US2127467A - Matrix font distinguisher - Google Patents

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Aug. 16, 1938. H. R. FREUND MATRIX FONT DISTIIYGUISHER Filed Nov. 2, 1937 3 Sheets-Sheet l I INVENTOR M iim I t i ATTORNEYS Aug. 16, 1938. H. R FREUND v MATRIX FONT DISTINGUISHER I 3 Sheets-She et 2 Filed Nov. 2, 1937 v INVENTORI fir/17a)? R. E'eund ATTORNEYS 6 1938- H. R. FREUND 2,127,467

I MATRIX FONT DISTINGUISHER Fil ed Nov. 2, 1937 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 mm R- E'eu d ATTOR N EYS Patented Aug. 16, 1938 MATRIX FONT DISTINGUISHER Herman R. Freund, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Intertype Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 2, 1937, Serial No. 172,420

18 Claims.

The present invention relates to improvements in typographical machines, and more particularly to those of the class shown and described generally in U. S. Letters Patent No. 436,532 granted September 16, 1890, wherein character bearing matrices stored in the appropriate channels of a magazine are delivered therefrom and assembled into lines from which type bars or slugs are cast, after which the matrices are returned by a distributor to the proper channels of the magazine from which they were drawn, and the invention relates more especially to the more recently developed machines of this class adapted to hold a plurality of magazines, each containing a font of matrices, and from one or another of which matrices may be drawn for assembly into lines.

As well known to those familiar with these machines, the matrices comprised within a given font are alike as to point size of the type characters thereon and as to style or face of the letters-or characters. To prevent delivery to the distributor, and consequently to a particular magazine in use, of matrices of a point size differing from that of the font in the particular magazine or magazines in use at the time, the machines are providedwith a so-called font distinguisher which cooperates with font notches cut in the bottom edges of the matrices. The notching system comprises one or more point distinguishing notches located at certain lateral positions alongthc bottom edges of the matrices to thereby designate the point size.

In addition to distinguishing the various. fonts ofimatrices from one another in respect to the size orfpoint of the characters there is the problem of further distinguishing them. in respect to the style or face of the characters, it being obvious that "matrices from a number of fonts of the same point size, but belonging in different magazines because they differ as to style or face, would pass a point distinguisher set forv the point size common to the several, fonts and thusibe distributed into the same magazine, thereby. resulting in confusion, annoyance and loss of time due to a mixture ofwrong faces.

, ,While it haslbeen proposed to distinguish matrices as to style or face as ,well as point size by providing on the matrices additionalnotches for face. distinguishing purposes and providing additional distinguishers to cooperate with such notches, suchproposal has been found impractical for the reason that it is not adaptable to standard machines and matrices. To elucidate, there are many thousands of matrix fonts in use.

\ each font comprising a complement. of twelve hundred or more matrices which have one or more point distinguishing notches in their bottom edge for cooperation with the well known font distinguishers or font separators commonly employed on single and plural distributor machines, the latter being known as mixer machines in which matrices from two different fonts, each stored in its own magazine, are composed in the same line and, for separating purposes, require that the separating notches, better known as mixer notches, differ in location on the matrices of the respective fonts in order to in sure their return to the proper one of the two magazines which are simultaneously in use.

