Improvements in or relating to "Special" or "Fudge Boxes. applicable to Cylinder Printing Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov:, 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1899.
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PROVIDIONAL
DI DUIRTUALION..
Improvements in or relating to "Special" or "Fudge Boxes.
applicable to Cylinder Printing Machines.
We, RUSSELL ALLEN, of 3, Cross Street, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Newspaper Proprietor, and JOSEPH DAVIES, of 65, Earl. Street, Lower
Broughton, near Manchester aforesaid, Compositor, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
or
This invention relates to that part of a machine for printing newspapers by
which late news can be quickly inserted for printing portions of 'special'
evening newspapers, and the invention consists of an improved construction of
special" or "fudge" box and accessories for holding and securing either lino-
type or movable type, or both combined, whereby the type can be inserted and
changed with greater rapidity than is at present possible.
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The box itself is made so that one or both sides can turn on a pivot hinge or
equivalent device near or at the bottom of the side, and be caught by a suitable
spring latch or catch fitted at one or both ends of the same, or otherwise placed
to secure the side when raised, the hinge or its equivalent permitting the side, to
fall so far as to allow the transverse lines of type and the leads to be easily and
with rapidity inserted endwise across the box. A plate is fitted to the head of the
box in order to place the lines of type against it when the side is thrown down.
The sides of the box are grooved to correspond with a projection or projections
at each end of the leads.
A further improvement consists in providing the leads with projections unlike
(in either form size or position) at the two ends thereof so that as the sides of the
box are correspondingly grooved the lead's can not be fitted the wrong way across
the box.
Or the leads might be notched and corresponding beads or fillets formed on the
inside of the sides of the box.
The hinge of the movable side of the box above described may be a plain hinge
pin or a pin working in a curved slot or slots and so limiting the motion of the
side.
Improvements in or relating to "
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Special or "Fudge" Boxes
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applicable to Cylinder Printing Machines.
We, RUSSELL ALLEN, of 3, Cross Street, Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Newspaper Proprietor, and JOSEPH DAVIES, of 65, Earl Street, Lower
Price 8d.】

page_text: Broughton, near Manchester aforesaid, Compositor, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
or
This invention relates to that part of a machine for printing newspapers by means
of which late news can be quickly inserted for printing portions of special
evening newspapers, and the invention consists of an improved construction of
'special or fudge" box and accessories for holding and securing either lino-
type or movable type, or both combined, whereby the type can be inserted and
changed with greater rapidity and accuracy than is at present possible.
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The manner of carrying our invention into practical effect will be readily under-
stood on reference to the drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation
thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a plan view of an improved special or fudge box with
the side closed. Fig. 2 a similar view with the side open, the box being shewn
partly filled with lines of type in both these views.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation and Fig. 4 a side elevation (closed) and Fig. 5 a
longitudinal section of the same showing the side open in dotted lines.
Fig. 6 is a plan view and Fig. 7 a side elevation showing the application of our
invention to a fudge box provided with a hinged foot plate.
Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are detached views of various details hereinafter more particu-
larly referred to..
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In Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the box is represented as having one side a fixed and
the other side a capable of opening on a hinge, the head plate band foot plate
being fixed, but we may here remark that we reserve to ourselves the right to
have either or both of the sides capable of opening and also to apply our invention
to fudge boxes with a hinged foot plate as shown at Figs. 6 and 7.
The movable side plate a* is arranged so that it can turn over on a pivot hinge d
(or equivalent device) at or near the bottom of the side, and be caught or fixed by
a suitable spring latch or catch e fitted at one or both ends of the same, or other-
wise placed so as to secure the side a when raised (see Figs. 1, 3 and 4), the hinge d
or its equivalent permitting the side to fall (see Fig. 2) so far as to allow the trans-
verse lines of type and leads f to be easily and with rapidity inserted endwise
across the box, and placed one after the other against the head plate b, both sides a
and of the box being grooved on the inside to correspond with a projection or
projections at each end of the lines leads, and rules, as shown at Fig. 5.
The ends of the lines, leads, and rules are made similar in form, and may be
made with projection's or shoulders which are unlike (either in form, size, or
position) at the two ends thereof (as seen at Fig. 5) so that as the sides a and a*
of the box are correspondingly grooved, the lines of type cannot be fitted the
wrong way across the box, this advantage being also gained when the leads pro-
vided with a bead to engage with a groove in the side of the type (or otherwise
constructed in any well known manner) are used to secure ordinary type; or the
lines, leads, and rules may be made of the form shown at Fig. 9 being wider at
the bottom than the top, the sides of the box being shaped internally to correspond,
and either the lines or the leads being tapered in a well-known manner to suit
the radius of the box. It will be evident that the above described methods of
forming the ends of the leads and lines unlike each other are equally applicable
to what are known as turtles" used in cylinder printing machines the sides of
the "turtle" boxes and the "down rules" being correspondingly formed.
The hinge of the movable side a of the box, instead of being provided with a
plain hinge pin, may be made, as shown at Fig. 10, with a pin working in a curved
slot g so as to limit the motion of the side and prevent it from falling too low.
This side a may be hinged to the bottom of the box, but in boxes having a wedge
or dovetailed key h at the bottom for sliding in a groove or recess in the shaft or
cylinder we prefer to hinge the side to this key h as shown.
When applying our invention to a fudge-box having a hinged foot plate c (as
shown at Figs. 6 and 7) we prefer to crank the foot plate as shown at c* so that it
will assist in holding the movable side a* in its place.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention. and in what manner the same is to be performed. we declare that what
we claim is:-
First: In "special" or "fudge" boxes applicable to cylinder printing machines,
making one side (or both sides) of the box loose and providing the same with a
hinge (or hinges) at or near the bottom thereof, so that the same can be opened
for the admission of the lines of type and leads and rules, and then closed and
secured by means of a spring catch attached, preferably, to the head plate of the
box, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings
annexed, and
Secondly: We claim the methods herein before described of forming the ends
of the lines, leads, and rules used in cylinder printing machinery to prevent the
reversing or turning of a "line."
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.