US244559A - Newspaper wrapping and addressing machine - Google Patents

Description

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L. O. GROWELL.

NEWSPAPER WRAPPING AND ADDRESSING MACHINE.

No. 244,559. Patented July 19,1881.

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L. C. OROWELL.

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- UNITE-ID STATES 'LUTHER O. UROWELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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NEWSPAPER WRAPPING AND ADDRESSING MACHINE.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 24= 4=,559,'tiated July 19, 1881,

Application filed May 6, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, LUTHER O. ORowELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State -ments. Such printing-machines, since they were adapted to operate upon long lengths or webs of paper, and therefore called 'webprinting machines, have come into almost universal use as the machine best adapted to the printing of'newspapers,for the reason that they are capable of printing at a very high rate of speed. Notwithstanding their high speed and consequent great. product in the limited space of time in which a newspaper must be produced, much ingenuity has been exercised in improving their delivery mechanism, which constitutes the only limit to their speed of operation, so that it may run as rapidly as the'printing mechanisms. This has been vastly improved, more especially by rotating folding mechanisms, whereby the papers are delivered in afolded condition and of a size suited to handling by carriers, packing in bundles for shipment, and for wrappingfor mailing purposes, thus avoiding the time con= snmedin andlabor of 'hand-foldin g. The wrapping, addressing, and bundling for mailing purposes are, however, still performed by hand, and greatly impede the speedy delivery for the mail, as it consumes time which otherwise might be utilized in waiting for late news, for, since it is necessary at the present time to go to press at a certain hour in order to produce the mail edition at a fixed time, it is apparent that if the time consumed by the hand preparation of r the mail edition can be avoided an additional period of time may be had in which to receive news for 'insertion in the mail edition.

The present improvements consist in a folding delivery mechanism capaoitated not only to fold the newspaper or printed sheet into a proper size for mailing, but to simultaneously apply to each such folded sheet an envelope or wrapper suitable to bear its address and to protect the same during its carriage in the mails. This mechanism is, moreover, constructed of rotating mechanisms that will, consequently,operateat such high speed as to capacitate it to fold, wrap, and deliver the papers as speedily as the same are now delivered by the most approved rotating folding-inachines'. With such folding and wrapping mechanism is combined a means for applying to each product its appropriate address; but this latter feature, though here shown as demonstrating the great utility of the improvements, and claimed broadly as an addressprinting as well as a conveying mechanism, is also embraced in another application for Letters Patent, where a specific construction of it is claimed.

Before'proceeding to a detailed explanation of the mechanisms it should he understood that this improved delivery apparatus isapplicable to any folding mechanism in which the folded sheet emerges from between a pair of rollers, as in Patent No. 171,196, December 14, 1880, or in which a fold is imparted to the sheet by a tucking folding-blade mounted in one carrier, that operates to force the line of fold into the nip of jaws mounted in a companion carrier, as in Patent No. 143,674, October 14, 1873. Such acpair of rollers, as well as such carriers, are shown in the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my present improvements, in Figurel, by aside elevation; in Fig.2, by a plan or topview; andin Fig.3,loya longitudinal sectional elevation, Fig. 4 showing a longitudinal sectional elevation of a modified construction, Fig. 5 showing a section and end elevation of a pasting apparatus, Fig. 6 details of rock-arms. Figs. 7, 8, 9, and

10 illustrate the folded and wrapped paper inf,

three stages of production, while Fig. 11 illustrates a modified packing or delivery device.

In said drawings the rollers 31 32 represent the rollers or pulleys of a foldingmachine, from between which a succession of folded sheets emerge. therefrom and enter between the carriers 29 30 of my improveddelivery mechanism.

The carriers 29 30 will be mounted in a suitable frame work and provided with toothed wheels, as 33 34, by which they will be caused Such folded sheets descend to turn in unison, or with equal surface speed. They will be driven by a suitable gearing connecting one or the other of said wheels with a similar wheel, forming a part of the mechan- 5 ism for producing the preceding folds, or with the printing mechanism, as the case may require.

