US745134A - Printing-machine. - Google Patents

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'PATENTED NOV. 24 1908;

W. T. BAILEYL PRINTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 4. 1899; RENEWED KPR. 16'. 1903.

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PATENTED NOV. 24, 1903.

W. T. BAILEY. PRINTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4. 1899. RENEWED APE. 176, 1903.

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I No. 745,134. PATENTED NOV. 24,: 1903.

W. T. BAILEY.

PRINTING MACHINE.

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WILLIAM T. BAILEY, or ELMIRA, NEW YORK.

PRINTING- MACHINE.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 745,134, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed December 4, 1899. Renewed April 16, 1903. SerialNo.152,983. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM T. BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elmira, in the county of Chemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in attachments for web-printing presses whereby a regular consecutive order of ascending or descending characters or figures may be printed upon a continuous strip of paper and automatically repeated indefinitely; and the objects of my improvements are to provide a device of this nature which shall be simple and positive in operation and which can be readily and quickly adjusted to meet all the varying requirements to be met with in this character of work.

A further object of my improvements is to combine with such a device an auxiliary type holder or holders wherein may be carried and repeated with each impression any desired character or number of characters in the same line with said consecutively-changing char 'acters or figures.

, larly to the printing-presses adapted for printing the manifolding and other sales pads used by retail merchants. These pads are made up of a number of bundle-checks, usually arranged in pairs comprising an original and duplicate, and each pad is ordinarily'composed of fiftyoriginaland fiftyduplicateleaves numbered, consecutively, from l to 50. When a sale is made, the original is sent to the cashier by the salesman with the money and the duplicate is sent with the goods to the bundle-counter. Each salesman has a distinguishingnumberorletter,and all the leaves of his pad are correspondingly marked. Heretofore in printing these sales slips or checks it has been customary to print the salesmans number or letter, and for department-stores also the department-number or other designating-mark, from the form-cylinder of the printing-press. This requires that the form shall be so constructed as to allow fora change of clerk and department characters or figures after printing each series of pads intended for each particular clerk; also, it has been customary to print the clerks number and department upon one part of the check and the consecutive numerals upon another part, which requires that the bookkeeper must glance over the entire check to ascertain these several facts.

. By my improved device I am enabled to remove these clerk and department characters from the form-cylinder and am thus enabled to print the entire output of pads for a given merchant or store without changing the form cylinder. I am also enabled to print in one line of type, where they'can be read at a glance by the bookkeeper, the consecutive number of each check with the designating and department marks of the clerk issuing said check.

I attain the objects of my improvements by, means of the mechanisms and arrangements of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 1 Figure 1 is a front elevation of a type-wheel embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same looking in the direction of the arrows in Fig. 1 with the frame and cam-plate removed; Fig. 3,"a side elevation of Fig. 1 looking in the same direction with moved and a portion of the right-hand side plate broken away; Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, details of construction; Fig. 8, a view showing the surface of a printed bundle-slip, illustrating the work done by the machine; Fig.

rangement and operation of a printing-press embodying my improvements, and Fig. 10 a modification of my improved type-wheels.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A A represent two circular side plates spaced apart a desirable distance and keyed to the shaft B, which shaft is supported and .jourualed in the sides 0 O of the press-frame. This shaft projects out at one side to receive a gear-wheel, whereby it is driven, said gearwheel meshing with the gear-train at the side of the press in the usual manner. Between the side plates A A, and near the outer periphery thereof, are located a number of small shafts or arbors D D D D D and'D DD D D. In the present instance I have shown five pairs of these arbors, the ends of which are 9, a diagrammatic view illustrating the ar-- the left-hand side plate of the type-wheel rejournaled in removable boxes E. These boxes are set into notches cut into the periphery of the plates A A and are flanged at the bottom to engage the sides of the plates and at the top to receive the fastening-straps F, which are also let into the periphery of the plates and secured therein by countersunk screws. The boxes E are spaced apart by wedges G G G, and by changing the disposition of these wedges the boxes may be brought nearer together or spaced farther apart, and with them the pairs of arbors D D, according to the requirements of the work to be done. By this arrangement any of the arbors may be readily removed from the typewheel either when not required therein or for changing the type-holders thereon or for any other purpose that may arise, it only being requisite that the cam-plates, hereinafter described, be provided with removable sections (not shown) and that the particular arbor to be removed be brought opposite such removed sections in order to disengage its attachments from the cam-raceways.

