Improvements in or relating to Printing Machinery.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by ROBERT HOE, Printing Press Manufacturer, of
504 Grand Street, in the City of New York, State of New York, United
States of America.]
Improvements in or relating to Printing Machinery.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of The Office for the Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of London, Patent Agent, 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 means for associating small or supplemental sheet lengths
with large or main sheet lengths, in the production of a compound product which
may not be composed by simply bringing together a number of the aforesaid main
sheet lengths.
The invention consists in a mechanism whereby a small or supplemental sheet,
fed onward at an appropriate slow speed, is accelerated so as to be delivered to
the mechanism carrying the web from which the main sheet lengths are formed, at
the high speed at which the latter moves, and thereafter more in harmony with the
travel of said web and sheets therefrom, and finally become associated with the
same, the details and novel features of which are hereinafter particularly set
forth.
The invention includes various constructions and combinations of parts, and
modifications thereof, all of which will be explained in the course of the following
Specification, aided by the accompanying drawings, in which-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation ;
Fig. 2 a sectional elevation; and
Figs. 3 and 4 plan views, of a printing machine embodying the present improve-
inents, the former being without the printing mechanisms, and the latter supplied
with them, and Fig. 4 being without the paper; Fig. 3 including an illustration of
the paper undergoing treatment.
Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevation of one of the principal impression cylinders,
and Fig. 6 is a similar end elevation of said impression cylinder, and the sheet-
carrying cylinder associated therewith.
Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the machine;
Fig. 8 a side elevation; and
Fig. 9 a sectional elevation of a modification of a part of said machine.
Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation;
Fig. 11 an end elevation; and
Fig. 12 a side elevation of another modification.
Fig. 13 is a side elevation, and
Fig. 14 an end elevation, of a further modification.
Fig. 15 is a side elevation, and
Fig. 16 an end elevation of a still further modification.
The principal elements of this improved sheet-associating mechanism are-a
cylinder 21 for carrying small or supplemental sheets, a cylinder 20 for receiving
the said sheets as well as the large or main sheet lengths, and a cutting mechanism
for dividing a web into the small sheets carried by the cylinder 21.
The carrying cylinder 21 is suitably mounted in bearings, and provided with
means for rotating it at a speed that is appropriate to the size of the sheet it is to

page_text: carry and deliver to the cylinder 20. In the instance shown, this sheet is a page
length, and equal to half the circumferential extent of the cylinder 20, and hence
the surface speed of the cylinder 21 will be one-half that of the cylinder 20.
Although the cylinder 21 might be of a size to carry one such sheet only, it is
preferred to make it of double size, as shown. It is provided with one or two sets,
as may be required (according to its size and consequent number of sheets it is to
carry), of sheet holding, carrying, and releasing devices, which, as illustrated, are
impaling pins, as 6, 7. Behind the line occupied by each set of these pins, is arranged
a vibrating throw-off plate, as 11, 12, which might be series of arms, if desired.
These arms or plates are pivoted to the cylinder, and arranged to lie, when closed,
in recesses therein, so as to be coincident with the peripheral face of the cylinder,
and they are vibrated outwards at suitable times, so that they will lift the head of
each sheet off from pins, and press its leading edge outward by means of rock arms,
as 14, 15, the studs or bowls of which run in the groove 17 of a cam fixed to the
side frame, which groove is so shaped as to move said plates quickly outward, as
they approach their meeting point with the grippers 3, and in like manner withdraw
them into their recessed seats, coincident with the periphery of said cylinder, when
their office has been performed.
The sheet-holding pins, as 6, 7, might be stationary, and simply project a suitable
distance beyond the facial surface of the cylinder 21, so as to properly pierce the
leading end of each sheet, suitable holes being provided for their passage through
the plates 11, 12. As herein shown, these pins project through recesses in the
shell of the cylinder 21, and normally protrude through small holes in the
plates 11, 12. They are carried by rock shafts, which, by means of a rock arm
and a link, as 80 or 81, are so connected with a rock arm on the shaft of the
throw off plates 11 or 12, as to move concertedly therewith, the relative
co-operation of each plate and set of pins being such, that the pins rock slightly
rearward as the plate moves outward, and thus accomplish a smooth withdrawal
of the sheet from the pins. The pins might, however, be made to reciprocate,
and thus be alternately protruded, to engage the sheet, and withdrawn, to
release it.
Slightly in advance of the said pins, this cylinder is also provided with cutting
grooves 1, 9, with which a cutting blade 8 cc-acts to sever or partially sever a web
of paper into sheets. This blade 8 is carried by a cylinder 23, that is arranged in
co-operative relation to the cylinder 21, and geared to run at an uniform speed
therewith. These cutting devices will preferably operate to completely sever the
web, although it is practical for such web to be so partially severed as to remain
but slightly attached at the points of division between the sheets to be formed
from it.
The receiving cylinder 20 co-operating with this carrying cylinder 21, is
suitably mounted in bearings, and, as shown, is provided with means for rotating it
at such surface speed as is appropriate to the manipulation of a main web which is
ultimately to be severed into shect lengths forming the principal part of the desired
product, its circumferential extent being of the length of two pages.
