Patent GB-191008101-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Assembling and Delivering Printed Products.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
IPC: B41F13/64
Filed: 1910-04-04
Granted: 1910-12-08
Abstract: 8101. Newton, P. A., [Hoe & Co., R.]. April 4. Delivery apparatus.-A newspaper printing machine is constructed so as to be capable of printing papers having pages of a number which is not a multiple of four, the columns of the printing-plates being parallel to the run of the web. A longitudinal folder may be arranged to receive the associated product. The machine is of the kind in which a blank sheet or a sheet printed with extraneous matter may be separated from one of the main webs, and delivered independently. The invention is shown in Fig. 1 as applied to a machine capable of forming a paper of sixteen pages, and the delivery and cutting mechanism shown is used with printing - cylinders &c. which can perfect two double-width webs W, W<1>, but for a fourteen page product one plate is omitted from each printing - cylinder of the perfecting set which prints on the web W<1>, Figs. 1 and 5, a blank a being formed in the web. The webs W, W<1> are associated and cut to form a fourteen page product by cutting and gripping means on cylinders 1, 4, 5 which have circumferences equal to the length of a sheet. The leading edge of the web W<1> is first impaled on pins 8 on the cylinder 4, and as this cylinder rotates, the web is slit by a cutter 20 along the line 19, Fig. 5. After a half revolution of the cylinder 4, pins 16 on a cylinder 15 take the edge of the blank sheet a, which is completely severed from the web by cutting-devices 2, 6 at the same time that pins 3 on the cylinder 1 take the single sheet b and also the leading edge of the web W<1> at the place corresponding to the commencement of the double sheet C. Half a revolution previous to this the pin 3 had taken the leading edge of the web W, and, when this web is severed by the cutting-devices 2, 7, after a further half revolution, the three sheets on the pins 3 are transferred to pins 9 on the cylinder 5 and simultaneously the end of web W is impaled on these pins. From the pins 9 the associated products may be delivered to a longitudinal folder 18 prior to the severing of the second sheet from the web W. A ten or six page paper may be produced by employing a half width web W<1> or by omitting the web W respectively. The pins 18 may be rendered inoperative to enable a sixteen page paper to be produced. In a further modification the printing-cylinders are arranged four abreast, and multiples of two pages up to sixteen can be obtained. A ten page product is obtained by employing one web three pages wide of half the outer part of which is printed on in alternate spaces only. This web is slit by cutters 25, 26, Fig. 7, into a single width web 27 and a double width web 28 which is turned by bars 29, 30 to bring it beneath the web 27. The web 27 is forwarded to cutting- cylinders 40, 41 which deliver the cut blanks to a delivery cylinder 46 and the printed sheets to a cylinder 42 which transfers them to a collecting-cylinder 36. A single sheet from the web 27 is associated with two double width sheets obtained from the web by cutting-devices on cylinders 36, 37. Pasting-rolls 35 may act on the double web 28. The ten page product passes from the cylinder 36 to a folder 50. For producing a fourteen page product a similar arrangement to that shown in Fig. 7 is employed, but a four page web is used and the web 27 slit from this is acted on by a cam-operated slitter which slits the web 27 at the places corresponding to the sides of the blanks. The blanks are delivered by a cylinder 46 and a single and a double width sheet cut from the web 27 is associated with two double width ones obtained from the web 28.