US1034234A - Paging and numbering machine. - Google Patents

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.W. F. HEFFNER. PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE. APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB- 9, 1910.

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I W. I. HEFFNER.

PAGING AND NUMBBRING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED rm. 9, 1910.

1,034,234. Patented July 30, 1912.

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' W. F. HEPPNER. PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

APELIOATION FILED FEB. 9, 1910. 1,034,234.

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WILLIAM F. HEFFNER, 0F BENTON.HARBOR, MICHIGAN.

PAGING AND NUMBERING MACHINE;

Specification of Letters ratent. Patented July 30, 1912.

Application filed February 9, 1910. Serial No. 542,934.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. HEFFNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Benton Harbor, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paging and Numbering Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in apparatus for printing serial numbers upon the opposite faces of pages of a book and comprises various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

My invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation. Fig. 3 an enlarged view in elevation of the upper portion of the machine. Fig. 4 is an enlarged edge view of the upper portion of the apparatus. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a pinion and rack mechanism forming a part of the apparatus. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the reversing mechanism.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1 designates a rectangular portion of the framework of the apparatus, supported upon standards 3 and 2. Said standard 3 is hollow, and mounted to have a vertical reciprocating movement within the standard is a shaft 5 having a spherical weight 69 at its upper end, tending to normally hold the shaft 5 at its lowest limit. bearings 7 in the base of the frame is a shaft 8, one end of which extends within the casing 6 forming the lower portion of the standard 3 and has fixed thereto a disk 10 with an eccentrically mounted pin 11 thereon to which a pitman 12 is pivotally connected, which in turn is pivoted to a cross Mounted in suitable.

head 17 which is adapted to reciprocate between guides 18 within the standard and said cross head is pivotally connected to the longitudinally movable shaft 5. Fixed to rotate with said shaft 8 is a friction cone 9*, and 9 and 9 designate pulleys fixed together and loosely mounted upon the shaft 8, said pulley 9 being adapted to be driven from any source of supply of power while the pulley 9 has belted connection 23 with the pulley 22 keyed to the shaft 21. The hub 9 of the pulley 9 has an annular groove therein engaged by the tread or foot lever 8 pivotally mounted upon the pin 8. A

belt 23 passes about the pulley 9 and the 1 pulley 22 which is fastened to shaft 21 journaled in suitable bearings in the bracket member 21 fastened to the standard 3. Pulleys 241- and 25 of different diameters are fixed to the shaft 21 and said pulley 24 has belted connection 57 with a pulley 56 which is fixed to the shaft 5 1 j ournaled in suitable horizontal bearings 53 in the superstructure of the apparatus, and the pulley 25 has belted connection 106 with a pulley 105 which is loosely mounted upon the shaft 96 mounted in suitable bearings 97. Said shaft 54. has fixed thereto a rotatable ink font 55, said ink font having a porous covering 58 through which the ink is allowed to percolate to its circumference for the purpose of supplying ink to the inking roller 59 which is pivotally mounted upon a pin 60 carried by the lower end of the diagonally disposedbar 61, which latter is mounted upon a pivot pin 62 carried by an arm 63 which projects from the collar 64 which is secured to the longitudinally movable shaft 5. A

second arm 63 projects from the collar64,

shown clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and piv oted to said arm 63 is a rod 71, which, upon reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings, it will be noted is pivotally connected to a swinging pawl-carrying arm 70. Mounted upon a shaft 27, journaled in the frame of the apparatus, is a drum 28, and ratchet teeth 28 are formed along one end.

of said drum and adapted to be engaged by a pawl 7 0 which is pivotally mounted upon the arm 7 O and provided for the purpose of imparting an intermittent movementto the drum each time the vertically-disposed shaft is raised, the pawl turning idly over the ratchet teeth when said shaft 5 returns to its lowest position.