This
In this instance, the cylinder 20 is geared to run at twice the surface speed of
the cylinder 21, but this may be varied under suitable circumstances.
cylinder is provided with sheet receiving, retaining, and releasing devices, such,
for instance, as grippers 3, that are vibrated in any common manner, and which
co-operate with bearers 2, to receive a sheet pressed outward by the throw off
plate 11 or 12 from the cylinder 21, clamp the same on, and carry it around upon
the cylinder 20, which grippers, in their return movement, to reach a position
for ergaging the sheet, pass through recesses 71, with which the plates 11, 12 are
provided.
It will now be understood that a web of paper, as N, led from a supply roli,
as S, passed around a feeding cylinder, as 24, and entered between its surface and
that of the cylinder 21, will be impated by the pins 6 or 7, and thus be held to,
and carried around upon the surface of that cylinder, and that as the point o.

page_text: coaction of the cutting blade 8 and cutting groove 1 or 9 is passed, the web will
be severed transversely into sheet lengths, the heads of which will be retained by
the pins while a portion of their leading ends in the rear of said pins will overlie
the throw-off plate, as 11 or 12.
When now the leading end of a sheet carried by this cylinder 21 is approaching
the point where the peripheries of the cylinders 21 and 20 run nearest together,
the throw-off plate will be vibrated, so as to detach the head of the sheet from the
pins, and lift it outwards off from the cylinder, and thus so guide its leading edge,
that the latter will be presented in proper position to be seized by the grippers 3
of the cylinder 20 (which pass freely through recesses 71 of the plates 11, 12), be
pressed thereby onto the bearers 2, and, thus seized, become attached to that
cylinder, whereupon said sheet will take up the speed of said cylinder, and be laid
upon the surface thereof, and be moved onward thereby.
In the organized machine shown, the several cylinders and other rotating parts
are suitably journaled in the side frames, and the cylinders 10, 20, 30, 40, are
geared together to turn in unison at a speed of surface movement required to be
imparted to the main web or sheet lengths thereof, by means of wheels 51, 52,
53, 54, being driven, in this instance, by a pinion 55 on the driving shaft. The
carrying cylinder 21 is revolved at one half the surface speed of the receiving
cylinder 20, by means of a wheel 56 on the shaft of cylinder 20, which meshes with
a wheel 57 of twice its size on the shaft of cylinder 21, and the cutting
cylinder 23 is driven at the same surface speed as cylinder 21 by means of a
wheel 58 on the shaft of the latter, which meshes with a wheel 59 on the shaft of
the former.
A conveying cylinder 25, co-operating with the cylinder 30, is driven in unison
with that cylinder by means of a wheel 60 meshing with the wheel 53, and the
wheel 60, in turn, drives a tape pulley 26 at a like speed, by means of a pinion 61.
Delivery-cylinders 41, 42 are likewise driven at the surface speed of the principal
mechanisms from the wheel 51 through an intermediate 62 and wheels 63, 64. All
of the gearing thus far described is outside of the framework, and hence not shown
in Fig. 2, which is a view from the gear side of the machine, taken just within the
side frames.
The cylinder 30 is provided with bearers, as 4, and coacting grippers, as 5,
operating, as do the like devices of cylinder 20, to seize, carry, and release a sheet,
the proper vibrations of the grippers being produced by rock arms, or in any well
known manner.
In Figs. 5 and 6, the grippers 3 of the cylinder 20 are shown as provided with
a rock arm 13, a stud or bowl on the end of which runs in the groove of a
stationary cam 33, which thus rocks said grippers, to close and seize, or to open
and release, a sheet or sheets, in a common mauner, and the grippers 5 of
cylinder 30 are operated by a cam, as 34 and the grippers 16 of the cylinder 25
by a cam, as 75 (see Fig. 1), in the same manner, and to perform like functions.
From an examination of Figs. 3 and 4, it will be understood that the forms upon
the type or form cylinders 10 40 may be four pages lengthwise and two pages
around the same, four forms being thus carried at each end of the cylinders.
The type cylinders 10, 40, and impression cylinders 20, 30, of this printing
machine, are of a length which is twice that of the carrying cylinder 21, the
transferring cylinder 25, and the delivery cylinders 41, 42, and the machine is
provided with angular turning bars 39, 49 for transferring a web printed at one
end of said type and impression cylinders, or at one side of the machine to the
other side of the machine for the delivery by the cylinders 41, 42, which are at the
same side of machine as the carrying cylinder 21. By such an arrangement,
the type cylinders may carry, at one end, such forms as are required to print
a main web or sheet length thereof, and at the other end with such forms as are
desired for the printing of the small or supplemental sheets received from the
carrying cylinder 21, as is indicated by the one-page wide forms in Fig. 3, and the
two-page wide forms in Fig. 4.

