GB191403977A - Improved Means for use in Making Display Cards and the like. - Google Patents

Abstract

3977. Gray, G. W. March 19, 1913, [Convention date]. Affixing by adhesives.-A machine for fixing letters upon show cards by means of adhesives comprises a base-plate A, a rod E extending across and above it and made adjustable in angle and position thereon, and a gripping- appliance M for gripping symbols and adjusting them upon the card. The pillars C supporting the rod E can slide to and fro in the guides B and rotate therein for the adjustment of the rod E, and they have a screw F which forces the rod E down in the slot D and on to a nut G' screwed upon a collar G, which presses upon the guide B. This pressure clamps the head C<1> of the pillar C in the guide-member B. The rod E, which is curved or straight, is thus adjusted in position. A show card is clamped upon the bed A by a clamp H controlled by a spring K, Fig. 5, and a wing-nut J The bed may have a rotary inset, Fig. 1, to enable the letters to be placed around a card. The gripping-appliance M is tipped up so that its spring 5 engages the side 9 of a cam 6, held slidably within the gripping-appliance, but non- rotatably, upon the rod E. The lever 23 is depressed, and its extension 22 moves a frame 18 out against the reaction of a spring 19, so that the arms 11, 13 are rotated about their pivots 12, 15, and the jaws 10, 14, which are adapted to be projected out between bars lying parallelly along the length of the bed A, are moved asunder. The letters &c. are then placed between these jaws, and the gripping-appliance is then moved along the bed A to a gumming or damping space N, and the letters &c. depressed on to it. The appliance M is then raised and slid along the rod E into position and lowered, the jaws 10, 14 are separated, and the press 1 and its bars forced upon the bed A so as to press the letters on to the card. The guides B may be provided with a graduated scale, and the sliding cam 6 may have a downward extension 26 carrying a gauge bar 25 and an adjustable rod 27 for indicating the distance through which the appliance M has to be moved along the rod E to pass from one lettering position on the card to the next.