Improved Combination Tool for Typesetting and other purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Combination Tool for Typesetting and other purposes.
A communication by FRIEDRICH FUETTERER, of 12, Tucherstrasse, Nuremberg,
in the Empire of Germany, Machinist.
I, 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 to be as follows:-
For justifying, in printing, the sentences and lines, the typesetter employs,
according to the kind of the revise, either an awl or pincers.
In order to have the right tool at hand in every case, the two are combined and
attached to a common handle according to this invention, in such a way that one or
the other may be brought into a position for use as may be required.
The improved tool thus formed is constructed as follows:-
The tweezers or pincers and the awl are connected in such a way that the front
ends of either may be directed outwards as desired. The intermediate piece where
the connection is made is attached to a slotted handle or hilt by means of a
pin which is passed through it, and on which it revolves. The combined tool may
be gripped by the handle and fixed in a working position by means of a tapered
ferrule.
If the awl end of the tool is to be employed, the ferrule is removed and the
combined tool is turned on its pivot about 180 degrees, so that then the awl projects
outwards, whilst the pincers are enclosed in the slot of the handle. These positions
can be reversed when desired.
The tool is then fixed up by placing the clamp ring or ferrule on and
tightening it.
In order to make the tool available for boring and lifting, the awl may be
screwed or connected in some other suitable but easily detachable manner to the
lower end of the pincers or the intermediate piece. In order to hold the same when
not. in use, it is unscrewed, reversed, that is to say, with the point inwards, and
inserted in the handle which is suitably bored to receive it; the point of the awl
then lies between the pincers.
Dated this 21st day of November 1893.
poration 01 for Typesetting
A communication by FRIEDRICH FUETTERER, of 12, Tucherstrasse, Nuremberg,
in the Empire of Germany, Machinist.
I, 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
Price 1

page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
For justifying, in printing, the sentences and lines, the typesetter employs,
according to the kind of the revise, either an awl or pincers.
In order to have the right tool at hand in every case, the two are combined and
attached to a common handle according to this invention, in such a way that one or
the other may be brought into a position for use as may be required.
On the accompanying drawing this improved tool is shown in Figures 1-3 and
is constructed as follows-
The tweezers or pincers a and the awl bare connected in such a way that
the front ends of either may be directed outwards as desired. The intermediate
piece where the connection is made is attached to a slotted handle or hilt e by
means of a pin d which is passed through it, and on which it revolves. The
combined tool may be gripped by the parts e e² of the handle and fixed in a working
position by means of a tapered ferrule f passed over the front end e¹e of the
handle. Figure 1 shows the tool with the pincers in this position.
If the awl end of the tool is to be employed, the ferrule f is removed and
the combined tool is turned on its pivot about 180 degrees, so that then the awl b
projects outwards, see Figure 2, whilst the pincers are enclosed in the slot e² of the
handle. These positions can be reversed when desired.
The tool is then fixed up by placing the clamp ring or ferrule on and
tightening it.
In order to make the tool available for other purposes, the awl may be screwed
as shown or connected in some other suitable but easily detachable manner to the
lower end of the pincers or the intermediate piece c. In order to hold the same
when not in use, it may be unscrewed, and reversed, that is to say, with the point
upwards, and inserted through the bottom of the handle which is suitably bored at g
to receive it; the point of the awl will then lie between the parts a' a' of the
pincers.
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 correspondent, I declare that what 1 claim is--
1. An improved typesetting tool consisting of an awl in combination with a
pincers which is pivoted in a slotted handle so that it may be reversed, and
according to requirements either one or the other of the above named tools may be
brought into a position for use, substantially as set forth.
2. The combination with slotted handle e and tool a b of ferrule whereby the
parts are firmly clamped together substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 21st day of August 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.