IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING SAMPLES, PATTERNS, DOCUMENTS, OR FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES.
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Adams Tasker, of the City of Manchester,
Stationer's Assistant, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR BINDING SAMPLES, PATTERNS, DOCUMENTS, OR FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Adams Tasker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th June 1880.
DAVID ADAMS TASKER, of the City of Manchester, Stationer's Assistant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING SAMPLES, PATTERNS, DOCUMENTS,
OR FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
The improvements relate to mechanism for the binding together by means of
metallic staples large quantities of samples, patterns, documents, or other articles.
A suitable framing is formed carrying a table or platform working in a slide and
supported to a certain extent by means of springs. Passing through an opening in
the table or platform is a knife or other cutting instrument, for piercing the articles
required to be bound together. The knife is attached to a movable bar, which is
capable of being pressed upwards or forwards by means of cams, levers, screws, or
wedges, or a combination thereof. Over the knife and table is fitted a staple
holder, fed with staples from an automatic feeder attached. Passing through or
over the staple holder is a plunger or stamper, which is pressed downwards or
forwards by means of cams, levers, screws, or wedges, or a combination thereof, or
by direct action upon a hand knob. To put the machine in operation, the patterns or
articles requiring to be bound are placed upon the table or platform, and the same
is raised in conjunction with the knife. The table being partly supported by
springs gives way and forms the required pressure for holding the articles tightly
in place, while the knife being firmly fitted to the sliding bar passes through them,
and thus provides a passage for the staple, which is then forced through the articles
from the other side by means of the plunger or stamper. Upon the staple reaching
the knife, the two legs thereof are opened out by the knife point, so that by further
pressure they are still further spread asunder by the resistance of the table or

page_text: platform, and the binding operation is completed. In cases where a spring table
or platform is not sufficiently firm, a fixed, or screw, or rack sliding table may be
used, or the plunger and staple holder may be made adjustable. The staple feeder
is formed of a suitably shaped trough or rest, in or upon which a quantity of the
staples are placed one behind the other, and are pressed forwards towards the
plunger or stamper by means of a spring or cord and weight in such manner that as
one is used or forced through the articles to be bound another takes its place,
ready for the next operation.
The various mechanisms may be formed multiple in and upon the one main
framing, so that a machine may be constructed capable of binding several sets of
patterns, samples, documents, or other articles at one and the same time, and other
variations may be made without departing from the peculiar character of the
Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said David Adams Tasker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
December 1880.
DAVID ADAMS TASKER, of the City of Manchester, Stationer's Assistant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING SAMPLES, PATTERNS, DOCUMENTS,
OR FOR OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES."
The improvements relate to mechanism for the binding together by means of
metallic staples large quantities of samples, patterns, documents, or other articles.
A suitable framing is formed, carrying a table or platform working in a slide, and
supported to a certain extent by means of a spring or springs. Passing through an
opening in the table or platform is a knife or other cutting instrument for piercing
the articles required to be bound together. The knife is attached to or in
connection with a movable bar, which is capable of being pressed upwards or
forwards by means of cams, levers, screws, or wedges, or a combination thereof.
Over the knife and table may be fitted a staple holder, fed with staples, from an
automatic feeder attached.
Passing through or over the staple holder is a plunger or stamper, which is
pressed downwards or forwards by means of cams, levers, screws, or wedges, or a
combination thereof, or by direct action upon a hand knob. To put the machine
in operation, the patterns or articles requiring to be bound are placed upon the
table or platform, and the same is raised in conjunction with the knife. The table
being partly supported by a spring or springs gives way and forms the required
pressure for holding the articles tightly in place, while the knife being firmly fitted
to or actuated by the sliding bar, passes through them, and thus provides a passage
for the staple, which is then forced through the articles from the other side by
means of the plunger or stamper. Upon the staple reaching the knife, the two
legs thereof are opened out by the knife point, so that by further pressure they are
still further spread asunder by the resistance of the table or platform, and the
binding operation is completed. In cases where a spring table or platform is not
sufficiently firm, a fixed, or screw, or rack sliding table may be used, or the plunger
and staple holder may be made adjustable. The staple feeder is formed of a
suitably shaped trough or rest, in or upon which a quantity of the staples are placed
one behind the other, and are pressed forwards towards the plunger or stamper by
means of a spring, or cord and weight. in such manner that as one is used or
forced through the articles to be bound another takes its place, ready for the next
operation. The various mechanisms may be formed multiple in and upon the one
main framing, so that a machine may be constructed capable of binding several sets
of patterns, sainples, documents, or other articles at one and the same time; or
modifications may be made, wherein a portion or portions of the foregoing described
apparatus may be used.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows a vertical section of portions of my Invention, and Fig. 2 a vertical
section of a modification thereof.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew elevations of staples most commonly in use.

page_text: guide plate for the same patterns or samples. d, d, is the knife passing through the
opening in the table or platform. The knife d, d, being in connection with the
piston c, e, and the movable slide bar f. f, is pressed upwards by the cam or
wiper g, g, actuated by the handle h, h. The springs shown in these examples are
spiral, and are placed in the hollow tube b¹, 6, and surround the knife, d, d; but
the springs may be applied in various other ways. j, j, is the staple holder, and
the staples are caused to enter at the opening j¹, and may be inserted either by
hand, or by means of a suitable automatic feed motion attached to j, j, or to the
main framing of the machine. k, k, is the plunger or stamper, provided with a
spiral spring for recoil, whereby the staples may be forced through the opening
made by the knife in the patterns or samples under operation.
In Fig. 1 a method of adjusting the height of the table is shown, wherein the
tube b¹, b', is cut with a screw thread on its outer surface, and passed through the
screwed fly wheel m, m, and held in position by the rest bar n, n, in lieu of which
a rack and pinion motion might be adopted, or the staple holder and plunger
motion might be made adjustable in a similar manner.
The modification as shown in Fig. 2 is for the porpose of piercing or perforating
patterns, samples, documents, etc., only.
The whole or a part of the foregoing mechanisms may be formed in duplicate or
multiple arrangement, so as more than one set of samples, documents, etc., may be
pierced or perforated or bound together, or both operations combined at one and
the same time.
Having now described my improvements, and means I adopt in carrying the
same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the
exact details shown and described, as variations may be made without departing
from the peculiar character of my Invention; but what I do claim is, the
automatic piercing or perforating of samples, patterns, documents, or other articles for
the purpose of binding the same together with staples or metallic fasteners, whether
such staples be fed by hand or in combination with an automatic feed motion,
substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Adams Tasker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and eighty.
Witness,
WILLIAM GADD,
Consulting Engineer.
64, Barton Arcade,
Manchester.
DAVID ADAMS TASKER. (L.S.)