Improvements in Type Alining and Leveling Methods and Devices for Typewriters.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1899-Accepted, 18th Nev., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Type Alining and Leveling Methods and Devices
for Typewriters.
I, JAMES VOORINIS HULSE, Typewriter Expert, a Citizen of the United States,
residing at 218, Lefferts Place, Brooklyn, in the County of Kings and State of
New York, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in type alining and leveling devices,
the main object of the invention being to facilitate the alinement and level
adjustment of the type of a type-writer, and the invention being particularly
applicable to bar typewriters. When so used the purpose of the invention is to
ensure accurate adjustment of the type bars so that each type will be brought up
in exactly correct position, not only as regards its lateral and longitudinal ad-
justment in a horizontal plane, but as to the exact coincidence of the face of
the type with the face of the platen. Any tipping of the type in any direction
from the correct position would prevent such coincidence, and it is therefore
necessary to adjust the type by a leveling adjustment as well as an aligning
adjustment. My invention relates particularly to means for facilitating this
leveling adjustment.
My improved leveling and alining means is, however, capable of other uses
in connection with the adjustment of type. Thus it may be used to set type
blocks for machines of the "centre guide" class, in such manner that they are
held in a holder in definite relation to the face of the type, so that the edges or
corners of said blocks may be ground off accurately to the proper positions and
angles for ensuring correct impression.
My invention may also be used in leveling the type on type wheels of type-
writers of the index wheel class, as hereinafter described; and in general the
invention may be used in the adjustment to any desired angular position of any
face of a body of any kind, or in setting a body into conformity with a fixed
gage of corresponding form. I have morcover found that when the device is
thus used, it will detect at the same time any abnormal depressions or elevations
on the face of the type or other body. Thus if the obscuring medium be lighter
in color than the type face any scratches or pits will show as light lines or
spots, while any raised places will show in corresponding dark outlines. Looked
at in a broad sense therefore the invention may be regarded as a means for
inspecting a surface to ascertain or determine any departure of such surface
from conformity with a standard or gage surface, whether such departure be due
to defects of the configuration of the said face, or to angular deviation of such
face as a whole.
An important feature of my invention is a transparent gage plate which in
the side toward the type, has a displaceable, reducible or translucent obscuring
film or medium for determining whether the type face conforms to the face of
the gage. For this purpose such medium is adapted to normally obscure the

page_text: type, but to permit of the type face being seen, or at least brought into evidence,
either by the penetration of such medium by the type, or by alteration of the
position of the medium of the type, or, in the case of a translucent medium, by
reason of the property possessed by such media, of permitting objects to be
perceived through same only when in direct contact therewith.
Another feature of my invention relates to forming the leveling face of the
gage to coincide or be identical with the face of the platen. Thus with the usual
cylindrical platen, the face of the gage against which the type is to be placed
in leveling, is according to my invention, made of a cylindro-segmental shape,
to represent or correspond to a portion of the face of the platen at the printing
point. The object of this is to enable such gage surface to fit or conform to
the printing faces of the types, which in such case are concavely curved to con-
form to cylindrical face of the platen. Furthermore, to enable the same gage
to adjust itself to both or all the type of a double shift or multiple shift type-
writer I form the face against which the type is alined and leveled, with a
number of cylindro-segmental face-portions corresponding in shape and position
to the different working positions of the platen face.
My invention further relates to means for adjustably supporting the type-
writer frame, and the gage, and to other details of construction as hereinafter
set forth.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a partly sectional side elevation of an alining and leveling ap-
paratus embodying my invention, with a typewriting machine shown diagram-
matically in the position assumed in setting the gage.
Figure 2 is a partly sectional front elevation of the apparatus shown in
Figure 1.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are respectively top, longitudinal, and transverse sections
of the gage and its holder.
Figure 6 is a vertical section of my gage adapted to a typewriter of the
"visible writing" class, where a mirror is required to enable the operator to
look, through the gage, at the type.
Figure 7 shows the application of a gage comprising one feature of my in-
vention, to the leveling of the type on the type-wheel of an index-wheel type-
writer.
Figure 8 is a side view of a device wherein my invention is utilized in setting
type in proper position in a holder, preparatory to dressing same.
Figure 9 is a side view of the dressing apparatus with type holder in position
for dressing.
