Improvements in or connected with Type Founding Machines and Type Cases, and in Type Holders to be used therewith.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Type Founding Machines and
Type Cases, and in Type Holders to be used therewith.
We, ABRAHAM FELS, of Savoy House, 115 Strand, Merchant, and JOHN
CROWLE, of 36 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, Gentleman, both in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in, or connected with, type founding
machines and type cases whereby as the type is delivered from the die or mould
and passed in a line side by side within suitable guides, it is delivered into a holder,
which when supplied is removed and placed within the type case or store with little
or no trouble, and the invention is applicable to that class of case in which the type
is arranged in inclined guides and gravitates to the front ends of such guides in
position to be readily taken by the compositor.
For this purpose we employ a sheet metal holder, preferably sheet tin, bent into
the form of a long narrow trough provided with a flat bottom, which we preferably
form by means of a strip of sheet tin soldered in the bottom of the trough, thereby,
in addition to forming a smooth flat bottom to facilitate the gravitation of the type,
somewhat strengthening the holder; this narrow strip may project slightly from
the front end of the holder for the purpose hereinafter named, and the sides of the
front end of the holder are cut off at an angle to facilitate the seizing of the front
type therein by the compositor.
A holder such as above described is placed in a suitable position in the type
founding machine, so as to be automatically filled with type as the latter is delivered
after having had their "breaks" broken off, or after other finishing operation.
When the type is delivered on a horizontal table, the holder is placed in position
so that the lower side thereof shall be level with the table or surface from which
the type is delivered to it, by which means the said holder is automatically supplied
with type. After the holder has received its complement of type, it is removed
from the founding machine and an empty one is substituted for it; such filled
holder is then placed in an inclined groove in the case (or it may be stored) and
the case has a longitudinal strip of metal, fixed in front of each row of grooves,
preferably at a short distance above the bottom thereof, so that when the holder is
placed in its groove, the projecting metal strip at the front of the holder, shall pass
under said metal strip in front of the grooves, which latter strip will thereby secure
the holder within the case and at the same time prevent the holder from rising
when a type is being taken therefrom. Other suitable means may however be
provided for securing the holders in the case and for preventing their rising at the
front end thereof, or this latter precaution may be dispensed with. By the word
type, we include either single or compound type, logotypes, quadrats and spaces.
Dated this 5th day of November 1890.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Type Founding Machines and
Type Cases, and in Type Holders to be used therewith.
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We, ABRAHAM FELS, of Savoy House, 115 Strand, Merchant, and Joux
CROWLE, of 36 Phillimore? Gardens; Kensington, Gentleman, both in the County
of Middlesex, 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 :-
The invention relates to improvements in, or connected with, type, founding
machines and type cases, whereby as the type is delivered from the die or mould and
passed in a line side by side within suitable guides, it is delivered into a holder,
which, when supplied, is removed and placed within the type case or store with
- little or no trouble, and the invention is applicable to that class of case in which
the type is arranged in inclined guides and gravitates to the front ends of such
guides in position to be readily taken by the compositor.
For this purpose we employ a sheet metal holder, preferably sheet tin, bent into
the form of a long narrow trough provided with a flat bottom, which we preferably
form by means of a strip of sheet tin soldered in the bottom of the trough, thereby,
in addition to forming a smooth flat bottom to facilitate the gravitation of the type,
somewhat strengthening the holder; this narrow strip may project slightly from
the front end of the holder for the purpose hereinafter named, and the sides of the
front end of the holder are cut off at an angle to facilitate the seizing of the front
type therein by the compositor.
