US769834A - Mailing-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 769,884. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. E. S. REED.

MAILING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.16, 1903.

NO MODEL 6 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATBNTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

E. S. REED. MAILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16 1903. N0 MODEL. 6 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

N0 MODEL.

No. 769,834. I I PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1904.

E. S. REED.

6 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

No. 769,834. 1 PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

E. S. REED.

- MAILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, 1903.

NO MODEL. 6 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

No. 769,834. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

E. s. REED.

MAILING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

GD 7 0 lh,

,'- Q hi!" 7 O 6 SHEETS-SHEET 6.

UNITED STATES Patented September 13, 190

PATENT OFFICE.

ELI SAMUEL REED, OF HILL CITY, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO REEDS FOLDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, A COR- PORATION OF TENNESSEE.

MAILING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,834, dated September 13, 1904:.

Application filed April 16, 1903.

To all whum it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELI SAMUEL REED, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Hill City, in the county of Hamilton,

5 State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in mailing-machines for preparing pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, paper books, and other articles for mailing.

The object of the invention is to construct a simple and efficient machine of this charac- I ter which will operate with rapidity and ease.

The invention consists, essentially, in means operating upon the principle of rolling the article to be mailed and simultaneously with the rolling wrapping a paper covering about 2 the same and securing the edge thereof by pasting or otherwise; also, in various details of construction, combination, and arrangement for accomplishing the rolling and wrapping of the article; also, in means whereby an 5 addressing mechanism may be used conjunctively with the wrapping mechanism; also, means for pressing the rolled article into a folded form when desired, so that it may have a flattened instead of a tubular form when it 3 is admitted to the mails, and also the invention comprises numerous other features of construction and combination, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of my improved mailing-machine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional plan view showing the ejector-controlling mech- 4 anism and the pressing devices. Fig. 5 is an elevational view of one side of the machine. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the slotted roller that receives and rolls the pamphlet or other article around it at the time of wrapping. Fig.

7 isalongitudinal section, on an enlarged scale,

of the tube within which the slotted roll revolves. Fig. 8 is a sectional detail view of the clutch mechanism belonging to the feed- Serial No. 152,918. (No model.)

roll. Fig. 9 is an enlarged sectional detail view of the main drive-wheel and its shaft, together with the accompanying gearing and the dog device, whereby the slotted roller is intermittently actuated. Fig. 10 in an enlarged plan view of the means for ejecting the wrapped article from the machine. Fig. 11 is an elevation of the side of the machine opposite to that shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 12 is an enlarged sectional detail view of the pamphlet-rolling and paper cutting and feeding devices. Fig. 13 is an end view ofthe pressing or flattening rollers for the wrapped articles.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the different figures.

1 denotes the main frame of the machine. The size and shape of this frame may vary Within wide limits, and the example in the drawings is given simply by way of illustration. This frame 1 is provided with some suitable table 2, on which are placed the pamphlets or other articles to be wrapped for mailing. Also the frame 1 is formed with a pair of vertical standards 3 3, that support the roll of paper 4:, whose shaft 5 is carried in slots in the upper ends of standards 3. Said shaft 5 is provided with the usual cones, and around a suitable friction surface 6 of one of them passes a friction-belt 6, having a spring 7 attached thereto, which is fastened at its other end to a stud on one of'the standards 3 or to some other stationary and rigid part of the frame, the object of this yieldingly-acting belt 6 being to provide a tension device which will cause the paper sheet 4: to be fed slowly and evenly off the roll a into the machine, where it serves to provide the covering for the articles to be wrapped. The paper sheet 4: leads down from the roll 4 around the horizontal guide-roller 8 and under the yielding feed-roller 9 until it reaches the space 25 between tube 21 and the feedroller 9, through which space the paper-cutting knife 10 reciprocates. The feed-roller 9 is carried in bearings 103, that are acted on by 95 springs 104: to permit the roller to be elastic.

