Improvements in or connected with Web Treating or Web Fed Machinery used in Printing or similar Operations.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan.. 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Web Treating or Web Fed
Machinery used in Printing or similar Operations.
I, ALBERT HOYT RAY, of Main Street, Ashland, Middlesex County, in the State
of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, Printer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to web-treating or web-fed machinery, and particularly
to that class of such machinery in which the continuous web is passed between
a couple of co-operating rotary members, which perform upon the web the opera-
tion of printing or the like, after which the web is usually subjected to the action
of shears, dies, or similar mechanism, reciprocating preferably, for which latter
operation the web is held stationary.
When, therefore, as is most convenient, the mechanisms are combined in a
single machine, co-operating concurrently to produce as a unitary result, a large
number of cards, leaves, tickets, or the like, small relatively to the web, and
each bearing its impression from the couple, it is desirable to alternate the
successive impressions and cuts, feeding the web during and for each impression,
and holding it for the following cut.
For the sake of compactness, the movement of the web is controlled preferably
by the impression member of the rotary couple, provided with suitable means to
engage and determine the position of the web, and actuated intermittently by
suitable means, to cause the intermittent feeding of the web, the impression
member being adapted to rest at times, while the other member is actuated.
The novel technical problem solved by my invention is the provision of means
to enable the impression member, after each rest for severance of the web, to
be actuated positively in exact -peripheral unison with the other member of the
couple during their period of common rotation, from the very start of each such
period, so that the operation of printing or the like may begin simultaneously
with rotation, and be co-extensive therewith, and no space on the cards, etcetera,
be wasted, nor blurring of the impressions caused by difference or peripheral speed.
The application of such means to couples of rotary members, other than in
printing machinery, will be obvious, and, so far as I am aware I am the first to
provide such means.
Mutilated gears with leading teeth are insufficient, for the reason that a lead-
ing tooth starts the driven member at a different speed from the driving member,
so that if the type be arranged to print immediately upon starting of the impres-
sion cylinder, the web will be torn or blurred, or if the type be arranged not to
print until the members come into unison, a portion of the web will have passed
without printing, and be wasted.
With the purpose of causing the the other portions of the apparatus to co-operate
for the stated unitary result, by contributing still further to nicety of alignment
of the impression upon the finished product, I have provided cutting mechanism
of improved construction, and ink distributing mechanism of a type designed
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page_text: specially to reduce the ordinary frictional drag upon the operating parts and
consequent impairment in clearness of the impression produced by the printing
couple.
In the preferred embodiment of my invention selected for description, there
are co-operating rotary members constituting the rotary printing member, and
the rotary impression member, respectively, of the printing couple of a web fed
printing press.
Between these is fed the web or work, preferably controlled by suitable means
on the impression member, which may take the form of a cylinder, while in
this instance the feed controlling means comprise teeth or projections extending
beyond the periphery of the member to enter perforations formed in the web in
this instance in its body, by suitable means at a prior operation.
The situation and number of these apertures or their equivalents may be varied
as desired, within suitable limits, governed somewhat by the size and contour.to
be given the product finally.
A frame of any suitable construction may be provided to support the couple,
the members of which may be carried by shafts respectively, journalled in bear-
ings, in uprights of the frame.
As one form of printing member I prescribe the shaft as provided with a
radially projecting type carrier, either integral with the shaft, or connected
thereto in any convenient manner, and adapted preferably to receive a remove-
able chase contained within a groove in the carrier, which latter may be sector
like in form and of not very large area, inasmuch as abundant time between
impressions should be allowed for severance of the web.
Set screws may be provided or similar means to retain the lines of type in the
chase, and suitable means to prevent accidental displacement of the chase from
the groove say catch pins, extended through the walls of the carrier, and pro-
vided with springs or the like to bring them normally into engagement with the
chase, which may, however be withdrawn readily, if the points are bevelled.
Power for operating the members of the couple may be derived from any suit-
able source and communicated to them as found convenient, so long as provision
is made for intermittent feed of the web, and for rotating the impression member,
at the start of, and during, the actuative periods, in peripheral unison with the
face of the type.
One form of such means I prescribe consists of a crank handle furnished to
enable the shaft to be rotated by hand, such rotation being continuous in one
direction preferably,-say in the direction of the hands of a watch,-the shaft
serving in such case as a driving shaft, from which the intermittent actuation of
the impression member may be accomplished conveniently by the use of an inter-
rupted actuating surface or member taking, in. this instance, the form of an
actuating projection or arm, rotatable by the shaft and fixed preferably on it,
as by a set screw.
This interrupted actuating surface is of equal radius to that of the face of the
type and its situation upon the driving shaft will be a matter of convenience.
Co-operating with the interrupted actuating surface or member is a surface con-
nected operatively with the impression member and preferably formed upon a
separate member carried by the shaft, opposite the path of the member by which
it is to be engaged, being of equal radius with the member when the web is in
place on the latter, so that throughout each of the actuative periods during which
the member receives motion from the member, the members are caused to rotate
in exact peripheral unison, and the type will make a clear impression upon the
web on the impression cylinder.
Suitable means may be provided to ensure a perfect driving engagement
between the members, as for example a rubber or elastic pad secured to one
member by suitable means.
One form of means to accomplish positively the start of the members in exact

page_text: unison comprises peripheral projections on one member, extended into the path
of another member to the head of which engages the projections respectively at a
point distant radially from the centre of the shaft, equal to a similar radius ter-
minating at the surface of the web under the type.
Preferably the projections and contacting portion of the head will both be of
metal, for the sake of durability, and the point of contact be directly adjacent the
surface.
The intervals between projections will be determined in length by the size of
the product it is desired to turn out, and the projections should be brought respec-
tively in succession into the line joining the shaft centres of the members, suit-
able means being provided to secure such presentation for engagement by the
member.
