IMPROVED COMBINED MACHINERY FOR PRINTING
Year: 1867

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Fraser and George
Duncan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 29th November 1867.
We, JAMES FRASER, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Stationer,
and GEORGE DUNCAN, of the same Place, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED COMBINED MACHINERY FOR PRINTING,"
to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to provide machinery by which bankers'
cheques; counter slips, pass tickets, and other like documents which require to
be numbered in consecutive order can be finished as regards printing at one
operation, that is to say, by passing webs or sheets of paper or other thin
material through our improved machinery once only both the required letters
press and consecutive number or numbers are imprinted thereon, thus saving
the labour and expense of passing the webs or sheets twice or oftener through
machinery as hitherto has been necessary. For this purpose we combine with
any ordinary or suitable letter-press printing machine one or more set or sets
of discs numbered on their peripheries, the same as or similar to the discs
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page_text: used in paging machines. The said set or sets of discs is or are placed on a
shaft which is coupled to the printing machine by a connecting rod or by
gearing of any convenient description, so that the said shaft and set or sets of
discs operate at the same time as the letter-press machine. The webs or bands
of paper can be fed either at the discs or at the letter-press machine end, if to
the former the numbers will be imprinted first and the letter-press afterwards,
and if to the latter the letter-press impression will be first made and the
numbering afterwards.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Fraser, and George Duncan in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 29th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
FRASER, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Stationer, and GEORGE
DUNCAN, of the same Place, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Fraser and George Duncan, Her special license that we,
the said James Fraser and George Duncan, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Fraser and George
Duncan, 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 "IMPROVED Cox-
BINED MACHINERY FOR PRINTING," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said James Fraser and George Duncan, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our. or their, or one of our or 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 James
James Fraser and
Fraser and George
Duncan, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-

page_text: tained, in and by the roowing statement and accompanying
Drawings, that is to say:-
mustrative
The object of our Invention is to provide machinery by which bankers'
cheques, counter slips, pass tickets, and other like documents which require
to be numbered in consecutive order can be finished as regards printing at
one operation, that is, to say, by passing webs or sheets of paper or other thin
material through our improved machinery once only, both the required letter-
press and consecutive number or numbers are imprinted thereon, thus saving
the labour and. expense of passing the webs or sheets twice or oftener through
machinery as hitherto has been necessary. For this purpose we combine with
any ordinary or suitable letter-press printing machine one or more set or sets
of discs numbered on their peripheries the same as or similar to the discs used
in paging machines, the said set or sets of discs is or are placed on a shaft
which is coupled to the printing machine by a connecting rod or by gearing of
any convenient description so that the said shaft and set or sets of discs operate
at the same time as the letter-press machine. The. webs, or bands of paper
can be fed either at the discs or at the letter-press machine end, if to the
former the numbers will be imprinted first and the letters afterwards, and if
to the latter the letter-press impression will be first made.and the numbering
afterwards.
On the annexed Sheet of Drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are views in side elevation
and Figs. 3 and 4 views in end elevation of compact and convenient
machinery according to our Invention, whereto the paper is fed at the letter-
press end. The letter press or type matter is in this modification imprinted
first. In all the views like letters denote the same parts.
A, supporting frame; B, the first motion shaft with fast-and-loose pullies
b thereon; power from any available source is conveyed by a driving belt
to b, and such belt can be shifted on to either pulley from both sides of the
machine, the forked lever b' carried on A being provided for that purpose.
The first motion shaft B during rotation gives by the excentrics b recipro-
cating motion to the connecting rods b³, cross heads or slides b', and numbering
discs C, and circular rod or bar c. The cross heads or slides have guides
formed in the secondary lesser frame a. The numbering discs C have the
numerals formed on their peripheries, and operate substantially in the same
manner as in paging machines. One, two, or more of these discs are coupled
to act together so as to form a set, and impress the required number, whether
in one, two, or more places; in the Drawings six sets of two each as shewn.
To operate the said discs projecting levers c¹ secured on the rod or bar care
employed, and these levers during every double movement of c come into

