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US 4,070,761 AGranted
Printing press with inventory control
AssigneeBurroughs Corporation
InventorJoseph Martin Collins
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Abstract
Disclosed is a printing press of the rotary offset or rotogravure web feed type having an arbour mounted feed roll from which paper to be printed is drawn. The press is equipped with a constant inventory follower of the feed roll such that at any time the inventory of the remaining paper stock can be taken.
Claims7
A web printing press comprising:
- a frame;
- a print and wind station;
- a load roll station;
- a spindle disposed in said load roll station and journaled in said frame for mounting a supply roll of paper to feed the press;
- scale means disposed in a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of said spindle and structurally extending from said spindle to the maximum radius of a supply roll mounted on said spindle;
- indicia carried by said scale means and visually displayed thereon between said spindle and a radial distance of at least the maximum radius of the roll;
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- monitoring means conjointly cooperating with both the outer circumferential surface of the roll and said scale means, said cooperation occurring substantially along the cylindrical plane defined by the outer circumferential surface of the roll, and said monitoring means transducing the radius of the roll into a visual indication thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.