US1582743A - Attachment for addressing machines - Google Patents

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il 27 192 Apr 6 H. A. FORSMAN ATTACHMENT ADDRESSING MACHINES Filed Jan. 29. 1925 4 Shanta-Shut 1 A ril- 27., 1926; 1,582,743 f H. A. FORSMAN ATTACHMENT FOR ADDRESSING MACHINES 'Fi led Jan. 29. 1925 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 I "llllllllih" We bsber SBiM-lbsber- 6336 NormalAve.

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HARRY ALEXANDER FoRsMAN, QF'TRNAFLY, NEW JERSEY.

ATTACHMENT FoR ADDRESSING'MAGHINES.

Application filed January 29, 1925. seriai'nofiatss.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY A. FoR'sMAiy, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tenafly, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Attachment for Addressing Machines, of Which the following is a full, clear and exact description.

'This invention relates to an attachment for addressing machines. An object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient device which can be readily attached to a standard addressing machine forthe purpose of permitting the operator to print the information from a stencil or other plate on a card in various Ways.

Another object concerns the provision of simple and efiicieut means whereby the various Ways in which the printed matter on an address plate can be transferred to a card can be eiiected simply and easily 'ivitho'ut any particular consumption of time or labor on the part of the operator and without requiring any great amount of skill after the operation has once been learned.

A further object concerns the provision of simple and eflicient means to eiiec't the aboveinentioned objects Without thenecessity for altering the addressing machine in any material Way.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the printing platform of the machine;

Fig. 2 is a similar vie'w'showing the parts in position to print;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the address plate from which the printing is made;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the card carrier;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the card;

Fig. 7 is a plan View of the printing platform of the machine with a modified form of the device thereon showing a portion of the 1 device out away Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the parts in position to print;

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8 showing the parts in difierent printing positions;

Fig. 10 is a section on the line 1010 of Fig. '9; Y

Fig. 11 is a section on the line 11-11 of Fi,g.- 9;

Fig. 12'is a planvietv of a eard rinted bymeans of the modified form shown in Figs. 7, 8 and 9;'a'nd Fig. 13 is a section taken on'the line 13-13 of 'Fig. 9.

'The forn'is'of'theinvention shown -'in the drawings are preferred forms, although it is understood that modifications in theconstru'ction' and arrangement of the parts and in the charaeter'ottheinaterials used'i'n'ay be adopted Without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

v In the operation of an addressing machine thematter to be printed on 'a card is obtained, generally, fr'oin'an electroplate'or similar pl'ate,-'and is generally placed thereon as'follo'wv's John H. J ones,

26 Lexington Ave,

New York City;

If it were onlyjpossible to print -in one Way from this plate, thef'print'ed matter could never be printed on the card exe'ept in the 'mann'er shown above. However, it is possible by means of "my invention to take the name, the street address and the city address, and distribute them on the card in various ways While at the sametim'e this one single plate is used. This address is effected by using slotted transfer masks which are successively associated With a gauge plate attached to the machine, so that all a person has to do is to mount a card in the mask and successively place it'in position on the gauge plate so that it and its slots are successively disposed adjacent the proper portions of theelectroplat'e during successive printing actions of the machine.

By means of the apparatus hereinafter to be described, the name, st reetaddress and city address canbe'pr'int'ed on the card along the top thereof in order, or the same material can be printed on the card With the last name first and then the usual 'full name, street address and city address, this latter arrangement bein'gfor the purpose of proper indexing. I

In the preferred form 'of'th'e invention as shown in the drawings, 10 represents the printing platform or table of an addressing machine. 11 represents the tape which carries the envelope on which the address is to be printed. Disposed opposite the printing opening 12 is the electroplate 13 which has the type 14 formed on its lower portion and similar information printed on a card 15 on its-upper portion. The print ing head of the machine, marked 16 in Fig. 3, is adapted to descend andforce the envelope against the type onthe electroplate 13 to print the address thereon in the usual manner and in accordance with the disposition ofthe type shown on the plate. 7

When it is desired thatthe information on the electroplate be transferred to a card in a different way than that in which it is disposed on the electroplate, I employ the following means: The first elementof this means is an adjustable plate 17. This plate 17 is provided with a flange 18 to be connected to the platform 10 by means of clamping screws 19. Slidably disposed on this plate 17 is an adjustable plate 20 provided with transverse slots 21 in which adjusting screws 22 fastened to the plates 1? are adapted to slide. By loosening or tigh ening these screws the position of the plate 20 wit-hrespect to the plate 17 can he fixed. Along the forward edge this plate 20 is provided with a plurality of pairs of longitudinally spaced slots 23. It will be noticed that these slots are arranged in pairs at different distances from the front edge of the plate and fat successively increasing distances from the lateral edges of the plate. It will also be noted that the distance between successive pairs of slots, measured transversely of the plate from the front edge, 18 equal to the distance between the lines of type on the electroplate.

In Fig. 5 I show a mask comprising a plate 24 having slots 25 and 26 adjacent the front edge'thereof, and spring'clips 27 near the rear edge. This plate is also provided with a stop 'fiange 28 at the left side thereof. This plate is also provided with V apertures 29. These apertures are adapted to receive screws 30 mounted on a cardcarrier supporting frame 31 (see Figs. 2 and 3). The central aperture 29 is adapted to receive a handle 3a. The card is shown in Fig. and it is desired to arint the information from the address plate 13 on to the card in the manner indicated, that is to say, in the line along the top, instead of in one comparatively condensed space with one line immediately below the other.

In order to do this, the card 33 is mounted on the mask 24 in the position shown in Fig. 2, and the mask is fastened to the supporting arm 31. This frame is then placed with the lugs 34thereof fitting into the upper and left-hand pair of slots 23 of the gauge plate 20.

