US1691890A - Tucker - Google Patents

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Nov. 13, 1928.

O. C. F. MEISEL.

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originarappncation ,sieri-August 25, 19,26, serial no; 131,368. mrfiaedfami ,this @punition nies December 420, 15927; serial no. 241,371 f u c, f ,e

This invention relatesto tuclrerssuch as are 11 is brought around to the ,threeocloclr posi- .used in sheet handling mechanism in connection and the tucker blade 3 3`is` in opposition tion With'printin'g presses and the like to told lto the Cooperating mechanism 35 on cylinder a sheetor web, and the object is to providean '13 and a suitable. cani cooperating with cam 55 v 5 improved vmechanism of ,this character. My roll 113 on vthe tucker blade carrier releases invention Will be "Well understood by refer- 'the latter, vpermitting the .tucker blade Y'3.3 to encefto the following description taken in be thrustoutwardly and tofold the 'paperloe- 'Y connection withthe accompanying drawings, tween vthe fixed surface 115 'and the IllQVable Y wherein; l Y clamp bar 117 of the cooperating,mechanism` le0 Fig, 1 i5 a. Section through an accumulating Clliflby Cylinder l13 and aS the blade pLSSeS cylinder ot a sheet handling mechanism em the three oclock position, Which is its posi?" bodying in its construction a tucker blade tlOIl 0f gfecltGSt'eXtQ/HSOD, andthe fOldDg S illustrative of the principles of my invention, Completed, 4itV is again. ret'oted t0 free the a cooperating cylinder being shown in end Samei A 65 elevation; and n While the tucker blade mechanism` might Figk Q, is a fragmentary View on an entake various suitable forms, I may utilizelarged scale shoivingthe tuclrer in section.` n' Sli-@WIND fltcll lIl .Fg- '2 Wherell IllW@ inventiOn is herein Shownn Connec- SllOyVl lille 62H11 IOllS 113. 21S IIlOLlIlted OIl 3. tion Witha sheet handling mechanism of the lflflllly reClplOClDg plunger 119 Supported 70 type more fully disclosed in my companion' and normally thrust outwardly in the cylini application, Serial No. 131,368, filed August del' 11 by IHQZLDS Of Springs 121 mounted as 25, 1926, of which this application is a divi there llnlstled- Corn 1011s 113 poYdo fol sion and to which reference may be made tor I'Ctlaolng tnopnonzsnl agaflSt the-101C@ 0f l a fuller disclosureot details of such meohano' Sp1 1112's- Tho tuokol blade p1`oloon33 1S 75 i5 nism, including, among other things, the con-k inonntod longtnWlSo of this pnlngo 1n o Suittrolling cams. able slot 123, the lower portion of ,which is Referring@ Fig- 1 of the drawings, I there ot sutlicient Width only closely to receive the show an accumulating cylinder 11 adapted lowolj odgoof tno blad@ WnCn 1S retained 111 to deliver a signature oi folded sheets to aV posllon by .moons of tmnSVoTSo 1111151125- 80 cooperating cylinder 13. The cylinder 11 The upper po'tlon of tno S1otpl'o"dos a C1931? n carries the pins 21 which arel adapted to ennnooa@ tno foHoWlng Sido of 'tno pldo 33 gage through the leading edges oit' the sheets Wnlon 1S S11pported 11111161 POSltOn lnlstratd which go up to make the signature and the lnfne ngnro py'nonns of oompToSSon Springs tucker blade 33 which folds these sheets cen'- 12" T1115 11T ongonont 1S Soon 115130 pom't 85 trally and delivers them to Y cooperating *tno pmol@ 33 21S f1 Wnolo to Yield toward tno mechanism 35 on the Cylinder 13' n lett in the figure as the mechanism as avvhole Toward the end 0f d Cycle` of the mecha; rotates to the right and thus its Withdrawal nism the parts come to the position illustrated f1'om tno ooopomtlng mechanism on tnooynn in Fig. l, and at this moment the pins 21 are del" 13 vWltnollt Cla-ngo? of breakage-1S faol- 90 `released to the action of springs which remtod y tract the same, freeing the sheets, which, Roliofflng to Flg- 1 tno blad@ 33 @DGTS LS however, are'held clamped bet-Ween the two doso'pod potWoon L XGCl'SUl'iLCe 115 and a cylinders at the three oclocl position, view- .Clamp bldo '117 nountod on n Took Shaft 129 ing Fig. 1; The leading edges of the sheets and Closng aganst the Xod $111130@ 115- 95 may be Stripped from the pins bythe action The blade 117 is opened to the position shown f of the strippertingers 89 normally housed in 111 Fg- `1 When the parts are in the'position the grooves 91 ot the cylinder. All these YShown to provide a clearance soy that the parts may be constructed and operated vas in tucker blade 33 may roll into position and is my application referred to. closed as it reaches the nine oclock position lo@ As the cylinders continue to revolve, the corresponding to the full extension oit the w central portion of the sheets on the cylinder tucker blade, thus previdingfor the wielding Q or creasing'of the signature. Movement of l lthe blade 117 is herein shown as effected by means of a cam, shown in Fig. 1,l which operates on a follower 133 on an arm 131 carried by shaft 129 and adapted to swing said arm counterclockwise against the action of vv'spring 135.

lhaving a toe, orrise 137 secured to a vsta- Thecam is herein shown as tionary disc 139. This rise portion may 'conveniently be formed of a section of a flanged ring having a cylindricalV flange portion from' which is formed the toe ofthe cam and an intention. What I claim as new and desire' to secure by Letters Patent I shall express in the following claims.

Claims: v

1. In combination witha tucker blade a carrier therefor having a slot'wider than the thickness of the blade, the blade being held therein atits inner part spaced from a wall of the slot, and yielding means supporting the ,blade away Ifrom said'wall.. y

2. In Combination with a tucker blade a ycarrier therefor having Va slot wider than the thickness of the blade, the lower edge ofV the blade being held at the vbottom of said slot i against awallthereof and yielding means in said slotj to hold said wall.

o In rtestimony name to this speciioation; s

the bodyof 'the blade against OTTO o.; MEISEL;V I

whereof, I have vsigned my i y i

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