US850467A - Bottle-wrapper machine. - Google Patents

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No. 850,467. PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

M. COSTELLO. BOTTLE WRAPPER MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1906.

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Patented-April is, 1907.

Application filed June 8, 1906. Serial No. 320,819.

To all whom it; may concern:

Be it known that I, MAUnIoE CosrnLLo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful lmpro'vements in Bottle-Wrapper Maa full, clear, and exact description of the in-,

companying drawings, and to the'figures of reference marked thereon, which form a par of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bottle-wrapper machines of the type shown and described in United States Letters'Patent No. 585,748, granted to H. S. Gordon Jul 6, 1897. p

. he im rovements relate to means for applying a esive substance to the wrapper on plication of the receptacle-say a hundred .the upper side and adjacent to one corner,

to means for creasing said corner after the aplue or adhesive substance, to means for ioFding said corner upon the crease-line and adhering it to the wrapper, to means for discharging the finishedwrapper into a receptacle, and to means for counting the wrappers discharged into the receptacle. The lattermeans comprises devices for marking. one of the wrappers after a given number have been de osited into the li itso that the wrappers may be'removed from the rece tacle and packed for shipment without the necessity of counting them in removing them from the receptacle.

In the drawings annexed hereto, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved bottlewra per machine. Fig. 2 is a topplan view of t e front of the machine. Fig, 3 is a sectional view on the line a: at of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the rearward end of the machine. Fig. 5 is a view of the wra per after the same has been creased and g ued and before the operation of bendin the corner. Fig. 6 is an end view of the de ivery end with the receptacle and counting device plate 9 in bending t feeding them into the receiving end of the machine.

3 and 4 are male and female rollers, whichare connected by gears 3' and 4. These rollers score or crease the opposite corners of the wrappers on the-dia onal lines 5 and 6, as shown in Fig. 5, and upon which lines said corners are bent in opposite directions after being glued so as to secure them to the body of the wrap ers. The corner of the wrapper bent u on t e score-lines 6 lies upon the under si e of the wrapper as it passes through the machine, and this corner is scored, glued, and bent over against the under side of the Wrapper in the same manner as shown and described in the patent hereinbefore referred to.

The present inprovements relate more especially to the gluing and bending of the corner of the wrapper on the score-line 5 against the upper side of the wrap er.

7 is a lower bending-r0 er, to an. upper cam-roller 8 through gears 7 and 8. This roller 7 e06 erates with a pressuree upper corner of the wrapper upon the score-line 5 after said corner has been glued in a manner hereinafter described. The pressurelate 9 is rigidly supported upon a depen' ing arm 10, connected to a transverse bar 11, which is slidingly mounted parallel with the cam-roller 8 and is given horizontal reciprocating movement by means of a pin 12, which rojects into aperipheral cam-groove 13 insai roller 8.

Glue is applied at the point 14, as shown Fig. 5, before the wrapper is given its crease or score-line '5. p v

15 designates a wiper on shaft 16 above the initial supporting-roller 1 and geared to said supporting-roller through spur-wheels 1 and 16. This wiper carries a pastor 17, which is of a resilient nature and when in its lower position touches the corner of the wra per and applies the necessaryquantity f glhe thereto. The glue is obtained from a receptacle 18, mounted above the scoringrollers 3 and 4 and in which rotates a disk 19, said disk being submerged at the bottom in the glue. On the same shaft with the disk 19 is a sprocket-wheel 20, rotating on the outer side of the glue-receptacle 18 and connects with a small intermediate driving-sprocket 22 by a chain 21. Upon the shaft 23 of the sprocket 22 there is a main driving-Wheel 24, which is connected with a sprocket on the shaft of theinitial supporting-roller 1. The

which is geared IllO necessary power for operating the machine is introduced at the shaft of roller 1. Upon the shaft 23, in alinement with the gluingdisk 19, is a series of wiper-arms 25, uniformly spaced and united to a common hub. These wiper-arms rotate in contact with the gluingdisk 19 and with the paster 17, and thus transfer the glue from the disk 19 to the paster 17 at the proper time.

