US2774463A - Typographical composing, casting and distributing machines - Google Patents

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US2774463A
US2774463A US184072A US18407250A US2774463A US 2774463 A US2774463 A US 2774463A US 184072 A US184072 A US 184072A US 18407250 A US18407250 A US 18407250A US 2774463 A US2774463 A US 2774463A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B7/00—Kinds or types of apparatus for mechanical composition in which the type is cast or moulded from matrices
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41B—MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRIC COMPOSING DEVICES
    • B41B11/00—Details of, or accessories for, machines for mechanical composition using matrices for individual characters which are selected and assembled for type casting or moulding
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  • FIG. 2 TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING, CASTING AND DISTRIBUTNG MACHINES Filed Sept. 9, 1950 18 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 2
  • FIG. l3 TYPOGRAPHICAL CQMPOSING, CASTING AND DISTRIBUTNG MACHINES Filed Sept. 9. 1950 18 Sheets-Sheet 10 FIG. l3
  • FIG. 25 TYPOGRAPHICAL COMFOSING, CASTING AND DISTRIBUTNG MACHINES Filed Sept. 9'. 1950 18 Sheets-Sheet l6 FIG. 25
  • TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING, CASTING AND DISTRIBUTNG MACHINES Filed Sept. 9, 1950 18 Sheets-Sheet l8 w 0 0 6 R B OTNB E TE.AA N a m HOW 6T RIM T N A A Is I 7 IILL Unite States atent TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPGSING, CASTING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINES Louis Rossetto, Flushing, Paul Hilpman, Garden City, and William B. Abbott, Springfield Gardens, N. Y., assignors to Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a corporation of New York Application September 9, 1950, Serial No. 184,072
  • This invention relates to typographical composing, casting and distributing machines of the conventional type, such as Linotype machines of the general organization represented in the basic Mergenthaler United States Letters Patent No. 436,532, wherein matrices are released from their storage magazine in the order in which their characters are to appear in print, then composed in line, the composed line transferred to the face of a slotted mold, the mold filled with molten metal to form a type bar or slug against the matrices, and the matrices thereafter returned through distributing mechanism to the magazine from which they started.
  • the speed of operation of the commercial machines is normally between six to seven cycles per minute or, to express it differently, six to seven lines per minute.
  • the speed of operation of the commercial machines is normally between six to seven cycles per minute or, to express it differently, six to seven lines per minute.
  • the present invention is intended to meet this demand without departing from the basic design of existing machines.
  • the exact manner in which this is accomplished will best he understood from the detailed description to follow, but it may be stated at this point that, as a result of the various improvements incorporated throughout the machine, the speed has been practically doubled, that is to say, increased up to twelve cycles per minute or slightly higher. While all of the improvements have been made with this high speed operation in view, nevertheless many of them would be equally useful in machines operated at normal speeds.
  • Fig. l is a front elevation of the complete machine
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevation, looking from the right;
  • Fig. 3 is a side elevation similar to Fig. 2, but with some of the framework removed and certain of the parts shown in section;
  • Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the magazine structure and the distributing mechanism, showing in particular the means employed for shifting the magazines;
  • Fig. 5 is a detail of the operating arm for the matrix feeler associated with the distributor
  • Fig. 6 is a detail of the safety device which prevents the shifting of the magazines at an improper time
  • Fig. 7 is a rear view of the parts shown in Fig. 6;
  • Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the assembling mechanism with the cover plate of the assembler entrance removed, showing the hinged mounting of the various assembling parts;
  • Fig. 9 is a vertical section taken on the line 99 of Fig. 8, showing in particular the keyboard connections for releasing matrices from the magazine in use;
  • Fig. 10 is a horizontal section taken on the line 10-10 of Fig. 8;
  • Fig. 11 is an enlarged rear elevation of the driving mechanism for the star wheel
  • Fig. 12 is a section taken on the line 12-12 of Fig. 11;
  • Fig. 13 is a vertical section taken on the line 13-13 of Fig. 9, showing in particular the removable mounting of the escapement actuating reeds as well as other details;
  • Fig. 14 is a section taken on the line 14-14 of Fig. 3;
  • Figs. 15, 16 and 17 are detail sectional views taken on the lines 15-15, 1616 and 17-17 of Fig. 13;
  • Fig. 18 is a side elevation, taken from the left of the machine, showing in particular the first elevator and its operating cam;
  • Fig. 19 is a time chart of the operation of the first elevator cam
  • Fig. 20 is a side elevation, looking from the left of the machine, of the molddisk operating mechanism
  • Fig. 21 is a front view of the mold disk equipped with four molds
  • Fig. 22 is a rear elevation of the main cam shaft and the driving means therefor;
  • Fig. 23 is a side elevation, looking from the left of the machine, showing the second elevator and its operating cam;
  • Fig. 24 is a time chart of the second elevator cam
  • Fig. 25 is an enlarged front elevation, partly in section, of the upper transfer devices which remove the composed line from the first elevator, but showing the transfer slide locked against movement;
  • Fig. 26 is a view similar to Fig. 25, but showing the transfer slide unlocked by the first elevator When the latter reaches its topmost position;
  • Fig. 27 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 26 and disclosing in particular the overhead operation of the line resistant slide mounted in the first elevator head.
  • Matrix magazines and shifting mechanism While the machine could be equipped with a single magazine, it is herein shown with two magazines A containing matrices X of two different fonts. These magazines are desirably of the so-called Model 5 variety, which means that they do not carry escapements.
