The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-19
TT WRITES IN BOOKS.
A NEW TYPEWRITER THAT PRINTS
WELL ON BOUND PAPER.

How 1t Is Adjusted to Use on Bound
Volumes-Upper and Lower Case Let
tiers Used at Will.
A machine for book writing has just
been completed by Crawford Elliott and
W. P. Hatch, inventors, of New York,
which embodies many unique features
and comparison of the new device
with typewriters not adapted for book
work is interesting.
In designing the book writer its max
ers have, wherever possible, adhered to
the principles of construction employed
by manufacturers of other first class
typewriters adapted for writing on loose
pages. The keyboard is small and COM
pact and is known as the universal, the
arrangement Of the letters being the
same as that ON most standard type
writers There are A cellulOid keys
which together represent so characters
The type basket, i'll which the type is
arranged in circular form, is beneath
the fingers of the keys, and is in full
view Of the operator When a key is
depressed, the character attached to it
is forced downward on to the paper and
is brought back again by steel spring
connected with the type bar. The fin
gers of the keys which lead to the type
bars are also steel. The book to be writ
ten in is opened and placed upon table
underneath the machine, which is then
adjusted to the desired height, its posi-
ton depending entirely upon the book S
thickness.
A part of the book writer which is
very conspicuous and which suggests its
special adaptability is long and broad
platen at the bottom, on which each
page of the book rests while the ma
chine is i'll operation. The platen is
hinged at the back and is raised and
lowered to accommodate a new page.
When a leaf is turned over on to the
platen, a metal FRAME also hinged at
the back, is brought down upon the pa
per and holds it securely in place Then
the carriage is lowered and the operator
proceeds the same as on any other type
writer.
Hitherto inventors found difficulty in
obtaining both upper and lower case let
tiers on book typewriter without hay
ing a double keyboard, which was OBJ
jectionable. The idea of using a special
or shift key for that purpose, the same
as is done on several ordinary typewrit-
ers, seemed impracticable On the new
machine, however, the change from
small to large letters, or vice versa, is
readily accomplished, and shift key is
the medium employed. When that key
is struck, a metal disk, situated in the
top and center of the type basket, and
about an inch and half in diameter,
is depressed With the disk in that DO
sition each type that is struck comes in
contact with it, and, without notice
ably checking the movement of the type
bar, the lower case letter is instantly
displaced and an upper case letter sub
stituted. On releasing the keys the let
tiers resume their former places auto
matically,
A serious stumbling block in the way
of making practical look Typewriter
was the supposition that while the writ
ing is being done the machine itself
should remain stationary as do other
typewriters, and the paper to be writ
ten on should move. And that method
has, to some extent, proved successful
as applied to book typewriters when
small and light books were inserted
but large sized books We're found to be
too cumbersome to move freely and bad
work resulted. In the new typewriter
the order of things is reversed, and, in
stead of the paper being moved to ac-
commodate the position of the machine,
the machine itself moves to suit the Do