A New or Improved Method of Printing in Type Writing Machines, and of Producing Authors' Proofs of the Matter Printed.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
A New or Improved Method of Printing in Type Writing Machines,
and of Producing Authors' Proofs of the Matter Printed.
I, JOHN CLAYTON YOUKER, of 97 Zimmer Strasse, Berlin, Stenographer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to the art of printing by type-writing machines and moro
particularly to that class of machines which print with ink upon a continuous strip of
prepared paper; which strips are afterwards arranged in page or column form and
copics reproduced by means of lithography, zincography, photo lithography or
other processes. It consists of a means or process of furnishing authors proofs for
correction. At present this is only done by using the printed strip to transfer the
matter to a stone and taking an impression from the stone, this destroys the print for
further use and it has been found very difficult to make on the stone the corrections
indicated by the author in as much as the words require to be scratched off the stone
and others inserted in their places; and sometimes where words are to be inserted or
taken out, if the insertions dont occupy the same space as that which is taken
out, it becomes necessary to reprint the whole page; and even then the page may be
too long or too short, and thus necessitate a change in the succeeding pages. My
object is to provide a second copy of the matter which can be arranged in form and
submitted to the author for corrections, without using the first or regular copy at all,
and without any lithographic process whatever. I accomplish this in the following
way. I pass a strip of paper or other material having a carbon surface between
the strip of prepared paper which is printed upon and the strip which is used as a
pad the carbonized face of the paper being on the under side. Then when the machine
is printing, it not only impresses its print upon the prepared paper, but also at the
same time by its pressure upon the carbon paper causes a carbon impression of the
letters or words printed to be made upon the pad strip. This pad strip will be found
to contain a reproduction of the matter contained in the printed strip of transfer
paper. This strip with the carbon print upon it may then be proof read and
arranged in page or column form and secured to a sheet of paper, by gum or any
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page_text: suitable means, and submitted to the author for his corrections. When it is returned
by the author with his corrections the strip of prepared paper with the print upon it is
then proof read and corrected in accordance with the authors changes and laid down
upon the stone and lithographed in the ordinary method. By means of this process an
author would be enabled to have a printed proof of his manuscript in form for
correction and the trouble and expense of making changes upon the stone would be
avoided; and also the stones will not be required to lie idle during the time the author
has the copy in his possession for correction. I do not limit my invention to the
particular method or manner herein described for producing a second printed strip but
claim the making of a second strip for the purposes named by one operation of the key
board; and also arranging the strip in forin and securing it to a base sheet.

page_text: and of Producing Authors' Proofs of the Matter Printed.
I, JOHN CLAYTON YOUKER of 97 Zimmer Strasse Berlin, Stenographer, 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:
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My invention relates to the art of printing, and more particularly to that branch of
the art in which type-writing machines print continuous lines upon long strips of paper,
and the strips of paper are arranged in form and lithographed or stereotyped; and it
consists, first, in the production by one operation of a single key-board, of two strips
containing the same printed matter; second in the use of one of the strips, when
corrected according to "copy," arranged in form and secured to a base sheet, as a
"proof" copy to be submitted to the author, or patron, for his corrections; and, third,
in using the remaining strip when corrected as indicated on the "proof" copy and put
in form, as the medium for the reproduction of copies by lithographing, stereotyping
or any other suitable process.
"
The object in printing in a continuous line upon a strip, as distinguished from
printing upon a sheet in page form, is to render it easier to arrange the matter in lines
of uniform longth, and also casier to correct mistakes, or insert omissions; both of
which are readily accomplished by sovering the strip between the words, or wherever
necessary, and using as much as is necessary to make each line of the proper length,
at the same time cutting out mistakes and inserting corrections and omissions.
However, when the matter thus arranged, has been lithographed or stereotyped, in
cases where a "proof" copy
or impression has been supplied to the author, or
patron for correction, it has been found very difficult at times to make the authors
corrections on the stone or in the stereotype plate, as it required in the one case
the scratching of the face of the stone, and in the other the cutting of the plate; and
in either case, where an insertion was longer or shorter than the words or letters to be
taken out, it has often been necessary to reprint a whole page or paragraph. And this
difficulty has very seriously interfered with the use of this class of type-writing-
machines in certain branches of printing.
My invention is intended to overcome this difficulty, and to provide a convenient
method of supplying Author's proofs without printing the matter over again, and
without defacing the stone or plate, as the case may be.
In machines of the monotype pattern the object is accomplished, in the lithographic
process, for instance, by passing through the paper guide of the machine three strips
of paper, the top one being the prepared strip upon which the impression is made by
the types, the bottom one being a plain white strip, while the middle strip will be of
carbonized paper, the carbonized surface being on the under side and facing the white
strip, so that when the type impressions are inade on the upper strip the matter will at
the same time and by the same action be printed, by the carbon surface, upon the white

page_text: strip. This white strip is then proof read with the "copy" and arranged in form, and
secured to a base sheet by any substantial means. For the base sheet I prefer to use
paper which has a gummed surface of the size of a page of prepared printed strip
leaving the edges ungummed so as to be available for writing corrections upon. As
the lines are arranged they are first secured to the sheet by puncturing, in the ordinary
method of securing the lines, the gum being dry. Afterwards, the sheet with the
strips thus secured to it temporarily, is laid between damp pads or cloths and
pressure applied so as to moisten the gum and cause the strips to adhere firmly to the
sheets. The sheets are then dried; and submitted to the author, or patron. When
they are returned by him with his corrections, the prepared strip (which will have
lain idle meanwhile) is proof read and corrected in accordance with the indications upon
the author's proof and may then be paged and lithographed in the ordinary way,
I do not limit my invention to the particular method herein described of producing
the second printed strip by the use of carbonized paper; but I claim broadly the
production of the two strips by the one action of the key board, and the use of one
of the strips as an author's proof.
In the drawing hereto annexed, Fig. 1 shows the arrangement of the strips for
printing the second strip by the use of carbon paper; A being intended to represent the
paper guide in a Monotype Printing machine, B being the top or prepared strip upon
which the type impressions are made. C the intermediate carbon strip and D the
white strip used as the authors proof. Fig. 2 represents a few lines arranged in form
and secured to the base sheet E; D being the strip and FF the author's corrections.
Fig. 3 represents the strip B, containing the same matter, arranged in accordance with
the corrections made by the author in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what mariner the same is to performed, I declare that what I claim is ;
1. The method, substantially as herein shown and described of producing author's
proofs of matter printed by type-writing machines in a continuous line upon a strip
the same consisting in printing two strips by one action of the key-board, and arranging
one of the strips in form and securing it to a base sheet or other support, and
subsequently proof reading the remaining strip and arranging it in form in accordance
with the corrections made on the first form.