page_text: With the cylinders 10 and 40, provided with suitable forms or printing plates.
it will be understood that a web W, led from a roll M, guided, directed, or carried
by suitable means to the cylinder 20, as by rollers 100, so as to enter between
the cylinders 10, 40, as shown in Fig. 2, will, in passing between the type
cylinder 10 and the impression cylinder 20, be printed upon one surface by the
forms upon the cylinder 10, and then led between the cylinders 20, 30, and 30, 40,
will, in passing between the latter, be printed upon the other side by the forms
carried by the cylinder 40, which web, being of a width equal to half the length
of said printing cylinders, will be led over guide rollers 37, 38, and from the
latter pass up over the turning bar 39, and under and over the turning bar 49,
whereby it will be shifted laterally, or over the other half of the length of the
printing cylinders, as it passes outward toward the delivery cylinders 41, 42, which
it reaches by being carried over guide rolls 43, 44, and 45. These delivery
cylinders 41, 42, are provided with means for cutting such web into sheets, and the
cylinder 41 with means for collecting many sheets upon its surface, and with means
whereby, when the predetermined number of sheets have been collected, the same
may be directed from its surface out to a piling or folding mechanism, for simul-
taneous delivery.
The cutting mechanisms of these cylinders 41, 42, are of ordinary construction,
and need no description, as any sheet-severing mechanism may be employed. The
means shown for holding successive sheets upon the cylinder 41, consists of pins 18,
which impale their leading ends, formed when the cutting devices operate. The
means shown for delivering the collected sheets from this cylinder consists of
throw-off arms 19, which, underlying the heads of the sheets where they are
impaled by the pins 18, are vibrated at suitable intervals, in this case at each third
revolution, by means of a rock arm, 76, attached to their shaft, which runs in the
groove of a cam 46 (see Fig. 4), which cam is revolved at the proper time to
accomplish this result by means of a wheel 65 on the shaft of cylinder 42, which
meshes with a properly-proportioned wheel 66 on the shaft of cylinder 41
(see Fig. 1). As here shown, the pins 18 are simultaneously vibrated in opposite
directions by means of a rock arm and link connecting with the rock arm 76 (as
seen in Fig. 2), whereby said pins are moving inward when the said throw-off
arms are moving outward, but none of the mechanisms connected with these
cylinders 41, 42 are herein claimed, the same being shown for illustrative purposes
only. When the throw-off arms 19 press the collected sheets outward from the
cylinder, they direct them between rollers 47, 48, over which run carrying tapes,
by which said collected sheets are delivered in a pack over folding rollers 90, 91,
and beneath a vibrating folding blade 70, whereby the pack is folded.
The circumferential dimensions of the receiving cylinder 20, being, as here
illustrated, two pages in length, and the supplemental sheets produced by the
cylinders 21, 23 being one page in length, said cylinder 20 is capacitated to carry
an extent of material which is twice the length of the supplemental sheet, and this
is received from another source in the form of a web, which is to be severed into
lengths composing the main sheets of an ultimate product. The small or supple-
mental sheet delivered by the cylinder 21 to the cylinder 20, will, therefore,
although on another part of the surface of the cylinder 20, be associated with a
sheet's length of the main web, which is larger than the supplemental sheet, so that
the two will thereafter be concertedly manipulated in definite relation.
In illustration of a practical use of this associating mechanism, it is shown as
combined with a perfecting printing machine, of which the receiving cylinder 20
acts as one of the impression cylinders, and co-operates with a type or form
cylinder, 10, in producing an impression upon one surface of a sheet or web, while
a similar impression cylinder 30, and type or form cylinder 40, in like manner
operate to produce an impression upon the opposite surface of such sheet or web,
the four cylinders 20, 10, 30, 40, being geared together to run in unison.
At one end, these type cylinders 10, 40 will be provided with the plates or forms
necessary to the printing of the main sheet or web, and at the opposite ends with

page_text: the plates or forms suitable for the printing of the small or supplemental sheets,
Fig. 3 illustrating forms for one page supplemental sheets, and Fig. 4 forms for
supplemental sheets consisting of two pages side by side. Each small or supple-
mental sheet carried by the cylinder 21 is quickly drawn from its surface by the
grippers 3 of the cylinder 20, which seizes its leading end, and lays said sheet
upon the surface of the cylinder 20, which sheet will thus be carried by said
cylinder 20 between it and the cylinder 10, where it will be printed upon one
surface, and then between the cylinders 20, 30, where these grippers 3 open to
release the sheet, and deliver it to the grippers 5 of the cylinder 30, which latter
will close to seize it, lay it on the surface of the cylinder 30, and carry it between
that cylinder and the cylinder 40, where it is printed upon its other side, said
grippers 5 finally opening to release the sheet for delivering it from said printing
cylinder 30 to the grippers 16 of the conveying cylinder 25, which grippers, in
turn, open to allow said sheet to enter a taped pathway connecting this conveying
cylinder with the delivery cylinders 41, 42. This pathway consists of a set of
upper tapes 35, that run from said cylinder, pass over the tape pulleys 26, thence
pass around pulleys 27, and return to said cylinder over pulleys 28, and of an
under set of tapes 36, that run from pulleys 29 in contact with the cylinder 25,
pass over the pulleys 26, run under the pulleys 27, and return to the pulleys 29,
over pulleys 69, 32. These short sheets S are, in succession, delivered by the
grippers of the cylinder 25 to the carrying tapes 35, 36, and are conveyed by them,
under the roller 45, into contact with the web W, which they join, so that said
sheet and a sheet's length of said web, are laid together upon the cylinder 41. As
this cylinder 41 is of a length equal to that of the short sheet, and it makes two
revolutions to each delivery of a sheet upon its surface, it follows that it will
collect a short sheet, and associate it with the web, which will be severed into a
length equal to said short sheet, and receive thereon another length, likewise
severed, so that the ultimate result is three sheets of equal length (although the
supplemental sheet, in part composing the product, may be of less width),
which are delivered from said cylinder in a single body or pack, to the folding
devices.