On form of means for this purpose is illustrated as a bolt, the head of which is
extended through the frame upright into position to engage side notches or
recesses in the periphery of the member, a spring tending constantly to draw the
bolt against the rim of that member and into the notches as they successively
come opposite, while a lever hung on a pin and operated by a cam on the shaft
serves to throw the bolt out of the notch upon each rotation of the shaft, freeing
the cylinder just before its actuation by the member begins.
In operation, as the shaft is rotated, the interrupted actuating surface is swung
around and just before its shoulder reaches the projection, the cam causes the
lever to draw the bolt from the notch and then the shoulder strikes the projec-
tion, starts the member in peripheral unison with the type and this unison is
maintained throughout the ensuing actuative period during which the friction
pad engages the periphery of the member immediately behind the projection just
started forward by the shoulder.
As the member passes on from another member, the bolt slips into the next
notch or recess coming opposite and holds the cylinder and web stationary
ensuring uniformity of product by providing for accuracy of severence, which
follows as the cam comes around and actuates the shear.
I can adopt a modified form of actuating member for the impression member,
in order to permit the use of a friction pad of greater radius than can be utilized
to advantage with the member, and to furnish increased facility of adjustment.
The principle upon which this modification operates involves the radial recipro-
cation of part of a member which in other respects is preferably the equivalent of
the member; this reciprocation being to enable the friction pad to be kept from
contact with the surface until the exact instant that the type reaches the paper,
since, upon withdrawal of the bolt the cylinder is left preferably entirely free, to
avoid loss of power and very slight frictional engagement of the pad with the
surface would start the cylinder too soon and tend to misplace the impression on
the web.
The preferred construction of this modification comprises an attachment held
on the shaft by a set screw, this attachment taking the form of a cross head in
which are carried in bearings sliding carriers, to which it attached the head pre-
ferably having a pad held by means corresponding to parts already described
with reference to the previous arrangement.
Suitable means as springs may be used to throw the head normally away from
the shaft, each bearing in this instance at one end against the shoulder of the
cross head, while the other end is inserted in a hole in the carrier.
Adjusting means may be provided for the carriers, which may be formed con-
veniently as screw bolts, threaded at one end to screw into the head, and at the
other end to receive adjusting nuts.
Any suitable means to secure reciprocation may be adopted, one form of such
being a projection from the frame part into the path of the member which rides
on it when approaching the actuative position of engagement with the surface
into which position it is permitted to drop in a line perpendicular to the surface.

page_text: By this arrangement the cushion however thick it may be, is prevented from
engagement with the surface until the exact moment required.
My ink distributing means enables me to eliminate the drag or retardation
accompanying the use of devices by which ink distributing rollers are at the pre-
sent day forced positively to take a traversing movement over the ink disc, cylin-
der or plate, at an angle to the direction of rotation.
The means I provide to distribute the ink or its equivalent, comprise co-operat-
ing ink receiving members in frictional contact and adapted to be moved rela-
tively to each other, being so related and arranged as to develop, by their fric-
tional engagement, during actuation, a traversing movement, relatively to each
other and to the direction of actuative movement.
I accomplish this end and the operation of the mechanism preferably by ink
receiving members, say an ink cylinder of well known type, and an ink spreader
taking in this instance the form of a composition roller of smaller diameter than
the cylinder, and in frictional contact therewith, both being rotatable about their
longitudinal axes, and the upper member also being capable of an axial move-
ment in traverse of the lower member, relatively to the direction of rotation
thereof.
The relative angular position of the upper and lower members may also be
varied, and when they are parallel no axial or traversing movement of the upper
member will occur, but when the latter member is in an angular position the
peripheral frictional engagement of the members will cause the upper member
to creep in the one direction when in the one angular position and in the other
direction when in the other position.
The ink receiving members may be supported in any suitable manner, and any
suitable means adopted to enable variation to be made in their angular relation,
the spindle, or axis, of the lower member being journaled loosely in bearings in
extensions of the frame uprights, while for the support of the spindle or axis of
the upper member, an arm with bearing is used on one side and on the other a
movable fork-like member constitutes at one and the same time the support for
that side of the spindle, and forms the preferred device for varying the angular
relation of the upper and lower members.
To permit ready movement of the fork-like member, it may be mounted
pivotally on a suitable seat and rotated at times to carry its upper or forked por-
tion to one side or the other of the plane in which lie the axes of the upper and
lower members when in parallelism.
The accomplishment of this variation at regular intervals may be found desir-
able and suitable means provided to accomplish it, and in order to indicate one
form which such means may take, I have a connection between the fork like
members and the moving parts by extending the forklike member downward
below the pivot with suitable offsets and bends between the straight portions and
the portion adjacent the member.
By a suitable connection the rotation of the separate member referred to con-
nected with the impression member will cause the pendulous portion of the fork-
like member to oscillate, the said connection being adjustable preferably to
permit the speed of traverse of the spreader to be controlled.
Adjustment of the said connection say crank form may be accomplished by
loosening the fastening, swinging the crank around to any point within the range
of movement and then setting it by tightening up the fastening, so that the crank
pin will be carried around in a circle corresponding to the degree of displace-
ment of the crank from the centre of the shaft, and, as it is carried around, will
play in the slotted head and oscillate the member causing the spreader to assume
proper angular position, traverse the ink cylinder, and distribute the ink
thoroughly over its surface.
From the cylinder, the ink may be transferred to the type by suitable means of
ordinary or desired construction for this purpose, an inking roller being inter-

page_text: posed between the member and the cylinder, contact with the latter being ensured
preferably by making the bearings for the spindle wide and slanting, so that the
cylinder rests in part on the roller, adjustment of the latter being provided for
by a jack like bearing at one end of its spindle and a disc, the diameter of which
may be varied, at the other end of the spindle, the disc resting against a
co-operating disc on the member or shaft.
Rings of paper or the like may be added to or taken away from the disc while
rotation of the nut will raise the threaded shank of the fork in its socket in or
attached to the frame, a pin or its equivalent retaining the spindle in place.
