US2092977A

US2092977A - Means for and method of producing a newspaper having news and tabloid sections

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Publication number: US2092977A
Application number: US740377A
Authority: US
Inventors: Kaster John
Original assignee: DUPLEX PRINTING PRESS CO
Current assignee: DUPLEX PRINTING PRESS Co
Priority date: 1934-08-18
Filing date: 1934-08-18
Publication date: 1937-09-14
Anticipated expiration: 1954-09-14

Description

Sept. 14, 1937.

J. KAS 2,092,977 MEANS FOR AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A NEWSPAPER HAVING NEWS AND TABLOID SECTIONS Filed Aug. 18, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENT( )R.

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Patented Sept. 14, 1937 UNITE STATES MEANS FR AND METHOD 0F PBODUCING A NEWSPAPER HAVING NEWS ANDA TAB- LOID SECTIONS John Kaster, Tampa, Fla., assignor to The Duplex Printing Press Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

Application August 18, 1934, Serial No. 740,377

10 Claims.

The objects of the invention are:

First, to produce a rotary printing press such as is used for printing newspapers to produce separate tabloid and news sections completely assembled in the completed newspaper as it passes from the press.

Second, to provide such an apparatus that automatically prints, folds and assembles separate news and tabloid sections in a newspaper.

Third, to provide such a device that is simple in construction and may be cheaply made.

Fourth, to provide a device that can be installed on any press to produce a like result.

Fifth, to produce such an apparatus that is especially adapted to use on a two page Wide press of the class stated.

Sixth, to provide a method of producing a newspaper having independent tabloid and news sections.

Seventh, to provide a, method of producing such a paper in which the sections are separate but assembled together atthe completion of the operation without the necessity for inserting the tabloid section by hand into the news section.

Other objects and advantages pertaining todetails of construction and operation will appear from the description to follow. A preferred embgdiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a rotary newspaper press showing my improved apparatus installed.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Such a press partly in section showing the former and folder mechanisms and their relationship to my apparatus and method.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view in perspective showing the application of my method to the production of a newspaper.

Fig. 4 is a top plan View of my apparatus installed on a press.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a completed newspaper made on my apparatus and according to my method.

In carrying out my invention, I make certain changes in the ordinary rotary printing press of the type used for producing newspapers. The invention is especially app-licable to the ordinary two page wide newspaper press. Such a press 50 is one in which newspaper size pages are printed on continuous webs of paper, Athe webs being of such width that two rows of pages are printed thereon with the columns extending longitudinally of the web. In the drawings I illustrate 55 such a press.

I is the frame thereof. cylinders, of which there may be a plurality, as will be understood by those skilled in the art. As the specific printing means do not form any part of my invention, I have illustrated them conventionally.

3, 4, 5, 6, 'I and 8 are Webs of paper that are fed through the printing press by the usual feeding mechanism. 9 is the drag roll over which the Webs are fed to the former I0. 'Ihe former is of usual construction consisting of a triangular form over which the paper is passed and having the apex so arranged that as the web of paper passes thereover it is folded centrally. This forms what is known as the opening fold of a news size paper which is the fold between pairs of pages.

As the webs passfrom the former Ill theyare fed to nipping rolls I2 and from there to the cut off which is conventional, comprising the usual cutting cylinder I3 having a cutting knife I4 cooperating with a roll l5. The cutter is arranged to cut off along the upper and lower edges of the news size sheets to produce a fiat newspaper. The folding mechanism for making the half page fold in the newspaper is conventional, comprising the pins I6 on the roller I5 for piercing the sheet and carrying it around the roller and the folding tucker blades II which op- I erate to force the severed newspaper I8 between the folding rolls I9, thus forming the half page or carrier fold, which is the transverse fold ordinarily made in the newspaper for convenience in handling.

After the folded paper is passed fromthe rolls I9, it is received by the usual distributing device 20 which deposits it on delivery belt 2l, as is shown in Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention, the press is set up so that the top web 3 is printed with tabloid pages in two rows with the columns running transversely of the web. These tabloid pages are half the size of the ordinary newsv page. A tabloid section of eight pages can be produced Vby printing merely on the web 3. If a larger size tabloid section is desired, the next web down is printed with tabloid pages and the rest of the webs are printed with ordinary news size pages, depending entirely upon the size of paper desired. In carrying out my invention, the web 3 having the tabloid pages printed thereon and any other webs having tabloids thereon are passed to a slitting roll 22 which is located between the printing rolls 2 and the former I0. A slitting 2 are the printing paper and separating the pages;

knife 23 is provided to slit the web into halves as it passes over the roll 22. The roll 22 is driven by

bevel gears

24 and 25, through shaft 26, bevel gears 2l, 28, shaft 29, and the chain of gears 3Q, 3l and 32, all of which are operated from the drive of the press. Means are provided for transferring the half of the slit web over and superimposing it upon the other half of such slit web. For this purpose I provide

angle bars

33 and 34 which are of usual construction. In transferring the slit half of the web and superimposing it upon the other, care is taken to see that the pages are in register and to this end I provide a compensator 35 comprising adjustable pivoted arms 36 and roller 31. Any suitable compensator could be employed.

