Improvements in Moulds for Fudge or Late News Linotypes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1900 -Accepted, 14th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Moulds for Fudge or Late News Linotypes.
We, WILLIAM HENRY LOCK, Manager and Secretary of The Linotype Com-
pany, Limited, of 188, Fleet Street, in the City of London, and CHARLES
HOLLIWELL and WARWICK JAMES LEWIS, both of The Linotype Works, Broad-
heath, in the County of Cheshire, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
"
The present invention relates to improvements in the moulds of linotype
machines, especially of the one described in the Specification of Letters Patent
14582 of 1890, to adapt them better than has hitherto been done, to cast "fudge
or late news linotypes. A mould of the machine last mentioned, consists of
four pieces, a cap plate, a bottom plate and two end liners, held fast together
so as to enclose a mould cavity for the body of the linotype to be cast in.
is made fast to the face of a vertical wheel, with the width of the mould cavity
parallel with the axis, and its length parallel with a diameter of the said wheel.
Fudge or late news linotypes are narrower than those of normal width, and
are notched in their feet or ends to engage with the fudge box.
It
In applying the present invention to a linotype mould such as the one above
described, the cap plate is severed lengthwise in a plane at right angles with
the width of the mould cavity, so as to be movable away from and returnable
up to it. The rear half of it has the core or cores for notching the narrow lino-
type, fast on its casting face, and has also a cavity through it, similar in all
respects to that in the front half. When the said rear half is up to the rest of
the mould, the cavity in it partly registers with the mould cavity for the
narrow linotype in the front half, one cavity then standing nearly in echelon
lengthwise of the other, but overlapping it a little. The rear half of the cap
plate fits up to the rest of the mould when the whole is in the casting position,
so that the metal is injected into the cavity in the said rear half and flows
from there into the cavity in the front half, thereby forming a fudge linotype
in the front half, its git or sprue in the rear half and a thin connecting web as
thick as the width of the register or overlap above described. Suitable angle
pieces or webs or ridges or the like, may be added to either or both halves of
the cap plate, to facilitate their fitting truly up to each other when and so long
as it is necessary that they should do so.
The rear half of the cap plate is moved away from the rest of the mould, at
a suitable moment after the casting has taken place, and that motion has the
effect of breaking the sprue or git off the fudge linotype, the motion also suffic-
ing to expose the rear surface of the front half of the said cap plate, and also
make the sprue cavity stand clear of the said half.
The cap plate is moved up to the rest of the mould and away from it auto-
It is connected to a bar by suit-
matically, preferably by the following means.
able rods which stand in the direction of its motion. These rods may pass
through guide holes in the bottom plate or outside it in special guides fast, say,

page_text: on the mould wheel. The latter has a motion of advance up to the front of the
machine, where the composed line of matrices is held waiting for the linotype
cavity to fit up to it, and of retire from it. As it advances, inclines on the said
bar engage fixed declines projecting towards it from the machine front, such
engagement sufficing to pull the rear half of the cap plate up to the rest of the
mould, so placing the two cavities above described in the casting position.
There are also certain rods behind the machine front which have a downward
motion at the time that the said rear half must be moved away from the front
half. A projection on one of these rods engages a decline on the bar and pushes
the latter towards the mould, thereby moving the rear half of the cap plate away
from the front half and the rest of the mould.
When the said rear half is standing away from the front half, the two halves
are ready for the ejectors to act upon their contents. So they are then moved in
front of the ejectors for that purpose. One of these is the ordinary ejector
blade. It ejects the fudge linotype. The other is a short blade on the nose of
the ejector slide-the piece from which the ordinary ejector blade projects,―
so as to be operatively behind the ordinary ejector blade and in the plane of
the sprue or git. This sprue ejector is connected to the ejector slide in such
a way preferably by being pivotted upon the side of its nose-that it can be
swung out of ejecting position when a mould for ordinary linotypes is put into
work in place of the fudge mould above described.
Dated this 1st day of June 1890
Improvements in Moulds for Fudge or Late News Linotypes.