An auxiliary bearing with retaining pin is provided preferably for the end of the
spindle adjacent the disc and the construction of this ink transferring means may
be varied as found suitable, the use of gears, to drive the roller having, in prac-
tice, been found to aid in securing thorough inking of the type.
A form of ink spreader adapted to facilitate the use of more than one color of
ink, by providing for their distribution without mixture on the ink receiving
member is provided the material of the spreader being recessed or divided medi-
ally, so that the range of oscillation of the spreader may extend to one half of
the width of the cleft before one part of the spreader will encroach upon the path
of another, the division of the spreader into parts being limited only by the
extent of oscillation necessary to distribute the ink properly.
Any suitable cutting mechanism may be provided if desired such as a shearing
device comprising one or more stationary knives or shear members co-operating
with a movable shear, and preferably arranged as a pair supported on a shear
frame which carries the bearing of the member, with an intervening space
between the lower knives in which the member plays in contact with the members
on each side.
One form of means to ensure a continuous cutting engagement of movable and
stationary members is arranged with members having resilient cushioning
devices in this instance springs intermediate the shear members and the shear
frame their action being limited preferably by suitable controlling devices.
Sockets may be provided for the cushioning means, also an opening to permit
the cuttings to drop out of the way, and means to attach the former adjustably
to the latter.
The moveable shear member may be actuated as follows though any suitable
means may be adopted as desired.
The means may comprise a cam on the actuating shaft arranged to engage
operatively the intermediate portion of a lever fulcrumed near one end on a suit-
able bracket or portion of the frame, a link serving to transmit motion from the
lever end to an arm extended from the shear member beyond its pivotal bearing
rearwardly.
This cam gives the severing stroke of the shear, a spring serving to retract
the shear to normal position.
The web is fed by rotation of the couple directly to the shearing device, after
impression, and preferably guiding means will be utilised to keep it flat and
smooth in order that its progress may be unimpeded, these means may comprise
a plurality of members preferably two in number supported at a suitable region
by an adjusting device from which they extend respectively forwardly to a dis-
tance suitable to ensure proper engagement of the web by the teeth as the web
approaches the bite of the rotary members and rearwardly to and preferably
slightly over the inside stationary shear member.
The members conform in contour to the periphery of the member up to a point
on the latter near, and slightly below the level of, the cutting surface of the
shears, so that the web as it passes between the shears is canted upward slightly,
and prevented from catching on, or sticking to the shear members.
The adjusting device may comprise a rod having right and left screw threads at
the regions where it supports the guiding members and co-operating with

page_text: threaded bores in the latter, the material of the members being divided preferably
to provide for clamping the members in adjusted position, screws enabling this to
be accomplished.
The rod is carried in suitable bearings of the frame, and may be turned therein
by a flattened end or equivalent means, and secured from rotation by set screws,
when the guide members have been adjusted to desired position according to the
dimensions of the web undergoing operation.
Housings are formed preferably in the broad outer ends of the guide members
to permit free passage of the teeth and the members may be cut away centrally
as found necessary to permit clearance of the type.
If desired, an auxiliary guide for the web may be used, a convenient form
being a wire loop, the extended shauk of which is supported from the frame,
secured thereto by suitable means, preferably adjustably.
At the rear of the machine the severed tickets, leaves, or the like may be
allowed to fall and be stacked or collected in a suitable receptacle formed it
may be by wires suitably bent to retain them.
By using a double lower shear, provision may be made for cutting out narrow
strips of the web containing the perforations so as to leave the finished product
with unbroken contour.
A convenient form of indicating mechanism comprises a dial with pointer on a
shaft, actuated through the medium of a ratchet, pawl and lever from a cam on
the driving shaft.
Improvements in or connected with Web Treating or Web Fed
Machinery used in Printing or similar Operations.
I, ALBERT HOYT RAY, of Main Street, Ashland, Middlesex County, in the State
of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, Printer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to web-treating or web-fed machinery, and particularly
to that class of such machinery in which the continuous web is passed between
a couple of co-operating rotary members, which perform upon the web the opera-
tion of printing or the like, after which the web is usually subjected to the action
of shears, dies, or similar mechanism, reciprocating preferably, for which latter
operation the web is held stationary.
When, therefore, as is most convenient, the mechanisms are combined in a
single machine, co-operating concurrently to produce as a unitary result, a large
number of cards, leaves, tickets, or the like, small relatively to the web, and
each bearing its impression from the couple, it is desirable to alternate the
successive impressions and cuts, feeding the web during and for each impression,
and holding it for the following cut.
For the sake of compactness, the movement of the web is controlled preferably
by the impression member of the rotary couple, provided with suitable means to
engage and determine the position of the web, and actuated intermittently by
suitable means, to cause the intermittent feeding of the web, the impression
member being adapted to rest at times, while the other member is actuated.

page_text: The novel technical problem solved by my invention is the provision of means
to enable the impression member, after each rest for severance of the web, to
be actuated positively in exact peripheral unison with the other member of the
couple during their period of common rotation, from the very start of each such
period, so that the operation of printing or the like may begin simultaneously
with rotation, and be co-extensive therewith, and no space on the cards, etcetera,
be wasted, nor blurring of the impression caused by difference of peripheral speed.
The application of such means to couples of rotary members, other than in
printing machinery, will be obvious, and, so far as I am aware I am the first to
provide such means.
Mutilated gears with leading teeth are insufficient, for the reason that a lead-
ing tooth starts the driven member at a different speed from the driving member,
so that if the type be arranged to print immediately upon starting of the impres-
sion cylinder, the web will be torn or blurred, or if the type be arranged not to
print until the members come into unison, a portion of the web will have passed
without printing, and be wasted.
With the purpose of causing the other portions of the apparatus to co-operate
for the stated unitary result, by contributing still further to nicety of alignment
of the impression upon the finished product, I have provided cutting mechanism
of improved construction, and ink distributing mechanism of a type designed
specially to reduce the ordinary frictional drag upon the operating parts and
consequent impairment in clearness of the impression produced by the printing
couple.
