US1580830A

US1580830A - Fly sheet for newspapers

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Publication number: US1580830A
Application number: US2519A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert L Lengel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-01-15
Filing date: 1925-01-15
Publication date: 1926-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1943-04-13

Description

April 13 1926.

A. L. LENGEL FLY SHEET FOR NEWSPAPERS File an. 12, 92'

7" flyenfor a' fi erf Legal Patented Apr. 13, 192%.

UNITE srnras ALBERT L, LENGEL, 0F BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA.

FLY SHEET FOR NEWSPAPERS.

Application filed January 15, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. LENGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bakersfield, in the county of Kern and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly Sheets for Newspapers, of which the following is a SPQClii cation.

This invention relates to improvements in newspapers. V

It is an object of the invention to provide an improved newspaper and method for making the same, whereby stui'iing and squeezing may be greatly eliminated, thereby materially increasing the etliciency in the composing rooms of newspaper offices.

It is a further object of the lnvention to provide a newspaper having a fly sheet provided with an extension mtcgral therewlth adapted to carry surplus printed matter, and to employ the conventional s1ze of paper and the conventional machinery in newspaper printing oflices for producing this fly sheet.

lVith the foregoing and other olnects in view which will be made manifest in the following detailed description and pointed out in the appended claims, reference 1s had to the accompanying drawings for an illustrative embodiment of the invention, where- Figure 1 is a diagrammatieal view illustrating a newspaper curved plate press;

Fig. 2 is a perspective vlew of the. improved newspaper;

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the newspaper under construction, illustrating the manner in which the improved fly sheet. may be provided upon a press employing a double widthroll of paper.

Referring to the accompanying drawings wherein similar reference characters desig- K' nate similar parts throughout, it has been customary heretofore to print newspapers of a plurality of separate sheets, one of which is designated at on Fig. 2. Thesesheets are the complete width ofthe newspaper when unfolded. Each of the sheets bears four complete pages of printed matter, two

pages being on one side of the sheet and two Serial No. 2,519.

- pages being upon the opposite side of the sheet. During the composition of the newspaper, if it is found that a surplus of printed matter is to be used, which is less than four pages, it has been common practice to insert in the paper what is commonly called a fly sheet. This fly sheet is in height equal to the height of the remaining sheets of the newspaper. a Its width is only one-half as great as the width of the remaining sheets of the newspaper. Upon this fly sheet which is designated at 11 upon Fig. 2, there are printed two pages of printed matter, so that the fly sheet takes care of the surplus which may remain after the full sheets 10 have been composed. The full sheets 10 are printed upon rolls of paper equal to their complete width and the fly sheets llbearing two pages of printed matter are printed upon rolls half the width of the width of the'sheets 10.

It has been frequently experienced, howeyer, that the printed matter is of such quantlty that it cannot be placed upon a specified number of full sized sheets, nor can itbe conveniently placed upon these full sized sheets with these additional fly sheets. When this occurs, it is customary practice to squeeze or stufl the paper, that is, to either add additional printed matter so as to fill out an extra page or to cut out enough of the printed matter so that an additional sheet or half sheet may be dispensed with.

y In order to eliminate this stufling and squeez 111g, my improved fly sheet which is generally designated at 11, having one page of printed matter printed on one side thereof and another printed page upon its other side, is provided with an extension 12. This extension is less in width than the width of the fly sheet 11 and is preferably equal to about one-half of the width of one page. Upon this extension there may be arranged advertising matter, supplementary matter, or other printed matter, which printed matter is printed upon bothsides of the extension 12. The extension 12 hearing one-half of a page upon each of its sides enables the newspaper when completed to have an odd number of pages of printed matter, whereas, heretofore, newspapers carrying the conventional fly sheet had 7 an even number of printed pages, and those newspapers which did not employ any fly sheet whatsoever necessarily carried a number of printed pages divisible by tour, there being four pages to each of the sheets 10.

