Improvements in Printers' Galleys.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
ROBEL LEIE DI CIFICATION.
Improvements in Printers' Galleys.
A communication from SAMUEL E. HORNE, Printer, WILLIAM W. OGDEN, M.D.,
STEPHEN M. HAY, M.D., and LOUIS. F. LAING, all of the City of Toronto,
in the County of York, in the Provice of Ontario, Canada.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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 :-
The object of the invention is to connect the side-stick to the galley in such a
manner that it may be easily adjusted and fixed for the purpose of locking the
type in the galley without using loose quoins such as are now commonly employed;
and it consists essentially in connecting the side-stick to the galley in such a
manner that it may be laterally adjusted by the longitudinal movement of a bar
provided with pins or projections designed to fit into slanting grooves formed in
plates attached, respectively, to the side-stick and bottom of the galley substantially
as horeinafter more particularly explained.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of this improved galley with the side-stick. in
position.
Fig. 2 is a similar view with the side-stick removed.
Fig. 3 is a perspective bottom view of the side-stick and its attachments.
Fig. 4 is a similar view to fig. 1 but of a galley with one end entirely removed.
In the drawing A represents the galley, of ordinary construction, except that a
portion or the whole of one of its ends is removed. B is the side-stick having a
tongue a formed at one end to fit into a groove made on one end of the
galley A. The groove is longer than the tongue a so as to permit the stick B
to be laterally adjusted for the purpose of locking the type in the galley, or
moving it to permit the type to be taken out of the galley. When only a portion
of the galley's end is removed a hole d is made in the end of the side-stick B
opposite to that on which the tongue a is formed. This hole fits over a pin e
when the stick B is placed in the position indicated in Fig. 1 but the pin e may
be dispensed with and the end left entirely open as shown in Fig. 4.
By connecting the side-stick B to the galley A in the manner described, the said
side-stick may be easily removed from the galley or replaced in position as
required.
Two plates C are attached to the top of the side-stick B and a plate D is also
attached to the side-stick B but on its bottom side. The bar E is provided with
pins or projections F which are designed to fit into grooves or slots G made in
the plates C and D. H represents plates fixed to the bottom of the galley A.
The plates H have grooves or slots I into which the two end pins projecting from
the bar E fit, when the said side-stick is placed in its position as indicated in
fig. 1. The grooves or slots I correspond with the grooves or slots G except that
they slant in the opposite direction. It follows therefore that when the side-stick
with its attachments is placed in position in this galley A the longitudinal adjust-
ment of the bar E causes a lateral movement of the side-stick B sufficient to
accomplish the purpose for which the side-stick is employed.
It will of course be understood that instead of the grooves or slots G and I the
same effect would be produced by ribs, in which case grooved projections on the
bar E would be employed instead of the pins F.
By connecting the side-stick to the galley in the manner described, loose quoins
are dispensed with and the constant annoyance caused by the loss of the quoins,

page_text: and the difficulty in properly adjusting the side-stick while making corrections
in the type are avoided.
It will also be seen that the old style of galley can be readily altered to suit
this invention, it being merely necessary to provide the plates and adjusting.bar.
In fig: 4 two plates C are shown attached to the stick B opposite to the plates H
which latter plates are raised for the purpose of permitting the lower plates C to
pass below them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. The side-stick B adjustably fitted to the galley A in combination with the
plates having slanting slots G to receive the pins F projecting from the bar E
and the plates H fixed to the galley A and having grooves or slots I to receive
the pins F substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2. The side-stick B having a tongue a to fit into the groove made in the end
of the galley A and a hole d to fit over the pin e projecting from the opposite
end of the said galley the plates fixed to the side-stick B and having grooves
or slots G made in them in combination with the bar E provided with pins F to
fit into the grooves or slots G and into grooves or slots I substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
3. The within-described printers' galley constructed substantially as shown and
specified.
Dated this 13th day of M 1980
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents.