Improvement in Column-furniture for Printing Presses.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1887
Specification Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1887
Improvement in Column-furniture for Printing Presses.
I, AUGUST HUCK of the firm T. M. Huck & Cie. of Offenbach on the Main in the
Empire of Germany, Letter-founder, 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 :—
My improvement has for its purpose to facilitate the handling of columns by
leaving them tied up even when being inserted in the printing press, and 1 attain
this object by providing the furniture with a suitable groove for receiving the page-
cord without projecting out of the same.
These improvements are shown in the accompanying drawings in which figure 1, 1ª
and 1 are end views of a headside or footstick being provided with a groove;
figure 2 is a side view of the same; figure 3 and 3" show two forms of a corner
piece of the furniture and figure 4 shows a column when tied up.
When the compositor has set a column and he has applied the sides a and corners b
of the furniture, he heretofore tied up the column by binding the cord e around the
flat surface of said furniture, and had to remove the cord again before putting the
column into the frame or the press. He also had to tie up the column once more,
when taking it from the printing press back to the compositor's desk. All this
required considerable time and the workman had to be very skilled as it otherwise
often happened that he lost types and justifiers out of the column.
I do away with this deficiency by providing both, the corners 6 and side pieces a
of the furniture with a horizontal groove e which may be of any desired shape but
we prefer those shown in figures I, 1 and 1° of the accompanying drawing. These
grooves which are all in one height in the different parts of which the furniture is
composed receive the cord being tied up in the usual manner. Since the cord does
not project from the groove or is flush with the outside of the furniture, the column
may be inserted into the frame and adjusted there without any obstacles.
In order to more conveniently knot the cord 1 profitably remove the projecting
rin d being produced by groove e on one side of the corner pieces or even of the side
pieces as is shown in figure 3". Also in this case the cord is firmly secured for the
adjoining parts of the side pieces or corners have still the upper projecting curve d
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page_text: The side pieces may be of any length and may be composed of several parts and
their length may be regulated by justifiers just as the lines of the columns.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1). A column furniture being provided with a horizontal groove all around for
receiving the page cord, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2). A column furniture consisting of corners and side sticks which are provided
with a horizontal groove for receiving the page cord, substantially in the manner and
for the purpose described.
3). A column furniture consisting of corners and side sticks which are provided
with a horizontal groove for receiving the page cord and which are only in parts
provided with an upper rim produced by said groove, all substantially in the manner
and for the purpose as described.