Improvements in Web Printing and Folding Machines.
Year: 1897

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Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1897
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Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Web Printing and Folding Machines.
I, ROBERT CUMMING ANNAND, of Cornwallis Street, South Shields, in the County
of Durham, Printer's Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in web printing and folding machines,
the object being to provide a handy, simple and efficient web printing and folding
machine which will produce newspapers or the like consisting of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
and 16 pages from two webs or rolls of paper.
With this object I arrange two suitable printing presses, end to end leaving a
sufficient space between them for the folding apparatus. These printing presses
may consist of two ordinary web printing machines each printing a roll of paper,
which after being printed is conveyed to the associating and folding devices.
When only newspapers consisting of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 pages are required to be
produced by, this combination I make use of what is known in the art as a
66 waterfall or V-folder which consists of an inner triangular guide converging
towards a point in combination with outside drawing or.
. folding rolls which
together fold the web or webs while on the run.
When papers of 12 pages are required I arrange the printing presses so that
one of them and the folder are run at half the speed of the other printing press.
The press in this particular case that I run at half speed is the one which stands
facing the longitudinal fold former and which for convenience of reference I
will call the "A" machine. The other printing press which I will call the "B"
machine is provided with a pair of cutting and collecting cylinders of the usual
form, the collecting cylinder being half the diameter of the printing cylinders
in the machine.
The full product of each press is 8 pages.
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When producing issues of 12 pages I put pages 1, 2, 11 and 12 in duplicate on
to the "A" machine, and pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 on to the "13" machine.
The web from the A" machine is carried up to the top of the fold former and
passes over it in an uncut state being longitudinally folded. Below the drawing
or folding rollers there is placed a pair of cutting and folding rollers which sever
the web into sheets and give to the latter one or more transverse folds if desirable
to do so. In the time that the "A" machine produces 4 pages the "B" machine
is producing 8 pages. The web of "B" machine is cut into two sheets of 4 pages
each by a special cutting device in the machine, and one of the 4 pages is associated
or collected one inside the other, by the collecting cylinder. The two sheets are
stripped off the collecting cylinder and carried by tapes to the top of the fold former
A machine and are
where they pass underneath the uncut web from the
carried by it, assisted by tapes passing down the surface of the fold former,
through the folder to the delivery devices.
The collected sheets are so timed and adjusted by registering mechanism that

page_text: their ends come where the cut will take place in the uncut web and the product
is delivered without any noticeable want of register in the pages.
The two collected sheets reach the top of the fold former at full speed, but at
that point they are nipped between a set of tapes running at half speed, while at
the same instant the fast running tapes are separated and pass over the sheets
without urging them forward.
This form of folder will produce issues of 10 pages by means of the arrangement
hereinafter described. But as the product is made up of a 4-page sheet and a
6-page sheet collected back to back, it is not considered a desirable form in which
to issue a newspaper.
Machines of this class are often used to produce periodicals consisting of pages
half the size of the newspaper usually printed. In such a case the columns of
printed matter instead of being carried round the circumference of the printing
cylinders are carried with their column rules parallel with the axes of the
cylinders. Two small pages thus occupy the place of the larger page, and the
full product of the combined press would be 32 of these pages.
When producing periodicals of this form it is usual to slit the webs or sheets
in two as they pass over the fold former by a circular cutter of the well-known
form. It is therefore of no moment whether the sheets are inset or collected back
to back when they are cut longitudinally when passing over the former.
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To produce 10-page issues or 20-page issues of half size, "B" machine is made
to run at half the speed of the "A" machine and the folder. 8 of the pages are
printed on the A " machine, while only two, in duplicate, are pro-
duced on
the "B" machine ;
web being used on the B"
machine. The first 4 pages printed on the "A" machine are carried uncut
from the web over the fold former and down to the cutting and collecting cylinders
situated below the longitudinal folder. The pins on the collecting cylinder are
made to retain or keep back this sheet during one revolution of the small cutting
cylinder. The second 4 pages coming from the "A" machine as they reach the
top of the fold former are joined by a two page sheet coming from the
machine, making together 6 pages. These pass on, and their arrival is so timed
that they join the other four pages which the collecting cylinder has retained or
kept back for a revolution, and thus make up the product of 10 pages full size
or 20 pages half size.
