A Feed Appliance for Type-setting Machine.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1839
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Feed Appliance for Type-setting Machine.
We, RIONARD CLAY, of Bread Street Hill, in the City of London, Printer, and
JOHN EBENEZER MARCHANT, of the Apsley Engineering Works, Homel Hempstead,
in the County of Hertford, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
In the Specification No. 6840 of 1887 is described a type setting machine so
arranged that successive types fed by hand in any attitudes into a funnel are, by means
of mechanism turned into the proper attitudes for printing and are collected in rows
to constitute a forme. The machine described in that Specification was arranged to
act intermittently, being put in motion by the action of a clutch operated electro-
magnetically by the descent of each type from the funnel.
The present invention relates to an appliance to a machine of this kind, so arranged
as to dispense entirely with the electro magnetic clutch apparatus and to permit the
machine to go on working continuously whether types are fed into the funnel or not.
For this purpose we arrange under the mouth of the funnel an endless band of leather
or such like flexible material caused to travel continuously at a rate suited to tlie move-
ment of the type setting machine.
By this band the types when they descend from the funnel are carried along a
sloping way which is provided with two successive stops that are worked from the
machine, being caused to reciprocate in time with the reciprocating parts of the machine.
The first of these stops moves out of the way to lot one type pass as it is carried along
by the band but closes against passage of a second type, and the second stop is thon
moved at the right time to allow the type that has passed the first stop to be fed into
that part of the machine where it is first laid hold of by the working paris which serve
to rectify its position and attitude. Should the types be fed into the funnel too
slowly, no harm is done as the machine in that case inakes a stroke or several
strokes without having a type to operate on. If the types are at times fed too quickly
the number in excess are merely held back by the first stop subject to the friction of
the travelling band tending to advance them, and are delivered one by one to be
operated on.
Dated this 21st day of September 1889.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Feed Appliance for Type-setting Machine.
We, RICHARD CLAY, of Bread Street Hill in the County of London, Printer, and
JOHN EBENEZER MARCHANT, of the Apsley Engineering Works, Homel Hempstead,
in the County of Hertford, 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:-
In the Specification No. 6840 of 1887 is described a type setting machine so
arranged that successive types fed by hand in any attitudes into a funnel are, by means
of mechanism turned into the proper attitudes for printing and are collected in rows
to constitute a forme. The machine described in that specification was arranged to
act intermittently, being put in motion by the action of a clutch operated électro-
magnetically by the descent of each type from the funnel.
The present invention relates to an appliance to a machine of this kind, so arranged
as to dispense entirely with the electro magnetic clutch apparatus and to permit the
ก.

page_text: machine to go on working continuously whether types are fed into the funnel or not.
For this purpose we arrange under the mouth of the funnel an endless band of leather
or such like flexible material. caused to travel continuously at a rate suitable to the
movement of the type setting machine.
By this band the types when they descend from the funnel are carried along a
sloping way which is provided with two successive stops that are worked from the
machine, being, caused to reciprocate in time with the reciprocating parts of the
machine. The first of these stops moves out of the way to let one type pass as it is
carried along by the band but closes against passage of a second type, and the second
stop is then moved at the right time to allow the type that has passed the first stop to
be fed into that part of the machine where it is first laid holl of by the working
parts which serve to rectify its position and attitude. Should the types be fed 'into the
funnel too slowly, no harin is done as the machine in that case makes a stroke or
several strokes without having a type to operate on. If the types are at times fed too
quickly the number in excess are merely held back by the first stop subject to the
friction of the travelling band tending to advance them, and are delivered one by one
to be operated on.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan and Fig. 2. is a longitudinal section
of feeding apparatus according to our invention. as applied to a type setting machine
such as is described in the Specification No. 6840 of 1887 above referred to. A is an
inclined frame having mounted near its ends two pullies B B around which passes an
endless band C of leather. One of the pullies B is driven by a band or other gearing
from any convenient rotating part of the type setting machine at such speed that the
band travels the length of a type in less time than is occupied by a complete stroke of
any of the reciprocating parts of the machine. The feeding appliance is shewn in
Fig. 1 in its position relatively to the main cam O of the type setting machine shewn
in Fig. 7 of the drawings accompanying the Specification above referred to. D is the
funnel down which the compositor drops successive types regardless of their attitude
whether sideways or endways. These types in descending from the funnel D pass
through a lateral hole and guide d and lodging on the travelling band Care carried by
it along the slope towards the end channel H which they successively descend to be
received by the reciprocating parts of the setting machine. In order to prevent more
than one type being fed at a time and to prevent a succession of types being fed faster
than the setting machine can receive them, the inclined guide along which the types
are carried by the band C is provided with two stops which are arranged as follows.
One of the stops E is cam shaped fitted to turn on a stationary vertical pine and
urged by a spring e in such a direction that its rounded projecting edge is made to
bear against the vertical side of the inclined guide A, in which position it stops a
type from passing it, either closing the passage in front of a type or pressing a type
that has partly passed against the side wall of the guide with the yielding pressure
given by the spring e¹, which allows it to press types of various thicknesses. On the
upper part of the same pin eis fitted to turn a lever F which is urged by a stronger
spring so that the curved end of the lever F bears against the crank pin 19 of the
setting machine. The crank pin 19 by its revolution moves the lever to the right
in opposition to the spring which causes the lever to return to the left. On the cam
stop E, there is a pin which stands up in the way of a prolongation of the
lever as that lever is completing its stroke to the left subject to the action of the
spring When the lever F makes its stroke to the left, its backward prolongation f
meeting the pin causes the cam stop E to move in opposition to the lower spring e
away from the side of the guide thus releasing the type that may have been held back
by the cam stop and allowing it to be carried onwards by the band C.
As the type thus advances it is again stopped by the downwardly bent end g of a
lever G the other end g¹ of which is pressed upwards by a blade spring g'. The
end of the lever G is sloped upwards and comes immediately under the
prolongation of the lever F. When the lever F is moved to the right by the crank
pin 19 of the setting machine, its prolonged end moving along the incline g
presses down and consequently raises the bent end g of the lever G allowing the

page_text: type to pass and to descend the channel H. This lifting of the stop g being effected
by the action of the lever F at a certain point in the revolution of the crank pin 19
is timed so as to let the type descend at the right moment to be operated on by the
setting machine. As the fifting of the stop y occurs only when the cam stop E is in
position to arrest a type, and as the space between the two stops is only a little greater
than the length of a type, no more than one type at a time can descend the channel H,
and that one type can descend only at the moment when the moving parts of the
setting machine are in position to receive it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
A type feeding appliance for type setting machine consisting of feed funnel D,
endless travelling band C and the two alternating spring stops E and g having their
releasing movements governed by those of the setting machine substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
Datad this 10th dor of Irina 1800
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.