A Removable Sliding Bar that can be Temporarily Fixed to Chases used in Printing and similar Industries.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1891-Accepted. 19th Sept.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Removable Sliding Bar that can be Temporarily Fixed to Chases
used in Printing and similar Industries.
WILLIAM STEPHEN WARREN, of 61 Brayard Road, Peckham, London,
Compositor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:—
An apparatus for using an unfixed sliding bar in any part of a chase used in
printing, stereotyping, electrotyping, or any similar industry, consisting of movable
end pieces, herein called slides or runners, temporarily attached to a chase by a pin,
stud, tongue, groove, screw, or in any other way that a movable slide or runner
may be temporarily fixed to a chase, the said slide or runner having a groove
through it in which the sliding bar moves.
Dated this Seventh day of November 1890.
WILLIAM STEPHEN WARREN.
COMPLET
SPECIFICATION.
A Removable Sliding Bar that can be Temporarily Fixed to Chases
used in Printing and similar Industries.
I, WILLIAM STEPHEN WARREN, of 61 Brayard Road, Peckham, London,
Compositor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention has reference to all classes of letterpress printers' chases, and its
object is to provide a means whereby all chases in which it is inconvenient or
impossible to use fixed bars can be fitted with a bar or bars which shall be used as
part of the furniture," and which shall move with the "furniture" as the forme
is being "locked up," and give a strength and security to the forme that it could
not have if "locked up" without a bar.
In the drawings hereunto annexed
Figure 1 is a general view showing the end pieces (called slides or runners) with
the sliding bar and a section of the rim of a chase.
Figure 2 is a section of the end pieces and sliding bar.
This invention consists of an end-piece herein called a slide or runner, a general
view of which is shown in Fig. 1, and its use is to supply a means whereby a bar
may be kept in any required position in any part of a chase. This end-piece may
be made in any convenient shape; for example, it might be made with a tongue
instead of a groove, and the ends of the bar could be made with grooves instead of
tongues, but the shape I prefer is that shown in Fig. 1. This end-piece. slide, or
runner may be made of any suitable material, preferably metal, and may be either
cut from the solid material or produced by casting. The end-piece, slide, or runner
may be of any suitable size, but the size I find most convenient, is, on the side
marked A in Fig. 1, five-eights of an inch; on the side marked B, half an inch;
and on the side marked C, five-eighths of an inch This end-piece, slide, or runner
is attached to the inner rim of the chase by means of the pin or stud shown at D
in Fig. 1. This pin or stud may be of any suitable size or shape; but the size I
find most convenient is, half an inch long and a quarter of an inch in diameter. In
whatever part of a chase it may be desired to place a bar a hole must be drilled in
the inside of the rim, as shown at F, of a size to exactly fit the pin or stud, and
another similar hole must be made in the opposite rim of the chase. Into these
holes are inserted the pins or studs of the end-pieces, slides, or runners, and the
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page_text: tongues of the sliding-bar, as shown at E in Fig. 1, are inserted in the grooves of
the end-pieces, slides, or runners. The sliding bar may be made of any suitable
material and size; but the material I find most suitable is wrought or cast iron, and
the size five-eighths of an inch square, the length varying according to the size of
the chase to be fitted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the sante is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is:
First. The means substantially as described and illustrated in the drawing for
inserting and keeping in position a movable bar or bars in chases used in printing
and kindred industries.
Second. The use of end-pieces as a means of supporting movable bars in chases,
such end-pieces to be attached to the rim of the chase by means of a pin, stud,
tongue, groove, screw, or in any other way that such end-pieces could be attached
to a chase.
Dated this 28th day of Jul 1901