US250745A - Creasing-wheel - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

, H. P. OSBORNE.

GREASING WHEEL.

Patented Dec. 13,1881.

a? 4 4 //F\ A 2 WF UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. OSBORNE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

. CREASlNG-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,745, dated December 13, 1881.

Application filed August 30, 1881.

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY F. OSBORNE, a citizen of the United Stat-es, residing in the city of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oreasing-Wheels, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in creasing-wheels for ornamenting straps; and it consists in the construction herein described and claimed.

In the drawings annexed, Figure 1 is a connected view of all the parts of my invention unitedly. Fig. 2 is an edge view, and Fig. 3

a side view, of one of the creasing-disks. Fig.

4 is an edge view, and Fig. 5 a side "iew, of one of the guide-flan ges. Fig. 6 is an end view, and Fig. 7 a side view, of the arbor; and Fig. 8 is a side view of the gagecollar. Fig. 9 is an edge view of a series of graded gage-collars, the same being fully represented in side view at Fig. 8.

The device consists, essentially, of the combination, with an arbor, of a pair of removable creasing-wheels, a removable gagecollar inserted between them, apair of guiding-flanges, and a screw -thread and nut, or equivalent means of clamping the five separate parts upon the arbor.

A is the arbor, (shown provided with ascrewthread upon its exterior, at one end, and a fixed collar, B, at the other end.) A nut, O, is shown fitted to the thread upon the arbor, and serves ito clamp the removable p'arts against the col- D D are guide-flanges 5 E E, the creasingwheels, and F the gage-collar;which serves to keep the wheels E apart the desired distance. The flanges, wheels, and collar F are bored to fit easily upon the arbor A, and can thus be removed with facility and replaced with others. To adjust thefianges to the proper width for guiding the strap over the creasingwheels, the gage-collar F is selected of such a thickness as to form, with the two creasingwheels, an amount equal to the width of the strap to be creased, a set of the collars being provided with each arbor of gradually-increasing thickness, as shown in Fig. 9. Certain (No model.)

collars of such a set may be dispensed with by combining two collars of suitable thickness to produce any larger size required.

In the creasing-wheels heretofore made the double pattern, adapted to crease the opposite edges of the strap, has been either formed upon a solid cylinder of metal, and therefore adapt ed to operate upon only one width of strap, or upon two disks not adapted to exchange with others, in combination with the same guideflanges and collar F. My construction therefore affords two advantages not possessed by any other-that the creasingwheels themselves are both removable, and that all the other parts of the structure are equally well adapted to operate with other wheels having a different pattern engraved thereon, thus saving the expense of a new arbor and flanges when a new style of pattern is required upon the wheel. This feature may be said to exist in any solid creasing-wheel, and I do not therefore claim it singly, but in combination with the removable and changeable gage-collar F, by means of which my creasing-wheels are adapted to operate upon straps of various widths. Thus in Fig. 1 is shown a plain wave-line engraved upon the creasing-wheels, which, being each one-quarter of an inch thick and separated by a gagecollar three eighths of an inch thick, are adjusted to operate upon a strap seven-eighths of an inch wide. By my construetion the same creasing-wheels may be operated upon either a Wider or narrower strap by merely changing the gage-collar, or the creasing-wheels may be replaced by others of an ogee pattern, as that shown in Fig. 2, or by an other desired, thus securing two advantages not possessed in common by any other heretofore made.

To keep the flanges D and wheels E from slipping around upon the arbor, a key, a, and

tion of the spindles end affording the means for their convenient removal and exchange when required. In such case a key inserted in a slot across the spindle could be used to secure the parts in place, washers being inserted to compensate for the variations in thickness of the several gagecollars employed.

I am aware that acreasingwheel having thin rings clamped between beveled disks has been patented, as No. 145,240 in the year 1873, and I do not therefore claim any such construction, my invention requiring the engraving or shaping of the required creasing-pattern upon the surface of the wheels E described herein, and containing neither the beveled disks nor interposed thin rings which form the essential features of the patent referred to. My invention further differs from that referred to, in its adaptation to crease straps of difierent widths, which is the primary object of my invention. The wheel referred to is not thus adapted, nor is it constructed with disks and guide-flanges constructed separately and kept apart by a gage-collar upon the arbor A, but is arranged in all its parts to act as a'whole, while mineis devised with especial reference to the use of the guide-flanges and gage collars, in combination with other creasing-wheels of any desired pattern.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim the same, as follows:

In a creasing-wheel, the combination, with the arborA, provided with the nut G and guideflanges D, of the removable creasing-wheels E E, having the pattern out upon their periphery, and the removable and changeable gage-collar F, the latter being inserted between the wheels upon the arbor and clamped with them between theflanges D whenin use, substantially as herein shown and described.

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

HENRY F. OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

J. W. EMRIoH, 'Inos. S. CRANE.

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