US1053364A

US1053364A - Type-holder.

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Publication number: US1053364A
Application number: US67650312A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert B Dick
Original assignee: AB Dick Co
Current assignee: AB Dick Co
Priority date: 1912-02-09
Filing date: 1912-02-09
Publication date: 1913-02-18
Anticipated expiration: 1930-02-18

Description

A. B. DICK.

TYPE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED IEB. 9, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

LyTNEsSEsQ INVENTOR Qfl ATTORNEY UNITED STATES ALBERT 1B. DICK,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORTO A. B. DIOK COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

TYPE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18,1913.

Application filed February 9, 1912. Serial No. 676,503. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. Dion, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lake Forest, in the county of Lakeand State of Illinois, have invented certain new mits of ready manipulation by an unskilled person.

In accordance with the invention, a typeholder is provided adapted to support a single lineof type, the type-holder being of such dimensions that the holder withthe type thereon is type-high. By reason of this construction, a line of type may be set up'upon a type-holder and then the holder with the type thereon may be inserted directly in a chase and used for printing. The holder is specially constructed to facilitate setting up the type thereon andholding the type durlng the printing operat1on.' The holder is made from a single piece of sheetmetal which is bent'to provide parallel sides and'to form a type-receiving slot between.

the lateral edges. When the holder has been so formed, the metal is under tension tending to bring the lateral edges together so that they will grip type in the slot of the holder. Means are provided, however, for spreading the two sides of the holder so that type may be moved freely into the type-receiving slot when setting up a line oftype and out of the slot when distributing the type.

. The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustratedin the accompanying drawings in which lines extending lengthwise thereof so as to provide parallel sides. 8.a nd 9 joined together by an integral bottom 10. The lateral edges of this piece of sheet-metal, that is the metal atthe upper edges of the

sides

8 and 9, are turned toward each other, as shown at 11. Between these inwardly 12 are received. These type have grooves on opposite 'sidesthereof and the flanges 11 .at opposite sides of the type-receiving slot are adapted to enter these grooves in the manner shown in 'Fig. 4. Afterthe strip of metal of a type-bar has been bent to the form-shown, it is accurately finished so that the holder with the line of type mounted therein, as shown. in Fig. 4, will be typehigh.

metal thereof is under tension tendingto move the

sides

8 and 9 together and thus is illustrated in Fig. 4, where type 12 are shown as held firmly by the walls 11 of the holder. Means are provided, whereby the holdermay be made to support the type loosely so that the type'may be moved freely in the slot when setting up and distributing. For this, purpose a rod or cam 13 isemployed extending lengthwise of the holder and between the

sides

8 and 9, this rod being rotatable to cause the desired spreading of the

sides

8 and 9. The rod is mounted at its ends for rotation in bearings formed from the metal of the strip constituting the vtype holder. the metal of the side 8 is cut, as shown at 1 1 in Fig. 1, and the metal 15 (Fig. 3) thus. cut is turned inwardly toward the opposite the metal of the type-holder is formed a hearing which receivesthe reduced end of the cam-bar 13. At the opposite end of the holder the metal of both

sides

8 and 9 is cut, as shown at 16, and portions 17 of the metal so out are turned inwardly and have a bearing formed therein which receives. a reduced end of the cam-bar 13. This end 18 of the cam-bar is extended through the hearing and is squared so that a key, such as that shown in Fig. 7, may be applied-tothis end 18 of the cam-bar in order to turn the bar. The.;;l f) ar 13 is preferably of a crosssectional ';"shape' approximating an oblong however,

turned flanges 11 is a slot in which the type The type-holder is' so formed that the cause the portions 11 of the holder to grip the type 12. This condition of the parts At one end side of the type-holder. In this piece 15 of with rounded corners as is shown in Figs. 4 and 5'. It will be seen that'when the bar is in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4 the key shown in Fig. 7 may be ap-' plied to the squared end-18 of the bar and turned through ninety degrees, thereb turning rod"13 to the position in whic it is shown in Fig. 5. When turning to this posi-- tion, the bar 13 spreads the

sides

8 and 9 of the type-holder somewhatso that while the type 12 will still be supported upon the 'flanges 11 of the type-holder, the type will upon the type-holder by merely turning the be loosely held and may be moved freely in the direction of the length of the typeholder.

