Abstract: A multiple product folder in a high speed rotary web printing machine for the production of signatures with various folds has a plurality of various operating cylinders, such as a pair of web cutting cylinders, a signature collecting cylinder, signature transfer and folding cylinders for one transversal and for a second parallel fold and signature delivering cylinders, wherein certain cylinders are driven by gear trains for accomplishing more than one slow-down speed, which gear trains have shiftable couplings for changing the speed of the transfer cylinders from a full speed to a slow-down speed according to the requirements of forwarding and delivering of certain signatures, whereas a shifting from a slow-down to a full speed can be performed for a certain folding action and the slow-down delivery yet can be maintained.

Abstract: A machine for performing certain operations in the production of endless business forms has a plurality of cross-perforating knife blades for perforating the endless paper webs at predetermined increments, whereby the perforating knife blades are mounted in slots in the surface of rotating cylindrical bodies and are cutting through the paper webs with their spaced apart perforating knife edges against a rotating "anvil" cylinder which has a hardened, smooth surface. The cyclic impacts of the perforating blades on the anvil cylinder can become resonant with critical frequencies of the anvil cylinder at certain speeds of the latter and with a certain number of inserted perforating blades causing the destruction of the cutting edges of the former, and therefore the structure of the anvil must be such that no resonances will occur between the cyclic impacts of multiple perforating blades at high speed production operations of the machine.

Abstract: A variable stroke positive displacement liquid metering pump unit having a rotatable plunger which is moveable in an axial direction within a cylindrical pump casing. The plunger has a flat portion which is adapted to overlie the inlet and outlet ports during different degrees of rotation. A variable stroke drive means is provided to vary the distance the plunger moves outwardly of the casing in a liquid infeed direction to vary the amount of liquid metered.A plurality of pump units are provided in a line across a printing couple with a spur gear mounted on each plunger of each unit to impart rotary motion to the plunger and with adjacent spur gears of adjacent units being connected in a gear train to a common drive means. A rotatable cam shaft common to all pump units is connected to the common drive means and cam rises on the shaft engage a portion of each of the variable drive means to provide axial movement of the plunger in the pump casing.

Abstract: A web folder apparatus for folding a running web at fixed intervals into zig-zag folds along fold lines which traverse the web. The apparatus has first and second folding cylinders adapted to rotate in opposite directions each of which has a non-rotatable gripping means spaced from and associated therewith to selectively grip a portion of the web along a fold line, each of the cylinders has vacuum means on the periphery thereof to assist in carrying the web around a portion of each cylinder to contact an associated gripping means, and at least one of the cylinders has air pressure ports in the periphery thereof which are circumferentially spaced from the vacuum means and through which air is adapted to flow radially outwardly of the cylinder to urge the web in contact with the cylinder away therefrom and to propel it in the direction of the folded web.

Abstract: The high D.C. voltage power supply device for the electrodes of an electrostatic ink mist prevention in rotary printing machines has a conventional full-wave voltage doubling circuit consisting basically of a transformer, plug-in rectifiers, plug-in capacitors and plug-in bleeder resisters. Additional circuitry mounted on an interchangeable printed circuit board comprising exclusively standard solid state switching elements such as an integrated circuit for producing an output pulse when the line voltage goes through zero voltage, which is utilized for turning the high voltage on and off via an SCR firing circuit in addition to illuminating a pilot light via a triac firing circuit. The D.C. high voltage load current is sensed across a resistor, and a resistor potentiometer is provided for setting the high voltage current turn-off trip point. A timing device is provided for re-energizing the solid state circuitry after a preset time interval.

Abstract: The high D.C. voltage power supply device for the electrodes of an electrostatic ink mist prevention system in rotary printing machines has a conventional full-wave voltage doubling circuit consisting basically of a transformer, plug-in rectifiers, plug-in capacitors and plug-in bleeder resisters. Additional circuitry mounted on an interchangeable printed circuit board comprising exclusively standard solid state switching elements such as an integrated circuit for producing an output pulse when the line voltage goes through zero voltage, which is utilized for turning the high voltage on and off via an SCR firing circuit in addition to illuminating a pilot light via a triac firing circuit. The D.C. high voltage load current is sensed across a resistor, and a resistor potentiometer is provided for setting the high voltage current turn-off trip point. A timing device is provided for re-energizing the solid state circuitry after a preset time interval.