The split web having the tabloid pages printed thereon, which pages are indicated by the numeral 38, then pass to the roll Si over the webs having the news pages, which pages are indicated at I I. Care is taken to register the tabloid pages with the news pages so that two pages of tabloid register with single news pages with the columns in the tabloid pages running perpendicular to the columns in the news pages. In order to place the tabloid section on top of the news section, I have placed the roll 2 2 at the top ofthe press to take the webs having the tabloid pages printed thereon and the tabloid pages are printed only on the upper webs. It will be appreciated that the results could be obtained in other ways and I do not wish to be limited to this specific arrangement. The webs containing the news pages pass to the former lli with the split webs lying upon and along one side thereof, so that as the sheets all pass over the former the opening fold is formed in the news webs without folding the tabloid webs by folding the news'web away from the tabloid webs and downwardly, as indicated. The webs then pass through the nipper rolls l2 to the cutter and are severed at the edges of the news pages, thus forming a flat newspaper having a news section with a tabloid section alongside. The web then passes to the folding mechanism I9 andthe rolls form the half page fold in the news section while simultaneously forming the opening fold in the tabloid section, the tabloid section being folded within the news section.

It will thus be seen that bya single operation the tabloid section is folded while the half page fold is made in the news section and the tabloid is folded within the news section, making a unit of the paper so that the sections will not become separated during handling. The tabloid section is, however, folded within the news section as an independent unit and can be easily removed by a reader of the paper without opening up the The arrangement is indicated in Fig. 5, the tabloid section indicated at di] and the news section at lil. The folded newspaper is delivered from the folder to the belt 2i and is passed on to be delivered as desired.

4Although I have indicated a specific arrangement for forming the tabloid section within the news section, it will be understood that other means could be employed to attain like results and I do not wish to be limited in my invention to the specic means shown.

Having `thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: l .Y

1. In a two page wide newspaper press, the combination of means for continuously feeding aplurality of webs of paper of the same width, means for printing a double row of news size pages on one of said webs with the columns extending lengthwise of said web, means for printing a double row of tabloid size pages on another of said webs with the columns running transversely of said web, means for assembling the tabloid and news webs to form the complete newspaper with the tabloid webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising means for slitting the tabloid web in half, means for superimposing one half of said tabloid web on the other half with the pages in register and for placing said halves on and along one edge of said news web with pairs of tabloid pages whereby said webs forming the complete paper are fed together with the tabloid webs outermost in register with single news pages, a single former following said last named means for centrally folding said news web with the tabloid webs thereon in a direction away from the halves of said superimposed tabloid web to form the opening fold of said news web without folding or enfolding the tabloid webs, means for simultaneously severing said assembled webs transversely at the edges of said news pages to form a newspaper having a news section and a tabloid section, and a folder for simultaneously folding said news section and said tabloid section with the news section enfolding said tabloid section, whereby the opening fold in the tabloid section and the half sheet fold in the news section are formed simultaneously whereby a completed newspaper is formed consisting of a 'separate inner tabloid section enfolded in a separate news section, whereby the tabloid section can be readily removed as a unit without disarranging the news section.

2. In a newspaper press, the combination of means for producing a web of paper having thereon a double row of news size pages with the columns extending lengthwise of said web, means for producing a second web of paper having thereon a double row of tabloid size pages with the columns running transversely of said web, means for assembling the tabloid and news webs to form the complete newspaper with the tabloid webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising means for slitting the tabloid web in half, means for superimposing one half of said tabloid web on the other half with the pages in register and for placing said halves on and along one edge of said news web with pairs of tabloid pages in register with single news pages whereby said webs forming the complete paper are fed together with the tabloid webs outermost, a single former following said v last named means for centrally folding said news web with the tabloid webs thereon in a direction away from the halves of said superimposed tabloid web to form the opening fold of said news web without folding or enfolding the tabloid webs, means for simultaneously severing said assembled webs transversely at the edges of said news pages to form a newspaper having a news section and a tabloid section, and a folder for simultaneously folding said news section and said tabloid section with the news section enfolding said tabloid section, whereby the vopening fold in the tabloid section and the half sheet fold'in the news section are formed simultaneously'whereby a completed newspaper is formed consisting of a separate inner tabloid section enfolded in a separate news section, whereby the tabloid section can `be readily removed as a unit without disarranging the news section.

3. In a newspaper press, the combination of means for producing a web of paper having thereon a double row of news size pages with the co1- umns extending lengthwise of said web, means for producing a web of paper having thereon a row of tabloid size pages with the columns running transversely of said web, means for assembling the tabloid and news webs to form the complete newspaperv with the tabloid web outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising means for placing said tabloid web on and along one edge of said news web with pairs of tabloid pages in register with single news pages whereby said webs forming the complete paper are fed together with the tabloid web outermost, a single former following said last named means for centrally folding said news web with the tabloid web thereon in a direction away from said superimposed tabloid web to form the opening fold of said news web without folding or enfolding the tabloid web, means for simultaneously severing said assembled webs transversely at thev edges of said news pages to form a newspaper having a news section and a tabloid section, and a folder for simultaneously folding said news section and said tabloid section with the newspaper section enfolding said tabloid section, whereby the opening fold in the tabloid section and the half sheet fold in the news section are formed simultaneously whereby a completed newspaper is formed consisting of a separate inner tabloid section enfolded in a separate news section, whereby the tabloid section can be readily removed as a unit without disarranging the news section.

