Improvements in Machines for Printing, Pasting, and Insetting Supplements to Newspapers and other similar Publications.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Printing, Pasting, and Insetting
Supplements to Newspapers and other similar Publications.
I, MARK SMITH, of the "Manchester Guardian” Printing Works, Blackfriars
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Printers' Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
The machine and apparatus to which this invention relates are employed as an
adjunct to a "Victory
or other similar continuous web printing machine for the
purpose of printing pasting and insetting supplements to newspapers and other
publications printed in and by the principal machine.
The supplement printing machine is, according to these improvements, arranged
in line with the main machine opposite its delivery end, and it is driven from the
main shaft by two pairs of mitre or bevel wheels and intermediate gearing in such
a manner that the printing cylinders of the supplement printing machine rotate at
one half the speed of the printing cylinders of the principal machine.
It is preferred to construct the supplement printing machine with the first
printing and impression cylinders and the second impression cylinder in a horizontal
plane, the second printing cylinder being arranged vertically above its impression
cylinder. The ink ducts, ductor rollers, distributing cylinder, and inking rollers are
respectively arranged below the first printing cylinder and above the second.
The reel of paper is carried in brackets above the first and behind the second
printing cylinders or in any other suitable and convenient position.
The paper is led over a roller from the reel between the first printing and
impression cylinders where it is printed on one side, thence it passes between the
first and second impression cylinders to the second printing and impression cylinders
between which it is printed on the other side.
From the second printing and impression cylinders the printed web is led between
two perforating cylinders by which it is partly severed and is delivered between
travelling tapes running at the same velocity as the paper. These tapes convey the
paper between the pasting rollers of which the lower one rotates in a trough containing
the gum paste or cementitious compound, or is otherwise supplied with such a
pasting material.
The first set of travelling tapes delivers the printed web of paper to a
second set of similar tapes driven from the principal machine and travelling at
twice the speed of the first set. The pull exerted upon the perforated paper by
the double speed of the second set of tapes completes the severance of the printed
web into separate supplements which are conveyed to the folding cylinders of
the principal machine where each separate supplement is timed to arrive
simultaneously with the once folded 8 page paper into which it has to be inset.
The top edges of the supplement and of the once folded 8 page paper being thus
brought together in their proper relative positions, the paper and supplement are
conveyed through the existing folding cylinders and dividing frame to receive the
second and subsequent folds.
Dated this 20th day of Max AD 1890
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Printing, Pasting, and Insetting
Supplements to Newspapers and other similar Publications.
I, MARK SMITH, of the "Manchester Guardian" Printing Works, Blackfriars
Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Printers' 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 :-
The machine and apparatus to which this invention relates are employed as an
adjunct to a "Victory
or other similar continuous web. printing machine for the
purpose of printing pasting and insetting supplements to newspapers, and to other
similar publications printed in and by the principal machine.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing which
represents a longitudinal section of my said improvements and of a part of the
principal machine.
The machine on which the supplements are printed may be of any convenient
construction printing from a continuous web and delivering the supplement in a
continuous sheet. This machine is arranged in line with the principal machine
opposite to its delivery end and it is driven from the main shaft of the principal
machine by two pairs of mitre or bevel wheels R R and intermediate shaft and
gearing S or by other suitable and known means, in such a manner that the
printing cylinders of the supplement printing machine rotate at one half the
speed of the printing cylinders of the principal machine.
A suitable and convenient method of constructing and arranging the supplement
printing machine is represented in the drawing, where, A is the web of paper carried
on suitable brackets. B is the first printing cylinder and C is the. corresponding
impression cylinder, both these cylinders being arranged in a horizontal plane.
Dis the second printing cylinder and E is its impression cylinder, these two cylinders
being arranged in a vertical plane. The inking apparatus for the printing cylinders
is of known construction, that for the first cylinder being arranged below and that
for the second cylinder being arranged above the respective cylinders. In each
case F is the ink reservoir and ductor roller; G the distributing cylinder; and
H'the inking rollers.
The paper I is led over a roller J from the reel between the first printing and
impression cylinders where it is printed upon one side, thence it passes between the
first and second impression cylinders to the second impression cylinder between
which and its printing cylinder, it is printed on the other side.
In front of the supplement printing machine, there are arranged a pair of
perforating cylinders K between which the printed web I is led from the second
printing and impression cylinders and by which the web is partly severed at the
proper intervals and delivered to the travelling tapes L which run at the same
surface speed as the printing and impression cylinders and therefore at the same
velocity as the paper issuing from them.
The perforated and printed supplements are pasted by suitable means whilst being
conveyed by the travelling tapes L. This pasting may be conveniently effected by
the-pasting rollers M the lower one of which rotates in a. trough N containing the
paste gum or other cementitious material, or the lower roller may otherwise be
supplied with the pasting compound.
The travelling tapes L deliver the printed and perforated supplements continuously
to a second set of travelling tapes O which are preferably driven from the principal
machine and, which travel at twice the speed of the tapes L. The pull exerted upon
the perforated paper as a consequence of the greater speed of the second set of
travelling tapes, completes the severance of the paper along the perforations into
separate supplements which are conveyed by the tapes O to the folding cylinders P
of the principal machine where each separate supplement is timed to arrive
simultaneously with the once folded eight page paper into which it has to be inset.

page_text: The supplements may be deflected so as to pass between the folding cylinders P
by means of guides T. The top edges of the longitudinally pasted supplement
and of the once folded eight page paper being thus brought together in their
proper relative positions, the paper and the supplement are thus conveyed through
the existing folding cylinders and dividing frame of the principal machine to
receive the second and subsequent folds.
If it should not be desirable or necessary to paste the supplements into the paper,
but merely to insert them, the pasting rollers or equivalent device may be omitted.
Instead of the perforating cylinders K, I may employ a pair of perforating or
perforating and folding cylinders having twice their diameter. In this case, if the
supplement to be inset consists of two or four pages, I employ two diametrically
opposite perforating blades, whilst if the supplement is to consist of eight pages, one
perforating blade only and a folding knife is used. But, if an eight page
supplement is to be inset, this supplement is as large as the principal paper
and consequently the auxiliary machine must run at the same speed as the
principal machine, which may be arranged by means of change gearing at S.
The eight page supplement should be once folded on the cylinders K or the
cylinders substituted for them, and for this purpose they are provided as in
other apparatus of a similar character and for a similar purpose, with a folding
blade and with grippers, so that the supplement is delivered once folded to the
tapes I.
In any case it is arranged that the leading edge of the supplement (or of the once
folded supplement when it consists of eight pages), meets the leading edge of the
once folded principal paper at the folding cylinders P and that the principal paper
and the supplement are then together conveyed through the refolding cylinders and
dividing frame, as hereinbefore described.
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. A newspaper supplement printing and insetting machine constructed arranged
and operating to deliver the leading edge of the single or folded supplement to
the folding rollers of the principal machine simultaneously with the delivery of
the leading edge of the once folded paper from the principal machine, substantially
as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In a newspaper supplement printing and insetting machine, the combination
and arrangement with the impression and printing cylinders and inking rollers, of a
pair of perforating rollers and two sets of travelling tapes constructed and operating
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
3. In a newspaper supplement printing pasting and insetting machine, the
combination and arrangement with the printing and impression cylinders and
inking roller, of a pair of perforating cylinders, a pasting device, and two sets
of travelling tapes, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
4. In a newspaper supplement printing and insetting machine, the combination
and arrangement with the printing and impression cylinders and inking rollers, of a
pair of folding and perforating rollers, and two sets of travelling tapes, substantially
as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of February A D. 1891
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.