AU509552B2 - Photographic type composition - Google Patents

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Patents Act 1952-1962

CONVENTION OR NON-CONVENTION APP NICAT4 PATE!,NT OR PATENT OF AD 0I

#a)*ST%0rz full 1We 'a) Louis Marius MOYROUD. S

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00 Delray Beach 13( SIXTEEN

Florida 33444, U.S.A.

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(12) PATENT SPECIFICATION ABRIDGEMENT (19) AU

(21) 22,794/77 509,552 (22) 1.3.77 (23) 1.3.77 (26) 1.3.77 (43) 7.9.78 (44) 15.5.80 (51) 2 B41B 17/12 B41B 17/10 B41B 17/32 B41B 21/16 B41B 21/02 (54) Photographic type composition Moyroud, L. M. (74) HA (56) 21,309/77 B41B 85,359/75 500,751 B41B 60,103/69 442,916 50.5 (57) Clain 1. A photohraphic type-composing machine comprising a character matri: aving a plurality of individually selectable arrays of characters thereon, an auxiliary matrix bearing graphi symbols and a nmp for illuminating sald symbols, and a lens holder having a plurality of lenses for forming images of matrix characters and of said giaphic symbols for projection on to a photosensitive surface, said character matrix, said auxiliary matrix and lamp, and said lens holder all being supported by a carriage and said lens holder being movable relative to said matrix and to said auxiliary matrix to position a selected lens in operative relationship to a selected character array on the matrix for projection of ii 'ges of selected characters of that arrr'- on to said photo- sensitive surface, or to position selected lens in operative relationship to a selected graphic symbol or the auxiliary matrix for projection of an image of that symbol on to the photosensitive surface.

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUT I'M

uu 1 PATENTS ACT 1952-69

C0"OMPLETE SPEOIFICATION (ORI~GINAL)

FOR OFFICE USE: Application Number Class I t. Class Lodged:

Complete Specification Lodged 4ccepted 6*6I 1oblished

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elat~d Art ,7.

Name of Applicant(s): Louis Marius MOYROUD 9. 09 909

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Address of Applicant(s) 202 Grove Way, Delray Beach, Florida 33444, U.S.A.

0:#609 Acttial Inventor(s)

Address for Service: CLEMENT HACK CO. 140 William Stret, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Australia. 0 Complete Specification for the invention entitled

"1IMPROVEMENTS RIELATING TO PHOTOCR-APa2C TYPE-COMPOS ITION"

The following statement is a fuji description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to me/us: UITH9CAFtM'T.Lf I

This invention relateo to photographic type-

composition and has for its objective certain improve-

ments in this art and especially, but not exclusively,

improvements in and developments of a photographic

type-composing ("photocomposing") machine of the

construction that is the subject of ge-ped-iag Australian PAt-n-,I /'ppl catn No. 500,751 (85359/75). One specific object

of the inven is to facilitate the production of

composition containing unusual or infrequently used

characters such as symbols and scientific notations

so-called "Pi-characters". A related object is to

provide relatively simple means for accurately forming

horizontal and vertical lines or "rules".

Accordingly, the invention provides a photographic

15 type-composing machine comprising a character matrix 0. e

having a plurality of individually selectable arrays of •c V' o./ *o characters thereon', an auxiliary matrix bearing graphic

symbols and a lamp for illuminating said symbols, and a

lens holder having a plurality of lenses for forming

20 images of matrix characters and of said graphic symbols 90

for projection on to a photo-sensitive surface, said

character matrix, said auxiliary matrix and lamp, and

said lens holder all being supported by a carriage and

said lens holder being movable relative to said/matrix 0

25 and to said auxiliary matrix to position a selecLed lens

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in operative relationship to a selected character array

on the/matrix for projection of images of selected

characters of that array on to said photosensitive surface,

or to position a selected lens in operative relationship

to a selected graphic symbol on the auxiliary matrix for

projection of an image of that symbol on to the photo-

sensitive material surface.

The graphic symbols on the auxiliary matrix are

referred to herein as "Pi-characters" and may include

clear or transparent areas of suitable shape to permit the

formation of rules in a simple manner, by energizing said

lamp continuously for an appropriate period of time to

project an image of such an auxiliary matrix area and

*causing such projected image to trace the required rule by

simultaneously effecting relative motion between the o*e ^projected image and the photosensitive surface, by operating the character-spacing or line-spacing means of

the machine.

