Improvements in Letterpress Printing and Numbering Machines.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 17th Aug., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letterpress Printing and Numbering Machines.
1, DAVID CARLAW, of 52 to 56 Ropework Lane, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Engineer
and Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as.
follows:-
My said invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the construction,
or the general arrangement and combination of the parts or mechanical motions of a
rotative or rotary letterpress printing and numbering machine, for printing drapers'
check books, railway and steamboat tickets or labels, and like printing and numbering
work, from thin or thick paper or millboard, or other prepared fabric for the purpose,
in the web or roll, and in which the short leaves, tickets, or parts have frequently to
be printed on both sides and numbered in series or sequentially and then perforated,
or cut at the required divisions, or widths and lengths, all to be delivered from the
machines; numbered in continuous sets of 1 to 50, or 1 to 100, or other series of
numbers, according to the size of book or sets required to be put up together; and
all printed and numbered by these improvements upon and formed out of a continuous
traversing web while passing through this new rotating cylinder printing machine
all in contradistinction to the intermittent moving and stopping machines, and
mechanical motions, heretofore used for printing and numbering this class of check
book and ticket work; which improvements will enable this work to be done more
than twice as fast, with little or no more labour on the part of the attendants than
heretofore.
The nature and novelty of my invention consist all as follows:-According to one
arrangement, the web of paper or other medium to be printed would be mounted in
a roll at the entering end of the machine and fed or guided and drawn in and passed
at a uniform rate through between one, two, or more rotating hollow printing
cylinders, or tubular rollers and pressure or platen roller over or under cach, and
covered with yielding or elastic "tympan" substance to give a good impression on
on the said rotating
the fabric from the type and numbering appliances fitted
hollow printing cylinders or rollers. The fabric would preferably be passed
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page_text: horizontally straight through between and tangentially to these rollers mounted on
their journal spindles in bearings on the main side framing of the machine nearly
breast high or at a height suitable for the attendants to see that the printing and
numbering was done properly on the upper and lower sides of the fabric. The
printing cylinders or rollers would preferably be made of a hollow tubular form
with removable ends and journal shafts which rotate in bearings in the side
frames as before mentioned, and they would all be driven by gearing at one uniform
circumferential speed and draw through the paper between them over its guide
rollers, some of which might be made movable between the upper and lower printing
cylinders to lengthen and shorten the fabric between these rollers to differentiate the
position of the letterpress and numbers in their desired proper position on the upper
and lower sides of the fabric respectively to suit the size of the tickets; the circum-
ference of the printing roller on which the type, and numbering mechanism are
mounted would be as near as possible the length of each complete ticket, so as to
print a ticket at each revolution, or it might be made of a size to print a number
of tickets, as two, three, or four in the circumference or revolution. The fabric
would be printed and numerically numbered to suit for two, three, four, or more
widths or continuous strips of tickets in the width of the fabric, as desired; and after
passing through the printing and numbering rollers, the web would be made to pass
through between transverse perforating cylinders and longitudinal perforating or
cutting discs, which would deliver the strips of tickets cut off in lengths or sets of
fifty or one hundred according as numbered and as desired for being collated into the
said required sizes of books or sets of tickets.
The continuous printing of the letterpress would be effected by forming a segmental
stereotyped or electrotyped plate of the letterpress required, and securing this on the
outer surface of the tubular printing cylinder in the proper circumferential position
to print this on each ticket or part of the ticket of each strip of tickets, so that as
many plates would be secured on the circumference along the hollow cylinders as there
are sets or strips of tickets to be printed.
The numbering of each strip of tickets in continuous sets of fifty is by these
improvements effected by a novel construction and arrangement of two small numbering
narrow discs or wheels and their ratchet wheels and pawls and fittings mounted in a
light double plate frame secured and fitted within the hollow printing cylinder, all as
will hereinafter be described. And for the continuous printing of tickets in sets of
one hundred, an analogous novel construction and arrangement of three narrow discs
or wheels and their ratchet wheels, pawls, and fittings is similarly mounted within the
hollow printing cylinder, all as will hereinafter be described. In both cases the
numbering discs or wheels would all be made of the same diameter and divided
specially in equal divisions different in each disc, baving projecting printing teeth at
these divisions, with the numbers cut on them, or the absence of printing teeth at
these divisions where numbers are not to be printed, all as will hereinafter be explained.
Each disc has an actuating ratchet wheel secured on its one side with a tooth corre-
sponding to each division, and a spring lever moving ratchet pawl mounted at one side
of the plate frame, so as to actuate each ratchet wheel and bring the particular tooth
of each disc in one radial line at the part where they print the numbers on the fabric
through a narrow recess formed from the inside of the tubular printing cylinder
rounded off inside, so as to allow these printing wheels to turn inside clear of the
tubular barrel, and allow the numbers on the discs to print through the narrow recess
in the printing cylinder as it comes under the paper and the platen or pressure roller,
and be inked, after the discs have passed round from the paper and shifted to the new
numbering position, just before they come up to the paper again to print the next
number by an arrangement of inking roller or equivalent inking surface brought into
action against the printing surface of the numbers as they come round. The ratchet
wheels have also spring lever ratchet detents mounted on the opposite side of the
ratchet wheels to their actuating pawls, so as to hold and retain the ratchet wheels
and their number printing dises in the said printing position to which they are set by
the pawls. But many of these details, and the mechanism for actuating the discs may

page_text: be considerably varied without affecting the essential novel features of the invention;
and the numbering discs may be turned either in the direction the printing cylinder
is rotating, or in the opposite direction.
Referring to the two disc numbering arrangement for printing the tickets as stated
continuously in sets of from 1 to 50, the first numbering disc on the right hand side
giving the units, is divided into ten printing divisions, and projections having
numbers 1 to 9 and a cipher on the tenth, while the second disc which prints the tens
on the left of the former is divided into twelve divisions and with ten teeth on its
ratchet wheel, five divisions in each half of the circumference of the disc printing with
a blank in the centre, between each five divisions, and its pawl turns this disc one
division for each revolution of the unit disc. The actuating pawls of the respective
ratchet wheels and discs are both fulcrumed on one stud pin in the outer end of a
short spring lever oscillating on a centre below the ratchet wheels, and so that this
lever can be oscillated, so as to turn the ratchet wheels by a light spindle passing out
through the cylinder, with a short actuating lever on it below the pawl lever, and a
lever with an antifriction roller or other equivalent on the outer end of this spindle
working in a cam groove or over a cam so as to actuate the pawl lever at each
revolution of the printing roller, just after the numbering discs have printed the web
of paper, a spring bringing back the pawl lever after each action to its normal position
against a fixed stop ready for the next action of shifting the pawls and the numbering
discs, and the action of the mechanism for giving the numbers 1. to 50 with these discs
is as follows Each revolution of the printing roller through the cam and first
ratchet turns the first or unit disc one number at each action and revolution, and at
each revolution of the unit disc as the cipher comes round and prints, the pawl falls
into a deeper ratchet tooth of this disc which allows the pawl of the second wheel to
fall into one tooth of its ratchet wheel, and so turns this wheel of the tens one
division, each revolution of the unit wheel as it brings the cipher into the printing
position, and does cach revolution for five times, that is printing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50.
