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Publication number: US510841A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-12-12
Anticipated expiration: 1910-12-12

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' Units STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUTHER C. CROWELL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT HOE, STEPHEN D. TUCKER, THEODORE H. MEAD, AND CHARLES W. CARPENTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAPLE-BINDING DELIVERY MECHANISM FOR PRINTING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,841, dated December 12, 1893.

Application filed August 15,1893- erial No, 483,191. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, LUTHER O. ORoWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Staple-Binding Delivery Mechanisrn for Printing- Machines, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

These improvements relate primarily to folding and staple binding delivery mechanisms for printing machines, and more particularly to that class of stapling mechanisms I 5 in which the staple inserting means travel in the direction of the material to be stapled, and move to and from the inserting point, preferably rotatively, in the operation of carrying the staple into relative position to the material for its insert-ion therein,and co-operative with a clinching device in setting the staple in, on, near, or along, the ultimate bind ing line of plicated webs or sheets, thus pro ducing a bound book like product, without necessitating that the moving material shall be, even momentarily, brought to a state of rest, as is broadly set forth in my application, Serial No. 464,007, filed February 28, 1893.

The invention embraces the combination 0 with means for feeding plicated material onward past staple inserting means, of staple inserting means the holder or inserting tool of which is' so constructed and operated that it presents the staples to the material for in 5 sertion and enables them to be inserted therein with their heads or crowns in planes parallel with the run of the material, whereby said material may move progressively onward to its final delivery, and have its plies intermediately provided with a longitudinally stapled seam, without necessarily modifying the high speed at which rotative mechanisms may operate. It also includes a stapling mechanism in which the tool which bends 5 the wire length vibrates over an anvil and a setting bed both stationary with respect thereto, thus moving in one direction during the operation of forming a staple, and in the other in carrying it onto the setting bed.

0 The foregoing sets forth the principal imview of the staple bender.

provenients, but the invention also embraces many combinations of the contributive elements of the whole, constructions, combinations of parts, mechanisms and devices, all of which are fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

All of these improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which--- Figure -l is an elevation as seen from its delivery end, of a printing machine having this invention combined with it. Fig. 2 isa plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof as seen looking in the direction of the arrow 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged end elevation of the rotating carriers supporting stapling mechanisms adapted to the making and setting of staples longitudinally or by so inserting them in the material that their legs are parallel with its run. Fig. 5 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is an enlarged 7o partial end elevation of one carrier,a portion being in section to more particularly show the staple bender and its holder with relation to the openings in the carrier in which they operate. Fig.7 isa longitudinal sectional elevation of a part of the same carrier, showing an edge view of the staple bender and its carrier. Fig. Sis a plan view of the same carrier and the devices connected therewith shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a plan view of a part of the same carrier showing more particularly the openings in its periphery provided for the movements of the staple bender. Figs. 10 and 11 are edge elevations of the staple forming tools in two positions of their operation. Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the holder for the staple bender. Fig. 13 is a similar Fig. 114; is a similar view of the staple bender within its holder. Fig. 15 is a similar view of the lever 0 for actuating the staplebender. Fig. 16 is a longitudinal elevation of a portion of the other carrier and shows the face of the staple leg clinching device in elevation. Fig. 17 is a front end elevation of portions of both car- 5 riers and shows the staple leg clinching device in side elevation. Fig. 18 is an end elevation of a portion of the first named carrier and shows thewirefeeding mechanism in side elevation. Figs. 19 and 20 are detail I00 views of the cam for operating the wire feeding mechanism. Fig. 21 illustrates a folded product the leaves of which are united to form a book by means of staples inserted through them longitudinally of or parallel with and near their binding edges. Fig. 22 is an end elevation similar to Fig. l, but illustrates modifications of the mechanisms and their combination with two longitudinal folders.

The primary object of the present improvements is the binding together of plicated material by means of a row of staples set longitudinally in, on or along the binding line thereof in the direction of the run of the material through the stapling mechanism; and, although its mechanisms are adapted to bind plicated material in this manner while it is running onward for delivery from printing mechanisms, such stapling together of material may be performed in connection with any mechanism whereby running webs of material are plicated by any means adapted for accomplishing that result. As these improvements are more especially designed for operation in connection with printing mechanisms, it should be understood that such printing mechanism may be any embodiment of the rotary type of web machines or any other construction that rapidly prints and delivers material in the web or sheet form, and which is then plicated by any of the well known methods, such, for instance, as is shown or described in my aforesaid application.

