Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-18

Ia its progress the paper comes in contact
with q little circular saw which cuts the
web in tie center. making after that two
. ..--- If pape- instead Of one, certain
pages %. Of the paper hsytng been 3. .ated in
its contact with the cylinders on eae;si OF
these strips.
The web a then conducted to what is
known as the angle bars. These are two
long rollers placed at an angle OF forty
five degrees to the middle line of the press,
and whose function Is to turn the web SO
that 1t will travel for a short space at
right angles to the direction it followed in
coming through the press. The streams of
paper coming from both presses and turned
by these angle bars are assembled together
in the mechanism that cuts and folds the
papers. The paper passes over three fold
ing cylinders, getting from the first two
parallel folds, and from the third the final
fold. From the last cylinder the completed
paper, cut, folded and pasted. is dropped
into packer box, where II is packed
neatly by plunger an ingenious device
tripping the mechanism at every fiftieth
paper so as TO neatly arrange the papers in
piles of fifty. Now, passing along in front
of the presses. just at the point where these
piles of fifty are delivered, is the miniature
ca ie line referred to. AS rapidly as these
piles are made by the presses, they are
taken up by attendants and deposited on the
little trucks sliding by on this cable road
In this way they are conveyed to the base
ment of the corner building, where the
newsboys are waiting for them. Up to the
time of the introduction OF these presses
The Star was equipped with three fast per-
fecting presses which were considered
marvels of mechanism The difference be-
tween the discarded presses and the new
ones Is that the new presses will print a
paper of my size from two to sixteen pages
at ore time. This new press is the only one
that has been invented that will print and
insert siXteen-page paper. The old presses
and the majority of modern perfecting
presses will print a complete eight-page
paper. In order to print paper of larger
size 1t Is necessary on such q machine to
print the different parts at different times
and then have them assembled and folded
together by hand.
To print q ten-page paper on the new
presses of The Star Office, one part contain
ing eight pages is printed on the lower part
of the press, while the other part, contain
ing two pages, is printed on the upper
lower rate Of speed. When the output Of
each press reaches the folder, the mech
anism is so nicely adjusted that the two
pages printed on the upper press are carried
exactly to the point where II should meet
its Complementary eight pages and be pasted
and folded in. The web, after 1t is printed
and cut, passes over q little cylinder. where
1t receives just little line of paste at the
fold where 1t should be pasted in. Likewise.
to print a twelve-page paper, the lights"
are printed on one press and the "fours'' on
the other and they are assembled together
in the folding apparatus after being turned
by the angle bars. Thus a four, six, eight
ten, twelve or sixteen-page paper can be
printed, the work being divided between the
two parts of the press and the product be-
ing brought together in the folding ap-
paratus. The machine is 30 adjusted that a