US660163A - Type-setting machine. - Google Patents

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No. 660,163. Patented nctyza, I900.

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TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

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No. 660,!63. Patented Oct. 23, 1900. P. H. manna.

TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

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NITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

PATRICK H. MCGRATH, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE;

SPECIFICATION a ing part of Le st Patent No. 6610,163, dated October 23, 1900.

. Application filed January 4, 1900. serial No. 383, (1% model To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, PATRICK H. MoGRATma. citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Type-Setting Machines, of Whichthe following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to type-setting machines, and it is represented in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter described in one embodiment thereof, and it involves certain fundamental features set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings just mentioned,

Figure 1 is a front view of a type-setting Inathe shiftable space -holder support in linewith asecondary space-holder fixed support and a pusher in its retracted position, the pusher serving to shift the space-holders from the shiftable to the fixed support. Fig. 9 is a sectional detail of the magazine, showing the primaryfeeding device as having encountered a space-driver and the primary spacesupplying device as being elevated to push a space from the magazine. Fig. 10 is a sec- Tional detail of the line-pusher and the clutch mechanism for controlling the same, the section being in line 10 10, Fig. 2. Fig. 11 is a detail of the space-holder feed device. Fig. 12 shows a clutch for controlling the action of the block which pushes the empty spaceholders from lhei r shifiable support. Fig. 13 is-a perspective, on an enlarged scale, of a space-holder filled with spaces. Fig. 14 is an elevation of said space-holder with one of the legs thereof removed. Fig. 15 is a perspective view, upon an exaggerated scale, of a Fig. 16 is a detail showing mechanism space.

for locking the type-feed device back when the spaces are first introduced, and Fig. 17 is a front view of the universal space-driver down and its support.

The different parts of the machine may be sustained in any convenient manner. For this purpose I have shown a base or bed 12, having risers or uprights to carry certain of the mechanisms hereinafter more particularly described. The base or bed has near the forward side thereof the longitudinal projection 13, having nearits upper side and extending the major part of the length thereof the channel A, having a tortuous or twisted portion. The part 13 includes what is in the nature ofa line-receiver or stick, for it isin the channel A that the type to compose the line are set or assembled, and I desire at this point to state that any suitable means may be provided to secure the last-mentioned fnnction,alth0ugh I have not deemed it necessary to represent any. The ends of the line are adapted to abut against stops or line-markers, as 14 and 15, the leading end of the line striking the stop 14:, while the opposite end of said line when the latter is justified is in contact with the stop 15, both stops, as will be evident upon inspection of Fig. 2, extending transversely across the channel A, and that section of the part 13 between the stops 14 and 15 constitutes the line-receiver or stick. The portion 16 of the channel A between the stops l4 and 15 is represented as horizontal, and the line is assembled and justified therein, and after 3' ustification it is shifted to the irregular or tortuous portion 17 of said channel, this tortuous oi-twisted portion having one end horizontally arranged and connecting with the horizontal portion 16, while the other end merges into a vertical channel 18, hereinafter described, which connects with the galley B.

It will thus be seen that the channel A is in ICO line. Hence the composed or justified line consists of a series of type and a series of spaces transverse thereto, and it is necessary to aline these parts before the matter is trans ferred to the galley. This alinement is secured in the present instance by the irregular or tortuous portion of the channel A. The part 13 has the vertical channel orgroove 18, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and in cross-section in Fig. 4, said channel or groove extending from the right-hand end of channel A to the galley and being centrally disposed relative to the horizontal portion of the channel A. This relative arrangement of the channel 18 and channel A is best seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The left-hand end of the channel 18 coincides with the end of the tortuous portion 17 of the channel- A, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. As above stated, the type is set up in the horizontal portion of the channel A, and at proper intervals spaces are introduced between the words, said spaces being vertically arranged in the groove 18 and transverse to the type. (See Fig. 4.) When the line is composed, the stop 14 is removed and the line is advanced by the stop 15, the type entering the twisted or tortuous portion 17 of the channel A. As the line moves, the spaces, which are confined in the channel 18, are carried alongwith the line, so that during the movement of the line the type are moving in the channel A, having the tortuous portion 17, while the spaces are moving in the channel 18. As the type enters the tortuous or twisted portion 17 the walls of said twisted portion serve to tilt or cant the type relatively and successively to y the spaces, and as the type emerge from the said twisted portion 17in the channel 18 they assume a vertical direction and are alined perpendicularly with the spaces. The type and spaces th'us alined are transferred to the galley B.

One feature of my invention, as hereinafter claimed, is in setting up the type and inserting the spaces transversely to the line of type and then providing means whereby the spaces and type are alined by turning the line of type upon its longitudinal axis, and while I have shown in this embodiment of my invenlion the type-receiving portion of the channel as horizontally arranged and the delivery portion thereof as vertically arranged, yet I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to such particular arrangement, for the same end could be accomplished bysetting up the type in a vertically-arranged channel and introducing the spaces horizontally.

The galley B is shown as secured in a inortise in the extreme left-hand end of the projection 13, and it has alined openings, as 20, y In Fig. 2 one or in its opposite side walls.

these openings is seen, and it is represented as being in the lefthand wall of the galley, and the composed line of type is adapted to enter said galley through the opposite opening.

The stop 15, against which the tail end of the line strikes, is sustained removably by the upright lug 25 at one end of the carrier 26, said carrier being shown as a rack sup ported for sliding movement in guideways or grooves formed in the upper sides of the blocks 27.

In Fig. l the rack-bar is shown as supported by the two right-hand guides 27, and it is moved toward the left, as shown in Fig. 7, to eifect the primary movement of the composed line in its travel toward the galley B, and the forward end of the rack-bar will enter the extreme left-hand guide 27 during the advancing movement thereof.

The stop 15 is removable, and it is shown as being of substantially L shape, its horizontal portion being supported for sliding movement by the lug or projection 25 and being held against displacement by the overturned cars 28 at the upper end of said lug or projection, as shown in Fig. 1. As previously set forth, the stop 15 extends transversely across the horizontal portion 16 of the channel A, and therefore when the carrier or rackbar 26 is advanced the stop sustained thereby will push the line toward the galley. The teeth 26 of the rack-bar mesh with the pinion 30, held by the stud-screw 31 against the face of the part 13, and this stud-screw also receives the pinion 32, meshing with the gear 33, carried by the shaft 34, mounted upon suitable hearings on the upper side of the table 12, as shown in Fig. 2. The shaft 34: extends transversely of the bed and carries the bevel-gear 35, meshing with the bevelgear 36 upon the shaft 37, having the handlever or crank-arm 38, (see Figs. 2, at, and 5,) extending downward and forward therefrom and provided at its forward end with a handle 39-. The handle is shown as occupying its normal position in Fig. 2. When itis elevated, the shaft 37 willbe turned in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 4:, thereby partially rotating the shafts 37 and 34 through the intermediate bevel-gears, and likewise rotat-ing the train of gears 33, 32, and 30, whereby the rack-bar 26 will be moved toward the left to advance the justified line, and this motion will continue until the leading end of the line is at the entering opening or notch in the right-hand wall of the galley B.

