US710650A - Printing-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 7l0,650. Patented Oct. 7, 1902.

H. A. W. WUUD.

PRINTING MACHINE.

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IINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. IYISE IYOOD, OF NEIY YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE CAMP- BELL PRINTING PRESS tb MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEIV YORK.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,650, dated October 7, 1902.

Application led December 19.1892. Renewed February 5, 1901. Serial No. 46.155.

To all whom, it ntf/,y concern: i

Be it known that I, HENRY A. IVIS'E \VOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement. in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The aim of this invention is to improve the construction in that class of printing-presses to known as reciprocating-cylinder printingpresses.

To this end the invention consists of the device described and claimed in this specilication and illustrated in the accompanying three sheets of drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a press containing my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. t Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fie. 4 is a sectional zo plan view on line 4 4. of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation on line 5 5 looking,r to the right, and Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the parts hereinafter described.

My presentimprovements may be classified z5 under three different heads or classes, each improvement of which is applicable to any form of reciprocatingcylinder press and is not necessarily limited in application to the particular press shown and hereinafter described.

My first improvement is applicable to a reciprocating-Cynnder press in which the web is perfected or in which it may be twice printed upon 'the same side. This lirst improvement consists in interposine` a looping.r device in the path of the web between the points at which it passes from one impression to the other, so thatI a portion of the web between the two impression-surfaces will be continu- 40 ally moving and whereby when the intermittent pull of the feeding occurs there will be a feeding device for each impression-Surface or print-ing device. As described, I have shown two im pression-cylinders and the web as being led through a turner, so as to be perfected. By the application of this improvement the web through the turner will be run at a constant speed and will not have to be drawn intermittently through the turner. 5o My improvement is also applicable to (No model.)

presses in which the web is deflected twice around the same reciprocating impressioncylinder, as is shown and described, for instance, in my applications, Serial No. 398,127, tiled July 1, 1892; Serial No. 453,811, led December 2, 1892, and Serial No. 451,156, filed November 7, 1892, or is, further, applicable to a press arranged as is shown in Letters Patent to John H. Stonemetz, No. 376,053, granted January 3, 1338, or as is shown in 6o Letters Patent to J. L. Cox, No. L.t78,503, granted July 5, 1892. This improvement is of special advantage in connection with the device shown and described, as by using the same the web can be continuously and evenly moved between the two im pression-cylinders, either to direct the same around a turner device or to direct the web to the second impression-cylinder.

My second improvement consists in a pe- 7o culiar means for reciprocating the impressioncylinder-viZ., a yoke in which works a continuously-revolving wrist-pin, whereby an even forward and backward movement is imparted tothe reciprocating cylinder or cylinders.

My third improvement consists in a device by which the hiking-rollers can be reciprocated over the form-beds to ink up77 the forms-that is, to get the type on the beds 8o properly inked, so that the proper impression can be taken before the web is fed, as in the usual operation of a machine, and this invention consists of a means by which the inking mechanism can be reciprocated and run and the feeding mechanism of the web entirely disconnected, whereby only two sheets will be spoiled in the inking up opf eration instead of a long strip, as is common.

As before specified, these improvements 9o are each applicable to many forms of printing-presses and are not limited in application to the particular press hereinafter described.

The invention further consists of the improvements hereinafter described at length and pointed out in the claims.

Referring.,r now to the drawings and in detail, 10 and 11 represent the usual side frames ofthe machine,and between these side frames 10o are arranged the usual form-beds A and B, upon which type or other printingforms may be placed in the ordinary manner. These beds A and B are shown as arranged in the same horizontal plane, although they of course could be arranged in any other convenient manner without departing from the scope of my invention. C representsareciprocating impression cylinder adapted to coact with the forms upon the bed A, and D represents a reciprocating impression-cylinder adapted to coact with the forms upon the bed B. E represents the paper -roll from which the web is led and which roll E may be mounted in any convenient manner in the press-frame. F F represent the usual form-rollers moving with the impression cylinders, which are adapted to ink the forms on the bed, and to these form-rollers ink is supplied by any of the usual inking apparatus, which it is not thought necessary to complicate this case by showing. These parts, as described, are well understood and will operate to print upon the web both upon the forward and backward movement of the impression-cylinders..

