US1493810A

US1493810A - Machine for printing price cards, tickets, labels, tags, and the like

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Publication number: US1493810A
Application number: US511109A
Authority: US
Inventors: Deutsch Hermann
Original assignee: PRINTATOR GmbH
Current assignee: Printator G M B H; PRINTATOR GmbH
Priority date: 1921-10-28
Filing date: 1921-10-28
Publication date: 1924-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1941-05-13

Description

May 13 19240 H. DEUTSCH MACHINE FOR PRINTING PRICE CARDS, TICKETS, LABELS; TAGSQAND THE LIKE s Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 8 1921 lll'lllll 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 H. DEUTSCH Filed Oct. 28

INVENTOR 1%- QWW 'May 13, 1924 MACHINE FOR PRINTING PRICE CARDS, TICKETS, LABELS, mes, AND THE LIKE May 13, 1924. l 493,8l0

H. DEUTSCH I MACHINE FOR PRINTING PRICE CARDS, TICKETS, LAB ELS, TAGS, AND THE LIKE Filed ed. 38,

1921 s sheets-shuts FIGS.

, aNvENTcJ f Patented i3,

HERIEANN DE'U'JZSGH. OF GROSS-LICH'IEBFELDE, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO PRINTATQR G. M. B. 11., 0F BERLIN, GEBMIANY.

MACHINE son. rnrn'rinernion omens, TICKETS, LABELS, TAGS, AND TI-IE LIKE.

Application filed October as, 1921. Serial No. 511,109.

Ton-ll whom it may concern Be it known that I HERMANN Dnn'rsorr, residing at No. 1.1 Marienplatz, Gross-Lichterfelde, near Berlin, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Printing Price Cards, Tickets, Labels, Tags, and the like, of which the following is a specification. I

The present invention relates in general to machines for printing price cards, tickets, tags, information and visiting cards and the like as described in the United States Patent No. 1,115,380. The invention relates more particularly to improvementsin such machines which enable impressions to be printed on price cards, tickets, etc, in two or more colors without diminishing the speed of operation of the machine. An important feature of the invention consists in an ink ing gear with two or more collateral ink feeding and distributing devices and plurality of collateral inking rollers arranged in a common movable frame and adapted to impart ink in' strip es of differentcolors to the stereotype printing plate or clich.

Another important feature of a machine constructed in accordance with the invention resides in the provision of spring inkspreading plates for spreading the ink fed from the ink reservoir and of ink-spreading rollers that are made to travel over the said plates and to impart the ink to the inking plates or disks from which the inking rollers receive the ink A further feature of the machine according to the invention may consist in the fact that the outlets through which the inkis fed from the ink reservoir, instead of leading straight to the bottom surface of the ink-spreading plate, are arranged to pass .into a chamber of small capacity that extends across almost the entire breadth of the said plate and that is connected to the bottom surface of this plate by a narrow transverse slot. By this means the ink that leaves the reservoir is immediately caused to spread over the entire operating breadth of the ink-spreading plate so that the inkspreading or ink-conveying rollers that travel along the bottom surface of this plate have ink fed onto them through the slot along their entire lengths so, that the .ink is already distributed evenly over their peripheries before'they convey or transfer it to the inking disks. By this means the operation of transferring the ink to the inking disks is greatly improved. a, A constructional form of a machine 'equippedwith an inking gear according to the invention is' illustrated in the drawing in which v 1 isa vertical longitudinal section on the line T l of Fig. 2,

Fig. 2is a. ground plan of the inking gear in its normal position,-

Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 except that the ink rollers are shown in the position they occupy at the end of an ink-conveying operation. Fig. 4 is a partial longitudinal vertical section of an inking gear corresponding to Fig. 1 but with a modified ink feeding de vice, V

Fig. v5 is a bottom plan view and Fig. 6 asectional partial top plan view of Fig. 4 taken on the line VIVI of Fig. 4..

The inking gear shown in Figs. 1 to 3 com prises a bed a. in which a frame 0 is arranged to be reciprocated by a suitable driving member 6. As the. inking gear is intended to impart two different colored inks to the printing plate, two collateral pairs of inking rollers d. 01" arejournalled in the frame c. "In addition to the inking rollers 03, d the frame 0 carries two ink-spreading and ink-conveying rollers e, 6. At one end of the frame there is a transverse beam f and pivotally attached to this .beam is a ratchet stepping finger 9 adapted to. step round the inking disks h, h as will be hereinaftermore fully described. "The horizontal inking disks h are arranged in the bed a of the machine'soias to lie in the path of the rollers 23 and all, and e and d, and their height may be altered between certain limits by set screws 2', whereby the pressure exerted on them by the rollers 03, d ande, emay be regulated. .Each of the inking disks h, h has a ratchet wheel k, 7: associated with it, these wheels cooperating, with 'pawls Z, Z being pivoted to a transversely displaceable stepping bar we and held in engagement with the ratchet wheels is, 7c by springs p. The stepping bar we is subjected to the pull of a springwhich draws the bar in the direction of the arrow 0, Fig. 3. Projecting from the stepping bar m is an arm Q from which a tappet 1" protrudes that cooperates with the ratchet stepping member or finger g.

