Improvements in or connected with Printing Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Printing Machines.
I, WILLIAM MALONE, of Brook Cottage, 51, Smithdown Road, Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Printer's Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to printing machines and more especially to those
kinds of machines wherein the paper is printed in sheets and fed to the machine
by an attendant or under attendant's supervision, sheet by sheet.
According to this invention the sheets of paper delivered to a machine are
brought back by any suitable mechanism from the printing portions of the machinery
past a point near that from which they were fed so that the printed sheets are
delivered or pass one by one under the view of the feeder or attendant stationed at
or near the point at which the paper is fed, the surface receiving the impression
being that under view.
In one arrangement as applied to an ordinary machine having flat formes and a
rotary pressure roller or rollers, the printed sheets may be taken from the press
roller grippers by other rollers which deliver it onto tapes disposed over the feeding
table and such tapes convey it over the feeding table and deliver it at that end or
part of the machine in any suitable way.
One of the effects of this invention is that the work produced by the machine
passes under the view of the feeder or attendant and thus enables him to see the
quality of such work the advantage of which is obvious.
It is to be understood that in applying this invention to different machines, and
kinds or types of machine and for the production of different kinds of work, it
may be modified in many ways, as regards arrangements, combinations and disposi-
tions of parts, to suit such varying applications and without departing from the
controlling features of the invention.
Dated this 18th day of November 1890.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Printing Machines.
1, WILLIAM MALONE, of Brook Cottage, 51, Smithdown Road, Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Printer's Machinist, 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 has reference to printing machines and more especially to those
kinds of machines wherein the paper is printed in sheets and fed to the machine
by an attendant or under an attendant's supervision, sheet by sheet.
According to this invention the sheets of paper delivered to a machine are
brought back by any suitable mechanism from the printing portions of the
machinery past a point near that from which they were fed so that the printed
sheets are delivered or pass one by one under the view of the feeder or attendant
stationed at or near the point at which the paper is fed, the surface receiving the
impression being that under view.
In one arrangement as applied to an ordinary machine having flat formes and a

page_text: rotary pressure roller or rollers, the printed sheets may be taken from the press
roller grippers by other rollers, which deliver it onto tapes disposed over the
feeding table, and such tapes convey it over the feeding table and deliver it at
that end or part of the machine in any suitable way.
arrangement.
Having thus generally described the object, nature and effects of the invention, I 5
will now proceed to describe it with reference to the sheet of accompanying
drawings. The example of apparatus which I have illustrated is on arr
and construction of parts according to this invention applied to an ordinary
printing machine wherein the paper is printed in sheets, and fed to the machine,
by an attendant, sheet by sheet. In the various figures the same parts are
designated by the same letters, and they correspond with those used in the following
explanation of the example.
and construction of parts according to this invention applied to an ordinary
printing machine wherein the paper is printed in sheets, and fed to the machine,
by an attendant, sheet by sheet. In the various figures the same parts are
designated by the same letters, and they correspond with those used in the following
'explanation of the example.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side elevation of an example of apparatus according
to my invention applied to a printing machine.
Figure 2 is a plan of the apparatus.
Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are details of the apparatus.
With reference to the drawings A designates the table or carriage, B designates
the press roller or cylinder and B₁ the grippers thereof, and C the feed board of
an ordinary printing machine. Under the present invention, the printed sheets of
paper are kept on the cylinder B by the rollers a which are placed above and
revolve upon the cylinder B, the grippers B' at this point having released the sheet
of paper so as to allow its leading edge to spring up as shewn at b. The rollers a
and cylinder B deliver the paper on to the travelling tapes d with its newly
printed face uppermost. The tapes d are carried by the front roller d' and the
back roller and disposed directly over the feed board C. The tapes are caused
to travel by the motion imparted to one of the rollers or by any suitable
means from the printing machine. is the back delivery board which receives
the sheets of paper from the tapes d.
The roller may be a plain roller as shewn in Figures 3 and 4: or, it may be
provided with circular brushes. which come between and stand above the tapes d
as shewn at Figures 5 and 6, the object of the brushes being to assist in the delivery
of the paper.
The main effect afforded by this invention is, as already stated, that the work
produced by the machine, that is each sheet with its freshly printed face upper-
most, passes under the view of the feeder or attendant, and thus he is enabled to
see the quality of such work at all times and whilst he is feeding, or near the
feeding table of the machine, the advantage of which is obvious.
It is to be understood that in applying this invention to different machines, and
kinds or types of machine, and for the production of different kinds of work, it
may be modified in many ways, as regards arrangements, combinatious and disposi-
tions of parts, to suit such varying applications and without departing from the
controlling features of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Effecting substantially in the manner herein described the return or bringing
back of the printed sheets of paper (or other material) delivered from a printing
or lithographic press with the surface printed under the view of the attendant or
operator, for the purposes specified.
2. The combination with a printing machine of the kind set forth with reference
to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, of a conveyor device (such as d, d, d²) disposed
directly over the feeding table and adapted to bring back or return the sheets

page_text: of paper from the press roller or cylinder B with their newly printed face upper-
most and under the view of the feeder or attendant, and to deliver them onto a
table: substantially as set forth with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 18th day of August 1891.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.