An Improvement in Type Distributing Apparatus.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 29th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Type Distributing Apparatus.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK HILDER, of 28 Gray's Inn Chambers, Holborn,
London, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
I
:-
In my Specification No. 13524 of 1892, describing apparatus of distributing
types, provided for separation of space types by removing a lower stop from the
end of a separated line of types and so allowing space types to be pushed out
under an upper stop which prevents the higher character types from being
pushed out.
According to my present invention, I dispense with this arrangement of stops
and of the key for working the lower stop, and I effect the separation of the space
types in the following manner. The front line of the forme is, as before pushed
into a recess of a vertically sliding gate, but I make this recess somewhat wider
than the length of line pushed into it, and 1 divide the gate into two parts in height
so that the recess when the line is pushed into it is somewhat higher than the types
allowing them to be pushed in between two slightly projecting lips of the recess
above and below. Then as the gate is pulled down, the two parts of it are brought
closer together so as to hold the types within the lips which they had passed. The
gate is then turned back on a hinge to an inclined position, the front of the recess
being thus thrown open, and the height of the recess being a little increased by
slightly separating the two parts, the line of types becomes loosened, allowing the
lower space types to fall out while the character types are still retained in the
recess by its projecting lips. The gate being then turned down again on its
hinge, the separation of the character types goes on as described in my former
Specification.
Dated this 29th day of July 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Type Distributing Apparatus.
1, CHARLES FREDERICK HILDER, of 28 Gray's Inn Chambers, Holborn,
London, Mechanician, 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 :-
In my Specification No. 13524 of 1892, describing apparatus for distributing
types, I provided for separation of space types by removing a lower stop from the
end of a separated line of types and so allowing space types to be pushed out under
an upper stop which prevents the higher character types from being pushed out.
According to my present invention, I dispense with this arrangement of stops and
with the key for working the lower stop, and I effect the separation of the space
types as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is an enlarged view of the gate B and adjoining parts shewn in Fig. 1 of
the Specification No. 13524 of 1892 above referred to, with modifications according.
to my present invention,

page_text: Fig. 2 is a side view of the vertical guide B³ on the left of the gate,
Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the gate B in its raised position, and
Fig. 4 is a transverse section when the gate is lowered and folded on its hinge to
deliver space types.
I make the gate in three parts in height, the uppermost part B having hinged to
it the two lower parts B' B' which are connected together by slides and guides y
so that they can be slid a little apart from each other as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3 or
slid close together as shewn in Fig. 4. In these two parts B B is formed the
recess into which, as described in the previous Specification, is pushed the foremost
line of the forme A that is to be broken up.
The top and bottom of the recess are undercut as shewn behind projecting lips
which are sloped in front. When the gate is raised as shewn in Fig. 3 the part B
is separated from B' so that the distance between the lips is a little more than
type height, allowing the types to enter the recess, in which they drop till they
rest on its bottom.
With the character types T the space types S which happen to be in the line
also enter the recess.
When the gate is lowered the two parts B1 B2 are brought close together and
then folded back on their hinge as shewn in Fig. 4. The character types T, being
held at the top and the bottom remain in the recess, but the shorter space types S not
being held at the top fall out. After they have fallen, the parts B1 B2 are moved
back to their vertical position and then the character types remaining in the recess
are separated into their respective cases by the action of finger keys as described
in my previous Specification.
In order to prevent the parts B' B' from separating while they are inclined to
drop the space types, I fix on the side guide B³ a shield H and to one of the
guides y I attach a pin which when the gate is raised and lowered vertically
travels along a straight path h¹ formed in the shield H, and, when the lower parts of
the gate are folded back as in Fig. 4, this pin travels along the curve which is
the arc of a circle struck from the axis of the hinge as a centre: In Fig. 1 of my
previous Specification the pulley b, carrying the weighted cord for actuating the
pusher, was shewn to the right of the gate; according to my new arrangement,
I place it to the left of the gate, where it can be more easily accommodated clear
- of the type separating mechanism.
For
As the formes to be distributed may be of various widths, I prefer to make the
gate B sufficiently wide to receive the longest line of type that is to be pushed into
its recess, with a little freedom so that they are not tightly packed therein.
a line of less length, a side piece may be fixed at the left hand end of the recess
so as to allow between it and the right hand end a little more than the length of
the line.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In type distributing apparatus of the kind described in my Specification No. 13524
of 1892, constructing the gate which receives in its recess the front line of type to
be distributed, in parts which are separated sufficiently to allow the line to pass
projecting lips into the recess, which are then closed together to hold the character
types behind these lips, and finally are folded back on a hinge so that space types, not
being held behind the upper lip, fall out; leaving only character types in the recess
..to be separated, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of April 1894.