US759656A - Typographic numbering-machine. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

E. G. BATES. TYPOGRAPHIO NUMBERING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 11110.9, 1903,

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN G. BATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BATES MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPOGRAPHIC NUMBEFHNG-IVIAGHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,656, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed December 9,1903. Serial No. 184,442. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Beitknown that I, EDWIN G. BATES, a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographic Numbering- Machines; 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 pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates more especially to automatic numbering-machines of the character adapted to be set in a form of type, with surrounding type-matter, on a printing-cylinder or other bed. Some features of the in? vention are, however, equally applicable to other forms of numbering-machines for hand use or. otherwise.

The'main object of theinvention is to provide improved features of construction, simplifying and increasing efficiency of the machines.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front side View of the machine with the front side plate removed. Fig. 2 is an end View looking at the right end of the machine, the side plates being in position. Fig. 3 shows side and end views of a removable printingblock. Fig. iis a side view of a washer. Fig. 5 is a side view of the plunger detached. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 shows side and end views of a side plate. Fig. 8 shows an end view of a different form of side plate. Fig. 9 is a side view of the drop-wheel; and Fig. 10 is a detail View, on asmaller scale than the other figures, showing a numbering-machine secured by dove connection to a suitable body, as a printingcylinder.

Numeral 1 indicates the main body of the frame of the machine, which supports the shaft 2 for the number-wheels 3,each of which has attached to it a propelling-ratchet 4:.

5 indicates the stepped pawl, which in this case has a pawl for each number-wheel except the last one, 3, at the right, which may be turned when needed by the hand or by any suitable tool. The number of printingwheels may be varied and more or less of them may be operated by the stepped pawls. Part 6 is a swinging frame carrying the stepped pawls and having arms 7 and 8, which have bearings and swing 011 the shaft 2. Arm 8 has gear-teeth 9, adapted to be engaged by teeth 10 on an arm depending from plunger 11. As thus far described the construction is not new.

I improve the plunger by providing in it a groove or recess 12 with overhanging edges preferably of simple dovetail form and preferably extending transversely to the length of the head of the plunger, in which groove is fitted a removable type-block 13, having a cipher or other printing character 14 on its face, which when the plunger is depressed by the act of printing in the usual way the face of said block moves downward to the printing-plane of the wheels 3. Block 13 also serves to increase the thickness of the plun: ger, whereby the latter will be given its full movement when depressed in printing, allowing the main body of the plunger to be thinwhich terminates at the bottom of the groove 12 and which has in this end a socket 17, in

" which is a polished-steel or other body hav ing a rounded. part extending into the groove 12, preferablya polished-steel ball 18, pressed by a spring, so as to project above the bottom of groove 12.

When block 13 is inserted, the body 18 will be depressed and the block will enter until the ball is pressed into groove 15. The block can then be removed only by a stronger pressure. The ball is held in its socket by the extension over its surface above its center of the metal of the socketed pin 16 at 20. Preferably said pin is pressed into a tightfitting smooth hole in the plunger-head; but this mode of securing it is not essential. Said pin extends into spring 21, which occupies a socket in body 1, as common. The plungerhead also has two legs 22, notched to receive the securing-staple 23, this being an old feature.

On each of the open sides of frame 1 is placed a metal side plate 24, preferably tapering in thickness, as shown, whereby the outer faces will be in radial planes when the machine is mounted on a cylindrical form. These plates may, if desired, be reversed, whereby the machine will be made thicker at the bottom than at the top, in which case the machine may be held in place in the form by being entered in a dovetail groove. Another way is to form a dovetail connection between a supporting cylinder or body by having a suitable groove 24: in said body and by extending the side plates of the numbering-machine to form tapering ends 2 t which fit into said dovetail groove on the supporting-body. In Fig. the dotted lines 1 denote the ends of the numbering-machine and the triangular parts formed by said dotted lines the bevel sides, and the base-lines are the extension of the side plates.

The side plates are secured by overhanging or dovetail projections 25, one at each end, which fit corresponding grooves in the frame 1. Projections 25 are at the longitudinal center of the plates, whereby the plates may be reversed, as above described.

Part 26 is a washer on shaft 2 between the ratchet of the first Wheel 3 and arm 7 and having notch 27 adapted to receive and support in the printing-plane the inner end 28 of body 29, extending over the unit-wheel ratchet, secured to the frame by one or more screws 30 and having any desired printing character on it. Body 29 is shown extendinginto a groove 31 of the frame; but this is not essential. The

' washer is held from rotation by a pin 32 or one wheel, 3, is thus depressible or movable. The shaft 2, where it carries the depressible wheel 3 has its circular periphery cut away at 38, leaving an undercut tooth 34:, which in the position shown supports the wheel in printing position, but which can be and normally is moved into and engaged with the wall of a side opening 35 in the wheel, holding the wheel back until purposely released.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In anumbering-machine,number-wheels, means for advancing the wheels including a plunger moved by the act of printing, a groove in the plunger, ablock in said groove, aspring pressed engaging and holding device for said block, and a pin supported in the plunger back of the groove, said pin having a socket for said holding device and its spring.

2. In a numbering-machine, number-wheels means for advancing the wheels including a plunger moved by the act of printing, a groove in the plunger, a block in said groove, a springpressed steel ball forming an engaging and holding device for said block, and a socketed body connected to the plunger back of said groove and carrying said ball and its spring.

3. In a numbering-machine, a plunger having a dovetail groove, a block fitting the same, said block having a depression in its bottom, a steel ball projecting into the dovetail groove, and a spring behind saidball in a socket in the plunger, said socket being in the end of a pin in an opening in the head of the plunger.

4. In a numbering-machinaa plunger having a head with a dovetail groove therein and having legs 22, a pin 16, a spring in a socket of the machine-frame for moving the plunger outward, said spring surrounding said pin 16, a printing-block in the groove, a ball bearing against the block and a spring back of the ball.

5. A plunger having a removable printingblock, a spring-pressed holding device for the block, a body carried by the plunger and having a socket carrying the holding device and its spring.

6. In a numbering-machine, the frame, the shaft therein, the wheels on said shaft, the notched washer also on said shaft back of the first or unit wheel, a body 29 secured to the frame and extending into the notch of the washer, body 29 having at the end adjacent the unit-wheel a printing character.

7. In a numbering machine, the frame, the shaft therein, the wheels on said shaft, the notched washer also on said shaft back of the first or unit wheel, a body 29 secured to the frame and extending into the notch of the washer, body 29 having at the end adjacent the unit-wheel a printing character, and means to prevent rotation of the washer.

8. The numbering-machine frame, tapering side plates, a supporting-body for said frame and its side plates extending longitudinally of the frame, and the supporting-body having means to engage the tapering sides.

9. The numbering-machine frame, and side plates tapering in thickness and reversible as described.

10. The numbering-machine frame with dovetail grooves, side plates, and dovetail projections on the plates, the plates tapering in thickness and reversible as described.

11. In anumbering-machinethe side plates, the dovetail projections at the ends thereof, and parts grooved lengthwise of the side plates when they are in position of use to receive and hold said projections and plates.

12. Ashaft, a number-Wheel havinga shaftopening, the shaft being cut away where said wheel stands to form an undercut supporting and holding tooth 34 and to permit backward ing Witnesses.

EDW1N G. BATES. WVitnesses HENRY O. WARE, B. B. CONRAD.

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