device adapted to staple the associated webs together, and means for effect-
ing a momentary stationary relation between the stapling device and the webs, while
the stapling device acts, substantially as described.
5. The combination with a web associating mechanism of a stapling device
adapted to staple the webs together, and means for momentarily stopping the
associated webs while the stapling device acts, substantially as described.
6. The combination with a web associating device, of a stapling device adapted to
staple the associated webs together, and a web looping device, adapted to momen-
tarily hold the webs stationary while the stapling device acts, substantially as
described.
7. The combination with a web associating mechanism of two oppositely moving
loopers around which the associated webs are looped, means for vibrating the loopers
in opposite directions whereby the webs between the loopers will be momentarily held
stationary, and a stapling device adapted to operate while the webs are momentarily
held stationary, substantially as described.
8. The combination with a web associating mechanism of a stapling mechanism
adapted to staple the associated webs together, of means for leading a cover in web
form to the associated stapled webs, and for pasting the cover to the same, and means
for severing the pamphlet, thus formed, from the webs, substantially as described.
9. The combination with a printing mechanism capacitated to print upon a wide
web, of means for slitting this wide web into narrow webs, and associating the narrow
webs, a stationary wire stapling device adapted to staple the associated webs together,
and a cutting device, substantially as described.
10. The combination with a printing press capacitated to print upon a wide web,
cutters for slitting the wide web into a plurality of narrow webs means for associating
the plurality of narrow webs, a stationary stapling device, means for momentarily
effecting a stationary relation between the associated webs and stapling device, so
that the stapling mechanism can properly act, and a cutting device, substantially as
described.

page_text: 11. The combination with a printing mechanism capacitated to print a wide web,
means for slitting this wide web into a plurality of narrow webs, and for associating
the same, a stapling device adapted to staple the associated webs together, a printing
mechanism adapted to print a cover, a pasting mechanism adapted to act on the web
that is to form the cover, and means for assembling the cover with the associated
narrow webs and for cutting the pamphlet thus formed from the webs, substantially
as described.
12. The combination with a web printing press capacitated to print upon a wide
web, slitters for slitting this wide web into a plurality of narrow webs, means for
momentarily stopping the associated webs, a stapling device adapted to staple the
associated narrow webs together, a printing mechanisin adapted to print a cover, a
parting device for the cover, means for assembling the cover with the associated
stapled narrow webs, a folder and a cutting mechanism for folding and cutting the
pamphlets thus formed, substantially as described.
13. The combination with a web associating mechanism, a folder to which the
associated webs are led, guide rollers around which the associated webs may be twice
looped, looping rollers around which the associated webs are led, means for oppositely
operating these looping rollers, whereby the associated webs will be held momentarily
stationary, and a stapling device arranged between the loops in the webs adapted to
act while the webs are momentarily held stationary, substantially as described.
14. A device for binding together a plurality of associated webs, consisting of web
guides or rollers as 175, 176, and 186, 189, of the looping rollers 177, and 185, the
pivotted arms 178, in which the looping rollers are mounted, neans as a heart-shaped
cam for vibrating the pivotted arms, and a wire stapling device arranged between the
rollers 176 and 186, substantially as described.
15. The combination of means for associating a plurality of webs, and of a
plurality of stationary stapling devices adapted to permanently bind said associated
webs together in web form, substantially as described.
16. The combination of means for associating a plurality of webs, a plurality of
stationary stapling devices adapted to bind said webs together, means for effecting a
momentary stationary relation between the stapling devices and the associated webs,
the stapling devices acting while this stationary relation exists, substantially as
described.
17. The combination with means for associating a plurality of webs, of a looping
device carrying the associated webs and adapted to hold them momentarily stationary,
and of a plurality of stapling devices adapted to act to bind the associated webs
together while the associated webs are inomentarily stationary, substantially as
described.
18. The combination of means for associating a plurality of webs, of two
oppositely moving looping rollers around which the associated webs are led, whereby
the associated webs will be held momentarily stationary, and of a number of stapling
devices arranged between the two looping devices, and adapted to act to bind the
associated webs together while they are held stationary by the looping devices, sub-
stantially as described.
19. The combination with means for associating a plurality of stationary stapling
devices through which the associated webs run, means for effecting a momentary
stationary relation between the stapling devices and webs, and causing the stapling
devices to act while this momentary stationary relation exists, and a folding device
adapted to fold the associated product on the line of staples thus inserted, substantially
as described.
20. The combination with means for associating a plurality of webs or sections
of webs, of a stapling device, means for drawing the associated webs or sections of
webs continuously to and from the stapling device, and actuating mechanism for the
stapling device, so arranged that line of staples will be inserted in the associated
webs or sections of webs on a longitudinal line parallel with their movement, sub-
stantially as described.

page_text: 21. The combination with mechanisın for associating a plurality of webs or
sections of webs, of a stapling device by or through which the associated webs or
sections of web pass, mechanism for operating the stapling device so that a line of
staples will be inserted in the associated webs or sections of web on a longitudinal
line parallel with their movement, and a folder for folding the webs or sections of
web on substantially the line of the staples, substantially as described.
22. The combination with mechanism for associating a plurality of webs or
sections of web, of a stapling device, means for drawing the associated webs or section
of web by the stapling device, mechanism for operating the stapling device so that a
line of staples will be inserted in the associated webs or sections of web on the
longitudinal line parallel with the movement of the same, through the stapling
device, and longitudinal former arranged so that the associated and stapled webs will
be folded thereby on said longitudinal line, substantially as described.
23. The combination with means for associating a plurality of webs or sections of
web, of a plurality of stapling devices arranged in line and one in advance of the
other, means for leading the associated webs or sections of web by the plurality of
stapling devices, and means for operating the stapling devices so that a line of staples
will be inserted in the associated webs or sections of webs on a line parallel with the
movement of the same by the stapling devices, substantially as described. .
24. The combination with stationary stapling device, of means for leading a
piurality of associated webs or sections of web through said stapling device, means
for effecting a momentary stationary relation between the stapling device and said
associated webs or sections of web, and means for actuating said stapling device so
that a longitudinal line of staples will be inserted in the associated web or websion a
line parallel with the movement of the same past the stapling device, substantially
as described.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents,