US1551163A - Type composing and casting machine - Google Patents

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Apg.25,19251 H 1,551,163 4 N. MEIER I TYPE CQMPOSING' AND CASTING MACHINE FiledJulys. 1922 1 a Sheets-Sheet 1 Aug. 25, 192

N. MEIER TYPE QOMPGSING AND CASTING MACHINE Filed July 5 1922 s Sheets-Sheet 2 jig If Aug. 25, 1925. 1,551,163

N. MEIER TYPE COMPOSING AND CASTING MACHINE Filed July 5. 1922 f s Sheets-Sheet e;

which an arm 21 is in contact which is keyed upon the shaft 23' (Figs. 1 and 6). From shaft 23 an arm 2% extends upwards and as arm 21 (Fig. 1)v looses its hold in consequence of the yielding of roller 20 sup ported by the measuring rail 17 this movement is transmitted also to arm 24 and transferred by means of rod 25 upon the angle lever 26, 28 fulcrumed at 27 and consequently upon the pump rod 29 and pump piston 30 (Figs. 1, 6, 9). The metal 31 below the pump piston 30 is driven through channel 32 (Figs.6 and 9) and through the orifice 33 (Fig. 8) into the type chamber 34:

covered by the jammed matrix (Figs. 1,

6, 9). Between channel 32 and orifice 33, Fig. 6, a space 33 is, arranged which is designed to receive the metal cut off at two sides of the cast type and to conduct this metal to a collecting chamber.

During the casting of a type or .of a spacer another operation has taken place. Upon shaft 23 (Figs. 1, 6) an arm 35 is keyed which by the action of a spring 36 has brought an eccentrically mounted toothed wheel 37 in gear with a second continuously revolving toothed wheel 38. As the eccentrically mounted toothed wheel 37 communicated its movement by the inter-' mediary of pins 41, 42 (Figs. 1, 16) to the centering rod 43 for the matrix which trav erses the clamping device 18 (Figs. 1 and 9), said rod having centered the matrix by engaging with one of the centering holes 14 (Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6, 16) and it participates now first-in the return movement, arm 14L lifting at the same-time the matrix off the cast type in the casting chamber through the in-- termediary of the lever 10.

The arm 21 acts further upon the roller 46 of a rail a5 the arm 17 of which pulls the cast type from the mould at which occasion the burr in the orifice 33 (Fig. 8) is cut ofi by the knife 50. As the matrix is not fixed upon thecasting mould but upon lever 14 burrs havebeen formed also at the points of the matrix which have not been clamped and these burrs are removed by knives 48, 49 (Fig. 9) arranged upon thetwo jaws of the casting mould.

The shaft of the eccentric toothed wheel 37 (Fig. 1) has in the meantime been pushed to the end of the travel and the cast type in chamber 34 has arrived opposite the ejecting channel 51. With the eccentric toothed Wheel 37 (Figs, 1, 9) a roller 52 has moved which is mounted upon the rear side of said toothed wheel by means of a lever arm and this pulley has advanced a slide 53. Two

stops 54, 55 upon slide 53 have drawn along element is attached to a two-armed lever,

61 which pulls thus back the type slide 62 with the ejectors 63, 6 1 (Figs. 9, 14) so that the type ejector 59 can bring the cast type into the type collecting channel 65.

As the shaft of the eccentric toothed wheel having exceeded its greatest distance from the driving wheel moves towards the initial position shown on the drawings all the elements operated by arm 21 (Fig. 1) return to the initial positionsso that the operating lever 14- for the casting mechanism comes with its point in contact with the flap 16 which supports the same until it is deprived again of its support by the depression of another key so that another type or spacer is cast.

