US1007209A - Printing-press. - Google Patents

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K. F. KIRKMAN.

PRINTING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 5, 1910.

Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

2 SHEETSSHEET 14 K. F. KIRKMAN.

PRINTING PRESS. APPLIGATION FILED OUT. 5, 1910.

Patnted 0013.31, 1911.

' By reason of the devised the present form of bearers and I To all whom. it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

KARL F. KIRKMAN, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA. ASSIGNOR T0 AUTOMATIQ PRESS FEEDER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

PRINTING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 31, 1911.

Application filed October 5, 1910. Serial No. 585,496.

1 shown each bearer consists-of a plate (Fig. 7) forming the bearer proper marked 3, having on its forward edge, that is the edge Erie, in the county of Erie and State of toward the platen, a flange 3 which forms Pennsylvania, have invented certain new the bearing surface for'the so-called sockets and useful Improvements in Printing- 3 or collars of the inking rollers hereinafter Presses, of which the following is a specifiparticularly referred to. Each bearer plate cation. has a pin and slot connection with the-side My invention relates to printing presses of the type bed the same comprising the and the object thereof is to provide an adslots 3* and the pins or studs 4. The bearer justable bearer associated with the type bed plate is also provided along its length with of the printing press and arranged to be two sets of flanges 53 and 3 with which coadjusta-ble inwardly and outwardly with operate the second or operating plate 5, respect to the face of the type bed or frame, shown by itself in Fig. 8. This second plate such bearer beihg the part of-the press on also has a pin and slot connection with the which the collars or so-called sockets of the type bed through the medium of its slots 5 inking rollers travel or-bear. and the same studs or pins 4 that cooperate In the drawings Figure'l is a side elevawith the bearer plate proper. The forward tion of 21 Gordon type of press in connecedge of this second plate has a series of rack tion with which I have chosen to illustrate teeth 5 formed adjacent the opening 3 in my invention; Fig. 2 a side elevation of one the bearer plate. This rack and said openside of the type bed illustrating my adjusting are so formed as to receive the so-called able bearer in position; Fig. 3 a central quoin key used by printers in locking up longitudinal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. their chase, the same tool instead of a 2; Figs. 4 and 5 cross sections on the lines special tool being used for sake of con- 4-4 and 55 respectively of Fig.2; Fig. venienee. 6-a section on the line 66 of Fig. 4; Fig. 7 The parts being assembled as illustrated an elevation of the bearer proper; and Fig. in Fig. 2 for instance and it being desired 8 an elevation of the operating plate assoto adjust the bearer plate the studs or screws ciated with the bearer plate. 4 are loosened and the quoin key inserted in In the present instance I have illustrated the opening 3 and turned in the proper dimy invention in connection with a Gordo rection accordingly as it is desired to adjust type of printing press whichI have provided the bearer inwardly or outwardly. Through with my" feeding attachment such as is the operating engagement between the two plates through the medium of the flanges the bearer plate is caused to move inwardly or outwardly accordingly as the operating plate is moved up or down by the key. hen the bearer plate has been moved or adjusted to the proper position the studs or screws are tightened. Inorder to provide for an. accurate adjustment of the bearer and the same adjustment onboth sides, I provide these plates with graduations which are indicated in Fig. 2 at 6. As hereinbefore stated, the so-called sockets of the inking rollers travel upon these bearers. As shown in Figs. 4 and 6 the inking roller 7 is provided at its ends with collars or sockets 8 bearing upon said bearers and forming treads traveling upon the bearers, there be ing recesses or reduced portions at 8 between the sockets proper and the ends of their inking roller, these recesses having no bearing whatever upon the bearers. In

Be it known that I, KARL F. KIRKMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at shown and described in my prior application filed on October 1, 1909, Serial No. 520,512. provision of the transfer frame shown herein at a for the purpose of 1 handling the sheets of paper in feeding the press the usual construction of type bed and the bearers thereof cannot be employed because of interference between such frame and the bearers. For this reason I have have made the same adjustable, but it will i be understood that my invention is not 1 limited to this particular type of press nor to a press provided with my press feeder or any other feeder but is applicable to printing presses in general.

Referring to the present embodiment of my invention the usual type bed 1 is provided on its opposite sides and adjacent the platen 9., with the bearer deviceseach of which is similarly made and operated. As

usual form of said sockets but reverse them so as to bring their treads in position to cooperate with the bearers as clearly illustrated in the drawings.

Vl hat I claim is:

1. In combination with a type bed of a printing press, bearers thereon each comprising a pair of plates slidable upon each other but movable in directions at right angles to each other, one of said plates being movable toward and away from the plane of the type bed; substantially as described.

2. In combination with a type bed of a printing press, bearers thereon each comprising a pair of plates slidable upon each other but movable in directions at right angles to each other, one of said plates being movable toward and away from the plane of the type bed, the other of said plates having a rack for operating purposes; substantially as described.

In combination with a type bed of a printing press, bearers thereon each comprising a pair of plates slidable upon each other and movable in directions at right angles to each other, and having pin and slot connection with, each other, and means for operating one of the plates; substanl'ially as described.

4%. in combination with a type bed of a printing press, bearers thereon each comprising a pair of plates slidable upon each other and 'niovable in directions at right angles to each other, one of the plates having flanges and the other thereof having inclined edges cooperating with said flanges; substantially as described.

In combination with the typebcd of a printing press, an adjustable bearer at each side thereof comprising a plate forming the bearer proper and having sliding engagement with the bed, and a second plate cooperating with the first plate and having sliding engagement with the first plate and arranged to .move the latter inwardly and outwardly with respect to the face of the type bed, said plates being movable in directions at right angles to each other; sub stantially as described.

6. In combination with the type bed of a printing press, an adjustable bearer at each side thereof comprising a plate forming the bearer proper and having sliding engage-- ment with the bed, and a second plate sliding upon the first plate and longitudinally movable, said second plate being arranged to operatively engage and thereby move the first plate, said plates being movable in directions at right angles to each other; substantially as described.

7. In combination with the type bed of a printing press, an adjustable bearer at each side thereof comprising a plate forming the bearer proper and having sliding engagement with the bed, and a second plate sliding upon the first plate and longitudinally movable, said second plate being arranged to operatively engage and thereby move the first plate, said second plate having a rack to receive an operating tool and the first plate having an opening to receive the same tool; substantially as described.

8. In combination with the type bed of a printing press, an adjustable bearer at each side thereof comprising a plate forming the bearer proper and having sliding engagement with the bed through a pin and slot connection, and a second plate co6perating with the first plate and arranged to move the latter inwardly and outwardly with respect to the face of the type bed, said second plate having pin and slot connection with the bed through the same pin as the first plate; substantially as described.

9. In combination with the type bed of a printing press, an adjustable bearer at each side thereof comprising a plate form ing the bearer proper and having sliding engagement with the bed, said plate having side flanges, and a second plate coiiperating with said flanges to move the first plate inwardly and outwardly with respect to the face of the type bed; substantially as described.

KARL F. KIRKMAN.

Witnesses:

G. E. Srmrnn, EDWARD HAYES.

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