On the forward member of eachpair of arbors D D are carried a number of primary disk-shaped type-holders H-in the present instance three-and u pon the secondary mem ber of each pair of arbors are carried a corresponding number of similarly-shaped secondary type-holders H. These disk-shaped type-holders turn with the arbors and are rendered adjustable along them by reason of the key K, which slides in a groove out along the entire length of the arbors, the disk being secured in place by means of the setscrew I, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7. These disk type-holders are provided with a nu mber of dovetailed grooves around their outer periphery to receive the type T. (See Fig. 6.)

In the type-wheel illustrated there are three parallelseries, composed of tire each, of these primary disk type-holders, each of the series of five type-holders having the disks arranged in the same vertical plane, and behind each of the primary type-holders is shown a secondary type-holder H. These secondary type-holders carry the same characters as the primary type-holders and are for a purpose presently to be set forth.

Referring now to the primary type-holders, it will be seen that each holder in a series is arranged to carry ten types, the five holders carrying in all fifty types, com prising the numerals from 1 to 50. The type-holder shown in the upper right-hand corner of Fig. 2 presents the numerals 1, 6, 11, &c., increasing by five to 46 around its periphery. The next type-holder to the left presents the numerals 2, 7, 12, &c., to 47; the next type-holder, 3, 8, 15, 650., to 48; the next, 4, 9, 14, 850., to 49,and the fifth, 5, 10, 15, &c., to 50. In the position assumed for the type-holders in Fig. 2 the numeral 1 is shown in contact with the impression-cylinder 1), (indicated by broken lines,) and as the type-Wheel revolves in the direction of the arrow the numeral 2 in its turn will be brought against the impression-cylinder and after that the numeral 3. The type-holder carrying the numerals 4-, &c., is shown as in the act of being turned by its arbor into position to present the numeral t for printing by means of the pawl-and-ratohet gear presently to be described, and the type-holder carrying the numerals 5, 650., will in like manner he turned so as to present said numeral as the type-wheel continues to revolve. In like manner the numeral 6 will be presented in position for printing at the next complete revolution of the type-wheel, and so on in order the numerals 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, &c., to 50, after which the numbering from 1 to 50 will be automatically repeated as many times as desired. By reversing the orderof the type in the typeholders the numbering will be done in descending instead of ascending sequence.

The mechanism for turning the type-holders is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and t and comprises for each arbor D and D an arm J, which is pivoted upon the end of the arbor projecting out beyond the box E, being positioned be tween said box and a ratchet-wheel L, which ratchet-wheel iskeyed to the end of the arbor and held from longitudinal movement thereon by the collar M, which in turn is secured in place by means of a set-screw or other fas toning device. On the arm J is a pawl N, adapted to engage the teeth of the ratchetwheel L, a suitable spring being provided, as shown in Fig. 2, to keep said pawl in engagement with the ratchet-wheel. At the free end of the arm J is a laterallyprojecting stud carrying a roller 0, which roller projects into and travels around a cam-shaped raceway p in the cam-plate P, bolted to the side of the press-frame, as shown in Fig. 1. The contour of this cam-raceway is shown by broken lines in Fig. 2.

The arms J of the two lowermost arbors D D in Fig. 2 are shown as being actuated by the cam-raceway to revolve the primary and secondary type-holders carrying the types t, &c.,one point to the right, the arm on the primary arbor, as indicated by the arrow, be ing thrown downward with its pawl in engagement with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, and therefore in the act of turning the arbor, while the arm on the secondary arbor, as indicated by the arrow, is being retracted to bring its pawl into engagement with the next succeeding tooth on its ratchet-wheel. Except for the brief period necessary for the retraction and throwing out again of the arms required for turning the arbors the arms J are held by the annular portion of the raceway in a fixed position relative to the arbors, as will be readily apparent. In order to keep the arbors stationary and locked in the required position to present the type properly to the impression-cylinder, except during the period when the arbors are being shifted from one point to the next, I provide on the opposite side of each of said arbors a star-wheel Q, which is engaged by a locking-lever R, pivoted on a stud projecting outwardly from the plate A and provided also with a laterally-projecting stud at its free end having a roller thereon to engage the cam-raceway p in the cam-plate P, as shown in Figs. 1,