The printing machine may embody a slitter for dividing the web or sheets longitudinally, and turning bars for laterally associating the split webs or sheets for plicating the same, but will preferably embody a longitudinal folder and a slitter adjustable with relation thereto, whereby plication may be accomplished by the folder through association or by longitudinally folding.

The printing mechanism may be a combination of many independent machines, all delivering their products associated by passing over a roll or cylinder, either directly to the stapling mechanism 01' to one or more longitudinal folders.

If the material printed upon maintains the form of a web until it reaches the means for dividing it transversely into sheets, it will act as its own carrier in traversing the machine, guiding rollers or other surfaces acting to suitably direct it onward, but if it is divided transversely into sheets at any point between the printing and final delivery, there must be provided a taped or other conducting pathway for such detached sheets, as is well understood in this art.

One example of a printing machine operating to print upon webs of material and delivering the same in plications to a delivery mechanism embodying this improved stapling mechanism for binding the plicated material, is shown in illustration of the present invention. This machine embodies two sets of printing mechanisms, each adapted to print upon a wide web. Thus (see Fig. 3) the

impression cylinders

103, 105 in co-operation with the form cylinders 104, 106 will print the opposite sides of the wide web passed between them and this web when divided longitudinally by a slitter as 73, coacting with the leading roller 74, will be divided into two narrow webs W, E. So also (see Fig. 1) the impression cylinders 107, 109 in co-operation with the form cylinders 108, 110, will print the opposite sides of the wide web passed between them and this web when divided longitudinally by a slitter as 75 coacting with the leading roller 76 will be divided into two narrow webs B, S. As these webs are of double width and are each divided into two narrow webs as WV, E, and B, S, and two, three or all four of these narrow webs W, E, B, S, may be brought together for simultaneous delivery. The means shown for associating all of themwill be explained. 0f the two webs W, E, formed by the action of the slitter 73, the web E is led from the roller 74: over a roller 77 and passes between

rollers

78, 79 onto the longitudinal folder L, which occupies widthwise the pathway of travel which this web E has. The web W, however, has to be transferred laterally into such pathway, and this is accomplished by leading it over a roller 64 thence around a triangular transferrer V, and thence over a roller 69 to and between the rollers 7 8, 79 from which it passes onto the longitudinal folder L underneath the web E. Of the two webs B, S, formed by the action of the slitter 75 the Web Bis led from the 'roller 76 under a roller 85, and is bent at right angles over an angular turning bar 27, thus being brought into the pathway of the webs W, E, in which it is led over a roller 86 to and between the rollers 7 8, 79 when it enters upon the longitudinal folder L on top of the web E. The web S is led from the roller 76 out over an angular turning bar 28 by which it is bent at right angles to bring it into the pathway of the other webs and it is led over a roller 87 and between the

rollers

78, 79 from between which it passes onto the longitudinal folder L on top of all the of webs. Thus as will be at once understood, any two or more of these webs may form plications assembled by association. Such plicated Webs may then pass through the stapling mechanisms to be secured together on their binding lines, but practically it is preferable to plicate webs or sheets by means of a longitudinal folder or folders prior to the staple binding operation. The same are illustrated in combination therewith, being indicated by L in Figs. 1 to 5 and by L, F in Fig. 21. Such longitudinal folders may be of many constructions, a preferable one being substantially that shown in Patent No. 331,280, dated February 8, 1884:, the external turners of which are indicated herein by the

rollers

55, 56, and the fold laying devices, by the

rollers

65, 66.

Considering now the use of one longitudinal folder as L in Figs. 1 to 5, the material'to be operated upon thereby, as therein illustrated is shown to be four W, E, B, S, which are associated in a common pathway andpass onto the longitudinal folder L. In traversing this folder, these webs will be simultaneously doubled or folded longitudinally and will as they emerge from the

