Patent GB-191018544-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Type Setting Machines.
Inventor: JONES HERBERT SEFTON
IPC: B41B3/00
Filed: 1910-08-05
Granted: 1911-08-03
Abstract: 18,544. Jones, H. Sefton-, [Rogers Addresser Co.]. Aug. 5. Setting type; galley mechanism.-Relates to machines for setting grooved type which are adapted to co-operate with flanged slots in a type-holder for use in addressing-machines &c. The type are contained in one or more removable inclined magazines M, each of which consists of a flat plate 5, Fig. 14, having channels formed by parallel ribs 6, the ribs being provided with lateral flanges 6<1> which engage the grooves in the sides of the type. The channels are filled from the upper ends, which have the flanges cut away to permit easy insertion of the type, and the rear magazine is slightly higher than the front one. The type are retained in the channels by a strip 8 which crosses their lower ends, and the flanges 6<1> are cut away at the lower ends of the channel to permit the removal of the lowest type from each channel. The composing-device or type-extractor D comprises two flat strips 11 mounted on a movable block and forming a type-channel 13 similar to the channels of the magazine. In order to extract a type, the composing-device is first moved upwards in the plane of the magazine so that the ends of the strips 11 engage the grooves in the sides of the bottom type in the magazine channel. The device is then moved at rightangles to the magazine, so that the type is withdrawn and falls into the channel 13, in which it is arrested by a spring stop. The device then makes two more movements parallel to the first two, whereby it is returned to normal position. The movements of the composing-device are effected by a hand-lever L. During its upward movement, the device is locked in alinement with the magazine channel by a pin which engages holes in a transverse bar. The composing- device is mounted on a carriage C, which slides on transverse rails 18, 19 so that the device may be brought opposite to any magazine channel. A dial-plate N indicates the characters contained in the different channels. The carriage rails are mounted on a swinging frame S, which can be rocked by means of a hand-lever 21 in order to bring the composing-device into engagement with either the front or the rear magazine. On the carriage C is mounted to slide transversely an auxiliary carriage A which supports a type-holder T in the form of a flat plate having flanged slots which form continuations of the composing-channel 13. The carriage A is held in position with any desired channel of the type-holder T in alinement with the channel 13 by means of a spring-pressed thumb-lever 47. When a line has been assembled in the channel 13, it is pushed down past the spring stop into the channel in the type-holder, which is then shifted laterally to bring another channel into alinement with the channel 13. Error slots are provided on each side of the channel 13 into which the latter half of a line containing an error can be pushed to permit of corrections being made. The types, as they are extracted from the magazines, may fall directly into the channels of the type-holder.