Suppose the following phrase had to be typed: Durch diese hohle Gasse' muss er komnien? and this phrase could be set in the space of one line with the exception of the last character 11 and the full stop so that the provisional spacing between the words would have to be shortened accordingly. In the collecting channel 65 the characters D, u, r, c for the word Durch are already set'. If now the last character 11 for the word Durch has been typed and cast the first I spacer has to be inserted. Vith this objectin view the key 66 is depressed so that, by

means of an arm 67 the movement is trans mitted to a curved rail 68 (Fig. 6). This curved rail 68 engages with a tooth 69 of the justifying slide 71 (Figs. 6, 9, 15) and shifts thisslide for the thickness of the provisional spacer 70 whereby this spacer is inserted be- 66 only a provisional spacer is inserted into the line which is being composed but the casting mechanism is not operated. The next following word diese is now typed and the second spacer is inserted, whereupon the word hohle and the third spacer, and the word Gasse and the fourth and last provisional spacer are typed. The justifying slide 71 has thus been moved for the lengthof thefour. spacers 70. and catch. 78 has dra wn along arm Jihwith the hor-izontal rod 7 (Fig. 6) wherefro-mligesults'thatthe hook- 76 of thesuspended arm 741 comes in engagement with; the stud-77 and,aften the word mussl has. been? typed a typeless matrix is broughtupon the-casting mould 1 two plates 86,8? of this.typespusher 85"ad Vance thnoi'i-gh: the: openings '88; .89 of the back wallQOwofxthea line collecting channel (Fig. and push theline, which; has been collected; in L this: channel into the} galley 80, the front wall 0110f the: type; collecting;

channel having been lowered at. the same time With the. aid of levers392," 93 arranged uponshaft83; The hand-clever; 81 returns under the action 1 of spring 9 1 immediately into its initiali position, same as the. type pusher 85. Thewtype, pusher. 8 5: has, by. means: ofthe abutmentr95 arranged at its rea-r'end', drawn alo11githe armi96 fulcrumed at 97 and displaced through the intermediaryxof arm 98=and the?tractiorrod 99 the line conveyor: 1.00 "with.tractionihook. 101 inf such a;mannen thattthe; traction hoolr gets close to thetype'; ejecting channelrwithout however obstructing thegsamer Ask the col-.

lectingzchanneliflfi hasibeen; emptied: in "consequence of theline "having been transferred to the: galley 80 :thegstopfi 102-has; been pulled forward, through the: intermediary: of. a. weighted pull :rope 1104. attached :to the (nose 103 of abutment 102 so that the: types ofuthe freshly composed: line. are pneven'rtedi from.

tumbling.- The projection 105 o-fa'pull rod. 82 has further. drawn alongia leverxanm- 106* which, by means of rail 107, has stoppedthelinelconveyor' 100fwith-nose 108 (Fig. .9), a second arm 109 which is mounted approximately; .a-trighti ,angles swith regard to the arm 106 having pulled back the type slide 62. A traction element 111 of arm 109 has 1 drawn along the justifying carriage 112.

This justifying carriage 112 has operated by means of its arm 114 another arm 110 pivotally mounted at 113 so that the type pushers 63, (Figs. 9, 14) have been withdrawn from the line collecting channel. The justifying carriage 112 (Fig. 9) is held in its position by the spring influenced catch hook 115 engaging with the notch 116 of the carriage. A traction element 117 of the carriage .112 causes the outer end of the which now, by a weighted rope 120, ismoved} angle lever 118 to disengage front-the :teeth oftheline return;- slide-113 (Figs; 9, 111),

back: togetherwith the composed line).until; the fourth provisional spacer which has. bcen inserted afteiv the word G asse strikesv with its nose 131 (Fig. 15) against point 122 :of the front wall 7 3 of;the type collecting chan nel. The provisionalspacerstands-now be tween the type ejecting;channel-51 anglithe orifice of the collecting channelforthe provisionalspacerst As the carriage-1.12 has,

been displaced slightly-towards the'right handside this registering has been effected; At this instant the justifying key is depressed which: isloosely connected with a matrix lever 10 provided: with-a variable, typeless head (Figs; 3'and 1). The head can be varied on modified I owing to the fitl? rangement that two adjustable wedges 123,, 124 areadapted to be moved according to; requirement, whichl is efiected-in th e follow ing manner.

