provements in the Manufacture of Sales Books, Counter-check Books, Receipt Bocks and the like and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL DITUITIVATION
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sales Books, Counter-check
Books, Receipt Bocks and the like and in Apparatus therefor.
We, WILSON MORTON, of 47, Old Street, in the County of London, Manu-
facturer, and ADOLPH ROSENTHAL, of 1A, Paternoster Row, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of sales books, counter-check books,
receipt books and the like of the kind wherein each check, receipt or the like is
provided with a duplicate sheet upon which the facsimile of any writing upon
the principal sheet is transferred through the medium of suitable transfer
material applied to the backs of the principal sheets.
Hitherto in making such forms or sheets it has been usual to apply the trans-
ferring material in one machine and to perform the usual printing, numbering
and perforating operations in another machine.
The object of our invention is to provide for performing the several operations,
in one machine thereby considerably reducing the cost of manufacture.
In carrying out this invention we make use of a web printing machine of
any ordinary or suitable construction and provided with number printing
apparatus, if desired, and we combine therewith means for applying the trans-
ferring material to the web and drying it before the web enters the press.
the web passes out of the press it moves beneath or between suitable perforating
devices, passing finally to the knife or shears by which the sheets or pieces are
severed from the web.
As
The mechanism which I advantageously make use of for applying the trans-
ferring material and drying the same after application, comprises a framing
at the end of which most remote from the printing machine is arranged
a roller over which the web of paper passes, and in connection with this roller
is another roller or a brush of a width corresponding to the extent of paper to
be covered with the transferring material. This second roller or brush bears
against the roller over which the paper web passes and also dips into a tank or
tray containing the liquid transferring material in such a manner that as the
paper web is drawn forward a coating of the transferring material will be
applied to a portion of its surface. Between the roller over which the paper
passes and the printing machine and immediately beneath the web of paper
is arranged a hot plate which may be heated by gas or steam or otherwise, as
desired, the length of the said hot plate being sufficient to ensure that during
the time the web is travelling from the point where the transferring material
is applied to the printing press the transferring material shall be dried. Or, in
lieu of drying by a hot plate, we may freeze or congeal the transferring material
by any suitable apparatus.
At the end of the hot plate near the printing press is preferably arranged a
heated roller over which the paper passes before entering the press and between
this roller and the press the paper preferably hangs in the form of a loop, being
kont tant by an idle roller.

page_text: As the web passes through the press it is printed in the usual manner and as
it issues from the press it is perforated and thence passes to the cutting-off
shears.
When gum has to be applied we preferably make use of a reciprocating plunger
operated by an eccentric upon a suitable shaft, the said plunger being of the shape
of the surface to which the gum is to be applied and having arranged in con-
junction with it means for applying the gum so that when during the recipro-
cations of the plunger the gum applying surface is brought in contact with the
paper a quantity of gum will be applied.
When we use this gumming apparatus we may arrange it to apply the gum
before or after the web passes through the press suitable means being provided
for drying the gum after it is applied.
Dated this 16th day of April 1898
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sales Books, Counter-check
Books, Receipt Books and the like and in Apparatus therefor..
We, WILSON MORTON, of 47, Old Street, in the County of London, Manu-
facturer, and ADOLPH ROSENTHAL, of 1A, Paternoster Row, in the City of London,
Merchant, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of sales books, counter-check books,
receipt books and the like of the kind wherein each check, receipt or the like is
provided with a duplicate sheet upon which the facsimile of any writing upon
the principal sheet is transferred through the medium of suitable transfer
material applied to the backs of the principal sheets.
Hitherto in making such forms or sheets it has been usual to apply the trans-
ferring material on one machine and to perform the usual printing, numbering
and perforating operations on another machine.
The object of our invention is to provide for performing the several operations
in one machine, thereby considerably reducing the cost of manufacture.
In carrying out this invention we make use of a web printing machine of
any ordinary or suitable construction and provided with number printing
apparatus, if desired, and we combine therewith means for applying the trans-
ferring material to the web and drying it before the web enters the press. As
the web passes out of the press it moves beneath or between suitable perforating
devices, passing finally to the knife or shears by which the sheets or pieces are
severed from the web.
