Patent GB-191008308-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Printing Machines.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
IPC: B41F13/56
Filed: 1910-04-06
Granted: 1911-04-06
Abstract: 8308. Newton, P. A., [Hoe & Co., R.]. April 6. Delivery apparatus. - A rotary straight-line machine in which a number of sets of double - wide parallel perfecting-couples are employed is provided with longitudinal folders ' which are set side by side and arranged between the sets, the printing - sets and folders being driven by gearing which enables the printing-sets to be used as separate items each using its own folder, or as a single item both sets using one folder, or will enable one or more printing-sets to be used in conjunction with both folders. As shown in Figs. 1 and 8, sets of perfecting-couples 1, 3 print on webs W, W<1> and couples 5, 6 on webs W<2>, W<3>. The couples 1, 3 are driven by mitre gearing from a shaft 10, which is driven by mitre gearing from a shaft 23, on which is a sliding gear 22, which may drive a shaft 18 by means of a clutch 20 for connecting the shaft to a freely mounted mitre gear. The shaft 23 also drives through a gear wheel 68, Fig. 8, a train of gears 67 and other gearing 65, 64 ... 60, the shaft 52 of one of the forwarding-rolls of a longitudinal folder 47. In order that two folders 47, 46 may be arranged side by side and driven independently, the forwarding-rolls are formed in sections which are journaled in end brackets and in intermediate brackets 54, 59. The printing- couples 5, 6 are driven in the same way as the couples 1, 3, and the shaft 57 of the forwarding- roll of the folder is driven from a shaft 37, which corresponds to the shaft 18, this shaft being driven also by a clutch 39 from a freely mounted mitre gear 36 driven by a sliding gear 41 on shaft 23. When printing takes place from all the couples and two different sixteen page papers are printed, the shafts 18, 37 are geared together by a sliding gear 82 on the shaft 23 so as to cause the couples to move in complete unison. All the webs are associated together and are then slit before passing to the folders, so that each finished product contains matter from each printing-set. The folder 47 may however be arranged to receive only the products of the couples 1, 3, the webs W, W<1> being slit by slitters 83, 84, and the halves being brought together by transferrers 42, 43. Similarly the folder 46 may receive the webs W<2>, W<3> and the two finished products are obtained respectively entirely from the couples 1, 3 and 5, 6. Either set of printing-couples and the corresponding folders may be put out of action independently of the other, or one set of printing-couples may be left in and the corresponding folder put out of action. Ordinary transverse folding and delivery apparatus is geared to the driving-gear of the longitudinal folder. In a further modification, four sets of printing-couples and folders are used, each set and its folder being driven independently of the other sets, and the printing-sets being capable of being left in when the corresponding folders are out. One set is arranged above the set 1, 3 and the other above the set 5, 6. The driving - arrangements may be all geared together to run in unison when all the couples are printing, or two sets may be geared in unison.