Figure 10 shows an auxiliary device for maintaining the type bars in con-
venient position for alinement.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, I have therein shown my invention applied to
the alinement of a bar typewriter, whose frame is indicated at 1, and one of
whose type bars is indicated at 2; 3 being the link and 4 the key lever corres-
ponding to such type-bar. The typewriter in question is assumed to be a double
shift typewriter, the two positions of the platen being indicated in dotted lines
in Figure 1, at 5, 51, and the two type or characters 6, 61 on the type block 7
are curved and positioned to conform to these two positions of the platen as usual.
A represents a bed plate on which I prefer to support both the typewriter and
the alining devices. On this bed plate slides a frame B, resting by its slide
rails on grooved supports 61, on bed plate A and a frame C is mounted, by its
sliding rails c and grooved supports c¹ so as to be movable transversely to the
motion of the frame B. Screws B₁ and C¹ serve to adjust the respective frames B
and C in their slides. The typewriter is placed on the upper frame C and by
adjustment of the frames B, C can be adjusted longitudinally and transversely.
On the bed plate A is also fixed a standard D, in which is rotably mounted a
vertical pivot post E which with its projecting arms e, e¹ forms a bracket for
supporting the gage, such bracket swinging horizontally on its pivot post E as

page_text: a center, and being held in position over or away from the typewriter as desired,
by a spring pin d engaging in one of the notches d' in the pivot post. A vertical
spindle F is mounted in the outer ends of arms e, e¹, so as to be movable verti-
cally and rotably therein, and has a screw-threaded portion f engaging in a
threaded sleeve or nut G embraced between the upper and lower arms e, e¹ of
the bracket. A sleeve is interposed between the spindle F and the bearing or
bracket arm e, and is splined to said spindle as indicated at f¹, and is restrained
from vertical movement by a pin h¹ working in annular groove ha in said sleeve.
This sleeve carries a worm wheel I with which engages a worm i, provided with
handle for manual adjustment. By adjustment of nut G the spindle F
adjusted vertically and by adjustment of the worm i, the said spindle may be
adjusted rotatively in a horizontal plane. This spindle at its lower end is bored
to receive the shank j of the gage holder J, which is secured therein by a set
screw fª.
may be
The gage holder J supports the gage K by a gimbal or universal joint, pre-
ferably of the form shown, the gage being fixed in a frame L which is pivoted
at 1, on a frame L' pivoted at 1, in arms of the holder j, the axis 1, 1
being at right angles to axis 1, 1, so that the gage is capable of tilting in any
direction. To the gage frame L is attached an arm M, engaging by a ball joint m
with an arm M, provided at its other end with a ball m, fitting in a socket
formed partly in the body of holder J and partly in a collar N which slides on
shank and engaged by a nut N¹, screwing on a threaded portion of said
shank. When this nut is screwed upwardly the ball joint m¹ is loose and the
arms M, M consequently permit free tilting of the gage-frame in any direction.
By screwing the nut N down tight, the ball m¹ and arms M, M¹ may be held
rigidly and thus the gage frame L may be held to any desired position.
The gage above referred to consists essentially of a transparent gage plate K,
preferably formed of glass, in one or any desired number of pieces, the term
plate indicating only that it is mechanically an integral rigid element.. This
gage plate is provided with a clear or transparent portion 8, corresponding to
the limits within which the type-characters are to be alined, and surrounding
same, colored or obscured portions I, I, preferably of different colors on different
sides (indicated by difference in the direction of the shade lines) so as to make
the respective vertical and horizontal limits more apparent. The lower surface
of this gage plate, which I term the leveling surface, is formed with two cylin-
dro-segmental portions, whose curvature is the same as that of the platen
of the typewriter to be alined, and whose relative positions, that is the distance
between their centers or curvature, is the same as the relative portions or the
distances between the two working portions of the platen, as indicated by dotted
lines 5, 5 in Figures 1 and 5, and when the gage is set to proper position its
curved surfaces aforesaid coincide with the positions that would be occupied by
the platen in its two working positions, the platen being, however, removed
or swung back out of the way when the gage is put in place. On the under
side of the gage plate is provided an obscuring means for permitting the type to
come into full visibility only when the type-face is in direct, full, and even
contact with the gage face, or with such obscuring means. This means may
consist of a translucent film on the bottom of the glass gage-plate, formed either
by grinding the glass to roughen it or by a translucent coating, but I prefer to
employ an obscuring means comprising a viscous opaque or translucent paint,
or paste, which is displaceable under the pressure of the type face, so as to allow
the type face to become visible. This paint or paste indicated at o in Figures 4
and 5, I prefer to cover with a flexible and reducible shield or film O of soft
rubber which is held to the frame L by an open clamp frame p. The rubber
being elastic and also reducible or displaceable, it permits the type-face to
effect the displacement of the paste and thus enable the type face to become
visible through the gage, when said type face is pressed into direct and full
contact with the rubber and in perfect parallelism with the surface of the gage

page_text: plate. The glass gage plate K is held in its frame L by any suitable bezel or
clamp frame g and the upper face of the gage is preferably formed as a lens or
a plurality of lenses to magnify the face of the type as seen through same.