Mounted upon the various sprocket wheels 34, which are j ournaled upon pins 32 and 33 upon the frame of the apparatus, is an end less link chain 36, the links of which are adapted to carry the serial numbers to be printed upon the opposite pages of a book, each having a plurality of numeral type thereon. Said chain, carrying the numeral type, passes also about the pulleys 14 and 13, thence over a rectangulanshaped pivotal member 96* fixed to the shaft 96 mounted in. the frame of the apparatus and thence over a pulley 120 journaled upon the pin 119 upon the frame of the apparatus, thence over an adjustable pulley 4:2 pivoted on a screw 41 movable between the strips 38 and held by a nut 10, thence over said pulleys 35 journaled on pins 33 and 34 journaled on pins 32. The shaft 96 has fixed thereto a pinion 104 which is in mesh with the teeth of a rack bar 94, which latter is fastened,

through the medium of the pivot pin 95,

with the arm 92 secured to the collar 90 which in turn is held by means of set screws 91 to the shaft 5. Said rack bar has its lower end threaded as at 91* and a bracket arm 1.07 has an aperture through which the lower threaded portion of the rack bar passes and which arm 107 is held upon the rack bar through the medium of a nut 107*, shown clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The arm 107 has a recessed plate 108 held thereto by means of bolts 110 and a platen 89 is held in said plate 108. Said shaft 96, which carries the member 96*, has a finger 96 secured thereto and which is shown in side elevation in Fig. 3 of the drawings and. in end view in Fig. 4 and which is adapted to throw the edge of the leaf downward after the numbers have been printed upon the face thereof, each individual page rests upon the upper end of the arm 95 as the page is printed, which arm 95 is held by means of the screws 95 to the bar 101 which is secured by means of the bolts 102 to the standard 3, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The shaft 96 has keyed thereto a clutch collar 112 and a loosely mounted clutch collar 112 is fixed to the pulley 105 and is adapted to be thrown into mesh with the collar 112 through the medium of the arm 112 which is fixed to the shaft 112, journaled in the frame of the apparatus. Said shaft- 112 has a collar 113 held by means of a set screw 11 1 to said shaft. A coiled spring 115 is interposed between the portion of the frame in which the shaft 112 is journaled and the arm 112 and tends to hold the shaft 112 at its farthest throw in one direction, as shown clearly in Fig. 6 of the drawings.

A reversing lever 111 has a head 111 journaled upon the shaft 112 and has a cam edge 111 which is normally in contact with a similarly inclined or cam-shaped edge of the collar 113. Said cam lever 111. is also in contact with the resilient bar 101, serving as a means for throwing the bar laterally for a purpose which will presently be described. The shaft 96 has a squared portion 96 against which the resilient bar 101 bears yieldingly, the purpose of which bar 101 is to steady the shaft 90 and hold the link of the chain while the number of the page is being printed. Pivotally mounted upon a lug 85 upon said frame is a shaft 83, shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, and fixed to the shaft 83 is a disk 82 to which an arm 87 is fastened by means of screws 86 and also fastened to the disk 82 is an arm 81 which carries at one end a pivotal screw 80 to which the lower end of the link 77 is pivoted and which in turn is pivotally connected, through the medium of the screw 78, with the collar 7-l which is held by a set screw upon the shaft 5. A plate 84 is fastened to the under surface of the arm 87 and carries a platen 88 which is adapted to press the upper surface of the leaf against a type numeral upon the endless chain 36 simultaneously with the printing of a numeral upon the opposite face of the next sheet by the platen 89 being forced up against the type numeral upon the lower face of a link.

In order to prevent any smearing of ink upon the paper, in the event of there being no sheet of book to be printed intermediate the platen and the type incident to the operator failing to insert a page to be printed intermediate the platen and the type, I. provide two endless tapes, designated by numerals 31 and 31", the former of which passes about the platen 88 and thence about the pulley 118 mounted upon a pivot carried by the standard 110, thence passing over a pulley 52 mounted upon a pin 50 supported by the standard 48 upon the frame, thence down over the pulley 117', thence about the drum 28, thence back over the pulley 4:6 journaled upon the pin 4-5, thence about the drum again and about the pulley 4E7, thence again about the drum and about a pulley 43 upon the shaft 43, thence about a pulley 51 upon the pin 19, thence about the pulley 117, thence up over the pulley 117 thence about the platen 88, thus making a continuous tape. The second tape 31 passes about the platen 89, thence through an opening 109, thence about a pulley 43" upon a pivot pin 33, thence about the drum and back over another pulley .3, also upon a pivot pin 33, and thence back to the platen 89, thus making a continuous tape moving over each platen. As the drum is given an intermittent movement, the tapes are moved slight distances one over each platen in order to present a dry surface in the event of any ink coming in contact therewith and which would otherwise blur the printing on the succeeding pages to be printed should the operator fail to insert a page to receive an impression which would ink the tape. The tapes being of considerable length would permit the inky parts to dry before the same part again came opposite the platen.

