US759292A

US759292A - Wrapping-paper-printing apparatus.

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Publication number: US759292A
Application number: US18574802A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank L Mercer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-02-24
Filing date: 1902-02-24
Publication date: 1904-05-10
Anticipated expiration: 1921-05-10

Description

No. 759,292. PATENTED MAY 10. 1904. P. L. MERGER. WRAPPING PAPER PRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED T13R24, 1902. RENEWED DEC. 18, 1903.

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No. 759,292. PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

F. L. MERCER.

WRAPPING PAPER PRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24,1902. RENEWED DEO.1B. 1903. NO MODEL. 2 SHBETSSHBET 2.

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PATENT, OFFICE.

FRANK L. MERCER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

WRAPPlNG-PAPER-PRINTING APPARATUS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,292, dated May 10, 1904. Application filed February 24, 1902. Renewed December 18, 1903. Serial No. 185,748. (No model.)

Be it known that I, FRANK L. MERCER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Wrapping-Paper-Printing Apparatus; and 1 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 and use the same.

The invention relates more particularly to an apparatus for printing or impressing the business card or advertisement of a merchant using wrapping-paper drawn from a roll.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and economical means whereby the printing of such a card or advertisement can be effected simultaneously with the act of drawing the paper from the roll. the printing operation being controlled by a manipulation of the paper.

Generally stated, the invention is embodied in a paper-roll holder combined with devices for holding the printing device normally inactive, saiddevices being operative to release the printing device by manipulation of the free end of the paper, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

in theaeeompanying drawings, showing one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the apparatus with one side of the frame removed to expose the printing-roll and the parts for controlling the same. Fig. 2 is a view of the inner side of the left-hand portion of the frame that sustains the printing-roll and parts controlling the same. Fig. 3 is a detail front view of the printing-roller and inking device therefor. Fig. t is a top plan view with the printingroller and inking device therefor removed. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the printingroller-controlling lever.

The supporting-frame comprises a base 1, having vertically and parallelly arranged standards 1 and outwardly extending from said standards parallelly-arranged bracketarms 1", having circular heads 1. The roll of paper is supported upon an appropriate spindle 2, borne between the standards 1,

and an inking-roller 3 and a printing-roller 4 are supported rotatively between the heads 1 in bearings 3" and 4, respectively, and parallel to the paper-roll spindle.

The printing-roller-eontrolling lever 5 consists of a rectangular frame having in the under sides of its end pieces bearings 53 to rest pivotally on pins 1" on the inner sides of. the heads 1 below the printing-roller and bearings 5" in the upper edges of said end pieces to receive the stud shafts or bearings of a friction-roller 6. The printingroller-controlling lever also has a cross-bar 5, over which the paper from the roll passes as it comes out of the apparatus, and an inwardly and upwardly extending pawl-arm 5 for the purpose to be presently explained.

Fixed on that end of the printing-roller adjacent to the end of the controlling-lever having the pawl-arm 5 is a cam 7, having a ratchet-tooth 7 at the shortest radius thereof adapted to be engaged by the pawl-arm 5" to prevent the printing-roller from being operated by the outdrawing of the paper until desired. The printing-reller-controlling lever is so weighted, as seen at 5 that the forward end thereof is normally held up, and a stop 8 is provided in the head 1 to so limit such upward movement thereof that the pawlarm 5 shall normally engage the teeth 7 0f the cam on the DIll'lblllg-lOllGl' to prevent the rotation of said roller. A slender rod 9 between the heads 1 is shown to guide the paper from the paper-roll under the printing-roll in a definite direction. A guard or hood 10, of flexible sheet metal, is slid into channels 1 on the inner perimeter of the heads 1". The front edge of the hood 10 can conveniently be formed to constitute a cutting edge, as seen at 10, for severing the withdrawn portion of the paper. To remove the hood, the inner edge can be flexed away from the stops 1", said stops serving to lock the hood after it is put in place.

The inking-roller 3 is shown to be made in the form of a spool of considerably less length than the printing-roller and to run in a circumferential recess 4" in the printing-roller. To secure pressure of the inking-roller on the printing-roller, the spindle 3 of the inkingroller can conveniently be an elastic rod the ends of which must be bent or depressed to secure or seat them in their bearings 3" in the head 1.

The usual follower-weight 11 to retard the paper-roll when paper is withdrawn therefrom is shown to be employed.

The operation, which will be readily gathered from the foregoing description of the apparatus, is as follows: The free end of the paper after it has been passed between the printing-roller 4 and friction-roller 6 is taken with the fingers and pulled outward and upward until it is, desired to print thereon. When the printed impression is desired, the paper is given a momentary downward pull of suflicient force on the cross-bar 5 of the controlling-lever 5 to release the pawl-arm 5 from the cam-tooth 7 of the cam on the printing-roller. This operation also lifts the friction-roller 6, thus pinching the paper to the printing-roller sufficiently to effect the rotation of the printing-roller. This pressure continues and slightly increases under the action of the increasing radius of the cam against the pawl-arm 5 as the cam rotates with the printing-roller. During the rotation of the printing-roller the printing form or device thereon is turned against the paper and the impression made. The printing device is of course so located with respect to the cam 7 as not to contact with the paper passing under the printing-roller until the roller has been released by the action of the controlling-lever 5.

The position of the cam 7 on the end of the printing-roller can be changed so that the impression can be made soon or later after the controlling-lever has been depressed, and thus the position of the impression varied with respect to the end of the paper.

The means for adjusting the cam 7 consists of a series of holes 7" in the cam concentric to the axis thereof in connection with a stationary pin 7 on the roller, and the can] can be adjusted axially, so that any one of said holes can be placed on said pin to prevent the cam from turning on the roller.

What I. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller and an inking-roller therefor, a lever having a non-paper-cutting bar over which the paper is drawn as it comes from the apparatus, an arm on said lever directly ongaging and holding said printing-roller from rotation, said lever being operative at the will of the user and by manipulating the paper to release the printing-roller and independently of any cutting of the paper.

2. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller and an inking-roller therefor, a lever over which the paper is drawn as it comes from the apparatus, a pawl-arm on said lever engaging and holding said printingroller from rotation, said lever supported in the apparatus so as to be operated to release said pawl-arm by moving the paper laterally from its path in one direction, and a cutting edge held in the apparatus independent of said lever to cut the paper when the latter is pulled in the opposite direction.

3. In a wrapping-paper-prin tingapparatus, a printing-roller and an inking device therefor, a friction-roller laterally movable toward the printing-roller, combined with a leverhaving a printing-roller-locking device thereon and over which the paper from the apparatus is drawn, arranged to be operated by manipulation of the paper to release the locking device and move the friction-roller toward the printing-roller, substantially as described.

4. In a wrappingpaper-printin g apparatus, a printing-roller having a toothed cam device fixed on its end and an inking device for said roller, a lever having a pawl-arm to engage said toothed cam device and a friction-roller carried by said lever, both the friction-roller and lever being actuated by manipulation of the paper to be printed.

5. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller having a toothed device adjustably fixed on the end of said roller. an inking device forsaid roller, a lever having a pawl-arm to engage said toothed device to lock said roller until actuated by a manipulation of the paper to be printed, substantially as described.

6. In a wrapping-paper-printing device, a frame, a printing-roller journaled in said frame and an inking-roller, bearings in the frame therefor, and an elastic shaft for said inking-roller bent to engage said bearings.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK L. MERCER.

Vitnesses:

BENJ. FINOKEL, GEORGE M. FINCKEL.