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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This style of press, known in Australia as a 'Rolling/Sliding' platen, was invented in 1869 by a New Yorker, Merrit Gally, and marketed under the name 'Universal.' A. Hogenforst and other manufacturers evidently copied it, or similar types, when the American patents expired, decades later. It has a different motion altogether from the clam-shell type, the type bed is stationary and the platen after tilting back to allow access assumes a vertical position and then moves forward perpendicularly on slides for the impression. Inking power was improved by the use of a large drum (or drums as above) fed from numerous distributor rollers, multiple forme rollers and a full width ink fountain. The presses were solidly built and had massive impressional strength making them suitable for embossing, forme-cutting and creasing.
Photo and details courtesy of Herwig Kempenaers.
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