US1296146A - Device for nailing tins on binders. - Google Patents

Description

M. Bl WIBLE.

DEVICE FOR NAILING UNS ON BINDERS. APPLlCATlON FILED JAN. 19. ms.

Patented Mar. 4,1919.

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M. B. WIBLE.

MAILING TlNS-ON BINDERS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19. I918.

- DLEVIEE FOR Patented Mar. 4,1919.

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M. B. W|BLE. DEVICE FOR NAIUNG TINS 0N BINDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.19. I918.

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Patented Mar. 4

MILO B. WIBLE, OF ARCA'IA, CALIFORNIA.

DEVICE FOR NAILING TINS ON BINDERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILO B. WLBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Arcata, in the county of Humboldt and State of California, have invented a new and useful Device for Nailing Tins on Binders, of which the following is a specification.

The machine forming the subject matter of this application is adapted to be employed for nailing metal strips on the ends of'binders or sticks, binders of this sort being used for retaining shingles and like merchandise in bundles.

The machine hereinafter described and claimed is of that general type shown in my Patent No. 1232743, granted on July 10, 1917, for the protection of sundry improvements in a machine for nailing tins on binders.

In the machine shown in my patent above alluded to, metal ribbons are fed parallel to the line of advance of the binders, and transversely of the binders, the ribbons being cut off transversely of the line of advance of the binders, and parallel to the binders, to form the strips which are nailed to the ends of the binders. In such a construction, thewidth of the ribbon must beequal to the length of the strips .which are nailed to the ends of the binder,and a disadvantage flows from this construction in that the ribbon must be comparatively wide and somewhat difiicult to feed and handle, increased power being required in order to feed the ribbon. Further, since the ribbon must be wide, relatively narrow stock cannot be used, and narrow stock must thus be scrapped, which, under an improved construction, might be used in the machine. The foregoing points being borne in mind,it may be stated that one object of the invention is toprovide novel means whereby the ribbons from whichthe strips are cut may be advanced longitudinally of the binders, and transversely of the direction in which the binders are moving, it being possible to use a ribbon which is no wider than the finished strip, as distinguished in using a ribbon which, in width, must equal the length of the strip.

. In the machine covered by my priorpatexit, a movable platform is provided, the inner end of. the platform being elevated, at an appropriate time, to form a stop against which the binder abuts momentarily,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4t, 1919.

Application filed January 19, 1918. Serial No. 212,722.

,while the strip is being cut, punched and nailed to the binder.

Another object of thev invention is to provide a machine in which the platform may be fixed, a novel form of stopreplacing the movable platform alluded to, and novel means being provided for raising and lower ing the stop.

A further object of the invention is to simplify the means whereby the various movable parts of the structure are driven. The invention contemplates, as another object, novel means for guiding, controlling and directing the strip while the same is being cut from the ribbon, punched and nailed to the binder.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains,

With the above and other objects in view which nvill appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 shows in top plan, a machine constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view .wherein parts are removed;

Fig. 8 is a sectional detail illustrating the inner ends of the platforms and the support which is located therebetween;

Fig. 4 is afragmental side elevation disclosing the mechanism whereby the ribbons are fed into the machine;

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the machine, wherein parts are broken away;

, Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the binder and the strips Which are nailed upon the ends thereof;

Fig. 7 is a vertical longitudinal section of the machine;

Figs. .8, 9, 10 and 1 1 are diagrammatic views relating. to the method of attaching the strips to the ends of the binder;

Fig. 12 is a fragmental end elevation showing the support depicted in Fig. 3;

Fig. 13 is a fragmentary sectional view showing a portion of the feed arm.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a main frame including a pair of base members 1 carrying upright standards 2 united by a top bar 3. Connections 4 unite the base members 1, the standards 2 being connected by a guide bar 5, supporting bars 6 disposed below the guide bar, lower bars 7, and by a main bar 70 which projects upwardly above the lower bar 7, as shown at 501.

The in ention contemplates the provision of means wherebytmetal ribbons 12, adapted. to be cut to form the strips 110 which are nailed to the ends of the binder 109, may be fed simultaneously into the machine, from opposite sides thereof. In order to sim plify the drawings, and to the end that the figures thereof may be laid out on the largest possible scale, but one of these feeding mechanisms is shown, at one side of the machine, in Fig. 5. The description will proceed in the singular number, as to the feeding mechanisms, but it will be understood that two feeding mechanisms are employed.