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Now, although the two presses combined will produce issues of 16 pages full
size, the folding mechanism above described will only deal with 12 pages.
When, however, it is desired to obtain the full capacity of both presses I effect.
the folding by means of a somewhat different arrangement. I dispense with the
stationary or V-longitudinal folder and effect the folding by means of revolving
blades of suitable form. In this case the sheets are all cut off the web before
folding.
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When producing 16 page issues I lead the web from the A "anachine and the
web from the "B" machine to a pair of cutting and collecting cylinders on the
top of the folder. These cylinders cut the two webs and the collecting cylinder
atssociates the two sets of 8 page papers together, making a 16 page product all
inset. These sheets are removed from the collecting cylinder by means of a
conveyance cylinder and carried by tapes to the longitudinal folding devices
which give to the sheets two longitudinal folds and pass them on to a final folding
and delivering apparatus.
12 page products can be produced by this machine by putting 4 pages in dupli-
cate on the "B" machine and 8 on the "A" machine. The "B" machine is
made to run at half speed and the 4 pages having been cut off from the web by
the cutting cylinders belonging to the B" machine they join the web from
the "A" machine and pass through the cutting and collecting cylinders on to
the longitudinal folding and delivering devices.
Ten-page issues can be produced by the same arrangement as for 12 pages
by using a half-width web in the "B" machine instead of a whole width web.

page_text: No special description is necessary to enable anyone skilled in the art to under-
stand how issues of 4, 6 and 8 pages may be produced by means of this invention.
Pasting devices are arranged at suitable places to paste the products at the back
on the way to the folder in the well known manner.
Dated this 30th day of August 1897.
Improvements in Web Printing and Folding Machines.
I, ROBERT CUMMING ANNAND, of Cornwallis Street, South Shields, in the County
of Durham, Printer's 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:
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The object of this invention is to provide a web printing and folding machine
that will produce a variety of sizes of products from two rolls of paper.
The printing machine consists of two printing mechanisms which print both
sides of the two rolls of paper respectively and the associating and folding devices
which bring the products together and make them up in the desired form ready
for the market.
I arrange two printing mechanisms end to end leaving a space between them
where the folding and delivery mechanism is placed.
The printing mechanisms may be of any ordinary well known form, my inven-
tion having no reference to the construction of the printing presses themselves.
For convenience of description I will assume that the two printing presses are
of the ordinary type used in newspaper production and that the products of each
machine would be pages of the ordinary size. It will be understood that the
number of pages could be doubled by making the pages half the size in the
manner well known.
In producing issues of 4, 6 and 8 pages my invention cannot be regarded as an
improvement upon well known apparatus for effecting the same object. As an
enlargement of an 8 page newspaper to 10 or 12 pages is a desirable and handy
extension, newspaper proprietors require machines which will produce these
enlargements when desired. Hitherto the mechanism constructed for this object
has been found defective and inefficient when only two printing presses are used
in combination. In order to produce these sizes from two rolls of paper it is
necessary to run one of the printing presses at half the speed of the other. When
this is done it has been found in practice very difficult to associate the sheets
produced in the one machine at half speed with the sheets coming from the other
machine at full speed. It is to overcome this difficulty, that is the chief object of
the present invention by providing such devices for cutting and associating the
different sheets that they are timed to join each other in a positive and certain
manner by suitable controlling and registering mechanism that can be adjusted
while the machinery is in motion.
When only newspapers consisting of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 pages are required to be
produced by this combination I make. use of what is known in the art as a
waterfall or V-folder which consists of an inner triangular guide converging
towards a point in combination with outside drawing or folding rolls which
together fold the web or webs while on the run.
