US1651928A - Multicolor printing, drying, and embossing machine - Google Patents

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J. MOSCINI MULTICOLOR PRINTING, DRYING, AND EMBOSSING MACHINE 4 Dec. 6, 1927.

4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. ll. 1926 Dec. 6, 1927. Q 1,651,928

J. MOSCINI MULTICOLOR PRINTING, DRYING, AND EMBOSSING MACHINE Filed Jan. 11. 1 '4 Sheets-Sheet 2 fizz/6225021 J/Vaacz'zi.

6, J. MOSCINl MULTI COLOR PRINTING, DRYING, AND EMBOSSING MACHINE Filed Jan.11. 1926 4'Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Dec. 6, 1927.

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PATENT JOHN MOSCINL-OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Application filed January 11, 1926. Serial No. 80,642.

My invention relates to printing, drying and embossing machines, and more particularly to a flat bed multicolor printing, drying and embossing machine and it is a distinct and practical improvement to overcome certain practical objections to, and defects in, machines of the present type.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a printing, drying and embossing machine consisting of a plurality of printing units, ink drying means and an embossing unit, any number of which printing units may be arranged in series, on one side of the drying means for successfully performing a printing operation on a continuous strip of paper and for successfully performing em bossing operations after the ink has driedon said continuous strip of paper.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means for gripping the paper strip to cause the printed colors to properly register and to cause proper registration thereof for the embossing thereof.

My invention also embraces means for positioning the printed strip of paper for properregistering with each unit of the machine and for accomplishing an important step in moving the material or printed strip forward at a constant speed.

My novel automatic or continuous flat bed printing, drying and embossing machine comprises a plurality of mechanism, certain of which are duplicates by which printing in multicolo-rs, drying and embossing are accomplished in one continuous operation upon a continuous strip of paper.

Another object of my invention is to provide a fiat bed machine which shall be adapted to multicolor printing, multicolor printing and drying, or multicolor printing, drying and embossing, more rapidly, more perfectly, more economically and with much less manual labor than heretofore A further object of the invention is the substantial simple manner of connecting the associating parts so that the printing operations, ink drying and embossing operation will be facilitated with a minimum amount of movement and power. 7

A further object of the invention is the novel construction of the mechanism for inking the type.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a printing machine which possesses advantages in points of simplicity forming a part of this specification, wher'ein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

F 1g. 1, 1s a side elevation of a multicolor printing, drying and embossing machine embodying the features of'my invention.

Fig. 2, is a front'elevation of the machine with portions thereof broken away.

Fig. 3, is a vertical sectional view of the printing units. I

Fig. 4, is a side elevation of one of the printing units. I I

Fig. 5, is a detail in plan view of a portion of the perforated paper strip and one of the registering rolls.

Fig. 6, is a front elevation of the embossing unit. i

In carrying out the aim of my present invention, I provide a flat bed machine consisting ofa plurality of printing units, adrying unit and an embossing unit, all arranged in continuing series so as to produce multicolor printing, the drying of the printed colore and the embossing thereof.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character 1 represents a suitable flat bed plate which constitutes one of the elements of the machine.

As shown in Fig. 1, a plurality of printing units are employed for multicolor printing and each of the printing units consist of a suitable supporting frame 2 which is adjustably mounted upon the flat bed plate 1 by means of the tongue and groove connections 3, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the several printmg units may be spaced any desired distance apart, as is manifest. Each'sup-' crank arms 12. The crank arms 12 are each connected by suitable links 13 to the pivot shaft 14 ofa suitable type'carrier 15. The ends of the pivot shaft 14 are guided by the guide arms 16, each of which is provided with a vertically disposed slot 17 to receive the ends of the pivot shaft 14 to prevent other than vertical reciprocating movement of the type carrier 15. Thus it will be readily seen that by turning the crank shaft 10 the crank arms 12 will reciprocate the type carrier 15 vertically due to the connection of the links 13. V

Cooperating with the type carrier 15 is the table, or flat bed 1 over which is adapted to suitably move a continuous paper strip 18 from a supporting roll 19.

