Patent GB-191301391-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Multiple Magazine Typographical Composing and Distributing Machines for Display Work, Head Lines, and the like.
Inventor: ELLIOTT WILLIAM EBENEZER
IPC: B41B7/16
Filed: 1913-01-17
Granted: 1914-01-19
Abstract: 1391. Elliott, W. E. Jan. 17. Distributing and assembling matrices; magazines and escapements. -Type - bar making machines for display work, head lines, and the like are provided with a column of magazines having matrix grooves on the flat. The magazines are provided with mouth-closers, and means are provided for ensuring that only the mouths of one magazine are open. The machine may comprise one or more ordinary magazines, which are also provided with mouthclosers, and the escapements of which are actuated from the same key levers. In this case, means are provided for operating the mouth - closers of the ordinary machine, for bringing the magazine entrance of the selected group of magazines into register with the distributor, and for changing from one set of escapement rods to the other, simultaneously. The distributor is of known form. The matrices are turned through 90 degrees and distributed to their appropriate channels by means of selecting-devices on the magazine entrances. The matrices are similarly turned through 90 degrees when they are assembled. Fig. 9 shows a form in which one magazine only 74 of the usual type is provided. The matrices are provided on their edges with selecting-lugs 22, Fig. 3, which are at different levels and engage ledges 29 on the sides of the magazine entrance. Some of the groups are also provided. in their lower sides with grooves 3, Fig. 4, which engage rails 4 and so pass through a port 27 to the lower set of magazines; the ungrooved groups pass across the port 27, over an extension 25 to the upper set of magazines. In modifications the matrices are not grooved, or they may be divided into more than two groups by different depths of grooving. The magazines are provided with pivoted mouth - closers 47, Fig. 7, carried by rock-shafts 44 having pinions 60 engaging racks 59 carried by rods 57 connected by bell-cranks to rods 53. The rods 53 are operated by pull and push rods 49, Fig. 8, by means of pin and inclined-slot connexions. To ensure that only one set of mouths is open, a lazy-tongs device is provided consisting of a series of pivoted links 61 which engage plates on the rods 49. The escapements of the magazine 74 are operated by rods 80 behind the operating- rods 41 of the group of magazines. The rods 80 are operated by cranked levers 91 the front ends of which rest on shoulders 94 formed on the rods 41. The means for changing over from one group of magazines to the other comprises a lever 82 on the actuation of which the following operations are performed. (1) A link 101 operates the mouth-closer of the magazine 74, and inclines 102 thereon operate a loop 103 to shift the escapement rods 41; (2) a link 75 operates the pivoted magazine entrance of the magazine 74 and the sliding entrance 23 of the group of magazines; and (3) by means of links 97, 99 a transverse rod 114 in engagement with the tails of the levers 91 is depressed and the rods 80 rendered inoperative. To allow of " quick "changing," the column of magazines is pivoted to an extension of the main frame, the mouthclosing operating-rods being suitably jointed.