Improvements in Multiple Web Printing Machines, and in Folding and Delivery Apparatus Applicable thereto.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Multiple Web Printing Machines, and in Folding
and Delivery Apparatus Applicable thereto.
[Communicuted from abroad by Messieurs R. Hoe und Company, of 504, Grand
Street, in the City of New York, United States of America, Printing Machine
Mamatucture]
Mechanical
I WILLIAM CONQUEST of Tudor Street in the City of London
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MULTIPLE WEB PRINTING MACHINES, AND IN FOLDING AND DELIVERY APPARATUS
APPLICABLE THERETO and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to that class of machines which are adapted to print both
sides of a moving web of paper, sever the same into short lengths or sheets, and
then deliver the same as a folded product in suitable form for the carrier or for
mailing, and which are known in the art as rotary web perfecting printing
machines.
The invention relates more particularly to that class of these machines in
which each form cylinder is provided with a plurality of impression cylinders,
so that two or more webs can be printed simultaneously from the same set of
plates or forms.
One part of the Invention consists in the combination with two printing
mechanisms set at right angles to each other, of means for leading a web of
paper to the first mechanism from the side adjacent to the second mechanism,
a web-turner arranged to guide the web from one to the other, and means
for leading the printed web from the second mechanism upon the side adja-
cent to the first mechanism.
The Invention also includes the combination with the web-printing mech-
anism, which is arranged to perfect a plurality of webs and deliver them at the
same side of the machine, of a single cutting and folding mechanism arranged
to operate upon both webs.
The Invention also embraces various details of construction and combinations
of parts, both in the printing and delivery mechanisms, all of which will be
hereinafter fully explained, and particularly pointed out in the claims in con-
nection with the accompanying drawings, in which:-
Figure 1 is a plan view of a mechanism embodying those parts of the Inven-
tion which relate to the printing of the web or webs.
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Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken upon the line a. of
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page_text: Figure 3 is a similar view taken upon the line y. y. of the same figure, shew-
ng also in side elevation a modified form of the delivery mechanism.
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of the delivery mechanism taken upon the
line of Figure 5.
Figure 5 is a section elevation of the same, taken upon the line
of Figure 4.
Figures 6 and 7 are detail views, upon an enlarged scale, showing the manner
of operating the pins upon the cutting and folding cylinders.
Figures S. 9 and 10 are similar views, also upon an enlarged scale, showing
the pins as operated in a slightly different manner, and illustrating also the
operation of the cutting and folding cylinders in associating sheets.
Fig 11 is a plan view, upon an enlarged scale, of the supplement-intro-
ducing mechanism.
Figure 12 is a sectional elevation of the modified delivery apparatus herein-
before referred to, the same being taken upon the line of Figure 3.
Figure 13 illustrates details to be hereinafter referred to.
Referring particularly to Figures 1, 2, and 3, it is to be understood that the
printing mechanism therein shewn consists of two groups of mechanism. The
first of said groups is mounted in suitable bearings at the left of the machine
(as seen in Figures 1 and 2), and consists of a form cylinder 1, and two impres-
sion cylinders 2 and 3, which are arranged one above the other the cylinders i
and 3 being in a vertical line, while the upper impression cylinder 2 is placed
a short distance to the right of this line, as seen in Figure 2.-This arrangement
is made in order to allow space for the introduction and removal of the plates,
but it is not absolutely essential, and may be varied as may be found desir-
able, without departing from the Invention.
These three cylinders are provided with engaging gears 4. 5. 6 (see Figures 1
and 12), by which they are caused to revolve in unison, motion being com-
municated to them from a bevil gear 35 upon the delivery shaft 36 through
a bevil gear 33 upon the shaft of the cylinder 2.
The form of cylinder 1 is provided with two sets of inking mechanism, con-
sisting of the distributing rolls 8, 9, which are supplied with ink from a foun-
tain in any suitable manner, and the form rolls 10. 11, all of which are of
the usual construction, and operate to ink the forms in the usual manner.
