US834556A - Plunger-operating numbering-machine. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD 001230, 1906.

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MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZI, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN Gr. BATES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T 0 THE BATES MACHINE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PLUNGER-OPERATING NUMBERING-MACHINVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30,, 1906.

Application filed May 21, 1906. Serial No. 317,900.

zen of the United States, residing at New York city, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plunger- Operating Numbering Machines, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a plunger-operatednumbering-machine-such, for example, as shown in In United States Patent No. 676,084, dated une 11, 1901 with a simple and efficient means for operating the same from a plunger located at a distance from the machine, but adapted for operation by the printing motion.

In carrying out this invention I make use of a block carrying a means for operatively engaging the pawl-plate ofthe machine and I provide a shaft preferably slidable through the block and controlling the engaging means in the block. I prefer to make this shaft in sections coupled together, as by dovetailed slots and projections. To the other end of the shaft I attach another engaging means, as by a pin, this engaging means being located in a plunger-block carrying the ordinary spring-pressed plunger, car ing a rack or other known engaging means or operatively connecting the plunger to the pinned engaging means on the shaft. I prefer to provide the slidable block with ready means for attaching to the frame of the numberingmachine, and I'prefer for this purpose to provide pins on the block to engage the holes in the frame, which are usually engaged by the pins of the side plates, shown in the patent before described.

My invention will beset. forth inthe claims.

Figure 1 is a plan of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front plan of the block removed from the I numbering-machine; and Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5, Fig. 1.

As shown on the drawings, the numberingmachine of the patent hereinbefore referred to is shown without a plunger, the same be ing removed, leaving exposed the spring-recess 2 and the guide-recesses 3 in the frame 1. The machine is also provided with numbering-wheels 5 of ordinary construction, and one side plate 4 is shown as retained on the machine in the front. A main shaft 6 carries the swing arm 7 of the pawl-plate, which is shown as provided with operating-teeth 8.

The block 13 is provided with a slot 12, in which is held an engaging means for the teeth 8 on the pawl-plate. This engaging means consists of an arm 10 with teeth 9 at its end and has a central opening for the shaft 15, provided with an inwardly-turned projection 11, fitting the keyway 27in the shaft. Pins 14 serve to prevent the removal of the arm 10, but allow it a slight motion when not engaged by the shaft, so-that the shaft may readily find its way through the central 0 ening of the arm. Pins 26 on the face 0 the block are adapted to fit into the openings for the side plate in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

The plunger is of the general construction of the patent before referred to, and consists of the slotted block 21, carrying a spring 23, and the usual guide-pins 22 secured by pin 25. From the plunger 24 extends a rack 18, constituting an operating means for oscillating the shaft, to which shaft 1.5 there is se cured, as bya pin 20, an arm 16 provided with teeth 17, engaging the rack 18.

The shaft 15 is composed of a number of similar sections, one end 29 of each section being dovetailed to form a groove and the other end having a dovetailed projection 28 upon it. I

In operation the parts are locked in a frame, as usual, and upon the depression of the plunger-head 24 the rack 18 will oscillate the arm 16, rock the shaft 15, and with it the army 10 to move the pawl-plate 7 in the usualmanner and as described in my aforesaid patent. Though I have shown but one block and numbering-machine in the drawings, it will be obvious to one skilled in the art that a number of such blocks and machines may be placed on a single shaft.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A frame, wheels, a shaft therefor, and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block adjacent to the side of the machine and parallel with the axis of its wheel shaft, carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod independent of the wheelshaft, engaging said second operating means and carried by the block, and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said rod and engaging said third operating means,

' ing a third operatingmeans said rod in operative position of the parts being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it.

2. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying'a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, said rod being in sections and coupling means between the sections.

3. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod engaging :said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carryand a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, a pin passing through said fourth operating means, a keyway in the shaft, said second operating means having an interior opening, and an inwardly-projecting pin engaging the keyway in the shaft.

frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, one of the shaft-operating means having a central opening and an inwardly-projecting pin, the shaft having a keyway engaged thereby.

5 A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby,

an operating means carried by the plate, a

block carrying an operating means engaging said second operating means,

a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, said block and said machine-frame being so secured that when not looked up they can be separated from one another, by merely moving one relatively to the other.

6. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said second'operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, said block and said maehine-framebeing so secured that when not looked up they can be separated from one another, by merely moving one relatively to the other, said block having projecting pins and said machine-frame having holes to be engaged thereby 7. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth. operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, one of the shaft-operating means having a central opening and an inwardly-projecting pin, the shaft having a keyway engaged thereby, said operating means being mounted in the block so as to have a free limited motion therein when not engaged by said rod.

8. A frame, wheels and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod engaging said second operating means and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said shaft and engaging said third operating means, said rod being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, the operating means of the block having a projecting arm extending outwardly and havin a toothed outer end for engagement with the operating means on the pawl-plate.

9. A frame, wheels, a shaft therefor, and a pawl-plate carried thereby, an operating means carried by the plate, a removable block carrying an operating means engaging said first operating means, a rod independent of the wheel-shaft and located in said block and engaging said second operating means, and a plunger and frame, said plunger carrying a third operating means and a fourth operating means engaged by said rod and engaging said third operating means, said rod in operative position of the parts being slidable through one of the operating means engaged by it, and detachable securing means between the block and frame.

Signed at New York city this 19th day of May, 1906.

EDWIN G. BATES.

Vvitnesses B. B; CONRAD, CARRIE E. WYLIE.

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