A printing machine of the construction illustrated, when provided with this
supplement sheet introducing mechanism, is capacitated to produce a variety of
products. Its type cylinders are of a size which adapts them to carry eight forms
or plates, arranged in four's lengthwise, and in two's circumferentially, as is
illustrated in Figures 3 & 4, and hence, it will be obvious, that, with a proper
duplication and appropriate arrangement of the forms, suitable slitters to divide
the web, cutting mechanisms to sever the web into sheet lengths, a suitable delivery
mechanism, and the use of a main web W of the full width of the machine, or equal
to the length of the printing cylinders, such a machine may, without the supplement-
introducing mechanism, produce, at each revolution of its type and impression
cylinders, eight products of two pages each, or four products of four pages cach,
or two products of eight pages each, at each revolution, and by using a three
quarter web, as the main web W, and providing each type cylinder with six forms
or plates, constituting two sets of duplicates, arranged in three's longitudinally
and in two's circumferentially, it will result, by transferring two-thirds of the web
over the remaining third, that at each revolution of the printing cylinders, two
six-page products will be produced. If the forms are appropriate, these two six-
page products would, if associated and delivered as a single product, constitute a
twelve-page product, while the two eight-page products before referred to, would,
if associated and delivered in like manner, constitute a sixteen-page product, but in
order that a ten or a fourteen-page product may result, it is necessary to add to the
product made from the main web W, a small or supplemental sheet consisting of
two pages appropriately introduced into the machine and associated with the main
sheet or sheets, which small or supplemental sheet will be half the width of the
main sheets.
In order to make a product constituting, say, a ten-page newspaper, the type

page_text: cylinder will be equipped with appropriate forms, as in Figure 3, and as follows:-
They will carry, at one end, the forms for the main sheet of eight pages on one-half
their longitudinal extent, the forms being disposed so that they are two in number
placed side by side lengthwise of the cylinder, and two in number placed end to end
around the cylinder thus occupying one half of the surface of the cylinder; and,
at the other end of the type cylinders, each will carry a one-page form occupying
an appropriate remaining quarter of the surface of the first cylinder, this form thus
extending longitudinally over one quarter of the length of the cylinder, and
circumferentially extending half way around the cylinder. A main web W, equal
in width to half the length of the type cylinders, will be used for the production of
the two main sheets of an eight-page paper, and be led directly between the
cylinders 10, 20, as shewn, and the supplemental web S will be of a width equal to
one quarter of the length of the printing cylinders, and of half the width of the
said main sheets.
The main web W will be printed on one side in passing between the type and
impression cylinders 10, 20, and upon the other side in passing between the type
and impression cylinders 40, 30, the printing plates of which are disposed, as we
have seen, at one side of the machine. This main web lays smoothly over that
portion of the cylinders 20, 30, which is not provided with grippers 3, 4, and after
being perfected, is led over the rollers 37, 38, passes up, and is bent over the
turning bar 39, and under the turning bar 49, and thence is led outward toward
the delivery end of the machine, thus being transferred laterally to an extent equal
to its width, and carried to the opposite side of the machine to that at which it
entered, whereby it is made to travel over that half of the machine through which
the supplemental web runs, and, in advance of the turning bar 49, it is led over
guide rollers 43, 44, and running over a guide roller 45, is entered upon the pin 18
of the delivery cylinder 41. The first sheet length entered upon the cylinder 41 is
retained thereon, so as to make a second revolution with it, and as the second sheet
Jength from the web W is laid upon the first sheet length upon that cylinder, it is
severed by the cutting devices of the cylinders 41, 42, so that the product upon the
cylinder 41 will then consist of two sheets of the length of the circumference of the
cylinder, each sheet bearing four pages of printed matter, and constituting an eight-
page product. The supplemental web N will be of halt the width of the main web,
and being directed to and between the cylinders 23, 24, will have its end impaled
by the pins, say, 6, and be carried upon the surface of the cylinder 21, until the
cutting devices of the cylinders 23, 21, act, and sever it into a sheet length which
is travelling at half the speed of that at which the main web is moving, and when
the head of this supplemental sheet which overlies the throw-off plate, as 12,
is approaching the point of cooperation between the cylinders 20, 21, said throw-off
plate will be quickly vibrated to throw the leading end of said sheet outward from
the cylinder 21, and into a position to be seized by the closing grippers 3 of the
cylinder 2, and when the said grippers have so seized this supplemental sheet, the
latter, then severed from its web, will take up the surface speed of the cylinder 20,
and be led upon its surface, and carried thereby into contact with the form near the
end of the type cylinder 10, and thereby be printed upon one surface. As the
cylinder 20 revolves, the grippers 3 will appropriately open to deliver this supple-
