A COMBINED SHOOTING-STICK AND MALLET FOR PRINTERS' USE
Year: 1884

page_text: IRIDIONAL
DIEUTICALION.
I, ROBERT ARTHUR BAXTER, of the firm of Lawrence Brothers, of Farringdon
Street, in the City of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for A COMBINED SHOOTING-STICK AND MALLET FOR PRINTERS' USE.
Communicated to me from abroad by Messieurs Lawrence and Baxter, of Dey
Street, New York, in the United States of America, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an apparatus for printers' use, consisting of a combined
shooting-stick and mallet, for driving quoins in locking up the form in the chase,
and for planing down or making even the face of a form of type. The combined
apparatus consists of a tube or stem in which a rod is free to slide, and which rod
is prevented leaving the tube or stem by a stop, or like contrivance, striking
against a collar on the inner end of the said tube or stem. The rod is provided, at
its outer end, with a weighted head, and the tube or stem, at its outer end, is
furnished with projections corresponding to the form of the quoins. When the rod
is raised and impelled against the stem, (said stem being held in one hand with its
projections against the quoins) it urges the quoin forward, thus driving the same
firmly in the chase.
Around the periphery of the weighted head is a ring of rubber, or other yielding
material, so that when the apparatus is used, in conjunction with the planer, for
planing down forms of type the rubber on the weighted head will deaden the blow
of the apparatus and will avoid any damage to the type or to the planer.

page_text: I, ROBERT ARTHUR BAXTER, of the firm of Lawrence Brothers, of Farringdon
Street, in the City of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of said
invention for A COMBINED SHOOTING STICK AND MALLET FOR PRINTERS' USE.
Communicated to me from abroad by Messieurs Lawrence and Baxter, of Dey
Street, New York, in the United States of America, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to an apparatus for printers' use, consisting of a shooting.
stick and mallet combined and operated as hereinafter described, and used for
driving quoins in locking up the form in the chase, and for planing down or
making even the face of a form of type.
And in order that the Invention may be readily understood I proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing which represents the com-
bined apparatus in perspective view, the dotted lines shewing the same in position
for use as a mallet, and the full lines in the position it will assume when in use as
a shooting stick.
This combined apparatus consists of a tube or stem A, in which a rod B, is free
to slide. This rod is prevented leaving the tube or stem A, by a stop a, or like
contrivance, striking against a collar C, on the inner end of the said tube or stem.
The rod B, is provided, at its outer end, with a weighted head B*, and the tube or
stem, at its outer end, is furnished with projections B1, B2 corresponding or adapted
to the form of the quoins, as shewn. When the rod is raised and impelled against
the stem (said stem being held in one hand with its projections against the quoins),
it urges the quoin forward, thus driving the same firmly in the chase.
Around the periphery of the weighted head Bx is a ring of rubber, or other
yielding material B³, let into a recess formed in the head, so that when the
apparatus is used in conjunction with a planer, for planing down forms of type, the
rubber on the weighted head will deaden the blow of the apparatus and will avoid
any damage to the type or to the planer.
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
The combined shooting stick and mallet for printers' use, as described and
shewn, and for the purposes set forth.