Year: 1896

page_text: We JOHN ADAM GLEDHILL Printers' Engineer and Furnisher and JOSHUA CHARLES
WHITNEY Estate Agent both of 43 Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to machines for printing letterpress which invention is
applicable to such as are now in general use, viz., platen, cylinder, or litho printing
machines.
The object of our invention is to provide a machine or apparatus capable of and
adapted to print letterpress on circulars or sheets of paper at one operation or
impression in any number of colours or coloured inks required in such work,
obviating the necessity of cutting up inking rollers into various widths or sections as
is now the case, which work may have or may not have borders surrounding the
same, but when borders are employed in such work, the same shall be of either one
or more solid colours which may be a separate and distinct colour from any colour
used in the body of the work or letterpress.
According to our invention we attain or accomplish an effective distribution of all
the colours being used in the machine, whereby we may obtain a uniform density or
depth of each individual colour throughout the work. According to another part of
our invention the work is effected by the use of one forme only, instead of employing
a number of formes corresponding to the number of colours used which latter is now
the case.
The principle of this invention consists in supplying or providing the colours to
be used in multi-colour letterpress and border work direct from the ink cylinders on
to the inking cylinder, and thence to transfer the whole of the various colours used
or placed thereon on to the inking rollers adapted to roll the forme, which forme may
be either in type, stereo, or electro, and which colours are transmitted to or rolled on
the letterpress and border at one operation.
The invention thus performs the operation of perfect ink distribution, the rolling
of the type, and the rolling of the border at one operation, and in their respective
or different colours or coloured inks, by means of cam and tappits, whereby certain
discs or ink collecting rings are used, the number of which rings are controlled by
the number of colours desired to be used, the said discs are actuated so as to remove
at proper periods from the inking cylinder in order to collect the colours from the
distributing rollers, and are so arranged as to alternately or intermittently transfer or
supply the distributed and various colours collected from the distributing rollers to
the inking cylinder, also a border ink or collecting roller is actuated in like manner
but so as to transfer its ink on to the inking cylinder whilst the colour rings are
collecting their inks from the distributing rollers, and whereby the border inking
roller is moved to and from the inking cylinder, and to and from the forme at proper
periods, in the former case to collect the ink, in the latter case to roll the border, the
body colour rollers, that is, the rollers for inking the letterpress or body of the work
are in like manner removed to and from the inking cylinder and to and from the

page_text: forme, in the former case to collect the various colours, and in the latter case to
transfer the same or to ink the letterpress of the forme.
According to our present construction we provide or mount upon any convenient
number of rollers carried by the ink roller frame rings or discs of rubber, composi-
tion or other material in connection with sliding ink distributing rollers which rings
receive various coloured inks from the compartments of a suitably divided ink duct
also a roller which we term a border ink roller when borders are to be printed, and
which roller receives a single colour or ink from an ink duct the said rings or dises
and the border roller are alternately or intermittently caused to move to and from
the ink distributing rollers and to and from the ordinary inking cylinder of the
machine by means of pieces or tappits provided on pullies mounted upon the rotating
inking cylinder shaft or may be provided on the inking cylinder, thus section stripes,
or rings of coloured inks and a section of one ink or colour may be thus transferred
to the cylinder.
We provide on the inking roller shaft-preferably three or four being used and
.which rollers ink the forme and are well known-runners in convenient positions so
that certain rollers of the number may alternately move to and from the inking
cylinder when borders are to be printed in order to collect their respective inks
therefrom, such action or movements of the rollers are effected by the tappits
aforesaid.
When the inking rollers have collected their inks the said rollers are then in the
case of a platen machine caused to move down the slides and ink the forme, on the
bearers or well known parts on which we employ suitably arranged straight projecting
or tappit pieces which also suitably actuate the rollers through the medium of the
suitably arranged runners so as to cause the certain or, assigned roller for inking the
border to operate on the forme at the head and foot or top and bottom of the circular
then to cause the other rollers to transfer their various coloured inks to the type, also
suitably arranged tappits are provided in connection with the colour and inking table
of a cylinder or other similar machine which operate ink transferring rollers and
type or type and border inking rollers.
If desired we may employ solid rollers in substitution for the rings for the purpose.
of transferring their various inks lengthwise of the inking cylinder as may be required
to accommodate a certain position of the type or forme.
