US148103A - Improvement w addressimg-jviachimes - Google Patents

Description

L. BAILEY; 'Addressing-Machines.

Patented March 3.1874.

LEWIS BAILEY, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

IMPRQVEMENT EN DDRESSING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. MSJGB, dated March 3, 1874 applicationiiled September 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS BAILEY, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Addressing-Machine, of which the following is a specification: u

Wy invention consists of a little hand instrument in which a paper-roll, pasting-trough, pasting-rollers,and shears are combined and arranged so that the operator can turn the pasting-rollers and draw the printed strip of paper from which the slips are to be cut through the pasting apparatus to the shears by the thumb and iinger, while the hand retains its hold on the handle of the shears, and then work the shears to out off the slip when the strip has been fed along sufficiently, without releasing the feeding or turning apparatus, all in a manner calculated to greatly facilitate rapidity of action. Y

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation on an enlarged scale, the section bein g taken on the line :1c of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a front viewv of the paste-roller and driving-wheels.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y

A is the roll, on which the long strip of paper B, containing the addresses, is rolled, to be fed to the pasting apparatus and the cutter. Said roll is mounted on journals in brackets C, rising up from the rear end of a little plate or bed-piece, D, of any approved kind. In front of the paper-roll is the paste-box E, at the front end of which is a paste-roll, F, working in an opening, G, in the end of the box, said opening extending to the bottom of the box, and the roller being fitted so nicely and so revolving as to prevent the escape of the paste, except at the upper part of the opening, where there is a brush, H, to brush oft' any excess of what is needed, or brush it into the little cells c, grooves b, or other like depressions in the surface of the roller provided for receiving it, so as only to deliver the needed quantity to the paper. Above the paste-roller is a pressure-roller, I, borne down upon its surface by springs K, to press the paper which runs between the rollers onto roller F sulficiently to receive the paste. This roller is cir cumferentially grooved, as shown in Fig. 2, so that while exerting a suiiicient pressure upon the address -ribbon for pressing it onto the paste-roller, it will bear upon the paper only at intervals apart to prevent it from receiving an excessive amount of paste. In front of the paste-roller are guides L M, descending nearly to the bed -piece, and conducting the paper which runs between themdown to the stationary cutter. The guide-plates serve to prevent the address-ribbon from being carried upward by the movable cutter or shear-blade,

tion, it holds the sheanblade up, as repre sented in the drawings, to allow the strip of paper to befed along under it; but when the handle is pressed down smartly, it will yield and let the shear-blade go down and cut off the paper strip. The spring R comes into action when the shear-blade is pressed down and strikes the bed to relieve the shock. It also presses the shear-blade against the stationary blade. To feed the paper along through the pasting-rollers and the cutter, the pasting'- roller is geared by the wheels U with a little shaft V, extending up to a bearing-piece, W, attached to the handle near the front end. The shaft has a little milled wheel, X, just below the handle, where it can be worked by the thumb and foreiinger of the hand that actuates the handle. Said shaft also has a universal joint at Y, to accommodate itself to the movements of the handle, and it also has a telescopic extension-joint at Z, to allow the milled wheel to rise and fall with the handle. The paste-box slides into its position against the paste-roller from the rear end between the sides d, and is held in position by a rod, e, which can be readily taken out when the pastebox requires lling. The paper-rollA maybe dispensed with, or any other equivalent contrivance may be substituted for it. I

The pasting-rollers and feed mechanism may be used independently of the cutting devices for pasting long narrow strips that are not required to be cut.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A machine for applying directionslips to newspapers, &c., formed by the combination ofa ribbon-reel, A, paste-receptacle E, clearin g-brush H, recessed paste-distributing roller F, pressure-roller I, guide or guard plates L M, and movable cutter O, operating in concert with a stationary cutter, N, when the various parts are constructed and relatively combined in the manner herein shown and described.

2. The combination of the spring R with the rod Q, shear-blade O, stationary cutter-blade N, handle S, and supports T, substantially as specified.

3. The handle S, spring-support T, extension and jointed feed-shaft Z Y V, feed-wheel X, gear-wheels U, and paste-roller F7 substantially as specified.

4. In combination with paste and pressure rollers F I, the guide-plates provided with guard-iingers or tines m, projecting over the paste-roller, as and for the purpose specified.

LEWIS BAILEY.

Witnesses T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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