Improvements in Type Casting Machines for Preventing Overthrust of the Type-ejecting Follower and for Delivering Serpentine Bodies Nested.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Type Casting Machines for Preventing Overthrust
of the Type-ejecting Follower and for Delivering Serpentine
Bodies Nested.
I, CHARLES R. MURRAY, of Marquette Building, Dearborn Street, the City
of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois, in the United States of America,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
One purpose of this invention is to effect improvements in machines for cast-
ing type of the general class commonly known as Perfecting Machines" in
which the type body is formed by the deposit of metal in a cavity which is
bounded on two opposite sides by fixed cheeks, the other two opposite sides
being bounded, one by a plate or wall which is moved in the plane of that side
to uncover the cavity, and the other by a plunger or follower which is thrust
through the cavity to eject the cast body therefrom when the first-mentioned
movable side is withdrawn to uncover the cavity at that side, the ends of the
cavity being closed in the customary way by the gate through which the metal
is ejected at the foot and the matrix which forms the impression face or the
blank block which is employed when casting slugs or other non-printing type
bodies.
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Another purpose of this invention is to adapt a type-casting machine of the
general character above indicated to cast type bodies which are longitudinally
serpentine in the plane of the runningwise dimension, and deliver them with
their serpentine faces abutting, or in a condition commonly described as
"nested."
The necessity for the first part of this invention is indicated by a difficulty
which has been encountered in the use of such machines hitherto, arising from
the fact that when the machine has been adjusted while cold, so that the follower
will perfectly eject the cast and not protrude itself beyond the margin of the
cavity from which it ejects the type, it is found that after the machine has been
in operation for a little time and the parts become warm, diminishing the
friction which resisted the thrusting movement of the follower when the adjust-
ment was made, and which caused more or less springing of the lever arm by which
the follower is actuated, the lever arm is not sprung so much, or perhaps
not at all, in performing its work, and the full stroke of the arm is operative to
give a thrusting movement to the follower, and the follower is liable to be thrust
further than when the machine was first adjusted and to be protruded beyond
the margin of the mold cavity, and thus be exposed in the path of the opposite
side wall or of the gripper which is moved transversely to carry away the cast
type, and being thus protruded is encountered and is liable to be marred by

page_text: the encounter, the corner being frequently torn off or blunted, resulting in the
production of imperfect castings thereafter.
For this part of my invention, therefore, I employ a follower or thrust-bar
forming the fourth side of the type-cavity arranged to be retracted by a spring
suitably connected to it and to any fixed part of the frame of the machine;
and to limit the retracting action of the spring upon the follower at the correct
position of the latter, I provide a stop on the frame and a corresponding stop
shoulder on the follower or a part rigid therewith, one of these cooperating
stops being accurately adjustable to determine the exact position to which the
spring shall retract the follower; and on the follower, or a part positively con-
nected thereto, I provide a stop arranged to collide with a stop fixed on the
frame of the machine in the ejecting movement of the follower, one of these
cooperating stops being made accurately adjustable to determine the exact
point at which the thrusting or ejecting movement of the follower shall be thus
arrested. To actuate the follower or thrust-bar, I provide a lever fulcrumed on
the frame and engaging the follower at one end and at the other end having an
abutment located in the path of rotation of a cam projection by which it is
encountered at proper time to cause the lever to be rocked on its fulcrum and
to give to the follower, positively, the thrusting or ejecting movement, this
movement being limited by the stop last mentioned, and the follower being
retracted by the spring to the first-mentioned stop. The cam projection, or the
abutment on the lever which it encounters, may be made adjustable, and will
be adjusted so as to give to the follower an adequate movement to cause it at
all times to give the full ejecting thrust; and if, in order to accomplish this
when the parts are cold and working with difficulty, the lever is slightly sprung,
the relaxation of the parts upon becoming warmed, permitting the lever to act
-without-the-frictional resistance_which would spring it, will not afford oppor-
tunity for it to be thrust farther than the stop, said stop operating-as-a-positive.
resistance at the end of the stroke and causing the lever to be sprung at that
stage the same amount that it was sprung by the resistance due to friction under
the conditions existing when the adjustment was first made. Thus, an over-
thrust is at all times prevented and perfect action of the parts secured.
