US263748A - Machine - Google Patents

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(No Model.) I 8 Sheets-Sheet 1. E. ANTHONY 8u J. RHARVEY.

PRINTING MACHINE.

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No. 263,748. Patented Sept. 5, 1L882.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 263.748. Patented Sept. 5. 1882.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 5. 1882.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 5, 1882.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Ormea.

EDWYN ANTHONY AND JACOB E. HARVEY, OF NEW YORK, Y.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 263,748, dated September 5, 1882. Application 'filed May 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWYN ANTHONY and JACOB EDWARD HARVEY, subjects of the Queen, of Great Britain, residing at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to printing by means of the same machine and from two, three. fur, or more rolls papers of various numbers of pages; and it consists in associating the rolls together (in the way hereinafter described) after they have been printed on both sides.

Figures 1, 2, 5, and 6 show the relative positions of the various sorts of webs in the cases to which they refer. vFig. 3 gives a general i view of ourinvention for the case of four webs,

(Fig. 25 showing a modification of a portion of the said mechanism.) Figaric shows thedevice for reversing the web B. Figs. 7 to 13, 16 to 1S, and 22 to 21 exhibit .various stages in the i process ot' combining webs together in accordance with our invention. Figs. 14, 15, and 19 show devices for reversing webs after they have been associated together. Fig. 20 shows the number of webs, their breadth, Ste., when the limit of the printing mechanism is an L- breadth web, and papers from one to sixty-four pages are required to be printed, (the particular case shown is a siXty-two-page paper.)

Fig. 2l gives similar details in acase where the limtis a thirty-page paper, and the tables Q B S Q B. S give the number of webs, their breadth, manner of printing, Sto., in the cases `to which they refer.

on one side of a web must be dierent from that printed on the other side. The webs must issue with the same pages uppermost on each. Any line drawn on one of the webs perpendicular to its edges must be parallel to any line similarly drawn on the other, and (when the webs are the widest the printing rnechan` ism will print) their edges mustlie in the same pair of parallel planes. When three rolls are used two ot' them must issue as just described,

and the third (call it Z)V mustrhave different y matter printed on its two sides, such matter beingditl'erent from that printed on the other two rolls, A and B. It must have imprinted on it (when the roll is the same breadth as the other two rolls) just halt' as many different pages as the othertwo rolls have on them, anda proportionate number when its breadth yis greater or less than that of A or B. (This is fully illustrated by the tables Q It S Q R S.) Its edges must travel in the same pair of parallel planes (or in planes parallel thereto) as do the edges of the other two webs. When four rolls are employed (and the limit of the breadth ofthe. v

`it E) must have on it different matter from what is on the other rolls, but the same matter on both sides of it, and the number of different pages printed on either side of it must equal the number of different pages printed on either side of A or B. It must likewise travel with its edges in the same pair of parallel planes in which the edges of A and B lie. For numbers of rolls greater than four, (the limit of their breadths being still a@ even number of pages,) the arrangement depends upon whetherI the number is odd or even. i

Fig. lillustrates the employmentof any even number, and Fig. 2 that of any odd number of rolls. In Fig. 1, A B Z E are as before described. On one side of E run any number of rolls, 1, 2, 3, 85e., and on the other side the same number of corresponding rolls, 11,21, 31, Snc. Different matter must be printed on the two sides ot' every one ot' these additional rolls, and the number of pages printed on any one side must be the same as the number printed on a side of the roll A or B. Every pair of corresponding rolls, 111/1, 2121, dre., must have the same matter printed on them in precisely the same way; but one must be turned one way up and the other the other, so that the under side of 1 will be the same as the upper side ot' 1', and vice versa, IStc. Allthe rolls must b`e traveling between the same pair of parallel planes that A and B do. Fig.

2 (odd number of rolls) is the same as Fig. l,V except that aroll like E is not used.

When the printing mechanism prints at its IOO fullest capacity an odd number of pages abreast, then, if more than three rolls are used, it must be done as follows: The rolls A B Z being as before, all the additional rolls must be passed, with Z, between the cuttingcylinders L1 L2, hereinafter referred to, (see Fig. 3,) and follow the same course with it. Moreover, each of these additional rolls must issue from the printing mechanism printed in a similar way to the roll Z-that is to say, different matter must be printed on each side, such matter for each roll differing from that printed on any'of the other rolls-and the number 0l' different pages imprinted 0n any roll (when it is of the same breadth as the rolls A or B, and a proportionate number when its breadth is greater or less than that of A or B) must bejust halt' as many as there `are imprinted on the roll A or B.

