US722969A

US722969A - Addressing-machine.

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Publication number: US722969A
Application number: US12630502A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hugh Lawson Gay
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-10-07
Filing date: 1902-10-07
Publication date: 1903-03-17
Anticipated expiration: 1920-03-17

Description

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PATENTED MAR. 17, 1903.

H. L. GAY. ADDRESSING MACHINE.

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PATENTED MAR. 17, 1903.

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ADDRESSING MACHINE.

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HUGH LAWSON GAY, OF MONTICELLO, FLORIDA.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,969, dated March 1'7, 1903. Application filed October 7,1902. Serial No. 126,305. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, HUGE LAWSONVGAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Monticello, in the county of Jefferson and State of Florida, have invented a new and Improved Addressing-lylachine, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This machine relates particularly to machines for severing printed names and addresses from strips of mailing-papers or the like; and the object is to provide a'machine of simple construction by means of which the strips may be rapidly cut.

I will describe an addressing-machine embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,'forming apart'of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of an addressingmachine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a'front end view. Fig. 4 is a side elevation opposite to that of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a rear end view.

The machine comprises a trough or runway 1 for the strips of material upon which the names are printed, the strips being fed from a roller 2 at the rear portion of the trough and between feed-rollers 3 4 at the front or outlet end of the trough. Arranged between blade of the cutter, and this blade 8 is provided with a projection 9, which will press the severed strip containing a name onto the wrapper of a paper or the like.

Motion is imparted to the rock-shaft 7 by means of an arm 10, engaging with a cam 11, mounted on a drivingshaft 12. Loosely mounted on this driving-shaft is a be1t-pul-- ley 13, having aclutch member 14 at one side, designed to be engaged by a clutch member 15, mounted to slide on the shaft, but rotating therewith. The clutch member 15 may be shifted by means of an angle-lever 16, from v which a rod 17 extends downward. to a foot: treadle or the like. The shaft of the feedroller 3 extends through a sidewall of the trough 1, and on this extended end is a pinion 18. This pinion 18 engages with a gearwheel 19, to which is attached a bevel-pinion 20, designed to mesh with a bevel-pinion 21, having sliding connection with a shaft 22. As here shown, the part of the shaft to which the gear-wheel 21'is directly connected is extended into a longitudinal bore in the shaft 22, and to prevent a rotary motion of the parts one relatively to the other a pin 23 extends from the part 24, to which the bevelpinion is connected through a slot in the shaft -section 22. The pinion 21 may be moved into and out of engagement with the pinion by means of an angle-lever 25, from which a rod 26 extends downward and is designed to connect with a foot-treadle or the like.

Connected to the shaft 22 is a ratchet-wheel 27, designed to be engaged bya pawl 28, carried by an arm 29, loosely mounted on said shaft 22. At its-outer end the arm 29 engages with a lifting-finger 30, carried by the shaft 7. This lifting-finger 30 is adjustable inward and outward, so that it may be regulated to cause a greater or less rotary movement ofthe shaft 22, and consequently govern the feed of the strip between the feedrollers. The arm 10 is held in yielding engagement with the cam 11 by means of a spring 31, fast at one end with the shaft 7 and at the other end with a bracket 32, in which the shaft has a bearing.

In the operation the strip of paper is drawn over the adhesive brush and fed through the front of the machine in an intermittent manner. The projected portion bearing a name will be severed by the cutter, and, as before mentioned, the part 9 will press such severed portion upon a wrapper.

The machine maybe provided with legs, if desired, or it may be securelyfastened on a table or the like.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An addressingmachine comprising a trough, feed-rollers arranged at the outlet end of said trough, an adhesive-applying device arranged in the trough, means for imparting intermittent motion to the feed-rollers, a cutter, and a rotary driving-shaft for operating said cutter.

2. An addressingmachine comprising a trough, feed-rollers arranged in said trough, an adhesive-applying device in said trough, a rock-shaft, a rotary driving-shaft for operatin g said rock-shaft, a cutter carried by said rock-shaft, and mechanism controlled by the rock-shaft for iin partingintermittent motion to the feed-rollers.

3. An addressingmachine comprising a trough, feed-rollers arranged therein, an adhesive-applying brush in the trough, a pinion on the shaft of one of the feed-rollers, a gear-wheel engaging the said pinion, a bevelpinion carried by the gear-wheel, a shaft, 21. bevel-pinion having sliding connection with said shaft and adapted for engagement with the first-named bevel-pinion, means for shifting the pinion, a ratchet-wheel on the shaft, an arm loosely mounted on the shaft, a pawl carried by the arm for engaging with the ratchet-wheel, a rock-shaft, means for operating said rock-shaft, an adjustable finger on the rock-shaft for engaging the said arm, and a cutter carried by the rock-shaft.

4. An addressingmachine comprising a trough, feed-rollers arranged in the trough, an adhesive-applying device in the trough, means for imparting intermittent motion to the feed-rollers, a rock-shaft, a cutter carried by said rock-shaft, the said cutter having a projection for pressing a printed slip onto a Wrapper or the like and a rotary shaft for operating the rock-shaft.

5. An addressingmachine comprising a trough, feed-rollers arranged in said trough, an adhesive-applying rotary brush in the trough, means for imparting motion to the feed-rollers, a rock-shaft, a cutter carried by the rock-shaft, a driving-shaft, a cam-Wheel mounted on said driving-shaft, an arm extended from the rock-shaft and engaging with said cam-wheel, and a spring for holding the arm yieldingly in engagement with the camwheel.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

HUGH LAWSON GAY.

Witnesses:

S. D. CLAR E, JAMES H. TAYLOR, W. H. WRIGHT.