US602948A - Tool for laying gold-leaf - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. G. F. KUNKLE.

TDOL FOR LAYING GOLD LEAF. No.. 602,948 ?atented Apr. 26, 1898.

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TOOL FOR; LAYING GOLD- LEAF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,948, dated April 26, 1898.

Application iiled June 23, 1897. Serial No. 641,878- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

I Be it known that 1, JOHN C. F. KUNKLE, a citizen of the United States, formerly residing at Jersey Shore, in the countyof Lycoming, and now a resident of Renovo, in the county of Clinton, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Laying Gold-Leaf, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the art of laying on surfaces metallic leaf in strips, for the purpose of lettering or stripin gin the said leaf,-- and it is an improvement upon acertain machine for laying gold leaf invented by me and patented to me in and by United States Letters Patent No. 361,225, granted April 12, 1887, to which reference is to be made.

The object of my invention is to simplify, cheaper], and improve, my former machine, to which end my improvement comprehends a machine for laying gold leaf such as is represented in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a central, longitudinal, section through the implement as an entirety, in the plane of the axes of the delivery and package rolls, with the parts in their working positions.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the tool represented in Figure 1, the plane of sight being right angular to that of the tool represented in said Figure l, and the parts in their working positions.

Figure 3 is a View similar to Figure 2, but representing the parts in the positions which they respectively occupy when the package roll is being inserted and before it, is moved into its final or working position, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings,

A represents a handle of any preferred character, from which extend a pair of parallel sidebars or plates which, for convenience of designation, I have termed the carrying fork a a, and which with the handle proper form a roll-containing frame.

At the outer extremity of the carrying fork is journaled the delivery roll O, upon which the strip of paper after it has been delivered from the package roll D and stripped of its gold leaf, is wound for removal in such condition.

This roll performs the dual function of acting as a pressure and delivery roll for delivering and pressing the film upon the surface to be coated,and as a recovering roll for recovering and re-winding the denuded strip of paper.

This roll is conveniently maintained in the carrying fork, for revolution in the operation of the tool, by a removable axle c, which is conveniently provided with a threaded shank end 0 adapted to be entered within a threaded socket a in one side barof the carrying fork,

and with a milled thumb-head c by which its rolled product, which is composite of a continuous strip of paper and of a metallic film adhering to one side thereof, in the manner referred to in my former patent, or otherwise as may be preferred.

lVith its applied rolled product this package roll is adapted to be introduced into its operative position within the tool as an entirety, by being inserted within a pivoted fork frame, which I term the package rollframe B, and which, considered with reference to the carrying fork which composes the main frame, is an auxiliary frame adapted to have motion with respect to a pair of frame pivots b b which pass through the carrying forks near their inner or handle end.

The package roll frame is open at its outer end, and its interior wid t-h or transverse openin g is approximately equal to the width or thickness of the body of the package roll, so that when the latter is slipped into the frame it will fill it from side to side.

In the Working position of the parts, the roll-frame is contained within the compass of the carrying fork, and its maintenance in that position is preferably effected by the aid of a pair of tension screwsE E, although but one will answer the purpose.

These screws are conveniently headed thumb screws,-threading through threaded apertures a a in the carrying fork or a,the inner ends of which are preferably conical, and adapted to conical sockets b 12 in the respective side members of the roll-frame B, which project interiorly to form conical projections or bosses b ,both sockets and bosses being conveniently formed by being punched into the substance of the side members of the roll frame,and the tension screws being adapted to enter the sockets and force the bosses of the side bars of the roll-frame into the open ends of the axial aperture of the package roll.

Normally, when the roll-frame is swung about its pivots out of the carrying fork into the position represented in Figure 3, itis possible to introduce the packageToll Within the frame by slipping it into position between the side members of the frame and then securing it by moving it in until the ends of its axial aperture cl register with the protrudingbosses b on the under sides of the sockets Z) in the rollframe and engage therewith by first slightly springing apart the side bars of the frame,in which relation the frame and package roll are adapted to be together swung into the position represented in Figure 2, and to be secured in such position by turning the tension screws until their inner ends engage Within the sockets in the roll frame.

By such rotation of the tension screws as experience may dictate, and through the consequent compression of the side members of the roll-frame the desired tension for the package roll is secured,-with the result that the too rapid unwinding of the strip from off said roll in the operation of the device, is prevented. Y

The means for securing the outer end of the leaf-provided strip to the delivery roll,

audits inner'end to the package roll are not material.

1 have, however, illustrated as a means for securing the outer end of the strip to the delivery roll, such a dovetailed block 0 as is illustrated in connection with the rewinding roll of my patent already referred to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In combination,in a machine for laying gold leaf,a handle provided with a car rying fork,a delivery roll at the outer end of said carrying fork,a package roll-frame pivotally applied Within and at the inner end of said carrying fork,-a package roll removably applied to said package roll-frame,and a tension device Which both maintains the rollframe Within the carrying fork and causes it to exert tension upon the package roll,- substantially as set'forth.

2. In combination,in a. machine for laying gold leaf,a handle provided with a carrying fork,a delivery roll at the outer end of said carrying fork,a package roll-frame pivotally applied within and at the inner end of said carrying fork, and formed with conical sockets and projecting bosses,package roll removably applied to said package rollframe and provided with an axial aperture,- and tension screws threaded through the side bars of the carrying fork and adapted to the conical sockets in the roll-frame,snbstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereunto signed mynamc this 22d day of June, A. D. 1897.

JOHN C. F. KUNKLE.

In presence of J. BONSALL TAYLOR, ROBERT E. HASTINGS.

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