US11022A - Printing- - Google Patents

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PRINTING- No. 11,022. Patented June 6, 1354.

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PRINTING- Patented. June 6, 1854.

UNITED sTATns i PATENT m;

EDWARD D Y, on NEW YORK,

MACHINE T0 PRINT SUBSCRIBERS NAMES, 860., on ivnwsrarnns. p

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,022, dated .June G, 1854.

me November 23, 1853; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full description of the same.

Mr. Moesers arrangement is. a long com-f posing trough, having one name only in a row, and therefore requiring twenty operations to print twenty names for one postoflice. To obviate this difficulty by increasing the width of the composing trough would make the machine to heavy to operate, as the weight of the trough would be increased so much, that it would be too heavy for one man to labor at, if the size of the composing trough were made equal to the setting up of 5,000 names, (the capacity of my machine) as the weight of the trough has to be moved horizontally and with rapidity, at the same time the impression of the type is taken. My invention is to overcome this objection, and to do so I make a composing cylinder of suitable diameter and length to admit of setting up 5,000 names. In the face of the cylinder I cut grooves into which the type are set, and by means of a binding screw td each row of type I hold them firmly in the groove. This cylinder is arranged on an axis and supported in boxes in the end parts of the machine. To rotate the cylinder I use a ratchet wheel on the end of the axes of the cylinder, and by means of a pawl attached to a lever for operating the platen, or acting independent of the platen, I move the cylinder forward one row of type at each impression. By this improvement I save great space in shop room as the type cylinder to contain 5,000 names will only be three feet in diameter by four feet long, while a composing trough to contain the same number of names would have to be nine feet long by four feet wide. Second, I save great labor as my composing cylinder, being nicely balanced on its axis, would rotate with but a few pounds of power expended, while the composing trough of iron nine feet long, by four feet wide would make a weight of several hundred pounds to be moved in a horizontal position,

' which of course shows theutter want of practicability of the machine to print .the subscription lists of such papers as the N. Y. Herald, Tribune, etc., having from 20,000 to 100,000 papers to mail every week and usually allowing but two to three days in 69 the o ifices now to do it by writing them; But to describe my invention more particularly I. will refer. to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this schedule the same letters of reference whereverthey occurreferring to the same parts.

Figure 1, is a. front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2, is an end elevation of the machine. Fig. 3 is a plan elevation of the machine. Fig. 4, is a cut section of the ma- 70 chine through the line m, m, Fig. 3.

Letter A, is the frame of the machine.

B, is the type cylinder, and C, is the axis of the cylinder, secured in boxes, in the end posts of the frame. This cylinder is made of metal, and when large is formed of segment plates, bolted to arms extending from the axis. In the face of the cylinder is cut a series of grooves D, D &c. of suitable size and depth to admit the type beingset in them. These type are held in their places by binding screws E, E &c. passing through the end of the cylinder, and against the side of the type.

Letter F, is a ratchet wheel secured on the end of the cylinder axis, and G, is a lever, working loosely on the cylinder axis and having a pawl H, attached to it for working the ratchet wheel, for the purpose of rotating the type cylinder.

Letters I, I, are two stops arranged in arms J, J projecting from the frame of the machine, for the purpose of regulating the distance through which the face of the type wheel moves at each impression. This arrangement of moving the type wheel may be dispensed with, and by a lever and pawl arrangement, worked by the lever K, at the same time it works the platen L, the type cylinder can be moved forward the required distance, while the platen is being drawn back after taking the impression.

Letters M, M, are guideways in which the platen works. I

Letter N, is the fulcrum towhich the lever K, is attached.

P, is a brace across the head of the machine through which is a stud R, attached to the plateno-n the head of this stud is a spiral spring S, the object of, which is to react the platen after the impression has been taken. Letter T, is a table, on which the papers are arranged for printing.

The operation of the machine is first, all the names for one post office are set u in one groove, and the name of the posto dice. The papers are then folded of proper size exposing a part of the heading'margin, and placed on the table, so that the margin lapsi over the face of the type in the cylinderg has been taken the papers are rolled up inl the Wrapper and pasted ready for the postofiioe. I 7

Having now described my invention I will state What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The type cylinder having a series of type grooves cut in its periphery and parallel to its axis, and binding screws in the cap or .end plate of the cylinder for adjusting the type in the cylinder grooves in combination with the table, platen and ratchet Wheel for holding the paper, and printing and rotating the cylinders as an improvement on Henry Moesers invention for like purposes, and whereby all the names of a subscription list for one post oflice, and the address ofthe post office, may be printed at one operation.

EDWARD PARSONS DAY. Witnesses present:

Lnwrs T. VOIGT,

CHARLES L. BARRITT.

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