The second group of printing mechanism is arranged at or substantially at
right angles to the first group and also consists, like the first, of one form cylin-
der 31 and two impression cylinders 23, 32. The cylinders are placed in the same
relation to each other as the cylinders of the first group, and the form cylinder
31 is also provided with inking mechanism similar to those described in connec-
tion with the cylinder 1. These cylinders are provided, like the cylinders 1. 2. 3,
with engaging gears (see Figure 1), by which they are caused to rotate in unison,
motion being communicated to them from the bevil gear 35 upon the driving
cylinder 36, through a bevil gear 34 upon the shaft of the cylinder 23.
To the printing mechanism thus organized, there are led two webs of paper
12. 13, which are contained in rolls 14. 15 mounted upon spindles 16. 17, which
are supported in any suitable manner at the right of the machine, as seen in
Figure 2.
The web 13 from the roll 15 passes over a guide roll 19, and thence downward
between the impression cylinder 2 and the form cylinder 1, in passing which it is
printed upon one side by the plates upon the cylinder 1, after which it passes
upward around the cylinder 2, and thence backward towards the point of start-
ing, it being printed upon what is now its upper side. As the web is led back-
ward towards its point of starting, it is led downward around a turning bar 20,
which is arranged obliquely across the path of the web, as shown in Figures 1.
and 2, so as to be turned at right angles to its previous path of travel.
After passing the turning bar 20, the web, with its printed side now down-
ward, is led around the impression cylinder 23, and between it and the forni

page_text: cylinder 31, and thence forward above a guide roll 37, and across its path of
travel in entering the machine.
The turning bar 20, which, as here shewn, consists of a simple bar of wood
or metal, although it may be formed of a plate provided with an oblique turn-
ing edge, is hinged at one end by a ball and socket or other universal joint 22,
to a bracket which is secured to the frame of the machine as shown in Figure 1,
while its opposite end is supported in an adjustable bearing secured to the
opposite side of the frame work. By this means the turner can be swung in
any direction, so that it can be set at any desired angle of relation to the
cylinders 2 and 23, so as to cause the web to be properly directed from the first
to the second of the groups of printing mechanism.
The adjustable bearing just referred to, in which one end of the turning bar
20 is supported, consists of a collar 24, which receives the end of the turning
bar, and is provided with a stem 28 (see Fig: 13), which enters a suitable
bearing in the bracket 21, where it is secured in position by set-screw 25, pass-
ing through the bracket, and impinging against said stem. By loosening the
set screw 25, and moving the stem 28 up or down, the vertical angle of the
turning bar can be adjusted with relation to the printing cylinders. The
bracket 21 is secured to the frame of the machine by bolt 27 passing through a
slot 29, by which arrangement the bracket is capable of being shifted upon
the frame of the machine, so as to adjust the horizontal angle of the turning
bar with relation to the printing cylinders.
The web 12 from the roll 14 is led into the machine directly beneath the
web 13, and after passing above a guide roll 18, is conducted upward around
the impression cylinder 3. of the first group of printing mechanism, and between
said cylinder and the form cylinder 1.-In passing between these cylinders, it is
printed upon its upper side in the same manner as has already been described
in connection with the web 13.-After being thus printed, it is led backward
toward the roll 14, and downward around a turning bar 41, which is constructed
and arranged in precisely the same manner as has already been described in
connection with the bar 20, and by which the web is turned at right angles to
its previous path of travel, and directed to the second group of printing mech-
anism. After leaving the bar 41, the web is led outward between the form and
impression cylinders 31. 32, thence downward around the impression cylinder
32, and inward above a guide roll 42, and thence forward across its path of
travel in entering the machine.
Referring now particularly to Figures 4 and 5, the operation of the delivery
mechanism, in disposing of the product of the two webs, will be described.
The web 12, as it reaches the side of the machine, is led upward around a
guide and register roll 43, thence forward over a second guide and register
roll 44, onto the face of a longitudinal folder 45, while the web 13, as it arrives
at the side of the machine, is led upward around a guide and register roll 38.
thence forward directly above the web 12, over the roll 44, and over a similar
roll 39, onto the face of a longitudinal folder 40.
It is to be remarked, in passing, that the rolls 43. 38 will, in practice, be
mado adjustable in position, so that the travel of the webs may be properly
regulated to secure accurate registration with the cutting mechanism which
will be hereinafter described.
