US705341A - Type casting and setting machine. - Google Patents

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TYPE CASTING AND SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,341, dated July 22, 1902. Application filed November 23,1901. Serial No. 83.360. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE ARTHUR GOOD- SON, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Type Casting and Setting Machines; and I dohereby declare the following toV be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such Io as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to type casting and setting machines, and was especiallydesigned to effect certain improvements in the Goodi5 son system for casting and setting type, which system is disclosed most nearly in its commercial form in my prior United States patents, No.006,007, of date June2l, 1898, and

No. 609,098, of date August 16,1898. Said Pat-r zo ent No. 606,007 discloses what I call my composing-machine,7 under the action of which a pattern or dummy in the form of a puncturedrepresentative strip is produced which subsequently is made to control the type casting and setting machine disclosed in my said Patent No. 609,098. Otherwise stated, the Goodson type casting and setting machine is entirely automatic in its action,as it operates under the control of said pattern or representative strip. In said type casting and setting machine the matrices,which coperate with the type-body mold and the other elements of the machine to cast and set individual type, are carried by a two-way movable matrix-carriage, and this carriage is variably intercepted by two coperating banks or sets of stops for selecting and centering the selected die in casting position. Otherwise stated, the matrices are arranged 4o in rows in two different directions andone set or bank of said stops serve to properly intercept the matrix-carriage in one direction of its movement for selecting the row in which the desired matrix' is contained and the other set or bank of said stops serve to intercept the matrix-carriage in the other direction of its movement in the proper position to select and center the desired matrix of the row. Hence in my prior patents one 5o set or bank of said stops, because of their said function, are called the row-selecting stops and the other set or bank thereof are called nheindividuai Stops. in me Goodson machine the matrices are formed in the face of a solid block. Otherwise stated, I emvploywliat I call an integral-font matrixyfaces for cooperation with a suitable centering-pin to `finally and exactlycenter the selected matrix in casting position, and said centering-holes are uniformly spaced apart in twodiierent directions.' Otherwise stated, the matrix-block has uniform steps of movement in both of its two directions of travel. My matrix-block as disclosed in my prior patents was square in form or outline and provision was made for ten steps of movement in each of two different directions. That was sufficient to provide for upper and lower case letters,nu m bers,and punctuation-marks. In some pointsof View, however, it is desirable tO provide for a greater number of type. Otherwise stated, more than one hundred matrices are needed ,on the matrix-block to give the machine an increased range of product. For example, it is desirable to have both Roman and Italic type. My present improvementhas for its especial object to accomplish .this result inthe simplest possible way. To'that end I increase the size `of the matrix-block in one or both of its superficial dimensions,'according tothe increased number of matrices which may be desired, and then provide means for shifting one or both of the two banks or sets of intercepting-stops Afor selecting. and centering the desired matrix. In the instance illustrated in the drawings, for example, it is assumed that the increase in the number of the mat-- rices on the block is desired forthe purposes of rendering available both Roman and Italic letters. Hence the matrix-block is increased in size in one direction only of its face-to wit,the row-selecting directionin respect to its two-way movement, and the Roman and Italic letters occupy alternate rows. Provision is then made for shifting only the frowselecting bank or set of stops, no change being required in the bank or set of the individual stops. By shifting the bank or set IOO of row-selecting stops from one to another of two positions the same identical set of ten stops are rendered available to intercept the matrix-block in twenty different positions. Otherwise stated, the matrix-block may now have ten times twenty stopping positions instead of ten times ten, as in my prior patents. It the bank of individual stops had also been provided with similar means for shifting the same, the number of stopping positions would be twenty times twenty, or four hundred. From this it will be seen that by my present invention I multiply the stopping positions available from a single set or bank of stops withoutincreasing the number of the stops themselves. The required shift of the bank of stops is effected under the control of the pattern or punctured strip. Otherwise stated, the strip which I employ on my improved machine contains not only the representations required for the normal selections of character-type, but when necessary for the given composition also contains the representation ofashiftactionforcoperation to secure a different selection of character-type. For example, if the normal representation be the Roman letters and the shift action be designed for cooperation to select Italic letters, then whenever an Italic letter is to be selected the strip will contain a shift-action hole which when the strip comes into actionon the type casting and setting machine will coperate to control the shift of the bank of stops, so as to make the same cooperate with the other set or bank of stops to position the matrix-block to center an Italic-letter matrix.

From the foregoing general statements it will be easy to follow the detailed description, which will now be given.