In view of the existence, according to standard practice, of these point distinguishing notches along the bottom edges of all matrices, it follows that to be practical, any notching system which may be adopted for distinguishing as to style or' face mustbe suitable for application to existing-matrices as wellas new ones,,and must neither destroy nor interferewith the proper functioning of the established point notching systemh The prior proposal above referred to,'however, constitutes a radical departure from this standard as practice, it providing the point notch in a verti- I cal side .of each matrix instead of in the bottom edge,.a face notch in the same vertical: edge and another face notchin the bottom edgeythelocation of one-face3notch being directly dependentjo uponithe locationof the other Moreover, it was proposed to vary the depth of the face notchin the vertical1edge,:but suchdeepernotches are impractical for the reason that they seriously weaken the matrices so that the lattermay' easily become distorted and: useless. i '1 i The object of the present invention is to, provideaifacenotchingysysteml which will be thoroughlypractical for the reasonthat it canbe applied to existing matrix fonts andto new-fonts 4.;0 and will ,work,,in, complete harmony with the standard; point notching 1 system.; To thisend the invention provides, in conjunction with the standard pointv distinguishing notchesin the bottom edges of matrices, 1two face distin ishing notcheswalso in the bottom edges, eachof the latter .notches being independently variablein location in order to providethemaximum number of combinationslobtainable for use with each different point ,notchlocation, Actually, aswill laterbe seen the face, nqtchingf system, according to the,present invention provides twentyone. face ,no tch, combinations" for any one point notch amm nium other words, it enables twenty-one 'matrixffontsidiffering in style or face but 55 all of the same point size to be distinguished from each other. The font distinguisher blades necessary for cooperation with the notches involved in this new system are, according to the present invention, entirely independent of one another and thus capable of individual relative adjustment.

A further object of the invention is to provide for automatic independent adjustment of the several font distinguisher blades whenever, a different matrix font is brought into operative position, to provide for removal from operative position of any or all of the blades, and for protection against jamming or damage to any blade that may be engaged in a matrix notch, or to the mechanism associated therewith, should the magazines be shifted before the matrices undergoing distribution at the time have cleared all of the blades. This latter safety feature involves a yielding joint between the font distinguisher blades and devices in the form of gauge plates carried by the magazines which automatically control the adjustment of these blades.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, the features of novelty being pointed out more particularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. l is a partial side elevation of a machine showing the font and face distinguisher devices of the present invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of the devices of the invention shown at the upper left in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 is a partial right end view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 3 is another detail view of the devices in Fig. 2, howing all of the font distinguisher blades in inoperative position.

Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the gauge plate on a magazine which cooperates with bell crank levers for actuating rods which adjust the distinguisher blades.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 and shows further details of the bell crank levers in that figure.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the bell crank levers in cooperation with a gauge plate and connections from these levers to the actuating rods.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary section of one of the actuating rods, showing the yielding joint therein.

Fig. 8 shows in elevation a matrix of the usual form.

Fig. 9 is a collective View, showing in elevation a group of matrices notched in accordance wi h the present invention.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the different figures.

The invention is shown by way of example as applied to a machine of standard construction such as that shown and described in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,650,552, granted November 22, 1927, to J. R. Tomlin. As shown, a plurality of magazines A are mounted in superimposed relation on separate base frames B secured together and supported as a movable unit in a frame C relative to Which they may be shifted fore and aft, in this particular instance by a cycloidal motion ofthe magazine unit, the unit being supported on tracks D rigid with main frame E of the machine. vBy shifting the magazine unit one or another magazine, each containtive relation at its upper end to the usual channel entrance F into which the matrices are delivered by the distributing mechanism and at its lower end to the usual assembler entrance G into which the matrices fall when released from the magazines in well known manner. While the design and arrangement of the gauge plates herein shown and described for adjusting the several font distinguishers is specially suited to a magazine unit which partakes of the cycloidal motion above referred to when the unit is shifted, it will be apparent that the gauge plates may be altered in form and arrangement to suit rectilinear shifting motion, as employed in other type of machines.

Prior to entering the distributing mechanism the matrices pass through a so-called distributor box at the entrance of which, in the particular style of machine herein shown, there is located the font distinguisher. In another construction of these machines the font distinguisher or its equivalent is located at the exit end of the distributor box. So far as the present invention is concerned, however, it does not matter which of these locations is used so long as all of the distinguishers employed cooperate with the bottom edges only of the matrices.

