EP0050348A3 - Photocomposing machine and method - Google Patents

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EP0050348A3
EP0050348A3 EP81108490A EP81108490A EP0050348A3 EP 0050348 A3 EP0050348 A3 EP 0050348A3 EP 81108490 A EP81108490 A EP 81108490A EP 81108490 A EP81108490 A EP 81108490A EP 0050348 A3 EP0050348 A3 EP 0050348A3
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characters
flash
matrices
character
carriage
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EP0050348A2 (en
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Louis M. Moyroud
Michel Bongard
Paul A. Vernez
Michel Moulin
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Autologic SA
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Autologic SA
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Priority claimed from US06/198,055 external-priority patent/US4329026A/en
Priority claimed from US06/198,284 external-priority patent/US4329027A/en
Application filed by Autologic SA filed Critical Autologic SA
Publication of EP0050348A2 publication Critical patent/EP0050348A2/en
Publication of EP0050348A3 publication Critical patent/EP0050348A3/en
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B21/00—Common details of photographic composing machines of the kinds covered in groups B41B17/00 and B41B19/00
    • B41B21/32—Film carriers; Film-conveying or positioning devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B17/00—Photographic composing machines having fixed or movable character carriers and without means for composing lines prior to photography
    • B41B17/04—Photographic composing machines having fixed or movable character carriers and without means for composing lines prior to photography with a carrier for all characters in at least one fount
    • B41B17/10—Photographic composing machines having fixed or movable character carriers and without means for composing lines prior to photography with a carrier for all characters in at least one fount with a continuously-movable carrier
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B17/00—Photographic composing machines having fixed or movable character carriers and without means for composing lines prior to photography
    • B41B17/18—Details
    • B41B17/20—Character carriers; Cleaning devices therefor
    • B41B17/24—Character carriers; Cleaning devices therefor with all characters
    • B41B17/32—Character carriers; Cleaning devices therefor with all characters on a flat disc
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B21/00—Common details of photographic composing machines of the kinds covered in groups B41B17/00 and B41B19/00
    • B41B21/16—Optical systems

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  • Variable Magnification In Projection-Type Copying Machines (AREA)

Abstract

Character matrices are stored in and retrieved from a magazine automatically. The matrices can be complete discs or pie-shaped «petals» which are assembled to form a disc. A single pivotably-mounted support arm is used to support the spinning disc, and to move it for selection of concentric arrays on the disc, as well as for storage and retrieval of matrices. A reversed zoom lens is used to magnify the characters.
The character spacing carriage can move continu­ ously in order to increase the speed of operation. Proper location of the characters can be done by simply altering the carriage speed between projections, or by using a shuttling lens for character spacing compensation, to­ gether with flash delay and carriage deceleration.
A system for inputting images from any one of three separate discs also is provided.
A double-dove prism and optical wedges are used for altering the shapes of characters.
Rules are formed by operating a flash-lamp very rapidly to shine light through an appropriately-shaped opening and moving the image along the photosensitive surface in a linear path.
The matrix can be moved in a varying speed mode in which the matrix is moving slowly or stationary when the character is flashed. This allows the light intensity of the flash lamp to be raised significantly without significant degradation of the quality of the output.
Controls are provided for automatically adjusting the baseline of the characters, the margins, the degree of anlargement, the flash intensity, and the focus.
A simple attachment is provided for doubling or halving the size of the characters.
The machine can produce output on photographic film or paper or electrophotographic material.
Means are provided for automatically inserting graphic matter (pictures) into text matter for composing full pages, and for making halv-tones.
EP81108490A 1980-10-17 1981-10-16 Photocomposing machine and method Ceased EP0050348A3 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US06/198,055 US4329026A (en) 1978-03-22 1980-10-17 Photocomposing machine and method
US198284 1980-10-17
US06/198,284 US4329027A (en) 1980-10-17 1980-10-17 Photocomposing machine and method
US198055 1980-10-17

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EP0050348A2 EP0050348A2 (en) 1982-04-28
EP0050348A3 true EP0050348A3 (en) 1982-12-15

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US4553825A (en) * 1983-06-10 1985-11-19 Autologic, S.A. Photocomposing apparatus and method
DE3710577A1 (en) * 1986-04-01 1987-10-08 Brother Ind Ltd OPTICAL PRINTING SYSTEM
CN110233548A (en) * 2019-06-25 2019-09-13 苏州汇川技术有限公司 A kind of calibrator (-ter) unit, method, encoder and motor

