US541217A - Type-setting machine - Google Patents

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P. Q. STUART. TYPE `SETTING MACHINE.

Patented June 18, 18.95.

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TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe FRANK Q. STUART, OF CHARITON, IOWA.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE.

SP ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,217, dated J une 18, 189 5.

Application iiled Pebrnaryl, 1895. Serial No, 536,912. (No model.)

' zen ofthe United States, aresiding at Chariton, in the county of Lucas, in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Setting Machines, of

` which the following is a specitication.

My objects are, first, to provide a simple, strong, durable and compact machine in which the line of type is plainly visible and readily accessible to the operator at all times, and, second, to provide improved means for automatically moving the stick a distance correspending to thethickness ofthe type bearing` the symbol corresponding to the key depressed, so that the stick will always be directly in position to receive the succeeding type.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete machine. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the under side ofthe key-levers, showing the mechanism for moving the galley upon an operation of said levers. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the meaus'for dropping the types from the type-holders. Fig. 5 is a perspective view ot' one of the type-alleys. Fig. 6 is a detail side elevation ot one ot' the keys, the typeejecting mechanism, the stick, and the stickoperating mechanism. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail sectional view showing the keys and stick-operating mechanism and by dotted lines the movements of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference letter A7 is used to indicate the frame of the machine, having cross bars A2 at its top adapted to support type alleys ata comparatively sharp incline, to extend from the top of the machine rearwardly with respect to themselves, and downwardly.

.A3 is an apron upon which the lower ends ot the type alleys rest, and is extended forwardly and downwardly therefrom tapered toward the center ot' the machine, and having guides/A4 at its sides to direct the types toward the said central portion. A raceWay A5 is hinged Vto its lower end and capable of swinging upwardly and ot a size to admit the types to slide longitudinally therethrough. The type alleys or channels each comprise a long straight frame with parallel sides B separated a sufficient distance to admit one type between them, and a bottom B2 extendingto a point near the lower end of the sides, leaving a space B3 slightly larger than the sizeof the type in saidalley.' A number ot these alleys corresponding to the number of type in the font arev placed on said frame with their ends resting upon the apron A3.

C indicates the key board of the device,

and O2 a number of spring actuated keys of common construction in said key board, corresponding to the number of different kinds of type in the font, and each bearinga letter or symbol indicating the corresponding alley of type.

A device is connected with each key to project thelower type in the corresponding alley each time the key is struck, comprising a lever D pivoted at D2 to the rod D3, and connected at one end with a key, and at its other with a link D4. D5 indicates a bell cranklever fulcrumed to a support and having its lower end pivoted to the link D4 and on its top end an arm D6, extended at rightangles to the type alleys and adapted to strike the top or face f the undermost type in the alley when the key is depressed, thus forcing the type through the opening in the bottom of the alley.

F indicates a galley or stick foi-the reception of the type, slidingly mounted in the machine frame, at right angles to the raceway atrthe end of the apron, and adapted to admit a line of type the width ot a column, and placed directly beneath the raceway, so that the types will pass from said raceway into said galley landing on their feet in an upright or partially upright position. I have provided means for automatically advancing the said sliding galley or stick a distance correspondingto -the thickness of each type as it is delivered in the galley, so that the terminus ot' the raceway will be directly above the last type dropped in the galley at all times, as follows:

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H indicates a shaft mounted in suitable and provided with slots J in its top edge to receive the lower edges of said levers. These slots are of such relative depths that when the levers are depressed the same distance the levers corresponding with the thin types will depress said plate less than the levers corresponding with the thicker ones will depress it-that is, a deep cut is made beneath the levers that correspond with the thin types, and as the thickness of the types increases the depths of the cuts decrease. K indicates an arm on the under side of said shaft and K? a pawl pivoted to its end to engage a rack K3 formed on said galley. The teeth in this rack are of a size corresponding to the least relative thicknesses of any two types; that is, about thetthickness of a hair space. It will be obvious that when the key corresponding to the hair space is struck, the plate Il2 will be depressed just suiiiciently to move the pawl K2 one notch on the rack K3, and when the key corresponding with the letter Y m is depressed, the pawl will be moved over a number of notches in said rack. An arm N bearing a weight N2 is fixed to either end of this shaft to normally elevate said notched plate, until it strikes the under surfaces of the key levers. This it will be seen will rock the shaft H thereby forcing the pawl N2 downwardly and thus moving the stick a distance corresponding to the distance which the paw] was elevated by the depression of the key. This pawl is held in contact with the rack by gravity.

In Fig. 7 the plate H2 is shown in contact with the under surface of the key levers. Howeveronly the levers corresponding to the types of an m thickness are engaged by the plate H2. The remaining levers must be depressed a slight distance before engaging the bottom of the notch i-n the` plate directly beneath the lever. When it does engage the plate H2it depresses it a distance j ust as much less than do the levers corresponding with m types as the difference between the bottorn of the notch and the edge of the plate H2.

The operator may see the line of types in the galley at all times and when the endof a line is reached a word may be divided if necessary, and, as the sliding galley or stick is brought back to its original position by the operator, the line of type can be speedilyjustitled before removal; or, the line can be removed before justiiication, and be justi tied in the common way.

It will be obvious that any one of various devices may be used to place the types in the type alleys; either by a type distributing inachine, or, after distribution by hand, by feeding the types through an inclined chtite into their respective alleys.

'Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, 1s

1. In a type setting machine the combinaholders when the keys are depressed, a stick slidingly mounted in the machine fratne to receive typesgfrom said raceway, and mechanism connecting the key levers and stick, whereby the stickis advanced a distance col'- responding to the thickness of the type desig-` nated each time a key is depressed, for the' purposes stated.

2. In a type setting machine the combination of a suitable frame, type alleys therein, a raceway to receive types from said alleys, a suitable keyboard, a lever connected with each key, type ej ecting mechanism connected with each lever, a stick designed to receivea line of type, slidingly mounted in the machine frame, a shaft mounted beneath the key levers, a plate fixed to said shaft and extended into close proximity to the said levers, a series of notches therein each corresponding to the thickness of the type it represents, and mechanism connected with said shaft and said stick'whereby the stick is moved a distance corresponding to the thickness of the` type deposited therein, for the purposes stated.

3. In a type setting machine the combina tion of a suitable frame, type alleys therein, a raceway to receive types from said alleys,

a suitable keyboard, a lever connected with" each key, type ejecting mechanism connected with each lever, a stick designed to receive a line of type, slidingly mounted in the machine frame, a rack formed on the stick, a shaft mounted beneath the key levers, a notched plate fixed to the shaft, a yielding pressure device for holding the plate toward thelevers, a lever connected with said shaft, and a pawl pivoted to said lever and in engagementwith said rack, substantially as set forth.

4. A type setting machine comprisinga suitable frame, an inclined apron having guides at its sides mounted thereon, a race- Way hinged to the apron, a series of open ended type alleys having openings in the bot-A tom of their lower ends, placed on the top of said aprons, a key board surrounding said raceway, a lever connected with each key, a type ejector connected with each lever, a stick slidingly mounted at the lower end of the raceway, arack on said stick, a rock shaft mounted beneath said levers, a notched plate on said shaft a yielding pressure device for ma i" [lo [Ist` normally holding said plate in position and a pawl on said lever in lengagement with said rack, substantially as set forth.

FRANK Q. STUART. Witnesses:

O. A. BARTHoLoMEW, J. A. PENIcK.

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