Improvements in Machinery for Printing and Producing Multiple- paged Papers or Pamphlets.
Year: 1890

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by Mess. R. HOE & COMPANY, of 504, Grand
Street, New York City, in the United States of America, Printing Machine
Manufacturers.]
Improvements in Machinery for Printing and Producing Multiple-
paged Papers or Pamphlets.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, 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 :-
In the construction of web printing machines, it has been found desirable to
provide a machine adapted to print, at will, multiple products, such as 4, 6, 8, 10,
and 12 page papers, and which shall be compact in form, and sufficiently simple in
construction to permit of a high rate of speed being maintained during the printing
of an edition.
This object is attained, in the present case, by a machine using but twelve
forms, and provided with a simple and convenient means of adjustment, by which the
machine may be readily changed so as to produce, at will, the various products, and
the invention consists generally in the compact combination with suitable delivery
mechanism, of two printing mechanisms so arranged that one may be thrown out of
operation, if desired, or the two mechanisms may be run together, either at the same
or at different rates of speed, the delivery mechanism being so constructed as to either
associate the two webs, fold and sever them, or sever a sheet from one web, and
associate the sheet with the other web, or fold and sever the single web when one
printing mechanism is not in use, the collecting mechanism being operated or thrown
out of operation in either case, as desired.
In addition to the general construction of the machine, this invention consists in
various constructions and combinations of parts, which will be more particularly
described in the specification and pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this Specification,―
Fig. 1 is a side elevation,
Fig. 2 is a plan view,
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional diagram taken inside the frame.
Fig. 4 is a delivery end elevation,
Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section taken substantially on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.
Figs. 6, 7, and 8 are detail views of the collecting mechanism, Fig. 7 being a
section on line 7-7 of Fig. 8.
Fig. 9 is a detail view of the means for holding the movable web support, and
Figs. 10 to 16 show the various products of the machine, Figs. 10 to 14
respectively showing the four, six, eight, ten, and twelve page products previous to
the final fold; Fig. 15 a product after the cross fold has been made; and Fig. 16
a six page product with a half width page.
It will be understood that in some of the drawings, parts of the framework, gears,
and other similar parts, the construction of which is well understood in the art, have
been omitted, in order that the combination of the essential parts may be more clearly
▸ shown.
Referring now to the drawings, A is the frame of the machine, provided at one
As shown in
end with supports B, C, for inain and supplement web-rolls D E.
Fig. 1, one of the supports C for the supplement web is hinged to the base, so as to
fold outwardly, and permit the supplement web E to be readily placed in position
without removing the main web D. This hinged support C may be held in its
We prefer, however, to use the
upright position by a bolt or any suitable means.
ham Fio 9) in which the support C is pivotted in lugs a b on

page_text: the base of the frame, and is provided with a short arm c, extending at right angles
to the support. When the web is in place, the arın rests upon the base frame
between two lugs d, d, and the arm and lugs are provided with holes to receive the
thumb screw e, by which the arm is locked and the support is held in a vertical
position.
In the upper part of the frame A, next the main and supplement rolls, is the
main web printing mechanism, consisting of the two sets of type and impression
cylinders 10, 11 and 12, 13, one of which sets forms the printing, and the other the
perfecting impression cylinders, as is usual in this form of mechanism. Type
cylinders 10, 12 are provided with inking mechanism 14, which is of the usual
construction, and need not be particularly described here. The type cylinders
10 and 12 carry each two pages of matter longitudinally and two circumferentially of
the cylinder, the result of one revolution of the cylinders being the printing and
perfecting of eight pages of matter, four for each of two products.
The operation of this main printing and perfecting mechanism is not different
from that of similar mechanisins well known in the art, & need not be described
further than to say that the web D passes from the web roll under the conducting
roll 15, over the impression cylinder 11, where it receives an impression from the
type cylinder 10, below the impression cylinder 13, and upward over the same
cylinder, where it is perfected by type cylinder 12, whence the web passes under a
conducting roll 16, upward and over the conducting roll 17 to the other end of
the machine, where is placed the associating and delivering mechanism for the main
and supplement webs, which will be described hereafter.
