US982076A - Addressing-plate. - Google Patents

Description

U. G. LEE.

ADDRESSING PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1910.

982,076. 7 Patented Jam 17, 1911.

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'To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ULYSSES G. LEE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MONTAGUE MAILING MACHINERY. COMPANY, A CORPORATION .OF TENNESSEE.

ADDRESSING-PLATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1911.

Application filed June 8, 1910. Serial No. 565,899.

Be it known that I, ULYSSES G. LEE, citizen of the-United States, residing at Brooklyn, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Addressing- Plates.-of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to addressing plates for use in addressing machines, and is an improvement upon that form of plate disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States granted to Charles Owens, Number 939,739, of November 9, 1909.

My present improvement is designed to prevent the addressing plates from catching or locking one with the other when they become disorganized or when it is desirable to insert the plate in the pile, the result of my improvement being that the plates may be handled with greater ease and facility when they are arranged in a stack or pile, so that individual'plates may be inserted in the pile, it beingpossible to.

shufile the series of plates like a pack of cards.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan View of an addressing plate built in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the said plate. Fig. 3 represents an end view of a number of plates assembled one upon the other, and Fig. 4 shows one plate displaced in relation to the others of the series and illustrates how one plate can be inserted in the pile without in-' terlocking or catching upon the other plates. Fig. 5 represents the oldform of plate in relation to'the other plates like'that shown in Fig. 4, showing how this plate will inter-,

lock with the adjacent plate of the pile or stack.

In these drawings, 1 indicates the main body of the plate said plate being made of thin sheet metal, such as zinc, though I do not limit myself in respect to the material used. This main portion of the plate has its margin depressed as at 2, the said margin extending from the depressed portion outwardly in a plane'substantially parallel with the plane of the main'body of the plate, and this margin is then rolled or turned back'upon itselI on the upper side of the said depressed marginal portion. This brings the shoulder of the rolled or thick enedportion adjacent the portion of the depressed margin at the point 3. By this con struction the under side of the plate is left smooth from abrupt shoulders whichv would otherwise be present on the under side of the plate were the marginal portion rolled on the under side of the plate. It will be seen from this construction that the smooth bevel-on the under side of the plate will enable the individual plates to be inserted in the stack or pile without interlocking, such for instance as illustrated in Fig. 4. In other words, any plate or number of plates can be shifted'laterally in respect to the other plates so that a number of plates may be exposedto view and re-arranged without entirely separating them from each other shoulder formed by rolling the marginal portion of the plate on the under side thereof. In other words, the form of plate shown in Fig. 5 will'nest so that one interlocks wit-h the other, whereas, in Fig. 4 while the plates will be centered in relation to each other they will not nest in the sense that one catches upon or interlocks with the other to an extent which prevents its lateral movement in respect thereto. It will be understood that Where many thousands of these plates are handled weekly in connection with mailing lists of extensive publications, the facility and ease with which the plates can be handled is a most importantconsideration.

I claim as my invention 1. An addressing plate having a raised central portion with its longitudinal margins turned downwardly and thence outwardly in a plane substantiallfy paralle with the plane of the upper sur ace of the plate, the said marginal portions being then rolled upwardly upon themselves and having their edges directed in the plane substantially parallel with the plane of the main part of the plate.

2. An addressing plate having a raised central portion with its margin turned downwardly and thence outwardly in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of the upper surface of the plate, the said marginal portion being then rolled upwardly upon itself with the inner edge of i In testimony whereof, I affix my signature the overlying portion adjacent the shoulder in presence of two witnesses.

between the upper portion and the mar inal portion, the said marginal portion h v- I ULYSSES 5 ing its edge directed outwardly in a plane VVitn'esses:

parallel with the plane of the central por- G. C. FIEGEL,

tion, substantially as described. I PAUL WAHLERS.

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