mental sheet to the grippers 5 of the cylinder 30, which will transfer said sheet to
the surface of the cylinder 30, and carry it outward between that cylinder and the
type cylinder 40, and into contact with the form upon the latter, by which it will
be printed upon its opposite side, and when the grippers 5 reach their cooperating
point with respect to the cylinder 25, the grippers 16 of the latter cylinders will
take said sheet from the surface of the cylinder 30, and deliver it to the tapes 35, 36,
by which it will be carried under the roller 45, and be led into contact with the
main web, which also passes around said roller. The arrival of the supplemental
sheet at the guide roller 45 will preferably be so timed as to make said supple-
mental sheet underlie and accompany the second sheet length of the main web W,
as it is passing the roller 45, to enter upon the cylinder 41, and hence it results that

page_text: three sheets of equal length are superimposed upon the cylinder 41, so that the
combined product resulting is a three-sheet paper, that is delivered from said
cylinder to the rollers 47, 48, and directed out over the folding rollers 90, 91, to
be folded between the latter by the descending folding blade 70, thus forming a
three-sheet product, the outer members of which are of twice the width of the
inner member, and the combined whole constituting a ten-page product.
The foregoing sufficiently illustrates a practical use of this improved supplement-
introducing mechanism, but it may be remarked that products consisting of other
numbers of sheets may be produced by the entire machine illustrated by a suitable
disposition and duplication of the plates, and suitable modification of the final
delivery apparatus.
Herein the receiving cylinder 20 is shewn as separated such a distance from the
carrying cylinder 21, that their peripheries run some distance apart. This is a
desirable structure, because it provides room for the grippers 3 to move without
contact with the sheet on cylinder 21, over the end of which sheet they must
travel a distance while standing open, and thus be projected into a position to
close, and seize said sheet, and this separation of the cylinders also provides a
working space for the throw-off plates which carry the end of the sheet into the
range of action of said grippers, and ensure their positive action in seizing said
sheet. But these cylinders might be placed nearer together, the sheet seizing
grippers 3 having substituted for them sheet receiving pins, and the pins 7 or 6
be either stationary or reciprocating, the pins substituted for the grippers 3 then
protruding into recesses, as 71, in the throw-off plates.
These throw off plates, although of great advantage, are not essential, since it is
practical to omit them, and, by giving the grippers 3 (when grippers are used) a
greater sweep, partially made through recesses in the face of cylinder 21, whereby
the leading ends of the sheets are first raised from the cylinder 21, and then
clamped to the cylinder 20, solely by the action of the grippers. The cylinder 21
is shewn as provided with the cutting slots 1, 9, coacting with the cutting blade 8 ;
while this is practical and advantageous, it is also practicable to have the cutting
mechanism independent of the cylinder 21, and arrange it to so operate as to sever
the web into sheets, and deliver them in succession to the sheet-retaining devices of
the cylinder 21.
Although the cutting devices are referred to as actually severing the web, it is
practical in most cases to have them operate to nearly, but not fully, divide the
web, a complete separation on the line of division being effected by the subsequent
strain upon the nearly separated parts. Although the cylinder 20 in the organised
machine illustrated is made to perform the office of an impression cylinder, it may
be provided with means fitting it to successively receive one or more main or large
sheets, as well as the small or supplemental sheets, and with means for delivering
such sheets collected upon its surface, as is common in the art of printing a web of
paper, cutting the same into sheets, and delivering sheets either Hat, or to other
mechanisms, for imparting folds thereto.
The cylinders 21, 23, may be made circumferentially small enough, so that the
small or supplemental sheet, which they form and present for association with the
main sheet, shall not be long enough to protrude beyond the cutting line upon
which such main sheet is severed from a web, when ultimate association of the sheets
is had upon the surface of cylinder 41.
The object of this reduced size is to prevent narrow strips or clippings being
severed from the edge of the supplemental sheet.
In the modification shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9, the carrying cylinder 21, for
advancing the small or supplemental sheets, is composed of several large pulleys
(see Fig. 7), fast upon a common shaft 67, which provide a number of intervening
circumferential openings in which small bearing rollers 82 may run with their
peripheries coincident with the common peripheries of the large pulleys composing
the cylinder 21, said bearing rollers 82 being supported by arms 84 extending into
said openings from a common shaft 85 fixed to the side frames, and preferably

page_text: pressed to duty by means of springs 86, the power of which is adjusted by set
screws 87.
There are as many of these small bearing rollers 82, and corresponding openings
in the cylinder 21, as may be required, six being shown in the machine illustrated,
and cooperating with these bearing rollers 82, are an equal number of accelerating
or driving pulleys 83, each hung in an arm 88 from a common shaft. 89.