3, and 7. The raceway-19 is of such contour that these locking-levers are held in close engagement with the star-wheels except for the small period of time during which the pawl-and-ra-tchet gear at the opposite ends of the arbors are being actuated to turn the arbors, the relative motion of these mechanisms being readily apparent upon an inspection of Figs. 2 and 8. By this arrangement of ratchet and locking devices I attain a positive motion of the type-holders at each revolution of'the type-wheel, and it will be apparent that the type will therefore always be brought into proper alinement for printing and held positively locked in such position. Moreover, I thus dispense with all spring-actuated mechanisms and their attendant uncertainties, the only springs in the entire device being thesmall springs employed to press the pawls against the ratchet-wheels.

Inside of each of the primary arbors D is a rod S, passing across from plate A to plate A in radial alinement with the arbors. These rods are bolted fast in the plate A, as shown in Fig. 4, and pass through the head A, as shown in Fig. 7, to form a stud upon which the locking-levers for the primary arbors are pivoted, collars on the rods providing the required offset for said locking-levers. For the locking-levers for the secondary arbors I provide adjustable pivot-studs, as indicated at S in Fig. 3, which are located in slots 8 in the plate A to allow for the necessary adjustment of the locking-levers when the secondary arbors are brought nearer to or spaced farther awayfrom the primary arbors. These adjustable pivot-studs may be constructed in any approved manner, and I have not, therefore, deemedit necessary to illustrate them in detail.

At the left hand in Fig. 1 I have shown a series of auxiliary type-holders which are held stationary relatively to the type-wheel, the type held therein being intended to print and repeat without change during the revolutions of thetype-wheel. One of these auxiliary type-holders is illustrated in detail in Figs. 4 and 5 of'the drawings, and it comprises a rectangular box U, designed to hold a number of type, the type when set being clamped therein by means of a set-screw in the usual manner. This type-holder U is supported upon a yoke V, which passes around the arborD and thence projects inwardly, where it is provided with an eye W, encircling the rod S, this eye being provided with a set-screw for clam ping the yoke in its desired lateral position upon the arbor D relative to its adjacent disk type-holder H. One side of the yoke V is made in the form of a removable strap 1;, which is secured to the yoke by a cap-screw, as shown in Fig. 5. Since the rod S is in radial alinement with the arbor D, it will be apparent that when the auxiliary type-holder is secured in the position shown in Fig. 5 by means of the yoke V and strap '0 the type contained in said holder will be held in proper position for printing, and there can be no deviation of the type from their proper alinement. Should it not be required to print with the auxiliary type, their removal from the auxiliary typeholder will be all that is required; but should it be desirable the auxiliary holders may be released from the arbors D and thrown inward toward the shaft B,as shown in the upper right-hand portion of Fig. 3, the set-screw in the eye W securing the holders from swinging with the revolution of the type-wheel.

For the purposes of illustration I have shown in Fig. 1 a type-wheel set to print a web of paper X, (represented by broken lines,) which is afterward to be divided by the usual cutting-wheels into three strips, which are then perforated and folded into pads in the These strips are printed, as

usual manner. shown in Fig. 8,,first on one side and then on the other, thereby forming when folded original and duplicate leaves printed with numbers or characters all facing toward the top.

In Fig. 8,Y Y represent original leaves, and Z a duplicate leaf, y 2' being narrow coupons which are required by some stores and which are nu mbered only with the consecutive nu mber of the leaves. Tothe right of the number l on leaf Y in Fig. 8 is the number 212, separated therefrom bya dash,which number may represent one department of a large department-store, and farther to the right is the number 10, separated again by a dash, to represent the designating-number of a certain clerk. These'numbers 212 and 10 are repeated on each leaf, whether original or duplicate, throughout the pad, as shown in Fig. 8, and these two numbers are carried by the auxiliary type-holders U, as shown in Fig. 4. Instead of the numbers any desirable letters or other characters or words may be inserted. As the type-wheel is shown set in Fig. 1 thetwo right-hand strips of the web X will beiprinted only 'with the con.-

secutive numbering from 1 to 50. If

it be desired to print either one or both of said strips with characters representing departments or clerks, or both, the auxiliary type-holders, which in the complete attachment would be secured on the rods S, may be thrown up into position and filled with the required characters. Also where the coupons y z are not required on the sales slips or checks the secondary disk type-holders H" may be shifted to one side of the secondary arbors D beyond the edge of the web X, as

shown in the lower right-hand portion of Fig.

