Improvements in Special or Late News Type Boxes for Printing Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 16th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Special or Late News Type Boxes for Printing
Machines.
I, CHRISTOPHER TOWLER, of 177, Preston New Road, Blackburn, in the County
of Lancaster, Newspaper District Manager, 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:-
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This invention relates to an improved construction of box for automatically
fixing special or late news type that is required to be set up in place of or after
the ordinary news type has been set.
The object of my invention is to reduce the time necessary.for preparing and
setting up the type after the reception of the special or late news. In the accom-
panying drawing, Fig. 1 is a plan view of my improved box, and Fig. 2 is a
transverse section of the same through line A A. Fig. 3 is an ordinary slug
such as is produced in a linotype machine. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the
aforesaid box. In these views similar letters refer to similar parts.
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In this invention I construct a box as a that may be employed in a printing
machine either in combination with a stereotype plate, or a printing cylinder,
or the like, according to the arrangement of the printing machine in use; I line
one end of said box with a slab of india rubber as b, and at the opposite end I
fit a sliding plate that is also lined on the face with a slab of india rubber as c:
said sliding plate is confined within limits by fixed top plates as c and e; a
wedge plate placed between the interior end of the box a and the sliding
plate keeps said plate in its normal position: a stud p fitted at either end of
the plate and sliding into holes formed in the end plate of the box a keeps the
plate d vertical when the wedge plate f is withdrawn which may be effected
by pincers inserted in the cut out portions g. In combination with the afore-
said box, I employ slugs as j on which the type for the special or late news has
been formed in a linotype machine, and place said slugs with their ends pressed
between the aforesaid india rubber slabs b and c distance or separating pieces
may be employed to regulate the distance between the slugs.
Any number of slugs may be placed in the box simultaneously, and auto-
matically fixed by the compression of the herein before described india rubber
slabs on to the ends of said slugs. By these means the type for printing the
special or late news is quickly and readily applied. When it is required to
withdraw the slugs from the box, the wedge plate f is pulled up by pincers
being placed in the grooved portions g.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my
said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is:-
1st. In rotary printing machines the use of a special or late news type box,
constructed to retain automatically linotype slugs or the like by elastic end com-

page_text: pression in the manner and for the purpose substantially as herein before
described.
2nd. In rotary printing machines the use of a special or late news type box
constructed so as to place therein either one slug or any number of slugs simul-
taneously and be retained automatically by elastic compression on the ends of
said slugs.
day or April 1898.
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.