- lVhen the mask and card are thus exposed, the pressure or printing head of the machine descends and causes the name S. B. Vfebster to be printed on the card in the position shown in Fig. 6. The mask supportin frame is then moved to the next lower pair of slots 23 positioned lower and to the right, and another printing action takes place. This permits the street address to be printed in line, as shown in Fig. 6. The mask and its support are then moved to the extreme right and to the lowermost pair of slots on the plate 20, whereupon the city a d State addresses are printed in the position shown in Fig. 6. It will, therefore, be seen that by providing a gauge plate with a plurality of successively and properly disposed slots, I can definitely position a mask with respect to the electroplate so that definite portions of the printed matter on said electroplate can be definitely disposed and printed on the card as desired.

Sometimes it is desired, especially in using index cards, to print the last name in the upper left-hand corner of the card and then to print the full name with the street and city addresses, to the right, as shown in Fig. 12. To do this it is, therefore, nec cssary to transfer the last name all by itself on to this corner of the card from the electroplate. In order to effect this operation,

I use a modified form of gauge plate and mask, shown in Figs. 7 to 13, inclusive. In accordance with this modification I use a 'ff' f' lt 'l'lboi eient 01m 0 gauge p a e, w no 1 cars the number 35. This 1s provided with a slot 36, as usual, and with two pairs of 1011- gitudinal gauge slots 37 and 38, the slots 3? being further away from the front edge and longer than the slots 38. Adjacent the right-hand slot 37 is a scale 39. I use a iodified form of mask 40 the rear edge of which is provided with depending lugs simi lar to'lugs 34 previously described, and with a main printing aperture 41 and an auxiliary'printing aperture 42. The aperture 41 is larger and more centrally depressed,

*liereas the aperture 42 is narrower and disposed in the corner of the mask plate 40. The stencil 40 is also provided with trans verse slots 43 in which a card carrier bar 44 is slidable, this bar being provided with a handle and card clips 46 and 47. As shown in Fig. 8, the card 48 is'shown in position on the mask, and this is shown in position with its lugs in engagement with the apertures 38. At the right end of the rear edge of the stencil plate 40 I dispose a metallic index finger 49, shown in detail in Fig. 13, which is adapted to engage with any one of the small holes 50 disposed along the scale 39, previously mentioned, when the stencil plate is moved to this position.- In order to enable this modification to be used, I remove the screws 51 on the platform of the addressing machine and place on the platform a plate 52 having a scale 53 there on similar to scale 39. This scale 53 is disposed adjacent the printed matter formed on the card 15 on the electroplate 13, and by observing the scale it will be noticed that the letter WV, the first letter of the name Webster is located approximately eight spaces from the beginning of the scale. ,It

is therefore necessary, in order to print the word Vebster in the proper left-hand corner of the card L8, to insert the lugs 34 in the'clongated slots 37 and to slide the mask to the left until the finger 49 has engaged with the aperture corresponding with the eighth graduation on the scale 39 on the mask adjacent the right-hand slot 37. This disposition of the mask places the narrow slot 32 opposite the type on the electroplate corresponding to the name \Vebster, and the printing operation taking place at this time will cause the name to be printed in the proper place on the card 48. By moving the mask 40 so that its lugs 34 engage the small slots 38, as shown in Fig. 7, the main printing aperture 41 will be disposed opposite'the electroplate and the printing operation taking place at this time will cause the complete information to be printed on the card 48, as shown in Fig. 12.

It will be obvious that the parts described heretofore to effect these two different arrangements of the printing of the type from the electroplate on to a card can be adjusted in many ways to effect similar arrangements without departing from the spirit of the invention. The location of the slots and their relation to each other will effect variations in the disposition of the printing material as may be desired. By adjusting the gauge plates 20 and 35 with respect to the clamping plate 17, various sizes of masks can be accommodated, the choice of the mask to be used being regulated in accordance with the wished-for arrangement of printing, also in accordance with the size of the envelope on which the material is to be printed.

What. I claim is 1. An attachment for addressing machines having a printing aperture, which comprises a slotted gauge plate having slots at successively increasing distances from the printing and the lateral edge.

2. An attachment for addressing machines having printing aperture, which comprises a slotted gauge plate having slots at successively increasing distances from the printing and the lateral edge, and a mask adapted to co-operate with said gauge plate.

3. An attachment for addressing machines having a printing aperture, which comprises a mask having a slot, an addressing plate having spaced lines of type and disposed in said aperture, and means for positioning the mask in a succession of positions with respect to the type plate to register the slot with successive lines of type, and a card mounted on said mask having portions thereof exposed in said slots.

4. An attachment for addressing machines having a printing aperture, which includes a mask having a narrow slot in one corner and a central slotof ample dimensions, a support for said mask, means for moving the mask on said support, a gauge plate having a plurality of spaced slots, and means on the mask to engage in said slots whereby the mask may be positioned to align one or the other of its slots with respect to the printing aperture. 4

5. An attachment for addressing machines having a printing aperture, which includes length, a mask plate adapted to be disposed with respect to said slots, means on said mask to project into said slots, a scale adjacent one of said elongated slots, and indicator means on the mask to move adjacent said scale to indicate the position of the mask in the slots. I

6. An attachment for addressing machines having a printing aperture, which includes a gauge plate having a plurality of pairs of slots in a definite spaced relation thereon, one pair of said slots having considerable length, a mask adapted to be disposed with respect to said slots, means on said mask to project into said slots, a scale adjacent one of said elongated slots, indicator means on the mask to move adjacent said scale to indicate the position of the mask in the slot, a scale on the addressing machine adjacent the printing aperture, and a type plate in the printing aperture, the position of the type capable of being noted on the scale adjacent the aperture.

HARRY ALEXANDER FORSMAN.

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