US1135400A - Typographical composing-machine. - Google Patents

Description

. K. ROGER.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, I914.

Patented Apr.

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0.. PHOTCYLITHQ. WASHINGTON, D. c.

K. RUGER.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE.

I APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, I914. jl lgfi fimm Patented. Apr. 13, 1915.

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ORRIS PE 0.. PHOTO LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

i %AT% f lt lwi KARL RijGER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOB, TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING-MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 13, 1215..

Application filed May 23, 1914-. Serial No. 840,437.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL Room, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 33 Teltowerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that known arrangement of typographical composing machine which is provided with a fixed assembler entrance and a plurality of magazines pivotally arranged relatively to the said entrance, which magazines, by means of magazine entrances movable with them, are connected each with its respective distributer. When changing magazines in this kind of composing machine, the magazines must be moved relatively to the fixed assembler entrance in such a manner that the relationship between the magazine entrances and the distributers shall not be so disturbed as to interfere with the admission of the matrices into the magazines. The accurate admission of the matrices into one or other of the magazines is secured, when the distance between the matrices hanging on the distributer bar and the partition or guide plates of the magazine entrance, is the same, or nearly the same, for each position of the magazine.

In typographical machines having a plurality of magazines it has heretofore been proposed to support the said magazines so that when they are moved to bring one or other of them into operative position, they turn about a single stationary axis, situated in a vertical plane intermediate the distributer bars appertaining to those magazines, but this arrangement, during the said movements of the magazines, causes considerable variation in the distance between the matrices hanging from the distributor bar and the guide plates of the magazine entrances and therefore is likely to impede the entrance of the matrices into the magazines. It has also been proposed that each magazine should be rocked about a separate axis; such an arrangement has, for example, been described in Letters Patent Number 1,031,952 dated July 9th, 1912. These known arrangements, however, are of no use in machines having more than two magazines, because, when three or more magazines are rocked, the angle through which they must be moved is so great that even if the pivotal axis be very near the upper end of the magazine entrances, the magazine entrances will be displaced relatively to the distributer rail to such an extent that the distribution cannot be continued with safety.

If, for each magazine, a special pivotal axis be provided, the construction will be so cumbersome, owing to the necessity for providing for each magazine, special supporting rollersand a special rocking magazine frame, that the changing of the magazines from one position to another, will be very difficult or even impossible, and apart from this, the machine itself would be too heavy. The present invention obviates these drawbacks by arranging the magazines in groups, each rocking about a special pivotal axis, each group, other than the lower or lowest one, if desired, being locked when not in use, so as to reduce the weight to be rocked and impose as little work as possible on the operator during the aforesaid act of operatively changing the magazines.

The drawings show in elevation two constructional forms of the invention, Figure 1 being an arrangement with three magazines and Fig. 2 an arrangement with four magazmes.

In the constructional form shown in Fig. 1, the two lower magazines, 1, 2, are comprised in one group, and are supported on a magazine frame 3, which is free to rock about the axis of a pivot 4 under the action of an ,angularly adjustable cam 5. The third magazine 6 is supported upon a special magazine frame 7, which, in turn, is supported upon the magazine 2 next underneath it, by rollers 8, and is capable of rocking about the axis of a pivot 9. When the cam 5 is turned, the magazines 1 and 2 together swing about the pivot 4, while the magazine 6, through the rollers 8. riding over the magazine 2, swings about the fulcrum 9.

In the constructional form shown in Fig. 2 which is provided with four magazines, the two lower magazines 10, 11, are supported upon the lower magazine frame 12, capable of swingingabout the axis of a pivot l, and the two upper magazines 13, 14, are supported upon a magazine frame 15, which is capable of swinging about the axis of a pivot 9. The two magazine frames 12, 15 are at each side, connected with each other by a link 16. Movement is imparted to the magazine frame 12 through the medium of a bevel wheel 17 shaft 18, lever arm 19, and link 20. The invention also provides means whereby the two upper magazines 13, 14 canbe-temporarily put out of action, as, for example when only the magazines 10, 11 are requiredfor use. For this purpose the bolts or pins 21 which connect the links 16 with the magazine frame 12 are capable of being withdrawn out of engagement wi't' h th'e latter,so as to admit of the links each being ti-Irne'ol into a-position such as that-indicated in dotted lines,

