US1503375A - Process of printing consecutive numbers - Google Patents

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July 29. 1924. 1,503,375`- O. W, PENDERGAST PROCESS 0F PRINTING coNsEcU'iIvz NUMBER Filed Aug. 17', 192x 3 sheets-sheet l (-j DvErfnnWPenderga July 29'. 1924. 1,503,375

O. W. PENDERGAST PROCESS OF PRINTING CONSCUTIVE NUMBERS v Filed Aug. 17,'1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 f1/1F 1 1 OO ll. OO O O 1l. Om m0 111 V m f 7 m w July 29, 1924.

O.v W. PENDERGAST PROCESS OF PRINTING CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Aug. 17 i921 printing forms.

Patented July 29, i924. 'i

1,503,375 oFFIfCEf' OVERTON W', PENDERGAST, 0F TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.

PROCESS OF PRINTING CONSECU'lll-llr NUMBERS'.

Application filed August 17, 1921. Serial No. 493,036.

To all whom t may concern: Y

Bt it known that I, OVERTON W.V PENDER- GAST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terre I-laute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Printing Consecutive Numbers, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to the art of printing, and more particularly to a novel method of printing a plurality of consecutive numbers for use for any purpose, such as shipping tags, shop tags, job tags, tabs, slips or printed forms of any kind. i

The automatic machines now on the) market for printingv numbers consecutively, cannot print in relatively large type owing to the mechanical construction thereof, and

the cost. of printing numbers consecutively on'the ordinary type of printing press has been prohibitive, owing to the time and labor involved in setting up the different It is therefore ay primeV object of the invention to provide a novelinethod of printingnumbers consecutively of any size, or on (ordinary types *ofA press in an expeditious and economical manner, so that the cards, tags,

etc., being printed can be placed upon the market Vat reasonable cost, thereby permitting the use thereof by the trade. Y

` Afurther object of the invention` is the provision of a'novel means of printing consecutive numbers on tags or the like, consisting of taking a sheet containing a number of cards or tags to be printed, say one hundred, and setting a form in the press for "printing the cards with numbers consecutively, starting with 00 and ending with 99, adjacent the inner ends of the cards, leaving spaces forother digits `to be printed in front of the numbers previously printed, the sheets lbeing then adapted to be run through the press again to allow the desired digits to be stamped in front of the numbers printed.

A further object of the Vinvention is the provision of a novel'method of handling the sheets printed with the numerals running from zero to 999 in order to permit cards having relatively high numbers to be economically, expeditiously printedthereon.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a novel meansfor handling the sheets of cards tabs 4after being printed, and for cutting the sheets in order to facilitate the handling thereof, without necessitatingthe `individual sorting of eachzcard Aor tab to place the cards in their correctv order.

`With these and other objects in view,the invention consists in the novelconstruction,

arrangement and formation of parts, as will be hereinafter more specifically described,

claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,.forminga part ofthis specification, in which drawings: i y

Figure lis a plan viewrof one of the basic stock cards or sheets having the numerals printed on the tabs or tags contained in the sheet consecutively starting with 00. and ending with 99. Y

Figure 2 is a diagrammatic view ofv a series of the cards or sheets, showing the steps by whicha series ,of stock cards can Abe made, having the numerals thereon running upto 9799. Y y

FigureA 3 is a diagrammatic view ofv a series of the cards, showing a method'pursued when the stockV cards'areto be printed with consecutive numerals running into the thousandsV K VFigure l is a detail view, showing a furtherstep in the method of arranging one of the piles kof the stock cards, when the same Yare to be printed with numerals running up into the thousands.

Figure 5 is a diagrammatic View showing one pack or series of the cards printed with the digit l in front of the numerals first printed, and formingva series of cards Ywith the numerals starting with' 100() and ending with 1999.

