US1580054A

US1580054A - Machine fob assembling marking tags in sttpebimfosed belation

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Publication number: US1580054A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1926-04-06
Anticipated expiration: 1943-04-06

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F. W. L AENCHER MACHINE FOR ASSEMBLING MARKING TAGS IN SPERIMPOSED RELATION Filed Jan. l8. 1923 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 (D OJ L0 L0 L0 lnvenTor. FredercK W. Laencher bym April 6,1926. Y f 1,580,054.'

F. W.,L.ANCHER MACHINE roR ASSEMBLING MARKING TAGS 1N sUPERrMPosED RELATION Filed Jam.v 1,8;l 1925 3 shee'ossheret.l 5

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Patented Apr, 6, 192.6.

FREDERICK W. LAENCIIER, oEBRooIzLYN, NEW Yon COMPANY, oE-VNEW YORK, N. Y.,

y K, AssIGNoR To A. KIMBALI. AjcoRroEATIoN-CENEW YORK;

MACHINE Fon AssEMBLINGMAnKINo TAGS IN sUIEIiIMIosED RELATION.

` j Application mea'ianaary 18,1923. serial No. 613,503.

T 0 all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERICKVV. LAEN-v cI-Inn, a citizenofthe-'United States, and resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented Aan Improvement in Machines for Assembling Marking rIags in vSuperimposed Relation, ofswhich the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is tion, like characters on the drawingrepresenting like parts. j f

This' invent-ion1 relates to* improvements in machines for assembling marking tickets 1n superimposed relation andv the obJeet thereof is to provide means for piling the tags, one uponl the other, 'with the edge of each superimposed tag `lying beyond the ed ge of the tag next beneath it. .f

vUsual marking tags, such as, pin tickets, string tags, etc., consist of a card or ticket having attaching means extending from the under face of the card. In the usual manufacture of such -marking tags acontinuous strip of ticket mate-rial is passed through a machine which secures the attaching device to the strip at intervals so thatwhen the strip is cut midway between the attaching devicesthe completed marking tagsare formed. It is usual also to provide an extension of the table or guide for the stripbeyond the mechanism which appliesthe attaching device and to print suitable designations upon the tags before they are cut from the strip.

In usual machines the tags-which are `thus l cut from the strip drop into ya receptacle from which they are removed, counted and placed in suitable packages In usual machines of this character. a cutter is employed at the'end of the guide for the strip which comprises an upwardly reciprocating blade which is operated intermittently in synchronism with the strip feeding mechanism .to sever the tags and drop thein'into the receptacle. In the operation of such machines r the resilience of the ticket material causes the tags to flip over so that they drop miscellaneously into the receptacle.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a novel form of cutting mechanism which will sever, the `tags successively from the strip and permit them a specicato drop in substantially horizontal position so that each tag will be superimposed upon the one next beneath itn A further object ofthey invention is to provide means for depositing Atags having attaching devices extending from one face thereof in such av manner that the attaching devicel of .each vsuperimposed tag -overlies and'preferably engages the edge of .thenext tag beneath it so that the tags may be compactlyfassembled and packaged in a relatively small container.

A further object of provide a machine of the character. described with Va chute to receive the tags as theyare cut from the strip and provided With means, such as, a pusher which operates to shove each tag' along the chute a:

short distance so that the next tag-cut 'off will fall upon it with the attaching device projecting proceeds the tags lying. on top of each other will be feathered out as they ride down the chute and enable the operator to count ,0H i a predetermined number of tickets, lift them from the bottom of the chute and deposit 'them in a suitable packing boX in a closely arranged superimposedl Other objects and features of the inven-, fully appear lfrom vthe folposition.

tion will more lowing description andthe accompanying drawingsv will be particularly pointed outv in the claims.

