The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-07
A GREAT TYPEWRITER
IS ON EXHIBITION
A Wonder Machine Now on EXhibi-
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ton in the Electric City.
"A noseless typewriter--the first
of its kind ever made and which is
being exhibited and described now
for the first time-is an added at
traction at the Industrial EXhibi-
tion this week in Scranton. This
demonstration for the benefit of
visitors to the show was made pos
sible through Colonel L. A. Watres,
who is a personal friend of the prin-
cipal promoters of the company,
which in few weeks will begin the
manufacture of the machine at
Middletown, Conn, where a plant
is already installed.
In Scranton demonstrating the
only complete model which has as
yet been built are E. L. c. Clarke
and w. II. Kidder, the latter son
of the inventor of the machine,
whose home is in Boston. Mr..
Kiddler does the practical operat-
ing and supplies all comers with all
information.
Besides being noiseess, the type
writer is also of the visible type,
and it has a score of other advan-
tages which ought to come to the
aid of the poor, overworked steno-
grapher party. In appearance the
typewriter is somewhat different
from the common kind. 1t is, for
the most part, enclosed. only the
slender kcy-bars darting out from
a hooded shield, like fangs of the
cobra. This enclosed idea, the
proprietors say, makes the machine
absolutely dust-proof
But it is the actual printing. not
in the appearance, that the machine
is said to excel. The long-arm bar,
so familiar to the girls, which trav-
els in a larg arc and then smites
the paper in the face, is done away
with. Here, in the new Noseless,
we have what in puglistiC circles
would be termed the short-arm jolt,
the bar shooting out horizontally to
the paper from the forward top part
of the machine-straight out from
the shoulder, so to speak. And this
short arm, which is made OF firm,
rigid steel, does not directly thump
it's impression on the paper. On
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bully. The arm reaches out to the
face of the paper like dart of
lightning, but just as it touches
the paper it stops momentarily and
then, though little jigger which
mechanics call cam" which is
located in the rear of the type bar,
the face of the type is pressed
gently against the paper and makes
the impression.
Through this invention, no mat
ter how hard or how lightly the
keys are struck, the impression on
the paper is exactly the same for
all the type, giving an even line
which heretofore has depended up
on the even touch of the typist.
The alignment also must of ne
cessity be perfect, as there are GER
tain set grooves which lead the type
to the paper and, when it comes to
making corrections, Mr.. Kdder
showed that it is possible to write
a line, take the paper out of the ma
chine, reinsert the paper and then
re write that same line exactly over
the original.
NlolSo Iilt lyp 10 HOJ ue-
pendent upon the roller for making
an impression, but makes it on in
destructibe printing paten, which
backs up the paper. The roller is
simply for working the paper
around. Another feature is in man
fold work in which it is said the
machine has the lead of anything
heretofore created. AS uniformity
in impression is one of the strong
points of the machine, so this same
idea is carried out in the manifold
work. By an arrangement in the
front, the machine can be adjusted
for the use of from one to twenty
sheets of paper, and by this same
mechanism, the impression on even
single sheet of paper can be made
either strong or light.