Another modification of the application of our invention consists in the applica-
tion of the tappits having straight surfaces in such a manner as to form or constitute
middle tappits over the surfaces of which suitably formed runners of an inking roller
pass which roller may be provided by a colour inking ring or disc with a colour to
ink in certain inatter in the centre or other position between any line or lines of
letterpress or type thus the roller may be provided with a middle colour and is
actuated by the aid of the middle tappits so as to be removed from the surface
of the type when the middle colour has been transferred to its proper place on
the type.
The operation of this invention is as follows:-Each compartment or colour
receptacle of the divided ink duct is situate opposite to a ring or disc, and as the
ink cylinders revolve, the different coloured inks are thus led on the distributing
rollers, and by the lateral movements thereof the said inks are distributed thereon,
and as the discs are by the action of the circular tappits passed into contact or
engagement with the distributing rollers to collect the lines, stripes, bands or
sections of the various coloured inks therefrom, which colours are for the purpose of
inking the type-the ink roller transfers one or a single coloured ink on to the
inking cylinder, which coloured ink is for the purpose of inking two sides of the
border.
The type inking rollers are placed in contact with the inking cylinder in order
to collect the stripes or sections of various coloured inks previously transferred
thereto or put thereon by the rings or discs at the same time the border of one
colour roller is inoperative, or is removed out of contact with the face of the inking
cylinder thus according to our arrangement of tappits having more or less contact

page_text: surfaces around the circumferences of the pullies which are of the same diameter as
the inking cylinder-consequently the disc rollers and the ink roller are caused to
make alternate contact with the inking cylinder more or less, for example if two
semi-circular tappits are employed equal parts of the surface of the periphery of the
inking cylinder or one half thereof will be covered by stripes of colour, and the other
half will be covered with one or a single coloured ink respectively, such portions
being taken off the cylinder by the proper or appointed inking rollers in manner as
described.
It is obvious that according to our arrangement of rings or discs in combination
with the distributing rollers and divided compartments or ink ducts, that we are
enabled to employ any desired number of coloured inks sufficient to satisfy the require-
ments for all practical purposes, for example, we may by the employment of three
ink ducts divided into four compartments each, employ or use in such a case twelve
colours.
The colours having been collected from the inking cylinder the inking rollers then
pass down to perform the operations of inking the type and the two sides or top
and bottom sides of the type or border, the other two sides or lines of the border at
right angles are inked by means of colour transferred by two rings or dises each
situate nearest to each end of the roller upon which they are mounted, and each is
situate opposite to the said other two sides or border lines on the forme, the inking
rollers being actuated or operated during their traverse along the face of the type by
the properly adjusted tappits arranged on the inking roller races or bearers in the
manner herein described, the colours are thus transferred to the type and the
borders inked in, the inking rollers then having performed the return movement, or
the type rollers inked by the travelling colour table accordingly as the machine to
which our invention is to be applied is a platen, cylinder, or litho machine, the
platen or the impression cylinder then operates as the case may be, thus type in stereo,
electro may be printed or impressed in many colours at one operation; our invention
thus becomes a multi-colour printing machine, and which is capable of printing a
border of one uniform or solid colour distinct from any colour or colours used or
employed in the letterpress or body of the work, we accomplish solidity, uniformity,
density or depth of colour for printing purposes.
Dated this Kifth day of September 1806
JOHN ADAM GLEDHILL.
JOSHUA CHARLES WHITNEY.
J. H. Butterworth & Co.,
For the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Letterpress Printing Machines.
We JOHN ADAM GLEDHILL Printers Engineer and Furnisher and JOSHUA CHARLES
WHITNEY Estate Agent both of 43 Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement -
Our invention relates to machines for printing letterpress, which invention is
applicable to such as are now in general use, viz. platen cylinder or litho printing
machines.
The object of our invention is to provide a machine or apparatus capable of and
adapted to print letter press on circulars or sheets of paper at one operation or
impression, in any number of colours or coloured inks required in such work,

page_text: obviating the necessity of cutting up inking rollers into various widths or sections
which work may or may not have borders surrounding the same, but when borders
are employed in such work, the same shall be of either one or more solid colours which
may be a separate and distinct colour from any colour used in the body of the work
or letterpress.
