IMPROVEMENTS IN GALLEYS AND FRAMES FOR HOLDING SET-UP TYPE PROVISIONAL SPFICATION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Heywood of the City of Manchester Printer and
Publisher and Robert Craib Ross of Ardwick in the same City Printers
LETTERS PATENT to John Heywood of the City of Manchester Printer and
Publisher and Robert Craib Ross of Ardwick in the same City Printers
Machinist for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GALLEYS AND FRAMES FOR
HOLDING SET-UP TYPE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Heywood and Robert
Craib Ross at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th August
1883.
JOHN HEYWOOD of the City of Manchester, Printer and Publisher, and ROBERT
CRAIB ROSS of Ardwick in the same City, Printers Machinist, "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GALLEYS AND FRAMES FOR HOLDING SET UP TYPE"
Our Invention relates to the Galleys, chases and frames used by printers to hold
type in the various operations subsequent to the composing as is well understood
and is particularly' applicable to the galleys in which type is arranged in columns.
The object of our Invention is to obtain more ready and accurate means for
adjusting the width of the space for the type or of locking the type and this we
accomplish by acting upon an adjustable bar at two or more points by means of
a setting bar so that the said adjustable bar is compelled to maintain its parallelism
with the fixed side of the galley or frame in all positions.
In the arrangement we have adopted the said adjustable bar is connected at
two, three or more points in its length with the said setting bar by means of jointed
links so arranged as that when the setting bar is moved endwise the adjustable
bar is moved in a direction at right angles with the sides of the galley maintaining
its parallelism with the setting bar which bears against one of the fixed sides of the
galley. The adjustable bar is prevented from moving in an end wise direction.
The setting bar is actuated by means of a screw or by a rack and pinion or by
other suitable means. Struts bearing in recesses or notches might be substituted
for the joint links. We may apply more than one adjustable bar to a single galley
or frame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Hoywood and Robert Craib Ross in the Patent Office on the
20th February 1884.
JOHN HEYWOOD, of the City of Manchester, Printer and Publisher, and, ROBERT
CRAIB ROSS, of Ardwick in the same City Printers Machinist "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GALLEYS AND FRAMES FOR HOLDING SET UP TYPE "
Our invention relates to the galleys, chases, and frames used by printers to hold
type in the various operations subsequent to the composing as is well understood
and is particularly applicable to galleys in which type is arranged in columns.
The object of our invention is to obtain more ready and accurate means for
ndjusting the width of the space for the type or of locking the type, and this we
accomplish by acting upon an adjustable bar at two or more points by means of a
setting bar so that the said adjustable bar is compelled to maintain the parallelism
with the fixed side of the galley or frame in all positions.
In the arrangement we have adopted the said adjustable bar is connected at two,
three or more points in its length with the said setting bar by means of joint links
so arranged as that when the setting bar is inoved end wise the adjustablo bar is
moved in a direction at right angles with the sides of the galley maintaining its
parallelism with the setting bar which bears against one of the fixed sides of the
galley.
In order that our invention may be fully understood we have attached hereunto
a sheet of drawings representing one of our improved galleys. Referring to the
said drawings Fig: 1 represents a plan, and Fig: 2 a side view of the galley. In
the said Figs a, a, are two raised sides or cheeks which are fixed to the bottom of
the galley, and b, c, are two fixed ends. In the example one of the ends c is shorter
than the other in order to leave an open space to facilitate the transfer of columns
of type as is well understood. The galley is provided with two moving bars d,
and, e, which are connected together by means of radius links f, f, which are
hinged or jointed by their ends to two bare so that lines drawn through the
centres of the joint pins of the links shall always be parallel in all positions of the
two bars. The ends of the bar e fit between the ends b, and, c, which prevent an
endwise movement of the said bar. One end of the bar & is drilled and tapped or is
provided with a nut in which works a screw g having a neck which is fitted to
revolve in a bearing in the end piece c and is provided with a head whereby the
screw can be turned by means of the fingers or of a pin or key or by any suitable
means. When the screw is turned the bar is caused to alide in an ondwise
direction. It will be seen that when the said bar is moved in the direction
indicated by the arrows the bar e will be thrust out in the direction also indicated
by the arrows that is to say in a direction at right-angles to the direction of
movement of the bar d-and that this movement of the bar e will be uniform from
end to end so that the parallelism of the two bars is inaintained, and if the parts have
been correctly put together the bar e will in all its positions be parallel with the
edge u. To bring the bar e nearer to the bar & the scrow is turned in a direction
contrary to the direction required to move the said bar in the described direction
To clamp a column of type in the galley it is only necessary to turn the screw so as
to move the bar d in the indicated direction. A rack and pinion or other suitable
means might be employed to move the bar d but the screw furnishes a simple and
convenient monns for the purpose. Struts bearing in recesses or notches in the two
bars might be substituted for the hinged links. We may apply more than one
adjustable bar e, to a single galley or frame.

page_text: Having now fully set forth and indicated the nature of our said invention and
the manner in which we propose to carry the same into practical effect we would
have it to be understood that we claim:-
First. The appliance constructed and acting substantially as and for the purpose
set forth and indicated hereinbefore and in and by the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. In galleys, chases and frames for holding type the employment of bars
connected together by means of links which are hinged by their two ends to the
two bars so that when one bar is moved endwise the other bar is moved at right
angles to the first bar so as to clamp the type.
And lastly. So connecting together two bars in a galley, chase or frame for
holding type as that when one bar is moved endwise the second bar is thrust
against the type to clamp the same the parallelism of the second bar being.
maintained substantially as set forth and indicated.
In witness whereof we the said John Heywood and Robert Craib Ross have
hereunto set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of February in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four
Signed, sealed
and delivered
in the presence
of
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EDWARD K. DUTTON
41 John Dalton St,
Manchester,
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JOHN HEY WOUD (L.S.)
RC ROSS
(LS.)