The drawings illustrate a preferred embodiment 'of vhe invention as applied to the usual formof tag making machine.-v

Inthe drawings: v. Fig. 1 is afront elevation of the invention as viewed from the delivery end of the tag making machine to which it is'applied; Fig. 2 a lplan view of the same Vshowing a portion lof the frame andthe table or, guide Vof kthe tagl `'making machine `with, the present invention applied thereto; and,

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on line 3-3 Fig. l, viewed, from the right towardV the left. Y Only such mechanism is illustratedin vthe accompanying drawings as is necessary to show the means for severing the tags from a -behind' it so that as the operationV the-invention is to continuous strip and depositing the same in superimposed relation, this mechanism being adapted to be associated with a usual form of tag making machine such, for example, as is illustrated in Patent No. V41.57 ,7 82 granted to A. Kimball, August 18, 1891, for machines for making pin tickets. In this machine a continuous strip of'ticket or tag material is fed intermittently to mechanism which inserts an attach-ing device, specically a staple, through the ticket adjacent one edge and bends the looped portion of the staple around and beneath the edge of the ticket. Further intermittent feeding of the pin ticket strip passes the stripbe-tween a pair of critters which sever tickets or tags of uniform width from the strip and drop the same into the receptacle. Machines of this type are also provided with printing mechanisms as above described.

The mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawingsV is designed to be secured to the end of the table or guide for the marking tag strip in place of the cutting mechanism previously employed.

As illustrated herein the cutting and severing mechanism is mounted upon the bed 1 of the pin ticket making machine which has the usual legs 2 and 3 extending downwardly and preferably integral with the bed. The edges of the bed are provided with inwardly extending dove-tail groovesl 4c' and 5 which receive complementary dovetail guides 6- and 7 extending downwardly and? preferably integral with carriage 8 which supports the cutting and assembling mechanism. A suitable gib 9 may be introd-uced between the dove-tail members 5 andv 7 to assist in assembling the machine.

The carriage 8l comprises vertical webs 10 and an integral table 12. provided with a longitudinal groove 13 to receive the shanks of the pinsror staples 14 which extend. downwardly from the pin tickets or tags 15 which, as they approach the cutting mechanism, are in thel form: of a strip. By means of the dove-tail connection between the carriage for Cil the cutting and assembling mechanism and the bed of the machine the cutting mechanism may be adjusted longitudinally with relation to the bed of the machine in such a manner as to perm-it the cutting mechanism to beset to accordl with the print and feed motion for cutting tickets of different sizes, suitable means (not shown)l being provided for securing the carriage in the proper adjusted position. When the carriage is assembled upon the pin ticket machine the table 12 forms a continuation of the table of the pin ticket machine so that the tickets are fed directly from the stapling and printing mechanism to the cutting mechanism.

The carriage 8 is provided at its end with a vertical standard comprising uprights 16 and 17 connected at their upper ends by a transverse, preferably integral member 18 and also connected at a short distance above the table by a transverse bridge member 19. The face of this standard is flush with the end of the carriage and desirably is planed to provide a guiding base for the reciprocating cutter mechanism. Guides 20, having respectively inclined or beveled guiding faces 21, are secured to the face of the standard adjacent its ends by suitable .screws or bolts 22.

rIhe critter fra-me comprises a pair of vertical guiding members 23 having inclined or beveled faces 24 engaging the faces 21 of the guides 23, a horizontal central connecting member or web 25and= a bottom connecting base member 26, all of which may be formed as an integral construction. The lower cutting blade 27 is Secured to the base member of the cutting frame by suitable screws 28'. The co-operating upper cutting blade 29 is connected by suitable screws 30v to a transverse plate 31 which in turn is connected to the guides 20 by screws 32.

The edge of the upper knifeY 29 is located in a plane sufficiently abovethe plane of the table 12 to'enable the strip o-f tag material to be fed beneath it and astripper is provided which engages the upper face of the advancing tag strip and guides it beneath the edge of the upper stationary critter blade and also acts as a yieldable stripper to strip tags from the upper knife after the cut-ting operation. This stripper comprises a plate 33 which preferably extends over the end portion of the table 12 and is preferably provided with a thickened and downwardly beveled portion adjacent the stationary blade 29 and also is provided with aplu.- rality of guide rods or stems 311 which extend upwardly through suitable apertures or ways; in the plate 31 and are provided at their upper ends with nuts 35 which are eugaged by helical springs 36 located within tubular members 37 which are suitably secured at their lower ends by tubular nuts 38 to the upper edge of the plate 31. The springs 36 act normallyy to force the stripper downwardly to a position a short distance above the plane of the advancing strip of tag material, the thickened end portion extending to the plane of the edge of the upper cutter so as to direct the tag material beneath said upper cutter.