With respect to the second purpose of my invention, it should be remarked
that the castings to be produced, being designed for compressible spaces for
use in type composition, are required to be serpentine in the direction of the
runningwise dimension, being rectilinear in the other direction; and for the
purpose of this part of my invention, therefore, I construct the two opposed
checks of the type mold in the serpentine form which the cast is desired to have,
and the follower or thrust-bar, which is to be advanced between the cheeks
to eject the casting, is formed in cross-section perfectly corresponding to the
cross-section of the space between the cheeks, that is, to the longitudinal section
of the type in a plane parallel to the non-serpentine faces. The dimension of
the type cavity, which is measured by the distance between the serpentine faces
of the cheeks and by the thickness of the follower, being the runningwise
dimension, the length of thrust of the follower being the bodywise dimension,
when the follower is thrust through the cavity it ejects the casting in the
direction of the bodywise dimension, and it is received by the gripper between
jaws of the serpentine form of the casting, and is carried away by the gripper
in the direction of the bodywise dimension, which is that of the planes of the
rectilinear faces of the casting. At the end of the travel of the gripper, it halts
with the casting at the upper end of a throat which has the transversely ser-
pentine form of the casting: and the latter being released from the gripper jaw
is forced by a follower into such serpentine throat, through which it moves in
the direction of the bodywise dimension. Said throat at the bottom ends in a
horizontal channel, into which projects a lip or finger of a reciprocating feed-
bar. Suitable mechanism is provided to actuate the feed-bar, and so timed that
the latter shall be at the inward limit of its movement with one face of the lip

page_text: or finger flush with or inward from the inner side of the throat at the time the
plunger drives the casting downward into the throat, so that the casting will
be lodged in front of the finger. While the plunger is being withdrawn upward,
and at any convenient stage in the movement before it makes its next down-
ward thrust, the feed-bar is withdrawn outward, and the finger thereof advances
the cast which is lodged in front of it outward by horizontal movement from
under the throat, and leaves it in the horizontal channel against the casting last
delivered in the same manner, all the castings being accumulated thus in a solid
body; and all having been brought out from the bottom of the throat with
the serpentine faces vertical, or, more generally speaking, having been brought
out in the direction of the runningwise dimension, which is that of the planes.
of the rectilinear or non-serpentine faces, they are lodged..with their serpentine
faces abutting, or nested in the chanel.
The operating devices and details of construction of the mechanism for.recip-
rocating the gripper and causing it, to grasp and release the casting, are sub-
stantially such as have been heretofore employed in similar machines, and the
mechanism for operating the plunger which drives the serpentine casting into
the throat above-mentioned, is similar to that which has heretofore been
employed in similar machines for analogous purposes.
To give the feed-bar above-mentioned the desired reciprocating movement, I
extend an arm from the plunger-head down past the side of the horizontal
channel or race, and from the side of the reciprocating feed-bar, I project an
abutment, preferably, a stud and roll, which is held bearing against the outer
end of said arm by any spring device arranged to hold the feed-bar at the inward
limit of its movement. The edge of the arm extending from the plunger head
is in effect a cam track, and it is provided with an abutment or upraise by
which, as the arm is drawn upward, the abutment on the feed-bar is forced
outward, carrying the feed-bar outward and giving the necessary movement
to, withdraw the cast which has been last lodged in front of the feed-bar, so
that when the plunger next descends to carry down another casting through the
serpentine throat to the bottom of the latter and inner end of the horizontal end
of the horizontal channel, the abutment, on the feed-bar, following the upraise
on the plunger, permits the carrier to move inward obedient to its spring in.
time to receive the next cast.
The essential feature of the first part of my invention is the employment of
an adjustable stop which positively limits the advancing or ejecting movement
of the follower which is retracted by a spring to a stop which determines the
limit of its movement in that direction; and the essential features of the other
part of my invention are those which provide for grasping the serpentine cast
between gripper jaws conformed to its serpentine outline for the purpose of carry-
ing it away from the delivery side of the mold cavity, and which permit and pro-
vide for its delivery by movement first laterally in direction of the runningwise
dimension, or planes of its rectilinear faces; then; in the direction of the body-
wise dimension, and finally, again, in the direction of the runningwise dimension,
all such movements being performed by parts which retain the cast with its
several dimensions in their initial directions respectively, so that at the final
movement, the castings which are serpentine in the runningwise dimension may
be nested in runningwise arrangement.
CHAS. R. MURRAY,
By Herbert Haddan & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.

