A Method of Printing and Collecting or Assembling Numbered Tickets or Leaves, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov, 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Printing and Collecting or Assembling Numbered
Tickets or Leaves, and Apparatus therefor.
I, EDWARD ANDERSON HENKLE, of No. 917 and 919, Filbert Street, Philadelphia,
County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, United States of America, Printer,
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:-
My invention relates to means of printing and collecting or assembling numbered
tickets or leaves and consists of apparatus for printing numbers in regular order on a
web, dividing the web into strips and assembling the strips in a pile in such
manner that when they are subsequently cut into blocks or piles of numbered tickets
the numbers on them are in numerical sequence.
Thus there is a printing press adapted to print at intervals on an endless web of
paper numbers in regular order combined with cutting mechanism which cuts the
web transversely into strips, which fall upon one another forming a pile in the order
of the numbers printed on the tickets so that on cutting the pile of strips into blocks
of tickets these tickets are numbered in numerical order.
I shall describe apparatus according to my invention having reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, shewing the printing and impression cylinders of a press
with cutting mechanism applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is a plan, shewing a cylinder adapted to print two or more rows of numbers
on a web and cutters for separating the web longitudinally into strips containing the
numbers before the web reaches the transverse cutter.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation shewing my invention applied to a bed and platen
press.
Fig. 5 shews a number of the strips assembled as they pass from the cutters.
Fig. 6 shews a pile of the strips, cut into blocks of cheques.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 illustrate modifications in the manner of assembling the
strips.
A Fig. 1 indicates the forme cylinder on shaft a, and B the impression cylinder, on
shaft b, of a cylinder printing press. On a shaft c near these cylinders is my
improved cutting cylinder C, beneath which, on a shaft d, is a cylinder D. Upon
shaft e is wound a web of paper E which is conducted between the cylinders A B and
CD the cylinder D serving as a support for the paper and also to receive the impact of
the knife c¹ of cylinder C. F indicates a tray for receiving the separated strips fas
they come from the cutting mechanism.
The mechanism shewn in Fig. 1 is designed to print at intervals on a narrow
endless strip or web of paper E a single row of numbers, running from 1 to 10, and
the cylinder A has, therefore, only a single line g of type numbers where it is desired
to print two or more rows of numbers at the same time, as shewn in Fig. 3, a
correspondingly wide web of paper E', would be employed, and the printing cylinder
would have a corresponding number of lines of type-numbers g, g¹. In this
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page_text: construction, however, rotary cutters G, suitably spaced, would be employed between
the printing cylinder A, and the cutting cylinder C, to separate the wide web into
narrow strips.
The same would hold equally true, of course, with the bed and platen press H
shewn in Fig. 4.
The cutting mechanism comprises the cylinder C, having on its periphery a knife c¹,
and a cylinder D, having in its periphery a recess to receive the knife. The
cylinder C has a greater diameter than the cylinder A, the diameters being so
proportioned that, as the two cylinders revolve the knife c¹ operates one step or space
behind a given type on the printing cylinder. In other words, while the cylinder A
continuously prints on a series of numbers running from 1 to 10, the knife c¹ of the
cutting cylinder reaches the web E and severs it only at every eleventh number.
Thus the numbers on the first strip would run as follows:
the fifth:
6
the sixth : 5
5-4
-4-3
—3—2—1-10-9-8-7 _ 6
2-1-10-9-8-7-6
the seventh: 4
1
3
2
1-10-9
3 2
1
the eighth
the ninth: 2
-
I
-10-9
1
8 _
8 7 6
7-6
4
. 5
-
4 3
10- 9 -8 7 6 5 4
-
-
-
the tenth:
-
10-
9
-8
-y
7 6
1
-
5 4
-
3
-
3 2
-
2 I
―
It will thus be seen that as these strips fall upon one another the numbers are
automatically arranged in vertical series, every pile of ten strips containing eleven
vertical series of numbers running from one to ten. Each pile of ten strips may now
be cut into 11 blocks or piles of tickets 1ª, 2ª, 3ª, etc., as indicated in Fig. 6.
Blocks 1 and 11" have their tickets running in numerical order from 1 to 10. In
blocks 2 and 10, there is a disarrangement of one ticket in each pile, that is to say
in block 2 the ticket 10 would have to be placed on the bottom, and in block 10°
ticket 1 would have to be placed on the top of their respective piles. So in
blocks 3 and 9 there will be a disarrangement of two tickets that is to say in
blocks 3ª, tickets 9 and 10, would have to be placed on the bottom, and in block 94
tickets 1 and 2, would have to be placed on the top of the respective piles, and so on
with respect to the other blocks. But as there is a certain method observable in this
progressive disarrangement of the tickets the correction of such disarrangement
requires no greater mental effort than the progressive counting of 1, 1-2, 1-2-3,
1-2-3-4, etc., from the top of the respective piles 2, 3, 4, 5ª elc., and no other,
manipulation than moving each ticket so counted to the bottom of its respective pile.
