US477008A

US477008A - johnson

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Publication number: US477008A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-06-14
Anticipated expiration: 1909-06-14

Description

(No Model.)

L. K. JOHNSON. SLUGPOR TYPE CONTAINING CHANNELS. No. 477,008. Patented June 14, 1892.

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LOUIS K. JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NE'W YORK, N. Y.

SLUG FOR TYPE-CONTAINING CHANNELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,008, dated June 14, 1892. Application filed May 2, 1891. Serial No. 391,402- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: panded. Fig. Sis atop View of the device when Be it known that I, LOUIS K. JOHNSON, a in the condition illustrated in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a citizen of the United States, residing in the front elevation of thelower portion of a type city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and containing channel supported on a finger- 5 State of New York, have invented certain new piece, the slug in this case being contracted and useful Improvements in Slugs for Typeand used as a follower on top of the column Containing Channels, of which the following of types. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation illusis a description sufficient to enable others trating the use of the slug as a type-line end skilled in the art to which the invention apsupport or type-preceder in a distributing 1o pertains to make and use the same. apparatus. Fig. 6 is a top View of the receiv" My invention relates to the slugs which are ing end of the type-containin g channel shown used intype-containing channels for supportin Fig. 5. ing the types contained therein, and is espe- It will be seen that the essential feature of cially adapted for use in connection with the construction consists in providing the slug r5 portable type-channels used alternatelyin the with means for effecting a lateral pressure I type-distributing apparatus and in a setter or against the side walls of the type-eontaining case. channel, and it is obvious that it is immate- The object is to afford a slug that may be rial whether the body of the device itself is used either as such in the ordinary way or as made elastic and expansible or whether a por- 20 a follower to a column of type, and also one in tion of the device is made solid and provided which the frictional contact with the interior with oneor more expanding sections. A consides of the channel may be increased or divenient and economical way is to construct minished. Thus when usedto upholdtheforthe body of the slug A of a single piece of ward end of a column of type distributed into elastic sheet metal, as shown in the drawings.

25 a type-containing channel and forwarded In this case a suitable strip of the metal is therein under the influence of a reciprocating permanently bent and set into the required pusher or other similar device the pressure of shape to form the two leaves 0. a the ends of the slug against the side walls of the channel which tend constantly to spring apart. In ormay be augmented so as to afford a suitable der to widen the bearing-surface upon the floor 30 resistance to the action of the forwarding of the channel at the other end, the fold is mechanism which would otherwise have a preferably formed into a loop a. One of tendency to throw the slug ahead of the end the free ends as, for instance, in the draw of the column of types at each stroke were ings that of the leaf (L -is bent inward transthe slug loose and free, thereby rendering the versely to form the type-bearing surface a 5 whole column loose and irregular. which is always presented to the flat side of The invention consists, primarily, in a slug the type at the end of the line, formed with one or more elastic resilient sec- A clamp or contractor B is used in connections which tend constantly to expand against tion with the expanding leaves a a preferthe interior wall or walls of the type-containably pivoted thereto at its lower end near the to ing channel, the degree of expansion and the lower edges of the leaves. It will be seen that go pressure exerted being controlled by an adthe contractor B straddles the upper edges of justable clamp; and, secondarily, the inventhe leaves, and the space between its legs is tion consists in forming the body of such a of less width than the slug when expanded, so slug out of a single piece of elastic sheet metal that when inclined forward more or less, as

T5 and in hinging the clamp thereto, substanindicated in Fig. 1, it will compress the free 5 tially as herein shown and described. ends of the leaves a a toward each other, and In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is thereby lessen or remove the lateral pressan isometrical view of my improved form of are against the side walls of the containingslug closed; Fig. 2, a similar view taken from channel.

the opposite side and showing the device ex- Instead of the bifurcated form of clamp 13 1'00 a contractor, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

2. A slug formed of a single piece of spring metal, combined with a contractor, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

LOUIS K. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE WILLIAM MIATT, D. M. GARDNER.