AN APPARATUS BY MEANS OF WHICH PRINTED STRIPS MAY BE ARRANGED IN PAGE' OR COLUMN FORM AND SECURED TO A BASE SHEET to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I, AUSTYN WILLIAM GRANVILLE of 10 Edith Terrace, Fulham Road London
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN APPARATUS BY
MEANS OF WHICH PRINTED STRIPS MAY BE ARRANGED IN PAGE' OR COLUMN FORM
AND SECURED TO A BASE SHEET to be as follows:-
"
My Invention relates to the art of printing and consists of an apparatus by
means of which printed strips may be arranged in page or column form and secured
to a base sheet.
The apparatus consists of:-1st A frame to which is secured the base sheet.
2nd Three parallel grooves secured to a shiftable plate, and so adapted that either
groove may be brought to the operating point at the end of the guide groove.
3rd A knife for severing the strips into lines or between words, as desired.
4th A guide groove in which the strip is run after being cut, and in which it is
arranged in lines of any desired length, preparatory to being secured to the base
sheet.
5th A bar containing a series of pins, which is adapted to be pressed upon the
line of strip in the guide groove, the pins penetrating both the strip and the base
sheet and driving portions of the strip through the base sheet, thus securing the
strips to the base sheet.
More particularly described, my invention as perfected is as follows:-
I first provide a frame which serves as a guide and support for the base sheet
frame. Upon the side of the base sheet frame I place a cog rack, which operates
in connection with a pawl to advance the frame line by line, as the strips are
adjusted and secured to the base sheet. The bar, containing the pins for
penetrating and securing the strips is fastened to arms pivotted to the main frame,
and is held above and away from the base sheet, except when operating by means
of.springs, the upper ends of which are secured to a bar resting upon standards at
the side of the frame. To press the pins upon the line strip I provide a pedal,
which is connected with the pin bar by means of a rod and the pin bar is brought
down upon the line strip by foot pressure upon the pedal, thus driving the pins
through the strip and base sheet and thus securing one to the other.

page_text: Upon the guide and also upon the parallel grooves, a scale is drawn, to enable
the operator to see, when near the end of a line, how much more of the strip it will
be necessary to cut off in order to complete the line; and whether it will be
necessary to sever the strip between words in order to spread out the line in the
guide to justify the same. Suitable stops and springs regulate the movement, and
resting positions of the parallel grooves, or the plate upon which they rest. The
knife is connected with a second pedal and is pressed upon the strip by the pressure
of the operator's foot upon the pedal, a spring suitably placed lifts the knife from
the strip to resting position after operating.
When a page or column shall be completed, the base sheet to which it is secured
is removed, and a fresh sheet put in, and the operator will then proceed with the
next page or column.

page_text: I, AUSTYN WILLIAM GRANVILLE of 10 Edith Terrace Fulham Road, London
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 :-
My invention relates to the art of printing and consists of an apparatus by
means of which printed strips may be arranged in page or column form and
secured to a base sheet.
The apparatus consists of:-1st a frame to which is secured the base sheet.
2nd Three or other number of parallel grooves secured to a shiftable plate, and
so adapted that either groove may be brought to the operating point at the end of
the guide groove.
3rd A knife for severing the strips into lines or between words as desired.
4th A guide groove in which the strip is run after being cut, and in which it is
arranged in lines of any desired length, preparatory to being secured to the base
sheet.
.
5th A bar, containing a series of pins which is adapted to be pressed upon the
line of strip in the guide groove, the pins penetrating both the strip and the base
sheet and driving portions of the strip through the base sheet, thus securing the
strips to the base sheet.
More particularly described, my invention as perfected is as follows:-
I first provide a frame which serves as a guide, and support for the base sheet
frame. Upon the side of the base sheet frame I place a cog rack, which operates
in connection with a pawl to advance the frame line by line, as the strips are
adjusted and secured to the base sheet. The bar, containing the pins for
penetrating and securing the strips is fastened to arms pivotted to the main frame,
and is held above and away from the base sheet, except when operating, by means
of springs, the upper ends of which are secured to a bar resting upon standards at
the side of the frame. To press the pins upon the line strip I provide a pedal,
which is connected with the pin bar by means of a rod, and the pin bar is brought
down upon the line strip by foot pressure upon the pedal thus driving the pins
through the strip and base sheet and thus securing one to the other.
Upon the guide and also upon the parallel grooves, a scale is or may be drawn,
to enable the operator to see, when near the end of a line, how much more of the
strip it will be necessary to cut off in order to complete the line; and whether it
will be necessary to sever the strip between words in order to spread out the line
in the guide to justify the same. Suitable stops and springs regulate the move-
ment, and resting positions of the parallel grooves or the plate, upon which they
rest. The knife is connected with a second pedal, and is pressed upon the strip by
the pressure of the operator's foot upon the pedal, a spring suitably placed lifts the
knife from the strip to resting position after operating.

