Improvements in the Magazines of Linotype and analogous Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct.
1804
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in the Magazines of Linotype and analogous Machines.
We, JOHN PLACE and ERNEST GIROD, Engineers and THE LINOTYPE
COMPANY, LIMITED, Sole Manufacturers and Licensors under the "
Patents, all of 6 Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street in the City of London, do hereby
Linotype
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the magazines of linotype and
analogous machines, and the object of it is to economise time in equipping a given
machine with a fresh fount of matrices.
Taking the linotype machine illustrated in the Specification of Letters
Patent 14582, September 16th 1890, as typical of the class of machines to which
the present invention is applicable, we have to point out that a machine constructed
as therein illustrated and described is equipped with a fresh fount by lifting the
charged magazine off, and putting another one charged with the desiderated-fount
on, the frame of the machine. This method has always involved a disconnection
between the trigger devices on the magazine and the operating rods by which the
said devices are worked and a readjustment of the connections between the said
rods and the trigger devices on the substitute magazine.
In carrying our invention into effect, we sever the head and foot, that is the
horizontal margins, of the present magazine from the middle and larger portion.
The latter is duplicated or repeated as often as desired, the whole being placed one
above the other and made fast together with their channels duly aligned with the
tubes or ways through which the matrices travel to the assembling place. The
heal and foot or two margins aforesaid are made fast to the frame of the machine,
permanently so far as the present machine is concerned, while suitable guides or
ways are provided on which the superimposed magazines can be moved up or down
or the purpose of aligning any one of them with the said margins. Any suitable
mechanism for imparting the necessary motion of the magazines may be made use
f-we suggest a hand wheel and a screw gear as a suitable one.
re closed either by removeable stop rods extending along their fronts or by a
The magazines
xed plate which closes them all excepting the one in alignment with the margins.
Dated this 12th day of December 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Magazines of Linotype and analogous Machines.
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We, JOHN PLACE and ERNEST GIROD, Engineers, and THE LINOTYPE
COMPANY LIMITED, Sole Manufacturers and Licensors under the "Linotype
Patents, all of No. 6 Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, in the City of London, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the magazines of linotype and
analogous machines, and the object of it is to economise time in equipping a given
machine with a fresh fount of matrices, as well as to prevent wear and tear of the
adjoining and connecting mechanisms.
In order that the said invention and the means by which it is to be carried into
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page_text: practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe it and them
in detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken
as part of this Specification and read therewith. The figure is a sectional elevation
through the quadruplicate magazine of a linotype machine, from back to front,
following, generally, the construction of magazine and adjoining and connecting
mechanisms described and illustrated in the Specification of Letters Patent
No. 14582 September 16th 1890.
Taking the linotype machine described and illustrated in the above mentioned
Specification as typical of the class of machines to which the present invention is
applicable, we have to point out that a machine constructed in respect of its
magazine and the connection thereof to the machine frame as illustrated and
described in the said Patent, is equipped with a substitute fount by lifting the
charged magazine off, and putting another one charged with the necessary fount,
on the machine frame. This scheme of substitution has always involved three
disconnections and three corresponding readjustments-one between the magazine
and the machine frame, a second between the magazine and the vertical channels
down which the matrices drop on their discharge from the magazine and a third
between the trigger devices and their operating rods along the bottom of the
magazine.
By the expressions "top" and "bottom" of the magazine, we mean the transverse
portions or horizontal margins thereof which stretch across it from side to side of
it, above and below the matrix grooves, and to or with which, respectively, are
fixed or connected certain of the mechanisms or devices by which the matrices are
dealt with on their passage out of, or return into, the said grooves. By the
expression "magazine proper" we mean the matrix grooves with the plates in
which they are formed.
The disconnections and re-adjustments described above, when frequently repeated
as they necessarily are in a busy office, soon subject the more delicate of the
mechanisms and devices disconnected and re-adjusted to considerable wear and tear.
According to one, and the principal, part of our invention, we separate the above
mentioned top and bottom from the magazine proper and make the said three parts
separate and distinct from each other. At the same time we provide for the said
top and bottom being fixed upon and to the machine frame permanently, i.e., as
far as the present invention is concerned. This leaves the magazine proper
detachable.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, a, a are those parts of the machine
frame which are concerned in supporting the magazine as it has been hitherto
constructed.
b and c are, respectively, the top and bottom. They are per se, respectively, of
the same construction as heretofore but are, according to our invention, separate
and distinct from the magazine proper next described, and are permanently fixed
upon and to the machine frame a, but in such a way and in such positions that the
magazine proper makes up to them when it is in working position without inter-
space or projection along the respective junction lines.
d is the detachable magazine proper. Its internal construction is not affected by
the present invention beyond this, that it is necessary to make some provision for
preventing the matrices e dropping from the grooves e' in the internal faces of the
upper and under plates. Our present invention does not limit us as to this provision.