In practice, this disarrangement bears only on the top and bottom series of the pile
printed, which may be of any height or quantity, all of the remaining series being
found in regular consecutive order and only requiring separation from each other. In
the actual process of manufacture the apparent disarrangement of numbers may be
compensated for by the continual piling of additional sections upon the bottom ones,
so that after the first removal of disarranged numbers the said piles will always be
complete.
By throwing the piles upon their edges, and by removing complete blocks from
the bottom and maintaining a progressive operation the apparent disarrangement will
disappear.
In Fig. 4, I have illustrated my invention as applied to a bed and platten press.
In this construction, the diameter of the cutting cylinder C would be such as in each

page_text: revolution to cut off eleven of the numbers printed, the feed rollers h, h¹, revolving
at the same speed as the cylinders C. D.
I have herein described the assembling of the numbers as being effected by cutting
the web into strips containing one more than the given series of numbers. The same
result may however be obtained by cutting the web into strips coutaining one less
than the given series, as shewn in Figure 7 the cutting cylinder in this case being of
less diameter than the printing cylinder.
.
In like manner, should an alternate arrangement of the numbers be desired,
this may be effected by cutting the web into strips containing two more than
the given series of numbers, as illustrated in Fig. 8, or two less, as illustrated
in Fig. 9.
The subsequent assembling of the tickets in these cases would be like that
described with reference to Fig. 5.
I may now point out one of the uses to which my invention is applied in the
manufacture of "Daily Calendars" each consisting of a block of 365 leaves detach-
ably connected together, each leaf bearing the name of the month, the day of the
week and the day of the month, and suitable space being left for memoranda.
Heretofore the method of manufacturing the calendars has been to compose a con-
venient number of these pages or leaves in a large forme and after printing to cut
them into separate leaves and collect these into piles according to their numerical
order, these piles being added to other similar piles until the calendar is complete.
This method is tedious and expensive, and is subject to inaccuracies in
manipulation.
In my method I compose around a cylinder twelve rows of plates, such as
indicated by g, g, of thirty one days or leaves each.
At each revolution of the printing and impression cylinders, a sheet of twelve
rows of thirty one leaves each is printed; and the cylinders being fed from an
endless web of paper continue to print as many complete calendars as they make
revolutions. As the web passes from the printing cylinder it is slit longitudinally by
the cutter (, to form twelve separate strips each containing thirty one leaves for
each revolution of the cylinders.
These strips then pass between the cutting cylinder having a circumference to
take thirty two spaces or leaves. Thus the cutting cylinder gains one leaf in each
revolution, or, in other words in each revolution cuts off thirty two leaves which
comprises the numbers 1 to 31 plus 1.
Consequently, when the next sheet is fed on the top of it, it begins and ends with
2, the next with 3, and so on, each sheet beginning with a number one higher than
the preceding sheet, until thirty-one. revolutions have been made, when the process
is repeated. The strips are then placed in a pile which is then cut into blocks of
tickets by an ordinary paper cutter, thus giving a gathered or collated product
needing very little assembling and assuring accuracy.
The above illustrates one method of employing my invention, but obviously it is
capable of use for many purposes in which an assembled series of numbers is
required.
My invention may obviously be employed with various forms of web press.
Instead of severing the web, it might be perforated by substituting for the
cutter c', a suitable perforator and rolled up, to be unrolled when required, and
separated at the peforated points, into separate pieces to be assembled as above
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described method of assembling in numerical sequence tickets
containing serial numbers by printing on an endless web repetitions of the series,
eparating the web into strips each containing one or several more or less than the
eries of numbers printed assembling these strips in the order in which they are

page_text: detached from the web, cutting the strips so assembled into blocks, and finally
re-arranging the tickets or leaves in some of the blocks, as set forth.
2.- In combination with a web printing press printing repetitions of a given series
of numbers, mechanism cutting the web into pieces containing one or several
numbers more or less than those in the series, substantially as described.
3. In combination with a web press printing several rows of series of numbers, and
transversely cutting mechanism such as above referred to, means of cutting the web
longitudinally into strips, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1898.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.