The first operation in the use of my alining and leveling device, is to set a
certain one of the types of the typewriter in correct printing position, so that
the gage may be set in conformity thereto. The type referred to is called the
master type, and is the type indicated at 6, 61, in Figure 1, being for example,
the type carrying the characters N, n.
For thus setting the master type I use an auxiliary device shown in Figures 1
and 2, comprising a cross bar or frame R, in which a vertical rod S is detachably
mounted so as to slide freely, being pressed up by a spring r, and a set screw T
being provided to enable the rod to be clamped in any desired vertical position.
In using this device, the typewriter platen with its carriage is first swung back
out of the way, the bar it is inserted within and through the "basket" or
assembly of type-bars, so as to rest on the frame 1 on each side of the machine.
The rod S is then inserted in the vertical hole in the centre of said bar and
the master type is placed on the top of said rod S, preferably enlarged as at s to
form a more secure support. The spring now presses the rod R and the master
type upwardly and the platen being brought down on top of the master type,
the latter is brought to exact vertical adjustment, its face corresponding or con-
forming to the platen face as indicated in Figure 1. The rod k is then locked
in position by set screw T.
it will be understood that the master type has already been adjusted to proper
alinement and also to proper angular position or level so as to make a full and
even impression against the platen, this having been effected by the usual method
of trial impressions, in conjunction with manual adjustment of the type bar and
its support, in a well known manner. Therefore when the master type has
been set as above described, it is only necessary to bring the gage to conformity
and alinement therewith, and then to aline and level the remaining type by such
gage.
To set the gage in this manner, the typewriter platen is removed or swung
back out of the way and the gage supporting bracket is swung around so as to
bring the gage holder over the master type. The operator then proceeds to adjust
the typewriter in horizontal longitudinal and transverse directions by means
of adjusting screws B, C, and to adjust the gage holder in vertical and rotative
adjustment by nut G and worm i, until the gage and master type are brought
into alinement and close proximity or contact, the nut N being meanwhile main-
tained loose so as to allow the gage to adapt itself freely to the face of the
type. In this operation the gage is watched, and when the type comes at any
point in contact with the obscuring medium below the gage plate it will at once
become apparent, any parts however, of the type face that remain below the
proper level being either still invisible or more or less obscured. By manipu-
lating the gage it is however evident that it can be brought into exact coinci-
dence or conformity with the master type, inasmuch as they are universally
adjustable relatively to one another. At the same time the gage is brought
into exact alinement with such master type, by observation of the position of
the type characters within the clear spaces S. The differently colored boun-
daries on different sides of this clear space facilitate the accurate alinement of
the type. Having thus been correctly alined and leveled the gage is locked in
that position by screwing tight the clamp nut N.
The master type supporting devices may now be removed and then the operator
may proceed to aline and level the other type characters, by bringing them into
alinement with and conformity to the gage plate. In so doing the type bars
are adjusted in the well known manner by bending the type bars and adjusting
their supports, their condition as to alinement being determined by observation
of the position of the type relatively to the differently colored boundaries of
the clear glass space of the gage, and the condition as to leveling being indi-

page_text: cated by the extent or degree of visibility of the type face through the obscuring
film.
In order to facilitate the adjustment of the remaining type bars, I prefer
to employ means for maintaining the type against or in proximity to the gage
plate, so as to avoid the necessity of the operator pressing the corresponding
type key continuously or repeatedly. For this purpose an adjustable, extensible
bracket U, (see Figure 10) swinging on a standard V, carries at its free end a
weighted rod W, which is adapted to rest on any one of the keys, said rod being
movable vertically in the bracket U. This rod may be quickly shifted from key
to key but is held from accidental lateral displacement by the slight frictional
resistance of bracket U.