- Theknife 10 may be of any suitable shape and kind. It preferably extends horizontally across the machine. as shown in Fig. 2. It has an up-and-down movement and is carried by the front end of a rocker-frame 11, mounted on a rock-shaft 12 and provided with a spiral spring 13, which is fastened to a rigid and stationary part of the frame 1. The effect of the spring is to draw down the frame 11 at the proper time, and thereby give the knife 10 a quick thrusting cut across the paper, this action occurring in consequence of the release of the frame 11 from an eccentric device consisting of a cam 15, securely fastened on a horizontal shaft 16, whose ends are journaled in the main frame 1, which shaft 16 carries a gear-wheel 17. On the rear end of the rocker-frame 11 is a curved depending finger 14, which partially surrounds the cam 15.

15* designates the salient part of the cam. Obviously, as the cam 15 rotates in consequence of the rotative impulse imparted to shaft 16 by the gear 17, the point 15 once in each revolution will be released from contact with the finger 14, and this will allow the finger to drop into the shoulder or notch in the cam alongside the point 15 and then the spring 13 will act to draw down the knifelO, so that it will sever the paper.

18 designates a belt-Wheel constituting the main driving pulley. This is loose on the main driving-shaft 4l,(see Fig. 9 and also Figs. 2 and 3,) which is journaled at one end in the side of the main frame 1 and at the other end in the outreaching bracket 52 on the side of main frame 1, that end of the shaft 41 which is supported in the side of frame lprojecting within the latter and carrying securely fastened thereto a gear wheel 53. On shaft 41 between frame 1 and the main pulley 18is a ratchet-wheel 29, fast on the shaft, and alongside said ratchet is agear-wheel 28, which is firmly secured by screws or otherwise to the ratchet. On the side of the main pulley 18 next to the gear-wheel 28 is a laterally-toothed or ratchet ring 30. The ratchetwheel 29 carries a dog consisting of a horizontal sliding pin 37, feathered within an opening in said ratchet-wheel. One end of said pin 37, on one side of the ratchet-wheel 29, is provided with a short stop-arm 39, projecting at right angles to the axis of pin 37, while the other end of the pin passes through an opening in the gear-wheel 28 and projects into a position where it may engage the ratchet-teeth 30 on the main pulley 18, said pin 37 being also provided with a spring 38, coiled around it and acting normally against a collar thereon to cause the pin to engage the teeth 30. When the pin 37 is so engaged with teeth 30, it is obvious that the main pulley 18 will be connected to gear 28 and will impart its power of rotation to the latter, and consequently to the shaft 41, thereby driving the inner gear-wheel 53 and communicating motion to any gear-train that may be associated therewith, as also to any gearing that may mesh with the main driving gear-wheel 28.

Gear-wheel 28 meshes directly with a pinion 32, having a hub 54, said pinion and its hub being securely fastened on the shaft 27. This shaft is supported at one end in a bearing in the bracket 52 and at the-other end in a bearing in the main frame 1. (See Figs. 2, 3, and 6.) Said shaft has the function of driving the slotted pamphlet-wrapping roller 20, with the end of which it is directly connected and of which it practically forms a part, being made integral therewith, if desired, and being in axial alinement therewith, and in the present example being only separated therefrom for convenience of construction and arrangement. A groove 102 in the roller 20, near the end to which the shaft 27 is connected, serves to prevent the oil from passing from the adjoining bearing onto roller 20 and soiling the latter and defacing the pamphlet. Keyed on the hub 54 of pinion 32 is another and larger pinion 31.

35 denotes a set-screw for securing the hub 54 and the two pinions on the shaft 27. Surrounding the hub 54, between pinion 32 and pinion 31, is a ring 33, provided with a setscrew 36, which clamps it tightly to the sleeve 54, the upper side of ring 33 being slotted to permit the passage therethrough of the aforesaid set-screw 35. This ring 33 is provided with an integral projecting stop-arm 34, which lies in the path of the arm 39, carried on the yielding dog 37, of which I have just spoken. Obviously the contact of the two arms will result in imparting to the dog 37 an endwise reciprocation that will withdraw its point from the teeth 30, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus disconnect the main pulley 18 from the main driving-gear 28. The faces of the stoparms 34 and 39 are preferablyinclined, so that they may the more easily contact with each other and slide upon one another when in their movements, being in the same path, they happen tostrike each other, an occurrence which takes place once in each revolution of the gear-wheel 28, it being understood, moreover, that by rotating the ratchet at the times the arms 34 and 39 are stationary they may be made to pass each other and be released from contact with each other, so that the dog 37 can engage.