In preferred embodiments of the invention, the

20 character-spacing means of the machine are adapted to

6i" accomplish character spacing by effecting movement of the 0 0 projected images and the photosensitive surface relatively to one another while the lens holder is in a fixed position

on the said carriage that is, while a selected lens in

25 the holder is in operative relationship to a selected a

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character array or graphic symbol the character-spacing

means being adapted also to effect relative movement of

the lens holder and the carriage to accomplish a required

change of operative relationship between a lens and a said

character array or a said graphic symbol

When the invention is applied to a machine, such as

the machine disclosed in my aforesaid Application, in which

the character-spacing means effects character spacing by

moving the carriage relatively to the photosensitive

surface, the character-spacing means may conveniently effect

relative movement between the lens holder and the carriage

by moving the latter while the lens holder is held

stationary. In the machine of my said Application, this

oI. is th method adopted to accomplish movement of the lens

holder, on the carriage, to position a selected lens in

operative relationship to a character array on the matrix, 0 o so that it is a simple matter to extend the method to

accomplishing location of a selected lens in operative

relationship to a selected graphic symbol on the auxiliary

20 matrix. *e

.0 Various further features of preferred embodiments

of the invention will be disclosed in the following

description with reference to the accompanying drawings,

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FIGURE 1 is a top plan view, partly broken-away,

of a photocomposing machine embodying the invention;

FIGURE 2 is a front elevation view, partly

broken-away, of the machine of Figure 1;

FIGURE 3 is a side elevation view, partly in

cross-section, of the machine of Figure 1; and

FIGURE 4 is a plan view of a Pi-character-bearing

auxiliary matrix plate.

Figures 1 to 4 illustrate a modification of the

machine described in the aforesaid ee-pending Australian

ppliea.ie-n No. 500,751. In these drawings, the same

reference numerals are used as for the corresponding

elements of the machine of the said Application. For

the convenience of the reader, a brief description of

04. 15 the salient features of the machine of the said Application will be given below. a *l

As is shown most clearly in Figures 1 to 3, a disc 2 is rotated continuously by a motor 160, and the

motor and disc are mounted on a carriage 214. The carriage 20 214 is moved along rails 36 and 38 by variable amounts,

for character-spacing purposes, by means of a lead screw 54

(Figure 2) engaging a nut mounted in a block 55. As it

is explained in the said Application, the character-spacing

carriage 214 is provided with rails 22 and 24 (Figure 2)

25 on which a lens carriage 114 is slidably mounted. The

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No. 22794/77 Proposed: 30/1/80 carriage 214 is provided with an interchangeable lens pack 192 containing lenses of different focal lengths.

These lenses are aligned along a projection line 74

(Figure 1).

The relative positions of the carriages 214 and

114 can be changed for the selection of one of several

rows of characters on the disc, and/or for the selection

of a given lens to provide a given magnification ratio.

The two carraiges are normally locked together

positively by the engagement of a plunger 166 (Figure 2)

mounted on the lens carriage 114 with a rack 164 which Sage

.e is mounted on the character-spacing (or main) carriage 214.

S The locking mechanism can be released by the operation of

an unlocking bar 180.

15 The characters are illuminated by a flash produced

by a flash unit 216 mounted on an arm 222 which is pivoted at 212. The arm 222 is releasably secured to the main

*carriage frame by means of a thumb-screw 220. The exact timing of the flash is obtained by an exciter lamp-photodiode

20 assembly 218 operating in cooperation with timing slits on

Sthe disc 2, in the manner originally described in British

Patent 669,556, and now widely used in this art.

Referring to Figure 1, the flash unit can illuminate

*.55 an elongated rectangular zone 4 of the disc. The zone 4 e o is wide enough to cover simultaneously all the characters,

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v in the different rows on the disc, that are aligned along the projection line 74. The selection of one row to the exclusion of the others is obtained by the use of a shutter plate 190 provided with apertures 132, just wide enough to accept one character a a positioned approximately on the optical axis of each lens.

PI CHARACTER AND RULES INSERTION

The improvement shown in Figures 1 to 4 resides in

the addition of an auxiliary matrix for the projection of

special characters characters) which are not on the disc 2, and for the production of continuous vertical or

horizontal lines or "rules".

:o It is well understood in this art that continuous

rules of different thicknesses, particularly for the

15 composition of tables, are preferably produced at the same

time as the text matter. The method which has been used in

prior machines using a moving, e.g. rotating, character

matrix and flash )amp consists of the projection of closely-fitted line segments. However, the results are not 20 of uniformly high quality because often there is either a

S*o"slight gap between adjacent segments, or there is an

undesirable thickened area if the segments overlap even

slightly.

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The machine of this invention produces unbroken

rules by using its auxiliary matrix and a light source

'which is energized continuously while the character-spacing

or line-spacing mechanism also is being operated

continuously. The thickness of rules can also be changed

by selecting one of the different lenses which are used

for determining the size of characters being composed.

The auxiliary matrix is situated in a projection

area distinct from the normal character projection area 4

(Figure but preferably located on the same projection

line 74 along which the lens array can be moved for style

and size selection. As shown in Figures 1 and 4, the «*ee

Pi-characters and rule-producing apertures are located

at 21, where a group of four apertures or Pi-characters

15 are shown, all aligned on line 74. These characters aru 5

conveniently produced by photographic means on a circular

glass plate or film chip disc 6, called a "Pi-plate" herein.

