The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-12-10

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succession passed.
The ERASER and the "Brackelbers
were similar in construction. with some
unimportant improvements
A machine invented by DR.. Meckie
of Warrington. England, was i'll use
in that country for quite a while. 1t
was worked like the others on the
piano key principle, but there It's SIM
ilarity ended. The process was very
elaborate and the action purely auto
matte. being governed by strips OF per
forated paper. 1t consisted of two
parts-thc pcrforator and the composer,
The perforator was a tiny Instrument
consisting of fourteen keys. by means
of which narrow strips of paper were
perforated. This passed over drum
and when certain pegs reached their
proper pcrforator they pushed out Il
| type.
The ''matrix compositor' was intro
duced by its inventor. !. f. Sweat. in
1867. 1t was designed to form mold
or matriN to stereotype from, thus
aholishing movable types. BY operat-
ing on the keys impressions were made
of the letters required in thick, soft
paDer from which plates were cast.
The e Codgnola' was a machine
for casting type. but both of these last
were signal failures.
Almost every machine invented mad
automatic distributors, all made to
work on similar principles-that is, the
lines of type passed along channel to
number of levers. Each letter had
its own particular number of hicks.
and the hicks placed at different places
and distances on the back of the type.
Each type passed along the channel
until it came to the lever which CORE
sponded to its hicks. when the lever
caused it to drop into its allotted chan
mel The type was set out of these
channels An automatic machine
worked by clockwork was introduced
in Germany in 1879. It entirely failed
for the reason that it had no automatic
distributor. 1t took three men to sup
ply type for one machine. It was Won
derfully ingenious however. Space
will not permit me to give a description
of its mechanism.
The Manifold" invented by Dr..
Alexander Mackie, was for setting
head lines for books. etc. Each letter
was placed in rows on the fiat and run
into brass tubes. When a line had to
be set many times the tube with the
first letter needed was placed on a gal
ley, then the next and so on. When
all the words We're set the tubes We're
Withdrawn. Distribution was per-
formed by reversing the operation.
The "Kastenbein' was used for years
on the London Times. the operator set
ting up the type as the copy was read
to him by telephone from the House of
Commons. Colts machine was another
| ingenious device.
A machine which created a great stir
on its introduction was the Hooker,
which appeared in 1880 This machine
had neither keys nor buttons. AS in
most other machines the types were
contained in troughs. and We're extract
ed by the opening of a small trough.
which allowed them to fall upon NOV
ing tapes that carried them to collec-
tor TO be built in continuous line to
be justified by hand. The discharge of
the letter was caused by an electric
current passing through electro ma @
nets corresponding to the troughs. A
wire from the battery brought the cleo
trio current to the hand of the compost
fH,t -1a h at 1,+o
with his stylus and completed the cir
cult through the electro-magnet CORE
! spending to the letter required.
This machine was followed by the
| Tagerman, and later by the Windsor.
for which a speed of $4,000 per hour
was claimed. The composer and dis
tributor were separate. In the distri.
| button the types were driven along sin
| ely until they reached their own siding
when they were shunted into it ont of
the way. When full they were cleared
into other slips and hung on hooks till
the composer wanted them, when they
were emptied into the case, from which
they were shot by touching a key out
on band. which carried them to a
metal landing place, where they were
collected by means of an iron finger
and LAUGHED to another band. on which
they rode for a few inches on their
sides. Another contrivance took every
type gently and put it on its back, nick
uppermost. Presently the line reached
a stick and was justified as if set by
hand.
| "A machine was announced some time
| ago, but of which we hear no more,
that was to set type by electricity. A
! tape was prepared which ran through
| the machine and passed over a steel
roller and under row of ten steel
fingers. and by the rows of holes pre-
pared in the tape electro magnet com
munication is set up. Correction could
be made in the tapes
| Many other machines have been in
vented. all following in some particular
the general lines laid out in the fore
going. Those enumerated. however,
will give an idea of what stupendous
efforts were made by mechanical ge-
| muses. to supersede the hand compost
tor Only two or three of them have
succeeded in coming into general use,
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