It will thus far be seen that the first operation is to apply the glue at the point 14 on the the entire surface thereof. These oorrugat ing-rollers 34 are connected by gears 35, only one of which is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. These corrugating-rollers, it will be observed, are located near the delivery end of the machine, and from these rollers it is necessary to conduct the wrappers in a down ward course into the receiver 35. Immediately in the rear of said corrugatmg-rollers are two advancing- rollers 36 and 37, be-' tween which the wrapper is passed. The upper one of these rollers has a substantial peripheral groove 38 in order that pressure will not be applied to the body of the wrapper as it passes through these rollers. Such pressure would tend ,obviously, to remove the corrugations from the wrapper r'eviousl-y applied by the corrugating-rol ers. The lower roller 37 and the upper roller 36 are connectedby gears 39, and said lower roller 37 has a peripheralrecess 40, into which the advancing end of the wrapper is pressed at the proper time by a resillent'arm 41, secured to the upper roller 36 within the peripheral groove 38. The wrapper is thus given its initial downward plane of 'movement, from which position it is directed into the receiver 35 by the following devices: Upon an end of the shaft of the upper roller 36 there is a wiper-arm 44 rigidly connected and carrying a roller 45. In the rotating movements of said arm 44 the roller 45 engages an arm 46 made fast to rock-shaft 47,the

point of said engagement being on the lower side of the arm 46. The shaft 47 is mounted in bearings 47 on each side of the frame and is controlled by an arm 42 and s ring 48 to hold the arm 46 in the path of t ewiper-roller 45. Arms 43 have an inwardly, downwardly. and outwardl sweeping movement to direct the ends of t e wrap ers farther down into the receiver 35 after t e 'arm 4luhas initially turned down the end of the wrapper intoithe recess 40in the lower roller 3'7. The said arms 43 are loosely supportedv in staples 52, attached to the outer face of slides 51. The

slides 51 are mounted upon guides 53, which i are a part of stationary brackets 53, secured to opposite sides of the framework. On

each end of the rock-shaft 47 there is a crankarm 49, the outer end of which is bifurcated to straddle the link 50, to which it has a pivotal connection. Said link 50 is connected to the slide 51 on each side of the machine. The middle portions ofthe arms 43 are connected with springs 54, which exert a downward pull upon these arms, and the outer ends of said arms arepivoted at 55 to plates 56.

The plates 56 are-connected to one side 57 of a hinge, which supports an arm 58, carrying at its inner end a roller 59. The other endto wit, 57of the hinge is rigidly attached to a su porting-arm 60.

*Ast usfar described it will be seen that the rock-shaft 47 imparts, through the sliding members 51, an up-andedown movement to the arms 43, which movement is enabled by .the pivots 55, which connect said arms with plates 56. These plates 56 extend from the plates 6], which, as before'stated, are connected to the hinges 57 and 57. The outward and inward movement of the arms 43 .takes place simultaneously with-the movements imparted from the rock-shafts 47, as

follows: 62 designate cam's, which are fast upon the journals of the lower roller 37. These cams are'enga ed at their outer faces constantly by the-rollers 59 through the influence of springs 63,-which are attached to the outer ends of the arms 43 and to suitable points-of the receiver 35. As the cams 62 are shown in Fig. 4 the arms 43 occupy their innermost positions in front of the lower roller 37. When the highest point 62 of said cams engage the rollers 59, they are caused to move the arms 43 outward, the hinged members 57 opening and carrying with them the plates 56' and thearms 43. Thus the downwardly, outwardly, upwardly, and, inwardly sweeping movement is imparted to the arms 43 to press down the ends of thewrappers lying rearwardly into the receiver 35.-

I will next describe the means for'counting the wrappers as they enter the receiver 35 in the manner hereinbefore indicated.

On one side of the receiver there is a ratchet-wheel 65 mounted, said ratchetwheel having anumber of teeth corresponding to the number of wrappers it is desired to count and mark. In the present instance the said wheel has sixty-five ratchet teeth,

and on'one side thereof there is a pin 64,

which travels around-with the wheel and.

trips a lever 66,-theinner end of which lies in the path of the pin. iThe wheel 65 is actuated step by'step from the rock-shaft 47 through a crank-arm 67 projected from said rock-shaft, and. a pawl 68, carried. upon said 'is located. Extending from the outer end of the lever 66 is a flexible connection 72, whichextends acrossthe receiver 35. This flexible connection 72 and the lever 66 are maintained in position by a yoke or frame 73, which is attached to one of the side standards 71 and extends over the receiver to a desirable extent. ,The flexible connection 72 is connected to a carriage 74, which is slidingly mounted upon a bar 75 and is maintained in a normal position by a spring 76, which is attached to said carriage and to the bar 75.

