US282253A

US282253A - Aligner for type-writers

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Publication number: US282253A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-07-31
Anticipated expiration: 1900-07-31

Description

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0. J. BAKER.

ALIGNER FUR TYPE WRITERS. No. 282,253. Patented July 31. 1883.

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ATTORNEYS.

r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. BAKER, on ToPE'KA, KANSAS.

ALIGNER FOR TYPE-WRITERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 282,253, dated July 31, 1883.

Application filed July 13; lssa' (ModelJ Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in

which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the top of a type-writer with my improved aligner applied to it. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a part of the said improved aligner on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another part of the said aligner;

A gage-bar, a, attached to the top I) of the type-writer by hook-headed thumb-screws c,

or any other approved means,-and bridging over the type-basket d, so as to gage the type when raised up to the point Where they-act on the paper, is provided with a slot, 6, in which the typefaces are to be adjusted for alignment, and on the margins of said slot the gage is provided with two type-faces, M m, to be used instead of the cross-lines heretofore eniployed for gages, by which to set the type to bealigned, said type-faces being of the same size and form as those to be aligned, and along respect to the letters on the aligner.

them and let in them and the bar flush with the surface.

1 The method of aligning the type by this device is as follows: A type is found by trial that will fairly strike the platen-the plane.

wherethe letters are impressed on the paper. This type is then taken as the key to the series of type 'to be aligned. The aligner is then put on and adjusted by said type and clamped to the machine. brought so that the type will similarly strike the plane of the platen. Said type are then adjusted all alike by setting them alike with Each type-writer arm works in a suitable chair, and

each chair is attached to the margin of a typewriter basket by means of a screw passing through said chair into the bedplate of the machine. When said screw is loosened, the type-arm is free to describe an are, either in a vertical or horizontal direction, and also has a lateral motion, enabling the requisite adj ustments to be made.

I have represented the letters M m as placed on either side of the plane of the type to be aligned; but I do not mean to limit myself to that arrangement, for in some cases it maybe desirable to place them above and below such plane.

Having thus fully described my invention,'I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l The combination, with the aligner-bar a, at tached to a typewriter, and having slot e, as described, of the type M m, substantially as specified.

. CHARLES J. BAKER.

lVitnesses: 1

EUGENE E. BACON, S. FLDAVISON.

The remaining arms are then,