US766233A - Addressing-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 766,233. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

s, E. FARNHAM. ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED S EPT. 8, 1903.

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No. 7136,1233. PATENTED AUG 2, 1904. S. E. FARNHAM.

ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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S. E. FARNHAM.

ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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N0 MODEL.

- No. 766,233. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

S. E. FARNHAM.

ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. s, 1903.

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ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903 NO MODEL. 8 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

PATENTED AUG. 2; 1904.

S. E. FARNHAM.

ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

S. E. FARNHAM.

ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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ADDRESSING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903.

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No. 766,233. Patented August 2, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SCHUYLER E. FARNHAM, OF RACINE, VISCONSIN, ASSlG-NOR OF ONE- FOURTH TO ROBER" WV. HINDLEY, OF RAClNE, WISCONSIN.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,233, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed September 8, 1903. Serial No. 172,193. (No model.)

To whom it y "Om/67%: gagement with the clutch-hub of a driving- 5 Be it known that I, SoHUYLER E. FARNHAM, pulley C, that runs .loose on said shaft when a citizen of the United States, and a resident out of clutch with the same. The clutch-leof Racine, in the county of Racine and State ver D is connected to a rod E, and by operof Wisconsin, have invented certain new and ating the rod the machine is put in and out useful Improvements in Addressing Waof motion. Means hereinafter described are chines; and I do hereby declare that the folprovided for automatically stopping the malowing is a full, clear, and exact description chine under certain conditions. thereof. A horizontal shaft F has bevel-gear con- IO My invention has for its object to provide nection with the main shaft Aand an inclined machines especially designed for mechanical shaft G, that is likewise connected to another addressing of newspapers, but which may be horizontal shaft H, to which a wrist-wheel 7) utilized to likewise address circulars, enis made fast. A link 0 connects the wristvelops, and wrappers, said invention consistwheel with a horizontal slide I, having a ver- I 5 ing in what is hereinafter particularly set tical arm (Z, and a spring-controlled hook c is forth with reference to the accompanying pivotally connected to said arm to have en- 5 drawings and subsequently claimed. gagement with transverse notches in the up- Figure 1 of the drawings represents a verper faces of side bars of galleys J, containing tical longitudinal section of an addressinginked address matter, the galleys being suc- 20 machine in accordance with my invention,hav cessively fed to a horizontal track constituting ing portions thereof partly broken away; part of the machine. The reciprocative mo- 7 Fig. 2, a plan view of the machine, partly in tion imparted to the slide land hook 0 therehorizontal section and having parts thereof with results in an intermittent travel of a galbroken; Fig. 3, a horizontal section View inley or galleys on the track, this motion being 5 dicated by line 3 3 in the first figure; Figs. a timed to move said galley or galleys forward and 5, vertical transverse section views reone address-space while a vertically-reciprospectively indicated by lines 4: 4 and 5 5 in cative stamp hereinafter more particularly Said first figure; Figs. 6 and 7, vertical lonspecified is on its upward movement. gitudinal section views respectively indicated The rear portion of the galley-track is at all 3 by lines 6 6 and 7 7 in the fifth figure; Fig. times stationary; but a forward section K of 8, a detail partly-sectional view indicated by said track has intermittent vertical reciprocaline 8 8 in the ninth figure; Fig. 9, a detail tion to effect the discharge of galleys one at a section view indicated by 9 9 in the second time onto a skid L, that has a horizontal exand eighth figures; Fig. 10, a section view intension at one side of the machine. Live gal- 35 dicated by line 10 10 in said eighth figure; leys are placed on an inclined rack M at one Fig. 11, a partly-sectional elevation of a dcside of the machine to slide onto the stationary 5 tail of the machine; Fig. 12, a detail partlyrear portion of the horizontal track, and a sectional view illustrating automatic closing weighted trip-lever N is provided at one end of an electric circuit incidental to movement with a stop-lugf', that is normally in the path 4 of a galley of address matter having interof the lowermost galley on said rack. The

mittent travel in the machine, and Fig. 13 last galley fed to the horizontal track bears on 9 a perspective view of a fragment of the galley. one end of the trip-lever to hold the same in Referring by letter to the drawings, A innormal position; but when said galley clears dicates a main shaft, for which the stand or said lever the latter has gravity tilt to permit 45 frame of the machine is provided with bearits stop-lug f to clear the next galley on the ings, this stand or frame being of any suitrack M, and coincident with the slide of this able material and construction. A lever-congalley onto said horizontal track the aforesaid trolled sliding clutch B is provided on the lever is automatically returned to normal posimain shaft to be thrown in and out of ention.

