US1294119A - Manifolding-machine. - Google Patents

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A. KRAUTH, DECD.

F. G. olEsaAcH. ADMINISTRATOR.

MANIFOLDING MACHINE.

APPL|CAT|0N FILED JUNE 3,1915- ,294,1 l 9 Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

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A. KHAUTH, DEC'D.

F. G. nIEsBAcH. ADMINISTRATOR.

MANIFOLDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IuNE 3.19Is.

Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

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IIIIIIII I III I I I I I 1I.. III IIIIIIIt FlWE .ALBERT KRAUTH, OF HAMILTON, OHIO; FRITZ G. DIESBACH ADMINISTRATOR OF ALBERT KRAUTH, DECEASED.

MANIFOLDING-MAGHINE.

3m- Specication of Letters Patent.

Patenten ret. 11,1919.

Application led June 3, 1915. Serial No. 31,830.

To all 'whomy t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALBERT KRAUTH, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Manifolding- Machines, of which the following specification is a full disclosure.

My invention relates to manifolding machines and in particular to the devices for controlling the withdrawal of the paper.

These machines generally contain Webs or strips of paper representing printed blank form, as bills of lading, or sales records subdividingthe strip. into definite lengths of sheets which as used are withdrawn from the machine and severed from the strip. It has been found desirable to limit the free withdrawal to the length of the sheets so that a succeeding sheet is restrained within the machine to maintain its registry withits duplicate manifoldsheets, and proper position over the Writing table of the machine, and otherwise facilitate the operation in the use of the machine.

It is customary in the manufacture of the printed strips to perforate the same at predetermined spacing longitudinally, usually at the head of each sheet for ling purposes.

The invention herein therefore has as an object to provide a manifolding -machine with means appropriately located'adapted in the withdrawal of the paper to engage with an alined aperture when advanced in registry therewith, restraining and limiting a continued free withdrawal of the paper or displacement within the machine of a succeeding portion of the strip until the devices are released for a subsequent operation.

Various other features and objects of the :invention willbe more fully disclosed Ibyy the accompanying drawing and description thereof forming a part of the specification, and in suchdrawings like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views of which z- Figure 1 is a central vertical section of the forward portion of a manifolding machine or autographic register containing my invention.

Fig. 2 isv an end elevation of the upper forward portion of the machine shown in Fig. 1, with parts thereof broken away and others in section to more clearly illustrate parts which would otherwise be hidden.

Fig. 3 isa detail side elevation of the mechanism for supporting and controlling the paper feed arresting devices.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of a modified construction of paper feed arresting devices from that illustrated in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the machine shown in Fig. 1 with part cut away to expose hidden parts.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view similar to Fig. l, showing the parts in a released position.

Fig. 7 illustrates a modification of the paper feed arresting devices located toward the end of the machine.

-Grenerically this invention is companion to that disclosed in my prior patents, Reissue No. 14,189,7dated Aug.v 29, 1916, for autographic register, and No. 1,212,509, for manifolding devices, in providing a member yieldingly urged against a `surface of the paper and in the path of longitudinally alined and spaced apertures, adapted in withdrawing the paper when 'in registry with an aperture to engage therewith through the paper, limiting or arresting further withdrawal of the paper.

Such type of mechanism in practice has been found very efficient and the sheet delivery of an entire=web length is absolutely accurate ,as to their measured lengths correspondingly with the printed form contained on each sheet, and no adjusting of the paper is necessary after the initial threading operation. rThe arresting mechanism is not dependent in its operation upon any determined degree of motion, corresponding to a proposed length of paper withdrawal or feed, for the paper with its apertures is instrumental in limiting or arresting its withdrawal or feed from the machine. Thus slightV variations in' `relative sheet lengths will not disturb a proper length of withdrawal, corresponding with the full length of the sheet printed form. The strips are printed .and perforated approximately in vone operation, thus any slight variation in the texture of t e paper or its feed in printing. is not detrimental to the use of the strip in the manifolding machine, nor does the variation, due to contraction and ex v ansion of the paper inthe web, interfere, but the paper is onlyarrested in the withdrawal from the machine after a full sheet move ment irrespective of any size varlation of the several successive sheets.