The mechanism-which we advantageously make use of for applying the trans-
ferring composition or material and drying the same after application, comprises.
a framing at the end of which most remote from the printing machine is arranged
a roller over which the web of paper passes, and in connection with this roller
is another roller or a brush of a width corresponding to the extent of paper to
be covered with the transferring material. This second roller or brush bears
against the roller over whch the paper web passes and also dips into a tank or
tray containing the liquid transferring material in such a manner that as the
paper web is drawn forward a coating of the transferring material will be
applied to a portion of its surface. Between the roller over which the paper
passes and the printing machine and immediately beneath the web of paper

page_text: is arranged a hot plate which may be heated by gas or steam or otherwise, as
desired, the length of the said hot plate being sufficient to ensure that during
the time the web is travelling from the point where the transferring material
is applied to the printing press the transferring material shall be dried. Or, in
lieu of drying by a hot plate, we may freeze or congeal the transferring material
by any suitable apparatus.
At the end of the hot plate near the printing press is preferably arranged a
heated roller over which the paper passes before entering the press and between
this roller and the press the paper preferably hangs in the form of a loop, being
kept taut by an idle roller.
As the web passes through the press it is printed in the usual manner either
on one or both sides and as it issues from the press it is perforated and thence
passes to the cutting-off shears.
To enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is a side elevation of apparatus arranged in accordance with our in-
vention; and
Figure 2 is a plan of the same:
Figure 3 is a leaf of a sales book such as our machine is adapted to produce the
said leaf being shewn in its extended or unfolded condition; and
Figure 4 is a view of the leaf folded and shewing the reverse side of a portion
of the said leaf:
Figures 5 and 6 are views similar to Figures 3 and 4 respectively of another
form of leaf which any apparatus is adapted to produce:
Figure is a plan view drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2 of
inechanism which I advantageously use for applying gum to the sheets shewn
in Figures 5 and 6:
Figure 8 is a section on the line 8-8 of Figure 7.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the
drawings.
a is the frame of a web printing machine of ordinary construction the said
machine as shewn having two printing surfaces b, 61 and two platens or impres-
sion surfaces c, c¹ with which the printing surfaces b, b1 respectively co-operate,
the object of employing a printing press having two printing surfaces being
to provide for printing upon both sides of the paper. If desired, however, the
web can be printed only on one side.
d indicates the paper web which passes over a roller e, thence down and under
the rollers f, f¹, thence up and over the roller and between the printing sur-
face band platen c, thence over the rollers h, hand h2, thence between the feed
rollers 3, 3, and between the printing surface 61 and platen ct and thence to
the feed rollers h, h, by which arrangement it will be noticed that the opposite
side of the paper is presented to the printing surface b¹ to that presented to the
printing surface b.
,,,
faces b, 61.
are inking discs and rollers in connection with the printing sur-
jis the framing of the apparatus which we advantageously make use of for
applying the transferring material and drying the same after application, the
said framing having mounted upon it the circular brush k, which dips into the
trough, and the hot plate m, the said hot plate forming one side of a chamber n
within which a series of gas burners n', n' is arranged for the purpose of heating
the said plate.
The web of paper is led from the roll of paper over the guide roller o.
which is made adjustable so as to permit of bringing the paper more or less into
contact with the rotary brush k. thence over the guide bar o'. thence above
the hot plate to and over the roller . whence it passes between the pair of feed
rollers q, q, and thence over the roller e as herein before described. In practice
we make the roller hollow and arrange to heat it by means of a gas pipe pl.

page_text: The pairs of rollers q, q, h³, ³ and h, hare geared together, for instance,
through the medium of the shaft r which carries three bevel wheels r¹, r, 1
engaging with corresponding bevel wheels on the shafts, of the upper rollers of
the pairs of feed rollers, the said feed rollers being all of the same diameter and
rotating at the same speed so as to ensure a uniform feed. The shaft of the
lower roller of the pair of rollers 9, 9 carries a cone pulley 72 from which a belt 3
extends to a corresponding cone pulley on the shaft of the brush for the
purpose of imparting rotary motion to the latter.
