US1445815A - Bodily-removable creasing and folding box mechanism for envelopemaking machines - Google Patents

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. A. E. AUGUSTINE BODILY. REMOVABLE CREASING AND FOLDING BOX MEGHANISM FOR ENVELOPE MAKING MACHINES Filed Aug. 6, 1919 5 sheets-sheet l WM. if 1 A. E. AUGUSTINE BODILY REMOVABLE CREASING AND FOLDING BOX MECHANISM FOR ENVELOPE MAKING MACHINES P Filed Aug. 6, 1919 3 sheets sheet 2 lPatented Feb. Ell, lE ZB.

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ADDISQN E. AUGUSTINE, OF HACKENSACK, N E iV JEESEYp, ASSIGNOR TO CHESTER i MACHINE CO. INC, 01? NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BODILY-1tE1VOVABLE (Jeannine AND FOLDING no Mnciranrsrr roe ENVELOPE-.

. MAKING MACHINES.

Application filed August 6, 1919. Serial No. 315,588.

To all 20710171 2 2. may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON E. AnousrlNE, residing at I-lackenseck, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful l n'rprovemerits in Bodily llemovable Creasing and liolding Box Mechanism for Envelope-Maleing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a creasing and folding box mechanism for envelope-mahmg machines, and an obl ect of the invention is to provide a creasing and folding box 1 mechanism so constructed and so related to entity which is bodily attachable and removable as such.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the creasing and folding box entity may be quickly and accurately attached in position within the machine, or removed from the machine, in the event of necessity for repairs or for other purposes. a i y i Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention; and

the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be takenas a part of this specification,

and in which I haveshown merely a preferred form of embodiment of the inven taken substantially upon the plane of line 1V of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings for describing n detail the structure which is illustrated therein, the reference character L indicates the supporting table upon which the creas ng. and folding box mechanism is supported.

This table is formed with an opening 1 therein. for receiving a portion of the creasng and folding box'mechanism, said openmg being provided with an upwardly facing ledge 2 formed in its side walls. 7

The creasing and folding box mechanism includes a base plate G and a top plate ll. These plates G and H are rigidly connected together by suitable standards 3 and 4. The top plate H constitutes the creasing box of the machine, and the base plate G can ries a trap The various other elements, such as the conveyor 6, the front dagger 7. the rear dagger 8 and the folders 9, related to the creasing and folding operations, as will be readily understood by those familiar with this class of inventions, are all carried by the two plates and all combine to make up the creasing and folding boxentity which is bodily removable from the table L.

The plate G is of a size to -fit snugly into the openingl in apositio-n resting upon the upper surface of the ledge 2. At the rear of the opening 1 the upper surface of the table is depressed to provide a surface 10 standing at the same level as the upper surface of the ledge 2, the surface 10 constituting in effect an extension of the ledge 2. When the plate G is in operative position, as in Fig. 1, its rear portion, as 11, overlies and rests upon the surface 10 while the forward edge, asxl2, of the plate fits beneath a clip 13 formed rigidly with, or fixed to the upper surface of the table I, overhanging a portion of the ledge 2, the clip 13 serving with the ledge 2 to provide a recess 14 for snugly receiving the portion 12 of the plate Gr therein. Any suitable holding means, such as the screws or bolts 15 may be extended thru the portion 11 of the plate G and into engagement with threaded holes 16 which are formed in the table L.

By this means the plate G is rigidly held in position and yet may be quickly and easily removed by simply removing the screws 15. While the screws are in place, of course, it is impossiblefor the portion 12 of the plate to disengage from the recess 11,

1 to the actual removal of the entity, the drive links, or the like, as 17, for the different moving elements of the creasing and folding box mechanism should be discoi'inerted, as seen by comparison of Figs. 1 and 2.

In this connection it should be noted that the'inanner of connecting the members 1? with the moving parts of the creasing and folding box mechanism, may, if desired, be made so as to be readily detachable, or even so that by proper manipulation they will not hinder removal of the entity. Particular attention is directed, for instance, to the manner illustrated in which the driving connection is'made with the front dagger T of the entity, such connection including simply an open ended slot 18 within which is placed a pin 19 for operating the dagger, the parts being arranged so that the pin will. simply move out of the end of the slot when the entity is lifted away.

It will be understood that in use the creas ing and folding box mechanism is dispo ed adjacent to a pile, as 20, of envelope blanks, and that the blanks are picked up one at a time by suitable pickers 21 and conveyed to the creasing box by the conveyer 6, that when a blank is in position over the creasing box a plunger 22 descends and forces the blank downwardly between thefolders, whereupon the folders 9 operate to fold over the flaps of the envelope, and that finally the trap 5 swings downwardly to deliver the envelope.

Heretofore the various parts of the creasing and folding box mechanism have been mounted almost without regard to the question of accessibility for the making of repairs, but by the present invention it will be appreciated that in making up all of the parts of this creasing and folding box mech anism as a single entity capable of being easily inserted into the machine or removed at will, an operator can readily lift out the entity and replace it at will, meanwhile making any repairs or adjustments required.

As many changes could be made in this construction -without departing from the scope of the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description, or shown in the accompanying I claim as new and desire to secure by lactters Patent is:

l. A creasing and folding box mechanism for envelope-making machines comprising a creasing box, front and back dagger mechanisms, flap folders, a trap, and means connecting all said parts together to be handled as a single entity which may be inserted into or removed from appointed position in an envelope-making machine.

2. In an envelope-making machine, a creasing and folding-box mechanism and a trap device all constructed as a. single ontity adapted to be inserted into or removed from the m chine at will, and means where by to detachably retain said entity in operative position within the machine.

3. In an envelope-making machine, a creasing and folding-box mechanism all constructed as a single entity adapted to he inserted into or removed from the machine at will, and means whereby to dctachably retain said entity in operative position within the machine.

4:. In an envelope-making machine comprising a table having an opening vertically theretlnru, a creasing and folding-box mechanism and a trap device all constructed as a single entity adapted to be inserted into or removed from said opening, and means whereby to detachably retain said entity in operative position within said opening.

5. In an envelope-making machine. a creasing box, flap folders associated therewith, front and back dagger mechai'iismsa trap, frame parts connecting all of said ele ments together to constitute them as a single entity which may be inserted into or removed from the machine at will. and means whereby to detachably retain said entity in operative position within the machine.

6. In an envelope-making machine. a creasing and folding-box mechanism comprising upper and lower plates, the upper plate having an opening therethru. wall men'ibers depending from the under side of said plate, flap folders carried by the lower plate, a trap also carried by the lower plate, means rigidly connecting said two plates together and spaced apart so as to hold said walls and said flap folders in proper cooperative position and whereby all of said parts are made to constitute a single entity which may be inserted into or removed from the machine at will. and means whereby to detachably retain said entity in operative position within the machine.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ADDISON E. AUGUSTINE.

lVitnesses L. Gnssrono HANDY, S. J. AUMILLER.

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