The supplement web printing mechanism for perfecting a web of less width than
the main web, is of the well-known type, and is preferably placed below and in close
proximity to the main printing mechanism, & consists generally of the type cylinder 18
and impression cylinder 19, the type cylinder 18 being provided with an inking
nechanism 14 of the ordinary form. These printing cylinders are arranged parallel
with the main printing cylinders, and are preferably of equal length, but, in
combination with the turner 20, are adapted to print and perfect a web of less width
than the main web.
The operation of the supplement printing mechanism is also well understood, and
need not be described further than that the supplement web E passes from the web
supports C, under the conducting roll 21, up to and between one end of the type
and impression cylinders 18, 19, where it is printed upon one side, over the
conducting roll 22 and downward over one side of the turner 20, returning over the
other side of the turner 20, as shewn by the arrows in Fig. 5, over the other end of
the conducting roll 22, the two ends of the roll 22 being made for this purpose to
revolve in different directions, under and between the impression cylinder 19, and the
type cylinder 18, where it is perfected, and whence it is carried by the tapes 23
between the conducting rolls 24 to the severing and associating mechanism, which
will be described hereafter.
The main and supplement web printing mechanisms are operated by the main
operating shaft 25 through the series of intermediates 26 gearing with the impression
cylinder 11, which is geared with the other parts of the main printing mechanism, 4
the supplement impression cylinder 19, with which the other parts of the supplement
mechanism are geared, being driven from the main impression cylinder 13 through
a removable intermediate 27. The impression cylinder 13 is provided with two gears
28, 29, one of which, 28, is half the size of the other, and the supplement impression
cylinder 19 is provided with a broad-faced gear 30 (see Fig. 5).
To enable the intermediate gear 27 to be shifted to engage with either of the gears
on impression cylinder 13, for the purpose of changing the relative speed of the two
printing mechanisms, the frame is provided with two studs, 6, 7, on either of which
the gear 27, may be placed, the stud 6 being provided with a shoulder 8, against
which the gear 27 is held for engagement with the outside reduced gear 28, on 5
cylinder 13.
It will thus be seen that by removing the gear 27, the supplement printing

page_text: mechanism may be thrown out of operation, and that the supplement printing
mechanism will be run at the same or at half the speed of the main printing mechanism,
as gear 27 engages with the larger or smaller gear upon the impression cylinder 13,
thus, by the simple removal or shifting of a gear, enabling one mechanism to be
thrown out of operation, or the relative speed of the two mechanisms to be changed
for the different products.
Geared to the main operating shaft 25, is a longitudinal shaft 32, extending
to the other end of the frame, with which is geared, through a series of inter-
mediates 33, the associating collecting, and delivering mechanism which will now
be described.
Removably supported upon a stud in the frame, is the gear 34, operated from one of
the intermediates 33, through bevel gears, so arranged that the gear 34 is driven at
the same speed as the supplement printing mechanism, and geared to 34 are the per-
forators 35, likewise moving at the same speed as the supplement mechanism, when
run at half speed, and adapted to be thrown out of operation by the removal of gear 34,
when the supplement mechanism is run at full speed. These perforators are of a
cominon forin, the cylinders carrying the perforators being cut away at opposite sides,
so as to form bars, the edges of which rotate in contact, and carry respectively the
perforating blade and groove, the shafts being provided at one end with interineshing
gears, one of which meshes with gear 34. With this construction, it is evident that
when the shafts are rotated so as to carry the perforator bars into positions in which
they are parallel with each other widthwise, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, by removing
the gear 34, the web will pass freely between the perforators.
The
Geared to run at the same speed as the main web printing mechanism, and receiving
the supplement web E, after it has passed between the perforators 35, are upper and
lower conducting tapes 36, 37. The tapes 36, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, pass from the
conducting roll 38 over tighteners 39, and roll 40, back to conducting roll 38.
lower series of tapes 37 pass from the lower conducting roll 41 parallel with the
tapes 36, and forming a bite as they pass roll 40, under the guide 9, to and over a
conducting roll 42, to their respective pulleys 43 in the folding mechanism, returning
over the tighteners 44 to the roll 41.
As usual in this form of mechanism, the rolls 38, 41, are placed a short distance
apart, so that the tapes 36, 37, shall feed the web after it has been perforated, without
severing the same, the severance not being made until the web enters the bite formed
by roll 40, and the tapes, when the web is severed at the perforations by the excess of
speed of this mechanism. The perforators and carrying tapes, withroll 40, thus form
a web severer for the supplement web.
