Improvements in Arrangements and Mechanism to Facilitate the Rapid Application of Type Representing Late News or Matter to and the Printing of the same by Newspaper Printing Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887. -
Improvements in Arrangements and Mechanism to Facilitate the
Rapid Application of Type Representing Late News or Matter to
and the Printing of the same by Newspaper Printing Machines.
We JOHN HENRY BUXTON, Newspaper Proprietor, DAVIES BRAITHWAITE and
MARK SMITH, Printers Engineers, all of the Guardian Printing Works, Manchester
in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of the said invention, to be
as follows:
In newspaper printing, new editions containing late news or matter is commonly
added by cutting out portions from the stereo plates and inserting in the space thus
made the type representing the late matter but this takes time, and the object of our
invention is to be able to add late news, and print it, in as little time as possible after
iis receipt. Our invention consists in combinations and arrangements of mechanism
as hereinafter described.
The type is ordinary type, and we arrange it when set up into lines, between thin
metal rules, which are thicker on one edge than the other, the ends of the metal rules
are or may be notched to fit ribs, or may have projections to fit recesses, formed on or
in the ends of a box into which the type and rules are slided and are secured by a
screw or other arrangement acting in the lengthway of the rules or lines of type.
The screw is or may be in a part hinged to the box on one side, so as to turn on one
side, and the end of the screw carries or may carry a plate to act upon the ends of the
metal rules and type-The lines of type and metal rules are pressed together laterally
by a screw or other arrangement or by a screw lengthway of the box and a wedge or
inclines or by one or two metal rules on the sides of the box made taper lengthway
and placed one reversed to the other so that when the lines and metal rules are secured
endways-pressure is brought upon the metal rules tapered lengthways to cause them
to compress the metal rules and type laterally at the same time.
Guides or slideways or like arrangements are or may be made for facilitating the
rapid sliding of the composed lines of type between the metal rules which are properly
spaced and held ready to receive them, when the type and metal rules can then be

page_text: instantly slided directly into the above described box arranged to receive them and
locked therein as described.
The box of type prepared as above described is dove tailed on its exterior and is
slided into a corresponding dove-tail recess in a drum or pulley and it wedges therein,
or it is or may be secured by a spring or other catch or bolt.
The pulley for the type box is mounted upon a shaft passing across the printing
machine and rotates in suitable bearings on the framing-The type pulley or drum is
adjustable in any desired position in the lengthway of its shaft and is then secured
by screws, so that the type carried by it can be made to print upon any part of the
sheet, either on the margin or upon. spaces left blank and unprinted upon by the
stereo-plate on the main printing.or stereo cylinder.
The type pulley or drum is arranged to come against and print upon the paper on
the impression cylinder, and when it is used in machines where two separate sheets are
printed at each rotation of the stereo cylinder the type pulley is geared up with that
cylinder to make two rotations and impressions for each revolution of the stereo cylinder.
The shaft of the type pulley or drum is arranged in bearings which are excentric io
the hole for the bearings in the framing, and the bearings can be each partly rotated
by a projection from each and then secured, this partial rotation of the bearings
adjusting the type pulley or drum to the impression cylinder.
There is an inking pulley or roller for inking the type in the box, and this inking
pulley or roller is adjustable on a shaft passing across and rotating in bearings or
rotating on a fixed shaft on the side frames and the bearings for this shaft are
adjustable to bring it in contact with the cylinder or roller supplying ink to the inking
rollers of the stereo cylinder.
Instead of an inking pulley there is or may be a roller extending the width of the
machine.
The other parts of the printing mechanism are the same as the ordinary victory or
other newspaper printing machines.
FEIER J. LIVDEI,
Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Arrangements and Mechanism to Facilitate the
Rapid Application of Type Representing Late News or Matter to
and the Printing of the same by Newspaper Printing Machines.
We JOHN HENRY BUXTON, Newspaper Proprietor, DAVIES BRAITHWAITE and
MARK SMITH Printers Engineers, all of the Guardian Printing Works, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, 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 :---
In newspaper printing, new editions containing late news or matter is commonly
added by cutting out portions from the stereo-plates and inserting in the space thus
made the type representing the late matter, but this takes time, and the object of our
invention is to be able to add late news and print it, in as little time as possible after
its receipt.
Our invention consists in combinations and arrangements of mechanism as herein-
after described.
The type is or may be ordinary type, and we arrange it when set up into lines,
between thin metal rules which are thicker on one edge than the other, the ends of the
metal rules are or may be notched to fit ribs, or may have projections to fit. recesses,
formed on or in the ends of a boss into which the type and rules are placed
or slided
and are secured by a screw or other arrangement acting in the lengthway of the rules
or lines of type.
.
