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No. 449,320. Patented Mar. 3l. 1891.

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C. E. RADLEY; ADDRESSING MACHINE,

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PATENT EEICE.

OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

ADDRESlSlNG-MACHINE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,320, dated March 331, 1891.

Application iiled November 22,189Q. Serial No. 372,311. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. HADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Addressing-Machines, fully set forth in the following description, and represented in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a means for automatically setting a line of type in position for the purpose of printing therefrom; and it consists, briefly, in a plurality of perforated cards supported so that they may move one at a time into position for use, and in a plurality of plungers automatically moving against the perforated card that has been moved into position over them in such manner that the plunger or plungers opposite the perforations in the card will pass therethrough to operate a second plurality of plungers upon the opposite side of the card, which are thereby moved.

lt consists, also, in a plurality of type-carriers or bars with means normally moving them simultaneously in one direction and adapted to be stopped by the plunger that is moved through the perforation of the card, the movement of said carriers being a yield' ing one, so that while one carrier is stopped the others may continue their motion until stopped by another plunger, or until theyv reach the limit of their stroke. With the type-carriers there is provided a 'means for inking the type-faces, and with an impression block or platen movable to and from the face of the type, and in the presentconstruction also having means for carrying the article to be printed.

As a more ready understanding will be had byadetailed description of theimprovement embodied in an automatic machine, such description will now be given, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the same, a portion of the frame being broken away to expose underlying parts. Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection taken on the line 3 3 of Fig.1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged central sectional elevation taken on the line 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the main instrumentalities, showing the posltion of the type-carriers when a card perforated to spell the name Smit-h is in position. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of such card.

vReferring to said drawings, it Will be understood that the various parts of the machine are supported in a suitable frame-work A,

'having bearings for a driving-shaft 20, that 'pivoted lever 34, the opposite end of which is `provided with a weight35,so positioned with respect to the fulcrum of the lever thatit eX- -erts its greatest force while the receptacle 30 -is filled with cards, such force gradually decreasing as the cards are moved from the receptacle, the upward movement of such cards being effected automatically and Without any positive feeding instrumentalities.

There is provided a receiving-receptacle 36, in which the perforated cards are delivered after they have effected one operation of the machine. These cards are delivered upon a base-plate 37, moved downwardly as the cards are delivered thereon by means of a screwthreaded vertical spindle 38, that passes at its lower end through a nut revolved by a Worm-Wheel 39, secured thereto from a worm 40, that is in turn continuously rotated by a belt 4l, which passes around a pulley on the driving-shaft and around a similar pulley on the shaft of the worm 40. The stack of cards 3l is kept constantly pressed upwardly against the under surface of a frame 42, (see Fig. 4,) so that the upper card is in position to be carried along independent of the next card below it, and in being so carried along to its operative position will simultaneously move the previously-positioned card over into the receiving-receptacle 36.

Interposed between the two receptacles 30 3'6 and immediately below the path of movement of the card being fed into operative position is arranged a number of series of spring-pressed plungers 43. These plungers are heldby and adapted to reciprocate in IOO perforations ina fixed guide 19, the upper surface of which guide is substantially coincident with the under surface of the card that is moved into position over it, so that the card will be properly supported by said guide. The plungers will be arranged in lines, each line containing plungers equal in number to, say, the letters ot' the alphabet and to the various other signs, punctuation-marks, &c., that are necessary in composing, and there will be as many lines of plungers as will bo required to set up a word or words in a line from which the impression is to be taken. Each of the plun gers has comparatively large bodies and are guided by the perforations in the guide 19 and have smaller heads adapted to extend through the perforation or perforations in the card and with reduced lower portions extending into perforations in a recip rocating head 44, a spring being interposed between each of the bodies of the plungers andthe reciprocating head,by which all of the plungers upon the movement of the headA will be pressed by yielding pressure against the under surface of the card, so that those for which there are no perforations for their heads to pass through will yieldl while the plunger carries the others upwardly, for which there are perforations provided.