In the present case my machine involves as one of its peculiar features a space-holder movably mounted in such manner that it may advance with the type as the line is being composed. Each space holder preferably contains a plurality of spaces. The spaceholders are preferably moved with the type in the direction of thelength of the line, and the primary space is released and is partially introduced between two words, and the same action is repeated with respect to the second spaceholder and its foremost wedge, and so on until the operator sees that the line is practically made up, at which time the leading end of the line will be contiguous to the head-stop 14, while the opposite end of said spaces longitudinally of the latter.

line will be approximately in contact with the horizontal portion of the stop or line-marker 15. The line will be then composed of a series of type and a series of spaces, each space being partially released from its space-holder. The space-holders contain in the present case a series of spaces arranged in the order of a column or superposed and of different widths, the first space being the thinnest and the succeeding spaces being of progressively-increased width toward the top of the spaceholders. If the line be justified by the introduction of the No. 1 spaces from the space holders, they will be fully introduced into the line by freeing them from their holders, after which the justified line will be fed forward. If the compositor sees that the head end of the line is some distance from the stop 14, he will introduce simultaneously all the No. 2 spaces into the line, which further expands the same, and if the line be not justified in this way he may select a No. 3 space from one or more of the space-holders, or in some extreme cases all of the spaces from all the space-holders will be discharged there from. When the line is justified, this fact will be indicated by the automatic release of the stop 14 and the action of an indicator con trolled thereby, which permits the free movement of the justified line toward the galley.

The space-holders are each denoted by O, and I have shown one of them in detail in Fig. 13. The space-holders are moved to a position over the line, with their lowermost and primaryspaces partiallyintroduced into said line, and as they move laterally with the type I provide means to support them during such motion, such support being shown at 45 as the transverse or cross head of the arm 46, extending diagonally upward and forward from the rock-shaft 37. The space-holders have heads 47, beveled, as at 48, upon the up per sides thereof, and. have the transverse openings 49, adapted to receive the support 45, shown as a round bar. The space-holders O are suspended from the support or bar 45, and the latter is in the nature of a track along which the spaces can be caused to travel step by step with the type as the line is made up. The space-holders 0 each consist of longitudinal bars channeled or grooved, as at 50, practically their entire length, and the walls of the grooves or channels have tongues, as 51, adapted to fit into correspondinglyshaped grooves 52 in the The spaces are arranged in column order in the space-holders, (see Fig. 14,) and each space has a recess or mortise at one end to receive a correspondiugly-shaped projection or tenon upon the space above it, and in the present case the lower ends of the spaces are shown as beveled at to fit beveled recesses 50" in the spaces below or in front of them. Each spaceholder carries a driver, shown as a sliding block 53, and these blocks have side portions 54, adapted to fit in the channels in said space holders and to engage the top spaces, and said blocks serve to discharge the spaces singly, although I have illustrated and will hereinafter describe means for introducing spaces in series into the line, this being the operation followed in ordinary justification. Referring to Fig. 13, the rear branch or leg 55 of the space-holder is shown as having a reduced portion 56 in the nature of a resilient catch or tongue, against the inturned beveled portion 57 of which the lowermost space is shown as abutting. By pushing the driver 53 down the catch or tongue will be forced laterally by the lowermost space, thereby releasing said space, and this action can be repealed by the remaining spaces. The space-holders, as will be hereinafter described, are filled from a magazine automatically with the spaces in proper place, and they pass from the magazine onto the inclined bar 60 and gravitate along said bar, and the first one is adapted to engage a detent. This detent is shiftable, and it releases the forward one of the space-holders, which is moved positively from the bar or support 60 onto the support 45, and while on the latter it is shifted forward with the line under composition. The arm 46 is shiftable, and in Figs. 1 and 2 the cross-head 45 thereof, constitutinga support for the space-holders, is shown as occupying its normal position in alinement with the delivery end of the inclined support 60.

The upright 61 (see Fig. 5) has at a convenient point in its height the notched guide 62,which receives the vertical rod 63, preferably manually operated. This rod 63 is connected loosely at its lower end with a key-le- Ver 64, fulcru med, as at 65, to a bearing 66 upon the under side of the table 12 and furnished at its free endwith a finger-key 67. By depressing this finger-key the rod 63 is thrust upward to effect the release of the foremost space-holder upon the inclined support 60. The rod 63 is retracted by the coiled spring 68,connected thereto and also with the base or table 12, and it has the overhanging or lateral head 69, furnished with the depending branches 70 and 71, the forward branch 70 having an offset 72 in the nature of a driver and also having upon its inside the beveled projection 73, normally located in the path of the heads of the space-holders.

In Fig. 1 I have shown two of the spaceholders as sustained by the support or bar 45 and a series as depending from the inclined support 60, and the foremost one of the lastmentioned series engages the beveled pro jection 73, which is in the nature of a detent or stop. By elevating the rod 63 the detent 73 will be lifted clear of the foremost spaceholder, so that those behind it can force the same forward, and as the rod 63 is drawn back by the power of the spring 68 the beveled face of the detent 73 as the same descends by striking the correspondingly-beveled face of the head of said space-holder can move the same to the left and well onto the support 45, and during the backward movement of the rod 63 the driver or offset 72 will strike the driver 53, carried by the spaceholder, and will push said driver 53 down, thereby partially introducing the lowermost space after the last word in the line. This operation will be repeated until the line is closed.

During the making up of the line the end stop 15 of course is not in place; but it will be inserted by the compositor when in his judgment the line is filled, and if there is any space to be filled byjustification such space will be filled by substituting wider spaces for those already in place, and as each space is inserted it pushes from the line the one ahead of it, and the spaces that are thus discharged from the line fall into the channels F, from which they are taken and supplied to the space-magazine by means not shown. Therefore I provide means for introducing a series of spaces simultaneously into the line to effect justification.

It sometimes happens that the compositor can see at a glance that the introduction of, say, all the No. 2s into the line would expand the same beyond proper limits, and to prevent such a contingency as this the spaces can be individuallyintroduced bythe manipulation of the drivers 53. As previously stated,theinvention includes a driveror analogous means for simultaneously introducing a plurality of spaces, and such a driver is shown at 75 as consisting of an open rectangular frame supported for vertical sliding movement by the bearings 76 and 76 at the upper ends of the risers 61 and 61. While it is not essential, I prefer tooperate the driver 75 by hand, and it is shown equipped with a handle 77, extending forward therefrom, which can be grasped by the operator to pull the same down, where it can simul taneously engage several or all of drivers 53 to force spaces in series from the space-holders. The driver is pulled down by hand and is returned by a spring 75, connected thereto and also to a book 75'. The feed device (see Figs. 1 and 11) for advancing the space-holders is shown as consisting of a reciprocatory plate 80, serrated or saw-toothed, as at 81, upon its under side. This feed device or plate is supported against the face of the cross-piece 82, secured to the uprights 61 and 61 by means of stud- screws 83 and 84, extending through the triangular slots 85 and 86 in said feed device. The bridges S7 and 88 extend across the triangular slots, and the switches 89 and 90 are fulcru med to the same. The feed device or plate is shown as having at one end the L-shaped projection 91, the vertical portion of which is adapted to be engaged by the vertical arm of the rocking angular key-lever 92, the horizontal arm having a finger-key 93 connected by the rod 94 with the universal key-bail (not shown) of the machine. By depressing the finger-key 93 or drawing down the rod 9a through the action of the universal key-bail the vertical arm of the angle-lever 92 can be swung to the left, and as it does so'it will strike the correspondingly-disposed arm of the projection 91. The spring-actuated switches 89 and 90 make in effect a triangular groove in the face of the feed device, and the horizontal portions of the grooves are shown. as being much narrower than the other parts thereof, so that when the key-lever 92 strikes the projection 91 the feed device or plate will be moved forward and downward in an oblique line, horizontal movement thereof being prevented by the points of the switches, and the advacing motion of the feed device will continue afterward diagonally upward and forward by reason of the shape of the angular slots or until the stud-screws 83 and S4 reach the right-hand corners of said slots, at which time the advancing stroke will be completed.