page_text: over-
nected thereto, I provide a stop arranged to collide with a stop fixed on the
frame of the machine in the ejecting movement of the follower, one of these
cooperating stops being made accurately adjustable to determine the exact
point at which the thrusting or ejecting movement of the follower shall be thus
arrested. To actuate the follower or thrust-bar, I provide a lever fulcrumed on
the frame and engaging the follower at one end and at the other end having an
abutment located in the path of rotation of a cam projection by which it is
encountered at proper time to cause the lever to be rocked on its fulcrum and
to give to the follower, positively, the thrusting or ejecting movement, this
movement being limited by the stop last-mentioned, and the follower being
retracted by the spring to the first-mentioned stop. The cam projection, or the
abutment on the lever which it encounters, may be made adjustable, and will
be adjusted so as to give to the follower an adequate movement to cause it at
all times to give the full ejecting thrust; and if, in order to accomplish this
when the parts are cold and working with difficulty, the lever is slightly sprung,
the relaxation of the parts upon becoming warmed, permitting the lever to act
without the frictional resistance which would spring it, will not afford oppor-
tunity for it to be thrust farther than the stop, said stop operating as a positive
resistance at the end of the stroke and causing the lever to be sprung at that
stage the same amount that it was sprung by the resistance due to friction under
the conditions existing when the adjustment was first made. Thus, an
thrust is at all times prevented and perfect action of the parts secured.
With respect to the second purpose of my invention, it should be remarked
that the castings to be produced, being designed for compressible spaces for
use in type composition, are required to be serpentine in the direction of the
runningwise dimension, being rectilinear in the other direction; and for the
purpose of this part of my invention, therefore, I construct the two opposed
cheeks of the type mold in the serpentine form which the cast is desired to have
and the follower or thrust-bar, which is to be advanced between the cheeks
to eject the casting, is formed in cross-section perfectly corresponding to the
cross-section of the space between the cheeks,--that is, to the longitudinal section
of the type in a plane parallel to the non-serpentine faces. The dimension of.
the type cavity, which is measured by the distance between the serpentine faces
of the cheeks and by the thickness of the follower, being the runningwise
dimension, the length of thrust of the follower being the bodywise dimension,
when the follower is thrust through the cavity it ejects the casting in the
direction of the bodywise dimension, and it is received by the gripper between
jaws of the serpentine form of the casting, and is carried away by the gripper
in the direction of the bodywise dimension, which is that of the planes of the
rectilinear faces of the casting. At the end of the travel of the gripper, it halts
with the casting at the upper end of a throat which has the transversely ser-
pentine form of the casting; and the latter being released from the gripper jaw
is forced by a follower into such serpentine throat, through which it moves in
the direction of the bodywise dimension. Said throat at the bottom ends in a
horizontal channel, into which projects a lip or finger of a reciprocating feed-
bar. Suitable mechanism is provided to actuate the feed-bar, and so timed that
the latter shall be at the inward limit of its movement with one face of the lip
or finger flush with or inward from the inner side of the throat at the time of the.
plunger drives the casting downward into the throat, so that the casting will
be lodged in front of the finger. While the plunger is being withdrawn upward,
and at any convenient stage in the movement before it makes its next down-
ward thrust, the feed-bar is withdrawn outward, and the finger thereof advances
the cast which is lodged in front of it outward by horizontal movement from
under the throat, and leaves it in the horizontal channel against the casting last
delivered in the same manner, all the castings being accumulated thus in a solid
body; and all having been brought out from the bottom of the throat with
the serpentine faces vertical, or, more generally speaking, having been brought

page_text: out in the direction of the runningwise dimension, which is that of the planes
of the rectilinear or non-serpentine faces, they are lodged with their serpentine
faces abutting, or nested in the channel.
The operating devices and details of construction of the mechanism for recip-
rocating the gripper and causing it to grasp and release the casting are sub-
stantially such as have been heretofore employed in similar machines, and the
mechanism for operating the plunger which drives the serpentine casting into
the throat above-mentioned, is similar to that which has heretofore been
employed in similar machines for analogous purposes.
To give the feed-bar above-mentioned the desired reciprocating movement, I
extend an arm from the plunger-head down past the side of the horizontal
channel or race, and from the side of the reciprocating feed-bar, I project an
abutment, preferably a stud and roll,-which is held bearing against the outer
end of said arm by any spring device arranged to hold the feed-bar at the inward
limit of its movement. The edge of the arm extending from the plunger head
is in effect a cam-track, and it is provided with an abutment or upraise by
which, as the arm is drawn upward, the abutment on the feed-bar is forced
outward, carrying the feed-bar outward and giving the necessary movement
to withdraw the cast which has been last lodged in front of the feed-bar, so
that when the plunger next descends to carry down another casting through, the
serpentine throat to the bottom of the latter and inner end of the horizontal end
of the horizontal channel, the abutment on the feed-bar, following the upraise
on the plunger, permits the carrier to move inward obedient to its spring in
time to receive the next cast.
