US759675A - Gummed-strip-moistening machine. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.,

GUIVIMED-STRlP-MOISTENING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming para of Letters Patent No. 759,675, dated May 1o, 1904.

Application iiled May 14, 1903- Serial No. 157,095. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JOHN EDGAR CoLvIN, a citizen of the United States. and a resident of Junction City, in the county of Geary and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Gummed-Strip-Moistening Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

r1`his invention relates to mechanical means for moistening gummed strips when they are to be affixed upon an article, and has for its object to provide a strip-rnoistening machine of novel simple construction which will contain gummed paper strips of appropriate width and length and be adapted to deliver these gummed strips in moistened condition as may be required for application to afilled paper bag or other package for its sealed closure.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described,and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved stamp-moistening machine. Fig. 2 is a sectional side view of the same. Fig. 3 isa transverse sectional view substantially on the line 3 3 inFig. 2. Fig. 11 is aperspeetive view of a novel detail of the invention, and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of another feature of the invention.

Upon a suitable base 10, which may be in the form of a slab of wood or metal, a holderbox 11 is mounted and secured, which preferably is formed of sheet metalcireular in contour and at one side provided with an opening of proper size normally closed by a door 11.

Upon the base 10 near the holder-box 11 a preferably sheet-metal chamber 12 is secured, having rectangular form and proper di1nen sions for effective service, the chamber and holder-box being alined, so that material in the form of paper strips may be drawn from a transverse slot .fc in the holder-box into and through the chamber 12, as will hereinafter On the top of the chamber 12, which is desired to serve as` a water-receptacle, alid 12L is hinged, the hinge a being formed at the end of the chamber nearest to the holder-box. i

A bracket-frame 13, which may with ad vantage be formed as shown, comprising two side walls spaced apart by a transverse top wall, is held to rock on thehinged end of the lid 127 by a pintle-rod c', forming a member of the hinge c. On the transverse top wall ofthe bracket-frame 13 a heavy elongated handle-bar 14: is held by one end, so as to project away from the sidewalls of said frame. The end portions of the side walls farthest from the transverse end wall of the bracketframe 13 are reduced in width and given the form of similar ears b, Vwhich pass down through similarly-spaced slots formed :inthe rear transverse edge of the lid 1.2,the pintlerod of the hinge c passing loosely through opposite perforations in said ears, so thatthe bracket-frame 13 may be rocked rear-warden the water-chamber 12, as shown by full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, and forward, as indicated by dotted lines in the same figures, the heavy handle-bar 14 holding` the bracket framein either inclined position. v,

Directly below the bracket-frame 13 a transverse opening c is formed in the upperedge of the end'wall of the water-chamber 12, and in said opening one member of an angularly-bent arm is held to rock. The arm is preferably formed of plate metal bent near its longitudinal center at a right angle d, thus provid. ing two substantially similar members 15 15, and, as shown in Fig. 2, the angular arm is so positioned in the chamber 12 that the angle (Z thereof projects downward toward the Vcenter of the bottom of the chamber, while `the parts 15 15, respectively, extend diagonally toward the front and rear transverse upper edges of the chamber.

The upper portion of the member 15LL extends through the opening' c, and on the part of the same exterior of the water-chamber 12 a quadrangular box-like head 15" is formed or secured, the side walls of which near their lower ends have ears that are perforated to receive the pintle-rod a, whereby the bent arm 15 15 and the head 15b receive support TOO and are adapted for receiving a rocking movement, which will raise or lower the bent arm in the chamber 12, this rocking movement being effected as follows: Opposite slots e are formed in the side walls of the bracket-frame 13, these slots having the axis ofv the pintlerod a' as a radial center, and a pivot-bolt g., that occupies these slots e, passes through opposite perforations in the sides of the box-like head 15".

The described means for loosely connecting the head 15b with the bracket-frame 13 permits the bracket-frame to receive limited rock-4 ing adjustment toward or from the holder-box 11 and act upon the head 151 'when near the termination of rocking movement in either direction, so as to elevate or depress the arm 15 15a correspondingly. Upon the member 15 of the bent arm spring-clip flanges 15c are formed oppositely at the side edges and near the free end of the same, these flanges, that are bent toward each other, serving to hold a strip of sponge 15d or other fibrous material clamped upon the arm and extending from the upper end of the member `15 to a point near the angle (Z. l

In the forward transverse edge of the lid 12a, that is adapted to latch upon the corresponding top edge of the water-chamber 12, an opening is formed at the transverse center thereof having a width that afords lateral clearance for the side edges of the member 15 of the bent arm, so that a paper strip may be drawn through this opening, have contact with the fibrous material 15, and be guided by the side edges of said opening.

