Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-08-10
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
A New Machine.

to ruling machine in f. B. Jenvey's
printing and bookbinding establish
ment, in that city.
The utility of machine for the sep
aration and accurate handling of sheet
paper has long been admitted, and
many attempts to design and per-
feet device accomplishing these pur-
poses have been made, but until now,
as we believe, never with success.
The Times says:
This is the second machine of this make
built, the first having been attached to a
Campbell pony press in Kansas city, Mo, and
after fourteen months continuous work pro-
nounced Il complete success by the many who
during that period witnessed its operations.
1t was given all kinds of paper usual to gen
eral Job printing business, such as French
folio, news, books, linens, ledgers and card
board
The feeder now in Cumberland is arranged
to feed ruling machines. 1t stands directly
behind the ruling machine, to which il is
geared by chain from a sprocket wheel on
the gear side. 1t will take stack of paper
% inches high and from % inches square
down.
The registering attachment is journaled
at its rear end to the feeder and comes
down with its front end to the receiving
rollers of the machine, to which the
sheets are carried by tapes and placed
against the guide in perfect register. When
not in use this portion of the feeder swings
and is held up out of the way by counter
weight, there being no change whatever
made in the ruling machine the latter being
always free for use with or without the feeder.
The manner of separating the paper, each
sheet from the others, in which electricity
performs a necessary part, embOdies an
operation which absolutely parts each sheet
from the others. The separator never
touches more than 0ne-eghth of an inch of
the margin of the sheet thereby avoiding in
jury to paper or ruling; or, if used for print
ing, "off-setting' is made impossible where
paper has been printed on one or both sides.
After separation from the Others the sheet is
taken by series of rotating spiral discs and
delivered by them to the tapes thence to the
ruling machine, as has been described.
All movements of the feeder are rotary and
continuous, thus making its speed and
capacity almost unlimited. The same features
also tend to prolong indefinitely the life of all
its parts. 1t is simple i'll construction, its
mechanism easily understood and operated
available in cost to every printer or book
binder who needs one, as well as to those
who need more than one.
Besides the uses mentioned it will be ar
ranged to feed all machines in general to
which sheet paper is fed, and printing presses
in particular. They will be made for use IN
all establishments wherein paper is made,
printed, folded, ruled, bronzed, perforated or
manipulated in any manner.
TO those familiar with the requirements
which such a machine should meet, it is only
necessary to say that it will feed but one
sheet at time and one every time and it is
as nearly automatic as it is possible for a
machine to be.
1t is understood that company will be
formed and the machine manufactured here.
Those aware of the utility and value
of the machine and who have witness
ed its operations uniformly pronounce
it a complete success.
All others, machinists as well as
laymen, regard it as a mechanical
wonder.
AS it has handled paper at the rate
of twenty-five thousand sheets an hour,
the Times statement that its capacity
is practically unlimited is borne out
by the fact
Nobody Hurt-Evcrybody Satisfied.
1t is not often that the supply of a
convenience in one West Virginia
town will accommodate the people in
another. But it so appears in the in
stance following:
Piedmont wants letter box placed at her
depot. Falrmont needs the same thing
FairmOnt Htder.
journalistic.