US531531A

US531531A - hilder

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Publication number: US531531A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-12-25
Anticipated expiration: 1911-12-25

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(No Model.)

' 0. F. HILDER.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS; I No. 531,531.. Patnted'Dec. 25, 1894.

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CHARLES F. HILD-ER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,531, dated December 25, 1894.

Application filed June 19, 1894. Serial No. 515,038. (No model.) Patented in England July 29, 1893. No. 14,624.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, CHARLES FREDERICK HILDER, a citizen of England, residing at 28 tirays Inn Chambers, Holborn, London, England,have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Type-Distributing Apparatus, (for which I have obtained Letters Patentin Great Britain, No. 14,624, dated July 29, 1893,) of which the following is a specification.

In the specification to mypatent dated April 3, 1894, No. 517,802, describing apparatus for distributing types, I provided for separation of space types by removing a lower stop from the end of a separated line of types and so allowing space types to be pushed out under an upper stop which prevents the higher character types from being pushed out. ing to my present invention I dispense with this arrangement of stops and with the key for working the lower stop, and I effect the separation of the space types as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is an enlarged view of the gate B and adjoining parts shown in Fig. 1 of the specification No. 517,802 above referred to, with modifications according to my present in vention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the vertical guide B on the left of the gate. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the gate Bin its raised position, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section when the gate is lowered and folded on its hinge to deliver space types.

I make the gate in three parts in height, the uppermost part B having hinged to it the two lower parts B B which are connected together by slid-es and guides g so that they can be slid a little apart from each other as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 or slide close together as shown in Fig. 4:. In these two parts B B is formed the recess into which, as described in the previous specification is pushed the foremost line of the form A that is to be broken up. The top and bottom of the recess are undercut, as shown, behind projecting lips which are sloped in front.

When the gate is raised, as shown in Fig. 3, the part B is separated from B so that the distance between the lips is a little more than type height, allowing the types to enter the recess, in which they-drop till they rest on its Accordbottom. With the character types '1, the space types S, which happen to be in the line,

also enter the recess.

When the gate is lowered.so that the part B rests on the bottom plate the two parts B B are brought close together and then folded back on their hinge as shown in Fig. 4. The character types T' being held at thetop and the bottom remain in the recess, but the shorter space types S, not being held at the top, fallout. After they have fallen, the parts B B are moved back toQtheir verticalposition, and then the character types remaining in the recess are separated into their respective cases by the action of finger keys as described in my previous specification.

In order to prevent the parts B B from separating while they are inclined to drop the space types, I fix on the side guide B a shield H and'to one of the guides g I attach a pin h which when the gate is raised and lowered vertically travels along a straight path 71. formed in the shield H, and, when the lower parts of the gate are folded back as in Fig. 4, this pin travels along the curve h which is the arc of a circle struck from the axis of the hinge as a center.

In Fig. 1 of my previous specification the pulley b carrying the weighted cord for actuating the pusher b was shown to the right of the gate. According to my new arrangement, I place it to the left of the gate, where it can be more easily accommodated clear of the type separating mechanism.

As the forms to be distributed may be of various widths, I prefer to make the gate B sufficiently wide to receive the longest line of type that is to be pushed'into its recess, with a little freedom so that they are not tightly packed therein. For a line of less length, a

side piece may be fixed at the left hand end of the recess so as to allow between it and the righthand end a little more than the length of the line.

Having thus described the nature of this invention and the best means I know for carrying the same into practical efiect, I claim- In a type distributing apparatus, the com-- bination with the upper gate section B, of the lower gate section B hinged thereto and pro- Ice vided with a slidable section B the lower two subscribing witnesses, this 6th day of section and the slidable section having: lipped June, A. D. 1894. recesses to receive a type, and means whereby v 1 V the slidable section is moved to hold and. re- CHARLES HILDER' 5 tein character types only, substantially as Witnesses:

and for the purposes described. GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN,

In testimony whereof I have signed my WALTER J. KERTEN, name to this specification, in the presence of Both 0fl7 Gracechurch Street, London, E. C.