The carrier 29 is provided with a tucking or folding blade, 15, which cooperates in producing a fold with the jaws 6 7, with which the carrier 30 is provided, one of which jaws, 7, projects from a shaft, 1'4, mounted to rock in the carrier 30, which shaft is provided at one end with a rock-arm, 8, that runs in a path, 24, of the fixed cam 50, (see Fig. 2,) which campath is shaped so as to rock such shaft at proper times to open and close said jaw 7, and adapt it to cooperate with the blade 15 in seizing the folded sheet to carry it onward and release it at a proper point to suit the operation of other devices that act upon the sheet. The carrier 29 also carries a cuttin g-blade, 17 which co-operates with a cutting-slot, 21, (armed or not with a blade,) provided in the carrier 30 z 5 at a proper point to the rear of the jaws 6 7, to

sever the web 71 and produce a wrapper of appropriate length as an envelope for the paper 7 O. The carrier 29 is also provided with a set of gripers, 18, mounted upon a shaft that is 30 provided at one end with a rock-arm, 26, which travels in the path of a fixed cam, 27, which path is appropriately shaped to properly rock said shaft to open and close said gripers in proper time to seize the leading end of the ma- 3 5 terial or paper 7 0 to be enveloped or wrapped, conduct the same between the folding devices of the carriers 29 30, and, when said folding devices nip the material, to release the same.

This carrier 29is also provided with a set of 0 pins, 19, that are placed just rearward of the cutting-blade 17, which pins operate to hold, carry, and release the leading end of the wrapping material or web in manner similar to that in which the gripers l8 operate to hold, carry,

and release the paper 70.

The gripers 18 might be supplanted by pins as 19, and the pins might be supplanted by the gripers, as 18, if desired, or the gripcrs 18 may be entirely omitted; but,as will be understood from the nature of the material operated upon, in the description of the operation of the devices, the structures shown are preferable.

The carrier30 is provided at a suitable point 5 to the rear of thejaws 6 7 with asecond set of jaws, 4 5, which co-operate with a folding or creasing blade, 20, thatis supported in acarrier, 40, and which devices operate to produce a second fold in the material. The jaw 4 is sta- 1 6o tionary, and the jaw 5 is mounted upon a shaft,

16, supported in the carrier and provided with a rock-arm, 9, by which the shaft is rocked to close and open said jaws at proper times by the action of the appropriately-shaped path 25 in the fixed cam-disk 50, in which path said arm 9 travels. The carrier 30 may be furthermore provided between the jaws 6 7 and the jaws 4 5 with a set of lifting-arms, 13, which are mounted upon a rock-shaft, 28, in the carrier 30, which shaftis provided at one end with a rock-arm, 36, (see Fig. 1,) that travels in the path of a cam,37, wherebysaid arms arerocked outward from the periphery of said carrier and withdrawn within the line of said periphery at proper intervals of time.

The devices thus far described, including the guide 23 or roll 41, constitute a set sufficient to produce the necessary foldings required in enveloping or wrapping the folded product.

For convenience of rapid successive operations the carrier 30 is shown in Fig. 3 as provided with triplicate sets of such mechanisms, and the same are marked with like letters of reference to facilitate a ready understanding of the operation of the apparatus; It will be seen, however, from the modification shown in Fig. 4, that but two sets of such mechanisms need be used, and it may be remarked that one set alone will perform the work, as will be readily apparent.

The carrier40 will beprovided withatoothed wheel, 51, geared with the whecl34, and have a surface of proper extent to receive upon it a line of paste or cement deposited at the point 80, (on both sides of which are grooves which will receive any excess of paste and prevent the same from spreading over the surface of said carrier,) by means of a rotating pastingbade, 45, that is mounted upon a 'shaft, 46, v t

which carries a wheel, 53, gearing with the wheel 51, said pastingblade thus being revolved in unison with the carrier 40, and caused to be charged with paste or cement by dipping into a vat, 47, and to deposit paste upon the carrier 40.

Any form of pasting mechanism may be substituted for that shown-as, for instance, that illustrated in Patent No. 191,494, May 29, 1S77-when the blade 45 might simply have contact with a paste-suppled roller, as in Patent No. 143,674, or the structure shown in Patent No. 195,115, September 11, 1877, might be adopted.

Another carrier, 41, that is geared by a toothed wheel, 54, to the wheel 34, may be used to perform the function of pressing the wrapped papers and of imprinting them with their addresses. In operating as a printingcylinder, as it is evident that it may not be of a size to carry a large number of printingforms, it will be caused to operate as the carrier for a belt or chain, 42, as in Fig. 3, which belt or chain is provided with address plates, stencil, or other printing-forms bearing the superscription desired to be printed upon the wrapped papers. Such printing-forms will, of

course, be located at proper distances apart to be timely brought into action upon successive papers, and will be inked in any suitable manner, as by inking-rollers from a fountain, or an ink-charged tape in any common manner.