Any suitable means may bev provided for reciprocating the cutting frame. As illustrated in Fig. 1 the lower transverse member 26 of the cutting frame is provided with a downwardly extending arm 39 provided with a boss 40 to which the bifurcated upper end 41 of an actuating link or arm 42 is connected by a suitable pivotal bolt 413, the arm or link /12 being actuated in synchronism with the feeding mechanism of the printing machine by a suitable mechanism lli) not shown, Y di'sclosedgi'n the patent to Kimball above In lusual tag makin machines'the tickets are severed by a reciprocating cutter .hav-

ing a lowerv movable blade 1 and when the strip is severed by the upward movement of such a cutter the materialV is sufficiently distorted or flexed to flip itheticket over so that successive tickets drop into a receptacle bev neath the cutter ina miscellane ,ousorder.Vv

the strip, a series of marking tags having Y attaching'v devices pro]ecting from theA face or end of the tag. Obviously such tags cannot be superimposed directly upon each other and the present invention contemplates the provision of mechanism which will advance the 'marking tags as they are successively cutfrom thestripin such 'a manner ythat the attaching ymembers of each lsuperirnposed tag will extend beyond the end of the tag next beneath it.

A further object of thefinvention is to provide" a suitablechute' to vreceive the marking tags thus severed from the strip and superimposedy so that the jtags maybe delivered'from'thechute in a continuous su#V pei-imposed overlapping relation whichv will enable the [operator number*A oftagsfrom the'chute while still in superimposed'` relationfand deposit the same in suitable-o packages, lthereby enabling a largernumberl of'ftagsv to be packaged in a box than is usual, without Vthe. necessity of rearranging thetags, f and also enabling the package to be so formed as to permit the tags to be readily taken out one by one as they are to' be'applied without the pins being touched bythe fingers of the operator.

' vrIn the preferred embodiment of the invention illustrated-herein the means for supportingthe tags, as they are delivered from the cuttting mechanism, comprises a chute preferably formed in two parallel sections which are lsuitably inclined and curved toV enable the superimposed tags to be readily forced down the chute by, the assembling mechanism. f y ,y

As illustrated in theaccompanying drawings the chute comprises a pair of relatively adjustableguiding members or rails 44 and butwhi'ch Lmay besimilar'to-that'M lower reciprocating cutter flipped over or other-` object'ofthe invention is to to remove a suitabley 45 lwhich are supported upon suitable brackets secured to `the, carriage fof the cuttingmechanism. In the preferred construction an L-shaped bracket46 is securediby aY f'bolt 47 to the Y a standard lfa'nd a `second bracket 48 is secured to the arm 49wofth'e' bracket 46 by -a bolt ,50, -The bracket 48 is rovided with a recess which receives the curved upper end` of themember 44. of the; The bracket 48 is also'provided with chute. y p an extension 5.1 having a' slot 52 along; which vthe other chute 'member 45 may be heldin adjustedposition by a bolt 53. To support I the otherl end portion' of the chute 4an L? shaped bracket 54' is securedto the verticaly standard 17 of the carriage by a bolt 55 and to the arm 56 of said bracketfa vertical me'm-V 'l ber 57 of anotherfbracket is secured havingHVV a horizontal slotted arm 58l provided withy a guide-way 59 in which a carriage 60, .con-v nected to the member 45of the chute is connected, vandwhich may be adjustably posi-v tioned in said guide-way by a suitable bolt 6].. The

chute sections

44 and 45 are eachvr provided with upwardly extending flanges to engage the edges ofthe marking tags.

By reason of this adjustable construction the section 45 ofthe chute may be positioned: properly with relation tothe section 44 to v guide tags of different widths.v l Y It will be noted that the section 44 of the chute lies' directly beneath the stationary;

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cutter blade 29 and that the flange of'said chute is omitted from the portion off-the chute which extends beneath thecutter. y In the operation of the machine'the succe'ssive markingtags cut from the strip drop directly upon the chute; and as they pile up slide gradually down the chute in'superf imposed overlapping! relation.