4. In a two page wide rotary printing press having means for feeding a plurality of webs of paper, printing cylinders, a former to make the opening fold, a cut off and a folder to make half page folds, the combination of a slitter roll located between the printing cylinders and the former and positioned near the top of the machine to receive the top web passing from the printing cylinders to the former, a slitter for said slitter roll adapted to slit a web of paper fed to said slitter roll, means for assembling the slit and unslit webs to form a complete newspaper with the slit webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising angle bars in position to superimpose a portion of such slit web on the other portion thereof and to place said portions of said slit web upon and along one edge of all of the other unslit webs prior to their passing to the former.

5. In a rotary printing press having means for feeding a plurality of webs of paper, printing cylinders, a former to make the opening fold, a cut olf, and a folder to make half page folds, the combination of a slitter roll located between the printing cylinders and the former and positioned near the top of the machine to receive the top web passing from the printing cylinders to the former, a slitter for said slitter roll adapted to slit a web of paper fed to said slitter roll, means for assembling the slit and unslit webs to form a complete newspaper with the slit webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising angle bars in position to superimpose a portion of such slit web on the other portion thereof and to place said portions of said slit web upon and along one edge of all of the other unslit webs prior to their passing to the former.

6. In a two page wide rotary printing press having means for feeding a plurality of webs of paper, printing cylinders, a former to make the opening fold, a cut 01T, and a folder to make half page folds, the combination of a slitter roll located between the printing cylinders and the former and positioned near the top of the machine to receive the toppweb passing from the printing cylinders to the` former, a slitter for said.

slitterf-'roll adapted to slit a web of paper fed to said slitter roll, means for assembling the slit and unslit webs to form a complete newspaper with the slit webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising means in position to superimpose a portion of such slit web on the other portion thereof and to place said portions of said slit web upon and along one edge of all of the other unslit webs prior to their passing to the former.

7. In a newspaper press having means for feeding webs of paper, printing cylinders, a former to make the opening fold, a out off, and a folder to make half page folds, the combination of a slitter roll located between the printing cylinders and the former, a slitter for said slitter roll adapted to slit a web of paper fed to said slitter roll, means for assembling the slit and unslit webs to form a complete newspaper with the slit webs outermost prior to the passage of the webs to the former comprising means in position to Superimpose a portion of such slit webon the other portion thereof and to place said portions of said slit web upon and along one edge of all of the other unslit webs prior to their passing to said former and on the side thereof that is folded inwardly by the folder.

8. The method of forming a newspaper having separate news and tabloid sections comprising producing a web having a double row of news size pages with columns extending lengthwise of said web, producing a second web of similar size away from the halves of said tabloid web to form the opening fold of said news web, severing said assembled webs simultaneously at the edge of said news pages to form a newspaper having a news section and a tabloid section, and simultaneously folding said news section and said tabloid section with the news section enfolding said tabloid section to produce the opening fold in the tabloid section and the half sheet fold in the news section simultaneously, whereby the tabloid section can be readily removed as a unit without dis`` t arranging the news section.

9. The method of forming a newspaper having separate newsand tabloid sections, comprising producing a web having a double row of news size pages with columns extending lengthwise of said web, producing a second web of a width half that of the first web and having tabloid size pages thereon with columns running transversely of said web, placing said tabloid web on and along one edge of said news web prior to forming the opening fold of said news web and with pairs of tabloid pages in register with single news pages, and with the tabloid pages outermost and thereafter folding said news web centrally in a direction away from the tabloid web to form the opening fold of said news web, severing said assembled webs simultaneously at the edge of said news pages to forma newspaper having a news section and atabloid section, and simultaneously folding said news section and said tabloid section with the news section enfolding said tabloid section to produce the opening fold in the tabloid section and the half sheet fold in the news section, whereby the tabloid section can be readily removed as a unit without disarranging the news section.

l0. The method o f making a newspaper having a separate news section and a separate tabloid section comprising feeding a plurality of webs of paper, slitting one of said webs in half and superimposing the halves upon one another, placing the halves of the slit web upon and along one edge of another of said unslit webs prior to forming the opening fold of said webs and with the tabloid pages outermost and thereafter, feeding said superimposed webs to a former, folding the unslit web centrally in a direction away from the halves 0f the slit web to form the opening fold of a newspaper without folding said halves of the slit web,` severing page lengths from the assembled webs simultaneously, simultaneously folding the folded unslit web and the unfolded slit web with the unslit web around the slit webs to form an ope-ning fold in the slit webs and a half page fold in the unslit web; whereby the tabloid section can be readily removed as a unit without disarranging the news section.

- JOHN KASTER.