The various features of my invention will be fully illustrated and described in
the accompanying drawings and specification and set forth in the claims.
Fig. 1, is a view in side elevation of a machine, in the construction of which
the various features of my invention have been embodied.
Fig. 2, is a plan view of the same, and
Fig. 3, a view in elevation of the side opposite that illustrated in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4, is a plan view in detail of the web guide;
Fig. 5, an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion of the cutting mechanism
taken on the line x-x, Fig. 2;
Fig. 6, a detail view of a modified form of ink distributing means, and
Wine 7 and 8 detail views respectively in front and side elevation
of a modified form of one part of the actuating means for one provi
the position illustrated in Fig. 8, corresponding to that indicated in dotted lines
in Fig. 7.
In the preferred embodiment of my invention selected for illustration and
description, the co-operating rotary members are designated by the reference
letters A, B, respectively, and are represented as constituting the rotary printing
member, and the rotary impression member, respectively, of the printing couple
of a web fed printing press.
Between these is fed the web or work C, preferably controlled by suitable
means on the impression. member, which may take the form of a cylinder, as
illustrated, while in this instance the feed controlling means comprise teeth or
projections b, extending beyond the periphery of the member B to enter perfora-
tions c, formed in the web C, in this instance in its body, by suitable means at
a prior operation.
The situation and number of these apertures or their equivalents may be varied
as desired, within suitable limits, governed somewhat by the size and contour to
be given the product finally.
A frame of any suitable construction may be provided to support the couple,
the members of which are shown in this instance as carried by shafts a¹, b¹,
respectively, journalled in bearings d, d', in uprights 2, 3, of the frame.
As one form of printing member A, I have shown the shaft al as provided with
a radially projecting type carrier, either integral with the shaft, or connected

page_text: thereto in any convenient manner, and adapted preferably to receive a removable
chase a³, shown as contained within a groove a in the carrier, which latter is
illustrated as sector-like in form, and preferably of not very large area, inasmuch
as abundant time between impressions should be allowed for severance of web.
If desired, set screws may be provided or similar means a³ to retain the lines
of type T in the chase, and suitable means to prevent accidental displacement of
the chase from the groove a are shown at a (see Fig. 2) consisting in this
instance of catch pins, extended through the walls of the carrier, (the chase being
broken away slightly at a in Fig. 2 to permit the lower pin to be seen), and
provided with springs or the like a to bring them normally into engagement
with the chase, which may, however, be withdrawn readily, if the points are
bevelled, as shown.
Power for operating the members of the couple may be derived from any suit-
able source and communicated to them as found convenient, so long as provision
is made for intermittent feed of the web, and for rotating the impression member,
at the start of, and during, the actuative periods, in peripheral unison with the
face of the type.
One form of such means I have illustrated in the drawings, where a crank-
handle E is furnished to enable the shaft a¹ to be rotated by hand, such rotation
being continuous in one direction preferably, (viz.: in the direction of the hands
of a watch), the shaft serving in such case as a driving shaft, from which the
intermittent actuation of the impression member may be accomplished conveni-
ently by the use of an interrupted actuating surface or member A¹ taking, in
this instance, the form of an actuating projection or arm, rotatable by the shaft a¹
and fixed preferably on it, as by a set screw a?.
This interrupted actuating surface is of equal radius to that of the face of the
type T and its situation upon the driving shaft a¹ will be a matter of conveni-
ence, since I do not limit myself to locating it outside the frame member
illustrated.
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Co-operating with the interrupted actuating surface or member A¹ is a sur-
face B connected operatively with the impression member B and, in the instance
illustrated, formed upon a separate member 63 carried by the shaft b¹, opposite
the path of the member A¹, by which it is to be engaged, being of equal radius
with the member B when the web C is in place on the latter, so that throughout
each of the actuative periods during which the member B¹ receives motion from
the member A¹, the members A and B are caused to rotate in exact peripheral
unison, and the type T will make a clear impression upon the web on the
impression cylinder.
Suitable means may be provided to ensure a perfect driving engagement
between the members A', B₁, as for example a rubber or elastic pad as secured to
the member A¹ by suitable means, a³, shown as a screw plate.
One form of means to accomplish positively the start of the members in exact
unison is illustrated, the same comprising peripheral projections 63 on the
member B', extended into the path of the member A¹, the head a10 of which
engages the projections 63 respectively at a point distant radially from the centre
of the shaft a', equal to a similar radius terminating at the surface of the web C
under the type.
Preferably the projections and contacting portion of the head will both be of
metal, for the sake of durability, and the point of contact be directly adjacent the
surface B¹
The intervals between projections 60 will be determined in length by the size
of the product it is desired to turn out, and the projections should be brought
respectively in succession into the line joining the shaft centres of the
members A, B, suitable means being provided to secure such presentation for
engagement by the member A¹.
One form of means for this purpose is illustrated as a bolt 6, the head of which

page_text: is seen in Fig. 3 extended through the frame upright d³ into position to engage
side notches or recesses 631 in the periphery of the member B, a spring 63 tending
constantly to draw the bolt against the rim of the member B and into the notches
as they successively come opposite, while a lever 33 hung on a pin 6 and
operated by a cam 30 on the shaft a¹ serves to throw the bolt out of the notch
upon each rotation of the shaft, freeing the cylinder B just before its actuation
by the member A¹ begins.
In operation, as the shaft a¹ is rotated, the interrupted actuating surface A¹ is
swung around and just before its shoulder a¹0 reaches the projec-
tion 63, the cam 80 causes the lever 833 to draw the bolt 1.30
from the notch 631 and then the shoulder a10 strikes the projection 63, starts
the member B in peripheral unison with the type T, and this unison is main-
tained throughout the ensuing actuative period during which the friction pad a8
engages the periphery of the member B₁ immediately behind the projection 63
just started forward by the shoulder a¹.