The longitudinal folders 10. 15, may be of the construction shown, or of any
other approved form, which is adapted to longitudinally fold or continuously
moving web or sheet of material.
These longitudinal folders 40. 45 are arranged one in advance of the other (see
Figure 4), so that the folded webs 12. 13, as they pass from the surface of
their respective folders, are received and fed forward by the single pair of rolls
46. 47. The perfected and longitudinally folded webs then pass to the transverse
cutting and folding mechanism, which will now be described.

page_text: This mechanism consists of two cylinders, as 48. 49, which are provided with
cutting and folding devices, and of a pair of co operating folding rolls as
58, 59 (see figure 5), all of which cylinders and rolls are of sufficient length to
receive side by side, and operate upon, the two longitudinally folded webs.
The cylinders 48, 49 are geared together and are driven from the gear 5
of the form cylinder 1, through the intermediates 54. 55.
The folding rolls 46. 47. and 58. 59, are, or may be diiven though inter-
mediates connecting them with any appropriate one of the before mentioned gears.
These devices thus form a single delivery mechanism capacitated to receive
and dispose of the products of the two printed webs.
Referring now particularly to Figures 6 to 10 inclusive, it will be seen that
the cylinder 49, which, in the case shown, is of the same size as the form cylin-
der, which may carry circumferentially two duplicate sets of forms, is provided
at opposite points of its periphery with corresponding sets of sheet holding pins
69. 70. These pins are pivotted to the ends of arms 71. 72 carried by rock shafts
73. 74 journalled in the ends of the cylinder, and are arranged so as to be moved
in and out through holes in the surface of the cylinder. The rock shafts 73.
74 are provided with springs, which normally hold them in such position that
the pins 69. 70 are drawn within the cylinder, and carry rock arms 79. 75,
through which the shafts are rocked to protrude the pins.
When, therefore, the leading ends of the webs, after passing between the
.lls 46. 47, reach the bite of the cylinders 48. 49, the revolution of cylinder 49
will (as shewn in Fig: 6) bring the stud or roll 76 of the arm 75, carried by the
rock shaft 74, into contact with the stationary cam 77, thereby rocking the
shaft 74, and causing the pins 70 to protrude beyond the surface of the cylin-
der, and impale the leading ends of the webs (as shewn in Figure 7). The
webs thus inipaled upon the pins 70, will be carried around upon the surface of
the cylinder 49 (as shewn in Figure S), until the cylinder has made one half a
revolution, at which time the knife 65 carried by the cylinder 48, co-acting with
recess 81 in cylinder 49, severs the webs. At the same time, or immediately
before the webs are severed, the stud or roll 80 of rock arm 79, carried by rock
shaft 73, comes into contact with the stationary cam 77, thereby causing the
pins 69 to protrude and impale the webs just in the rear of the point of sever-
ance (as shewn in Fig: 8).-Shortly after the webs are severed by the blades 65,
the stud or roll 76 will pass off the cam 77 (as in Fig; 9), thus allowing the
spring heretofore referred to, to retract the pins 70 and release the sheets,
which are immediately folded between the rolls 58, 59 by the rotating fold-
ing blade 78.
The freshly cut ends of the webs are held by the pins 69, and carried around
one half a revolution with the cylinder 49, and are then released in like manner,
and folded between rolls 58, 59 by the rotating folding blade 82, the blade 65
and pins 70 having, in the meantime, again come into operative position, with
respect to the webs, to repeat the operation just described.
The rotating folding blades 78, 82 are constructed and operated in the usual
manner, and require no specific description, but it may be stated that any of
the well-known modes of operating folding blades in a rotating carrier may be
employed.
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It is to be remarked that after being folded between the rolls 58, 59, the sheets
may pass to other folding, or to folding and wrapping mechanisms, to be still
further manipulated, or they may pass onto a fly, and be piled upon a table
or fly board.
In the operation just described it will be observed that the mechanism pro-
duces and delivers twice folded four complete papers at each revolution of the
form cylinders, and consequently that each paper contains matter equal to one
half the circumferential capacity of said cylinders.