According to our invention we attain or accomplish an effective distribution of all
the colours being used in the machine, whereby we may obtain an uniform density or
depth of each individual colour throughout the work.
According to another part of our invention the work is effected by the use of one
forme only, instead of employing a number of formnes corresponding to the number
of colours used.
This invention consists of apparatus for supplying or providing rings or bands of
colours to be used in multi-colour work around and lengthwise of the inking cylinder
direct from the ink fountain rollers on to the inking cylinder, and thence to transfer
the whole of the various colours used or placed thereon on to the inking rollers
adapted to roll the forme, which forme may be either in type, stereo, or electro,
and which colours are transmitted to or rolled on the letterpress at one operation.
The invention thus performs the operation of perfect ink distribution, the rolling
of the type, and the rolling of the border at one operation, and in their respective
or different colours or coloured inks, by means of cam and tappits, whereby certain
discs or ink collecting rings are used, the number of which rings may be of any
number according to the number of colours desired to be used, the said discs are
actuated so as to remove at proper periods from the inking cylinder in order to
collect the colours from the distributing rollers, and are so arranged as to alternately
or intermittently transfer or supply the distributed and various colours collected from
the distributing rollers to the inking cylinder, also a border ink or collecting roller is
actuated in like manner but so as to transfer its ink on to the inking cylinder whilst
the colour rings are collecting their inks from the distributing rollers, and whereby
the border inking roller is moved to and from the inking cylinder, and to and from
the forme at proper periods, in the former case to collect the ink, in the latter case to
roll the border, the body colour rollers, that is, the rollers for inking the letterpress
or body of the work are in like manner removed to and from the inking cylinder and
to and from the forme, in the former case to collect the various colours, and in the
latter case to transfer the same or to ink the letterpress of the forme.
For the purpose of clearly comprehending our invention we have hereunto annexed
several sheets of drawings illustrating the said invention in which drawings like
letters of reference are employed throughout the various figures therein shewn,
and which letters of reference indicate like or similar parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of an ordinary machine known as a platen machine shewing
our invention applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1.
Figure 3 is a plan of Fig. 1.
Figure 4 is an elevation drawn to an enlarged scale shewing our invention proper
detached from the machine.
Figure 5, is a front elevation of Fig. 4.
Figure 6, is an elevation shewing the colour inking disc rollers with the discs
mounted thereon, and the border ink roller being a front elevation of such parts
shewn in Fig. 4.
Figure 7, is a plan shewing the ink distributing roller or means for distributing
the ink on to the coloured discs and the inking roller, which figure is a plan of parts
shewn in Figure 4.
Figure 8, is a detail shewing the position of the inking rollers when in the act of
inking the type or block of letterpress.
Figure 9, is a figure shewing the position of the said rollers when inking the
border lines enclosing or surrounding the letterpress,

page_text: Figure 10, is an elevation shewing a colour ring or disc adapted to be adjusted on a
roller.
Figure 11, is an elevation shewing the inking and distributing apparatus applied to
an ordinary machine known as a cylinder machine.
Figure 12, is a plan of Figure 11.
Figures 13 and 14 are elevation and plan respectively of an ordinary "Wharfedale"
cylinder machine drawn to a small scale, shewing the complete machine and application
of the apparatus referred to in Figures 11 and 12.
Figure 15 is an illustration representing a modification shewing the application or
employment of middle tappits when an intermediate colour is desired to be used in
a forme.
Figure 16, is a view shewing the relative positions of the type inking rollers and
the cylinder inking rollers with relation to the inking cylinder when our invention is
in operation.
The above descriptions and illustrations will be sufficient for a full explanation and
application of our invention, as it must be understood that our invention may be
applied to letterpress printing machines now in general use.