Referring to Fig. 5 of the drawings, it will be noted that the pinion 104 carries a pin 104C upon which a pawl 104: is pivotally mounted and a spring 104k is also fastened to the pinion and adapted to bear yieldingly against the pawl to cause the same to be thrown into one or another of the notches 96 formed at positions diametrically opposite in the shaft 96.

The operation of the apparatus will be readily understood and is as follows Power is applied to the pulley 9, causing the same to rotate continuously, and also the pulley 9 which is fixed thereto. As the foot lever 8 is tilted, the pulley 9 is thrown into contact with the friction cone 9, causing the pulleys 9 and 9 to rotate. Through the medium of the belted connections 23, 57 and 106, continuous rotary movements will be imparted to the shaft 54 carrying the cylindrical ink font and the pulley 105 which carries the reversing clutch collar 112*. The operator places successive leaves to be printed upon intermediate the platens and the type upon two of the links of the chain, resting the leaves upon the upper end of the bar 95, then by pressing upon the foot lever may cause the clutch 9 to rotate the shaft 8 which will cause a reciprocating movement to be imparted to the shaft 5. As the latter moves upward, the inking roller 59 carried by the bar 61 will be moved against the face of the type upon the chain, causing the same to be inked, the bar 61 being tilted through the medium of the spring 66 which connects one end thereof with the weight 69. As the shaft 5 is driven upward, an intermittent movement will be imparted to the drum about which the tapes ride through the medium of the rod 71 and pawl-carrying rod pivoted thereto and which latter carries a pawl for engage ment with the teeth on the marginal edge of the drum. As the shaft 5 moves up, the shaft 83, which carries the bar 87 with the platen 88 thereon, will be rocked through the medium of the pivotal bar connections 77 and 81, thus throwing the upper platen down against the type which is positioned upon the upper face of the link of the type chain, with the tape intervening between the platen and adjacent type to be printed upon one side of the sheet. The lower platen will be thrown upward through the medium of the rack bar 94 which carries the platen 89 upon a projecting bracket arm 107, as

shown clearly in'Fig- 4. of the drawings, thus causing both platens to simultaneously print serial numbers upon the opposite faces of successive pages. During the printing of the numbers, the chain will be held steady by the resilient bar 101 bearing frictionally against one of the flat faces upon the shaft 96. Upon the reverse or downward move ment of the shaft 5, the platen will be thrown to the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings and the inking roller 59 will be moved back in contactwvith the surface of the cylindrical ink font 55 to receive a fresh supply of ink. It will be noted that the rack bar, as it moves upward, will cause the pinion wheel 104 to move idly in one directionand when thepawl 10 i on pin 104: comes opposite a notch 96 in the circumference thereof, the spring 104; bearing against the pawlwill cause the latter to engage a notch and on the reverse or downward throw of the pawl an intermittent movement will be imparted to the shaft 96 and throw another type with the succeeding serial number thereon to be printed on the neXt'page.

.In the event of it being desired to reverse the movement of the chain carrying the type. numerals, the operator by swinging the cam lever 111 may cause a longitudinal movement to be imparted to the shaft 112 under the tension of the spring, 115',

through the medium of the cam surface 111* hearingagainst the similar surface upon the collar 113*,thus throwing the clutch mem ber 112 into'mesh with the teeth of the clutch "112 which is fixed to the shaft 96. Simultaneously with the swinging of the cam lever 111, a cam projection upon the end thereof will cause theresilient bar 101 to be held out of the path of the squared portion. of the shaft 96, thus allowing the shaft to rotate in a reverse direction through the medium of the belted connecti'on 106 with a pulley thereon, thus returning the chain to its starting position.

From the foregoing, it will be understood that, by the provision of a page printing machine embodying the features of my invention, the numbers may be printed serially upon the opposite side of each page,

the operator merely holding the pages and allowing each to be inserted intermediate the platens as the different serial numbers are brought into position to print succeeding pages.

