New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-22
TIE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR.
ISecond Article |

Hoes Rotary Press, psfented u ioi', Ia ore ftcoee
inventions which require fifty years and succession Of
gifted men to bring them TO perfection AID which rss
the usme of the country where they are finally COM
plefed.
In the year 1870, Nicholson patented in England Q
rotary printing press in which types or curved stefee
type plates were TO be fastened on cylinder five feet
in dismeter This Inventor never succeeded In bold
il 2 the types ard his invention was abandoned. To
wand tie year 1914 geatire rollers for hiking purposes
were invented in Frarce as substitute for the oab
with which tie types were mixed by hand and presses
were operated by steam power. In 1918, hiking tables
for distributing ink on the rollers patented 10 En-
slard by Applegsth, ard endless tapes to convey the
paper were accepted.
The inventor Of the fy which piles up the printed
Sheet after they printed and dispenses with boy
for esch cylinder, is due to Mr.. Isaac Adams Of Bos-
ton, who used this contIvaDce in his celebrated book
power press. All these separate inventions were
Iecesssiy to the successful working Of rotary press,
anS ave embodied in Col. Hoes machine; to him V
due the plan Of holding ordinary types on cylinder,
and all the minor mechanical arrangements requisite
10 make these separate devices work 10 unity. An
idea of the d icul'ies overcome may be formed from
the fact that many and costly attempts 70
do The same thing have been made before and since
lSi7 BY several distinguished press builders and that
Mr. Hoe tiled several plans before be was finally suo-
cessul.
rotary press with a cylinder about fifteen inches in
dismeter covered all around with types, which were
cast beveled as TO converge toward the center.
They were potched in front and had projection %
the back SO az to nterlock into each other and into
the ciicusr rules in which they were placed. Tho
paper was fed in endless sheets. The difficulty Of
mukI the types ard of setting them up was sufficient
of itsth TO prevent the adoption OF tbs machine.
Mr. Hoe 6rst iied to place the types in portion OF
standing hollow cylinder; another cylinder rotating
within the fret carried several printing rollers which
SEIZED the paper nom feeding table above them aud
a. La cd nv fhA afafA -
tyres This arrangement worked satisfactorily.
Nj Applegaih however, made rotary press tor The
Lohdon Times, which, after working for several
year, is about to be laid aside for two Of Hoes, now
10 course Of building in England. The type cylinder
of Applega ihs press is vertical. Whether thi. psn
was ADDICTED to avoid Hoes patent, or as offering
gre alter security in holding the types we do not know,
but it recessitated very complicated and extended,
,bough Ingenious macbiLery for overcoming the ten
dncy of the ink to down. and thus make one side
If the print blacker than the other ard for feeding
the sheets, which are taken from horizontal table,
iurred in vertical position to be printed ana brought
back horizontally TO be piled.
| Two or three years ago, Mr.. A. Ii. Taylor Of this
city Undertook rev printing machine. In appear
aDce Lis press was very much like machine for
making chocolate. Ii consisted Of horizontal re-
voyirg dsk on which the types were placed, and Of
c.nical prlnrg rollers moving over them the axis o.
Which conveyed toward the center Of the disk This
arrangement is erroneous in principle, as 1t requires
one side Of The psper TO be printed in much less tne
ihsn the other and il proved equally so in practice
The Hce Press exhibited at the Crystal Palace has
Fix printing cylinders. II consists OF horizontal typo
cynoer a feet In diameter and feet in length, which
CARES the types ard makes about 40 revolutions per
minute. Around this and taDgentlal to 1t are SIX
printing cylinders aso revolving, the object of which
press the paper against the types ard thus prnt
Mean each cylihCer is feediug-tebe, which tho
paper TO be printed is piled, and between the Same
cylIders hiking rollers. The types are placed II
sn iron frame called turtle" from their curved
shape, and held there between column rules by fric
L.. h., glattt t.~.
the center Of each column would meet the arts Of the
cylinder and tbofe on The side would pass side
81 the exs at the distance of half the width ofa column.
Ihs deviation from the radius il go small as 10 have no
perceptibe fleet in practice. The turtles are fastened
by tcit ws the cylinder, part only Of whose sur
face is covered win type. The remainder Is used as
IN liking table. The ink is taken from trough I'm.
beneath and applied to the mixing table by means OF
several distributing rollers; it is carried by the table
10 the hiking rollers above mentioned and by them u
the face Of the types There is feeder to each feed
ing table, who pushes the sheets forward one BY one,
when they token away by fingers placed inside tho
snoless tapes to fly which piles them up in regular
manner.
Az the beginning Of this century it was great feat
10 strike ofl 400 printed sheets per hour. In 1914
pres with lst bed ard several printing rollers was
built for The London Times that furnished 700 i'm
pressiors an hour. In 1926 double cylinder press
by Miller took its place. printing at the rate OF 800
al hour. Shortly after similar presses with four cyl
nders were made to give 5000 copies an hour. 10
lS47 Mr. Hoe built four cyiIder press for The Phil
adeipiio Ledgcr, by which 10000 sheets were struck
off, Since then be has built several presses with six,
with eight and with ten cylinders. OF these lsse
there will soon be many in existence. One OF then
is now nearly completed for The TRIBUNE; 1t will
furnish % coo impressions an hour This Is enough
for the present but dare say five years will not
eapse Before the increasing circulation Of the leading
newspapers will require still greater rspidity.
Messrs. Hoe & Co. are proprietors OF various i'm
provements, some Of their own invention some OF
49, oh apohl ham M mint frarN0
sheets Of paper and thus keep up with the time Tho
importance Of fast presses and. the impossibity OF
furnishing newspapers to our subscribers for anything
ike the present rates without them, VIII be best Illus
tated by few figures. We have in our Office thirty
six compositors who work every night TIL ! In the
morning, and six who remain till O'Clock: AT
o'clock the press is put 10 work on the hrsf SIDE, with
twelve to feed and attend to it, ats o'clock the
second side is put on and the whole morning edition
il ready by o'clock giving the news az late as 5.
To co the thing with presses Of the kind We for:
perly used, wonld require presses, each attended
by men, and the setting up Of FORMS each requiring
ifirysix competitors; in all one hundred and 6tty-
two nen iBstesdof fcity.eight, without taking into
account the incre ssed number Of proofresders and
iorenen, and cOpyists. Indeed, the Presse OF Paris
and The L0nd0n Times, formerly bad 70 set up two
forms every night TO be ready in due time. -,
In former article we spoke of loves portable
printing press, az conuiv.nce remarkable of
IS ebeappess. II may be described qaas , o,'e s
' 1Icrun to- to a lever fooe and a half long;
This lever carries a conicsl roller, which, II
COMPETED, would have its apex on the All. Of the
pn The psge, die, cut on stereotype Plate % Dc
printed from, is placed on the iron Ss.si
,h slytt pre.sure. This little instrument Is pat
ented ard recommends sei BY 10 10 g, simplicity and
on,s,s bbeads. and may be used as 8 copying press.
Ws1sbsDts ard brokers, who have TO send weeklye
to- dozen circulars to their correspondents would