The treatment of the rolls is partially identical in all cases; but itin a measure depends on the number of pages abreast which the printing mechanism is capable of printing, and also on whether the forms are placed lengthwise or breadthwise on the form-bearing cylinders. Tables Q, B, and. S refer to the ease of the forms on breadthwise, and tables Q', B', and S to the forms on lengthwise.

In tables Q and Q the printing mechanism is supposed capable of printing four rolls in the manner hereinbefore specified, each roll having two pages abreast, or one page only printed on it. Tables B, and R' are for three rolls, with three pages abreast or less on each. Tables S and S are for four rolls, with four pages abreast, or `less, on each. The tables exhibit the number of rolls to be employed, the breadth of each, their relative positions, and the way in which the pages must be i'mprinted on them, for printing a paper of any number of pages from two up to the largest number that ycan be printed with the rolls, and limits of their breadthsspecied. For example, tables S S are for any paper from two up to thirty-two pages, inclusive.

When the diagram of a roll is omitted it means that that roll is not used'in printing the particular paper in question. For example, for a thirty-page paper (tables S S) we must use three full-breadth rolls, A1, B1, and E, and onethree-quarter-breadth roll, Z, which must issue so that one of its edges lies in the same plane with oneot' the edges of' the other rolls. Again, for a fourteenpage paper we must use two three-quarter-breadth rolls, A and B, and one quarter -breadth roll, Z, with its edges lying as there shown. The rollE is not used. (When we speak of a roll of a fractional breadth we mean a roll whose breadth is that fraction of the widest roll that the mechanism will print.)

It will be observed that we often have alternative Ways ofusing rolls for printing any particular paper. Thus, if we have mechanism for printting four rolls with pages four abreast on each, we can print an ei ghteen-pa ge paper, as shown seams in table S, or as shown in table R; a sixteenpage paper, as shown'in tables Q, lt, or S, Ste. Of course the number of the rolls and their respective breadths will be decided by the particular papers which any machine is required to print. The first treatment of the rolls is independentof their number, of their breadths, and of the lengthwise or breadth wise position of the forms. Take, therefore, any number of webs coming-out, as shown in Fig. l or in Fig. 2. ing out of view the printing part of the said figure, consider its lett-hand portion, L1 L2, are asuitable pair of cutting-cylinders; a1 a2, 111122, c1 c2, 85e., pairs of rollers. Tapes go round the .rollers al b1 and a2 b2.

late in the arc of a circle, (whose center lies in the common tangent of the rollers al 61.2,) so that they deliver a sheet alternately between the rollers c1 'c2 and between all d2. The rollers c1 c2 and d1 d2 touch a circle whose center is coincident with that of the circlejust mentioned. Any other suitable devicesuch as a switch or switches,may be used instead of the oscillating rollers. All that is necessary is that the stream of sheets issuingfrom between al and a2 shall be divided into two streams, and this object can easily be accomplished, as is well known, in more ways than one. Tapes pass round the rollers b and c, and also round g3 and c2.

paratus, such as is hereinafter described. It is fixed so that a full-breadth web, after passing through it, will be opposite to the position it had before entering, but with its sides reversed. Fig. l4t illustrates a web passing through such an apparatus. Reverting to Fig. 3, tapes starting, say, from 1' pass round the roller or rollers, y, thence from q the said tapes are passed through the aforesaid apparatus. Afterward (descending therefrom to q2) they pass round the roller g1. The ends r2 r1 are now run together by skew-pulleys, or in any other suitable way. t pass round d2, thence round y upward from s1 through the aforesaid apparatus, and de scend therefrom to s2, next round g2, and finally their ends tz f1 are run togetherV by skewpulleys, or in any other suitable way. v The roller j'rotates in the same direction asthe roller Z. A guard, as shown in the ligure, enters grooves in therollers gij'. Its function is to prevent the sheets or web (while passing from c1 c2 to g1 g3) from coming against the roller g2, whose motion is in the contrary direction. v

