US1349865A - Manifolding device - Google Patents

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W. J. WISWALL.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15, 1919.

1,349, 86 5. Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

-Be it known that I, WrLLIAM n A UNITED STATES PATENT omce.

WILLIAM J. WISWALL, OF IORTLAND, OREGON} unmronnme nnvrcn.

To all whom it may concern: r

v w J. WIBWALL, a citizen 'of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in. Manifolding De-- vices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompany-- in drawings. y invention relates to a class of devices wherein carbon sheets of common type are used in manifolding copies.

The object ofmy invention is to provide a device wherein continuous paper strips in series maybe supplied from a container and carbon strips between the original and the copy strips of the paper in like continuous.

manner. The objects, as well as other advantages, I accomplish by'the construction, combination and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part hereo Figure I is a side elevation of the device,

Fig. II is a lon itudinal sectional elevation,on the line I -II of Fig. III.

Fig. III is a plan view.

Fig. 1V is an elevation of a carbon roll in art with bearings in section.

1 i V is a sectional view of a part on the line V-V in Fig. III.

Like characters refer to figures. I p

A case 7 of desired form and with a cover is provided. Within the case a series .0 supports 8 are secured. A series of tra s 9 are deposited upon said sup orts. T e trays receive pape strips lO continuous material which may be transversely perforated to facilitate itsdivision into desired parts. Forward of the trays are rollers 11 arranged in related position s to the trays 9 and paper therein contained. A ide 12 is secured upon the inner side o one like parts in. the

wall of the case and has bearings 13 in,

which one of the respective ends of the of the case has rotatablethim le bearin s 14 in alinement with the bearings 13. The

spring 16 therein. The rollers 11 have slots 17 in one end. The-slotted end is inserted in the thi-mble bearing and pressed inwardly pressure on the spring released, where a coil- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Alig'. 17, 1920. Application filed October 15, 1919. Serial Ii'o. 330,941. 4

upon theroller is in rotatable'position in the bear ng 13 and is rigid in the rotatable bearing 14. A gear train 18 is rigidly secured without the case wall upon the thimble bearings 14 and has in connection therewith an idler 19 to arran e a rotation of the rollers in the same irection. Below the rollers 11 is a guide roller 20 arranged in relation to the lowest tray 9 and paper 10 therein. A gear 21 is pivotally mounted upon the outer case wall in position to engage the two uppermost gears of the train 18 and rotate them in the same direction. The gear 21 has an operating handle 22. Uponthe outer wall of the case a lever 23 is pivotally mounted. Upon one end it has a' pivoted tension roller 24 arranged in av manner whereby the roller will engage the lowest gear of the train 18 and prevent the rotation of the train members when the pinion is raised into such engagement-by means of the lever and the gear 21 is not rotated.

A spring 25 is formed and secured opposite the roller 24 in a manner to retain the roller in engagement with the gear member and to retain it out of engagement as the roller is either raised or lowered in traveling engagement with the spring 25. Carbon strips 26 of common type are placed upon the rollers 11. The forward part of the case is proxvided with a writing table 27. and below it a container 28. A guide roller 29 is pivotally mounted at each end in the "free ends of oscillating arms 30. Springs 31are secured to the arms and case in position tocause the arms to depress the roller 29.

In the forward part of the container 28 a transverse roller 32 is pivotally mounted in bearings 33 which are provided with sprin 34 to press the roller bearings upward y in their sockets. A sprocket 35 is rigidly keyed on the end of the roller 32 and opposing this sprocket a second sprocket 35 is pivotallf mounted on a pin secured to the outerwal of the case opposite the one with the gears .18.

