IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING TYPE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer of 33 Chancery Lane in the
County of Middlesex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR
COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING TYPE" A communication to him from abroad
by Isidore Delcambre and Madame Veuve Riesz both of Brussels in the
kingdom of Belgium
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith Brewer at
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the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th September 1882.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING TYPE
(A Com-
munication to me from abroad by Isidore Delcambre and Madame Veuve Riesz
both of Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium).
These improvements refer firstly to the arrangements given to the inclined plane
on which the type to be composed slides. According to this present invention the
guides or grooves in which the characters slide are arranged in a wave like line
or curved at the top and bottom end whereby a greater number of guides or
grooves can be arranged in a similar space than heretofore and owing to the
grooves being made curved as before described the sliding characters cannot return
but arrive at the bottom of the inclined plane in the required position. At or
about the middle and lower end of the inclined plane there is another series of
grooves and these are placed at the base and between the others.
There is a set of these curved guides or grooves on each side of the inclined
plane and all lead on each side to a gutter or conductor common to the set of
grooves on the side of the inclined plane corresponding to the said grooves whence
by a continuation of the gutter or conductor they are conducted to one common
shoot. The preferable shape of the inclined plane is triangular; the point of the
triangle being the shoot where the characters arrive.
These improvements further relate to the small hammer which is found at the
bottom of the inclined plane and which serves to push the characters after their
arrival against the row of the series already placed. This small hanmer communi-
cates tangentially with a small wheel or roller the axis of which becomes displaced
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page_text: during its rotation so that during its movement it advances and recedes regularly
causing by this motion the hammer to rise and fall corresponding with the arrival
of a letter from the inclined plane; or by any crank pin arrangement; a pulley
driven from a treadle of the composing machine or in any other convenient way
communicates the motion to the roller or wheel. Another way of accomplishing 5
the same purpose is by fitting a cam to the pulley shaft which at each revolution
acts on the hammer the latter being brought back by a spring when the hammer
has acted on the arriving character.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th March 1883.
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EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR COMPOSING OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE (A com-
munication to me from abroad by Isidore Delcambre and Madame Veuve Riesz,
both of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium)
These improvements refer firstly to the arrangements given to the inclined
plane on which the type to be composed slides. Figure 1 of the accompanying
drawings is a front view of this inclined plane type distributor and according to
this present Invention the guides or grooves a in which the characters slide aré
arranged in a wave like line, or curved at the top and bottom end whereby a
greater number of guides or grooves can be arranged in a smaller space than
heretofore and owing to the grooves being made curved as before described the
sliding character cannot return but so arrive at the bottom of the inclined plane
in the required position. At, or about the middle and lower end of the inclined
plane there is another series of grooves and these are placed at the base and
between the others. There is a set of these curved guides or grooves a on each
side of the inclined plane and all lead on each side to a gutter or conductor B
common to the set of grooves a, a on the side of the inclined, plane corresponding
to the said grooves whence by a continuation of the gutter or conductor they are
conducted to one common shoot C... The preferable shape, of the inclined plane is
triangular, the point of the triangle being the shoot C where the characters arrive.
These improvements further relate to the small hammer which is found at the
bottom of the inclined plane and which serves to push the characters after their
arrival against the row of the series already placed.
Figure 2 is an elevation partly in section of this hammer and parts connected
therewith. Figure 3 is a partial side view of same, Figure 4 is a partial plan.
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively elevation and plan of the hammer detached. This
small hammer A communicates tangentially with a small wheel or roller E the axis
of which becomes displaced during its rotation so that during its movement it'

page_text: advances and recedes regularly causing by this motion the hammer A to rise and
fall corresponding with the arrival of a letter from the inclined plané a or by any
crank pin arrangement; a pulley ƒ driven from a treadle of the composing machine
or in any other convenient way communicates the motion to the roller or wheel E.
Another way of accomplishing the same purpose is shown at Figure 7 by fitting a
cam d to the shaft which carries the pulley of the said shaft at each revolution acts
on the hammer A the latter being brought back by a spring 9 when the hammer A
has acted on the arriving character B forcing them against the buttress D.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim.
First In type composing the inclined plane with particular arrangement of
channels or guides substantially as described and shown with reference to
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.
Second-The arrangement of appliances shown and described with reference to
Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawings.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Griffith Brewer have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twentyfourth day of March in the year of our Lord One
'thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
EG BREWER (L.S.)