US230404A - Machine for holding up ceiling-paper while hanging the same - Google Patents

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Machine for Holding up Ceiling Paper while Hanging the same.

No. 230,404. d 'a tented'luly 27, I880.

".FETERS, PHOTGUTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFIeE.

ALFRED OLEMONS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR HOLDING UP CEILING-PAPER WHILE HANGING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,404, dated July 27, 1880.

Application filed May 3, 1880.

0 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED GLEMoNs, of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in a Machine for Holding up Ceiling-Paper while in Process of Hangin g the Same, of which the following is a specification.

The invention or improvement consists in the construction and combination of the different parts of said machine, as. shown by letters of reference in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view, in perspective, of my device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the rollers. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 00 00 of Fig. l, the different parts being in an upright or working position.

The box or cylinderA is made of any length or size required, and on eachside, near the top or upper end, are fastened thereto, by butts and screws, legs B B B B, of the proper length and size required, and to each of said legs, opposite the bottom of box or cylinder A, is fastened one end of braces O G G O, by bolt or screw, and the other end by a hook or pivot sliding into a hole made therein in a metal plate, D, which is substantially fastened to the bottom of box or cylinder A. -A staff or rod, E, made of hard wood and of the length and size required, is placed in the hollow or cavity left in said box or cylinder A for that purpose, and on the top end of which is fastened a cap, F, made of metal, the lower end having therein a socket fitting onto said staff or rod E, and made fast thereto by screws. The upper side of said cap is left half-round, to receive and hold a metal cylinder, G, substantial] y fastened therein, and through which a rod or shaft, H, made of hard wood or metal, runs, and on each end are fastened, by screws or pins, pieces I I, which 1 shall designate arms, and in the ends of each is made a hole suitable to receive and hold therein the journals of rollers J J, which operate therein.

The rod or shaft H, running through cylinder G, to which the arms are fastened, may be moved back and forth-or roll in said cylinder G to any position required, and is made fast by a small pin, L, running through holes made in or through cylinder G and shaft or rod H in such manner as to bring in use one or both rollers at the same time, at the option of the operator.

(ModeL) The object of the improvements in my invention is in making the hanging of ceilingpaper still more easy by the use or application of two rollers at the same time, they being distant from and parallel to each other any distance required, and also on the same level, making two bearings for thepaper placed thereon, instead of one, and the operation being as follows:

The machine is set upright. The braces G G G O are made fast to box orcylinder A. r The rod or shaft H is moved out, so that the ends of rollers J J will extend outside of the bottom of legs B B when placed next to the end wall, where first commencing, equidistant from the side walls, and made fast by pin L, running through cylinder G and rod or shaft H. The

paper is theilcut into strips the required length, pasted, folded and trimmed, and placed on the rollersJ J, which in an ordinary-sized machine are intended to be from five to six feet apart; then partially unfold both ends of the strip, slide up the staff or rod E until the paper nearly touches the ceiling; and fasten the same by turning the thumb-screw K, run ning through box or cylinder A, and pressing against the rod or staff-E; then take one end of the strip to side wall, fasten it to the ceiling, smooth and adjust the same back to the last roller; then take the other end of the strip to the ceiling, fasten and adjust the same, all of which can be easily done by one person without any other assistance than a step-ladder.

After hanging the first strip, the staff or rod E being lowered, the shaft or rod H is slid back, so that the center of the rollers will be over the center of the machine, and so remain until hanging the last strip and borders.

For hanging forty-inch paper it requires rollers of that length, the journals thereof bein g turned the proper size and equidistant from the ends, so as to fit into the holes in the ends of arms I I.

What I claim as my improvement is V In a paper-hanging machine, the cap F, provided with the sleeve G, shaft H, arms II, and rollers J J, in combination with the standard E, box A, and legs or supports B, when constructed substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

ALFRED OLEMON S.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY J. ScHILLo, GEORGE A. BEYER.

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