Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-25
TEN DA VS. At THE FAIR.
CONTINUED

Almost everybody who visits Ma
chinery Hall is interested in printing
machinery. A large and important
section has been given to this, and
crowds of people are gathered in diff
ferent groups around some press or
| type setting machine at all times. The
great press manufacturers have all
put their presses in operation, the
most of them printing daily paper
in the building. All the machines are
| finely made, the very best machine
work being done upon them. We
find here the great Hoe press, perhaps
the best in the world, with capacity
Of printing and folding a 24-page pa
per at the rate of several thousand
copies in an hour. To give full de-
scription of one of the great presses
would require long article, but the
following may give the reader some
thing of an idea of what the mechan-
ism is. The machine, practically, is q
combination ofseveral printing press
es in one. Every press must have
mechanism for feeding itself with pa
per, delivering the same after it is
printed; it must have type fastened
in place in iron frames, or the type
matter must be stereotyped and put
in sections of cylinders, these placed
on revolving cylinders, which strike
the paper as it rapidly passes forward,
doing the printing at a marvellous
speed, each cylinder having an mixing
apparatus, and the whole machine
so contrived that the paper coming
forward from great rolls that stand on
the sides or ends of the press can be
gathered together in the right order
of pages, moved on toward the fold
er, cut off, folded and showed forward
into a box as fast as man can gather
them up by armfuls. The operation
of one of these great presses is some
thing marvellous. A group of men is
standing about the machine, watching
the movement Of every part. The
word is given and the gearing, hun
dred wheels, rollers and cylinders be-
gin to revolve; the paper is drawn
held between rollers and moves on to
the end in the direction desired; as
the type cylinders revolve they re-
ceive ink from the mixing apparatus
and the paper in passing under the
type receives the linked type and the
impression, to pass forward to be
printed on the other side, to overtake
a second or the third or fourth sheet,
all to pass into the folder, being cut off
the right length and folded into the
great daily that is handed to the news
boys the next moment Or hastened off
in the mail to the distant reader The
Hoe presses are different from others
in having the paper rolled in from the
sides of the press as we'll as the end,
this done for a matter OF convenience.
Setting along in the same section
with the Hoe are presses from differ
ent makers, the operation and con-
of which are different. but i
the work accomplished being the /
same. The machinist and the pub i
Usher are interested in the make of
the different presses, but the ordinary
man only looks at what the press ac-
not at how it is made.
There are few machines in the world
that have had the time and study put
upon them that the printing press
has received. Right among these
modern presses stands an old fashion
ed one, once the wonder of the world.
ON which was printed some journal
which our great grandfathers read.
proud of the age which had produced
such paper and the wonderful press
operated by Benjamin Franklin. In
printing machinery may be found al
most everything that is able to stand