' With this form of type-holder, the type may be readily set-up upon the holder as the type canbe moved freely into the slot in the holder. A line. of type having been set up thus, these type may be locked firmly rod 13. When so held the type-holder with of .type or with type of standard dimen-,

sions', because the type-holder with the line of type thereon is type-high. After the .printing operation, the line of the type ma be taken out, the type-loosened by sprea ing the sides of the type-holder and the type distributed by moving them one by 3 one out of-the type-receiving slot in the holder. Preferably, the latter is mounted in a suitable composing stick while the op- --erations of setting and distributing the type are bein performed. The holder; is formed to facilltate detachably mounting it in such a stick by having its ends open to receive latches whereby the holder will be firmly held upon the stick.

It willbe noted that the holder is very simple in construction and consists largelyof. sheet-metal as a result of which the holder may be manufactured readily and at low cost. i v Having described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

'1. The combination of an integraltypeholder for holding a line of'type formed from a single piece of sheet-metal bent to provide. parallel sides and to form a typereceiving slot between the lateral edges, and

means located within the holder for moving the parallel sides of said inte al t eholder apart to enlarge said slotgsubsli ntially as set forth. 4

2. The combination of a type-holder for holding a line of type with the type arranged in a straight line, said holder being formed from a single piece of sheet-metal by bending said piece to form a bottom extending lengthwise of the piece, two parallel sides and two edge-portions at the upper edges of the parallel sides bent toward each other and forming a type-receiving slot between them, said holder with the type therein being type-high, and means, for moving the parallel sides of said integral type-holder ,away from each other to enlarge said slot, substantially as set forth.

3. A tgpe-holder formed from av sin le piece of s eet metal bent to provide paral el sides and to form a type-receiving slot be-. tween the lateral edges, said piece of metal being under tension to cause the lateral edges to grip type in said slot and the holder 'with the type therein being type-high, and

means for spreading the sides of the holder to enlarge said slot, substantially as set forth."

4. The combination of an integral typeholder for holding a line of type formed from asingle piece of sheet metal bent to provide parallel sides and having the edges of the piece bent toward each other and forming a type-receiving slot between them, said piece of metal being under tension to cause said edges to grip type in said slot *and the holder with-the type therein beingtype-high and means for moving sai parallel sides away from each other to enlarge said slot,'substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of an integral typeholder for holding a line of type formed from a single piece of sheet metal bent to provide parallel sides and to form a typereceiving slot bet-ween the lateral edges,

and a cam between said sides movable to separate the sides and thus cause enlargementof said slot, substantially as set forth.

6. A type-holder formed from a single piece of sheet-metal bent to provide parallel sides, the edges of said piece being bent toward each other and forming a type-receiving slot between them, a rod extending lengthwise of the holder between said sides and mounted upon the holder for rotation, and means operated by the rotation of said rod for separating said sides and thus caus ing enlargement of said slot, substantially asset forth.

7. A type-holder formed from a single piece of sheet metal bent to provide paral-.

lel sides and to form a type-receiving slot between the lateral edges, said piece of metal being undertension to cause the lateral edges to grip type in said slot,,a rod extending lengthwise of the holderbetween the sides and mounted for rotation in bearings formed in the metal of said iece, and means actuated by the rotation 0 said rod for spreading the sides of the holder to enlarge said slot, one end of the rod .being shaped for coaction with a key by which the rod is turned, substantially as set fbrth.

" metal being under tension to cause the lat- 8. A type-holder formed from a single thus enlarging said slot so' that the t e 10 piece of sheet metal bent to provide paralwill be released, substantially as set fOI i SL lel sides and to form a type-receiving slot This specification signed and witnessed between the lateral edges, said piece of this 5th day of February; 1912. eral edges to grip type .in said slot and the ALBERT DICK holder with the type therein being type- Witnesses: high, and a rotatable cam within the holder I. MCINTOSH, for separating the sides of the holder and J. F. Coimms.