In making" up the news xpcr, I employ in making my improved tly sheet, a roll oi paper of three-quarters the width of the full sized roll of paper. This size of roll isnow upon the market and has been frequently employed in printing newspapers having six column pages, whereas the full sized width of roll is used for printing newspapers hav-- ing eight column pages. As indicated in Fig. 1, 13 represents the roll of paper of full width, which has its paper pass over the guide rollers Iibetween the lower matri-x roller 15 and its corresponding impression roller 16 and then pass between the upper matrix or plate roller 17 and its corresponding impression roller 18. Thepaper then passes over

guide rollers

19 and 20. The fly sheet of my improved construction having the extension 12 is formed from the roll or paper designated at 21, which is of three-quarters the width of a full si'ed roll of paper. This paper passes over

guide rollers

22 and 23 and between the lower and upper matrices or plate rollers 24tai1d 25 respectively and their

corresponding mpression rollers

26 and 27. r-rtte-r passing over the guide roller 23, the paper upon the roller 21 passes about the guide roller 20 and is placed in contact with the paper upon the full sized roll 13. The other sheets forming the newspaper which are printed upon paper of full width may be also brought about the guide roller 20, as indicated at 28. After the separate strips of paper pass around the guide roller 20, they may pass between folding rollers 29, which fold the paper and the paper may then be cut as by a cutting roller 30. It the full width roll of paper is of the width equal to the width of one of the sheets 10, the paper upon the roll 21 has one edge so arranged that it coincides with one edge upon the paper on the roll 13. In Fig. 3, showing the paper as having been folded, this edge indicated at 31 of the fly sheet coincides with or is superimposed upon the edge 32 of one of the sheets 10. When the paper is "folded, the sheet 10 provides four pages of printed matter. The fly sheet 11 provides two full pages of printed matter and the extension 12 integral vith the fly sheet 11 provides two half pages of printed matter. Some newspapers employ presses which use, what is commonly called, a double width roll of paper for forming the sheets 10, that is, that the width of the roll of paper 13 may be twice the width of one of the sheets 10. These are printed side by side and the sh fits 10 are formed by cutting the paper from the double width roll in half. The e three-quarters width roll of paper is also on the market for use upon presses employing six column pages and printing the two papers simultaneously and then cutting. In such presses, I employ the improved fly sheet by using the strip. of paper from a double width roll, as indicated at The paper from the three-quarters width of a double width roll. is indicated at 3a. In arranging the paper, the center line of the three-quarters width of paper 34: is superimposed above the center line of the double width roll 88. The strips of paper are then cut from this center line, indicated at 35, which brings the side edge of the fly sheet 11 next to one edge of the sheets 10 so -t'ormed. The divided strips of the paper which are formed by cutting upon the center line are then folded upon the line 36, resulting in the newspaper ready to be cut by the cutting roller 30.

From the above it is seen that an inr proved fly sheet is provided, using paper of conventional, size, which fly sheet carries an extension having two half pages ot printed matter, and that a method is provided by which the presses used in the ordinary newspaper o-iiices may be employed without modification or alteration.

Although I preferably employ the rolls of paper of three-quarters width or threequarters of a double width roll, because of the fact that they are used commonly by newspaper ofiices, I contemplate within the scope of the invention to use other sizes of paper, it found desirable. By using other sizes, the extension 12 of the fly sheet 11 may be greater or less than one-half the width of one page of the newspaper, varying between the width of one column and the width of seven columns or the number of columns of a full page minus one.

It will be understood that various changes in the detail of construction may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim: I

l. A newspaper comprising a plurality of sheets of four pages each, and a fly sheet of two pages, said fly sheet having an extension of less Width than the width of a page, said extension having printed matter thereon.

2. A newspaper having a fly sheet provided with an extension, said extension having printed matter thereon and being smaller in size than the size of a page.

A newspaper having a fly sheet provided with an extension, said extension being; in height, equal to the height of the other. sheets of the newspaper and being in width less than the width of the pages of the newspaper and having printed matter thereon.

1 eeoeeo 3 4. A newspaper comprising one or more 5. A newspaper having a fly sheet prosheets of four pages each, and a fly sheet viding two pages, and an extension integral being equal in height to the height of said therewith providing two half pages. 10 sheets, and in width greater than the width In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 of one page and less than the width of two name to this specification.

pages, said fly sheet having printed matter thereon. ALBERT L. LENGEL.