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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN D. SMITH, OF BONIIAM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO REUBEN R. GAINES
AND JAMES S. WILLIAMS, OF PARIS, TEXAS.
TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,147, dated July 25, 1893.
Application filed August 13,1892. Serial No, 443,053. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN D. SMIITH, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Bonham, in
the county of Fannin and State of Texas,
5 have invented new and useful Improvements
in Type-Writing Machines, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
My invention relates to type-writing ma-
chines, and the main objects thereof are to
io provide a simple, reliable and easily operated
auxiliary attachment, or apparatus, whereby
paper may be fed to the type in a continuous
web, from which the several sheets, as they
are printed, may be severed in equal lengths,
15 without disturbing the engagement of the
continuous web with the paper-cylinder and
feeding-devices.
It is my purpose, in other words, to provide
a simple and efficient mechanism capable of
20 being incorporated with, or attached to, a type-
writer of any of the known patterns now in
use, said mechanism being so organized that
it will feed a continuous web of paper to the
type by the feeding-devices now used upon
25 the different type-writers known to the public,
thereby avoiding the necessity of making any
material change, either in construction,in the
parts constituting the type-writer, proper, or
any addition to, or omission from said parts,
30 which involves any constructive modification
of the same.
It is my further purpose to combine with a
type-writing machine of any known, or pre-
ferred form, a simple, efficient, and compara-
35 tively inexpensive attachment for printing
upon a continuous web of paper, and to pro-
vide means whereby sheets of any required
length may be easily, quickly, and accurately
severed from the continuous web, as they are
40 printed, without disturbing the relations of
said web to the feed-mechanism.
It is my purpose, also, to combine with a
type-writing machine of any pattern simple
means whereby a letter-head may be printed
45 upon each sheet, of paper, in succession, as it
is fed over the paper-cylinder, and before the
process of printing begins.
It is my further purpose, in this connection,
to provide simple means for printing a letter-
50 head, or other suitable matter, upon each sheet
of paper, in succession, as said sheet is fed overthe paper-cylinder; the parts being particu-
larly adapted for a type-writing machine used
in printing upon a continuous web, but capa-
ble of use in printing letter-heads upon sin- 55
gle, or separate sheets.
It is my purpose, also, to provide means for
printing letter-heads, or other suitable mat-
ter, upon the paper used in a type-writing
machine and to combine with the parts simple 6o
devices whereby the mechanism printing the
letter-heads may be rendered operative, or
inoperative, as circumstances may require,
and to combine therewith, also, suitable ink-
ing-devices, the whole being so organized that 65
it may be operated by the parts of the type-
writer which are operated by the person using
the latter.
Finally, it is my purpose to combine with
a type-writer of any suitable or preferred form, yo
a mechanism for feeding a continuous web of
paper to the type, devices for severing sheets
of any required length therefrom, automatic
means for printing a letter-head upon each
sheet, and devices for rendering said print- 75
ing devices inoperative, or operative, as may
be desired, the feed of the continuous web
and the action of the parts printing the let-
ter-head being prod uced by the manually op-
erated parts of the type-writer, proper. So
The invention consists, in the several novel
features of construction and new combina-
tions of parts hereinafter fully described and
then more particularly pointed out and de-
fined in the claims terminating this specifi- 85
cation.
To enable others skilled in the art to make,
construct, and use my said invention, I will
now proceed to describe the same in detail,
reference being had to the accompanying 90
drawings, in which-
Figure 1, is an end elevation of the top of
a Remington type-writer, showing my inven-
tion incorporated therein. Fig. 2, is a plan
view of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is 95
a perspective view of the paper-cylinder, the
printing or type-cylinder, the inking-roll and
the sheet severing device, together with their
respective supports. Fig. 4, is a transverse
or vertical section taken through the paper roo
and printing-cylinders, the inking-roll and
pay-off roll, the point of view being at the
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Smith, John D. Type-Writing Machine., patent, July 25, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173471/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.