In fashioning each feeding mechanism, trestles 8 are located to one side of the main frame of the machine and in the trestles, a shaft 10 is journaled as shown at 11, the shaft carrying a drum 9. About the drum 9 the metal ribbon 12 which is to be cut to form the strips 110, is coiled at great length. The ribbon 12 is drawn off the drum 9, step by step, and in order that the drum may not rotate too freely, the journaling 11 of the shaft 10 may be of the friction type, to prevent too free a rotation of the drum 9 under the pull of the ribbon 12. Arms 14 are mounted to swing vertically on the drum shaft 10, and on the arms, a relatively heavy roller 15 is j ournaled. The roller 15 engages in a bight of the ribbon 12, as shown in F ig. 5, and acts as a tightener for the ribbon.

Upright brackets 16 are mounted on one of the standards 2, bearings 17 being mounted on the brackets for vertical sliding movement. by screws 18 threaded into lugs19 on the brackets 16. A shaft 20 is j ournaled for rotation in the bearings 17 and carries a top roller 21. A shaft 22 is journaled on the brackets 16 and carries a feed roller 23 wherewith the top roller 21 cooperates. The ribbon 12 is led between the rollers 21 and 23 and by manipulating the screws 18, the bearings 17 may be moved downwardly, so that the top rollers 21 will exert the necessary pressure on the ribbon 12 and bind the ribbon against the roller '23, to the end that when the roller 23 is rotated, the ribbon. 12 will be fed forwardly into the machine.

A means is provided for imparting a step by step rotation to the shaft 22 and the feed The bearings 17 are depressed roller 23. To accomplish this purpose, a ratchet wheel 24 is fixed to the shaft 22, a

reverse rotation of the shaft and the roller 23 being prevented by a back stop pawl 25 pivoted on one of the brackets 16 constrained by a spring 26 to engage With the ratchet wheel 24. An arm 27 is mounted to swing on the shaft 22 and carries a spring pressed feed pawl 28 cooperating with the ratchet wheel 24. As shown in Fig. 13, there is a slot 29 in the outer end of the arm 27, a pivot element 30 being located in the slot. Nuts 31 are threaded on the pivot element 30 and bind against the arm 27 The pivot element 30 is mounted to rock in a pitman 32, and it will now be manifest that by adjusting the pivot element 30 in the slot 29 of the arm 27 the effective length of the arm may be adjusted, thereby regulating the extent of the are through which the feed roller 23 is rotated when the pawl 28 cooperates with the ratchet wheel 24, the amount which the ribbon 12 is fed forwardly, being adjusted accordingly. The lower end of the pitman 32 is pivoted to a crank arm 33 on aim shaft 34 journaled in bearings 35 on one of the base members 1. By means of beveled pinions 36, the shaft 34 is operatively connected with a transverse shaft journaled in the base members 1. A guide 77 is carried by one of the standards 2,and through this guide the ribbon 12 passes from the feed roller 23.

The operation of the feeding mechanism is as follows: When the shaft 50 is rotated, the beveled pinions 36 impart rotation to the shaft 34 and the crank arm 33 on the shaft swings the arm 27, by means of the pitman 32. The pawl 28 cooperates with the ratchet wheel 24, the shaft 22 and the feed roller 23 are rotated through a predetermined arc and the ribbon 12 is fed into the machine through the guide 77, a step by step advancement being imparted to theribbon, and the length of the step being regulated by shifting the in the slot 29 of the arm 27.

Fixed platforms 37 and 38 project in opposite directions, from the bars 6 and are carried thereby. A drive shaft 39 is journaled in the outer end of the platform 38, a driven shaft 40 being journaled in the outer end of the platform 37. The shafts 39 and 40 carry sprocket wheels 41, about which are trained belt conveyors 42, the upper runs pivot element 30 1 of the belt conveyers-moving along the upper arfaces of the platforms 38 and 39. A main shaft 43 is journaledin the standards 2, and'is driven by a pulley 44 or in any other suitable way. There is a sprocket wheel 45 on the main shaft 43,- and about the sprocket wheel is trained a sprocket 7 chain 46. The sprocket chain 46 passes about a sprocket wheel 47 on the shaft 39 "which operates the belt'conveyers or chains 1,296,146 lei:

42. The sprocket chain 46 engages, also, a

sprocket wheel 48 on the shaft 50 which controls the feeding mechanism for the ribbon12. A shaft 51 is journaled in arms 52 carried by the standards 2. The shaft 51 carries a sprocket wheel 49 with which the sprocket chain 46 engages. A shaft 54 is journaled in bearings 55 on the platform 37. The shafts 54 and 51 carry sprocket wheels about which are trained sprocket chains 59 operating above the platforms 37 and 38. The binders 109 to which the strips 110 are to be nailed, are advanced by the conveyer chains 42, the conveyer chains 59 serving to hold the binders in place and to aid in securing a smooth and even advancement of the binders.

The numeral 56 marks a vertically movable shear bar, the ends of which reciprooate in guides 57 on the inner sides of the standards 2. The shear bar 56 is provided with openings 58, through which the upper runs of the chains 59 pass loosely, the shear bar being supplied, within the contour of the openings 58, with rollers 61 whereon the upper runs of the chains move, the lower runs of the chain 59 passing beneath the shear bar. In order to impart a vertical movement to the shear bar 56, plungers 62 are pivoted thereto and are supplied at their upper ends with rollers 63 coacting with eccentrics 64 secured to the main shaft 43. The main shaft 43 carries eccentrics 65 operating plungers 66 which, like the plungers 62 are mounted to slide in the guide bar 5.

Hammers 67 are carried by the lower ends of the plungers 66 and operate in the shear bar 56. The numeral 69 denotes a crank on the main shaft 43, which constitutes a part of the nail feeding mechanism. The nail feeding and driving meanshave been alluded to but briefly, for the reason that suitable mechanisms adapted for the ends in view are shown in my prior patent above alluded to, and for the further reason that I am aware that a nail feeding means can not be claimed in this application. Let it suffice to say that when the nails move downwardly through the chutes 68, the hammers 67 seat the nails in the ends of the binders 109, as shown at 114 in FigsolO, 11 and 6 and hold the strips 110 in place.

It has been stated hereinbefore that as the binders 109 are advanced by the conveyer chains 42, the forward movement of the binders is arrested momentarily, in order that the strips 110 may be cut off and affixed to the binder. The mechanism for ac complishing this result includes a pair of oo iti'ertically movablestop rods 72 mounted to reciprocate in guides 71 on the bars 6-7,

the stop rods having angular ends 73 cooperating with'cams 74 on the shaft 50, the

cams constituting means for drawing-the .stop rods 72 downwardly, and the stop rods being drawn upwardly by means of retractile springs 75, attached at their upper ends to the platform 38 and secured at their lower ends to projecting fingers 76 carried by the stop rods 72.

At this point the description of the structure may be suspended profitably for the purpose of pointing out the various movable members which are driven from the main shaft 43. The shaft 43 is actuated from a suitable source of power by means of the pulley 44 and raises and lowers the shear bar 56 through the instrumentality of the eccentrics 64 and the plungers 62. Simi larly the eccentrics 65 and the plungers 66 operate the nail driving hammers 67. The sprocket chain 46 is driven from the sprocket wheel 45 on the shaft 43 and imparts rotation to the shaft 50 by way of the sprocket wheel 48. The beveled pinions 36 transmit rotation from the shaft 50 to the shaft 34, and thence motion is transmitted to the feed roller 23 by the arm 33, the pitman 32, the

arm 27, the'pawl 28 and theratchet wheel 24, in the manner hereinbefore described.

Since the sprocket chain 46 is engaged with the sprocket Wheel 49 on the shaft 51, motion will be transmitted from this shaft to the upper conveyer chains 59, and since the sprocket chain 46 is engaged around the sprocket wheel 47 on the shaft 39, movement will be transmitted to the lower conveyer chains 42, the binders 109 being advanced in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 7, toward and against the upper ends of the stop bars 72,'the latter being raised into the path of the binders, by the action of the springs 7 5, and being depressed at the proper time, to permit the binder to pass on its way, by the coiiperation between the cams 74 on the shaft 50 and the lower ends 73 of the stop rods.

A fixed shear, in the form of a lock 7 8,

is attached to the inner side of the standard 2, and when the strip 12 passes through the guide 77, the strip is delivered on top of the '80 thus defined in the shear bar 56 consti' tuting a movable shear, coacting with the upper inner edge of the shear block 78. It is at this point and by this means that the ribbon 12 is cut-0E at 112 to form the strip '110 which subsequently is nailed at 114 to i the end of the binder 109.