The use of fixed cylinders for delecting the path of a web is shown in Roses British specilication, No. 12,715, of the year 184.9, and meth- .der side uppermost are given in Sandemans British specification, No. 3,319, year 1870 5 but perhaps it may be proper to more fully explain the aforesaid apparatus, which is adopted from And now, referring to Fig. 3, andleav` The rollers b1 b2 oscil-l In any convenient position is placed an aproller d and next round any suitably-placedv ods of reversing a web so as to bring the un- IIO Similarly, tapes starting from te Y 26ans between the rollers g, and g3 must be considverser as shown in Fig. 16, thelG Fs being ou ered vseparately for each way of` placing the forms on the cylinders.

Forms on Lcngthwflse.

In the three tables QAR S' thc webs may `be taken direct fromgl g3 to a pair ol' cuttingcylinders, N1 N2, which `must sever the webs transversely along lines whose distance from one another' equals the length ofa page.

Table Q.(lonsider, for example, the case of a fourteen-page paper. The webs will ims'sue from between N1 and N2, Fig. 3, on 'one another, as shown in Fig. 7, and having been cut transversely along the lines A G, E B, (l D, Src., then the A Bs must go to onefolding mechanism and the E Ds to another, or the E Ds may be passed through a reversing apparatus such as shown in Fig. 4, and then (both being now the same way up) they maybe conveyed to the same folding mechanism, it being such as to beeapable. of folding a continuous stream of sheets.

Table R.-Consider, for example, the case of a sixteelrpage paper. Here the webs must be severed longitudinally as well as transversely, so that they will issue from between N1 and N2 on one another, as shown in Fig. 8, and having` been cut longitudinally along the line E F and transversely along the lin'es A G, C D, H B, &c.,'then the portions U B must be brought in` any suitable way onto the portions A D. They will then be as shown in Fig. 9, and may be conducted `to a folding mechanism capable of folding the stream (l E in one direction and the 'stream L B in the other; or,'the stream L B -may be passed through a reverser, such as Fig. 4, and then, both streams being now the same way up, they maybe passed to a mechanism capable ot' folding two such streams.

Table S.-Consider, as an example, the case of a twenty-six-page paper. This case is illustrated by the Figs. 10 and 11, and the same remarks apply -to these figures as those which we have justmadc with reference tothe Figs. 8 and 9.

Forms on Breadthwse.

Table (Q -Consider, for example, the case ot a teupage paper. The webs may be taken di rect from the rollers g1 and g3, Fig. 3, to mechanism which shall sever them longitudinally along the line B D and transversely along the lines A C, E F, &c.,as indicated in Fig. 12. Thence they must be conducted to a folding mechanism which will fold the A Bs inone direct-ion and the D Fs in the other; or the D Fs may be lirst reversed by Fig. 4, as described above.

Table R.-Take, for example, the case of a fourteen-page paper. The webs, after passing between g1 and g3, must be severed longitudinally along the lines A B, C D, E F, Fig. 13. Then they must be conducted to and be passed through a reverser such as is sketched in Figs. 14 and 15. They will issue from the saidresketched in Figs. 14c and 15. Referring to Fig.

19, A D Bis a triangular plane of any suitable material. The angle D is a right angle'and Y the angle D B A any convenient angle less thanI forty-live degrees. A B G G E A is a pentagon-shal'ied plane made of any suitable material. The angles at C and E are equal to any convenient angle less than forty-tive degrees. The lines B D, C G, and E A are parallel when the figures are in one plane and situated as shown in Fig. 19, and G C is drawn so as to pass through Y, the middle point ot' D A. The breadth of D A, the length of B F, &c., depend upon the breadth of the web, the angle D B A, and the angles G and E. As an example, take each of the three last-mention4 ed angles equal to thirty degrees.. Thentake D A one-half broader than half the fullbreadth of the webi. e., one-half broader than Q B, Fig. 15. Then make the angle AB C equal to one hundred and twenty degrees, and take the length B F equal to the breadth Q R, Fig. 15. The edge B Aof the piece D B Aand the. edges B C and GE of the pentagon-shaped piece. must be rounded, so as to prevent their having IOO them. The edge C G does not come in contact with the web. It is better that it should take a .position such as is shown by the dotted line L N rather than that shown by the line G C and that B C shouldbe continued to the point L. By this means the portion of the web which passes over the edge G E will have lree scope to pass, if it happen to go a little below the point G, and the portion of the web which passes over B U will be supported if it pass beyond the'point (l.

