Abstract: A lateral perforation vertical registration device for an offset press in which the position of lateral perforations formed on printing sheets can be accurately set without the need for running a number of test sheets. A lateral perforating position reading plate is provided made of a transparent material and having both lateral and vertical scales. A printing sheet is placed on the perforating position reading plate prior to printing to determine the position of lateral perforating. A vertical scale provided on the outer peripheral surface of a numbering device mounting cylinder is then adjusted relative to a fixed pointer to correspond to the value read on the reading plate.

Abstract: In a rotary printing press with a blanket cylinder (2) and an impression cylinder (3), the blanket is removed and replaced by a base sheet (5). On this base sheet (5) are arranged strips (6). The arrangement of the strips (6) corresponds to the perforation, stamping or creasing to be produced in the paper or cardboard passing through the rotary printing press. On the impression cylinder (3) is arranged a smooth protective sheet (7). Both sheets (5) and (7) can be used several times and can be installed or removed rapidly by means present on the machine.

Abstract: A method of sequentially advancing, cutting and sorting forms attached together serially in two single-path form-webs in which the forms carry a code to identify forms to be assembled together by sorting, comprises the following consecutive steps: introducing the two webs in a superposed state and with an at least partial lateral overlap to a cutting table such that a perforated margin on each web is situated along opposite external edges when viewing the two superposed webs together; engaging each web solely at the outer perforated margin by a tractor device on the cutting table and advancing each web on the cutting table by a perforated margin solely along one longitudinal web edge; transversely severing the forms from the web by a transverse cutter of the cutting table; and sorting and assembling the forms as a function of the code thereon.

Abstract: A corrugated paper arrangement for manufacturing printed corrugated paper cuts, in which a corrugated paper machine has an integrated rotary printing machine with several printing stations, and at least one longitudinal cutter and at least one transverse cutter. The printing stations are integrated to serve for printing a paper web with laterally adjacent areas of different width and length, which are individually or in groups connectable with the drive of the arrangement. The printing stations carry for each area, printing forms mounted on an endless exchangeable carrier band of different lengths. Several longitudinal cutters and transverse cutters or punching presses are provided for the different area lengths.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming labels from paper that has a label forming layer and a transfer carbon layer. The label layer has marks thereon having a known relationship to the intended edges of the label. A photoelectric detector activates a label cutting mechanism in response to the marks. The apparatus further includes a winding means for collecting the transfer carbon paper as well as paper trimming subsystems for facilitating the separation of the label layer from the transfer carbon layer.

Abstract: An improved printing press. The printing press forms transverse lines of weakening at spaced intervals along a continuous strip of paper after the paper has been imprinted with a repeating business format. The press then creases the strip of paper along the lines of weakening formed therein.

Abstract: A printing machine for applying marks at specified locations on a moving web. The machine has specific utility in check or document signing applications where a number of forms are successively signed by a signature stamp. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention the machine has one motor for driving a web of paper to a print station and a second motor for activating a stamp by rotating the stamp into contact with the web. The motors are individually energizable under control of a programmable controller. By coordinating the times and duration of motor energization the spacing between successive marks can be varied over a wide range of values. The flexibility in print spacing allows the printing machine to be used in conjunction with the processing stations such as word processing and the like.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for setting the positioning between a first rotating member and a second fixed or rotating member in a rotary machine comprises controlled thermal elements positioned on the frame supporting the members and/or on the rotating member(s) itself to counteract the effects of centrifugal force on the rotating member(s) to thereby approximately maintain the setting between the members. In one embodiment, the temperature of the frame controlled by the thermal elements may be maintained in proportion to the speed of rotation of the rotary member(s) to maintain the setting of the rotary machine throughout its operating speed range. In another embodiment, the initial setting between the first and second members may be precisely set by the controlled thermal elements at or near the setting representing the minimum useful loading, and due to the effect of centrifugal force be allowed to diminish to within the range of useful operating pressure or clearance.