As stated above, the perforators 35 may be thrown out of operation, when the two
printing mechanisms will be run at the same speed, and the web E pass directly to the
tapes 36, 37, and under the guide 9; the two webs will then be associated, the
supplement web being uncut.
The main web D passes from the conducting roll 17 over the guide 9, to and
between the roll 42 and the pulleys 45, where the supplement web or sheet will be
associated with the main web, and pass with it over the longitudinal folder, consisting
of the internal folders 46 and the external folders 47, between the conducting rolls 48,
by which the fold is completed, and thence to the cutting, collecting, and delivering
mechanism.
For the purpose of securing accurate registry between the main web and the
supplement web or sheet, the arms carrying the pulleys 45 are individually adjustable
circumferentially of the shaft 1, by means of the set nuts 2, and the shaft 1 is
adjustable in its bearings so as to increase or decrease the pressure of the whole series
of pulleys 45 upon the web, this latter adjustment being made by means of a
depending arm 3 connected to the shaft, and two set screws 4, 5, mounted in lugs in
The roll 42 and pulleys 45
the frame, and pressing upon either side of the arın 3.
thus form a pair of adjustable conducting rolls. The pulleys 45 are preferably covered
with an elastic material, and by the two means of adjustment just described, the pres-
sure of the pulleys upon either side of the web, or that of the whole series of pulleys,

page_text: may be readily graduated, so as to feed the two webs or web and sheet with absolute
registry.
By feeding the supplement sheet under the main web, and between it and the
folding tapes 43, the upper series of tapes common in this type of folding
mechanism for sheets, is rendered unnecessary, and only the lower series of tapes
are used.
The construction thus far described forms an essential and independent part of this
invention, and it is to be understood that this combination of printing mechanisms,
with or without the web severer, may be used with any form of delivery mechanism.
The machine will preferably be constructed, however, with special mechanism, for
varying the products of the machine, as before stated, and this cutting, collecting, and
delivering mechanism will now be described.
While any sheet-collecting mechanism that is capable of being thrown out of opera-
tion may be used as a part of the delivery mechanism of this machine, it is
preferred to use that shown, described, and claimed, in a patent granted to
Philip Arthur Newton dated 21st January 1890, No. 1105, a communication from
Messrs. Hoe & Co.
Referring now particularly to Figs. 6, 7 and 8, it will be seen that the cutting,
collecting, and folding mechanism consists generally of the two cylinders 49, 50, one
of which, 49, has a circumference of twice the length of a sheet of the product,
and the other, 50, a circumference equal to the single length of a sheet. Cylinder 49
is provided with two series of sheet holding pins 51, 52, carried by the levers 53,
and operated in one direction by means of the stationary camn 54, and in the
other direction by the springs 55. The series of pins 52 are adapted to be retracted
and retained in inoperative position by a latch 56, as shown and described in a patent
granted to Henry Edward Newton, and dated May 29th, 1888, No. 7868, or in any
other suitable manner. The cylinder 49 is provided also with two series of transverse
folding blades 57, 58, operated by a stationary cam 85, Fig. 1, in the inanner usual in
this class of mechanism, and adapted to form, in combination with the conducting and
folding rolls 59, 60 (see Fig. 4) a transverse fold. The cylinder 49 is also provided,
just in advance of the sheet-holding pins 51, 52, with grooves 61 for the cutting blade
on cylinder 50.
The cylinder 50 is provided with a cutting blade 62, and just behind this, with a
series of sheet-holding pins 63, connected pivotally to the arm 64 on the rock-
shaft 65, from which an arm extends carrying a bowl 66, adapted to be operated by
cam 67.
For the purpose of advancing these sheet-holding pins only at each alternate
revolution of the cylinder 50, the cam 67, which is loose upon the shaft 68, of
cylinder 50, is provided with a gear 69, and fixed upon the shaft 68 is a second
gear 70, Figa. 7 and 8. Loosely mounted upon a shaft 71, excentrically supported
in the frame by stud 72, are two rigidly connected gears 73, 74, engaging
respectively with gears 70 and 69, the gear 73 being of equal size with gear 70, and
the gear 74 of half the size of gear 69. Thus, the speed of the cam 67, as received
from the shaft 68 through gears 70, 73, 74 and 69, is reduced one half.
