US36763A - Improvement in presses for stamping tickets - Google Patents

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No. 36,263. Y PATENTBD 00T. 28, i1862.

' G. BAILEY. y

PRESS POR STAMPING TICKETS. w

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' NITE STATES PATENT `OFFICEy GEORGE BAILEY, 0E BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 369763, dated October 23, 1862. I

To all whom it may concern:

Buffalo, Erie county,iNew York, have invented certain new and useullmprovements -in Hand StampingPresses for Tickets, dto.; and ldo hereby' declare that the. following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being made totlie annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification, in which similar letters indicate similar parts throughout thedigures.

rlhe object of my invention is, principally,

to insure a more perfectlworking of the inkp l'the pawls are at the ends of two arms, f which project`for'ward`far enough to take into the ratchet-teeth; The pin e secures the plate e to a slide-bar, g, which has an up-and-(plown ing apparatus, aswell as a convenient method of changing dates and numbers in the fixed form 'of types upon the bed of the stamp-press.

In the class @stamp-presses upon which my improvements arebased the inlingis effectedl by a ribbon saturated with properly-prepared.'

ink. This-ribbon lies over the type, andthe paper.. being placed `upon `it 'the platenis brought down, and pressure applied to cause the-ink to begivenoff thepa'per.. As it will `only come off'by pressure, allportionsofthe paper, exceptA over thel type, :remain Vuntouched. vThe ribbon is attachedby each end to two drums, winding from one-off to thened` until all the ribbon' is transferred 'from one drum tothe other.` A certain mechanism then comes into play and effects a reversion,

so thatv the empty drum now begins :to windl from the fulll one, and so on .until the ink is4 completely exhausted, when .a new ribbon` 'pawls is effected isasfollows: Thenking-rib- In.l `liig. 1. the ribbon is shown as about equally must be introduced. Y l

The letters ,aand b represent 'the drums' upon-which' the `inking ribbon is wound;- These are supported npon'aframe placed within the base-plate of the stamp and` revolve: beeaththerbed.; Each drum has a withc.

ratchet-wheel cid, attacliedtth'e notches of which are cutiny opposite directions. Between these ratchet-wheels a're two pawlsaffixed to. l the opposite ends of a vibrating plate in such manner` that when one vpawl is engagedthe oppositewill'be disengaged, and it` is bythe shifting'of these pawls from one ratchet-wheel to the other't-hat the inking-ribbon'is made to travel back and'forth,'asvdescribed, vAt e is shown theplate Vvibrating upon a pin,` as e. The pawls'ar'e at f and f', Figs. i3 and (i. rI he plate e is placed backof the ratchet-wheels,l as seen -infFig, '6 in section. Consequently motion given toit bythe act of stamping.

.The slide-'bar is shown detached inA Fig. 5. l When forced down, it is against the pressure of two springs, h, the recoil of which raises it'agaiii As c' is carried up, one of the ratchetwheels. (according -to which of the pawlsis engaged) will be moved Ione notch, In' vthe drawings the rat'ehet4whee1d is that one being operated upon by thev pawl f.

At h2 and h are two back catches or stops 'to hold the ratchet-'wheels in position. The

stop` is a-pin affixed to the sidev of a hooked lever, i' ,-eacli forked lend being placed in the path of one ofthe pawls, so that when the pa'wlsare engaged or disengaged they will effect the like operation for the stops, since the stop `must bed'rsengaged from that ratchet and drum from which,v the ribbon is being unwound, as'seen in the' ratchetc. The plate e, it will be seen, -inclines toward the ratchet d,

' thus engaging the. pawlf. vIt i's now made to incline toward the4 ratchet c, .and as this change is produced on the downstroke ofthe .pawl-plate the armf,V Fig. i6, 'will strike the fork i, Figs'.-^1'and 3, and disengage the steph', while on the upstroke the arm tothe `pawl f will strike the fork i and engage the lstop h The means: by which the shifting of nie bon is shown at la in the-several gures.

divided on'the-druins 'a and b; and is 'being unwoundfroml c in the directionof b. In

lligL` 3 it is shown as being all on drum b, and

'm in Fig. 6, through which the ribbon k passes on its way from one drum to the other.y

i The two arms on the other side of the axis-pin stand' nearly vertical, as shown at 'n and n.

From the lower end of these a pin projects back as far as the plate e, as seen at n, Fig. 6. lThe plate e has two arms branching from its upper end, as seen ato and o', Fig. 3. These arms stand directly over the pin4 n in the cranked levers, and would strike said pinsat every descent ofthe plate e were they not kept out of the Way by the inking-ribbon so long as there is any on both drums; but so soon as either drum is unwound the pin n, Fig. 6, on one of the cranked levers interferes with the the arms o and immediately effects the shifting of the pawl to the ratchet-wheel attached to the empty drums, and thus reverses the motion. As the plate e inclines from the pert pendicular when either'pawl is engaged, there must be some ccntrivance to keep it in position. At p, Fig. 6, a bent pin is shown extending from lthe back. `The crooked end of the 'pin acts upon springs, p', on the end of.

which there is an angle-piece, shaped as seen in Fig. 7. The plate is thus kept inclined'iu either direction, according t0 which side of the lspring po the pin p stands.