The machine herein illustrated comprises rolls or other feeding devices. It comprises the usual side frames 1, 2, secured upon a base 3, between which the supply webs of pa er 4 are suitably mounted and journa ed with the number of supply webs depending upon the size and use of the register. The paper strips from the web are each respectively fed over` guide rollers 5 to guide the paper acrossy a writing table 6, secured between the upper portion of the side frames 1, 2, and marginally inclosed by a margin frame, which is omittedfrom the drawings.

At the forward end of the margin frame, slightly above the writing-table a crossplate 7 is provided, its ends fixed to theside frames and provides anabutment for`the tension blade 8 fixed to the spring tensioned rock rod 9 journaled in the side frames, the paper passing through the channel formed by the writing-tableand cross-plate7 and locked against reactionary movement by the tension blade 8. A tearing blade 10 extends across the writing table and integral with the side arms 11 projecting downwardly and slidably guided between the respective guideways formedby the ribs 12, projecting from the side frames, which guide the knife in its vertical movement toward and from the writing table.

The `side frames support and journal a shaft 14, one end extended beyond the side frame 1, upon which a hand lever 13 is fixed exterior of said side frame. The hand lever 13 has a forwardly projecting arm 15,

pivotally connected to an angle extension projecting from the arm 11 of the tearingblade, the pivotal connection between element 15 and arm 11 being such as to provide a slight play between the parts to\ accommodate'for the arc of movement of the arm 15 for raising the tearing-blade 10. The opposite end of the shaft 14 isprovided with an arm 15', connecting with the arm 11 ofthe tearing-blade, for equalizing the movement at both ends of the tearing-blade and preventing any bind in the movements of the tearingfblade.

.The paper arresting mechanism at the forward end of the machine is dependingly supported from the tearing-b1ade and comprises I a cross-plate 17 having the pins 18, 18, fixed thereto, Vthe pins projecting upwardly each through a sleeve boss 19 as a part of the tearing-blade. The 'free ends of the pins are each provided with a collar or head 20 as an abutment to limit the movement of the pins toward the writing table. A spring 21 is provided for each of the pins engaged between the cross-platel 17 and tearing blade 10, for yiel'dingly urging the cross-plate downwardly. away fro'mthe upper surface of the tearing-blade and moving the pins 22, fixed to thecross-plate 17, through the apertures 23, 24, respectively in the cross plate 7 and writing .table 6, and'thereby extend across the paper feeding channel to'limit the movement of the paper when the pins 22l engage withv the apertures inthe paper. These pins when not in registry with an aperture engage against the surface of the paper, as it is bein withdrawn under a slight tension not su cient to retard or interfere with a free withdrawal of the paper shaft 14, having one end thereof fixed to the shaft and its other end secured to the side frame 2 (see Fig. 2) is provided for rocking the shaft in a return or reverse direction, for automatically moving the parts connected to said shaft to their normal position, after the operator has released his hold `or handpressure from the handle 13. Thus,

as soon as the operator releases the hand lever 13, the tearing-blade is lowered, which suspends the cross-plate 17 at an elevation to permit the detents or pins 22 to be brought upon the paper, and yieldingly sustained by the springs 21, so that the pins will snap through successive apertures in `the paper when brought into registry with the pins to arrest the paper motion. The spring 25 cpunecting with shaft 14 exertsits force to release the arresting mechanism `to an operative position but does not influence the detents or pins in their paper intercepting motion `through the apertures in the paper. In the modification shown in Fig. 4, it will be seen that the pins 22' are rigidly fixed to the writing table 6 and project slightly above the same, andthe cross-platey 17 is provided with an aperture 26 adapted to concentrically engage over the pin 22 for engaging a registering aperture in the paper fed between the table 6 and crossplate 17.

At the` rear end of the machine similarly functioning arresting mechanism is provided comprising a pair of yielding blades 27, 27, fixed to the lower surface of the writing table and relatively spaced, which blade is provided with a pin 28 adapted to project through an alined aperture 29 in the writing table and through respective alined apertures in the cross-plateBO extending across the writing table and fixed to the side frames. An actuating bar 31 is slidably supported upon the lower surface of the writing table having one end provided with a wedge piece 32 adapted to engage a connecting bar 33 fixed t'o the plates 28, 28. The opposite end of the actuating bar 31 pivotally connects at 3l to an arm 34 vfixed upon the rock shaft 14 for moving the actuating bar 31 simultaneously with the hand lever 13 for releasing the rear retaining pins 28, 28', with a release of the forward retaining pins 22, 22.

The operation and construction of the rear retaining members is similar to that shown and described in my aforesaid .prior application, Serial No. 10,917., filed February 27, 1915.

