US481513A - Frank m - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

Patented Aug. 23, 1892..

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FRANK M. SPAULDING, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO EDVARD S. MAYFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

ALIGNER FOR TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,513, dated August 23, 1892.

Application filed December 11, 1891. Serial No. 414,750. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: surface of a type-writer, so as to bring the Be it known that I, FRANK M. SPAULDING, center lines If t of my device in the center of a citizen of the United States, residing att-he type-writer, and it is then clamped orfas- Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo and tenedtothetype-writerbymeans of thehooked 5 State of Michigamhave invented certain new rods E E. By screwing up the knurled nuts and useful Improvements in Aligners for n nthe type are then aligned up and adjusted Type-\Vriting Machines, of which the followby throwing up one type at a time and giving ing is a specification. the knurled disk A a half-turn, which will My invention relates to a device by the force the plungers or clamps a a toward each 10 means of which the type in a type-writer may other, forming a vice or clamp in the center be properly aligned and adjusted. I attain of tube D, as shown in Fig. 1, the type being these effects by the mechanism illustrated in thus fastened or clamped in the center of the the accompanying drawings, in which type-writer. The screw holding the other end Figure 1 is a plan view of the entire mechof the type-arm, to which it is fastened,is then r 5 anism, with the rods broken to save space in loosened, allowing the type-arm to springinto length. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section place, and then the screw holding the typethrough the center of Fig. 1. arm is tightened, thereby securing the type- Similarletters referto similar-parts througharm in proper position. The knurled disk A out both views. in my device is then turned back, thus forc- 20 B is a rod or wire bent or offset near each ing the plungers a, a apart, loosening the type end, as shown at M, Fig. 2. so that it will strike exactly in the center, 0 is tubing flattened so as to form a housand so on with the rest of the type around ing between rods B B. the circle of the typewriter, and then my dea a are two clamps or plungers so arranged vice can be taken off by unscrewing the 25 as to play back and forth in the housing or knurled nuts 07, n, and the type in the typespace formed by B B and O O. writer will be found in perfect alignment.

Ais knurled disk with slots 6 e so arranged Having described my invention, what I as to form a double cam with a round hole in claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, the center to form a bearing to rotate upon. is 0 i i are two screws or pins passing through 1. The combination,in atype-writer aligner, the slots 6 e in the knurled disk A; also of a plurality of clamp-plungers connected through the slots o o in the housingC O, and with the same cam or slotted disk, and by screwed or fastened in the plungers a a. which they are given a movement away from E E is a rod or wire threaded at one end or toward each other when the cam or slotted 35 and bent so as to form a hook at the other, as disk is operated, substantially as set forth.

shown at y in Fig. 2. 2. The combination,inatype-writer aligner, n n is a knurled nut threaded so as to fit of a plurality of clamp-plungers connected the threaded end of E E. with the same cam or slotted disk, and by D is a square tube fastened to the upper which they are given a movement away from 0 0 surface of the housing 0 O and rods B B, the or toward each other when the cam or slotted four corners formingabearing for the knurled disk is operated, and means, substantially as disk A to rotate upon. described, whereby the clamp-plungers are t t are two small wires stretched taut across guided back and forth, for the purpose set the lower end of tube D and atright angles forth. 5 to form a center line each way. 3. The combination,inatype-writer aligner, Having described the lettered parts of my of a plurality of clamp-plungers connected drawings, I will next describe the Working of with the same cam or disk, with two screws my invention, so that others skilled in the art or pins by which they are given a movement to which it appertains may be able to make, away from or toward each other when the cam 50 use, or operate it. or slotted disk is operated, and means, sub- My device is first placed upon the upper stantially as set forth, whereby the clampplungers are guided back and forth and held hooked rods having knurled nuts for the purin position, for the purpose set forth. pose of fastening the frame and device to the 4. The combination,inatype-writer aligner, type-writer, substantially as set forth. of clamp-plungers, a cam or slotted disk, guide FRANK M. SPAULDING. 5 and housing for the olainp-plungers, two rods \Vitnesses:

or wires passing through the housing to form JOHN E. CROSE, a frame and support for the device, and two DAVID C. NORDEMAKER.

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