US1142105A - Make-up device for printers. - Google Patents

Description

F. W. LAKE.

MAKE-UP nEvIcE Fon PRINTERS.

APPLICATION FILED AuGJ, 1913. ig 2,105, Patented June 8, 1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTOLITHO., WASHINGDN. D. C.

FRED W. LAKE, 0F MOLINE, ILLINOIS'.

MAKE-UP DEVICE FOR PRINTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 8, 1915.

Application filed August 7, 1913. Serial No. 783,446.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that l, FRED 1V. LAKE, a resident of Moline, in the county of Rock island and State of illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Make-Up Devices for Printers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to devices for the use of printers and more particularly for book-printing in which a number of pages are printed upon a sheet and afterward folded and trimmed. In this class of work, it is important and desirable that the type or plates for each page should be properly alined and spaced relatively to the other pages printed on the same sheet, in order that each page will be correctly printed on the pages.

The present invention designs to provide a make-up device which can be readily adjusted or set.

The invention also designs to provide an improved make-up guide, which, when once set by a competent printer', will enable a subordinate to quickly and accurately and uniformly make up all of the forms for book in strict accordance with its adjustments, so that they will all be correctly made up.

The invention further designs to provide an improved make-up device which facilitates the work and insures accurate makingup, alining and registering of the pages in a form.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan of a device-embodying the invention. F ig. v2 is a side elevation of a portion of the device Fig. 3 is a'sectlo'n on an enlarged scale. through the swivel connection between the gage-carrying bar and its guiding means. Fig. l is a detail plan, partly in section7 of the adjustable connection between the gagecarrying bar and one of the lingers.. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of F ig. et. Fig. 6 is a sectionthrough the guide-collar for the carrying-bar. Fig. 7 is a plan of the connection between the bar for spacing one row of page-forms from anotherA and the scale bar on which it is adjustably mounted. Fig. 8 is a side elevation thereof.

The make-upf device is adapted to bek mounted on an imposing stone or table which .usually comprises a stone a and a surroundmg frame a and is removable therefrom so that the device can be separated from the table when use of the make-up device is not desired. A pair of sockets 10 are secured to the frame a of the table and studs 11 rigidly secured in the ends 12 of a guide-bracket 13, i'it into said sockets and are provided with shoulders 14 adapted to rest upon the top thereof to rigidly, but removably, support the guide-bracket 13. Ends 12 also rest upon the stone a. By employing these studs and sockets, the entire make-up device will be lsecurely held against lateral movement relatively to the stone, and when the studs are lifted out of the sockets, it may be separated and lifted away from the table.

A shaft 15 extends longitudinally of bracket 13 and is secured yin ends 12 by screws 16. A bar 17 having a longitudinallyextending channel 18 in the top thereof, also extends between and is secured in the bracket-ends 12. Shaft 15 serves as a pivotal support and guide for a gage-carrying bar 19. The pivotal connection between the carrying-bar 19 and shaft 15 comprises a long collar 20 which lits around and is slidable on the shaft to permit the gagebar to be moved longitudinally of the shaft. The pivotal connection between the collar 20 and shaft 15 permits the carrying-bar to be swung about the axis of shaft 15, to lift the carrying-bar above the forms so that itcan be moved longitudinally. A shoe or block 24 is adapted to slide in the groove 18 of bar 17 and. the carrying-bar 19 extends through said block or shoe. This shoe serves to truly and accurately guide the carrying-bar and to hold it squarely with respect to the bracket 12, permitting the bar to be adjusted laterally with respect to the plates or type, and supports the bar so it will be close to but clear of the type or forms in the chase..` A swivel connection between the collar 20 and the inner end of the carrying-bar permitsthe carrying-bar to be rotated relatively-to the collar to effect reversal ofthe devices carried by the bar. That is, tonpermit the bar to be swung 180D so thatthe devices on one side of the bar may be shifted to the other side or reversed. This swivel-connection'comprises a collar 21eccured to the inner end of bar 19 by a screw 22 and ournaled in a socket 23 in collar` 20.' Collar 21 is removably held in said socket* ico by alscrewcollar Y44 on collar 20.7 Bar 19 is round at 25, to kpermit the bar to turn in collar 44. p v 'f The chase 26` is adapted 'to abut 'against the edge of bar 17 of bracket 143. When a chase with the usual number, "(16) of forms of. type or plates thereon is laid in this position, the make-up device will be operative above the forms to guide the subordinate in correctly'making-up, alining and registering them. Y

