The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
INSTANCE PRINTING.
- Workers Important Invention to be
N&o1|sd to the Type Writer and Type Set
ting Machine.
New York llcrAld.

hhS 2-tt'h'h's
New York Herald.
The invention Of the telephone has
brought men within speaking distance of
each other in a manner undreamt of, save
by the inventor, ten years ago. The tele-
graph had annihilated distance and had
made possible communication over dis
tances by ether means. The ticking Of
the telegraph instrument, translated into
letters and words by the operators
trained ear was for long the only method
by which intelligence could be trans
mitted over the wires. Then step in
the direction of automatic telegrdphy
was made. The current was contrived
to octuate a wheel to whose periphery
were affixed letters of the alphabet, the
breaking of the current arresting the
wheel when the desired letter was oppo-
site the tape" and thus making possible
the series of automatic printing telegraph
machines of which the stock market
ticker" is a familiar example. Such an
instrument might few years since have
been in private establishments, but they
were liable to many arrangements, and
the telephone has replaced them. Inn
pfovemenis upon the wheel system have
been made: but the fact that often
complete revolution of the wheel is ne
cessary between the printing of two let
tiers has prevented more, so far, than
twenty-eight letters and signs being
placed upon any wheel. Inventors have
not been idle, and while one set have
been labOring TO make a machine which
will transmit instantaneonsly and ie-
produce exactly a despatch or design,
written, drawn or printed, others have
been endeavoring TO make the automatic
printing Of message process MS fast
as fingers can touch the letter signs,
and at the same time trying to abolish
the unhandy, tanglesome tape" or
SNAKE" which stock brokers and news
paper men wot Of
A gentleman whose business is not
telegraphy, but who is deeply interested
in the mechanical progress, has lately
patented an invention which bids fair TO
supply the long missing link sought in
the direction of printing a message as
fast as it can be sent. The possible APP
plication Of the invention is, however,
by no means limited in this use; indeed,
il is Of snCh nature as to admit of being
the medium of communicating at will
the desired impulse to any number of
parts of an instrument or machine-or,
to put it more clearly, of actuating at
will the various parts Of inert mechan-
ism. The patent office title of the in
vention is Selecting Device the invent
tor is Mr. James +. Munson, of this city
After an understanding of the chici
feature of the invention its various APP
plications can be readily deduced lmag
inc n number of pins or small bolts Of
brass fixed horizontally by small coil
springs to an upright plate, 10 that on
the platform being pressed forward the
pins would recoil little on meeting
with resisting surface, such as sauother
upright plate If however, there is
hole in the second plate opposite any
one Of the pins 10 will be seen that that
pin will pass through the hole, while the
others will be arrested by the plate.
This principle has for many years been
applied in the famous jacquard looms
by which We know the most complicated
patterns and even pictures have been
woven in colors. Mr.. Munson in his
specification refers to this application ss
follows:
"What is known az the jacquard ne
rhanism in looms, contains a nest of series
Of movable thrust pins arranged in regu-
lar lines distributed over a considerable |
area of rectangular form. these thrust T.
pins are held ont with gentle force in /.
the jacquard. They are, at every move
ment Of the loom, all thrust out and on
being present to q properly punched |
card, IA portion are forced back and /.
another portion are allowed to stand /
forward by reason Of their meeting per
instead of the solid body Of the .
rard. Each pin, being connected TO one
)r more OF the yarns Of the warp, CON
rolls that portion of the weaving"
Mr.. Munson then proceeds to point
)ut the application which he makes of
he principle. A single resisting plate,
has for the perpose Of illustration been
lsed above. . Mr.. Munson places a
number of such resisting plates or slides
with a number of variously .
placed holes in them. Referring to the .
Jacquard nest or bank of thrust pins, he .
SAYS:
81 use a similar bank of pins. Before
each movement (of the mechanism actu. /
iting the slides or plates) all are moved /
forward. Then, by the operation of the .