A pair of delivery-rolls, as 38 39, and con- IIO , ner ply; but it is preferable to provide guides 22 23 for that purpose, and especially the guide 22, as it keeps the paper from dropping onto the paste-charged point of the carrier 40. The printed paper, if of large size, will have had its dimensions reduced by one or more foldings accomplished before it emerges from the rollers 31 32, or paper of small size will be entirely folded by this apparatus. The printed paper, whether a flat or folded sheet, will be delivered within the range of action of this apparatus by means of the rollers 31 32, from which it will descend between the carriers 29 39.

The supplemental sheet which is to envelop the printed paper will be ledin the form of a web, 71, onto the carrier 30, so as to pass between it and the carrier 29. This web 71 of wrapping-paper will be of suitable width, and for convenience will be reeled in the form of a roll, 49, on a shaft, 60, that is mounted to turn freely "in the framework, which shaft might be given positive motion, if desired, andmay have any suitable frictional or other controlling device for imparting a proper tension to the web. This wrapper-web might be printed with the proper addresses and rolled up ready 1 for use, which mode of providing the diiferent addresses for the wrapped papers may be conveniently adopted, since it is apparent that each section of said web that is to constitute a wrapper must always be of a definite length; and although I have shown this delivery apparatus as provided with means for severing said web into short lengths as wrappers,it will also be apparent that if the wrapper-web ispreviously prepared by having the addresses printed upon it, it may also be perforated transversely 011 the line of its 'ultimate's'everance into short lengths or wrappers, and the sever- I ance be rendered complete at the time of ascause said wrapper-web to becarried around with said carrier 29 and laid upon the printed "paper 70, as is shown in Fig.7. I have shown the said wrapper71 as beingextended adistance beyond the leading edge of the paper 70, and although this is desirable, it is not necessary, as the gripers 18 might seize theleadin g edges of both the paper and the wrapper-web 71, in which case the pins 19 might be entirely dispensed with. The paper 70 and wrapper-web 71, thus held upon the carrier 29 and carried onward byit, are simultaneously folded transversely at a properpointby means of the tucking or folding blade 15, which presses the same on the folding line and into the space between the jaws 6 7, the latter then standing open. In the further rotation of these carriers the jaw 7 will be closed upon the folded or doubled edge and clamp the same upon the jaw 6, said jaws then holding the paper and wrapper and carrying them-onward with the carrier 30, said folded or doubled edge then becoming the leading edge. As the jaws 6 7 approach and pass the carrier 29, said gripers 18 release their hold upon the paper at the proper time,-while the wrapper 71'is ultimately torn from the pins 19. in this movement the paper rearward of the jaws 6 7 is laid over the lifting-arms l3 and the jaws 4 5, and the wrapper-web 71 is severed by the cutting-blade 17, which co-operates with the cutting-slot 21, thus detaching a short length from the web, which length forms a wrapper, 71, which wrapper, it will he observed, is of sufficient length to envelop the folded paper in the manner shown in Fig. 8, and as shown by'the position of the cuttingslots 21 andjaws 5'7, and which distance may be varied as may be desired. The combined wrapper and paper are now once folded, as in Fig. 8, and are carried onward by the folded edge, which is clamped by the jaws 6 7. In this condition the two pass between the surface of the carrier 30 and the guide 22, whereby the plies of said paper and those of the wrapper extended over its opposite sides are laid, lapped, or pressed together, when their relative position will be substantially such as is represented in Fig. '8.

In passing the carrier 40 the most extended or rearward ply of the wrapper 71 will receive a charge of paste from the carrier 40, and when said carrier 40 has so far rotated as to bring its folding-blade 20 into position, said blade will press the wrapper (and aslight portion of the edge of the paper, it it is arranged to project far enough) into the recess between the jaws 4 5, the latter then standing open. The jaw 5immediately closes to seize the paper and wrapper by the folded line, and the jaw 7 is opened to release the forward end, which drops down away from the carrier 30.

To insure the descent or drooping movement of the forward end of the paper when released by thejaw 7 the fingers 13 are quickly vibrated,

as in Fig. 1, by means of their operating-cant 37, to' throw said end outward before the guide 23 is reached. The last folded line held by the jaws 4 5 now becomes the leading end, and is carried between the carriers 41 30, the guide 23 or the carrier 41 operatingto lay the body of the folded material onto the wrapper, (see Fig. 3,) and cause the edge of said wrapper to be cemented thereto by the line of paste or cement applied thereto bythcpasting-surface 80, and said wrapper will be impressed with a printed address by the printing device supported by the carrier in passing the same. The wrapped and addressed paper will be held by the jaws 5 and carried onward by them to the rollers 38 39, the cam 25 operating said jaws so that they will open at the proper time to release the wrapped paper and permit it to be directed by the conductors 35 between their lower faces and that of the roller 38, and thence between the rollers 38 39 for delivery at that point.

