USRE6714E - Improvement in marking-wheels - Google Patents

Description

H. HOLT.

Marking-Wheel.

I Reissued Oct. 26,1875.

Z 7mwrr PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE HOLT, OF BROOKLYN, New YORK;

IMPROVEMENT m MARKING-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,169, dated January 23, 1866 reissue No. 6,714, dated.

October 26, 1875; application filed March 26, 18775.

exact description thereof, which will enable- Others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents aside elevation of this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan ortop view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in a revolving typewheel, arranged in a suitable handle, in combination with an ink-roller, in such a manner that, bycarrying said type-wheel over the cover of a box, or over any other surface, the types on said wheel produce an impression, and the marking of a box or other article can be effected neatly and distinctly, with little less of time. I

The ink-roller shown in the drawings is composed of a hollow cylindrical reservoir, perforated with small holes, and surrounded by a strip of cloth or other absorbent material, so that the same is capable of holding a supply of ink for a large number of impressions.

The type-wheel is provided with rims or flanges, preferably made of india-rubber or other elastic material, so that the types can be depressed on the surface to be marked with the requisite force to produce the desired impression. The rims or flanges serve to keep the surface of the types in a plane parallel with the surface to be marked, which is otherwise often diiiicult, owing to the different lengths of lines of type, or the position of the type at the side of the surface of the type-wheel.

It is also advantageous to use a coiled or other spring, which, when applied to said type-wheel, is arranged to carry the same back after each impression to the starting-point, and thereby the types-are brought in contact with the ink-roller, and supplied with the requisite quantity of ink for the subsequent impression; and, furthermore, the type-wheel readjusts itself in the required position for starting.

A represents a wheehmade of cast-iron or other suitable material, and arranged so that the desired types can be applied to or inserted in its periphery, either permanently, by means of a strip of copper or other suitable material, or so that said types can be changed at pleasure. This typewheel is mounted on an axle, a, which has itsbearings in a forked handle, B, and it is provided with projecting flanges b. ,As the wheel revolves the types on its circumference come in contact with the surface of the ink-roller G, which is mounted on an axle, 0, having its hearings in the extreme ends of the forked handle B. Suitable it is sometimes necessary that the markingwheel and roller should revolve independent of each other, as when distributing ink on the latter, or when it is being used on'a separate flat form, or when either the wheel or the roller, or both, are being cleaned, then the journals of the latter-should be placed in the short slots or secondary bearings.

Said ink-roller may be made solid, similar to,ordinary printers rollers; but I have shown in the drawings a hollow cylindrical reservoir,

, e, to which access can be had by removing one of its heads. This reservoir is perforated with a large number of small holes.- The roller is surrounded by a strip, F, of cloth, or other absorbent material. By means of the reservoir, if used, a large supply of ink can be carried in the roller, and the marking-wheel produces a number of impressions before it is necessary to recharge the same. A spring, g, applied to the axle of the wheel A, (see Fig. 1,) carries the same back until the stud h in the wheel comes in contact with a pin, i, projecting from .the inner surface of r the forked handle. j

By this stud and pin the starting-point of the wheel is defined, and, by the action of the spring, the wheel is carried back to this starting-point after each operation. In moving back the types, being in contact with the inkroller, are supplied with the r'equisitequantity, of ink for the subsequent operatiom: 1 I

It is obvious that the starting-point of the type-wheel can be determined by other means besides the stud hand pin By this simple device a large'nu nber of boxes or other packages can be ma'rk'edneatly and distinctly with great dispatch.

I am aware'that a patent was granted Edwin Orawley, dated July 8, 1856,. in which was shown a handle holding a type-wheel and several inking-rollers, arranged, with a distributing-band. This I do not claim; but.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent I 1. The combination, with a frame and handle, of a type-wheel provided with a stud pin, for defining the starting and stopping points,

, and an inking-roller, constructed, and,operating substantially as specified.

'2. The combination, with a -haudle, of a type-wheel provided witlrflanges, for keeping ..wheel with a spring, for retracting thetypewheel to its starting-point, substantially as described. V I

7. In combination with an inking-roller and its usual bearings, secondary bearings so arranged that the roller may revolve independently of the wheel, substantially as set forth.

' 7 HORACE HOLT. Witnesses: i FREDERIG H. BELL, O. WYLLYS BETTS.

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