To best show my improvement in working position, it has been deemed desirable to illustratea number of the parts of my machine as disclosed in my prior patents; but these old parts will not be detailed or noted only in so far as it is thought necessary to distinguish the improvements. The old parts illustrated where not otherwise noted may be assumed to be identical with the parts disclosed in my Patent No. 609,098, of date August 16, 1898, and when necessary to note the same in the description the same reference notations will be employed as in said prior patent.

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

In said drawings,-Figure 1 is a plan view of the type casting and setting machine with my improvements embodied therein, some parts being broken away and many parts of the machine being removed. Fig. 2 is aview chiefly in vertical longitudinal section on an irregular line through Fig. 1 withsome parts emoved and others broken away and some parts shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a detail in section on the line 002053 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view chieiiy in plan of some of the same parts illustrated in Fig. 1, but with some of said parts in different positions, some parts being shown in section, others being broken away, and still others being removed. Fig. 5 is a detail in vertical section on the line .t5 of Fig. 2 with some parts removed. Fig. 6 is a View in vertical section approximately on the line co6 of Fig. 1, looking at the same parts as shown in Fig. 5, but from an opposite direction, with some portions removed and other parts broken away. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 6, but with the parts shown as they would appear when the row-selecting stops had been shifted into a different position from that shown in Figs. 5 and 6 as their normal positions. Fig. 8 is a view in underneath or bottom plan showing the face ofthe matrix-block and its sm aller or transverse carriage detached, and Fig. 9 is a view in plan showing a portion of the pattern or punctured representative strip.

The matrix-block h has its matrices arranged in rows in two different directions, with the rows in one direction also arranged according to size of face-to wit, all the matrices of a given row being of the same number of units in running width of face, just as in my prior patents, but as compared with the matrix-block in my prior patents has twice the number of rows in the line of its row-selecting travel with Roman and Italic letter matrices disposed in alternate rows, as is clearly shown in Fig. 8. Said matrix-block h is removably Xed to its smaller or transverse carriage h. This carriage h is mounted on suitable guides 72,2, ixed to and forming parts of the main or large carriage h3 for movement transversely of the line of travel of said main carriage h3. The main carriage h3 is pivoted to a guide-rod h4, suitably secured to the main frame of the machine in proper position in respect to the top bed-plate a. The said main carriage h3 is connected by a cord 7L or other suitable flexible connection with the sheave 7150, which is subject to a barrel-spring 7a for putting the main carriage 7L:3 under tension from said spring h to move lengthwise ofthe guide-rod h4 in the direction of travel required for selecting the row of matrices. Said carriage h3 is also subject to the inner end of a spring-held camlever 7L, pivoted to the shelf frame-plate ct2 and subject at its outer end to a properlyformed cam-surface on cam-wheel 1, carried by the main or constantly-running shaft b. Under the action of the cam-wheel 1 and the cam-lever h'the main carriage h5 is thrown to an initial position most remote from the barrel-spring 7L, thereby setting the spring under tension to move the said carriage in the opposite direction as rapidly as permitted by said cam and cam-lever until intercepted by the proper member ot the row-selecting stops h2o.

The small or transverse carriage 7L is provided with a downturned Bange or lip hm, which engages over a correspon ding upturned iiange of a bumper-slide 7t1,mounted in framebracket a5 for movement at right angles toy IOC ITO

j a cam-rod 7152, which extends toward the shaft thelineof-travel of the main carriage 713.- Said slide 7116 is connected by a link 7117 with the upper end of a pivoted lever 7113, which at its opposite end is subject to a spring 7110, secured to a fixed base of resistance and tending to throw the said bumper-slide 7110 and smaller matrix-carriage 71 outward as far as possible crosswise of the main carriage 713. The said pivoted lever 7113 has attached to its lower end Z1 and is subject to a cam '7 on said shaft for moving the said lever 7113 in the proper direction to throw the bumper-slide 7115 and the smaller or transverse matrix-carriage 71' inward to its limit or initial position on the main carriage 713, and thereby also setting the spring 7119 under tension to move the said transverse carriage 711 in the opposite direction as rapidly as permitted by the cam 7 and until the bumper-slide and said carriage 71 areintercepted by the proper member of the individual stops 7124, which project into the path of said slide 7110 when properly set under the control of said strip or pattern, as disclosed in my prior patent. The said individual stops 71251 are subject to armature-levers 7125 and magnets 7120, as in my prior patents. The row-selecting stops 7120 are subject to armature-levers 7122 and magnets 7123. Otherwise stated, the row-selecting stops 7120 and the individual stops 7124 are subject to armature levers and magnets under the control of the punctured representative strip through suitable electric connections, (not herein shown, but which would be in practice exactly the same as disclosed in my prior patent, No. 609,098.) As in my said prior patent, No. 609,098, the stops 7120 and 7124 are shown as formed in two sections, with the lower members thereof attached to the inner ends of the armature-levers and normally spring-held in theirlowermost positions. In the presentinstance,how ever, the upper sections of the movable members of the row-selecting stops 7120 have their guide-block 7153, mounted for sliding movement in a suitable guideway formed in a baseblock 7151, fixed. to the top bed-plate c1 of the main frame. Said stop guide-block 7153 is subject to a spring 7155, tending to hold the same in its normal position, and is also subject to a magnet 7155, which when energizedy shifts the said block 7153 to an opposite position and sets the spring 7155 under tension to return said block 7153 to its normal position when the shift-magnet 7156 is denergized. The movement of the guide-block 7153 is parallel with the guide-rod 714 or the line of travel of the main matrix-carriage 713. When the block 7153 is in its normal position, or as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the row-selecting stops 7120 will be in proper position for the interception of the main carriage 713 to select the normal rows of matrices*such, for example, as the Roman letters; but if the said guide-block 7153 be drawn by said shift-magnet 7156 to its opposite extremeposition, as shown in Fig. 7,

