Improvements in Means for Printing Late News and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Printing Late News and the like.
CHRISTOPHER TOWLER, 177, Preston New Road, Blackburn, Newspaper District
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of a box formed to fix on to the printing machine
cylinder, said box having bars fixed across, and said bars having elastic pieces
ixed into them for gripping purposes.
Improvements in Means for Printing Late News and the like.
I, CHRISTOPHER TOWLER, of 177, Preston New Road, Blackburn, in the County
of Lancaster, Newspaper District Manager, 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:-
This invention relates to means for fixing type such as is employed for intro-
ducing and printing special or late news in any part of a newspaper or a journal.
The object of my invention is to economise time by enabling linotype slugs
with the latest news to be placed and automatically retained in position in the
stereotype plate, or in the printing cylinder of a rotary printing machine or the
like according to the construction of the machine that is in use.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 shows a plan view of my invention for
placing either in the printing machine cylinder or in any space left in the
stereotype plate that is affixed to the printing cylinder. Fig. 2 is a sectional
view on line A A, illustrating my invention applied in a stereotype plate. Figs. 3
and 4 are side and edge views respectively of slugs such as are produced by
means of a linotype machine, said slugs being fixed and retained in position in
the manner shown on the drawing and as hereinafter described.
In these views similar letters refer to similar parts: In this invention for the
purpose herein before named I form a box by connecting the ends of two or
more elastic coils Fig. 1 to two plates as c and d. I form said coils so that
on half or about one half in a transverse direction of each coil shall be in a
rectangular position and only the remaining portion 62 of the coil at an angle.
I construct said elastic coils on a grooved mandril which while forming the
coil to the required shape causes each ring of the coil to be equidistant apart or
slightly less than the thickness of the linotype slug e; In applying my inven-
tion I place the box formed by the plates c and d with the elastic pieces b
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page_text: connected thereto, within the aperture left in the stereotype plate a as in Fig. 2.
or in a carrier or box that is formed to fit into the cylinder of a rotary printing
machine. I place the ends of each of any number of linotype slugs as e between
the straight portions 6' of the elastic coils 6 which grip and automatically retain
said slugs in position. When the special or late news is received I withdraw
from between the coils the slugs that have been employed for earlier news in
the earlier editions of the paper or journal, and replace them with new slugs
which are produced in a linotype machine and on which the type for the latest
news received is formed. The type is by these means quickly and easily set
ready for printing and is automatically fixed. The box herein before described
readily adapts itself to any radius or curve of a printing cylinder as g. No
blank space need be retained in the news paper or journal as either the whole of
the space or a portion only as shown in Fig. 1 may be utilized for the latest
received news. I do not confine myself to the precise form of elastic piece or
coil constituting part of the box I have shown and described or the precise
manur in which said box may be employed: the elastic pieces or coils may be
formed of square wire, or wire covered with india rubber, or the coils may be
of regular form or an equivalent thereto, and the box may be placed in a
secondary box or frame that is formed to fit into the cylinder of a rotary printing
machine, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1st. In a rotary printing machine the use of a box that may be affixed to the
printing cylinder or employed in combination therewith constructed of cross
bars with elastic pieces or coils as b, or equivalents, fixed into said bars for
automatically gripping and retaining the ends of linotype slugs in the manner
and for the purpose substantially as herein before described.
2nd. For printing late news and the like the combination with the printing
cylinder in a rotary printing machine of a box constructed of cross bars with
elastic pieces or coils as b, or equivalents, fixed into said bars, said elastic pieces
being formed in a coil with rectangular or vertical portion as b¹ between which
to place the ends of linotype slugs in the manner and for the purpose substan-
tially as herein before described.
Srd. For printing late news and the like the combination with the printing.
cylinder in a rotary printing machine of a box formed with elastic pieces as 6 for
automatically gripping and retaining linotype slugs therein substantially as and
for the purpose herein before described.
Total : 6th
A1 1005
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.