When papers of 12 pages are required I arrange the printing presses so that
one of them and the folder are run at half the speed of the other printing press.

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The press in this particular case that I run at half speed is the one which stands
facing the longitudinal fold former and which for convenience of reference I will
call the A machine. The other printing press which I will call the "B"
machine is provided with a pair of cutting and collecting cylinders of the usual
form, the collecting cylinder being half the diameter of the printing cylinders in
tne machine.
When producing issues of 12 pages I put pages 1, 2, 11 and 12 in duplicate on
to the "A" machine, and pages 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 on to the "B" machine.
The web from the " A" machine is carried up to the top of the fold former and
passes over it in an uncut state being longitudinally folded. Below the drawing
or folding rollers there is placed a pair of cutting and folding rollers which sever
the web into sheets and give to the latter one or more transverse folds if desirable
to do so.
In the time that the "A" machine produces 4 pages the "13" machine
is producing 8 pages. The web of "B" machine is cut into two sheets of 4 pages
each by a special cutting device in the machine, and one of the 4 pages is associated
or collected one inside the other by the collecting cylinder. The two sheets are
stripped off the collecting cylinder and carried by tapes to the top of the fold former
where they pass underneath the uncut web from the A machine and are
carried by it, assisted by tapes passing down the surface of the fold former,
through the folder to the delivery devices.
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The collected sheets are so timed and adjusted by registering mechanism that
their ends come where the cut will take place in the uncut web and the product
is delivered without any noticeable want of register in the. pages..
The two collected sheets reach the top of the fold former at full speed, but at
that point they are nipped between a set of tapes running at half speed, while at
the same instant the fast running tapes are separated and pass over the sheets
without urging them forward.
This form of folder will produce issues of 10 pages by means of the arrangement
hereinafter described. But as the product is made up of a 4-page sheet and a
6-page sheet collected back to back, it is not considered a desirable form in which
to issue a newspaper.
"Machines of this class are often used to produce periodicals consisting of pages
half the size of the newspaper usually printed. In such a case the columns of
printed matter instead of being carried round the circumference of the printing
cylinders are carried with their column rules parallel with the axes of the
cylinders. Two small pages thus occupy the place of the larger page, and the
full product of the combined press would be 32 of these pages.
When producing periodicals of this form it is usual to slit the webs or sheets
in two as they pass over the fold former by a circular cutter of the well-known
form. It is therefore of no moment whether the sheets are inset or collected back
to back when they are cut longitudinally when passing over the former.
To produce 10-page issues or 20-page issues of half size, "B" machine is made
to run at half the speed of the A "machine and the folder. 8 of the pages are
printed on the A machine, while only two, in duplicate, are pro-
half web being used
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the "B" machine;
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machine. The first 4 pages printed on the "A" machine are carried uncut
from the web over the fold former and down to the cutting and collecting cylinders
situated below the longitudinal folder. The pins on the collecting cylinder are
made to retain or keep back this sheet during one revolution of the small cutting
cylinder. The second 4 pages coming from the "A" machine as they reach the
top of the fold former are joined by a two page sheet coming from the "B"
machine, making together 6 pages. These pass on, and their arrival is so timed
that they join the other four pages which the collecting cylinder has retained or
kept back for a revolution, and thus make up the product of 10 pages full size
or 20 pages half size.
When producing 16-page issues I lead the web from the "A" machine and the

page_text: web from the "B" machine to a pair of cutting and collecting cylinders on the
top of the folder. These cylinders cut the two webs, and the collecting cylinder
associates the two sets of 8 page papers together, making a 16 page product all
inset. These sheets are removed from the collecting cylinder by means of a
conveyance cylinder and are carried on to a final folding and delivering apparatus.
