US16500A

US16500A - Composing-stick for printers

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Publication number: US16500A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1857-01-27
Anticipated expiration: 1874-01-27

Description

NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. TILLINGHAST, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

COMPOSING-STICK FOR PRINTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 16,500, dated January 27, 1857.

T o all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. TILLING- HAsT, of the city of Dayton and county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have in vented new Improvements in the Composing-Stick now Used by Printers in Setting Type; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The material used in making `the stick may be of wood or metal. The improvement dispenses with the use of the screw used in the old stick as a fastening to hold the slide to its position. A

Figure l in the drawing represents the composing stick, as perfect and ready for use. `Fig. 2 represents the narrow back, or the right side of the stick through which a slit or cut L, L is made and the two bars, or cross pieces K, K, made fast to the slide B, which works in the slit L, L. The bars are fastened to the slide by screws passing through the slit or cut, holding the slide firmly and securely to the back of the stick the bars K, K, passing across the narrow back of the stick A, A.

For the purpose of adjusting the measure the slide B, is made hollow and a spring inserted as shown in Fig. 3, which works on a pin, or pivot, P, fastened in the center of said spring and attached to the back of the slide, on the lower side of the slit, or cut (Fig. 2) small circular holes are drilled one em, or the square of any particular sized type distant from each other.

To one end of the spring in the slide, B, is attached a small round pin, D, which drops into the circular holes before mentioned; to the other end of the spring is attached a small thumb piece, O, which projects through the front part of the slide and by a slight pressure of the thumb upon which thumb piece the small pin is thrown out of the hole in which it may be, thus al lowing the slide to be adjusted to any particular number of ems desired, when the pressure on the thumb piece is discontinued and the small pin on the other end of the spring drops into one of the circular holes aforementioned and holds the slide to the measure desired. On the upper edge of the back plate of the stick is a standard mark; and on the slide a scale is laid off in meas ure corresponding with the holes in the back of the stick and numbered from one up; so that in adjusting the measure to any desired number of ems all the compositor has to do is to press his thumb on the thumb piece and casting his eye on the scale he can instantly fit his slide to any number of ems he may desire.

The spring is shown separately with the pin and thumb piece attached in Fig. t.

I claim as my invention the combination of the aforesaid several devices, and their application in forming the composing stick.

1WILLIAM T. TILLINGIIAST.

Witnesses:

Y. V. VooD, D. P. NEUD.