The planes of the pieces A D B and A B C G E A must be inclined to one another at an angle equal to seventy degrees thirty-two minutes, approximately. The edge B A of the one piece and the edge B A ot' the other should be placed parallel and close together, but with a space between them just sufficient to allow the web to pass freely.` The breadthsa b are passed through the reverser, as illustrated by Figs. 14 and 15, P being the middle point of B A, Fig. 19. The breadth a passes over the edge A B ot the piece A D B, and thence over the edge N E of the other piece, issuing therefrom, shifted transversely from its course by two such breadths as the breadth a, but so that the lines taken perpendicularly across its breadth are parallel to lines similarly drawn across theweb IIO IIS

before it entered the reverser. The breadth b passes over the. same edge A B, and thence.

over the edge B L, and issues therefrom, shifted greater than four,)

transversely from its course by the same space that a was, and, as before,

with the lines across it parallel to their former positions. `TheI breadths c d do not pass through the reverser c, being conducted by suitable roller or rollers over the apparat-us to meet the breadth a, and d being conducted under the apparatus to meet the breadth b. Thus the breadths b and d are brought onto one another, and similarly the breadths a and c, a being on' the contrary side of c to that which b is of d.

Whatever then umber of rolls, (provided the number of pages abreast on each roll is not the mechanism for treating them after they have been printed on both `sixty-four pages, inclusive.

sides will be precisely the saine as that hereinbefore described for, three and four rolls.

the limit will print any paper from two to Thus Fig. 20 exhibits the arrangement ofthe rolls when printing a sixty-two pagepaper, (forms on breadthwise,) and their treatment will be exactly the same as that hereinbet'oredescribed with reference to table S.

When the number of than four, then, whatever the number of the rolls, the treatment' until they have passed be- Y tween the rollers g1 and g3, Fig. 3, will be exactl y as previously described. The after treatment will be very similar, the transverse cutting remaining the same, and the variations being as follows:

Forms on breadthwisaThe longitudinal cutting will be as before-i. e., the webs must be severed into one-page breadths-but the reverser (as described by Figs. 14, 15, and 19) must have three or more edges, like B L and N E, instead of two only, their number being such that all the breadths except two are brought onto the said two breadths. They can then go to the folding mechanism, as before.

Forms on lengtLivise.-The webs must be severed longitudinally along more than one line. Then they must be brought bya reverser-such as illustrated by Figs. 14, 15, and 19, or its extension, just described-so that all the strips are running, as shown in Figs. 8 and 10. Then the remainder ot' the treatment will be as previously described. For example, a printing mechanism capable of printing three rolls five pages abreast would print any paper from two to thirty pages, inclusive. Fig. 2l shows the arrangement of the rolls for a twenty-eight-page paper. Treating them in the manner previously described they will issue from between the rollers g1 and g3, Fig. 3, as shown in Fig. 22.v Then (having cut the rolls longitudinally along the dotted lines, Fig. 22) let the breadth d by a reverser similar to Fig. 19 be shifted onto fand the double breadth b a shifted underneath c b, and so that a comes, with its reverse side uppermost, underneath c,

For example, eight rolls with four pages abreast as pages abreast is more Vsame as the number of cylinder C.

and b with its reverse side uppermost, but without having been transversely shifted. The webs will then be running as in Fig. 23. They must then be severed transversely along the lines A B, C D, E F, 85e., and then the C Fs brought onto the A Ds in any suitable way. The webs will then be travelingas in Fig. 24, and may be conducted to any suitablefolding mechanism.

