GB419638A - Improvements in and relating to spacebands for matrix composing and type line casting machines - Google Patents

Abstract

419,638. Type-bar-making machines. FEENY, V. F., 73A, Queen Victoria Street, London.-(Intertype Corporation; 360, Furman Street, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.) Feb. 26, 1934, No. 6217. [Class 100 (iii).] Spacers.-The short wedge-member E, Figs. 1 and 4, of a spaceband especially suitable for hand composition has at least one projecting ear G at or near its lower end. The necessity for assembling matrices and spacebands at different levels in a hand composing-stick is thereby avoided. One of the ears G underlies the usual matrix-aligning rail P, Fig. 3, of the first elevator, and the wedge-member is thereby held against upward movement during justification. The usual upper ears of the wedgemember, which engage grooves R, S in the elevator and prevent upward movement, can therefore be replaced by ears F, which correspond to the upper ears of a matrix, and rest on the usual matrix-supporting rails J, K. When a line is assembled on a hand composing-stick T, Fig. 4, comprising two walls at right-angles to each other, the lower ears of both the matrices and the spacebands are aligned by a common rail U. The short wedge-members are preferably bevelled at the upper end, to facilitate their entry between the matrices. Spacebands for use with matrices of abnormal length' may have short wedge-members of corresponding length, the lower lugs being then located above the lower ends of the wedge-members. Specification 14582/90, [Class 100], is referred to.