US874790A - Printing device. - Google Patents

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PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

A. L. PATTERSON. PRINTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY10,1907.

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A. L. PATTERSON.

PRINTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10,1907.

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PRINTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed May 10, 1907. Serial No. 372.887-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Low PATTER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albemarle, in the county of Stanley and State of North-Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLabel-Printing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

' Labels for hosiery and many other similar articles of merchandise are generally printed at the printing oflice with the wholesalers name and trade-mark, but one or more blank spaces are left for the size and call numbers which, owing to the variations, are subsequently put on at the factory. It is difficult to stam these numbers neatly with an ordinary ru ber stamp and often an order regpires several cases to be numbered with.

flerent call numbers, and in such instances it is necessary to count out the required number for each case.

My invention is designed to provide a printing device for use at the factory for the purpose of adding to the printed labels the subsequent specific number and designa-v tions in a rapid, neat, accurate and convenient manner and at the same time counting out any desired number and announcing the comlpletion of the batch by a bell signal.

T e invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, which I will now proceed to describe with reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire device resting on a table T. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the label holding portion of the device. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4.- is a vertical section taken through tl printing and label holding mechanism. 5 is a sectional detail on line 5-5 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 1, A represents a sub base upon which is mounted a superposed base B carrying a label holder, a rinting device C, a counter D, and a bell Eli combined with each other in a coactive relation.

An inking pad 16 is mounted on the base A and the printing device C is arranged between the ink ad and the labelholder and is adapted, see Fig. 4-, to be swung over to contact with the ink pad in one position, as shown in dotted lines, and then be swung over to and down upon the labels as shown The label holder, see Figs. 1, 2 and 4, has its basic portion B adjustably connected to the main base A by a clamp bolt F whose shank goes through a hole in the main or sub base A and has in a recess in the lower surface of the base a large overlapping head or washer G, Fig. ,4. This hole through. the sub-base is made much larger than the bolt F in every direction, so as to give an adjust ment in two directions, one longitudinally to the sub-base as seen in Fig. 4 and also another adjustment transversely to the subbase as seen in Fi 3. Thisadjustment permits the label ho der to be adapted in position to the printing device 0, so as to accommo'date any size or shape of label.

The numeral 1 designates a stack of labels which as seen in Fig. 1, have already been printed at the printing oflice, but are yet to receive the size or call numbers, or other designation, in the-rectangular s aces y reserved for them and which it is t e function of my invention to apply. These labels rest upon a base plate 23, 1* ig. 2, and are retained in place by an. adjustable overhanging lip 2 arranged at the end, an adjustable standing flange 4 forming a gage arranged at the side, a stationary overhanging lip 6 opposite the flange 4, and a press plate 7 pressing upon the top end portions of the stack of labels, as shown in Fig. 1.

The adjustable end lip 2 is attached to a slotted shank portion 11 which, by means of a set screw 3, 1s fixed in place to an ad'ustmerit required by the length of the abel The standing side gage 4 is, in like man- ,ner, attached to a slotted shank portion 12 which by means of a set screw 5 1S fixed to any adjustment required by the width of the label. The standing flange 4 is not exactly vertical, but leans slightly toward the printing devices, for the purpose hereafter described.

The press plate 7, which rests on to of the ends of the stack of labels 1, has an 0 set 8 against which lies the bent end of a spring 9 which tends to force the press plate down with an elastic pressure to clamp the labels at this end. This press plate is guided in its up and down movement by two pins 10, as seen in Figs. 3 and 5, which pins enter holes in thesubjacent base and prevent the press plate from turning.