In practice it may happen, by reason of the fact that the pair of feed rollers q, q
has to bear all the strain due to the unwinding of the web from the roll and
pulling it past the transfer applying brush and over the hot plate, that a certain
amount of slip will take place between the paper and the feed rollers so that a
less amount of paper is fed forward by the feed rollers q than by the pairs of
rollers 3, h3, h4, h. As, however, it is necessary that the length of paper fed
forward by the rollers h³, h³, h, h should at all times be uniform (which might
not be the case if they were subjected to uneven strains) we provide between the
pair of feed rollers q, q and the roller e the loop of paper s which is held taut
by the idle roller s¹, this loop of paper constituting a reserve which can be drawn
upon from time to time irrespective of the length of paper fed forward by the
rollers q, q the attendant watching the loops and lengthening it by hand from
time to time in case it may be necessary to do so to compensate for the loss due
to slip between the rollers q, I
Motion is imparted to the feed rollers from the main shaft t through the
medium of the pair of bevel wheels to, t, the shaft 2 upon which the wheel t
is mounted, the gear wheel 3 engaging with the pinion t on a shaft to, a crank to
also mounted on the shaft and having an adjustable crank pin, and a rod t
one end of which engages with the pin of the crank to and the other end of
which is attached to a reciprocating rack 18 the teeth of which engage with a
pinion on a shaft to carrying a bevel wheel t¹ engaging with another bevel
wheel upon the shaft of the lower roller of the pair of feed rollers h*, h*.
the feed rollers of each pair are geared together and as all the pairs of feed
rollers are also geared together by the shaft r and bevel wheels r¹, as herein-
before described it will be obvious that all the pairs of feed rollers will be
rotated simultaneously.
As
The pinion is connected with its shaft 10 by a ratchet and pawl so that
during the reciprocations of the rack 8 in one direction the shaft to and conse-
quently also the feed rollers will remain at rest, the printing surfaces during
this rest of the feed rollers printing upon the paper.
It will be seen by reference to the drawing that the printing surfaces b, b¹
are operated from the main shaft t the said shaft t being connected by sprocket
wheels u, and a sprocket chain u with a shaft the shaft t and the shaft u²
each carrying a cam ³ which operate upon bars u, u to which the printing
surfaces b, are connected.
v, v are shafts carrying pairs of perforating discs ², 2 arranged between the
pair of feed rollers, hand the printing press, the said shafts being geared
together and operated from the shaft to through the medium of the bevel wheel v³
upon the said shaft and the bevel wheel 4 upon the shaft 2¹.
is a reciprocating knife which is operated by a cam on the shaft t5
through the medium of the rod w² the said cam w being arranged in such rela-
tion to the crank that the knife is operating to cut the paper during the
time the said crank is moving the rack 8 without operating the feed mechanism.
3 is a table upon which the pieces of paper severed from the web by the
knife ware deposited in a heap.
x, Figure 3, indicates a sheet or slip such as our machine is adapted to pro-
duce, the said sheet having a length corresponding with the width of the paper
web and a width which is regulated by the amount of paper fed forward by the
feed rollers, which amount is dependent upon the position of the crank pin in

page_text: the crank and the consequent length of reciprocation of the rack . This
sheet is provided with three rows of perforations a, a, dividing the sheet
into four sections numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively, the part 1 of the sheet
serving for binding the sheets into a book, the part 2 as an invoice for a cus-
tomer, and the part 3 as a check to be retained by a salesman and the writing
upon which when the sheet is folded, as shewn in Figure 4, is to be transferred
on to the part 2, whilst the part 4 serves as a voucher which may be retained by
a cashier. It will be obvious, however, that the sheet may be subdivided in any
desirable manner according to requirements or the business for which the checks
are required. The part 3 is also covered with transfer material.
