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The model 'U' was designed primarily for newspaper and jobbing work and hence was built with just two inkers (forme rollers). The pyramidal ink arrangement, popular with European manufacturers, was not only compact (and did away with the need for an ink table) but held a sufficient reserve of ink for distribution to the inkers. The ink duct (or fountain) also seems quite large when compared with equivalent size modern era presses. Automatic sheet feeders were still in their developmental stages around this time, the above, make and type unknown, appears as if it has been attached as an afterthought. Note the unusual step-down route the paper takes to arrive at the front guides! A 'drag' type side lay, not obvious in photo, would also have been fitted to both sides of the feed-board. After printing, the sheet was transferred from the drum by a smaller skeleton cylinder and placed on the stick flyers, which rotated downwards and deposited it in the delivery tray.
* Single-revolution principle: The large impression cylinder continually rotated and had a circumference twice the length of the bed, but less than half of the cylinder actually printed, the other being undercut to allow the forme to pass underneath on the return stroke.

Photo and specifications courtesy Herwig Kempenaers

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