US1057372A

US1057372A - Printer's cabinet.

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Publication number: US1057372A
Application number: US57910310A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank M Bashelier
Original assignee: KEYSTONE TYPE FOUNDRY
Current assignee: KEYSTONE TYPE FOUNDRY
Priority date: 1910-08-26
Filing date: 1910-08-26
Publication date: 1913-03-25
Anticipated expiration: 1930-03-25

Description

F. M'. BASHELIER.

PRINTERS CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 26, 1910.

1,057,372, Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

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PRINTBRS CABINET.

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FRANK IVI. BASI-IELIER, OF JENKINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO KEYSTONE TYPE FOUN'DRY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN- SYLVANIA.

PRINTERS CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lilas?, 25, 1913.

Serial No. 579,103.

Application led August 26, 1910.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK M. BAsHELrEn, a citizen of the United States, residing atv Jenkintown, in the county of Montgomery Immediately beneath the overhanging work-bank 11 are mounted two

large drawers

13 and 14 for holding` copy, and like material, in a convenient positi-on for the printers use. Immediately beneath said drawers an inclined galley shelf 15 is mounted on brackets 16, attached to the side of the casing. This side of the cabinet is closed by suitable panels and the opposite side is open and arranged for two tiers of type cases, metal slides 17 being secured on the adjacent faces of the framework on which the type cases 18 are mounted and adapted to run. Said slides 1T extend to the extreme outer edge of the cabinet frame, as shown at the right in Fig. 3, where a portion of the end of the case is broken away to show the interior construction more clearly. The type cases 18 are each provided with handles 19, and label holders 2,0 on their outer edges and are of a depth a few inches less than the depth of the cabinet so that when closed the surrounding edges of the cabinet casing will extend beyond the fronts of said type cases, enabling any case to be withdrawn to a point where access may be had to its entire depth without being freed from the slides on which it runs, as indicated clearly in the right-hand cabinet in Fig. 3. On the top of the cabinet` im-4v mediately above the apex a is mounted, on suitable supporting brackets, a lead and slug rack 21, inclined toward the work-bank 11 and in convenient reach of the compositor standing at said work-bank. On the central pilaster 22 of the cabinet-frame, between the tiers of type cases, are inserted series of pins 23, which project slightly beyond the face of the post and serve as hooks, on which tags, or checks, 24- may be hung. There is one of such pins, or hooks, for each type case, and each compositor in the composing room is given a number and furnished with tags, or checks, Q4 bearing said number and when any compositor takes any type case from any cabinet in the compo-sing room he hangs a check bearing his number on the hook, or pin, opposite the space from which he has taken such type case. By this means any type case missing from a cabinet in the composing room can be immediately located by referring to the tag, which indicates the printer who has it and on whose case it can certain new and useful Improvement-s in Printers Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention. consists in certain improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts of a printers cabinet designed for compositors use, whereby the type, leads, slugs and other material used in type sett-ing are stored and held in the most convenient arrangement -for use, and the space in the cabinet and in the composing room are most economically and advantageously employed, whereby the printer is enabled to do his work without waste of time, as in going from place to place collecting different material employed in his work, and a saving of a considerable percentage in the expense of composition is thereby secured, all as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one side of a cabinet of my improved construction, Fig. 2 a similar view of the opposite side, and Fig. 3 aA view indicating a section of a composing room showing two of said cabinets in end elevation, illustrating their preferred arrangement in the composing room. one having a section of the casing broken o-ut to show features of interna-l construction and arrangement more clearly.

The main frame-work or casing 10 of the cabinet, as shown, is of wood, although, as will be readily understood` it may be made of metal, if preferred. The frame-work is of any approved cabinet construction and is provided with a' double work-bank or table on its top preferably of a height convenient for the compositor to work thereon while in a standing posit-ion. The sides of the top slope each way to provide a work-bank on each side of the case. As best shown in Fig. 3, the center line` or apex, of the top is near one side, at a point a, of the main part of the case or cabinet. The work-bank 11 projects out beyond, or over-hangs, its side. 55 of the cabinet, while the work-bankl?4 exbe found. Electric lights :25am arranged above each tier of type cases under the edge of work-bank 12 so that by turning a switch each tier of type cases may be readily and completely illuminated enabling' the compositor to see clearly to select from any case type that he may need for his particular job.

