. A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day . werf uo^-1 43. 2 Xu<2 < oPi u s H 2;oQ2O 45 FIRST HOE WEB PRESS until the appearance of the Hoe machine. In this press the sheetswere not entirely severed by the cutters, but simply perforated afterthe printing. They were then drawn by accelerating tapes, whichcompletely separated them, onto a gathering cylinder so constructedthat six perfect papers, or any other desired number, could begathered one over the other. These, by means of a switch, wereat th
. A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day . werf uo^-1 43. 2 Xu<2 < oPi u s H 2;oQ2O 45 FIRST HOE WEB PRESS until the appearance of the Hoe machine. In this press the sheetswere not entirely severed by the cutters, but simply perforated afterthe printing. They were then drawn by accelerating tapes, whichcompletely separated them, onto a gathering cylinder so constructedthat six perfect papers, or any other desired number, could begathered one over the other. These, by means of a switch, wereat the proper moment turned off onto one sheet flier, which de-posited them on the receiving board. This gathering and deliverycylinder, patented by Stephen D. Tucker, a member of the firm ofR. Hoe & Co., solved the problem of rapid flat delivery. Thefirst of these machines was placed in the office of Lloyds WeeklyNewspaper, in London, and the first one used in the United Statesin the Tribune office in New York. There was no limit totheir capacity for printing excepting the ability of the paper tostand the strain of passing through the press, whi
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