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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
DEXTER B. GRAY, OF KINGSVILLE, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO BOWEN CAR INITIAL &
NUMBER RECORD CO., OF KINGSVILLE, TEXAS.
RECORD-PRINTING DEVICE.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 22, 1921.
Application filed June 25, 1920. Serial No. 391,627. *i o all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DEXTER B. GRAY, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Kingsville, in the county of Nueces and
5 State of Texas, have' invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Record-Print-
ing Devices, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to record printing
10 devices of the kind shown in Letters Patent
of the United States No. 1,094,298, granted
Apr. 21, 1914, to Carl R. Bowen, of iailey-
ville, Oklahoma. This patent shows a device
for use on cars by passengers or men of the
15 crew to print in a quick and easy manner a
record indicating the number of the car and
other such data.
The object of the present invention is to
provide a device of the same general kind
20 as that shown in said patent, but which is of
improved construction, being more easily
and economically made, more durable, better
protected from the weather, more conven-
iently operated and which' is provided with
25 means of gaging the card or sheet of paper
when moved to. printing position.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im-
proved record printing device applied to the
30 side of a car.
Fig. 2 shows a vertical section on the line
2-2 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shows a transverse section on the
line 3-3 of Fig. 2.
35 Fig. 4 is a detail view of the lower portion
of the device with parts broken away, indi-
cating how the sheet or:card is inserted in
the device.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of
40 the die carrier.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion
of the combined printing and cutting die. .
The casing A is preferably made of sheet
metal, the front a and the back a' being in
45 one piece, bent to provide the top a2. The
back a' extends to the bottom of the device,
while the front a terminates a considerable
distance above the bottom, being bent at a3
and continued a short distance below the
50 bend. The housing B for the printing de-.
vice is preferably also made of sheet metal.
It is closed at top, bottom, opposite ends and
at the front and is open at its inner end. It
has a flange b which is overlapped by thelower front portion of the casing, as indi- 55
cated in Fig. 2, and it is formed with a down-
wardly extending part b' which reaches to
the bottom of the device.
At each end of the casing A there is a
strip C, preferably of wood. These two 60
strips serve to hold the front and back of
the casing a suitable distance apart, and the
casing is secured to these strips by fasten-
ing devices c. In this way a space is pro-
vided in the casing for the reception of cards 65
or sheets of paper. The housing B is also
secured to the strips C by fastening devices
c'. In this way a weather-proof casing is
provided, open only at the bottom as indi-
cated at X. 70
Within the housing B there is a die carrier
D, provided with a pin d extending through
an opening in the front of the housing. This
pin may be called a push pin although it is
intended usually that it be struck by a ham- 75
mer or other suitable tool, to operate the die.
The die carrier is yieldingly held in a re-
tracted position by springs E set in sockets
e in the die carrier and bearing against the
strips C. 80
By bearing or striking on the pin d the
die carrier-may be forced inward against'the
force of the springs.
. As shown in Fig. 5, the die carrier is
formed with a dove-tailed socket d' to re- 85
ceive the die G which carries the printing
devices g and the cutters II. There is a cut-
ter H at each end of the 'die and preferably
each cutter is of T-form and the cutting
edges are disposed above or beyond the 0
plane of the printing devices. The part A
of each cutter is disposed longitudinally of
the die and the part 4' at right angles to the
part A.
It will' be observed by reference to Fig. 4 95
that the strips C are cut away at their lower
ends and shoulders c2 are formed therein.
When a card or sheet S is first inserted,. a
number of numbers or other indications are
formed at the top of the car or sheet when 100
the die is operated and at the same time a
corner is cut from the card or sheet on each
side, as indicated' at s. When the printing
device is retracted and the card is moved
farther inward its movement is limited by 105
the shoulders c2 which serve to position the
card or sheet in such manner that the next
inward movement of the printing device1,372,501.
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Gray, Dexter B. Record-Printing Device., patent, March 22, 1921; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1257545/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.