page_text: contact with the ratchet wheels c³, and cause them and the numbering discs
to move round the required distance. To supply ink to C we place two
toothed quadrants c' on such bar or rod c; these work in the fixed racks c',
and carry the inking roller c³. Every time therefore c vibrates the inking
roller is made to move in one direction over the surface of the numeral or
numerals next in order to make an impression, and then back again over the
same surface, in this way the inking is well performed. The first motion
shaft drives the second motion shaft E by the toothed wheel bon the first
motion shaft, intermediate wheel d supported on the axis D and wheel e.
E during rotating causes by the excentrics e', the connecting rod e, cross heads
or slides e, the type or form carrying drum F to reciprocate or move up and
down. The crossheads or slides e" have guides formed in the secondary greater
frame a. The drum F it will be observed is formed with two flat surfaces
parallel to each other, one marked on the top, the other j' on the bottom;
our object in so forming it is to allow of the carrying of two forms or sets of
type, the one set to print on the down stroke on one side of the paper, and
the other on the up stroke on the other side thereof. To ink the form or
type use carriers f, disc-like in form, and in slots or brackets therein
support the ends of the ink roller shafts f. Each shaft carries two inking
rollers . The carriers are caused to make a partial revolution or move
intermittently on the axis of F, so that at about every half stroke one pair of
inking rollers passes over the type; and that the rollers may press with suffi-
cient force employ springs fled over f', and over pins in the ends of f.
Intermittent motion is given to fin the following manner:-A tappet e
carried by E acts on a lever G moving on a fixed centre g, and causes it to
vibrate. A friction roller g meets the tappet e'; the other end of G is
coupled to a connecting rod g', and this latter is jointed to a vibrating arm g,
which carries an impulse pallet supported at the back by a spring; the said
impulse pallet rests on a notched wheel g³, and as e, G, g, g', g, are caused
to vibrate the notched wheel gis impelled, and consequently moves a given
distance round each double stroke. A spring g' is employed to bring G and
the parts moving therewith back to their proper positions during the time e
is not in contact with g. On the same axle or shaft which carries there
is affixed a pitch wheel g, the chain g" whereof passes therefrom around a
boss formed on the outer end of one of the carriers f. By these parts the
inking of both type forms is effected at about each half stroke, and with the
object of inking effectually we use the curved surface of F as an ink distri-
butor and stationary skew pieces g. The inking rollers work against g',
and thereby are made to partake of a slight lateral motion at the time they

page_text: are passing over the drum; and that the intermittent motion of may be
regular and certain in the distance travelled we place on the boss of one of
the said discs a ratchet wheel f, and by a fixed stop catch P, which takes
into and prevents it travelling the full length of the stroke the movement
of the inking rollers to the desired point is made sure, and so also is the
stoppage of such rollers.
We will now proceed to describe the mechanism by which the paper is pro-
pelled or drawn through the machine. If are propelling wheels, the shaft h
whereof carries a toothed wheel ; this toothed wheel gears with another h
secured on the shaft h", whereon the smooth rollers are placed or fixed.
The rollers are free to rotate on or with their axis, and it is between these.
and II the paper is caught and drawn through. The "bite" or hold between
Hand can be augmented or diminished by bringing them nearer to ог
further from each other. Motion is given to h from the end of the first
motion shaft B by an excentric i, connecting rod i', rocking lever, pawl,
and ratchet wheel secured on h; is a notched wheel secured on h, and i
is a brake stop hinged at I, and formed with a tooth to fit into the notches
in and propel the paper the desired distance; is supported at its upper
end by an elastic ring or spring . And that the course which a band of paper
follows whilst passing through the above combined machine, both when (a) letter:
press printing has to be done on both sides of the paper and numbering on
one side, and (b) when letter-press and consecutive number printing have to
be done on the same side only may be clearly understood, we have indicated
the former in Fig. 1 by the letter u, and the latter in Fig. 2 by the letter v;
the arrows in both Figures shew the direction, antifriction rollers w being
used where necessary. is a moveable roller operated when required by a
lever y, the use whereof being to regulate the tension on the paper and
prevent overlapping during printing; z is a box with bearings for containing
and delivering the web or roll of paper; and although, as will be obvious to
any one acquainted with the manufacture of articles which require to be
printed with letter-press and consecutive numbers, the employment of webs,
rolls, or long lengths of paper is by far the most convenient and economical
mode of working, we would have it understood that our Invention extends to
printing and numbering on separate sheets fed by hand or otherwise, but
in this latter case the sheets would require to be fed with great regularity,
and a large number of tapes or their equivalents would be needed to carry
such sheets, besides grooves of the depth of the tapes would have to be cut
in the thrust bed.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and particularized

page_text: the same, we would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves. to
the mechanism herein-before described and shewn on the Drawings, nor to
any particular arrangement of parts or mechanism, as many modifications can
be made without departing from our said Invention. We may mention as
instances (1) that the letter-press printing machine might be at a distance
from the numbering machine, and (2) that the letter-press, type, and numbering
discs might act on the paper alternately the one after the other, instead of at
the same time as in the machine shewn on the Drawings.
What we claim as our Invention is, combining or arranging printing and
consecutive numbering machines, whereby to imprint at the same time or
in a conjoined operation on continuous webs or rolls or on a continuous supply
of paper the desired letter-press and consecutive numbers for the purpose set
forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Fraser and George Duncan,
have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Twenty-sixth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
In the presence of
JOHN'T. KING,
Patent Agent,
Liverpool.
JAMES.FRASER.
(L.S.J
GEORGE DUNCAN. (L.S.)
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