fold laying rollers

65, 66 consist of a number of plications united by a doubled or folded edge. If, however, a slitter, as 67, has been adjusted to longitudinally split these webs the plications'will be of equal number, but what would otherwise be uncut folded binding edges will be cut or free binding edges. In the latter condition of theplicated material (and even when having a doubled edge, if trimming is not objectionable) the line of stapling could be the longitudinal line of ultimate folding of the plicated material, which plicated material, after being cut transversely into sheet lengths, might be carried to any suitable folder, as a longitudinal folder, and be doubled or folded on the stapledline, which would bring the'staples in the binding line. This would require the stapling mechanisms to be situated at an appropriate or central point between the edges of the material. Inserting the staples in the binding line might also be in like manner accomplished, if the double edge of the plicated material be trimmed off or be left to be cut by the user of the finished product. It is preferable, however, in longitudinal stapling to apply the staples quite near and parallel with the binding edges, either cutfree, or,

constituted by a double bight, and to do this whether the plicated material consists of a single or multiple sets of plicated webs, the stapling mechanisms will be suitably located for operation at the proper point near the vertical plane in which the binding edge or edges of the plicated material run. This is the arrangement shown in the drawings. The mechanism shown for carrying out this method of binding the product of a printing machine with staples will now be described.

The wire length cutting mechanism, the staple inserting means, the holder or presenting tool whereof, performs the functions of bending a wire length into a staple in co-operation with an anvil, of transferring the formed staple onto a setting bed, and of carrying the staple to the point of the moving material for its insertion. therein, together with said anvil and setting bed, are mounted so as to travel to and from the point where the staple is set in the material. As here shown'they are associated with a carrier B which is a cylinder, and the wire is fed to them through a circumferential groove 11 that is cut into the periphery of the carrier B, and in which groove the wire is held'by a spring bearer 53. The wire is supplied from a reel or spool hung to the frame or otherwise in a convenient position for it to be led between the

feed rollers

51, 52. These rollers are hung on short shafts journaled in a bracket 101, and geared together by

pinions

57, 58, the shaft of roller 52 being provided with a ratchet wheel 59 (see Fig. 18) to which an intermittent rotary motion is imparted by means of a ratchet 15 that is at the end of a rock arm 8 which swings on said shaft, and is connected by a link 16 to a rock arm17 pivoted to the bracket 101 and operated by means of its bowl 18 which runs in contact with a cam 68 that is bolted to one of the heads of cylinder B. (See Figs. 19 and 20.)

staple holding or presenting tool at the point where it is to operate upon such wire length, or where the length is cutoff to be thereafter formed into a staple, as will presently appear. This staple holder or presenting tool 60 (see Fig. 13) is recessed transversely so as to provide it with two

arms

61, 62, which provide between them a suitable recess whereby the holder or presenting tool is adapted to embrace the forming anvil 70, and setting bed 71, (see Figs. 7, 8, and 9.) Its said

arms

61, 62 are also provided with grooves that coincide with or form a continuationof the wire receiving feeding groove 11, and said arms are furthermore provided in their inner faces with longitudinal grooves (see Figs. 11, 13, and 14) into which the wire length is first forced to form the staple legs when these arms act as benders in co-operation with the anvil 94, which arms also act to move the staple onto the setting bed, and,- as a carrying and presenting tool for the staple while transferring it into position forits insertion into or through the material. This holder or presenting tool 60 is supported so as to slide longitudinally in a carrying stock 63 that has at its outer ends pairs of

arms

30, 32, and 31, 33, between which the

arms

61, 62 of the holder or presenting tool are guided, and these pairs of

arms

30, 32 and 31, 33 form a recess between them that enables the stock 63, in its vibrating movement, to pass the forming anvil 70 and setting bed 71. The arm 61, of this holder or presenting tool 60, and the

arms

30, 32 of its stock 63, protrude into a recess 90, and the arm 62 of the holder or presenting tool and the

arms

31, 33 of its stock protrude into a recess 91, said recesses or

openings

90, 91 being cut lengthwise through the shell of the carrier B and made longenough to enable the holder or presenting tool, and its stock to swing therein in the direction of the shaft of the carrier B. (See Fig. 5.)

The holder or presenting tool and its stock are mounted to swing concertedly by means of

studs

92, 93 by which they are journaled in

socket arms

94, 95, that project from a bracket 96 fast on theshaft 100 of the carrier B, and this holder or presenting tool is rocked at suitable times and to an appropriwhose retaining sleeve 45 embracing the shaft 100 is fixed to the framework, and the said holder or presenting tool has its bifurcated lower end pivoted to a rocking lever 82 that has one arm pivoted by a shaft 83 in arms of the bracket 96, while the free opposite arm of said lever 82 bears upon a fixed cam 8% by which the requisite movement of reciprocation of the holder or presenting tool is accomplished, while admitting of a concerted rocking action or vibration with its stock 63. Normally the stock 63, and with it the holder or presenting tool 60, is held in the vertical position of Fig. 11 by the action of the cam 81 aided by the spring seated rod 34 and the holder is held within its stock by reason of its lever 82 resting upon the low part of cam 84: where it is held by the pressure of the spring seated rod 35.

