Improvements in Appliance for Type Printing.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliance for Type Printing.
FREDERIC ERNEST CATLING, 31, Barrington Road, Brixton, S.W., Engraver,
THOMAS JAMES PARKINSON, 9, Romola Road, Herne Hill, Printer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention consists of a type printing appliance for quick dispatch, by which
we are enabled to utilize the ordinary parallel line type, to set up and hold same
in its position and also to add news, as for example horseracing results and such
like.
The principle part consists of a plate as shewn in the front view Fig. 1, side
view Fig. 2, and general view Fig. 3, in the accompanying drawings.
The plate is tapered or wedge shaped as shewn in Fig. 2 having its thinest part
at the bottom; this is for the purpose that when the parallel type is set between
the plates the whole will form a radius as shewn in Fig. 4 thus enabling us to
use the parallel type in a cylindrical appliance. Its two upper corners are each
provided with a hook (a and a¹) under which the blank ends of the line type are.
held, as shewn in Fig. 4, the lettered part coming between the hooks and pro-
jecting above them, the end of the line type coming parallel with the outside edges
of the hooks as indicated by (6 and 6). The part (c) forming a curved projection
is for the purpose of slipping in single type and held therein by the projection
thus enabling us to add thereto as required for example in the case of utilizing it
for the results of horse races, the names of the horses would already be in line
type and in its position. On receipt of result it is then only necessary to slip in
the single type, or figures, following in a line with the names of the three placed
horses, for example the numbers 1, 2, 3 respectively. The parts (d and d) of the
plate are for the purpose of gripping under the rim of the box and thereby
holding the plate, the plate in its turn holding the type, the whole being thus held
in position as shewn in Fig. 1 and Fig. 4, the box (which is not of our invention)
being indicated by dotted lines. The line type being held by the hooks (a and a¹)
enables us to remove, in a quick and simple manner, any line not required, by
tilting the portion behind such line, slightly back.
Fig. 1 is a front view of the plate.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a general view of the same.
Fig. 4 is a section taken at the line (6¹) in Fig. 1 shewing the plates and type
set up, the letter (e) refers to the blank part of the type, the letter (f) referring
to the lettered part of the line type.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
(1) The tapering or wedge shape of the plate for the purpose as herein before
described.

page_text: (2) The provision of hooks on the plate for the purpose and in the manner for
holding the type as hereinbefore described.
(3) The part (c) in combination with the part of the plate provided for the line
type for the purpose of adding thereto in the manner as herein before described.
Dated this 6th day of May 1898.
FREDERIC ERNEST CATLING.
THOMAS JAMES PARKINSON.