On the inner side of the lid 12' two spaced guide-strips 16 are secured that extend longitudinally, and near the front ends of t e guide-strips an opening L is formed in the lid that cuts through the front transverse edge of the latter, this opening and the spaced guides 16 being disposed directly above the fibrous pad 15d.

A cutter 17, preferably having an approximately V-shaped cutting edge, is secured upon the lid 121over the opening 7L, the cutting edge being inclined upward and forward, as indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and 5.

Assuming that a continuous roll of gummedpaper-strip material A is placed in the holderbox 11 and that one .end thereof is drawn through the cross-slot se in the peripheral wall of the holder-box and thence is carried through the opening cin the bottom wall of the head 15b and thence into the water-chamber 12 through the transverse opening c, so as to be passed between the lid 121 and guides 16 and thence out through the opening z over the fibrous material 15d, the operation of the device is as follows: If capillary attraction has not completely saturated the brous pad 151 with water from that held in the chamber 12, this may be quickly effected by rocking the bracket-frame and handle-bar 14 forwardly,

which will completely immerse the pad 15d, whereupon a reverse movement of thehandlebar will rock the angular arm member 15 and pad 15d up into contact with the gummed side of the paper-strip A that is lowermost.

When it is desired to utilize the strip material A for the sealing of a package in lieu of tying the same with twine after the bag or other material is wrapped to form a package, there is a strip of the gummed material A drawn from the chamber 12, passing over the wet pad 15d, which will properly moisten the gummed strip as it passes out of the chamber. Any desired length may be given to the paper strip, and it may be conveniently severed from the portion that is to remain intact with the roll of such material by simply pressing the paper strip upward and rearward, which will insert the point of the V-shaped cutting edge of the cutter 17 into the center of the paper strip and shear it off of the main portion, the end of which is given a V shape for convenient manipulation owing to the V shape of the cutting-blade 17.

It will be seen that the inclination given to the bracket-frame 13 and the handle-bar 14 kinks the paper strip A -where it enters the chamber 12 and puts the portion of the strip 4 that is within the chamber under tension, so that the part of the paper strip that is drawn out of the chamber 12 will be properly stretched and caused to have intimate contact with the upper end of the wet pad 15d for the proper moistening of said end portion of the *paper strip.

Upon severing the moistened strip of gummed paper the package may be quickly sealed by application of said strip in an obvious manner, so as to cover proper edges of the package, which may be of any form best adapted to hold within or cover dry goods of any sort.

It is intended as a secondary object of the improvement that any desired printed matter be placed upon the gummed strips while they are in a long ribbon, these advertisements being printed successively upon the ungummed side of the strip, so that when a paper bag or other package has been lsealed with one of the strips the advertisement will be displayed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patente TOO 1. A gummed-strip moistener, comprising a water-holding chamber, means to support and tension a gummed fibrous strip when drawn from its support through the upper part of the water-holding chamber, a lid on the chamber, means to guide the strip on the lower side of the lid, an angularly-bent arm depending at its bend in the water-holding chamber, a moistening device carried by one member of the bent arm, the remaining member projecting out of an end of the chamber near the lid, a bracket-frame hinged upon this end of the chamber and loosely engaging said projecting ISO portion of the bent arm, the bracket-frame being adapted to carry the gummed strip to the means for its support on the lid, and a cutter adapted to sever amoistened and extended portion of the gummed strip.

2. A gummedstrip moistener, comprising,` a base, a holder-box for a roll of `gu1n1ned-paper-strip material, a Water-holding chamber, a `lid thereon, an angularly-bent arm in the wa ter-chamber, a clasp for holding' fibrous Inaterial on one member of the bent arm, said member and the fibrous material being adapted to approach near the upper transverse oorner of the chamber and lid that is farthest from the holder-box, the other member of the arm projecting from the opposite transverse corner of the lid and Chamber, a bracket-frame hinged upon said end of the chamber, a heavy handle-bar on the bracket-frame, a box-like head on the projecting upper end of the bent arm that is Within the braeket-frame, and held to rook thereon, a support for the gummed strip carried by the lid of the chamber, and a strip-cutter mounted upon the Iid ot' said eharnber, and adapted to sever the moistened portion of the strip that is drawn from the chamber.

3. In a device of the character described, the Combination with the vvater-holdingI chamber and the hinged lid thereon, of the angularly-bent arm Vheld to rock near one end by loose engagement of said end of the arm with the pintIe-rod of the hinge for the lid, a braeket-frame also roekable on said pintle-rod, a heavy handle-bar on the bracket-frame, guides on the lid for the support of a gummed paper strip, and a fibrous inoistening' device carried by the other member of the angular1ybent arm.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeieation in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN EDGAR GOLVIN.

Vtnesses G. WV. MCKNIGHT, NVILLIAM F. MILLER.

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