The carrier 41 may act as a delivery mechanism whether it prints the addresses or not, and it may then remain at the point shown in Fig. 3, or be located in the position occupied by the rollers 38 39 in Fig. 3, as is shown by Fig. 11. It may then be provided with a set of griping-fingers, 90, constructed and operatingasis common in printing-machines, in which case the printing appliances described may be used or not, as is desired. Such gripers will operate to seize the folded sheet from the nip of jaws 4 5 when the same is brought within the proper range of action. The cam 25, which operates thejaws 5, will then, as in Fig. 3, be constructed so as to open said jaws at a proper point to release the paper when the gripers 90 take it. The wrapped paper, seized and held by the griping-fingers 90, will be carried by them around with the carrier 41, and in such movement it may be intercepted by the curved ends of conductors, as 91, and thus be arrested and deposited in a packing box or receptacle. The curved ends of the conductors may be flattened to a point or thin edge and will be shaped to conform to the surface of the carrier 41, so as to pass between said surface and the enveloped paper, or they may extend into grooves in said carrier. When these conductors engage the wrapped paper the griping lingers will be opened to release it. The folded papers will be laid or deposited edgewise on the support of the conductors 91 in such manner as to cause the wrapped papers to be deposited in the pile successively one behind another. It will be seen that the tendency of the delivered, folded, and wrapped papers is to assume aflat position. The rear portion of the pile will therefore remove itself away from the carrier 41 a sufficient distance to permit the leadingedge of the folded and wrapped paper to pass in be* bind the rearward end of the pile and press the whole backward, the edge of the last-delivered paper resting upon the inner bends of the conductors 91 and lying against the pile.

It is evident that that portion of the carrier" 41 which is in line with the forward part of the folded paper to which it is held by the griping-fingers may be cut away a sufficient depth and distance to suit the thickness and surface extent of the folded paper, as in Fig. 11, thus insuring the depositing of the wrapped paper in the packing-box, even though the preceding deposited paper should lie close to the common periphery of the carrier 4].

It will now be understood that if the rollers 38 39 are placed at the point occupied by the carrier 40 and a proper arrangement of the cutting devices in the carriers 29 30 is made so that the ply of the wrapper 71, now shown as the shorter, is made the longer, a swinging or other folding-blade mounted in the carrier 30 at the position now occupied by the jaws 4 5, may operate to produce the iinal fold of the wrapped paper, which fold will be completed as the paper passes through the rollers 38 39, in which arrangement paste might be applied to the blade or to the carrier 29.

In the apparatus thus fardescribed the rollers 31 32 are supposed to be so arranged as to deliver the printed paper vertically from between them. In the modification shown in Fig. 4 these rollers, though horizontally arranged, are supposed to be delivering the printed paper in a horizontal plane. In both structures these final-folding or wrapper-enveloping devices may have ,their supportingframe hinged or otherwise arranged with respect to the frame of the main machine, so as to adapt this apparatus for removal from, and return to, its position for coaction therewith, by which arrangement the same machine may deliver its product without being wrapped and readily be changed so that its product may be wrapped or enveloped.

In the modification Fig. 4 the carriers 29 30 are of uniform size, and shown to be provided with duplicate mechanisms. A detailed description of them is not required, for the reason that their structure and operation are like those heretofore explained. In this arrangement there is shown a modification of the pasting apparatus constructed in the form of a revolving fountain constituted by constructing a large portion of the carrier 40 in the form of a paste-vat, 47, in which the paster 45 is in the form of a fluted roll, said fountain being slotted longitudinally to permit the protrusion of one or more ribs of said fluted roller 45, the next adjacent ribs on opposite sides of the protruding one bearing against the edges of this perforation, so as to seal the opening and prevent theescape of the fluid paste with which the fountain 47 is filled. The shaft 46 of this fluted paster 45 is extended through one end of the carrier 40, where it is provided with a ratchet-wheel, 43, one tooth of which is engaged at each revolution of the carrier 49, by a tappet, 99, projecting from the side frame. This tappet thus causes the paster 45 to make so much of a revolution as is necessary to cause a paste-charged rib or ribs to protrude through the opening in the paste-vat. This paste-rib will in the course of the rotation of the carrier 40 come into contact with the wrapper supported by the carrier 30 and apply paste thereto. The fluted roll may also be caused to move the proper distance by gears, if. so desired, instead of by the plan shown.