The ribbon 12 advances in contact with the inner side of the bar 7 0, and in order to hold the ribbon up against the inner side of the bar the frame work of the machine carries a spring 7 81 which bears against the outer edge ofthe strip 12 at a point near to the shear block 7 8. The strip 12, proceeding beyond the shear block 78, is received on top of an anvil 82 of .T shape, including a shank 83 mounted to of the springs 88.

move vertically in guides 8 1 carried by the main bar 70. In order to support the anvil 82 yieldingly against downward movement, rods 85 are secured at their upper ends to theanvil and are mounted to slide in a flange 500 formed along the lower edge of the main bar 70. Nuts 86 are mounted on the lower ends of the rods 85 and limit the upward movement of the rods under the action of compression springs 88 which, surrounding the rods, bear at their lower ends .on the flange 500 of the bar 70, and bear at their upper ends against nuts 87 threaded on the rods. The nuts 87 may be rotated for the purpose of adjusting the compressive effort The downward movement of the anvil 82 is regulated by a set screw 89 threaded into a projection 90 on the standard 2. The anvil 82 is supplied with a depression or die 91 adapted to cooperate with a punch 92 carried by the shear bar 56. There is a recess 93 in the upper edge of the anvil 82 and over this recess extends .one end of a spring 91, the other end of which is attached to the anvil. A downwardly inclined spring 95 is mounted on the lower edge of the shear 'bar 56, and the shear ba k car a d pend ng 6- When the ribbon 12 is advanced across the upper edge of the anvil 8 2, the ribbon is held against the inner side of the bar 70 by means of the finger 9.6, and by means {of the spring 81 as hereinbefore explained. WVhen the shear bar 56 descends under the action of the plungers 62 the nails 11$ are driven through the strips 110 into the binder 9, thus securing the strips to the hinder, the ribbons 12 ar severed by the cooperation between the part 80 of the shear bar 56 and the shear block 7 8, as shown at 112 in Fig. 9, to form the strip 110, and the punch 92 on theshear bar cooperates with the .die 91 on the anvil 82 to fashion a hole 111 in the outer end of the strip 110 beyond the end of the binder 109. The spring 94: on the anvil 82 raises the outer end of the strip 110, so as to detach from the die 91, any bur which may have been formed about the opening 111, by the action of the punch 92. The spring 95 on the shear bar 56 aids in directing the advancing movement of the ribbon 12, and aids also in holding the strip 110 in place. The

anvil 82, it is to be observed, is yieldingly supported by the springs 88 but when pressure is applied to the anvil by the shear 56, the anvil can move downwardly, the rods 85 sliding in the flange 500 of the bar 70. Ultimately, however, the anvil 82 is engaged by the set screw89, which may be adjusted to any desired position, and when the downward movement of the anvil 82 is arrested by the action of the screw 89, the punch 92 and the die 91 exercise their functions, the

shear parts S0 and 7 8 operating an instant in advance of the contact between the anvil 82 and thescrew 89.

lVhen the binder 109 is advanced by the conveyer chains 42 against the stop rods 7 2, the binder is adjusted endwise by means of spring guides 97 carried by the platform 37, and in this way, the binder is placed properly beneath the shear bar 56. \Vhen the binder 109 is advanced as aforesaid, the binder travels onto a support 98 of T shape, including a shank 99 mounted for vertical movement in guides 100 on the bar 70. Since the anyil 82 is supported yieldingly, the member 98 should likewise be upheld yield ingly, and with this end in view the support 98 is provided with depending rods 101 mounted to reciprocate vertically in the flange 500 in the fixed main bar 70. Nuts v102 are threaded on the lower ends of the rods 101 and operate to limit the upward movement of the support 98 under the action of springs 104, the lower ends of which abut against the flange 500 of the bar 70, the upper ends of which abut againstnuts 103 threaded on the. rods 101. The nuts 103 may be adjusted for the purpose of regulating the compressive effort of the springs 101. The support 98 is supplied with transverse guides 105, through which the conveyer chains 12 ride, as they advance the binder 109 against the stop rods 7 2. Secured to the support 98 and located in the seats 105, as shown in Fig. 3, are springs 106 which support the conveyor chains 12 and permit the binder 109to travel on top of the support 98. The support 98 is provided with longitudinal ribs 107 which slope inwardly as shown at 108. The binder 109 is held between the inclined surfaces 108 on the ribs 107 during the nailing, punching and shearing operations, and becausethe surfaces 108 of the ribs slant inwardly and downwardly, the binder 109 is prevented from splitting when the nails 114 are driven to place in the ends of the strips 110.