In which latter position, that is after the 50 is printed, and the 1 is again to he brought
into position for printing the first unit of the set, the second pawl takes into a raised
tooth on its ratchet wheel, and brings the blank space into the printing position, at
the same time as the one on the unit printing wheel was brought into printing
position by its ratchet wheel, there being a raised tooth for each blank space and half
revolution of the left hand disc printing the tens, and this blank space remains until
a complete revolution of the unit wheel takes place again, when the ratchet pawl of
the unit wheel falls into its deep tooth and brings round the left hand dise one tooth
to print the tens successively as before explained from 1 up to 50 each time the cipher
comes up on the unit wheel. A light spring on the second pawl always brings it
against à stop on the pawl of the first, wheel which keeps it out of gear with its
ratchet wheel except when the first pawl falls into the deep tooth before referred to at
each time the ninth unit comes round, so that it shifts only one division each
revolution of the unit wheel, and is free to rise over its high ratchet tooth each time
the fifth division of its disc printing the tens comes round to bring the blank space
into the printing position; in this way the mechanism goes on printing tickets in
continuous series of 1 to 50.
Referring to the three disc numbering arrangement for printing the tickets con-
tinuously in sets of from 1 to 100, the first numbering unit disc and its ratchet actuating
mechanism is fitted and acts all substantially the same as in the arrangement for
printing in series from 1 to 50, but the second or tens numbering disc is divided into
eleven equal divisions, with ten projecting teeth numbered 1 to 9 and a cipher, in the
tenth tooth and with a blank space in the eleventh division and a raised tooth on its
ratchet wheel for this space. And the third disc for printing the hundreds is divided
into ten divisions with alternate printing projecting teeth and blanks with a figure 1
on each projection, and fitted with a ratchet wheel and spring pawl with a high tooth
on every alternate division of its ratchet wheel for the blank spaces. Thus the action
is as follows:-The second and the third wheels remaining with their blank spaces
in the printing position, the unit wheel is turned to bring its printing teeth 1 to 9 into

page_text: action at each revolution of the printing cylinder. In this position its pawl falls
into the deep tooth, and causes the pawl of the second wheel to bring its figure 1
into printing position as the cipher on the unit disc comes into printing position,
when the unit wheel has made a complete revolution and brought the cipher again
into position it brings the number 2 of the second wheel into printing position, and
so on each revolution of the unit wheel until the first and second wheels print 99, when
by the next movement of the pawls both ratchet wheels and discs are turned to bring
the two ciphers of the first and second discs of the units and tens into printing position,
and the pawl of the second disc falling into a deep cut tooth on its ratchet wheel,
allows the pawl of the third ratchet wheel to take into one of its low teeth and turn
it one division to bring one of its projecting teeth into position to print 1 making
the 100, and thus printing the 100 successively on the web of fabric. The next
movement of the unit ratchet wheel which brings the 1 into printing position for the
new series causes the pawls of the ratchet wheels of the second and third printing discs
to take on to raised projecting teeth in their printing wheels, and turn them both to
their blank positions, where they would stand until the cipher of the first unit wheel
comes into printing position, so that the deep tooth in the ratchet wheel of its disc
would bring number 1 into position again on the second disc, and so on until 99 was
printed again, and the ciphers on the first and second printing disc were again brought
into printing position, with one of the projecting teeth of the third disc in line so as
to print the 100 again successively and continuously on the web of paper, as described
in reference to the first 100.
.
Two, three, four, or more of these arrangements of numbering discs and their
narrow plate frames would be secured within the hollow cylinders each within their
recesses through the cylinder, in the positions and according to the number of strips
of tickets to be printed in the width of the web passing between the printing roller
and the platen pressing roller.
The numbering projecting surfaces of the discs projecting [through the slit in the
tubular printing cylinder would be inked just before they come round on the paper
by ordinary automatic inking arrangements of rollers or other equivalent used for
rotating printing cylinders, and at the same time ink the segmental stereotype plates
secured on the circumference of the cylinders.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter-press Printing and Numbering Machines.
1, DAVID CARLAW, of 52 to 56 Ropework Lane, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Engineer
and Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying
two Sheets of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say -
My said Invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the construction,
or the general arrangement and combination of the parts, or mechanical motions, of a
rotative or rotary letter-press printing and numbering machine, for printing draper's
check books, railway and steam boat tickets or labels, and like printing and number-
ing work, from thin or thick paper or millboard, or other prepared fabric for the
purpose, in the web or roll, and in which the short leaves, tickets or parts have
frequently to be printed on both sides and numbered in series or sequentially and then
perforated or cut at the required divisions, or widths and lengths, all to be delivered
from the machines, numbered in continuous sets of 1 to 50, or 1 to 100, or other
series of numbers, according to the size of book or sets required to be put up together;
and all printed and numbered by these improvements upon and formed out of a
continuous traversing web while passing through this new rotating cylinder printing
machine; all in contra distinction to the intermittent moving and stopping machines,
and mechanical motions, heretofore used for printing and numbering this class of
check book and ticket work; which improvements will enable this work to be done
more than twice as fast, with little or no more labour on the part of the attendants
than heretofore.
