A MACHINE FOR PAGING BOOKS AND NUMBERING DOCUMENTS CONSECUTIVELY AND OTHERWISE, AND FOR PRINTING DATES, WORDS, MARKS, NUMBERS, OR IMPRESSIONS IN AN EXPEDITIOUS MANNER
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SHAW, of Canning Place, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Printer and
Account Book Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Third day of March, in the eighth year of Her reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Shaw, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, ahat
I, the said William Shaw, my exors, admors, and assigns, and such others
as I, the said William Shaw, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR PAGING BOOKS AND NUMBERING
DOCUMENTS CONSECUTIVELY AND OTHERWISE, AND FOR PRINTING DATES, WORDS,
MARKS, NUMBERS, OR IMPRESSIONS IN AN EXPEDITIOUS MANNER;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said William Shaw, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the side part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Shaw, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention of
"A Makhine for Paging Book, Paging Books, and Numbering Documents
Consecutively and otherwise, and for Printing Dates, Words, Numbers, or
Impressions in an Expeditious Manner," to consist in a more efficient and
compact arrangement of parts than heretofore constructed for the purposes to
which my machine is or may be applied. And the manner in which my said
Invention is performed or carried into effect will be seen by reference to the
annexed Drawing and the following description thereof. The scale to which
the Drawings are made is marked thereon, and the same letter or figure of
reference is used to indicate the same part of the various Figures there
delineated.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the machine. Figure 2 represents
a side elevation of the machine, shewn partly in section. Figures 3 and 4
represent in two views one of the riggs upon which the numbers are engraved.
Figure 5 represents a side elevation of a small drum upon which the rings
shewn in Figure 1 are placed side by side. Figure 6 represents a section
through the centre of a small drum seen in Figure 5, with the rings shewn in
Figure 1 in their respective places. Figure 7 represents a side elevation of
one of the clicks, and a portion of one of the wheels on which it acts.
Figure 8 represents a front elevation of the clicks, one of which is shewn in
Figure 7. Figure 9 is a plan view of the table on which the articles to be
printed are placed to receive the impression from the projections on the rings.
In Figures 1 and 2 the machine is drawn in the position the various parts
will assume when numbering the first unit. The red lines in Figure 2 show
the position of the different parts of the machine when the figure has been
struck and the makine is in its place of rest ready for the following number to
be struck. The machine consists of the following parts-a, a, are the side
frames, which are connected together by a traverse frame b; the bracket c
is bolted to the top rail of the frame b; the upper part of the bracket c
has a round hole bored in it to admit the cylindrical end of the bar d,
and the lower part of the bracket c has a square opening to receive
the square part of the said bar, which terminated in a fork, as seen in
Figure 1. The small drinn e, together with the rings, as shewn in full size in
the detached Figures 5 and 6, is placed between the arms of the fork at the

page_text: termination of the bar d, and is held in its position by two bolts f, which pass
through the arms of the fork, and through the holes y in the drum e, as seen
in Figure 5. The ring his drawn full size in the detached Figures 3 and 4,
and it is connected with the ratchet wheel i by a pin seen in Figure 6; they
are placed upon the drum e, and are held with the five other rings against the
shoulder by means of the screw nut 1. The lever m passes through a slot
made in the bar d, to which it is connected by a pin, and the lever i vibrates
upon a fulcrum marked n, at the upper end of a link o, the lower end of
which link is made fast to the bracket c. The lever m is provided with
a handle p, and a counterpoise is attached to the other extremity of the lever
m to compensate for the weight of the bar d, with its appurtenances; the bar
d is also partly raised up after the number has been struck by the spring q
and the length of the stroke is regulated by the set screw 1, which is screwed
