AN IMPROVED ROTARY AND MULTIPLICATE PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Simeon Sampson, of St. Thomas's Road, Finsbury
Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED ROTARY AND MULTIPLICATE PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE."
Sealed the 15th July 1873, and dated the 25th March 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Simeon Sampson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th March 1873.
I, SIMEON SAMPSON, of St. Thomas's Road, Finsbury Park, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED ROTARY AND MULTIPLICATE PRINTING AND NUMBERING
MACHINE," to be as follows:
1
This Invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrange-
ment whereby strips or lengths of paper, card, or other material can
be continuously printed with any desired subject matter, and consecutive
numbers impressed thereon with great rapidity and accuracy, such
strips or lengths of paper, card, or other material being applicable to
the manufacture of railway and other tickets which it is desired should

page_text: numbers.
The several parts of the machine are arranged in connection with and
supported by a frame constructed of any suitable material or materials,
and provided with the requisite bearings for the axes of the respective
wheels and rollers employed. The unprinted paper, card, or other
material is placed and wound on a recl, from which in the process
of unwinding it passes over a guide roller and over a cylinder, on
the surface of which are mounted stereo, illustrative, or other types.
The types are inked during the revolution of the cylinder and before
impressing the strip or length of paper, card, or other material, the
requisite pressure for which is imparted by a pressure roller placed
in juxtaposition to the printing cylinder, and under which pressure
roller the strip or length passes and receives the desired consecutive
numbers from a series of discs similar to those used in an ordinary
paging machine, and which are inked by suitable means adapted for
the purpose, as well understood. In the case of the discs so employed
for the purposes of this invention the numbers, -instead of being pro-
duced by a lateral or intermittent motion, as in ordinary paging
machines, are produced by a rotary motion of the discs, thus numbering
consecutively or otherwise, as may be desired, and either singly or in
duplicate, the requisite alternation being produced during the revo-
lution of the cylinder by means of catches and ratchet wheels. The
strip or length is next passed over a third cylinder and receives on the
reverse side an impression from subject matter formed by types mounted
on a cylinder placed in juxtaposition thereto, and which have been
previously inked. The strip or length having thus been printed on
both sides is now passed around a cylinder and is perforated by per-
forating apparatus, which acts in the following manner:-A toothed
perforater is caused to pierce the strip of paper at any desired point in
its passage from the last-mentioned cylinder to a reel by means of small
cam blocks secured to a cam wheel, which latter in its revolution causes
the perforator to be ejected from the aperture, and to pierce the strip
transversely at distances corresponding to those of the cam blocks on
the cam wheel, the perforater being afterwards withdrawn into the
aperture by a spring, as will be well understood. For the purpose of
perforating the strip longitudinally, a spur-like perforater is arranged
so as to press upon the strip and pierce the same lengthwise.

