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251338 CLASS \ 5a. GROUP

FRANZ SCHIMMEL in NANCY, France.

Patented in the German Empire on January 19, 1911.

For die setting and line casting machines, the number of characters available is a more or less restricted one. It is common to use single characters as hand matrices in a special box in the hand area of the typesetter to store them if necessary, can be taken from there and inserted into the line. After this These matrices are then cast of the line

ίο put back in the special box.

With typesetting machines, the matrices of which each have a character, you naturally have to for each additional character for which there is no special key on the keypad is to have a special manual die and each of these dies must be in its own Compartment of the manual matrix box. Often the number of such matrices is very important and therefore difficult to understand.

In such typesetting machine systems, in which several different characters are present on one and the same die, it is of course also possible to arrange just as many different characters on a hand mold and thereby significantly reduce the number of hand molds. However, every time the typesetter is to insert one of the characters arranged on a hand matrix into the line, he would have to search for the same character on the matrix and then laboriously insert it into the line. Naturally, this would take a long time.
This inconvenience is remedied by the following method and the new device. The method can also be used with older machines.

The invention is illustrated in the drawing, namely FIGS. 1 to 4 show two different embodiments. In Fig. Ι and 2 is the front part of the machine and the die collector 1 on which the die magazine 2 rests. In the latter are the well-known, polygonal dies 3, which are held by the die holding rails 4 are held.

The Matrizenhalteschienen '4 are operated from the key board 5 through the mediation of the tactile lever 6, the rail 7, the double lever 8 and 9 and the slide 10, in ^{such a} way that by hitting the button 6 a, the Matrizenhalteschiene 4 slides obliquely downward and lets the lowermost die 3 fall into the collector 1, from which it is then pushed into the line holder in a known manner. When it falls into the collector, the die is set to a specific letter by one of the ten cross rails 11. The rails 11 are actuated by the rails 7 and cause, in a known manner, the movement of one of the ten pins 12, which set the rotated matrices to the desired letter.

In the case of a hand matrix, of course, a key must not be struck, but one must insert the die by hand directly into the row or into the collector.

Claims (4)

In order to be able to insert a die into the collector by hand, it is necessary to open the small door i ^{a of} the die collector, which is closed when the machine is working. In the new method, when the small door τ ^{α is opened,} a pin Ii is made to protrude, which indicates a specific position of the die. Once the door is open for ^a ίο and you have hit a key 6 ^a , you can throw any die into the collector without having to worry about which position it is currently in. It is set to the desired letter by the intermediary of the rails ii and inserted into the line. When the door i ^{a is closed} , the dies are released again and you can now continue setting from the magazine. The new method consists in locking the die magazine by opening the collector door and by pressing a button 6 "to prepare the collector for receiving the die so that the die is set to the specific letter. A die can then simply be placed in the collector throw in without first looking for the position of the letter you want. For this purpose (Fig. 2) the pushbuttons 6 ^{a are} provided with two letters each. The lower letter is larger and corresponds to a letter that is in the magazine, so that when you hit the key, only this lower (larger) letter is removed from the magazine and set. The locking of the magazine by opening the door x ^a is effected in that a rail 12, which is slidably attached to the collector 1 by means of a screw 13 and a plate 14, is displaced. The rail carries an arm 12 ″ which grips under the die holding rails 4 and slides under them when the collector door is opened Lug 15 attached, which when opened presses against the rail 12, which thereby moves backwards and ^{locks the magazine by the arm I2 a} . When the door is closed, the compression spring 16 embedded in the rail 12 pushes the rail into its previous position and holds it The die holding rails 4 are each time lifted upwards by the eccentric 17, which rotates in the direction of the arrow, where they are held by the slide 10 until the next letter is touched. The die that has fallen into the collector 1 first hits the pawl 18, the lower end of which forms the bottom of the collector and can be rotated about the axle screw 19. The die reduces this soil due to its beating-in falling in, whereby the angularly upwardly bent end lifting ^ΐ8 Λ and the pawl 20 will jump below. The pawl 20 is also rotatable about a screw pin 21 (FIG. 2) and engages with its end 2o ^a in the fork-shaped end of the lever 22 which is attached to the collector 1 and whose upper end actuates the pull rod 23. The pull rod moves the crank 24, which is fastened together on an axle 25 with the release lug 26 and lifts it each time, whereby the eccentric 17 is engaged each time. You can therefore easily hit a key with the door of the collector open without the eccentric being triggered, because no die falls down which could trigger the eccentric 17 by hitting the flap 18. Only when a die has been thrown in by hand does the eccentric 17 and thus the collecting mechanism come into action, which sets the die to the desired letter and pushes it out of the die collector. This arrangement can be applied in the following manner in the embodiment according to FIGS. 3 and 4: The double-armed lever 32, which is rotatable about the pin 33 and the spring 34 against the door 31, rests against the frame of the magazine door 31 is pressed. Its longer end is guided in the sleeve 35 and moves the bolt 36 mounted therein, which pushes into an elongated hole in the die slide 37 when the door is opened. These can no longer slide backwards and the dies are prevented from falling into the collector. By striking the button 39, the rail 40 is advanced in the direction of the arrow and its nose 40 ″ hits one of the eleven horizontal rails in a known manner 41, which slide into the collector (not shown here) and the position of the letters. You then throw a hand die into the collector and hit on the double lever 42, which is provided with a button, which triggers the rocker arm 43 causes and pushes the die thrown into the collector into the row. Godfathers τ-claims ρ ρ odor: i. Procedure for setting the hand-held matrices carrying multiple characters in the set die line, characterized in that by opening the Collector door and lock the die magazine by hitting a button the collector mechanism is prepared in such a way that the afterwards in the collector inserted hand die set to the letter corresponding to the key and is pushed into the set die line. 2. Device for performing the method according to claim i, characterized in that that one and the same feeler lever is used to adjust the magazine matrices or of the hand matrices, depending on whether the collector door is closed or open. 3. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that by opening the Collector door a resilient rail or lever is operated so that he the The dies in the magazine are secured against falling into the collector. 4. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that by arranging a resilient flap in the collector, the drive mechanism is only coupled if there is a die in the collector. 1 sheet of drawings.