12-page product can be produced by this machine by putting 4 pages in dupli-
cate on the "B" machine and S on the A" machine. The "B" machine is
made to run at half speed and the 4 pages having been cut off from the web by
the cutting cylinders belonging to the "B" machine, they join the web from
the "A" machine and pass through the cutting and collecting cylinders on to
the longitudinal folding and delivering devices.
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Ten-page issues can be produced by the same arrangement as for 12 pages
by using a half-width web in the Bmachine instead of a whole width web.
No special description is necessary to enable anyone skilled in the art to under-
stand how issues of 4, 6 and 8 pages may be produced by means of this invention.
Pasting devices are arranged at suitable places to paste the products at the back
on the way to the folder in the well known manner.
The accompanying drawings and the following description of the same will
enable my invention to be fully understood.
Figure 1 illustrates in side elevation the invention as applied to a machine for
producing issues of 4, 6, 8 and 12 pages; Figure 2 is a front elevation on a larger
scale showing the drawing rollers d, registering roller e and transverse cutting
and folding cylinders f.
The cylinders a and b represent the last stereo and blanket cylinders of "A"
machine and a b₁ represent the last stereo and blanket cylinders' of "B" machine.
The rest of the printing mechanism may be of any ordinary form and is not shown.
In order to produce issues of 12 pages A" machine is run at half the speed
of "B" machine. This is effected by means of change gearing well known in
the art.
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The web from the "A" machine is carried to the top of the longitudinal fold
former c by means of a pathway of endless tapes o and thence in an uncut state
over the fold former c down to the drawing rollers v past the registering roller e
in between the transverse cutting and folding cylinders f.
The web from the "B" machine passes in between the pair of cutting and
collecting cylinders 9 h. The perforator blade in the cylinder co-operating
with the cylinder h severs the web into sheets. The instant the cut takes place
the pins on cylinder h pass through the leading end of the web. This cylinder is
made to make two revolutions with its pin protruding and by this means collects
two sheets one above the other in the manner well understood. The cylinder h
having collected the two sheets on its surface at the point of contact between the
cylinder hand the conveyance cylinder i, the pins on cylinder hare withdrawn
and the pins on cylinder i are protruded by cams operating for that purpose.
The two sheets are thus transferred from cylinder to the conveyance cylinder i.
A run of tapes passes round this cylinder and another roller & gearing with i
has another set of tapes upon it. The pins on i carry the two sheets into the
pathway of tapes which convey the sheets to the top of the fold former c. Up
to this point the sheets have been travelling at double the speed of the web from
"A machine. The roller m² over which the sheets from the pathway are
conveyed is composed of two sets of discs, the discs of the two sets being arranged
alternately on the roller shaft; the discs of one set are loose on the shaft and are
driven at full speed by the tapes from the roller k, the discs of the other set are
The shaft is.
keyed on the shaft and travel at half the speed of the other set.
driven from the shaft of the cylinder a by the shaft and mitre gearing.
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6.
When the leading edges of the sheets reach the point m they are nipped between
the uncut web from A" machine and the roller m' assisted by the run of
tapes n o. The speed of the sheets becomes reduced to one half of the former
speed and having joined the web from A" they pass down the fold former c

page_text: and are longitudinally folded. The associated sheets are so timed by means of
the registering rollers ¹ and e as will be well understood that the ends of the
cut sheets come in the uncut web where the perforations will be made in it by
the cutting cylinders f. In order to prevent smearing at the moment the sheets
reach the point m the run of tapes is opened by the swing frame which carries
the roller operated by the cam r.
In order to carry the cut sheets down over the former c a series of tapes ss ss
passes over the surface of the fold former c travelling at the same speed as the
sheets. The cut sheets are thereby carried down over the former by means of the
endless tapes underneath and the uncut web above them.
Figure 3 shows a manner of producing a 10 page journal consisting of a 4
page paper laid back to back, or a 20 page product all inset, the pages
being half the usual size.
