Packaging machine

Claim 1

A PACKAGING MACHINE FOR ROLLING AND TYING INDIVIDUAL NEWSPAPERS COMPRISING A HORIZONTAL CYLINDRICAL WRAPPING SPINDLE ROTATABLE ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS, A FORKED MEMBER SECURED TO SAID SPINDLE AND ROTATABLE THEREWITH, SAID MEMBER HAVING TWO SPACED APART PRONGS EXTENDING IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID SPINDLE AND EQUIDISTANTLY SPACED ABOUT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID SPINDLE, SAID PRONGS BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A FLAT NEWSPAPER THEREBETWEEN FOR ROLLING; DRIVING MEANS WHICH WHEN ACTUATED ROTATES SAID SPINDLE THROUGH A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF REVOLUTIONS AND WHEN DEACTUATED CANNOT ROTATE SAID SPINDLE; A SWITCH WHICH WHEN CLOSED ACTUATES SAID DRIVING MEANS AND WHEN OPEN DEACTUATES SAID DRIVING MEANS, SAID SWITCH POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID PRONGS TO BE CLOSED BY THE PASSAGE OF SAID NEWSPAPER AS IT IS INSERTED BETWEEN SAID PRONGS WHEREBY ROTATION OF SAID SPINDLE ROLLS SAID NEWSPAPER; A TYING MECHANISM DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID SPINDLE AND HORIZONTALLY SEPARATED FROM SAID PRONGS AND SAID SPINDLE, SAID MECHANISM BEING MECHANICALLY COUPLED TO SAID DRIVING MEANS AND ACTUATED THEREBY TO TIE AND KNOT A LENGTH OF STRING ABOUT THE ROLLED NEWSPAPER DURING COMPLETION OF SAID NUMBER OF REVOLUTIONS; AND MEANS TO VARY AUTOMATICALLY THE HORIZONTAL SPACING BETWEEN SAID SPINDLE AND SAID MECHANISM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THICKNESS OF THE NEWSPAPER BEING ROLLED.