If it is desired to deliver these papers in pairs, it may be accomplished as
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page_text: The cylinder 48 is provided with a set of sheet holding pins 62, located just in
the rear of the knife 65.
These, pins are pivotted to the arms 63 of a rock shaft 64 journalled in the
ends of the cylinder, and are adapted, like pins 69, 70, to move in and out in
holes in the surface of the cylinder.―The rock shaft 64 is provided with a
spring, the tendency of which is a hold the shaft in such a position that the
pins will project beyond the surface of the cylinder.
One end of the rock-shaft 64 is provided with a rock arm 68 carrying a
stud or roll 67, which, at each alternate revolution of the cylinder 48, comes in
contact with an adjustable cam 66 carried upon the end of cylinder 49.
When the papers are to be delivered singly, as already explained, the arm 68.
is forced inward, so as to draw the pins 62 inside the cylinder 48, and make
them inoperative, and is there secured in any convenient manner.
When the papers are to be delivered in pairs, the arm 68 is released, so that
the pins 62 can come into operative position, and one set of the pins upon the
cylinder 49 (the set 69, as shewn in Figures and 10) is rendered inoperative.
This may be done by removing the arm 79 from the rock shaft, or by turn-
ing it to another position upon its shaft, and then securing it so that it will
not come in contact with cam 77.
The parts being thus arranged, the operation will be as follows:--
The pins 69, being inoperative, the leading ends of the webs will be impaled
upon the projecting pins 62 (as in Fig: 9), and carried around upon the cylinder 48
until said cylinder has made one full revolution, at which time the knife 65 will
sever the webs and the freshly cut ends, and the ends held by the pins 62 will
be brought together, as shewn in Fig: 10.-Just at, or a trifle before this time,
the cam 66 is brought into engagement with the stud or roll 67 of arm 68, and
the shaft 64 is rocked so as to withdraw the pins 62 (as in Fig: 6). At the
same time that the pins 62 are withdrawn, the stud or roll 76 of arm 75 comes
into contact with cam 77, and the pins 70 are projected so as to impale the
leading ends of both the webs and the severed sheets, and carry them around
upon the surface of cylinder 49. When they have been thus carried one-half a
revolution, the knife 65 will again sever the webs, and the cam 66 being absent,
the pins 62 will project, so as to impale the freshly cut ends of the webs, and
carry them around on cylinder 48, às shewn in Fig: 9. The pairs of papers
thus associated on the cylinder 49 will be released from the pins 70, and folded
between the rolls 58, 59 by blade 78 at the proper time, and in the manner
already explained, and the operation will then be repeated.
In Fig: 8, the cam 66 is shewn as placed so as to co-operate with the pins 69.
This however is immaterial, as the cam may be placed so as to co-operate with
either the pins 69 or 70, the other set being rendered idle when sheets are to
be associated.
When the pins 62 are retracted to release the leading end of the sheets from
cylinder 48, it is necessary that they should be prevented from protruding
beyond the surface of the cylinder again until they have been carried sufficiently
far from the surface of cylinder 49 to prevent their points from striking the
paper upon that cylinder.
In the construction shewn in Figures 6 and 7. this is accomplished by a
stationary cam 83, within which the stud or roll 67 is forced by the cam 60,
and inside of which it must travel, and which thus holds the pins 62 in their
retracted position, until nearly a whole revolution of the cylinder 48 has been
completed. During that revolution of the cylinder 48, when the pins 62 are
required to protrude, the stud or roll 67 passes outside the cam 83, it not having
been acted upon at the commencement of the revolution by the cam 66.
The cam $3 may be dispensed with, and the same result accomplished by an
elongation of the cam 66 (as shown in Figures 8, 9, and 10).
If it is desired that the two products made at each revolution of the form

page_text: cylinders shall, instead of being duplicates, contain different matter, and thus
combine to make a single product, the form cylinders may be provided with
appropriate plates or sets of plates. In that case, each sheet of the two pairs,
which will be associated upon cylinder 49 in the manner just explained, will
constitute one half of a single product, instead of each in itself forming a
single or complete product.
