Printing press mechanism

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDENTIFYING CHARACTERS TO SMALL SUBDIVISIONS OF A TRAVELING WEB ARRANGED IN LONG COLUMNS AND SHORT TRANSVERSE ROWS SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: PLATEN MEANS TO SUPPORT THE TRAVELING WED, AND A PAIR OF LIKE CYLINDRICAL DRUMS ROTATABLE UPON SPACED PARALLEL AXES, A MULTIPLICITY OF LIKE NUMBERING UNITS EACH COMPRISING A SET OF ADJUSTABLE PRINTING WHEELS BEARING A SUCCESSION OF DIFFEREING PRINT CHARACTERS AND MEANS MOUNTING SAID UNITS UPON THE PERIPHERIES OF THE DRUMS IN ROWS PARALLEL TO THE DRUM AXES, THE NUMBER OF UNITS IN EACH ROW ON THE DRUM CORRESPONDNG TO THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS OF SUBDIVISION UPON THE WEB, ACTUABLE MEANS ADJACENT EACH CYLINDER FOR CAUSING EACH ROW OF NUMBERING MEANS TO ADVANCE SIMULTANEOUSLY AS IT REACHES THE POSITION OF SAID ACTUABLE MEANS WHEN SAID ACTUABLE MEANS IS ACTUATED, MEANS FOR ACTUATING BOTH OF SAID ACTUABLE MEANS SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND THE SPACING OF THE UNIT ROWS UPON THE DRUMS BEING GAUGE TO THE SUBDIVISION ROWS UPON THE WEB, SO THAT THE PRINTING WHEELS OF THE DRUMSUPPORTED UNITS OF ONE DRUM APPLY PRINTED IMPRESSIONS TO THE SUBDIVISION OF EVERY OTHER ROW ON THE WEB, AND THE PRINTING WHEELS OF THE UNITS ON THE OTHER DRUM APPLY PRINTED IMPRESSIONS UPON THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE REMAINING ALTERNATE ROWS OF THE WEB.