page_text: when a page or corum shan de completed one base
is removed, and a fresh sheet put in, and the operator will then proceed with the
next page or column.
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of an apparatus constructed according to my invention.
Figures 2 and 3 are opposite side views of the same.
a a is "the frame on which is secured the base sheet; that is to say a sheet of
paper intended to receive and have arranged upon it in proper order, matter which
has been previously printed in transfer ink on a continuous paper tape. a¹ is an
outer guide frame in which the frame a is moved step by step as the work
progresses, each step being the distance required to separate line from line.
2 and 3 are three parallel grooves to receive printed paper tapes-on one of
these there is printed the bulk of the matter in such manner that it reads con-
tinuously along the tape. This tape is usually inserted into the lowest groove bl.
On a second tape are printed the corrections required by the matter on the first
tape, the second tape is usually inserted into the groove b². On a third tape a
series of hyphens may be printed or it may be any other such like stops or other
matter frequently required and which it is more convenient to prepare separately
than together with the bulk of the corrections required to the matter printed upon
the original main tape.
There is a receiving guide space c extending across the base sheet on the frame a,
it is formed between the two bars d and e. The faces of these bars are grooved to
retain the edges of the portions of the paper tape which are drawn forward into the
guide space c and cut off and arranged in proper order therein by the operator.
The operator employs a point with which to advance the tapes in the grooves.
is a shearing blade it is jointed at f¹ to a bar f' against the edge of which it
operates. The blade f is also jointed to a piece which in turn is connected with a
rod g¹.
For the purpose of cutting off a portion of any one of the paper tapes which has
been advanced to the required length out of either of the grooves b1 62 or b³ into
the guide space c the shearing blade fis drawn down by a movement of the rod g¹
imparted to it by a treadle which is not shown in the drawing. A spring also not
seen in the drawing causes the return upward movement of the rod g¹. Either of
the three grooves b' b² or b³ can be brought to range with the guide space c so that
the tape may be passed from one to the other. The grooves are brought to the
position required by the movement by hand of the rod b to which the plate having
the grooves in it is attached.
The rod is drawn down to the full extent to bring the end of the groove b³ to
coincide with the entrance to the space c and when so drawn down it is retained by
its latch dropping in behind the fixed tooth or projection . The drawing
represents the position in which the middle groove b' is opposite the space c and
the parts are so retained by the latch dropping behind a second tooth or
projection . When the latch is lifted a spring 65 moves the rod b upwards and
brings the groove b' into position to deliver portions of its tape into the space c.
By cutting portions from the several tapes and arranging them in due order in the
space ca line across the base sheet is completed and properly spaced and the next
operation is to attach the pieces to the base sheet sufficiently firmly to keep them in
place during the subsequent operation of transferring the printed matter to a litho-
graphic stone from which the copies required are subsequently printed. This fixing
is performed by perforating the tape and the base plate by means of a presser of
which the construction is preferably as follows:-there is a row of pins fixed in
a pin bar as shown separately in transverse section at Figure 4. The pins i¹ pass
through another bar which at its ends is attached to stems 23 23. These stems.