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In this arrangement "B" machine is made to run at half the speed of " A. "
machine and of the folder c by change gearing in the ordinary way. "B"
machine prints on a web half the width of that printed on "A." The uncut web
is carried from the "A" machine in the same way as in Figure 1. "B"
machine is provided with a pair of cutting cylinders as before. In this case the
sheets are not wholly severed as in Figure 1, but tags are left at intervals to
connect the sheets together in a manner well understood.
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The sheets from B" machine, while still held together are carried past the
registering rollers 22 into the pathway of tapes 7 which lead up to the top of the
fold former c where the breaking and associating mechanism is situated. In the
Specification of a Patent granted to me No. 16607 of 1893 I described a means of
associating a cut sheet with a web of paper travelling at double the speed. In
that invention the semi detached sheet enters a pathway of tapes open at one end
but gradually getting closer until it reaches an adjustable nipping roller which
breaks off the sheet and starts it on full speed to join the main web. It has been
found in practice that this gradual closing path of tapes and nipping device is
not quite certain in action as the sheet in some classes of paper will break away
sooner than in others and thus get out of register.
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In my present invention I make the pathway of tapes leading from the supple-
mental cutting cylinders gh to the place where it joins the main web and open
or non-nipping pathway. In connection with this pathway I provide a positive
nipping or breaking device which effectually breaks the tags holding the sheet
and starts it away full speed to join the main web. The pathway of tapes
driven at the same surface speed at the "A" machine and folder c, when the semi
detached sheets enter the pathway it is kept sufficiently open by means of the
adjustable roller t to just keep the sheets tight but to put no strain on them or
cause any rubbing action on the freshly printed matter. The rollers 1 and 2 are
driven by gearing and their circumference is half that of the printing cylinders in
the machine. The cylinder 2 must be half the diameter of the printing cylinders;
the roller 1 may be any convenient size so long as its surface speed is equal to that
of the web coming from "A" machine. At a part of the circumference of
cylinder 2 there is a longitudinal groove. Into this groove I fit a bar 6 of wood
or rubber or similar partly yielding material.
When the leading edge of the sheet from "B" machine reaches the point of
contact between cylinders 1 and 2 this projecting bar nips the margin of the
sheet between it and roller 1 and thus positively and at the right time breaks the
tags holding the sheet and starts it on at full speed to join the other web.
To guide the web round the roller 1 a series of switches or guides 7 are placed
in grooves in cylinder 2 as will be well understood.
The arrival of the supplemental sheets at the nipping or breaking device can be
timed by the adjustable registering roller 12 so that their ends come where the
cut will take place in the uncut web and the product is delivered without any
noticeable want of register in the pages.
Practically the same results would be obtained by making the nipping roller 2

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with a plain surface without the projecting piece 6 and placing it in close contact
with roller 1. There would however be this defect in this arrangement that the
continuous pressure of the roller upon roller 1 would smear the newly printed
sheet which does not take place when there is a projection on roller number 2 and
it is so timed that it presses only on the margin of the sheet and not on the print.
By this arrangement of mechanism four of the 8 pages produced by * A
machine pass down the longitudinal fold former and enter the cutting cylinders f.
The pins on the smaller cutting and collecting cylinder enter the leading edge
of the longitudinally folded web and carry it round on its surface one complete
revolution. It is then joined by the other four pages from the
" A" machine
which has had a sheet representing two pages produced on "B" machine
inserted under it by the associating mechanism already described.
By this means a product of 10 pages, consisting of a four and a six page paper
collected one over the other which receive a transverse fold by the large folding
cylinder by means of grippers of well known construction operating on its
circumference. This form of producing 10 page newspapers has the defect of
being made up of a four and a six page product laid back to back. When the
pages are made half size and the paper is cut by a circular slitter in the manner
well understood as it passes down the longitudinal fold former c, this manner of
collecting the sheets to form a 20 page product is in every way efficient and
satisfactory.