"
The nature and novelty of my invention consist all as follows:-According to one
arrangement, the web of paper or other medium to be printed would be mounted in a
roll, or roll form, at the entering end of the machine, and fed or guided and drawn in
and passed at a uniform rate through between one, two, or more rotating hollow
printing cylinders or tubular rollers, and pressure or platen roller over or under the
paper and each printing roller, and covered with yielding or clastic tympan
substance to give a good impression on the fabric from the type and numbering
appliances fitted on the said rotating hollow printing cylinders or rollers. The fabric
would preferably be passed horizontally straight through between and tangentially to
these rollers mounted on their journal spindles in bearings on the main side framing
of the machine nearly breast high or at a height suitable for the attendants to see that
the printing and numbering was done properly on the upper and lower sides of the
fabric. The printing cylinders or rollers would preferably be made of a hollow tubular
form with removable ends and journal shafts which rotate in bearings in the side
frames as before mentioned, and they would all be driven by gearing at one uniform
circumferential speed and draw through the paper between them over its guide

page_text: rollers some of which might be made movable between the upper and lower printing
cylinders to lengthen and shorten the fabric between these rollers to differentiate the
position of the letterpress and numbers in their desired proper position on the upper
and lower sides of the fabric respectively to suit the size of the tickets; the circum-
ference of the printing roller on which the type, and numbering mechanism are
mounted would be as near as possible the length of each complete ticket, so as to print
a ticket at each revolution, or it might be made of a size to print a number of tickets,
as two, three, or four in the circumference or revolution. The fabric would be printed
and numerically numbered to suit for two, three, four, or more widths or continuous
strips of tickets in the width of the web of fabric to be printed as desired; and after
passing through between the plates and printing rollers and numbering rollers, the
web would be made to pass through between transverse perforating cylinders and
longitudinal perforating or cutting discs, which would deliver the strips of tickets cut
off in lengths or sets of fifty or one hundred according as numbered and as desired
for being collated into the said required sizes of hooks or sets of tickets.
The continuous printing of the letter press would be effected by forming a segmental
stereotyped or electrotyped plate of the letterpress required, and securing this on the
outer surface of the tubular printing cylinder in the proper circumferential position to
print this on each ticket or part of the ticket of each strip of tickets, so that as many
plates would be secured on the circumference along cach hollow cylinder as there are
sets or strips of tickets to be printed by it.
The numbering of each strip of tickets in continuous sets of fifty is by these
improvements effected by a novel construction and arrangement of two small number-
ing narrow discs or wheels and their ratchet wheels and pawls and fittings mounted in
light double plate frame secured and fitted within the hollow printing cylinder all as
will hereinafter be described. And for continuous printing of tickets in sets of one
hundred, an analogous novel construction and arrangement of three narrow discs, or
wheels and their ratchet wheels, pawls, and fittings is similarly mounted within the
hollow printing cylinder, all as will hereinafter be described. In both cases the
numbering discs or wheels would all be made of the same diameter and divided
specially in equal divisions different in each disc having projecting printing teeth at
these divisions with the numbers cut on them, or the absence of printing teeth at these
divisions where numbers are not to be printed, as will hereinafter be explained. Each
dise has an actuating ratchet wheel secured on its one side with a tooth corresponding
to each division, and a spring lever moving ratchet pawl mounted at one side of the
plate frame, so as to actuate each ratchet wheel and bring the particular tooth of each
disc in one radial line at the part where they print the numbers on the fabric through a
narrow recess formed from the inside of the tubular printing cylinder rounded off
inside so as to allow these printing wheels to turn inside clear of the tubular barrel,
and allow the numbers on the discs to print through the narrow recess in the printing
cylinder as it comes under the paper and the platen or pressure roller, and be inked
after the discs have been passed round from the paper and shifted to the new number-
ing position, just before they come up to the paper again to print the next number by
an arrangement of inking roller or equivalent inking surface brought into action
against the printing surface of the numbers as they come round. The ratchet wheels
have also spring lever ratchet detents mounted on the opposite side of the ratchet
wheels to their actuating pawls, so as to hold and retain the ratchet wheels and their
number printing discs in the said printing position to which they are set by the pawis.
But many of these details, and the mechanism for actuating the discs may be consider-
ably varied without affecting the essential novel features of the invention; and the
numbering discs may be turned either in the direction the printing cylinder is rotating,
or in the opposite direction.
Referring to the two disc numbering arrangement for printing the tickets as stated
continuously in sets of from 1 to 50, the first numbering disc on the right hand side
giving the units, is divided into ten printing divisions and projections having numbers 1.
to 9 and a cipher on the tenth, while the second disc which prints the tens on the left
of the former is divided into twelve divisions, and with ten teeth on its ratchet wheel,

page_text: five divisions in each half of the circumference of the disc, printing with a blank in
the centre, between each five divisions, and its pawl turns this disc one division for
each revolution of the unit disc. The actuating pawls of the respective ratchet wheels
and discs are both fulcrumed on one stud pin in the outer end of a short spring lever
oscillating on a centre below the ratchet wheels, and so that this lever can be oscillated,
.so as to turn the ratchet wheels by a light spindle passing out through the cylinder,
with a short actuating lever on it below the pawl lever, and a lever with an antifriction
roller or other equivalent on the outer end of this spindle working in a cam groove or
over a cam, so as to actuate the pawl lever at each revolution of the printing roller,
just after the numbering discs have printed the web of paper, a spring bringing back
the pawl lever after each action to its normal position against a fixed stop ready for
the next action of shifting the pawls and the numbering discs, and the action of the
mechanism for giving the numbers 1 to 50 with these discs is as follows:-
Each revolution of the printing roller through the cam and first ratchet turns
the first or unit disc one number at each action and revolution of the unit
disc as the cipher comes round and prints, the pawl falls into a deeper
ratchet tooth of this disc.which allows the pawl of the second wheel to fall into one
tooth of its ratchet wheel, and so turns this wheel of the tens one division, each
revolution of the unit wheel as it brings the cipher into the printing position, and does
each revolution for five times, that is printing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. In which latter
position, that is after the 50 is printed, and the I is again to be brought into position
for printing the first unit of the set, the second pawl takes into a raised tooth on its
ratchet wheel, and brings the blank space into the printing position at the same time
as the one on the unit printing wheel is brought into position by its ratchet wheel,
there being a raised tooth for each blank space and half revolution of the left hand
disc printing the tens, and this blank space remains until a complete revolution of the
unit wheel takes place again, when the ratchet pawl of the unit wheel falls into its
deep tooth and brings round the left hand disc one tooth to print the tens successively
as before explained from 1 up to 50 each time the cipher comes up on the unit wheel.
A light spring on the second pawl always brings it against a stop on the pawl of the
first wheel which keeps it out of gear with its ratchet wheel except when the first
pawl falls into the deep tooth before referred to at each time the ninth unit comes
round, so that it shifts only one division each revolution of the unit wheel, and is free
to rise over its high ratchet tooth each time the fifth division of its disc printing the
tens comes round to bring the blank space into the printing position, in this way the
mechanism goes on printing tickets in continuous series of 1 to 50. Or otherwise by
a slight modification this two numbering wheel arrangement may be made to print
from 1 to 100 of the numbers in succession.
