IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING TYPE IN THE CHASES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hippolite Auguste Marinoni, of Rue de Vaugirard,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING TYPE IN THE CHASES."
Sealed the 23rd December 1862, and dated the 10th October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hippolyte Auguste Mari-
noni at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 10th October 1862.
I, HIPPOLYTE AUGUSTE MARINONI, of Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention.
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING TYPE IN THE CHASES," to be
as follows:-
My improved apparatus for fixing type in chases consists of the arrangement
and application for that purpose of wedge or inclined pieces or quoins having
rack teeth formed thereon and fitting into a pinion or cylinder having indents
to receive the teeth of the rack. This wedge with rack teeth I place and abut
against the leads bearing on the type, and dispose the cylinder between such
rack wedge and the chase. The cylinder has small flanges embracing the
chase to keep it in place, and also a square hole in the centre for the insertion.
of a key whereby to turn it. By turning the cylinder it is propelled and rolls
along the chase by reason of its grip of the rack teeth and in passing from the
thin towards the thick part of the wedge or inclined piece effectually and with
increasing pressure fixes the leads and types firmly in place. These inclined
pieces may be in short lengths and each fitted with a pinion cylinder, or two

page_text: or more may be united in one bar and applied with like effect, each incline or
wedge piece being furnished with a separate pinion cylinder. I form the rack
wedge piece with a serrated surface to bear against the leads to prevent it
slipping, thereby ensuring the traverse of the pinion cylinder along the chase
during its action of tightening and fixing the type.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HIPPOLYTE
AUGUSTE MARINONI, of Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, in the Empire of France,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS. Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni, Her special licence that I, the said Hippolyte
Auguste Marinoni, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni, my executors, administrators, and,
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no. others, from time to time, and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING TYPE IN THE CHASES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed; and' to the letters and figures marked thercon (that is to say) :-
My improved apparatus for fixing type in chases consists of the arrangement

page_text: and application for that purpose of wedge or inclined pieces or quoins having
rack teeth formed thereon and fitting into a pinion or cylinder having indents
to receive the teeth of the rack. This wedge with rack teeth I place and abut
against the foot and side stick or furniture and type, and dispose the cylinder
between such rack wedge or quoin and the chase. The pinion cylinder has
small inclined flanges, embracing the chase to keep it in place as also the
quoin; a square hole is made, in the centre of the pinion cylinder for the
insertion of the key whereby to turn it. The pinion cylinder is also furnished
with bearing surfaces which bear and roll on the plain surfaces of the chase
and on the quoin. By turning this cylinder it is propelled and rolls on the
quoin and rubs along the chase by reason of the grip of the pinion on the rack
teeth of the quoin, and in passing from the thin, towards the thick part of the
quoin, wedge, or inclined piece with a gradually increasing pressure, locks and
fixes the furniture and type firmly in place in the chase. These quoins or
inclined pieces, may be in short lengths and each fitted and furnished with a
pinion cylinder, or two or more quoins may be united in one bar and applied
with like effect, each incline or wedge piece being furnished with a separate
pinion cylinder. I form the rack wedge pieces or quoins with serrated
surfaces to bear against the leads, furniture, or parts against which they press
to prevent its slipping, thereby insuring the traverse of the pinion cylinder

page_text: represented at Fig. 7, as also two single quoins, the action of which are
similar. Each pinion cylinder B has a square hole e, in which a key with a
Tor cross handle is inserted & whereby the pinion cylinder is caused to
rotate, the effect of which rotation is that the pinion cylinder rolls along
the quoin or wedge and passes from the thin to the thick part thereof,
and thereby compressing and locking the form of type enclosed. In the
tripple quoin, shown in Fig. 7, the action of the key is applied to each of the
quoins alternately; tightening a little at a time until ultimately the whole is
fixed, or two keys may be used to operate two pinion cylinders simultaneously.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination, arrange-
ment, and application of the parts herein-before described for fixing type in
chases or frames, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
HTB. ATE. MARINONI. (L.B.)