From this arrangement it will be apparent that the accelerating driving pulleys 83,
and their cooperating bearing rollers 82, may run independently of the movement
of the cylinder 21, and hence at a different surface speed.
These accelerating driving pulleys 83 are driven at the same surface speed as the
receiving cylinder 20 by means of a pinion 31 on their shaft, which, through an
intermediate 50, gears with the wheel 52 on said cylinder 20. These driving pulleys
83, preferably by frictional contact therewith, actuate the bearing rollers 82 at a
like speed, though said rollers may be positively moved, as will hereinafter appear.
In this modification, the feeding cylinder 24 is made a cutting cylinder by
transferring to it the cutting blade 8 from the cylinder 23, and the cylinder 23 is
provided with the cutting groove 1, transferred to it from the cylinder 21, said
cylinder 24 being appropriately driven by a wheel 68, which gears with the
wheel 59, and the cylinder 23 is provided with a bearing roller 92, whereby the web
is in driving contact therewith.
As the sheet holding carrying pins 6 or 7, in this modification, will release the
sheet before it reaches a point to be seized by the grippers 3 of the receiving
cylinder 20, whence said sheet would otherwise have to travel a distance without a
means for controlling it, the cylinder 21 is provided with a number of curved
guards 22, that extend from the shaft 89, and are sustained coincident with the
periphery of the cylinder, and thus form conductors extending close to the
cylinder 20, that guide the head of the sheet to said grippers 3 from the point
where the pins release it.
It will now be understood that the supplement web N, led between the bearing
roller 92 and cutting cylinder 23, thence passed between the cutting cylinders 23, 24,
and the carrying cylinder 21, will be fed onward, and have its leading end impaled
by the pins, as 6, and as it passes onward, it will be severed into short lengths by
the cutting devices of the cutting cylinders. When the head of such short sheet,
held by the pins 6, is carried between the accelerating driving pulleys 83 and the
bearing rollers 82, it will be nipped by them, and at once partake of their rapid
movement, and its holding pins will be simultaneously withdrawn to permit its
onward movement independent of the cylinder 21. This short sheet, thus more
rapidly advanced than its carrying cylinder 21 is moving, will be drawn bodily
over the surface of the pulleys composing the carrying cylinder 21, and be carried
into a position to have its leading edge seized by the grippers 3 of the cylinder 20,
at which time the short sheet will be moved at the same surface speed as the
cylinder 20. Thus seized, it will be led upon, and caused to move with the surface
of said cylinder 20, and although it occupies but one half of the circumferential
extent of said cylinder, it is so associated with or related to the main web or sheet,
that it may, while thus carried, be simultaneously therewith subjected to the
printing operation. The succeeding short sheet will be slowly brought around by
the pins, as 7, and subjected to a like operation.
Thus, one after another of these shorter or half sheets will be formed at a speed
of travel which is one half of that of the cylinder 20, and be successively
delivered onto one end of the cylinder 20, which lattor may also receive upon its
other end, main sheet lengths running at its own speed, and these short sheets will
thus be so relatively associated with the main sheets or sheet lengths, that are
upon, or are being delivered to said cylinder, that both sets of sheets may be
simultaneously printed and carried onward concertedly for further manipulation
and ultimate combination.
In the modification of the sheet carrying cylinder 21 shown in Fig. 10, the
bearing rollers 82 of that cylinder, instead of being supported upon arms, so as to

page_text: constantly revolve in contact with the accelerating driving pulleys 83, are mounted
upon shafts carried in ears projecting into the cylinder, and so that their peripheries
protrude through slight openings to the surface of said cylinder, which cylinder,
in this case, has a continuous surface, except where these pulleys protrude, but
this surface will be cut away circumferentially in alignment with each of these
rollers 82, so that the sheet may not be unduly pressed upon by the driving
pulleys 83, except when the latter have contact with the rollers 82. From slight
consideration it will be understood that the short or half sheet impaled upon and
carried around with the cylinder by the pins 6 or 7, will, when its head which
overlies the rollers 82 reaches a point where the accelerating driving pulleys 83
have contact with the rollers 82, be nipped between said pulleys 83 and rollers 82,
and thus, as its holding pins are withdrawn, be quickly fed onward at a speed equal
to that of the cylinder 20, so as to be seized by the grippers 3 of that cylinder.
In this construction, the rollers 82 may be carried in spring seated bearings of
ordinary construction, so as to aid in producing a suitable nipping of the sheets
between them and the driving pulleys 83.
In the modification shown in Figs. 11 and 12, the bearing rollers 82 are enlarged,
so as to be of a size equal to the large pulleys which compose the cylinder 21, and
they are arranged so as to revolve independently of the pulleys composing the
cylinder 21, being driven at a like speed, and by surface contact with them, of the
accelerating driving pulleys 83. In this construction, whenever the head of
the sheet carried by the pins 6 or 7, which is the point where the accelerating
driving pulleys 83 nip said sheets the pins, are withdrawn, and the sheet is
immediately fed onward at a rapid speed by the operation of said accelerating
driving pulleys 83 and hearing rollers 82. Of course, these bearings rollers might
turn upon the shaft 67 of the cylinder 21, but when they are driven by surface
contact with the driving pulleys 83, as illustrated in Figs. 11 and 12, said rollers 82
are preferably constructed of narrow rings, which are made to travel in their
circular path supported upon numerous friction rollers, as 72, which latter have
their bearings in cheek plates supported by a wall-like structure mounted fixedly
upon said shaft 67.
