Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1888
Complete Left, 19th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 20th Apr., 1888
I JOHN HENRY SEDGWICK, of Sunnyside, Bushbury Lane near Wolverhampton,
Printer's Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable late news, such as the result of a race, to
be expeditiously introduced into the stereo forme of a newspaper printing machine, at
the very last moment before going to press.
This is accomplished by the employment of a box adapted to fit and be retained in an
aperture provided for its reception in the stereo forme, the box being adapted to
receive grooved holders containing lines of type, and the type holders being inserted
and retained by the special means hereafter described.
The frame is bevelled externally, to fit the corresponding bevelled or undercut sides
of the aperture in the stereo, and it is curved to conform to the curvature of the stereo
cylinder.
The type holders are bevelled at one end and rebated at the other, and they take
under the corresponding bevelled and rebated ends of the said box, and to enable them
to be introduced after the stereo with the box inserted has been fixed on the type
cylinder, a small gate is provided at one end of the box, closed by a spring latch
which will allow the type holders to be successively introduced and slid into place.
At the end of the box is a vertical slot to contain a similar holder for the figures to
be opposed to the names of the horses, and this type holder is bevelled or rebated at
one end to engage with the end of its slot and is locked in place at the other end by a
lever latch which is itself kept securely locked by the end of one of the adjacent
horizontal type-holders taking under the tail end of the lever, and thus effectually
preventing its motion until said type holder has been removed.
J. H. SEDGWICK.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Newspaper Printing Machinery.
I, JOHN HENRY SEDGWICK, of Sunnyside, Bushbury Lane, near Wolverhampton,
Printers' Machinist, 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 object of this invention is to enable late news such as the result of a race, to be
expeditiously introduced into the stereo forme of a newspaper printing machine at the
very last moment before going to press. This is accomplished by the employment of a
.box adapted to fit and be retained in an aperture provided for its reception in the
stereotype forme, the box being adapted to receive grooved holders containing lines
of type and to retain them in position for printing, as hereafter described. This box
is placed in position in the stereotype at the time of fixing the latter on its cylinder
and it there remains in readiness to receive the type holders in which type may have
been set up in anticipation of the receipt of the special news, and which may thus be
inserted at the very last moment in the body of the stereotype.
For this purpose, the box is constructed and provided with special means of securing
the type holders in position therein as hereafter described with reference to the
accompanying drawings forming part of this specification in which figure 1 is a
longitudinal section through the box as fitted in the stereotype; Figure 2 is a face
view thereof. Figure 3 is a cross-section of the box only; on line 1-1 figure 1,
Figure 4 a similar section on line 2-2 figure 1; and figure 5 is an elevation of one of
the type-holders. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the
*figures.
A is the stereotype forme and B the stereotype cylinder. C is the type holding box
or frame. It is curved lengthwise to conform to the curvature of the stereotype
cylinder B and is bevelled externally at the ends and sides so as to fit the correspond-
ingly bevelled or undercut sides of the aperture cored out in the stereotype for its
reception in which it is inserted from the back before the stereotype is fixed on the
cylinder.
The type holders D are bevelled at one end d and rebated at the other end d¹ and
they fit against and take under the correspondingly bevelled and rebated inner
ends c c¹ of the said box C, as shewn in figure 1. To enable the type holders D to be
introduced after the stereotype with the box inserted therein has been fixed on the type
cylinder, a small gate E is provided at one end of the box, which will give passage to
the rebated ends of the type holders and so allow the type holders to be successively
introduced and slid into place. This gate is pivoted at e and is held closed by a latch F
sliding in a cavity in the end of the box and forced up by a spring behind it.
In the other end of the box C is formed a vertical slot to contain a similar holder G
for the type numerals to be opposed to the names of the horses, and this type holder
is bevelled or rebated at one end g to engage with the end of its slot as shewn in
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page_text: figure 3, and is locked in place at the other end by a lever latch H which is pivoted in
a recess in the end of the box C and is itself kept securely locked by the rebated end
of one of the adjacent horizontal type holders D' taking under the tail end of the
lever H, and thus effectually preventing its motion until said type holder has been
removed. Consequently the type holder G must first be introduced, and afterwards
the type holders D in their proper order.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;
1st. The hereindescribed means of introducing and securing type in a forme after
it is fixed on the type cylinder, consisting in the combination with a box or frame
adapted to fit and be held in an aperture in the forme as described, of holders for
lines of type adapted to engage at their ends with the ends of the box or frame
so as to be retained therein, substantially as specified.
2nd. The herein described means of introducing and securing type in a forme after
it is fixed on the type cylinder, consisting in the combination with a box or frame
adapted to fit and be held in an aperture in the forme as described, of holders for
lines of type adapted to engage at their ends with the ends of the box or frame
so as to be retained therein, and of a gate and spring latch therefor, fitted in the end
of the box or frame and adapted to permit the successive introduction of the type-
holders therein and to retain them when so introduced, substantially as specified.
3rd. The combination with the herein described box or frame and with the
horizontal type holders secured therein as described, of a type holder for a vertical
line of type placed in a recess in the end of the box or frame and secured therein
by engaging at one end with the end of the recess and at the other end by a lever
latch held closed by the adjacent horizontal type-holder, substantially as specified.
J. H. SEDGWICK.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.