US121117A - Improvement in machines for cutting and assorting playing-cards - Google Patents

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VICTOR-E. MAUGER: y V. 1 kImprovement in Machines for Cutting andAssorntmgjlggyg Cards, &c.

N0, 121,117; Patented Nov. 21,187 ujwvh PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR E. MAIIGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FUR CUTTING AND ASSUIITING PLAYING-CARDS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,117, dated November 21, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR E. MAUGER, of the city, county, and State of. New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Automatically Assorting Playing and other Cards, or pieces cut -om sheets 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improved assorting-machine for strips cut from sheets. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same taken on the plane of the line c c, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the assorting-machine for cards cut from strips. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of the same taken on the plane of the line k k, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to produce simple and effective means for asserting-that is to say, putting upon one another in regular order-the several strips or pieces cut from strips. The invention is to be more particularly applicable in the manufacture of playing-cards, but may also be advantageously used for other matter.

Playing-cards are, by rotary knives, cut from large sheets, each sheet containing about thirty 0r more cards. Every sheet is first printed, and then, by parallel incisions, cut into strips, each strip being subsequently cut up into as many cards as it contains. Vhen thus cut rapidly the cards of several sheets are apt to become mixed and those of each sheet liable to be indiscriminately arranged, making it difficult and laborious to assort them into packs 5 but by my invention the cards of each sheet are to be regularly arranged and placed one upon another in desired succession, so that the entire labor of subsequent asserting will be dispensed with.'

The invention consists chiey inthe use of a graduated plate, upon which the strips cut from sheets or the cards cut from strips are deposited, and in the use thereon of a sliding carriage or belt, which conveys each higher strip or card to the one next below it and places it on top, so that finally all 4pieces will be one above another in regular succession. The invention also consists in the combination, with said graduated plate, of guide-chutes, which convey the several pieces, respectively, to the several steps of the plate.

In the accompanying drawing I have shown my invention applied to two machines, one for assorting strips cut from sheets, the other for assorting cards cut from strips. It will be seen that the invention is identical in either case, the only practical difference being in the comparative proportions of parts.

In Figs. 1 and 2 is shown a machine for cutting cards into strips and assorting the latter. In this A represents the frame of the machine. B B are the parallel shafts of the rotary cutters O C, by which the sheet is cut into six (more or less) strips of equal width and length. These strips, as they emerge from between the shafts B, are deposited upon an inclined table, D, which, by means of projecting ribs a a, is divided into as many guide-chutes b b as there are spaces between the pairs of cutters. Each strip is therefore deposited in a separate chute. E is a graduated plate, afxed to the frame A at the foot ofthe chute-table D. It has as many steps d d as there are chutes b b, (see Fig. 2,) one step under and in line with each chute. The strips cut from the sheet are by the chutes guided to and iinally deposited upon the several steps of the graduated plate E, respectively. An endless apron, F, or a sliding carriage having a projectin'g finger, e, is moved so as to carry said finger along the graduated edge of the plate E or through a slot in said plate with such effect that such iin ger will first push the strip on the uppermost step of E off and deposit upon the strip on the adjoining step, then take the two strips on the latter and carry them to the step next below,- dtc., until finally all the strips have -been arranged in the desired succession, when they fall from the inclined end of E into a box or receptacle, G. I have in Fig. l shown two aprons, F, one on either side of the plate E, so

that by their fingers both ends of the strips may be pushed. The box G I prefer to connect with rack and pinion or otherwise, in such manner that it will be graduallyY fed downward as it becomes filled. The aprons or equivalent slides receive their motion from suitable mechanism. Figs. 3 and 4 show similar cutters C C on shafts B, a similar or equivalent system of chutes, b b,

l on a table, D, and substantially the same graduated plate E at the foot of the chute-table D; also a carriage, F, having a finger, e. The strips are taken from the box G to the cutters C', and by them cut into cards, which are in the chute carried upon the graduated plate and deposited on the steps of the same, the sliding nger then causing them to be placed one above the other in proper succession, and iinally to be discharged into a suitable receptacle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The graduated plate E, applied to a cuttingmachine to receive on its several steps the pieces, respectively, that are cut from a sheet or strip, as specified.

2. The sliding ringer or fingers e, applied to the graduated plate E for conveying` the strips, cards, or pieces deposited thereon from the higher Witnesses:

W. PRENTIss WEBSTER, AUGUsTUs GLAEsER.

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