San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-15
A NEW TYPE-SETTING MACHINE
A Berlin Inventor Uses Electricity
and Claims that a Man and a
Boy Can Run Eight Ma.
chimes.

| chimes.
Another machine for setting type
has been invented in Berlin by
Ludwig Bohnen, which composes
iustihes and distributes automati.
cally by means of electrici ty, ant
allows the use of diffe rent fonts O
type, while its speed ises timated al
10, 900 ems per hour. Only one
operator, assisted by boy, is re-
quired for seven or eight machines.
The copy is prepared on a type.
writer, and can be done in a sepa.
rate room. The motive power is
provided by an electric motor Of
about two tenths horse power, ar
ranged beneath the machine.
Any other motive power more
convenient can, however. be en-
ployed. On either side of the ma.
chine galley is adjusted in a
suitable height, one for composition
the other for distribution.
The machine is constructed after
two different models, according to
the manner of operation. One
construction is called the Auto
type" because it accomplishes the
task of composition wholly auto
matically. To this end the copy is
prepared by a sort of typewriter
which, in responding to the opera
ton of the key. board. prints on
paper tape the character desired
and Simultaneously a sort ofspecial
perforation.
When the characters printed in
this way nearly fill line of desired
length, the machine, by a very in
genious device, automatically sup
plies the space necessary for proper
justification, which is completed by
the touch on certain key by the
The copy prepared in
this way permits Of corrections and
alterations, without any difficulty
The other construction, called
the "Plectrotype," permits the
operation of the key board direct
by hand, without the means of
prepared copy. Here also the
key. board may be situated at dis
lance from the machine itself; the
electric current is directed by the
keys to electro magnets responding |
each key and ejecting the respective
characters.
The operation OF the keys is
therefore extremely easy. The
ustifying is entirely automatic, and
The distribution also automatic, is
Effected at the same time the work
Of composition is going on.
The copy being ready for COM
position the tape is introduced into
contact apparatus, which may be
situated at any distance from the
machine, the connection being eff
ected by electric wires. Thus, the
,opy may remain in the editorial
.ooms. while the matter is being set
1p way off.
The machine having been started,
he tape ofcopy rolls off the contact
lpparatus-conuected with the ma
thine by an electric current-and
he perforations effected by the |
typewriter serve to operate the
which in its turn influences
| system ofelectro magnets arrang-
ID in the composing machine in
such way that the characters in
Heated in the copy are elected by
t upon a revolving disc. which
,arries them to the composing gal
ey. In exactly similar manner
he distribution is performed by |
means of the perforated copy.
As these operations are alto
,ether independent of size and char.
lcter of the type used, any font of
ype may be operated on on the
Machine, By the adoption of a
PRACTICAL system of linotypes and
ogotypes the time required for the
'erforation of copy and matter has
,een considerably reduced. As the
distributed matter is available for
resh composition at the very mo-