Improvements in Wooden Type.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 6th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wooden Type.
I, GEORGE WALKER, of 3, Vicarage Street, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in large wooden type used for printing
posters" and other purposes where exceptionally large type is required, and its
object is to reduce the bulk and cost of a set of this class of type.
For this purpose I divide such of the type as the form of the letter or character
thereon will permit into two or more pieces with the two fold object of enabling
the type to be built up of small pieces to form complete letters and to allow such
parts or sections as are common to other letters or characters to be utilized in the
formation of the type bearing such letters or characters. The divisions in the
type are generally speaking preferably restricted to lines parallel to the sides of
the type blocks.
Dated this oth dow of T₁l., 1905
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
I, GEORGE WALKER, of 3, Vicarage Street, Wakefield, in the County of York,
Manager, 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 :-
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This invention relates to improvements in large wooden type used for printing
posters" and other purposes where exceptionally large type is required, and its
object is to reduce the bulk and cost of a set of this class of type.
For this purpose I divide such of the type as the form of the letter or character
thereon will permit into two or more pieces with the two fold object of enabling
the type to be built up of small pieces to form complete letters and to allow such
parts or sections as are common to other letters or characters to be utilized in the
formation of the type bearing such letters or characters.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of this Specification
Figure 1 represents impressions of the various sections or pieces of type required
to form the letters illustrated below in Figure 2.
In Figure 1, the sections of type are consecutively numbered 2 to 21 and
in Figure 2 the same numbers are used to denote the different sections from which
each letter is formed; as for instance :
The letter A is made up by combining the sections 20 and 21 whilst the
letter V is formed by inverting the section 20. The letter B is formed by the
combination of the sections 2 and 8; and the letter C by the sections 5, 6 and 7.
Letter D is formed by the sections 2, 9 and 5; and the letter E by the sections 2
and 4 together with two sections 3. The letters H, M and N are each produced
by two pieces 2 in conjunction with another piece. It will be readily seen how the

page_text: other letters are formed by referring to the numbers indicating the various
parts.
The letters S, W, X, Y and Z are preferably made in one piece in the ordinary
way.
The broken lines in Figure 1 represent the size of the rectangular blocks upon
which the pieces of type are cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
.claim is :
The improvement in type, substantially as herein shown and described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of April 1896.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.