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nate corresponding parts, the letter A. rindicates a basic stocksheet or card used in my method. This sheet is clearly shown in Figure l of the drawings, and is arranged to containa series of 100 cards or tabs. It is preferable that the sheets be arranged Vto contain 100 of the cards or tabs, if the printing press-is large enough to accommodate a sheet of this size, and if the press'is not of llO lines and by a series of perforated or one time.

otherwise formed longitudinal lines 6, which divide the sheets into the cards or tabs 7. These sheets A can be run through an ordinary perforating machine, in order to divide the "sheet into cards or it could be run through the press with press perforating l'rows set in such a manner as to permit the tags to be readily separated from one another when the sheets will be cut into strips Aas-shoWn in Figure 6 of the drawings, and which will be hereinafter more fully described. A form is then set up in the press, so as to print a number in each of the cards 7, starting with 00 and ending with r99, as clearly is shown in Figure l of the drawings. These numbers are designated by the nu meral 8. It can be seen that these numbers are so disposed that other digits can be placed in front thereof so as to malte cards of` higher denominations, when desirable. Thus these numbers S are arranged relatively'near the inner right hand sides of the cards. rlhe numerals can be printed consecutively in transverse columns as shown inA Figure l of the drawings, or consecutively in longitudinal rows. card or sheet thus formed. represents a stock sheet, and num` be'rofthese sheets are adapted te be carried o'n-.hand by the printer, and it is evident that a number of these sheets, so printed, can be run off at one time. Itis evident that if the press is not large enough to print a sheet containing, a hundred tags or tabs 7, the same can be eut in half as stated, and numerals printed thereon starting with 0,0 and ending with 49, and numerals printed on the other half starting with 50 and ending with 99. If the press is not large enough to accommodate half sheets, a. sheet can be cut in fifths, one fth starting with O0 and ending` with 19, vthe other 2O to 39; the other 40 to 59; the other (SO to 7 9; the other 8O to 99.

It is now desirable that these basic stock sheets be so arranged that a'series of the same can be formed and carried on hand` so that a number of the series can be printed The series are to contain sets of tenreards each, each card4 containing coin secutive numerals ruiming from OO to 99 in the rst set; from 100 to 199 in the second setde'signated by B in Figure 2 of the drawings; the third set designated by the letter C'runnilng from 200 to 299; the fourth set designated by the letter D running from 300 to 399; the fth set designated by the letter E ruiming from 4-00 to 499; the sixth Set designated by the'letterF ruiming from 50() to 599; the seventh set designated by the letter Gr running from 600 to 699; the 8th set designated by the letter H running from 700 to 799, the 9th set designated by the letter I running from 80() to 899; and the tenth set designated by the letter J running from 900 to 999. A series of cards thus formed or numbered represent a series of stock cards, which would be held in stock at all times by a printer and printed on various shades and grades of paper in various manners so as to suit the individual f desires of the different persons and diiferentbusinesses. t is to be seen that the basic Vstock card designated by the letter A is made'into the series B by having the press set with the digit l, in order to printtlie digit l infront of the numerals designated by the numeral 8. rllhis is clearly shown by the numeral V9 in the series B. To form the series'C, the numeral 2 is set in a form of the press and a basic stock card A run through the press, in order that the digit 2r be printed in front of the numerals 8 as designated by the numeral 10. The series D is printed, by setting a form in the press, with thedigit- 3 so as to print the digit 3 as at 11in front. of each of the numerals 8 of the basic stoel;` cards. This is continued in each of the sets E, F, G, ri, and J using a digit of higherdenomination each time, in order to make the progressive series of cards.

YV ith suclr a series of stock cards on hand, when a printer receives an order, say for a series of cards ruiming into the thousands, he can easily fir: other digits in front of the numerals of a series of cards A, B, C, D, E,

F, Gr, H, I, and J, in order'to forma series of cards with the numerals of higher denomination. It is desirable that the cards be eut into strips designated by the letter L in Figure 6 of the drawings, and these strips can be readily bound into a book` if so desired, and each ef the cards 7 are, as stated, divided by a row of perforations 6 and can be readily torn apart. lf the cards are formed in strips L, it will be seen that one hundred different lot strips will be made,

one lot containing cards numbered O to 9;

another l0 to 19, and so on upto v99() to 999. By laying one strip off of each lot of the one hundred lots, a supply ofstrips will be had on hand, containing consecutive nun1- bers O0 to 999.

if the tags or cards being produced, are to. be in duplicate or in triplicate numbers on each tag or card, all it is necessaryto: do is to set two or three rows of the same numbers.y one under the other, as designated byV the numerals 2O and 25 in Figure 7 of the drawings, one under the other or one after the other, so that the duplicate or triplicate numbers will appear in the desired place on each tag or card.

