Improvements in Stereotype-blocks and Stereotypes for use therewith.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stereotype-blocks and Stereotypes for use
therewith.
I, JAMES CARR MERRITT, of the town of Highlands, Orange County, State of New
York, in the United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to bo particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has relation to stereotype-blocks, and among the objects in view are
to provide an easily constructed, cheap, and serviceable block designed to support a
stereotype-plate, and more particularly that class of stereotype-plates formed of
zylonite, paper, wood, celluloid, and other thin light material and to provide an
efficient and economical means for securing the plate upon the block.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following
description and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the
claim.
Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1, is a perspective of a stereotype-block constructed
in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2, a similar view of a plate adapted for use on the block.
Fig. 3, a transverse section the plate being mounted in position upon the block.
Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.
1, represents the block, formed of metal, and is oppositely channeled as at 2, forming
the usual feet 3. At each side of the block is secured-in this instance by countersunk
rivets, 4-thin metallic plates, 5, of a width slightly greater than the width of the
block, and having their excess in length bent over and slightly above the block as at 6,
thus forming opposite ways or grooves, 7.
8, represents the stereotype-plato formed in sections of convenient length and
preferably of zylonite wood, paper, or celluloid, and at each of its longitudinal
sides a bevel, 9, is formed, the width of the plate being coincident with that between
the grooves, 7, into which the bevels, 9, are adapted to take when the plate is slid into
position, the turned flanges, 6, of the plates 4, resting against the beveled portions of
the plate, 8.
10, represents the usual rules arranged at both sides of the block 1, and outside of
the securing plates 5. By this arrangement it will be seen that I have provided
through the securing-platos, 5, a simple and convenient securing device for the stereo-
type-plates, which device, 5, by means of the peculiar formation and its other specific
features, is especially adapted for use in connection with light stereotype-plates of the
character described.
I do not limit my invention to the exact manner herein shown and described for
securing the plates, 5, to the blocks, but hold that I may vary the same in any manner
within the scope of my claim.
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
The combination of the block, 1, and the opposite side plates, 5, said plates
having the opposite inwardly turned flanges, 6, arranged slightly above the face of
the plate, with the plate, 8, having the opposite beveled edges, 9, substantially as
specified.