The shell of the cylinder carrier, or support 13, between the

recesses

90, 91 is perforated to form a wire passage between the forming anvil and the staple head supporting or set ting bed 71, the under surface of which anvil 70 and the upper surface of which setting bed 71 are suitably relatively inclined to admit the traverse of the wire or staple head over them.

It being understood that the cylinder carrier or support B constantly rotates, and that the material to be stapled is regularly moved onward between it and the staple leg clinching device, the operation of the mechanism will be readily understood, from the following description thereof:

The wire from which the staple is to be formed is appropriately fed onward at suitable intervals to cause a staple length of it to be presented to each of the staple forming mechanisms, at the wire receiving point, said wire being constantly maintained in the guiding grooves 11 by means of the spring bearer 53, and thus directed within the groove in the

arms

61, 62 of the holder or presenting tool 60 as the latter passes beneath it in its rotative onward travel, which holder or presenting tool normally stands with the groove in its arms aligned with the wire groove 11 to receive the wire, (as in Figs. 6, 7 and 8,) it being thus held during the appropriate portion of its rotative onward travel to receive the wire by its rock arm traversing the intermediate part i of the stationary triple part cam 81. As its rock arm 80 passes onto the low part Z of said cam, the holder will be moved to and be held in its extreme left hand position, to co-operate with the anvil in forming the staple, (shown as partially accomplished in Fig. 10;) and when said rock arm passes up onto the highest part h of said cam, it will cause the holder to move to its extreme right hand position to move, transfer or carry the formed staple onto the setting bed. When the rotating carrier 13 (considering Figs. 11, 7 and 10) has brought a carrying stock 63 with its holder or presenting tool into the position of Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, it will have embraced a wire length, and thereupon the low part of the cam 81 will be entered and traversed, thus permitting the spring rod 34 to rock the carrying stock 63 and the holder 60 it contains, and this movement will be to the left and consequently the holder will swing in a direction toward the forming anvil 70. The first slight movement thus performed will, as may be better understood from Fig. 8, cause the arm 62 of the holder to quickly force said wire length past the contracted mouth of the groove ll or dieplate 12,and thus severthe wire length resting within the groove in the

arms

61, 62 of the holder,which wire length will be held and carried thereby, aided by the

arms

32, 33 of the stock 63, underneath the anvil 70, as in Fig. 10, and while the parts are passing beneath or momentarily rest under said anvil, the cam 84: will rock the lever 82 to cause the holder or presenting tool 60 to move outwardly, its

arms

32, 33 then operating to force the outer ends of the wire length upward around the forming anvil 70, thus causing the wire length to be bent into a staple by providing it with legs bent at right angles to its body or crown portion, which legs will then be confined in the inner side grooves of the

arms

32, 33, of the holder by their own resilient action. When the staple has thus been com pletely formed it is supported in the grooves of the holder arms and protruded considerably beyond the periphery of the carrier B. A reverse rocking movement of the stock 63 is now eltected as the rock arm 80 passes onto the highest part .9 of the cam 81, thus moving the formed staple to the right, the staple being thereby stripped from 01f the forming anvil 70 and caused to slide or ride up over the inclined upper face of the setting bed 71 which thus operates as a wedge to force the staple upward or outward in the inner side grooves of the arms 61, 62 (but still maintained therein) until the radial position of the holder, or that of Fig. 11 is reached, when the head or crown of the staple will rest on its final seat upon the setting bed or substantially upon a portion of the periphery of the carrier B in its setting position, at which time, if desired, the cam may move the holder slightly outward to compensate for this outward movement of the staple, but this final movement of the holder, although advantageous, need not take place. In this position of the parts the staple rests upon the periphery of the carrier as a solid setting bed and protrudes a distance therefrom equal to the length of its legs, which are confined in the grooves of the arms of the holder or presenting tool, and the staple is thus carried onward or toward the carrier A into the presenting position relative to the material, when, by the continued movement of the parts the legs of the staple are inserted through the material. After its legs have entered through the material to be bound and the arms of the holder come nearly or quite into contact with the periphery of the carrier A IIO or the opposed clinching device, the said holder will retire by means of the suitable shape of the cam 84 concertedly with the cam like action which the carrier Aor the clinching arm 20 thus performs, the result being that the protruded legs of the staple are thus presented to and entered through the material, and projected within the peripheral line of the carrier A, until the head or crown of the staple rests snugly against the inserting side of the material, its legs being progressively clinched, and the holder concertedly retiring. As soon as the clinching action is complete and the holder is making its return rotative movement to receive and act upon a new wire length, the intermediate partt' of the cam 81 is traversed and causes the rock arm of the carrying stock 63 to rock the holder intp the position of Fig. 4 in readiness to repeat the-operations described.