In all the preceding we have supposed that it is required to be able to print at pleasure any number of pages from one up to the maximum number that the mechanism under consideration will print, (since an odd-paged paper may always be regarded as an even-paged paper, ofrwhich one or some other odd num- V ber ot' pages are blank, it was unnecessary to consider odd numbers of pages.) When, however, only numbers of pages which are even multiples of two are required to be printed then the result can always be attained without the -use ot' a roll-such as Z; but when Z is dispensed with the printing mechanism must be able to print at its fullestcapacity an even number of pages abreast. With this fact in mind, and using any or all of the rolls A B E, l l', 2 2', dto., (according to the particular case in view,) and treating them in the manner here-` inbefore described, any paper whose pages are even multiples ot' two-i. e., 4, S, 12, 16, 20, 85e., paged papers-can be produced without the use ofthe roll Z and corresponding mechanism.

As to mechanism for printing the rolia-Recurring to Fig. 3, P P are form-bearing cylinders, the forms on the one being duplicates of those on the other. (l is another form-bearing cylinder. H is the impression-cylinder for the cylinders P P, and D D, Sac., are the impression-cylinders for C. The course of the webs Aand B can be plainly seen from the gure, and no further explanation is needed, as we do not herein claim this manner ot' printing on two rolls. It is obvious that the Webs A and B will issue in the way hereinbefore stated to be necessary for employing the first part of our invention. Theweb C is printed on by the form-bearing cylinders Z1 and Z2. Different form si. e., forms containin gdifterent matter--must be placed on each of them, and the number of different pages on each cylinder must be (when Z is a full breadth web) one halt' of the number of different pa ges that there are on the cylinder C. The roll E is printed by the cylinders El E2. The forms on El must be the duplicates ot those on E2, and the number of different pages on each cylinder must be the different piges on the The form-bearin g cylinders El E2 Z, Z2, &c., may be larger than here drawn, their circumterences being any multiples of the ares occupied by the forms and impression-cylinders being placed around each cylinder, corresponding in number to the said multiple. We have made the twoimpression-cylinders K1 and K2 do duty for four form-bearin g cylinders. This,

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however, is a detail, and, instead, four impression-cylinders may be employed, in the usual way. As drawn, the web Z may cause a setoft' onto the web E at the time they both pass between Z2 and K2, a drawback which may beA avoided by taking the web Z in the manner shown in Fig. 25. The course of the webs in Fig. 3 is easily traced. The web Z is conveyed round K1 and receives an impression on one side between K1 and Z1. It then passes on between K2 and Z2 and receives its second impression. The web E receives its rst impression between E1 and K1. It then passes round K2 and receives its second impression between K2 and E2.

In the case ot' the limit of the printing mechanism being an even number of pages across the web, then when tive rolls or any1 larger odd number of rolls are used the roll E is not required. Ihe pair of added rolls 11 11', Fig. 2, may be printed by mechanism precisely similar to that which prints the rolls A and B. After they have thus been printed ou both sides one websay No. l-may be taken direct to and round the roller f. The other one, l', must frstbe taken through a reverser-such as shown in Fig. 4-and thence to and round the said roller f. Any number of pairs of additional rolls may be thus printed, their positions relatively to A1 B1 Z1 and to each other being-indicated by Fig. 2. When the number of rolls is even E is used, and the positions of the pairs of added rolls (relatively to A1 B1 E1 Z1 and to-one another) are indicated by Fig. l.

As previously observed, when the number of pages across is odd, then, whether the number of rolls be odd or even, all the added rolls must be similar to Z1 and be distributed with it alternately to the roll A and to the roll B.

What we herein claim as our invention is- 1. The combination of a mechanism for printing a plurality of webs (so that matter shall be imprinted on each web in the way hereinbefore described) with mechanism for reversing without transferring one of the said webs, and mechanism for bringing together the said reversed web and the other web or webs, whereby the webs become one product and may be operated on together in the subsequent folding processes,all substantially as described.

2. The combination of mechanism for printing a plurality of Webs (so that matter shall be imprinted on each web in the way hereinbefore described) with mechanism which cuts the webs, mechanism which associates transversely-severed portions of one web alternately with one and the other ot' two of the other Webs, mechanism for reversing one of the lastmentioned webs and its. associated part, and mechanism for bringing together the reversed web (with the respective associated parts ot' the said severed web) and the other web or webs, all substantially as described.

EDWYN ANTHONY. JACOB EDWARD HARVEY.

Witnesses:

J. L. BUTTERLY, WILLIAM J. Lnrisnn.

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