The operation of the'machine has been dealt with in considerable detail, in connection with the description of the various component mechanisms, but by way of recapitulation it may be stated that the ribbons 12 are advanced by the feed rollers 23 andare cutoff at 112 by the shear members 80 and 78 when the bar 56 descends. The hammers 67 .drive the nails 114 into the binder 109 and hold the strips 110, which have been cut off from the ribbons 12, on the ends of the binder 112. The punches 92, cooperating with the .dies 91, form the holes 111 in the ends of the strips 110, beyond the ends oft binder 109. The binders 109are advance shearing operations, the stops being depressed by the cooperation between the cams 74 on the shaft 50 and the lower ends 73 of the stops, and the stops being raised by the springs 75. After the strips 110 have been cut off from the ribbons 12, punched to form the holes 111 and nailed at 114 to the binder 109, the stops 72are moved downwardly as aforesaid and the completed binder, shown in Fig. 6, moves out of the machine and rides off the platform 37 on the upper runs of the conveyer chains 42.

It is to be noted that the bar has upstanding ends 501 defining a center recess 502, through which the oonveyer chains 12 work. The movable shear bar 56 is at all times in overlapped relation to these upstanding ends 501 of thebar 70, and consequently the endsiof the bar form a guide along which the ribbon 12 is advanced, the parts 96 and 81 coacting withthe ends 501 of the bar 70 as hereinbefore alluded to. It is possible to dispose the shear bar 56 in overlapped relation to the ends 501 of the bar 70, since the ribbons 12 are fed longitudi nally of the shear bar, it being obvious that if the ribbons 12 were fed transversely of the shear bar 56, and parallel to the directionin which the binders 109 are advanced, then it would be necessary to raise the shear bar 56, at times, completely above the bar 70, in order to feed the ribbons. An added function, therefore, is given to the means whereby the ribbons 12 are fed longitudinally of the shear bar 56, instead of transversely thereof, since by this construction, the bar 56 is permitted to overlap the ends 501 of the bar 7 0 so that the ends 501 act as guides forthe ribbons 12 as above alluded to.

Having thus described the'invention, what is claimed is;

1. In adevice of the class described, a frame; stick-feeding means carried thereby; means for feeding a ribbon longitudinally of the sticks and transversely of thedirection in which the sticks are moved by the feeding means; movable means on the frame for severing the ribbon to form strips; and means-for nailing the strips to anend of the sticks. i i

2.1m a device of the class described, a

frame stickfeeding means carried, thereby means for feeding aribbon longitudinally of thesticks and transversely of the direction ofwhich the sticks are moved by the feeding means; movable means on the frame for severing the ribbon to form strips;

means for nailing the strips to an end of thesticks; and means for punching the strips beyondthe ends ofthe sticks.

3; In a device of the class described a frame; stick-feeding means; means for feed- 1 ing a ribbon longitudinally of the sticks and transversely of the direction. which mentarily arresting the movement of the 1 sticks under the action of the stick-feeding means while the severing means, the nailing means, and the punching means are operating.

4. In a device of the class described, a frame; a fixed shear member on the frame; a shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member an anvil yieldably supported on the frame; co operating punching elements carried by the movable shear member and the anvil; a rib bon feeding means and a nailing means cooperating with the shear members and the punching elements; and stick-feeding means coiiperating with the shear members and the punching elements.

5. In a device of the class described, a frame; a fixed shear member on the frame; a shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member; an anvil yieldably supported on the frame; coacting punching elements carried by the movable shear member and the anvil; and a stick-feeding means and a nailing means .coiiperating with the shear members and the punching elements, the ribbon feeding means operating longitudinally of the anvil and of the movable shear member, and transversely of the direction in which the sticks are advanced by the stick-feeding means.

6. 111 a device of the class described, a frame; a cross bar carried by the frame and constituting a guide, a movable shear member overlapped at all times on the guide; a fixed shear coiiperating with the movable shear and carried by the frame; a yieldably supported anvil; co5perating punching elements carried by the movable shear and the anvil; means for advancing sticks with respect to the shear members and the anvil; means for advancing a ribbon with respect to the shear members and the anvil longitudinally of the guide and transversely of the direction in which the sticks are advancedby the stick-advancing means thereby to form strips; and means for fastening the strips to the sticks.