The course of the web from the roll E can be followed by referring to Fig. 3. From the roll E the web is led up over the roller 12, down under the roller 13, up over the roller 14, and these rollers 12, 13, and 14 may be continuously driven to continuously unwind the web from the roll. From the roller 14 the web passes over the guide or roller 15, then under the looping-roller 16 and up over the roller 13. From the roller 17 the web passes to the guide 18, moving with the cylinder C down under the cylinder C, up over the guide 19, moving with the cylinder C, then to the roller 20. From the roller 20 the web passes down under the looping-roller 2l and then up over the roller 22, which roller 22 may be continuously driven for a purpose hereinafterdescribed. From the roller 22 the web may be led directly to the roller 28 if it is desired to print the web twice upon the same side; but if it is desired to perfect the web from the roller 22 the web is turned or deflected at right angles up overl the turner-bar 23, and from this turnerbar 23 the web passes around the rollers 26, 25, and 24, as shown in Fig. 5, and then back into the press, up over the turner-bar 27, and thence to roller 28. The rollers 24, 25, and 26 are preferably continuously driven, as hereinafter described,.at the same peripheral speed as the feeding-in and feeding-out rollers, whereby the web from the roller 22 to the roller 28 will be continuously moved, and when the intermittent feed takes place no intermittent feed occurs between the rollers 22 and 28. From the roller 28 the web passes down under the looping-roller 29, then up over the roller 30, which may be adjustable for the purpose of obtaining register, then down under the roller 3l to the roller 32, moving with the impression-cylinder D, then under the impression-cylinder D up over the roller or guide 33, moving with the impres` sion -cylinder, to the guide 34. From the guide 34 the web is led under the loopingroller 35 up over the roller 36 and then into the bite of the continuously-running feedingout or delivery rollers 37, 38, and 39. This passage of the web, as before described, will present the-web to be twice printed, and a portion of the web that is between the rollers 22 and 28 will be continuously moving at the same sp'eed at which the web is pulled into the press from the roller E and paid out by the rollers 37, 38, and 39. Hence when the intermittent feed takes place when the impression-cylinders are off the forms in either direction the web will not have to be intermittently pulled between the points 22 and 28, as there is substantially a separate feeding,r or looping device for each impressioncylinder. This aids the action of the web greatly, as the web can be by this means kept very taut in the press and the looping-rollers can easily perform the slight duty that is required of them. l

The means for reciprocating the cylinders will now be described. The cylinder C is mounted in two brackets 40, as shown, and these brackets 40 carry the guides or rollers 18 and 19 and the inking or form rollers F F. These brackets 40 are gibbed on suitable guides 42, mounted on the side frames 10 and 11, as shown. The impression-cylinder D is mounted in similar brackets 41, gibbed to the guides 43, and the brackets 41 carry the guides or rollers 32 and 33 and the inking or form rollers F F of the impressioncylinder D. The impression-cylinders C and D carry at the ends thereof the usual gears, which mesh with stationary racks, so that as the cylinders are reciprocated they will oscillate in register with the form-beds. A yoke 44 connects these brackets 40 40 and 41. 41, and thus forms a complete reciprocating or moving carriage. This yoke 44 has a wing or arm 45, to which the brackets 40 are bolted, and an arm 46, to which thebrackets 41 are bolted, and also an arm 47, which has a slot 48, which slot is arranged at right angles to the movement of the cylinders. A shaft 49, which may be the main shaft of the machine and which may carry loose and tight pulleys 5l) and 5l, is suitably mounted in brackets 58, 5f), and 60, as shown. The bracket 58 consists of a bearing formed in a brace which connects the brackets 57 57, which are used to carry the rollers 24, 25, and 26, before referred to. On the end of the shaft 49 is mounted a bevel-gear 52, which meshes with a bevel-gear 53, fastened on the end of a shaft 54, journaled in a bracket 570, fastened to the main frame 10, as shown. Also fastened on the shaft 54 is a pinion 55, which meshes with and drives a large spurlgear 56, which is arranged horizontally in the frame of the machine, as shown. The main frame 10, as shown, has suitable uprights 61, and the main frame 11 has similar uprights IOO IIO

