US1106968A - Cutting and counting machine. - Google Patents

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W. H. PHILLIPS. GETTING AND COUNTING MACHINE.

APPLIOATIOK FILED JAILS. 1914. 1, 1 06,968. Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS, or NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHI E, ssrenonl r0 ,NASHUA CARD GUMMED & COATED PAPER COMPANY, or NAsnnA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, A coEron'A- TION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

CUTTING AND COUNTING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 11, 1914.

Application filed January 8, 1914. .Serial No. 810,999,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM II. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashua, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cutting and Counting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for cutting sheet material, such as paper, into sheets, and the object of the invention is to provide means whereby slips which are usually relatively narrow, may be inserted or introduced at intervals, so that when the sheets that are being cut by the machine are deposited in a pile, the said slips will serve as markers at predetermined intervals in the pile, said markers practically providing counters, because whenever it is desired to know the number of sheets in the pile, it is only necessary to multiply the number of marking slips showing at the edge of the pile, by the known number of sheets between said marker slips.

The invention consists in the improvements which I shall now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a well known type of paper-cutting machine, having my improvements attached to, or combined therewith. Fig. 2 represents a detail section on line 2-4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation looking to the right in Fig. 1. Fig. 4: represents a section on line 1t of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a view similar to a portion of Fig. 1, on a larger scale. Fig. 6 is a detail view looking from the left in Fig. 1, showing the controlling cam and changeable gearing which may be employed. Fig. 7 is a plan view of a length of material with marker slips applied thereto, said figure being employed to illustrate the operation of the machine.

Similar reference charactersindicate similar or the same parts in. all of the figures,

In Fig. 1, the cutting-maohine illustrated is the well-known Dillon paper-cutter, the same having been chosen to illustrate my invention. It is to be understood, of course, that I do not limit myself to the particular type or make of machine for cutting one or more webs of material, such as paper, into sheets. To facilitate the understanding of tion of this machine, it is customary to feed through the machine quite a number of superimposed webs so that'the cutter will simultaneously cut theplurality of sheets at. one stroke or operation. For present purposes of explanation, I indicatefive superlmposed webs passing through the machine,

1a ll.of them being indicated by the single lme a 1n F g. 1, fourof them leading in, as

indicated bydotted lines a, in Figs. 1 and 4,

the 5th web leading in, as indicated at (F, the reason of this separation of one web from the others being explained hereinafter.

lie to be understood,- ofcourse, that the number of webs leading in, at a, might be anywhere from one to ten or more. The combined or superimposed webs of paper pass between a feed-roll 12 and drum 13, the lat ter being mountedupon a shaft 14, the webs then passmg over the stationary cutting member 15, with which a rotary cutting member 16 carried by a shaft 17 cooperates to sever the plurality of webs into sheets, depositing the latter upon a delivery apron 18, under a pressing or guide-roll 19, if desired. From the apron 1 8, the cut sheets might pass directly to-a table, but it is customary in the use of this machine, to have an attendant who grasps the little pile of sheets as supplied by the machine, and squares them up on a suitable stationary table, not shown. It will now be understood that if any distinguishing material, such as a strip of paper, is fed along and cut at the same time, the ends of the several strips of paper will indicate the number of sheets as they are piled.- If, as indicated in the drawings, there are five superimposed sheets, then a strip fed through continuously with the webs and cut therewith,,would mark divisions of five in the pile,.so that a pile exhibiting 100 marking slips would mean that there were 500 sheets in the pile. I prefer that the marking strips shall be fed in, however, intermittently. For instance, if the marking strips are supplied or fed in once for each two operations of the cutter 15, 16,

' of sheets into which the deposited pileis to be later out. It may properly be explained here that it is a-common practice to employ the Dillon cutter, or cutter of similar character, to cut webs of paper into large sheets which are deposited in a pile, the width of the sheets being of course, the same as the width of the original web, the pile of sheets being then transferred to another type of cutter which severs the pile into any number of'smaller sheets by cutting the pile both longitudinally and transversely.