Abstract: Apparatus for makeready of a business forms press having an unwind apparatus (12) for supporting a rolled web (20) of material and having a plurality of rotatable members in spaced alignment defining a path for the web and arranged to perform operations on said web such as printing (22, 23), perforating (45), numbering (35), punching (40, 42) or slitting, wherein the members are rotated in synchronism and are adjustable laterally and/or circumferentially with respect to the web path, is disclosed as comprising markings (90) and scales (110) establishing a reference position in the unwind apparatus for the rolled web and further devices (125, 230, 250, 270, 297, 327) establishing separate side reference positions for each of said rotatable members which has a lateral adjustment with respect to the unwind reference position, and further markings and scales (128, 222, 247, 272, 298, 308) establishing a circumferential reference position for each of said rotatable members with respect to each other.

Abstract: The printed ribbons in a high speed printing press are, while the press is operating at walk speed, directed onto a diverting conveyor prior to the forming board of the folder for the press, so that they do not pass through subsequent equipment which does not adequately handle the ribbons at walk speed. The diverting conveyor transports the ribbons away from the press and discharges them into a trash container, or at least allows them to accumulate where they will not interfere with the operation of the press or with pressmen working in the vicinity of the folder. By reason of the diverting conveyor, no pressman is needed to roll up the ribbons when the press operates at walk speed.

Abstract: A printing system for printing characters in various fonts and formats onto webs of sheet stock of various sizes includes apparatus for cutting the web into various lengths to accommodate various formats as well as for providing different lengths of tags which are interposed between batches of tags to permit easy separation of the batches. A stacker is also provided which selectively stacks the tags in a shingle fashion or into piles. Circuitry is provided to detect jams in the system and to assure that the proper size web corresponding to the selected format is used. Also, the system is provided with circuitry for adjusting the line print position to compensate for positioning errors caused by mechanical tolerances in the printers.

Abstract: A numbering device for use in an offset printing machine includes a numbering-impression cylinder which is swingably disposed beside a transfer drum in order to perform a numbering operation simultaneous with an ordinary printing operation and to concurrently perform vertical and/or lateral perforation operations. The offset printing machine comprises a transfer drum positioned beside a main impression cylinder which confronts a blanket cylinder to perform ordinary printing operation; a numbering-impression cylinder; a numbering box supporting cylinder positioned beside the numbering impression cylinder so as to form numbers on a printed sheet, an ink supply in contact with the numbering box supporting cylinder; a perforating device positioned in confrontation with the numbering impression cylinder to provide vertical or longitudinal perforations in the printed sheet; and a synchronous mechanism connected between the cylinders in order to cooperate with a numbering box advancing device.

Abstract: A printing press including a printing section delivering printed sheets onto a conveying section at a receiving station, the conveying section incorporating a horizontally movable conveyor provided with grippers for grasping printed sheets discharged from the receiving station and moving them away. A rotary shaft is disposed transversely of and above the conveyor, onto which is provided a tear-line tracer assembly which projects radially and lengthwise of the shaft. This assembly includes a tracer blade having an elongated serrated straight cutting edge extending parallel to the axis of rotation of the shaft and being adapted to produce tear-lines when applied over and across the printed sheets when the latter are moved by the conveyor. A rotary support roll is provided beneath the conveyor and over the top of which printed sheets bear as they are moved by the conveyor.

Abstract: A method of forming a stack of unexpanded honeycomb core sheets from a continous web of which alternate sheets in the stack have linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one side spaced equally between similar adhesive lines on the others of the sheets when evenly stacked, such method including applying linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one face of the web, cutting the web parallel to the adhesive lines with one cut being made along the linear center of a line of adhesive and the next cut being made along the linear center of the space between the adhesive lines, and then stacking the cut sheets in even edge alignment resulting in the lines of adhesive being linearly staggered on one sheet with respect to those on the adjacent sheet.