Figure 4 shows my arrangement of associating mechanism for producing news-
papers and the like up to 16 pages in size from two printing machines. By this
arrangement all sizes up to 16 pages will be inset. In this arrangement I provide
in a convenient part of the machine preferably above the final folding and delivery
mechanism, a pair of cutting and folding cylinders 1 and 2, a conveyance
cylinder 3 and a nipping or breaking cylinder 4. All these cylinders for con-
venience I make of one size equal to half the size of the printing cylinders, they
are all gear-driven at a surface speed equal to that of the printing cylinders in
the "A" machine. To produce a 10 page issue "B" machine is run at half the
speed of "A" machine. "B" machine is provided with a pair of cutting
cylinders gh; a registering roller p between them and the printing cylinders
serves to regulate the place where the cut will take place in the web. There is
also a registering roller 22 between the cutting cylinders and the open pathway
of tapes. Cylinder 1 is provided with a perforator as shown; cylinder 2 has in
it a groove as shown which co-acts with the perforator in severing the sheets.
Cylinder 2 has also a set of collecting pins indicated by a dotted line which are
suitably controlled by means of a cam operated by a shaft in the machine in
the well known manner. Cylinder 3 has another set of pins (similarly indicated)
operated by a suitable cam which remove the sheets from the cutting cylinder 2
and enter them into the double run of tapes which convey the products to other
folding and delivery mechanism if desired.
The nipping or breaking cylinder 4 has a projection 6 on it for the purpose
already described.
The operation of producing a 10 page paper is as follows:-The web is led
from "A" machine to the cutting and collecting cylinders 1 and 2. The pins in
cylinder carry round the leading end of the web until the point of contact is
reached between it and cylinder 4. A semi-detached sheet from "B" machine
is timed to reach the point of contact at the same time. The projection on
cylinder 4 impales the leading end of the semi detached sheet and at once starts
it on at the surface speed of these cylinders. The pin cylinder carries round the
sheet and end of the web until the point of contact between cylinders 1 and 2 is
reached. Here the sheet from "A" machine is detached from the web while the
pins again seize the leading end of the web and carry the three sheets thus super-
posed round to the point of contact, with the conveyance cylinder 3. When this
is reached the pins in this cylinder enter the leading edge of the sheets the pins
on cylinder 2 are withdrawn and the sheets are carried round into the bight of

page_text: the double run of tapes which carries the sheets on to any desirable form of
delivery.
When producing a 10 page paper a half width web is used in machine B"
and a full width web in machine
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A."
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To produce issues of 12 pages or three sheets, full width webs are used in both
machines.
To produce 16 page issues both "A" and "B" machines are run at the same
speed. The perforator in the cutting cylinder g of the "B" machine is removed
and the web carried to the cutting and collecting cylinders 1 and 2 adjacent to
the folding mechanism. The two webs thus pass in between cylinders and 2.
Two sheets are superposed above other two by the collecting cylinder operating as
for a 10 or 12 page issue and the 4 sheets or 16 pages are transferred from the
collecting cylinder 2 by the conveyance cylinder 3 as already set forth.
This invention will give other forms of products which will be readily seen by
those skilled in the art and which need no further detailed description.
For instance the arrangement illustrated in Figure 4 would print and put on a
cover of a different color from the main body of the publication as produced in
-machine "A."
The colored roll of paper would be put into "B" machine and it would be set
to run at half the speed of "A" machine. By timing the arrival of the coloured
sheet to reach the point of contact between cylinders 2 and 4 immediately after
the previous bundle of sheets has been transferred to the conveyance cylinder 3,
the coloured cover would be impaled on the pins next the bare cylinder and carried
round to join the main product from "A" machine. When the whole bundle
of sheets come to be transferred to the conveyance cylinder 3 the cover is on the
outside and the tapes already described will convey the sheets to final folding
and delivery mechanism of a suitable form. The web from "A" in this case may
have arrived at the cutting and folding cylinders 1 and 2 in a partly folded
condition.