On the hub of the driving-pulley 18 is a sprocket-wheel 42, around which passes a chain 43, (see Figs. 3 and 11,) which also passes around a sprocket-wheel 44 on a shaft 45, journaled in bearings in the sides of the main frame 1. On the farther end of the shaft 45,

as shown in Fig. 5, is a pinion 46. Vertically above this end of the shaft 45 is a horizontal stud 51, supported in the side of frame 1 and. carrying loosely mounted thereon a pinion 49, beveled gear-wheel 4:7, and intermediate sleeve 50, said parts 47, 4:9, and 50 being preferably all connected together, so as to revolve in unison upon the stud 51, the combination being held in position on the stud by means of a suitable collar pinned to the extremity of the latter. The pinion 19 meshes with and is driven by the aforesaid pinion 46 on shaft 45. The beveled gear-wheel 47 engages another gear-Wheel &8 on the end of a shaft 59, supported at right angles to the stud 51 and shaft 45 in bearings 60, projecting from the side of main frame 1. This shaft 59 carries fixedly attached thereto a drum 66, to which one end of a belt, tape, wire, or cable 67 is fastened and on which it is designed to wind up or be unwound, accordingly as the shaft revolves in one direction or the other. and this drum 66 is provided with a clutch-section 68, the teeth of which are designed for engagement with those of the other part 63 of the clutch, the latter being feathered to the shaft 59. The clutch-section 63 is embraced by a fork 64, moving with a slide 65, which is supported in a slotin the side of frame 1, and said slide is itself actuated by an arm 75 on a horizontal shaft 7 4, that is journaled in the main frame 1.

I have already stated that on the inner end of the main driving-shaft 41 within the frame is a gear-wheel 53. The shaft 7 1 is parallel to the shaft ll and has mounted thereon a gear-wheel 70, provided With a flange 71, consisting of a ring secured laterally thereto by means of screws or other devices. Said flange has a segment thereof cut away, the length of said cut-away segment being in the present example of the invention preferably equal to one-fourth of the circumference of the gear- Wheel. Gear-wheel 70 is in mesh with and driven by the gear-wheel 53, and gear-wheel 7 O in turn meshes with and drives the papercutter-operating gear-wheel 17. The pinion 31, which has been explained as being on the shaft 27, that operates the slotted pamphletroller 20, engages and drives a pinion 10 on the end of feed roll 9. Fulcrumed to the table 101 near the feed-roll 9 is a horizontal vibrating lever 73, carrying in one end a swiveled fork 86, adapted to open and close a clutch 87 on the feed-roll 9. The rear end of the lever 73 has a depending lug 72, which lies alongside of the gear-wheel flange 71, the vertical face of said lug 72 being preferably inclined. When in the revolution of the gearwheel 70 and its flange 71 the cut-out portion of said flange 71 comes opposite to the lug 72 of lever 73, said lug will drop off the face of the flange 71, on which it normally slides during three-fourths of the revolution of the flange, being impelled to do this by the spring 93, belonging to the clutch 87, and will drop into the cut-away portion of flange 71, the result of which is to close the clutch 87 and cause it to remain closed until the lug 72 again passes out of the cut-away portion of the flange and acts as before against the face thereof, thereby opening the clutch. While the clutch 87 is so closed during one-fourth of the revolution of the wheel 70, the feed-roll 9 is positively driven and caused to make one revolution; but after having completed this revolution it is no longer positively driven, although it continues to revolve in consequence of the drawing action of the paper thereon. While being positively driven of course it feeds the paper forward to the cutting-knife and to a point within tube 21, where it is caught by the pamphlet or article being rolled and wrapped about the latter, and until the knife severs the paper at the completion of the wrapping operation there is an interval during which the drawing action of the paper heneath the feed-roll 9 may cause the latter to revolve, though at this time without other function than as a tension-roll. Thus it will be seen that although the main pulley 18 will make one complete revolution before being thrown out of action by dog 37 the feed-roll 9, though it will make only one revolution, will revolve only one-fourth as long as the main pulley, and the pamphlet wrapping roller 20 will make four revolutions before it will stop in consequence of the unclutching of the main pulley. These ratios of revolution between main pulley and feed-roll and slotted roller are what subsist in the present example of the invention; but obviously they may be made to vary in other forms and embodiments that can easily be arranged, and hence I am not restricted thereto.

