Appliance for Packing Types in Lines for Composing Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1894
Complete Specification Loft 16th Fah
1505 1aranted
23ed Mar
1805
Date of Application, 25th May, 1894
Feb, 1505 lccepted, 23rd Mar,
Complete Specification Left, 16th Fab
1805
Appliance for Packing Types in Lines for Composing Machines.
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 :-
My invention relates to means of facilitating the packing of types into troughs
or other suitable receptacles so as to present to the composing machine a number
of types of each character in a line, each type being in the position ready to
be separated and composed. For this purpose, I provide a flat surface which
may be in the form of a disc that can turn on a vertical axis like a turntable,
and at the side of this surface next the operator I provide four shoots each
leading down to a trough like receptacle into which the types have to be packed.
Two of these shoots are provided with hinged covers which are counterweighted
so as always to be kept up level with the general surface, except when they
are lightly pressed downwards. Each of the four shoots is provided with a
revolving excentric or a reciprocating pusher, above which is a lightly counter-
weighted or spring urged safety door opening outwards from the shoot. This
apparatus is operated in the following manner. A number of types, all of one
character thrown on the turntable, when lying on their flat sides, may take four
different attitudes, that is to say, some with the character towards the operator,
some of these having the nicks on the right side, some of them having the nicks
on the left side; others with the character away from the operator, some with
nicks on the right, some with nicks on the left. The operator placing a finger
on each type, turning it if necessary on its flat side, draws it along to the shoot
in which it has to descend the two middle shoots receiving the types which have
the characters away from the operator the one shoot for the right and the other
for the left hand nicks. He draws the types which have the character towards
him over the hinged lids, those with the right hand nicks to the one lid, those
with the left hand. nicks to the other lid, and pressing down the lid allows the
type to slide down tail foremost into the shoot. In this way, all the types are
made to reach the troughs below with the characters uppermost, two of the
troughs having types with the nicks to the right hand, and two of them having
types with the nicks to the left hand. Either of these troughs can be inverted
when applied to the machine so as to bring all the nicks to the one hand.
The excentrics or plungers push into the trough each type as it descends, and,
should a type become canted by being pushed during its descent, the safety
door partly opens to allow it to take an oblique attitude without being broken.
The four shoots may be arranged to converge into one, two of them being
helically twisted so as to bring the nicks of the types descending them to the same
side as the nicks of those descending the other pair of shoots.
When the surface is made as a turntable the two shoots with hinged covers may
be dispensed with, as the surface may be turned more or less round to bring the tail
ends of any of the types towards the operator.
Dated this 25th day of May 1894
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Appliance for Packing Types in Lines for Composing Machines.
I, 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 :-
My invention relates to means of facilitating the packing of types into troughs
or other suitable receptacles so as to present to the composing machine a number of
types of each character in a line, each type being in the position ready to be
separated and composed. For this purpose, I provide an appliance arranged and
operating as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the table on which are laid the types, all of one character that
are to be packed.
Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical sections to an enlarged scale taken respectively on the
lines XX and Y Y of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a section on the line Z Z of Fig. 2.
A is a smooth table 'having at the side where the operator stands four shoots,
namely two middle shoots B and C each of the form shown in section in Fig. 2 and
two outer shoots D and E each of the form shown in section in Fig. 3.
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Each shoot leads down to the end of a receptacle in form of a trough, at the end
of which there is an excentric G caused to rotate continuously by any convenient
motor driving the spindle H on which the four excentrics are fixed one for each
shoot. The spindle H revolves in bearings provided on the base plate J, on which
the receptacles F rest. At its lower part, each shoot has a front and á back
opening each provided with a door, the front door K hinged at its lower edge, and
the hind door L hinged at its upper edge.
Each door is held closed by a small weight on its hinge pin or it might be by a
light spring, so that it can open yielding to a slight force.
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The apparatus is worked as follows:-
The operator putting his finger on one of the types laid upon the table A, and
turning it, if necessary, on one of its flat sides, notices or feels which of four
possible positions the type occupies. If the character is directed towards him and
the nicks are on the left side, he draws the type to the left middle shoot B and lets
it drop; if the character is towards him and the nicks on the right side he draws the
type to the right middle shoot C and lets it drop; in both these cases the character
end of the type rests for a moment on the incline b or c allowing the other end,
after passing the edge b' or c¹ to descend first; the type thus descends bottom first
with the character presented upwards." When the character is away from the
operator and the nicks on the left, he draws the type to the left outer shoot D;
when the character is away from him and the nicks on the right he draws it to the
right outer shoot E. Thus, in all cases, the types descend with the characters
presented upwards, but a number descend by the shoots B and D with their nicks
to the left, and a number by C and E with their nicks towards the right.
As each type reaches the lower end of the shoot behind the excentric, it is
pushed by the excentric into the receptacle. Should the excentric happen to bear
against it when it has not reached the bottom it would be canted to the side as
shewn in Fig. 3, and in that case the doors K L open to allow it to take the
inclined position; on the retreat of the excentric, the type is restored to its vertical
position by the closing of the doors K L and descends to the bottom to be pushed
into the receptacle by the next revolution of the excentric.
As one pair of the receptacles F contains types with their nicks on the hand
opposite to that of the nicks in the other pair, the receptacles of the one or the
other pair have to be turned end for end when placed in a type setting machine

page_text: and thus the types in the receptacles all have their characters and nicks lying one
way, as is necessary in such machines.
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 :-
1. Apparatus for packing types into receptacles consisting of a table for mani-
pulating the types provided with a pair of left hand and a pair of right hand shoots,
each leading down to a receptacle furnished with an excentric, arranged and
operating substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for packing types into receptacles, in combination with the table
for manipulating the types and the shoots leading down therefrom to receptacles
furnished with excentrics, a pair of doors near the lower end of each shoot, urged
to close by weights or springs, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 6th day of February 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.