The operation of the apparatus herein before described is as follows:
The paper having been threaded through the machine in the manner which
will have been understood in the foregoing description and the machine being
started, the several pairs of feed rollers draw the paper forward and at the same
time the printing surfaces operate and the brush applies the transfer material.
As the paper moves forward the transfer material, which is taken up by the
brush from the tray 4, is applied to the paper web in the form of a long band or
belt as indicated by the dot and dash lines at 4, Figure 2, the paper with the
transfer material upon it then passing over the hot plate m and the heated
roller whereby the transfer material is dried; as the paper passes through
the first printing press the printing of the portion 2 of the strip is effected and
as the paper passes on through the second press the portions 3 and 4 are printed
the printing in this case being upon the opposite side of the web to the printing
upon the portion 2. The paper web now passes between the perforating discs
and is thence drawn forward by the feed rollers, so that the web will be
severed transversely at the required points the severed pieces or sheets falling
upon the platform or table was herein before described.
The sheet shewn in Figures 5 and 6 is produced in substantially the same
manner as that hereinbefore described; in this case, however, the transferring
material is applied to about half the width of the web and this half has formed
in it several rows y, y of perforations which permit of several sections of the
sheet being torn off one after the other. In addition to the transferring material
these sections have gum applied to their edges as at y', y¹ so that when detached
they may be used as receipts and attached to accounts. Any suitable means
may be employed for applying this gum either before the sheet is printed or
after; in practice we prefer that it should be applied before the printing so
that the gum will be dry before the web enters the printing machine.
In practice we find it advantageous to apply the gum by means of a shaft
having upon it a series of collars ², y arranged at distances apart corresponding
with the positions of the bands of gum to be applied, the said collars y running
against a fountain roller y³ in connection with a gum fount y in a manner which
will be readily understood by reference to Figures 7 and 8. This arrangement
for applying the gum is in Figures 7 and 8 represented as being attached to the
chamber of the hot plate m and as deriving its motion from the bevel wheel
through which motion is imparted to the pair of feed rollers q, q, the said bevel
wheel having engaging with it a bevel wheel z mounted upon one end of a
shaft upon the other end of which is another bevel wheel engaging with
a bevel wheel on the end of the shaft carrying the collars y², y² the said
shaft also carrying a gear wheel engaging with another gear wheel on the
shaft of the fountain roller y³,
It will be seen by reference to the drawings that Figures 7 and 8 are drawn
to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2 but to a smaller scale than Figures 5
and 6.
It is to be understood that the apparatus hereinbefore described may be modified
in various ways without departing from the nature of our invention for instance
the means for applying the transferring material to the paper web and drying
the same may be arranged to operate upon the paper after the latter has passed

page_text: through the printing' mechanism and furthermore instead of arranging the hot
plate below the paper web it may be arranged above the same or if desired
hot plates or other drying means may be arranged both above and below the
same so as practically to constitute a heated chamber through which the paper
web pases.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The combination with printing mechanism adapted to print upon one or
both sides of a paper web, of means for applying a transferring composition
or material to the paper web, means for drying such material after it is applied,
mechanism for perforating the web longitudinally and mechanism for severing
it transversely, substantially as described.
2. The combination with printing mechanism adapted to print upon one or
both sides of a paper web, of a roller or brush which dips into a tank or tray
containing the liquid composition or material to be applied to the web and rotates
in contact with the web in such a manner as to apply the composition or material
thereto, a heated chamber serving to dry the composition upon the web, and per-
forating and cutting off mechanism which operate upon the paper web after it
leaves the printing mechanism, substantially as described.
3. The combination with printing mechanism adapted to print upon one or
both sides of a paper web, of means for applying a band or belt of transferring
material or composition to the said web, means for drying or congealing the
said transferring material, means for perforating the web and cutting the same
transversely and means for applying gum to the web either before or after it
enters or leaves the printing mechanism, substantially as described.
4. The manufacture of sales books, counter-check books, receipt books and the
like by a continuous process, substantially as herein before described.
Dated the 24th day of December 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.