1, or the secondary arbors maybe removed entirely, the space occupied by their journalboxes being filled in with a false box or wedge.

Furthermore, where triplicate checks or slips are required a third arbor carrying the required type-holders may be added to each pair of arbors and the consecutive printing done in triplicate. The customary dimensions of the leaves of these sales-pads are six inches by three and five-eighths inches, so that the web of paper in the present illustration will be eleven inches wide, and the primary type-holders will be spaced around the periphery of the type-wheel so as to print twelve inches apart, whereby each alternate leaf of the pad will be skipped in printing, these alternate or duplicate leaves being printed on the opposite side of the web by a second type-wheel in engagement with a second impression-cylinder, the relative arrangemerit of these cylinders and type-wheels being shown in Fig. 9. In this figure X represents the web of paper coming from a paperroll suitably located in the machine, the paper passing thence around the guide-rollerf to the first impression-cylinder b, where it first receives an impression from the formcylinder 0, which has secured to its peripheral face stereotypes or electrotypes by which the headings, lines, 850., are printed on the successively alternate slips or checks pro duced from the web of paper as it passes through the machine. Thence the'web passes onward around the impression-cylinder to the first type-wheel a, and thence to the second impression-cylinder b, where'it receives in like manner impressions from the second form-cylinder c and the second type-wheel or upon its opposite side. From this last impression-cylinder the web passes over a second guide-rollfto the cutting and perforating rolls, and finally to the cut-off and folding devices, which are of usual construction and need not herein be described.

6 e e e represent the inking-rolls for the form-cylinders and type-wheels, it being customary in this class of Work to ink the formcylinders with black ink and the type-Wheels with red ink. By the arrangement shown in Fig. 9 there is also room allowed for the insertion of perfecting-cylinders between the form-cylinders and type-wheels, if such be desired, for the purpose of interlining, &c., with diiferent colored ink.

Instead of applying the type-wheels to the impression-cylinders b b it may be desirable to apply these type-wheels to separate impression-cylinders, in which case I would simplify the construction by utilizing the typewheels themselves to answer this double purpose, as illustrated in the modification shown in Fig. 10. In this modification plates or bars g are passed across the type-Wheels from one side plate to the other between the pairs of type holders. These cross bars are faced with rubber or other suitable material, and the type-wheels are so geared together as to bring the type-holders of one wheel opposite the impression-plates on the other during their revolution, as indicated in the figure,

the paper passing between the wheels in a tangential direction. These impression-bars on the type-wheels may be either bolted to the side plates or cast integrally therewith, it being only important that they shall be made stiff enough to withstand the pressure brought to bear upon them. This modified pair of type-wheels might be inserted in the printing-press arranged as illustrated in Fig. 9 by locating them below the second impression-cylinder to receive and print upon the web after it has passed the form cylinders.

While I am aware that it is not new in the art to utilize so-called type-wheels for printing in regular consecutive order ascending or descending characters or figures and automatically repeating the same, I believe that the principle involved in my device is novel, and I do not, therefore, confine myself to the specific arrangement of parts and details of the actuating mechanisms as illustrated herein. The turning and locking mechanisms may be varied; also, the number of type-holders and the number of characters on each type-holder may be varied to print a greater orless number of consecutive characters than herein taken for the purpose of illustration; also, the type- Wheel may be made wider or narrower and may carry a greater or less number of the parallel series of type-holders; also, the form of the auxiliary type holders may be variedfor instance, in place of the fixed auxiliary holders, as shown, I may place between the disk type-holders additional disk type-holders revolving therewith; but in that case each of these auxiliary disk type-holders must have the characters carried thereby repeated the given number of times, in the present instance ten times, in order that such characters may be repeated at each revolution of the type-wheel. For this reason I prefer to use the fixed typeholder as illustrated, since with such holders one set only of auxiliary type is required for each holder. Moreover, a holder of this construction allows more latitude in the nature and number of the characters that can be used, as will readily be apparent. Finally, I believe that I am the first to provide a device wherein a consecutivelychanging series of characters or figures may be printed at the same time and in the same line of type with a repeated character or characters, as herein set forth, and illustrated more particularly in Fig. 8.

