US233704A

US233704A - Fbedebick sohlet

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Publication number: US233704A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-10-26
Anticipated expiration: 1897-10-26

Description

(No Model.)

F. S OHLEY. Print ers Rule.

No. 233,704. Patented Oct. 26, 1880.

W aiwk WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK SOHLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND FERDINAND WESEL, OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTERS RULE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,704, dated October 26, 1880. Application filed September 20, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK ScHLEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Rules, of which the following is a specification.

The printers rules at present in general use, such ashead-rules, column-rules, and advertising-rules, are made of brass, square at the bottom and tapering at the top edge. Owing to the softness of the brass the sharp top edge is liable to wear out quickly, so that the rules have to be replaced by new ones. This replacing occasions frequent and considerable expense, especially in newspaper-printin g offices, and forms a considerable objection to the rules at present in general use.

The object of this invention is to furnish a more durable and permanent printers rule,

which is.1n0re capable of resisting wear, and

adapted to outlast a large number of the common brass rules; and the invention consists of a printeiis rule provided with a facing of steel, which is obtained by planing a narrow center groove into the top oftherule,insertingtherein a thin strip of steel and giving to the edges of the same the same taper as that of the adjoining parts of the brass rule.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of myimproved printers rule, and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same, drawn on an enlarged scale, on line at m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- 5 sponding part-s.

Ain the drawings represents a printers rule,

made of brass, of the usual lengths and sizes. B represents a narrow strip of steel, which is inserted centrally into the upper part of the rule by planing out a central groove of 40 corresponding size in the same and securing the steel strip B by clamping the side lips of the rule thereto by pressure. The projecting edge of the strip B is finally finished by being planed off at the same taper as that of the upper part of the brass body at both sides thereof, so that a printers rule with a steel edge or facing is obtained, which, owing to the greater resistance of the steel, is more durable than the common brass rules and capable of outlasting a considerable number of the common rules.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As a new article of manufacture, a steelfaced printers rule,-snbstantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a printers rule, the combination of rule A, having a central top groove with a narrow steel strip, B,inserted therein, and having the same taper as the top of the rule, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 15th day of September, 1880.

FREDERICK SOHLEY.

WVitnesses PAUL GoEPEL, CARL KARP.