US1499329A - Inking device or attachment more particularly for use with addressing machines - Google Patents

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L. M. BARMAN INKING DEVICE OR ATTACHMENT MORE PARTICULARLY FOR USE WITH ADDRESSING MACHINES Filed Aug. 21,

Patented July 1, 1924.

srArEs FATE LOUIS MAURICE BABIVIAN, or LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR To RONEULIMITED, on

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LONDON, ENGLAND, A BRITISH. COMPANY.

INKING DEVICE on ATTACHMENT MORE PARTICULARLY Eon USE WITH ADDRESSING MACHINES. j, i 1 1 Application. filed August 21, 1922. Serial No. 583,420.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS MAURICE BAR MAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Roneo Building, 5 H01- 5 born, London, E. C. .1, England, Great Britain, have invented new: and useful Improvements in an Inking Device or Attachment More Particular y for Use with Addressing Machines,.-of which the following is a specification. c

The present invention relates to an improved inking device or attachment more particularly for use with addressing machines of the type wherein stencil cards are employed, and has special reference to means whereby even distribution of the ink from a set of distributing rollers to the printing segmented roller is attained so that the address printed on envelopes, wrappers, labels or the like is more clearly and sharply defined than has hitherto been the case.

In the former specification of Letters Patent No. 1,411,398 the inking device or attachment comprised an ink container operable in conjunction with one of a set of ink distributing rollers mounted in arms supported from one of the hopper walls, the said ink distributing rollers being operated by hand for collecting. ink thereon from the ink container and distributing the ink so collected over the set of rollers, and

during the printing action, operated by frictional contact with the segmented inking roller, which is similarly rotated by a segmented pressing roller secured on a shaft rotated by gearing.

In the invention thus briefly described the inking surfaces of the distributing rollers are always in fixed contact with each other, and the present invention has for its object to provide means whereby new points of contact of one of the distributing rollers are presented to the surfaces of the other rollers whereby a more even film of ink is imparted to the surface of the segmented inking roller, and conse quently sharper and more clearly defined prints are obtained from the stencil.

roller (2).

presser roller.

The invention will nowbefully described with reference to the acompanying drawings, whereon Fig. 1, shows a complete view of an addressing machine of the type described.

Fig. 2 is a side view ofpart of'the machine towhich the applied, Fig. 3 is a plairrview of Fig. 2.

present invention ,is-

Referring to Fig. 1, the addressing/ma;-

chine comprises a frameA which supports a stationary slideway or trackB. Secured on the: slideway or track is a hopper, a magazine consisting of two standards or walls ,0 which contain the stencil cards D, the lowermost card of the pile resting on the slideway or track. p

Supported from one of the standards C is a pair of arms or brackets E which carry two of a set of ink distributing rollers, while a third roller F supported in lugs from the arms E contacts with an ink roller fitted in the ink container G. The machine is operated by the handle H, the gearing for the machine being enclosed within the casing J, and comprising a spur gear the shaft of which (1) supports the handle H and also has secured thereon the mutilated or segmented inking roller (2). The said spur gear drives a second spur gear the shaft of which carries a mutilated or segmented presser roller (not shown) which presses the stencil card and envelope,

fed by hand at the back of the machine,

between the presser roller and the inking The second which actuates a reciprocating pusher member K which moves in the slideway or track B to remove a stencil card D from the pile and push it to the printing position between the mutilated inking roller (2) and: the The stencil cards as they are used fall into the hopper L. I

To the shaft (1) carrying the mutilated inking roller (2) is secured, atis free end, a pinion, which operates, --through an idler wheel (4) mounted on a stud secured to the pivoted arms or brackets E, a. pinion (5) gear drives a third gear v (7) supporting .in engagement with an idler wheel (10) V roller mounted on a stud (11) secured in the arms and said stud has also secured thereon a skew disc (12) the face of which engages a groove formed in a collar (18) fitted on or made in one piece with a spindle (l-it) upon which is secured the intermediate distributing roller (15). V

The ends of the spindle (14;) project from the bearings (16), on each side.

The intermediate distributing roller is in constant contact. with rollers (8) and F, the latter contacting at will with the ink roller in the container G and bein rotated by frictional contact with roller 15).

In 0 eration, the ink received by the from the ink container Gr is im parted over the whole surface of the oscillating roller (15) moved upon its spindle by the skew disc 12. The ink from roller (15) is thereby translated to the roller (8) in a wiping manner and roller (8) transmits the ink collected by this wiping action in an even film to the mutilated or segmented inking roller (2) which forces the ink through the perforated stencil on to the envelope, wrapper, label or the like when said roller (2) contacts with the mutilated or segmented presser roller. Having thus described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows r 7 Means for obtaining an even film of ink for printing addresses comprising a set of distributing rollers carried in arms or brackets depending from a side standard, a pinion mounted upon the foremost distributing roller shaft engaging an idle wheel secured to one of the arms or brackets, a

skew disc: operable with said idle whrel,

LOUIS MAURICE BARMAN.

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