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US2951428A (en) * 1949-09-23 1960-09-06 Graphic Arts Res Foundation In Type composing apparatus
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US3602116A (en) * 1969-08-22 1971-08-31 Louis M Moyroud Type-composing machines
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US3801201A (en) * 1972-12-19 1974-04-02 S Greenblatt Method and apparatus for automatically combining textual and graphic matter
US3802773A (en) * 1972-06-30 1974-04-09 W Schneider Automatic photo-composer
GB1386651A (en) * 1971-02-18 1975-03-12 Hell Rudolf Dr Ing Gmbh Reproduction of half-tone illustrations
CH564796A5 (en) * 1972-06-20 1975-07-31 Wretman Erik Lennart Copier originals for printing plates - made in automatic line
US3949159A (en) * 1973-11-11 1976-04-06 American Newspaper Publishers Association Composite page setter
US3975745A (en) * 1975-03-17 1976-08-17 Addressograph Multigraph Corporation Font availability system for photocomposing machine
FR2309904A1 (en) * 1975-04-30 1976-11-26 Misomex Ab METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING PLATES OR ORIGINALS USEFUL FOR FORMING PRINTING PLATES
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US4051488A (en) * 1975-11-12 1977-09-27 Alphatype Corporation Phototypesetting machine
US4051536A (en) * 1975-03-14 1977-09-27 Xerox Corporation Electronic halftone imaging system
FR2349442A1 (en) * 1976-04-30 1977-11-25 Addressograph Multigraph MULTI-CHARACTER DISC PHOTOCOMPOSITIONER
DE2729113A1 (en) * 1976-06-28 1978-01-05 Crosfield Electronics Ltd IMAGE REPRODUCTION PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FULL PAGE IMAGE
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US2951428A (en) * 1949-09-23 1960-09-06 Graphic Arts Res Foundation In Type composing apparatus
US2786400A (en) * 1949-10-05 1957-03-26 Time Inc Justifying and character positioning apparatus for electronic photo-typecomposing system
US2976787A (en) * 1958-12-03 1961-03-28 Mergenthaler Linotype Gmbh Font plate magazine for phototypographical machine
US3099945A (en) * 1960-06-30 1963-08-06 Harris Intertype Corp Photographic type composition
DE1522509A1 (en) * 1966-01-13 1969-12-11 Monotype Corp Ltd Pressure setting device
US3602116A (en) * 1969-08-22 1971-08-31 Louis M Moyroud Type-composing machines
FR2069628A5 (en) * 1969-12-01 1971-09-03 Linotype Gmbh
FR2080494A5 (en) * 1970-02-17 1971-11-12 Agfa Gevaert Ag
US4034400A (en) * 1970-09-23 1977-07-05 International Publishing Corporation Ltd. Apparatus for reproducing graphic material
US3709117A (en) * 1970-10-12 1973-01-09 Watson Leavenworth Kelton & Ta Information recording method and system
GB1386651A (en) * 1971-02-18 1975-03-12 Hell Rudolf Dr Ing Gmbh Reproduction of half-tone illustrations
FR2145134A5 (en) * 1971-07-08 1973-02-16 Asahi Optical Co Ltd
CH564796A5 (en) * 1972-06-20 1975-07-31 Wretman Erik Lennart Copier originals for printing plates - made in automatic line
US3802773A (en) * 1972-06-30 1974-04-09 W Schneider Automatic photo-composer
US3759149A (en) * 1972-09-13 1973-09-18 Xerox Corp Multiple flash lamp alphanumeric projection disc assembly
US3801201A (en) * 1972-12-19 1974-04-02 S Greenblatt Method and apparatus for automatically combining textual and graphic matter
US3949159A (en) * 1973-11-11 1976-04-06 American Newspaper Publishers Association Composite page setter
US4051536A (en) * 1975-03-14 1977-09-27 Xerox Corporation Electronic halftone imaging system
US3975745A (en) * 1975-03-17 1976-08-17 Addressograph Multigraph Corporation Font availability system for photocomposing machine
FR2309904A1 (en) * 1975-04-30 1976-11-26 Misomex Ab METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING PLATES OR ORIGINALS USEFUL FOR FORMING PRINTING PLATES
US4051488A (en) * 1975-11-12 1977-09-27 Alphatype Corporation Phototypesetting machine
US4004079A (en) * 1975-11-14 1977-01-18 Optronics International, Inc. Method and apparatus for dual resolution photographic reproduction of line and continuous tone graphic materials
FR2349442A1 (en) * 1976-04-30 1977-11-25 Addressograph Multigraph MULTI-CHARACTER DISC PHOTOCOMPOSITIONER
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