USRE7059E - Improvement in machines for printing on spools - Google Patents

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v ZSIieets-Sheetl. CLHALL, Jr. is G. W. .AVERELL.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING on s 1= oo1.s. No; 7,059 Beissued Apri118, 1876.

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IACEINE FOR PRINTING 0N SPOOLS.

- Reissued. 'April 18,1876.

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G'ARD NEE HALL, JE., or SOUTH wrnmseros, CONNECTICUT, ANDGEORGE W. AVERELLQF NEW YORK, N. Y., Assienons TO GARDINER HALL, JR.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES'FOR PRINTING ONSPOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 102,257, dated April 26, 1870; reissue No. 7,069, ,dated April 18, 1876; application filed April 4,1876.

To all whom it may cmwem:

Be it known that GARDINER HALL, Jr.,-'

of SouthWillington, in the county of- Tolland and State of Connecticut, and GEORGE W. AVERELL, of the city, county,,and State of New York, did invent a new auduset'ul This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in a machine for printing or labeling spools for holding thread or other material of like nature; and consists iii the use-of a. series of dies, and in connection therewith the several mechanisms for producing the movements necessary to accomplish the object in view, the 7 mainobject being to print both ends of the spool directly upon the wood while the spool is passing through the machine, may, be applied to on the ends of the spool, or which, with slight modifications, may be applied to printing the ends separately, either upoii the wood, or upon paper or other material on the ends of the spool, as will be hereinafter more fully, described.

A is the platform, upon. which the operating parts 'of the machine are supported. B B are stationary barrels of cylindrical form, which aresupported on suitahlestands and which are connected together abpve the ce 1- tral space between themfl by thehlngs G Through the center of each of the barrels B B there passes a. shaft, D D. E E are gear 'wheelaengage with each other, so that the shm'tsrevolve together with a uniforinmotion.

declare that the reference being had to the 1 Fig. 4, Sheet II, is a de-' the mechanism by whichthe but-which mechanism printing upon paper up--'- chute is supported by the stand T.

DIvIsIoN A. I

' Motion is imparted by means of belt or gearing, in place of the crank F, or. by any other suitable means. I

. G, Fig. 3', represents a stand, by which the back ends of the shafts are supported. H is a skeleton spool-wheel, which is made to revolve with an-intermitt'ing motion between the'ba-rrels'B B on the shaft I. This shaftis placed at right angles with the shafts D D, andis' supported bythmstauds which support thebarrels B B. v

The intermitting motion of the wheelH is produced by in cans ofthe'ratchet-wheelJ,which is fast on the shaft I.

. K is a plate, loose on the shaft I outside of the ratchet-wheel J, which is given an. 0scil-' lating motion 'i'rom the wrist-pin L in the gear-Wheel E by means of the. connectingrods M N and the horizontal lever 0. The plate Kcarries a pawl, (seen in dotted lines in Fig. 4,), which engages with the teeth P of the wheel J, and rotatts the shaftI and wheel H with an intermitting motion. Q is a spring, which engages with the notches R in theouter rim of the ratchet-wheel for preventing back motion, and holding the wheel steady.

.While the shafts D D are given a constant motion the skeleton wheel H,'which carries the spools, is stopped at uniform periods, and remains'stationary while the spools are received, ahd whilethey are printed.

I a S represents the spools, which are fed into the wheelHfro'm the inclined chute T, which "u'is a feed-regulator, which bears upon the spools,

and prevents more than one spool from enter ing the wheel .H during one intermitting period'.

The regulator is pivoted to'the stands, and is in the form of a bell-crank. One arm of the bell-crank reaches to and bears upon or against the spools, while the other is operated upon .by the cam D. When this cam comes in contact with the arm it raisesthe other arm, and allows the spools to roll down far enough to allow one. s )001 to enter thewhccl when'the cam leave the upright arm.

