Character Supplying Device for Type or Matrix-setting Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Character Supplying Device for Type or Matrix-setting Machines.
I, HUBERT BURG, of Mollkirch, near Rosheim, in the Province of Alsace,
Germany, Clergyman, 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:-
The object of this invention, is an improvement in the invention described in
my Patent No. 18718 of 1896, and illustrated in Figures 30, 31, 32 of the
drawings annexed to the description. This patent referred to a character
supplying device for the type channels of composing machines in which the
types delivered by a distributing machine or casting machine, slide down to the
assembling spot in the upper level of the type column of the type channel, on a
guide which moves upwards and downward, for the purpose of keeping the type
channel constantly filled during the setting. The arrangement mentioned in
that patent is so far deficient that the types upon reaching the assembling spot
do not always take the proper position, and the cause of this deficiency is that
the type channels and the guide stand vertically, or nearly so, and the types are
not constantly kept in contact with the guide by their own weight.
The improvement here described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 5 consists in
giving the type channels a considerably more inclined, or also a horizontal
position. In this manner, the types by their own weight alone remain in constant
contact with their guide, slide down surely into their end position and adjust
themselves uniformly to the line without any necessity for a roller.
Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the improved supplying device with the type
channels in an inclined position.
The upwards and downwards moving guide consists of the rail or bar 4 guided
between the bottom 1 and the sides 2, 3, of the type channel. The front (fore)
end of this rail or bar is rounded off or sloped (made oblique). The bar 4 receives
its oscillating motion owing to the fact that it is alternately carried upwards by
means of friction through the agency of the constantly rotating shaft 6 which
is furnished with a rough additional piece or projection 5 and then lowered by
gravity in order again to rest by its lower end on the uppermost letter of the
column of letters.
In Figure 1, the type sliding down on the upper edge of the bar 4 and between
the sides 2, 3, overtopping this edge, comes into the position 64, and then upon
the return of the slide (bar), assumes the position 6", which moreover it can also
immediately take, if the slide is at once drawn back upon the arrival of the type,
and finally when the slide descends is properly adjusted.
In the same manner is the action of the guide in Figure 2, the only difference
from Figure 1 being that in Figure 1 the types stand vertically, in Figure 2 on
the contrary, obliquely to the longitudinal direction.
Figure 3 shows a modification of Figures 1 and 2, which is capable of being
easily understood. The bar 4 here projects beyond the sides 2, 3, and is furnished
with metal plate sides 23, 3, (metal plates at the sides); these project beyond
the upper edge of the slide and thus in conjunction therewith form the guide.

page_text: Between the metal plates 2*, 3*, an oblique plate 7 may be arranged which
secures the passage of the type on to the obliquely formed end of the bar when
the type channels are strongly inclined against the horizontal.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate the improved supplying apparatus with the type
channels in horizontal or slightly inclined position.
In Figure 4, the slide 4', which is made oblique in front (forward) and is
guided between the bottom 1' and the sides of the channels 21, 31, carries an
arm 8 which is directed obliquely upwards. This arm in conjunction with
upward projecting side metal plates 9, 10, forms a channel c. The slide 41
receives its oscillating motion from rotating shafts by means of friction, as
previously described, and either in both directions or only in one direction, the
return motion (forward movement) being effected by means of a weight.
The types coming from the distributing machine, or the casting machine, are
conducted to the channel e by means of a loosely suspended (swinging) gulley
arrangement 12, the outlet end of which slides in the channel c when the latter
together with the slide 4' swings backwards and forwards (to and fro).
In Figure 5, a bar 13 is linked to the slide 4" which, like that illustrated in
Figure 4, is guided to and fro. This bar slides with a slot 14 on a fixed pin 15.
The gulley 16 running from the distributing machine or from the casting
machine, discharges above the pin. The sides 21, 31, of the channel are raised
in such a manner that the bar 13 is constantly embraced sideways by them in
its various oblique positions up to and including the end position indicated by
dotted lines.
In the channel so formed by the bar 13 and the sides 21, 31, the conducted
type slides down and, upon the slide 4" moving forward to the left, is for the
time being (or at the time) placed in proper position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is: -
1. A modification of the supplying device for composing machines described in
Patent No. 18718 of 1896, in which the types slide down towards the assembling
spot on a guide which is moved to and fro in the type channel, the distinguishing
feature being that the type channel is inclined from the horizontal in such a
manner that the types can slide down on the guide by reason of their own weight
being simultaneously however kept by their own weight in certain contact with
the obliquely shaped or rounded off lower end of the guide, until they reach the
assembling spot and are guided into their end (final) position.
2. A modification of the supplying device for composing machines-described
in Patent No. 18718 of 1896, in which the types slide down to the assembling
spot, on a guide which is moved to and fro in the type channel, the distinguishing
feature being that the type channel is placed horizontally, or only slightly inclined
from the horizontal, whilst a slide which moves to and fro in the channel is
firmly or movably connected with a more strongly inclined guide on which the
types can slide down to the assembling spot by gravity, and with which they
remain in certain contact during the whole course of their passage.
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CATA
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Hubert Burg.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Hubert Burg.