It is evident that the roll 49 of wrappingweb 71 may be placed a sufficient distance away from the carrier 30 to admit the placing of an impression-cylinder, 62, and a carrier, as 61, which operate to support a belt which carries means for printing the addresses in like manner, as has been described with reference to carrier 41, whereby the printing of the wrapping-web 7L will'be effected on the surface which lies against cylinder 30.

From this description it will be understood that this apparatus comprises within itself a means for imparting one or more folds to a printed product or paper and to envelop the same in a sealed wrapper, and therefore that the apparatus is especially adapted for co-operation with printing mechanisms operating to produce the printed paper.

The printing mechanisms alluded to are of the well-known rotary form, which will-be provided with a cutting mechanism, and for the purposes of this explanation, the rollers 31 32 may be considered to be the cutting-cylinders of such a web-printing machine, or they may be assumed to constitute the last type and impression cylinders of such a machine,in which latter case the cutting of both webs might be performed by this delivery apparatus with slight modifications. It will thus appear that aweb of paper may be printedupon both its surfaces and led directly from the printingmachine to this delivery apparatus, and therefore its product or printed sheets may be folded into small compass and enveloped or inclosed in asealed wrapper, and such wrapped paper, either with or without an address printed upon its wrapper, be delivered in the form of a sealed package adapted for transportation in the mails.

The folding devices and the cutting devices herein describedinay be varied in structure so aslo embody any of the well-known forms of such devices.

This apparatus may also be used irrespective of the mechanism for producing the printed paper. Thus previously-printed sheets may be fed to the gripers of the carrier 29 from a suitable feeding-table, which papers will have the wrapper applied to themand be delivered as a sealed package.v

In the apparatus herein shown,the addressprin'ting devices coact with the folding, pasting, and wrapping mechanism; therefore, the breaking of the wrapper-web or a break in the main newspaper-web, when the within-described apparatus is combined and coacts with aweb-p'erfectin g printin g-machine, would cause the action of such address-plates or printing devices as are brought into action during the time said breakage continues, said addressprinting .devices thus operating inefi'ectively, and therefore the regular number of addresses carried by the addressprinting devices would not be represented by a corresponding number of wrapped and addressed. products. To obviate this difficulty I have devised another method of operation in which the addressprinting devices are not brought into action until the wrapped and sealed product is delivered into a packing box or receptacle provided therefor, said receiver being constructed so as to receive a specific number of wrapped and sealed products, the last one of which causes the address-printing devices to come into action. This enables the operator to remove imperfectly-printed papers or wrapped products, permitting oniy'perfect products to constitute the specific actuating number of printed, wrapped, and sealed products to be acted upon by the address-printing deyices.-

These address-printing devices then act upon each wrapped and sealed product, and, in combination with other coacting devices, cause the wrapped and printed product to enter within the control of other devices, which are so constructed as to bind together in a single pack any given number of wrapped, sealed, and addressed products.a In this case the desired number may be such as corresponds with the number to be sent to one post-office, the address-printing devices being arranged to print in succession the desired number of sealed products, said post-office number being separated by an index or actuating member, which causes the pack-bundling devices to come into action, and tie or bind in a single pack the specified number of papers and discharge the same. These improvements, however, form the subject-matter of a separate application.

One variation in the structure of this apparatus may have tblding-rollers co-operating with a folding or creasing blade, thus entirely dispensing with fold-seizing jaws. Thus the main carrier 30' may have a folding-blade tucking the sheet on its foldingline between folding-rollers, and the second fold be performed .by a folding-blade carried by one of these rollers, which will operate to tuck the folded sheet on-a second line of fold into the nip of a second set'of folding-rollers, as will be readily understood. This structure, however, though covered by the scope of this case, is, as a spe-.-

cifie embodiment of the same, made the subject-matter of another application.

What is claimed is 1. An automatic folding and wrapping apparatusconsisting of mechanism for feeding a main sheet and a wrapper-sheet, afolding mechanism, a pasting mechanism, and a pressing mechanism, all combined and operating substantially as described, and coacting to associate a wrapper and main sheet, fold the same, and paste down the outer lap of the wrapper, so as to produce a wrapped and sealed product.