02, and between these uprights 61 and 02, as shown, is secured or bolted the frame 63, and in this frame 63 is fastened a shaft or stud 64, upon which the gear 56 is mounted. This construction of framing, as will be seen, constitutes a very strong bracing to take the thrust and strain of the moving parts. Fastened in the gear 56 is a crank-pin 65, which carries a square block 0G, which engages the slot 4S of the yoke 45. By this driving mechanism as the shaft 49 is rotated the yoke 45 will be given a positive forward-andback ward reciprocation, and the cylinders will thereby be moved forward and backward over their beds. This driving mechanism has an advantage over that in which pitmen are used, as in this device the reversal at each end of the travel is at exactly the same speed,while, as is well known in the use of pitmen, the reversal is on a different radius at each eXtreme, whereby there will be a different action,which is not advisable in a machine of this character. This driving mechanism is applicable to any form of reciprocating cylinder-press no matter how the beds are arranged relatively to each other and also to a press in which only a single bed and cylinder are used.

From the shaft 54 all the other parts of the press may be driven, if so desired, and one way by which this is accomplished is as follows: In a bracket G7, attached to the main frame 10, is mounted a shaft 68, which is arranged in the same vertical line with the shaft 54, but which is not connected to the shaft 54, except by the clutch hereinafter described. Fastened on the top end of this shaft 67 is one member of a clutch 59, aud keyed on the lower end of the shaft 54 is the other member 70; but this member 70 is capable of a vertical movement on said shaft 54 by any suitable means, as by handle 71. The teeth of the clutch 69 and 70 are preferably so arranged that the clutch can only be engaged when the two shafts 54 and G3 are in one position. By raising the handle 71 the clutch will be disengaged and the cylinders may be reciprocated without affecting any of the feeding mechanism hereinafter described; but in the normal operation of the machine the clutch is thrown into engagement, whereby the feeding mechanism will be operated, as hereinafter described. By this means the cylinders can be reciprocated without feeding the web, and the forms can be inked up, as before described. On the lower end of this shaft G7 is fastened the bevel-gear 72, meshing with a bevel-gear 73, secured on a shaft 74, which may extend nearly the whole length of the press, as shown, and which is arranged parallel to the movement of the cylinders, and this shaft 74 may be mounted in suitable boxes 75, as shown, fastened to the frame 10. On the left-hand end of this shaft 74 is arranged a bevel-gear 7G, which meshes with and drives bevel-gear 77, secured on the vertical shaft 73, which vertical shaft 73, by means of bevel-gears 79 and 80, drives continuously the feeding-in rollers 12, 13, and 14, which are geared together, as shown. Also arranged on said shaft 74 is a bevel-gear S0, which meshes with and drives bevel-gear 81, secured to the vertical shaft S2, which vertical shaft 82, by means of bevel-gears 83 and 84, continuously turns and drives the roller 22. Also secured on the shaft 74 is a bevel-gear S5, which meshes with and drives bevel-gear 8G, fast ou the vertical shaft S7, which vertical shaft 87, by means of bevel-gears 88 and S9, continuously drives the roller 2S. Also fastened on the sha-ft 74 is another bevel- 'gear 90, which meshes with and drives a bevel-gear 91, secured to the shaft 92, and this shaft 92, by means of bevel- gears 93 and 94, turns the feeding-out 0r delivery rollers 37, 38, and 39. By this gearing it will be seen that the feeding-in rollers and feedingout rollers and the intermediate rollers will be continuously driven, and the same are so arranged that the peripheral speed will be substantially the same. On the right-hand end of the shaft 74 is arranged a bevel-gear 95, which meshes with and drives a bevelgear 9G, and turning with this bevel-gear 96 is another bevel-gear 97, which meshes with and drives bevel-gear 93, fastened on the shaft 99, which shaft 99 is journaled in the main frames-10 and 11, as shown. Ar ranged on this shaft 99 is a cam 100, which operates to actuate the looping-rollers, as hereinafter described. The reduction in the gearing, before described, is so arranged that the cam 100 turns at double the speed as the speed of gear 5G, whereby the looping-rollers will act to pull the web forward around the impression-cylinders when the impressioncylinders reverse off the form-beds in either direction,whereby the impression-cylinders can make a fresh impression on both their forward and backward movements. The feeding-in looping-roller 10 is mounted in suitable bearings, which are arranged iu ver tical guides 101, formed in the main framing, as shown, and these bearings are connected by links 102 to the levers 103, which are mounted on the shaft 104, which shaft 104 is mounted in the main frames 10 and 11. The feeding-forward looping-roller 21 for the ii rst impression-cylinder is mounted in suitable bearings, which bearings are mounted in vertical guides 10G in the main frame, and these bearings connect by suitable links 105 to the other end of the levers 103. Thus as the looping-roller 16 moves up the looping-roller 21 will move down, and vice versa. Also arranged on the shaft 104 is an arm 107, which connects by link 10S to the arm 109, fastened on the shaft 117, which shaft 117 is jour naled in the main frames 10 and 11, as shown. The looping-roller 29 is mounted in suitable bearings, which are mounted in vertical slots 212, formed in the main framing, as shown, and these boxes are connected by suitable links 111 to the end of the levers 110, which are fastened on a shaft 117. The boxes of IOD IOS