We, WILLIAM HENRY LOCK, Manager and Secretary of The Linotype Com-
pany, Limited, of 188, Fleet Street, in the City of London, and CHARLES
HOLLIWELL and WARWICK JAMES LEWIS, both of The Linotype Works, Broad-
heath, in the County of Chester, Engineers, 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:- -
The present invention relates to improvements in the bipartite mould block
which constitutes the fifth part of the invention described in the Complete
Specification of Letters Patent No. 617 of 1899.
In applying the present invention to a linotype mould such as the one above
described, the cap plate is severed lengthwise in a plane at right angles with
the width of the mould cavity, so as to moveable away from and returnable up
to it. The rear half of it has a cavity througa it, similar in all respects to that
in the front half. When the said rear half is up to the rest of the mould, the
cavity in it partly registers with the mould cavity for the narrow linotype in
the front half, one cavity then partly registering with the other, but overlapping
it a little. The rear half of the cap plate fits up to the rest of the mould when
the whole is in the casting position, so that the metal is injected into the cavity
in the said rear half and flows from there into the cavity in the front half,
thereby forming a fudge linotype in the front half, its git or sprue in the rear
half and a thin connecting web as thick as the width of the register or overlap
above described. Thus, linotype and sprue has each a four sided mould to itself.
The rear half of the cap plate is moved away from the rest of the mould, at
a suitable moment after the casting has taken place, and that motion has the

page_text: effect of breaking the sprue or git off the fudge linotype, the motion also
sufficing to expose the rear surface of the front half of the said cap plate, and
also make the sprue cavity stand clear of the said half.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved mould block in position for
casting:
Figure 2 is an end elevation of Figure 1 looking from the right hand:
Figure 3 is a plan of Figure 1;
Figure 4 is a plan of the improved block after the removal of the moveable
rear half of the cap plate:
Figure 5 is a front elevation of the improved mould block in position for both
the linotype and the sprue to be ejected:
Figure 6 is an end elevation of Figure 5 looking at it from the right hand;
Figure 7 is a transverse section on the line 7-7 of Figure 1; and
Figure 8 is a transverse section on the line 8-8 of Figure 5.
1 is the front half of the cap plate; 2, the bottom plate and 3, 3, the end
liners between them. o is the cavity for the narrow linotype to be cast in.
4 is the rear half of the cap plate, and 5, the cavity in and through it for the
git or sprue to be cast in. This cavity 5 is preferably shorter than the cavity o,
as shewn. For the sake of being moveable in the way already mentioned, the
rear half 4 is mounted upon pins 064 working through the bottom plate 2 beyond
which they are made fast to a bridge piece 05 which is actuated in the way and
by the means described in the Specification of Letters Patent 15923 July 21st
1898. As neither the said way nor means are parts of the present invention,
they need not be further described here.
Figures 1 and 7 shew how the two cavities o and 5 partly register with each
other when the mould as a whole is in the casting position illustrated in Figure 1,
and also how the rear half 4 of the cap plate fits up to the front half 1.
Both linotype and sprue as well as their thin connecting web, having been
cast in the respective cavities o, 5, and 6, it follows that when the rear half 4
is moved away from the rest of the mould, by the bridge piece 065 being pushed
up to the bottom plate 2, the sprue in the cavity 5 will be broken away from
the linotype in the cavity o, and that the two cavities with their contents will
then stand in the respective positions illustrated in Figures 5, 6 and 8, both
linotype and sprue ready to be ejected. The ejector blade must be a double
one, both blades being parallel and at the same distance from each other as
are the cavities o and 5, the one for the cavity o having its nose as much in
advance of that of the blade for the cavity 5. as the cavity o is in advance of
the cavity 5, after the manner of the double ejector blade described in the Speci-
fication of the above mentioned Letters Patent 15923 of 1898.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:
In a linotype mould, the hereinbefore described combination of a four sided
mould for a late news linotype, a four sided mould for its sprue; and means
for making the latter nearly register with the former and afterwards breaking
the sprue away from the linotype.
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