US1042292A - Printer's tie-up. - Google Patents

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J. S. THOMPSON. PRINTERS TIE-UP.

APPLIUL'TION FILED MAR. 24, 1906. 1 ,O%2,292, Patented Oct. 22, 1912 W K m a I 0 O' MMW 744 a. W

JOHN S. THOMPSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ERINTERS TIE-UP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2-4, 1906.

Patented Get. 22, 191 2 SerialNo. 307,857.

T 0 a 71"]10'F/7. it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN S. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have intented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Tie-Ups, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to what is known in the art as a tie-up for type pages and the like, audits object is to produce a simple device of the kind described which can readily be applied to varying sizes of type forms or pages withoutneccssitating its removal at any time during subsequent handling.

To this end my invention consists of the novel crmstruction, arrangement and combination of parts herein shown and described and more particularly pointed outin the claims, it being understood that I do not limit myself to the precise forms shown.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a page of type inclosed in the tie-up of invention, the whole being locked in an ordinary printers chase. Fig. shows in detail the construction illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same.

It s the common practice after a page or form of type is composed, to wind several turns of string around the page or form, to prevent misplacement of the type during subsequent handling, which string must be removed before the page can be locked in a chase for printing. After being printed, string is again employed to tie up the-page until the type is to be distributed. My invention is intended to eliminate this practice and provide :1 tie-n which can be left on the type page at all .imes, thus saving time and annoyance.

In the device of my invention, I provide 1 rectangular bars of various standard lengths,

their ends so formed that a recess in one bar is adapted to receive a projection on the end of another, and when placed upon the four sides of a page or form of type, the

' ends will interlock and inclose said page or type form. When these interlocking mentloers are formed shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, all the pieces can be formed substantially alike and thus made readily interchangeable. In. this constrnctimi the members A B are notched to substantially half their depths (G G and a pin F tightly driven into the end of one bar enters loosely a hole f inthe ends of another bar. Each piece A or B is formed with a in F in one end. and an enlarged hole f in the other end. The location of these pins and holes are such as to allow for clearances e at all abutting points-when the squeeze in looking up the form is. applied. The ObjGCtOl this construction is to permit a slight displacement of the bars A. B when the type form or page they inclose is locked tightly in the chase preparatory to printing. Were the joints stringent, the squeeze in locking up would not bind the types closely together.

The bars A, B may be formed of any suitable material and-0f any convenient or desirable lengths. For ordinary use, they are provided in certain uniformly varying lengths of quad 'height-. Vvhemdesirable, however, for use in electrotyping forms, the bars .A B are made type high and take the place of ordinary 'electrotypers furniture. The page of type is spaced out tightly within the frame, causing the frame to be extended to its utmost limits, controlled by the amount'of play or leeway provided at four corners of the tie-up. The type or slugs are thus held firmly within the frame. The squeeze in looking up in the chase comprcssesthe page, but ts expansion when it is unlocked h lds the matter firmly within the frame whether it be composed of type or linotype slugs.

Having described my inventicznwhat I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A printers tie-up, comprising four interlocking members. each member having both of its ends reduced to form a shoulder, the members being adapted to overlap at their points of joining, and a vertical projection at one end and an enlarged opening at the opposite end of each member, whereby the members are adapted to interlock and inclose a type page and yield under pressure.

2. In a printers tieup, identically formed and interchangeable side and end members provided with notches at each end and also providml with a hole in one end and a pin of less diameter in the opposite end.

3. A printers tie-up, comprising four in terlocking members, each member having both of its ends reduced to form a shoulder In Witness whereof I have hereunto set the members being adapted to overlap at my hand in the presence of the two subtheir points of joining, and a projection atscribing Witnesses.

one end and an enlarged opening at the JOHN-S. THOMPSON. opposite end ofeach member, whereby the Witnesses: members are adapted to interlock and in- ALBERT H. M. TINELKIN,

close a type page and yield under pressure. ERIC PETERSON.

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