At one side,-the carrying-bar 19 is provided with four -guide-fingers 27, each of which has one ofits faces at right angles to the longitudinal straight edge of the carrying-.bar -`to 'form right 'angle square for accurately positioning a corresponding number fof plates 'or pages of type. These lingers are adjustable longitudinally of the carrying-barso that they may be accurately set according to the Isize of the forms andthe margins and trimming, to `give the correctlateral spacing or side-margins between the pages'on the sheet. After these lingers and bar 31 lon -garge l30 have been lcorrectly 'set for Ithe pages of a form, which can be carefully done by an lexperienced printer, one with less `skill may readily make-up, aline and 'register them without difficulty. Each finger 27 lis ladjlista-bly connected to bar 19 by 'a cros'shead V28 which is rigid with the yfinger and has arib 29 ladapted to t into f the narrow portion of the T-shaped slot 30 formed in 'one -edge 'of the bar 19. These fingers are adapted tobe locked or clamped in desired position on the bar by screws 31 having heads -32 formed to fit and slide in the inner or enlarged portion of the T-'slot 30, 'the screws extending through head28 and being :provided withnuts 33 by which the 'headsv28 may be clamped to the carrying-bar 19, 'sothat the fingers kv'27 and the edge of bar 19 will form correct rightv angles.

yadjusting these-lingers to correspond to the 7correct places for spacing for the pages, the carrying-bar, when placed overl the forms, will correctly indicate 'the position foreach form in -a row of pages. The forms, when made up according `to 'said angles, will leave the 'desired margin for trimming and binding, yand by following the location and angle indicated-by the carrying-bar and fingers, great accuracy and uniformity -in mak- Ving-up and aliningfthepages of va form will be attained. f A graduated iscale'BO is 'secured to the edge Aof the l"carrying-bar 19 Aopposite to -that from which lingers 27 extend, and astrai'ghtr edge or bar 3.1f is slidably mountedV on the scale, so vthat it :may be adjusted to and from the--carryingba'r 19'. Bar 31" serves as a gage lfor indicating the proper topf and bottom `sp'aci'-ng between the topsrof pages,

or spacing between 'one-row of pagesjand the next, and lso that the pages will be properly spaced apart in length. Each bar 31 is adjustably secured to the scale bar 30 by a screw 38 which is adapted to clamp said bars together and against relative movement.

YThe operation of the improved device will be as follows: chase witha number of page-forms therein is placed against the side of bar 17 of bracket 13, so that it will be in definite relation to the bracket 13.V The fingers 27 will be set in properly spaced relation on the carrying-bar 19 to correspond to the correct side-spacing between the pages, and the gage-bar 81 will be set at a distance from the edge of bar 19 between the ends of said pagesto the correct distance between corresponding ends of two adjacent rows of pages and to leave the correct marginal spaces. The operator can slide the carrying-bar longitudinally, as a result ofthe sliding vconnection between lthe collar 2O and shaft 15 and the sliding-connection between block 24 'and the grooved bar 17, until the carrying-bar is correctly located for one row of forms or pages. The fingers on bar -19 and its contiguous straight edge willconstitute rightangle squaresfor guiding the operator in making-up, alining and registering the forms in one row.. Nhen the fingers have been once adjusted to give the correct sidespacing between the pages, the operatorV need only 'follow the indications of the right-angle squares formed by 'the fingers andthe carrying-bar 19, and indoingthis, all the page-forms fwill be accurately `aline/d and will. be correctly spaced from one another. l/V hen one side of a-row of pages of form has been thus made up, bar 1-9 will be lifted upwardly to withdraw shoe or block 24 fronigroove 18 to "clear the forms, and the .carrying-bar can then bev turned in its swivel connection with the sliding collar Y20, to bring-the fingers upon the opposite side of Vthe bar and to bring the spacing-bar 31 into registry with the edges of a row of plates vwhich have `been made-up. By bringing the gage-bar into iegistrywith the Jedges of the pages'which have been made up, the right angle squares formed by the fingers 27 and bar 19V will be correctly spaced relalength of the pageslor'the desired top and bottom margins. This operation may becontinued until all of theplates or pages in a chase have been made up.