The tube 21, which is supported by the main frame in proximity to the knife 10 and the table 2, has a slot 22 therein through which the pamphlets, magazines, or other articles to be wrapped are introduced separately from the table2, one being shown in Fig. 1 in process of introduction. The front section of the tube 21 is preferably held in place by means of a latch 97, as shown in Fig. 7. The rear of the tube is open to admit the wrapping-paper 1 and to permit free action of the ejector mechanism. Inside of this tube 21 is what 1 term a recessed roller, being designated by the reference-numeral 20 and consisting simply-of a round roller provided with a longitudinal recess 23, which at one time in the revolution of the roller 20 comes into receptive coincidence with the tube-slot 22. This recessed roller 20, as we have seen, is firmly attached to the shaft 27, which is in axial alinement therewith and really constitutes a part thereof, the inner end of shaft 27 being screwed into the end of the recessed roller 20, as shown in Fig. 6. A pamphlet having been introduced into the tube 21 through the slot 22 and caught by the recess 23 in roller 20 will, as soon as the latter revolves, be revolved therewith, and it being remembered that the revolution of the feedroll 9 begins at the same time with the revo- IIO .when the ejector devices act thereon.

lution of the recessed roller 20 itwill be seen that the paper will be fed forward to the article simultaneously with the commencement of the rolling operation and will be wrapped about the latter, the recessed roller 20 making four revolutions, though the feed-roll makes only one, and as soon as the four revolutions have been made the dog mechanism already described will act to unclutc'h the main pulley and bring the recessed roller to a state of rest. Coincidently with this latter movement the mechanism which ejects the rolled and Wrapped article from the tube 21 will be brought into action for the purpose of throwing the said article out of the end of the tube, moving it laterally and ejecting it from the left-hand endthat is to say, the wrapped pamphlet or other article may be thrown directly out of the tube 21 by the ejector devices; but I preferably attach an extensiontube 26 to the end of tube 21, and after the wrapping operation has been concluded on one pamphlet in tube 21 the ejector device will laterally transfer said pamphlet from roller 20 to the extension-tube 26. It will be thrown out of tube 26 by the next pamphlet y thus leaving-one wrapped article surrounded by the tube until the next one is wrapped the pasted edge is given a longer time to adhere and set. i

The ejector mechanism is actuated, as we have already seen, by the arm on shaft 7 4,

which arm performs its duty in such a manner that the drum 66 after being clutched by the fast and loose device acts and winds the belt 67 thereon. At the rear end of the recessed shaft and its inclosing tube is a fixed horizontal rod 88. (See Fig. 10.) ()n this rod slides a sleeve 89, which is provided with an arm 90, that is fastened to the belt 67, said arm being connected by a set-screw or other device to another sleeve 91, that surrounds and slides upon the recessed roller 20. While the pamphlet or other article is being wrapped, the device consisting of the two transverselyconnected sleeves, which I call the ejector device, occupies the position shown in Fig. 10; but as soon as the wrapping operation is complete, the edge pasted, and the belt 67 begins to pull upon the ejector device the sleeve 91, sliding on the recessed roller 20, where the wrapped article is at the time, will obviously push said article along on said roller 20 and remove it therefrom and from the tube 21 by quickly freeing it from the recessed roller 20 and ejecting it from the end of the tube 21, carrying it into the extension-tube 26 at the end of tube 21. As soon as the ejector has executed this movement the clutch device 63' 68 will open and'spring-drum 92 will act on the other end of the belt 67 to restore the belt and the ejector to the position formerly occu-v pied, as shown in Fig. 10, where everything will be in readiness to do this work on the next article when wrapped.

Referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen how the paste is applied to the wrapper. The gearwheel 53 on the end of the main shaft 41 meshes with and drives gear-wheel 76, carried on a stud 106, fastened in the main frame 1.

81 denotes a paste-roll which reciprocates vertically and applies the paste to the wrapper. This roll is mounted in a vibrating frame 83, hung on a transverse pivotal rod 82. A connecting-rod 84 is pivoted to the frame 83 and to the wheel 76. The pivotal connection of the rod 84: with wheel 76 is a yielding one and comprises a pin 85, projecting from the side of the wheel 76 and entering a block 105, yieldingly arranged in a slot in the rod 84:. This yielding connection between the connecting-rod and the gear-wheel 76 allows. the paste-roll 81 to have a flexible action. Said roll receives its paste from an endless belt or apron 79,passing around rollers 80 and 78. Roller 78 is provided with a gear 99, that engages and drives a gear-wheel 98 on the end of apaste-roller 77, which revolves in the paste-tank 19 and acts to transfer the paste from said tank to the endless belt 78. The roll 80 is provided with a pinion 100, that is driven by a gear-wheel 107 on the main shaft 7 4:, that carries the gear 70. Thus it will be seen that through the gears 107 100, belt 79, and gears 98 and 99 mechanism is operated whereby the paste is lifted from the tank 19 to a position where it is taken by the pasting-roller 81, which in its up-and-down movement comes in contact with the belt 79 and draws paste therefromnvhich it spreads upon the surface of the paper near the edge.

The paper 1, which passes beneath the feedroller 9, is supported by the part 101 of the table, being pressed thereon by the feed-roller. Referring to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the edge of the paper is adjacent to the opening 25 at the rear of the tube 21. One side of the said opening consists of the edge of the table 101, (see Fig. 12,) across which the knife 10 travels as it makes its shear out. The other edge, 102, of the opening 25 is preferably made slightly higher than the edge of the part 101, for the. reason that when knife 10 retracts after makingcut this lifting action of the knife 10 against the paper causes the edge of the latter to bend up so that when it is next moved forward it would strike against the other side of opening 25 if the latter were on the same level as the surface of the part 101; but by having the edge 102 slightly above the part 101 the eifect of the knife on the paper will not cause it to be deflected, as stated, and the next action of the roll 9 in feeding the paper will be to project the latter surely and accurately forward into the tube 21, where it will wind around the article that is being rolled therein upon the recessed roll 20.

In the operation of my present improved mailing machine for placing wrappers upon machine through the tube-slot 22 and into the coinciding slot 23 of the recessed roller 20. Having thus introduced the back or bound edge of a pamphlet, magazine, or other article .into the recessed roller, the operator will depress the treadle 57 withhis foot, (seeFig. 11.) which through the connecting-link 56 will vibrate the lever 55, that is fulcrumed upon the side of main frame and is provided with a spring 58, which returns the treadle 57 to its position after each operation. The lever 55 carries a pawl 69, which cotjperates with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 29. The operator will move the treadle suiiiciently to cause the pawl 69 to act against two or three of the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 29, the object of this being to rotate said wheel 29 sufficiently to disengage the stop 39 from the gear-sleeve arm 34, so that the spring 38 of the dog 37 may act to force the end of the dog into the teeth 30 of the main driving-pulley 18-that is to say, the object of the foot-lever arrangement is to operate the pawl-and-ratchet device suffi ciently to force the dog out of its idle position into its working position, where the drivingpulley may come into action. The result of this will be to give the gear-wheel 28 one complete revolution before it will be stopped in consequence of the contact of the arm 39 again with the-arm 34 and the consequent disengagement of the dog. During this single revolution of the gear-wheel 28 the gear-wheel 32 will make four revolutions, and consequentlythe recessed roller 20, into whose slot the back edge of the pamphlet has been introduced, will be revolved and the pamphlet rolled thereon. Si-