We will first proceed to describe the application of our invention to correspond
with the order set forth in the description of the drawings.
a are ink distributing rollers, their surfaces being in contact with the
fountain rollers b which carry the ink from the ducts or fountains i, but the said
distributing rollers are mounted and arranged so as to be capable of having a sliding
or lateral motion or movement imparted thereto which is effected by means of a
suitably arranged piece or cam c mounted on the roller shaft 6 (see Figs. 3 and 7)
adapted at certain periods of its revolution to engage at d, with the
distributing roller shaft and which motion is imparted by means of a band from
the pulley or gear wheel e mounted on the inking cylinder shaft f, or by means of
chain gearing passing over a pulley or a gear wheel on each respective
fountain roller shaft, and which end d of the distributing roller shaft is maintained
in constant contact with the cam pulley c by the aid of a coil spring g interposed
between the one or opposite end of the said roller a and a side of the framework h;
by means of the action or sliding movement of the roller a, the inks carried or led
from the ink fountains may be thus distributed between the surfaces of the
distributing roller a, and the fountain roller and so transferred to the dises and
inking rollers now about to be described. We may employ any number of
distributing rollers with appendant parts but the drawings herein illustrate the
employment of three.
On the framework or standard h we mount rollers j in conjunction with the
distributing rollers a. Also when borders are to be formed or to surround the
letterpress or work to be printed, and inking roller k on the former rollers, that is,
the rollers jj we mount discs or rings m made of any suitable pliable material of a
convenient adhesive nature such as rubber or composition, which discs or rings we
make of any convenient width for the purpose of inking lines, rules, or type, which
rings are placed or slid upon the rollers and between the consecutive or each ring
spacing pieces or bushes are placed in order to keep the rings or discs in their proper
working positions, but the said rollers ; and are adapted for and capable of
movement within their bearings and to move at their proper periods
to and from the ink distributing cylinders
cylinders a and to and from the
inking cylinder n, which movements are controlled by means or action of suitable
pieces or projecting parts o o secured or attached to rotating pullies p p¹ mounted
on the inking cylinder shaft f which pieces we term "Tappits." The tappits are of
semi circular form which are placed or attached to each pulley ppl see Fig. 16 and
are loosely mounted on the inking cylinder shaft f so as to be free to turn thereon
and are placed one at each side or face of the pulley, when adjusted to any required
position the said tappits are secured to the pulley by set screws, the tappits
inay thus be adjusted relatively to each other allowing more or less of the
surface of the inking cylinder to be inked having any convenient length of

page_text: contact surfaces more or less thus the tappits on pullies actuate or operate upon the
dise rollers and ink roller & respectively, which is effected through the medium
of the bowls, pullies or runners q q¹ mounted on the disc roller shafts and the
ink roller shaft respectively, but the said contact parts or runners q g' are arranged
with relation to the tappit pullies, so that the said tappet pullies shall actuates or
effect the alternate movements of the set of disc rollers j from the distributing rollers a
to the ink cylinder n, or such movements shall take place or occur when the
ink roller is in the act of moving from the ink cylinder n towards the
distributing roller a as the said roller shafts are connected at their extremities to
their supports by coil spring pieces suitably so as to be in contact with the
ink cylinder w, that is, the discs m on the rollers are transferring their respective
coloured inks collected from the distributing rollers a on the ink cylinder n, whilst
the ink roller is collecting its ink from the distributing roller a which operations
are designed to take place or occur in inanner described in order to suitably operate
in conjunction with the inking rollers at and a made from suitable material or
composition also actuated by the tappit pullies p and y the operations and functions
of which we will now proceed to describe.
