Patent GB-189718032-A (GB)
Inventor: JUNGE CHARLES
Filed: 1897-07-31
Granted: 1898-08-31
Abstract: 18,032. Junge, C., [Electric Compositor Co.]. July 31. Type, setting etc.; Linotype and like machines.-Relates to justifying-mechanism for matrix-assembling, type-setting, and like machines. Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of the apparatus applied to a machine such as is described in Specification No. 18,033, A.D. 1897. The spacers 61, shown in Fig. 25, are rectangular pieces, each having a dovetail notch 61<a> in the upper end and a notch 61<b> in the opposite end. The spacers are contained in a magazine, in which eight sizes of spacers are provided for, the channels being so arranged that the front row are for the thinnest and the rear row for the thickest spacers. Extending under the rows of channels from front to rear are the upper ends of guide tubes or funnels 72, which receive the spacers released from the magazine and guide them into place in the line of matrices. As the line of matrices X is composed and pushed to the left along the assembly trough, the lower end of a tube 72, beginning with the left-hand one, is released at the end of each word and allowed to swing rearwards through a notch into. the channel, and is then carried along to the left with the matrices. The tubes 72 are mounted at their upper ends to swing to left or right, and backwards and forwards, the lower ends of the tubes, which enter the assembly trough, being pivoted to the main parts at 72<f> so as to remain in vertical position between the matrices in the line as the tubes are carried along to the left by the matrices. The rear sides of these pivoted ends are open, so that, when the tubes are lifted and swung forward out of the trough by the frame 73<a>, engaging shoulders 72<g> thereon, the spacers are left in the trough in position between the matrices. The frame 73<a> is raised by the armature 74<a> of a magnet 74. When the tubes are removed from the assembly trough they are moved to the right to normal position, in which the left-hand tube is engaged by a pawl 78<a>. The spacers are released from the magazine by sliding escapements, having lateral fingers projecting into the channels and normally supporting the spacers. There is an escapement slide for each channel, and it is operated by a bell-crank lever engaging one edge of a horizontal plate, pivoted at its opposite edge. These plates are placed one above another, and are slotted for the passage of six rows of vertical longitudinally-sliding rods, on which are projecting fingers engaging the plates. The rods are arranged so that each rod in the first row has three fingers, operating three plates and releasing three spacers, one into each of the three first tubes, commencing from the left. This would meet the case of a line having four words, and requiring three spacers. Each rod of the second row has four fingers, and releases four spacers, and so on. The lower ends of these rods pass through a guide-plate, and any one of them may be moved upwards by a push-rod 69 to release the required number of spacers, and these of the required sizes to justify the line. The push-rod 69 is pivoted on a universal joint 70, and its lower end is engaged and operated by a compound slide to bring the upper end of the rod into position to engage the lower end of the proper releasing-rod. The compound slide consists of two parts, which are permitted to move relatively when the space key 81<b> is operated, so that the upper end of the rod 69 is brought under the proper row of release rods. The compound slide is moved along to the left by a finger on a detent which is pushed along by the line of matrices in course of composition, and the rod 69 is thus set in accordance with the length of the composed line and the sizes of spacers required to justify it. At each operation of the space key 81<b> a tube 72 is released, and its lower end enters the assembly trough. When the rod 69 is positioned it may be moved upwards, to release the spacers, by suitable means, such as a magnet 71, the armature of which operates a pivoted arm carrying the universal joint 70. After the matrix line has been used, the spacers are separated, and may be hung, by means of their notches 61<a> upon a bar 77, from which they are pushed singly into the distributer 81<e>, which consists of a plate having a number of grooves of different depths, corresponding to the thicknesses of the several spacers. These grooves at their lower ends communicate with the magazine channels and converge at their upper ends. The grooves are covered with a glass plate, thus forming channels down which the spacers slide to the magazines. The thicker spacers slide over the shallower channels until each spacer reaches the channel, which is of a depth equal to its own thickness, and the spacer passes down this channel. In the portion of each magazine channel where it widens out to form the lateral row of channels or compartments containing spacers of the same thickness, are pivoted switch levers which distribute the spacers into successive compartments. The tails of the switch levers are engaged by the spacers in the channels until the spacers are released, when the levers fall into normal position by gravity.