Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 30th Nov., 1888
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:
Fig. 1 is a plan, fig. 2 a back elevation fig. a transverse section, fig. 4 an end
elevation and fig. 5 part of a front elevation of a type distributing machine under iny
invention. 1 sole plate, 2 standards, 3 inclined type bed composed of bars
secured to the standards 2. 4 ribbed guide plate for types. 5 type receivers.
6 holder for types to be distributed, made in any usual way. 7 block for turning
types ejected from the holder. 8 friction pieces pivotted at 9 and caused to bear by
springs 10 against the bottom types so as to prevent more than one type from being
ejected from the holder at once. 11 driving shaft. 12 cams. 13 plate resting on
the cams 12 and having bars 14 attached thereto. The bars 14 are formed with teeth 15
and fit in slots in the type bed 3. 16 ledge piece fitting freely within a slot in the
said type bed 3 and resting on the plate 13. 17 type fingers fitting freely within
slots at the back of the type bed 3 and also resting on the plate 13. There is one
The lower face of each finger is
finger for each type character to be distributed.
provided with projecting feelers 18 and the type bed has corresponding apertures into
which the said feelers may fit. The number or position of the feelers or both is varied
in any well known way so that no two fingers have feelers in corresponding positions.
I prefer to use two feelers and vary their position on each finger. 19 studs for retaining
the plate 13 in position against the cams 12. 20 pusher fitting within the bottom of
the type holder and free to slide on the shaft 11. 21 cam for giving motion to the
pusher. 22 springs for holding the pusher against the cam and type holder. 23 bar
free to slide to and fro on the bars 24. 25 cams on the shaft 11 for imparting motion
to the bar 23. 26 springs for retaining the bar 24 against the cams. 27 push pieces
each connected at one end to the bar 23 and having the other end within a type
receiver 5.
The action is as follows.
The type holder is filled with types and the driving shaft
is caused to rotate, the pusher 20 is caused to moved to and fro in the bottom of the

page_text: type holder and push out type after type. When the pusher is at the end of its back-
ward stroke it presses against the friction pieces 8 and moves them away from the
type so that they may fall freely to the bottom of the holder. The heads of the types
as they are pushed out of the holder pass onto the block 7 so that when the foot of
the type leaves the holder it falls down and rests on the ledge piece 16 in a semi
upright position so that the bars may carry forward the type to the several positions
to be visited by the fingers. Whilst the types are being ejected the bars 14 rise
move forward fall and move back so that the teeth 15 carry forward type after type
step by step as they are ejected. During the time the type are being carried forward
the ledge piece 16 is above the level of the bed 3 and the types rest thereon.
Whilst the types are stationary the said ledge sinks into the bed and remains level
with the top of the bed the feelers 18 of the fingers 17 rest on the types and retain
them on the said bed until the ledge again rises. If the feelers on a finger corres-
pond with the grooves in a type the said feelers pass through the said grooves enter
the recesses in the bed and the type being sustained neither by the ledge piece nor
feelers slides off the bed between the ribs of the plate 4 into one of the receivers 5.
The types entering the receivers 5 are pushed along such receivers by means of the
pieces 27. On the other hand if the feelers do not concide with the grooves in the type
the feelers do not pass through the grooves in the type-but rest upon the type and by
their weight maintain the type upon the bed whilst the ledge ceases to give support
so soon as the feelers rise the ledge piece also rises and the undisturbed type is passed
forward on the bed until it comes to a position where the feeler concides with the
grooves in the type. The plate 13 passes the fingers from the types, when the plate
descends the fingers fall on the types by the action of gravity.
The construction of type holder may be varied and the gearing for giving motion
to the parts may be varied without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
First. The combination of feelers for retaining types with apparatus for giving
types intermittent forward motion for the purpose and in manner set forth.
Second. The combination of a stationary inclined type bed with a ledge piece,
traversing bars and fingers all actuated by one plate or piece substantially as set
forth.
Third. The combination with a type holder and ejector of an inclined type bed
provided with a block 7 for the purpose set forth.
Fourth. The combination with a type holder of friction pieces and springs substan-
tially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
Fifth. The combination of apparatus for distributing type with receivers 5 and
push pieces 27 for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 15th day of September 1888.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.