Patent GB-190405092-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Type Setting and Type Distributing Machines.
Filed: 1904-03-01
Granted: 1905-02-09
Abstract: 5092. Pulsometer Engineering Co., and Adcock, E. A. March 1. Type, setting &c. -Relates to type setting and distributing machines. In the setting- machine, the types, which have been caused by the action of keys to fall into a stationary trough, are fed forward, a line at a time, into successive channels formed in the circumference o f an intermittentlyrotating type carrier or magazine. In the distributing- machine, the types are successively detached from the end of a line, and are discharged into a suitable distributing-device, such as that described in Specification No. 12,530, A.D. 1899. A cylindrical magazine 1 is provided with a number of parallel troughs 2, and is rotatably mounted between two supports. One of these supports 4 forms the end of the stationary trough 5, Fig. 2, in line with which each of the troughs 2 is successively brought by the rotation of the magazine 1. The magazine is rotated by means of a pawl 9 carried by a pivoted lever 8 and engaging with a ratchet-wheel 10. The lever 8 is connected by a link 11 with a key-lever 12 carrying a key 14. When one of the troughs 2 is in line with the trough 5, a spring catch 16 engages one of a series of recesses 15 in the magazine. A stationary curved support 17 prevents the types from falling out of the troughs in the lower half of the magazine. As the types advance in the trough 2, they are prevented from falling over by a block 18, Fig. 1, which fits the trough, and is pushed forward by the types. When a sufficient number of types have entered the trough, this block closes an electric circuit and rings a bell. The magazine is then rotated by depressing the key 14. In order that the rotation of the magazine may not be prevented by a type which is partly in the trough 5 and partly in the trough 2, one wall of the trough 5 is bevelled off at the end so as to form a V-shaped notch 23, Fig. 1. In this notch are mounted a number of blades 24, each of which is connected by a bar 25, Fig. 2, to a slide 26 acted on by a spring 27. As the magazine revolves, the blades 24 yield to the pressure of the projecting part of the type, and the inclined face of the notch forces the type completely into the trough 2. The magazine may form only a segment of a cylinder, in which case the guide 17 is dispensed with. In the distributing-machine, there extends across the end of the type trough 31, shown in plan in Fig. 7, a fixed bar 32 against which are mounted to slide horizontally two plates 33, 34. The plate 33 is made thinner than the thinnest type to be ejected, and pushes the end type of the line over the discharge hole 78, Fig. 6. The plate 33 is actuated by a lever 36, connected by a link 38 with a pivoted lever 39 which is operated by depressing the key 42 of a key-lever 41. The plate 34 is urged towards the type trough by a spring, and is provided with a catch 45, which, when the plate is pushed back, engages a fixed pin 47. The catch 45 may be raised, in order to release the plate 34, by a tappet 49 carried by a shaft 50. On the other end of this shaft is a notched arm 53 with which engages a pawl 54 carried by one arm of a bell-crank lever 55, the other arm of which is connected by a link 57 to a bar 58 extending below the key-levers 41. A pin on the pawl 54 passes over a fixed cam 61 to disengage the pawl from the arm 53. On the depression of a key, the tappet 49 is thus caused to raise the catch 45 and release the plate 34. At the side of the type trough 31 is a slide 63, the end of which is notched to form a projection 64. This projection holds the type against the plate 32 and prevents it from falling while being pushed over the discharge hole by the plate 33. The slide 63 is pressed towards the bar 32 and against a stop 64a by a spring 65, and is connected by a link 66, bell-crank lever 67, and link 68 to a plate 69 attached to the end of the shaft 50. When a key is depressed, the plate 34 is released and moves against the end type in the trough. The slide 63 at the same time is moved away from the bar 32, and is held in this position by a projection 72 on the plate 34. The end type is then moved towards the discharge opening by the plate 33 against the pressure of the plate 34. As the plate 34 moves back, the projection 72 releases the slide 63 which moves forward and holds the ejected type against the plate 32. When the plate 33 begins to return, the plate 34 is held by the catch 45 engaging with the pin 47, and the type falls through the discharge hole 78. To prevent the ejection of more than one type at a time, a number of hairs or bristles 75 of different lengths are mounted so as to extend across the opening at the end of the type trough 31.