US972917A

US972917A - Label-attaching means.

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Publication number: US972917A
Application number: US52988909A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank D Rettich
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-11-26
Filing date: 1909-11-26
Publication date: 1910-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 1927-10-18

Description

F.AD. RETTICH. LABEL ATTAGHING MEANS. APPLIoATloN FILED Nov. 26

Patented 0011. 18, 1910.

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LABEL-ATTACHINGF MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.'

Patented Oct. 1S, 1910.

Application led November 26, 1909. Serial No. 529,889.

y To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. RETTICH, a citizen of the United Stat-es, and a resident of Cincinnati, I-Iamilton county, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Label- Attaching Means; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description thereof, attention being called to the accompanying drawing, with the reference characters marked thereon, which forms also a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in label-attaching devices, meaning hand-operated devices whereby previously printed address labels are aiiixed to mail-matter, generally news-papers, periodicals, etc.

The invention consists of certain improvements in the construction of such devices whereby they are rendered more compact and durable and whereby more effective operation is attained by convenient manipulation.

In the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims at the end thereof, will be found a full description of my invention, together with its operation, parts and construction, the latter being also illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, shows the device in side-elevation and in operative position above mailmat-ter to be addressed. Fig. 2, shows a longitudinal section of the device and in a position as it appears at the end of an operative act. Fig. 3, shows a top-view of it with parts broken away. Fig. 4, shows one of the parts used detached. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of the cutting means at the front end of the device, the first view showing them inoperative and the other view showing them in the act of cutting.

The device consists substantially of means which support a strip or ribbon which on one side carries the addresses, usually printed; of means applying paste to the underside of this strip; of means to move the strip a distance equal the width of a label and of means to cut a label from the ribbon and of aflixing it onto the mail-matter.

9 indicates a ribbon, usually of paper, which contains, equally spaced, the addresses on its upper side. It is wound in a roll upon a mandrel 10 which is supported in opposite sides 11 of the casing. This latter may be of light wood or sheet-metal.

12 is a belt supported on

rollers

13, 14, 15 and 16, which are so arranged as to cause the belt to dip into the paste receptacle 17. This latter is formed by two transverse walls 18 and 19, which extend between sides 11 of the casing. The belt passes around the lower roll 13 which is supported in the paste receptacle and in a position thereon causing the belt to pass, when moved, through the paste. From here the belt is carried up over the upper roll 14 thence around roll 15 at the front end of the device and back to roll 16, whereby it is guided down to enter again the paste-receptacle. The lower roll 13 is supported in downwardly open bearings 21, in which it is held by the looped belt as shown in Fig. 2. The

upper rolls

14 and 16 are supported in upwardly open bearings formed in the upper side of two opposite arms 22, projecting from a rock-shaft 23, pivotally supported at its ends between sides 11 Of the casing. The arms, together with this rock-shaft, form a yoke-frame which carries the two rolls in the manner shown. The frame with these rolls is held in belt-supporting position by a spring 24 conveniently connected at one of its ends to the bottom 25 of the casing and at its upper end to the end of an arm 26, which extends from the rock-shaft. The necessary tension is thus applied to the belt, causing also the lower roll to maintain its position in its bearings within the pastereceptacle.

The front roll 15 is mounted upon a shaft 27 which is supported in opposite bearin s in the sides 11-11 of the casing, it exten ing beyond one of these sides to the outside where a knob 28 is provided whereby this shaft with the roll thereon may be rotated. While this shaft is so closely fitted to the roll as to cause, when rotated by means of knob 24, roll 15 to follow, it is nevertheless removable and may be pulled laterally out of said roll and removed from its bearings. When this is done the belt, together with the rolls, may be lifted out from the casing to permit cleaning, the lower roll 13 having first been sufficiently dropped and moved sidewise to disengage it from its bearings in the paste-receptacle.

At the front-end of the casing there are two complementary cutting-jaws, one, 29 being stationary and the other 31 being movable, it being connected at one end by means of a pivot 32 to the end of the other jaw.

The cutting operation is a shearing cut, the

movable jaw passing from the position shown in Fig. 5, to the position shown in Fig. 6. provided with a shank 33 which extends into an opening 34, contained in a lug 35, which may be an upturned part of a lateral extension 36 of a flap 37. This flap is hinged at its rear end to the underside of the bottom of the casing, near the rear-end thereof as shown at 38. The width of this flap except where extension 36 is formed, does not exceed the width of the bottom of the casing, so that it does not project beyond this casing. A spring 39, contained in a barrel 41, acts with its lower end through an opening in the bottom of the casing against the upper side of this flap, in a manner to hold the same normally away,L from the bottom of the casing as shown in Fig. 1, causing thereby also the movable cutting-jaw 31 to maintain a normal posi- The upper end of i this spring bears against a screw-plug 421 tion as shown in Fig. 5.

which closes the upper end of barrel 41 and permits adjustment of the pressure of spring 39. Opening 34 does not closely surround: shank 33 of the movable cutting-jaw, but,

permits a spring 43 positioned to bear laterally against shank 33 to exert itself freely to compensate for wear of the cutting edges of the jaws to keep them in cutting contact.

