Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-09-25

on it's merits at this day. Presses
that do the finest printing, from the
bank note or the bond to those that
print the finest picture work, and then
running through all the grades to the
cheapest country presses.
There are different styles of type
setting machines. There has been a
great deal of time and study, and ex-
periments almost without number,
made to get a type-setting machine
which could do the work rapidly and
accurately. Several machines are
shown which show that the thing can
be done. We give a brief description of
two of them. One called Monotype is
seen, which consists of a keyboard sim
ilarto type writer, that in beingIoper-
ated causes the desired letter to drop
into a slot Or channel to be brought
forward in the channel where the
second hand-this machine requires
two operatives-tak out sufficient
length of the set type to make sin
gle line, spacing the line as required.
While we caught on to the principles
and mechanism of this machine a
description will not be necessary.
The other sort of a type-setter is
altogether more wonderful machine
and the work performed is marvellous.
The type is of ordinary sort, except
in the matter Of tnicking," each let
ter having it's own nick, and it is
placed in set Of boxes not greatly
unlike the ordinary printers case.
By simple arrangement the required
letter is allowed to slip out at the
bottom of the box and fall into
channel, the operator having touched
the proper key on his finger board.
The type emerges from the trough
into which it first falls and comes into
the sight of the operator. When
space is required to separate the
words of the line, or to fill the line,
the operator touches the space key
and space drops in to fill the place;
when the line comes out short requir
ing fuller spacing, the space pieces,
which are double wedge, are crowd
ed down till the type fills the line and
is Justified" perfectly. The line is
moving forward all the while and is
tightly gripped on the sides, the space
pieces being pulled up out of the lines
and returned to their proper places. ]
Meanwhile our line which we began
to watch has passed into a machine
and down where there is to be cast
ing process. Some sort of material,
probably thick paper, is brought over
the line and heavy press brought on
i5 which leaves the impress of the
full line in the paper, the type being
forced into the paper to the depth of
a thirty second part of an inch; the
paper then becomes mold contain
ing the impress Of the letters of the
word; this passes forward and under
a place, where just sufficient melted
type metal falls in to make full, solid
and perfect lines of type ready to be
placed in the reading column. While
we have been watching some of the !.
OF the machine line after
line has been dropping into its place all
ready to go to the galley and the press. /
We must look little further and |
see what has become of our line of I
type after it left it's impress in the +
paper matrix; it is moving forward |
in it's channel, and we notice an arm
up above on the higher part of the
machine move forward and down
toward the line. There is something
On the end Of the arm that looks like,
ind serves the purpose Of, hand, or
20 be more exact, fat grippers which
lold tightly and carry to the topmost
part of the machine the line of type
which we have been following; when
he arm and hand reaches the top the
ype is carefully laid in another
rough or channel to be slowly car
led along horizontally toward the
md. We have been wondering what
would be done with our line-we give
lere the exact line which the opera
Or east for s.-'sMergenthale Limo
ype machine, May "a, 1894" Well, it
5 still slowly moving forward in the
rough in which there are are as many
Its or mortices as there are letters
T characters to be used in the print
ng, and while we watch, one by one,
be letters are dropping down through
nd falling into the boxes from which
aey started not a minute before. The !
stter5 and the slots over which they
ass are 50 nicked that the NJ, for in {
lance, cannot drop through any {
5her slot, and SO on through the list; +
very letter passes on till 1t finds it's '