Above the number of series of plungers 43, in the preferred construction, there is provided a second number of series of plungers 45, that are supported at their lower ends in perforations in the frame 42 and at their opposite ends in a similarly-perforated plate 46. Each of these second series of .plungers is in line with the series of plungers below them, so that when one or more of the latter plungers project through perforations in the card the corresponding plungers above them will be moved upwardly thereby. This second series of plungers are loosely mounted in their supporting-frame and plate, and rest by their shoulders upon the frame 42, with their reduced lower ends in alignment with .the under surface of said frame, and thus upward V movement will be imparted to them correspending to the upward movement of the lower series of plungers that pass through perforations in the card, less the thickness of the card, the distance between the two contiguous surfaces of the guide 19 and the frame 42 being simply enough to allow the movenient of the card into and from position between them.

Above the second or intermediate series of plungers the type-carriers 50 are supported. These carriers are in the present construction a series of horizontallyarranged bars 18, mounted to reciprocate overa pair of rolls 17 and under a guide-roll 16, and bearing upon their upper face type-faces corresponding to the characters that are required to be printed by the machine, such characters being equal in number to the number of plungers in a line, before referred to. 'lhere will be as many type-carriers or bars 1n the machine as there are numbers of series of plungers, and equal to the number of letters or words it is desired to print in a line, and these carriers will be arranged com pactly together, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the letters of a word will lie together or at the usual distance apart.

In order to extend each of the carriers in position to be acted upon by the plungers, each bar is preferably provided with a supf plement-al bar l5, connected with the typebar proper by an arm 14, which arm will converge from the supplemental bars to the typebars in the manner shown in Fig. 3. Each supplemental bar 15 moves with the type-bar and is guided in-its movement bya groove in the upper surface of the plate 46, immediately above the ends of the'intermediate series of plungers 45, and in similar grooves in a pair of guide-bars 13. Each supplemental bar is provided at some suitable and predetermined point with a notch 12 upon its under side in position so that some one of the intermediate plungers 45 may project into said recess to stop the movement of that bar and the typecarrier.

Theoperation of the instrumentalities so ration in the card occurs will be thereby projected through such card into contact with the end of the plunger located immediately above it, and continuing to move will also tend to move said intermediate plunger upwardly. As soon as this occurs the type-bars will move bodily forward in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 4, and as soon as a notch in IOS the supplemental bar coacting with that line of plungers arrives over the plunger that is tending to be forced upwardly such plunger will immediately move upward into said notch and thereby stop the onward movement of that bar. Thus, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, a card B is in position having a series of perforations located in such position therein with respect tothe characters upon the typebars as will assemble a type on each of said bars in position to spell the name Smith The foremost bar is thus stopped by the end of-an intermediate plunger in its notch, so as to bring the letter S in printing-line. The next bar has been stopped by a plunger in the adjacent line to bring the letter M in such line and the succeeding bars have been similarly stopped by other plungers to bring the letters L T,7 and H in line. Above the type-bars is located an impression-block 51, mounted in bearings in the sideframe and IXO adapted to reciprocate to and from the typebars. Vith the impression-block is provided a pair of guards 52, also mounted in the frame-rod and held normally upward by springs, and are mounted on either`side of the impression-blockwith a space between CIJ their ends, which guards serve to support the article to be printed and also to prevent its contact with the type-lq aces not in printingline. There is also provided an inking mechanism consisting of an inking roller or rollers 53, mounted at the end of a pair of swinging arms 54, that are adapted to move the inkrollers over an ink-table and onto the typefaces of the bars in advance of each printing movement of the impression-block. The face of the ink-table is curved in the arc of a circle with the axis of vibration of the ink-rollers as its center, and said table or its frame carries an ink-fountain 56 and supply-101157. As soon as the type-bars have come to rest, stopped in position by the several plungers with the proper type-faces in line, the ink-rollers move down and back to ink the type-faces, when the impression-block 5l then moves down and impresses the article-such as a newspaper, envelope, or slip-against the line of type-faces in printing position, printing said article and moving back to its normal position for the removal of said printed article and the feed of another article to be printed.

