US236902A - Hugh a - Google Patents

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- H. A. McAPEB; V Apparatus for Blanking Borders offlards.

-No'. 236,902. Patented. Jan. 25,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EFIOE.

HUGH A. MOAFEE, OE BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO TIFFANY & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

.APPARATUS FOR BLACKING BORDERS OF CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,902, dated January 25, 1881.

Application filed October 6, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HUGH A. MGAFEE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Blacking the Borders of Mourning Cards and Envelopes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in improvements in the apparatus used for blacking the borders of mourning cards, envelopes, &c.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of my apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

a is a piece of long smooth board, at the upper side of which is placed a bar of wood, I). In this bar is placed, parallel with its side edges, a series of holes quite close together. There is used on the board, in connection with this bar 1), another bar, 0, containing an equal number of holes at the same distance apart. In all of these holes are inserted wire pins d d, &c., such pins being. made long enough to project up about an inch or so from the surface of the bars. These pins should not be contained within these holes so firmly that they cannot be withdrawn by the fingers when desired. Now, between these two bars containing pins are placed the cards, when the two bars are brought together parallel, and with the two series of pins so situated opposite each other that two diagonally-opposite edges of each respective card inserted between two pins of each series, respectively, will preserve an angle of forty-five degrees with the sides of the strips. A card being so adjusted between the pins, as seen at w in the drawings, Fig. 1, the remaining cards can be rapidly inserted to the full capacity of the apparatus, and the blacking applied over the exposed surface of such cards so arranged by means of a brush. This will not only give the same width of black border to all the cards, but will preserve such width uniform along the whole border of each card. When this relation of the strips to each other is determined a block, 6, may be laid in between the two strips, in order to serve as a foundation to the cards while undergoing the blacking.

In order to better determine and preserve the parallelism of the bar 0, also to shift the bar 0 laterally without disturbing its parallelism to the bar I), I place another bar, f, below bar 0, and connect the two by a pair of short arms, 9 g. These arms are of the same length, and are pivoted to the bars 0 and f at points it h h h, so as to be always parallel in their movements. At the point it the pivot-rod is extended up and a thread out on it, and a little lock-nut placed thereon, so as to look the arms, and consequently the bar 0, at any given point.

The barf contains two slots, t i, and guidepins j j are inserted in the board a, passing through these slots, respectively, so that the bar f may be preserved parallel with the edge of the board, and consequently with the bar I). One of these guide-piusj has a screw cut on it and a lock-nut, it, placed thereon to fasten down the bar f whenever required.

After the cards have been blacked on one side, as above stated, the bar 0 is withdrawn a short distance from the bar I), so as to permit of the reversal of the cards in a body, in order to expose their reverse surfaces to the blacking operation. The cards are then run through the apparatus in a reverse direction, in Order to complete the blacking of the remaining half of their borders.

In case very narrow borders are required, bars with pins very close together should be used. Where wider borders are required, instead of using bars with pins wide apart, every other pin may be withdrawn. This, in most instances, answers every purpose.

I claim- The combination of two parallel bars, each bar containing a series of pins, with a third parallel bar, the latter connected with the moving bar of said two parallel bars by means of arms, and containing slots and guide-pins, substantially as and for the purpose described.

HUGH A. MCAFEE.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. HUNTER, K. NEWELL.

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