I'n Fig. 7 I have illustrated a modification of the rear arresting mechanism, operating similar to that illustrated in Fig. 4. In such construction I provide the cross-bar or plate with a pin 35, and the blade 37 with a bowed end 36 apertured to engage over the pin 35, when the blade is released toward the cross plate after an alined aperture in the paper movesinto registry with the pin 35. The tension of the, blade 27 is veryslight so as not to interferewvith the feed of the paper or multilate the same, so that the tenacity of the paper will maintain the arresting elements disengaged until an aperture follows inthe registry therewith.

To lock the detents or pins 22 and 28 in a non-paper intercepting position, primarily of advantage when loading the machine, I provide a rock shaft 38extending across and journaledwithin the side frames 1 and 2, (see Figs. 1 and 6), which shaft is manually rocked by the handle 39 iixed to the shaft and extended forward so as to be accessible. The shaft. 38 has an arm 40 fixed thereon at one end and exterior adjacent lthe side frame 1. The arm 40 engages a cam extension 42 formed integral with the arm 15 of the hand lever 13, for controlling and rocking the shaft 14. The handle 39 is adapted to engage with a notch 43 formed in the flange or rib 44 projecting from thel side frame 1, forflocking said handle in an adjusted position. Thus when the handle is moved downward to engage with the notch 43, shaft 38 will be rocked, imparting motion to the arm 40 and arm 15 to move the tearing-blade upwardly away from the writing-table, vand also operating shaft 14, moving the detent controlling mechanism connected with said shaft.

I-Iaving described my invention, I claim:

1. In a manifolding machine, a pair of side fraines, a writing table connecting said frames over which a strip of paper is drawn the paper longitudinally having spaced apertures, said table at its forward end having an aperture in alinement with the apertures of the strip of paper, a tearing blade spanning said writing table and movable toward and from the same, means for moving said'blade, a pin member mounted upon and movable with said` 'tearing blade and yieldingly urged toward said writing table adapted to engage with a registering aperture in the moving paper and with an aperture in the writing table to intercept the progress of the paper, and tension means for said pin member.

2. In a manifolding machine, a frame structure including a writing table-over which a strip of paper is drawn, the paper provided with longitudinally spaced apertures, a bar member sustained across the writing table having a spring tensioned Ypin dependingly mounted thereon engaging with an aperture in the paper when in registry therewith', and means for raising said bar member with its pin to a position where the pin cannot engage `the paper.

3. In a manifolding machine comprising a suitable frame work .inclosing a strip of' Apaper having a longitudinally disposed series of alining perforations, in combination with a tearing blade situated at the` front endkof said framework above the strip of paper and having-pins yieldingly urged toward the paper and arranged to enter said perforations @muti/m, and -means for` moving said blade upward for withdrawing the pins from said perforations. `v

4. In a manifolding machine comprising a suitable frame work from which strips o paper are withdrawn, the combination with a writing table over which mthe'paper p asses, of a' vertically movable tearing blade located adjacent the' forward end of said table, depressible pins supported upon said tearing blade that engage said paper, and means moving said blade thereby raising said `pins to a paper non-engaging elevation.

5. In a manifolding machine comprising a suitable frame work from which strips of paper are withdrawn, the combination with awriting table over which the paper passes, of a vertically movable tearing blade located vadjacent the forwardv end of said table supporting depressible pins that'engage said paper, means moving said blade, vertically depressible pins located at the rear end of said table that engage said paper, and means for connecting with said rstnamed means for moving said lastnamed pins.

6. In a manifolding machine comprising a suitable frame work inclosing a strip of ibo paper having a longitudinally disposed series of alimng perforations, in combination with a tearin blade situated at the frontend of said grame work and having pins arranged to enter said perforations seriatm, means for moving said blade upward forl withdrawing the pins from said i perforations, vertically depressible pins located toward the rear end of said frame work arranged to enter said perforations passes, the paper having a longitudinallyl disposed serles of alining erforations, a tearing blade located at the forward end of said writing table, a depressible pin supporting member mounted upon said tearing blade having pins arranged to enter said perforations serz'atim, and means for moving said tearing blade vupward for withdrawing said pins from Said perforations.

In wltness whereof, :[hereu'nto subscribe my name, as attested by the two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT KRAUTH.

Witnesses:

CLARENCE B. FOSTER, L. A. BECK

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