The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16
TYPE-SETTlNG MACHINE.
The Ingenious Invention OF Well-known
American Stcnographer.


The Ingenious Invention OF q Weu-known
American StcnoSrapher.
James E. Munson, a stenographer.
gave an exhibition not long ago Of an
automatic type-setting machine. Mr..
Munson's apparatus is complete
novelty, inasmuch as it runs the type
into the galleys fully justified ana
corrected, some thing never before
accomplished by a type-setting ma
chine. The primary principles of Mr..
Munson's invention are speed and the
possibility Of justifying and correcting
the type before it goes into the galleys.
In order to accomplish the justifying
and correcting Mr.. Munson has per-
fected keyboard, which, made like
that OF an ordinary typewriter,
perforates a strip of paper OF about tbs
width used in the Wheatstone tele-
graph system. The perforations con-
sists of various combinations OF letters
based upon an alphabetical principle
invented by Mr.. Munson. Although
only IT'S combinations are needed,
LOIS can be made upon the keyboard
if necessary. When the paper leaves
the perforating machine the letters
ace so far apart that a strip 153 inches
long represents one line in a column OF
printed matter. The operator of the
machine goes over this strip with
fiue rule and sees that the divisions of
words and spaces come to the end of
the line correctly. If they do Tot he
has perforating hand tool with which
he sspaces OUT the characters so that
they justify on the paper strip.
When he has finished justifying the
strip it is run through another machine
at a high rate OF speed and the perfo-
rated characters are brought so close
together that four inches Of paper
represent one line in a aprinted column.
This strip is then put into the type
setting machine proper. This IS an
electric motor, with a sharp-pointed
armature connected with magnets rep
resenting the characters on the paper.
AS the armature passes through the
perforations in the paper connection is
made with rods over the magnets,
which in their consequent action drop
type into a groove upon a rapidly
revolving platform, by which it is
carried instantly to pick-ups, which in
turn put it upon a supporting rail. 1t
is then carried automatically to the
galley and dumped fully justified and
corrected. In the exhibition Mr..
Munson used the Thorne type-setter
and distributor in connection with his
automatic apparatus, which can be ap-
piled. he says, to any type-setting
machine now in use. It is, capable Of
setting from 5000 to $4,000 ems per
hour. The machine is not yet perfect,
but Mr. Munson believes it soon will
be in practical operation.
An important feature in connection
with the invention is that verbatim re-
ports can be made upon any number of
perforated slips ct time, and a slip
supplied to each newspaper having
one of the machines. Furthermore,
the slips can be run through an auto
matte telegraph machine in Washing
ton and fac-similes forwarded to any
point in the country directly to the
newspapers, thus saving delay in
handling matter by the ordinary Morse
telegraph and in composition. Mr..
Munson hopes to be able to use COM
pressed air as a motive power and to
In short time.-N. z. Times.