For the purpose of throwing the collecting mechanism of shaft 50, out of operation,
the excentric stud 72 is provided upon the outside of the frame with an arm 75, by
which the stud may be thrown into a position in which the gears 73 and 74 are out
of engagement with the gears 70 and 69.
The arm 75 is provided with a thumb-screw 83, which is adapted to enter either
of two holes 84, Fig. 4, in the frame, to hold the arm in either position, and for the
purpose of locking the stud more firmly, especially in the position of engagement
of the gears, a jam-nut 76 is provided. To secure the cam 67 to the cylinder in
such a position as to retract the pins 62, and hold them in retracted position, when
the collecting mechanism is to be thrown out of operation, the hub of the cam is
provided with a hole 77, registering with a hole in the shaft 68, in which a pin or
screw may be inserted to hold the parts in position. Any other suitable means for
securing the cam may be used.

page_text: The operation of this collecting mechanism is as follows:-
When the collecting mechanism is to be used, the gears 73, 74, will be thrown
into engagement with the gears upon the shaft 68, and the cam 67 released from the
shaft. The series of pins 52 of the cylinder 49, will be retracted and held in position
by the latch 56. As the web passes from the conducting rolls 48 to and between the
cylinders 49, 50, these cylinders being in the position shown in Fig. 6, the leading
end of the web will be taken by the pins 63, and carried around the cylinder 50, until
the latter cylinder has completed a revolution, when the web will be severed by the
blade 62, and at or about the same time the pins 63 will be retracted, releasing the
end of the sheet. The series of pins 51 will then have reached the side opposite
the cutting-blade, and will catch and hold the severed sheet and the leading end of
the web, which will then be carried around upon cylinder 49, until the cylinder has
completed a half revolution, when the second sheet will be severed by blade 62. The
two sheets thus collected will then be folded by the folding blade 57 between the
rolls 59 and 60.
When the collecting mechanism is not to be used, the gears 73, 74, will be thrown
out of operation, and the cam 77 locked in position to retract the pins 63, as above
stated, and the second series of sheet-holding pins 52 of cylinder 49, will be released.
Each sheet in this case, as severed by the cutting blade 62 acting in one of the
grooves 61 of cylinder 49, will be carried forward by sheet-holding pins 51 or 52,
and be folded as before.
From the conducting and folding rolls 59, 60, the product passes over the guide 78,
and between tapes 79 and the conducting roll 80, to the fly 81, by which it is
deposited upon the carrier 82, but any other form of delivery mechanism may
be used,
The operation of the machine will now be readily understood from the following
general description. If a twelve-page product be desired, the printing mechanisms
will be run at the same rate of speed, gear 27 being on stud 7, the gear 34 will be
removed, throwing the perforators 35 out of operation, and the collecting mechanism
of cylinders 49 and 50 will be thrown into operation, all as above described. The
two webs will then pass together between conducting roll 42 and pulleys 45, to the
longitudinal folder, where the supplement web will be folded on one side of, and
inside the main web, the two webs passing thence to the cutting and sheet-collecting
mechanism, where two sections, each of six pages, will be collected, folded between
conducting rolls 59, 60, and carried thence to the delivery mechanism, thus producing
a product consisting of two six-page sections, as shown in Fig. 14, prior to cross
folding.
..
When a ten-page paper is desired, the gear 27 will be shifted from stud 7 to stud 6,
thus engaging with the half-size gear 28 of cylinder 13, and reducing the speed of
the supplement printing mechanism to one half that of the main mechanism, and the
perforators 35 will be thrown into operation through gear 34. The collecting.
mechanism will operate as in the case of a twelve page product. As the web passes
from the supplement printing mechanism, it is perforated by perforators 35, and then
is taken up by the tapes 36, 37, and carried onward until, as it passes into the bite
between the tapes and roll 40, it is severed on account of the double speed of this
mechanism, and passing under guide 9, is associated with main web D between
cylinder 42 and pulleys 45, whence, folded as before, it passes to the collecting
mechanism, the first section thus consisting of six pages. On account of the half
speed of the supplement printing mechanism, however, the next section of the main.
web will not have associated therewith a supplement section, but will consist of only
four pages. The product, therefore, will consist of a six-page section and a four-page
section, forming a ten-page product, as shown in Fig. 13.
