US1396126A

US1396126A - Typographical machine

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Publication number: US1396126A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1921-11-08
Anticipated expiration: 1938-11-08

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D. S. KENNEDY. TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1920.

Nov.- 8, 1921.

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INVENT Mifillja? I R! k QM) S 7%:% We wim YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 MERGENTHALER LINO- PORATION OF NEW DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW TYPE COMPANY, A COR PATENT OFFICE.

YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Application filed February 24, 1920. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID S. KENNEDY a citizen of the rooklyn, in the 7 United States, residing at county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

is invention relates to typographical machines, such as linotype machines of the general organization represented in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 436,532, to O. Mergentha-ler, wherein circulating matrices are released from a magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print and then assembled in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a mold, the mold filled with molden metal to form a slug or linotype against the matrices which produce the type characters thereon, and the matrices thereafter elevated and returned through distributingmechanism to the magazine from which they started. More particularly, it relates to machines equipped with a plurality of magazines containing diiferent matrix fonts, and any selected one of which may be brought into action at will.

In one class of such machines, the magazines are mounted in or carried by a so-called shift frame, which is arranged to be moved upwardly and downwardly in the machine frame to bring one or another of the magazines into cooperative relation to the assembling and distributing devices. n prior constructions, the location of the selected magazines in proper edgewise relation to the distributing devices has been troublesome, not only because of the inherent dificulty of constructing the parts in the precise manner required, but also by reason of the Wear and warpingof the parts in use, and for other reasons.

The present invention aims to obviate foregoing objections and contemplates an arrangement which will positively insure the location of the operative magazine in proper edgewise relation to the distributing devices, and this without requiring such accurate workmanship in the manufacture of the various parts. The manner in which this result is attained will be fully set forth in the detailed description to follow.

In the accompanying drawings, I have Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 8, 1921. 360,594.

shown my improvements merely in preferred form and by way of example, and obviously many changes and variations may be made tierein and in their mode of application which will still be comprised within the spirit or" my invention. Thus, while my mprovements have herein been illustrated in connection with a machine of the shift able-multiple-magazine variety, they are equally applicable to machines of other kinds or to machines employing but one magazine which may be removed at will and replaced by another. Generally speaking, I desire it to be understood that I do not imit myself to any specific form or emfar as such limitations are sp'ecified in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a linotype machine having my improve ments embodied therein;

*ig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1 looking downwardly;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking rearwardly; and

Fig. l is a view of a detail.

The matrices are stored according to font in the superposed channeled magazines A, three of which are shown herein but of which a greater or less number might be employed if desired. The several magazines are mounted upon the separate base-frames A conjointly constituting a shiftframe,

'which is arranged to be moved upwardly and downwardly in the fixed machine-frame to bring any selected one of the magazines into operative relation to the channeled assembler entrance B and the channeled magazine-entrance C, the latter leading from the distributer-bar D along which the matrices are carried by the rotary screws D Each of the magazines A is provided with the'matrix releasing escapements E, (Fig. l), which, when the magazine is brought into operative position. are actuated through the medium of the pivoted levers E by the reeds E controlled in the usual way from the keyboard E The magazine shift-frame (Fig. l) is carried by a sliding plunger which is raised and lowered within the sleeve 0 by screw-thread mechanism actuated through the connecting shaft L from the hand wheel L. The parts so far described, except as hereinafter specified, are or may be the ame as shown ,mg or other causes, will channels is automatically and positively insured at all times, so that any inaccuracies in the assembled parts, due to faulty manufacture or poor workmanship, wear, warpbe fully comto say, any faulty or any disarrangecauses will always e gage pieces and the pensated for. That is construction of the parts ment thereof from other be taken care of by th channels of aid parts in proper lateral registration or relation.

If desired, the gage blocks or abutments F may be attached directly to the magazines instead of to their base frames, although the latter arrangement is preferable in machines such as illustrated herein, as the base frames usually form permanent parts of the machines and are not removed, like the magazines, in interchanging the matrix fonts. However, in machines of the single magazine variety, it might be desirable to locate the gage blocks directly on the magazine, and especially when it is intended to rely upon the replacing movement of a magazine on its base-frame to effect the proper adjustment of the magazine-entrance.