From the operation of the sheet-accelerating devices above described, it will be
apparent that the rapidly-moving driving pulleys 83 need only some co-operating
bearing surface that may be moved concertedly therewith, when the supplement
sheet is to be accelerated, and this bearing surface may practically be moved
frictionally by the driving pulleys 83; said driving surface may be embodied in
many forms.
Instead of depending upon frictional action to secure movement of the said
driving surfaces, it is desirable, in some constructions, to move them positively at
the high surface speed corresponding with that of the cylinder 20, to which the
sheets are to be delivered. To accomplish this, suitable gearing will be provided
to positively drive the rollers 82, such, for instance, as is shown in Figs. 13 and 14.
To drive the rollers 82, when the same are supported by arms 84, each of said
pulleys is provided with a pinion, as 93, fast upon its stud, which pinion 93 is
connected by a train of intermediate pinions 94, 95, 96, with a pinion 97 that is
fast upon the shaft 85, which shaft carries an outside pinion 98 meshing with the
wheel 52 on the shaft of cylinder 20, and consequently the rollers 82, as well as
the pulleys 83, will thus be positively moved at the same surface speed as the
cylinder 20. In this arrangement, the arms 84 will be loose upon the shaft, and
held in place of collars. The rollers 82, in the ring form shown in Figs. 15 and 16,
are provided with means for positively moving them at the same surface speed as
the pulleys 83 and cylinder 20. This is accomplished by providing each of said
rings 82 with toothed rims 99, fast to them, and set slightly within the periphery
of the pulleys constituting the carrying cylinder 21, and these toothed rims 99 are
engaged by pinions, as 78, fast upon a shaft 77 that is driven by means of a
pinion 73 and an intermediate 74, from the wheel 52 on the cylinder 20.
The sheet-holding pins 18 of the collecting cylinder 41 might be stationary, and

page_text: the throw-off fingers 19 be wholly depended upon to remove the collected sheets
from the pins of said cylinder, but preferably the sheet-holding pins will be
mounted so as to be simultaneously withdrawn, as said throw-off fingers are
operated, so that the two will conjointly operate to release the leading ends of the
collected sheets as speedily as possible, and thus perfectly co-act at the high speed
at which these devices operate. Thus, the same shaft which carries the fingers 19
will, as it is vibrated by a cam motion similar to that described with respect to the
pins 6, 7, simultaneously withdraw the said pins 18.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
from abroad, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with a receiving cylinder running at high speed, adapted
to receive and support a main web, and provided with means for engaging and
retaining short or supplemental sheets thereon, of a carrying cylinder running at
an appropriate low speed, and provided with means for retaining a sheet thereon,
the two said cylinders co-operating, the carrying cylinder to slowly feed a short or
supplemental sheet onward to the receiving cylinder, and the latter to seize and
transfer said sheet to its surface in association with the main web, substantially as
described.
2. The combination with a cylinder provided with means engaging, retaining, and
carrying onward, sheets delivered in succession to it, a more rapidly moving receiving
cylinder provided with means for engaging said sheets and laying the same upon
its surface, and means for delivering a main web to said receiving cylinder,
substantially as described.
3. The combination of a cutting mechanism for dividing a web transversely
into sheet lengths with a cylinder provided with means engaging, retaining, and
carrying successive sheets onward, a more rapidly moving receiving cylinder
provided with means for engaging said sheets and laying the same upon its surface,
and means for delivering a main web to said receiving cylinder, substantially as
described.
4. The combination with a revolving carrying cylinder having means for retaining
supplemental sheets thereon, and means for lifting the leading end of each sheet
from off its surface, of a more rapidly revolving receiving cylinder provided at
one end with means for engaging and retaining said sheet and carrying the same
upon its surface, and having its other end adapted to receive and carry a main web
or sheet's length, substantially as described.
5. The combination with a revolving carrying cylinder having means for
retaining supplemental sheets thereon, and means for lifting the leading end of
each sheet from off its surface, and a cutting mechanism operating to sever a web
into sheets, of a more rapidly revolving receiving cylinder provided at one end
with means for engaging and retaining said sheet, and carrying the same upon its
surface, and having its other end adapted to receive and carry a main web or sheet's
length, substantially as described.
6. The combination with a revolving carrying cylinder having means for
engaging, retaining, and carrying onward small or supplemental sheets delivered in
succession to it, and a more rapidly moving receiving cylinder provided with means
for engaging, retaining, and carrying said sheets, and with means for delivering
thereto a main web with which the supplemental sheet is to be associated,
substantially as described.