Any suitable motion may be imparted to the various instrumentalities so that they may operate automatically and in succession. Thus the cards are fed one by one from the receptacle 30 by a feeder consisting of a pair ot' arms 24, having at their ends a hook adapt-ed to engage with the front edge of the card, and as the arms move rearwardly carry said card along with it over the number of series ot' plungers 43. Said arms are pivotally mounted at their rear ends to a reciproeating carriage 25, that is mounted upon a horizontal guide 26. Motion is imparted to said carriage through links 28 from crankdisks 27, secured to the opposite ends of the driving-shaft 20. The reciprocation of the carriage 25 is also made the means for simultaneously moving the type-carriers forward,

the connection therebetween being a yielding or slip one. Thus said carriage carries a number of rods 29, one for each type-carrier, the front ends of which rods pass through ears ll, projecting from the rear end cf the supplemental bars l5. These rods 29 slide loosely through the ears 1l, and are provided with springs in position between the carriage and the ears7 so that the forward movement of the bars is had by the normal strength of the springs, and upon the stoppage of any bar its rod 29 will slide through its ear, compressing its spring, and thus permit the carriage to go on to move the remaining bars until they are stopped from time to time by a projecting plunger until the carriage arrives at the limit of its stroke. In the return movement of the carriage the rods will be drawn back until their heads meet the ears 1l, when the type-carriers will be drawn back also. `Motion is imparted to the platen 44 for moving the series of plungers upwardly from a suitably-shaped cam 10 fast to the drivingink-rollers.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the organization provides a plurality of seri-es of plungers, a plurality of type-carriers, there being a series of plun gers for each typecarrier, the movement of any one plunger in a series forming a stop for the carrier, and that particular plunger coinciding with a particular character upon the carrier and determining that that carrier will come to rest with that particular character in line for printing,

and that the movement of any plunger in each series is determined by a previ ouslyperforated card that is interposed between the ends of the plungers and the typecarriers. Such an organization, therefore, is particularly adapted for use as an addressing-machine for addressing newspapers, letters, and the like, and in such case the perforated cards will correspond, say, 'with the subscription list of a newspaper or magazine and Will be held in stacks containing any suitable quantity of cards, each card being independent of the others, so that one card may be removed and others added or substituted therefor.

It will be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular form of typecarriers so long as each type-carrier carries a like series of characters movable toward their stopping positions and each carrier being adapted to be stopped independent-of the others. It will also be readily seen that the intermediate series of plungers may be dispensed with and that the ends of the series of plungers 43 may in themselves form the stops coacting with the notches for stopping the type-carriers in proper position.

What is claimed isl. Thecombination,withaplurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, of a previously-perforated card, a plurality of series of plungers coacting therewith and adapted to pass through the perforations of the card to determine the position of the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with aplurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, and a reciprocating carriage common to said type-carriers for moving the same, of a previously-perforated card, a plurality of series of plungers coacting therewith and adapted to pass through the perforations of the card to limit the movement imparted to the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the IOO IIO

characters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

3. The combination, witha plurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, a reciprocating carriage for moving the type-carriers, and yielding connections between said carriers and the carriage, of apreviously-perforated card, a plurality of series of plungers coacting therewith and adapted to pass through the perforations of the card to limit the movement 'of the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

4. The herein-described series of type-carriers rigid throughout their length, each carrier provided with a supplemental bar conn ected thereto at various angles, whereby the carriers may lie contiguous to one another while the supplemental bars are spread apart.

5. The combination, with a type carrier bearing a series of characters, of a reciprocating carriage for moving the type-carrier, its connecting-bar 29, and intermediate-springs, said connecting-bar having a head to return the type-carrier positively to its normal position, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, a plurality of series of intermediate plungers, and another plurality of series of plungers in alignment with the other series of plungers, a previously-perforated"card adapted to be interposed between the two series of plungers, inking mechanism for the characters, and an impression-block, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like seriesof characters, of a receptacle for a stack of previouslyperforated cards, an automatic feeder for said cards, a plurality of series of plungers coacting with each card and adapted to pass through the perforations of the card to determine the position ot' the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, and an impressionblock, substantially as described.

8.- The combination, withaplurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, of a receptacle for a stack of perforated cards, an automatic feeder for moving the cards one by one into operative position, a plurality of series of intermediate plungers, and another plurality of series of plungers, between which the cards are fed, inking mechanism for the characters, and an impressionblock, substantially as described.

9. The combination, with a plurality of typecarriers, each bearing a like series of characters, of a previously-perforated card, a plurality of series of plungers coaching therewith to determine the position of the type-carriers, inking mechanism for the characters, an impression-block, and a pair of carrying and supporting guards, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand, this 31st day of October,1890,in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. HADLEY.,

Witnesses:

GEO. H. GRAHAM, N. MARTIJN.

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