US609453A

US609453A - moxley

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Publication number: US609453A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-08-23
Anticipated expiration: 1915-08-23

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No. 609,453. Patented Aug. 23, |898. R. J. MOXLEY.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

(Application filed May 2, 1896. 4Renewed July 21, 1898.)

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TYPE DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

(Application filed May 2, 1896. Renewd July 21, 189B.)

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RICHARD J. MOXLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO TIIE EMPIRE y TYPE SETTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

SPEClFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,453, dated August 23, 1898. Application led May 2, 18.96 Renewed .Tuly Z1, 1898. Serial No. 686,534. (No model.) i

.To @ZZ whom it 11i/ty concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD J. MOXLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and

' a resident of New York, (Brooklym) county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Distributing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in typeldistributing machin es, and particularly to the removal of leads from a body of type in course of distribution in type-distributing machines of the character of those invented by Charles lV. Dickinson, William A. Lorenz, Louis K. Johnson, and others, and described and claimed in Letters Patent Nos. 174,900, 174,915, and 526,106, and improved upon from time to time by me.

The-invention is particularly a device for automatically removing the leads from the body of type standing on the bed of the galley of the machine as the type isadvanced line by line for distribution.

In existing machines either no provision is made for the removal of leads from the matter to be distributed and their removal has to be effected by hand or else devices are employed which engage with and seize one edge of the lead and so cause the same to be removed from the line. The former method is a slow and tedious operation and subjects the body of the type to the danger of becoming pied, and the second method isapt to be extremely complicated and inefficient.

The object of the present invention is to providea simple and effective device for automatically removing the leads from the body of type as it is presented line by line to the mechanism which distributes it.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying two sheets of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichi Figure l is a plan view of the page-table of the ordinary type-distributing machine of the character above described with the present invention applied thereto; Fig. 2, a vertical View, partly sectional and partly in elevation, lon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;' Fig. 3, a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4,

a view of the front plate of the machine, and Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are views of details.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughout the several views.

In the drawings, B represents the bed of the page-table; `J,the page-follower, sliding upon the rod J 2.

d is a button to which is attached a cordv la, which passes over aloose pulley K2 and to the end of which a weight K is attached, whereby the page-follower J will be kept continuously pressed against the page of type, thus moving it forward as it is raised by the type-raiser line by line.

S is the line-follower, provided with a button c2, connected with a cord c, passing over a pulley c upon the frame of the machine gand attached to a weight C, by means of page-table the front line of the type from the pageas p soon as it reaches the face of the page-table.

t is the line of type presented to the typefollower.

is the last letter at the end of the line. M and M are the two lines ofcarriers. R is the removable plate against which the 4line of type is raised, which may be adjusted to iit the different sizes of type used, as shown, for example, in Letters Patent No. 174,900.

AThe`line-raising mechanism consists of the plate T, which is attached by the screws ases to the cross-head e2, and the vertical plunger Z and extends across the entire front of the page-table.

The various elements above described are common to all of the machines of the above type, and they are operated in the manner described in said patents.

In the present type of machine the plate L, which closes the end of the page-table and forms the wall which holds the line of type When lifted by the line-raiser T, is made of IOO the peculiar cross-section shown in Fig. 2 and is provided with the two independent front faces L and L3. This plate is attached to the bed-plate by its rear surface, as shown in the earlier patents. The plate is of the shape shown in plan view in Fig. Il, and the surface L2 contains a beveled or countersunk slot l, Figs. 5 and 6, extending from one end of the plate almost to the other, as shown in plan, Fig. G. Along the inner edge of the countersunk and beveled surface run the mortised grooves Z Z, cut longitudinally in the inner horizontal surfaces of the countersunk or beveled portion of the plate.

In the countersunk surface slides one of the tapering plates L3, provided with the lugs Z6, which slide in the grooves Z' and hold the plate L3 in position. The plates L3 are interchangeable and are of different thicknesses, according to the thickness of leads which .are employed in the page of type which is to be distributed, and also adapted to fill the entire space when no leads are used. They are inserted in the countersunk portion of the plate L at the left-hand end, as shown in Fig. et, and slide freely in and out, and when in place assume the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 6 and in cross-section in Fig. 2. It will be apparent from Fig. 2 that when the p late L3 is in position there will be in all cases a certain distance, depending upon the thickness of the plate L3, between its outer face and the outerface of the line-raiserT. This space is always sufficiently large to permit a lead to pass down between the lower surface L2 of the plate L and the line-raiser T and fall into any suitable receptacle.

