Patent GB-190706430-A (GB)
Inventor: MIRUS EHRENFRIED
Filed: 1907-03-18
Granted: 1907-11-07
Abstract: 6430. Mirus, E. March 18. Type, setting etc.; type. -Relates to machines for setting and distributing type matter in which the lines are separated by leads or space-lines. The setting- machine, Fig. 1, comprises two standards 141, 142 adjustable to and from each other by means of screws 77, so as to form a narrow channel 11 between their upper parts and a wider channel 143 below. In the lower channel 143 are mounted a pressing-slide 20 and a controlling-slide 16 which are pressed apart by springs 18, 144. A pin on the lower end of the slide 20 engages the slotted arm of a weighted lever 19, and normally bears on the left arm of a second weighted lever 17. The lever 19 and slide 20 are held in the normal position, shown in Fig. 1, by a spring 152, and an adjustable stop 154 limits the downward movement of the lever 19. A pin on the lower end of the slide 16 engages a slot in the lever 17 which serves for pressing the slide upwards against a table 3. A cord 33 and spring 153 connect the lever 17 with a pedal 32. The types are ejected by means of keys 4 from a magazine 1 on to the table. 3, and are carried into the channel 11 by a slide 6 which travels in a slot in the table. The slide is moved to the left by cords passing over pulleys and connected to a pedal 10, and is retracted by a weight 28. A slide 29, movable in the channel 11, normilly rests on a spring pressed fork 25 which extends across the channel. As the slide 6 moves to the left, a forked arm 15 thereon meets a projecting part of the spring 18 and presses it back so that a nose 18<a>, Fig. 4, enters a recess in the slide 20, thereby lockiog the slides 16, 20 together. The arm 15 then moves along and depresses the bevelled head of the slide 16. The slide 20 is thereby depressed until its top is flush with the surface of the table 3. The slide 6 then causes the type to push back the fork 25 and enter the channel 11, the slide 29 being supported above the type by a finger 14 on the slide 6. A retainer 13, having bent-up ends; tails down behind the type and prevents it from being pushed back by the fork 25. The slide 6 then retires and disconnects the slides 16, 20. The spring 152 expands and causes the lever 19 to raise the slide 20 and lift the type above the fork 25, which then moves across the channel 11. The keys 4 and pedal 10 are depressed alternately until a line of types has been set up in the channel 11. The pedal 32 is then quickly depressed so that the weighted levers 17, 19 raise the slide 20 until the line is opposite to a galley 34. The galley consists of a fixed plate 52 and an adjustable plate 54, to each of which a detachable plate 60 is secured by means of a.plate 42, screws, and nuts. The end of the galley is formed by a sliding plate 44 having a rod 43 and a handle which may actuate an alarm 51. The line is pushed into the galley by a detachable block 37 carried by a sliding-member 39 which is actuated by a handle 36. When the galley is full, the block 37 is detached and secured between the plates 60 by means of screws. The frame comprising the parts 42, 44, 60, 37 can then be removed from the machine as a whole. The space-lines are contained in a detachable magazine 46, and are pressed forwards against projections 49 by a weighted lever 47. The slide 29 carries a spring 45 formed at its upper end with a hook 451 which engages the upper edge of the foremost space-line. When the slide 29 falls, it draws down the spaceline which is pushed into the galley by the spring 45. A pin 30 on the slide 29 actuates an alarm 31 to indicate when a line is nearly completed. The distributing-machine may be separate from' the setting-machine, or combined with it as in Fig. 9, in which two setting and two distributing machines are placed one behind the other on a common frame. Each setting-machine is similar to that shown in Fig. 1, except that it is inverted and the controlling-slide 16 is dispensed with. The distributing-machine, shown on the'left in Fig. 9, is similar in construction to the setting-machine. The matter to be distributed is placed in a galley 34 and is pressed by. a weighted lever 88 against the wall of a channel 11. A slide 29, which can be moved up and down by means of weighted handles 79, 166, enables the first line to be moved down on to a table 80. The magazines are placed below the table 80, and above them are two boxes 96 in which plates 99 are vertically guided. Projections 104, Fig. 10, on the lower sides of the plates 99 are adapted to enter the compartments of the magazines. Between the plates 99 are placed wedge-shaped plates 105 which can be moved across the table 80 by means of key-levers 113. Each plate 99 is connected by rods 102, 103 with the side of the box 96, the lower rod 102 resting on the corresponding plate 105 which supports the plate 99 in a raised position. The lowest type of the line is moved across the table 80 by spring arms 89 on a carriage 87, Fig. 9, which is actuated by a lever 86 connected by a cord 84 with a pedal 32. Pivoted retaining-arms of different lengths keep back all the types except the lowest. A long spring 94 holds the type down on the table. The type is arrested opposite to its proper channel in the magazine by one of the plates 105 which is moved into its path by depression of one of the key-levers 113. When the key-lever is released, a rib on the plate 105 draws the type over the mouth of the magazine channel where it remains. Upon the next depression of the same key, the type is pushed into the magazine by the plate 99. The types may be guided by ribs formed on the sides of the magazine channels which engage corresponding notches in the types. The spacelines are distributed to a magazine 46 by a hook 451 on the slide 29 similar to that used in the setting- machine. In a modification, the table 3 of the setting-machine is placed above the table 80 of the distributing-machine, and the types to be distributed are pushed upwards into the lower ends of the magazine channels wherein they are retained by suitable springs.