The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-28
II .s,e,c Printing Press.

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f5 I'll .Se,c Printing Press.
The Kalida Sentinel has notice of an in
vention of great Importance to Printers-and
which, if successful, will enable conductors of
country newspapers to compete with their city
contemporaries in the price of their papers,
Subscribers to country. journals, who pay from
fifty cents to dollar more per anHum than
city publishers charge their subscribers, often
complain without realizing the fact that it costs
the former as much to print an edition of one
thousand as it does his city cotemporary to
print an edition of ten thousand. Such, new
ertheless, is, true, and if this new invention of
Mr.. WOLFE shouldl prove successful, it will
give to the country press that position which
its just claims upon the immediate community
interested in its support entitle it to. The
Sentinel does not state the price, butiwe ex-
tract the material points in its notice of the
As hand Press, this has no equal: For
by it, the operator perform, Gin any given
time,) from three to five times much labor,
and do it much easier and better than he can
on any other hand Press now in use. There
are but few of the Steam Presses that will do
more work in the same time than can be per-
formed on this by hand; and none will do the
work with that exactness which can be attain
ed on this; for, with the ordinary care requir-
ed on the other Presses, in placing the type
on the plate, and the paper on the frisket or
fly, this will line to hair. tsf
We believe the "Adams Steam Press" is
generally admitted to be one of the best-aoork-
ing Steam Presses in use-Wt lies Hand Press
will do more acorh in the same time, and do "a
better than the Adams Press; besides, it will
not cost moreithan about half what the Adams
Press generally costs.
Wolfe's Press was got up expressly for a
hand Press; but not to be "behind the age"
the inventor has matured a Elan, by which it
can be operated by either hand steam, at
pleasure, by merely taking off, or putting on
side belt.
The Mechanical powers combined in the
operation of Wolfe's Press consist of the lev
er, the wheel and its axel, the crank, and the
toggle joint-as great combination of Me-
chanical powers as exist in any other Press in
use
4 In it's operation, this Press combines sim
plicity, convenience and ease; the operation
being performed by simply turning crank
In the first place, the paper is placed upon the
fly, in horizontal position, the crank is now
turned giving one revolution to the driUing
Uheel, which carries the paper to its place be-
meath the platen, which, second revolution
of the same aoheel, brings down and gives an
impression to the paper. At the same time,
the ink-feeder supplies the distributing roller
with ink, which 1t imparts to the composition
rollers, by which they are prepared to give
color to the next impression. The same ,vheel,
still in motion, (though the pressing operation
has ceased,) by its third revolution, carries
that paper out-ays it off, blacks the type
and brings another paper under the platen,
ready for pressing, which operation is perform
ed as the first. - -9..
1t will be readily seen that the process of
turning crank is more simple than changing
from lever to crank, and crank to lever, as is
required with the common hand Press; and
that it is more convenient to place the paper
on horizontal platform, than on the inclined
tympan of the common Press, or the inclined
fly of the "Adams." It is easier worked than
the common hand Press, for several reasons
1t is easier to turn crank than to give back
ward surge with lever. 1t is easier to run a
ight carriage out with the paper than to run
out heavy plate and form. 1t is much easier
to run this carriage out only than to run the
plate and form out and back again for each
impression, and it is easier for the boy to place
papers on the fly, than to handle the roller and
black the type.
In fact, this is one Of the best presses in
use. In the construction of its parts it is SIM
pie as moonshine, plain as sunshine, and in its
operation, certain as the polar star.
These Presses are now being constructed at
the ''Fulton Iron Works." Toledo, Ohio, where
Printers and the trade can be supplied in
WOLFE, Toledo, Ohio. ,..-it mn