Flyers

An invention for taking off or delivering the sheets from a printing machine. Acting automatically, they supersede the necessity of one or more “takers-off.” The annexed illustration shows the form of one description of flyer.

The paper, coming over the tapes, running round the small set of upper wheels falls clown to the lower set of wheels, but in front of the flyers, which form a kind of great comb. The latter work on a rod axis, and alternately assume a perpendicular and horizontal situation, as shown in the upper and lower drawing respectively. The sheets cling to the flyers while they are in the process of falling, and when they are horizontal, they are laid regularly in a heap ready to be taken away. Nearly all the superior class of machines are now furnished with sets of flyers, as they effect such an important saving of labour.