The obscuring medium for the transparent gage plate may be variously modi-
fied without departing from the essential feature of my invention, namely, a
medium preventing or obscuring full visibility until the type face is in direct
and full contact therewith. Thus fairly good results can be obtained with the
rubber film alone, without the viscous obscuring film, and on the other hand,
the rubber film may be omitted so as to allow the type face to come into direct
contact with the viscous film and to penetrate same so as to become visible when
it comes in contact with the gage surface. Or both these may be omitted and
the lower or leveling surface of the glass gage plate may be simply grained or
roughened so that it is translucent but not transparent. In fact any obscuring
film or medium that is either translucent, or is penetrable, displaceable or redu-
cible under the pressure of the type face, will serve the purpose. As examples
of such obscuring media I may also cite Iceland spar, tourmaline and similar
bodies which do not permit visibility except when the object is in direct contact
therewith. Furthermore the flexible sheet O in Figure 1, instead of being
rubber, may be of a fabric of contrasting color to the coating of paint, for
example, of black silk, if white paint be used, so that normally this fabric does
not appear,
but being pressed against the glass by the type face, it is displayed
along the line of the type face, thus showing contact of the type face, without
such type face being directly visible.
In applying my invention to machines wherein the type strike downwardly
or away from the operator, in order to give a visible impression, it is necessary
to provide a mirror, to reflect back to the operator the view of the type face as
seen through the transparent gage-plate. Such a device is shown in Figure 6,
where a glass-prism K is used as a total internal reflector, one face thereof
being used as the alining and leveling face and the other face being formed as
a lens which transmits a reflected image of the type face to the operator in
front of the machine. O represents the rubber obscuring film, and 7 the type.
Figure 7 shows the application of my invention to leveling the type of an
index-wheel type-writer. Z represents the type wheel, carrying type z and
mounted on a suitable axis, with means such as a fixed perforated disk 11, arm 12
on the type wheel carrier and a set pin 13, to adjust the type wheel to bring
any of its type under the gage. Such gage comprises a lens K, mounted in a
suitable support D¹. To level the type, they, or the bottom of the gage, are
coated with a viscous paste or paint, and the body of the type wheel is then
pricked by a hot pin in the usual manner, at points adjacent to the depressed
parts of the type, so as to raise such parts, the condition as to level adjustment
being determined as above described, by the visibility of the type face through
the obscuring film formed by the viscous paint.
An important application of my invention is in the dressing of type for
center guide machines. Such type have to be dressed accurately at the sides,
ends and upper corners to fit into the center guide and be properly alined and
leveled thereby. Figure 8 shows a device for setting the type in a holder in
proper position for such dressing, such device comprising a base 14, a stan-
dard 15 thereon, a lever 16 pivoted to said standard at 10¹ and carrying the
gage K and a support 17 slidable on guides 18 on the base 14, and detachable

page_text: from said guides. A toggle connection 19, 19 between the lever 16 and the
base 14, enables the lever to be raised out of the way or lowered to proper posi-
tion, in which position it may be locked by an arm 20 pivoted at 151 to the
standard 15 and engaging by its notch 20¹ with the hinge pin 191 of the toggle
connection 19, 19. The support 17 carries on a standard 21, a screw ring 22,
on which screws a screw cap 23, between which and the top of ring 22, are
arranged plates 24, 24¹ embracing a spherical collar 25 on a tube 26. A rod 27
slides vertically in the tube 26, and may be clamped therein by a set screw 28,
said rod being pressed upwardly by a spring 30, and carrying the type 71 at
its top.
The gage which is constructed as above described to conform to the
type surface, the curvature of the gage being coincident with the platen circum-
ference indicated at 5 in dotted lines, is brought down and locked in position on
the type after the support 17 has been slid in place, and the screw cap 23 being
lowered, the type is adjusted angularly by the ball joint 25, horizontally by
plates 24, 24, sliding on the top of the ring 22, and vertically and rotatively by
the rod 27 sliding in tube 26, the vertical adjustment being effected by the
spring 29. The type having been thus alined and leveled to the gage, its holder
is locked in position by screwing tight the set-screw 28 and the screw cap 23.
