Improvements in Apparatus to be used in Setting Type.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus to be used in Setting Type.
I ROBERT WINDER of Bowkers Row Bolton in the County of Lancaster Solicitor
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 invention relates to apparatus in which movable type containing channels are
combined with carrying frames and to an improved instrument in the nature of a
compositors stick to be used therewith.
The object is so to construct and combine these parts that any individual separate
channel may be used for any letter, that each channel may be rapidly fitted to and
removed from the carrying frames, that the type may be readily and conveniently
extracted endwise from the channels when the said channels are in position in the
frame, and that the extracted type may be accurately and with facility placed in line
and column.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a channel carrying frame and channels, and
Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.
Fig. 3 a side elevation of a type containing channel and
Fig. 4 a front view of the improved instrument for use as a compositors stand and
stick all constructed in accordance with my invention.
The frame consists of a bracket a secured to a base b to be fixed to a table or
any other support and having a series of shoes c disposed in such a way that as
large a number of channels as possible may be within convenient reach of the hand.
I prefer the special arrangement shown in figs. 1 and 2 in which by placing the
channels with position shown alternately one on each side of the upright.
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I secure the desired convenient concentration very effectually. In front of each
shoe is a stop d affixed to the frame which forms one side of a gate having more or
less opening according to the width of the type to be carried in the channel which
rests on the corresponding shoe, e are channels made of sheet metal bent as shown
in fig. 3 so as to form receptacles for types, and having each a foot'f at one end affixed
to the channel on which the types rest below the bottoms of the said channels.
the types. It will thus be seen that the width of the gate or opening is fixed by the
distance (measured along the coluinn) between the inside of the foot f and the lower
end of the stop d. The feet fare the same for all the channels, so that they can be
used interchangeably. The stop d is made in each case to correspond to the width of
type. Each stop may carry a small plate d¹ having the appropriate letter marked
upon it. The channels are filled in a distributing machine or in any convenient way
with type which rest on the foot or tongue fand the channels are placed in the frame
(so as to rest together with the types) in a slightly inclined position on the shoe.
The gate or opening between the stop d on the frame and the foot f on the
channel admits of the extraction end wise therethrough of the desired type one at a
time.
A sufficient number of frames say about sixteen each carrying five channels are
secured to the base at a convenient distance apart to allow of easy access to each.
The channels are introduced from the top and rest upon the shoes c.
In fig. 4 h is a stand secured to a compositor's stick which rests upon the table on
which the base b may rest if desired. The said stand with mouth k is formed with a
curved channel i leading to the stick j.
The
The stick receives the line of type from the frame and has upon it a ledge m.
stick is filled with packing strips which may consist of pieces of wood or suitable
material equal to the width of the line desired and of height so as to fill the stick
until the top rule is on a level with the channel i.

page_text: Type as they are extracted from the channels e are placed in the said curved
channel and are pushed along by the succeeding types placed there until they reach
the stop o.
One of the packing strips is then pushed out through an opening n which is
provided above the ledge m, and the line of type sinks. A rule is then placed on the
line of type in the ordinary way, so as to bring it to the level of the bottom of the
channel and the operation is repeated. It will be readily understood that other
means may be substituted if desired for lowering the type by the width of a line at a
time so as to bring the line being set in line with the mouth of the channel i.
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
laim is :-
:-
1. A frame consisting of brackets having shoes c or their equivalents and fixed
stops d to regulate the width of the gates in combination with movable channels e
provided with tongues fattached to the channels substantially as set forth.
2. The peculiar arrangement of frame hereinbefore described and shown in Fig. 1
and 2 of the drawings.
3. A stand provided with a mouth k and channel i arranged in combination with a
suitable stick or its equivalent for setting type substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described.
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4. An instrument in the nature of a compositor's stick consisting of a stand such
provided with a mouth k channel i and stick j with a ledge having an opening
for withdrawing packing strips one at a time in the manner and for the purposes set
forth.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.