The number of plates carried upon the form cylinders is of course immaterial,
so long as they are divided into two equal sets, each occupying one-half the
circumferential extent of the cylinder. The columns of matter may also be
arranged to extend around or lengthwise of the cylinder according to the style
of product which it is desired to produce. It will, however, be found most
desirable, it is thought, to use four plates upon each form cylinder, two in
length, and two in circumference, and to arrange the columns of matter so
that they will extend circumferentially of the cylinder.
When the plates are thus arranged, and the second pair of plates are dupli-
cates of the first, the product will be four four-page papers at each revolution,
such papers being longitudinally folded upon the line between the pages, and
then either singly or in pairs folded transversely.
When the plates are thus arranged, and the matter upon the plates or sets
of plates is different, the product will be two eight-page papers at each revolu-
tion, such papers being composed each of two four-page sheets, which are folded
longitudinally between the pages, and afterwards associated, as upon cylinder
49, and folded transversely together. The four-page sheets composing these
products may be attached to each other by a line of paste placed contiguous to
the longitudinal fold lines. Such line of paste can be readily applied by past-
ing discs running in contact with cylinder 48. These discs should be made
intermittent in their action, so that paste will not be applied to the surface of
cylinder 48 at the times when there are no sheets upon its surface.
It has now been shown how the machine described can at option be made to
produce either a four-page or an eight-page product, the pages being the same
size in both cases, or in other words, a product containing matter equal to one
half the capacity of the form cylinders, or a product containing matter equal
to the full capacity of said cylinders. If, however, it should be desired to
construct a machine of this class capacitated to produce either a four-page, a
six-page, an eight-page, or a twelve-page product, the pages being of the same
size in all cases,--it can readily be done by making the form and impression
cylinders one-half longer, which will capacitate the form cylinders to carry
two additional plates or pages of printing surface, each.-When a four or an
eight-page paper is to be produced, the number and arrangement of the plates
will be the same as already described, the plates covering only two-thirds the
length of the cylinders, and the webs, of course, being of corresponding width.-
When, however, it is desired to produce a six-page paper, the two additional
plates will be placed upon each form cylinder, and webs of corresponding width
will be used. As the perfected webs 12 and 13 advance toward the delivery
mechanism, and pass over their guide rolls 37. 42, slitters, as 84, (see Fig: 11)
are arranged to split the webs into two parts, one part being one-half the
width of the other.-As only the web 13 is shewn in Fig. 11.—its wider part is
numbered and its narrower part to distinguish it in its further
manipulation, it being understood that web 12 is similarly operated upon.-
Each narrow portion, as 133 is carried under and around sets of parallel
Turner bars, as 85, 86, by which it is transferred laterally, and, associated with
the wider portion so as to lie between the plies of the latter, when it is
longitudinally folded by the folder, as 40, thus making the sections severed
by the blade 65 consist of six, instead of four pages, which six-page product
can be delivered, either singly or in pairs, as already described, in connection
with the four-page product.
2-3
13
1-3
131
1-3
13
When it is desired to produce a twelve-page product, the additional plates

page_text: upon the form cylinders will contain different matter, and two six-page pro-
ducts will be associated and delivered in the same manner as two four-page pro-
ducts are associated and delivered, as has already been described.
It is to be remarked that the narrow, or 1-3 inset portions of the webs,
may be secured in place by a line of paste laid along the centres of the wider
or 2-3 portions, before the same are folded.-Such a line of paste may be
applied by any well known device.
The turners 85, 86, of which there will be two sets, one for each web, will be
located between the guide rolls 37 38 and 42, 43 respectively, and should be
made adjustable (as shown in Fig: 11) in order to secure the accurate regis-
tration of the printed matter upon the two portions of the webs. To provide
for this adjustment of the turner bars, their ends are supported in collars 88,
which are swivelled to the slotted brackets 87 secured to the frame of the
machine by set screws 89. The proper registration of the edges of the two
portions of the webs is secured by adjusting the turners to the proper angle
with relation to the webs, and their proper registration in the direction of their
travel is effected by adjusting the bars to the proper distance from each other.