To return the feed device to its normal, I have represented the spring 95 connected thereto and to a hook upon the bearing 76. The path traveled by the feed device, therefore, will be a triangular one, agreeing with the shape of the two triangular slots, and as said feed device moves down the beveled teeth thereof by striking the correspondinglyshaped upper ends of the heads of the spaceholders will move the same forward step by step, and during the upward diagonal movement will pass clear of the said heads, the stroke being concluded with the feed device entirely free of said heads.

The support 45 extends through the recesses or openings 49 in the heads t7 of the spaceholders, and the curved portions 96 of the springs 97 constitute part of the walls of said openings. The webs or bodies of the springs are secured to the rear sides of the spaceholder heads. Therefore the springs 97 grip the space-holder support, so that the spaceholders are held in place with a yielding pressure,which prevents their oscillation or swinging while the line is being composed. The type and spaces are pushed forward step by step until the operator concludes that the line will not receive another word or syllable, at which time the head of the line is near the stop 14. The feed device for the type is then stopped, after which the stop 15 is put in place.

Referring to Fig. 1, the open end of the typeway 16 is adapted to receive the slide 98 in the nature of a type-feed device, which is given a reciprocatory movement from the continuously-operative vertical shaft 99, havingaband-wheel 100, connected by a belt with a suitable motor. (Not shown.) The shaft 99 is supported by a convenient bearing and has at its upper end the disk 101, provided with a crank-pin 102, extending through the longitudinal slot 103 at the right-hand end of the feed device or slide 98. device is also apertured to receive the free end of the longitudinal spring 104, secured to the upper side of the table 12. The crankpin 102, connected with the continuously-ro- Said slide or feed TCO tative shaft 99, serves to draw the plate 98 backward by striking against the right-hanr'l wall of the slot 103, while the spring 104 imparts an opposite movement to said slide, and as the length of the slot 103 is longer than the stroke of the pin 102 the slide can be thereby locked in its extreme retracted position even though the shaft 99 continues to operate.

The feed device should be locked againstaction while the space-holders move from the support 60 to the support 45. The part 13 carries upon its inner side the latch 315, pivoted thereto and adapted to engage the projection or latch 316 upon the feed device. The latch is moved into this position by the Spring 317 bearing against thesame and secured to said part 13. The latch has substantially near its middle the lateral pin 318, normally engaged by the pin 319 upon the vertical reciprocative rod 63, said pin 319 when the rod is down serving to hold the latch 315 in its ineifective position. When, however, the rod 63 is elevated to permit the movement of a space-holder onto the'support 45, the pin 319 will simultaneously release the latch 315, whereby the latter can be put into its effective position by the spring 317 to engage the projection 316 on the feed device 98 to hold the latter back.

The feed device 98 of course will hold against action during justification, and for this purpose I have represented a bolt 105, supported for sliding movement by the parallel guides 106 near one end of the part 13. The bolt 105 is shown as being L-shaped, and the horizontal portion thereof is provided with the pivoted detent or latch 107, held in its ineffective position by the V-shaped spring 108 bearing against the pin 109 upon the bolt. When the line is composed, the operator will lift the bolt for a short distance through the medium of the offset 109 or until the springact uated detont. 107 is in the path of the catch 110 upon the adjacent side of the feed-plate 08. hen the line is filled, the plate 98 will be at the limit of its backward movement, and just.- prior to this the catch 110 will strike the latch 107, and when the stroke has been completed the latch will be caused to fly upward by its spring 108 back of and in engagement with the catch 110, so as to hold the feetlplate against further motion even though the shaft 99 continues to operate, it being obvious that during this time the pin 102 rotates idly in the slot 103. When a new line is to be composed, the bolt 105 will be shoved down, so as to free the feed-plate 98, whereby it can push the type forward step by step.

As previously set forth, the composed line consists of a series of type and spaces therein, the spaces being transverse to the type, but being alined therewith by and during their movement through the tortuous portion of the channel A, it being understood, of course, that simply the type pass through this tortuons portion, while the spaces pass through the \ert ical channel 1b. In other words, the type by their contact with the walls of the said tortuous portion of the channel are successively brought from a horizontal to a vertical position, so that when they pass into the channel 18 they are in vertical alinement with the spaces.

The head-end stop or line-marker 14 is of such a character that it is automatically released by the justification of the line, and after the withdrawal of this stop the line is transferred to the galley. and to uphold the composed line I have represented the plate 112 extending transversely across the galley B and into the vertical channel 18, what is shown as the right-hand end of the plate being in proximity to the leading end of the line and to the stop 151. The head of the line after the removal of the stop 14 strikes against this plate 112, and the latter serves to .prevent the type from disassembling, it serving in this respect as a substitute for the stop 1 1 the instant the latter is removed. As the composed and justified line moves toward and into the galley it thrusts the plate 112 to what is herein represented as the left until what is shown as the right-hand end of said plate is in line with the inner face of the left-hand Wall of the galley, at which time the line will be in proper position in said galley. The plate 112 at about the time the composed line has nearly reached its final position sets in action automatically means for advancing a line-pusher, which pushes the line farther into the galley, between the walls thereof and beyond the path of the reciprocating plate 112. The plate 112 is advanced by the line, and it is returned to its initial position,with the right-hand end thereof adjacent the stop 14, by means of a weight 113 at the end of the cord 114 extending over the direction orguide roll 115. j The upper end of the cord is connected to the downwardly-extending lug 116 at the forward end of the plate and abuts against the part 13 when said plate is in its normal posit-ion, as shown in Fig. 1.

When the stop 15 is inserted by hand, upon the closure of the linejustification of the latter follows. In some cases, though, it happens that the line is justified by all the No. 1 spaces. In such case as this the spaces which had been partially freed from their holders are fully introduced into the line by pushing down the drivers 53 simultaneously by the action of the common driver 75, which acts against the individual drivers.

If the operator sees a comparatively great space between the end of the composed line and the stop 14, he will introduce a series of No. 2 spaces of greater widths naturally than the No. ls. This may justify the line. If it does not, the No. 3s are inserted, or one of the No. 3s may be inserted, or the line may be justified by the insertion of several, but not al1,oftheNo.2sp-aces. The individual insertion of the spaces is secured by operating the proper individual drivers 53.

The spaces are of progressively-increased widths and are shown arranged in column and nested order in their holders, and each space, with the exception, of course, of the No. ls, serves to force the preceding one from the line during justification should it be necessary to insert more than the primary spaces. The spaces pushed from the line during just-ification fall through the slot 12 in the table 12 and into the channeled device F.

To secure the proper distribution of the spaces, it is essential that. the ends of the same should lie in a common plane. I provide in the machine a device under the control of the compositor for assuring this result. Such a device is shown at 320 as pivot-ally supported between the side walls of the slot 321 in the part 13 under the channel in which the line is composed. The said plate 320 is held in its normal position out of the path of the spaces by the spring 322 bearing against the same, and it has a thumb-piece 321, adapted to be engaged by the compositor to actuate the same. This plate has a flat face 324, which can be thrown up into position to engage the lower ends of all the spaces, so that said lower ends can be brought into a common horizontal place to secure subsequently the proper separation of said spaces.

