US696734A - Font of type. - Google Patents

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GEORGE ARTHUR GOODSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THE GOODSON GRAFl-IOTYPE COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., AOORPO- RATION OF NEIV JERSEY.

FONT OF TYPE.

SPECIFJIGATIGN forming part of Letters Patent NO. 696,734, dated April l, 1902. Application filed September 3, 1901. Serial No. 74,064. (No modell To @ZZ whom t may con/ecrit:

Be itknown that I, GEORGE ARTHUR GOOD- SON, a citizen ofrOanada, residing at Minneapolis, in the County of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fonts of Type; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to ro which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved font of type. tic feature of improvement is that this font of type contains kei-ned type and other coperating type,neitherofwhich kinds of typerequire any trimming or dressing in order to provide forthe use of the kerned type. This characteristie feature affords a font of type which may be cast and set into justified lines ou a typezo casting machine.

Type-founders type as made prior to my invention included kerned type; but the kern had to be undercut or filed away after the kerned type was cast in order to afford the 2 5 necessary clearance to permit the kerned portion of the type to overhang the body portion of an adjacent or cooperating type alongside of Which the kerned type might happen to be set. Otherwise stated, the kern had to 3o be completed by hand. It could not be cast in complete or inished form, for the reason that it could not draw from the matrix. It is obvious, of course, that if a matrix was provided with such reverse surface as would be required to produce a kern with the undercut or beveled surface required for coperation with other ordinary type that such a kerned type could not be drawn out from the matrix.

4o According to my in ventionI cast the kerned type just as the type-founders have hitherto done; but, contrary to the old practice, Ileave the kern as it comes from the matrix, or, in other words, I leave the kern with the abrupt or right-angled shoulder and use the same in that Way when the type is set. I do not undercut, iile, or dress the kern in any way. The other type of the font which would come into cooperation with the kerned typeto The characteriswit, all of the other type of the font with the 5o exception of certain logotypes, &c. have their walls formed to receive or seat the kerns of the kerned type when the type are set. More specifically stated, I form all the other letters of the font with the necessary bevel for cooperation with the kerned type with the exception of 1, j, i, and b and t'he tiff, (797 CHH Lf-77 Ccm. They are so cast and used as cast without requiring any filing or trimming. Hence 6o this font of type may be cast and set into justified lines of individual Type on a type casting and setting machine, and this was the special use for which the invention was designed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like notations refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In said drawings, Figure l is a view in plan upside down, illustrating a form of type con- 7o taining the kerned and other cooperating type constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge or side elevation of the form of type shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a back view of the same. Fig. 4 is a hack 75 view of the left-hand pair of type shown in Figs. l and 3-to Wit, the types f and o pulled apart from each other. Fig. 5 is an upside-down plan View of the same pair of type as shown in Fig. 4 and in the same re- 8o lation to each other, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the line 006 or of Fig. 5.

In the matrix employed on the Goodson type casting and setting machine disclosed in my prior patents, No. 530,481, of date December 4, 1894, and No. 609,098, of date August 16,1S98,countersunk surfaces are formed outward of the matrices proper, so that a portion of the type-body is cast in the matrix. This is done to insure absolute precision in 9o the relative location of the type-face on the type-body. Otherwise stated, the partingline (indicated in the drawings, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, by the dotted lines .e c between the matrixblock and the body-mold) is below the upper ends of the type-body. This fact is stated t0 render the drawings herein more easily read with reference to the showing of the kerned type and the formation of the other type of the font for cooperation with the untrimmed kern.

By reference to the drawings it may readily be seen that the type marked with the nnmeral 7 are kerned type and that the type marked With the numeral 8 are formed with seating-surfaces 8qd to receiveand seat the kerns of the kerned type. The kerned type shown are the letters f, Hi The coperating type shown are the letters o and in These are deemed sufficient for purposes of illustration. As stated in the introduction, all the letters which would come into coperation with the kerned type are of course provided with the necessary seatingsurfacesS. Bycomparingtheditferentviews, and especially Figs. l, 5, and 6, it will be seen that the seating-surfaces Sa of the type S are formed with the proper draft-line to draw from the matrix. Since the type shown are vassumed to have been made on the Goodson machine, wherein the parting-line z z, between the matrix-block and the body-mold, is below the upper end of the body of the type, the seatingsurfaoes S for receiving the kerns of the kerned type are necessarily formedv partly on the type proper and partly on the type-body, and that portion of the same which is formed in the body may be substantially straight.

The character of the kern on the kerned type is best seen in Figs. l, 3, 4, and 5, from an inspection of which it is obvious that the kern is left with an abrupt or right-angle shoulder and that the whole of the kern is formed with the necessary slope or draft-line on the face for permitting the same to draw from the matrix. Just asin the case of the cooperating type 8 in respect to the seatingsurface thereof the part of the kern which is formed in the body ot' the kerned type may be substantially straight and nevertheless draw from the matrix.

From the illustrations and the statements hereinbefore made it must be obvious that the type constructed according to this invention maybe cast and set on a type casting and setting machine. The improvement is therefore a highly important and valuable one for that special purpose, inasmuch as it enables the use of kerned type, thereby giving print appearing the same as type from type-founders type. Of course these same type so cast and set on a machine can be pied and be reset by hand, just as type-founderstype. This font of type is used for making corrections when necessary in forms already set on the machine.

"What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

A font of type containing kerned type with untrimmed kerns and other cooperating type with seating-surfaces for receiving or seating the kerns of said kerned type when the type are set, which seating-surfaces are formed partly on the type proper and partly on the type-body, substantially as and for the purposes bset forth.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE ARTHUR GOODSON.

'Witnesses:

CHAs. E. HUNTER, JAS. F. WILLIAMSON.

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