  • the magazines are removably mounted upon separate base frames A which conjointly constitute a shift frame which may be raised and lowered to bring either magazine into operative position. It may be noted at this point that the inclination of the magazines is seventy degrees (70) from the horizontal, this being a steep inclination as compared to the normal inclination of about thirty-seven degrees (37) in standard machines.
  • the right angular path in which they are shifted has been correspondingly reduced, that is to say, to twenty degrees (20) from the horizontal, which angle is the complement of the seventy degree (70) angle of inclination.
  • Advantage has been taken of this reduced angle of shift by slidably suspending the shift frame at its upper end. This has been accomplished by providing the shift frame at its opposite sides with a pair of supporting plates A (arranged at the twenty degree (20) angle) running on rollers A journaled in brackets A adjustably mounted in the fixed machine frame (Figs. 3 and 14).
  • the supporting plates A are attached rigidly to the lower base frame and extend upwardly far enough to provide seats A for the customary pivot pins A protruding laterally from the upper base frame.
  • the pivot pin seats A are adjustable by set screws A which locatethe upper base frame and the'magazine thereon in proper longitudinal position within the shift frame;
  • the roller carrying brackets A are adjustable 'by set screws A which locate the shift frame as 'a whole in a longitudinal direction;
  • the shift frame as a whole is located in a transverse direction by set'screws A carried by the'brackets A and bearing against the side edges of the supportingplates A a
  • the shift frame is unsupported except for the raising and lowering mechanism which will now be described.
  • Rotatably mounted in the fixed machine frame are two parallelrock'shafts A one near the lower end of the shift frame and the other. near the upper end thereof.
  • Each of these rock shafts ' has fastened thereto at its'opposite ends crank arms Matrix releasing devices (Figs. 9, 10, 13 and 'to 17)
  • Each of the magazines A has associated therewith a bank of escaprnents B independently supported. in the, corresponding base frame A.
  • These escapements being of the Model 5 type, have actuating slides B whose; nose portions are arranged substantially flush with the discharge end of the magazine.
  • the actuating-s lides B of-the 7 magazine in operative position are arranged to be engaged directly by the upper ends of a corresponding series of reeds B whose lower ends are likewise arranged to be engaged directly'by the usual power-operated keyboard slides B
  • the actuating reeds B instead of being'mounted in the fixed machine frame, are mounted in an auxiliary rectangular'supporting frame 13* which is detachably connected to the fixed machine frame so that the whole .series of reeds Inlay shift frame,
  • Each of the rock shafts also has fastened thereto, at its opposite ends, "further crank arms A the corresponding pair on the respective rock shafts being pivotally connected by means of :long'fore-and-aft links A his now evident that the two crank shafts will be caused to rotate in unison in raising and lowering the shift frame and will maintain the 'magazines at the proper inclination in both positions of the shift frame
  • two pairs of fixed stops in .the form of adjustable set screws A are provided, one at each of the four-corners of the shift frame.
  • Each pair of stops is located in a U-shaped bracket A attached to the fixed machine frame (Fig. '3) and arranged to be engaged by a lug A protruding from the lower base frame.
  • the shift frame is .held in either of :its two different positions by means of .a counterbalancing spring A which is connected to the shift frame through the medium of ashort crank shaft A mounted in the fixed machine frame (Figs. 3 and 4).
  • This crankshaft has two arms I upon the lower .fixed stops A it being noted that at this time the crank arm A approaches the vertical and holds the counterbalancing spring near a dead center position.
  • crank arm A When, however, the shift frame is raised to its upper position, the crank arm A will be turned down to a nearly horizontal position and thus, because of the increased leverage, enable the counterbalancing spring g to exert a greater lifting force and one which is sufficient to overcome the weight of the whole magazine structure and hold it firmly against the upper fixed stops A
  • the arms A 5 and the associated parts represent the usualattachments for removing'the magazines when desired. 7 They are, in general, similar to those shown and described in the McNamara Patent No. 1,586,316 and form no part of the present invention.
  • the parts are so I be removed as a unit.
  • the auxiliary supporting .frame B is provided with upper and lower comb plates .3 to guide the reeds in their upward and downward movements and also near the top with a bankingbar 3B which supports the reeds in their downward position.
  • Springs B attached to the lowercomb plate act to return the reeds to their lower position after they have been raised by the keyboard slides B to operate the matrix releasing escapements.
  • the detachable mounting ofthe reed supporting frame 7 is best shown in Fig. 13.
  • the frame is supported at its lower end and at 'oppositesides by meansof slotted lugs B arranged to fit over supporting studs B projecting inwardly from brackets 3 attached to the fixed machine frame.
  • the lugs E . are provided at the upper ends of their slots with adjustable set screws B which locate the frame. in a vertical direction; and the brackets B (see Fig. 16) are provided with-adjustable set screws B which locate the frame in a transverse direction.
  • the reed frame is provided with a pair of thumb screws B mounted in adjustable thimbles B on ears. B pr.o-
  • the frame B also contains (Fig. 9) thecustornary power mechanism for operating the slides B consisting of the pivoted cam yokes B the rotary cams B (which make one com plete rotation at each matrix releasing operation), the

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US184071A US2672972A (en) 1950-09-09 1950-09-09 Quadding and centering device for typographical casting machines
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DEM5403U DE1662767U (de) 1950-09-09 1951-09-05 Matrizensetz- und zeilengiessmaschine.
DEM10891A DE887513C (de) 1950-09-09 1951-09-06 Schraubstock einer Matrizensetz- und Zeilengiessmaschine
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