A Short History of the Printing Press and of the Improvements in Printing Machinery from the ... by Robert]

Author:Robert] [Hoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: R. Hoe
Published: 1902-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

FIRST HOE WEB PRESS

nate angles, finally delivering them on travelling belts by a small flier. The first of these folding machines were put upon the presses made for the Philadelphia "Times" and operated in the Centennial Exhibition, in 1876.

These folders, however, were only the commencement of a long series of experiments undertaken by the makers in the development of still faster printing and folding mechanisms, and from this time forward the progress made has been phenomenal. With great ingenuity, added to long experience, and by the acquisition and adaptation of every device which should aid them in their efforts, Hoe & Co. succeeded in providing machines of unrivalled designs, efficiency and speed.

About 1876 Messrs. Anthony & Taylor of England (the former one of the owners of a newspaper in Hereford) took out patents for devices by which the webs of paper could be turned over after printing on one side and the opposite or reversed side presented to the printing cylinder. Mr. Hoe, who was in England at the time, appreciating the possible use and development of these patents, became possessed of them for England and the United States.

E. L. Ford, engaged in the publication of a newspaper in New York, patented the uniting of the product of two or more printing mechanisms and thus producing (in restricted form) a multiple number of pages at one time. He was unable, however, to develop his plans to any practical result; but deserves the credit of being the first to patent, if not to conceive, the idea of the association of printed sheets for this purpose.

In the various experiments of Hoe & Co. bearing upon the manipulation of webs of paper some of their devices appeared to encroach upon patents secured by Luther C. Crowell, inventor, of Boston, who had made an ingenious machine for forming paper bags. These patents were immediately secured by purchase and the experimental work proceeded with the view of adapting some of them to

DOUBLE SUPPLEMENT PRESS

the requirements of the printing press. After many efforts, and the failure and destruction of several machines which had been constructed at great expense, the Hoe " Double Supplement *' machine was produced, the first one being purchased by James Gordon Bennett of the New York " Herald ** and put to work in his office. The result of these efforts has been, for a third time, a complete revolution of the methods of fast newspaper printing. The most remarkable features of this machine are: Its extreme simplicity, considering the varied work it performs, and its great speed, accuracy and efficiency. It turns out either four, six, eight, ten or twelve page papers at 24,000 per hour, and sixteen page papers at 12,000 per hour ; the odd pages being in every case accurately inserted and pasted in, and the papers cut at top and delivered folded. This machine is constructed in two parts, the cylinders in one portion being twice the length of those in the other; the short cylinders being used for the supplements of the paper when it is desired to print more than eight pages.

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