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FEINTING, PROGRESS OP, IN RECENT YEARS. 



automatic dampening apparatus, positive rotary first side, there was not time for the ink to dry,, 

 movements, no tapes, a space for a type column and it offset against the tympan or printing sur- 

 besides the stereotype plate, for the addition of face of the press and smutted succeeding sheets, 

 late news, and numerous other devices in use in On the Cottrell perfecter the tympan is entirely 

 present-day machines. Campbell built three of changed or shifted every one, two, three, or five 



minutes, as desired, the shift being set so that 

 there is always a clean tympan back of the paper, 

 to absorb any surplus of ink before it can offset. 

 The sheets are fed into this machine, as into an 



these presses, and then sold his patents to Hoe 

 & Co., who thereafter for several years con- 

 trolled this class of machines. Within recent 

 years the machinery for the Campbell Company 



has been designed by Henry A. Wise Wood, gen- ordinary cylinder press, by hand or with auto- 



eral manager of the company, who has produced matic feeding-machine, and are printed on one 



the Century, New Model, and Multipress ma- side from the first cylinder, then transferred to a 



chines. The Century press is a two-revolution second cylinder, which prints the second side, and 



cylinder machine, for high-class work at high then delivered perfect on a table. This not only 



speeds. The speed was secured largely through saves a second feeding and printing, but the 

 a new bed movement, which imparted an even 

 movement to the cylinder during the printing 



labor of spreading, drying, jogging, etc., between 

 printings. The whole success of the machine 



stroke. The methods of supporting the bed and hangs on the admirable self-shifting tympan, 



bracing the cylinder also gave increased rigidity, which can be changed in a second's time while 



while the gearing together of the bed and cylinder the press is running at high speed. The floor 



compelled accurate register. Minor devices in- space occupied is only one foot greater in length 



sured accuracy in the taking of the sheet from the than for a single-cylinder machine, 



feed-table. The press has been widely introduced The Goss Printing-Press Company, of Chicago, 



for three-color printing and other work difficult of has developed a line of web perfecting machines 



registration, or requiring superior ink distribution, for daily newspapers, based principally on the 



The Multipress is a flat-bed perfecting machine, patents of Joseph L. Firm, of Jersey City. They 



printing from type. It is based on the original are largely in use. One of its most ingenious de- 



Stonemetz patent, and is especially adapted for vices is an offsetting arrangement which absorbs 



the use of newspapers that wish a perfecting press all the extra ink from the newly printed page, 



that avoids the use of a stereotype plant. The 

 type-beds are stationary, on different levels, and 

 the cylinders reciprocate over them. The machine 

 does four times the work of an ordinary cylinder 



and transfers it to a cylinder, whence it is wiped 

 off by a cloth-wound roller. The inventor, acting 

 upon the fact that a composition roller of glue 

 and molasses has a suction power upon the sur- 



press, and dispenses with the hand feeder. The faces upon which it moves, conceived the idea 

 New Model is a web stereotype perfecting press of of making such a roller act as a blotter on the 

 very simple construction, for general newspaper newly printed pages. He arranged a pair of corn- 

 use, position rollers to pass over the sheet on its 



transit to the second 

 form, and remove the 

 surplus ink. Before the- 

 roller had in its revolu- 

 tion touched the print- 

 ed paper again, it had 

 passed against a pol- 

 ished steel cylinder, on, 

 which it left its ink; in 

 other words, the roller 

 took up the ink and 

 transferred it in ita 

 revolution to a receiv- 

 ing-cylinder, which in 

 its turn was kept clean 

 by a cylindrical cotton 

 wiper. The apparatus 



GOSS THREE-DECK STRAIGHT-LINE PERFECTING PRESS. occupies an exceedingly 



small space, and is com- 



The Cottrell cylinder presses were brought out paratively inexpensive. This combination obvi- 

 by C. B. Cottrell, of Westerly, R. I., who built a ates the necessity for the use of endless aprons 

 variety of forms, consisting mainly of stop-cylin- or blankets, slip or blank sheets, rolls in the web,, 

 ders, drum-cylinders, and two-revolutions. He or cylinders or rollers of any kind for the printed 



jar. The firm is print a newspaper in black, but with four colors 

 B. Cottrell & Sons Company, and within on the two outer pages. 

 recent years it has made great progress in the The Huber cylinder presses are distinguished 

 development of machines suited to the manufac- by the use of a simple crank movement of the 

 ture of magazines and periodicals of large circu- bed, which affords very smooth running, without 

 lation. Its flat- bed perfecting press with shifting cams or cam-gears. The Huber Press Company 

 tympan has been a great boon to the dime maga- builds a variety of styles for general commercial 

 zmes, which required faster work than the single- printing, including a double-inking book-press, 

 cylinder could produce, and better printing than They also make a sheet-perfecting press, common- 

 could be had from the ordinary web perfecting ly abbreviated to " perfecter," this being a ma- 

 machme. I he trouble in doing fine work on a chine with 2 cylinders, one for printing on each 

 perfecting press has been that, in printing the side of a sheet, so that it delivers the sheet printed 

 second side of the sheet immediately after the on both sides, or " perfected." The offsetting de- 