into the bracket c. The numbers to be printed are engraved upon the pro-
jections s of the rings h, t, u, v, w, and r, and they are supplied with ink by
the following mechanism:-A brass piece y is fixed to the fork at the lower
extremity of the bar d, and the trough for containing the ink is placed in the
corner of the piece y; there are two side plates, which hinge upon pins 'A',
fixed to the bar'd, and they are also connected to the links B, attached to the
bracket c. When the bar d is depressed, for the purpose of printing a number,
the links B elevate one side of the plates, and cause them to move through
the segment of the circle, the centre of which is at the pin 'A. The side
plates a are connected together below by a stay c, to which is attached a small
click D, seen in Figure 1. When the side plates and their connecting stay c
move upwards the click D acts upon a ratchet wheel fixed to the end of tho
ink roller E, which is thereby caused to revolve in the direction of the arrow,
and a small quantity of ink is brought from the trough ready to be worked over
the surface of the under side of the piece y by the working roller F during the
downward motion of the side plates. The feeding roller G, which lays the ink
upon the numbers engraved on the projections s of the rings, takes the ink froni
the under side of the piece y, where is has been worked by the roller F. There
is a small stationary table h fixed to the frame b, provided with rollers, over
which an endless belt moves very slowly. The object of this belt is for
the purpose of having a soft substance under the paper or other material
on which the numbers are to be printed, and the motion is given to the
belt in order that the ink which may be deposited upon it from the figures on
the under side of the paper that is being printed may have time to dry before it
is brought again under the rings to prevent what is called "setting off" in
printing. The motion is given to the said belt by the following contrivance:―

page_text: One of the pins A is prolonged, and takes into a slot at the end of the lever I,
keyed on a shaft .1, at the end of which a slot lever K is fixed, seen by dotted
lines in Figure 1. A click hanges down from the lever K, and acts upon a
ratchet wheel is keyed to the end of the roller shaft L, as clearly shown in
Figures 1 and 2. The roller M is placed under the roller L, and between
them the endless belt passes. It then descends to the lightening roller N, and
after passing under it is carried over the roller O, then along the table, and
partly round the roller p, from which it goes again to the roller L. The width
of the margin on each side of the page to be numbered is regulated by the
plates Q and guide piece R, each of which can be set in slots, as plainly shewn
in the detached view of the table. See Figure 9. There is a large moveable
table S for holding the articles to be numbered, and which can be set to any
required height by means of a bolt sliding in the slot of the frame b, seen in
Figure 1. The rings h, t, u, v. w, and a, are all provided with eleven notclics,
marked X, in Figure 3, into which the wedge-shaped heads of the pins T, sce
Figure 5, are pressed by the spiral springs wound round the pins. There is a
stationary click U fixed to the bracket c, and every time the bar d is elevated
by the lever m one of the teeth of the ratchet wheel i (with ten teeth) comes
in contact. with the cliff U; and as the ring his connected to the ratchet
wheel by a pin, as already described, the ring h will make one-tenth part of
a revolution for each time the bar d is elevated; and as there are ten projec-
tions S upon the ring h, another of them will be brought in a line with the
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centre of the bar d at the end of every upward motion of the lever m.
ratchet wheel i, and rings h, t, u, v, w, and a, will rotate in the direction of the
arrow; and as the said rings are always held in their relative positions by the
wedge-shaped heads of the pins T taking into the notches X made in the
rings, it is evident that each time the bar d, with its appurtenances, moves
upwards, the click U has to overcome the resistance of the spiral springs,
which press the pins T into the notches of the rings, and the inside surface of
the rings hold the pins T back until another notch X come opposite to the
pins T, when the spiral springs round them will push them into the notches X,
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and hold the rings firm during the process of printing another number.