The carriage 74 carries a brush-holder 77, which carries a brush 78, adapted to be moved along the'bar 75 to make contactwith the side of the wrapper and to apply ink at the desired time, or upon the, entrance of each hundredth wrapper as fed into 7 the machine,

As before stated, theratchet-wheel makesa complete revolution when the one-hundredth wrapper is fed into the receiver. At this point the pin 64 trips the lever 66 and the-carriage 74 is;moved inwardly through the flexible connection 72 to bring the brush 78 in contact with the side of the hundredth wrapper. By this means of counting and marking the wrappers in hundred lots they may be taken from the receiver in such lots and packed into the shipping-cases without further delay or without counting the'same' by hand, as heretofore;

I-claim '1. In a bottle-wrapper machine, an initial supporting-roller toguide the wrapper into the machine and to support said wrapper while receiving adhesive substance to one corner of the wrapper, a wiper-arm mounted above said roller carrying a paster adapted to engage a corner of the wrapper and to apply adhesive substance thereto, a glue-receptacle,

a rotating disk partially submerged in said receptacle, and a series of wiper-arms inter-Y posed between, said disk and the paster to transfer the adhesive substance from the disk to the paster.

2. In a bottle-wrapper machine, a roller for initially conducting the wrapper into the machine, a rotating paster mounted above said roller, a disk rotating in a paste-receptacle, and means interposed between said disk and said rotatin paster for intermittently transferring ad esive substance from the disk to the paster. 3. In a bottle-wrapper machine, scoringrollers, an initial feeding-roller to feed the wrapper to said scoring-rollers and to support the wrappers while being pasted at one corner, a p aster rotating above said initial roller,

, a glue-receptacle, aglue-transferring device partially submerged in said receptacle, and

' ers, one of sm means interposed between said glue-transferring device and-said rotating paster by which adhesive substance is intermittently conveyed to said paster.

4.- n a bottle-wrapper machine, an init1al feeding-roller to support the ma pers while being supplied atone end with ad esive substance, a rotating and adapted to app one end of the wrapper while supported upon said roller, a receptacle to contain said adhesive substance, a device rotating in said adhesive substance, a device interposed between the device within the a'dhesive-rece tacle, and the paster to intermittently app y the adhesive substance to said paster, scoringrollers to score the wra per on a line between the portion receiving t -e adhesive substance and the body of the wrapper, and bending devices to unite the portion of the wrapper so pasted and scored. p

5. In a bottle-wrapper machine, an initial feeding-roller to feed the wrappers and support them while each is being supplied at one corner with adhesive substance, a rotating paster above said roller y adhesive substance to paster above said-roller and applying adhev sive substance toone corner of the wrapper while supported upon said roller, a receptacle containing said adhesive substance, a member rotating in said adhesive substance, a device inter osed between said member and the paster to lntermittently supply the adhesive substance to the paster, scoring-rollers to' score the wrappers on lmes between the cor-- ner receiving the adhesive substance and the body of the WM per, andmeans for bending the portion oft e wrapper upon the scorewrappers, means for pressing the ends of the wrappers into said recess, and means for counting the wrappers entering the receiver.

8. In a bottle-wrap er machine, corrugating-rollers, delivery-r0 lers receiving the corrugated wrap er from said corrugated rolld delivery-rollers having an annular peripheral recess and the other of said delivery-rollers having a, peripheral recess, means for depressing the ends of the wrappers into said .peri heral recess to deflect their force of travel om the machine, and a receiver to receive said wrappers.

9. In a bottle-wra per machine, deliveryrollers, one of which as a peripheral recess, vibrating arms to depress the ends of the vends of the wrappe'rslnto sald recess, vi

wrappers into said peripheral recess, means for imparting movements to said arms as described, a receiver to receive the wrappers from the delivery-rollers after acted upon bythe vibrating arms, and means for counting and marking the wrappers entering the receiver. v A

10. Ina bottle-wra per machine, deliver rollers, one of which as an annular eripheral depression, and the other of whic has a peripheral recess in a portion of its circumerence, a. device for initially deflecting)- the rating arms to complete the de ression of the ends of the wrap ers into sai recess, means for imparting engitudinal reciprocating movement to said arms, and means for imparting in the meantime an' oscillating movement to said arms, and a receiver to receive the wrappers in parallel positions after being acted upon by said arms.

11. In a bottle-wrapping machine, the combination with a receiver, delivery-rollers mounted at the entrance of said receiver, one of said rollers having a peri heral recess to receive the pointed ends 0 the Wrappers, means for pressing said ends of the Wrappers into said recess, means for deflecting the ends of saidwrappers as they leave the rollers, a

Wrappers into said receiver, .a counting device to count the wrappers entering said receiver, a marker to mark one of said wrappers after a predetermined number have entered the receiver, a carriage upon which said marker is supported, a exible connection, a lever to which one end of said flexible connection is attached'and the other end of said flexible connection being attached to said carriage, a bar upon which said carriage is slidingly mounted, and means for maintaining said bar and carriage in their normal positions' I In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. I

MAURICE cosTELLo.

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