7.111 a device of the class described, a frame; a fixed shear member on the frame; a shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member;

an anvil yieldably supported on the frame;

at all times on the guide; means for feeding sticks with respect to the shear members and the punching elements; means for feeding ribbons with respect to the shear members and the punching elements, transversely of the direction in which the sticks are advanced by the stick-feeding means, and longitudinally of the guide thereby to form strips; means for fastening the strips to the sticks; and supplemental means for holding the ribbon in cooperating relation to the guide.

8. A; device constructed in accordance with claim 7, and further characterized by the fact that apart of said supplemental means is mounted upon the frame.

9; A device constructed in accordance with claim 7, and further characterized by the fact that a part of said supplemental means is mounted on the mova le shear member.

10. A device constructed in accordance with claim 7, and further characterized by the fact that said supplemental means comprises two parts one of which is mounted on the m vable shear member, the other of which is mounted on the frame.

11. In" a device of the class described a frame; a fixed shear member on the frame; a shear movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member an anvil yieldably supported on the frame; cooperating punching elements carried by the movable shear member and the anvil; means for feeding sticks with respect to the shear membersand the punching elements; means for feeding ribbons longitudinally of the anvil and the movable shear member in a direction at an angle to the direction in which the sticks are advanced by the stickfeeding means; thereby to form strips; means for securing the strips to the sticks and spring means carried by the anvil for elevating the strip severed from the ribbon, with respect to one of the punching elements.

12. In a device of theclass described, a frame; a fined shear member on the frame; a strip forming shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member; an anvil yie'ldably supported on the frame; cooperating punching elements carried by the movable shear member and the anvil; opposed platforms carried by the frame; a stick support yieldably upheld between the platforms, the stick support havingconverging stick supporting surfaces; and a strip-fastening means coacting with the shear members and the punchingelem'e'nts. V t

13. In a 'device of the class described, a frame; a fixed' shear member on the frame; a strip-forming shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with. the fixed shear member, an anvil yieldably supportedjon the frame; cooperating punching elements carried by the movable shear member and the an vil opposed platforms carried by the frame; a stick support yieldably upheld between the platforms and provided with a transverse seat; a stick conveyer traversing the platforms and passing through the seat; and spring means located in the seat and cooperating with the conveyer, to raise the conveyer with respect to the support; and means for fastening the strips to the sticks.

14; In a device of the class described, a frame; fixed shear mei'nbers carried by the frame; a stick-forming shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member's; anvils yieldably supported on the frame andcooperating with the movable shear member, the anvils being located between the fixed shear members; coacting punching elements on the anvils and on the movable shear member; strip fastening means cooperating with the punching elements; a stick support yieldably upheld between the anvil's'; and a stick conveyer crossing the stick support.

l5.- In a device of the class described, a frame; a fixed shear member on the frame; a strip-forming shear member movable on the frame and cooperating with the fixed shear member; an anvil yieldably supported on the frame; cooperating punching els ments carried by the movable" member and the anvil; a stick supportmovab l'y mounted on the frame and located at one end of the anvil; a vertically movable stop cooperating with the support, an operative connection between movable shear members and the stop; platfori'ns carried by the frame and located on opposite sides of the support;-

platforms being fixed and being independent of the stop; a means forfeeding sticks with respect to the platforms, the support and the stop; and ni'eans for fastening the strips to the sticks.

16. A device of the class described, comprising a frame a" shaft j'ourna led thereon;

a strip-forming shear member movable on the frame; means for operatively' connecting the shear member with the shaft; a ribbon feedmg'means including a shaft; a'stlck convey'er' hicludmg a shaft; a movable stickstop mechanism including a shaft; a single belt operati vely engaged with all the shafts and means for securing the strips to the sticks. i

17; In a device of the class described, a frame; fixed platforms carriedby the frame a movablesti'ck support carried'by' the frame and located between the" platforms; ribbon shearing and punchingm'eans'; means for feediirg a ribbon with respect to the shearing and punching means, upon thesiippo'rt to form strips; asti'ck stop mounte'd to-mcve vertically between the support and one plat- In testimony that I claim the foregoing form; a shaft journaled on the frame; a as my own, I have hereto affixed my signacam on the shaft and coacting With the ture in the presence of two witnesses.

stick-stop to move the same in one direction; MILO B. WIBLE. yieldable means for moving the stick-stop WVitnesses:

in an opposite direction; and means for 'se- FRANK H. GOOEY,

curing the strips to the sticks. v WESLEY W. STONE.

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