in which they'canbe temporarily retainedby inserting the bolts or pins '21-, into holes 22 in themagazine frame 15, andthe said frame is rovided with other holes 23 for the reception of locking bolts -slidable' inthe frame of the machine, so as to lock the 7 magazine "frame 15 and therefore the magazines 1S, 14L to thesai'd machine frame, and consequently relieve the magazine-adjusting mechanism of thethen-unnecessary operation of moving the last named magazine frame and magazines, the turning of the wheel 17 then resulting in't'he movement of only the two magazines 1 0, 11. If there are more than two groups of magazines, any desired number of the upper groups may, at will; be locked Icy-means of one and the same means, andonly one or two, or other number of the lower groups may be allowed to swing. The manner ofgrouping the magazine's may be varied according to diffe-rent requirements, thus in machine having a large number of magazines, the latter may be arranged groups of three; it is, however, preferred that not more than two shall be comprised in each group.

Having described my invention, I declare that wh t 1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-:

1. In a typogra hical composing machine, the combination with a stationary assembler --entra-nc'e, a plurality comprising more than two magazines movable to bring one or another "thereof into operative relation to the assembler entrance and arranged in groups, and a corresponding plura lity of distributors, of a separate pivotal axis about which-each group of magazinescan turn independently of magazines of other than that'g'ro'np.

2. in a typographical composing machine, the combination with a stationary assembler entrance, "a plurality comprising more than two magazines movable to bring one or another thereof into operative relation to the assembler erfitran'ceandarranged in groups, a magazine entrance movable with each magazine, and a corresponding plurality of distributers, of. a separate pivotal axis about which each group of magazines together with the respective magazine entrances can turn independently of magazines of other than that group.

3. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a stationary assembler entrance, a plurality comprising more than two magazines movable to bring one or another thereof into operative relation to the assembler entrance and arranged in groups, and a corresponding plurality of distribu- "ters, of a separate magazine frame for each group, and a separate pivotal axis about which each such frame and group of magazines can turn independently of magazines of other than that roup.

4. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a stationary assembler entrance, a plurality comprising more than two magazines -mova'ble'to bring one or another thereof into operative relation to the assembler entrance and arranged in groups, a corresponding plurality of distributors, a separate magazine frame'for each group, and a separate pivotal axis about which each such frame and groupof magazines can turn independently of magazines of other than that group, of links operatively connecting the magazine frames of an upper and a lower group.

'5. In a typographical composingmachine, the combination with a stationary assembler entrance, a plurality comprising more than two magazines movable to bring one or another thereof into operative relation to the assembler entrance and arranged in groups, a corresponding plurality of distributors, a separate magazine fran'ie for each group, and a separate pivotal axis about which each such frame and group of magazines can turn independently of magazines of other than that group, of links operatively connecting the magazine frames of an upper and a lower group, and means operative to make and break the link-connection between the magazine frames.

6. In a typographical com-posing machine, the combination with a stationary assembler entrance, a plurality comprising more than two magazines movable to bring one or another thereof into operative relation to the assembler entrance and arranged in groups, a corresponding plurality of distributers, a separatemagazine frame for each group, and a separate pivotal axis about which each such frame andgroup of magazines can turn independently of magazines of other than that group, of links operatively connecting the magazine frames of an upper and-a lower group, means operative to make and break the link-connection between the magazine frames, and means operative to lock an upper magazine frame in the machine frame.

7. In a typographical machine, the comment ,to permit the independent movement bination With a stationary assembler enof the other group. 10 trance, of a plurality of magazines movable In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set conjointly relatively to the assembler enmy hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 trance and arranged in groups, said groups K ARL RCGER.

being mounted to turn about separate and Wit independent axes, and means for holding one RUDOLPH F of said groups of magazines against move- ALICE D (topics of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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