As it is shown in Figure 2, the Pi-plate 6 is

cemented to the lower end portion 13 of a cylindrical

20 holder 8 provided with a flange 20. The lower portion 13

of the holder is mounted and accurately centred in a hole

of the arm 222. The assembly is ±ocated angularly by a

pin 10 (Figure 1) and is secured in place by a set-screw e* 18. The holder 8 is provided with condensing lenses

(Figure 2) cooperating with an illuminating unit 16

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comprising a lamp that can be turned on or off by the

control circuit of the machine. The holder 8 can be

removed quickly and replaced by another holder carrying

a different Pi-plate 6.

Figure 4 is an enlarged view of the Pi-plate 6.

In this particular Pi-plate, one of the horizontal

apertures or slots 14 can be illuminated continuously

to produce horizontal rules, and tne vertical aperture

or slot 17 can be used similarly to produce vertical

rules. The Pi-character 12 can be illuminated at a

given time to project an image at a pre-selected location

o*s in the line. This result is obtained in the same way as

,o one of the several rows of disc 2 is selected, as it is /tiib ,htizihii .t /Yo. 5o,0 explained more fully in the saidJ-Ge-peadg-App-iai- 15 GN.-423r,/"74 cShd N A-92-6 First, the lens L*

carriage 114 is locked to the stationary frame of the

machine, and the main carriage 214 bearing the Pi-

attachment is moved so that the Pi-character 12 moves along

.e line 74 until its reference point int,rsects the optical

axis of the lens that will produce on the film an image &00oo of the desired size. Then the two carriages 114 and 214

are locked together and moved as a unit along the guide

rails under the action of the lead-screw 54 and the drive

motor (not shown) until the optical axis of the selected

lens reaches the point in the line where character 12 is

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i to be projected. Then the illuminating lamp of unit 16 is tu'..ned on at the appropriate time to produce an exposure.

In order to produce a horizontal rule from an

aperture or slot 14 the same procedure is followed

except that the two carriages are moved to the point where

the rule begins (or ends) and the locked carriages are

then continuously moved, while the lamp 16 is turned on,

until the other end of the rule is reached. The speed

of the carriage unit and the light produced by the

illuminating system are programmed to produce a rule of

uniform thickness.

To produce a vertical rule using the vertical

slot 17, the carriage 124 remains stationary, but the

15 line-spacing or film feed mechanism is continuously operated. Otherwise, the operation is the same as for 0

making horizontal rules.

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Claims (4)

THE CLAIMS DEFINING THE INVENTION ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1. A photoyrap-cC type-composing machine comprising

a character matrix having a plurality of individually Y OL 44U>/ 81 :A /e 4_cj selectable arrays of characters thereonan auxiliary 0/)d

matrix bearing graphic symbols and a lamp for illuminating

said symbols, and a lens holder having a.plurality of

lenses for forming images of matrix characters and of

said giaphic symbols for projection on to a photosensitive

surface, said character matrix, said auxiliary matrix and

lamp, and said lens holder all being supported by a

carriage and said lens holder being movable relative to C Ae,- cq?- said~matrix and to said auxiliary matrix to position a

selected lens in operative relationship to a selected

character array on the/matrix for projection of images

of selected characters of that array on to said photo-

B 15 sensitive surface, or to position a selected lens in

operative relationship to a selected graphic symbol on

the auxiliary matrix for projection of an image of that

we symbol on to the photosensitive surface.

2. A machine according to claim 1, including character-

Sespacing means adapted to move said projected images and

said photosensitive -arface rela'.ively to one another to

effect spacing of said images on the photosensitive surface S

5 while said lens holder is fixed in position on said carriage,

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said character-spacing means being adapted also to effect

relative movement of the lens holder and the carriage to

accomplish a required change of operative relationship

between a lens and a said character array or a said 10 graphic symool.

3. A machine according to claim 2, wherein said

character-spacing means effects character spacing by

moving said carriage relatively to said photosensitive

surface, and effects the said relative movement of the

lens holder and the carriage by moving the carriage while

the lens holder is held stationary.

4. A machjnp according to any preceding claim

wherein said graphic symbols include rule-forming apertures. S*

5. A machine according to any preceding claim,

•including means to energise said lamp tc illuminate a

graphic symbol on said auxiliary matrix f an indefinite *C

e period of time.

b. A machine according to claims 4 and 5, including

means for simultaneously energising said laimp to illuminate

a said rule-forming aperture, and for effecting relative

Smovement between the projected image of said aperture

5 and the photosensitive surface to cause said image to

trace an extended line on said surface to define a rule. *0

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7. A photograrthiY.c type-composing machine substantially

as described with reference to and as shown in the

accompanying drawings.

DATED THIS 30TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1980

Louis Marius D4OYROUD By His Patent Atturneys

CLEMENT HACK CO. fellows Institute of Patent Attorneys of Australia.

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