In addition to the adjustment of the magazine-entrance as above described, it is proposed to effect a corresponding adjust ment of the distributer-bar D so that the proper lateral location of its matrix releasing combinations (8 with reference to the corresponding channels of the magazine-entrance may be maintained at all times. To this end, the distributer-bar is attached to the main frame by means of shouldered studs D passing loosely through elongated openings D of the bar and screwed into the main frame (see Fig. 2), whereby the bar may be adjusted in an endwise direction to anextent corresponding to that of the magazine-entrance. In the present embodiment, such longitudinal adjustment of the bar is effected by connections between it and the magazine-entrance, which latter therefore, as it is adjusted edgewise in the manner previously described, simultaneously adjusts the distributer-bar longitudinally to the required extent. In the form shown, these connections comprise a gage piece H secured to-the entrance-frame 0 near the top and normally, though detachably, engaged with a notch or recess J of an alining plate J secured to and depending from the distributer-bar. At its notch-engaging end, the gage pieceI-I, like the gage piece F has its opposite side faces straight and parallel and is formed with oppositely extending beveled surfaces H and similarly the notch or recess J like the recess G has its opposite side walls straight and parallel so as to contact with the opposite side faces of said gage piece, these contacting surfaces thus constituting the alining surfaces by which the correct lateral relation of the bar-coinbinations and the corresponding entrancechannels is determined. By reason of this construction, the magazine-entrance is free to be moved at will into and out of operative relation to the distributor-bar as customary (see dotted lines in Fig. 1). As the magazine-entrance is restored to operative position, the gage piece H is rengaged with the notched alining plate J and will by such engagement automatically adjust the distributer-bar longitudinally (if need be) to locate it in proper relation to the magazineentrance, in the same way that the entrance itself is located with reference to the magazines by the mutual cooperation of the gage blocks F and the alining lug G. In this connection, it may be noted that the engagement of the gage blocks F with the alining lug G takes place slightly in advance of that of the gage piece H with the alining plate the final closing movement of the entrance acts not only to effect its own proper adjustment in relation to the magazine but also that of the distributerbar to correspond. As before noted, when the entrance is in operative relation to the distributer-bar, the gage piece H and the alining plate J serve to connect the two parts together as one single structure, so that both will be adjusted simultaneously by the movement of the magazines.

The use of the expression tration in this specification and in the claims is not intended to mean that the side walls of the entrance-channels must actually coincide with the side walls of the magazine channels, but merely that such channels occupy some definite lateral relation to each other as required for proper passage of the matrices therethrough. Thus, in the drawlateral regis- 'ings, the magazine and magazine-entrance (being of regular form) contemplate the alinement of the entrance partitions with the ends of the magazine ribs, whereas, in other constructions, this particular relation of the parts is not demanded, but, on the contrary, some of the entrance partitions are arranged out of alinement with the corresponding magazine ribs. Nor is this invention confined to machines employing a grooved magazine and a zine-entrance, but it is equally applicable to machines equipped with a magazine and a magazine-entrance, either or both of which have their channels constituted by grooves or partitions. It may also be noted that the registering devices herein illustrated are susceptible of various modifications. Thus, the gage pieces shown and described are constructed to shift the magapartitioned maga.

' skilled in .magazines, to cooperate with the selected magazine and zine-entrance and the distributer-bar positively in both directions, whereas these devices might be modified so as to effect the shifting of the parts in one direction only and a spring or the like employed to shift them in the opposite direction, etc.

It is further pointed out that while, in the machine illustrated, the adjustability of the distributer-bar is intended to insure its proper location with reference to the magazine-entrance, such feature of adjustment would be equally advantageous in a machine wherein the magazine were arranged to receive the matrices directly from the distributer-bar without the interposition of a magazine-entrance.

In short, I have shown my improvements only in preferred form and by way of eX- ample and as applied to a particular class of machine, but obviously many modifications and alterations therein and in their mode of application will suggest themselves to those the art without departure from the scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention its construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled magazine-entrance to cooperate therewith, and adjustable as a whole in an edgewise direction to locate its channels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine, and means to determine the required adjustment of said entrance. 7

2. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine movable into and out of operative position, a channeled magazine-entrance to cooperate therewith and adjustable in an edgewise direction to locate its channels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine, and automatic means acting when said magazine is moved to operative position to effect the required adjustment of the magazine-entrance.

3. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a plurality of channeled magazines movable to bring any selected one thereof into operative position, means for effecting such movement of the a magazine-entrance arranged adjustable in an edgewise direction to locate the corresponding channels of sa d parts in proper lateral registration, and automatic means acting when the selected magazine is moved to operative position to effect the required adjustment of the magazine-entrance.

4c. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled maga-' zine, a channeled magazine-end ance movable into andout of operat1ve relation to the magazine and relatively adjustable in an edgewise direction to locate the corresponding channels of said parts in proper lateral registration, and automatic means acting when said magazine-entrance is moved to operative position to effect the required adjustment thereof.

5. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled magazine-entrance to cooperate therewith, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and the magazine-entrance being adjustable relatively to the magazine in an edgewise direction to locate their corre sponding channels in proper lateral registration, and automatic means foreifecting the required adjustment of the magazineentrance when-the movable part is brought to operative position, the said meansincluding a gage-piece associated with one part and arranged to engage a'cooperating por-, tion of the other part in determining the, correct edgewise relation of said parts.

.6. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled magazine-entrance to coregistration, and automatic means for efiecting the required ad ustment of the maga- 100.

zine-entrance when the movable part 15 brought to operative position, the said means including a gage piece associated with one part and having parallel side faces and formed with beveled surfaces, and a 00- 105 operating aliningmember associated with the other part and formed with anopenparallel side-walled groove or recess to receive the gage piece.

7. In a typographical distributing ma- 11 0 chine, the combination of achanneledmagazine movable into and out of operative position, a channeled magazine-entrance arranged to cooperate with the magazine, and automatic means is moved to operative position to adjust the magazine and magazine-entrance relatively to each other'in an edgewise direction and locate the corresponding channels of said parts in. proper lateral registration.

8. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a plurality of channeled'magazines movable to bring any selected. one thereof into operative position,

means for effecting such movement of the 125 magazines, a channeled magazine-entrance to co'o crate with the selected magazine, and automatic means acting when the selected magazine is-movedto operative position to adjust said 'magazineand the magazine- 130 acting when the magazine 1155' entrance relatively to each other in an edgewise direction and locate the corresponding channels of said parts in proper lateral registration.

9. In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled magazine-entrance movable into and out of operative relation to the magazine, and automatic means acting when said entrance is moved to operative position to adjust it and the magazine relatively to each other in an edgewise direction and locate their corresponding channels in proper lateral registration.

In a typographical distributing machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled magazine-entrance to cooperate therewith, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and one being adjustable relatively to the other in an edgewise direction to locate the corresponding channels of said parts in proper lateral registration, and automatic means for effecting the required adjustment of the adjustable part when the movable part is brought to operative position, the said means including a gage piece associated with one part and arranged to engage a cooperating portion of the other part in determining the correct edgewise relation of said parts.

11. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine movable into and out of operative position, a channeled member to cooperate with the magazine and relatively adjustable in an edgewise direction to locate the corresponding channels of said parts in proper lateral registration, and automatic means for effecting the required adjustment of the channeled member when the magazine is moved to operative position. v

12. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled member to cooperate therewith, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and one being adjustable relatively to the other in an edgewise direction to locate their corresponding channels in proper lateral registration, and automatic means for effecting the required adjustment of the adjustable part when the movable part is brought to operative position, the said means including a gage piece associated with one part and arranged to engage a cooperating portion of the other part in determining the correct edgewise relation of said parts.

13. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a channeled member to cooperate therewith, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and ing adjustable relatively to the other in an edgewise direction to locate their correone be-.

sponding channels in proper lateral registration, and automatic means for effecting the required adjustment of the adjustable part when the movable part is brought to operative position, the said means includ ing a gage piece associated with one part and aving parallel side faces and formed with beveled surfaces, and a cooperating alining member associated with the other part and formed with an open parallel side-walled groove or recess to receive the gage piece.

14. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, and a cooperating channeled member to receive the matrices from the distributer-bar, the said bar being adjustable longitudinally to set its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the cooperating member, with means to determine the required adjustment of said distributer bar.

15. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, a channeled member to receive the matrices therefrom and movable into and out of operative position, and automatic means for adjusting the distributer-bar longitudinally when the channeled member is brought to operative position and locate the matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of said member.

16. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, a channeled member to receive the matrices therefrom and movable into and out of operative position, and automatic means acting when said channeled member is brought to operative position to adjust the distributer-bar longitudinally and locate its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of said member, the said means including a gage piece associated with one of the parts and arranged to engage a cooperating portion of the other part in determining the correct relative position of said parts.

17. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, a channeled member to receive the matrices therefrom and movable into and out of operative position, and automatic means acting when said channeled member is brought to operative position to adjust the distributer-bar longitudinally and locate its matrix releasing combination in proper lateral relation, to the corresponding channels of said member, the said means including a beveled gage piece associated with one of the parts and an alining member associated with the other part and formed with an open notch or recess to, receive the gage piece.

18. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, an intermediate channeled magazine-entrance to conduct the matrices from the latter to the former and movable into and out of operative relation to said parts, means acting as the magazineentrance is moved to operative position to adjust it in an edgewise direction and locate its channels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine, and further means acting as the magazine-entrance is so moved to adjust the distributor-bar longitudinally and locate its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the magazine-entrance. V

19. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine movable into and out of operative position, a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, an intermediate channeled magazine-entrance to conduct the matrices from the latter to the former, and automatic means acting when the magazine is brought to operative position to adjust the magazine-entrance in an edgewise direction and locate itschannels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine and also to adjust the distributer-bar longitudinally and locate its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the magazine-entrance.

20. In a typographical machine, the com bination of a channeled magazine movable into and out of operative position, a dis tributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, an intermediate channeled magazine-entrance to conduct the matrices from the latter to the former, automatic means acting when the magazine is brought into operative position to adjust the magazine-entrance in an edgewise direction and locate its channels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine, and connections between the magazine-entrance and distributer-bar for adjusting the latter longitudinally to a corresponding extent tormaintain its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the magazine-entrance.

21. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channeled magazine, a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, an intermediate magazine-entrance .to conduct the matrices from the latter to the former and adjustable in an edgewise direction to locate its channels in proper lateral registration with the corresponding channels of the magazine, the

said distributor-bar being adjustable longitudinally to a corresponding extent to maintain its matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the magazine-entrance, and connections between the magazine-entrance and distributer-bar to insure their corresponding adjustment.

22. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrix releasing combinations, a channeled member to receive the matrices therefrom, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and one being adjustable relatively to the other in a direction longitudinally of the bar to locate the matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the cooperating member, and automatic means acting when the movable part is brought to operative position to effect the required adjustment of the adjustable part.

23. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series of matrixreleasing combinations, a channeled member. to' receive the matrices therefrom, one of said parts being movable into and out of operative relation to the other, and one being adjustable relatively to the other in a direction longitudinally of the bar to locate the matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the cooperating member, and automatic means acting when the movable part is brought to operative position to efl'ect the required adjustment of the adjustable part, the said means including a gage piece associated with one part and arranged to engage a cooperating portion of the other part in determining the correct relative position of said parts.

24. In a typographical machine, the combination of a distributer-bar formed with a series ofimatrix releasing combinations, a channeled member to receive the matrices therefrom, one of said parts being mov able into and out ofoperative relation to the other, and one being adjustable relatively to the other in a direction longitudinally of the bar to locate the matrix releasing combinations in proper lateral relation to the corresponding channels of the cooperating member, and automatic means acting when the movable part is brought to operative position to effect the required adjustment of the adjustable part, the, said means including a beveled gage piece associated with one part, and a cooperating alining member associated with the other part and formed with an open groove or recess to receive thegage piece.

DAVID S, KENNEDY.

A. KU'RETICH. AUTOMATIC GOOSENECK RELEASER FOR CROSSOVER TIPPLE DUMPS APPLICATION FILED. APR. 8. 1921.

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