The collars SS are made capable of sliding along the bars 85. 86, so as to permit
this adjustment.
If it is desired to deliver, as a product, two or more sheets folded together,
the primary fold being transverse to the run of the paper through the machine,
the webs may be split longitudinally just before or during the passage over
the longitudinal folders. This can be well accomplished by slitters, such as
shewn at in Fig 12. These slitters should be arranged so as to be thrown
out of operative position when their use is not required. It will be readily
seen that when the webs are thus split in passing the folders 40. 45, these
folders become merely web associating devices, and not longitudinal folders.
In order to insure that the impressions made by the second form cylinder
shall register accurately with the impressions made by the first, the webs, after
receiving the first impression, and before they reach the turners 20. 41, pass
over fixed guide rolls, as 91 (see Fig 2), and under adjustable guide rolls, as 90.
By adjusting rolls 90 up or down, the distance travelled by the webs between
the cylinders can be varied so as to bring the impressions upon the opposite
sides of the sheet into proper register. The rolls 90 may be secured in their
adjusted positions by a screw, or by any other suitable means.
In the drawings, the web 12 alone is shown as supplied with this register-
regulating device, but it is to be understood that the web 13 is also to be pro-
vided with similar devices.-The distance travelled by the webs, after leaving
the second group of printing devices, and before reaching the longitudinal
folders 40, 45, may be varied so as to bring them into proper register with the
severing devices 65. 81, by the adjustment of the rolls 38. 39. 43. 44.
In Figures 3 and 12, there is shown a modified form of delivery-mechanism,—
in which the longitudinal folders 40. 45, instead of being located in the same
plane, and arranged so that both co-operate with the same pair of folding,
cutting, and associating cylinders, are arranged one above the other, and pro-
vided with independent co-operating devices.
The devices thus designated form two independent sets of delivery mechan-
isms, each of which delivers the product of one of the webs, the web 13 being
operated upon by the mechanisms of cylinders 48. 49 and its product delivered
between the rolls 58. 59, and the web 12 by the mechanisms of cylinders 52. 53,
and its product delivered between the rolls 60. 61.
The cylinders 52. 53 are geared together, and are driven by gear 5 upon
the shaft of form cylinder 1. through the intermediate gear 54.-The cylin-
ders 48. 49. are also geared together, and are driven through intermediate 55,
which engages with gears 56. 57 upon the shafts of cylinders 52 and 49.
The folding rolls 46. 47. 50. 51. 58. 59. and 60. 61 are, or may be, driven
through intermediates connecting them with any appropriate one of the before-
mentioned gears,

page_text: These delivery-mechanisms are exactly the same in their construction and
operation as that already described, except that the rolls and cylinders are
only of one half the length.
It will be observed that the method herein described of printing the two
webs, and leading them to the delivery mechanism, causes both webs to con-
tain the same printed matter upon their upper surfaces, and that, therefore,
when both webs are operated upon by the same delivery mechanism, as in
Figures 4 and 5, the products of both will be delivered in the same order, or
with the same matter upon the outside.
By the mechanisms shown in Figures 3 and 12, however, the result will be
different. The web being folded in opposite directions, the matter which is
on the inside of the product of one web, will be on the outside of the product
of the other.
It is to be remarked that it is not necessary that the two groups of print-
ing mechanisms should be placed at right angles to each other. The angle
may be either considerably more or less than a right angle, it being only neces-
sary that the angle should be such that the webs can be conducted from one
to the other by the use of a turner having a single turning edge or surface.
The impression cylinders which act upon one or both of the webs should be
made adjustable so that they can be withdrawn from contact with the form
cylinders, in case it should be desired to use the machine to print from one web
only.
The gears 33. 34, as will be observed, are secured to the shafts of the impres-
sion cylinders 2 23, but it is to be remarked that it will usually be found pre-
ferable to place the gear 33 upon the shaft of the form cylinder 1, and the
gear 34 upon the shaft of the form cylinder 31.