Referring to the three disc numbering arrangement for printing the tickets con-
tinuously in sets of from 1 to 100), the first numbering unit disc and its ratchet
actuating mechanism is fitted and acts all substantially the same as in the arrangement
for printing in series from 1 to 50, but the second or tens numbering disc is divided
into eleven equal divisions, with ten projecting teeth numbered 1 to 9 and a cipher, in
the tenth tooth and with a blank space in the eleventh division and a raised tooth on
its ratchet wheel for this space. And the third disc for printing the hundreds is
divided into ten divisions with alternate printing projecting teeth and blanks with a
figure 1 on each projection, and fitted with a ratchet wheel and spring pawl with a
high tooth on every alternate division of its ratchet wheel for the blank spaces. Thus
the action is as follows:-The second and the third wheels remaining with their blank
spaces in the printing position, the unit wheel is turned to bring its printing teeth
I to 9 into action at each revolution of the printing cylinder. In this position its
pawl falls into the deep tooth, and causes the pawl of the second wheel to bring its
figure 1 into printing position as the cipher on the unit disc comes into printing
position, when the unit wheel has made a complete revolution and brought the cipher
again into position it brings the number 2 of the second wheel into printing position,
and so on each revolution of the unit wheel until the first and second wheels print 99,
when by the next movement of the pawls both ratchet wheels and discs are turned to

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bring the two ciphers of the first and second discs of the units and tens into printing
position, and the pawl of the second disc falling into a deep cut tooth on its ratchet
wheel, allows the pawl of the third ratchet wheel to take into one of its low teeth and
turn it one division to bring one of its projecting teeth into position to print 1, making
the 100, and thus printing the 100 successively on the web of fabric. The next
movement of the unit ratchet wheel which brings the 1 into printing position for the
new series, causes the pawls of the ratchet wheels of the second and third printing
discs to take on to raised projecting teeth in their printing wheels, and turn them both
to their blank positions where they would stand until the cipher of the first unit wheel
comes into printing position, so that the deep tooth in the ratchet wheel of its disc
would bring number 1 into position again on the second disc, and so on until 99 was
printed again, and the ciphers on the first and second printing discs were again
brought into printing position, with one of the projecting teeth of the third disc
in line so as to print the 100 again successively and continuously on the web of paper,
as described in reference to the first 100.
Two, three, four, or more of these arrangements of numbering discs and their
narrow plate frames would be secured within the hollow cylinders each within their
recesses through the cylinder, in the positions and according to the number of strips
of tickets to be printed in the width of the web passing between the printing roller
and the platen pressing roller.
The numbering projecting surfaces of the discs projecting through the slit in the
tubular printing cylinder would be inked just before they come round on the paper by
ordinary automatic inking arrangements of rollers or other equivalent used for rotating
printing cylinders, and at the same time ink the seginental stereotype plates secured
on the circumference of the cylinders.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying the
same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended
Two explanatory sheets of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figure 1 on Sheet 1 is a
longitudinal side elevation of a rotary letterpress printing and numbering machine,
for printing the leaves of Drapers' check books or tickets in sequence on a web of
paper, and constructed in accordance with, and illustrating one general arrangement
of my improvements and mode of carrying same into practice. Figures 2 and 3 are
transverse sectional elevations as taken on the lines 1--- 1 and 22 respectively of
Figure 1. Figure 4 is a transverse section of the printing cylinder or roller B, carrying
the numbering disc mechanism D, b, b, also showing the upper part of the under
platen roller C, which it acts against. Figure 5 is a corresponding longitudinal
sectional elevation of one end of the roller B₁, showing one set of the numbering disc
mechanism D, b, b', in edge view and the cam D, secured to the side frame D for
actuating same. And Figure 6 is an end view of this roller B₁ to show the cam D¹
and its operating lever D which actuate the numbering discs b, b'; and Figure 7 is
an end view of the numbering mechanism showing the first or unit numbering diseb
and the actuating pawls c, c¹, and operating levers c², D, all as detached from the
cylinder B. Figure 8 is a side and edge view of the numbering disc and its
ratchet wheel as slightly modified from that shown in Figures 4 to 7 to print
numbers from 1 to 100. Figure 9 on Sheet 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of
the delivery part of the machine shown in Figure 1 to an enlarged scale, showing the
cutting, punching and paper delivery rollers and bands and mechanism of the machine.
Figure 10 is a transverse sectional elevation showing the transverse cutting and
punching rollers E¹, E², and mechanism detached, and Figure 11 is a corresponding
end view to Figure 10; while Figure 12 is a sectional end view, all these detail views
Figures 4 to 12 being shown to an enlarged scale from that shown in the general
views Figures 1 to 3. Figure 13 shows a row of three of the sheets or leaves a¹ of a
Drapers check book as printed numbered, perforated, and delivered out of the web of
paper a in this machine. Figures 14 and 15 show end sectional views of a printing
roller B, and numbering disc mechanism D, 6, 61, 62, and actuating pawls c', cl,
and
and Das suitable for the three disc arrangement for printing from 1 to 100 ;
levers

page_text: Figure 16 showing the discs in side or edge view. In these Figures, the direction of
motion of the printing perforating and other cylinders or rollers and numbering wheels
is indicated by arrows, and the direction of motion of the web of paper through the
machine is indicated by darts.
Referring to the general arrangement of the machine or mechanism shown in
Figures 1 to 3 on Sheet 1, and 9 to 13, on Sheet 2, the working mechanism is all
carried on two main lower side frames A, A, secured together by cross stays or bars A¹,
and preferably having a supplementary frame A2 composed of two side frames secured
together by cross stays A carrying the bush bearings and working spindles of the
printing and other rollers and mechanism, all bolted portably at A3 on the top of the
lower frames A, A, at a proper height for the attendants to see the paper passing
through the machine and to see the work as it is printed. The web of paper a or
other medium to be printed is mounted in a roll or roll form at a¹ on a spindle a
carried in bearing brackets at a² on the lower end frames A, A, at the entering end of
the machine and paced to give tension to the web of paper by a cord a³ passed over
a pulley on the spindle a with weights a. The web a is fed and drawn in over
guide rollers a and passed at a uniform rate over or between one, two, three, or more
rotating hollow printing cylinders or tubular rollers B1, B2, B3³, each carried on
spindles B and shifting bush bearings B", in the frames A, and pressure or platen or
blanket rollers C1, C2, each carried on spindles working in stationary bush
bearings C in the frames A2, A2, working over under or against the paper a and
cach printing roller B1 B2 or B³. Each platen roller C, C³, is covered with yielding
or clastic "tympan "substance or blanket (3 secured on the surface by a cross bar
and groove at to give a good impression on the web of paper or fabric a
from the type and numbering wheels b, 6, 62, fitted within or on the said rotating
hollow printing cylinders or rollers B1 to B3. The fabric a to be printed and numbered
is passed straight and tangentially on to and between these printing and blanket
rollers driven through a chain of spur wheels G on their spindles Cat the back of the
machine from the spindle C of the tympan roller C¹ by a belt from any prime moving
shaft, passed over a first motion fast and loose pulley d on the spindle C, as seen more
particularly in Figures 1 and 2; or the belt pulleys might be on a counter first
motion shaft below the shaft C, and geared to it by spur wheels.
