Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted 1st June, 1889
HERBERT YOUNG DICKINSON 140 Inverness Terrace Bayswater London, W.
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I use an ordinary type wheel having the letters or musical characters arranged
round the edge. This type wheel is held by a suitable handle fixed to its centre,
enabling the operator to turn the wheel to the letter or musical character it is
desired to print. The spindle on which the type wheel turns is fixed to a slide
which enables the operator to depress the type wheel so as to print a letter. The
framework that the slide works upon terminates in a pointer, which pointer the
operator places on the part of the paper where he desires the letter or musical
character to appear, and by a downward pressure forces the type against the paper,
which action prints the character. The pressure being lessened, the type wheel rises
to its normal position by the action of a spring, and can be turned to any other
letter it is desired to print. What I claim in my invention is the use of a pointer
or guide in connection with the type wheel, which dispenses with apparatus necessary
to adjust and hold the paper as in other type writers. My type writer can be used
in much the same way as an ordinary pen, the pointer or guide being put on the
desired to form the letter or musical character and by increased
paper where it
pressure the type wheel forced against the paper. There is a projection at the
side of the pointer which engages with the type wheel, when this latter is depressed,
to ensure the type coming evenly to the paper. In some cases I use a thin flat
straight-edge in conjunction with my improved type writer, which the operator
places on the paper to keep the pointer of the type writer in a straight line. When
this is used the type wheel is made to descend a little above the pointer on the
paper, so as not to strike the straight-edge. It will now be understood that this
invention of a pointer combined with the type wheel as above described enables the
operator to hold the whole type writer in his hand, and placing the pointer on the
paper he sees where the type will register.
1L 19th day of December 1888

page_text: Improvements in Type-writers.
I, HERBERT YOUNG DICKINSON, of 140, Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, London, W.
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 consists in constructing a Type-writer with a wheel which revolves
upon its centre by means of a handle and having all around its circumferance a
projecting flange to which the type is fixed upon its outer surface and by means
of which the printing is effected. This wheel is mounted upon a frame which is
so fixed as to be parallel to the line of the diametrical centre of the wheel and
the said wheel is capable. of sliding up and down this frame for a given distance.
A. Handle is fixed on the one side to the frame afore-mentioned and on the other
side to the wheel. Attached to the top of this frame is a revolving ink pad which
presses against the type on the wheel and by means of which the type is inked.
A spring is attached between the frame and the wheel to cause the wheel to maintain
such a position that the type nearest to the paper to be printed upon is maintained
sufficiently clear of the same to allow the wheel to revolve without marking the
paper. At the end of my frame that is opposite to the inking pad I arrange a
projecting piece of wire or such like material to act as a pointer or indicator and
which serves to ascertain the position in which I wish to print any desired letter
or note, and by means of this pointer and the handle fixed to the frame I hold my
Improved Type Writer in a position to work upon the paper. The outside edge
of the flange to my type wheel is formed with slots or grooves, one of which is
arranged to each of the letters on the outside surface of wheel so that the entire
edge of this flanged wheel has the appearance of projections and recesses. Upon
a portion of the framework above referred to as a pointer, that is in the diametrical
centro line of my wheel I fix a spear headed projection which exactly takes into
one of the recesses in the edge of the flanged wheel when the wheel is depressed
on to the paper. By these means I guide the exact type to the required position
and the wheel becomes locked until it is released when it is again free to revolve on
its axis. The interior of the flange of the wheel is marked with like characters
or letters to those that are immediately opposite it on the outside surface of the
wheel.
The flange of my wheel may be covered all round by a rubber band or tyre of
specially made size to fit my wheel, having on it in raised type the signs I wish to
print.

page_text: In such a case I cast my rubber band or tyre with projections or recesses to
take into or fit over recesses or projections in the flanged periphery of the wheel
and stretch it on to the wheel and secure it on with cement.
I use my improved type writer as follows. I grip the handle attached to the
frame in one hand and place the pointer upon the line or space in continuation of
which I wish to record my letter or note, I then turn round my wheel until I have
the required sign on the inside of my flanged wheel immediately in a line with the
pointer, I then sharply depress the wheel until the type on the outside of the flanged
wheel is brought into contact with the paper or other matter to be printed upon,
when the required mark is made. On releasing the wheel it recovers its normal
position through the agency of the spring and is ready to be moved round to the
next required figure or letter.
I intend that my improved type writer shall be used for copying music for
which it is particularly adapted, as well as for printing words, and when my wheel
is not small or the type is of rather a large character I propose always to use rubber
letters, or letters made of some elastic material, but when the wheel is small and the
characters of letters or notes are small also, then I propose to cast the wheel and
type upon it all in metal.
In order that my improvements may be the more fully understood I will now proceed
to describe the several figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed all of which
figures are marked with the like letters of reference throughout.
Figure 1. is an elevation of my said improved type-writer, looking full towards the
wheel on that side having the projecting flange.
Figure 2. is a section taken through the vertical diametrical section of the wheel
showing my said improvements.
Figure 3. is an enlarged plan looking down upon the flange of the wheel shewing
the rubber band and Type
on the wheel.
Figure 4. is a section taken through Figure 3.
In Figure 1. A shews the ordinary type writing wheel having the slots cut in same.
C is the frame on which the wheel slides up and down through its connection with
the metal piece marked D. E is the revolving inking Pad attached to frame C, and
F is the pointer formed with a projecting piece at back (see this part in section in
Figure 2) which engages into the slots in wheel when the wheel is pressed down on
the frame and this locks the wheel in the required position. This projecting piece at
back of pointer F is spear headed at top. G is the spring between the frame and
the wheel. Hand H are handles, one fixed to the frame and one fixed to the
wheel J shews. the projecting type, K is a projecting Pin to act as a stop to D.
In Figure 2. The inside of the flange of wheel is shewn marked with letters to
correspond with the type on the outside of the said flange.
In Figure 3. L is the flange of the wheel, T is the rubber band having upon it the
raised type J. This rubber band has projections that take into recesses prepared for
them in the wheel flange. P is the projection on rubber band and N is the recess in
wheel to receive same.
In Figure 4. the letters of reference agree with those in Figure 3.
As my Improvements are capable of various modifications without departing from
the principle thereof, I do not restrict myself to, material, dimensions, or to the precise
form or placement of the several parts thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1) The pointer F in connection with an ordinary type writing wheel--which is
a means of holding the paper to be printed upon, as well as indicating the position
or place where a sign is to be printed, all as described and illustrated by this
specification and the accompanying drawings and for the purposes set forth in the
title.

page_text: (2) The formation and fixing of a rubber band in which the type is formed,
around an ordinary flanged wheel for type writing purposes, this rubber band being
formed with projections and recesses at one side, to take into recesses and pro-
jections formed upon the flanged wheel to receive the same for the easier fixing of
this rubber band in its desired position, all as described and illustrated in this
specification and by the accompanying drawings and for the purposes set forth in
the title.
A
11000
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.