US1119493A - Means for alining the pieces of a typographical line in a line-producing machine. - Google Patents

Description

B. BLOOH.

MEANS FOR ALINING THE PIECES Of A TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE IN A LINE PRODUCING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20, 1914.

Patented Dec. 1,1914.

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BRUNO BLOCK, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALEBLINOTYYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

A TYPOGRAPHICAL LINE IN A LIhlTE-E'ROD'UCING 1VLACI-IINE.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914:.

Original application filed December 10, 1913, Serial No. 805,724. Divided and this applicationfilea April 20, 1914. Serial No. 833,083.

ently of each other till all their characters register with each other horizontally in the sense that the feet of all the letters in a printed line register with each other hor1 zontally, is effected by making a shoulder on the mold in which the body of the desired line will be cast, overlie a lug projecting from the then opposite edge of each matrix, the dimensions of a lug and the distance between it and the character, being common to all the matrices in the font, and thereupon making the organ of the machine which carries and presents the matrices in the casting position, pull them all upward by direct contact till all the lugs are in equally close contact with the said shoulder, and maintain that pull until the said matrices are clamped by other means.

the presenting motion ust referred to is a dropping one down to a stationary abut ment, the length of it beingrcgulated by a set screw adjustable in the presenting organ in the direction of its notiom'the nose of the screw being the part of the organ that actually bears upon the abutment. This screw has to be so adjusted so that the composed line of characters is presented at a level just below the true casting position, to allow of the upward motion thereinto caused by the described pull on the matrices. \Vhen the matrices have two characters one above the other in the same cdge,thc mold having two shoulders likewise one above the other, the bottom shoulder overlies the lugsiof the matrices whose top'characters are in the casting position'and the top shoulder overlies the lugs of the matrices whose bottom characters are in the casting positionf Either both these shoulders are incorporated with a mold block detachable from a mold carrier or so called mold wheel and having the mold proper in it, or the bottom shoulder is constituted by the top face of a groove in a detachable plate fixed to the front face of the mold block. But the pulling action of the presenting organ is not affected by the number of characters in each matrix.

If the matrices and casting apparatus of the machine just referred to, are replaced,

respectively, by type dies and a device for supplying a stereotypefis flong, the type dies being made to indent the latter, the machine would be one making stereotype matrices. At the same time, it together with the one above mentioned, would be a line producing machine. The presentinvention is applicable to any such line producing machine equipped with pieces having one or a plurality of characters. It consistsin each character intaglio or cameo as the case may be having an alining lug limited to itself and projecting from that edge of the piece which carries the said character, the improved pieces calling for and adapted to be used in conjunction with means in part incorporate with and in part connected with the mold block for alining the composed characters through the respective alining lugs by direct contact with the latter, and automatic means which may be independent of the presenting organ, for actuating the said alining means, neither the said means nor thesaid automatic means forming any part of the present invention. but both constituting the subject matter of a pending patent application 805724 filed December 10th 1913, which has resulted. in Patent No. 3,105,612 dated August 4th, 1914. The practical advantages conferred by the two inventions are, first, greater accuracy inalinement, inasmueh as each character is alined independently of the other characters on the same matrix, and second, any failure to adjust the presenting position of the presenting organ with reference to the casting position of themold proper, will not necessarily prevent exact a-linement.

used hiclmees prejecting from each 11s eppesle edge A 'zypogmphlcal pleee having 1n one 31 n aiming portion situated Within its i bedy Wldfll adapted to engage the eeiepez'etmg elmmg surface 01? a mold.

character and. formed in said edge In witnew whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

BRUNO BLOGH. Witnesses:

HENRY HABPER, W'OLDEMAR HAUP'I.

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