Improvements in Rotary Web Printing and Folding Machines.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rotary Web Printing and Folding Machines.
I GEORGE ASHLEY WILSON of Bramble Mount Warren Drive New Brighton,
in the County of Chester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention relates to machines in which rolls of paper are printed, cut and
folded so as to form newspapers, and the object is to provide machinery by which
such webs can be made into newspapers, containing various numbers of pages, more
rapidly and with greater certainty and accuracy than heretofore.
My invention consists, first, in the disposition and combination of the rotary
web printing machines so that the printed paper may be delivered to the folding
mechanism as required, and second, in the disposition and construction of the
folding mechanism so as to obtain the required number of pages and the requisite
speed of folding.
The printing machines are of any ordinary or suitable construction whereby
rotating webs are printed by cylinders and such machines are located one above
the other and are so connected to a driving shaft that the machines may be driven
Further means are
at equal speeds, or one at twice the speed of the other.
provided whereby the printed papers may be delivered to separate or the same
folding machinery.
The folding machinery consists of rotating folding discs or cylinders with
rotating creasing blades in combination with reciprocating or rotating carriers for
the free ends of the paper being folded. The folding appliances are disposed so as
to receive severally or conjointly the printed papers from one or both of the
printing machines.
Dated this 28th day of Sentember 1892
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rotary Web Printing and Folding Machines.
1 GEORGE ASHLEY WILSON of Bramble Mount, Warren Drive, New Brighton,
in the County of Chester, Engineer, 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 :-
The invention relates to machines in which rolls of paper are printed, cut, and
folded so as to form newspapers, and the object is to provide machinery by which
such webs can be made into newspapers, containing various numbers of pages, more
rapidly and with greater certainty and accuracy than heretofore.
My invention consists in the disposition and combination of the rotary web
printing machines so that the printed paper may be delivered to folding mechanism
as required, to obtain the required number of pages.
The printing machines are of any ordinary or suitable construction whereby
rotating webs are printed by cylinders and cut into sheets, and such machines are
located one above the other and are so connected to a driving shaft that the said
machines may be driven at equal speeds, or one, at twice the speed of the other.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a machine under my invention for printing and folding
papers, and
Fig. 2 is a plan of the driving gear.
a, a', are two sets of web printing cylinders and accessories of any usual kind
mounted one above the other on the framing b. c, gearing for driving the upper
machine a-d gearing for driving the lower machine a'. e, f, cog wheels secured
to the shaft c'. g, h, cog wheels secured to a sleeve i free to be moved along the
driving shaft d¹. j set screw for securing the sleeve i to the shaft d' so that the
said sleeve and cog wheels g, h, rotate with the shaft d¹. k driving pulley.
When it is desired that the upper machine should be driven at half the speed of
the lower machine, say for printing a twelve page paper, the sleeve i is secured in
the position shown and the cog wheels e, g, being in the ratio of 2 to 1, the upper
machine will be driven at half the speed of the lower one. If it is desired that
both machines should be driven at equal speeds, say for printing a sixteen page
paper the sleeve i is moved so that the cog wheels e, g, are separated and the cog
wheels f, h, which are of equal size are in gear together both machines are then
driven at equal speeds. If one machine only is required to be driven say for an
eight page paper, the sleeve i is moved so that both the cog wheels e, g, and f, h,
are out of gear: the lower machine only being then driven, the upper being at
rest. The paper webs from the rolls travel through the printing machines a a¹
in the usual manner and are delivered at m to cutting and folding machinery of
any usual kind.
It will be obvious that any other convenient gear for giving differential motion
may be used if desired instead of that above described.
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 ;-
The combination of two rotary web printing machines with differential driving
gear substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 28th day of June 1803
Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.