As the member A¹ passes on from the member B¹, the bolt 30 slips into the
next notch or recess 631 coming opposite, and holds the cylinder B and web C
stationary ensuring uniformity of product by providing for accuracy of sever-
ence, which follows as the cam. R comes around and actuates the shear P¹ in the
manner to be described.
In Figs. 7 and 8 I have illustrated a modified form of actuating member for
the impression member, in order to permit the use of a friction pad of greater
radius than can be utilized to advantage with the member A¹, and to furnish
increased facility of adjustment.
The principle upon which this modification operates involves the radial recipro-
cation of part of the member A2, which in other respects is preferably the equiva-
lent of the member A'; this reciprocation being to enable the friction pad to be
kept from contact with the surface B¹ until the exact instant that the type
reaches the paper, since, upon withdrawal of the bolt 630 the cylinder B is left
preferably entirely free, to avoid loss of power, and very slight frictional engage-
ment of the pad a80 with the surface B₁ would start the cylinder too soon and
tend to misplace the impression on the web.
The preferred construction of this modification is illustrated as comprising an
attachment a held on the shaft a¹ by a set screw a", this attachment taking the
form of a cross head in which are carried in bearings a sliding carriers a3, to
which is attached the head a50, preferably having a pad a80 held by means a cor-
responding to parts a³, a, described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3..
Suitable means a", as the springs shown, may be used to throw the head nor-
mally away from the shaft a¹, each bearing in this instance at one end against
the shoulder a5 of the crosshead, while the other end is inserted in a hole a46
in the carrier a¹³.
Adjusting means a7, as, may be provided for the carriers, which may be
formed conveniently as screw bolts, threaded at one end to screw into the
head ao, and at the other end to receive adjusting nuts.
Any suitable means to secure reciprocation may be adopted, one form of such
being illustrated at 3 as a projection from the frame part d" into the path of
the member A2 which rides on it when approaching the actuative position of
engagement with the surface B', illustrated in Fig. 7, into which position it is
permitted to drop in a line perpendicular to the surface B¹.
By this arrangement the cushion a80, however thick it may be, is prevented
from engagement with the surface B₁ until the exact moment required.
I will now describe the novel ink distributing means by which I am enabled to
eliminate the drag or retardation accompanying the use of devices by which ink
distributing rollers are at the present day forced positively to take a traversing
movement over the ink disc, cylinder or plate, at an angle to the direction of
rotation.

page_text: The means I provide to distribute the ink or its equivalent, comprise co-operat-
ing ink-receiving members in frictional contact and adapted to be moved rela-
tively to each other, being so related and arranged as to develop, by their fric-
tional engagement, during actuation, a traversing movement, relatively to each
other and to the direction of actuative movement.
a
The nature of the perferred arrangement by which I accomplish this end and
the operation of the mechanism selected for illustration in this instance, will be
understood best upon reference to Fig. 2, where F and H designate the ink-receiv-
ing members, shown respectively as an ink cylinder of well known
type, and an ink spreader taking, in this
of
instance the form
composition roller of smaller diameter than the cylinder, and in fric-
tional contact therewith, both being rotatable about their longitudinal axes, and
the member H also being capable of an axial movement in traverse of the
member F, relatively to the direction of rotation thereof.
The relative angular position of the members F, H, may also be varied, and
when they are parallel no axial or traversing movement of the member H will
occur, but when the latter member is in either the full or dotted line position, the
peripheral frictional engagement of the members will cause the member H to
creep, in the direction of the arrow 10, when in full line angular position, and
in the direction of the arrow 15, when in dotted line position, the rotation of the
member F being in the direction of the arrow 20.
The ink receiving members may be supported in any suitable manner, and any
suitable means adopted to enable variation to be made in their angular relation, the
spindle, or axis f, of the member F, in the illustrations, being journaled loosely
in bearings d, d³, in extensions do, d, of the frame uprights d, d³, respectively,
while for the support of the spindle or axis h of the member H, an arm d8 with
bearing is shown on one side and on the other a movable fork-like member K,
best seen in Fig. 1, constitutes at one and the same time the support for that
side of the spindle, and the preferred form of device selected to illustrate means
for varying the angular relation of the members F, H.
As a convenient arrangement to permit ready movement of the member K for
the purpose set forth, it may be mounted pivotally as indicated at k on a suitable
seat on the frame and rotated at times to carry its upper or forked portion to
one side or the other of the plane in which lie the axes of the members F, H,
when in parallelism.
the
The accomplishment of this variation at regular intervals may be found desir-
able and suitable means provided to accomplish it, and in order to indicate one
form which such means may take, I have shown a connection between
members K and the moving parts, accomplished in this instance by extending
the member K downward below the pivot k with suitable offsets and bends,,
between the straight portions and the portion 5 adjacent the member b³ pre-
ferably near its hub 64.
By a connection M the rotation of the member 62 will cause the pendulous
portion of the member K to oscillate, the member M being adjustable preferably
to permit the speed of traverse of the spreader H to be controlled.
Adjustment, where the member M takes the form of a crank, as illustrated,
with a fastening m, best seen in Fig. 1, may be accomplished by loosening the
fastening, swinging the crank around to any point within the range of movement
indicated by dotted lines and then setting it by tightening up the fastening, so
that the crank pin m¹ will be carried around in a circle corresponding to the
degree of displacement of the crank from the centre of the shaft 61, and, as it is
carried around, will play in the slotted head 5 and oscillate the member K,
causing the spreader to assume proper angular position traverse the ink cylinder,
and distribute the ink thoroughly over its surface.
From the cylinder, the ink may be transferred to the type by suitable means
of ordinary or desired construction for this purpose, an inking roller being shown

page_text: as interposed between the member A and the cylinder F, contact with the latter
being ensured preferably by making the bearings d for the spindle f wide and
slanting as illustrated (see Figs. 1 and 2), so that the cylinder rests in part on
the roller N, adjustment of the latter being provided for in the instance illus-
trated by a jack-like bearing n' at one end of its spindle n and a disc n³, the
diameter of which may be varied, at the other end of the spindle, the disc rest-
ing against a co-operating disc n* on the member A or shaft a¹.
spindle n in place.