The printing
cylinders or rollers B1, B2, B3, are preferably made of a hollow tubular form with
removable ends and journal shafts B secured in them, as seen particularly in Figure 2,
which rotate in movable bush bearings B", preferably fitted with yielding springs and
tightening screws B in the side frames A2, as before mentioned, and they are all
driven by their said gearing at one uniform circumferential speed and draw through
the paper a between them over its guide rollers a. The circumference of the printing
rollers B1, B2, and B³, on which the type, and numbering mechanism is mounted is as
near as possible the length of each complete ticket, so as to print a ticket a* at each
revolution, as shown in Figure 13 but it might be made of a size to print a number of
tickets, as two, three, or four in the circumference or revolution. The fabric a is
printed and numerically numbered in this machine to suit for three widths or continuous
strips or sheets of tickets in the width of the web of fabric to be printed, each set
being printed with the same number in succession from 1 to 50 or 1 to 100, thus
delivering three sets of sheets of these numbers in a regular successive manner, as
seen particularly in Figure 13 which shows the fiftieth Sheet as printed; but the
machine and cylinders might be made to take in a greater or less number of tickets
or sheets in the width as desired. After passing through between said platen and
printing rollers, and numbering rollers, the web is made to pass through between
transverse perforating cylinders E1, E2, on spindles E carried in bush bearings E" in
the side frames A2, A2, as seen particularly in Figure 1, and in 9 to 11 in enlarged
scales. These cylinders E1, E2, are preferably made in the form of discs or pulleys
secured on their shafts E at some distance apart, their spindles E being actuated by a
continuation of the train of spur wheels G, at, the back of the machine. The under
roller E is fitted with three long transverse serrated blades e el working in radial
grooves in their pulleys E' each blade e being actuated by a radial moving bow arm ell
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page_text: at its ends working in guides E3, and actuated by adjusting cam rollors e¹¹ carried in
brackets E bolted to each side frame A A, of the machine under the roller E, all so
as to cause each serrated blade e, e!, to pass up into a fine slit in cach of the
corresponding three long traverse wood bars e² as they come round in the roller E¹, in
which they are divided and securely fitted to exactly meet and receive the blades e, e¹,
as they come round. Each blade e, e', is gripped between plates, and drawn into its
recess by spiral springs e³, except when pushed out by their actuating arms and cam
rollers e¹¹, e, all as seen particularly in Figures 9 to 12.
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One of the serrated bars e is made with fine teeth, so that at each revolution it
really cuts the paper through right across the whole web and set of three sheets a of
the paper at the ends d* seen in Figure 13. And the other two serrated blades at e¹
cach time they come round perforate the paper and sheets, as indicated at ex in
Figure 13. To give a certain amount of grip on each side of the paper on the wood
bars e², while it is being cut by the blades e the slit metal block or blocks e¹ is
preferably fitted with spiral springs e to be slightly pressed out beyond the surface of
their rollers E2, as seen particularly in Figure 12. The paper a after being so
perforated transversely, is conducted over a set of fingers f mounted over and between
the rollers E on a transverse oscillating spindle f¹ and carried between two conducting
sets of hands or tapes F1, F2, passed over rollers and spindles F, mounted on the
delivery side of the rollers E, E, in brackets f³ secured to the side frames A2 A2.
These bands F, F, are carried over conducting and driving rollers and spindles F1, F³,
near the delivery end of the machine as seen particularly in Figures 3 and 9. The
paper between these bands F1, F2, is carried so as to be cut longitudinally, as indicated
at gx in Figure 13 by four sets or pairs of cutting discs g', g², mounted respectively
on the spindles g, ", carried in bearings in the side frames A2, A2, and actuated by a
train of spur wheels y³ on studs secured on the inside of the front frame A as shown
particularly in Figure 3, and actuated by a spur wheel on the spindle E of the
perforating roller E, as seen in Figure 2, and as all dotted-in in Figures 1 and 9. The
spindle E of this roller E2 also by a pair of small bevel wheels h at its back end,
actuates an angled shaft H carried in bearing brackets H' secured to the back frame A2,
which by bevel wheels actuate the spindle I of a set of rollers and set of bands i,
passed over a driving roller and spindle F above it. Both spindles I and F of
these bands i are carried in bearings in the upper part of the frames A2, A3, the latter
spindle by small spur wheels jactuates the upper spindle and rollers F³, of the endless
band F, which carries the paper a with the bands F, so as to deliver them on to the
set of bands ii where they are wound in sets of four over each other, while a fifth is
delivered simultaneously as it is fed forward as will hereinafter be explained. V shaped
guide fingers 3, conduct the paper over the roller F3 on to the bands i; and other
two sets of endless bands and passed over pulleys k¹ and conduct the printed and
cut sheets round the bands i, and the downward delivery part of the bands F¹, passed
over the delivery rollers F and 12 of the bands and i, the spindles of which are
driven by a train of spur wheels shown dotted-in in Figure 9 from a spur wheel
on the spindle I of the rollers I. These rollers and F, and bands and deliver
the sheets between two endless bands and k¹ passed round rollers K and K' mounted
on spindles in a delivery rocking frame K2, reciprocated by rods and levers k² k³,
by a five ratchet toothed cam secured on the same spindle H2, as a five notched
circular disc cam mounted on the inside of the back frame A2, and actuated by a
screw wheel H from a screw H¹, mounted on the angled shaft H outside the back
frame A² so as to rotate these cams and once for every five revolutions of the
shaft H, and perforating rollers E', E2, all as seen particularly in Figures 3 and 9.
