US1650535A

US1650535A - Method of printing numbers

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Publication number: US1650535A
Application number: US119744A
Authority: US
Inventors: Marion L Parsons
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-06-30
Filing date: 1926-06-30
Publication date: 1927-11-22
Anticipated expiration: 1944-11-22

Description

M. L. PARSONS METHDD 0F PRINTING NUMBERS Filed June 30. 1926 glwuentoz;

Patented ot. 22, 1927.

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rs r MARION L. PERSONS, 01E PORTLAND, OREGON.

METHOD OF PRINTING NUMBERS.

Application filed June 30,

The invention consists in the provision of g a novel method of printing sheets having numerical designation in regular orderrunning to large numbers, wherein the number of steps or operations required are materially reduced and simplified so' that sheets or plates having ordinal designation may be produced in an economical manner.

A furtherobject of the invention consists in the provision of a method, ofprinting-ordinal numbers on printing presses and with types of ordinary use, thus avoiding the relatively large expense incident to special numbering apparatus.

. Other objects and advantages of myinvention will be. readily apparent in the course of the detailed description to follow."

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a somewhat diagrammatical view in side elevation of a plurality of piles and stacks of printed matterillustrating the early stages of my improved method.

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the later stages of my method .wherein the printed matter is shown in bundles.

In the usual course of printing automobile license plates and in various other applications where numbering. machines are not suitable or available, it is customary to print numbers thereon in order by changing the type at each impression. With my invention I propose to reduce the number of type changes to a relatively small number and thereby increase the eficiency and economy of such operations.

Assuming for the purposes of description that the number of sheets to be printed with ordinal numbers is 10,000, it take 100 sheets and print them with the numerals 00 and, when printed, distribute said sheets as the initial sheets of 100 piles. 100 sheets are then printed with the numerals 01 and d stributed as the second sheet on each of said 100 piles. This operation is repeated 100 times with the numerals running from 00 in regular order with the last set of sheets numbered 99.

After distribution I have accumulated 100 piles of sheets indicated by the reference chara ter P in Fig. 1, each of which contains 100 s eets rinted in numerical order from 00 to 99. hie of said piles P is then laid aside as complete, excepting for the first 1926. Serial No. 119,744.

sheet printed with the figures 00, which is also laid aside for purposes to be hereinafter explained. Nine of said piles are then superimposed in a stack S, and nine additional stacks indlcated respectively'by characters S S, S, S, S, S, S, S, S are formed in the same manner, containing ten piles each. The first stack S containing nine piles is-then run through a printing press, printing the figure 0. as the third or hundreds figure of the several members. The second stack S containing ten piles of 100 sheetsis then run through the press, printing thenumeral 1 as the third or hundreds figure of the sevoral numbers, and 100 sheetsthereof are set aside in consecutive order as completed,'run- 'ning from 100 to 199 and, indicated by P inFig. 1. The third stack S? containing ten piles of 100 sheets is then run'through the press, printing the numeral 2 138 the third or'hundreds figure of the several numbers,

and 100 sheets thereof are set asidein consecutive order as completed, running from 200 to 299 as at P. l The remaining seven stacks are printed in similar fashion with the numerals 3 to 9.

respectively, in the hundreds column, setting aside 100 sheets from each stack indicated respectively as P P, P, P7, P, P". and P.

There are now 999 sheets complete, running in serial order from 01 to 999 in the piles P to P inclusive. There are also ten stacks of sheets. each stack containing nine piles, all nine of the piles in eachstack being exactly the same. In other words. the first stack S contains nine piles, each pile having 100 sheets running from 000 to 099. The second stack S contains nine-piles, each pile having 100 sheets runnning from 100 to 199. The piles in the third stack S run-from 200 to 299, and so on till the tenth stack S whose piles run from 900 to 999.

I then redistribute the iles of the respective stacks into nine bun les of sheets indicated by B, B B. B, B, B, B", B, and B, respectively, by taking the first pile of the first'stack, the first pile of the second stack, and so on through to the first pile of the tenth stack, thus giving me a bundle B containing ten piles, the sheets in this bundle running in regular order from 000 to 99.9. A second bundle B is then formed by taking the second pile from each ofthe ten stacks,

e sheets in this bundle running exactly as do the sheets in the first bundle. from 000 to 999. There having been nine pilesin each stack, there will be nine bundles all exactly the same, running from 000 to 999.

The first bundle B,- with sheets running in regular order from 000 to 999, is then printed with the figure 1 in the fourth or thousands column, giving me complete the numerals from 1000 to 1999. The second bundle B is then printed with the figure 2 in the fourth or thousands column, giving complete the numerals from 2000 to 2999; and so on, printing each bundle with a digit figure in the thousands column from 1 to 9, respectively. The ninth bundle B", which is printed with the numeral 9 in the fourth or thousands column, gives complete the numerals from 9000 to 9999.

All the sheets are now printed in serial order from 01 to 9999. The sheet first laid aside, rinted with the figures 00, is then printed with the figures 100, giving me my last sheet, 10000.

In the event that a larger number of sheets is required than 10,000, which is the number assumed in the foregoing example, the total number of sheets required are printed in the first instance with the first two figures of the number running from 00 to 99, and they are distributed in piles of as described and in the foregoing manner in lots of 10,000. The first of such lots will be complete as just described, whereas each' succeed- -1nghlot may be rinted in-similar fashion at eac change oft e press. Thus, each lot containing 10,000 sheets may then be .printed' with appropriate figures in the ten thousands .columnin a manner analogous to that for merly explained.

Thus, it will be seen that sheets running in regular order into any desired amount may be printed with a relatively small number of press changes, which will be approximately press changes in printing 10.000 numbers, changes for printing 100.000 numbers, and changes for printing up to a million numbers.

It will be understood that where sheets are to be printed with duplicate numbers. as in automobile plates, in the original printing 200 sheets will be printed of each'number running from 00 to 99, and that in distribution two sheets of identical numbers will be distributed in each of the 100 piles and thereafter will be considered as a single sheet.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

The process of printing ordinal numbers consisting in printing the sheets with numbers from 00 to 99 in as many hundreds of sheets each as required, forming piles of such sheets, each pile containing one hundred consecutive -nu1nbers, forming stacks of ninety-nine of said piles containing ten piles each, save one, printing each of said stacks with digit figures from 0 to 9, respectively, as the third or hundreds figure, setting aside one pile from each said stack of ten piles, redistributing the sheets into nine bundles containing ten piles each with figures in the hundreds column running from 0 to 9, and printing each said bundle with digit figures from 1 to 9, respectively, as fourth or thousands figure.

MARION L. PARSONS.