The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-16
From the N. Y. Tribune.
A KeVSy Printing Machine .

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The following is the prospectus of new print
ing machine, which is expected to work revolu
lion in the newspaper press:
Wlkinson's Cylindrical Rotary Printing Press
This machine in every essential point, differs from
all others. In form it is simple and compact
combining the most perfect ease in movement
with the greatest power in action Of any press
hitherto invented.
The inventor, Jeptha A. wilkinson, of the city
of Providence, has devoted much time in perfect
ing this extraordinary combination, which now
promises new era, if il does not effect thorough
revolution in the ART of printing.
All the motions of this press are rotary. The
type are adapted 10 and brought into perfect cir.
Cuar form and placed on cylinders, one of which
is made 10 print the upper, and the other the under
side of continuous sheet Of paper, which is made
10 pass directly through the machine, and come
out printed on both sides, folded into a convenient
form, and cut off ready for delivery. All the re-
ciprOeatng movements heretofore used are abau-
doned and simple rotary motions substituted
throughout. Consequently, the exceedingly smooth
and uniform action of this press is almost exempt
from the danger of arrangement, or getting out Of
order, aud subject to very little wear.
The types, moreover, possess in their shape great
advantage. They are SO formed that they must ne
eessarily all stand the right way, and in their
ton upon The paper are not subject to injury by be
ing battered and they are much less worn and dis
figured by use than type employed in the old way
To which may also be added the important advan
tage of casting upon the radii of circle, and usin,
upon the cylinders stereotype plates exactly con
tOrmable to the cylinder and made to move like tbs
type, completely in a circle.
The velocity in the movement of this press i.
perhaps the most extraordinary feature. Such il
the astonishing rapidity with which impressions
may BE- multiplied that at an ordinary speed 90 Cs
imperial sheets may with great ease be printed on
both sides, folded and cut neatly from continuous
sheet in one hours time. Thus 10000 impression
can be made, beside the folding and cutting Of the
sheet, in one hours time, by sing machine, with
cut the aid of the human hand.
With these advantages for quick work, this
press be siaid up the very hour of issuing The
the type the cylinders. Indeed, all the detail;
Of composing, arranging, taking proofs and trans
terring, are completely practical, and can be &c.
cOmplished with the same facility the old plan
There is nothing, therefore, 10 prevent the sue
of this machine the absolute cost of which is
also much less than that Of the Double Cylinder Ma
pier Press, or any other used in the old way. II
can be worked by any ordinary power, one man OF
active boy only being required TO attend press
place the roll of paper upon the machine, and carry
away the printed and folded sheets as fast as they
are, by thousands, thrown from the machine.
Thus the expense of numerous gangs of hands
such as are usually employed about the old press
either in printing, folding or handling the papers
may be dispensed with; and work which hitherto
has required from twelve to sixteen hands durnl
most of the day and night may now be performe
by this machine, and one hand only, in the shor
space of two or three hours.
And these are not the only advantages presente
in the crowd resulting from the use ofthis perieC
and singular combination of maehinery-there ar
many others, and among them some of highly i'm
portant character, which extend from the press L
almost every branch connected in Typographical
art; and some of them reach, and will great,
abridge, the operation and expense in the manufac
ture Of paper. which, by this process of printing
can now be brought from the mill in a roll of any
required dimensions, and containing many THOUSAND
yards in length, OF the necessary degree Of damp
ness for use, without the trouble, and addtiOna
cost, of drying, cutting, and packing in reams o
bundles, as heretofore done.
With these immense facilities time and expens
in printing may he literally annhlated, Will
fresh and extensive energy will be given to the d
fusion of knowledge, and new and increased in
pulse to Literature and The Arts.