multaneously the pinion 31, which drives the feed-roller 9, will make one revolution before the feed-roller is unclutched, and this will suffice to start the edge of the paper into the rear of tube 21, where it will engage the rolling pamphlet and be rolled therewith and thereon, so as to cover and enwrap the same. hen the wrapping is nearly completed or at the point of time when the recessed roller 20 is completing its fourth revolution and the driving-pulley 18 is nearing the point where it will be undogged, the pasting-roller 81 will lift into contact with the edge of the paper spread across the space 25 from table 101 to the rolling pamphlet and apply paste to said paper. Immediately afterward the knife 10 will descend and cut the paper, whose pasted edge will now pass into thetube 21 and be tightly pressed against the rest of the wrapper, so that the sealing of the wrapper will be finished. As the article is now rolled,

wrapped, and sealed complete and the folding operation is ended, owing to the stopping of the wheel 28, the ejector mechanism will be brought into play by the above-described clutch device 63 68, actuated by the arm 7 5 of the horizontal shaft 74, so that the finished article will be laterally withdrawn or pushed out of the tube 21 into the extension 26, with which the end of the tube 21 is preferably provided. 7

Note now that the articles when they leave the tube 21 are still in the tubular form in which they have been rolled by the operation of the machinery. Addresses may be applied thereto by the use of an addressograph or some other suitable appliance operating through a slot in the under side of tube 26 or in some other convenient way, or may be written thereon by hand; but if mechanical means are employed they can derive power for moving them from the machine. If, however, it is desired to change the form of the wrapped article, so that instead of being tubular it will be flat or folded, a form which is often preferable to a roll, especially if the roll is without a substantial thickness, the wrapped articles may be fed directly from the tube 26 to rollers 94, carried in a frame supported on a bracket 96, (see Fig. 13,) said rollers being provided with a sprocket-wheel 95, driven by a chain 62, which passes around another sprocket-wheel 61 on the shaft 59.

Of course it will be understood that I am not restricted to any particular device for flattening the article, even if such a flattening should be considered desirable, but may utilize any means for this purpose found advantageous.

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

1. In a mailing-machine, feeding means for the wrappingpaper that is positively actuated for a time and intermittently acts as a tension for the paper, and means for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, said .means consisting essentially of a slotted tube and a recessed roller therein.

2. In a mailing-machine, feeding means for the paper that is positively actuated for a time and that also serves as a tension device on the paper, and means for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, consisting essentially of a tube having a front and rear slot, and a recessed roller in said tube.

3. In a mailing-machine, a feeding-roller, a tube having a rear and a front slot, a recessed pamphlet-roller within said tube for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, and means for permitting the feeding-roller only a temporary movement during the plural rotations of the pamphlet-roller.

4. In a mailing-machine, the combination with means for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, said means consisting essentially of a slotted tube and a recessed roller therein, of tensioned feeding means for delivering the wrapper to the article to be wrapped, and delivering means for automatically removing the wrapped article.

5. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, of a tube containing said roller and provided with a front and a rear slot, and tensioned means for feeding the wrapper to the wrapping-roller, said feeding means being positively driven for onlya portion of theinterval that the wrapping means is driven.

6. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a tube having a rear and a front slot to receive the wrapping-paper and pamphlet, respectively, of a recessed roller therein for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same.

7. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a tube having a rear and a front slot to receive the wrapper and pamphlet, respec tively, of aroller therein for rolling the article.

and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same and means embracing said roller to 'automaticallydeliver the article.

8. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a tube having slots for the passage of the articles to be wrapped and also for the wrapping-paper, of a recessed roller therein whereon the article is rolled and a wrapper simultaneously applied thereto, and means embracing said roller to automatically deliver the article, said means consisting of a sleeve that slides on the recessed roller and pushes the Wrapped article therefrom, together with mechanism for actuating said sleeve.

9. In a mailing-machine, the combination of a stationary tube formed with front and rear slots, a recessed roller therein for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, a feed-roller for delivering the wrapper to the recessed roller, said feed-roller being actuated for only a part of the interval during which the recessed roller revolves, pasting means, and means for sev-- to the pamphlet-roller and only a single rota:

tion to the feed-roller.

12. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a tube formed with front and rear slots, of a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneouslyv wrapping. a cover aboutthe same, and a sleeve sliding on the recessed roller for automatically removing the Wrapped article.

