MENTS IN PRINTING MACHINES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Bond, of Preston, in the County of
Lancaster, Letter-press. Printer, and Joseph Foster, of the same
Place, Engineer and Ironfounder, for the Invention of
· MENTS IN PRINTING MACHINES."
"IMPROVE
Sealed the 6th June 1871, and dated the 22nd March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Bond and Joseph
Foster at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 22nd March 1871.
We, WALTER BOND, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Letter-
press Printer, and JOSEPH FOSTER, of the same Place, Engineer and
Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING MACHINES," to be.as follows:-
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printing machines
moveable type or
Our Invention relates to the rotating cylinders of
whereby continuous successive impressions from
stereotype may be produced on paper fed from a roll or web "*
equivalent," after which the paper is divided into sheets as may be
required.
or other

page_text: The principle of our Invention consists in a type-carrying cylinder
one aliquot part of the circumference of which is occupied by moveable
type or stereotype.
A number of impression cylinders and carrier cylinders are adjusted
to the type cylinders corresponding to the number of aliquot parts into
which the type cylinder has been divided, as shown by the following
statement: When the sheet to be printed is of such dimensions as
will admit of moveable type being fitted to the extent of one half
the circumference of the type cylinder, then we construct our
machine to receive two impression cylinders to each type or stereotype
cylinders, with suitable carrier cylinders, ink, and other rollers."
The paper
is then drawn from a roll, or web, or other equivalent, and first
passes between the impression cylinder and the type cylinder, round
carrier roller to the second impression cylinder; it then passes
to the first impression cylinder of the second type cylinder and receives
an impression on the reverse side; it then passes round a carrier roller
to the next impression cylinder, and is thus delivered printed on both
sides, and is cut by an oscillating knife and delivered direct "alternately"
tọ two folding machines.
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The application and arrangement of such folding machinery we claim
as part of this our Invention.
We do not confine ourselves to the mode of delivering the sheets to
the folding machines as we may deliver such sheets by means of flyers
or other equivalent suitably arranged.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Walter Bond and Joseph Foster in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 30th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
BOND, of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, Letter-press Printer, and
JOSEPH FOSTER, of the same Place, Engineer and Ironfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the

page_text: thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Walter Bond and Joseph Foster, Her
special licence, that we, the said Walter Bond and Joseph Foster, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the, said
Walter Bond and Joseph Foster, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING MACHINES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Walter Bond and Joseph
Foster, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Walter Bond and Joseph Foster,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, in which similar parts are marked by corresponding
letters of reference:-
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Our Invention consists of an arrangement of rotating "type cylinders,"
impression, and carrier cylinders," by means of which consecutive
impressions from
moveable type
or "stereotype" may be produced
on an endless sheet of paper fed from a roll, or web, or other equivalent.
The paper may be printed on one or both sides, and afterwards divided
into sheets in the form of newspapers or other printed matter.
Fig. 1 in our Drawings shews the position of cylinders and rollers
when the type forms are of sufficient dimensions to cover one half the
circumference of the [:
type cylinders," which are fitted up to hold
movable type or stereotype.
:
Fig. 2 shews the same where the type occupies one-third the circum-
ference of the type cylinder.
Fig. 3 shews the same where the type occupies but one-quarter the
circumference of the type cylinder.

page_text: Figs. 4 and 5 shews an outline side elevation showing the general
construction of our machine, shewing the course of the sheet after
passing; from the roll X round the various cylinders to the cutting and
delivery of the perfected sheets. .
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The cylinders A and B in the several Figures are the type cylinders,
which are constructed SQ as to hold movable type or stereo-
type," and that portion of the cylinder which is not occupied by type"
serves as an ink carrying and distributing surface. The roll of paper X is
delivered to impression cylinder 1, and rounding its adjacent carrier
cylinder a passes to impression cylinder 2; the sheet again passes round
a carrier. cylinder.b to impression cylinder. (see Fig. 4).
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At each
revolution of the type cylinder A" the type first meets impression
cylinder 1, and giving the sheet the impress of its type surfaces passes
on to impression cylinder 2, where it also similarly impresses that portion
of the sheet which is being wound over carrier cylinder a, the position of
which carrier cylinder secures a sufficient length of imprinted paper
to receive the impression of cylinder 2. The sheet then passes round
carrier cylinder to impression cylinder 3, and there is similarly.
impressed, a length of paper having been reserved for the third im-
pression by carrier cylinder b. The type as it passes the impression
cylinders thus produces three consecutive impressions on one connected
length of paper, and as it revolves through the remainder of its circuit
the printed sheet of paper is moving forward along the various cylinders
at an identical rate of progression, and by the time the circuit of the
type is complete a fresh length of paper has taken the place of that
already printed, and the operation is again repeated, the second series of
impressions being made to join "on" with the first series by accurately
adjusting the carrier cylinders at their proper distances. The sheet being
now printed on one side passes to the cylinders in connection with type
cylinder B, and is wound over the various cylinders in connection with
it in the same manner as above described in connection with cylinder,A.
The revolution, of type cylinder B is so timed as to register its printed
surfaces behind the impressions received from type cylinder A, and thus
an endless sheet of paper is delivered impressed on both sides with pages
in perfect, register ready for the dividing knife.
From the foregoing statement it will be evident that any number of
impression cylinders may be used corresponding to the proportionate
section of the "type cylinders occupied by type on the principle herein
.

page_text: set forth, each impression cylinder being supplied with the necessary
carrier cylinders and inking rollers, as shewn in the Drawings.
Should only one side of the paper be required to be printed on,
then only one type cylinder and its complement of cylinders and rollers
would be necessary.
The sheet of printed paper is delivered on to a series of endless tapes,
which carry it to the cutter a (Fig. 5), and passing through the rollers b
at the top is projected through the lips of the mouthpiece into the
margin tapes d in front of the fliers e, e. The horizontal knife a is
adjusted to an arm ƒ at each end, having its centre over this mouth-
piece c, and actuated by a cam, and a connecting rod g from below is
made to oscillate from side to side at regular intervals, dividing the sheet
in its passage into equal portions to be then delivered alternately by
fliers e below, as shewn; or" the sheets may be conveyed by tapes to
folding machines suitable to the nature of the work being executed.
Having now fully described the nature and principle of our Invention,
and the general arrangement of its parts, and shewn how the same
may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, we wish
it to be distinctly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the
precise details we have had occasion to describe and illustrate, as many
variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the principle
or main features of such Invention; but what we claim as secured to us
herein is,"
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"First." The method and arrangements lierein contained for printing
on paper or other material, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before set forth and illustrated.
"Second." The type cylinders A and B fitted up to hold
CC movable
type or stereotype," and the arrangement of same to print on one or
both sides of paper or other material, substantially as and for the
purpose herein-before set forthi and illustrated.
"Third." The impression cylinders 1, 2, 3, and 4, with their carrier
cylinders a, b, and-c, "as arranged," and in combination with the
before mentioned, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before
set forth and illustrated.
Fourth, and last. The arrangement of knife a, rollers b, b, mouth-
piece c, tapes d, and flyers e, with action of lever f, with the position of
the several parts in connection with the cutting and laying of sheets in

page_text: Fig. 5, substantially as and for the purpose herein-before set forth and
illustrated.
In witness whercof, we, the said Walter Bond and Joseph Foster.
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth day of
August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one.