Many constructions of clinching devices may be used and one or two legged staples employed and said legs be bent or clinched, as is explained in my application Serial No. 464,007. Herein, however, the clinching device in one form consists of a pendent arm 20 that rests in agroove cut for it in the cylinder A, and at its bottom end this arm presents a rigid downwardly curved surface, with which the protruded staple legs engage as they are carried past it. The staple legs in passing it are forced against the face of the clincher, contact with which causes said legs to be bent in succession in a rearward direction and thus to be clinched down upon the material. (SeeFig.17.) In using thisconstruction of clincher, it is preferable to construct theleading arm 61 of the holding or presenting tool somewhat shorter than its fellow 62, (see Fig. 4,) for the reason that as they are con: nected together they must move concertedly. Hence by shortening the arm 61 it will not contact with the clincher or the periphery of the cylinder A until the leading staple leg has been so far bent downward to secure its position while its rearward leg is fully supported in the groove of the arm 62 actingas a retaining wall, and the rearward leg of the staple will be similarly supported while it is being bent downward or clinched. The appropriate retiring movement of the holder is provided for by a suitable shape of the cam 84, but it might be spring seated so as to be pressed inward and recover its operative position by the resilient action of a spring. When the arm 20 is used it will be wide enough to afiord contact bearings for the arms of the bender; but when the clinching groove is cut into the face of the carrier A such bearings will be the periphery of the carrier adjacent to the clinching groove.

The carriers A, B are shown as provided with cutting mechanisms for severing the sheets (

blades

4, 5 and slots 6, 7); but if desired, an auxiliary mechanism for severing the sheets independent of these carriers may be provided, as is shown in Fig. 22. If the suitable sheet lengths.

cutting mechanism is carried by these cylinders A, B, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 4 1t Will be apparent, since they coact at the point where the staple leg clinching is performed, namely when the cylinders A, B run nearest together, that the pendent clinching arm 20 must be moved to accommodate this cutting operation. For that purpose this arm'20 is hung on a pivot as 21, projecting from a braclxet 102, pressed to duty as a clincher by means of a rock arm 22 that rides upon the surface of the cylinder A and retired within said recess n that cylinder by the action of a spring seated rod 3 and a rock arm 2, when the rocl: ar|n 22 enters a cam depression 72 in the cyl nder A, whence it results that when the cutting blade in passing the point occupied by it, the

clincher will not interfere with a proper cutting or severing of the material. As these mechanisms operate to cause the stap les to be set longitudinally or in the direction of the run of the material the carrier B supportingthe stapling mechanisms should have a circumferential extent equal to the length of a sheet but it might be less or it might be greater. A companion carrier as A may also be present or absent as is best suited to the character of the work. to be performed,

In the principal illustration herein, two carriers A, B are shown each of double size or having a circumference equal to the length of two sheets, and hence they are prov ded with two

transverse cutters

4, 5 that co -operate with two cntting slots as 6, 7, to sever When the cylinder B is of double size it will be necessary to provide it with a suitable number of stapling mechanisms, according to the near nessof and consequent number of staples which it is desired that each sheetshall have. Thus wh le only one stapling mechanism is shown in F g. 6, there are four shown in Figs. 1 and 4 and these are so positioned as to insert two staples in each pack of sheets, as is shown in Fig. 21, but in large sized products three, four or morewill be desirable.