printing the pages of a book it will be found more convenient to print all the
pages on one side of the book first. The numbers will sometimes follow as
1, 3, 5, and all the odd numbers to the end of the book, and then the inter-
mediate numbers of 2, 4, 6, and all the even numbers will have to be printed
on the opposite pages. This method of printing will render it necessary
to have two rings h, one of which is engraved with the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7,
and 9, twice over; and when all the pages on one side of the book are

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printed this ring must be taken off the drum c, and replaced by one
with the numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8. Let us now suppose the machine
to be used for printing the pages of a book (the rings t, u, v, w, and x,
must be placed one twentieth in advance of the ring h, the first time
the lever m is depressed it will print the Figure 1; as the lever m rises,
the click ut, coming in contact with the ratchet i, will cause the ring h to
revolve one-tenth part of a revolution, and will bring the projections, with
the Figure 3 engraved upon it, in a perpendicular line under the centre
of the bar d, and therefore ready to be printed. Upon the following page of the
book the third stroke of the lever m will print the Figure 5, the fourth stroke
will print the Figure 7, and the fifth stroke will print the Figure 9. When
the lever mis elevated for the sixth stroke one of the moveable clicks V, see
Figure 7, which bad before been supported upon the projecting rib of the
ring h, comes opposite the recess W, and by the action of a spring at the back
is pushed forwards until the pin X comes opposite the hollow part of the
jections s on the ring t, which it will move a twentieth part of a revolution,
thereby bringing the Figure 1 of the ring t in a line with the Figure 1 of the
ring h, and both stand in the proper position for printing the number 11. The
next stroke of the lever i will raise the moveable click V out of the recess W,
and the stationary click U, by acting on the ring L, will bring the Figure 8
opposite to the Figure 1 on the ring t, and therefore print the number 13.
After the number 19 has been printed the second recess W on the ring h
comes opposite the moveable click V, and the pin X, by acting on the pro-
jecting s of the ring t, moves it one-tenth of a revolution, and thereby brings
the Figure 2 in a line with the Figure 1 of the ring h, so as to print the
number 21 at the new stroke. The rings t, u, v, w, and a have only one
recess W cut in them, because the projections s are engraved with the
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. After the number 99 has been
printed the second moveable clink V must act upon the third ring u, and by
causing it to move one-twentieth part of a revolution, bring its figure 1 opposite
to the 0 of the ring t and the 1 of the ring h, so as to print 101 on the next
page. In like manner the third click V acts upon the fourth ring U, and the
fourth click Vupon the fifth ring W. The last ring may be used for printing
any words or letters that may be required. When any article has to be
printed with the figures in regular succession the first ring h must be
engraved with the Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 all round, and
there must only be one of the recesses W, because the second ring t will
only be required in operation after the ninth stroke of the lever m.
Figures 10 and 11 represent two views of another specification of the same

page_text: machine, when it is applied to the printing of railway tickets &c. The lever m
is the same as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2, and the circle a
represents the printing rings. The lever m has at one side of the fulcrum n
a pin which takes into a slot of the bar y, and during the downward motion
of the said bar the feed roller is made to move part of a revolution in the
direction of the arrow by means of a ratchet wheel and click, as seen in the
Drawing. Between the feed roller and the top roller the paper or other
material to be printed is inserted. There is a knife placed at the end of the
table, which is worked by a rod 3 from the other end of the lever m. When
the machine is printing railway tickets addition wheels may be used for
printing the names of the different stations, or whatever other words may be
required in connexion with the figure wheels already described.
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Having described the nature of my Invention, together with the manner in
which the same is to be performed and carried into effect, I do not claim as
my Invention any separate parts of which my machine is composed or con-
structed; but I do claim,
First, the action of the bar with its wheels or other arrangement for con-
taining printing surfaces, whether the same are self-acting or stationery, in
combination with the mechanical action of the inking apparatus.
Second, the mechanical arrangements and construction by which the changes
are effected by the clicks, in combination with the alternating motion of the
drum.
Third, the application of the tape movement, in combination with the table
and other portions of the numbering machine.
Fourth, the method of propelling at regular intervals by pressure rollers the
material to be printed, in connection with numbering machines.
Fifth, the method of cutting the printed material at intervals in combina-
tion with the propelling and numbering process.
Sixth, the adaptation of wheels with a series of projections for the purpose
of engraving the names of railway stations and other words therein, affording a
facility of arrangement for the purpose of printing the same, in connection with
the numbering process; all which being, to the best of my knowledge and
belief, new, and never before practised in that part of Her Majesty's Dominions
called England, I deliver this as my true and faithful Specification of the
same.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Shaw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and forty-five.
WILLIAM (L.S.) SHAW.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1845, the aforesaid William Shaw came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and forty-five.