Improvements in and relating to Removable and Reversible Supports for Shelves and Printers' Galleys.
Year: 1887

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Removable and Reversible
Supports for Shelves and Printers' Galleys.
A communication from abroad by CHARLES CALHOUN BLAKELEY, Albion, Calhoun
County, Michigan, United States of America, Inventor.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors 6, Lord Street Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester both in
the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer 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 "Removable and Reversible Supports
for Shelves and Printers' Galleys" and has for its object to provide an improved
movable rest or support which as applied to and used in connection with printers*
galleys, is attached in various positions upon the ordinary well known printing
case, whereby the galley for receiving the type when set up may be placed in a great
number of convenient positions within easy reach of the compositor, so as to relieve
him of the necessity of making more movements than are necessary in the
composition and assembling of type. By placing the galley nearer to the printer
this improved support effects so great a saving of space that two compositors can
work in the space formerly required for one. The application of the improved
device to purposes other than that hereinafter particularly described will obviously
suggest themselves.
In the drawings:
Fig. 1, is a perspective view showing a printers' case with a number of the
reversible and detachable galley supports in several different positions thereon.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the detachable and reversible galley support, on an
enlarged scale.
Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating a slightly different form.
Similar letters denote like parts throughout.
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page_text: The detachable and reversible galley support A, consists broadly of a straight,
narrow, body piece a, of any suitable metal, one end (the lower) of which turns up
to form a toe B, while the other (the upper) turns down to form a book or jaw C, the
hook or jaw C, and toe B, extending at substantially right angles from the body
piece a. A short distance from the hook or jaw C, is located or formed a short,
strong, extension brace or jaw D, which extends from the underside of the body
piece a, being integral therewith or attached thereto in any suitable manner, and
separated sufficiently from the hook or jaw C, to receive between them the vertical
edge of the case, box or hook, or other device upon the extremity or edge of which it
is to be placed. The jaw D, is desirably strengthened and braced by being set at
an oblique angle with respect to the body a; it may, however, extend at right angles
from the body a as shown in Fig. 3.
The outer edge b, of the toe B, is preferably slightly turned toward, as with that
form it takes a better hold of the galley, and of the case when in its reversed
position, but my correspondent does not limit himself in this particular, as the toe B,
may be a reproduction of the hook or jaw C, with good results.
Notches d, may be formed in the edges of the jaw D, and by providing suitable
studs or headless nails in proper positions on the case, the supports will be as readily
removed as before.
Instead of the notches d, an aperture j, may be provided in the jaw D, for
receiving a screw, so that the supports may he secured in desired positions. Increased
strength is provided for, when that element is required, rather than lightness and
portability, as when the supports are applied to shelves sustaining books or other
weighty articles, by thickening or adding to the width of the inner end portion of
the body a. In addition to making supports of various styles and patterns and
having fixed jaws at various distances apart to suit various uses, my correspondent
contemplates making the end hook or jaw C, separately, and attaching it movably
to the body a, so as to admit of longitudinal adjustment when desirable.
In Fig. is shown a printers case E, upon which the fonts F, of type are
supported in the usual manner. G, G, represent vertical rows of hooks or catches
secured at the end or ends of the frame supporting the case E, upon which hooks a
vertical series of supports A, are sustained forming a galley rack upon which, after
having received their type, a dozen or more galleys may be placed one above the
other at a great saving of space and in convenient proximity to the compositor.
A galley H, containing type ', is shown in position at the edge of the case where it
is mounted upon supports A, which are simply hooked over the lower edge h, of the
case, supporting the galley just over the edge thereof at a convenient angle with
respect thereto, and in a position affecting a great and obvious saving of time labour
and space to the compositor.
It will be seen from the description that the body piece a, being of substantially
the same thickness throughout, the support will be equally useful whichever side is
uppermost, that is to say, when it is desired to set the galley on the upper case in
front of the compositor, instead of at the edge of the lower case, all that is necessary
is to un-hook the supports, turn them over, and hook the toe piece B, to any of the
partitions between the upper type compartments I, or over the top J, of the case.
In this position the galley is placed as before, resting upon what was previously the
under side of the body a, where it is held in place by the brace or jaw D, instead of
as before by the toe B, thus being perfectly reversible.
The supports A, are preferably formed by casting them in one piece, of suitable
metal, such as iron or steel, the adjustable end piece being made separately, when
such construction is desired. They may also be of brass, and carry any desired
ornamentation, or design, or they may be made out of plain sheet metal with the
ends turned up and down respectively as described, and the brace piece or jaw D,
formed out of a loop of the sheet metal, or be separately soldered or riveted
thereto.
It will be entirely obvious that the use of the invention is not confined to printers'
cases, nor to the other purposes herein suggested, nor to the size herein shown and

page_text: described, which is about 6 inches in length, since it is proposed to make them in
many different sizes suitable for removable shelves, brackets, library racks and
so forth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The herein described removable and reversible rest or support for printers
galleys, shelves, &c.
2. The removable and reversible galley support, comprising a metallic piece or
body having an upturned toe at its lower end, a downwardly extending hook or jaw
at its upper end, and a second jaw extending from the body upon the same side as
the end jaw, the jaws being arranged to rest upon or engage the opposite surfaces of
their support, substantially as described.
3. The removable and reversible galley support, comprising a metallic piece or
body, having an upturned toe at its lower end, a downwardly extending hook or jaw
at its upper end, and a second jaw extending from the body upon the same side as
the end jaw, the jaws being substantially parallel and extending at an oblique angle
from the body, substantially as described.
4. The herein described galley rack, comprising a supporting frame, and series of
pairs of hooks or catches secured to the frame and arranged one above the other in
pairs and supports A, engaging the hooks and forming a rack, as set forth.
Dated this 7th day of November 1887.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.