Rings of paper n³ or the like may be added to or taken away from the disc n³,
while rotation of the nut n will raise the threaded shank n of the fork n¹, in its
socket in or attached to the frame, a pin or its equivalent ne retaining the
An auxiliary bearing with retaining pin n is provided preferably for the
end of the spindle n adjacent the disc n2, and the construction of this ink trans-
ferring means may be varied as found suitable, the use of gears n³, no, to drive
the roller N having, in practice, been found to aid in securing thorough inking of
the type.
In Fig. 6 I have illustrated a form of ink spreader adapted to facilitate the use
of more than one colour of ink, by providing for their distribution without mix-
ture on the ink receiving member 1, the material of the spreader H¹ being
recessed or divided medially as at 2, so that the range of oscillation of the
spreader may extend to one half the width of the cleft 2 before one part of the
spreader will encroach upon the path of another, the division of the spreader into
parts being limited only by the extent of oscillation necessary to distribute the
ink properly.
Any suitable cutting mechanism may be provided if desired and in the draw-
ings a shearing device is illustrated at the rear of the machine, comprising one
or more stationary knives or shear members P, co-operating with a movable
shear P and preferably arranged as a pair supported on a shear frame P which
carries the bearing of the member P¹, with an intervening space p2 between
the lower knives in which the member P¹ plays in contact with the members P
on each side.
One form of means to ensure a continuous cutting engagement of movable and
stationary members is illustrated in Figure 5, where the members P are shown
as having resilient cushioning devices 23, in this instance springs, intermediate
the members P and the shear frame p, their action being limited preferably by
suitable controlling devices 24, shown as bolts screwed into the members P at
their inner ends and extended out through apertures in the shear frame p
where are provided regulating means shown as nuts 76, 7, and head slots 2.8.
Sockets may be provided for the cushioning means, also an opening p10 to
permit the cuttings to drop out of the way, and means, shown in Fig. 2, as a slot
and set screw connection 711, 12, intermediate the shear frame p and bed d¹s to
at'ach the former adjustably to the latter.
The movable shear member P1 may be actuated conveniently by the means
illustrated in the drawings, though any suitable means may be adopted as desired.
The means shown (best seen in Figs. 1 and 2) comprise a cam R on the actu-
ating shaft a arranged to engage operatively the intermediate portion of a lever r
fulcrumed near one end 1 on a suitable bracket or portion of the frame, in
this instance at the outer extremity of a post d, a link R' serving to transmit
motion from the lever end 2 to an arm 20 extended from the shear member P¹
beyond its pivotal bearing p¹ rearwardly.
This cam gives the severing stroke of the shear, a spring S serving to retract
the shear to normal position.
The web C is fed by rotation of the couple A, B, directly to the shearing device,
after impression, and preferably guiding means will be utilized to keep it flat
and smooth in order that its progress may be unimpeded, the means illustrated
appearing most clearly in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, and comprising a plurality of

page_text: members W, WI, preferably two in number supported at a suitable region by an
adjusting device w from which they extend respectively forwardly to a distance
suitable to ensure proper engagement of the web by the teeth, as the web
approaches the bite of the rotary members A, B, and rearwardly to and preferably
slightly over the inside stationary shear member P, as at w¹, w*, Figs. 1 and 3.
The members conform in contour to the periphery of the member B up to a
po nt on the latter near, and slightly below the level of, the sutting surface of the
Shears P, so that the web as it passes between the shears is canted upward slightly,
and prevented from catching on, or sticking to the shear members P.
The adjusting device willustrated comprises a rod having right and left screw
threads 2, 3, at the regions where it supports the members W, WI, and
co-operating with threaded bores in the latter, the material of the members being
divided preferably to provide for clamping the members in adjusted position,
screws 4, 5, enabling this to be accomplished.
The rod is carried in suitable bearings dis of the frame, and may be turned
therein by a flattened end 6 or equivalent means, and secured from rotation by
set screws w³, w, when the guide members have been adjusted to desired position
according to the dimensions of the web undergoing operation.
Housings, 10 are formed preferably in the broad outer ends of the mem-
bers W, W, to permit free passage of the teeth b, and the members may be cut
away centrally as found necessary to permit clearance of the type.
If desired, an auxiliary guide 1 for the web may be used, a convenient form
being illustrated as a wire loop, the extended shank of which is supported from
the frame, secured thereto by suitable means, preferably adjustably as in mem-
bers 3, 4, of a bracket, clamped together by a screw 6.
At the rear of the machine the severed tickets, leaves, or the like C¹ may be
allowed to fall and be stacked or collected in a suitable receptacle formed in this
instance by wires 7 suitably bent to retain them.
By using a double lower shear P, provision may be made for cutting out narrow
strips c¹ of the web containing the perforations c, so as to leave the finished pro-
duct with unbroken coutour.
I have illustrated at I a convenient form of indicating mechanism comprising
a dial with pointer i on a shaft ¹, actuated through the medium of a ratchet 22,
pawl, and level from a cam 20 on the driving shaft a¹.
It will be noticed that the levers and 4, and the cams R and 20 are broken
away partially in Fig. 1 to reveal the member A¹.
my said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A machine for operating upon a continuous web of flexible material, com-
prising web severing mechanism; a rotary printing member or the like; a rotary
impression member of large diameter, relatively to the effective area of the print-
ing member, and capable of operation out of phase therewith; and means upon
said impression cylinder to engage the work and automatically position the same
for a large number of printing and cutting operations during a single rotation of
said impression member.
2. In a machine for operating upon a web: web severing mechanism, and
printing mechanism; said printing mechanism comprising a rotary printing
member, and an impression cylinder adapted to be positively actuated at times
and provided with means to engage and at all times dertermine the position of
said web, said cylinder being normally independent of the printing member but
arranged to rotate, at all times during its periods of actuation, in peripheral
unison with said printing member.
