Padding press
AssigneeZimmer Industries, Inc.
InventorEdwin F. Zimmer
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Abstract
An improved padding press for holding under pressure a plurality of sheets of paper and cardboard backers while the backs are being glued together to form individual pads, providing a support rack, a pressing mechanism and a plurality of insertable padding racks which enable said support rack and pressing mechanism to be utilized continuously in the padding process. While pads in one insertable padding rack are being glued and dried, another batch can be aligned and pressed in another insertable padding rack.
Claims5
An improved padding press for pressing and holding under pressure a plurality of pads while the back edges are being glued comprising in combination:
- a support rack including two side walls, an upwardly extending rear wall and a base plate;
- said rear wall having alignment edges secured thereto, a paper pressing mechanism rotatably mounted on said supporting rack including a mounting bar, a pair of handle arms rotatably secured to said mounting bar, a handle mounted to said handle arms, two pressing plate arms rotatably mounted on said handle arms, a pressure plate rotatably mounted on said pressure plate arms;
- an insertable padding rack including a base plate, notched to fit within said alignment edges of said support rack, two vertical bars attached to said base plate, a notched pressure plate to fit over said base plate and slidably received over said vertical bars through two aperatures in said pressure plate, two adjustable O-rings slidably received over said vertical bars to retain said pressure plate in position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.