Referring to Fig. 8 there is shown a matrix M of the usual form in the bottom edge of which, to the left of a vertical center line through the flat side of the matrix, is the usual point distinguishing notch MI. In practice this notch is located in different lateral positions in the bottom edge according to the point size of the font and in certain instances additional notches may be employed for separating matrices of two different fonts used simultaneously as in the case on mixer machines. However, the actual number of point distinguishing notches employed in any font for separation according to point size of matrices belonging to different fonts and the particular location of the point notch or notches along the bottom edge may be varied to suit different requirements.

For the purpose of describing the present invention it is sufiicient for the moment to deal with the simplest form of matrix M having a single point distinguishing notch Ml located at some point along the bottom edge of the matrix to the left of the center line hereinbefore mentioned. According to the present invention there is provided in the bottom edge of this matrix, and to the right of thecenter line referred to, two face distinguishing notches M2, M3 as indicated in the matrix I in Fig. 9. The relative positions of the notches M2 and M3, one to the other and of each to the point notch may be varied to form different combinations for the different matrix fonts according to the style or design of the type face represented by the particular font. Thus, the matrix I in Fig. 9 is representative of the location of the point and face distinguishing notches in all of the matrices comprising a font of a given point size and a given style or face. The matrices 2 to 2| inclusive in Fig. 9 are each representative, as to the location of their notches, of all of the matrices of twenty other fonts differing from one another as to the style or design of the type face they represent, all of these fonts, however, being alike as to the point size of their type face. In all there are twenty-one different fonts of matrices as indicated in Fig. 9, all of the fonts being of the same point size, as designated by the point notch Ml located in the same position in each font, but each font is of a different style or design of type face. Fonts of different point sizes will be indicated by different lateral positions of the point notch Ml so that in each point size it will be possible with the combination face notching system just described to distinguish between twenty-one different styles of type faces. Should one of the face distinguishing notches M2 or lVl--3 in a combination selected for a given font correspond in location to a mixer point notch in an existing new font of matrices, such mixer notch will conveniently become part of the combination serving for face distinguishing purposes.

To cooperate with the matrices notched as described above there is provided according to the invention three font distinguisher blades or rails 22, 23 and 24 which matrices undergoing distribution must pass before they can enter the distributor which transports them in the usual man ner back to the magazines in which they are stored according to font. These distinguisher blades preferably are arranged one in advance of the other, see Fig. 2 and project into the path of matrices presented to the distributor so as to register, with slight clearance, with the notches in the bottom edges of the matrices. As previously stated the distinguisher blades may be located wherever convenient in advance of the distributor and in the present instance they are located at the entrance end of the usual distributor box intowhich lines of matrices are delivered in well known manner.

The distinguisher blades are adjustable laterally across the path of the matrices presented thereto and it is proposed to provide for their automatic adjustment as by the known method of employing suitable plates or auges secured to the magazines and cooperating with a lever connected to the font distinguisher. Since in the present instance there are three font distinguishers, the distinguisher 22 being associated with the point distinguishing notch Ml and the distinguishers 23 and 24 being associated with the face distinguishing notches M-2 and M3 respectively, there are correspondingly three levers or lever systems for adjusting the respective distinguishers, and each magazine carries a plate having three gauge "surfaces for actuating the respective lever systems. The means referred to for adjusting the several font distinguishers will now be described, it being important at this point to note that according to the'present invention each of thedistinguisher's, 23and 24 for example. are entirely independent and adjustable relative to one another and to the point distinguisher 22. To state it in another way, adjustment of the distinguisher 23 is in no way dependentup'onoraffected'bythe adjustment of the distinguisher 2 4and neitherof these'distinguishers are dependent upon the adjustment of the point distinguisher 22; v V I g The distinguisher blades 22, 23 and .24 are mounted on 'shiftable slides'25, 26 and 2! respectively. "Each slide is supported freely on pins in the upper end of a lever and link for moving it horizontally and the slides, levers and links are assembled as a unit on abracket comprising fiat plates 28, 29 and 30'rigi ly secured together as bybolts 30a.' 1