v on the end of the shaft tailed into the ends of the barrels B 15, and

\Vl n the cam leaves the upright arm the movable, so that the spool would be pressed spring '0 acts upon the other, and brings it l up against the die. Especially might this be down in contact with the forward spool in the done when the ends of the spool were not chute. This movement is timed so as to printed simultaneously; but such methods of actly correspond with the resting periods of printing, or such modifications in the machine, the spoolwheel. The spool falls into the would not affect my invention. I cavities 3 which cavities maybe either circu- 1 do not, at present,anticipate making such lar or angular. The latter-form is preferred, modifications, or adopting such methods of as spools of different diameters may be held printing. Neither do I design to print on a steady therein. i paper surface. I intend to print directly up- Each cavity y is provided with a bell-crank on the wood surface of the spools, andto print shaped holder, a, one arm of which is lightboth ends of the spool at the same time, but ly pressed upon the spo'ol by the small spring do notconline myself exclusively thereto. I '0, while the other arm is acted upon by the l lavingthus described-the said invention of douolr stationary cam d in such a manner HALL and AvERELL,Iclaim as new and desire that, after the spool has been printed, the .to secure by Letters Patentother arm is released from the spools, whic 1. In a machine for printing on spoolsv the is allowed to drop from the wheel onto the combination, with aspool-carrier, of a set of platform, or through the platform into a reciprocating dies, and an intermittently-opproper receptacle. crating feeding device, as and for the purpose f represents the dies, which are moved described.

horizontally toward the center, and in con-' 2. In a machine for printing on spools, the tact with the ends of the spools from each of intermittently revolving skeleton spool-carthe barrels B B. rier H, revolving in vertical planes, and hav-. In this example of my invention I use four ing spool-cavities y, in combination with the dies, by which I am enabled to print the ends holders to, as and for the purpose described. of the spools-in two colors; but I do not lim- 3. The combination of the intermittentlyit myself to this particular number. More revolving skeleton spool'carrier H with the dies may be employed, so that the spools shaft I, plate K, ratchet-wheel J, connectingmay be printed in a greater variety of colors, rods M N, lever O, and the wheel E, as and if desired. for the purpose described. L

9 represents thedie-plates, which are dove- 4.. The combination, with oppositely-operating printing dies, of an intermittentlyrevolving spool-carrier, located between the same, substantially as and for the purpose described.

are given a reciprocating horizontal motion by means of cams on the shafts DI). h rep resents the cams, which act against the lugst on the die-plates.

The movement of the dies corresponds eX- actly with the movement of the spool-wheel, so that at the periods of rest of that wheel they arebrought in'contact with .the ends of the spools, as seen in Fig. 3. The spool receives one color from one pair of dies, and .another color from theiothe'r pair.

j represents the" inking -rollcrs, which are attached to the plates 70 on the shafts D D. hey are, consequently, made to traverse continuously in one direction the peripheries of the barrels B B, from which they receive their ink or coloring matter, and pass over the ends of the dies when the latter are drawn back, on. which they leave the necessary quantity of ink or color for giving the impression to the spools.

There maybe more of these inking-rollers, and they may have a longitudinal vibrating motion for more properly distributing the ink on the'surface of the heads.- Any suitable device may be employed for supplying the heads with the coloring-matterrevolving spool-carrier with the reciprocat' ing dies, and an intermittently operating feeding device, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with the barrel I of the die-plates g, dovetailed in guides therein, and carrying dies f and lugs t, and the shaft D, carrying cams 1b, as and for the purpose described. the reciprocatingvdies f contained therein, ot' the plates 7c, attached to shafts D, and carrying inking-rollers 7', adapted to revolve upon the periphery of the barrel, and ink the sur from the spool, as described.

8. The synchronously-revolving wheels E E, geared together, and combined with shafts D D, the reciprocating dies, barrels B B,

and the iuternnttently-revolving spool-carrier, located between the said dies, substantially as and for the purpose described.

9. In a machine for printing spools the com- 7 bination ofaninclined chute, T, the intermit- It will be seen that by slightly modifying tently-rotating spool-carrier, and an intermitthe machine the ends of a spool may be printtently-operated feed-regulator, as described. ed at different times while thespoolis pass- '10. The feeding device Tand rotating car- 5. The combination of an intermittently-- 7. The combinatiomwith barrels B and face of-the dies fwhen thelatter are withdrawn ingthrough the machine; or one end only of I rier ll, combined with reciprocating dies j the spool may be printed, and the other left blank. ,J

The dies may be made stationary instead of f, constructed as and for the purpose described.

11. The combination, with a carricr-wheel ll, diesf, and feeding-chute T, of a revolving shaft, 1), cams h u and lever u a, whereby a corresponding number of spools will always be fed in and headed automatically.

12. The combination of the stationary cam d with the level a and spring a, as shown and described, to hold the spool while being iinprintml; and allow its exit from the chamber at Lhetinieand in the manner set forth.

. G. HALL, Jm Witnesses:

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