Any other printing desired, can of couise It also permits the same to be printed with other figures in front ofthe previously printed gures, with but one-tenth of the press work, which would be required if each numbers were on a separate piece, and it vavoids the endless task of gathering up vthe numbers, but which is necessary if each tag or slipr was separate from one another. As stated, this forms an importantY feature of the invention. n Y

If an order is received for anumber of cards or tabs printed consecutively, up to 10,000 the Jfollowing method can be advantageously pursued. This method is shown in Figures 3 to 5 of the drawings and is along the same lines as the method previously described, but for clearness the steps from start-to nish will be gone over.

First, o ne hundred sheets of stock paper or card board large enough to contain ofY the tags or tabs printed, isi-out. Second, these sheets have printed thereon in numerical rotation numbers starting with 00 and ending with 99 as indicated by the numeral 27. Thus it can be seen that 100 of the stock sheets A will be formed. These numbers 27 should appear one under the other in columns of the numbers to form the tabs Vor tags, as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings. Third the hundred basic sheets thus printed, are divided into ten equal groups, of ten sheets each. Fourth, the digit 0 is printed in front of the number on each card or tab of one group of the -ten sheets as at 30.

Fifth, the digit kl is printed in front of the number' on each card or tab of the second group of ten 'sheets as at 35. This is continued printing 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively, in front of each number on the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth andtenth groups respectively. These groups are designated respectively by the letters M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V in Figure 3 of the drawings, and these correspond to the series of stock cards shown in Figure 2 of the drawings. Fifth, by gathering one sheet from each of these groups in proper rotation, a set of ten sheets will be had, containing one thousand cards or tags numbered from 000 to 999. This stack is laid aside, and another gathered like it, and this continued until a series of sets is thus formed. These sets are clearly shown in Figure 4 of the drawings, as designated by the letter W. Y f

j; digit 1 is printed in front of each num- Vformed, as clearly shown in Figure 5.

ber on each sheet of one set asiat 40, and ten sheets or a set containing 1000 tags or 'cards numbering from 1000 to 1999 wo-uld be A second set is then taken, and the digit 2 is placed in Vfrontof eachnumber, forming a second group of ten sheets containing 1000 tags or forms, numbering from`2000 to 2999. This performance-is repeated, printing 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively, in front of each number of each stack gathered, and eventually sheets containing 10000 cards or tags numbered from 0000 to 9,999 will be formed.

The one hundred sheets are then laid in one stack in proper rotation, that is the sheet 1i starting with the 000 on the top and continu- 9,999 on the bottom. These sheets are then cut into strips and put together in proper rotation, so that the strips can be arranged in convenient form andV in numerical order. These strips, as heretobefore stated, `gcan then be bound into tabs or books as may be desired. Y

I From the foregoing description, it can be seen that a novel method has been provided, for permitting cards to be centered, in an economical and expeditious manner, with consecutive numbers of any size type on an ordinary printing press.

Changes in details `may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of this invention; but,

I claim:

1.. Those steps in the method of printing numerals in succession on an ordinary printing press, consisting of taking a plurality of sheets'containing a plurality of forms,`print ing consecutive digits in units on the forms, taking different groups of the sheets and each group of sheets before the digits previously formed, whereby numerals on the sheets of consecutive valuation, starting from units and terminating in thousands willbe formed.

2. Those steps in the method of printing Ynumerals in succession on an ordinary printing press consisting of taking groups of n sheetscontainin'g a plurality of formsV having numerals printed thereon in consecutive rotation adjacent to the right hand portion thereof, said numerals on the groups or sheets starting with units and terminating at the thousands, preiiXing the digits 1 in front of one group of the sheets, the digits 2 in front of the second group of the sheets, and continuously prefixing a digit of next successive valuation in front of each successive group or sheet to form numerals of consecutive valuation extending into the thousands.

3. Those steps in the method of printing numerals in succession on an ordinary printprefiXing digits of consecutive valuations on Y gathering u plurality of series of the sheets .iiitofgroups arranging each group so lthat the numeals stai-. with O00 n one sheet and terminate with 999 on the last Sheet, then preiXing digits Starting With l and increasing in Valuation up to and including A9 in front l5 of eacll'successive group` of sheets.

QVERTON W. vimNDERGAST.

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