page_text: Numbering in a multiplicate form may be effected by means of a
numerical disc, with which a ratchet wheel and pawl are connected. In
the revolution of the numerical disc the pawl is struck by a catch
provided for that purpose, and is thus moved a sectional part of the
revolution, and is brought back to its former position by a spring. The
machine is rendered capable of printing and numbering more than one
series of impressions on more than one strip or length of paper, card, or
other material simultaneously by simply employing the requisite number
of strips or lengths, and by increasing the width of the reel and printing
cylinders, and by the employment of the necessary additional numbering
discs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Simeon Sampson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SIMEON
SAMPSON, of St. Thomas's Road, Finsbury Park, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Simeon Sampson, Her special licence, that I,
the said Simeon Sampson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Simeon Sampson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time, and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED ROTARY AND MULTIPLICATE
PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Simeon Sampson, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Simeon Sampson, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in the construction, combination, and
arrangement of certain mechanism whereby strips or lengths of paper,
card, or other material can be continuously printed with any desired
subject matter, and consecutive numbers impressed thereon with great
rapidity and accuracy, such strips or lengths of paper, card, or other
material being applicable to the manufacture of railway and other
tickets which it is desired should have printed or impressed thereon
certain subject matter with consecutive numbers.
The several parts of the machine are arranged in connection with and
supported by a frame constructed of any suitable material or materials,
and provided with the requisite bearings for the axes of the respective
wheels and rollers employed as herein-after mentioned. The unprinted
paper, card, or other material is placed and wound on a reel, from which
in the process of unwinding it passes over a guide roller and over a
cylinder, on the surface of which are mounted stereo, illustrative, or
other types. The types are inked during the revolution of the cylinder
by the dipping thereof into a reservoir containing the ink, and before
impressing the strip or length of paper, card, or other material, the
requisite pressure for which is imparted by a pressure roller placed in
juxtaposition to the printing cylinder, and under which pressure roller
the strip or length passes and receives the desired consecutive numbers
from a series of discs similar to those used in an ordinary paging
machine, and which are inked by suitable means adapted for the pur-
pose, as well understood. In the case of discs so employed for the
purposes of my said Invention, the numbers, instead of being produced
by a lateral or intermittent motion, as in ordinary paging machines, are
produced by a rotary motion of the discs, thus numbering consecutively
or otherwise as may be desired, and either singly or in duplicate, the

page_text: requisite alternation being produced during the revolution of the cylinder
by means of catches and ratchet wheels. The strip or length is next
passed over a third cylinder, and receives on the reverse side an im-
pression from subject matter formed by types mounted on a cylinder
placed in juxtaposition thereto, and which types have been previously
inked. The strip or length having thus been printed on both sides is
now passed around a cylinder, and is perforated by perforating apparatus
which acts in the following manner:- -A toothed perforator is caused
to pierce the strip of paper at any desired point in its passage from the
last-mentioned cylinder to a reel by means of small cam blocks secured
to a cam wheel, which latter in its revolution causes the perforator to
be ejected from the aperture, and to pierce the strip transversely at
distances corresponding to those of the cam blocks on the cam wheel,
the perforator being afterwards withdrawn into the aperture by a spring,
as will be well understood. For the purpose of perforating the strip
longitudinally a spur-like perforator is arranged so as to press upon the
strip and pierce the same lengthwise.
The operation of perforating may be accomplished by having the
cam either stationary and the piercer revolving, or by having the piercer
stationary and the cam revolving, and therefore instead of the per-
forating apparatus herein-before described I sometimes use another
combination of mechanism for effecting the like purpose, and which
combination forms part of the present Invention. A disc or wheel is
arranged to revolve around a fixed cam-like stud in the centre thereof.
In this disc or wheel are formed guide apertures or sockets in which
work T-shaped blocks carrying the piercers. The rear ends of the
spindles of the blocks are of a pointed or conical form, and during the
rotation of the disc or wheel traverse the surface of the cam-like stud
before mentioned. The piercers are protruded as the ends of the spindles
pass over the cam projection on the stud, and after they have perforated
the strip submitted to it and have passed over the cam-like projections
on the stud are withdrawn, such action being facilitated by spiral or
other suitable springs which are placed around the spindles of the
T-shaped blocks.
Numbering in a multiplicate form may be effected by means of a
numerical disc with which a ratchet wheel and pawl are connected. In
the revolution of the numerical disc the pawl is struck by a catch provided
for that purpose, and is thus moved a sectional part of the revolution,