The carrier A may be provided with double folding blades as 40, 41 and 46, 47, that cooperate with folding rollers as 42,43, substantially as shown in Patent No 171,196, dated September 7, 1875, if it is desired to fold the product across its binding edge after it is stapled; but ordinarily such folding will not be desirable except when the finished product is large, and therefore the staple bound product will preferably pass from the stapling mechanism to any suitable final delivery or piling apparatus. In case the cylinder A is provided with one or more folding blades as stated, the same must, if a fixed clincher is used, be cut away to unohstructively pass it as is explained in my aforesaid application,

Serial No. 464,007. v

It will now be understood that'if printing plates or forms he so disposed in the printing machine, that their columns run around the typeor form cylinders, the plicated webs,

whether split and associated either before or while passing over the longitudinal folder L, or, remaining intact, are longitudinally folded thereby, will in passing through the stapling mechanisms be united by a line or row of two or more staples inserted through them parallel with and close to their binding or folded edges; and as the stapling mechanisms are rotative, a very high speed of production may be maintained that will give a large number of book like products plicated or folded and stapled, as will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art of printing. It will be apparent, also, that when the sheets or webs from two or more printing mechanisms are combined for delivery by these mechanisms, a number of different products may be made. Thus where there are two such printing mechanisms combined as is shown and explained herein and in my said application, Serial No. 464,007, if one of the printing mechanisms is provided with plates therefor and prints a double or two page wide web and the other printing mechanism with plates therefor and prints a single or one page wide web, or one of said printing mechanisms is provided with plates therefor and prints a three page wide web, a folded stapled product will result consisting of three leaves or six pages. If either printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor and prints a four page wide web, or if each printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor and prints a double ortwo page wide web, the folded stapled product resulting therefrom will consist of four leaves or eight pages. If the main printing mechanism is provided with plates therefor and prints a four page wide web and the supplement printing mechanism prints a four page wide web and the supplement printing mechanism prints a one page wide web or if the main printing mechanism prints a threepage wide web and the supplement printing mechanism prints a two page wide web, the

- folded stapled product resulting therefrom will consist of five leaves or ten pages.

If the main printing mechanism is provided with plates for and prints a four page wide web and the supplement printing mechanism is provided with plates for and prints a two page wide web, the folded stapled product will consist of six leaves or twelve pages.

If the main printing mechanism is provided with plates for and prints a four page wide Web and the supplement printing mechanism is provided with plates for and prints three page wide web, the folded stapled product will consist of seven leaves or fourteen pages. All of these folded or plicated webs or sheets received from the longitudinal folder will be united by a seam of stapling parallel with and near the binding edge of each, as appears in Fig. 21, according to the number of stapling mechanisms with which the carrier B is provided.

It is not essential that the carriers A, B,

should be cylinders, unless they are to feed or aid in feeding the material, or to carry pins therefor, or operate to support the material during the stapling operation, but a cylinder is a desirable form of carrier, though any carrier which will support and properly move the staple tools, devices or mechanisms may be employed as is explained in my aforesaid application.

The products of many longitudinal folders may be combined and then be bound together by staples as is shown in Fig. 22, where two such folders marked respectively F, L, are shown as provided for the plication of a number of webs as the sets M, A, N, Y; W, E, B, S. As shown, the folder F plicates the Webs M, A, N, Y, and the folder L plicates the Webs WV, E, B, S, these separate sets of webs being additionally plicated by conduction through the associating

rollers

25, 26, from which they are led directly to the stapling mechanism. In this case the cutting mechanism is not connected with the carrier which supports the stapling mechanism, but is provided in separate carriers which are cylinders C,D. Here also all the carriers are equal circumferentially to the length of two sheets and the number of stapling mechanisms is such as to insert and clinch two staples in each pack of sheets, the cylinders O, D, having two sets of cutting devices, as the

blades

4, 5, and cutting slots 6, 7, and two sets of folding devices, as the

double folding blade

40, 41, and 46, 47, and

coacting rollers

42, 43, but if desired the carriers might be made equal circumferentially to the length of a sheet and provided with stapling mechanisms adapted to insert and clinch any desired number of staples in each sheet length. In this modification, the clinching arm 20 while retaining its clinching face is shortened and stationary, being fixed to the frame work in any suitable manner. In this modification, the longitudinal folders may, of course be provided with slitters as 67, and like it, may be constructed so as to be held in or out of active position according as the Webs are to be slit centrally or remain intact. 'lhese slitters may be placed anywhere between the printing devices and the folders as may be desired or required.

