IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PAPER CUTTING AND FEEDING ÅRRANGEMENTS OF PRINTING MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Conisbec, of Herbert's Buildings,
Waterloo Road, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, and James
Smale, of Hayles Street, Southwark, in the same County, Printer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PAPER CUTTING AND FEEDING
ÅRRANGEMENTS OF PRINTING MACHINES."
Sealed the 21st August 1874, and dated the 27th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Conisbee and
James Smale at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 27th February 1874.
We, WILLIAM CONISBEE, of Herbert's Buildings, Waterloo Road, in
the County of Surrey, Engincer, and JAMES SMALE, of Hayles Street,
Southwark, in the same County, Printer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PAPER CUTTING AND
FEEDING ARRANGEMENTS OF PRINTING MACHINES," to be as follows:
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This Invention has reference to printing machines in which sheets or
portions of paper are cut or detached from a roll of continuous paper,

page_text: the portions or sheets so cut or detached being then fed to the printing
surfaces and printed.
Our improvements have for object to produce a simple and efficient
machine in which various sizes of sheets or portions of paper may be cut
or detached from the roll, fed and printed, the size of sheet or portion of
paper being readily altered as from time to time may be required by
the adjustment of suitable change wheels, for which purpose the feeding
cylinder and the printing cylinder are provided with toothed wheels,
whereby these two cylinders are geared together through intermediate
adjustable change wheels carried by a slotted quadrant.
The paper on its way to the printing cylinder is passed between the
feeding cylinder and suitable contact rollers, and thence the paper is
passed between a serrated knife or divider and a couple of small rollers
into the gap or space, between which rollers the serrated knife or divider
enters or descends when the cutting or dividing of the sheet of paper
from the roll is effected, the paper being during this operation held taut
over the said gap or space by the drawing action of the feeding tapes,
and the retarding action of the contact rollers, which latter press the
paper against the feeding cylinder. The sheet or portion of paper thus
cut or detached from the roll is passed into grippers placed in the im-
pression cylinder, which by its rotation takes the sheet or portion of paper
into contact with the type cylinder or cylinders by automatic means.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Conisbec and James Smale in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 27th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, WILLIAM
CONISBEE, of Herbert's Buildings, Waterloo Road, in the County of
Surrey, Engineer, and JAMES SMALE, of Hayles Street, Southwark, in
the same County, Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors
give and grant unto us, the said William Conisbec, and James Smale,

page_text: Her special license, that we, the said William Conisbee and James
Smale, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said William Conisbee and James Smale, our executors, admini-
strators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PAPER
CUTTING AND FEEDING ARRANGEMENTS OF PRINTING MACHINES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Conisbec and
James Smale, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and scal,
of one of us or them, 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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Conisbee, for myself and
on behalf of the said James Smale, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to
say) :—
This Invention has reference to printing machines in which sheets or
portions of paper are cut or detached from a roll of continuous paper,
the portions or sheets so cut or detached being then fed to the printing
surfaces and printed.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a side elevation of a machine embodying
our Invention; and Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.
Our improvements have for object to produce a simple and efficient
machine in which various sizes of sheets or portions of paper may be cut
or detached from the roll, fed and printed, the size of sheet or portion
of paper being readily altered, as from time to time may be required, by
the adjustment of suitable change wheels, for which purpose the feeding
cylinder 1 and the printing cylinder 2 are provided with toothed
wheels 1 and 2, whereby these two cylinders are geared together
through intermediate adjustable change wheels 3, 4, carried by a slotted
quadrant 5.

page_text: The paper 6 on its way to the printing cylinder 2 is passed between
the feeding cylinder 1 and suitable contact rollers 7, and thence the
paper is passed between a serrated knife or divider S, and a couple of small
rollers 9, 10, into the gap or space 11, between which rollers the serrated
knife or divider 8 enters or descends when the cutting or dividing of the
sheet of paper from the roll is effected, the paper being during this
operation held taut over the said gap or space by the drawing action of
the feeding tapes, and the retarding action of the contact rollers 7, which
latter press the paper against the feeding cylinder 1. The sheet or
portion of paper thus cut or detached from the roll is passed into
grippers 12 placed in the impression cylinder 13, which by its rotation.
takes the sheet or portion of paper into contact with the type cylinder or
cylinders by automatic means as well understood; 14 is the main framing;
15 is the second type or printing cylinder; 16, 10ª, are the two ink ducts;
17, 17, the distributing and inking rollers; 18, the connecting rods and
eccentric bearings for adjusting to impression, and for releasing impression
for passing a test sheet through the machine before printing.
Figure 1 shews the printing cylinders released from the impression
cylinder. The blue lines indicate the travel of the paper which in its,
passage through the machine is guided by tapes carried by rollers 19, as
shewn.
In the machine illustrated two printing cylinders are shewn arranged
to receive strips of wood for the attachment of stereotypes or other
printing surfaces, as described in the Specification of our former Patent
No. 3111, dated the Twenty-second day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two, but. it will be evident that other kinds of
cylinders may be used in carrying out our present Invention, and that its
application is not limited to machines constructed with two printing
cylinders.
Having described the nature of our said Invention and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into practical effect, we desire it
to be understood that we do not claim as of our Invention, or the exclusive
use of the separate mechanical parts herein-before described or referred
to, except when the same are used in and for the purposes of our Inven-
tion. It will be seen that the machine represented in many respects
resembles well-known constructions of printing machines at present in use,
but what we consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the
Invention secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters

page_text: Patent is, the peculiar combination and arrangement of apparatus
herein-before described, whereby the machine is made suitable for
cutting or detaching from the roll and feeding sheets or portions of
paper to be printed, the size of sheet or portion being varied by adjusting
the mechanism as above explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Conisbee, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.