Abstract: A cutter blade receiving member having a slit therein for cooperating with the cutter device in a printer. The cutter blade receiving member is reduced in thickness in a portion above the slit so as to form a step on the side of the receiving member where the cutter blade of the cutter device enters the slit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for makeready of a web press having an unwind apparatus for supporting a rolled web of material and having a plurality of rotatable members in spaced alignment defining a path for the web and arranged to perform operations on said web such as printing, perforating, numbering, punching or slitting, wherein the members are rotated in synchronism and are adjustable laterally and/or circumferentially with respect to the web path, is disclosed as comprising markings and scales establishing a reference position in the unwind apparatus for the rolled web and establishing separate side reference positions for each of said rotatable members which has a lateral adjustment with respect to the unwind reference position, and further markings and scales establishing a circumferential reference position for each of said rotatable members with respect to each other.

Abstract: In an apparatus such as a printing press or collator for performing operations such as printing, perforating, punching, die cutting, and the like on a continuous paper web, a registration unit for changing the phase of a first shaft relative to a second shaft where said shafts are rotatably mounted between parallel frame members of the apparatus, the registration unit having a sleeve rotatably mounted about the second shaft with a concentric output gear mounted thereto and rotatable therewith. An output drive gear is mounted to the sleeve and concentric with the output gear for rotation therewith, said output gear providing the output drive for rotatably driving said first shaft.

Abstract: There is disclosed a printing, feeding and severing method and apparatus for carrying out the method. The apparatus includes a print head assembly and a platen assembly movable relatively toward and away from each other into and out of printing cooperation, mechanism for inking the print head assembly, mechanism for feeding a web of record members to between the print head assembly and the platen assembly, the web being in roll form and there being means to assist the gradual unwinding of the roll with gradual paying out of web material from the roll to the feeding mechanism, an idler contacting the web and disposed at a slight angle to the direction of feed of the web to cause the web to follow a feed edge, record severing means disposed downstream of the print head assembly and the platen assembly, and a modular support assembly of a print head of the print head assembly.

Abstract: This ticket making machine is capable of issuing a single ticket without waste of ticket stock. A web of ticket stock having a magnetic stripe record surface is arranged to be advanced around a rotating carrier having a magnetic recording unit and one ticket (web) parting member arranged internally threof. The web is passed between the rotating carrier and a complementary ticket (web) parting member. The peripheral speed of the rotating carrier is very much greater than the speed of the advancing web, whereby the information is magnetically recorded in close to conventional manner. The one parting member is a double-ended anvil arranged to be rotated into and out of position for parting the web in cooperation with a blade forming the complementary parting member. A camming surface arrangement in the same frame structure as the carrier and web are mounted and a cam follower coupled to the anvil toggles the latter on demand for exerting relatively light force for engaging the two in parting the web.

Abstract: An improved burster for separating continuous business forms stationery assemblies into individual form lengths of the type including an infeed mechanism for driving the continuous assembly into a burster which, in turn, separates the assembly into individual form lengths which are placed on a conveyor to be conveyed to a stacking tray. The burster includes a powered mechanism whereby the burster, the conveyor, and a portion of the stacking mechanism may be simultaneously adjusted for various form lengths. Also incorporated is an automatic electrical system responsive to such adjustment for automatically adjusting the conveying rate of the conveyor to insure proper shingling of the individual form lengths thereon. The burster is in a housing having a movable cover whereby access to the various mechanisms may be obtained. A control system provides for jogging of the mechanisms with the cover open that precludes continuous operation for safety purposes.

Abstract: A combined printer and cutter for simultaneously cutting and printing on a record media such as a paper tape for a customer receipt, including a stationary knife blade and a rotary knife blade which, upon rotation, severs the tape therebetween. Rocker arms are provided for rotating the rotary knife through its cutting operation and to drive the print head from a position against an ink source to a position against the record media simultaneously performing the cutting operation so as to print a trademark or other indicia on the record media concurrently therewith. The stationary knife is itself the printing platen and the rocker arms are mounted on the rotary knife so that all forces involved in oscillating the rotary knife and rotating the print head are taken by this relatively large shaft.

Abstract: In the method herein as the items, such as labels for a particular product, are being printed on a continuous web, there is simultaneously printed in association with each item a control element constituted of an ink different from the ink or inks employed in printing the item indicia and having an unapparent, but detectable physical characteristic peculiar to such different ink. Illustrative inks employed for this purpose are visible and invisible luminescent inks.