It will be noted that the reciprocating ac- 7 tion of the type carrier 15 and its action upon the fiat bed plate 1 enables any num ber of printing units to be arranged in series in suitable spaced relation upon the bed plate 1 to successfully print in colors upon the continuous strip of paper 18.

' second shaft 20 has connected thereto a crank arm 21 that carries a roller 22 coacting with a cam 23 fixed to the shaft 10.

Suitable levers 24 are fixed at one end to the shaft 20 and depend therefrom. The lower ends of the levers 24 carry suitable bearing blocks 25 in which are adjustably mounted suitable inking rollers 26. These rollers 26 have a yieldable action with type 27 carried by the type carrier 15 through the arrangement of suitable coiled springs 28.

The inking mechanism consists ofa supply roller 29 which is associated with a suitable hopper 30, and also includes aseries of feed rollers 31 that coact with a distributing roller 32. A suitable discharge roll 33 is carried by suitable arms 34 connected at one end to the shaft-18 to automatically engage the supply roller 29 and one of theuppermost rolls of the feed rolls 31 for taking ink from the supply roll 29 and evenly distributing the ink on the uppermostroll of the feed rolls 31. It is of course understood that the arms 34 may be connected to the shaft 20 in any suitable manner to accomplish the result desired thereof and for illustrative purpose only, I have shown the arms as frictionally connected at their rear ends to the shaft 20 by the screws35 connecting the bifurcated ends 36 of the arms 34.

The color drying and registering mechanism consists of a plurality of rollers designated 37, 38 and 39 each provided with radially directed fingers 40 arranged in lines upon the peripheryof said rollers.

The rollers 38 and 39 are spaced the desired distance apart and a heater box 41 is disposed below the rollers 38 and 39 through which the paper strip 18n1ust pass in a sagged condition for drying the colored inks thereon before leaving the heating chamber 42 of the heater box 41 for delivery to an.

embossing machine arranged in series with the presses and the heater box.

An embossing pres is positioned upon the flat bed plate 1 between the registering rollers 37 and 38 and it consists of an upright frame 43 suitably carried by the bed plate 1. The frame 43 is provided with a. driven shaft 44 having the gear 45 for meshing with a gear 46 carried by the drive shaft 7. The drive shaft 44 is provided with a gear 47 which meshes with a gear 48 fixed to a suitable journaled crank shaft 49. The crank shaft 49 is connected by suitable links' 50 to the pivot shaft 51 of a suitable carrier 52 which is provided with a suitably' heatedsuitably. heated female embossing die 56,

which is suitably carried by the flat bed plate 1. V

The means for revolving the registering rollers 37, 38 and 39 consists of a chain 57 riding over sprockets 58 and 59. Sprocket 58 is fixed to the shaft 4 of one of the several printing units, while the other sprocket 59 is fixed to a suitable shaft 60. A second chain 61 is also employed which rides over a sprocket 62 fixed to the shaft 60 and also over sprockets 63, 64 and 65 which are fixed to the registering rollers 37, 38 and 39, respectively. r

The continuous paper strip 18"is provided with spaced lines of perforations 66 for the fingers 40 of the registering rolls 37 38 and 39 to engage in to prevent slipping of the paper strip between while moving from under one type carrier to the other during multicolor printing operations by meansof the several printing units and bring the color of the previously printed section into proper register with the next printing operation and also for bringing the multicolored printed sections of the paper strip into proper register with the embossing die after leaving the ink drying unit of the apparatus, as is manifest.

The many advantages of the herein defrom the spirit and scope of my invention and the terms of the following claims, hence I wish it to be understood that I reserve the right "to make such changes, or modifications, as may fairly fall withinthe scope of the appended claims when fairly construed.

