US40019A - Machine for folding tags - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT Criuce.

JAMES B. CLARK, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

MACHlNE FOR FOLDING TAGS.

Specification.tbrming part of Letters Patent No. 40,019, dated September 22, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. CLARK, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and Improved Machinefor FoldingTags; and Ido hereby declare 4that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- AFigure 1 is a-longitudinal vertical section of my invention, taken in the line a: x, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a pla-n or top view of the same; Fig.3, a diminished plan or top view of a portion of the same; Fig. 4, a detached view of a tag.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a new and improved machine for foldin g the ends ot' tags, in which folded ends the metal eyelets are tted to receive the strings which secure the tags to the articles designed to receive them.

The invention consists in the employment or use of a stationary folding-plate in connection with movable folding-plates, the latter being attached to slides, and all arranged in such a manner as to effect the desired work in a perfect and expeditious manner.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a horizontal bed-piece, at each side of which there is attached a guide, a. These guides extend nearly the whole length of the bed-piece, and between these guides there is fitted a plate, B, to the upper surface 'of which two arms, C C, are secured by pivots b, on which the arms are allowed to work freely. To the back end of each of these arms C there is attached a vertical pin, c, and these pins c are fitted in slots d d in a plate, D, which rests on the plate B, and is allowed to slide freely thereon. The plate D has a hole, e, made centrally in it, in which hole the lower end of ahandle, E, is fitted loosely, said han dle having a tenon, j', at its'lower end to fit in the plate D, and also into a hole, g, in the plate B when necessary. The tenonj'is shown fitted in both plates in Fig. l. The slots d d are -slightly curved at their front parts, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

To the front end of each arm C there is attached a metal plate, F, the shape of which is shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. These plates are attached to the under sides ofthe arms C, and they project inward toward each other, their outer edges being slightly rounded, and their inner ends slight-ly curved upward.

To the front end of the plate D, at its center there is attached a metal plate, G, which is bent downward so as to be in contact or nearly in contact with the upper surface of the plate B between the arms C C. This plate G has its front edge parallel with the front edge of the plate D, the former having its corners slightly rounded.

0n the front edge of the bed piece vA there is attached transversely a strip, h, on which a metal plate, H, is secured, of rectangular form. This plate H is iitted in a recess at the center ofthe strip h, and the coi ners of said plate, at its inner end, are bent alittle downward, asindicated by the shading at M in Fig. 2. l)i rectly over the plate H there is secured another plate, I, which is considerably longer than the plate H, and has its central part, at its inner edge, notched in Vform, as shown at jj, to expose the cornersi t' of the plate H, as shown clearly in lfig. 2. In consequence of having the plate H fitted in a recess in the strip h, a space is allowed between the plates H and I to admit ofthe tag being passed between them.

The operation is as follows: At the comA lnencement of the work the two plates B D are at the end of the bed-piece A opposite to that where the plates I-I I are attached, and the tenon j' of the handle E is tted in both of said plates, as shown in Fig. 1. The tag J is then inserted between the plates H and I, and is made to project a little beyond the inner edge of the plate H. The operator then7 by means of the handle E, shoves forward the two plates B D until B comes in contact with h, and the plates F catch underneath the corners ofthe tag J and fold them over one side of the V- shaped notches j j ofthe plate I, as shown in red in Fig. 2, the arms C C being kept dis.

will force the folding-plates F F toward each other and directly over the central part of the plate I, and the plate Gr then folds over the end ofthe tag' upon the plates F F, (see Ffg 3) and the work is finished. The folds produced by the plates F are designated by a a in Fig. 4, and the fold produced by the plate G isdesignated by b. The two plates B D are then drawn back, the folded tag released and removed, and the operation repeated as before.

I would remark that the plate B has two holes made in it for the reception of the tenon j' of the handle E. The tenonf, when the two plates B D are first moved,isin the back hole, g, so that the front edge of the plate, will be considerablyin advance ot' the upper plate, D but after the first folds are made and the tenon fis raised out ofthe hole g, in order to admit of tlic plate D being shoved forward to complete the first folds, a a', and to form the Jfold b the tenon j' at the completion ot' this movement of plate D is tted in the forward hole, g', so that both plates B D may be drawn back vsimultaneously and the tag with them. the tag being released by raising the tenon f from the front hole, g', and drawing,` back the plate D after the plate B is drawn fully back.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The stationary folding-plates II I, in combination with the movable folding-plates F F G, the plates F being attached to pivoted arms C on a sliding plate, B, and the plate Gr attached to a'sliding plate, D, the arms C being operated by the slots d and pins c, when the plate D is moved alone, and all arranged to operate substantially as and for the pnrpose herein set foi-th.

JAMES B. CLARK.

W ilnesses:

D. W. CRAFTS, L. A. DAWSON.

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