3. In a machine for operating upon a web of cardboard or similar work, said
work having a series of perforations; web severing mechanism; and printing

page_text: mechanism, comprising a rotary printing member, and an impression cylinder
having peripheral projections adapted to engage the perforations in said work to
position the latter, said cylinder being normally independent of the printing
member, but adapted to be intermittingly rotated, and arranged when rotated to
move at all times in peripheral unison with the printing member.
4. A machine for operating upon a web; comprising a reciprocating cutting
mechanism, a continuously rotating printing member, and an impression cylinder
provided with means to engage and at all times determine the position of said
caused
web; connections whereby upon operation of the machine, the cylinder
to rotate to feed the web during and for the printing operation; and means to
hold the cylinder stationary at times to permit severence of the web by the cut-
ting mechanism.
5. In a machine of the class described, the following instrumentalities, viz.:-a
continuously rotating driving shaft; a rotary printing member fixed on said
shaft; inking apparatus therefor; a combined impression and feed cylinder,
adapted to be actuated from said shaft out of phase with said printing member
but at substantially the same peripheral speed therewith during the printing
operation; reciprocating cutting mechanism; operating connections between said
driving shaft and mechanisms, all arranged to operate substantially as described.
6. In a machine of the class described, the driving shaft and its driving arm;
a rotary printing member carried by the shaft; an impression cylinder mounted
parallel with said shaft; together with a driving sheave having the same diameter
as and connected with said cylinder and adapted to be peripherally engaged by
said arm to provide for intermittent actuation of said cylinder by said shaft at
exactly the same peripheral speed as that of said printing mechanism at all times
during said engagement.
7. The combination in a machine of the class described with a sheave having a
periphery serving as a friction surface and provided at intervals with radial pro-
jections, of a driving shaft having an interrupted driving surface arranged upon
continuous rotation of the shaft to be brought into position to successively engage
said projections immediately adjacent their region of union with the sheave, to
impart at each of such engagements an impetus to the sheave and to maintain the
movement then initiated during and Ly subsequent frictional engagement by the
driving surface with that portion of the sheave's periphery immediately behind
the projection engaged.
8. In a machine of the class described, a couple of co-operating rotary members,
one of which is adapted to rest at times while the other is actuated, and means to
impart positive rotation to said former member intermittingly, said means being
adapted and arranged to instantly start said former member at the exact peri-
pheral speed of said other member at the beginning of each period of common
rotation of said members, and to maintain said peripheral speed throughout each
such rotative period.
9. Means for distributing ink or the like in a machine of the class described,
comprising co-operating members in frictional contact and adapted to be moved
relatively to each other, said members being related and arranged to develop, by
their frictional engagement during actuation, a traversing movement relatively
to each other and to the direction of actuative movement.
10. Means for distributing ink or the like in a machine of the class described;
comprising a rotatable receiving member, and a co-operating spreading member
arranged to be actuated frictionally by rotation of said receiving member to
traverse the same.
11. Means for distributing ink or the like, in a machine of the class described
comprising co-operating rotatable members in frictional contact and adapted to
be moved relatively to each other, said members being related and arranged to
develon by their frictional engagement during rotation a traversing movement
relatively to each other and to the direction of rotative movement.

page_text: 12. Means for distributing ink or the like in a machine of the class described
comprising co-operating members in frictional contact and adapted to be moved
relatively to each other, said members being related and arranged to develop, by
their frictional engagement during actuation, a traversing movement relatively
to each other and to the direction of actuative movement, and means to control
said traversing movement.
13. Means for distributing ink or the like in a machine of the class described;
comprising a rotatable receiving member and a co-operating ink spreading roller
capable of axial movement and adapted to be moved into varying angular posi-
tions relatively to the direction of rotation of said receiving member.
14. Apparatus of the class described, comprising co-operating rotatable mem-
bers in frictional contact, and means to vary the angular relation between the
region of contact of said members and the direction of rotation of one of them.
15. Apparatus of the class described; comprising a rotatable receiving mem-
ber; a co-operating spreading roller; and means to vary the angular relation
between the axis of said roller and the direction of rotation of said receiving
member.
16. Apparatus of the class described; comprising co-operating rotatable cylin-
drical members in frictional contact; and means to vary the angular relation
between the region of contact of said members and the direction of rotation of
one of them.
17. Apparatus of the class described, comprising co-operating ink-receiving
members in frictional contact, one of said members being rotatable and capable
of axial movement while in contact with said other members; and a movable
bearing for said rotatable members by which its angular relation to said other
member may be varied.
18. Apparatus of the class described, comprising a frame, and actuating mech-
anism carried thereby; co-operating rotatable ink-receiving members in frictional
contact and mounted on said frame in suitable bearings, one of said members
being capable of axial movement and having one of its bearings movable; oper-
ating connections between said members and said actuating mechanism, and
means by which the position of said movable bearing may be changed by said
actuating mechanism."
19. In an apparatus of the class described; a movable shear member; a frame
or support; a co-operating stationary shear member carried by said frame; and
means to maintain said members in yielding engagement throughout the shearing
operation.
20. In an apparatus of the class described; a frame or support; a reciprocat-
ing shear member mounted pivotally thereon; a co-operating stationary sheer
member carried by said frame and means to press said stationary member yield-
ingly against said reciprocating member, throughout the period of shearing
engagement.
21. In an apparatus of the class described; a frame or support; a double edged
reciprocating shear member mounted pivotally adjacent thereto; a plurality of
co-operating shear members carried by said frame; and means to maintain said
latter members respectively in yielding engagement with said reciprocating
member.
22. In an apparatus of the class described; a frame or support; a stationary
shear member carried thereby; a co-operating movable shear member; and means
to maintain said shear members in yielding engagement; said means
comprising a cushioning device intermediate said support and the shear member
carried thereby.
23. In an apparatus of the class described; a frame or support; a stationary
shear member carried thereby; a co-operating movable shear member; means to
maintain said shear members in yielding engagement; said means comprising a

page_text: cushioning device intermediate said support and the shear member carried
thereby; and a controlling device for the latter.
