The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-09-02

| the folder runs at but halt tue speed OF ttle
press, and gives to the folding.machine a
capacity equal to that of the press The
papers thus come from the press accurately
folded, ready to be- at once distributed TO
the carriers.
Special attention has been paid to the
Understanding, In order 10 save ink, and
make good printing compatible with d
good speed. To insure this, seven compO-
sition rollers, four OF which vibrate, grind
down The ink to fine uniform film before
It reaches the stereotype plates. Each OF
these rollers runs in an adjustablecarriage,
which permits OF It's bearing with more or
less pressure against the drum and stereO-
tyne plates. In presses where such pro-
vision Is not made, the composition rollers,
bearing with all their weight, have q ten.
dency 10 melt when driven at high speed.
The Hoe press Is so designed as to deliv'
er the sheets folded or uniolded, both de-
signs being original inventions. When
the papers are TO be delivered flat they
are conducted, on leaving the cutting cyl
inders TO revolving drum, round the cir
conference Of which n number, say six,
are coiled, one Immediately upon the 9th.
er. The circumference OF this drum ex-
ceeds the length OF the sheets by some
four or five inches and this space allows
lust sufficient time for row OF switches to
dart across and peel off the six sheets,
sending them down in front Of the lily
frame, which lays them on the delivery tn
Bile with great precision.
The history OF this type OF press begins
In 1895, when Sir Rowland Hill, who be-
came famous for his advocacy OF penny
postage in Great Britain, obtained letters
patent for web-periecting press; that Is,
press capable Of printing n roll OF pa
per on both sides, and cutting and piling
the sheets. In 1858 Victor Beaumont, OF
New York, patented the serrated cutting
blade, set lengthwise in one OF pair OF
cutting cylinders, having elastic surfaces
inserted, to hold the paper on each side OF
the cutting blade when the sheet is cut
from the web.
To this device is largely due the success
OF all web-perfecting presses. To France,
however, belongs the credit OF the inven.
ton, which made such presses OF practi.
cal value. A French inventor, about 1850,
devised the process OF stereotyplng with
flexible pdDieT-udche matrices, rendering il
practicable to cast the type plates to lit the
cylinders, and leaving but little to accom-.
DllSll, SllNe tilc SuluClChLS ihpAt NL7HODth
OF the printed sheets. :.
Hoes novel method Of collecting the
sheets on cylinder reduces the speed OF
the fly to one sixth Of the speed OF the
printing machine, not wildly beating
to and fro, trying to deliver single
sheets, but leisurely taking its six sheets
ut time, and piling them with neatness
and accuracy-a feat which could not be
accomplished by more rapid movement.
In supplying carriers with papers con-
siderable help has heretofore been requir-
ed to count them, but mechanism has now
taken this place. When the desired num-
Der of sheets to bundle is laid on the de-
livery-table the table is moved about two
inches, sideways, by cam, SO that the
next pile will lap over little, giving sIltii-
Gent hold for mans hand. These piles
are accurate in count. The cam move
ment regulating the counting is adjustable
according to the demands Of different OIL
ces. This process can also be made to YER
ify the days edition on the press.
Messrs. X. Hoe & Co. are making web
periecting machine" to print from type
forms rs well as from stereotype plates, at
q high rate OF speed. This press will meet
the requirements Of newspapers OF large
circulation having no time for ster-
eotyping, or desiring to avoid this expense.
And beyond this although generally re-
garded Us exclusively newspaper machin-
ery-these gentlemen have adapted web
printing to book and jobbing work, and
are at present constructing web machines
to throw Off this class OF work with the
same rapidity Us newspapers. This adap-
tatiOn promises to inaugurate new cru in
book printing, and reduce it TO its simplest
and most economical conditions.
We cannot leave this most interesting
subject without taking you down to the
Grand-street establishment OF X. Hoe Il
Co., where this wonderful work is done.
The shops cover an entire block, 20Ox30O Il.
The main building is seven stories high,
and with its clock tower was able to over
look that part OF the city till the piers OF
the Brooklyn bridge uprose to dispute this
dignity. There are several acres OF floors
occupied by men and machinery. A thou
sand workinen Gun find room in these
shops. The exactness with which science
is applied in making and handling these
great machines is equaled by the exact
ness OF the discipline with which the men
are handled. Somebody is responsible for
each thing. The precautions against waste
are only equalled by the precautions
against fire.
We were specially impressed with one
room filed with great planning machines,
that stood in long rows, like elephants in
their stalls, and quietly moved their steel
planes over the great slabs Of iron. These
machines manage themselves so nearly
that one man can attend to the whole herd.
Science, extending to an accurate know!.
edge OF the forces TO be used and dilhcul-
ties to be overcome, is applied at every
point, to save wear and waste. The en-
CINE room is kept at q given temperature
all the year round. Every piece OF The
machinery Is kept at an unvarying size.
The master screw that furnishes the Il.
nnl test OF all the screws in the shops, and
of the accuracy OF yearly all the tools, cost
four months Of work for its perfection.
The temperature Of the room and Of the
screw itself, and OF the hammers and tools
in its manufacture, were kept at given
degree. The screw is fifteen feet long, and
is believed nto vary from exactness l.lOOoi
an inch, which Is equally distributed
throughout its entire length that is, itva-
ries from exactness ii 800 OF an inch in q
foot, or about 10000 of an inch in each
round OF its thread. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that no measuring
rod has been found to verify this supposed
error.
We went into the room where the mas
ter's tools and plates were kept, and wit
messed some displays OF their pertectness.
For instance, we saw two large heavy
steel plates so level and so perfectly match.
cd that not speck of plumbago could
lodge between them; 80 perfectly matched
a little air caught between them would
cause the upper plate to dance aboutat the
slightest touch, light as a feather, and
when the air was excluded by placing
them carefully together the lowe, plate
chung to the upper, sitdisobedient tothe law
Of gravity. As We Witnessed these tests, so
familiar 10 maChinists, we could not help
thinking Of the master tools in Gods
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