Where marking tags are provided with',

attaching devices, such as', pins or staples, it is ldesirable vthat the tags shallbel suc-.1 cessively vadvanced positively along the chute so that the end of each superimposed tag,y which carries the attaching device, shall overlie the tag nexty beneath it. yr This Yis accomplished by providing a pusher which engages the dropping tag and moves. it-.

lengthwise-relatively to the chute as it falls from the cutter upon a previously dropped tag y .l ,y

' In the preferred construction illustrated herein a rotary pusher is provided comprising a series of preferably curved arms 62 which 'extend from a hubl 63 which is rotatably jecting from the member 44 of the chute. The hub 63 is also provided'with 65 which is operated intermittently vby a suitable pawl and is restrained from back# ward movement by suitabledetent. v In the preferred construction V'llu'strated an actuating--pawl 66 is pivotallyrnounted upon a stud 67 upon a plate orflever .68

a ratchetv mounted upon aV stud rf64prowhich is pivotally mounted upon the stud 64, the pawl being forced into engagement with the ratchet teeth of the hub by a spring 69. The plate or lever 68 is provided with a laterally extending stud 70 which is pivotally connected by a link 71 to an arm 72 which is pivotally mounted on a stud 73 extending from a plate 74; which is connected to the recij'irocating cutter frame 26. The link 71 is adjustably connected to the arm 72 in order that the pusher arms 62 may be positioned with respect to. the reciprocation of the cutter in such a manner as properly to engage and Aadvance the tags.

In the present construction the rod 71 is shown as screw threaded and is adj ustably secured to the arm by

nuts

76 and 77 engaging opposite sides of the arm 72.

Retrograde movement of the rotatable pusher is prevented by a detent pawl 7 8 which is pivotally mounted upon a stud 79 upon a bracket 8O fixedly secured upon the stud 64, the detent being held in engagement with the ratchet by helical springs 8l as shown more clearly in Fig.

In the operation of the device the marking tag strip with the staples or other attaching devices secured thereto are advanced intermittently by the feeding mechanism of the printing machine to the cutters, each tag being projected beyond the edge of the stationary cutter 29. The lower movable cutter is then reciprocated upwardly, first engaging the tag, and then raising the edge of the same, together with the stripper, sufficiently to sever the tag by co-operation with the stationary cutter. After the tag is severed it is engaged by one of the rotating pusher arms 62 and forced lengthwise of the chute so that after one tag has vbeen `dropped into the chute the' nextl tag is deposited upon it with the attaching device lying back of and preferably engaging the edge of the tag next beneath. As the tags are thus successively deposited the action of the pusher gradually forces the same down the chute with the tags stacked in superimposed relation as illustrated in Fig. l. As the tags progress down the chute they are removed in suitable numbers by the operator and transferred to a packing carton.

By reason of the adjustability of the carriage for the cutter and assembling mechanism, and also by reason of the adjustability of the width of the chute, the device can be arranged properly to cut and semble tags of different widths.

It will be obvious that the invention may be employed for the purpose of assembling tags having other kinds of attaching devices, such as, strings, or having attaching pins projecting in -other angular relations to the faces of the tags than those herein illustrated. l

It will also be understood that various modifications in form, construction and arrangement of parts may be made within the l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pate-nt, is:

l. A machine for cutting from-a strip and assembling a series of marking tags provided with attaching means projecting from one face of the tag comprisingmeans for feeding the tag strip, lmeans for severing the `tags successively therefrom supporting means to receive the tag and means operable in synchronism with the cutting means for so depositing the tags thereupon as to insure continuous superimposed relation of the tags with the attaching devices of each tag lying back of the edge of the tag next beneath it. 2. A machine for cutting' from a strip and assembling a series of marking tags provided with attaching means projecting from one face of the tagcomprising means for feeding the strip, means for severing the tags successively therefrom, supporting means to receive the-tags, means for causing relative movement between the tag being delivered and the tag-receiving means .operable progressively to superimpose the tags, with the attaching devices of each superimposed tag lying back of the edge ofthe tag next beneath it. v

3. A macnine for cutting from a strip and assembling a seriesof marking tags provided with attaching means projecting from one face ef the tag comprising means for feeding the tag strip, means forsevering the tags successively therefrom, a supporting chute to receive the tags, means operable to prevent tiexure of the tag strip during the severance of the tags, means operable to deliverl the severed tags successively to said chute in superimposed relation and to advance the successive tags to cause the attaching device of each superimposed tag to lie back of the edge of the tag next beneath it,

4t. A machine for cutting' from a strip and assembling' a series of marking tags provided with attaching means proj ect-ing from one face of the tag comprising means for feed-ing the tag strip, means for severing the tags successively therefrom, a .supporting chute to receive the tags, means operable to deliver the severed tags successively to said chute in superin'iposed relation and to advance the successive tags to cause the attaching device of each superin'iposed tag to engage the edge of the tag next beneath it and acting also progressively to advance the assembled tags along the chute. l

