Improvements Connected with Paper-making Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted 27th Sept., 1887.
Improvements Connected with Paper-making Machines.
I GABRIEL ARNAUD BÉDART doctor of medicine, assistant-surgeon in French Navy,
living at Paris France 22 rue de Beaune, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
My improvement consists of a rotary printing apparatus put upon the passage of
the endless sheet of paper yet travelling into the paper-making machine. This printing
apparatus will work upon the sheet between the last drying or hot-pressing roller,
(after which paper is good for printing) and the bobbin upon which the endless
ribbon of paper is rolled, when made for the use of web rotary printing machines.
If the paper is for flat presses printing upon separate sheets, then the printing
apparatus, affixed to the paper-making machine, will be disposed so as to print the
sheet just before the cutting apparatus, when this cut is made in succession of the
last hot-pressing roller. But if the paper, even made for flat printing presses, is
before the cut rolled upon a bobbin and afterwards is engaged into the set of rollers
of a special glazing or calendering machine, out of which only the cut is performed,
then the printing apparatus will be disposed so as to work upon the endless sheet of
paper just leaving the last calendering roller and going towards the cutting
apparatus.
Instead of a rotary printing apparatus, the same result may be obtained by pressing
the paper against flat stereotypes disposed as in some flat printing-presses.
By such an improvement paper-making machines will deliver separate sheets or
rollers of paper, having received one first impression. These sheets will be used by
printers, as if this first impression had been obtained by the usual proceedings. So
a great saving of time and money may be obtained for publications of any kind:
books, periodicals, hand-bills, of which the titles and various ornaments, such as
framings, tails-pieces, capital letters are not to be printed with the same colour as the
remainder of the text.
In the same manner for the new papers-trade, special advertisements in colour
could be printed in advance, during the paper-making, upon the margin of separate
sheets, or upon the margin of the endless sheet forming the roller.
Several printing apparatus may be affixed to the same paper-making machine.
Dated this day the Twenty-fifth of November 1886.

page_text: Improvements Connected with Paper-making Machines.
I GABRIEL ARNAUD BÉDART doctor of medicine, assistant surgeon in French navy,
living at Paris, France 22 rue de Beaune do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
My improvements consist of the combination of a printing apparatus with the paper-
making machines, in order to have an impression yet taken by the sheet delivered by
the paper-making machine. The printing apparatus figured in the drawing is a rotary
one, and disposed so as to work upon the paper just coming out of the last dryings
rollers P of the paper-making machine (after which it is good for printing).
T is the type-cylinder of the printing apparatus and above is the set of its inking
rollers; A and B are the pression-cylinders. The cylinder A is a blanket cylinder
of the kind used in the rotary presses printing a fixed size. The cylinder B is a
pression cylinder of the model used in rotary machines built for printing different-
sized sheets from a continuous length of paper. Consequently B is provided with
pinching fingers and works in connection with the stretching rollers y, y, y, y, and z z
the perforating rollers; the combination of which is the characteristic of this kind
of rotary presses. The rollers y, y, run at the speed of the paper making machine;
z, z, T, and B. run quicker: this difference of speed being the basis of printing
different sized sheets, from an endless sheet, with a rotary press.
By the bolts governing the pads of the axle of T, the type cylinder is put in
convenient pressure with A or B.
If the paper is for rotary press and must be delivered rolled upon a bobbin, then
the sheet coming out of the last drying rollers P P is guided by p upon A, and after
printing carried on by q and ƒ towards the bobbin V. Its course is given by the
dotted line..
If the paper is to be delivered in separate sheets, as for the use of flat presses, T is
put in pressure with B, the speed of z z regulated for giving the required size to the
sheet. The paper from PP is carried on by p. q. f, engaged between the perforating
rollers and thence between the tapes of y, y, y, y, which lead it towards the
fingers of the cylinder B. The printed sheet S is delivered by the tapes and rollers X X
upon a receiving table R.
In the case of separate sheets instead of a rotary press the sheet after the cut may
be brought by tapes upon the pression cylinder of a flat printing press; the model of
pression cylinder being quite similar in flat presses and in different-sized rotary presses.
This last disposition could be preferred for paper making machines cutting the sheet
in the succession of the last drying roller.
So by the interposition of a printing machine upon the passage of the sheet travelling
from the last drying rollers to the bobbin, or to the receiving table (in machines which
deliver separate sheets) making the paper and printing it can be performed at once.

page_text: This improvement allows a great saving of time for publications of which titles,
framings, tail-pieces and the remainder of the text are printed in two colours; the
paper-making machine will deliver sheets with these various ornaments printed.
In the newspapers-trade special advertisements in colour could be printed in advance
during the paper making upon the margin of separate sheets or upon the margin of
the endless sheet used in rotary presses.
Several type cylinders will allow to have the two sides of the paper printed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :
1° The combination of a printing machine with a paper-making machine so as to
perform the fabrication and the printing of the sheet at once.
2° The disposition of a type-cylinder operating with a pression cylinder of the model
used in rotary presses printing fixed-sized sheets, or operating with a pression cylinder
of the model used in the rotary presses printing different sized sheets, as herein
described.