then the said row-selecting stops 7120 will be l in position to intercept the main matrix-carriage 713 in proper position to select other than the normal rows of type-as, for example, the rows containing Italic letters. Whether in one position or the other the guide-block 7153 always maintains the sections of the row-selecting stops 7120 carried thereby in such position relative to the lower sections thereof carried by the armature-levers 7122 that the latter will operate the former. Otherwise stated, the upper sections of the row-selecting stops always coperate with the lower sections thereof carried by the armature-levers 7122 and subject to the magnets 7123. The guide-block 7153 is shown as provided with a piece of soft iron 7157, set therein in proper position to serve as an armature for` the shiftmagnet 7150.

By reference to Fig. 9 it will Ybe seen that the representative strip 11 is provided with marginal feed-holes 11,wordspace holes, and character-selecting holes, as in my prior patents; but it may also be noticed that the compositions called for by the strip include two Italic letters-to wit, the letters of the word he-and that the feed-spaces on the strip for these two Italic letters contain two special holes marked Shift-action. In other words, if the Roman character be the normal character and the shift-action call for Italics and the normal selection requires two actly as in my prior patents. -In the present.

instance, however, one of the thrust-pins r4 is appropriated to the shift-action-to wit, the one shown most black in Fig. 2-and will cooperate through the shift-hole of the strip to establish the proper electric connections for energizing the shift-magnet 7150 when the abnormal selection'is to be made. As'shown, current reaches the machine over the sourcewire r,springcontact 1,and one of the camsto wit, the member 8 on the shaft h-during the proper portion of the lrevolution of the shaft, and thence reaches the mercury-cells r3 and thrust-pins r4, as in my prior patents. The shift-action member of the'thrust-pins r4 cooperates with the proper member of the mercury-cups 1^5 and conductor-sections 10, from which-a special conductor r25 extends to the shift-magnet 7150, whence a return-conductor r25leads back to source.

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The electric connections for the magnets 7123 of the row-selecting stops and the magnets 7125 of the individual stops have not been shown, but are exactly the same as in my Patent No. 609,098, and hence it must be obvious that the shift-action hole on the strip for any given character will come into play coincidently with the character holes, and ,thereby energize or cause to be energized the shift-action magnet h5G coincidently with and for the same length of time that the stopmagnets are energized. Hence the shift-action magnet will hold the stop guide-block 7153 in its abnormal position long enough to permit the stops to make the abnormal selection.

The main or large matrix-block carriage h3 is shown as provided with a hook-shaped catch 71.21 for engagement with the set member of the stops 712, as in my prior patents. It is of course obvious that the particular member of the intercepting-stops which determine the extreme limit of the matrix-blocks travel away from normal or initial position requires no armature or magnet, and hence is shown as a fixed stop. The fixed stop for the rowselecting bank must, however, of course be fixed to and movable with the guide-block 71.53 in its shifting movements.

Attention will now be directed to certain changes in construction or modifications of some of the parts shown as compared with my prior patents, especially Patent No. 609,098.