Vtively "to the ends of the row of made-up forms 'to insure the proper 'spacing forthe forms. The work of making-up, alining and registering forms is greatly facilitated and great accuracy is attained, particularly by those not so well skilled in the art.'

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appendedk claims without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, adapted to be secured to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally mounted on the guide, and fingers forming rigid right-angle squares with the edge of the bar and extending horizontally therefrom, and adjustable longitudinally thereon to indicate the correct position of a row of pages.

2. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, means for removably securing the guide to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally mounted on the guide, and fingers adjustable longitudinally along the whole length of the bar to indicate the position of a row of pages.

3. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket adapted to be secured to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a bar slidably mounted on the shaft, means between the bar and the bracket for guiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and fingers on the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages.

4f. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket, means for securing it to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a bar slidably and pivotally mounted on the shaft, means between the bar and the bracket for guiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and ngers on the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages.

5. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket adapted to be secured to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a bar slidably mounted on the shaft, means between the bar and the bracket for guiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and ingers extending horizontally from said bar and adjustable thereon for indicating the position of a row of pages.

6. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar slidably mounted on the guide, adjustable fingers extending horizontally from one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, means for securing said-fingers in adjusted position, and a connection for the bar which permits the fingers to be reversed from one side tothe other. Y

7. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar s lidably and pivotally connected to the guide, adjustable fingers extending horizontally from one side of the bar, means for securing said lingers injadjusted position, and a connection for the bar which permits the fingers to be reversed from one side to the other.

8. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, means whereby the guide may be secured to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally connected to @the guide, fingers at one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, and a gage-bar at the other side of the slidable bar for spacing the slidablebar relatively to a row of pages.

9. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar slidably connected to the guide, fingers adjustable on and at one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, an adjustable gagebar at the other side of the slidable bar for spacing the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages, and a swivel connection for they slidable bar which permits it to be reversed.

l0. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar slidably connected to the guide, fingers adjustably carried by the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, a scale-bar on said first bar, and an adjustable gage-bar on the scalebar for spacing the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages.

ll. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar slidably and pivotally connected to the guide, fingers adjustably carried by the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, a scale-bar on saidy first bar, and an adjustable gagebar on the scale-bar for spacing the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages.

12. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, means for securing the guide to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally connected to the guide, lingers on one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, a scale-bar projectingfrom the other side of said bar, a gagebar on the scale-bar for spacing the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages, and a swivel connection for the slidable bar which permitsV its reversal.

13. In a printers make-up device,1 the combination of a guide-bracket, means for removably securing it to a support, comprising studs and sockets, a bar slidably'and pivotally connected to said bracket, fingers 'at one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, an adjustable gagebar at the other side of the slidable bar for positioning the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages and fa scale-bar upon which the gage-bar is mounted.

14. In a printersv make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket having a grooved guide, means for detachably securing said bracket to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a bar rslidably mounted on the shaft, means on the bar adapted to engage the grooved-guide for guiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and fingers on the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages.

' l5. In a printers make-updevice, the combination of a guide-bracket, a shaft held in said bracket, a collar slidably and rotatably mounted on the shaft, a bar, acollar on the bar and means for pivotally connecting the collar onV the shaft and the collar on the bar to form a swivel connection, and fingers on the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages.VV

16. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket, of a shaft held in said bracket, a collar slidably and rotatably mounted on the shaft and provided With a socket, a bar, a collar on the bar fitting into said socket, means for rotatably securing the collar on the bar'in said socket on the slidable' collar and ngers on the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages. t

17. In a printers make-up device, the

combination of a guide, means whereby the guide 'may be adjustably secured to a support, the bar having a .groove extending lengthwise thereof, said bar being slidably connected 'to the guide, fingers on one side ofthe bar for indicating the position of a row of pages and means fitting the groove Voff 'the bar and 'connected to the fingers for f thereof passing through the fingers, and adjustable means for securing the means to secure the fingers on the bar.

FRED W. LAKE. f

VVitnesses: n W. PARSONS, D. JONES.

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