USRE12836E - Sterling elliott - Google Patents

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N6. 12,836. REISSUED JULY 28,1908. s. ELLIOTT.

STRIP SERVING DEVICE. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 1, 190a.

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STERLING ELLIOTT, Oli NEWlON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL BINDING MACHINE COMPANYi-OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

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Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissuecl July 28, 1908.

Original No. 856,136, dated. June 4, 1907, Serial No. 282,389. '.Application for reissue fi ed July 1, 1908.

Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STERLING ELLIOTT, a resident of N ewton in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improve ments in Strip-Serving Devices, of which the following is. a specification. g

This invention relates to devices or apparatusv for supplying strips of paper em ployed for wra ping or blnding packages,

apparatus of this character employing a support for a coil 'of the paper strip which has een reviously gummed on one side and then ried, and having means for moistening the gummed side of the strip as the latter is drawn from its'coil, and having also means for displacing the free end of the strip after the portion to be used has been severed therefrom. So far as the apparatus shown is concerned, however, an ungummed strip of paper might be employed, in which case-the reservoir or tank for containin the liquid tobe transferred to the upper side of the strip One object of my present inventioniis to 1provide an apparatus of the character s ecied in which the moistening surface wil be always above the strip, a space being rovided to errnit the free endof the strip w en not han lled, to drop away from the moisposition to be readily grasped.

To this end the invention consists in the construction and combination of arts substantially as hereinafter descrlbed and claimed.

drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of an aparatus or device embodying this invention. igj2 is an end view from the right of Fig. 1. pon a base 10 is suitably supported a casing 1 1 for the roll or coil of the paper strip 12, or it may be supposed to bee reel for such a strip. A substantially rectangular tank or reservoir 13 is mounted upon said base and has side pieces or extensions 14 inwhich are mounted two rollers 15 and 16. At the front edge of the tank or reservoir is acutter 17, and between the roller 16 and cutter 17 is located the moistener '18. Said moistener is shown as having substantially an inverted U shape. Said moistener may be. supported by any suitable means in the position subthe moistener and stri stantially as shown, but I prefer to employ a support comprising a bridge-piece 19 having an inverted U shape, the ends of said bridge piece being connected to the sides of the reservoir as by rivets 20. The bridge or support 19 is formed with lugs 21 which are bent over and under the edges of the moistener 18 so as to support the horizontal ortion of the moistener and prevent it from ropping upon the strip 12. The moistener 18 may be composed of any suitable material adapted to act y capillary attraction to raise the liquid in the tank 13 and keep the under horizontal portion of said moistener in condition for use. Any suitable mo-istener may be employed, that herein shown being adapted to the type of 'my invention here selected for illustration.

In 0 eration the strip 12 is passed under the rol er 15 and over the roller 1 6, then under the moistener supported by the bridge and out through-the s ace between said bridge and cutter 17 ien the strip is to be used it will be drawn outward in the direction in which the free end is represented in Fig. 1. When a suflicient length has been obtained ing means is located in proximity to moistener, butis spaced therefrom, the rela-" tive location of the moistener and the strip severing means being such that the operative pulls the strip in a given direction to draw it across or in contact with the moistener, andthen swings or moves. the strip through an arc, the extent of which depends upon theextent of separation and relative location of thereby to remove the strip from contact with the moistener and to bring it into operative engagement with the severing means, so that when the strip is being-. severed, it is out of contact with themoistener. 11; 1s apparentthatthe relative location *of the guiding means, the moistener and thsevering means severing means Y strip while being severed, maybe withdrawn i and the tank.

comprising a tank or reservoir, a moistening or separated from the moistener. The pres ence of the roller 15 is not absolutely essenti'al.- If present the strip may pass over it and also over the roller 16, or said roller 15 may be placed higherif desired. This would still result in the paper dropping away from the wick or moistener when the free end is released.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim t 1. An apparatus of the character specified, comprising a tank or reservoir, a horizontal moistener elevated above the top of the tank and having a space whereby the strip may be led beneath said moistener, and between it and the tank and a support for the strip to, serve as a guide against which thestrip may be drawn when raised in contact with the moistener."

2. An apparatus'of the character described comprising a sup ort or casing 11 for a strip of paper or the li e, a reservoir 1;, supported in operative relation thereto beneath the serv" ice path of the strip, a guide 15 for the strip, a moistener 18 su ported above andin operative relation to t 1e reservoir, and strip sew ering means 17 located in proximity to the moistener, the location of the strip severing means and the construction of the parts being such that the strip is out of contact with the moistener during the severing action.

3. An apparatus of the character speci fied, comprising a tank or reservoir, and an inverted moistening device having an exposed surface above the liquid in the tank or reservoir, means being provided whereba a strip may be drawn in contact with the under surface of the moistener and whereby said stri when released, will drop away from sai surface.

