US537312A - Attachment for printing-press fliers - Google Patents

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E. LpSHATTUCK. ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING PRESS PLIERS.

No. 537,312. YIa,1;e11tedAp1. 9; 1895.

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. ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING-PRESS FLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 537,312, dated April 9, 1895.

Application tiled January l2, 1895. Serial No. 534.7675. (No model.) l

To all whom t may concern: l

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. SHATTUCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New ,York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Printing- PressFliers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse vthe same.

My invention has relation to attachments for printing press-fliers and the object of my invention is to produce a device of this kind that is simple and l inexpensive, as well as eflicient and durable in use; and to these ends the novelty consists in abearing plate for attachment to the surface of the tlier fingers, said plate having integral inclined supports in which astar wheel isjournaled, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described and ypointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isaside elevation of a portion of a printingpress showing a flier provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a fiier showing the friction star rollers in place on one finger of the fiier. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improved roller. Fig. 4 is a developed View of the roller bearing plate. Fig. 5 shows a front and side elevation of my device ready for attachment tothe Hier.

Referring to the drawings, A is a printing press, B the cylinder, and C the hier of the usual construction. The lier is provided with a series otl star wheels or pointed friction rollers D, for a well known purpose and arranged on the iier ingers.

The mechanism thus far described is old and well known, and my invention resides entirely in the construction of the star frction rollers D which will now be described.

The friction rollers or star wheels Dare each mounted on an axis or pintle pin d which is carried in a bearing plate E, constructed as follows: This bearing plate consists of a piece of sheet metal having a flat portion e provided with holes e by which it is secured to the liier fingers. This bearing plate has also a pair of lateral wings, e2, stamped from the same piece of sheet metal as the flat portion e, that is to say, integral with the flat portion.

These wings taper toward the forward ends and are bent vinward and on top of the flat portion, e, so -as to form parallel portions, e3,

which are pressed down in close contact with the said tlat portion e'. The ends of the lateral wings c2 are bent upward at right angles to the portions e3 to form supports, e", inclined from the forward end, in which the star rollers D are journaled, as will be fully understood from the drawings.

In use my attachment is secured to the upper surface of the Hier fingers, by small screws or brads, with the upwardly beveled portions in the direction of the travel of the paper as it is delivered from the press the point ends of the inclined wings of my attachment beingv toward the free ends of the Hier fingers, as shown. yOrdinarily printing presses are provided With cords or bands running over small pulleys between the flier tingerswhich are adapted to hold the printed sheet just above the surface of the tly until it is in the proper position to be carried over, butin many of the presses of the older style of make, the Iiies are made together with bars or wood strips, and in this class of presses the printed sheet slides down on the ily, and it is in this style of press ilies that my attachment is especially advantageous over any other known construe tion of like devices, as in my device the star wheel supports being beveled in the direction of the travel of the paper, it is impossible for the sheet to catch or clog against said supports as it comes from the press.

I am aware of the construction in the patent to Hyde et al., No. 324,939, wherein is shown a star wheel mortised in the flier fingers, or attached on rods therebetween, constructions both expensive and cumbersome, which I do not claim, but

. What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for printing press fliers consisting of a IOO from abearing plate, the wings being integral with said plate and beveled in the direction of the travel of the paper, said plate being adapted to be secured to the surface of the ier ngers, substantially as described.

8. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for printing press fliers, consisting of a star wheel, two supporting wings, and a bearing plate provided at opposite ends with holes for securing it to the flier, said supporting Wings and bearing plate being stamped from

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