Having thus described my improvements, whatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a printing-machine, a rotary typewheel comprising a pair of side plates spaced apart upon a central shaft, an arbor journaled in and between said plates, a type-holder secured upon the arbor and carrying a plurality of type disposed around its peripheral face, a ratchet-wheel affixed to one end of the arbor, an arm pivoted on the arbor and carrying a pawl to engage the ratchet-wheel, the free end ICC of said arm being provided with an offset, a cam-raceway at the side of the type-wheel to engage said offset, whereby the arm is actuated at each rotation of the type-wheel to give the arbor and type-holder a partial rotation, and mechanism for automatically locking the arbor to prevent its rotation while the ratchet mechanism is quiescent.

2. In a printing-machine, a rotary typewheel comprising a pair of side plates spaced apart upon a central shaft,an arbor journaled in and between said plates, a type-holder secured upon the arbor and carrying a plurality of type disposed around its peripheral face, a pawl-and-ratchet gear at one end of the arbor actuated by an arm pivoted thereon, an offset at the free end of said arm'engaging a camraceway at the side of the type-wheel, a starwheel at the other end of the arbor, alockinglever pivoted on the side plate at that side of the type-wheel to engage said star-wheel, and an oifset at the free end of said lever in engagement with a cam-raceway also at that side of the type-wheel.

3. In a printing-machine, a rotary typewheel comprising a pair of circular side plates spaced apart upon a central shaft, an arbor journaled between said plates in circumfer entially-adjustable boxes let into the peripheries thereof, spacing-blocks at the sides of said boxes, peripheral straps to hold said boxes and blocks in place, a type-holder upon the arbor carrying a plurality of type disdisposed around its peripheral face, and mechanism whereby the arbor is automatically actuated to impart a partial rotation to the type-holder at each rotation of the typewheel.

4. In a printing-machine, a rotary typewheel comprising a pair of circularside plates spaced apart upon a central shaft, a plurality of arbors journaled between said plates in removable and circumferentially adjustable boxes attached to the peripheries thereof, one or more type-holders upon each of said arbors, each type-holder carrying a plurality of type disposed around its peripheral face, and mechanisms whereby each arbor is automatically actuated to impart a partial rotation to the type-holders at each rotation of the type-wheel.

5. In a printing-machine, a rotary typewheel comprisinga pair of circular side plates spaced apart upon a central shaft, a plurality of arbors journaled between said plates and arranged in pairs or sets in circumferentiallyadjustable boxes attached to the peripheries of said plates, a type-holder upon each of said arbors, each type-holder carrying a plurality of type disposed around its peripheral face, like type being displayed upon the members of each pair or set of type-holders, and mechanisms whereby each arbor is automatically actuated to impart a partial rotation to the type-holders at each rotation of the typewheel.

6. In a type-wheel of the character described, the combination, with the revoluble arbors and type-holders, of auxiliary fixed type-holders supported upon said arbors and comprising receptacles to receive and bold type in axial alinement with said revoluble type-holders, whereby a continuously-repeated character or set of characters may be ing from said yoke, and a rod run through the eye and secured between the sides of the type-wheel as and for the purpose set forth.

8. In a type-wheel of the character described, the combination, with the revoluble arbors each carrying a plurality of revoluble type-holders, of an auxiliary fixed type-holder for and adjacent to each of said revoluble type-holders comprising a receptacle supported upon said arbors to receive and hold type in axial alinement therewith, whereby continuously-repeated characters or sets of characters may be printed at one and thesame time and in the same lines of type with consecutively-changin g characters or figures, and means for throwing said auxiliary type-holders out of adjustment.

9. In a printing-machine, the combination,

with a plurality of revoluble arbors and type-- holders rotatingin an annular path tangent to an impression-surface and presenting thereto consecutively-changing characters or figures, of auxiliary typeholders positioned beside and in axial alinement with said revoluble type-holders upon said arbors wherein are presented repetitive characters or figures, whereby a series of slips or checks as printed upon a running web of paper maybe consecutively numbered or marked and at one and the same time have impressed thereon in the same line of type distinguishing characters or marks denoting a department or clerk, or both.

In testimony whereof I have affixed mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM T. BAILEY. Witnesses:

EDITH L. MILLER, lvLE. VERBECK.

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