The morning call., 1892-10-09
UNDER FULL READRAY.
A Glance at tie Gigantic QgodrUpie Press
Khen IN Motor.

Glance at tie Gigantic Qg06FVpie Press
When in Motion.
This gigantic press is calculated to print.
paste and fold $1,000 copies of THE CALL
an hour! Think Of il. One thousand a
minutei Every paper is not only counted,
pasted and registered. but the copies are
turned out in well-defned patches of ten OF
fifty, as desired, for the convenience of the
men In the mail and carrier departments.
The main press, with its enormous roll.
seventy inches wide, is supplemented by
the other portion, as will be seen by the
cut OF the immense machine that is here
with presented Turn, in imagination, 10
the right and walk around the great struc-
ture. Twenty feet in the distance can be
seen roll OF white paper, filling but half
the space on the cylinder. and half as wide
on the big roll at the other side OF the press
The two rolls stand at direct right angles.
and yet the paper on both will meet In
union and cooperate with each other In
forming the finished product, the printed
newspaper.
The product of the first meets the prod
! uct of the second at the top of the further
| press. There the largest wooden roller
| takes the great wide strip from the big roll
| so far away and changes its direction so
| that it points the same way the product OF
| the other press is travelling. The smaller
! roller meanwhile Is not idle. 1t is changing
to a downward direction the other roll,
which works under the big roller. Then
the unerring mechanism joins the two to-
| gether. A revolving brass wheel, half Of
which runs through paste as a scissors
grinders whetstone does through water,
revolving under the center of the sheets
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has meanwhile left its line Of sickness
along the inside of the double sheet, and
when the inside pa ges join it it is pressed upon
the line of union and passes down the folder
with the other sheet together as one. All
this time the webs Of paper have been kept
intact, but after passing between a set of
rollers having rubber collars circular knife
slits the web lengthwse in the center and
each half passes down and over triangular
former" plainly seen in the cut, made Of
sheet steel, highly polished. which makes
the fold.
Down each OF these two formers" the
paper runs like a cataract, suggesting, if
we compare the less to the greater, the twin
falls of Niagara. A set Of nipping rollers
pulls the sheet down over the formers"
and introduces each half to the cutting and
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the proper length and give the second fold
Two deliveries are made. At the front of
one section the papers come off double for
the wholesale agents. At the rear Of the
same section stream of CALLS will also
come off triple-folded, square, As they are
handed by the uewsboys The first impress
! sions coming through the press sre rapidly,
but carefully examined. All rightl Then
the signal is given. and with rush and
roar the monster starts off at full speed
and out flows the tide of perfected copiesia
the rate of co. 900 an hour.
Surely the QuadruDlex is the greatest won
der of modern mechanical science. When
we pause and think Of the old Ramage, such
as Horace Greeley used to print with in his
early days, with its single platen and double
bed, and follow the successive press i'm.
provements, the StaphOpe. the Columbian,
the Smith, the Adams, the Washington
and the earlier cylinders with their crude
ness, we are fain to confess that in tn,
Quadruplex we fnd the full flower of al
| tboae huds nf nromisa