US1051605A - Type-distributing device. - Google Patents

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w. MANN.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.8, 1911.

1,051,605, Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

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WILLIAM MANN, OF BUCKHURST HILL, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN MULTIGRAPH COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 8, 1911.

Patented Jan. 28 1913.

Serial No. 607,244.

T0 alt *ushom it may concern.

Be it known that I, (VILLIAM *MANN, a subjectof the King of Great Britain, residing at Buckhurst Hill, in the county of Essex, England, have invented a certain new ,and useful Improvement in Type-Disributing Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawin s.

lhe object of this invention is to provide a very simple and efficient .hand implement for holding a line of type and distributing it. This tool is especially well adapted for operating with short type grooved on its opposite sides.

The invention is hereinafter more fully described and its essential characteristics set out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the implement complete except that the upper end of the tool is broken away; Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical sections through the implement shown in Fig. 1,-Fig. 2 showing the spring gate in normal position, and Fig. 3 showing it in position justafter it has discharged a type; Fig. t is an end elevation of the implement; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of type which the particular tool shown holds and distributes.

Referring to the parts by reference numerals, 10 indicates the bod of the tool which is a split tube. That 18 to say, it is cylindrical except for a slot 11 parallel with the axis.

20 indicates the type which have grooves 21 on their opposite sides which correspond to the-head and foot of the characters 22. The smooth, parallel ed es provided by the slot 11 of the tool are adapted to occupy the grooves 21 of the type the foot of thetype extendin into the tube and the head of the type pro ecting outside of the tube. With such tube inclined, as shown in the drawings, the type will slide by gravity toward the lower end of. the tube.

To hold the type against escape from the lower end of the tube but to allow them to drop out, one at a time, whenever desired, I provide a spring gate designated 30. This gate has a shank, by which it is secured to the tube'lO, as by means of screws 40. The shank is preferably provided with a lateral head 31 to embrace, to a certain extent, the tube and more effectively hold the spring 1 gate thereto. At its free end the spring 30 is provided with a yoke 32 which extends freely on opposite sides of the tube and passes over the top thereof. This free end of the spring gate also has a tongue 34 placed centrally and'rising within an open space in the yoke and extending through a notch 12 in the lower wall. The yoke 32 is shown as rising approximately at right angles to the shank of the gate 30 while the tongue bends backwardly toward the head of the shank, as shown;

V \Vith the spring gate formed as described, the foremost type in the holder has'its head resting across the yoke of the cross bar 32, as shown in Fig. 2, while the tongue 34 is idle. If now the spring gate be pressed toward the tube, the tongue 34 engages the next to the bottom type, while the yoke 32 rises above and frees the bottom type, allowing it to slide by gravity out of the tube. This operation may be very conveniently accomplished by the operator holding the tube in his hand and pressing the lower portion of the gate against some stationary abutment, whereby the free end of the tube' is lowered to cause the release of the bottom most type, as described. I have shown se-. cured to the under side of the spring gate a suitable knob 35 which preferably is rounded on its under surface and receives the impact as the tool is moved to discharge type.

Ordinarily a suitable case will be provided to receive the type having diflerent receptacles for different characters and to distribute the type in the holder'it is only necessary to more it about from receptacle to receptacle and strikethe bumper 35 against the base or wall of the receptacle to ,discharge the bottom type thereinto.

I have shown the type as having beveled feet 24 and I have shown the tongue 34 adapted to project between the bevels of the bottom type and the next to the bottom type in order to engage the next to the bottom type' This is a very eiiicient arrangement. as each type is effectively held by the tongue 34 before the yoke 32 releases the bottom type. My tool, however, may operate with type having flat bottoms, in which case the end of the tongue 34 may be bent back to ward the secured portion of the spring gate so that it will obtain a spring bearing against the base of the next to the bottom type sufiicient to hold the line of type theremosttype.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim 1s:-

ii In atype distributing implement, the

combination of a portable split tube holder, a spring secured to the holder some distance back from the discharge end and extending on the underside of the holder and having -two projecting portions,. one of which may engage the endmost type and the other type next thereto.

2. In a type distributing implement, the combination of a portable split tube, and a spring secured to the under side of the tube and extending along it and, operable from below and having a freeend movable trans- 'ersely of the tube, said end being provided with two. portions, one of which may engage the endmost type and the other the type next to the end.

3. In a type distributing implement, the combination of a member for holding the line. of type, a spring gatesecured thereto and having a yoke extending loosely around the member and adapted to engage type projecting above the member, said gate having also a tongue extending into the member and adapted to engage the foot of type therein.'

4. In a type distributing implement, the combination of a portable holder for a row of grooved type, and a spring gate mounted on the holder and provided with means to engage the head of one t pe and the foot of thenext adjacent type a ternately, said gate having a movable portion below the holder, whereby said gate may be operated by downward movement of the discharge end of the holder.

5. In a type distributing implement, the combination of a tubular type holder havinga longitudinal slot through it whereby type grooved on its opposite sides may be held in a row with their heads above the tube and their feet within the tube, and a spring gate secured to the tube and having a yoke passing around the tube and adapted to engage the heads of successive type, said gate having a tongue projecting into the tube adapted to engage the feet of type.

6. In a type distributing implement, the combination of a. split tube, a spring gate secured to the tube on the side away from above when the yoke 32 releases the bot'tonr 2 I p ing a' portion of the gate and extending 1 ,051 ,eoe

the split, said tube having an opening on the side ad acent to the gate, a tongue formthrough such opening and adapted to engage the type within the tube, and other means carried by the ate for engaging the head of the type outsi e of the tube. A

.7. A type distributing implement adapted to operate with type grooved on its opposite sides and beveled on its feet comprising a split tube forming a guideway for the type, and a spring gate carried by the tube and yoking around it to engage the head of the type and having a projecting tongue adapted to engage between the bevels of the feet of the type,

8. In a type distributing im lement, the

combination of aportable hol r-having a type channel for loosely confininggrooved type, and a spring gate mounted on the holder and acting withinth'e holder on one type and having a yoke acting outside of the holder on the ad acent type to discharge them one at a time.

9. A portable type distributing im'plement-comprising-a holder having a channel for containin a row of type, and a gate,

mounted on t e holder and normally acting a on the endmost type in the channel, said gate being movable by downward impact of the holder to act on next tothe endmost type.

ment, the combination of a split tube acting as a holder for a row of type. and a spring gate mounted on said tube and normally acting on theendmost type but movable by impact on its underside to act on the next to the endmost.

11. As a new article of manufacture, a portable type distributing implement having a channel for a row of type and a spring gate carried by the implement and normally engaging and holding the endmost type but movable by engagement of its underside to engage and hold the next to the endmost while freeing the endmost type.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM MANN.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM EDWARD CARTER, JAS. A. Smrronn.

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10. In a portable type distributing implec

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