The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-28

l 'lcrc ma next printing machine putting
TWO more coIorS on the same sheet' ana
! no" 'ho'e uauoS are ciiaiiGeu 10 gen
uihe maps oil that state whicr' IKE those
} lra' Two colors, used 10 De considered
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ID THE SHEETS.
OF these ll0 machines there arc various
styles, but each one is a magnificent type
OF its class. There is not an imperfect
one among them. When n machine gets
old and worn Il newer and surcr one takes
its p~lacc-just about as men do in the race
oil life.
When the sheets have dried, usually
within "a hours, they arc elevated to the
second floor Of the Werner works, where
are the folding, binding and finishing de.
partments. The next thing to do with
these big sheets of 81 pages is SO to fold
item that when the tops and sides of
every two leaves are cut they will read in
sequence, as ID, 81, b, and so on 10
y. This work is done on machines ma
nipulatcd by nimb!c fingers, quick wittcd
young girls; and. by the way. before | for
get it, | want TO say that all the girls "a
Ncrncr's are pretty and young, and if
they show the same devotion clsewhcrci in
after years that they do IN their work
now. the young men of Akron are in luck.
A girl who run a "folder' has a pile of
these printed sheets before her; she takes
one oil the pile, whlsks it over to the MP
pcrs of the machine just as does the press
feeder down stairs; then she uns her eye
over 1t for two little plncturcs that were
made in the sheet for her guidance whenit
went through the printing mac hinc; into
these two puncturcs she jabs two little pin
points that | didn't notice until the ir little
black heads shot through the white surface
an eighth of an inch. Now the sheet is in
the right place for sure. The folder starts,
the nippcrs take the paper, and in a wink
the sheet, folded nicely to single page size,
falls into a tray beneath the machine.
You will see girls running these folders in
one of the pictures here. While you are
reading tins description she has folded
twenty to thirty big sheets.
smashing the sheets.
A boy takes a pile of the folded sheets
ont of this tray and proceeds to "smash'
them. 'Prcssing" would be a much more
accurately descriptive word for what he
does. but ! believe bookbinders have n use
Tor thai word elsewhere in their business.
lie places the pile IN another tray. and
then two Hat surfaced clamps, operated
either by hydraulic or steam power, and
the Werner works have both Kinds, come
toward each other with the pile of pages
between them. pressing the wind right out
of the pile, and making it temporarily as
solid as a marble block. In n minute or
less the pressure is relieved, the pile being +.
tied tightly together so il can't spring UP
again to its old-timc height. Thus is the
"smashinG' done.
Gathering the sheets.
Next comes the 'cathcrinr.n and this iS |
the pIrht word for il ,hIstip,r. ArorrJ an
| a circular board, lust like n rim of n sailor
hat of heroic size with the top kicked Off.
is placed those "smashnd" piles of pages.
First. the pile that reads 1 to 50. then tbo
pile that reads 81 to Ga, and so on until
500 and odd pages arc all on their csucc.
tive piles. A Girl sits Just outside the
periphery of this wooden, papcr-ladcn
circle. Slowly the circle turns. something
as does the turntablc of an engine round
house. only somewhat faster.
the girl reaches out. picks the top ''sig-
nature, as each set of - pages is called.
of lic first piic; that gives her pages I to
b; then ono from the second pile, 1914;
she holds this second foiio IN her hand on
top of the first folio picked. BY the time
the circle turns round you see, she has a
complete book in her lap, with the pages
in order.
Sll" may have made n mistake, so the
first inspection of the book is made. Opcr-
ativcs have to train for this .'gatherinr"
work, and for the first two weeks of their
employment with his great lateral wheel.
going round and round before their Owes.
they nave about the same volcanic eNpe-
ricnccs as people with sensitive interiors
have on ocean voyages the first few days
out.
Sewing he Page.
When the inspectors iiUd the books, so
gathered, IN proper order as to pages, the
encyclopedias in this formative state are
carried down the room 10 the Smythc sew.
ing machines. which do really the most
wonderful work i'll the whole bookmaking
process. At this machine the operator
drops first folio, ! to IS. on a short project
ing rod, so that the folio s,raddles the rod
at page II, the central page of the folio.
The rod bends back. just as you would put Z
your arm across your breast by bendiug