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the looping-roller 35 are arranged in suitable vertical guides 113, and these boxes are connected by suitable links 112 to the other end of the levers 110. Thus it will be seen that as the looping-roller 21 moves up the loopingroller 29 will be moved down, and vice versa, and as the looping-roller 29 is moved down the looping-rollerv 35 will be moved up, and Vice versa. Also arranged on the shaft 117 is an arm 114, which is continuously pulled to the left by means of the spring 217, arranged as shown, and this arm is connected by yoke 115, which straddles the shaft 99, to be actuatedfrom the cam 100, the yoke 115 carrying a roller 116, which bears on the face of the cam, as shown. The operation of this loopingr mechanism is as follows: Suppose the length of a sheet to be printed, including the margins,is twenty-four inches. Then the feeding-in rollers 12, 13, and 14 are speeded so as to evenly pay in forty-eight inches during a complete forward-and-backward movement of the cylinders, and the feeding-out rollers 37, 38, and 39 are arranged to pay out fortyeight inches, and the rollers 22 and 28 are arranged so as to also handle forty-eight inches of web. Now consider the impression-cylinders as just engaging the forms and as moving toward the left and that the stroke of the impression-cylinders is so divided that they are on and o the forms an equal time-that is, during one-quarter of a revolution of the gear 56 the impression-cylinders are in engagement with the forms and during onequarter revolution of the gear 56 they are reversing. Now during this quarter-revolution of the gear 56 while the cylinders move to the left the twelve inches of web paid in by the rollers 12, 13, and 14 will be taken up by the downward movement of the roll 16 and the twelve inches of web paid out by the rollers 37, 38, and 39 will be supplied by the upward movement ofthe looping-roller 35. Also 'it will be seen that the looping-roller 2l will supply twelve inches of web to the roller 22 and that the looping-roller 29 will take twelve inches of web from the roller 28. During this action the web will remain stationary between the points 17 and 20 and 3l and 34, and as the impression-cylinders move a sheet will be impressed onto the form. Now when the gear 56 com pletes this quarter-revolution the impression-cylinders will just clear the forms to the left, and during the next quarterrevolution of the gear 56 the impression-cylinders will be moved still farther to the left, will be reversed, and moved to the right. During this quarter-revolution of the gear 56 twelve inches more of web will be paid in by the rollers 12, 13, and 14 and paid out by the rollers 37, 38, and 39; but during this quarter-revolution of the gear the looping-roller 16 will be moved up to payout twelve inches of web, which, in addition to the web fed in by the rollers 12, 13, and 14, will make twentyfour inches of web which will be supplied to pass around the impression cylinder C.