I will now describe my improvement in detail by reference to the accompany
ing drawings, in all of the figures of which like letters denote like parts.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine, showing, however, only. so much
of the mechanism as necessary for my present purpose.
Fig. 2 is a sectional detail plan at the plane of the line 2-2 on Fig. 1,
is the plane of the upper surface or face of the mold.
which
Fig. 3 is a detail section at the plane of the line 3-3 on Fig. 1, showing
specific mechanism for operating and controlling the movement of the follower
which discharges the cast from the mold.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail plan of a portion of the parts which are shown
in Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a section at the line 5-5 on Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a detail plan of the mold cheeks, showing the type body space between
them on a larger scale than that of Fig. 1.
Fig. 7 is a detail plan of the parts forming the throat into which the serpentine
type body is received after finishing.
Fig. 8 is a detail section at the line 8-8 on Fig. 1.
A Ä are the cheek-pieces of the mold; B, the follower or thrust-bar; c, the
side of the mold cavity opposite the thrust-bar B, being a plate on the carriage C,
which has sliding movement on the bed to carry the type away from the mold.
D is the head-block closing the head end of the mold-cavity, occupying the
position which would be occupied if the printing type were to be cast. D'D' are
the jet-pieces which close the foot of the mold, having between them the jet
cavity 6, through which the metal is injected from the nipple E of the melting
pot to fill the typebody cavity a (see Fig. 2).
The general operation of these machines is that by suitable mechanism, partly
shown in the drawings, but which it is not necessary to describe in this con-
nection, the carriage C is reciprocated from a position at which the plate c closes
the top of a mold cavity to a position at which a gripper formed by means of
the jaw Cat the end of the carriage, is open over the mold cavity, and adapted
to receive the cast which, at that stage, is discharged upward from the mold
by suitable upward thrust movement given to the follower B, whereupon the
carriage advances again to the right, carrying the cast in the gripper to a

page_text: position shown in Fig. 1, at which it may be delivered from the gripper jaw
downward through a throat into a receptacle, wherein the casts are accumu
lated in order. The halt of the carriage at the position at which the cast is
formed affords opportunity for the cast already carried by the gripper to be
delivered therefrom, one cast being thus formed while the preceding one is being
delivered. Suitable devices are provided in machines of this class by which
the type is dressed and the jet broken off by the movement of the carriage which
carries the cast from the mold into the throat from which it is delivered to the
receptacle; but with these specific devices, the present invention is not con-
cerned.
The devices which prevent the overthrust of the follower B may be understood
in connection with the parts of the machine concerned in producing the
follower's movement, as follows:-
is the main driving shaft of the machine, from which the various parts
derive movement through cams and lever-operating devices thereon, and the
cam is provided on said shaft for the purpose of operating the plunger B, the
abutment f on the cam being arranged to act upon an abutment consisting of
a stud or roll G¹, which is adjustably mounted at one end of the lever G, ful-
crumed at g on bracket G2, the other end of said lever G being arranged to
operate at g against the lower end of the plunger B2, which carries the
follower B rigidly at its upper end. The plunger rod B2 has a stem B³, to whose
lower end a retracting spring H is attached, tending to hold the plunger rod at
the lowest limit permitted by a micrometer stop screw J set in the frame and
adjustable to vary the position of its stop-head which limits the downward
movement of the plunger-rod by the lodgment of the abutment or shoulder 1320
upon it, as seen in Fig. 1. The lower limit of movement of the follower is thus
definitely determined by the adjustment of the micrometer stop screw, and the
spring H brings it to this limit. The upward thrust of the rod, however, caused
by the riding of the roll G₁ over the abutment f¹ of the cam tends to vary with
the speed of the machine, especially if the construction is such as to involve a
long lever having the function of the lever G, because the stress put upon the
lever by the resistance to the upward movement of the plunger, will slightly
spring the lever, and if the machine is adjusted so as to bring the follower to
the right position at starting when the parts are cold. In the absence of pro-
vision to the contrary, it would be found, after the machine had become warm
and the action somewhat easier, that the spring of the lever being less; the
follower would be thrust too high. Also, in rapid action the momentum of the
parts tends to the same result. But this result is prevented by making the
lever mechanism by which the thrust movement is given to the follower short
and compact, as shown in the drawings, and especially by providing the rod 133
with a shoulder at 130 under the guide-bearing 63, which makes a positive stop
for the upward movement, and attaching the rod 13 to the plunger rod B by
screwing the former into the end of the latter, as seen at 62, so that the distance
of the shoulder 130 from the upper end of the follower B can be made exactly
as desired. I provide also a set screw 20, which is to hold the rod 13 securely
after adjustment at the thread.
