The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-02
THE HOE PRESSES.
An Interesting sketch of the Establish.
ment from Whence Came the Int.
eIIigencer's Patent Improved Steam
Cylinder Machine

I
Nothing short Of seeing is comprehend
ing this machine, which has whole
civilization in itself. We would be glad to
have each one OF our readers look over
this great work Of inventive genius, and
clearly understand how itworlls and what
it can do. Go down into our press-room,
and see oncofthc medium-sized specimens
of the wonderful automaton. At first
glance it looks Il little like nn old-fashioned
separator to threshing.machine. Make
the frame of iron, multiply tho cylinder
by ten, make every part as neat and perfect
rs the running gear OF an Elgin watch,
feed 1t at the top, in the middle, from an
endless roll, and let II deliver Mt both ends,
casting the paper out, pasted and folded,
ready for the carriers, and you have II crude
picture OF the press. Think Of it taking in
one end of roll OF delicate paper seven
miles long, and whirling it through a
curious system Of wheels and knives and
cords and fingers that twitch it back and
forth so rapidly that the eye is unable to
distinguish the individual papers till they
are printed, cut, and twice folded, and you
have some idea of this work. Ben Frank
Inns press, now preserved in the Int rior
DEPARTMENT ut Washington, unless it was
burnt last week, would print 12O papers on
one side in one hour.' Hoes press will
print $1,000 on both sides in one hour.
This gives us some idea OF what can be
done. To reel off in one hour twenty
four miles ofpaper-reel it oifas fast us the
lighting train runs and not tear or crum-
pie It, Is no mean achievement. 10 run
the paper out more than eight for every
tick OF the watch, and take them out OF
the way without fouling them against each
other, is no mean undertaking. These are
the difficulties on the surface that first at
tract the attention.
SO much of a machine, though in COM
mon use by the great papers Of the world,
deserves more definite statement OF its
growth and construction.
r, Hoe & Co.'S type-revolying dprint,,
ing machine, with flying, FASTING, and
folding attachments, is properly o growth.
II has been growing for centuries, The
Chinese printed with engraved pages n
thousand years ago. Europeans printed
Goods with carved blocks nine hundred
wears ago, Movable type, which is the
soul OF the modern press, was invented
four hundred years ago. Steam presses
are of this country. Bed presses ran up to
/ 600 an hour, and then the shock OF stop
p;ng and reversing the motion SO swiftly
soon shook to pieces the stoutcst gearing
This made the cylinder necessary. The
feeding OF cut paper soon required four
men and tall two-story press, which
couId he poorly handled and steadicd. The
reel relieved this, and allowed the press to
be compressed into o low, solid form, Ink
inc advanced from Frpnklin's swab to the
rollers OF to-day. Delivering was hard
orcstion, that found relief in dividing the
panrrs, and in rollers where six or more
Sheets are gathered at a lime, and deposit
ed nj once. rs described below. Thus one
thing after another has been added, till
now Il only needs some transeendent
Genius 10 breathe living soul into the
press. ,,;,,,o1
nearly every thing short Of tins. Lhey
have made fame and fortune Tor them,
selves, and renown for our country, ana
cheapened civilization, till 1t IS withih
reach of poverty itself.
This machine, though for sometime in
New York and Philadelphia and England,
WINS seen to better advantage at the Cen
tennial Exposition than ever before. On
Looking ut this press the practical printer
was struck with its compactness ana
convenience. These features were espe-
eialIy noticeable in the arrangement OF It's
;nk-tlistributing apparatus, where each
roIler reyolyed unhidden by framework,
and within easy reach of the pressman's
hand, Generally speaking, its freedom
from extremely complicated machinery is
,hn Great Recommendation OF the new Hoe
nr e The New York Tribune and some
II tho Western newspapers are printed
unon Il. In London it prints the Dddy
TEisorvpb. Standard; Daily Chronicle, anu
fioyds Mrs. 1t also prints and folds the
Giosoo,r Herald. The Philadelphia IaHes,
folio, asserts that with its two Hoe, perfect
inc processes, printing the paper in dupli'
eate on both presses together, one
thousand copies are printed, cut, ana I0la-
cd ready for delivery each minute. Inns
would aggregate 10000 papers PRINT,
ad Inv each press in one hour. Its called
Sperfectingh because both sides oil the
naner are printed when delivered from the
press ANY full description here oil the
prs in mechanical terms would be most
pprsai;sfact0ry. The machine consists,
principally, Of three pairs Of cyllnae al
geared together in massive irameiw ,,il,.
the roll Of paper having been previously
dampencd by passing through an ing Sar
ious wetting machine, is lifted mo Piaee
! by crane, and the paper from u passes
between the first pair OF cyIin9ers the
circumference OF each OF when Is Ius'
equal to the required length OF inc sheet w.
One ofthese cylinders has us periphery GOV
cred with the stereotype plates Of the mat
| ter to he printed, and is supplied WIN atl
| ink fountain, distributing and composiuoh
rollers, which, rs the cylinder reyolyes, az,
niles the ink to the stereotype iorm. my
other cylinder is covered with q blanket,
and as they revolye together, with the pa
ner between them, they print It's INST sue
n course repeating theimpression at eGch
revolution The paper then passes on DC,
tween the second pair OF cylinders, one OF
which carries the stereotype plates OF inc
second side, and has an inkingapparatus o
its own. But the impression cylnuer ~
ibis case is below the former, and Is o.
much greater size, so that the set-oit nom
The fresh ink shall not fall continually on
Tho same surface OF the blanket. In TACT
Il Il only every fourth sheet which touche'
Tho same part OF the blanket, which has
therefore. time TO dry. From the second
nair az cylinders the sheet passes TO tht
ib;rj mir. which act as the cutting GYM
dn,s he lower Of which has inserted rub
her laws to receive the edge OF the knife
which is provided in the upper roller, ant
oncrated by cam movement so as to pro
iect the blade to perform Its cutting dut!
and recede for the rest OF the revolution
The sheet is not cut entirely In two, therl
onnr5aT Of an inch wide, which have sui
| deent strength to hold the paper togethe
until the tapes take hold Of II and conduG
I, N tho first folding cylinder, which fold