The section K of the horizontal galley-track I is supported flush with the remainder of said track by spring-controlled latches g, and a slide-bar O is provided with cam-lugs it, that operate to trip the latches against spring reslstance. One end of the slide-bar is angularly bent to be in the path of the galley that is fed along the track-section K, and by the time said galley is full on said track-section said slidebar has been automatically adjusted in its guides against resistance of a suitably-arranged spring z', the result being a trip of the latches h and gravity descent of the aforesaid track-section.

Vertical recesses in a rail of the track-section K extend down into vertical appendages j of said rail, for which the machine-frame is provided with guides, and the upper ends of the beams of the skid L extend through said recesses. The other rail of the track-section K is provided with a vertical appendage in the form of a rack-bar P, for which the machineframe is provided with a guide, and this rackbar meshes with a pinion Q, having a clutchhub in sliding connection with the main shaft A to come in and out of engagementwith a clutch R, fast on said shaft. A spanner Sin pivotal connection with the machine-frame straddles the rack-bar and engages annular grooves in the clutch-hub of the pinion Q, the forks of this spanner being respectively in the path of upper and lower cam-lugs m, with which said rack-bar is provided. The tracksection K being tripped to descend and discharge a dead galley therefrom onto the skid L, the upper cam-lug 7 of the rack-bar operates on the spanner S to cause a throw of the pinion Q, in the direction necessary to effect a clutch of same with the main shaft A, whereby there is automatic return of said track-section to normal position, at which time the lower cam-lug m of said rack-bar operates on said spanner to throw said pinion out of clutch with said shaft.

Trained on suitably-arranged rollers in the machine are upper and lower endless tapes T U in series transversely of the machine and between tapes, that together constitute what is hereinafter termed a paper-runner. The material to be addressed is carried piece by piece in successive order. The upper tapes T run on a feed-roller V, and the lower tapes U are trained on a similar roller W under the one aforesaid, the lower roller being journaled in stationary bearings. The upper feed-roller V is journaled in boxes a, for which vertical guides are provided, and semi-elliptic spring X bears on the journal-boxes under tension of a set-screw p, adjustable in a bar of the machine frame. A roller- V is in bevel-gear connection with a verticalshaft Y, that has similar connection with thehorizontal shaft F, and thus said feedroller derives its motion from the main shaft A journal of the lower feed- A of machine, the upper feed-roller being driven by friction.

Newspapers or other material to beaddressed are fed one by one between the tapes T U to be carried forward; but the travel of each is interrupted for a time'by stop-fingers 0 that extend upward from a transverse bar Z,

tion a stamp D, in connection with a verti;

cally-reciprocative cross-head E, is moved down to impact the paper on an address in an underlying galley that has been inked by any suitable means previous to its introduction to the machine and is for the time being at rest on the horizontal track above specified. The cross-head E is guided in the machine-frame and connected by a link t with a wrist-wheel F, with which the main shaft A is provided.

An address having been printed, there is automatic elevation of the stamp D, retrac- Y tion of the stop-pins 1*,and continued travel of the paper, while at the same time the galley is moved forward one address-space. The

addressed papers discharge onto a slide a after passing the feed-rollers V WV and pile on a carrier that is herein shown as being an endless apron Gr, trained transversely of the machine on rollers H I, journaled in suitablebearings. The roller 1 is journaled in a yoke J, adjustable to regulate the tension of the endless apron.

It is designed to print all the addresses of each destination successively and to have said destination appear with the last address. Hence the matter in a galley or galleys is composed with this object in view, and the galley containing a destination line or hnes is I provided with a suitable striker or strikers o,

each of which is arranged to operate a spring contact 20, that is thereby put in touch with another contact a to close the circuit of an electromagnet K at the time all the papers for a corresponding destination are delivered.

I I 5 in astack on the apron G, the result being that V l an armature in connection with a pivotal latch L is attracted by said electromagnet. latch has in the meantime been engaged with a lug y of the shank of a spanner M, the fork of which engages an annular groove of a clutch N in sliding connection with a journal of the apron-roller H, and said latch being lifted the expansive force of a previously compressed spring .2 operates to throw said clutch This into engagement with the clutch-hub of a bevel-gear pinion P, that is normally loose on the aforesaid roller-journal, and in mesh with a bevel gear-wheel Q, fast on the vertical shaft Y, this wheel being provided with a cam-lug b, that operates to retract the spanner M and parts in connection therewith against resistance of said spring, said spanner being then caught by the latch L aforesaid. As a result of an operation of its drive-roller H the apron (1 has had sufiicient motion to convey the addressed papers for one destination out of the way of those for another destination that are now being deposited on said apron. Fig. 12 illustrates the close of the electromagnet-circuit at the time the third paper for one destination is beingaddressed, and at this time all the papers for another destination will have been stacked on the apron G and moved toward a side of the machine clear of those being fed to said apron, that is now stationary.