page_text: pass through guiding holes in the bar and beyond they receive stop nuts which
regulate the distance which the bar 2 can advance beyond the ends of the pins-
5 are springs which press the bar i² forward over the points of the pins. When
the arrangement of the line is completed as already described the presser is
brought down so that first the small projecting nipples seen on the underside of the
bar 2 press strongly on the portions of tape immediately beneath the printed
matter thereon and then the pins pass through the tapes and base sheet and enter
a slot or perforation in a supporting bar beneath. The presser is carried as will be
seen at the ends of lever arms k k capable of turning about centres at k¹¹. The
outer ends of these arms are connected by links with other lever arms m m on
an axis m' and one of the arms m is connected by a rod n to a treddle. By
depressing the treddle the presser is brought down and the pins are caused to pass
through the paper. When the pressure on the treddle ceases a spring not shown in
the drawing draws up the rod n and the presser retires from the paper, the pins
being first withdrawn and the bar being afterwards lifted.
The movement which the rod n receives from the spring when the treddle is
permitted to rise also causes the base frame a to be moved upwards in the outer
guide frame at the distance required to separate the line of printed matter which
has just been arranged from the next line which has now to be commenced. This is
effected by claws o o jointed to arms k² 2 of the levers -These claws engage with
ratchet teeth a³ a formed on the sides of the base frame a a.
The claws engage
with these teeth and draw the base frame upwards during the upward movement
of the treddle in the downward movement the claws ride over the teeth-p is a
pawl also engaging with the teeth as it prevents the descent of the base frame
when the claws o retire.
During the movement thus imparted to the base sheet there might be danger, with-
out suitable precaution, of the portions of tape already attached to the sheet catching
upon the edges of the bars de which enclose between them the guide space c-
this is avoided in the following manner :-one of the links has jointed to it a
piece which is held in place as shown in Figure 2 by a spring 13. The bar e has
upon it a pin el which as seen in this Figure is between the link and the piece l¹
but as the link is drawn down the pin e¹ escapes from this position the piece
lifting to allow it to pass. When the link again rises the pin e¹ is met by the
upper end of the piece l and consequently the pin e¹ with the bar e to which it is
attached are lifted moving about centres at e with which the bar e is connected by
arms e. The pin e¹ as the link rises passes over the back of the piece until
towards the end of the movement it meets a recess in the piece which leaves the
pin unsupported; the bar e then falls by its own weight and the pin el returns to
the position in which it is represented in the drawing. At the same time that the
bar e is thus lifted the bar d also rises for projections et e' on the bar e enter
beneath the bar d. The bar d is carried by arms d' d¹ jointed to the outer frame a¹
at d2 d. The bar e is perforated at ex ex to admit of the printed matter beneath it
being read sufficiently clearly. Line after line is thus arranged and properly
spaced upon the base sheet until the base sheet is full, when it is removed and the
printed matter transferred to a lithographic stone in the usual manner-from this
stone the desired number of copies are printed.
q is a slide which is used for liberating the base frame a from the claws o and
also for lifting the bars & and e when required for setting the apparatus; it has a
handle q upon it and also inclines q³ 93. One of these inclines acts against the
pin e and the other against a pin p² on the side of the retaining pawl p.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is
(1.) An apparatus for arranging printed strips in page or column comprising
grooves in which the tapes are held-a receiving guide space into which portions

page_text: of the tapes may be passed-a cutter for detaching pieces from the tapes as required
and a presser affixing the portions of tape when arranged upon a base sheet sub-
stantially as described.
(2.) An apparatus for facilitating the arrangement of printed strips in page or
column and securing the same to a base sheet substantially as described and
illustrated by the annexed drawings.