The support. 45 cooperates with the fixed primary support 60 and also with the fixed secondary support 120, the parts 60 and beingiu parallelism, as shown in Fig. 2, although the part 60 is inclined. The support or track upon which the space-holders travel during the composition of the line is shiftable laterally into alinement either with the support 60 or with the support 120. It will be remembered that the crank-arm 46,which carries the support 45, is secured to the rock-shaft 37. \Nhen the hand-lever 38 is elevated, the crank-arm 46 will be swung to the right, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, to bring the support 45 into alinement with the stationary support 120, and when the two parts are thus positioned the empty or partially empty space-holders will be positively forced from the support 45 to thesupport 120 and to a conveyer or carrier which moves them past a magazine, and during this action the spaceholders are wholly replenished or spaces are substituted for those which were removed during justification. In some cases only the lowermost space will have been removed and therefore from the magazine will be supplied simply No. 1 spaces, and the space-supplying mechanism is automatically operable and serves to deliver in proper sequence the spaces of proper widths (from 1 to S) to the space-holders. Therefore the hand-lever or crankarm 38 simultaneously shifts the justified line and a series of space-holders from the support 45 to the support 120. Upon the downward movement of the hand-lever the carrier26 and support 45am returned to their initial positions.

The head-end stop 14 is automatically released by and on the justification of the line. Said stop is pivoted at its rear end to the projection or ear on the sliding block 130, and it extends through the aperture 126 and across the typeway 16, being shouldered, as at 127, to engage the wall 128 of the line-receiver. The said stop has beyond the shoulder 126 the beveled face 129. The slide-block 130 is supported by the gib 131. and has the projection 132 upon its upper side pivoted to the rod 133, loosely jointed tothe lever 134, fulcrumed, as at 135, to the bed 12. The coiled spring 136 is connected with the slideblock 130 and also with the bed 12 and serves to draw said block backward upon the automatic release of the stop 14, so as to move said stop across the path of the line. Said stop, which is in the nature of a latch, is held in its effective position by the leaf-spring 136, carried by the block 130, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

During justification of the line the same is expanded laterally, and when the full expansion or justification is reached the shoulder 127 on said stop is disengaged from the wall r 128. As soon as this act-ion takes place the spring 136 will draw the block 130 rapidly rearward, so as to permit the transfer of the line to the galley.

The shaft 37 (see Figs. 4 and 5) carries a rockarm 140, to the upper end of which the by-pass actuator 141 is pivoted, said actuator having a notch 141, which receives the fixed pin 142 upon the rock-arm. The actuator is normally held in its effective position, as shown in Fig. 4, by the leaf-spring 143 hearing against the same and secured to the pin 144 on the rock-arm. The rod 133 is provided approximately nearits middle with the projection 145, cooperative with the Icy-pass actuator 141 The actuator 141 is represented in Fig. 4 with its point to the left and slightly below the projection 145. As the rod 133 is drawn rearward by the action of the coiled spring 136 the actuator will strike and pass by the pin without operating the rod. Upon the return movement, however, of the actuator it is held against movement by its stop, and it therefore serves by impinging against the projection 145 to return the rod 133, and consequently the block 130, to the initial positions thereof. Just before the block reaches the position shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the beveled face 129 of the stop 14 will strike against a wall of the opening 126 and will be forced laterally slightly, so that it 'can. enter said opening, and when the shoulder 127 is opposite the wall 128 the spring 136 will operate the stop in such manner as to throw its shoulder into engagement with the wall. Therefore itwill be evident that the lever 38 controls the action of several parts.

I provide in the machine an indicator which ICC serves to announce the justification of a line, so that the compositor can transfer the same without loss of time. Although this indicator may be of any kind, itis shown as consisting of a bell 340, the hammer 341 of which is supported on the reciprocatory rod 133. The hammer strikes the bell at about the time the stop 14 has been removed from the path of the line.

I provide means for forcing the empty or partially-empty space-holders from the support when the same is alined with. the secondary fixed support and along the latter to a conveyer which carries said spaceholders one by one past the space-magazine. A horizontal fiat bar is shown at located some distance above the table 12 and supported at the upper ends of the standards or uprights 150' and 150". This bar receives for sliding movement the block 151, having the offset 152, provided with a rounded arm 153, adapted to partially embrace the supports 45 and 120. The block 150, through the arm 153, serves to force the empty spaceholders from the support 45 onto the support 120 and along the latter into position Where they may be taken up by a conveyer. The slide-block is reciprocated, it being moved backward by means under the control of the hand-lever 38 and being moved in the opposite direction by a spring 154. The spring 154 is connected to the bed 12 and to the rock-arm 155, the hub 156 of which is loose on the rook-shaft 34. The link 157 is pivoted, respectively, to the rock-arm and to the sliding block 151, constituting a feed or forcing device for the empty space-holders. The hub 156 is loose upon the shaft 34 and is coupled thereto by the pawl 158. (See Fig. 12.) The pawl 158 is shown as curved and is fulcrumed between its ends to the lug 159 upon the sleeve 160, fixed to the shaft 34.

- The working end of the pawl has an offset 158, provided with a tooth 160, normally seated in a notch 161 in the periphery of the hub 156. The sleeve 160 and the pawl connected therewith are therefore in the nature of a clutch for coupling theloose arm orlever 155 to the rook-shaft 34. When said arm is connected to the shaft and when the handlever 38 is elevated, the lever 155 will be swung from its primary posit-ion (shown in Fig.1) to the left, thereby moving the block 151 to the extreme left-hand end of the bar 15 When the block reaches such position, the shifting support 45 will have been alined with the secondary stationary support 120, and simultaneously, or approximately so, the pawl 158 will have been disengaged from the sleeve 156, thereby uncoupling said sleeve from the shaft and permitting the arm 155 to be returned to its normal position by the action of the spring 154. During this operation the block will be thrust to the right, and the curved arm 153 by engaging the upper end of the last space-holder can force all of them from the part 45 and onto the support 120 and along the latter, to be taken up in succession and fed step by step past the spacemagazine to have proper spaces inserled therein. The pawl 158 is automatically released, Fig. 12, and for this purpose I have represented a knock-off device 165, disposed in the path of the rounded free end 166 of said pawl. When the sleeve has nearly reached the limit of its forward turning movement, the rounded portion 166 of the pawl will strike the fixed projection 165, and as the motion of the sleeve continues the toothed end of the pawl will be lifted, so as to carry the tooth 160' out of the notch 161 in the hub 156 of the arm 155, thereby freeing the latter, and this last-mentioned action will be concluded just the slide-block 151 reaches its extreme left-hand position.