By making the double top with one side overhanging the cabinet suoli side affords a work-bank more convenient for the use of the printer as the cabinet is out of the way of his feet. Also the load in the cabinet, and on its top and shelves, is well balanced and distributed to render the cabinet support solid and avoid undue strain thereon. By the arrangement of the cabinets in relation to each other, as shown in Fig. 3, all of the type cases used on a job are brought within convenient access.

In use, the cabinets being arranged, as shown in Fig. 3, the printer, or compositor, stands at the work-bank 11, which overhangs, or projects beyond, the side of the cabinet, thus enabling him to stand close Without said cabinet being in the way of his feet. The type cases from which he is setting the main body of his work are arranged on said work-bank 11 and others are arranged on the work-bank 12 immediately beiind him and such other cases as contain type which he may need from time to time may stand open in the cabinet at his back, as indicated in said figure. The slugs and leads are in the rack 21 before him and his galley is lying upon the work-bank 11 in front of him. The compositor is thus enabled to rapidly set his type in his stick, principally from the cases or work-bank 11 in front of him, but when needing a special letter, or letters, of a different style for a special line, or other purpose, they are found conveniently at hand by simply turning to the cases on work-bank 12 on the cabinet behind him or to a casel standing open for the purpose. All his material being thus immediately at hand, the printer is enabled to do his work without going from case to case, and from one part of the composing room to another to get special material that he may need in his work. Should he need type from a type case in a cabinet in another portion of the composing room, he can take such case` leaving his check therefor, as above described, and place it upon his work-bank 11. or 12, where it is available until his job is finished` when it can be returned to the cabinet w'here it belongs. All of the type cases carry labels in their label holders 20 indicating the style and size of tvpe contained in each case. The electric lights enable these labels to be easily consulted and the type in any case clearly inspected, thus avoiding errors and consequent delay and expense.

By this construction and arrangement of printers cabinets, the work is carried on with great economy of time and expense, while the space in the composing room may be utilized to the greatest advantage.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A printer-s cabinet comprisinoa casing with closed ends and oneclosed side, a double inclined top thereon the apex of which is to one side of the center of the cabinet and nearer to said closed side, the inclined top or said closed side beyond the face of the cabinet, a galley shelf mounted on said closed side beneath said overhanging top, and type cases mounted on slides in the opposite or open side of said cabinet, substantially as set forth.

2. A printers cabinet comprising a casing, a double inclined work-bank on the top of said casing the apex thereof being to one side of the longitudinal center of said cabinet, that side of said work-bank on the narrow' side of the angle in the top of the casing projectin beyond the cabinet to provide free working space beneath, and type cases mounted to slide out and in from the opposite side of the cabinet, substantially as set forth.

8. A printers cabinet. comprising' a casing. a double work-bank on the top of said casing the two sides of which are divided by an angle which angle is positioned to one side of the longitudinal center of said cabinet. that side of said work-bank on the narrow side of said angle projecting beyond the cabinet to provide free working space beneath. and type cases mounted to slide out and in from the ,opposite side of the cabinet, substantially as set forth.

t. A printers cabinet comprising a casing, a double work-bank on the top of said casing the two sides of which are divided by an angle which angle is positioned to one side of the longitudinal center of Said cabinet, that side of said work-bank on the narrow side of said angle projecting beyond the cabinet to provide free working' space beneath, and the opposite side of the cabinet being formed as a storage cabinet, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, 1, have hereunto set my hand and seal at lVashington, .District of Columbia this 20th day of August, A. D. nineteen hundred and ten.

FRANK M. BASHELIER. [1.. s] lVitnesses E. 1V. BRADroRD,

J. D. YoaxLEY.

M Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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