The support 17 is then slid out of the guides in base 14, and slid into similar
guides 18 on a base 31 on the dressing apparatus shown in Figure 9, on which
it is carried between the cutters 32, 321 of a suitable milling cutter which dresses
the sides and corners thereof in obvious manner.
For some purposes it will suffice to make the gage plate wholly or partly of
translucent or other obscuring material, such as tourmaline, Iceland spar, in
which case the displaceable obscuring medium may be omitted. Various modi-
fications may also be made in the form of the obscuring device, its method of
attachment to the gage and the devices for adjusting the gage, without departing
from my invention, the broad principle of which is provision of obscuring means
for the gage for giving evidence of the closeness of the inspected surface to
the gage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
1. The method of inspecting the type faces of the type of type writing
machines to determine conformity thereof to a standard face, which consists in
placing in proximity to such face of said type a surface of a transparent gage,
conformable to such face of said type, bringing said face toward such surface
and interposing between such face and the gage a displaceable obscuring medium
preventing complete visibility of such face through the gage, and causing the
said face while approximating said gage surface, to displace the said obscuring
medium and thus give visible evidence through the transparent gage, of the
proximity and conformity of the said face to the said gage.
2. Means for inspecting the face of a type for departure from conformity to
a standard surface, consisting of a transparent gage having a surface formed
to constitute a standard gage surface, and provided with a displaceable obscuring
medium, whereby the pressure of such face of said body against such obscuring
medium will cause displacement of same and give visible evidence through the
transparent gage, of any departure from conformity of the said face to the gage
surface.
3. Means for bringing a face of a typewriter type to a desired angular posi-
tion, consisting of a transparent gage having a surface formed to correspond
to such face of the said type, and provided with a displaceable obscuring medium,
whereby the pressure of such face of said type against such obscuring medium
will cause displacement of same and give visible evidence through the trans-
parent gage, of the proximity and parallelism of the said face to the gage
surface.

page_text: 4. In a type leveling device for typewriters, a transparent gage-plate having
a face shaped to correspond with the face of the platen at the printing point.
5. A type alining and leveling device for bar typewriters comprising a trans-
parent gage plate, having a face identical in shape to the face of the typewriter
platen at the printing point, and means for supporting said transparent gago
in such position that its face aforesaid corresponds with a working position of
the platen face.
6. A type alining and leveling device comprising a transparent gage having
a plurality of face portions corresponding in shape to the face of the typewriter
platen and relatively positioned to correspond to different positions of the platen.
7. A type aliuing and leveling device for bar typewriters with cylindrical
platen, comprising a transparent gage-plate having a cylindro-segmental faco
corresponding to the face of the platen.
8. A type alining and leveling device for bar typewriters with multiple
character type bars and cylindrical platen shiftable to different transverse posi-
tions, comprising a transparent gage-plate having a plurality of cylindro-seg-
mental face-portions corresponding in shape and relative position to the face of
the platen in its different positions.
9. The combination with a bar typewriter having multiple character type
bars and cylindrical platen transversely shiftable to different positions, of an
alining and leveling device comprising a transparent gage-plate having face-
portions shaped to correspond with the face of the platen in its different posi-
tions, and means for supporting said gage-plate in position to bring such face-
portions thereof into coincidence with the different positions occupied by the
platen.
10. A leveling device for types comprising a transparent gage-plate, having a
leveling face corresponding in shape to the printing face of the type, and pro-
vided on such leveling face with an obscuring medium responsive to pressure
from the type face to give visible evidence of such pressure.
11. A leveling device for typewriter type, comprising a transparent gago
plate having a leveling face with an obscuring film not normally transparent,
but becoming transparent on pressure of the type thereon.
12. A leveling device for typewriter type, comprising a transparent gage
plate with an obscuring film for its leveling face through which the type is only
visible when in contact therewith.
13. A leveling device for typewriter type, comprising a transparent gage
plate with an obscuring film for its leveling face consisting of a material dis-
placeable under pressure.
14. In a leveling device for typewriter type, a transparent gage plate with
an obscuring means for its leveling surface, comprising a coating of viscous
obscuring material, such as non-drying paint.
