IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITORS' TYPE CASES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lanc, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITORS' TYPE
CASES."-A communication from abroad by Richard March Hoe,
Sealed the 1st October 1872, and dated the 13th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Newton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his:
Petition, on the 13th April 1872.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPOSITORS' TYPE
CASES," to be as follows :—
This Invention of improvements in compositors' type cases has for its
object to construct these articles in such a manner that they will be
stronger and less liable than heretofore to be broken or damaged when
in use. These cases arc, as is well known, divided into a large number of
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page_text: compartments by means of thin wooden partitions which are very liable
to be broken off short when in uso, as they are notched down half way
so as to fit on to each other and thus form the requisite square com-
partments to receive the types.
The object of the present improvements is to strengthen and support
the partitions at the joints so as to very considerably reduce the liability
of their being accidentally broken. To this end stamped metal clips
made in the form of a cross, thus
are adapted to all the corners
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of the compartments and are secured in place by central pins or pin
nails which are driven into holes drilled in the angles for the purpose.
Side flanges on the four arms of the motal-cross pieces are struck up so
as to form clips, thus,
which will fit over the four parts of the
angle joint formed by the wooden partitions and will hold them together.
At some joints there will only be three partitions, and consequently the
metal pieces will only require to have three clips instead of four as
shewn above.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
* WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special licenco
that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Nowton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

page_text: the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN COMPOSITORS TYPE CASES," being a communication to me from abroad by
Richard March Hoe, of New York, in the United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands, and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office: within six calendar months. next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say)::—
This Invention of "Improvements in Compositors' Type Cases" has
for its object to construct these articles in such a manner that they will
be stronger and less liable than heretofore to be broken or damaged.
when in use. These cases are, as is well known, divided into a large
number of compartments by means of thin wooden partitions which are
very liable to be broken off short when in use as they are notched down
half way so as to fit on to each other and thus form the requisite squaro
compartments to receive the types.
The object of the present improvements is to strengthen' and support
the partitions at the joints so as to very considerably reduce the liability
of their being accidentally broken; and this object is effected by adapting
stamped metal clips (made in the form of a cross) to all the corners of
the compartments. These metal clips are secured in place by central
pins or pin nails which are driven into holes drilled in the angles for the
purpose.
In the accompanying Drawings Fig. 1 is a plan view of a type case
with the improvements adapted thereto. a and a¹ are the wooden parti-
tions which form the compartments for the type. Figures 2 and 2 are
5 side views of a piece of two of these partitions detached and drawn upon
an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 represents the longitudinal partitions a which
are notched half way down from the top; Fig. 2 represents a transverse

page_text: partition a¹ which is notched up half way from the bottom. When the
two parts are put together they will cross each other as shewn in plan
at Fig. 3, and in elevation at Fig. 4. The angles are secured and
strengthened by the metal clips b, b, Figures 1, 3, and 4, which are
stamped up out of circular metal clips such as those shown at Fig. 5. |
Side flanges on the four arms of the metal cross pieces are struck up so
as to form clips (as shewn in the edge and under side views Figs. 6, of
one of the clips detached. These flanges will fit over the four parts of
the angle joint formed by the wooden partitions, and will hold them
together as seen at Figures 1, 3, and 4. At some of the angles or joints 1
of the type case there will only be three partitions, as shown at 1, 2, 3, 4,
Fig. 1, and consequently the metal pieces will only require to have
three clips as shewn at Fig. 7, instead of four as shewn in Figures 3
and 4.
Having now described the "Improvements in Compositors' Type 1
Cases" as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and having
explained the manner [of carrying the same into effect, I claim as the
Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid strengthening or
securing the angles or joints of compositors' type cases by means of
metal clips as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have
hercunto set my hand and seal, the Twelth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
two.
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