US852761A - Strip-applying machine. - Google Patents

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No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE. STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEEN-SHEET 1.

PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY '7, 1907. H; E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

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No. 852,761. PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

H. E. BODINE.

STRIP APPLYING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JAN.27, 1906.

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HARRY E. BODINE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN UNITED STATES SAMPLE BOOK COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN- SYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF'PENNSYLVANIA. I

. STRIP-APPLYING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

lates particularly to the construction and arrangement of such a machine for said purposes.

The principal objects of my invention are first, to rovide a machine for joining sheets of cardoard or other similar material with tape or stri s of muslin or linen for the purpose of bin ing the same; second, to provide a machine for such pur ose, with a reciprocating feed table to fee the. sheets of cardboard or the like to mechanism for applying fillets of tape or narrow strips to either or both sides thereof; third, to provide a machine with mechanism to guide the tape or strips and to ress the same onto the cardboard or the h ke and against each other; fourth, to provide a machine with an interchangeable gear-mechanism to regulate the speed of feed and pressure rollers with respect to the table; and fifth, to provide the pressure rollers with a yielding covering to end the strips or tapes over the edges of the paper and to unite the same with each other in the space between the-sheets and also to impart'to the pressure rollers a slight increase in circumferential speed over the feed rollers so as to board or the like forward against the tension of the feed rollers.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connection with the ac companying drawings forming part hereof,

in which Figure 1, is a diagrammatic view,"illustrating artly in side elevation and partly in vertica section :the feed table and receiving table for the sheets of cardboard or the like, the feed and ressure rollers interposed between the tab es, the means for conducting tape or stripsof muslin or linen to the under and upper sides of the sheets and to the feed ull or force the sheets of cardrollers, and means for moistening an adhesive coating of the strips or tapes prior to their application to the sheets, all embodying main features of my present invention. Fig. 2, is a view, illustrating partly in side elevation and partly in section of the machine for applying binding strips to cardboard or the like, certain parts being removed therefrom. Fig. 3, is a detail view, illustrating in side elevation the gear-mechanism for actuating the feed and pressure rollers and the gear for regulating the speed of the rollers. Fig. 4, is a top or lan view of the machine shown in Fig. 2. ig. 5, is a detail view enlarged, illustrating in t6 or plan view two sheets of card-board joined by strips of flexible material from opposite sides, one of the strips being shown as partly removed from the sheets; and Fig. 6, is a similar view, illustrating partly in elevation and partly in section the pressure rollers, two sheets of card-board and strips passing between the same and the manner of bending the strips over the edges of the sheets and uniting the strips to each other between the same, by the yielding covering of the rollers.

Refer ing to the drawings, (it, represents the standard of the machine, upon which is arranged a table 1), adapted to receive and to feed in a forward direction in the present instance, sheets of card-board c, to be joined together. In order to hold the sheets of card-board c, a certain distance apart, from each other, and in a certain position, on the table I), the same is provided with an aliningbar (1, and gage-arms'd and (1 against which the sheets of pa er 0, are placed by hand or machinery, as s own by dotted lines inFig. 4. The gage-arms d and (1 are adjustably secured to the table 5, by means of bolts d which are slidably arranged in grooves d of the table. Sheets of card-board of varying sizes can thus be readily alined on the table I), with the aid of the gage-arms d and 01 and bar (1, which can be replaced by another alining-bar, if the space between the sheets a, is to be increased or decreased. The preferred means for reciprocating the table 7), on the standard (it, consists of a bell-crank lever e, pivotally secured in the point 6 to the standard a, which lever at one end is engaged by a cam 6 secured to a shaft 6 and at its other end abuts against a bracket (i SYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR To THE:

1o integral with the standar 25 nected with a bracket 11,

to. be presently described.

3 lower pressure roller 9,

55 rollers f andf.

65 the weight of the upper rollerf,

secured to the table I), as shown in Fig. 2. During the rotation of the shaft (3, the cam e thereof, shifts the table I), from right to left in Fig. 2, by which movement the end of the 5 sheets a, of card-board projecting beyond the table I), are brought into engagement with feed rollers f and f 1 and. by the same into engagement with pressure rollers g and 9 mounted in brac ets (1. referably formed d a. A spring (1,

connected by a hook d", to the table (1, and by a bolt to the standard a, serves to return the table to its inoperative )osition. The shaft c,by means of gear-wheels e and 1 5 e, such as are indicated by dash and dotted lines in Fig. 2, is connected with the driving shaft h, and is thus rotated by the same. The shaft h, b means of a pulley I1 is driven by any suita )le source of power, not shown, and

serves to rotate the rollers f and g, with variable speed by the following preferred gear-mechanism:As shown in Pig. 3, to the shaft e is secured a gear-wheel e, which meshes with a gear-wheel i, removably coni which ispivotally mounted on the shaft e. The bracket i, is )rovided with a slotted extension 2", which by means of a bolt t, is adjustably secured to a boss a, of the standard a, for a purpose The gear i, meshes with a gear wheel f secured to the lower feed-roller f which by means of a gear- Wheel f, secured thereto and an idler gearwheelf, meshing with a gear-wheel g of the transmits its rotary movement thereto. The upper feed rollerf, and )ressure roller g,are rotated by frictional contact from the lower positively driven feed roller 7', and pressure roller 1 or by the sheets 0, 0i card-board fed forward by the lowerrollers, stood from Fi 2.