4. An apparatus of the character specified comprising a tank, a moistener having an end therein, and a portion intermediate its ends exposed to astrip to be moistened, the strip passing during the moistening action between such intermediate portion .01 the moistcner 5. An apparatus of the character specified comprising a tank or reservoir, a moistening strip having ends therein, and. a portion'intermediate the ends exposed for application of a strip to be moistened thereto, the strip passing during the moistening'act-ion between such intermediate portion and the tank.

(5. An apparatus of the character speciiicd device ope 'atively connected to the tank and having an exposed strip moistening portion, and a supporting bridge piece f or the moistener, the strip when' not being drawn upon, being supported out of contact with the moistener, and a severing blade substantially vertically in line with the moistening device.

7. An apparatus of the character specified comprising a tank or reservoir below the service path of the strip, a moistener operatively connected to said tank, means to guide the strip to said moistener, and a strip severing means located in proximity to the moistener, the construction and location of parts being such that during the severing action the strip is out of contact with the moistener.

8. An apparatus of the character specified comprising a tank or reservoir, a'mo stenmg strip having one or both ends extending into the tank of reservoir, a strip support at one side of the. moistener, and a strip severing means-adjacent the other side of the mois tener the construction of' parts being such that during the severing action the strip is out of contact with the moistener. I

"9. A'napparatns of the character specified comprising a frame, a tank or reservoir -n1ounted thereonbeneath the service path of the strip, a moistener operatively connected to the tank, means to guide a strip to the moistener, and a strip severing means supported by the frame, the construction of parts being such that during the severing action the strip is out of contact with the' moistener.

10. An apparatus of the character specified comprising 'a tank or reservoir,- a moistener having a moisture receiving port-ion dependingtherel'rom and in said tank or reservoir and having an exposed strip moistening surface, and a severing means in close proximity to the moistener the strip passing in operation bet ween the moist ener and 'the tank.

13. An apparatus of the character de scribed comprising a tank or reservoir and a.

moistening device having an exposed surface above. the liquid in the tank or reservoir, means being provided whereby :1 st rip may be drawn in contact with the under surface 01' the moistener and whereby the moistener and strip may be separated after the moistening oi the strip.

14. An ap-paratusof the characterspecified comprising a tank or reservoir bencath the service path of the strip, a moistener oper-j atively connected to the tank, a guide adjacent the moistener, the strip being drawn downwardly off the roll and thence under the t0 the tank, guiding means for the strip tank, strip tank and in roximity to the moistener but 15; Anapparatus of the character specified comprising a tank or reservoir beneath the service path of the strip, a moistener having one or both ends depending into the tank or reservoir, a -strip support at one side of the moistener, and a strip severing means adj acent the other side of themoistener, the con-, struc-tion and relation of parts being such that the strip is out of contact with the moistener during the severing action.

16. An apparatus of the character specified com rising asupport for a strip of paper or thelihe, a tank or reservoir in operatlve relation thereto, a moistener operatively connected to the tank, guiding means for the strip between the support therefor and the moistener, and a strip severing means located in proximity to, the moistener but spaced therefrom substantially vertically in line therewith, the relative location'of the moistener and the strip severing means being suchithat the operative pulls the strip in one direction to draw it across the moistener and then swings it in an arc to remove it from the moistener and to bring it into operative engagement with the severing means while removed from the moistener.

17. An apparatus of the character specified comprising strip supporting means, a tank or reservoir in operative relation thereto, a strip moistener operatively connected between the strip supporting means am the severing means carried by the spaced therefrom, the relative location of the moistener and the stripsevering'means being such that the operative pulls the strip in one direction to draw it across the moistener and then swings it in an arc to remove it from the between the strip moistener and to bring it into operative engagement with the severing means while re moved from the moistener.

18. An apparatus of the character specified comprislng stri supporting means, a tank or reservoir acj cent/thereto,- a moistener operatively connected to the tank, guiding means for the strip between the supporting means and the moistener, strip severmg means formed upon an edge of the tanker reservoir and spaced from the moistener, the

relative location of the moistener and the strip severing means being such that the op erative pulls the strip in one direction to 'draw it across the moistener and then swings it in an arc to remove it from the moistener and to bring it into operative engagement with the severing means while removed from the moistener. I 7

19. An apparatus of the character specified comprising strip supporting means, a tank or reservoir mounted in proximity thereto, a moistener operatively related to said tank or reservoir, strip guiding means supporting means and the molstener, a bee or bridge piece supporting the moistener with a portion thereof exposed, and a strip severing means mounted upon a wall of the tank or reservoir and spaced from the moistening means, the relative location of the moistener and the strip severing means being such that the operative pulls the strip in one direction to draw it across the'moistcner and then swings it in an arc to remove it from the moistener and to bring it into operative engagement with. the severing means while removed from the moistener.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in the presence of two witnesses this twenty-ninth day of June A. D. 1908.

STERLING ELLIOTT. itnesses:

' FRANK J; HOWELL,

EVERETT S. EMERY.

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