The printing device consists of a swinging type carrier mounted upon four links 14 which are pivoted at their upper ends to the carriage and at their lower ends to a block 15, for a parallel motion of the carriage,- which carrier as it swings between the two positions shown inFig. 4, always maintains a horizontal position. The carrier of the printing device is slotted, as seen at 13 in igs. 1 and 4, and in this slot is adjustably secured the screw threaded stem of the type bed X whose position is fixed by the screw knob :10 on topof the carriage. By means of this screw knob and slot 13 the position of the type bed may be adjusted sidewise to the plane of movement, or be entirely turned around or inverted to accommodate the form of the label and the position of the space ghereon which is to receive the printed num- Pivoted to one of the links l4is a horizontal rod 17 whose opposite end is bent and made to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel 18, being held down to engagement with the ratchet wheel by a spring 24. The ratchet wheel contains ten teeth and is fixed rigidly to the end of a worm l9 journaled in suitable bearings. One side of this worm is housed by a casing 20 on a graduated scale on which are marked numbers. shaft 21 is journaled in bearings beside the WOI'm and parallel thereto and has a traversing pointer 22 whose end is bent down and enters the groove of the worm so that as the worm turns the pointer is carried along in the spiral groove along the numbered scale and t e rock shaft slides longitudinally in its bearings. peri hery is formed a depression or cavity 26, 'ig. 6, and when the pointer 19 reaches the cavity the pointer drops into it and allows a hammer 25 on an arm of the rock shaft to strike the bell. It will be seen that at each printing movement of the carriage the-ratchet wheel and worm are turned the distance of one tooth. To set the apparatus for nting a redetermined' number of the pointer 22 out of the worm and the rock shaft is ,then slid longitudinally until the pointer is opposite the desired number. The pointer is then dropped into mesh with'the worm; then, as the ratchet wheel is intermittently turned by the oscillation of the type casing the ointer traverses the worm to the end and t ien dropping into the cavity 26, as seen in dotted hnes in Fig. 6, announces the completion of the printing of the reggplsite number of labels:

important advantage of my invention is, that'a quantity of labels may be inserted in a stack at one time and be printed neatly and quickly at any desired spot, the label thus rinted being removed to expose the next abel below for the next impression. This is a great economy of labor over the old method of picking up a single label inserting it in place, printing 1t and then removing it.

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At the end of the worm on its ri label s the rock s aft 21 is rocked to throw 7 It is only necessary in my device to remove the top label after rinting and this is done as follows: The cal number and sizes are usually stamped upon one end of the label, as at the spaces marked y, and this end of the stack of labels is held down by the press plate, leaving the other end free to be buckled up and lifted out above the end li by the thumb and finger and then be pu led. out from under the press plate withoutzdisturbing those underneath.

' For the purposes of my invention it is important to secure perfect re istration on each label, and as the stack of labels grow less the point of printing on the label would adually run off to one side owing to the circular swing of the rinting carriage, if it were not for the fact t at the standing flange or gage 4 is made to lean toward the rinting carriage as seen in Figs. 1 and 4, w ich causes the bottom label of the stack to be the same distance from the center of oscillation of the carriage as the top label.

My invention enables the operator to print exactly the number of labels desired and saves the labor of printing by hand. It also saves the loss of mutilated orlspoiled labels which might otherwise be incorrectly printed or blurred, and it also acts as a check on the packing and shipping department.

In making use of my invention, I do not limit myself to the exact form of type holder, as these and other details may be varied without departing from my invention.

1. A label rinting device, comprising a base A, a para el motion type-carrier mounted thereon and having two swinging. links on each side and abase B mounted on the base A and rovided with means for adjustment in two directions, a label holder arranged on the base B beside said type carrier and an ink pad arranged on the base A on the other side, of the type carrier.

2. A label printing device, comprising a sub-base A, a swinging type carriermounted on' the middle of the same, a superposed base B mounted on the end of the sub-base and provided with means for adjustment in two directions, and a label holder arranged on the super osed base within the limits of the swing of t e type carrier.

3. A label printing device, comprising a sub-base A, a parallel motion type carrier having a slot, a type bed having a screw threaded stem extended through the slot of the carrier, a screw threaded handle turned upon said threaded stem above the type carrier and adjustably clamping the t e bed, a base B mounted on and adjustable 1n relation to the sub-base and bearing a label holder arranged beside and adapted to register. with the type carrier.

I 4. A label printing device, comprising a sub base A, a swinging type carrier mounted thereon, a holder for holding a stack of labels label holder arranged beside the ,t e carrier while being printed, consisting of a plate and adapted to hold a stack of la els, said having at oneend an adjustable overhanging label holder having a gage plate arranged to lip for the ends of the labels, an elastic adjust the stack oflabels to the circular 15 5 presser for pressing down upon the other end swing of the type carrier to insure continued of the stack of labels, and an adjustable and accurate registration as the labels of the gage late at the side and a base B for said stack are successively rinted and removed.-

label older adjustably mounted onthe sub ARTHUR L ,W PATTERSON. base. 4 Witnesses: I 10 5. In a label printing device, the combina- M. M. DAY,

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