The said inking rollers are mounted or supported by supporting pieces or
carriers v ' capable of sliding along guide pieces or V-shaped slides w to' which are
attached at convenient parts of the frame sides as at ww, the movements of the frames
of carriers are effected by the aid of the levers xxl and the two armed levers y y¹
provided with bowls y2 y3 supported at aa the bowls of which levers rest against the
pieces or levers A A¹ mounted on the shaft B which is caused to oscillate about its
axis in its bearings, by means of the arm or lever C mounted on the same shaft
and actuated at C, which part is situate in a cam-shaped groove D provided on the
face of the ordinary driven gear wheel E which latter is operated by the driving
gear wheel E actuated by means of the foot lever F through the mediumn of the
crank Fi and connecting lever F as in the ordinary platen machine, consequently
as the wheel E revolves about its axis E2, and as the cam shaped recess D moves
about the bowl C or part of the lever C, the said lever is correspondingly actuated,
but so as to impart to and fro movements to the levers A A¹ in connection with the
carriers and respectively through the medium of the intermediate levers before
named, and thus cause the said carriers to slide up and down or along the surfaces of
the guido pieces or slides w and w. The inking rollers at and u are held in position
within the slots or openings G by means of spiral springs H, the peripheries of which
rollers are thus maintained in close contact with the surface of the inking cylinder,
the purpose of which rollers is to take off inks from the ink cylinder and transfer
such into the block of letterpress hereinafter described. On each shaft of the
inking rollers are provided or mounted a pair of runners or bowls I J and K, which
runners have surfaces of two different diameters as shewn in the drawings, the runners
on the rollers s and t are arranged so that the smaller diameters shall be opposite to
the ends of the rollers, but the runners on the roller u are arranged in the reverse
position, the said runners rest against the peripheries of the tappit pullies, as the
rotating tappits or surfaces o ol on each side of the pullies pass under or in contact
with the larger diameters of the said pairs of runners in such events the rollers are
caused to move from or out of engagemnet or contact with the surface of the
ink cylinder n, but when the said tappits pass the smaller diameters of the runners
the inking rollers are not affected but remain in contact with the ink cylinder
consequently according to the arrangement above described when the tappits pass
under or by the larger diameters of the runners the rollers s and t will move out of
contact with the cylinder n but the roller u will remain in contact therewith, and
vice versa, thus the pair of rollers s and t and the roller u may be caused to actuate
with relation to the inking cylinder, that is, to collect or receive their inks or colours
therefrom according to the arrangement of the runners on the inking roller shafts as
above described. When the frame or carriers vv with inking rollers s t u are
caused to descend or travel down the slides w wl, the runners I J K then pass on to
the blocks, rails, races or bearers L I forming part of the slides we wol to which are

page_text: attached adjustable pieces or projecting parts M M M M M M which form
tappits over which the runners in their downward travel are caused to pass and
accordingly as the larger diameter of the runner passes over the adjustable pieces or
tappits on each side of each rail or race, so is each inking roller lifted or removed from the
letterpress, type or block N situate on the platen O, in the drawings illustrating the
platen machine the function of the rollers & and t is to ink the type or letterpress,
the function of the lower roller u being to ink the border lines only; as an
illustration we will explain the action of roller u as shewn in Fig. 3 the action of
the rollers 8 and t being similar. The smaller diameter of the runners K of the
roller u pass on to the tappits M M¹, the roller then being in contact with
the border P of the forme represented in black (see Fig. 9) the larger diameters of the
said runners then pass on to the tappits M2 M3, which roller u is then removed from
the surfaces or part P¹ of the forme the rollers 8 and t simultaneously operating upon
or inking the letterpress P (see Fig. 8) then having passed from off the said tappits
the larger diameters of the runners K then pass on to the face of the blocks or races,
the smaller diameters passing over the tappits M M'; the roller u again makes
contact with the bottom border line P as shewn in Fig. 9 dotted lines, the inking of
the bottom border line is thus accomplished. After completing this operation the
carriers with the rollers are caused to slide up the slides w being a repetition
of the operations just named but in the opposite direction and thence passing back to
the ink cylinder a to the position shewn in Figs. 1, and 4, for the purpose of taking
or collecting the various coloured inks therefrom ready for the next operation of
inking the forme N, during which period of taking the inks from the cylinder the
platen is caused to actuate thus imprinting or making impressions in the usual
manner on the paper provided on the block or stand R. Any number of parts or
tappits may be provided on the blocks or inking roller races I, 1 and of any
convenient length, according to the widths or spaces required for or occupied on the
forme by the border strips and the letterpress respectively-such number and dimensions
or adjustable pieces or tappits will evidently vary in order to suit certain requirements
as the case may be. We will now proceed to describe the application of our invention
to the class of printing machine known as the "Wharfedale" Cylinder Machine, and
illustrated in Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
We employ the disc or ring rollers and the ink roller in combination with the
distributing rollers a and the ink cylinders b, the whole combination being the
inking and distributing apparatus mounted in the frame h substantially in the same
manner as illustrated in the preceding figures but the rollers and in this
application or modification are mounted upon two armed swing or balanced
levers S S¹, so [that when actuated at T the same may move about the axis of the
support T, so as to be capable of moving from the cylinder n, to the position as
shewn in dotted lines for the purpose of inking the surface of the travelling ink table
which travels in the plane U. Two rollers are here shewn but it must be understood
that two or more may be employed, the said rollers have also provided on their
shafts s 8 pairs of runners II and J J', the larger diameters of each pair are
arranged thereon so that when actuated by means of the lever S to engage or make
contact with a certain pair of circular tappits that is, the runners I engage with
tappits o on the inner sides of the pullies p p¹ and the runners J J¹ engage or make
contact with tappits o' on the outer sides of pullies p p' consequently the rollers 8"
and to are by these means alternately removed to and from the inking cylinder n, each
roller being capable of taking or receiving from the allotted surface of the cylinder
the various coloured inks transferred from the ink ducts thereto.
