Books or Pamphlets.
Year: 1888

page_text: Books or Pamphlets.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of illustrated books and
pamphlets, the object of the invention being the production of an illustrated book or
pamphlet so printed, cut, folded, and bound that a page of letter-press printed in one
colour shall be followed next in order by an illustrated page printed in a different
colour, thus rendering the book or pamphlet particularly attractive to children, for
whose use it is particularly intended, while by simultaneously printing the letter-press
in one colour and the illustration in a different colour the cost is not enhanced over
and above the cost of a book or pamphlet having the letter-press and illustration
printed in one colour.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 represents one side of one of the printed sheets of which the book or
pamphlet is composed.
Figure 2 represents the opposite side of the same.
Figure 3 represents one side of a section of the sheet shown in Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents the other side of the same.
Figure 5 represents two pages of an illustrated book or pamphlet embodying these
improvements.
The press, upon which it is intended the sheet or sheets of paper from which the
book is to be formed shall be printed, is provided with an ink-fountain divided by a
series of vertical plates at proper intervals to receive different-coloured inks, black ink
for the letter-press pages and a different-coloured ink for the illustrated pages; or a
series of small fountains for each colour may be employed and properly positioned
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page_text: relatively to the plates secured in the chase and received upon the bed of the printing-
press that the letter-press shall be inked in one colour and the illustrations in another
colour. The fountain and form having thus been made ready for the work intended,
the sheet to be printed is fed to the press and an impression taken, as shown in
Figure 1 of the drawings, the letter-press A and illustrated pages B being shown in
the relative positions they occupy in the printed sheet, in which it will be seen that a
page of letter-press A, printed, say, in black ink, is shown, succeeded by an illustrated
page B, printed in a different colour. After the first side of the sheet has been thus
printed the sheet is "backed" or passed a second time through the press, and the
illustrations are printed on the opposite or back side of the letter-press page A and
the letter-press upon the opposite side or back of the illustrated page B. The result
of the second printing is shown in Figure 2 of the drawings. The printed sheet is then
cut lengthwise, and in the case of a sheet of paper employed as shown in Figures 1
and 2 of the drawings, into three sections, one side of a section and its reverse side
being shown in Figures 3 and 4 of the drawings. These sections are then folded in
such a manner as to bring an illustrated page B, next in order to a page of
letter-press A, and form the "signatures" of which, when bound together, the book is
composed.
It will be observed that I am thus enabled, without increasing the cost of making
the same,
to produce a book one page of which-the letter press-shall be printed in
one colour, succeeded by a second page-the illustrated one-printed in a second
colour, by which the attractiveness of the book is greatly enhanced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
The method of printing leaf-sections for illustrated books, consisting in simultaneously
printing on one side letter-press and an illustration in two different colours to form
two leaf-faces, and then simultaneously printing letter-press and an illustration on the
reverse side in two different colours to alternate with those first printed, and then
folding and binding as set forth.