15. In a leveling device for typewriter type, a transparent gage plate with an
obscuring means for its leveling surface, comprising a sheet of elastic obscuring
material, such as soft rubber.
16. In a leveling device for typewriter type, a transparent gage plate with an
obscuring means for its leveling surface, comprising a layer of viscous obscuring
material, and a sheet of flexible material, such as soft rubber, covering same.
17. In a leveling device for typewriter type, a transparent gage plate with
a translucent obscuring medium for its leveling surface.
18. An alining device for typewriters comprising a gage plate with a trans-
parent space corresponding to the size of the type and bounded by surfaces of
different color on different sides.
19. In an alining and leveling device for typewriters, a transparent gage
plate formed as a lens, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
20. In an alining and leveling device for types, the combination with a type
and a gage conforming thereto, of means for adjusting said elements relatively
to one another in a universal manner, such means for pressing said elements

page_text: toward one another, and means for locking one of such elements in its adjusted
position.
21. In an alining device for typewriters, the combination of a support for
the typewriter, having means for horizontal adjustment, and a gage support
independent of the typewriter support and having vertical adjustment.
22. In an alining device for typewriters, the combination of a support for the
typewriter, having means for horizontal adjustment, and a gage support inde-
pendent of the typewriter support and having vertical and rotative adjustment.
23. In an alining and leveling device for typewriters, the combination of a
horizontal adjustable typewriter support and a gage support having means for
vertical, horizontally rotative, and vertically angular adjustment.
24. In an alining device for typewriters, a typewriter support movable hori-
zontally in longitudinal and transverse directions and adjusting screws for ad-
justing such support horizontally and vertically.
25. In an alining device for typewriters, a typewriter support comprising a
main supporting bed, a frame movable horizontally thereon and an adjusting
screw for adjustably holding it in position, and a frame directly supporting the
typewriter, and movable horizontally on but transversely to the motion of the
other movable frame, and provided with adjusting screws for adjustably holding
it in adjusted position.
26. The combination with a typewriter and its platen of means for setting a
master type thereof, comprising a movable adjustable support for pressing the
said type against the typewriter platen, and means for holding said movable
support in adjusted position.
27. Means for setting a master type of a typewriter, comprising a support for
engaging with the type and movable toward and away from the platen, a spring
for pressing said support toward the platen, and a locking device for locking
said support in position.
28. Means for setting a master type of a typewriter, comprising a cross frame
insertable and removable in the typewriter frame, a support for the type sliding
vertically in said cross frame, a spring engaging with said support to press same
upwardly, and a set screw for locking said support in position.
29. In an alining device for bar typewriters, the combination of a support for
holding a master type at a point where its face coincides with a working posi-
tion of the platen face, a transparent gage and means for adjustably supporting
said gage to enable it to be brought to position to conform to the printing face
of the master type, and means for locking said gage in this position.
30. An alining and leveling device for typewriters comprising means for
supporting a master type in the printing position, a transparent gage and a
support for same comprising a universal joint to enable the gage to be adjusted
to the face of the master type, and means for clamping said joint to fix the gage
in such position.
31. An alining and leveling device for typewriters comprising a transparent
gage, and a support therefor consisting of a supporting frame, a bracket sup-
ported on said frame in fixed horizontal position, a spindle movable vertically
and rotatively in said bracket, worm gearing connected to said spindle for setting
it in rotative position, and a nut screwing on said spindle and engaging with
the bracket to set the spindle in vertical position, and a gage holder carried by
said spindle.
32. In an alining and leveling device for typewriters, the combination with
the transparent gage, of a gage holder having a gimbal joint support for said
gage, and a clamp for locking said gimbal joint to hold the gage in position.
33. In an alining device for typewriters, means for holding the type bars to
position for alinement, comprising a weight adapted to rest on the key levers
of the typewriter, and means for adjustably supporting said weight against hori-
zontal displacement, while permitting vertical movement thereof.
34. Means for holding down a key lever of a typewriting machine, so as to

page_text: facilitate alinement of the type thereon, comprising a supporting frame, an
adjustable bracket supported thereon and adjustable in both directions in a
horizontal plane, and a weight guided by and sliding vertically with relation to
said bracket, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
35. In a leveling and inspecting device for a typewriter type, a gage formed
wholly or partly of obscuring material.
Dated this th day of July 1899.
JOHNSONS,
Applicant's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.