13. In amailing-machine, the combination with means for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, said means consisting of a recessed roller. of a tube having a front and a rear slot, in which tube the recessed roller revolves, a feed-roller for delivering wrapping-paper to the other roller, said feed-roller having only a temporary actuation during the movement of the other roller, and a device for automatically removing the wrapped article from the machine consisting of a sleeve on the recessed roller, and means for actuating said sleeve.

14. The combination of means consisting of a recessed roller for rolling the article, feeding means fordelivering a Wrapper to the article while it is being rolled, said feeding means consisting essentially of a temporarilydriven feed-roller, a recessed tube within which the recessed roller revolves, means for rotating the recessed roller with a plurality of rotations, and a sleex e on the recessed roller forautomatically removing the wrapped article from the machine, said device having a laterally-reciprocating motion.

15. The combination of means consisting of a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, of a stationary tube within which the roller revolves, and an ejector device for automatically removing the wrapped article from the machine, consisting essentially of a sleeve on the recessed roller for pushing the wrapped article therefrom, and means for bringing the slide into action as soon as the wrapping operation has been completed.

16. The .combination of pamphlet-rolling means consisting of a recessed roller, a stationary slotted tube in which the roller revolves, a slide on the recessed roller for laterally pushing the wrapped article therefrom,

and means for automatically operating the said slide at the conclusion of each rolling operation,-consisting essentially of a drum having a belt connecting with the slide and clutching means for enabling said drum to be positively driven.

17. The combination of a pamphlet-rolling device consisting of a recessed roller, a stationary slotted tube in which the said roller revolves, and a sleeve on the recessed roller for removing the wrapped article from the slotted roller, means for automatically operating the sleeve at the conclusion of each wrapping operation, and a suitable gearing for driving the parts, which gearingcauses the pamphlet-roller to make a plurality of revolutions during each wrap-ping operation and the sleeve to perform one movement for each wrapped article.

18. The combination of a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, a stationary recessed tube within which the recessed roller revolves, a driving-shaft on the end of the recessed roller for actuating it, and an extension-tube on the end of the stationary tube, together with an ejector device embracing the recessed roller for removing the wrapped article from the recessed roller and placing it within the extension-tube from which it is ejected when the next wrapped article is introduced into the extension-tube.

19. In a mailing-machine, the combination of a pamphlet-rolling device consisting of a recessed roller, a stationary tube within which the roller revolves, feeding means for delivering paper to the article while being rolled, pasting means consisting of a paste-roller for applying an adhesive to the flap of the cover at the conclusion of the rolling operation, and means for severing the paper when pasted, consisting essentially of a frame, a knife in said frame, a depending curved finger on the frame and a cam device which is engaged by the curved finger to allow the frame to be oscillated by the cam.

20. The combination with a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, of feeding means for delivering the paper to form the wrapper, aknife for cutting the wrapper of the proper size, and a throat within which the knife reciprocates, said throat being contiguous to the recessed pamphlet-roller, one edge of the throat being higher than the other in order that the paper may be accurately delivered during the rolling operation.

21. The combination of means consisting of a pamphlet recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, of a stationary recessed tube, whose recess is in coincidence at times with the recess in the pamphlet-roller, feeding means for delivering the wrapping paper to the article while being wrapped, said feeding means consisting essentially of a roller temporarily actuated, and pasting means for the wrapper.

22. The combination with a roller on which the pamphlet is rolled and wrapped, of mechanism for driving it, consisting essentially of a main pulley and its shaft, a main gear-wheel on the same shaft, a dog device on the gear-wheel and engaging the pulley and having a stoparm, and a gear-wheel driving the pamphletroller and having also a stop-arm, all arranged so that when the stop-arms strike each other the dog may release and render inactive the main pulley.

23. The combination with a roller on which the pamphlet is rolled and wrapped, of mechanism for driving it, consisting essentially in a main pulley and its shaft, a main gear-wheel fast on the same shaft, a dog device on the gearwheel and engaging the pulley and having a l stop-arm, and a gear-wheel driving the paml phlet-roller'and having also a stop-arm, said two stop-arms arranged to strike each other once in each revolution of the main gear-wheel, for the purpose of releasing the dogfrom the main pulley, and means whereby a partial rotation may be given to the main gear-wheel to cause the stop-arms to pass each other for the purpose of again throwing the dog into action.