A holder such as above described is placed in a suitable position in the type
founding machine, so as to be automatically filled with type as the latter is
delivered after having had their "breaks" broken off, or after other finishing
operation. When the type is delivered on a horizontal table; the holder is placed
in position, so that the lower side thereof shall be level with the table or surface
from which the type is delivered to it, by which means the said holder is auto-
matically supplied with type. After the holder has received its complement of
type, it is removed from the founding machine, and an empty one is substituted for
it such filled holder is then placed in an inclined groove in the case, (or it
may be stored) and the case has a longitudinal strip of metal fixed in front of
cach row of grooves, preferably at a short distance above the bottom thereof, so
that when the holder is placed in its groove, the projecting metal strip at the
front of the holder shall pass under said metal strip in front of the grooves, which
latter strip will thereby secure the holder within the case and at the same time
prevent the holder from rising when a type is being taken therefrom. Other
suitable means may however be provided for securing the holders in the case and
for preventing their rising at the front end thereof, or this latter precaution may
be dispensed with. By the word type we include either single or compound type,
logotypes, quadrats, and spaces.
And in order that our said, invention may be more clearly understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed aided by the 'accompanying drawings,
more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view partly in section, and Figure 2 is an end view, of a type
holder constructed according to our invention.
Figure 3 is a sectional view of part of the delivery table or platform of a type
casting machine representing our improved type holder in position to receive the
type as they are gradually pushed forward on their discharge from the mould.
Figure 4 is a cross section, and Figure 5 is a front elevation, of parts of a type
case fitted to receive our improved type holders, and
Figure 6 is a cross section of parts of a type case showing a slight modification
in the same and in the type holders used therewith.

page_text: In all the figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference.
Our improved type holder, as represented at Figures 1, 2, 4 and 5, consists of a
narrow metal trough a, preferably of sheet tin, the width of which is sufficient to
receive the type and allow of its easy passage along the same. We provide the
holder with a flat bottom a¹ formed preferably by means of a strip of sheet tin
soldered in the bottom of the trough a at the line where the bottom begins to curve
away from the sides, thereby, in addition to forming a smooth flat bottom to facilitate
the gravitation of the type, somewhat strengthening the holder; a cross bar a² is
fixed to the front end of the holder to prevent the type falling out therefrom, and
the sides of the front end of the holder are cut off at an angle, as shown at a³, to
facilitate the seizing of the front type therein by the compositor.
The flat bottom a¹ may terminate flush with each end of the type holder, as
shown at Figures 1, 4 and 5, or it may project slightly from the front end thereof,
as shown at Figure 6, for the purpose hereinafter named.
In using our improved type holder in connection with a type founding machine
to receive the type direct, we, as shown at Figure 3, form a shallow recess in the
table or platform of such machine, within which one of our improved type holders
is laid on its side with the upper surface of the lower side thereof flush with, or
slightly below, the level of the top of the table or platform b, so as to enable the
type c readily to pass therein as it is, step by step, pushed forward after having
had the breaks" broken off. By these means the type holder is automatically
filled with type in the type founding machine, and when full, it is removed from its
recess in the table or platform b, and another empty type holder substituted in
its place.
The filled type holder a is then placed in an inclined groove d¹ in the case d, see
Figures 4, 5, 6, (or it may be stored) and the case has a longitudinal strip of
metal fixed in front of each row of grooves to retain the type holders a in
position in the groove ¹. In the case represented at Figures 4 and 5, the strip (2
is fixed at the level of the bottom of the grooves d', and this has been found
sufficient to retain the holders a securely in place, even when the compositor is
taking type therefrom, but if desired, as represented at Figure 6, such strip d² may
be fixed a short distance above the bottom of the grooves d', so that, when
employing a holder a having the flat bottom or metal strip a¹ projecting from the
forward end thereof, said projecting bottom or strip shall pass under the metal
strip, which latter will thereby secure the holder a within the case d, and at the
same time effectually prevent the holder from rising when a type is being taken
therefrom. A weight e is placed at the back of the type to assist their gravitation
to the front of the holder.
The type case has a number of inclined bottoms or divisions d³, to which a
number of strips d' are fixed to form the grooves d' within which the type holders a
are placed. The metal strips a² are fixed to the sides d' and vertical divisions de
of the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The improved type holder constructed substantially as herein shown and
described and for the purposes stated.
2. The improvements in, or connected with, type founding machines and type
cases, substantially as herein shown and described.
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Dated this dist day of July 1891.
ABRAHAM FELS.
JOHN CROWLE.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.