It will be remembered that the plate 112,

which holds the composed and justified line against disasseinblage,serves to control mechanism by which the line is fed out of the path of said plate. A rock-shaft is shown at 170, and it has adjacent to the plate 112 the rightangnlar arm 171, having a cross-piece 172 at its upper end. The arm 171 supports the pawl 173, held in its working position by means of the leaf-spring 173, secured to the part 172 and hearing at its free end against the pawl and secured to the cross-piece 172. The plate 112 has near its right-hand end the notch 174. (See dotted lines, Fig. 7.) When said plate has nearly reached the limit of it'sforward movement with the line, the point of the pawl 173 will be thrustinto the notch by the spring 173, and on the final motion of the plate it serves to rock the arm 171, and consequently the shaft 170, to set in action automatically a one-revolution clutch. The rock-shaft (see Figs. 2 and 10) carries at its opposite end a second rock-arm175, beveled at its free end, as at 176, against which normally abuts the projection 177 of the sliding clutch member 178,. shown as an open frame, supported by the block 178, loose upon the continuouslyrotative shaft 179. The coiled spring 180 bears against one end of the clutch member 178 and also against the supporting-block 178. Normally the rock-arm serves to hold the sliding frame 178 in its backward position, (see Fig. 10,) thereby maintaining the spring under compression. The sliding clutch member 178 has an offset 181, adapted to enter one of the peripheral notches 182 in the disk 183, fixed to the shaft 179. The arm 175 is adapted toengage the sliding clutch member 178. When the shaft 170 is rocked in the manner previously set forth, said arm will be moved out of contact with the sliding clutch member, and the coiled spring 180 by thereafter relaxing will operate said sliding clutch member in such manner that the projection 181 thereon will be forced into a peripheral notch or recess 182 in the fixed-clutch member 183, whereby the part 178 will be coupled to the shaft and rotated therewith. The block 178 is rigid, with the cam 185 loose upon the shaft, so that when the part 178 is coupled to said shaft the cam will be rotated. The cam 185is adapted to engage the stud or roll 182' at the outer end of the reciprocatory rod183, pivoted nearits middle to the bearing 184 upon the bed 12. rod 183 is likewise united to the crank-arm 185, fixed to the rock-shaft 186, supported near one end of the galley B. The shaft carries the disk 180, having a segmental series of teeth 187, meshing with the rack 188, extending rearward from the line-pusher 189. The cam 185 serves to thrust the rod 183' forward, thereby through the intermediate parts rotating the disk 186, so as to correspondingly move the rack-teeth, and consequently the pusher 189, which latter advances the composed line wellinto the galley and out of the way of the reciprocating plate 112. The cam 185 is of the heart type, it serving to actuate the rod 184, said rod being drawn back by the coiled spring 90, connected thereto and with the bed 12. The rock-shaft 170 is returned to its normal position by the torsional coiled spring 170, surrounding the same and connected to the pin 170" thereon and bearing at its opposite end to the table 12. The empty or partially-empty space-holders are forced from the fixed support 120 by the slide 151 into position where they can be successively taken up by a conveyer, as K, shown as a horizontally-movable sprocketchain passed around the sprocket- wheels 195 and 196. (See Fig. 2.) The sprocket-wheel 195 is fixed toits shaft 197, while the sprocketwheel 196 is loose on its shaft 198. The conveyer K, which takes the empty space-holders from the support 120, carries them past a spacemagazine and into position 'to be moved on to the primary fixed support and is given a step-by-step movement, a space or spaces being supplied to a space-holder or space-holders while the conveyer is at rest. The shaft 197 below the sprocket-wheel 198 carries the ratchet 199, cooperative with the I pawl 200, pivoted to the vibratory lever 201, loose upon said shaft. The vibratory lever 201 is provided at its outer end with a stud 202, entering the serpentine circumferential groove 203 in the cam-wheel 204 upon the continuously-rotative shaft 179. The camwheel 204 serves to impart a rapid intermittent vibratory movement to the lever 201, and the pawl 200 thereon by engaging the teeth of the ratchet 199 rotates the shaft 197 to give the chain K a step-by-step movement. Every alternate link of the chain is furnished with a projection, as 205, and as each projection is brought in line with the support 120 a space-holder is forced from said support and onto the projection, the said projection entering the opening 49 in the head 47 of said space-holder.

The spaces are arranged in the space-holders in the order of their size, the thinnest being at the bottom, and so on up to the top, and as in the present case each space-holder The upper end of the contains eight spaces it necessarily followsthat eight channels must be provided in the magazine, and each channel must contain spaces of a uniform size.

I provide in connection with the space-holders means to be hereinafter described for determining as the spaceholders advance the absence of a space or spaces and to automatically supply to the space-holders spaces for those that were removed during justification. The magazine is denoted (see Fig' 3) in' a general way by M and the respective channels by 210, 211, 212, 213, 21 1, 215, 216, and 217, the channel 210 containing the widest spaces and they being graduated up to the channel 217. Each space-channel receives back of the rearmost space a feed device or pusheroperatedinconvenientmanncr. Said feed devices or pushers are each denoted by 218, and they consist of bars of suitable size, and each of them is provided with a pin, as 219, extending through a longitudinal slot 220 in the wall of the cooperating channel. Cords, as 221, are connected to the respective pins 219 and run over alined direction-rolls 222 and carry weights 223 at their free ends.

These weights by gravitating serve to draw the pushers or feed devices 218 forward, so that the latter will force the spaces in front of the same in a corresponding direction, where they can be supplied one by one automatically to the space-holders. As previously set forth, the space-holders are stopped opposite the months or discharge ends of the respective space-channels, and it is desirable while they are being supplied with spaces to hold them against oscillation, as'it will be remembered that they are simply suspended from the conveyer or chain K. To do this, I have represented the bar 225 having a series of fingers, as 226, thereon. This bar is secured at the upper ends of the crank-arms 227, extending from the shaft 228, having a disk 229 at its outer end provided with a pin 230 to enter the cam-groove 231 in the periphery of the cam-wheel 232, carried by the continuously-rotative shaft 179. The cam-wheel serves to oscillate the shaft 228 to impart a vibratory motion to the finger-bar 225. The stroke is sufficient so that when the fingerbar is drawn back the fingers or projections 226 thereon will be beyond the path of the space-holders, but when said bar is moved forward to cause the fingers to snugly straddle the space-holders, whereby the latter are held against pendulons movement. When the finger-bar is drawn back, the space-holders can be moved toward the support 60.

In connection with the space-holders I provide feeling devices which are automatically active,one feeling device being operative with each channel. The operation of these devices is such that when a space-holder is empty or partially empty the feeling device will be operated upon automatically in such manner as to effect the release of a space and its subsequent supply to a proper space-holder. Eight scones" o" of these feeling devices are shown, and they are denoted, respectively, by235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242. The feeling device 235 controls the supply of the thickest spaces, while the feeling device 236 governs the supply of the next smaller size, and so on with respect to the other feeling devices, it being seen upon an inspection of Fig. 3 that said feeling de vices are arranged in stepped order, they being of progressively-increased lengths from the one 235 to the one 242. These feeling devices consist of levers fulcru med intermediate their ends upon suitable bearings carried by the plate 243, and they have projections (each denoted by 244) at their upper ends extendin g through the diagonally-arranged slots 245 in the said plate. The said feeling devices are given a continuous rocking movement, they being operated positively in one direction by means now to be described and being returned by springs, as 246, acting against the same, as shown in Fig. 1, and secured to the plate 243. The projections 244 are adapted to be engaged by the individual drivers 53, carried by the space-holders O, and when any one of said projections strikes a space-holder the further movement of the former is arrested, and the supply of a space to the spaceholder, the driver of which thus encountered the projection, follows automatically. Each of the feeling devices is rounded atits lower end, and these rounded portions bear against the shoulders 250 at the upper ends of the arms 251, pivoted at the free ends of the rockarms 252, fast upon the transverse shaft 253. There are eight of these rock-arms 252, and consequently a like number of arms 251, each arm 251 cooperating with one of the feeling devices. The shaft 253 is provided at its extreme back end with the arm 255, having at its upper end the slud256,entering the groove 257 in the cam-wheel 258. In this manner the shaft 253, and consequently the arms 252 thereon, is given a vibratory motion, the motion being an accelerated or rapid one. The arms 251 are held in their effective position, as shown in Fig. 1, with the pins 251 thereof against the arms 252, by means of the springs 251. Normally the shoulders 250 will be in contact with the lower ends of the feeling devices to 242, inclusive, and as the arms 251 are elevated this will swing the lower portions of the feeling devices to what is shown as the right, the upper portions thereof being moved to the left and through the slots 245 all in unison, and as the arms 251 fall away from the feeling devices the latter are restored to their initial positions by the leafsprings 246, said feeling devices being thereby given a normally-continuous reciproca tory motion. It will be assumed that the conveyer K has taken up a wholly-empty spaceholder. As all of the spaces have been removed from the space-holder, the driver 53, carried thereby, will be at the extreme lower end thereof. Said space-holder will be stopped when it is opposite the first channel containing the widest spaces. When it stops, the projection 244 at the upper end of the shortest feeling device or lever 235 will'come in contact with said driver, therebyinterrupting the complete stroke of the feeling device.