WhatI claim to be new is z 1. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of a book comprising a frame, an endless chain, pulleys upon" which the latter travels, type upon the links of the chain, a rotatable shaft, a chain feeding member fixed to said shaft adapted to simultaneously engage and hold two of the links of the chain, said shaft having a flattened portion, a stationary resilient bar fixed to the frame and engaging the fiattened part of said shaft to steady the chain feeding member when the chain is stationary, loosely mounted and fixed clutch collars upon said shaft, a longitudinally movable shaft, an arm fixed thereto and engaging said loosely mounted clutch collar, a loosely mounted cam lever upon said longitudinally movable shaft, a collar fixed to the latter and having a cam edge against which the cam edge of said lever is adapted to contact, said lever also bearing against said resilient bar affording means whereby, as the lever is actuated, the bar may be thrown out of engagement with said rotatable shaft simultaneously with the engagement of the clutch collars whereby the shaft carrying the chain feeding member may be rotated in a reverse direction to return the chain to its starting position, platens, and means for moving the same simultaneously against the type upon different links of said chain, as set forth.

2. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of books comprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain, pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontally-disposed rotatable shaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feeding member fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatable shaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with said notches, a longitudinally movable shaft, means for operating the same, collars fixed to said shaft, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, arms fixed to the disk, a platen upon one of said arms, a link pivotally connecting the other with one of the collars upon said shaft, a rack bar fastened to a projecting arm upon one of said collars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to said rack bar, a platen upon the bracket arm, tapes movable against the platen, and means for imparting intermittent movements to the tapes, as set forth.

3. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of books comprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain, pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontallydisposed rotatable shaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feeding member fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatable shaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with said notches, a longitudinally movable shaft, means for operating the same, collars fixed to said shaft, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, arms fixed to the disk, a platen upon one of said arms, a link pivotally connecting the other with one of the collars upon said shaft, a rack bar fastened to a projecting arm upon one of said collars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to said rack bar, a platen upon the bracket arm, a rotatable drum mounted upon the frame, means for imparting an intermittent rotary movement thereto, endless tapes passing about said drum and in contact with each platen, a spring-actuated bar pivoted to the arms upon one of said collars, and an inking roller carried by the spring pressed bar, and a rotatable ink font against which the inking roller contacts, as set forth.

4. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of books comprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links.

of the chain, pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontallydisposed rotatable shaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feeding member fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatable shaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with said notches, a longitudinally movable sh aft, means for op erating the same, collars fixed to the disk, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, arms fixed to said disk, pivotal link connections between one of said arms and a collar upon said longitudinally movable shaft, a plate upon the other arm of the disk, a platen fixed to said plate, a rack bar fixed to an arm of one of said collars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to the rack bar, a platen upon said bracket arm, movable tapes, means for holding the same in contact with said platens, mechanism for imparting intermittent movements to the tapes, a rotatable ink font, a s1: ring-pressed pivotal bar mounted upon one of the arms of said collars, an ink roller pivoted to the spring-pressed bar and adapted to be movable against the ink font and the tip of said chain, as set forth.

5. An apparatus for printing serial numbers upon pages of books comprising a frame, an endless chain, type upon the links of the chain, pulleys about which the chain passes, a horizontallydisposed rotatable shaft having notches in the circumference thereof, a chain feeding member fixed to the latter, a pinion loosely mounted upon said rotatable shaft, a pawl carried by the pinion and shaft for engagement with said notches, a longitudinally movable shaft, a weight secured to the upper end of said shaft, means for operating the latter, collars fixed to the disk, a rocking disk mounted upon the frame, arms fixed to said disk, pivotal link connections between one of said arms and a collar upon said longitudinally movable shaft, a plate upon the other arm of the disk, a platen fixed to said plate, a rack bar fixed to an arm of one of said collars and engaging the teeth of said pinion, a bracket arm fixed to the rack bar, a platen upon said bracket arm, movable tapes, means for holdlot) ing the same in contact with said platens, In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my mechanism for imparting intermittent movesignature in the presence of two Witnesses. 10 ments to the tapes, a rotatable ink font, a

spring-pressed pivotal bar mounted upon WILLIAM F HEFFNER.

one of the arms of said collars, an ink roller pivoted to the spring-pressed bar and adapt- Witnesses:

ed to be movable against the ink font and E'lI-IEL FOWLER,

the type of said chain, as set forth. ALBION WENELL.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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