The feed roilers f and f, also serve to conduct strips 7c and 7c, of flexible material, such as will be readily underas muslin or linento the sheets 6, and to apply the same from either or both sides to oin or connect the sheets 0, with each other in. the manner shown in Fig. 5. As shown in Fig. 1, each of the strips It and 7c, is wound upon .50 a reel Z, from which the same by means of guide rollers Z and Z, is conducted over a roller m, arranged in a tank m, filled with water, which moistens the adhesive coating :of the strips prior to theilaeonduct to the feed The guide rollers Z, are preferably carried by a bar I, secured to the bracket at, the sheets 0, of card-board are brought into contact ,with the feed rollers f and f, the

same are engaged by the rollers and fed forward bythe same. The moistened strips 7:.- and k, which are conducted over projections f", of the rollers and f, are applied and forced by the same against the sheets 0, by and are bent other material such rollers, the

as shown in Fig. 4. As soon as 'adapted to hold der tension during the application of said as at 0, over the edgesof the card-board and unlted with each other as at in the between the boards by the. yielding covering g, of the pressure rollers g and g, by passing through the same, as shown in Fig. (i. In order to hold the sheets 0, of card-board under proper tension during the passage of the same through the feed rollers f and f, and pressure rollers g and g and during the application of the strips k and 7c thereto, the yielding covering 9", of the pressure rollers g and g, is of slightly greater diameter than the projcctionsf", of the feed rollers f and f Thus the circumferential speed of the pressure rollersg and g, is increased which tends to'pull or forcethe sheets 0, of card-board forward against the tension of the feed. rollersf and f, and in this manner effectually prevents buckling of the sheets by holding the same under proper tension during their passage between the rollers'. The sheets 0, leaving the rollers are conducted by the same. over a receiving table a, placed in front of the pressure rollers g and g, on which the strips It and it, between two sets of joined sheets are cut to disconnect the same from each other by any suitable cutting or severing means, not shown, as will be readily understood from Fig. 5, of the drawings.

Instead of providing the strips and Ir, with an adhesive. coating prior to applying to the card-board, such strips may be supplied with an adhesive from the tank 771., by means of the rollers m. Instead of card-board any as wood or leather may be joined or connected by means of the strips k and 1c.

Having thus described the nature and Ol)". jects of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a machine of the character described, a table for receiving and supporting material to be. joined, a plurality of feed and pressure rollers, means for conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feed rollers and means for reciprocating said table to con duct the material to said feed rollers and between the strips; said feed rollers adapted to conduct said material and strips to said pressure rollers.

2. In a machine of the character described,

a table for'recciving and supporting material to be joined, a plurality of feed and pressure diameters of said pressure rollers being greater than the diameters of said feed rollers, means for conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feed rollers and means for reciprocating said table to conduct said material to said feed rollers and between said strips; said feed rollers adapted to conduct said material and strips to said pressure rollers and said pressure rollers said strips and material unstrips to said material.

space I ICS 3. In a machine of the character described, a table-for receiving and supporting material to be joined, a plurality of feed and pressure rollers, the diameters of said pressure rollers being greater than the diameters of said feed rollers, means for conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feed rollers, means under tension during the application of said strips to said material.

. 4. In a machine of the character described, a table for receiving and supporting material to be joined, a set of superposed feed rollers and a set of superposed pressure rollers, the diameters of said pressur rollers being greater than the diameters of said feed rollers,

means for rotating certain of said feed and pressure ,rollers, means for conducting llexi be joined, means carried by said table for holding the same a'certain distance apart and to aline the sheets with respect to each other, a set of superposed feed rollers and a set of su erposed pressure rollers, said pressure ro lers provided with yielding coverings, means for rotating certain of said feed and pressure rollers, means for conducting flexible adhesive coated strips to said feed rollers and means for reciprocating said table to conduct said sheets to said feed rollers and between said strips; said feed rollers adapted to apply said strips to said sheets and to conduct the same to said pressure rollers and the latter adapted to hold said strips and sheets under tension and to bring said stripsinto engagement with each other between said sheets by the yielding of theeoverings of said pressure rollers.

6. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a suitable frame, a bed, means to reciprocate said bed lengthwise of the machine, a gage strip located in the center of the bed, a sheet-engaging device adjustably secured to the bed, a series of pressure rolls and means for supplying two flexible strips to said rolls, whereby the strips will be applied to sheets fed to the bed, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing wi'tnesses.

HARRY E. BODINE. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH.

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