Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-02-26
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Montague,s Sew PRINTING Press.

Now lCSos
1t gives US great pleasure to chronicle another
improvement 10 the mechanic arts, and to bear
our testimony in favor OF Mon,ague's Printing
Press, rumors concerning which have been IN cir
culaiion among on brethren of the craft for the
lesttwo wears. After months Of labor and study
in which he has encountered all the discourage
men,s that usually attend upon the efforts of the
inventor, Mr. Montague has al last wrought COM
pleie triumph, and produced a machine which
challenges the admiration of all practical printers
who have longed for ''that good time com.
ing when, at moderate expenditure for ma
chine, they could work off an edition of newspa-
pers at the rate Of from seven to eight hundred
hour
We yesterday witnessed the operation of one
of Montague's presses, at the Machine shop of
Messrs. J. Barrett & Co, in this city, by whom
it was constructed under Mr.. Monlague's super
vision, and although it was the FIRST Trial, such
was the nicely of its construction, and the per-
feet adjustment of all lis parts, that no more time
was consumed in making ready, than if it had
been an old machine and long experienced in the
work.
The press is very compact, the largest size not
occupying larger space than FIVE feet by seven.
The construction is very simple, and we should
judge it was one not easily got out of order.
The cylinder is geared to the bed, and receives
lis motion from ii but one way, so that each for
ward sem-reyoution makes one impression,-the
cylinder resting on the backward mo ion ofthe bed
The sheet is delivered by fly, which is attached
TO the press. One advantage which the inventor
claims, adds something to the value Of his i'm
provement, is that the forward motion Of the bed,
at the time the impression is being given, is ri-
file slower than the backward motion. The CYL
inder for double medium press, is about sixty
inches diameter. The arrangement is entirely
different from any cylinder press now in use.-
The press may be driven by hand. or by steam
power,-the one examined, printing from a
quarter-sheet form, being easily turned by boy
With a larger form, it would of course require
more power, but more, we should judge than
man of ordinary strength could furnish. We
understand the Inventor has another kind Of press
nearly completed, which prints on both sides of
sheet before it leaves the machine, and requires
no hands to feed it, being fed from continuous
web of paper. reeled off from cylinder.
Charles Montague, the inventor ofthe press
we have attempted to describe, is practical prin-
ter, and was for several years editor of the Pitts
field Eagle. The patentrig is owned by Mon.
iague & Boardman. The presses are built by
Messrs Barrett & Co, ofthis city, and the work.
manship is in the highestdegree creditable to then
establishment
The prices ofthese presses vary rom $500 to
$sOO-accordng 10 size. The bed Of the Que we
saw, is p by 43 inches, and is sold TO the pro-
Prietors of the Bratlleboro Vt, Eagle, from whom,
those interested can learn further particulars as
to its practical success, when they have tested It's
Capacities, by use in their office