Standards or brackets 23 supported by the frame of the machine, have vertical ways for the journal boxes of supplemental feed- rolls 24, 25, which are suitably geared to rotate in unison, and driven by suitable gearing. These rolls are not relied upon to feed the wide paper or the webs, being employed only to feed in the marker strips 5. Screws 26 connected to the journal boxes of the upper roll 25, pass through cross pieces of the standards 23 and have set nuts 27 supported by said cross pieces. By means of these screws the vertical position of the upper feed-roll 25 may be adjusted, according to the number or thickness of the superimposed webs of paper that are to be cut. The journal boxes or bearing blocks 28 of the lower roll 24 are mounted to slide vertically in the ways provided in the brackets 23, the vertical position of this lower roll 24 being con trolled by-levers 29 (Fig. 4) pivoted at 30,

and having shoulders 31, engaging the under sides of the bearing blocks 28. There is one of these levers 29 for each block 28. The levers are oscillated, so that the shoulders 31 will raise and lower the roll 24, by pitmen 32 mounted upon eccentrics 33 carried by an oscillating shaft 34. The mechanism for oscillating this shaft 34 I shall describe presently.

It will now be understood that whenever the shaft 34 is actuated to cause the pitmen 32 to raise the lower roll 24, high enough to grip the superimposed webs of paper passing between them, the strips owhich lead in, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, will also be gripped, so that said strips will be fed forwardly with the webs a. The strips 6 after passing between the rolls 24, 25, pass through an independent guide, which I shall presently-describe, to a cutter. The reason why one'web leads in at a different point, as

indicated at a in Fig. 1, is that the strip or strips 5, after leaving the cutter presently described, will be carried in between two of the webs of paper. A cross-bar (Figs. 2, 4, and 5) has a rearwardly extending flange provided with a pivoted extension shelf 37, the free edge of which rests upon the surface of roll 24, which is usually of steel. Above the flange 36 is a plate 38 to which is secured the fixed knife member or members 39. The marker strips are guided through the narrow throat illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, below the knife member 39. Preferably, there are two or more pairs of knife members 39, 40, because there are usually two or more marker strips 5 employed.

A description of one cutting mechanism will apply to all. Each reciprocating knife member 40 has at one end a projection or toe 41 which extends upwardly far enough so as to never pass below the front edge of knife member 39. Each knife member 40 is connected to a vertically reciprocating knife-bar 42, by means of attaching bolts 43. Each knife member 40 is pressed toward a knife member 39 by a spring or springs 44, mounted in recesses in the bar 42. To adjust the amount of pressure which the knife 40 may have against the knife member 39, I employ bolts 45 passing through the knife 40 and the bar 42 and having an adjusting nut 46. The bar 42 has bolts or pins 47 extending through vertical slots in the bar 35, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. so that the said bar 42 is guided in its vertical movements. The ends of the bar 42 have arms or links 48, pivotally connected at 49 tothe levers 29. It will now be understood that whenever the shaft 34 is rocked in a direction to cause the pitmen 32 to raise the lower feed-roll 24, the knife-bar 42 is lowered to a position so that marker-strips can be fed past the knife or knives 40. Simultaneously with the lowering of roll 24, and the consequent stoppage of feed of the marker-strips, the knife or knives 40 will. rise and sever the strip or strips, and no further feeding of the marker-strips will occur until the lower roll. 24 is again raised. The shaft 34 has an arm. 50 connected by a link 51 with a lever 52 (see dotted lines, The shaft 34 has an arm 50 connected by a link 54 with an arm 55 of a rock-shaft 56 (Fig. 6) mounted in the frame 10. Another arm 57 of the rock-shaft 56 carries a roll 58 which is acted upon by a cam 59 carried by a gear 60. A gear 61 on the cutter-shaft 17 actuates the gear 60 on cam 59 through an intermediate gear 62 mounted upon a stud shaft 63 adjustably carried by an arm 65 having a slot 64, said arm being pivoted so that it can be adjusted relatively to the axis of gear 60. The arm 55 has an arc slot (36 through which a pin 67 projects from the frame, a securing nut 68 enabling the arm 65 to be held in any position to which it may be shifted. This arm 65 and its adjustment is provided for the purpose of enabling gearing of different relative size to be employed, as presently described.