The screw is or may be in a part secured to the box and the end of the screw carries
or may carry a plate to act upon the ends of the metal rules and type. The lines of
type and metal rules are pressed together laterally by a screw or other arrangements
or by a screw lengthway of the box and a wedge or inclines, or by one or two metal
rules on the sides of the box made taper lengthway and placed one reversed to the
other, so that when the lines and metal rules are secured endways-pressure is brought
upon the metal rules tapered lengthways to cause them to compress the metal rules
and type laterally at the same time.
The box of type prepared as above described is dove tailed on its exterior and is
slided into a corresponding dove tail recess in a drum or pulley, and it wedges therein,
or it is or may be secured by a spring or other catch or bolt.
The pulley for the type box is mounted upon a shaft passing across the printing
machine and rotates in suitable bearings on the framing. The type pulley or drum is
adjustable in any desired position in the lengthway of its shaft and is then secured by
screws, so that the type carried by it can be made to print upon any part of the sheet,
either on the margin or upon spaces left blank and unprinted upon by the stereo
plate on the main printing or sterco cylinder.
The type pulley or drum is arranged to come against and print upon the paper on
the impression cylinder, and when it is used in machines where two separate sheets
are printed at each rotation of the stereo cylinder the type pulley is geared up with
that cylinder to make two rotations and impressions for each revolution of the stereo
cylinder.

page_text: The shaft of the type pulley or drum is arranged in bearings which are excentric to
the hole for the bearings in the framing, and the bearings can be each partly rotated
by a projection from each and then secured, this partial rotation of the bearings
adjusting the type pulley or drum to the impression cylinder.
There is an inking pulley or roller for inking the type in the box, and this inking
pulley or roller is adjustable on a shaft passing across and rotating in bearings or
rotating on a fixed shaft on the side frames and the bearings for this shaft are adjust-
able to bring it in contact with the cylinder or roller supplying ink to the inking rollers
of the stereo cylinder.
Instead of an inking pulley there is or may be a roller extending the width of the
machine.
The other parts of the printing mechanism are the same as the ordinary "victory"
or other newspaper printing machines.
Fig. 1 is a cross section of one modification of type box on the line A-A fig. 2
which is a plan view thereof.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the presser plate in connection with wedges.
Fig. 4 in an end view of the presser plate alone and detached.
Fig. 5 is an edge view at one end of the presser plate showing its connection with
the end of one of the wedges.
Fig. 6 is a side view of the thin end of one wedge.
Fig. 7 is a front or flat view of the metal rules which are placed between the type
when in the box and fig. 8 is an end view of the same.
Fig. 9 is a section of another modification of type box at B—B fig. 10 which is a
plan view thereof.
Fig. 11 is an end view of the pulley or drum showing the type box inserted therein,
and fig. 12 is an edge view of the same.
Fig. 13 is a side elevation of parts of a newspaper printing inachine, similar to that
machine known as the victory, showing the arrangement of the type drum or pulley,
and its combination with parts of the ordinary "Victory "newspaper printing machine
and fig. 14 is an edge view or elevation of some of the parts shown in fig. 13.
The type box a as shown by figs. 1 and 2 is upon its outer edge part of a segment
of the cylinder of the drum which carries it (see figs. 11 and 12) the bottom of the
type box on which the lower ends of the type rest is curved to the segment of a circle
struck by a radius having its centre in the axis of the type drum or pulley band two
sides are in a radial line (or thereabouts) drawn from the axis of the type pulley b
The type box on two sides is of the dove-tail form shown, and the two ends of the
openings for type are closed by plates a¹ and secured by screws with counter sunk
heads to the body of the box a.
There is a screw a passing through one end plate a² to act upon a presser bar or
plate a which in this case is supposed to be secured to the end of the screw ³ but so
that the end of the latter can rotate in the hole in the plate for the point of the screw.
There are two wedges a" and a on each side of the box, the incline of one wedge
being reverse to that of the other. The screw plate at acts upon the inner wedge a³ on
each side of the box to move it endways.
The wedge nearest each side of the box is adjusted by a screw a the point of
which is reduced and enters a hole in the large end of the wedge a and keeps it from
moving away from the side of the box, the small ends of the wedges a having each a
projection as shown in fig. 6 which projection comes under a notch a' in the screw
plate a, and thus the small end of these wedges are kept in position.
The large ends of the inner wedges a have cach a dovetail * formed upon them, as
shown best in figs. 3 and 4, to fit a dovetail opening in the ends of the screw plate a
(one at each side) see figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The dovetail openings in the screw bar or plate a are long enough to allow the
wedges a to move inwards and outwards to the full extent required, but the inner
wedges a when arranged as described move endways to and fro with the screw presser
plate at.
The inside edge of one end plate a¹ has an overhanging projecting rib al, and there

page_text: is a corresponding overhanging rib projection a" on the inside of the screw presser
bar or plate a*.
The metal rules e are or may be made with notches c¹ cut out of their upper edges
(see figs. 7 and 8) so that the ends of the metal rules will come under these rib pro-
jections a at each end of the box when the metal rules are screwed up, which will
thus prevent them from getting out of the type box.