As the motion of the said feeling devi ce is thus stopped the shoulder 25 0, bearingagaihst the lower rounded end of the same, will pass off said rounded end, and the latter will deflect the arm 251 toward a space-supplying device. The' lower end of the space-holder is above the space-channels, and the space-supplying device forces a space from the first channel upward therefrom and between the branches of the empty space-holder, and this same operation is repeated as the space-holder stops opposite the other seven channels. The upper ends of the arms 251 are pointed, as at 260, and these pointed ends are adapted to cooperate with the similarly-pointed ends 261 on the right-angular arms 262 of the vertically-reciprocatingbars 263. Thereareeight of these bars, and they arearranged in a row under the respective channels for vertical sliding movement, being supported by brackets, as 264, upon the under side of the table. The bars are held retracted by coiled springs, as 265, connected with the same and also with a fixed part of the framing. Said bars have secured to the upper sides thereof thin feedstrips, as 266, reciprocative in grooves forward of the type-channels and which when down sustain the spaces. As soon as the spring-controlled arm 251 passes off the feeling device 232 the pointed end 260 of said arm will fly against the pointed end 261 of the arm 262 and will lift the same, and consequently the bar 263 and feed-strip 266, whereby the latter can elevate the'space supported upon the same and force it into the groove in the space-holder O, suspended over the first channel. As the thick space is inserted this will lift the driver 53, carried by the space-holder, a distance equaling the length of one space, whereby said driver will be disposed in the path of the projection 244 at the upper end of the next feeling device 236, and a second and thinner space will be inserted in the space-holder from the second channel, and this action will be repeated throughout the series of channels, the driver 53 being lifted step by step as the spaceholder is being filled and reaching its topmost position when the eight spaces are inserted. The resilient catch 56 is beveled upon its lower end, as at 56", and a space striking against this beveled face will force the catch laterally to freely permit the insertion of said space. If four spaces have been removed from a space-holder, the same will begivenastep-by-step movement; but as said space-holder passes by the first four feeling devices the projections thereon cannot strike the driver 53, and consequently the codperating supplying devices do not shove the thin spaces into said space-holder; but the driver will, however, be struck by the projection 244 IIO at the upper end of the fifth feeling device 239, so as to supply the fourth-space from the bottom, and the same action will be repeated by the feeling devices 240, 241, and 242, whereby only four of the spaces will be inserted into the space-holder, as this is all the latter requires.

1 provide means to positively force the filled space-holders from the conveyer onto the inclined support 60, from which latter they can pass to the shiftable support 45, andthe means for accomplishing this function.

positively operated in one direction to force the filled space-holders from the conveyer to the support or bar 60 and is drawn back by a V-shaped spring, as272, connected with the parts 270 and271. The head ofthe hammer is denoted by 273, and it is forced against the heads of the space-holders as they reach a point in line with the support 60, and to operate the hammer to secure this result the sprocket-wheel 196 is furnished'upon itsupper side with a series of beveled tappets,-as

274, adapted to engage the beveled faceof the projection 275 upon the under side of'the offset 276at the free endof the hammer-arm 271 cular order upon the upper side of. the sprocket-wheel 196 near the periphery thereof, and they are adapted upon the rotation of the sprocket-wheel to travel uponthe inside beveledface of the projection 275, thereby to draw the hammer 271 back,.and as said tappets pass oif the projection the spring. 272 will'drive the hammer forward, whereby the head 273 thereof can engage the headof a space holdern The fiat plate 370, connected with the standards 150' and 61,.bears against the heads 47 of the space-holders C while they are upon theconveyer K and prevents them falling from said conveyer, while the overhanging flange 371 justforwar'd ofthe space-channels prevents said space holders from unduly swinging while onthe eonveyer saidpart 371 engagingthe lower endsof said space-holders. The carrier 26 has a movement sufficient to shift the line until the rear thereof passes a pointjust beyond the headline stop or marker 14, andafter this it is returnedto its primary position, (shown in Fig.

1,) the reciprocation being obtained by the hand-1ever38, and this same hand-levercontrols a line-transferring device which takes the forward end of the block and also to the lever 284:,fulcrumed upon the inside of the Said lever has its hub propart 13, as at 285.

The tappets 274 are arranged inacir vided with a segment 286, the teeth of which are adapted to mesh-with the gear 287 upon the trahsverse manually-operable shaft 34:. (See Fig. 2.) The construction is such that when the lever 38 is lifted the block 281 will be slid toward the right, and'upon the lowering of said lever the opposite motion thereof will be accomplished, and during said opposite motionmeans sustained by the block will be set in action to transfer the line from the channel A to the galleyB. The device that engages the rear end of the line is denoted by 290, and it is supported for vertical.reciprocation in a guideway,.as 291, upon the side of the block 281, which when in its normalposit-ion bears against the stop or flange 292- upon: the slideway or gib280,

Figs. 2 and 7 This linetransferring: deivice. 290 is thrust downwardby the action ;offa=spring..behind the line, and inthepres- ,entcase. it is operated by the actuaton 293, shown as an angle-lever pivoted upon-the iblock 28l andl'orked as at 294, to embrace {the-pin 295'upon the line-transferring,device $290. The spring. 296 upon. the. block bears against the actuator 293 and' furnishes the power. to operate the latter,so that it may jforce thepart290 downward behindtheline. 'Saidpart290, however,,is heldin its ineffective positioninormally byailatch 297,.the upper end of whiehhas a beveledshoulder 298 to engagein-anotch299 in said part 290,iand held in operative position by. the spring 300, 'bearingagainstthe same andsecured to the slidingrblock 281. When the composed line .is-shifted by the carrier26, operated through =gaged from theline-transferring device 290 by afikedtrip device, as 301, shown as aprojection at the upper end of the vertical arm 1302 atthe right-hand end: of the gib 2S0:

Whenthe block 281 is slid to the right and when the strokeis nearly completed, the beveled projection 2 98 willstrike the trip device 5301, so thatthe latclr297 will be disengaged from the part 290,.whereby the spring-c011- trolled actuator 293 can force the lower end of said line-transferringdevice 290 downward iandback of the line, and upon theopposite ,movement-of the block as the hand-lever is lowered the. linewill be transferred and the type will be successively alinedwith'the vertically -disposedspaces and entered subsequently intothegalley. The block 2S1strikes thestop292-when: the line is fully in said gal- 1ey,.at' which time thelower end of the line- ;transferring device 290 will occupy a space just over what isshown as the righthand Iwall of the galley. The actuator 293 is re- Iturned to its normal positiomso-that it can operate to lift the part 290 out of the path of the line of type by the plate 112. When the plate 112 is brought back to its initial position with its leading end contiguous to the line-marker 14, said leading end willstrike the free portion 310 of the actuator 293, thereby lifting the latch-arm thereof, and consequently the part 290, so that the latch 297 can be operated by its spring 300 to engage said part 290. I

The invention is in no Wise limited to the Construction nor to the character nor arrangement of parts previously set forth, for these features may be materially modified within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a type-setting machine,a line-receiver, and a space-holder movable independently of the line-receiver with the type as the line is being composed, and in the direction of the length of the line said space-holder carrying a series of spaces of different widths.