The can for reciprocating the delivery rocking frame K may be mounted on a
separate spindle from the cam k³, and actuated to make only one revolution for five
of the printing cylinders B1, B2, B3, and have only one tooth or rise in the
circumference, for actuating the lever 3 of the rocking delivery frame K. A double
armed lever m is so mounted on a short, spindle m¹ that an antifriction roller m¹ on
its lower arm, works on the periphery of the notched circular cam 25, and through
a rod m² connected at its near end to the upper arm of the lever, m, and spindle m',

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and at the other end to a rocking shaft on which are mounted two sets of the paper
guiding fingers m³, m, all so that as the roller m is passing over the plain part of
the can it causes five sets of the paper sheets as printed, to be guided successively
between the bands i and k over each other on to the endless bands i, and as each notch
comes round in the cam the roller m falls into it and shifts the guiding fingers m³
outwards, as dotted-in in Figure 9, so as to deliver the whole five sheets laid over
each other, on the bands i as they come round between the band F', and the bands
and deliver them in a set through the rollers F, and in between the bands k, k¹,
the delivery reciprocating frame K, which at the same instant, is by the raised part of
the cam, caused to assume the dotted position shown in Figures 1 and 9 by its
moving cam and levers 2, 3, io deliver each five sheets at once, all collated or
arranged in sequence over each other on to the angled trough part L' of the receiving
sliding or moving table L mounted mounted by slides or otherwise on brackets L on the
delivery end of the machine and side frame A A. As each set of sequentially
numbered five sheets a* are so delivered very quickly into one trough I, the
attendant shifts the frame L laterally in its slide brackets L², to one side, so that
while removing one five sets delivered, the next five sets are being delivered into a
trough L' at the opposite side of the table I, as shown in Figure 1, when the table L
can then be shifted in the reverse direction to remove the sets in succession alternately
and successively as they are delivered from opposite sides of the table L thus enabling
the sheets or tickets ax to be removed in sets while they are being printed at a very
high speed as shown more particularly in figure 1.
The paper a to be numbered and printed is passed first in this example and
arrangement of the mechanism and numbering and printing rollers B1, B2, B³, with
the back of the paper, on to the first numbering roller B¹, and then round over and
under the blanket roller C, so as to get the first and second sets of successive numbers
of 1 to 50 or 1 to 100, printed on the back of the paper, three sets in the width, as
shown dotted-in at the lower part of Figure 13, by three sets of the numbering
mechanism shown fitted within small cases or frames D, shown in section within the
roller B' in Figure 2, and in detail in Figures 4 and 5, and so that the numbering
discs,, project through segmental recesses at D', in the roller B' so as to print the
paper passing through between it and the tympan roller C, the roller B² being formed
and fitted substantially the same as B', only having the numbering mechanism placed
or divided so as to print the second set of numbers on the back in the proper place as
indicated in Figure 13 with a transverse perforated division ex between these numbers,
so as to leave the first set of numbers stitched in the book, and be able to tear off the
upper two parts of the sheets ax with the numbers on it for use. The paper from the
first tympan roller C2, with the face or front of the paper upwards, with the third
numbering and letter press printing roller B³ over it, so as to print the third set of
numbers, and the letterpress and lines of money columns in the upper parts of the
sheets on this front or upper side of the paper, as seen particularly in Figures 9 and 13.
The numbering mechanism D, b, b, as also the segmental stereotype plate B4, is shown
in the section of the roller B³ in Figure 9.
The continuous printing of the letterpress is effected by forming the segmental
stereotype or electrotyped plate B₁ of the letterpress required, and securing this on
the outer surface of the tubular printing cylinder B3 within a groove in the proper
circumferential position to print this on each sheet or ticket or part of the sheet of
each strip of tickets, as indicated in the upper part of Figure 13, so that as many
plates would be secured on the circumference along the hollow cylinder as there are
sets or strips of tickets to be printed by it, that is three in this case, as shown in
Figure 13.
The numbering discs or wheels band b² for printing from 1 to 50 or 1 to 100
are all made of the same diameter and divided specially in equal divisions different in
each disc, having projecting printing teeth at these divisions with the numbers cut on
their projecting printing faces, or the absence of printing teeth at these divisions
where numbers are not to be printed. Each disc or has an actuating ratchet
wheel 1, 6111, or 63 secured on its one side, with a tooth corresponding to each

page_text: division; and a spring lever moving ratchet pawl c, c¹, c¹¹ mounted at one side of the
plate frame D on the free end of a spring actuating lever e² fulcrumed on a stud c³ at
the other, so as to actuate each ratchet wheel and bring the particular tooth of each
disc in one radial line at the part where they print the numbers on the fabric through
a narrow recess D formed from the inside of the tubular printing cylinders B1, B2, B3,
rounded off inside, so as to allow these printing wheels to turn inside clear of the
tubular case of the cylinder and allow the numbers on the discs to project and print
through the narrow recess at D in the printing cylinder as it comes on the paper
between it and the platen or pressure roller C, and be inked after the dises have
passed round from the paper and shifted to the new numbering position, just before
they come up to the paper again to print the next number, by an arrangement of
inking roller or rollers or equivalent inking surface brought into action against the
printing surface of the numbers as they come round, all as will hereinafter he
described. The ratchet wheels 6, 11, or 63 have also spring lever ratchet detents
mounted on the opposite side of the ratchet wheels to their actuating pawls c, c', c¹¹,
so as to hold and retain the ratchet wheels and their number printing discs in the
said printing position to which they are set by their moving pawls.
Referring to the detail views Figures 4 to 7, the numbering of each strip of
tickets in continuous sets of fifty is by these improvements effected by a novel con-
struction and arrangement of two small numbering narrow dises or wheels b, b¹ and
their ratchet wheels 61, 62, and respective actuating pawls c, c', and fittings, mounted
in a light double plate frame D secured and fitted within each hollow printing
cylinder B1, B2, B3. The first numbering disc on the left hand side of Figure 5
for printing the units on the right hand side, as shown in Figure 13 is divided into
ten printing divisions and projections or teeth having engraved or cut printing
numbers 1 to 9 and a cipher on the tenth on the edge surface of the tooth as indicated
in Figure 7 with its ratchet wheel behind it with a corresponding number of
teeth; while the second disc b¹ which prints the tens on the left of the former, seen
to the right in Figure 5 is divided into twelve divisions, and with twelve teeth on its
ratchet wheel b five divisions in each half of the circumference of the disc, with a
blank in the centre between each five divisions, and its actuating pawl c' turns this
disc bone division for each revolution of the unit disc b as indicated in Figure 4.