The further explanation of the application of our invention to a cylinder machine
is more completely illustrated in Figs. 13 and 14. V is the travelling ink table of
the ordinary Wharfedale" Cylinder Machine, which we provide with
tappits V₁ VVV when the ink has been collected by the rollers from the inking
cylinder and dropped down by a suitable eccentric on a motion shaft of the machine
in the direction as indicated by the dotted lines, the various coloured inks, and in the
case of borders to be printed, an ink of one colour is transferred--being suitably

page_text: actuated by the tappits-on to the ink table V; the said table is then caused by the
usual means to travel in the direction of the arrow, underneath the forme inking
rollers W W1 W2 W³, the office of the rollers W WW2 being to receive from the ink table
as shewn in dotted lines from X to X1, and to carry the various colours, the office of
the roller W' being to receive from the ink table as shewn from X2 to X3 and to
carry the one ink for border purposes, which rollers are actuated suitably by the
horizontal tappits V1 V2 V3 V to collect the inks, and the tappits Y Y Y Y Y to
transfer the said inks to the formne, which forme carriage with the forme then passes
underneath the impression cylinder Z, which carries the material to be printed upon
in the usual manner. The operation of this invention is as follows.
compartment or colour receptacles of the divided ink duct is situate opposite to a
ring or disc, and as the ink cylinders b revolve the different coloured inks are thus
led on to the distributing rollers, and by the lateral movements thereof the said inks
are distributed thereon, and as the discs m are by the action of the circular tappits
passed into contact or engagement with the distributing rollers to collect the lines,
stripes, bands or sections of the various coloured inks therefrom, as shewn in Fig. 4
which colours are for the purpose of inking the type-the ink roller k is represented
in the act of transferring or putting on a single coloured ink on to the cylinder
which coloured ink is for the purpose of inking two sides of the border.
Each
Fig. 4. also represents the type inking rollers and t in position actuated by, the
tappit pullies, slide being in contact with the inking cylinder in order to collect the
stripes or sections of various coloured inks previously transferred thereto or put
thereon by die rings or discs m at the same time the border or one colour roller u
is inoperative, or is removed out of contact with the face of the inking cylindern,
thus according to our arrangement of tappits having more or less contact surfaces
around the circumference of the pullies p and p'-which are of the same diameter
as the inking cylinder n--consequently the dise rollers j and the ink roller kare
caused to make alternate contact with the inking cylinder a more or less, for example
if two semi-circular tappits are employed as shewn, equal parts of the surface of the
periphery of the inking cylinder n or one half thereof will be covered by stripes of
colour, and the other half will be covered with one or a single coloured ink
respectively; such portions being taken off the cylinder by the proper or appointed
inking rollers in manner as fully described.