A mechanism of the construction herein set forth, possesses great advantages
over those of the same general character heretofore used, in that both webs
of paper are led from the same side of the machine, thus making it easy for
an operative to attend to both rolls at the same time. The product of both
webs is also delivered at the same or substantially the same point, and in close
proximity to the rolls from which the webs are drawn, thus making it possible
for the same operative to attend to both the feeding of the webs and the remov-
ing of the product.
This novel arrangement of the various parts also renders the machine very
much less cumbersome than those of an equal capacity as heretofore constructed.
As will readily be seen, any ordinary form of delivery mechanism may be
substituted for that here shewn, and used in connection with the printing
mechanism herein described, and this delivery mechanism may be used in con-
nection with other forms of printing mechanism.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, 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 two printing mechanisms set at an angle to each
other, of means for leading a web of paper to the first mechanism from the side
adjacent to the second mechanism, a web turner arranged to turn and guide
the web from one to the other, and means for leading the printed web from the
second mechanism upon the side adjacent to the first mechanism, all substan-
tially as described.
2. The combination with two printing mechanisms, each consisting of one
form cylinder and a plurality of impression cylinders, set at an angle to each
other, means for leading a plurality of webs of paper to the first mechanism
from the side adjacent to the second mechanism, a plurality of webs turnere
arranged to turn and guide the webs from the first to the second mechanism,
and means for leading the printed webs from the second mechanism upon the
side adjacent to the first mechanism, all substantially as described.
3. The combination with the two pairs of form and impression cylinders,
as 1, 2 and 31 23, set at an angle to each other, of means for leading a web

page_text: to the first pair from the side adjacent to the second pair, a web turner arranged
to turn and guide the web from the first to the second pair, and means for
leading the printed web from the second pair upon the side adjacent to the first
pair, and across the path of the entering web, all substantially as described.
4. The combination with two printing mechanisms, each consisting of one
form cylinder and a plurality of impression cylinders, said mechanisms being
set at an angle to each other, of means for leading a plurality of webs to the
first of said mechanisms, web turners arranged between said mechanism to
direct the webs from the first to the second mechanisms, and means for lead-
ing the webs from said second mechanism upon the side adjacent to the first
mechanism, all substantially as described.
5. The web turner, as 20, provided with the universal joint as 22, at one
end, and the vertical and horizontal adjusting device, as 21, at the other end,
substantially as described.
6. The combination with the web turner, consisting of parallel bars 85, 86, of
means for varying the angle of said bars with relation to the web, and for vary-
ing their distance from each other, substantially as and for the purposes sel
forth.
7. The combination with web-associating mechanism, as the turners 85, 86,
of longitudinal web-folding mechanism, as the folder 40 or 45, web-severing
mechanism, and sheet-associating mechanism, all substantially as described.
S. The combination with a printing machine arranged to perfect two webs
and deliver them both upon the same side of the machine, of a cutting and fold-
ing mechanism arranged to deliver the product of both webs, all substantially
as described.
9. The combination with the two longitudinal folders, as 40. 45, arranged
one in advance of the other, and adapted to operate upon different webs, of a
transverse folding and severing mechanism, all substantially as described.
10. The combination with the two longitudinal folders, as 40. 45, arranged
to operate upon different webs of a transverse cutting machine, all substantially
as described.
11. The combination with the cylinder 49, provided with two sets of sheet-
holding pins, and means for rendering one of said sets inoperative, and one
member of a severing mechanism of the cylinder 48, provided with a set of
sheet-holding pins, and the other member of the severing mechanism, and
means for rendering said pins inoperative, all substantially as described.
12. The combination of the cylinders 48. 49 with the three sets of auto-
matically operated sheet-holding pins 62. 69 and 70, any one of which sets may
be made inoperative substantially as described.
13. The combination of the set of pins 62, and the devices by which they
are supported, with the arm 68 and cams 66 and 83, all substantially as described.
14. The combination with a longitudinal folder. as 40, of a cutting and
gathering mechanism, consisting of the cylinders, as 48. 49, each provided with
sheet-holding pins, substantially as described.
15. The combination with printing mechanism adapted to print a plurality
of webs, of a plurality of longitudinal folding apparatuses, arranged and operat-
ing to fold and deliver said webs at the same side of the machine, all substan-
tially as described.
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NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.