2. An automatic folding and wrapping apparatus consisting of mechanism for feeding a main sheet and a wrapper-web, mechanism for severing the latter into wrapper-sheets, a

folding mechanism operating to associate and fold said main and wrapper sheets, a pasting mechanism for applying paste to the latter, and a device operating to press or lay the folded and pasted plies and complete a wrapped and sealed product, all substantially as described.

3. An automatic folding and wrapping apparatus consisting of mechanism for feeding a main sheet and a wrapper-sheet, mechanism for printing addresses upon the latter, a folding mechanism operating to associate and fold said main and wrapper sheets, a pasting mechanism for applying paste to the wrapper, and a device operating to press or lay the folded and pasted plies and complete a wrapped and sealed product, all substantially as described.

4. An automatic folding and wrapping apparatus consisting of mechanism for feeding a main sheet and a wrapper-web, mechanism for printing addresses upon the latter, mechanism for severing the wrapper-web into sheets, a foldin g mechanism operating toassociate and fold said main and wrapper sheets, a pasting mechanism for applying paste to the wrapper, and a device operating to press or lay the folded and pasted laps and complete a wrapped and sealed product, all substantially as described.

5. An automatic apparatus consisting of mechanism for feeding a main and a wrapper sheet, a folding mechanism, a pasting mechanism, and a delivery mechanism, all combined and operating substantially as described, and coacting to associate a wrapper and main sheet, fold the same, and paste down the outer lap of the wrapper to complete an enveloped and sealed product, and discharge the same for piling or packing, allsubstantially as described.

6. A rotating carrier, as 30, provided with two sets of sheet seizing and releasing jaws, two rotating carriers, as 29 40, each provided with a folding-blade, a pasting mechanism, a pressing device, and means for dividing a web into sheets, all combined and operating substantially as described, whereby a main sheet and awrapper-web are associated, folded, and secured together to form a wrapped and sealed product, all substantially as described.

7. A rotating carrier, as 30, provided with two sets of sheet seizing and releasing jaws, two carriers, as 29 4.0, each provided with a folding-blade, a pasting mechanism, and means for printing addresses upon the wrapper, all combined and operating substantially as described, whereby a main sheet and wrapper are associated, folded, and secured together to form a wrapped and sealed product, and the latter is provided with a printed address.

8. A rotating carrier, as 30, provided with two sets of sheet seizing and releasing jaws,

two carriers, as 29 40, each provided with a folding-blade and one with a cutting device, and a pasting mechanism, all combined and operating substantially as described, whereby a main sheet and a wrapper-sheet are associated, folded, and secured together to form a wrapped and sealed product.

9. A rotating carrier, as 30, provided with two sets of sheet seizing and releasingjaws, two carriers, as 29 40, each provided with a folding-blade and one with a cutting device, a pasting mechanism, and an address-printing mechanism, all combined and operating substantiall y as described, whereby a wrapper-web is divided into sheets and the same and a main sheet are associated, folded, and secured together to form a wrapped and sealed product, and the latteris provided with a printed address.

10. The combination, with rotating carriers, as 30 29 40, provided with mechanisms coacting to produce two parallel folds, a pasting mechanism, and a pressing device by the conjoint action of which a wrapper-sheet and a main sheet are folded, pasted, and pressed to produce a sealed product, of a rotating carrier, as 41, provided with means for discharging said product from the apparatus, all substantially as described.

11. The combination, with the carriers 30 29 40, provided with mechanisms for producing two parallel folds, and a pasting device, of the delivery-carrier 41, and printing chain or belt 42, all substantially as described.

12. The combination, with thejaw-supporting carrier 30, and the tucking or folding-blade carriers 29 40, of the pins 19, all substantially as described.

13. The combination, with the carriers 30 29 40, provided with mechanisms for producing two parallel folds, of the pins 19, and gripers 18, all substantially as described.

14. The combination of the carriers 30 29 40, provided with mechanisms for producing two parallel folds, a pasting mechanism, a pressing device, a carrier, as 41, having seizing devices, as gripers 90, and the conductors, as 91, all substantially as described.

15. The combination, with arotating carrier, as 30, provided with sheet seizing and releasing jaws, of two carriers, as 29 40, each supportingafoldingblade and a pasting mechanism, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUTH ER- 0. CR0 ELL.

Witnesses:

Gno. II. GRAHAM, '1. H. PALMER.

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