The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Register

PRINTING PRESS.—I stated some time ago that I had completed a small steam press or a press to work with lever power and with sufficient rapidity to produce 2,000 impressions per hour, but could not discover a satisfactory mode of supplying my ink rollers, and solicited the co-operation of some of my Yankee brethren—A Mr. W. H. Hale, who hails I understand from Boston, and is a silversmith, called upon me and soon removed the difficulty by the formation of an ink trough, which, supplying one roller, communicates the ink rapidly to the other roller; and after a short time my model was complete, and is so simple and efficacious, and works with so much ease that 2,500 impressions may be thrown off in the hour, and by the introduction of a heavy fly wheel; the press is worked with a crank, and the labor of one hand and two boys to feed the cylinder with paper—thus superceding the necessity of steam, water or horse power.
Mr. Hale shall share the profits of the invention, for which a caveat is entered, and I have no doubt that it will supercede all other presses as the cost will be very reasonable.—Noah.