Richard March Hoe

Richard March Hoe ( born September 12, 1812 in New York; † June 7, 1886 in Florence) was the American inventor of the rotary printing press.

Life

Richard M. Hoe was born in New York City, the son of Robert Hoe ( 1784-1833 ). His father had built with his brothers- Peter and Matthew Smith a factory for steam-powered printing presses. At the age of 15 years, Richard Hoe entered this factory, after the death of his father, he was head of the firm.

1843 Richard Hoe invented the rotary printing press. In contrast to the conventional flatbed cylinder press Hoe used around the plate cylinder curved printing plates, which he produced by stereotypy. This enabled him to construct a machine in which the direction of movement of plate and impression cylinders and of the printing material did not change, so that they could print at a higher speed. Since Hoe also invest up to 10 pressure cylinders placed around a plate cylinder, reached its machines up to 20,000 single-sided pages per hour. Hoe was awarded for its development in 1846, U.S. Patent No. 5199; 1847 one of his rotary printing machine was first installed commercially. The press under different names, as " Type Revolving Printing Machine ," " Lightning Rotary News Press " (" Lightning Quick Press newspaper "), " Hoe web perfecting press " or even " mammoth Quick Press " were known.

1870 developed a Hoe rotary press, which printed both sides ( recto and verso printing ) in a single pass.

He was in the Columbia Lodge No. 23 October 1854. Initiated 91 of the Freemasons in Philadelphia and remained there until his death a member.