The matrix stop which we have selected for illustration answers the purpose, is
distinguished by simplicity and, when it is in its working position, occupies space
which is not wanted for anything else. It consists of a removable rod supported
in any convenient way-e.g., by being passed through an eye f¹ provided for that
purpose in each side of the magazine proper. This rod not only stands in front of
the bottom matrix in each groove e' in the magazine proper, but the eyes fl for it
are aligned with the V shaped notches e in the top row of matrices e in the
bottom c, so that when the machine stops for change of magazine, there is a clear
way from one side of the magazine proper to the other for the insertion of the rod.

page_text: Such of the matrices of the fount undergoing replacement as may be in front of
the rod f, ie., between it and the place of assembly, at the time when the machine
stops, are let out by manipulating the key board as heretofore and then distributed
as heretofore. The magazine is then lifted off the machine and another-the one
charged with the required fount-placed in position on the machine frame a and its
matrix stopf drawn out of the holes f¹.
If the several magazines proper serving a machine or installation of machines,
are separate and distinct from each other, in the sense of being disconnected and
moveable independently of each other, then is each one provided with suitable
lifting handles, and a suitable seat is made on the machine frame to receive the one
to serve the machine for the time being. The lifting handles are not illustrated
because the magazines proper shewn in the drawing are not separable and distinct
from each other, and further, because lifting handles are too well known to require
a detailed description. The above mentioned suitable seat may be of any kind so
long as it provides for the safe support of the magazine proper in the required
plane and for its being handled expeditiously.
It is obvious that the magazines with which a machine is served need not be
separate and distinct from each other in the way explained in the preceding
paragraph, but that they may be superimposed column wise, the support, necessarily
common to them all, being adjustable in either of two directions, both at right
angles with the slope of the magazines, in order that any magazine proper may be
aligned with the top and bottom c respectively. This column arrangement of the
magazines proper in combination with the mechanism for adjusting the position
thereof forms the second part of our invention.
Referring to the figure, there are four magazines proper illustrated, d, the one
already described and three additional ones d', d', d'. All, no matter how many
there may be, are counterparts of each other in respect of internal construction.
The upper plate of any of the lower magazines proper is shewn as serving as the
under plate of the one immediately above it, but the present invention is not
limited in this respect for each magazine proper may have its own upper and under
plate.
The common support is shewn as consisting of a frame or series of bars g to
which the said arrangement of magazines proper is held by transverse tees gl adapted
to slide in grooves g³ of corresponding cross section, in the top of such frame or
series of bars.
g
The mechanism for adjusting the position of the arrangement, i.e., for bringing
any particular magazine proper into working position with the top and bottom, band e,
consists of a pair of screws symmetrically arranged under the said arrangement
with reference to the centre of it, and made fast to the frame or series of bars, in
any convenient way-the axes of the screws being at right angles with the slope of
the arrangement. Each screw is engaged by a nut with which is incorporated
a worm wheel 2. Each wheel is in gear with a worm * fast on the shaft /°
which is controlled by the hand wheel . The shaft rotates in fixed bearings
and suitable provision is made for supporting the nuts and worm wheels /*
their working position and for allowing them only one motion viz. :-a rotary one
about their respective axes.
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It will be noted that the nuts h¹ are long, being internally threaded sleeves
rather than nuts. This length, in combination with the symmetrical position of
the screws with reference to the centre of the frame g, serves as guides to keep
the top and bottom faces of the arrangement truly in touch with the respective
faces of the top and bottom b and c, respectively.
In addition to the above mentioned combination, there may be provided special
guides, such as dovetailed mortices in downward extensions of the frame g,
embracing corresponding tenons k fast on the machine frame a.
We do not confine ourselves to any particular type of adjusting mechanism. The
one which we have illustrated is the one which we prefer on account of its simplicity
and steadiness.

page_text: 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 w
claim is :-
1. The combination of permanently fixed top and bottom and detachable
magazine proper.
2. The combination of permanently fixed top and bottom and adjustable arrange
ment of magazines proper.
3. The combination of permanently fixed top and bottom, adjustable arrange-
ment of magazines proper, magazine stops and adjusting mechanism.
4. The combination of permanently fixed top and bottom, adjustable arrange
ment of magazines proper and adjusting mechanism.
Dated this 12th day of September 1894.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.