With respect to the second feature of my invention it should be noted that
although the serpentine bodies in question are chiefly desirable for the purpose
of compressible spaces, giving capacity for automatic justification, the same
characteristic may pertain to type bodies having printing faces, and the presence.
of such faces would not alter the invention.
In the ordinary use of machines of this class, the type, as they are delivered
from the gripper, are passed through a throat which makes a turn of ninety
degrees, so that the type are assembled in line in a channel in which said throat
merges, with their surfaces in contact which form the upper and lower sides aз-
cast in the mold. In order that the type assembled in this manner in the
channel shall be in the proper position, that is, with the bodywise dimension,

page_text: up-and-down, or transverse with respect to the line of the channel, it is evident
that the horizontal dimension or distance between the cheeks A A must be
made the bodywise dimension of the mold, and the vertical dimension or depth
of retreat of the follower B must be the runningwise dimension.
In order to adapt this machine to the casting of serpentine bodies in which
the serpentine inflections are in the runningwise direction, this arrangement
of dimensions must be reversed, and the bodywise dimension of the cast is made
in the direction of thrust of the follower B, while the runningwise dimension
is the width or thickness of the follower,--that is, the distance between the
cheeks A A. The opposed faces of these cheeks are therefore made conformed
to the serpentine form of the cast to be produced, so that the space between
them is longitudinally serpentine in horizontal plane, and the follower B is
made serpentine in cross-section, so that it fits accurately between the serpentine
faces cheeks AA. Similarly, the plate e, which forms the lower face-block of
the carrier C, has the outer jaw conformed to the serpentine outline of the cast
and the jaw C¹ has its face opposed to said end of the face block similarly ser-
pentine. The usual expedient for opening the jaw is employed consisting of
the stem C attached to the jaw, and provided with a stop nut C, which checks
the movement of the jaw when the stop nut reaches the post K in the retreat
of the carrier, and causes the jaw to open for the last increment of such retreat-
ing movement, a spring (not shown) being provided to resist such opening move-
ment, and closing the jaw as soon as the carrier starts forward toward the post K.
The cast having the serpentine form described, is thus thrust upward by the
follower between jaws which grasp it at its opposite serpentine surfaces, and
carry it to the point of delivery. M is the die or throat-block into which the
cast is delivered. The die-opening or throat has the serpentine form of the cast,
which is brought directly over the opening by the carrier at the outer limit
of its movement. While halted in this position, and the next cast is being
_ made in the mold, a follower or plunger L, which, in transverse section, has
preferably the serpentine form of the cast, and-in-any-event is adapted to enter
the serpentine throat or die-opening, being located between the jaws of the
gripper, that is, between the jaw and the end of the carriage,--is thrust
down through the upper jaw, and drives the cast out of the gripper into the
throat, in which it forces it down to the bottom. Said throat at the bottom ends
in a horizontal channel N, into which projects a lip or finger 1" of a recip-
rocating feed-bar P.