For an eight-page product, the gear 27 will be removed, throwing the supplement
printing mechanism out of operation, and two four-page sections of the main web will
be collected by the collecting mechanism, forming an eight-page product, as shown
in Figure 12.
For a six-page product, the adjustment and operation will be the same as for a

page_text: twelve-page product, except that the collecting mechanism of the cylinders 49 and 50
will be thrown out of operation, and the product will consist of a single six-page
section, as shown in Fig. 11.
For a four-page product, the supplement printing mechanism and collecting
mechanism will be thrown out of operation, and the product will consist of a single
four-page section of the main web, as shown in Fig. 10.
It has been customary with newspaper publishers, whenever extra news or other
causes rendered a supplement sheet necessary, to issue nothing less than a sheet of the
dimensions of a page of their regular paper, which often exceeds the actual demands.
We obviate this difficulty, and economize greatly in the use of paper, by providing,
as will be seen, a machine in which the supplement sheet may be of any desired width,
as one half or one fourth of a page, or less, by any number of columns, whereby, in
case the regular sheet contains 8 columns to the page, a supplement sheet of 7, 6, 5, 4,
or any desired number of columns may be inserted, by simply using a supplement web
of corresponding width. A product in which the supplement page is one half width,
is shown in Fig. 16.
It is evident that many ordinary forms of mechanism used in web-printing machines
may be added to this machine, such, for instance, as pasting devices, to lay a line of
paste on either the main or the supplement web, and also on the fold line of the
associated sections. Other folding and delivering mechanisms may be used with or
without a sheet-counter, if desired. Such additional mechanism, (and others of similar
nature) is well known in the art, and it will readily be seen may be supplied to this
machine.
It is not shown, in order that the essential features of the invention may more clearly
be presented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me from
abroad, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with a main-web printing mechanism, of a supplement web
printing mechanism geared to run at a speed below that of the main web, a sheet
severer for the supplement web, and mechanism for associating the printed supplement
sheet with the main web, substantially as described.
2. The combination with a main-web printing mechanism, of a supplement printing
mechanism, means whereby the relative speed of the printing mechanisms may be
varied, a sheet severer for the supplement web, arranged to be thrown in or out of
operation, and mechanism for associating the printed supplement sheet or web with
the main web, substantially as described.
3. The combination with a main web printing mechanism, and a folder therefor, of
a supplement printing mechanism, a sheet severer for the supplement web, and
mechanism for associating the printed supplement sheet with the main web, prior to
the folding of the latter, and on the side next the folder, whereby the supplement.
sheet is folded inside the main web, substantially as described.
4. The combination with a main web printing mechanism, a folder and sheet collecting
mechanism therefor, the collecting mechanism constructed to be thrown in and out of
operation, of a supplement printing mechanism, means whereby the relative speed of
the printing mechanisms may be varied, a sheet severer for the supplement web
arranged to be thrown in and out of operation, and mechanism for associating the
printed supplement sheet or web with the main web prior to the folding of the latter,
substantially as described.
5. The combination with a main web printing mechanism, a folder provided with a
single series of tapes, and a delivering mechanism, of a supplement web printing
mechanism, a sheet severer for the supplement web, and mechanism for associating
the printed supplement sheet with the main web, prior to the folding of the latter, and
on the side next the tapes, whereby the main sheet and single series of tapes carry the
supplement sheet into the folder, substantially as described.
6. The combination with a main web printing mechanism, a longitudinal folder

page_text: provided with a single series of tapes, and a delivering mechanism, of a supplement
web printing mechanism, a sheet severer for the supplement web, and mechanism for
associating the printed supplement sheet with the main web, prior to the folding of
the latter, and on the side next the tapes, whereby the main sheet and single series of
tapes carry the supplement sheet into the folder, substantially as described.
7. The combination with a main web printing mechanism, a folder, and adjustable
conducting rolls between the printing mechanism and the folder, of a supplement web
printing mechanism, a sheet severer for the supplement web, and means for carrying
the printed supplement sheet to the conducting rolls, substantially as described.
8. The combination with a main web, printing mechanism, of a supplement web
printing mechanism geared to run at a lower speed than the main web, a sheet severer
for the supplement web, consisting of a perforator and carrier geared respectively to
run at the speed of the supplement and main webs, and means for associating the
printed supplement sheet with the main web substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of July 1890
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.