The papers fed between the tapes T U pass between spring-contact terminals 0 (Z of the circuit of an electromagnet R, the armature of which is in connection witha pivotal latch S, that engages with a lug e of the rod E when the latter is adjusted in its guides against resistance of a spring 'I" to start the machine. The spring-contact d is stationary; but the one (2 reciprocates with the stamp I), the result being that when there is proper printingo't' addresses on papers fed to the machine said contacts do not come into touch; but if there be a misprint of an address the aforesaid contacts will come together to cause energization of the electromagnet R, whereby the latch S is retracted and the rod E moved by recoil of the spring T to automatically stop the machine.

\Vhile I have shown and described a practical construction and arrangement of parts constituting a machine in accordance with my invention, the detail of said machine may be indefinitely varied without change of results or departure from the scope of said invention, that comprises in a single machine means for feed of live galleys of address matter to a track, intermittent travel of these galleys, a paper-runner, paper-stop, means forimpacting successive papers on address matter in a galley, discharge of dead galleys, piling of the addressed papers in readilyidentified stacks according to different destinations and moving each stack out of the way of papers discharging from the feed to form another stack, and for stopping the machine in case of misprint of an address.

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

1. In an addressing-machine, a track, means for traveling live galleys of address matter on the track, and means by which an automatic gravity discharge of dead galleys from the machine is eliected.

2. In an addressing-machine, atrack, a skid under the forward portion of the track, means for feeding'live galleys of address matter on said track, and means for delivering dead galleys to the skid.

3. In an addressing-machine. a track having a vertically-reciproeative section, means for traveling live galleys of address matter on the track, a skid intercepting the reciprocative track-section transversely of the same, and means for putting said track-section in motion to discharge a dead galley on the skid.

L. In an addressing-machine, atrack having a gravity drop-section, means for traveling galleys of address matter on the track, latch mechanism by which the drop-section of the track is held in normal position, latch trip mechanism operative by contact therewith of the forward galley on said track-section, a skid arranged to receive a descending galley and means for restoring the aforesaid track-section to normal position.

5. In an add ressing-machine, a track, means for intermittently travelinglive galleys of address matter on the track, a continuously-operating paper-runner, a stop reciprocative to come in and out of the path of papers fed by the runner, and means for impacting a stopped paper on contents of a stopped galley.

6. In an addressing-machine, means for intermittently traveling of galleys of address matter, a paper-runner, a stop operative to come in and out of the path of the papers, a reciprocative stamp for impacting a stopped paper on contents of a galley when at rest, and means for automatically stopping the machine in case of a misprint.

7. In an addressingmachine, a continuously-operating paper-runner, a stop reciprocative to come, in and out of the path of successively-fed papers, a track, and means by which galleys of address matter are intermittently traveled on the track, a reciprocative stamp for impacting a stopped paper on an address in an adjacent galley then at rest, a carrier on which addressed papers are delivered, and means by which the carrier is put in motion for a limited time at predetermined intervals.

8. In an addressing-machine, a continuously-operating paper-runner, a stop reciprocative to come in and out of the path of successively-fed papers, a track, means by which galleys of address matter are intermittently traveled on the track and discharged therefrom, a reciprocative stamp for impacting a stopped paper on an address in an adjacent galley then at rest, a carrier on which addressed papers are delivered, and means by which the carrier is put in motion for a limited time at predetermined intervals.

9. In an addressing-maehine, a continuously-operating paper-runner, a stop reciprocative to come in and out of the path of successively-fed papers, a rack and track, means governing feed of galleys of address matter from rack to track, means for intermita IIO tently traveling said galleys on said track, a have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in

reciprocative stamp for impacting a stopped the county of Milwaukee and State of VVis- I0 paper on an address in an adjacent galley then consin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

at rest, a. carrier on which addressed papers i 5 are delivered, and means by which the carrier SCHUYLER FARNHAM is put in motion for a limited time at prede- Witnesses: termined intervals. N. E. OLIPHANT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I E. W. HELLER.

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