AN IMPROVED COMBINED PRINTING, PRESSING OR CALENDERING, CUTTING, PASTING, AND FOLDING MACHINE
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED COMBINED PRINTING, PRESSING OR CALENDERING, CUTTING,
PASTING, AND FOLDING MACHINE."-A communication from abroad by
Edward Lloyd Ford, of the City, County, and State of New York,
United States of America.
Sealed the 2nd May 1873, and dated the 27th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th November 1872.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED PRINTING, PRESSING OR CALENDERING,
CUTTING, PASTING, AND FOLDING MACHINE," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to combine with a rotary or other
printing press all the appurtenances and devices for completing (except
binding) newspapers, pamphlets, books, and such like.
For this purpose

page_text: I combine the printing press, whose type and pressure rollers are
-increased in diameter to receive and act on two or more electrotypes at
each revolution, with calender or pressure rollers, folding rollers, or
blades and paste reservoirs. The paper unwound from a roll is first
passed over a series of rollers, by which moisture is applied to its surface.
It is next printed on both sides between the type and pressure rollers and
then submitted to pressure between hot or cold calender rollers. Next
the paper passes between a pair of rollers whereby it is cut into sheets
of equal lengths. These sheets are further conveyed between rollers
which have blunt blades for folding, there being as many sets of such
rollers and blades as it is desired to have folds in the paper in one direc-
tion. Before receiving each fold the paper passes under a paste trough,
whereby it is gummed or pasted on one of the lines of fold, so that when
folded it will be gummed at the back and held bound without the use of
threads or other connecting devices. After having received the final
folds in a folding machine the paper is delivered from the machine ready
for trimming and mailing, or for book and pamphlet work, ready for
binding.
In the case of bookwork a special apparatus is provided to deliver the
different signatures on separate piles.
On this machine the expense of newspaper and book printing will be
greatly reduced, as two or three attendants will be able to do all the
work on it.
On account of the enlarged size of the type rollers the number of
inking rollers may be increased to ensure perfect distribution.
Wiping or blotting rollers are applied against the calender rollers to
remove the "set off," i.e.,, take off whatever ink or moisture may have
been transferred to the calender rollers by the paper.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Olark, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, my 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 "AN
IMPROVED COMBINED PRINTING, PRESSING OR CALENDERING, CUTTING, PASTING, AND
FOLDING MACHINE," a communication to me from abroad by Edward Lloyd
Ford, of the City, County, and State of New York, United States of
America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander
Melville Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say) :-
This Invention has for its object to combine with a rotary or other
printing press all the appurtenances and devices for completing news-
papers, pamphlets, books, et cætera (except binding).
The Drawing represents a sectional elevation of the improved machine
for printing and completing papers or books. For this purpose I com-
bine the printing press, whose type and pressure rollers A, B, are
increased in diameter to receive and act on two or more electrotypes at
each revolution with calender or pressure rollers C, D; folding rollers or
blades a, a; and paste reservoirs E, E. The paper 6 unwound from a
roll F is first passed over rollers d, d, by which moisture is applied to its

page_text: 3rd. The application of calender or pressure rolls C, D, to a printing
press.
4th. The application of gumming or pasting appliances to a printing
press or to a rotary folding machine, as set forth.
5th. The wiping rollers h, h, arranged in contact with the calender
rollers C, D, as set forth.
6th. The upright paste boxes, wedge shaped, which give a better
delivery of the paste or gum, and also allow the use of larger paste
wheels than can be used by any other shaped boxes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three
Witness,
HENRY W. DEWEY,
53, Chancery Lane.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)