24. The combination in an apparatus of the class described, with a movable
shear member, of a frame or support; a co-operating shear member carried
thereby a cushioning device intermediate said support and its shear member;
and a controlling device provided with regulating means for said frame shear.
25. The combination in an apparatus of the class described, with a movable
shear member; of a frame or support carrying a brace of shears arranged to
co-operate with said movable member; means to maintain the members of said
brace respectively in yielding engagement with said movable member on opposite
sides; and controlling devices provided with regulating means, for the members
of said brace.
26. The combination in an apparatus of the class described, with a movable
shear member, of a frame or support carrying a co-operating shear member; a
cushioning device intermediate said support and shear, tending to press the latter
against said movable member; a bolt connected near one end with said frame
shear and at its free end provided with regulating means co-operating with said
support to limit the operation of said cushioning device.
27. In an apparatus of the class described, a work guide, comprising a plurality
of independant work-directing members; a rotatable carrier therefor; and mean
intermediate said carrier and members to cause adjustment of said members upon
rotation of said carrier.
28. In an apparatus of the class described, a work guide, comprising a rotatable
carrier rod having right and left screw threaded portions; a plurality of work
directing members mounted on said rod and having threaded portions in co-opera-
tive engagement with said threaded rod portions; and means by which said rod
may be rotated, to cause thereby adjustment of said members.
29. In an apparatus of the class described; the combination with an impression
cylinder having peripheral web controlling means, and a shear device, of a web
guide conforming in contour to, and arranged closely adjacent the periphery of.
said cylinder, to maintain the web in close relation with a portion thereof; said
guide having a housing to permit clearance of said web controlling means, and
being constructed and arranged to deliver said web over one of the members of
said shear device to the shearing edge, at an upwardly inclined angle, to thereby
cause the web to free itself automatically from said shearing edge after each
shearing operation.
30. In an apparatus of the class described; a work guide, comprising a carrier w,
having threaded portions w², w³; bearings 18 therefor; work directing mem-
bers W, W, carried by said threaded portions, and guide portions w¹, 20*, on said
members.
31. In an apparatus of the class described; a tappet or actuating member, pro-
vided with a retractable actuating portion.
32. In an apparatus of the class described, a tappet or actuating member com-
prising a body portion and a head or actuating portion movable relatively to said
body portion.
33. In an apparatus of the class described, a shaft; and a tappet thereon, said
tappet comprising an attachment mounted on said shaft, and a head carried by
said attachment and movable toward and away from said shaft.
34. In an apparatus of the class described, a shaft; and a tappet thereon: said
tappet comprising an attachment mounted on said shaft, and a head carried by
said attachment and movable toward, and away from said shaft; means tending
to maintain said head in extended position; and regulating devices therefor.
35. In an apparatus of the class described, a shaft; and a tappet thereon;
said tappet comprising an attachment mounted on said shaft, a head supported>
by carriers extended from said attachment, means to regulate the degree of
extension of said head, and means to maintain said head in extended position.

page_text: 36. The combination in an apparatus of the class described, with a driven
member having a periphery adapted to be engaged frictionally and thereby
actuated, of a rotating tappet or actuating member having a frictional actuating
surface, and means to prevent engagement of said periphery by said surface until
said tappet has reached a rotative position ensuring high frictional efficiency.
37. In an apparatus of the class described, a frame; a shaft carried thereby,
and a tappet on said shaft; said tappet comprising an attachment secured to said
shaft, a head carried by said attachment and movable toward and away from
said shaft, and means to maintain said head in extended position; and a projection
on said frame adapted to engage said head and cause rétraction of the latter
toward said shaft during a portion of its rotative period.
38. Apparatus of the class described, comprising a frame; co-operating ink-
receiving members H, F, carried thereby; actuating mechanism for said mem-
bers and a bearing member K adapted to receive said rotatable member H, and
pivoted to said frame, said bearing member being connected to said actuating
mechanism, and oscillatable thereby periodically in the manner and for the pur-
pose substantially as set forth.
39. In an apparatus of the class described; a couple of co-operating ink-receiv-
ing rolls in frictional contact; actuating mechanism therefore; and controlling
means for said rolls, comprising a pivoted member, adapted to serve at one end
as a bearing for one end of one of said rolls, and engaging at its other end an
adjustable crank, connected to said actuating mechanism operatively and by
which crank said pivoted member may be oscillated about its pivot to govern the
position of said rolls relatively to each other.
40, In a machine of the class described; a rotary printing member; a rotary
ink-supply-roll; and intermediate ink-transferring roll in contact with which
said supply roll is maintained by gravity, and which is held in position to ink
said rotary printing member, by adjustable bearings.
41. In a machine of the class described; a rotary printing member; a rotary
ink-supply roll; an intermediate ink-transferring roll in contact with which said
supply roll is maintained by gravity, and which is held in position to ink said
rotary member, by adjustable bearings, said bearings comprising a member,
forked at one end to receive the axis of said roll, and having an elongated shank
adapted to enter a suitable socket in the frame of the machine, said shank being
threaded to receive a nut by which said member may be raised and lowered in
said socket.
42. In a machine of the class described; a rotary printing member; a rotary
ink-supply roll; an intermediate ink transferring roll in contact with which said
supply roll is maintained by gravity, and which is held in position to ink said
rotary printing member, by adjustable bearings; said rotary printing member
and intermediate roll having intermeshing pinions by which said roll may be
driven positively.
43. In a machine of the class described; a rotary printing member having an
undercut groove parallel with its axis to receive and retain a chase; an elongated
chase adapted to enter said groove lengthwise and enlarged interiorly to cause its
retention by the undercut walls of said groove; and a spring device carried by
said rotary member and adapted to traverse the walls of said groove and engage
said chase to prevent accidental lengthwise displacement thereof from said groove.
Dated the 10th day of October 1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.