TIMES PRINTING MACHINE. 173 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



The whole machine is set in motion by the leather strap, Y, connecting 

 with the steam engine and spindle wheel, Z. .The operation of printing 

 commences by the laying-on man, A, placing the paper for the levers 

 and rollers, W. which revolving and falling upon the paper, instantaneously 

 draw it through the tapes round the drum, C,. and then round the 

 cylinder, No. 1, where the form of type, P, inked by passing under the 

 right hand inking rollers, V, is. ready to receive it, and by the pressure 

 ofthe cylinder, No. 1, the paper receives the impression, passes up through 

 the tapes, 6, 6, 6, 6, and is at lengh received at the fly board, M, by the 

 boy, F. Meantime, the form, deprived of its ink, passes rapidly on under 

 the second cylinder, No 2, which is lifted up with its carriage, e, by the 

 eccentric motion of the lever, /, to permit the form to pass, which is 

 again inked by the two middle rollers, V, (which had been supplied by the 

 left-hand inking table) and is then ready for the sheet, supplied by the 

 laying-on man, D, and taken by the circulating rollers through the tapes, 

 round the drum, b, and down through the tapes, 7, 7, 7, and under the 

 cylinder. No. 3, where it meets the form, receives the impression, and 

 passes up through the tapes, 8, 8, 8, 8, on to the taking-off broard, I, 

 where it is received by the boy, H ; the form, again deprived of its ink, 

 the cylinder, 4, is now raised to permit it to pass, when by the eccentric 

 motion of the rack underneath, it moves back again, receives the ink 

 from the left-hand inking rollers, V, and it again passes uii'irr the cylinder, 

 No. 4, when the sheet laid on by the man, C, passing round the drum,?, 

 meets it, receives the impression, and is carried up through the tapes, 

 9, 9, 9, and is delivered to the boy, G, at the fly-board, L ; and the form 

 again deprived of its ink, the cylinder, No. 3, is now raised by the 

 lever, f, the form passes under, is again inked by the middle roller, V, 

 passes under the cylinder, No. 2, where the sheet, supplied by the man, 

 B, passing round the drum, A, and down through the tapes, 10, 10, 10, 

 meets it, receives the impression, and passes round, up through the tapes, 

 11, 11, 11, is received at the fly-board, K, by the boy, E; thus the 

 printing-table, traversing the carriage with the greatest rapidity, throws 

 off two impressions in its passage each way. 