rnasse Twelve inches' of this web will be taken up by the downward movement of the loopingroller 21, and the web will be'run forward twelve inches by the roller 22. Twelve inches of web, also, during this quarter-revolution of gear 56 will be delivered forward by the roller 28, and twelve inches more will be delivered up by the upward movement of the looping-roller 29, and this twenty-four inches of web will be pulled forward around the impression-cylinder D by the forwarding movement of the rollers 37, 38, and 39 and by the downward movement of the loopingroller 35. Thus it will be seen that the web will4 be properly fed While the cylinders are reversing. The operation While the cylinders move to the right in impression during the next quarter movement of gear 56 is substantially the same, and the feeding again forward of the web while the impression-cylinders are ont of impression and reverse at their right-hand extreme during the neXt quarter-revolution of gear 56 to complete the cycle is substantially the same as that before described and does not need to be here again described.

Of course the amount of time between the operating and reversing movements of the impression-cylinders can-be proportioned as desired and the looping-rollers timed to meet any exigencies.

As the cam 100 is driven at twice the speed of the gear 56, a simple uniform forward-andbackward movement is all that is necessary to be imparted to the yoke 115, if the parts are designed substantially as before described, and in this case the cam becomes practically what is known as a heart-shaped cam, and it is not thought necessary here to show any specific shape. Thus it will be seen that the web is held stationary on 4each side of each impression cylinder and is intermittently pulled forward as the impression-cylinders are reversing, and also it will be seen that the web between the right-hand stationary point relatively to the cylinder C and the left-hand point relatively to the cylinder D, beyond the looping devices, is moved continuously. This, as before described, is very advantageous in that it permits the web to run continuously between these points and, if the turner is used, allows the web to be very nicely and continuously run around the turner, and also it greatly facilitates the speedy action of the web, not to depend on one point for the pulling, but to pull the web forward at different points. It will be seen that this combined feeding device may be described as consisting of a looping device arranged on each side of each impression surface or cylinder, and web-forwarding devices for feeding the web into and out of the press, whereby-the web can be intermittently moved forward around each impression surface or cylinder and whereby a portion of the web between the impression cylinders will be continuously moving.

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By continuously moving the web between the cylinders and providing a separate intermittently-acting feeding device for each impression-cylinder, so to speak, the necessity which exists in all the present reciprocating presses with which I am familar of depending upon one looping device or equivalent construction for drawing the entire web through the press is done away with.

In the old reciprocating-cylinder printingpresses there are many feet of web in the machine from the feeding-in to the feeding-out mechanisms,and the shift for the feed around the cylinders has to come at one point, and it has been found in practice that this limits the speed at which the machine can be run, because if the machine is run at a very high rate of speed the shift of so many feet of web from one point will put a very heavy strain on the web and be very apt to break the same. \Vith my improved device this is remedied, as only a small portion of the web-that is, the portion wrapped around each impressioncylinder-has to be shifted, and practically in my device I only shift the printed portion of the web, which is over the form-beds.

So far as this improvement is concerned, as before stated, I can place my printing devices in any relative position without regarding the distance that the web has to travel from one to the other.

Instead of using reciprocating looping-rollers Yfor intermittently advancing the web around the impression-cylinders I may employ otherdevices for accomplishing this purpose, and where I use the term looping devices in the claims I do not wish to be liniited to the construction which I have illustratcd.

The improvement of continuously running the web between the two printing mechanisms may be applied, if desired, to the wellknown form of perfecting bed andplaten press.