hen the carriers A, B, or O, D, are provided with cutters to sever the material transversely into sheet lengths, the leading edge thereof will preferably be controlled and released by pins, as is shown and described in my aforesaid application, but the substitutive equivalents may be employed, as grippers, air, rise. It will now be understood that the folded product passing through the

rollers

42, 43, arranged in connection with the carriers A, B, as in Figs. 1 to 3, or with carriers C, -D, as in Fig. 22, may be delivered or piled by any devices. In Figs. 1 to 3, there is shown an S fly s which lays the sheets successively upon the delivery tapes 29, a guide 48, forwarding tapes 49, and carrying rollers 36, 37, 38, 39 being used to conduct the sheets thereto, in a common manner.

In the foregoing description the stapling mechanisms which are illustrated and explained, are so'constructed and relatedto the longitudinal folder or folders that the webs of material plicated by folding in passing over the longitudinal folders will receive a line of staplesinserted through and through the pliesof material near to the line of folding or binding thereof, so that the staples will be set near to or along said binding line. If it is desired that the staples shall be set in or through the binding line of the webs plicated by doubling, when such stapling is performed in lines parallel with the run of the webs, this may be accomplished in many ways. Thus by placing the stapling mechanism in such position that the webs shall firstpass through it so as to receive the longitudinal row of staples in the line of ultimate folding prior to the performance of the folding operation, it is obvious that this result will be accomplished and that the staples will be set in the binding line with their crowns or clinched legs upon either side of the plicated webs; and that such staple bound webs when passed over or acted upon by a longitudinal folder will be folded longitudinally in either direction, or if out into sheets, such sheets will likewise be appropriately folded.

' Embodiments of these improvements appear in my companion application, Serial No. 483,192, executed and filed of even date herewith and such as are therein claimed are not claimed herein, but as is obvious, stapling mechanisms having the construction and operation shown in said companion application may be substituted in many of the combinations herein claimed, for the structures herein shown and described.

While particularly explained as being adapted and arranged to set the staples longitudinally or parallel withthe run of the material, stapling mechanisms having the structure and mode of operation described herein, may act to make staples and set them in different relations, to the run of the material or to staple material fed to them in any manner and moving or not at the time the staple is inserted and clinched.

To locate the stapling mechanisms in proper relation to the material to be stapled, either its delivery devices or the staple mechanism carriers may be made movable to adjust their relation, or the staple mechanisms might be adjustable longitudinally in their carriers.

It is to be observed from the foregoing description that the staple inserting means consists generally of a staple holder or presenting tool which holds or presents and sometimes guides the made staple so that its legs shall properly enter the material, and a driver or setting bed which acts to compel the entrance of the staple into the material. This staple inserting means travels rotativel from one point, where the wire length is r ceived, to another point to which the holder or presenting toolcarries the staple for insertion into the material, said tool in connection with the anvil operating, while traveling rotatively, to form the staple, and, in connection with the setting bed to move and protrude the staple into setting position with respect to the tools.

What I claim is 1. The combination, substantially as 'described, with means for feeding plicated material onward past staple inserting means the holder or presenting tool of which is caused to travel rotatively to and from the setting point, of means for moving the said tool laterally during the operation of forming the staple.

2. The combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated material onward past staple inserting means, the holder or presenting tool of which is caused to travel rotatively to and from the setting point, of means for vibrating the said tool laterally during the operation of forming the staple and also while transferring it into position on the setting bed.

3. The combination,substantially as described, with means for feeding plicated material onward past a staple inserting means, the holder or presenting tool of which is caused to travel rotatively to and from the setting point, of means for vibrating the said tool laterally during the operation of forming the staple, and while transferring it into position on the setting bed, and a cooperating staple leg clinching device.

4. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, of staple inserting means, the holder or presenting tool traveling to and from the setting point, means for delivering a staple length of wire to said tool, means for vibrating it laterally in the operations of forming the staple and transferring it to the setting bed, and, a cooperating staple leg clinching device.

5. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a wedge like forming anvil and a wedge like setting bed, both stationary with respect thereto, of a holder or presenting tool, and means for vibrating the same over the sides of the anvil.

6. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a wedge like forming anvil stationary with respect thereto, of a holder or presenting tool formed to carry the wire length, means for swinging it to carry the Wire length into position with respectto the anvil, and means for moving its arms outwardly over the anvil to form the wire length into a staple.

