An Improved Type Galley.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Type Galley.
I, ERNST WENTSCHER of Friesenstrasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, School
Professor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
The type galley of this invention has for object to facilitate the making of corrections
in the set or composed types which is often very difficult and demands much time to
lift up from the form single types or whole lines in the usual way. The types are also
damaged thereby.
The invention consists in providing the galley with mechanical means for quickly
and safely lifting up from amongst the set types and maintaining in the raised position
those lines thereof in which it is desired to make corrections so that any type or
spacing piece therein may be taken by the hand and removed or exchanged as required
and so that when the line of types has been corrected it may be again depressed into
its proper position.
The types are raised up by simple lever pressure and so locked together by slides
worked over a slide bed in connection with an adjustable ruler that although not
pressed tightly together, they cannot fall apart. In this position the slides adjustable
ruler and types are moved bodily all together along the slide bed until the line to be
corrected is brought immediately over a slot in the slide bed, then by operating within
controlled limits a hand lever fixed on the end of a shaft mounted transversely under-
neath the slide bed, two other levers on the same shaft are caused to actuate a vertical
slide in an upward direction through the slot and so as to raise the line of types to be
corrected. In this position raised up above the body of the set types, the line may be
easily corrected or changed. After correction the line is pressed down again into its
proper position, the hand lever then operated to bring the slide lower down, when the
body of types may be again moved over the slide bed until another line to be corrected
is brought into the position over the slide for correcting, and so on.
Several of these devices may be applied to a single galley.
Tlated thin 1911
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CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Type Galley.
I, ERNST WENTSCHER, of Friesenstrasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, School
Professor, 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:-
This invention relates to type galleys such as are used in printing works. The
invention has for object to provide a better means than that hitherto in vogue for
making corrections in the set of composed types. The invention consists in a con-
struction of type galley with slots or openings in the bed of the same arranged one
behind another or near each other through each of which a tongue or blade may be
made to pass so as to raise up a line from amongst the set types and maintain it in
this position while it is being corrected.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a top view of the type galley of this invention.
Fig. 2 a side view of the same with a portion of one of the supports removed.
Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal section through line ay of Fig. 1 shewing the tongue
and a line in the raised position for correction, and Fig. 4 an end view,

page_text: a, a, are supports carrying a plate b provided on the one side with a dovetail bar c and
on the other side with a rectangular bar d. e, e¹, are two angular clamping slides
mounted so as to slide over bar c their opposite ends coming against bar d so as to
allow of the clamping slides being exactly guided. Each of these has a slot f fitted
with a movable screw bolt which also takes into the slot g of a parallel clamping slide /
fixed in its adjusted position on the angular slides e, e¹, by means of wing nuts. i is a
shaft carried in the supports a having fixed on one of its ends a lever & and at one or
more places in its length, one or more levers 7 forked at the end to engage on one or
more studs m sliding up and down between angle pieces n, n, and connected to tongue
or blade o which is located in slot p of plate 6 in the manner that it may slide upwards
through the same.
The method of working is as follows:-The composed types to be corrected being in
the type galley, are so locked together by and between clamping slides e, e¹, h, and
fixed bar'd that they cannot come apart, without however being pressed very firmly
together. The clamping slides with the composed types are then slid bodily along the
galley until the line to be corrected arrives directly over slot p which position may be
indicated to the operator by means of a hand or pointer fixed on bar d. The lever k
is now pressed down to raise the tongue or blade o upwards through slot p and with it
the line of types to be corrected situate immediately above it. In this raised position
the correction may be easily made or the whole line may be withdrawn.
The correction having been made the line is carefully pressed down again whereupon
the tongue or blade o returns to its former position. The set of composed types may
then be displaced in a similar way for the correction of another line and so on.
Several of these devices may be applied to a single type, galley.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is:
1. The method of making corrections in printing types consisting in mechanically
raising up from the composed types the line of types to be corrected so far as will allow
of the handling or manipulation of the several types of the raised line or of the whole
of the said line substantially as described and shewn.
2. For effecting the operation referred to in the preceding claim, a type galley with
bed provided with slots p and tongues o movable through the same for the purpose
specified substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 12th day of Sentember 1890.
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.