Improvements in Printing Machines, the said Improvements being also Applicable to other Machines from which Sheets of Paper are Delivered.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 19th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 22nd June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Printing Machines, the said Improvements being
also Applicable to other Machines from which Sheets of Paper
are Delivered.
I, JOHN THOMLINSON of Stanley Works, Partick, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Manufacturing Stationer and Printer do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PRINTING MACHINES, THE SAID IMPROVEMENTS
BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER MACHINES FROM WHICH SHEETS OF PAPER ARE
DELIVERED to be as follows:-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in printing machines and which is
also applicable to other machines from which sheets of paper are delivered, has for its
object to receive the sheets as they are laid down successively by the flyer or fingers
of a printing machine or by the mechanical equivalent thereof is also applicable for
the reception of sheets of paper from paper cutting or other machines from which
sheets of paper are successively delivered and have to be laid or beaten up into an
even pile that is to say with the edges of the sheets of paper all coinciding one with
the other.
The Invention consists of a table or framework so placed in relation to the machine
from which the sheets of paper are being delivered that the said sheets either face or
rest thereon. This table or framework has upon its upper surface three moveable
bars or strips at right angles to each other which with a fourth bar or strip that may
be moveable or not constitute a frame two or more of whose sides are in motion.
Into this frame the sheets of paper as they are delivered pass and as the moveable
sides are contracted or drawn towards the other sides or towards each other they
come in contact with the edges of the sheets of paper and force the edges thereof
successively into an even pile. The moveable sides of the frame are carried in
guides which are operated backwards and forwards at the required rate of motion and
at the proper intervals from any moving part of the printing or other machine to
which the apparatus constituting this Invention is attached, or in place of operating
ile said guides and frame from the machine it may be operated independently thereof

page_text: either by hand or mechanically. In order to insure that the movable sides of the
frame will contract and open simultaneously the sides are connected together by a
chain or its equivalent which passes round a pulley or its equivalent so that the
motion of one side of the frame ensures a corresponding motion of the other sides
and the return motion of the moveable sides is effected by springs, weights or their
mechanical equivalent.
In place of making the apparatus constituting this Invention a separate feature or
an addition to a printing or analogous machine the apparatus may be made part of the
machine.
1 1
ST. JOHN V. DAY,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Petitioner's Agent.
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page_text: CUAIT LEIE DIEUIFICATION.
Improvements in Printing Machines, the said Improvements being
also Applicable to other Machines from which Sheets of Paper
are Delivered.
I, JOHN THOMLINSON of Stanley Works, Partick, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Manufacturing Stationer and Printer 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 Invention which relates to improvements in printing machines and which is
also applicable to other machines from which sheets of paper are delivered, has for its
object to receive the sheets as they are laid down successively by the flyer or fingers
of a printing machine or by the mechanical equivalent thereof is also applicable
for the reception of sheets of paper from paper cutting or other machines from
which sheets of paper are successively delivered and have to be laid or beaten up
into an even pile, that is to say, with the edges of the sheets of paper all coinciding
one with the other.
My Invention consists of a table or framework so placed in relation to the machine
from which the sheets of paper are being delivered that the said sheets either fall
or rest thereon. This table or framework has upon its upper surface three movable
bars or strips at right angles to each other which, with a fourth bar or strip that
may be moveable or not constitute a frame two or more of whose sides are in
motion. Into this frame the sheets of paper as they are delivered pass and as the
moveable sides are contracted or drawn towards the other sides or towards each
other, they come in contact with the edges of the sheets of paper and force the
edges thereof successively into an even pile. The moveable sides of the frame are
carried in guides which are operated backwards and forwards at the required rate
of motion and at the proper intervals from any moving part of the printing or
other machine to which the apparatus constituting my Invention is attached, or in
place of operating the said guides and frame from the machine it may be operated
independently thereof either by hand or mechanically.
In order to ensure that the moveable sides of the frame will contract and open
simultaneously the sides are connected together by a chain or its equivalent which
passes round a pulley or its equivalent so that the motion of one side of the frame
ensures a corresponding motion of the other sides and the return motion of the
moveable sides is effected by springs, weights or their mechanical equivalent.
In place of making the apparatus constituting my Invention a separate feature or
in addition to a printing or analogous machine the apparatus may be made part of the
machine.
In order that my Invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect, I have hereunto appended two explanatory sheets of drawings on the several
Figures of which corresponding parts are indicated by the same letters of reference.
Of these Figure 1, is a plan of the delivery table of a printing machine and to which
my improvements are shewn' applied.