5. A machine for cutting from a strip and assenibling a series of marking tags provided with attaching means projecting from one face of the tag comprising means for feeding the tag strip, means for severing the tags lOO successively therefroima supporting .chuteV to receive the tags, means for adjusting the v Width of the chute to accommodate tags of different Width, means operable to, deliver the severed tags successively to the chute iii` superimposed relation and to advance the successive tags to cause the attaching devices of each superimposed tag to lie beyond thev edge of the tag next beneath it.

6; A machine for cutting from astiip and assembling a series ofV marking tags'provided with attaching means projecting from one face of thetag comprising means for feeding the tag strip, means for severing the-tags successively therefrom, a supporting chute to receive the severed tags and an intermittently actuating pusher operable to engage an edge Vof the dropping tag and move the same in a direction lengthwise of ysaid chute and thereby cause t-lie vattaching device of each superimposed tag to engage the edge of tlie tag next beneath it. A

7 A machine for cutting from a strip and assembling a series of marking tagsl provided with attaching means projecting from vone vface of thertag comprising means for feeding the tag strip, means for severing the tags successively therefrom, a chute to receive the severedtags, means for preventing flexure ofY the tag strip during the severance of the tags whereby thevtags Will di-op successively vices, from a strip and assembling 'said tags: comprising a guide means located at the end of. said guide for cutting vthe tags from said strip,

in superimposed relation, for the strip,

a chuteto receive the severed tags and means for so depositing the to insure superimposed relation of the tags Y n guide Y imposed'relation,

arms to engage the' dropping tags, pawl and j ratchet mechanism Aoperable by the recipro- ,y cation of said cutter to. rotate said pusher with the attaching means of each tag lyingl back of the -edge of the tag next beneath it., 9. A machine for 1 successively cutting marking tags, provided with attaching devices, from a strip and assembling Vsaid tags in superimposed relation comprising a for the strip, a cutter locatedat the end of said guide, a chute to receive the dropping severed tagsin continuous supera rotatable pusher having lthe path of the istrip,

cally reciprocating lower cutter Vand a yieldhaving a face normally posi- 1 of the stationary cutter, tagsin said chute as' c 13. A machine prising a intermittently and thereby to force the at taching member of each superimposed tag yagainst the edge of the tagl next beneath it and also progressivelytoadvance the superimposed tags along they chute.

10. A machine for successively cutting marking tags, provided with attaching devices, from a strip and assembling said tags f in superimposedrelation,comprising a guide for the strip, a reciprocating cutter locatedv at the end of said guide, a chute formed of longitudinally exteinding flanged sections spaced apart to provide a Way for said atf taching devices, means for adjusting one 'of said sections relatively to the other to accommodate tags of different Widths and Vmeans for progressively moving the tags chute to cause the 'ato longitudinally of the taching device of each tag to lie beyond the edge ofthe tagfnext beneath it.

11. A marking tags,provided with attaching de,- vices, fromfa strip and assembling said tags machine for successively cuttingl in su erim osed relation com risin a Guide v for the strip, a-cutter located at the end of said guide,` a` chute to receive Ithe dropping severed tags in continuous,superimposed relation, a rotatable pusher having backwardly curved arms to engage the droppingtags, paivl and ratchet mechanism operable the reciprocation f of said cutter to rotate said pusher intermittently and thereby to force the attaching member ofy each superimposed tag against the edge of the tag next beneath it and also progressively to advance the superimposed tags along the chute.

- 12. A machine for cutting marking tags from a stripl and assembling said tags, comprising a guide for the strip, av stationary cutter locatedat the end ofsaid guide above a cooperatingverti able stripper tio'ned substantially in the planeof the edge but movable byl said reciprocating cutter during the operation.

for cutting marking tags from a, strip and assembling said tags coina stationary vcutter located abovefthe path of the strip, rocating lower cutter located intermediate of the stationary cuttervand the support for the strip and means to receive the tags dropping from said cutters in continuous superimposed relation.`

support and guide for the strip, v

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a co-operating vertically -recip- In testimony whereof, I have signed `my name to this specification.

FREDERICK W. LAENcHEn