Suitable mechanism provided to reciprocate the feed-
bar P is timed so that said feed-bar shall be at the inward limit of its move-
ment with the face of the finger " flush with, or inward from the inner
side of the throat or die-opening at the time that the plunger or driver L is
forced downward into said throat, and it will be seen that the cast will be thus
lodged in front of the finger by such downward thrust of the driver. While
the driver is retreating upward, and at any convenient stage in the movement
before it makes the next downward thrust, the feed-bar P is withdrawn outward,
and the finger P1 advances the cast lodged in front of it out from under the
throat, and leaves it in the channel N against the row of type which have pre-
ceded it. Each successive cast is thus brought out horizontally from the
bottom of the throat with its serpentine faces vertical, or, speaking more
generally, is brought out from the throat in the direction of the parallel, and
not of the serpentine faces of the cast, whereby the successive casts are lodged
with their serpentine faces abutting or nested in the channel. The plunger L
is designed to be operated in the usual manner of similar plungers in machines
of this class, and I have not shown in detail the particular method of actuating
it. But it will be understood that the reciprocating head L³, carrying the
adjusting screw L20, which strikes upon the upper end of the head L¹ of the
plunger and directly against the latter, is itself actuated by suitable connect-
ing devices which derive their motion by a cam Q on the shaft F. The depth
of thrust or drive of the plunger will be regulated by setting the screw L20

page_text: properly with respect to the screw L30, which latter screw operates upon the
head of the stem C² of the carriage C to hold the top plate c of the mold tightly
in place while the cast is being formed at which instant the plunger must be
at the bottom of its stroke. The spring L' retracts the plunger when the
head L² rises, and any range of movement can be given to the plunger by
proper adjustment of the parts, as well understood. To give to the feed-bar P
the desired reciprocating movement which I have described, I extend the arm L³
from the plunger head L³ down past the race or channel N, and from the side
of the reciprocating feed-bar P, I project an abutment, as a stud or roll P³,
which is held bearing against the outer edge of the arm Lō by any
spring device adapted to hold the feed-bar P at the inward limit of its move-
ment, as, for example, a coiled spring P, operating against the pin p4. The
edge of the arm L5, against which the roll P3 bears, is in effect a cam track which
has an abutment or upraise at Po, by which, as the arm is drawn upward, the
roll P³, bearing against it, and thereby the carrier P, are forced outward, thus
giving the necessary movement to withdraw the cast which has been last lodged
in front of the finger P¹ by the downward thrust of the plunger L, and when
the driver next descends, the abutment P3, running up the upraise P50, permits
the carrier to move inward obedient to its spring in time to receive the next
cast. This feed device may be widely varied. Essentially it is a carrier or
feeder which has a shoulder which is moved from a position back of the path
of the cast in the throat to a position forward of such path, and returns to the
first position during the interval between the deposits of the successive casts in
the throat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In a type-casting machine of the class described, in combination with the
frame and the follower B, the thrust-rod B2, which carries the follower mounted
and adapted to be reciprocated in the frame; a cam F¹ and a lever G actuated
by the cam and adapted to actuate the follower thrust-rod in the discharging
movement of the follower; a spring which retracts the follower thrust-rod;
the stem B3 screwed in said rod and having the shoulder B30 and a fixed stop b³,
which is encountered by the shoulder to arrest the thrusting movement of the
thrust-rod.
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2. In a type-casting machine, a mold having a type cavity serpentine in the
plane of the longitudinal and one transverse dimension; a follower which is
constructed and arranged to be thrust through the type cavity in the plane of
the longitudinal and the other transverse dimension to discharge one cast at a
time, in combination with a carriage having a gripper, the opposed faces of
whose jaws have the same serpentine form adapted to receive one cast between
them; and mechanism for operating the carriage to move the type held by the
gripper in the direction of the longitudinal plane in which its serpentine
inflections are formed.
3. In a type-casting machine, in combination with mechanism for casting
type-bodies serpentine in the direction of the plane of the longitudinal and one
transverse dimension; a follower which is constructed and arranged to be
thrust through the type cavity of the mold to eject the type therefrom in a
direction transverse to its length and also to the plane of its serpentine faces;
mechanism for carrying them laterally in such plane; a die or throat adapted
to receive the cast by movement in the plane of the longitudinal and the other
transverse dimension; a plunger operating in the direction of said other trans-
verse dimension to force the casts into such throat; and a carrier which recip-
rocates across the throat, having a shoulder which stands inward from the path
of the incoming cast in the throat during such movement of the plunger, and

page_text: which is timed to withdraw outward when the plunger rises and return before
the plunger completes its descent.
4. In a type-casting machine, in combination with mechanism for casting
type bodies which are serpentine in the direction of the plane of the longitudinal
and one transverse dimension, and have parallel rectilinear faces in the direction
of the plane of the other transverse dimension; a follower constructed "and
arranged to be thrust through the type cavity to eject the type therefrom in a
direction transverse to its length and to the planes of its parallel faces;
mechanism for carrying such type bodies laterally in the direction of the first-
mentioned transverse dimension; mechanism constructed, arranged and timed
to subsequently move them laterally in the direction of the other transverse
dimension; a throat or passage through which the cast is thus advanced in the
second movement; and devices operating transversely to such throat or passage
constructed and arranged to move the cast again in the direction of its first
movement; all said parts being constructed and arranged to retain the cast
with its several dimensions in their initial directions respectively throughout all
said movements.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.