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In machines of this type it is advisable to have the several registering or timing
rollers easily adjustable by the attendants while the machinery is in motion.
convenient way of operating these registering rollers is shown in Figure 5.
A shaft 1 is passed through the framework of machine carrying arms 2 (one
at each side of the machine) in which the spindles of the registering roller 3 arc
carried. One end of this shaft 1 extends outside the framework and a toothed
quadrant 4 is keyed to it. A clamping screw 5 enters the framework through a
radiused slot 6 in the quadrant: A stud 7 carries a small pinion 8 which has
an extension on it formed square so as to be operated by a spanner.
The clamping screw 5 can be adjusted by means of leather or rubber
washers so
as to be sufficiently tight to keep the roller 3 in its place but
which will not prevent the attendant shifting the quadrant 4 without having to
slacken the clamping screw; the shifting of the quadrant in the one direction or
the other correspondingly moves the registering roller 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim in respect of web printing and folding machines is:
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1. The combination of a printing press (hereinbefore called the "A" machine)
a second printing press (hereinbefore called the "13" machine) run at twice the
speed of the A machine, a longitudinal fold former between the two machines
and working at the same speed as the "A" machine, transverse cutting cylinders
and a conveyance cylinder between the "B" machine and the said fold former, a
pathway of tapes carrying the severed sheets from the said conveyance cylinder
to the top of the fold former, a pathway of tapes carrying the uncut web from
the "A" machine to the top of the fold former so that the said web becomes
associated with the severed sheets from the "B" machine and registering rollers
between the "B" machine and the cutting cylinders between the "A" machine

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and the longitudinal fold former and between the longitudinal fold former and
the cutting and folding cylinders below said fold former, all arranged and acting
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and as shown in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of a printing press (herein before called the "A" machine)
a second printing press (hereinbefore called the "B" machine) run at half the
speed of the "A" machine, a longitudinal fold former between the two machines
and working at the same speed as the A" machine, cutting cylinders for partly
severing the web into sheets between the "B" machine and the fold former, an
open or non-nipping pathway of tapes conveying the partly severed sheets from
the cutting cylinders to an associating cylinder and a nipping and breaking
cylinder, a pathway of tapes conveying the uncut web from the A" machine to
the same associating cylinder, and registering rollers between the "B" machine
and the cutting cylinders, between these cutting cylinders and the longitudinal
fold former, and between the "A" machine and the longitudinal fold former, all
arranged and acting substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and as shown in Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of a printing press (herein before called the "A" machine),
a second printing press (herein before called the "B" machine) run at half the
speed of or at the same speed as the "A" machine, a pair of cutting and folding
cylinders run at the same speed as the "A" machine to which cylinders the webs
from both machines are conveyed by tapes and by which cylinders the webs
are associated, cutting cylinders for partly severing into sheets when required the
web from the "B" machine before this web is conveyed to the said cutting and
folding cylinders, a nipping or breaking cylinder for breaking the partly severed
web into sheets, a conveyance cylinder for receiving the associated webs or asso-
ciated web and sheets from the cutting and folding cylinders and delivering
them to tapes, and registering rollers between the "B machine and the cutting
cylinders, between these cutting cylinders and the pathway of tapes leading the
web or sheets therefrom to the cutting and folding cylinders, and between the
"A" machine and the pathway of tapes leading the web therefrom to the said
cutting and folding cylinders, all arranged and acting substantially as and for
the purpose herein before described and as shown in Figure 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
4. In a web printing and folding machine having two printing presses ("A'
and "B") arranged relatively to each other substantially as shown, the com-
bination of the cutting cylinders in the "B" machine, the registering roller p²,
the pathway of tapes, and the nipping cylinder 4 having a projection on its
surface for breaking off the supplemental sheet and impaling it upon the pins on
the corresponding cylinder, substantially as described and shown in Figure 4.
5. The several arrangements or combinations of parts of printing and folding
machines herein before described with reference respectively to Figures 1 and 2,
Figure 3 and Figure of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of May 1898
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.