Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-05
THE MATRIx-WRlTER.
n. n. Dement'S New Plan for Furn-
ishing Stereotype for Printing.
He Proposes to Do Away Entirely with Com
pOsitors and Movable Type-A New
Application Ofthe TyPewriter--
It's Possibilities, Judging
From Samples.

known, has her headquarters i'll Amer
lea. Among the multitudinous inven-
tons continually claiming the prOtec-
ton Ofthe pateut office from improved
mouse-traps and jumping jacks away
up to car.cOuplers-something OCCASION
ally looms up which, in the in
genuity Of its construction and the scope
of its application, attracts the attention
of the world. The hackneyed illustra-
tiuns of this nachueyed idea are too
hackneyed TO be quoted here in Chicago,
however, an old resident named Mtr-
ri:t Ii. Dement, has been engaged for
the last three years in perfectng an in
ventiOn which threatens 10 revOlutiOnlze
the art of printing. Tne hosts of com
pOsitOrS now engaged in that industry,
whether on the columns of great daily
or the volumes of great publishing
house, are soon, according TO the in
ventOr, to find their occupation gone
and their places filled by y few deit-
fingered females.
The inventor of the new process of
PRINTING, who has Just returned from
twO-mOnths' visit to Europe, his buIi-
ness there being to secure patents in
England and France, Belgium and Ger
many, was interviewed by a Tribune
reporter yesterday and his machines
carefully examined. Mr.. Dement,, who
lahOrS under many Of the difficulties
which beset inventors, has not had
perfected machine built yet, but the two
old typewriting and treadle cOmbina-
tons which has served as famewOrks
for his trial machinery, and over which
he has PRAYED and perspired anu built
up and pulled down for three long
years, are sufficient to exhibit his syS-
tenn of printingin practical operation.
The Invention.
The new process consists in Substi-
| tuting for the slow and tedious opera
| ton of type-setting a method of max
ing type indentatiOns in strips OF papier-
page or column fGrm aud ii tie" sssstt'tet
typed or electrotypcd.
The machine for making the inden-
tatiOns Consists of a type-wheel and a
cylinder which are run by power at the
OF go TO 300 revolutions minute. The
type-wheel confirms alphatS of harden
ed steel types. la the cylinder are a
series of bars, each bar being arranged
to operate upon particular type. The
bars are operated by II series OF keyS-a
cross between typewriter keys and the
keys of y piano each key being letter
I'd ami working upon a particular bar.
Tue bar, until set in motion, remains
at rest in the revolving cylinder. When
key is pressed il operates upon the cor
responding bar, causing it to pass upon
a beyelled plate or cam. As the bar
passes along the surface of the cam, 1t
comes in contact with the paper, and by
pressing it upon the type makes the in
tIentatiOn. While thus held between
the bar and the type thepaper is carried
along so as to bring the indentatiOn out
of the way and place the paper in posi-
ton for the next letter. To provide for
giving each letter its proper space the
bars are made of different widths; the
bar for the letter "W,n for instance, be-
ing quite wide, while that for the letter
APP is quite narrow. The whole opera
ton is so rapid that some 500 LEI
tiers can be printed in minute. A
uniform depth of indentation is secured
rs the cam, being fixed and solid, Is
positive in its action, and presses the
bars on the paper and type uniformly,
while a fixed guard prevents any one
letter being indented deeper than an
other. The indentatations are made
upon a sheet, for the convenience OF
what printers call Classification" or
even spacing, and correction. The
indented strip is first proof read, and
as errors are found the words, or in,
csrrect portions of words, are marked
on the strip, and also written correct
" ON a slip of paper. The words
on the slip are then lndented
on another piece of strip by the same
machine, or by any other having the
proper font of type; this strip OF cor
rections is run in the justifying appar-
stus by the side of the original strip
which is being justified, and as the
marked words are reached they are cut
out and the corrected words, when
come out in order, are cut off and put
i'm their places. In this manner whole
paragraphs, when omitted, can be
readily inserted, and the operation per-
formed with rapidity and accuracy.
Justification, which has been a bugbear
with all typewriting or, type-matr,ce
machines, Is said to be especiaa,my
easy and perfect in this pro fess. Inc
operator on the justifylng apparatus,
by means of guide at the side of the
strip, can instantly tell where to elt the
strip for line; and if it is necessary TO
/ spread the words he sewers the strip DE-
tween each word, and spreads them oat
| to fill the line as he runs in the form.
If the end of the line should come in the
middle of the word an indented hyphen
is cut from a strip of hyphens which Is
run in a third groove and added to the
line.
The EIeetrofyps.PIate.
The form when complete Is stree
typed or electrotyped. There are sew.
eral rapid and inexpensive methoos %
doing this which have no special CON-