Loosely attached to the cover plate 8 of the inking gear and in the path of the top sides of the rollers e, e are two rectangular ink-spreading plates 25 and t respectively whose ends are pressed downward by leaf springs a which are also attached to the cover plat 8. The ink reservoirs v, '0 which are constructed in any suitable manner and filled with inks of different colors, have mouths that pass through the inkspreading plates t, t.

The mode of operation of the illustrated inking gear is as follows:

lVhen the machine is at rest the parts of the inking gear are in the position shown in Fig. 1 and a drop of liquid ink will be formed at the point of exit of the mouth of each ink reservoir '22, o. On the frame 0 now being moved in the direction of the arrow 10 from the position shown in Fig. 2 into the position illustrated in Fig. 2 the drops of ink emerging from the reservoirs 0;, 41 will be spread over the bottom surfaces of the ink-spreading plates 6, t by the rollers e, e which, after spreading the ink over the plates t, t and over themselves, transfer it to the inking disks h, h when they are advanced so as to roll along the surfaces of the said disks. As separate springs u are provided at both ends of the plates t, t, the pressure between these plates and the rollers e, e at the first and last moments of contact between the rollers and plates will be smaller than when the rollers are intermediate between the ends of the said plates. This is conducive of a satisfactory inking of the rollers e, 6'. While the ink-convey,- ing rollers e, c convey new ink to the inking plates h, h the inking rollers d, d transfer the differently colored printing inks from the disks h, h to the stereotype'plate m which is arranged in the printing head of the machine and which. thus receives the ink in two stripes of different colors. Each time the frame 0 is advanced, a slight rotary motion is imparted to the inking disks 71. h by the stepping pawls Z that engage with the ratchet wheels, the stepping pawls being moved in a transverse direction along with the beam m which has transverse motion imparted to it by the finger whose one lateral edge brushes against the tappet 'r andthus moves it in the direction of the arrow 7 Fig. 2. l/Vhen the frame chas reached the end of its advance stroke as indicated in Fig. 3, it is moved back to its normal position (Figsl and 2) by the driving'rnember Z) and this results in the ratchet stepping bar m being moved in the direction of the arrow 0 by the spring a and it is thus restored to its initial positionwithout the pawls Z, Z imparting a reversed rotary movement to the inking disks as the said pawls then glide over the teeth of the ratchet wheels /c, is. At each printing operation executed by the stereotype plate inked in the abovedescribed manner by the novel inking gear, an impression with two adjacent differently colored portions is produced on the paper surface printed on. Now since the paper band on which the impressions are made in shifted through a distance of one half of the width of the stereotype plate in the direction of the arrow .2 at each stroke of the machine, printed tickets are produced which are half as wide as the stereotype plate and bear two-colored impressions.

In the modified ink feed device shown in Figs. 4 to 6 and also indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 the eXitsS from the cylindrical ink reserv ir, which is provided with a piston 2, do not lead directly to the bottom surface of the ink-spreading plate 15, but into a long narrow chamber 7 of rectangular cross section formed in the base 5 of the reservoir. Inserted in the narrow chamber 7 is a bar 6 which is almost as wide as the chamber itself and whose top surface is bevelled as shown in Fig. 4. A hollow space or chamber of triangular cross section is thus formed in the base 5 and this chamber is connected by a transverse slot 4 to the lower surface of the ink spreading plate 25. It will be obviousthat the ink discharged from the ink reservoir 1) will first fill the entire chamber of triangular cross section and then emerge gradually through the slot 4 that extends across the whole operating breadth of the ink-spreading plate. Hence when the ink-conveying rollers reciprocat the ink will be immediately spread over the entire surface; of the plate t and it will thus be evenly distributed over the entire cylindrical surface of the said rollers (Z.

I claim 1. In amachine for printing price cards, tickets, labels, tags and the like, an ink reservoir, an ink feeding device, an ink spreading lltl roller, an inking plate, a ratchet wheel associated with said inking plate. a pawl adapted to engage said ratchet wheel, a carrier for saidpawl, a tappet on said pawl carrier, an ink transferring roller. a printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath said printing plate. a reciprocating carrier for said ink spreading and ink transferring rollers, and a tappet shifting member on said. reciprocating carrier whereby said pawl carrier is moved relative to said reciprocating carrier and the inking plate rotated.

2. In a machine for printing price cards. tickets, labels, tags and the like. a plurality of ink reservoirs, collateral ink feeding devices, an ink spreading roller, collateral inking plates, ratchet wheels associated with saidinking plates, pawls adapted to engage said ratchet wheels, a common carrier for said pawls, a'tappet on said pawl carrier, an ink transferring roller, a printing plate divided into collateral sections, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, a reciprocating carrier for said ink spreading and ink transferring rollers, and a tappet shifting memberon said reciprocating carrier whereby said pawl carrier is moved relative to said reciprocating carrier and the inking plate rotated.