24:. The combination with a roller on which the pamphlet is rolled and wrapped. ofamechanism for driving it, consisting essentially of a main pulley and its shaft, a main gear-wheel fast on the same shaft-,a dog device on the gearwheel and engaging the pulley and having a stop-arm, a gear-wheel driving the pamphletroller and having also a stop-arm,said two stoparms arranged to strike each other once in each revolution of the inain gear-wheel for the purpose of releasing the dog from the main pulley, and means whereby a partial rotation may be given to the main gear-wheel to cause the stop-arms to pass each other for the purpose of again throwing the doginto action, said means consisting essentially of a ratchet-wheel fast on the main gear-wheel and a pawl device engaging the teeth of the ratchet and operative to feed the ratchet-wheel and the gear-wheel forward sufliciently far to remove the stoparm belonging to the dog from contact with the other stop-arm.

25. The combination with the pamphletroller, of mechanism for driving it consisting of a main pulley, a main gear-wheel, aratchetwheel on the side of the latter, a toothed wheel on the side of the main pulley, a dog device carried by the main gear-wheel and consisting of a spring-provid ed pin that engages the teeth on the main pulley and has a stop-arm at the opposite end, a gear-wheel for driving the pamphlet-roller,said gear-wheel having also a stoparm, the two stop-arms having inclined faces and designed to pass each other and be released from contact with each other by giving a partial forward movement to the main gear-wheel, substantially as described.

26. The combination with a pamphlet-roller having a shaft for driving it, a gear-wheel on said shaft, a main driving-pulley and its shaft, a main gear-wheel on the same shaft, a toothed Wheel on the side of the main pulley, a dog device in the main gear wheel, which device engages the teeth on the side of the pulley, said dog device havinga stop-arm adapted to contact with a stop-arm on the gear-wheel which drives the pamphlet-roller, said two stop-arms having inclined faces, and arranged so that the main gear-wheel may run forward whenever it runs, stopping once in each revolution, and the pamphlet-roller may make a plurality of revolutions during each revolution of the main gear-wheel.

27. The combination with a roller on which the pamphlet is rolled and wrapped, of mechanism for driving it, consisting essentially of a main pulley and its shaft, a main gearof a clutch on the feed-roller shaft controlled by a gear-wheel having a segmental flange.

28. In a mailing-machine, the combination with a tube having a rear slot for the introduction of the paper that forms the wrapper and a front slot for the introduction of the pamphlet to be wrapped, of a recessed pamphlet-roller within the tube whose recess is adapted to coincide with the front slot of the tube in order to receive and hold a pamphlet, and means for feeding the wrapping-paper to the pamphlet-roller.

29. The combination with a stationary tube having a rear opening through which the Wrapping-paper is introduced and having a front slot through which the pamphlet or article to be wrapped is introduced, of a recessed roller within the tube on which roller the pamphlet is rolled, and whose recess coincides with the front tube-slot to receive the pamphlet, feeding means for the wrappingpaper that is positively actuated for a time and then serves as a tension device on the paper, and a table contiguous to the slotted tube for supporting the articles to be Wrapped and from which they are fed individually to the tube and roller.

30. The combination of means consisting of a recessed roller for rolling the article and simultaneously wrapping a cover about the same, of a stationary slotted tube within which the roller revolves, and an ejector device for automatically removing the wrapped article from the machine, consisting of a sleeve that slides on the recessed roller and pushes the wrapped article therefrom, a second sleeve sliding on a stationary rod beside the slotted roller, a connection between the two sleeves, a drum having a belt attached to the said connection, a spring-drum attached to the other end of the belt for returning the ejector device to its normal position after acting, and clutch mechanism whereby the drum and belt are caused to act at the conclusion of each wrapping operation.

Signed at New York city, New York, this 14th day of April, 1903.

ELI SAMUEL REED. Witnesses:

JOHN H. HAZELTON, A. E. SAuUELs.

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