stop-cylinder

Notwithstanding the excellent qualities of the stop-cylinder press, commercial necessities often demand a sacrifice of quality to speed, and this has brought the two-revolution press into very general use.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

The firm of R. Hoe & Co., which as early as 1822 was already engaged in the manufacture of hand-presses in New York, commenced about 1832 to manufacture flat-bed cylinder presses, beginning with the single large or drum cylinder press which was followed soon afterward by the single small cylinder and the double small cylinder press, the flat-bed perfecting press, the stop-cylinder press, the two-revolution press, and the rotary book press.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

The delivery of the printed sheets is performed either by a delivery cylinder or by a front delivery with the printed side of the paper uppermost as already described for the stop-cylinder presses.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

The reversal of the bed movement is accomplished by a so-called "true crank" movement and with an absence of jar and vibration never before obtained in any other than the stop-cylinder presses.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

a skilful and painstaking pressman, good work can be produced from them, but fine book-work is always done on stop-cylinder and two-revolution, single-cylinder presses, which have now been brought to a high state of perfection.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various