Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-14
Wonderful Machiery
Same Albany Publishers Visit Brook
Ign TO See 1t.
bibition of the Linotype Type
Setting Machine. The Phone
graphic Attachment
Albany (N. V Argus.

Altdu9 w a y - &c.
rae. week during the session of the
'-ioen newspaper publishers associa
u :, Eew YORK, the Albany publishers
W. crossed over to Brooklyn and
pa he establishment of the Mergen-
80 printing company, No. 80 Ryerson
'+ Hare are to be found on exhibit
So he uresses of the fast printing
W. III, company of 619 Fourteenth street,
95ggPlItnir,top. d. C., and the linotype type
-, machine, by far the best iustru-
80 Tor the purpose in the market, and
49, 1rhich is in every way marvel of
Ol.,hap,eal ingenuity and skill. 1t is in
~ i, The offices of the Louisville Courier
Igr-rol the New York Tribune, the Chi
soTo \ avs, and the Curtis publishing
. .oTonapy. OF Philadelphia. The presses
are of tho three kinds required In any
.,r. NJ printing. The book press Is
Intended to fill position midway be
tween the rotary press and the stop cylln-
aar or two revolution machines, oombin.
inc the speed of the one with the
avoeilence of the other. The Fowler
Heukle book press, the one on exhibition,
has an orbit or pathway of somewhat
eUntieal form directly beneath
an impression cylinder of the
nspal uattern. In the pathway travel
forward continuously several type beds
rnop which are placed the forms and
ubich at the moment of impression pass
beneath the impression cylinder perfC ct
/, fiat. The press shown yesterday at
tbs factory prints thirty-two pages at a
time. The paper is fed from a web or
reel placed at the rear of the impression
cylipder, and when the machine has made
one revolution and the paper has re-
eeIyed the impression of the first sixteen
nsges of the signature" or section, it
then passes over reverser, by which ii
"a turned and led back over the impress
sion cylinder beneath which it now re
enters on the right hand side of the press
and parable. 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
snl teal orbit in which are placed tour
or more type bsds, driven forward by
means of gearing placed within the or
bit and beneath the impression cylinder.
The card or paper may be fed into the
press n any one of three ways-from
an endlees web; by means of an automat-
ic card feed at high rate of speed
varying from 1000 to 1900 per minute
in the ordinary manner, by hand. The
advantages claimed for this press are its
great peed and sdaptability, 1t being
possible 20 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.
II costs but a fraction of the type revolv
ing or rotary presses, and can be oper-
atad by a much less experienced person.
The presses print eight newspaper pages
a. q time. The folder is entirely without
takes or reverse motions or movements,
and may be run al much higher rate of
speed than any other folder without
danger Of tearing or shutting the fresh
]! printed paper.
The wonder of wonders, however, was
type-setting machine. The young lady
operator touched the keys as rapidly,
almost, as a type writer, and into galley
at the left fell the slugs cast in metal,
and provided the proof was clean, all
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. a. the
words are completed com pensating
spaces, wedge shaped, are dropped from
above and harg suspended bet wesn them.
When the line is completed the matrices
are carried 10 the left and down and the
wedges forced up. As they are oompen-
'aiIug they are squeezed into the proper
thickness and completely fill the line, and
ln an Instant the line is. justified with
perfect accuracy. The matrices then go
On a step lover, and not II etal is auto
natealiy run in and with q click the
nnlaaed line drops into galley. The
machine has to be seen TO be thoroughly
appreciated, as no description can DO it
justice, OF course when there is a mis-
hhe Va the proof the whole line has TO be
reset, bnt that can be done more quickly
'Aeh a type can be lifted and changed by
aeomposltor n the old way. The forty
machines ~ the Tribune office are kept
w. repair by one man. The company
cnA'ge- $1,000 for a machine and royal
u! upon the number of ems set. Last week
we record was broken in the office of the
Louisville Courier journal by man who
ne. sNO 800 ems and earned $6O18, getting
-' cents a thousand, about one-half the
present rates. The graphophone, which
Photographic attachment for the
!Pt -e'lug machine, and in a way IS
"-Iaerful as 1t, was also exhibited.