The device is made ready for use by rotation of knob 28 sufficiently to cause a pastecovered stretch of belt to extend from roll 14 to roll 15. A stretch of label-ribbon is now unwound sufficiently to cover this pastecarrying belt-stretch upon which it is placed, extending also beyond the same and upon the stationary cutting-jaw as best shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 5. There is now sullicient adhesion between this ribbon and the belt by reason of the paste thereon so that, when the belt is moved, the ribbon will move with it and unwind from mandrel 10. The device is now ready for cutting and aiixing labels, for which purpose the right hand takes a hold of it at its rear end. The left hand grips a hand-hold 44 in the manner shown by dotted lines in'Fig. 3, the index-finger resting on knob 28. This latter is given a limited rotation to move sufficient of strip 9, equivalent to the width of a label, beyond the cutting edge of the lower cutting-jaw so as to extend under the upper jaw. Next the device, and more particularly its front end is lowered, with a quick movement, from the position shown in Fig. 1, to a position shown in Fig. 2, so as to cause the free end of flap 32 to strike against a piece of mailmatter 45 placed below it in proper position.

This movement causes the flap to move with respect to the casing and to the pivot which supports the movable jaw on the stationary jaw, whereby the former is caused to move For its actuation, jaw 31 is` from the position shown in Fig. 5, to the position shown in Fig. 6. This movement causes severance of the projecting end of the label strip, the separated piece being at the same time struck down by the under-surface of the movable jaw against the mail-matter and pasted in position. The parts resume their normal positions, due to the expanding action of spring 39 as soon as the device is lifted. The further manipulation of the device, consisting of raising and of lowering the same, with a manipulation of knob 28 every time between these motions, may proceed now rapidly, mail-matter to be labeled having first been placed each time in proper position for access. The operator soon becomes used to rotate knob 28 to the proper extent so as to cause the label-ribbon to move the proper distance equal to the width of a label.

Having described my invention, I claim as new:

l. In a label-addressing device, the combination of aA casing, means to support a rolled up label-ribbon therein, a pastere ceptacle within the casing, a belt, a roller at one end thereof whereby the belt is caused to move, a roller at the other end whereby it is guided lto move through the paste-receptacle, intermediate guide-rollers, a springactuated yoke-frame on which these rollers are mounted and whereby they are held in a position to direct the movement of the belt so as to apply paste to the label-ribbon and cutting devices to separate label-bearing portions from the end thereof.

2. In a label-addressing device, the combina-tion of a casing containing label-ribbon support-ing means, means to move the ribbon and means to apply paste to it, a stationary cutting jaw rigidly connected to the frontend of the casing, a spring-actuated flap of a width not exceeding the underside of the casing hinged at its rear-end to this underside near its rear-end and extending to the frontend where it is laterally enlarged on one side, the lateral enlargement being also upwardly extendedr and provided with an opening' at the upper end of this extension, a movable cutting-jaw pivoted to one end of the stationary cutting-jaw and a shank thereon which extends into the opening mentioned.

3. In a label-addressing device, the combination of a casing containing label-ribbon support-ing means and two transverse partitions between its sides which form a pastereceptacle, a stationary cutting-jaw rigidly connected to the front end of the casing, means to move the ribbon, a belt supported to move through the paste-receptacle, means to move the belt and the ribbon in a manner that this latter passes over the cutting-jaw mentioned while at the Sametime paste is applied to it, a flap hingedly connected to the underside of the casing near the rear end thereof and extending to the front-end where it is also laterally and upwardly eX- tended on one side, the upward extension having an elongated opening near its upper end, a movable cutting-jaw pivoted t-o one end of the stationary cutting-jaw, a shank extending from the pivoted end of this jaw into the opening mentioned, a spring supported on the flap-extension andin lateral engagement with the shank near its end to maintain by this action the cutting-edges of the cutting-jaws in cutting Contact, a springbarrel formed inside of the casing against the movable cutting jaw in a normally inoperative position.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK D. RETTICH.

VitneSses C. SPENGEL, Louis R. PINK.