US696132A - Box for inking-ribbon spools. - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 25, I902.

m. u. CHAPIN. BOX FOB IHKI NG RIBBON SPOOLS.

(Application filed Feb. 7, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

MURRAY H. CHAPIN, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO UNION TYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY.

BOX FOR lNKlNG-RIBBON SPOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 69 6,132, dated March 25, 1902.

Application filed February 7,1902. Serial No. 93,047. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: is preferably made of spring metal and pro- Be it known that I, MURRAY H. CHAPIN, vided with depending spool-supporting cars a citizen of the United States, and a resident 6, that extend into the box 1 and have oppoof Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and sitely disposed horizontal bearing studs or State of Connecticut, have invented certain v journals 7, which may be struck up from said 55 new and useful Improvements in Boxes for ears or formed separately and applied thereto. Inking-Ribbon Spools, of which the following These ears may be resilient for purposes is a specification. which will hereinafter appear, and they may Myinvention relates to packages forinkingbe pressed toward each other by an auxiliary I0 ribbons for type-writing and like machines; U-haped spring 8, that has its ends slightly 60 and my main object is to provide a simple bent at 9 to take within the depressions and efficient box or case in which the ribbon fo med by the drawn or hollow studs 7. The is properly protected against injury and decross-bar of this spring may be seated within terioration and one from which the ribbon a r cess or groove in the supporting-piece may be readily transferred to the machine 5, The base-plate 5 may be soldered, rivet- 6 without soiling the hands. ed, or otherwise attached to the cover.

To the above ends my invention consists The spool 2 is preferably formed of metal in the construction, arrangement, and comand consists of a cylindrical hollow core or bination of parts, to be hereinafter described, spindle 11, upon which the ribbon 12 may be and particularly pointed out in the appended wound, and ends orflanges 13, which may be 70 claims. connected to the core in any suitable man- In the accompanying drawings, wherein ner. In the present instance the metal of likereference characters indicatecorrespondthe spindle is shouldered and grooved and ing parts in the various views, Figure 1 is a spun over the flanges, as indicated at 14.

central vertical sectional view of the complete The spool is connected to its support and to 75 package. Fig. 2isabottom view of the cover the cover by spreading the-ears 6 apart and of the package with the spool -supporting placing the spool betweenthem with the suppiece in place therein. Fig. 3 is a vertical porting-studs projecting into the end opensectional view taken at right angles to the ings in the spool-core, as shown in Fig. 1.

view illustrated in Fig. 1, the section being Thus the spool is securely held by the studs, 80 taken on the line y y of Fig. 1 and looking in yet it is capable of revolving freely thereon. the direction of the arrow in said figure. Fig. The resiliency of the ears is ordinarily suf- 4 is a bottom view of the cover with the spoolficient to maintain the studs in place, but the supporting piece removed. Fig. 5 is an enspring 8 may be employed to render the ears 3 5 larged detail perspective view of the spool stiffer and prevent them from spreading 85 supporting piece, and Fig. 6 is a modification. apart. Obviously, however, the spring 8 may In theseveralviews thesamepartis marked be dispensed with and the resiliency of the with the same numeral of reference. ears alone relied upon to maintain the studs 1 designates an imperforate box, which is in place in the openings in the spool. It

0 preferably made of sheet metal and of suitshould likewise be understood that the ears o able contour to receive a ribbon-spool 2. The may be formed as a part of the cover itself, box is provided with an imperforate cover 3, thus dispensing with a separate base or supwhich is likewise preferably made of sheet porting plate 5. metal and adapted to tightly close the box When the cover is removed, the spool will and prevent the atmosphere from unduly drybe withdrawn therewith from the box. One 5 ing out the ribbon and otherwise acting injuend of the ribbon may then be connected to riously thereon. Sprung into the cover and a ribbon-spool 0n atype-writing machine and held friction-tighttherein--as, for instance, the ribbon mechanism of the machine turned by slightly contracting the side flanges 4: to wind the ribbon onto the spool of the matl1ereofis a supporting orbase piece 5,which chine and unwind it from the spool 2, taken no from the box. From this it will be seen that but little handling of the ribbon is necessary in transferring it from its package to the machine and that when the ribbon is within the package it is protected against injury and deterioration, the package being maintained substantially air-tight.

If desired, the studs 7 may be on the spoolcore and the seats or bearings therefor on the depending ears or supports.

In Fig. 6 the spool 2 is made of plain ey- Iindrical form without flanges, and its ends are journaled to revolve in plain holes 7, formed in the lower portions of the depending arms 6, carried by the cover 3 of the box.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a cover therefor, oppositely-arranged supports depending from said cover within the box, and aribbon-spool revolubly sustained by said supports.

2. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a cover therefor, oppositely-arranged spreadable supports depending from said cover within the box, and a ribbon-spool revolubly sustained by said supports, and adapted to be readily attached to and detached therefrom.

3. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a cover therefor, oppositely-arranged supports depending from said cover within the box, and a ribbon-spool revolubly sustained by said supports, one of the parts having horizontal journals for the spool and the other bearings for said journals.

4. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor, oppositely-disposed bearing-studs carried by said cover, and a spool having bearing-openings for the reception of said studs, whereby the spool may be removed with the cover.

5. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor,a springsupportcarried by the cover, and a spool revoluble upon said support and removable with said cover and adapted to be removed from said spring-support.

6. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor, depending resilient supporting-ears carried by the cover, and a spool carried by and revoluble between said supporting-ears and removable with said cover.

7. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor,supporting-ears carried by said cover and projecting into said box and having oppositely-disposed bearing-studs thereon, and a spool having openings within which the studs are adapted to be seated.

S. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor,supporting-ears carried by said cover and projecting into said box and having oppositely-disposed bearing-studs thereon, a ribbon-spool having openings within which the bearing-studs are adapted to be seated, and a spring for maintaining said ears against accidental separation so as to prevent the studs from being accidentally displaced from their bearing-openings in the spool.

9. In a device of the character specified, the combination of an imperforate box, an imperforate cover therefor, oppositely-disposed supporting-ears carried by said cover, a spool detachably carried by and revoluble between said ears and removable from the box with the cover.

10. In a device of the character specified, the combination of an imperforate box, a removable imperforate cover therefor, supporting-ears carried by said cover and projecting into said box and having bearing-studs thereon, a ribbon-spool having openings for the reception of said bearing-studs to revolubly support the spool, and means for preventing accidental displacement of the bearing-studs from their bearings in the spool, whereby the spool may be removed from the box with the cover.

11. In a device of the character specified, the combination of a box, a removable cover therefor, a supporting-piece carried by and removable from said cover, resilient ears carried by said supporting-piece and projecting into said box, oppositely-disposed bearingstuds on said ears, and a ribbon-spool having a cylindrical spindle in which said bearingstuds are adapted to be seated, so that the spool is free to revolve between said ears and so that the spool may be removed with the cover.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, this 27th day of January, A. D. 1902.

MURRAY II. OIIAPIN.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES BUxToN, E. M. BLIGHT.

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