The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-23
NEW USE FOR TAPE.
A Type-Setting Machine Which Can Re
Worked by Electricity.

NEW USE FOR TAPE.
A Type-Setting Machine Which Can b
Worked by Electricity.
A novel machine, which is intended
NO. only 10 set type automatically, but
To correct all errors before the type is
set. has been invented by stenograph-
er of this city. and patents have been
issued 10 cover all its vital principles.
The machines hitherto made to set
type have all had 4 KEY board, before
which the operator sat, and by touch
ing the keys caused the type TO drop
a. wanted from reservoirs through
guiding tubes into the stick or galley
made 10 hold them, thus setting the
matter in one continuous line. which
an assistant broke up into short lines
To fiji the newspaper column or book
page. - desired. In the Stenographer'
machine the operator prepares a tape
which is run through machine which
sets the type automatically.
! In preparing the tape the operator
sits AT key board, which can be ar
ranged like the KEY board of either of
! the common typewriters. When KEY
representing letter is touched the act
punches three holes in a line across the
tape. The three holes are ALWAYS i'm a
I line with each other, but they are in
: different places ON the line. according
10 the letter represented. Thus the
letter \ could BE- represented by three
holes like these:
and the letter b by these:
Every time letter is punched the
tape iS moved along certain distance
before another letter Is punched This
distance depends on the width of the
letter. Thus. if the tape is moved
along one-fOurth of an inch when the
letter Is punched out, il would be
moved along onc-half inch when the
letter m l. punched out, because the
letter III Il twice aS wide a. the letter e.
Spaces between words and all sorts of
type character are allowed for i'm this.
WAY. As the tape runs out of the
punching machine an assistant meas
ures il off with a rule which is divided
up in sections which represent every
type character. The whole length of
the rule represents the length of line
Of type to tit the page or column de-
sired. When the end of the rule lands
near the end of word 80 that by
thin spacing the remaining letters
would 20 into the line. enough holes
representing the ordinary thick spaces
between words are filled and replaced !
by other holes representing thin spaces,
Nh lfihRu 9ras III 'letu.l S16-c6nrI arr. nj N
word is TO De divided a line of holes |.
representing the hyphen is punched |
in between the Syllabies, and I
then holes representing spaces are
changed until the rule shows that the
line i exactly spaced out. As the
spacing is done automatically the I
lines must all bc of the same length, I
and thus the presSman will never be
obliged to insert a ''Dutchman" to
make form lift
The tape is read by copy for errors.
The lines of holes which represent /
wrong letters are filled. the correct !
holes are punched. and the holes rep |
rcSenting spaces are changed until the /
line is exactly full. When words are !
left out the tape is cut apart and !.
heightened and the holes punched in. T.
Double words are corrected by filling
half the holes. At the end of each !
line Il row of holes representing a
quad to- separate the lines for conven-
fence in handling is inserted. Then |.
the tape is run through a machine |
which makes another tape with dupli- |
cate lines of holes, the lines being at a !
uniform distance from each other. This I
tape is used TO set the type.
Each type character has reservoir, !
and the reservoirs are placed side by |
side. \ series of pointers are ar .
ranged 10 simultaneously fly 1T the |
bottom type in each reservoir. but a |
series of ten narrow, thin steel plates |
intervene between the points and the I
type. These plates have rows of little |
holes i'm them, and under certain cir
cumstance the holes get into such a
position that one of the pointers passes
through the plates and knocks type |
out of lis reservoir. The type |
slides down shoot and lands |
i'm the .'stick" that is ready to
receive ii. The tape, by means of an !
electric current. controls the little steel /
plates. When the tape is put into the 1
type-setting machine it passes over a !
steel roller and under row of ten steel
fingers. The roller Is connected with !
a battery. As the type passes over the
roller the fingers find the rows of holes .
and drop into them. Each finger is !
connected with a magnet, and each /,
magnet with one of the ten narrow |
steel plates that keep the pointers from
reaching the type in the reservoirs. !
When a row of holes in the tape repre-
senting a character passes under the |
fingers the fingers above the holes drop |
down on the cylinder, current of |
electricity passes To- the magnets, and |
the magnets. thus influenced, draw |
such a combination of the little plates |