Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-14
Wonderful MaChiery
Some Albany Publishers Visit Brook
lyn 10 See LII.
An Exhibition of the Linotype Type
Setting Machine. The PhonO-
graphic Attachment.
Albany q. " Argus.

Albany CN. " Argus.
Last week during the session of the
American newspaper publishers associa-
ton in New York, the ALBANY publishers
| present crossed over to BROOKLYN and
visited the establishment of the Mezpen-
thales printing company, No. 80 Ryerson
street. Here are to be found on exhibit
ton the presses of the fast printing
supply company of 619 Fourteenth street,
| Washington, D. G., and the linotype type
setting machine, by far the best instru-
ment for the purpose in the market, and
one which is in every way a marvel of
mechanical ingenuity aud skill. II is in
use in the offices of the Louisville Courier
Journal, the New York Tribune, the Chi
company, of Philadelphia. The presses
are of the three kinds required in any
sort of printing. The book press is
intended to ill position midway be-
tween the rotary press and the stop cylin-
der or two revolution machines, combin-
ing the speed of the one with the
excellence of the other. The Fowler
Henkle book press, the one on exhibition,
has an orbit or pathway of somewhat
eiptical form directly beneath
an impression cylinder of the
usual pattern. In the pathway travel
forward continuously several type beds
upon which are placed the forms and
which at the moment of impression pass
beneath the impression by Under perfl Ct
ly fat. The press shown yesterday at
the faotory prints thirtytwo pages at a
time. The paper is fed from a web or
reel placed at the rear of the impression
cylinder, and when the machine has made
one revolution and the paper has re-
celved the impression of the first sixteen
pages of the signature" or section, it
then passes over reverser, by which it
is turned and led back over the impress
sion cylinder beneath which If now re.
enters on the right hand side of the press
and parallel with the first side, where
it receives the impression of the other
six cen pages. The card and job press
is a small machine, consisting of an
ELI Ltical orbit in which are placed tour
or more type beds, driven forward by
means of gearing placed within the or
bit end beneath the impression cylinder.
The card or paper may be fed into the
press in any one of three ways-from
an endless web; by means OF an automat-
ic card feed at high rate of speed
varying from 1000 to 1920 per minute;
IN the ordinary manner, by hand. The
advantages claimed for this press are It's
great speed and adaptability, 1t being
possible to print four different cards or
jobs at once, each vaying in size
and each job delivered in separate
pile. The newspaper press, operat-
ing on the same general plan, is capable
of printing from fat plates of type, if de-
sired, and folding at high rate of speed,
10 h0t of ha ~ lu-
ing or rotary presses, and can be oper-
ated by much less experienced person.
The presses print eight newspaper pages
at a time. The folder is entirely without
takes or reverse motions or movements,
and may be run al much hig her rate of
speed than any other folder without
danger of tearing or shutting the fresh
y printed paper.
The wonder of wonders, however, was
type-setting machine. The young lady
operator touched the keys as rapidly,
almost, as type writer, and into galley
at the left fell the slugs cast in metal,
and, provided the proof was clean, ell
ready for the press. Briefly described
the machine operates as follows: At the
touch of the keys, matrices, not type, fail
from their chambers upon an incline,
whence they slide together. Az the
words are completed compromising
spaces, wedge shaped, are dropped from
above and hang suspended betw them.
When the line is com pleted the matrices
are carried TO the left and down and the
wedges forced up. AS they are compen-
sating they are squeezed into the proper
thickness aud com pletely fill the line, and
in an instant the line is. justified with
perfect accuracy. The matrices then go
on step lower, and hot N etal is auto
matically run in and with a click the
finished line drops into galley. The
machine has 70 be seen to be thoroughly
appreciated, as no description can do it
Justice. Of course when there is a mis-
take in the proof the whole line has to be
reset, but that can be done more quickly
than type can be lifted and changed by
a composItor in the old way. The forty
machines in the Tribune Office are Kept
in repair by one man. The company
charges 81, 900 for machine and royal
ty upon the number of ems set. Last week
the record was broken in the office of the
Louisville Courier Journal by a man who
set 300, 800 ems and earned $60.18, getting
20 cents a thousand, about one-half the
present rates. The graphophone, which
is a photographic attachment for the
type setting machine, and in way as
wonderful as II, was also exhibited.