7. The combination with a revolving carrying cylinder having means for
engaging, retaining, and carrying onward, small or supplemental sheets delivered
in succession to it, and a more rapidly-moving receiving cylinder provided with
means for engaging, retaining, and carrying said sheets, with means for delivering
thereto a main web with which the supplemental sheet is to be associated, and
provided with means for delivering said sheet from its surface, substantially as
described.

page_text: 8. The combination with a cylinder provided with a cutting blade and a cylinder
provided with a cutting slot for co-operating with said blade, in dividing a web into
sheets, and pins for engaging retaining and carrying said sheets onward, and with
a throw-off for detaching the head of said sheet from the pins, of a more rapidly
revolving cylinder provided at one end with grippers operating to seize said sheet,
and carry it onward upon its surface, and at the other end adapted to receive and
carry a main web, substantially as described.
9. The combination with cutting mechanism operating to sever a web into sheets,
a revolving carrying cylinder having means for engaging, retaining, and carrying
onward small or supplemental sheets, delivered in succession to it, and a more
rapidly moving receiving cylinder provided with means for engaging, retaining,
and carrying said sheets, and with means for delivering thereto a main web with
which the supplemental sheet is to be associated, substantially as described.
10. The combination with a receiving cylinder running at a high speed, and a
carrying cylinder running at an appropriate low speed, of interposed driving
pulleys running at high speed, whereby a sheet advanced slowly upon the carrying
cylinder, is accelerated to the high speed of the receiving cylinder, and delivered
thereto, substantially as described.
11. The combination with a receiving cylinder running at high speed, and a
sheet-carrying cylinder running at an appropriate low speed, of interposed driving
pulleys running at high speed, and co-operating movable bearings for said pulleys,
substantially as described.
12. The combination with a receiving cylinder running at high speed and a
sheet-carrying cylinder running at an appropriate low speed, of interposed driving
pulleys running at high speed, and bearing rollers, substantially as described.
13. The combination with a receiving cylinder provided with sheet-holding
devices and running at high speed, and a carrying cylinder provided with sheet
holding devices and running at an appropriate low speed, of driving pulleys
operating to rapidly advance a sheet when released from the carrying cylinder,
and deliver the same to the holding devices of the receiving cylinder, sub-
stantially as described.
14. The combination with a receiving cylinder provided with sheet holding
devices, and running at high speed, and a carrying cylinder provided with sheet
holding devices and running at an appropriate low speed, of driving pulleys
operating to rapidly advance a sheet when released from the carrying cylinder,
and deliver the same to the holding devices of the receiving cylinder, and con-
ductors for guiding the sheet from said pulleys to the sheet-holding devices,
substantially as described.
15. The combination with a receiving cylinder running at a high speed, and a
carrying cylinder running at an appropriate low speed, of a cutting mechanism
co-operating with the latter to sever a web into sheets, and a sheet-transferring
mechanism interposed between the receiving and carrying cylinders, whereby
sheets advanced slowly upon the carrying cylinder are successively taken therefrom
by the receiving cylinder, and advanced thereby at its high speed, substantially as
described.
16. The combination with a receiving cylinder having sheet-holding devices, and
running at high speed, and a carrying cylinder provided with sheet holding devices
and running at an appropriate low speed, of cutting devices for severing a web into
sheets, and driving pulleys operating to rapidly advance each sheet released from
the carrying cylinder, and deliver the same to the holding devices of the receiving
cylinder, substantially as described.
17. The combination with a receiving cylinder having sheet-holding devices and
running at high speed, and a carrying cylinder provided with sheet-holding devices,
and running at an appropriate low speed, of cutting devices for severing a web into
sheets, and driving pulleys operating to rapidly advance each sheet released from
the carrying cylinder, and deliver the same to the holding devices of the receiving

page_text: cylinder, and conductors for guiding the sheets from said pulleys to the sheet
holding devices, substantially as described.
18. The combination with a type cylinder, as 10, an impression cylinder, as 20,
the latter provided with grippers 3, and means for conveying a main web to said
cylinder, to be printed at one end thereof, and with a sheet-carrying cylinder, as 21,
driven at a lesser speed than the cylinders 10, 20, and provided with devices for
holding a sheet thereon, of driving pulleys, as 83, whereby a small or supplemental
sheet, advanced slowly, is accelerated, and delivered to the grippers 3, and printed
at the other end of the cylinders 10, 20, substantially as described.
19. The combination with the type cylinders 10, 40, impression cylinders 20, 30,
means for conveying a main web thereto, for printing the same at one end of said
cylinders, turning bars 34, 49, for transferring said web laterally to the vertical
plane of travel of supplemental sheets, and a cylinder 41 provided with means for
severing said web into sheets, and collecting successive sheets upon its surface, and
delivering the same therefrom, of a carrying cylinder 21, provided with sheet-
holding devices, driving pulleys 83, and co-operating moving bearings operating to
nip and accelerate a supplemental sheet slowly advanced by the cylinder 21, and
deliver the same to the grippers of the cylinder 20, to be printed at the other ends
of the cylinders 10, 20, 40, 30, and means for delivering said supplemental sheet to
the cylinder 41, for association with the sheets from the main web, substantially as
described.
Dated this 24th day of August 1895.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.