The Miller High Speed Printing Press

Miller Printing Machinery Co.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U. S. A.

MILLER HIGH-SPEED

AUTOMATIC CYLINDER

HE Miller High-Speed Press attains its guaranteed speeds

of 3,000 to 5,000 impressions per hour with a quiet, easy

• movement, free from semblance of jar or vibration, and

without sacrifice of register or other important qualities

essential to the production of the highest quality of work.

Impressional Strength. A glance at the illustrations reveals
massive strength and rigidity in every line of construction. Note
the heavy one-piece box frame, symmetrical in appearance, abso-
lutely rigid and unyielding, even when set upon an improperly
supported floor. The tracks are wide and well-supported. The steel
bed-rollers traversing the tracks are closely spaced and accurately
gauged to size, giving a smooth, easy movement to the bed, and
insuring an absolutely even impression. The bed is heavy and well-
ribbed, supplied with hold-downs engaging the tracks, which are
adjustable to take up side-play, insuring side-register. Bed operates
on horizontal plane giving unobstructed access at either end for
unlocking, planing down form and relocking. Convenient for form
changes on bed of press. The cylinder, eight and one-half inches in
diameter, is heavy and well-braced, with cylinder bearings large in
diameter and of liberal length. Not one ounce of weight, where
weight is essential, has been sacrificed for speed. No press ever built
possesses a stronger, more rigid impression than the Miller High-
Speed — prints the heaviest forms with ease and responds to
the most delicate overlays and underlays.

Register. Perfect register between cylinder and bed is assured by
direct gearing of cylinder with bed throughout the printing stroke.
The reciprocal movement of bed and cylinder, each traveling but
half the distance, serves to slow down the peripheral speed of the
cylinder. As a consequence loss of register between feed guides and
grippers is never experienced on the Miller High-Speed. Adjust-
able feed guides and grippers (standard practice) permit grip-
per margins as narrow as three points. In the hands of a competent
pressman four-color-process work registers perfectly within the
guaranteed speed range.

Distribution. The ink distribution of the Miller High-Speed
is adequate to the requirements of the heaviest forms. Roller ad-
justments are simple and reliable. Form rollers clear maximum size
form in both directions. Automatic cut-off when impression is
tripped insures uniform color throughout the run . Convenient foun-
tain adjustments give positive and absolute color control. The
fountain is easy to get at and easy to take apart, a convenience in
cleaning.

Automatic Pile Feeder. The Miller High-Speed is equipped
with the well-known Miller Suction Swing-away Pile Feeder, espe-
cially designed to meet High-Speed requirements. Positive air con-
trol of the sheet from pile to guides, automatic right or left side
register and automatic trip and brake connections, insure uniform-
ity of product and unvarying register. The press trips automatically
and stops instantly if sheet fails to contact with front guides or if
more than one sheet is carried to the guides. Operates unfailing-
ly at regular rated speeds on all weights and grades of stock,
ranging from onion skin to heavy coated papers and cardboards.
The stock table holds twenty-six inches of stock, the height of the
pile automatically maintained in correct position as sheets are fed
to the press. The feeder swings back entirely free of the press, giving
ready access to cylinder and bed, a feature which also permits the
loading of stock while pressman is applying make-ready.

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entirely free of the press, giving unobstructed access to the form,
ink table, rollers and the fountain — connected or disconnected in

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Variable Speed Drive. The Miller High-Speed is regularly
equipped with the Variable Speed Motor Dw<r,which by the simple
movement of the electrical controller handle, instantly regulates
the speed of the machine to any desired point ranging up to
5,000 impressions per hour. May be set at any desired speed, and
this speed uniformly maintained throughout the run regardless of
press stops — a feature essential to close register in the production
of particular multi-color work.

Gas Sheet Drier. The Miller High-Speed is regularly equipped
with latest approved type of gas sheet drier. Simple adjustment
regulates degree of heat to suit form in hand. Meets most exact-
ing requirements of fire underwriters. Also, non-offset spray de-
vices may be conveniently utilized over delivery pile without un-
due spreading of solution to press parts.

Convenience. The Miller High-Speed is provided with every
convenience placed at the hand of the operator. All adjust-
ments are simple and readily understood. The cylinder is suppli-
ed with convenient tympan clamp, reel rods, etc., all easily acces-
sible. Feeder equipped with universal type adjustable separa-
tor feet — no
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handling, speedy wash-up. All adjustments involved in make-ready
may be classed as "standard practice," familiar to every pressman,
and calling for no special training — easily mastered during the
demonstration period.

Standard Equipment. The Standard Equipment furnished with
Miller High-Speed Unit consists of Press, Feeder, Extension
Pile Delivery, Miller Gas Sheet Drier, Two Ail-Steel Chases, Set
of Wrenches, Counter, Oil Can, Four Form Rollers (two cast), One
Vibrator Roller, Two Vibrator Rider Rollers (one cast), Two Duct-
or Rollers (one cast), Four Distributor Rollers (two cast), Two
Distributor Rider Rollers, Pump Motor and Variable Speed Press
Motor and Controller ready for wiring to power line.