US196340A - Improvement in addressing-machines - Google Patents

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E DELANO. I Addressing Machine PatentedOct. 23, 1877..

ATTORNEYS.

v N. PETERS, PHQTO-UTHOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OrrIoE.

, EZEKIEL DELANO, OF GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADDRESSING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,340, dated October 23, 1877; application filed September 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZEKIEL DELANO, of Greenwich, county of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Addressing-Machine, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents atop view, and Fi g. 2 a vertical longitudnal section on line a: as, Fig. 1, of my improved addressing-machine and Fig. 3 is a front view of'the same, showing the cuttingshears and paper holding and moving pad.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to machines for addressing papers and packages in rapid and reliable manner without the sticking of the labelstrip so as to clog the machine, and with the additional facility of moving the addressed papers or wrappers by means of the machine.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drr wing, and then pointed out in the claims. 7

Referring to the drawing, A represents the frame of my addressing-machine, which is provided at the rear part with a reel or roller for winding up the label-strip in the customary manner in these machines. At the middle part of the frame A is the paste-fountain B, from which the endless pasting-belt G takes up its supply of paste by means of a distributingbrush, D, and an equalizing-roller, D. The endless belt 0 is stretched over an upper and lower feed-roller, the lower roller imparting, by an outer pulley turned by the thumb of the operator, motion to the belt. A heavy roller, D of lead or other material, is placed at the inner rear part of the belt 0, to keep the same tightly stretched over the equalizingroller and feed-rollers. The label-strip is conducted over the endless paste-ca'rryin g belt 0, and retained thereon by a grooved roller, D above the upper, and a pressure-roller, D above the lower, feed-roller, the label-strip passing then over curved conductors E of wire or other material, from the pasting-belt G to the stationary cutting-shear F at the front end of frame A. The movable shear F is pivoted to the stationary cutter F, and, like the same, extended back of the pivot, being acted upon, in the customary manner, by aspiral' spring, a, attached to a fixed'arm, b, of frame A, so as to open for cutting off a piece from the label-strip containing the printed address. The rear part of the movable cutter F is provided with a plate, F being faced with rubber or other material, so as to form a kind of pad that not only presses up on the paper or wrapper to which the addressstrip is to be pasted, so as to hold the same firmly simultaneously with the cutting off of the same from the label-strip by the shears, but which also achnits the imparting of a side motion to the paper or wrapper at the same time with the cutting of the strips and pasting them on the paper or wrapper. The moving of the paper or wrapper by means of the pad of the addressing-machine saves the removing of the paper or wrapper by the hand, and admits the quicker cutting and pasting on of the address-strips on the papers or wrappers than with the present addressing-machines.

For the purpose of rendering the machine available for thick as well as thin label-strips without the annoyance caused by the soaking of the paper, and the consequent sticking of the knives and clogging of the same, an adjustable guide, G, is arranged laterally above the upper end of the feed-belt, and made to slide in sleeves d, being adjusted bya set-screw, or simply by friction in the sleeves to different height. When the label-strip is of heavy paper it is passed in between the upper contact or pressure roller D and the belt, so as to be in contact with the belt over its entire length, and take up the required quantity of paste from the same. When the label-strip is of medium thick paper it is passed over the guide G, which has been raised about an inch above the belt, so that the label-strip forms contact with the belt for about one-half the length of the latter, more or less; but when very thin paper is used for the same the guide is raised to its full height, and the label strip only brought in contact with the belt near the lower pressure-roller 1)", taking up just a sufficient quantity of paste to be easily cut by the shears, and then pasted in reliable manner to the paper or wrapper.

The conductors bridge over the space between the lower feed-roller of the pasting-belt and the shears, facilitating the cutting off of the address-strips in regular manner.

r 1 2 V The addressing-machine may beworked. by 1 Z the additien of the pad,e011duct0rs,:audguide' V in quicker and more reliable manner with e r labekstrip of thick or thin paper; the pasting of the same being regulated ae described, and V V e the papers 01 Wrappers moved aeifle after eut fining and pasting of the address-strips thereon at a, considerable saving of; time: and labor; r 7 Having thus fully fleseribedmyinvention, I

1 claim: as new andrdesire to secure 1 by Letters Patent:

' r I The: cembination, with the movable cutter 1 V :inam addressin g neehinq of the rubber-faced plate Fithat serw' es fioigive ei side motiou to;

V 'the paper: as Welles subsen'e the purpose ofa 1 l pressure-pat as set'forth; I V 5 r 2. In an addressing-machine,the combiner, 2

tion, with the paste carrying and supplying endless belt, of pressure-rollers arranged above I 1 l V Y r the upper and lower feed-rollers,substantially as: and: for the purpose 'speoifiedv e i V r r belt, of an adjustable guide-piece; arranged nee-r the upper end of the belt, substantially F i V Z i V 1 l i V Y described.

4. In an addifees'ing-meelfine, the combine-T 'tien, \vith the paste carrying and supplying; I

belt mldzwith the: lower pressure roller, of an 7 j ble guide-piece near upper end of belt, ms:

to facilitate pasting and cutting oflabeI-stmips Offllill paper, substentiallyas described; *EZEKIELDELANO. 5'? e

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