The upper edge of each metal rule e is or may be made with a slight bevel or square
projection on one side to come over a shoulder formed on the ends of the type below
the printing surface thereof consequently both type and metal rules e will be secured
in the type box apart from the frictional grip put upon them by the screw a³ and
wedges a and a.
The modification of type box shown by figs. 9 and 10 is the same as that illustrated
by figs. 1 and 2 except in the mechanism for securing the type in the box.
There is an excentric shaft d having its bearings in the two end plates a² and a³ and
upon this excentric part of the shaft at one end of the box a there is a wedge d¹ which
has a hole in it at one end to fit the excentric shaft d.
The inner side of this wedge d' is made parallel to the end of the box a and its other
side is inclined to correspond with the incline formed upon the inside of the end
plate a as shown.
By turning this excentric shaft d by a key fitting the square on its end its side is
brought to press with considerable force against the side of the type in the box as
shown in fig. 9 or against a metal rule or rules placed between the type and the
excentric shaft, and at the same time the wedge d' is moved by the excentric shaft so
as to come against the ends of the lines of type.
In the modification shown by fig. 12, there is one screw bar or plate, and two
wedges a anil a on each side placed loose in the box, and if desired there is or may
be one or two set screws on one side of the box the points of which are arranged to
act upon the side of one wedge (as shown in dotted line in fig. 11) to adjust the
wedges a³ and a to the type.
The type is or may be formed of separate letters in the ordinary form with the
metal rules between each line as hereinbefore explained, or in some cases for instance
to give the result of races, the names of the horses which are expected to run are set
up in type and stereotyped in words or lines suitable to fit the type box, and when the
result of the race is known the strips of stereotype are immediately arranged in the
required order and dropped into the type box and instantly screwed up, and the type
box is then inserted in the dovetail for it in the drum or pulley b.
The type box a is slided into the dovetail in the pulley or drum band fits sufficiently
tight to be held therein firmly but if desired, a sliding catch is or may be used, the
stem of which is inserted in a hole in the drum and round the stem there is a
helical spring which abuts against one end of the hole for the stem at one end,
and against a collar screwed on the stem at the other end.
The stem has a turned up hook that slides in a slot formed in the type drum
near one edge, and the face of this hook & coming towards and against the type box a
is V shaped to enter a V notch in the edge of the type box a so that when the latter
is forced into the dovetail space in the drum the hook end of the bolt is forced
back (the spring on the stem giving way) and then springs forward again when the
type box is pushed fully in and enters the V notch in its edge. The type box is
released by pressing upon the outer end of the stem 61 or collar 3.
There is a plate secured on the side of the drum b to act as a stop for the type
box a to be pushed against.
It will be understood that the face of the type in the box a is in a curve at such radius
from the axis of the drum b as will be equal to the radius of the operating surface o
the impression cylinder (e) or half its radius if the type box is to print twice for one
revolution of the impression cylinders e and so on.
The type drum is made with a boinss and set screws as shown so as to be secured on
any part of a shaft which is in beargs on the sides frames. The bearings for this

page_text: shaft are formed in excentrics which fit and can be rotated in holes for them in
the side frames and each excentric bearing has an arm from it having a con-
centric slot for a soi screw, to allow the excentric to be adjusted and secured in the
framing.
The shaft is geared up by a spur wheel & on its end with a wheel e¹ on the shaft.
of the impression cylinder e to make (in this example) two revolutions to one of the
impression cylinder e so that the type drum b prints twice for each revolution of the
impression cylinder e.
represents the ordinary stereotype plate cylinder the ordinary inking rollers,
the riding or distributing roller between the two inking rollers and is the ordinary
inking drum.
The paper being printed passes as shown in dotted line by the arrow round the
impression cylinder e in the ordinary manner.
of the machine and each end
which has slots in it so as to be
There is a shaft i extending between the side frames
is free in a bearing formed in the end of a bracket
adjustable, and is then secured to the side frames f
On this shaft an inking pulley is adjustable, and can be secured to the shaft i
by screws.
This pulley is adjusted to press upon and be rotated by contact with the ordinary
inking drum and so as to ink the face of the type in the box a on the drum b.
The inking pulley is or may be sometimes supplied with ink or color from a separate
ordinary inking drum or pulley, in which case a different color of ink may be used,
if desired from that used for inking the cylinder y.
In using our invention, the parts are all arranged and adjusted before hand, and so
as to print upon the desired part of the sheet so that the moment the type box a is
filled and inserted in the drum the machine may begin to print these operations not
requiring more than about five seconds of time.
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. The combination and arrangement of mechanism for securing type or printing
surfaces in a box or holder, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by
the drawings.
2. The combination and arrangement of mechanism for securing type or letter press
printing surfaces in a box or holder and the combination of the latter with a printing
drum separate from the main printing cylinder substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of a printing drum (b) with the mechanism
of the ordinary main impression and printing cylinders of endless web letter press
printing machines, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.