Vhile I have shown my improvements as applied to a press in which an impression is taken both on the forward and backward movement of the impression-cylinders, it is evident, of course, that my improvements could be applied to a press in which an impression is taken only on one movement of the cylinders and in which the feed takes place practically during the other movement of the cylinders-51s, for example, to such a press as is shown in Letters Patent to IV. P. Kidder, No. 291,521, granted January 8, 1884.

The second and third of the improvements before specified, as well as many of the details hereinbefore pointed out and hereinafter claimed, may be applied to a reciprocatin g-cylinder printing-press in which only one cylinder and one form-bed are used to print once upon one side of the web, as, of course,

is obvious. By disconnecting the clutch,

before described, all this feeding mechanism can be disconnected.

vWhen the turner is used, it is desirable to run the rollers 24, 25, and 26 at a constant speed, and this can be nicely done by using a bevel-gear 150, fast on the shaft of the roller 22, which can mesh with a bevel-gear 151, and by means of spur-gears 152 and 153 the rollers 24, 25, and 26, which are geared together, can be run at an even speed. This running of the rollers 24, 25, and 2G at an even' speed greatly helps the action of the web around the turner-bars, as the web is continuously and smoothly run over the turnerbars, and a plurality of rollers are preferably used in order to get a h'rm bite upon the web at this point. 'Ihns it will be seen that this invention consists in certain improvements relating to the construction of reciprocatingcylinder presses, and, as before described, these improvements, while especially valuable in use in connection with the practical press described, may be applied and used in connection with any reciprocatng-cylinder printing-machine.

The details and arrangements of parts herein shown and described may be greatly varied by a skilled mechanic without departing from the scope of my invention as expressed in the claims.

IIaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a web-printing press having two imp'ression-surfaces, of a feedingin device intermittently acting to allow the web to be fed into the press, and a feedingout device intermittently acting to draw the web through the press, and two looping devices interposed in the path of the web between the two impression-sinfaces, so that a portion of the web between said impressionsurfaces will move continuously as the press is operated.

2. The combination in a printing press adapted to twice print or perfect a web, of two impression-surfaces, a feeding device intermittently acting to draw the web through thepress, two looping-rollers interposed in the path of the web between the impressionsurfaces,and means, as continuously-running rollers, arranged to move the web continuously between the looping devices.

3. The combination in aweb-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a web-feeding-out device adapted to intermit tently pull the web forward around said cylinders, and two oppositely-operating loopers interposed in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders.

4. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, an intermittently-acting web-feeding-out device adapted to intermittently pull the web forward around said impression-cylinders, two oppositely-operating loopers arranged in the path of the web between said impressioncylinders, and continuouslymoving rollers IOO arranged between these two looping devices, whereby the web can be continuously moved between these intermediate looping devices.

5. The combination in a web-printing machine, of two forni-beds, a reciprocating impression-cylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a turner arranged on the framework of the machine from which the web passes from the first impression-cylinder, and from which the web passes to the second impression-cylinder', arranged to turn the web over, so that the web will be perfected, suit-- able web-guides, and a web-manipulating device.

6. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form -beds, a turner device arranged on the frame of the machine, suitable web-guides, and a web-manipulating mechanism, the guides and turner device being so arranged that the web can be led directly from one impression-cylinder to the other without turning, or from one impression-cylinder to the other through the turner device.

7. The combination in aweb-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a turner device arranged in the path of the web between the impression-cylinders, a feeding-in device for the web arranged at one end of the press, and a feeding-out device for the web arranged at the other end of the press.

S. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylindercoacting with each of said form-beds, a turner arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, said turner consisting of two angle-bars, and a roller or guide arranged parallel to the movement of the impression-cylinders, a looping device arranged in the path of the web, at each side of said turner device, and web-forwarding devices.

9. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a web-turner arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, said turner consisting substantially of two turnerbars, and a roll arranged parallel to the movement of said impression-cylinders, means for continuouslydriving this parallel roll, a looping device arranged in the path of the web on each side of said turner device, and web-forwarding devices.

10. The combinationina web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a turner device arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, said turner device consisting essentially of two turner bars,anda plurality of rollers arranged parallel to the movement of said impressioncylinders, means for continuously driving these parallel rollers, a looping device arranged substantially at each side of said ridete the web forward around said impression- Y cylinders, and two intermediate looping devices arranged in the path of the webbetween said impression-cylinders, these looping devices being operated so that the portion of the web between the intermediate looping devices can be moved continuously.

12. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating iinpressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, a web-feeding mechanism comprising an oppositely-operating looping device arranged on each side of each impression cylinder around which the web passes, and continuously-operating delivery mechanism, whereby the web between the two intermediate looping devices can be moved continuously.

13. The combinationinaweb-printingpress of the two form-beds, a reciprocating impression-cylinder as C and D coacting with each of said form-beds, continuously-running rollers for feeding the web into and out of the press, oppositely-operating loopers 16 and 21 arranged in the path of the web on each side of the impression-cylinder C, and oppositelyoperating loopers 29 and 35, arranged in the path of the web on each side of the impression-cylinder D, and means for synchronously operating s'aid loopers, whereby the loopers 16 and 29 will move in unison, and the loopers 21 and 35 will move in unison, whereby the web between the loopers 21 and 29 can be continuously moved.

let. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder as O and D cooperating with each of said form-beds, continuously-running rollers adapted to feed the web continuously into and out of the press, of the looping- rollers 16 and 21, arranged in the path of the web on each side of the impression-cylinder C, and the looping- rollers 29 and 35 arranged in the path of the web on each side of the impression-cylinder D, the levers or arms 103, to the opposite ends of which the loopers 16 and 21 are connected, of the levers or arms 110 to the opposite ends of which the loopers 29 and 35 are connected, connections between said arms 103 and 110, whereby they will be moved together, and means, as a cam, for actuating said connections.

15. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder coacting with each of said form-beds, means for intermittently drawing the web through the press, two intermittently-loopin g IOOV IIO

devices arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, whereby the web between said intermediate looping devices can be moved continuously, and continuously-moving forwarding-rollers as 22 and 2S arranged between these intermediate loopingl devices adapted to continuously forward the web.

if. The combination in a web-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylindercoacting with each ot said form-beds, means for intermittently drawing the web forward through the press, two intermediate looping devices arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, the continuously-running forwarding-rolls 22 and 2S, arranged in the path ot the web between said intermediate looping devices, and a turner device in thc path of the web between said forwarding-rollers 22 and 2S.

l7. The combination in a printing-press of two form-beds, a traveling impression-cylinder coacting with each form-bed, suitable guides, a turner interposed in the path of the web between the impression-cylinders, suitable web-manipulating mechanism foi-intermittently shifting the web forward around the impression-cylinders, and means whereby the web will move continuously through the turner in the operation of the machine.

1S. The combination in a printing-press of two form-beds, a carriage carrying an im pression-cylinder for each form-bed, means for reciprocating said carriage, consisting of al yoke connected to the carriage, said yoke having a slot and a continuously-revolving wristpin engaging said slot,whereby the movement of the impression-cylinders over the forms in either direction will be the same, and whereby the time and speed of reversal in either direction thereof will be the same, and a webmanipulating mechanism arranged to intermittentiy pull the web forward around the impression-cylinders when they are reversing in either direction, whereby the web-manipulating mechanism will operate under the same conditions as the impression-cylinders reverse in either direction.

1i). The combination in a printing-press of suitable side frames, two stationary formbeds secured in said side frames, a reciproeating carriage consisting of two sets of carriers, in each set of which an impression-cylinder is mounted, a slotted yoke connecting said carriers, a continuously-revolving wristpin engaging said slot, and web-manipulating mechanism.