The actuating pawls c, c', of the respective ratchet wheels 6, 6, and discs b, b².
are both fulcrumed on one stud pin in the outer end of a short spring lever e²
oscillating on a centre c³ out from the ratchet wheels, and so that this lever c² can
be oscillated, so as to turn the ratchet wheels by a light spindle D2 passing across
through the cylinders B1, B2, B3, with a short actuating wiper D on it to actuate
each pawl lever e², and a lever D³ with an antifriction roller or other equivalent on
the outer end of this spindle D2 working in or over a cam D' secured to the inside
of the front frame A2 as seen particularly in Figures 5 and 6, all so as to actuate
the pawl levers at each revolution of the numbering printing rollers B1, B2, B³,
just after the numbering discs b, 61, have printed the web of paper,
the spring
bringing back the-pawl lever after each action to its normal position against a
fixed stop ready for the next action of shifting the pawls and the numbering discs,
and the action of the mechanism for giving the numbers 1 to 50 with these discs is
as follows: Each revolution of a numbering printing roller B1, B2, or B³, through
the cam D, and first ratchet pawl c and ratchet wheel 11 turns the first or unit
disc bone number at each action and revolution, and at each revolution of the unit
disc as the cipher comes round and prints, the pawl c falls into a deeper ratchet
tooth on its wheel 6 of this disc which allows the pawl c¹ of the second disc 6 to
fall into one tooth of its ratchet wheel 6111, and so turns this wheel of the teus one
division, each revolution of the unit wheel as it brings the cipher into the printing
position, and does each revolution for five times, that is printing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50.
In which latter position, that is after the 50 is printed as shown in Figures 4 & 13
and the 1 is again
to-be brought into position for printing the first unit of the set, the
second pawl c takes into a raised or deep tooth on its ratchet wheel 6, and brings
the blank space into the printing position at the same time as the one on the unit
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page_text: printing wheel was brought into printing position by its ratchet wheel 6", there
being a raised tooth for each blank space and half revolution of the left hand printing
disc printing the tens shown on the right in Figure 5, and this blank space
remains until a complete revolution of the unit wheel takes place again, when the
ratchet pawl of the unit wheel b falls into its deep tooth and brings round the
printing disc 6 one tooth to print the tens successively as before explained from 1 up
to 50 each time the cipher comes up on the unit wheel. A light spring ex on the
second pawl e always brings it against a stop c" on the pawl c of the first wheel b
which keeps it out of gear with its ratchet wheel 6" except when the first pawl falls
into the deep tooth before referred to at each time the ninth unit comes round,
so that it shifts only one division each revolution of the unit wheel, and is free to
rise over its high ratchet tooth each time the fifth division of its disc printing the
tens comes round to bring the blank space into the printing position, in this way the
mechanism goes on printing tickets in continuous series of 1 to 50. The stops on
the pawls c c are shown in the form of lateral pins at c in Figures 4 and 7. Or
otherwise by a slight improvement this two numbering wheel arrangement may be
made to print from 1 to 100 of the numbers in succession, as shown in side and edge
view in Figure S, by forming the disc b₁ for printing the tens, with only one blank
space in its twelve divisions, and numbers 1 to 5, in the succeeding five divisions, and
a repeat of the five on the space opposite the blank division, with the figures 6 to 9,
and a cipher on the following five divisions, and with a lateral tooth having a figure 1
on it, on the side of the tooth with this cipher, so as to print 10, and with the cipher
on the unit wheel give the 100 when this tooth comes round, and having a high tooth on
its ratchet wheel to bring the blank spaces into printing position, and another
exactly opposite when bringing the second five into printing position oach time the
ratchet pawl c of the unit wheel falls into its deep notch to turn the numbering
wheel to bring its figure 1 into printing position. The arrows on these Figures 4
to 8 show the direction of motion of the cylinders; and the printing discs have their
figures correspondingly cut or ranged to turn in this direction, although it is not
necessary that the numbering discs should turn in the same direction as the cylinders,
as the levers D, D³ and cam D* might be arranged to turn these in either direction
by the motion of the rollers.
Referring to the three disc numbering arrangement shown in Figures 14 to 16 on
Sheet 2, for printing the tickets continuously in sets of from 1 to 100, the first
numbering unit disc b and its ratchet wheel 6 and pawl c is fitted and acts all sub-
stantially the same as in the arrangement for printing in series from 1 to 50, or
1 to 100, described in reference to Figures 4 to 8 on Sheet 1, but the second or tons
numbering disc is divided into eleven equal divisions, with ten projecting teeth
numbered 1 to 9, and a cipher, in the tenth tooth, and with a blank space in the
eleventh division and one raised or deep tooth on its ratchet wheel for bringing
this blank space into printing position after it has printed the cipher, as numbered
and seen particularly in Figure 14. And the third disc 2 for printing the hundreds
is divided into ten divisions with alternate printing projecting teeth and blanks with
a figure 1 on each projection, and fitted with a ratchet wheel 63 and spring pawl cl
with
a high or deep tooth. on every alternate division of its ratchet wheel 63
for bringing the blank spaces into printing position. Thus the action is as
follows: The second and the third wheels 61, 62, remaining with their blank
spaces in the printing position, while the unit wheel b, is turned to bring its printing
teeth 1 to 9 into action at each revolution of the printing cylinders B, B², B³. In
this position the pawl e falls into the deep tooth, and causes the pawl c² of the second
wheel to bring its figure 1 into printing position as the cipher on the unit disc b
comes into printing position, when the unit wheel has made a complete revolution and
brought the cipher again into position it brings the number 2 of the second wheel b¹
into printing position, and so on each revolution of the unit wheel until the first and
second wheels print 99, when by the next movement of the pawls c, cl, both ratchet
wheels b, 6, and discs b, b, are turned to bring the two ciphers of the first and
second dises of the units and tens into printing position, and the pawl c' of the second

page_text: disc d falling into a deep cut tooth on its ratchet wheel, allows the pawl " of the
third ratchet wheel b to take into one of its low teeth and turn it one division to bring
one of its projecting teeth into position to print 1, making the 100, and thus printing
the 100 successively on the web of fabric each time the second disc ', makes one
revolution. The next movement of the unit ratchet wheel which brings the 1
into printing position for the new series, causes the pawls c', cl, of the ratchet
wheel, 3, of the second and third printing dises 1, 2, to take on to their raised
projecting teeth and turn the printing discs 1, 2, to their blank positions, where they
would stand until the cipher of the first unit wheel b comes into printing position, so
that the deep tooth in the ratchet wheel of its disc would bring number 1 into
position again on the second disc, and so on until 99 was printed again, and the ciphers
on the first and second printing discs b, b, were again brought into printing position,
with one of the projecting teeth of the third disc in line so as to print the 100 again
successively and continuously on the web of paper, as described in reference to the
first 100. The arrows in these Figures 14 to 16 also show the direction of motion of
the cylinders and printing discs, corresponding to Figures 4 to 8.