It is obvious that according to our arrangement of rings or discs in combination
with the distributing rollers and divided compartments or ink ducts, that we are
enabled to employ any desired number of coloured inks sufficient to satisfy the
requirements for all practical purposes, for example, we may by the employment of
three ink ducts divided into four compartments each employ or use in such a case
twelve colours. The colours having been collected from the inking cylinder n, the
inking rollers then pass down to perform the operations of inking the type and the
two sides or top and bottom sides of the type or border, as shewn in Figs. 8 and 9,
the two other sides or lines of the border at right angles are inked by means of colour
transferred by two rings or discs each situate nearest to each end of the roller upon
which they are mounted and each is situate opposite to the said other two sides or
border lines on the forme, the inking rollers being actuated or operated during their
traverse along the face of the type by the properly adjusted tappits arranged on the
inking roller races or guides in the manner herein described, the colours are thus
transferred to the type and the borders inked in, the inking rollers then having
performed the return movement, or the type rollers inked by the travelling colour
table accordingly as the machine to which our invention is to be applied is a platen,
cylinder, or litho machine, the platen or the impression cylinder then operates as the
case may be, thus type in stereo, or electro may be printed or impressed in many
colours at one operation; our invention thus becomes what we have hereinbefore
stated a multi-colour printing machine, and which is capable of printing a border of
one uniform or solid colour distinct from any colour or colours used or employed in
the letterpress or body of the work-and by the arrangement of means herein
described for the purposes of equal ink distribution, we claim to accomplish solidity

page_text: uniformity, density or depth of colour for printing purposes. If desired we inay
substitute for the disc rollers and dises, solid composition rollers, which may be
required to be used when the work is to be rolled from head to foot of the letterpress
as shewn at N¹ in Fig. 5, instead of from side to side of the letterpress as shewn
at N in Fig. 5, as in the latter case when working large posters, thus the whole of
the rollers conveying their respective inks will be in such case solid and the
respective inks or colours used will in such case be transferred on to the inking
cylinder and consequently on to the inking rollers lengthwise thereof, and not in the
form of rings of colours as in the case of the employment of colour dises, this
modification of our invention is thus adapted to provide for the various and well
known methods of working or printing letterpress. Another modification of the
application of our invention consists in the application of the tappits having straight.
surfaces in such a manner as to form or constitute middle tappits as shewn in Fig. 15
which fig. represents the rollers at and u inking & forme on the bed of a platen
machine over the surfaces of which suitably formed runners of the roller t pass which
roller may be provided by a colour inking ring or disc, with a colour to ink in certain
matter in the centre or other position between any line or lines of letterpress or type
as represented by the letter K, thus the roller is provided with a middle colour and
is actuated by the aid of the middle tappits so as to be removed from the surface of
the type when the middle colour has been transferred to its proper place on the
type.
M' Fig. 15 represents the positions of the middle tappits with which the suitably
formed runners J' engage or make contact during the travel of the inking roller-
any convenient number of which may be used-across the surfaces thereof
accomplishing when the runners have passed from the said tappets as shewn in the
fig. the inking of the portion J2 also the portions of the letterpress or work within
the width of the part J2 on the forme which part J2 may be, for instance a wood cut,
electro, or stereo of a characteristic figure interposed between the lines of the
letterpress, in any desired coloured ink as represented at J on the inking roller t,
which section of colour placed thereon corresponds to the width of the part J* desired
to be inked with the said colour. The enlarged parts or larger diameters of the
runners J¹ when the part J2 has been inked-pass over the middle tappits Me and the
roller is thus lifted from the surface of the type, the remainder of the lines of letter
press or lines of the complete forme are inked and completed by the other rollers in
their respective colours the runners of which are formed with diameters so as to pass
over the middle tappits without the said tappits affecting the movements thereof with
relation to the surface of the forme.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In combination the rings or discs m, the rollers ; and k, the inking cylinder n
the pallies p p with the adjustable tappits o, o' whereby the reversible runners on
the rollers jk 8 t and u are actuated, the forme ink rollers 8 t and u and the
adjustable tappits on the guides or bearers L L substantially as and for the purposes
herein fully set forth and described.
2. In combination the tappit actuated rollers ; with discs m and roller k as and
for the purposes herein set forth.
3. In combination the tappit actuated discs m, inking cylinder n, and the tappit
actuated forme ink rollers a and t, whereby rings of colours may be placed upon and
taken from the inking cylinder as and for the purposes herein set forth.
4. In combination the rollers 8 t and u and the arrangement of tappits M* shewn
in Fig. 15 as and for the purposes herein set forth.
5. In combination tappit actuated ink roller k, inking cylinder n and forme ink
roller u. as and for the purposes herein set forth.
6. In combination the roller k, discs m, inking cylinder n, forme ink rollers 8, 4, and u,

page_text: actuated by tappits on cylinder n or shaft f and on bearers L L¹ respectively
as and for the purposes herein set forth.
7. In combination cylinder n and two or more adjustable tappits for the purposes
herein set forth.
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J. H. BUTTERWORTH & Co.,
Rochdale, for the Applicants.