Upon the type returning slide 119 anlad justable pin 125 (Figs. 9, 11) limiting the length of the; line, is arranged, If-the line exceeds the admissible length thisst ud;draws alongthe arm 126-5 which; IHQVG/IDQRU is transferred by rod-127 upon thelmovahlfl: measuring plate 128. Theqmovable-measun-i ing; plate 12-3h-as-bevellednoses-129 l 3, 9). The number 10f noses corresponds with the. numbercf. characters ineunted upon the --several levers The measuring plate hasthusbeen adjusted for the-desired. length ofline. Ifnow;the-1\ ar-iable type-- less head (Figs; 3, 4;) of lever :10 is lowered: upon the clasting mouldi th'eg feelin hammer Thisdefinite cast pieceg isginserted ing the line in the: same, manner as. the types are inserted. and it drives the provisional-spacer out of, the lineinto themagaZinerofcarriage 112. j The line; is shifted) immediately for" the length. ofthe word Gassel? andathe: next following provisional spacey isreplaced by" a+definite-cast piece and so 0113 until definite: spacers have been substituted for all four provisional spacers. As soon as the fourth provisional spacer 70 (Figs. 6, 15) has been brought back to its proper place, an abutment 130 has pushed back the lever 7 9 and the rod 7 5 has brought the hook 76 of the suspended arm 74 out of engagement with stud 77. Upon the type return slide 116 another fixed stud 131 is' arranged which type return slide 119 pulls back the lever The releasing arm 133 and the nose115 comes out of engagement with 126 so that the justifying carriage 112, the two type pushers 63, 64:

with slide 62, and also rail 107 with nose 108 return into the initial positions shown on the drawing whereby thetype conveyor 100 is released and pulls in front of the galley 80 by means of its lock under the ac tion of the weighted rope 134 the line which has just been composed.

If now in the phrase cited by way of example the word muss should be printed in special type the segment block 135 (Figs. 9,13) could be shifted by means of a reversing key, the carriage 136 (which has been shown on the drawings only at one side of the machine) being moved by the traction element 137 (Fig. 13) from the key board. The segment block 135 with the matrix levers could be eventually lifted off thecarriage 136 and exchanged as the individual matrix levers 10 are not connected with the key board by a continuous rod and lever system. 1 V

I claim 1. 'Iype casting and composing machine for the production of justified lines composed of individual types comprising in combination oscillable levers to be operated by the depression of keys, matrices on the ends of saidlevers, a common casting mould designed to receive the matrix of the depressed lever which matrix forms then the lid of said mould, a line channel, a device for conducting the cast types into said line channel, a device for conducting a limited number of provisional spacers (for instance five) of equal thickness into'said line channel, a device for ejecting the provisional spacers from the composed line, and a device for substituting definite cast spacers for said provisional spacers during the transfer of the line to the galley.-

2. Type casting and composing machine for the production of justified lines composed of individual types comprising in combination oscillable levers to be operated directly by the depression of keys, matrices on the ends of said levers, a common casting mould designed to receive the matrix of i the depressed lever which matrix forms then the lid of said mould, a movable part of said mould consisting of two jaws having each an extension designed to clamp the matrix from the sides.

- 3. Type casting and composing machine for the production of justified lines composed of individual types comprising in combination oscillablelevers to be operated directly by the depression of keys, matrices on the ends of said levers, a common casting mould designed to receive the matrix of ing mechanism up'onwhich the matrix lever strikes if it brings the matrix to the casting mould.

6. In a type casting and composing ma chine of the type described in combination with the matrix and with the casting mould, a measuring rail, a aw of said rall, and a rod in said for centering by its points the matrix uponthe casting ,mould and a second jaw for jamming the matrix between said two jaws. I

7. In a type casting and composing machine of the type described the arrangement, that if the provisional spacers have been pushed back into the magazine, a typeless matrix lever,which has entered in function as the provisional spacers had been replaced, is thrown out of gear.

8. In a type casting and composing machine of the type described the arrangement.

that all matrlx levers'rest each by means of atran'sverserod upon arms operated from the keys but are not connected with said arms in order to ensure a rapid changing of the, types by exchanging the matrix lever mechanism.

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V 1 NIKLAUS MEIER.

In testimony "whereof I aifix my signa-' V

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