Two, three, four, or more of these arrangements of numbering dises b, 61, 62 and
their narrow plate frames D are secured within the hollow cylinders 13', 132, B³, as seen
particularly in Figure 2 each within their recesses D₁ through the cylinder, in the
positions and according to the number of strips of tickets to be printed in the width of
the web passing between the printing rollers B1, B2, B3, and the platen pressing
rollers C¹, C
The projecting surfaces of the numbering printing discs b, b1, b2, projecting through
the slits in the tubular printing cylinders B1, B2, are inked just before they come
round to print on the paper a over the entering end of the machine by an automatic
inking roller n carried in journal bearings over inking troughs n' turned intermittently
by an arrangement of ratchet wheel and levers n² and served from this roller inter-
mittently by a pilot roller carried over the trough n' on side levers and a rocking
shaft n³, actuated by cams n on a light horizontal shaft N, carried on brackets on
the front side frame A2 of the machine, and actuated by a screw wheel and screw N¹
on one of the horizontal spindles C of the blanket cylinder C or other cylinder of the
machine. This pilot roller, serves the ink to the rotating distributing roller O, which
in turn serves it on to the narrow inking rollers 01, 02, which work over the grooves in
the cylinders B1, B2, at D¹ where the numbering discs project to be inked. The
distributing roller O is actuated by a train of spur wheels, dotted-in at 0" from a
wheel on the spindle B of the upper printing cylinder B¹. An upper small distributing
roller 03 is moved laterally over the large distributing roller O, by an arrangement of
bell cranks o, and eccentric on the shaft N and rod o². The segmental stereotyped
plate B, and numbering discs b¹,, mounted on the last printing cylinder 63, is also
inked by a similar arrangement of inking and pilot serving rollers n, n, with trough n¹
and large distributing roller O, over the back part of the machine, so far substantially
the same and actuated by a front horizontal shaft N in an equivalent manner
to that described for inking the numbering discs b, 1, of the front printing
rollers B1, B2. But a second large distributing roller O, is here employed, with two
pair of small lateral distributing cylinders 04, working over these large distributing
rollers 0, 0, reciprocated by horizontal beam levers o', o', carrying their journal
bearings and vertical bell-crank lever o, from the reciprocating rod of an eccentric o²,
on the shaft N. The second large distributing roller 0, serves the ink on to the
small service roller O', which directly inks the surface of the stereotype B³, and
numbering discs bb of the cylinder B³, all as seen particularly in Figures 1, 2, and 9,
the distributing rollers 0, 0, being rotated by a train of spur wheels dotted-in at Ou,
from a wheel on the spindle B of the cylinder B3 at the back of the machine.
A hand
lever P convenient for the attendant is fitted at the back delivery end of the machine
with a rod p, leading back to a bell crank lever p¹, for working a bell fork sliding bar
arrangement, carried in brackets p², near the belt pulleys d, d, so as to shift the belt d¹
from the slack to the tight pulley or vice versa, instantaneously, according as the
machine is delivering the sheets in a proper printed perforated and collated manner.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed or carried into effect or practice,
I have to state that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein shown and
described, of many of the parts, such as the arrangement of the inking rollers and of
the bands for conducting and delivering the printed and cut sheets and their actuating
mechanism, or the number and disposition of the printing and perforating cylinders
as many of these may be varied to suit the kind of sheets and tickets desired, without
departing from the essential features and functional mechanical parts of this machine
for numbering, printing and cutting and perforating sheets or tickets in a sequential
manner from continuous webs of paper, and delivering the same in a collated manner
over each other, but what I do claim is :-
First. The construction or general arrangement and combination of the parts, or
mechanical motions, of a continuous rotative or rotary letter-press printing, numbering,
perforating and cutting machine, for printing and numbering Draper's check books,
railway and steam-boat tickets or labels, and like printing and numbering work in
sequence from a web of paper or other fabric, and delivering the same in sets of five
or other number in a collated or arranged manner, substantially as herein described,
in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. In a letter-press printing and numbering machine, for numbering and
printing sheets or tickets from webs of paper or other fabric, the construction and use
of continuous rotating tubular printing cylinders or rollers having numbering
discs mounted within them which sequentially print the numbers through recesses
formed in the cylinders, the letter-press being printed by segmental stereotyped
or electro plates secured on the outer surface of the tubular cylinder, substantially
as herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Third. In a letter-press printing and numbering machine, the numbering of each
strip of the sheet or ticket in continuous sets of 1 to 50 or 1 to 100 by means of two
small narrow dises or wheels formed with numbering teeth or projections and actuated
by ratchet wheels and pawls and fittings fitted in a light frame mounted within the
hollow printing recessed cylinders, substantially as herein described and distinguished,
in reference to and shown particularly in Figures 4 to 8 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Fourth. In a letter-press printing and numbering machine, the numbering of each
strip of the sheets or tickets in continuous sets of 1 to 100 by means of three narrow
dises or wheels, formed with numbering teeth or projections, and actuated by ratchet
wheels and pawls and fittings, fitted in a light frame mounted within the hollow
printing recessed cylinders, substantially as herein described and distinguished in
reference to and shown particularly in Figures 14 to 16 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Fifth. In a continuous letter-press printing and numbering machine from webs of
paper or other fabric, the printing and numbering of two or more sets of the leaves
of check books, tickets or labels sequentially at the same time by disc numbering
mechanism arranged within hollow recessed cylinders, substantially as herein described
in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Sixth. In letterpress printing and numbering machines, the construction, and
arrangement of two or three numbering discs or mechanism, for printing the numbers
of 1 to 50, or 1 to 100 successively on sheets of paper or tickets, substantially as
described in reference to and shown in Figures 4 to 8 and 14 to 16 respectively of the
accompanying Drawings.
Seventh. In letterpress printing and numbering machines, the construction or
arrangement of a rotating hollow printing cylinder or axis with two or more sequential
numbering discs or mechanism along them either with or without segmental stereotyped
plates on them for the successive numbering and printing of two or more corresponding
strips of paper for sheets or tickets, substantially as herein described in reference to
and shown in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: Eighth. In letterpress printing and numbering machines, as hereinbefore claimed,
the construction and use of cutting disc cylinders with longitudinal serrated blades
and slit bars mounted in them, for cutting or perforating the sheets or tickets trans-
versely from the web, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
Ninth. In letterpress printing and numbering machines as hereinbefore claimed, the
constructon, or arrangement of a rotating cylinder with radially reciprocating and
cutting or perforating blades set parallel to its axis for cutting traversing strips of
paper, after being printed or numbered, transversely into sheets or tickets, substantially
as described in reference to and shown particularly in Figures 9 to 12 of the accom-
panying Drawings.