The 'slide25 carrying the pointdistinguisher blade 22 is provided withpins or studs 3|, 32 which pivotally engage respectively a link 33 and a lever 34, the link and lver being pivotally mounted on studs 35 and 36 respectively. Slide 26 carrying the face 'distinguisher blade 23is provided with pins 31, 38 pivotally engaging respectively a link 39 and a lever 40, this link and lever being pivotally mounted on studs 4| and 42 respectively and between the plates 28 and 29. Slide 21 carrying the face distinguisher blade 24 is provided with pins 43, 44 pivotally engaging respectively a link 45 and a lever 45, this link and lever also being pivotally mounted on studs 4| and 42 but between the plates 29 and 3B.

As best shown in Fig. 2, slides 26 and 21 are provided with cam surfaces 47 and 48 respectively which, upon sufficient leftward movement of the slides, ride under a fixed pin 49 passing through the plates 29 and 36]. Such oamming action results in rocking the slides about the respective pins 371 and 43 and retraction downward of the face distinguisher blades 23 and 24 to an inoperative position. Elongated slots 50 and 5! in the respective levers 40 and 46 provide freedom for rocking movement of the slides, and springs 52, 53 secured at their lower ends to pins in the plates 29, 30 and at the upper end to pins in the respective slides, rock the slides back to operative position when the latter are moved sufficiently to the right to clear the pin 49.

Means is provided according to the present invention for independently and automatically moving each of the slides 25, 26 and 27 to thereby locate the respective point and face distinguisher blades 22, 23 and 24 in predetermined operative positions, such means comprising devices'carried by each magazine indicative of the point size and the style or face of the matrices of the font contained in the magazine, and separately operable yielding connections between said devices and the respective font distinguishers.

Referring particularly to Figs. l, 5 and 6, each magazine A is provided with a gauge plate 54 removably secured thereto as by a screw 55, the plate being formed to overhang the left edge near the lower left hand corner of the magazine. The plates 54 are provided with a plurality of gauge surfaces the locations of which vary according to the point size and style or face of the matrices contained in a particularmagazine. "Ihus, the plate 54 shown by 'wayof example has three ledges 56, 5'! and 58, ledge-i6 being indicative of the point size of the matrix font and ledges 57 and 58 being indicative of the style or face of the font contained in the magazine. There are, of course, as many ledges'orgauge surfaces on the plateasthere are distinguisher blades; the purpose of these ledges being to effect independent and automatic adjustment of thedistinguisher blades to proper operative positions for registry with the point and facedistinguishing notches in the matrices of different fonts. The gauge plates; therefore, directlycontrol thesetting of the font distinguisherbladesand automatically alter their setting each time a magazine containing a different font is *shiftedinto operative position on the machine. l

To effectadjustment of the font distinguishers in advance of-thedistributing mechanismunder control ofthe' gauge plates onthe magazines there are provided three independently operable sets of actuating connections. These connections comprise rods 59; fall andfil pivotally fastened at their upper ends to the respective levers 34, 40 and 46 connected to the slides 25,25 and 21 and attheir lowerends respectively to crank arms 62,

63 and 64) The crankarrn 62 is pinned to a solid shaft 65 and the arms 63 andii l 'arepinned tohollow shafts 66 and El respectively, the former hollow shaft being free to rotate on shaft 65 and the latter hollow shaft rotating freely on shaft 66. These shafts are carried in a bearing 68 on fixed frame C. To the inner end of shaft 55 is secured a crank arm 69 and to the inner ends of the hollow shafts 66 and 61 are secured crank arms 10 and II respectively. The crank arm 69 is disposed in such position that it will contact against gauge surface 56 on the underside of the gauge plate 54 while a suitable stud or roller 12 in crank arm 10 lies in position to contact against the gauge surface or ledge on gauge plate 54 and a similar stud or roller 13 in crank arm II lies in such position that it will contact against the gauge surface or ledge 58 on gauge plate 54. A lug on each of the crank arms 69, I0 and H, see Fig. 5, serves for securing to these arms respectively tension springs 69a, a and 1 la, each of which is secured at its outer end to a pin 14 in the frame C.

