Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-10-02
type MACHINE
now INSTALLED
Style Two Simplex Typssstting Ma
chine Added to the Chronicle
Plant Plans for Better
News Service.
DESCRIPTION OF the MACHINE

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Il The Chronicle has at last got it's
type setting machine installed.
The type in this weeks paper is all
set by the new machine, and as
soon as plans can be arranged our
news service will be greatly in
creased. The Chronicle now has
one of the best equipped country
newspaper Offices in the state and
with all the proposed improvements
in the news service it will rank
with the best of North Dakota S
weekly newspapers.
We will add a large number of
county correspondents and in time
will have every locality in the
county represented. With the ma
chine we can double our output of
news matter and get it up in much
better shape.
As this machine is one of the first
to be installed in this part of the
country, description Of its method
of working will be of interest to
the many readers Of the paper.
With almost human intelligence
the Simplex sets each separate piece
of type and at the same time dis
tributes the letters in such a man
ner that there is absolutely no way
of making a mistake. It is the
only machine ever invented that
sets the separate pieces ofsbype and
uses the same type over and over
again. All other inventions Of this
kind require at some time during
the process the casting Of the char
acters in hot metal either in one
piece, making a whole line, or else
each separate letter.
AS may be seen from the cut of
the Simplex machine on this
page, the mechanism is very SIM
pie. Only one machine is needed
to do the whole work Of setting and
distributing the type. tits attach
ed to gasoline engine and requires
either one or two persons to run it.
The machine consists Of a keyboard
with q key for each character and
large round cylinder Of hollow
grooves containing the type. The
operator sits in front of the key
board and by pressing key, re-
leases piece Of type Of the same
character. A small wire and
spring attaches the groove to the
corresponding character on the key
board and pressing the key pulls
the spring and releases the type.
The piece of metal runs out onto a
rapid revolving metal disc and is
carried in twinkling to the right
Of the operator where another
wheel with many small teeth seizes
the type, whirls it up and drops it
face upward in narrow channel
running across the front of the ma
chine. In this way is produced a
long line Of words. At the left of
the operator is a small brass recep-
tacle called galley, just the width
Of a column in the newspaper.
The long line of type is divided in
to small lines the width of the
paper, correctly spaced out and
mechanically showed into the gally.
The spacing can be done by the op-
orator at the keyboard but in most
offices second person looks after
that part, thereby doubling the
capacity of the machine.
In the matter Of distributing the
type for use again the Simplex is an
even more wonderful invention.
When the type has been used and
the paper printed, the metal is
again put into the small galleys
and is ready for distribution. The
big cylinder is composed of two
parts. The lower part which holds
the type is stationary and does not
move. The upper part is the dis.
tributor and revolves. The turn
Of q wheel sets the upper part in
motion and each line Of type from
the galley, which is snapped into