What I claim is:

1. In a machine of the class described, in

combination, a horizontally arranged flat bed table adapted to have a perforated continuous strip of paper passed thereover, a plurality of reciprocating printing means for color printing operations upon said strip, means through which the printed strip passes for drying the ink on the strip while passing therethrough and reciprocating embossing means disposed adjacent the drying means for embossing the multicolored printed sections of the paper strip after leaving the drying means and means for engaging in the perforations of the paper strip to cause the printed color operations to properly register and to cause the multicolor printing sections of the strip to properly register with the embossing means.

2. A machine of the class described com prising a flat bed table adapted'to have a perforated continuous paper strip pass thereover, a plurality of spaced supporting frames, a drive shaft for each frame, a type carrier for each frame, links pivotally connected to each type carrier and having operative connections with their respective drive shaft, a swingingly mounted lever and a cam for each drive shaft for operating their respective levers and adjustable inking rolls carried by said levers for action on said type carriers, ink distributing means coacting with said rolls and means engaging in the perforations of the paper strip to properly register the sections of the strip to be printed with the several printing means in multicolor work.

3. A machine of the class described comprising a flat bed table adapted to have a perforated continuous paper strip pass thereover, a plurality of spaced supporting frames, a drive shaft for each frame, a type carrier for each frame, links pivotally connected to each type carrier and having operative connections with their respective drive shaft, a swingingly mounted lever and a cam for each drive shaft for operating their respective levers and adjustable inking rolls carried by said levers for action on said type carriers, ink distributing means coacting with said rolls and means engaging in the perforations of the paper strip to properly register the sections of the strip to be printed with the several printing means in multicolor work, means for drying the ink after the printing operations and means for embossing the printed sections of the paper strip after the drying operation.

4. A machine of the class described comprising a flat bed table adapted to have a perforated continuous paper strip' pass thereover, a plurality of supporting frames adjustably supported in spaced relation upon said table, a'drive shaft supported'by each frame, a type carrier for each frame,

links pivotally connected to each type cartributing means coacting with said rolls, means operatively associated with said levers for controlling the inking operations of said mechanism, and means engaging in the perforations of the paper strip to prop erly register the sections of the strip to be printed with the several printing means in multicolor work. 7

5. A multicolor printing machine comprising a flat bed table adapted to have a perforated continuous paper strip pass thereover, a plurality of supporting frames adjustably supported in spaced relation, a drive shaft for each supporting frame, crank arms carried by each drive shaft, means for connecting said drive shafts, a type carrier for each frame mounted over the table, links pivotally connecting each type carrier with the crank arms of its respective drive shaft, a second shaft for each frame, a crank arm connected to each second shaft, a cam on each drive shaft for action against said crank arms, a lever .secured to each second shaft, ink rolls adjustably carried by said levers for action upon their respective type carrier, an ink supply roller for each frame, ink distributing rolls for each ink supply roller, a discharge roll adjustably connected to each of said second shafts and alternately coacting with its respective supply roller and its associating distributing rolls and means engaging in the perforations of the paper strip to properly register the sections of the strip to be printed with the several printing means in multicolor work.

6. A printing machine comprising a support-ing frame, a flat bed table, a type carrier, a drive shaft, an operative connection between the drive shaft and said type carrier and means for feeding ink to the type carried including an oscillating arm and a cam connection between the arm and said drive shaft.

7. A printing machine comprising a supporting frame, a flat bed table, a drive shaft carried by the frame, a type carrier, a link pivotally connected to the type carrier and having an operative connection with said shaft, a swingingly mounted lever and cam on said shaft for operating said lever and adjustably inking the rolls carried by said lever for action upon said type carrier and ink distributing means coacting with said rolls, and means operatively associated with said leverfor controlling the inking opera tion of the said mechanism. I I

8. A printing machine comprising a supporting frame a drive shaft connected thereto, crank arms carried by said drive shaft, a horizontally arranged table, a type carrier mounted over the table, links pivotally connecting said type carrier to said crank arms, a second shaft, a: crank arm connected there to, a calnon thefirst shaft for action against and a discharge rolladjustably connectedrto said second shaft and alternately coacting with said supply roll and said distributing rolls.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto af-,

fixed by signature;

JOHN .MOSCINI.

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