g, as seen vinFig. 2, the slide keeping the. handle always elevated by the force of thecoil-springs h. `The operation of this por.-

tion of the stamp is as follows: Theticket, letter, or other article on which*` the impression is to'be made is laid lightly on the inkingribbon which overlies the forni of types. The.

lever q is-then brought down by'means of a smart blow given by the palm of the hand upon the knob s, so as te cause the face of the platen g to be brought down upon the paper The ink from the with the requisite force. ribbon will then be given off to the paper Wherever it receives pressure, and as this is only on the surface of the types the letters are thereby printed. The bringing down`l of the lever causes the slide g to desend, erm-yingl down the paWl-plate e, and causing the pawl f or f, as case may be, to engage a-ratchettooth; The hand being raised from the knob, theupward movement ofthe slide takes place, and the ratchet-wheel is accordingly moved one notch, and the inking-ribbon receives accordingly a slight ino'vementpast the typefbed. The proper tension of the ribbon is effected by the force required to turn ,thedrum from which-it is being unwennd, and which tension is regulated by airiction-spriug or other equivalentdeviee. As the ribbonis being u'nwound the shifting-lever gradually approaches the center, since the diameter of the roll diminishes until all is unrolled, as shown in Fig. 3, when the stop n on the cranked end n will stand directly lin therpath o'f--the travel of the arm c, so that at the next downstroire of the stamp that arm will strike and shift the plate e, causingthe pawl f to be disengaged from d', and pawl f to engagea, shifting at the same time the back checks h and 7L, as already de scribed. The inking-'ribbon viii? then unwind from '11, while being rewound on a. This goes onuntil the arm n of the opposite cranked lever is brought into range with the arm o',

which takes place as soon as the drum?) is empty and the pawlsare shifted, as already described. l

The type on the bed of the machine, except' those for the dates, is' usually a form of xed matter, as a stereotype or electrotype, lusing-v commonly a business card of the party using'4 .the stamp, and is heldin place in an opening in the bed, as seenat a" in section, FigQZ. As

the days of the month require to be removed convenient te have the type for these on revolving wheel, and such a wheel is shown at t in Figs. l, 2, t. The types forl the months,

are on a separate wheel, while these i'or the numbers "of .da-ys. of the month are en two others, as att' tf', all revolving on one axis.

, of the type-wheels.

The type are on arms placed radially from' the circumference of the wheels, as shown. 0n the stereotype-plate o' there is an openingby which l,these movable type are inserted and removed, as shown in Fig. 2. This is aecomplished by raising and lowering the-,typewheels on their axis-pin. The type-wheels are suspended between the .plates u, standing parallel and framed together. This frame is screwed to the under side'- ofl they bed-plate im such manner that the type-Wheels will be directly under the opening in the stereotypeplate, esshown in Fig.l 2. The 'type-'wheels are raised and lowered by a pair of crankshaped plates, w. The axis-.pin of t is heldby these crank-plates, as-shown at w', Fig. 4, while,l its two ends project through a guide-slot, zr, in the plates fw. The crank-shaft e is also held in the-plate u.

In Figs. 2 and 4 are shown the two-positions In Fig. 2 it is represented raised, with a set of types on the arms elevated into place yin the stereotype plate. In Fig, t itis shown lowered, and when so loweredthe legs of the crank w are moved -froml their perpendicular position between the plates u and turn on the crank-shaft rv'. The typewheels then stand clear of the'stercotype-plate and can be freely revolved.

In order to set the type, turn the wheelhaving the names of the months upon `it until-the proper one is under the opening in the typeplate r.

Across the bottom of the plate u there is a bar, which slides up and down and forms a gage'- plate and loekingbar to k p\ e cranks in position when the type-wheelsare up. The bar is shown at y, and it playsfih a slot in the frame u, and is heldin position by a clamping-nut, '1, Fig. l, which serewsintoa piece turned upagainst the side of u. The loosening of this nut allows the bar to move up and down. In the end of the crank wat w, Fig. 4,- is also a slot, as shown. When the typewheel is raised, this slot comes in line with that in it, the bar being first lowered out of -the way. rIhe bar is then raised and enters w, and, being held by the elamp nut, the `typewheel is firmly held in position. To use the bar as a gage, the type-wheels having beenv lowered, as in Fi 4, the bar y is raised again in the slots in a. The different wheels are then turned until the type for the month and the numbers indicating the day of the month are brought to a near position to the openingin the, stereotypeplate 1'. The series of arms directly opposite to these are next brought to bear against the bar y, and this brings the Next, move the number until the -V proper combination is found to give the date.

arms on the three wheels in aline, so that the I type above will readily enter` the type-plate on the raising of the wheel.

At z, Fig. 2, is shown a guideplate screwed to the bed back of the form of type, and in such manner that it can be brought to or from it, as desired. The object of this plate is simply to secure the printing to be done onv 'inking-ribbon, a set of numbering` or dating' type-wheels arranged and operating substantially in the manner set forth.

In witness whereof' I have hereunto sub scribed my name.

' GEO. BAILEY. Witnesses:

J. P. PINssoN, S. H. MAYNARD.

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