8. In a machine for printing price cards, tickets, labels, tags and the like, a stereotype printing plate divided into collateral sections, a guide way along which sections of a paper band are moved successively into registration with the different sections of the stereotype plate, reservoirs with inks of different colors, a support, collateral ink reservoirs for inks of different colors, collateral horizontal spring pressed plates attached and arranged beneath the said support, passages leading from the said reservoirs to the bottom surfaces of the said spring pressed i plates, collateral inking plates, collateral ink-spreading rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passages over the said spring pressed plates and over themselves and for conveying the ink to the said collateral inking plates, inking rollers for transferring inks of different colors from the inking plates to the different sections of the stereotype plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating all of the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

I. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal spring pressed ink-spreading plate depending from the said support, a passage leading from the said reservoir to the bottom surface of the spring pressed plate, rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the spring pressed plate and for transferring it to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

5. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal ink-spreading plate depending from the said support, springs located at the ends of the ink-spreading plates and adapted to press these ends downward, a passage leading from the said reservoir to the bottom surface of the ink-spreading plate, rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the ink-spreading plate, and for transferring it to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

6. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing late, a guide way along which a paper ban is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal spring pressed ink-spreading plate depend ing from the said support, a. passage leading from the said reservoir to the bottom surface of the spring pressed plate, an inking plate, an ink-spreading roller for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the spring pressed plate and over itself and for conveying the ink to the said inking plate, an inking roller for transferring the ink from the inking plate to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in a direction at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

7. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal inkspreading plate depending from the said support, a passage leading from the said reservoir to the bottom surface of the spring plate, an inking plate, an ink-spreading roller for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the ink-spreading plate and over itself and for conveying the ink to the said inking plate, an inking roller for transferring the ink from the inking roller to the printing plate, a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the saidrollers in a direction at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band, and a ratchet and pawl mechanism for rotating the inking plate.

8. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, asupport, a horizontal spring pressed ink-spreading plate depending from the said support, a passage leading from the said reservoir to the bottom surface of the spring pressed plate, an inking plate, an

ink-spreading roller for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the spring pressed plate and over itself and for conveying the ink to the said inking plate, an inking roller for transferring the ink from the inking roller to the printing plate, a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in a direction at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band, a ratchet wheel associated with the inking plate, a pawl adapted to engage with the ratchet wheel, a pawl carrier adapted to reciprocate transversely to the said reciprocating roller carrier, at tappet on the pawl carrier, and a tappet shifting member associated with the roller carrier.

9. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels,cards and the like,a stereotype printing plate, a guide way paper track along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal ink-spreading plate depending from the said support, an ink-container of small capacity extending across the ink-spreading plate, a passage leading from the ink-reser voir to the ink-container, a transverse slot in the ink-spreading plate for conducting ink from the said container to the bottom surface of the said plate, rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the ink-spreading plate and for transferring it to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

10. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal inkspreading plate depending from the said support, an ink-container of small capacity of triangular cross section extending across the ink-spreading plate, a passage leading from the ink-reservoir to the ink-container, a transverse slot in the ink-spreading plate for conducting ink from the said container to the bottom of the said plate, rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the ink-spreading plate and for transferring it to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

11. In a machine for printing price tickets, labels, cards and the like, a stereotype printing plate, a guide Way along which a paper band is moved beneath the printing plate, an ink reservoir, a support, a horizontal ink-spreading plate depending from the said support, a transverse groove of rectangular cross-section in the bottom of the said ink-spreading plate, a bevelled strip ar ranged with its sloping surface uppermost in the said groove so as to form an ink-container of small capacity, extending across the ink-spreading plate, a passage leading from the ink-reservoir to the ink-container, a transverse slot in the ink-spreading plate for conducting ink from the said container to the bottom of the said plate, rollers for spreading the ink that emerges from the said passage over the ink-spreading plate and for transferring it to the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

12. In a machine for printing price cards, tickets, labels, tags and the like, a stereotype printing plate divided into collateral sections, a guide way along which sections of a paper band are moved successively into registration with the different sections of the stereotype plate, reservoirs with inks of different colors, a support, collateral horizontal plates depending from the said support, collateral ink-containers of small capacity ex tending across the ink-spreading plates, passages leading from the ink reservoirs to the ink-containers, transverse slots in the inkspreading plates for conducting ink from the said containers to the bottom surfaces of the said plates, collateral rollers for spreading the inks that emerge from the said passages over the plates and for transferring them to the sections of the printing plate, and a reciprocating carrier for reciprocating the said rollers in directions at right angles to the direction of movement of the said paper band.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN DEU'ISCH. Witnesses:

SIGMUND PALAMONY, GRANDE NAIMANN.

Certificate of Correction.

It is herebycertified that in Letters Patent No. 1,493,810, granted May 13, 1924:, upon the application of Hermann Deutsch, of Gnoss-Lichterfelde, Germany, for an improvement in Machines for Printing Price Cards, Tickets, Labels, Tags, and the Like, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 4i, line 77, clainrlQ, before the Word plates insert the compound Word ink-spreading; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 15th day of July, A. D. 1924.

[SEAL] THOMAS E. ROBERTSON,

00mmz'ssi0ner 0 f Patents.