7. In a stapling mechanism, the combina-- tion, substantially as described, with a wedge like settingbed stationary with respect thereto, of a holder or presenting tool, and means for moving its arms over the sides of the setting bed whereby the staple is transferred into setting position on said bed.

8. The combination, substantially as described, with a circularly arranged series of 1'0- tativelytravelingstaple formingrnechanisms, of means for supplying a staple length of wire successively to each mechanism of the series.

9. The combination, substantially as described, with a circularly arranged series of rotatively traveling staple forming mechanisms, and means for supplying a staple length of wire successively to each mechanism of the series, of means for severing staple lengths of said wire. I

10. In a staple forming mechanism, the com bination, substantially as described, with means for feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided with grooves to receive the wire and recessed to pass over a forming anvil, of a stationary forming anvil, and means for vibrating said tool to and from the wire receiving point to carry the wire into position to be formed into a staple.

11. In a staple forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided with grooves to receive the wire and recessed to pass over a forming anvil, of a stationary forming anvil, and means for vibrating said tool to and from the Wire receiving point to carry the Wire into position to be formed into a staple, and to reciprocate over said anvil to bend it into staple form.

12. In astaple forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided with grooves to receive the wire and recessed to pass over a forming anvil and a setting bed, of a stationary forming anvil, a stationary setting bed, and means for vibrating said tool to and from the staple forming point to carry the staple into position forinsertion into the material.

13. In a staple forming mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with means for feeding a wire length thereto, and a tool having two arms provided with grooves to receive the wire and recessed to pass over a forming anvil and a setting bed, of a stationary forming anvil and setting bed whose facing parts overlap and form a wire passage, means for moving said tool from the wire receiving point to carry the wire to the anvil in staple forming position, means for causing the arms of the tool to force the wire ends over the sides of the anvil to form a staple, and means for causing the tool to carry the staple onto the setting bed.

14. The combination, substantially as described, With a circularly arranged series of rotatively traveling staple mechanisms, means for supplying wire to each of said series of mechanisms and severing staple lengths therefrom, of means for bending the wire lengths into staple form.

15. The combination, substantially as described, with a circularly arranged series of rotatively traveling staple mechanisms, means for supplying wire to each of said series of mechanisms and severing staple lengthstherefrom, of means for bending the wire lengths into staple form and presenting the same in setting position.

16. The combination, substantially as described, with a circularly arranged series of rotativelytraveling staple mechanisms, means for supplying wire to each of said series of mechanisms and severing staple lengths therefrom, of means for bending the wire lengths into staple form, presenting the same in setting position, and inserting the same through the material to be stapled.

17. The combination, substantially as described, with a circularly arranged series of rotativel y travelingstaple mechanisms, means for supplying wire to each of said series of mechanisms and severing staple lengths therefrom, means for bending the wire lengths into staple form, presenting the same in setting position and inserting the same through the material to be stapled, ot' a staple leg clinching device, substantially as described.

18. In a stapling mechanism,the combination, substantially as described, with a staple holder or presenting tool, and a setting bed upon which the tool supports the staple while moving rotatively to carry the staple intoposition for insertion.

19. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a staple holder or presenting tool, a setting bed upon which the tool supports the staple while moving rotatively to carry the staple into position for insertion, and a cooperating clinching device.

20. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a staple holder or presenting tool, a setting bed upon which the tool supports the staple while moving rotatively to carry the staple into position, for insertion, and a clinching device rotating in cooperation therewith.

21. In a stapling mechanism, a two armed staple holder or presenting tool traveling rotatively to carry the staple into position for insertion, the leading one of which arms is shorter than its companion, and a cooperating clinching device, substantially as described.

22. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a cylinder as B carrying stapling mechanisms and cutting devices, of a pendent arm supporting the clinching device and means operating to swing it into and out of active position.

23. In a stapling mechanism, the combination, substantially as described, with a cylinder as B carrying stapling mechanisms and IIO provided with a wire guiding groove 11, of a In testimony whereof I have hereunto set wire feeding device. my hand in the presence of two subscribing 24. In a stapling mechanism, the combinawitnesses. tion, substantially as described, with a cyl- LUTHER G. CROWELL. 5 inder as B carrying stapling mechanisms and Witnesses:

provided with a wire guiding groove 11, of a H. T. MUNSON, wire feeding device, and a spring bearer, as 53. T. F. KEHOE.