From the foregoing it will be evident that the gauge surfaces or ledges on a gauge plate 54 of any magazine moved into operative position on the machine with the assembler entrance G and channel entrance F will contact with and rock the crank arms 69, 10 and II which in turn, through rotation of the respective shafts to which these arms are secured, will rock the crank arms 62, 63 and 64 respectively, thus transmitting motion to the respective levers 34, 40 and 46 by virtue of the rods 59, 60 and 6| extending between these levers and the last above-mentioned crank arms. As a result the slides 25, 26 and 21 and the respective distinguisher blades 22, 23 and 24 thereon will be moved into such operative positions as determined by the respective gauge surfaces 56, 51 and 58 on the gauge plates 54.

In the absence of a magazine in operative position on the machine, springs 69a, 10a and Ha. will rock the connections comprising the aforementioned crank arms, rods and levers to the position shown in Fig. 3. Here the point distinguisher 22 stands in an inoperative position as far to the left as it is permitted to go as determined by a stop, not shown, the limit of its leftward movement being such as to block the entrance of matrices into the distributor when no magazine is in operative position on the machine. As previously described suflicient leftward movement of the slides 26 and 21 results in retraction downwardly of the face distinguisher blades 23 and 24 to an inoperative position, such retraction being effected by contact of the cam surfaces 4! and 48 on the respective slides against pin 49. Thus, in the absence of a magazine in operative position, springs 10a and I la acting on the connections to slides 26 and 21 results in forcing these slides leftward to the inoperative position shown in Figure 3 where the slides will remain until actuated by the introduction into operative position of a magazine and its gauge plate, whereupon crank arms 10 and II will be depressed against the tension of springs 10a and 7 la to move the respective slides 26 and 21 to the right and clear of pin 49, springs 52 and 53 rocking the slides into horizontal position.

Should the magazines be shifted and a magazine moved into operative position having differently located gauge surfaces for setting the distinguisher blades, it will be evident that any blade still engaged with matrices in the previous line would be subject to severe strain and possible bending or damage to parts of the font distinguisher mechanism. To avoid the ill effects under these circumstances, the invention provides a yielding joint between the font distinguisher blades and the gauge plates carried by the magazines for adjusting the blades. A convenient construction for this purpose is shown in Fig. 7 wherein the rod 60, for example, is shown divided and fitted with a sleeve secured to the lower portion thereof, a central longitudinal bore 16 in the sleeve accommodating the upper portion of the rod and the latter being provided with a Collar 17 of larger diameter than the bore 16 which collar reciprocates in a larger bore 18 concentric with the bore 16 and bears against a spring '79 seated in the bore 18. It will be evident that the overmotion in the rods 59, 6B and 6| permitted by this construction will absorb any strain transmitted to the distinguisher blades in the event that one or another of the blades is engaged with a matrix at the time a magazine is moved into operative position which has a gauge plate which does not conform to the adjustment of the blades for the particular matrices undergoing distribution.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, of a font of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate with the respective face and point distinguishers.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination with a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, of a font of matrices each provided with three notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishers.

3. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of matrix face distinguishers I and a matrix point distinguisher, of a plurality of fonts of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishe'rs, said notches differing in their relative locations in the matrices of the different fonts.

4. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of relatively adjustable matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, of a font of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate with the respective face and point distinguishers.

5. In a typographical machine, the combina tion with a pair of relatively adjustable matrix guisher, of a. font of matrices each provided with three notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishers.

6. In a typographical machine, the combina-' tion with a plurality of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, said distinguishers being adjustable relatively to each other, of a plurality of fonts of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishers, said notches differing intheir relative locations in the matrices of the different fonts.

7. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, said distinguishers being relatively adjustable, of a plurality of fonts of matrices each provided with. a plurality of notches in its bottom edge, one adapted to cooperate with the point distinguisher and others with the face distinguishers, said notches differing in locati n in the matrices of the respective fonts.

face distinguishers and a matrix point distm- 8. In a typographical machine, the combination with a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, said face distingushers being adjustable relatively to one another and to the point distinguisher, of a font of matrices each provided with notches in its bottom edge to cooperate with the pair of face distinguishers and the point distinguisher.

9. In a typographical machine, the combination with a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, said face distinguishers being adjustable relatively to one another and to the point distinguisher, of a plurality of fonts of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishers, said notches differing in their relative location in the matrices of the different fonts.

10. In a typographical machine, the combination of a channel through which matrices are adapted to travel sidewise, a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, said face distinguishers being adjustable relatively to one another and to the point distinguisher in a direction transversely of said channel, and a plurality of fonts of matrices each provided with a plurality of notches in its bottom edge to cooperate respectively with the face and point distinguishers, said notches differing in their relative locations in the matrices of the different fonts.

11. In a typographical machine, the combination with a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher, of a plurality of fonts of matrices alike as to point size but differing as to style or face, the matrices in all fonts being provided with a notch in their bottom edges in the same location to designate the common point size of the several fonts, and being provided with a pair of notches in their bottom edges differing in their relative locations with respect to one another to designate the different style or face of the matrices in each font.

12. In a typographical machine, the combination of a pair of matrix face distinguishers and a matrix point distinguisher for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face of the matrices in the font, each of said distinguishers being adjustable independently of the other distinguishers.

13. In a typographical machine adapted to receive magazines containing fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces, a point distinguisher and a pair of face distinguishers for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face of the matrices in the font, said distinguishers being relatively adjustable for cooperation with the notches in the matrices of different fonts, and means on the magazines for automatically controlling the adjustment of each of the distinguishers to accord with the notches in the matrices belonging to the respective magazines.

14. In a typographical machine adapted to receive magazines containing fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces, a point distinguisher and a pair of face distinguishers for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face. of the matrices in the font, said distinguishers being relatively adjustable for cooperation with the notches in the matrices of different fonts, and means operative yieldably by the magazines for automatically adjusting the distinguishers to accord with the notches in the matrices contained in the respective magazines.

15. In a typographical machine adapted to hold magazines containing fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces and a channel through which the matrices are adapted to travel to enter such magazines, a matrix point distinguisher and a plurality of matrix face distinguishers adjustable transversely of said channel for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face of the matrices in the font, and means controlled according to the presence or absence of a magazine in operative position for rendering the distinguishers inoperative.

16, In a typographical machine adapted to hold magazines containing fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces and a channel through which the matrices are adapted to travel to enter the magazines, a matrix point distinguisher in the bottom of said channel, a plurality of matrix face distinguishers movable transversely of the bottom of said channel for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face of the matrices in the font, and means for retracting the face distinguishers from operative posi tion relatively to said channel in the absence of a magazine in operative position in the machine.

17. In a typographical machine adapted to hold magazines containing fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces and a channel through which the matrices are adapted to travel to enter the magazines, a matrix point distinguisher and a pair of matrix face distinguishers adjustable transversely of said channel for separating matrices of different fonts, and means for retracting the face distinguishers from operative position relatively to said channel and for setting the point distinguisher in a position to arrest the advance of matrices in said channel when a magazine is removed from operative position in the machine.

18. In a typographical machine adapted to support a plurality of magazines shiftably to bring one or another thereof into operative position, said magazines adapted to contain fonts of matrices of different point sizes and different styles or faces, a point distingnisher and a plurality of face distinguishers for separating matrices of different fonts with notches in their bottom edges varying in location according to the point size and style or face of the matrices in the font, said distinguishers being relatively adjustable for cooperation with the notches in the matrices of different fonts, and means operative yieldingly by the magazines as they are brought into operative position for automatically adjusting the distinguishers to accord with the notches in the matrices contained in the magazine brought into operative position.

HERMAN R,

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