UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEANDER WALTER MILLSAP, JR., OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
HAND-PRINTER FOR MAILER-STRIPS AND PROOF-SHEETS.

1,338,642.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Application filed July 30, 1917. Serial No. 183,804.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDER WALTER MILLSAP, JR., a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Hand-Printer for Mailer-Strips and Proof-Sheets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for printing strips with names and addresses for mailer addressing machines, and is also applicable for printing proofs.

Mailer address strips and proof sheets are of such a character that only one or some other small number of copies is required at a time, and the inconvenience and expense of doing such printing by means of a press is so considerable that the work is usually done by hand.

Heretofore it has been the general practice to print mailer address strips and proof sheets by inking the type in the galley on a stone and then placing a dampened sheet or strip of paper on such type, and by means of a platen block pounded by a mallet, to transfer the ink to the dampened paper.

An object of the invention is to make provision whereby the mailing address strips for newspaper offices and the like, and also proof sheets, may be printed by hand from the galley with great ease and rapidity, winding a strip off of a spool as the printing proceeds.

An object is to make provision whereby in printing address strips the strips may be wound onto one spool from another while the printing of the strip between the spools is being effected.

The invention comprises the printing apparatus and parts and combinations of parts thereof as will hereinafter more fully appear.

An object is to deliver the printed strip in a roll ready to be applied to a Wing-Horton, Dick or similar mailer.

Further objects are to facilitate attaching the end of the strip to the take-up spool prior to printing the strip; to facilitate applying to the take-up shaft the spool with the strip attached thereto; and to facilitate removing the roll of printed strip from the spool.

Another object is to provide a practical and simple lost motion construction for connecting the spool-driving mechanism with the take-up spool.

Further objects, advantages and features of novelty may appear from the accompanying drawings, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a hand printer for mailer strips embodying this invention in one of its forms as it appears in operation.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the device shown in Fig. 1, parts being broken away to expose construction otherwise hidden.

Fig. 3 is an elevation from the side opposite that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an axial section of the compensating device that connects the take-up spool with the printing roller.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental elevation of the front end of the device, showing the rocking bearing and the inking device.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the compensating take-up device on line a°, Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 is a fragmental sectional detail on line a', Figs. 4 and 6.

Fig. 6 is on a larger scale than Fig. 4 and Fig. 7 is on a still larger scale.

The runner is formed of two parallel side bars 1, 2, bent up at their front ends and fastened together by connecting members 3, 4. Said runner is provided with handles 5, 6 at the rear and front ends respectively by which the device may be run along a column of type.

The runner 1, 2, 3, 4 carries a frame 7 which stands upright above one of the side bars and extends along said runner. Said frame is swiveled at its front end to the front end of the runner by a swivel joint which is shown as comprising a shaft 8 projecting from one side of the frame and extending half way across the runner and provided with a forwardly extending spindle 9 that is journaled at the mid-width of the runner in a rocking bearing 9' that is journaled to the runner by a pin 9''. Said frame is thus swiveled to the runner, so that the rear end may be raised and lowered and the frame may be swayed sidewise.

The rear end of the frame is resiliently connected to the rear end of the runner by the spring 10 which is connected to said rear end mid-way between the sides thereof and in the produced axial plane of the spindle 9. Said spring 10 is connected to the frame 7 by a bent rod 11 which is fastened to the