page_text: and is brought back to its former position by a spring. The machine is
rendered capable of printing and numbering more than one series of
impressions on more than one strip or length of paper, card, or other
material simultaneously by simply employing the requisite number of
strips or lengths, and by increasing the width of the reel and printing
cylinders, and by the employment of the necessary additional numbering
discs.
It should be mentioned that any suitable motive power may be
employed for actuating the mechanism herein-before described.
I will now proceed to refer to the annexed Drawings, from which the
nature of my said Invention will be more clearly understood.
Figure 1 is a front clevation, and Figure 2 is a back view of the
machine; Figure 3 is a plan of the same. a is a reel for containing
paper, card, or other material, which passes over the guide roller f and
between the cylinders e and e¹, e having stereo or other type mounted
on its surface, and gives its impression to the strip of paper 9, which has
previously been inked by the inking apparatus shewn at b. The strip
in its course at the lower part of the cylinder e¹ receives its consecutive
numbers from the discs h. These discs, which are shewn in detail in
Figure 4, are similar to those used in an ordinary paging machine, but
instead of as in the case of ordinary paging machines the numbers
being produced by a lateral or intermittent motion these discs have the
power of producing, by a rotary motion, numbers consecutively or other-
wise, and also of printing by their rotary motion.
In Figure 4 represents a consecutively numbering cylinder for
numbering singly or in duplicate. When numbering singly and con-
secutively the small dies a impress the unit numbers. The tens numbers,
which are engraved or placed upon the first discs in each of the series
of disc b in Figure 4, are caused to alternate in the revolution of the
cylinder by means of the catch c (a detached view of which is shewn at
Figure 4), which strikes the parts d. The strip is now passed over the
cylinder (as shewn in Figure 1), and receives an impression from the
subject matter mounted on the cylinder j, the subject matter thereon
having previously been inked by the inking apparatus shewn at r in
Figure 1. The strip having thus been printed on both sides is then
passed around the cylinder (see Figure 1), and receives a perforation
from the perforating apparatus 1, which performs its operation in the
following manner :-A toothed perforator is caused to pierce the strip

page_text: of paper at any point required in its passage from the cylinder / to the
reel m by means of a cam wheel or its equivalent, the perforator being
ejected from its aperture n by small cam blocks secured to the cam
wheel o, which wheel in its revolution will cause the perforator to be
cjected from the aperture and pierce the strip at the same distance as
the cam blocks are apart on the cam wheel o. After each ejection of
the perforator by the cam blocks it is withdrawn into the aperture n by
the spring p, shewn in Figure 1. Figure 4' is a cross section of the said
numbering cylinder.
Figure 5 is another mode of application of the numerical discs for
numbering in multiplicate form, a, b, c, being the numerical discs which
give their impression of the required number upon the strip in passing
under the cylinder e, which receives ink from the inking apparatus f
(sce Figure 1).
Figure 6 is a side view of one of the numerical discs, and this Figure
shews the mode in which the required number is brought to its printing
point. g in this Figure is a numerical disc, on which the ratchet
wheel is secured; i is the catch. In the revolution of the numerical
disc g the pawl i is struck by the catch h, and is thus moved a sectional
part of the revolution, and is brought back to its former place by the
spring . The machine is made capable, as before mentioned, of printing
more than one consecutively numbered strip at one working by increasing
its breadth and employing additional numbering discs.
Figures 7, 8, and 9 shew the perforating apparatus, which may also be
used in connection with the machine herein-before described. Figure 7
is a side view shewing one of the perforators and its slides in section;
Figure 8 is an end view of the apparatus; and Figure 9 is a sectional
plan thereof. In these Figures a is the disc on which are cast the
guides b, in which slide a T-shaped block marked c, into which the
piercer is secured. e are loose collars secured to the T blocks, and which
limit the distance of the recession of the T blocks into the guides after
they have come in contact with and been ejected by the fixed cam-like
stud in the centre marked f; gare springs which withdraw the piercers d
after piercing the strip in its traverse around the cylinder o, shewn in
Figure 1. The disc is caused to revolve by means of the spur wheel m.
The fixed cam-like stud is bent, as shewn in Figure 9, and is secured at
one end thereof to the frame of the machine.

page_text: Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would
observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to me by the
said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combinations
and arrangements of parts and mechanism substantially as and for the
purposes herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Simeon Sampson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.