With the gearing as illustrated in Fig. 1,

which is a 2 to 1 gearing, the abrupt side of the cam 59 engages the roll 58 once for each two rotations of the shaft 17 and the cutter 16. Therefore, the cutter 16 will sever two sets of five sheets each from the five webs, for each movement of the feed-roll 24, the cam 59 acting through the rock-shaft and its arms described, the link 54:, lever 52, link 51, rock-shaft 34E, eccentrics 38, and pitmen 32. This, of course, will cause the marking strips 6 to be inserted at intervals, such as indicated in Fig. 7, which figure indicates the positions of the markers, if the webs were not cut at all. This Fig. 7, more over, represents the markers 7) as on top of the sheet material, but in practice, as has been explained, the markers would be in between two webs. Then when the webs are cut on the dotted lines indicated in Fig. 7, and it being assumed that there are five sheets in each rectangle indicated in Fig. 7, then the markers 7) will indicate each tenth sheet of a pile that is being delivered by the whole machine. By substituting for the gear 61, other gears of difi'erent sizes, and adjusting the arm 65 which carries the intermediate gear 62 accordingly, the operation of the marker-strip feeding-roll 241, can be varied, as for instance, for the purpose of inserting or introducing marker-strips for each third or fourth operation of the cutters 15, 16. It will thus be seen that I have provided means for inserting markers at predetermined intervals, relatively to the material being cut, whereby a pile of sheets may be formed with interlaid markers, and that said means may be varied so that the markers will occur in the final pile at almost any desired intervals, relatively to the number of sheets in the pile, the variation being con-- trolled either by changing the gearing, as described, or by varying the number of webs that are being sent through the machine.

I claim:

1. In a cutting-machine of the character described, sheet-counting mechanism com prising means for inserting markers at predetermined intervals relatively to the material being cut, whereby a pile of sheets may be formed with interlaid markers.

2. In a cuttingmachine of the character described, sheet-counting mechanism comprising means for inserting markers at pre determined intervals relatively to the material being out, whereby a pile of sheets may be formed with interlaid markers, means being provided whereby the intervals between the markers may be varied.

3. The combination with a cutting-machine of means for inserting markers at pre determined intervals relatively to the mate rial being cut, whereby a pile of sheets may be formed with interlaid markers.

4. The combination with a cutting-machine of means for inserting markers at predetermined intervals relatively to the mate- ;rial being cut, whereby a pile of sheets may be formed with interlaid markers, the said means comprising an intermittently operated strip feeder and cutter.

5 The combination with a cutting-machine adapted to simultaneously operate on a plurality of webs, of a marker-strip feeder located in position to insert markers between two of said webs.

6. The combination with a cutting-ma chine adapted to simultaneously operate on a plurality of webs, of a marker-strip feeder located in position to insert markers between two of said webs, means being provided for severing the markers before the webs reach their cutters.

7. The combination with a cutting-machine of a guide for webs of material to be cut, an independent guide for marker-strips, and a cutter for severing the marker-strips independently of the webs.

8. The combination with a cutting-machine of means for inserting markers at predetermined intervals relatively to the mate rial being cut, said means comprising a pair of feed-rolls, and means for intermittently varying the space between said feed-rolls whereby the markers will be intermittently advanced.

9. The combination with a cuttingmachine, of a pair of feed-rolls for markerstrips, one of said rolls being adjustable to different operative positions, and the other roll being movable toward and from it, means for intermittently shifting the movable roll to cause the marker-strips to be fed, or to remain inactive, and a cutter for severing the marker-strips after they pass between the rolls.

10. The combination with a cutting-ma chine, of a pair of feed-rolls for markerstrips, one of said rolls being adjustable to difierent operative positions, and the other roll being movable toward and from it, means for intermittently shifting the movable roll to cause the marker-strips to be fed, or to remain inactive, and a cutter for severing the marker-strips after they pass between the rolls, saidcutter comprising a fixed member and a reciprocating member having a projecting portion permanently overlying the edge of the fixed member.

11. The combination with a cutting-machine, of a pair of feed-rolls for markerstrips, one of said rolls being adjustable to different operative positions, and the other roll being movable toward and from it,

intermittently operative feed-rolls for said marker-strips, and a plurality of cutters corresponding with the number of marker-strip reels means being provided for rendering the cutter and feed-rolls alternately operative.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

W. H. PHILLIPS.

WVitnesses:

W. L. CARTER, E. S. GAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington; D. G.

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