page_text: Figure 2, is an end elevation of the same.
Figure 3, is a perspective view corresponding to Figure 1, with the fly in the
upward position to receive a sheet of paper as it issues from the printing machine and
Figure 4, is another perspective view shewing the fly in the position it occupies at the
instant of having laid a sheet of paper on to the pile of printed sheets. In the
aforesaid Figures the table of the printing machine is marked A. The shaft B, is
that to which the fly C, is fixed by the couplings D, and it is reciprocated backwards
and forwards from the tapes E, to the table A, for the purpose of receiving the sheets
of printed paper from the machine and laying them on the table A, in the manner
usually practised in such machines. In the upper part of the table two sets of
slides F, and G, respectively and at right angles to each other are placed, the slides F,
being each parallel to the other as well as parallel to the fly shaft B, whilst the
slides G, are also parallel to each other but extend in a direction at right angles to the
fly shaft B. The slides F, and G, are made of metal preferably brass and are fixed by
screws or in any other convenient manner over their respective grooves in the table A.
Beneath the guides F, and G, there are sliding pieces I, I, and J, J, respectively
capable of adjustment and easily sliding therein. To the sliding pieces I, I, the front
guide K, is attached by screws so that as the slides I, I, are moved the guide K, also
moves therewith. To the other sliding pieces J, the guides L, are also attached by
screws so that as the sliding pieces J, are moved, the guides L, move with them. The
sliding pieces I, I, and J, J. are fitted with spiral springs M, beneath the slides F,
and G, and the tendency of these springs is to draw the slides I, I, and J, J, and with
them the guides K, and L, to the outer ends of the said slides F, and G. The sliding
picces I, are connected to the sliding pieces J, by small chains or cords which pass
round the pulleys N, as shewn more especially at Figure I, from which arrangement
it follows that if the slides I, with their guide K, are drawn inwards, that is to say,
towards the front of the printing machine, their motion inwards also simultaneously
causes the slides J, with their guides L, to be correspondingly drawn inwards or
towards each other. From this arrangement it follows that when the guides K, and
L, are moved inwards the rectangular space enclosed by the three moveable guides K,
and L, and by the fixed guide P, is contracted, and similarly when the said moveable
guides K, and L, are moved outwards the said rectangular space is enlarged. For the
purpose then of repeating in quick succession and synchronously with the motions of
the fly C, the contracting and enlarging movements of the guides K, and L, the fly
shaft B, has attached to it a pair of chains Q, or other connection, as shewn and which
pass from the fly shaft over the pulleys R, being thence connected to the slides I, I.
From this arrangement it will be seen that as the fly shaft B, moves in the direction
for laying down a sheet of paper coming from the printing machine on to the pile
marked S, and which position is shewn at Figure 4, the chains Q, become slackened
and the tension of the springs attached to the several slides J, causes the guides K,
and L, L, to be moved outwards or away from the pile S, thus leaving the rectangular
receptacle formed by the moveable guides K, L, L, and the fixed guide P, of
sufficient size to easily receive the sheet of printed paper whilst on the return
motion of the fly the chains Q, becoming tightened draw the moveable guides K,
and L, L, inwards or towards each other, the motion of the said guides acting upon
the edges of the said sheet at once lays it equally with all the preceding sheets
constituting the pile S.
Although I have in the preceding specification and on the annexed sheets of
drawings described and shewn the apparatus or mechanism constituting my Invention
as applied to a printing machine in which the sheets of paper are laid on the pile by
the action of a flyer of the kind which lays the sheets of paper down flat, I wish it to
be understood that my Invention may be used with that class of machine wherein a
gripper flyer having a swinging motion is used.
I also wish to be understood that in cases where an inclined table is used in
printing machines the two sliding guides at the sides may be sufficient as the lower
edge of the pile adjusts itself by the action of gravity.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In a printing machine or other machine from which paper is received in sheets
successively laid down into a pile by the action of a fly or its mechanical equivalent,
the arrangement of moveable sliding pieces with guides for alternately enlarging and
contracting the rectangular space on the table of such machines whereinto the sheets
of paper are laid and for forming the same into an even pile substantially as herein-
before described and shewn upon the annexed sheets of drawings.
2. The operating of the slides and guides of the apparatus constituting my Inven-
tion in one direction by connecting it through chains or their equivalent to the fly
shaft or other reciprocating part of a printing or analogous machine moving
synchronously with the fly shaft and in the other direction by means of spiral or
equivalent springs or weights substantially as hereinbefore described.
ST. JOHN V. DAY,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Applicant's Agent.