Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1886
Complete Left, 13th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1887.
I GABRIEL ARNAUD BÉDART Doctor of Medicine, assistant-surgeon in French Navy
living at Paris 22 Rue de Beaune, France do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My improvement consists of an auxiliary printing apparatus disposed in such a
manner as to be affixed to any model of rotary printing machines (having only one
type-cylinder working upon the same side of the sheet) in order to have another type-
cylinder printing upon the same side of the paper for the special purpose of obtaining
in colour: advertisements, last telegrams etc. etc.
My auxiliary printing apparatus is rotary and consequently composed of one type-
cylinder with its inking rollers, and of a blanket-cylinder if impossible to use one of
the blanket-cylinders of the machine to which this auxiliary apparatus is affixed. All
these organs are supported by a special frame, disposed in such a manner as to slip
upon a slide affixed to the frame of the rotary machine.
So disposed, the whole auxiliary printing apparatus has a movement of translation
parallel to the axle of the cylinders. This disposition allows to vary the position of
the coloured part of the text, and to reduce both the dimension and the weight of the
cylinders of the auxiliary apparatus. This movement is governed by a screw, and
gives easiness for joining-marks, greasing and surveying the other organs of the
machine. The auxiliary apparatus is caused to work at the convenient speed by a
suitable gear.
The chief advantage of this auxiliary printing apparatus appears when a telegram is
received during the printing, or after the casting of stereo plates. Actually nothing
is to be done, but to postpone the publication of this telegram, by introducing it in a
new issue with new stereo plates. With the auxiliary printing apparatus it can be
printed without a delay; the text of the telegram is put upon the type-cylinder of the
auxiliary apparatus, inked with red ink (I suppose), is printed upon the margin,
or even is overcharging the black text; if the types are choosen of a convenient size,
such a coloured overcharging allows to read the black text and the coloured part.
Dated the Twentieth day of October 1886.

page_text: I GABRIEL ARNAUD BÉDART doctor of medicine, living at Paris Rue de Beaune
No. 22, France 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 :—
My improvements consist of: 1° Modifications brought in the auxiliary printing
apparatus yet described in my english Patent 3329, 14 March 1885-2° A new
disposition of types upon the type-cylinder. By these improvements any model of
rotary press may give a polychromatic impression, and a telegram received after the
moulding or casting of stereoplates may be immediately printed without being obliged
of casting new stereoplates. A great saving of time is obtained, which is very
important in newspapers trade.
The auxiliary printing apparatus is rotary and has all its organs: type cylinder,
inking rollers supported by a special frame which slips upon a slide affixed to the
frame of the machine to which the auxiliary apparatus is affixed. By such a
disposition this apparatus possesses a movement of translation parallel to the axle of
cylinders. This mobility allows to reduce the length and weight of all the organs of
the auxiliary apparatus, and notwithstanding allows to have the auxiliary type-
cylinder, inked with coloured ink, printing upon any required part of the sheet.
Actually when a telegram is received during the moulding or casting of stereoplates,
nothing is to be done but to mould and cast another stereoplate. As a great loss of
time ensues, very often the publication of such a telegram is postponed and
introduced in the following issue; with our disposition the text of the telegram is put
upon the type-cylinder of the auxiliary apparatus, (disposed for receiving moveable
types or stereoplates). Inked with coloured ink, it may be printed overcharging the
black text, and if the types are choosen of a convenient size, such a coloured over-
charging allows to read the black text and the coloured part.
But if the coloured printing for advertisements or telegrams is wanted only upon
the margin of the sheet, the auxiliary apparatus may be suppressed and the following
disposition adopted the types will be put upon the margin of the type-cylinder,
which bears the black-inked stereoplates, in such a manner as to have their surface a
little under the level of surface of the black-inked stereoplates: about a 15 of an inch.
Consequently the "margin-types" will avoid the action of the black inking rollers and
will be inked by a little inking apparatus, the rollers of which will only spread over.
the margin of the type-cylinder.

page_text: In order to compensate this difference of height of this margin-types, the pression-
cylinder will have its diameter increased of that difference in the corresponding part.
For that purpose a piece of soft cardboard, india-rubber or any convenient material
will be put between the pression-cylinder and the blanket recovering its surface.
By such a disposition of margin-types, as well as with the auxiliary apparatus, a
telegram received after the moulding or casting of stereoplates, may be printed upon
the margin of the sheet without any loss of time spent in casting new ones.
Figure I represents a front-view and Figure 2 a side view of an auxiliary printing
apparatus affixed in such a manner as to work upon O the blanket cylinder of a rotary
printing machine.
The auxiliary type-cylinder T, its inking table D and inking rollers ttt", are all
supported by a frame formed by two checks K K' bound by their base to the base-
plate R. So bound together, K K¹ and R form a kind of carriage, which possess a
movement parallel to the axle of the cylinder T; the base of K and K' is dovetail
shaped so as to glide in a groove likely shaped, opened in the piece S, affixed by the
screw-bolt y to B, the frame of the rotary-machine to which the auxiliary apparatus
is added. The movement of translation of K K' and of the organs T, D,, t¹¹, is
governed by the wheel W commanding a long screw f. (The running part and the
standing part of the auxiliary apparatus are differently striped in the Figure 2.)
The motion is given by the shaft V of the auxiliary type cylinder T; this shaft is
not fixed to the cylinder T, but allows T to run parallely to its axle, when the wheel V
is moved.
The Figure 3 represents the end of the type-cylinder of a rotary-machine; upon
the margin M of which are disposed types, moveable as: A, B, C, D, E, F, H and
little stereoplate XYZ; the former are disposed in a rectangular hole opened in the
margin of the type-cylinder o, r, u, v. They are maintained by the pieces I and i,
governed by the screw-bolts s, s, s, and z. The surfaces of these margin-types are
below the level 1, of the black inked types, and t is the little inking roller giving
them the coloured ink; it spreads only over the margin of the cylinder; in the
Figure 4 is given a side view of the little inking apparatus to which t belongs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I claim is :
1. The movement of translation of the auxiliary printing apparatus.
20. The disposition of types upon the margins of type-cylinder, allowing to print
any information received after the moulding of stereoplates without altering them.
30. The disposition of types of different height upon the same type-cylinder or the
same table of printing-machine combined with a corresponding increase of the
pression-cylinder.
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