Above the chain a longitudinal slotted guide 37 is rigidly secured along the container and forward partof the case. Within the guide a grooved, slidable carrier 38 is placed. In thecarrier 38 a vertically movable pin 39 is positioned with a spring 40 to press it upwardl the pin being retained in the carrier y a collar 39' and also having its'lower pointed end over the A" continuous chain 36 extends, about 'the sprockets 35-45.

upper path of travel of the chain 36; A. tension spring 41 is secured at one end to the carrier 38 and its opposing end is secured to thecasenear its rear end. In the forward part of the container is a guide roller 42 pivotally mounted above the roller 32,: A second guide roller 43 is pivotally mounted in bearings 44 slidable in sockets and provided with s rings 45 to press the bearing rearwar'dly. deans 46 are provided to secure and retain the hinged bottom of the container 28 in position upon the container. A paper guide 47 is secured to the lower surface of the table 27. g

It will now be seen that when tablets or bloclrs of lolded continuous paper strips are placed in the trays 9 and these on the supports 8 as shown in Fig. H, the rearupper ends of the strips in the upper trays are drawn forwardly over the opposing rollers ll and the strip in the lowest tray below the roller and thence outwardly beneath the guide roller 30, over the table 27 The bottom of the container having been removed, the strips of paper are drawn over the roller 42 and threaded between it and the roller 32. The bottom strip is then separated and all of the upper strips drawn downward and. threaded between the rollers 32 and 43, while the bottom strip is allowed at the same time to project a desired distance into the con tainer, the other strips projecting outwardly therefrom. While the paper strips are be ing drawn first over the table, the friction roller 24 is released from the gear train and the carbon strip rollers are rotated to pass carbon strips between the paper, strips a "desired distance, and the friction roller 24 again brought into engagement withthe gear 1 train to prevent the carbon strips from feeding farther outwardly. It is tofbe noted that the carbon strips in my device are passedbetween the sheets outwardly in a longitudinal direction, which differs from other devices, which usually place the carbo strips front a direction. When the carbon strips are worn in one place the r stop released and carbon strips d m var y a desired distance, as

'- out, to supply rbon strips locked con strips pass out of the container 31', When section of s has been inanioutwardly to the e d "'e on .a manner to allo paper St hea set paper until it makes another told, aided therein by the guiding spring 47. I is desired to cut the carbon strips adjacent to'the guide roller 29, then the pin 39 is a plied at the rearward end of the guide to t e chain 36 and the chain drawn forwardly, which causes the roller 32 to rotate forwardly and the paper strips to be passed above it and released from the roller mechanism. lhe strips may then be raised and the carbon strips cut as desired. The paper strips are then threaded again in the rollers with new carbon strips between theinv as before described. I contend that the use of trays differs radically from the use of rollers to supply the paper strips, as the mechanism may draw the paper strips simultaneously an evenly, without friction or the necessity for greater power to do so. The object of the container is to supply a means for retaining one manifold copy as a secret record a series of trays in the case positioned one above the other and arranged to contain continuous strips of paper folded in zigzag pad form, and rollers in the outward part of the container arranged in a manner to al- 'low the paper strips, one above the other,

as drawn from the said trays outwardly over the table, to be threaded through the rollers and when these are rotated to allow the upper strips of the paper to be passed outwardly and the lowest strip to be passed into the container in folded term, for the purpose inicated.

2. in a manifolding device of the char acter described, the combination th rein of, a case, a container forwardly of case, having a writing table on its up er surface, a series of trays the case sitioned one above the other and arr to contain continuous strips of paper for i in zigzag pad form, and r llers nah ward part of th cont-air; w

as from t trays outwardly over the table, threaded through rollers when are rotated to allow the upper strips- 0 paper to be passed outwardly and est be i folded form, and

above the (El/l s 1r" it.

3. In a manifolding device of the character described, the combination therein of, a case, a container forwardly of the case, having a writing table on its upper surface, a seriesof trays in the case positioned one above the other and arranged to contain continuous strips of paper folded in zigzag pad form, and rollers in the outward part of the container arranged in a manner to allow the paper strips, one above the other, as drawn from the said trays outwardly'over the table, to be threaded through the rollers and when these are rotated to allow the upper strips of the paper to bepassed outwardly and the lowest strip to be passed into the container folded into pad form, a

series of rollers positioned in the case forwardly of and in relation to the trays and table, said rollers being arranged to receive strips of carbon paper and to allow the same to be unrolled therefrom and passed between the paper strips longitudinally over the table a desired distance, and mechanism appurtenant to the said rollers whereby the same may be rotated in either direction simultaneously and locked in a desired position, for the purpose indicated.

WILLIAM J. WISWALL.

Witnesses:

W.'L. SOUDERS, Mrs. E. E. PHILLIPS.

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