The operation of the device is as follows: The page-follower J advances the line of type continuously, and while one line of type is being forced into the carriers for distribution by the type-driver P it is held upon the top of the plate T, which forms the line-raiser, between the front surface L of the plate L and the rear surface of the adjustable rule R. While this is proceeding, the next line of type and the lead, if there is a lead between the two lines, will have been pushed by the page-follower against the inner surface of the plate T, the lead and the line of type still resting on the bed B of the page-table. When the line which has been previously raised has been forced into the carriers, the mechanism of the machine withdraws the line-raiser to the position shown in Fig. 2, and the pagefollower immediately pushes the lead and a single line of type over the edge of the bedplate B and upon the top of the plate T. There being a space between the front face of the beveled plate L3 and the inner face of the line-raiser T, the lead will be pushed by the page-follower over the edge of the plate T, and the lead will be forced into the space L4, which by reason of the size of the plate L3 used will be sufficiently large to permit the lead to pass entirely over the line-raiser T and leave the line of type resting on the line-raiser. Thereupon the line-raiser T will immediately risc and raise the line of.type, and the space will fall between the lower face L2 of the plate L and the inner face of the lineraiser into any suitable receptacle. The lineraiser will hold the line of type thus raised until it has been entirely discharged into the carrier, whereupon the mechanism will depress the line-holder and the same operation will be repeated.

In Fig. 2 a beveled plate L3, inserted in the plate L, is shown of thinness sufficient to permit the largest lead which can be used in this particular machine t'o drop out of the line. When larger leads are used, all that is necessary is for the operator to stop the machine, pull out the plate L3 a little, as shown in Fig. 4, and set it by turning the vertical set-screw Z3 in the screw-thread opening Z9, or he can, if desired, in sert a thinner plate. In this way all sizes of leads from the thickest down may be removed without difficulty. In case no leads are used in the type or have been removed a slide of sufficient thickness to entirely fill the space can be used.

As will be seen by reference to Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, the ends of the plate L are carefully mortised and cut out on the inner surface, so that the plate T of the line-raiser may work easily up and down, and by adjusting plate L3 carefully, so as to provide the appropriate space just sufficient to allow the desired lead to be removed and no more, the line of type can be always raised by the line-raiser withoutbeingin any way interfered with or moved out of line, and yet at the same time the lead will be pushed over the edge of the line-raiser T in such a way as to drop through the space provided for it.

Various other details shown in the drawings are not necessary to be described here and are shown merely for the purpose of indicating the relation of the present invention to existing machines. As in the earlier machines, the plate T is made adjustable upon the cross-head, and the rule R is made adjustable to the upper faceof the plate L, in order to permit type of varying size to be distributed.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the page-follower, and the back plate countersunk on its front face opposite the line-raising plate, whereby, when the latter is raised a space is left between its rear face and the front face of the back plate.

2. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the page-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face as described, and a movable plate forming the face of the countersunk portion.

3. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the page-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face as described, and a movable plate forming the face of the countersunk portion, sliding in a slot cut in the countersunk face of the back plate.

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4. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the page-follower, the back plate counter-sunk on its front face as described, and a movable sliding plate forming the face of that part of the conntersunk portion of the back plate which is opposite the line of type on the page-table.

5. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the pagefollo\ver, the back plate countersunk on its front face as described, and a movable plate arranged to slide in a slot in that part of the conntersunk face of the back plate which is opposite to the line of type on the page-table.

6. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate,the page-follower, the back plate conntersnnk on its front face as described, and a movable plate tapered on its rear face, arranged to slide in a correspondingly-tapered slot in the conntersunk face of the back plate.

7. The combination of the page-table, the back plate countersunk on its front face as described, a movable plate tapered on its rear face, provided With suitable shoulders upon which it slides, and a correspondingly-tapered slot, provided with suitable grooves on the edges of the slot, in the counter-sunk face of the back plate.

8. The combination of the page-table, the line-raisin g plate, the page-follower, the back plate conntersnnk on its front face asdcscribed, a movable plate tapered onits rear face and arranged to slide in a correspondingly-tapered slot cut longitudinally in the countersunk face of the back plate, and means substantially as described, for holding the plate at any desired poi-nt in the slot.

9. The combination of the page-table, the line-raisin g plate, the page-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face .as described opposite to the line-raising plate, a movable plate tapered on its rear face and arranged to slide in a correspondingly-tapered slot cut longitudinally in the conntersunk face of. the back plate, and means, substantially as described, for holding the plate at any desired point in the slot.

lO. The combination of the page-table, the line-raising plate, the page-follower, the back plate countersunk on its front face opposite to the line-raising plate and containing in the countersunk portion a tapering slot, and a series of adjustable and interchangeable plates arranged to be inserted therein for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two Witnesses, this 30th day of April, 1896. n

BICI-IARD J. `MOXLEYI Witnesses:

HENRY H. GRAFF, JOHN FRENCH.