2. Inatype-settingmachine,aline-receiver, and a space-holder carrying a series of spaces of different widths and movable independently of the line-receiver and with the type as the line is being composed, said spaceholder being detachably mounted upon its support and being movable in the direction of the length of the line.

3. In a type-setting machine,a line-receiver, a space-holder having a series of superposed spaces, each of a different Width, and means for introducing said spaces one after the other into the line until the line is justified.

4. In atype-setting machine,a line-receiver, a space-holder supported over the line and carrying a plurality of endwise abutting spaces of different widths, and means to move the space-holder in the direction of the line as the line is being composed.

5. In a type-setting machine,a line-recei ver,

a plurality of space-holders supported over the line and each space-holder having a pinrality of spaces of different Widths arranged in the order of their sizes, and means for eject-ing spaces from the several space-holders into the line and from said line in succession to obtain justification.

(i. In a typesetting machine, a space-holder provided with a series of spaces of different sizes arranged one behind the other in the direction of their lengths, said spaces being frictionally sustained by said space-holder.

7. In a type-setting machine,a line-receiver, a support, a space-holder movable alongsaid support inthe direction of the length of the line, having a plurality of endwise-abutting spaces, and means for introducing the spaces successively into the line until said line is justified.

8. Inatype-settingmachine,aline-receiver, a plurality of independently-movable spaceholders supported over the line for movement in the direction of the length of said line, and each containing a column of spaces of different Widths, the narrowest space being at the bottom, and means for ejecting the spaces from the space-holders into the line successively to obtain justification thereof, each space serving to force the preceding one from the line.

9. In a type-setting 1nachine,aline-receiver, a plurality of space-holders mounted for movement in the direction of the length of the line and each having a space, and means for introducing the spaces into the line singly ora series of them simultaneously.

10. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality of space-holders mounted for movement in the direction of the length of the line, andeach having a plurality of spaces of different widths arranged one behind the other in the direction of their length, and means for introducing the spaces into the line singly or a series of them simultaneously.

11. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver and a space-holder movable with the type as theline is made up, and having-a plurality of abutting spaces arranged one behind the other in the direction of their length and.

in accordance with their size.

12. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a support, a plurality ofspace-holders movably carried by said support and each having a plurality of spaces arranged in abutting relation, and means for introducing the foremost spaces of the space-holders into the line in series or singly.

13. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a space-holder having a plurality of spaces, means for introducing the spaces in succession into the line, each space serving to force the preceding space from the line.

14. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a space-holder having a column of spaces of progressively-increased widths from the first one to the last, means for introducing said spaces in succession into the line, each space serving to force the preceding space from the line.

15. In a type-setting machine, a line-1e ceiver, a support, a space-holder having a plurality of spaces, carried by said support for movement with the type in the direction of the line, means for introducing the spaces in succession into the line, each space serving to force the preceding space from the line.

16. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a support, a series of independentlymovable space-holders on said support each having a plurality of spaces and means for forcing the spaces in succession into the line from each space-holder until the line is justified.

17. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver a spaceholder having a space, means for effecting the release of said space and introducingit into the line, and means for movin g the type and space-holder before the space is fully freed both in the same direct-ion.

18. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a space-holder having a space, means for introducing said space into the line, and means for simultaneously feeding the spaceholder and type both in the same direction.

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19. In a type-setting machine, a plurality of space-holders each provided with a series of spaces of different sizes, means for introducing said spaces into the line, and means for positively moving the space-holders and the line both in the same direction and simultaneously.

20. In a type-setting machine, a support, a plurality of space-holders each provided with a space and carried by said support, and means for simultaneously advancing said space-holders in the direction of the length of the line while they are upon said support and during the movement of the type which are to compose the line.

21. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality of space-holders movable in the direction of the length of the line, and

each provided with a plurality 'of spaces of different sizes, and a reciprocatory member adapted to engage the space-holders and positively move the same in unison.

22. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a support, a plurality of space-holders carried by said support, each having spaces and beveled heads, and aserrated opcrating member the serrated portion of which is adapted to engage the beveled heads.

23. In a type-setting machine, a 1ine-receiver, a support, a plurality of space-holders shiftable on said support, a memberadaptedto operate said space-holders in series and having triangular slots, pivoted switches in said slots, fixed studs extending through the slots, and means for actuating said-operatin g member.

24. In a type-setting machine, a space recessed at one end, and having a correspondingly-shaped salient portion at the other end.

25. In a type-setting machine, a space presenting a wedge at one end, and a wedge-recess at the other end.

26. In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder having a plurality of spaces, each space having a recess to receive the leading end of the space behind it.

27. In a type-setting machine, a space recessed at one end, and having a correspondingly-shaped salient portion at the other end, said space having its side Walls longitudinally grooved.

28. In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder provided With a series of spaces, each space having a recess to receive the space behind it, and being longitudinally grooved in its opposite side Walls, and the space-holder having longitudinal tongues to fit into the grooves.

29. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, and a space-holder mounted for movement in the direction of the length of the line, said space-holder having a space and being provided With means to hold the space normally in its place in the line of type being set up.

30. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, and a space-holder mounted for movest te-3 composed, and means to eifect the release of said space.

31. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a shiftably-mounted space-holder provided with a space and with a resilient catch to hold said space normally in place, and means to effect the release of said space.

' In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder having a plurality of spaces and provided with a resilient catch having an oitset beveled upon its opposite sides.

In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a support situated directly over the line, and a space-holder suspended from said support, provided with a space.

34:. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a space-holder having a space, a support to hold the space-holder to permit the introduction of said space into the line, and the space-holder being shi ftable on said support, a second support, and means for transferring the space-holder from the first-1nentioned support to the second support.

35. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a support s'hiftable in a direction at right angles to the line-receiver, and a movable space-holder carried by said support.

36. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a shiftable support, a movable spaceholder carried 'by said shiftable support, and

a second support adapted to receivethe space- I holder from said shiftable support.

37. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, primary and secondary supports, a

shiftable support adapted to cooperate with either of the first-mentioned supports, spaceholders each provided with a space, and means to move the space-holders from the primary support to the shifta ble support, and from the shiftable support to the secondary support.

38. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality of space-holders each having a space, means for entering the spaceholders partially into the line, and means for subsequently entering said spaces simultaneously fully into the line. i

39. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a space-holder shiftablymounted and having a space, means for ejecting said space from the space-holder and for entering said space partially into the line as the latter is being composed, means for advancing the space-holder and the type both in the same direction While said space is partially freed from the space-holder, and means for subsequently fully entering said space into the line.

40. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality of space-holders mounted for movement in the direction of the length of the line and each having a plurality of spaces, means for entering the foremost spaces into the line, and means for subsequently entering said foremost spaces fully into the line, and for afterward introducing the succeeding spaces from one or more of the space-holders into said line.

41. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, and a space-holder movable in the d irection of the length of the line with the type as the line is being composed, said spaceholder carrying a space and a space-driver.

42. In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder having a plurality of spaces of different widths arranged in the order of their sizes and one behind the other in the direction of their lengths, said space-holder having means to retain the spaces normally in place.

43. In a type-setting machine, a movable space-holder having a space, carrying a spacedriver to introduce said space, and a second and independently-supported driver movable into position to engage the first-mentioned driver.

44. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality ofspace-holders,individual drivers adapted to act upon the spaces in the respective space-holders, and means to act upon said drivers in series, whereby a plurality of spaces can be simultaneously discharged.

45. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a plurality of space-holders each having a series of spaces, said space-holders being mounted over the line and for movement in the'direction of the length of saidline, a plurality of individual space-drivers carried by the respective space-holders, and means to simultaneously operate several of said individual space-drivers.

46. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops shiftable relatively to each other and adapted to be engaged by the front and rear ends of the line, the front linestop having a shoulder adapted to be engaged by an abutment for maintaining the said stop in its operative position, automatic means for removing the front line-stop and means for subsequently advancing the rear line-stop in the direction of the length of the line to shift the line.

47. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, a front line-stop held from sliding longitudinally, means to normally maintain said stop in its operative position, a rear line-stop, a traveling carrier to shiftably support said rear line-stop and automatic means for transversely removing the front line-stop, said means being rendered operative by the line as itexpands during justification, and means for moving the carrier and rear line-stop in the direction of the length of the line after the front line-stop has been removed.

48. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the front and rear ends of the line, one of the stops being laterally movable directly by the line as it expands during justification, and automatic means for removing said latdetachably holding the other line-slop, and means to move the carrierin the direction of the length of the line after the first-named stop has been removed from in front of the line.

49. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the front and rear ends of the line, one of the stops in its operative position being fixed with reference to the line-receiver, m ans to hold said stop in its operative position While the line is being composed, said means being rendered inoperative by the line asit expands during justification, automatic means for removing the last-named stop when it is released by the expanding line, a galley and means for transferring the line to the galley after the release of said stop.

50. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the line and one of them being laterally movable solely by the action of the line as it expands during justification, automatic means for Withdrawing said stop when the line is properly justified, and means for in-' troducing spaces into the line.

51. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the line and one of them being laterally movable by the action of the line as it expands during justification, automatic means for withdrawing said laterally-movable stop when the line is properlyjustified, and means for introducing spaces of progressively-increased thickness one after the other into the line and afterward discharging said spaces from the line.

52. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the ends of a line, means for removing the front line-stop, a rack-bar for carrying the other line-stop, and the latter serving to advance the line, a pinion for engaging the teeth of the rack-bar, and means for operating said pinion.

53. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the ends of'a line, means for removing the front line-stop, a galley, means for subsequently moving the rear end stop to shift the line with the front end stop removed, for a predetermined distance, toward the galley, and means for moving the line the rest of the distance and into the galley.

54. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged by the ends of a line, means for removing the front line-stop, a galley, means for subsequently moving the rear end stop to shift the line with the front end stop removed, for a predetermined distance, toward the galley, a slide, means for reciprocating said slide, and a line-engaging device.

55. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, two line-stops adapted to be engaged IIO by the ends of a line, means for removingthe front line-stop, a galley, means for subsequently moving the rearend stop to shift the line with the front end stop removed, for a predetermined distance, toward the galley, a reciprocatory slide, means for actuating the same, and a spring-controlled line-engaging device carried by the slide.

56. In a type-setting machine, a channel having a tortuous portion, a line consisting of a series of type, and a series of spaces transverse thereto, and means to aline the type and spaces by forcing one of the two series through said tortuous portion of the channel.

57. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver having a channel to receive the type as the line is being composed, means to insert spaces transversely into said line and means to aline the type and spaces by turning the type on the central longitudinal axis of the line.

58. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, having a channel arranged to receive the type as the line is composed, a second channel intersecting the first-named channel at an angle and arranged to receive spaces, one of said channels having a tortuous portion and merging into the other channel, and means to force the composed line along said channels to thereby aline the type and spaces.

59. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, having a channel arranged to receive the type as the line is being composed, a second channel intersecting the first-named channel at an angle and arranged to receive spaces, the type-receiving channel having a tortuous portion and merginginto the spacereceiving channel, and means to force the composed line along said channels to thereby bring the type and spaces into alinement.

00. In a type-setting machine, a line-receiver, having two channels extending in the same direction, said channels being arranged at an angle to each other at one end, and coinciding at the opposite end, one of the channels having a twisted or tortuous portion, means to insert type in one channel, means to insert spaces at proper intervals in the other channel, and means to advance the composed line whereby the type and spaces moving along their respective channels are alined by passing into the portion of the linereceiver where the two channels merge or coincide.

61. In a type'setting machine, a spaceholder and a magazine, one shiftable relatively to the other, and the space-magazine being adapted to contain spaces of different sizes, and means to automatically discharge from the magazine a series of spaces said se ries composed of spaces of progressively-decreasing size and to deliver the spaces of said series to the space-holder in the order of their sizes.

62. I11 a type-setting machine, a spaceholderand a magazine one movable relatively to the other, and the magazine being adapted to contain spaces of different Widths, and means to automatically discharge from the magazine a series of spaces, said series composed of spaces of progressively-varying size and to deliver the spaces of the series in the order of their sizes, and one behind the other in the direction of their lengths to the space holder.

63. In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder and a magazine, one shiftable relatively to the other, the space-magazine being adapted to contain spaces of different sizes, and means to automatically discharge from the magazine a series of spaces, said series composed of spaces of progressively-varying size and to deliver the spaces of the series to the space-holder in the order of their sizes, a line-receiver, and means for transferring the space-holder from the magazine to a position where the spaces can be introduced into the line.

64. In a type-setting machine, a spaceholder and a magazine, one shift-able relatively to the other, the space-magazine being adapted to contain spaces of different sizes, and means to automatically discharge from the magazine spaces and to deliver them to the space-holder in the order of their sizes, a line-receiver, and means for transferring the space-holder from the magazine to a position where the spaces can be introduced into the line, and means for returning the empty or partially-empty space-holder to the magazine.

65. In a type-setting machine,a space-magazine having a plurality of channels containing spaces of diiferent sizes, a space-holder, means for moving the space-holder step by step past said channels, and means for supplying said space-holder with spaces when opposite the respective channels.

66. In a type-setting machine,a space-maga zine having a plurality of channels containing spaces of different sizes, a space-holder, means for moving the space holder past the magazine, means for supplying said spaceholder with spaces in different sizes from the respective channels, and means to hold the space-holder against oscillation while being supplied With spaces.

67. In a type-setting machine,a spacemagazine having a plurality of channels contain ing spaces of difierent sizes, a space-holder, means for moving the space-holder past the magazine, means for supplying said spaceholder with spaces in diiterent sizes from the respective channels, a line-receiver, a support, and means for transferring the filled space-holder from the magazine to the support.

68. In a type-setting machine,a space-magazine having a plurality of channels containing spaces of different sizes, a space-holder, means for moving the space-holder past the magazine, means for supplying said spaceholder with spaces in different sizes from the

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