20. The combination in a printing-press of two side frames, a carriage consisting of two sets of carriers mounted on the outside of each frame, a yoke having arms connecting each set of carriers and a slotted arm as 47, and a continuously-revolving wrist-pin engagingY said slot.

2l. The combination in a printing-press of a form-bed, a reciprocating impression-cylinder and form inking mechanism coacting therewith, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinder, and means for intermittently pulling the web forward around said impression-cylinder, and connections whereby the feed of the web can be stopped, and the impressioncylinder reciprocated without the web being fed.

The combination in a printing-press of 4two for1n-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder and form-inlzing mechanism coacting with each of said form-beds, means for feeding the web into the press, and means for intermittently pulling the web forward around said impression-cylinders, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinders, and connections whereby the web feeding-in and feeding-out devices can be disconnected, and the cylinders reciprocated without the web being fed in or fed out of the press.

The combination in a printing-pressof a form-bed, a reciprocating impression-cylinder and form -inling mechanism coacting therewith, continuously-running rollers for feeding the web into and out of the press, looping devices arranged to intermittently pull the web forward around the im pressioncylinder, means for reciprocating the impression-cylinder, and means for disconnecting the web-actuating mechanism, whereby the impression cylinder may be reciprocated while the web-controlling mechanism remains inoperative.

2t. The combination in a printing-press, of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder and form-inking mechanism coacting wit-h each of said form-beds,continuouslyrunning rollers for feeding the web into and out of the press, looping devices arranged to intermittently forward the web around said impression-cylinders7 means for reciprocating said im pression-cylinders, and means for disconnecting the web-manipulatingmechanism, whereby said impression-cylinders can be reciprocated while the web-manipulating mechanism remains inoperative;

25. The combination in a printing-press of a form-bed, a reciprocating impression-cyiinder and form-inking mechanism coacting with said form-bed, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinder, an intermittently-acting web-forwarding mechanism adapted to intermittently pull the web forward around said impression-cylinder, said web-forwarding mechanism being driven from the means for reciprocating the impression-cylinder, and a clutch arranged between these two mechanisms, whereby the impression-cylinder can be reciprocated,wl1ile the web-forwarding mechanism remains inoperative.

25. Thecombinationinaweb-printing press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder and form-inking mechanism coacting with each of said form-beds, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinders, and means for drawing the web forward intermittently around. said impression-cylinders, said web-forwarding mechanism being driven IIO KAarreso from the means for reciprocating said reciprocating impression-cylinders, and a clutch arranged between said mechanisms whereby the impression cylinders can be operated while the web-forwarding mechanism remains inoperative.

27. The combination in a printing-press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressioncylinder and form-inking mechanism coacting with each ofsaid form-beds, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinders, means for continuously feeding the web into and out of the press, looping devices adapted to intermittently pay the web out, and draw the same forward around said impressioncylinders, two intermediate looping devices arranged in the path of the web between said impressioncylinders, of connections whereby this webfeeding mechanism is actuated from the means for reciprocating said impression-cylinders, this connection consisting of a clutch, which may be disconnected, whereby the impression-cylinders can be reciprocated while the entire web forwarding and controlling mechanism remains inoperative.

2S. The combination in a printing-press of two form-beds, a reciprocating impressiont cylinder and form-inking meehanismcoacting with each of said form-beds, means for intermittently feeding the web to, and intermittently drawing the web forward around said impression-cylinders, intermediate looping devices arranged in the path of the web between said impression-cylinders, and continuously-forwarding rollers arranged in the path of the web between these intermediate loopingr devices, means for reciprocating said impression-cylinders, and a connection from this reciprocating mechanism, adapted to drive the entire web feeding and manipulating mechanism, this connection consisting of a clutch which may be disconnected, whereby the impression-cylinders can be reciprocated, and the entire web feeding and manipulating mechanism remain inoperative.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

H. A. WISE WOOD. Witnesses:

HENRY W. CoZzENs, J r., JAMES J. MCGRATH.

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