From an inspection of the drawings it will be seen that the main matrix-carriage h3, which travels parallel with the constantlyrunning shaft b, is without any housing and that it is mounted for pivotal movement toward the said shaft 79. In my said prior patents the main matrix-carriage moved in the same direction within a housing which was pivoted to suitable bearings at one side of the machine for pivotal movement in a plane parallel with the main shaft 7J. This change has been made for simplication and better exposure of the type-body mold g g2 g3 and the galley t2 t3 t4 and certain other parts about the center' of the machine. This modification called for certain further changes. The spring-seated centering-pin 71,28 instead of being mounted in a yoke fixed to the main matrix-carriage housing, as in my prior patent, is now mounted in the outer end of the horizontal arm of an angular holder 7027, the vertical arm or section of which sets in suitable fixed bearings hf, fixed to the main frame, with freedom for pivotal movement, so as to permit the same to swing toward the shaft b, and thereby clear the main carriage h3 and permit the latter to be turned upward and rearward from the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6 into the position shown in Fig. 4. This holder 7W is provided with an arm 7157, having a locking thumb-bolt or pin 71.58, which when the holder is in its normal position, as shown, for example, in Figs. l and 2, is made to engage with the hole or seat hf in a fixed part of the framework of the machine, and thereby to lock the holder 71.2T in its normal position.

The vertically-movable plunger h3@ retains the same shape as in my former patents; but

its vertical arm now extends through or is seated in the vertical section of the holder 71.27, with its axis coincident with the axis of the holder h2?, with freedom for pivotal motion with the said holder 7W or independently thereof in the bearings afforded by said holder. The plunger 7b3@ is subject to the cam-lever 7L33 for its up-and-down motions, exactly as in my prior patents. Otherwise than in the respect just hereinbefore noted the said plunger 7L30 is mounted and operates exactly as in my prior patent. The horizontal arm of the plunger 7130 carries a sliding keeper h4", bifurcated at its outer end and adapted to engage the upper end portion of the centering-pin 7L28 when the parts are in their normal or working position, as best shown in Fig. 2, thereby preventing any angular or pivotal motion of the plunger ho in respect to the centering-pin 71.2B and its holder 7L". With this construction it is obvious that the plunger h3() and the pinholder 71,27 may be swung into the positions shown in Fig. 4 whenever so desired for clearing the matrix-carriage and permitting the latter to be turned upward and backward, as shown in Fig. 4, for exposing the type-body mold, galley, and other parts at and about the center of the machine.

The mold-plunger g is subject to a cam-lever g29 and the cam-wheel 4 exactly as in my prior patents for its normal actions in casting type, and the cam-lever g29 may have its fulcrum shifted through the connection g3, cam-lever g4", and the cooperating cam-channel in the normally idle cam-wheel 6, just as in my prior patent, No. 609,098, for imparting to the mold-plunger the eXtra-long stroke required for pushing the line of cast type entirely out from the type-body mold into a p0- sition in front of the mouth of the galley.

When the matrix-carriage is in its normal or working position, it is held down bya pivoted spring-latch 7F43, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3. This latch 7t43'is of proper form to straddle the pillow-block a5 or casting in which are mounted the individual stops 7L24 with freedom for a limited pivotal motion which'is suiicient to clear the matrix-carriage when the latch is thrown outward toits limit. The latch 7t43 carries a roller hm, and to the pillow-block a5 are secured a pair of rollers 7161, which cooperate with the roller 7L60 to afford antifriction bearings for the main matrix-carriage 71.3 in its traveling movement lengthwise of its guide-rod hand crosswise of the pillow-block a5. The reverse lip or iange engagement between the small or transverse matrix carriage h and the bumper-slide h16 maintains the engagement of these parts, While permitting the free movement of the main matrix-carriage h3 at right angles thereto.

The mold-plu nger g' is variably intercepted for setting the same for any given type by a set of stops operated by armatures and magnets (not shown) under the control of the strip through electric connections, (not fully shown,) but all of which parts are the same as in my prior patents.

The molten metal is supplied from the melting-pot f on the bracket f2, located remotely from the type-body mold, under the IOO IIO

action of a suitable pump in the melting-pot through a small pipe or tubefs, a portion of which appears in Figs. 6 and 7. This tubeis connectedinto an electric circuit,(not sho'wn,) and thenipple or delivery end of the same is mounted on a nipple-slide f2?, which in turn is mounted on a vertically-movable mold-support g4, all exactly as in my prior patents, and these parts are operated by exactly the same means and in exactly the same manner as in my prior patents. For the purposes of this case it has not been deemed necessary to showin detail the means for operating the mold or controlling the supply of the molten metal.

The matrix-block has been illustrated and described herein as provided with Roman and Italic letters in alternate rows, and the shiftaction has been shown and described as applied to shift the row-selecting bank of stops in order to secure the selection of Roman or Italic letters, as may be required by the composition represented on the strip. It must be understood, however, that this is only one instance of the application or use of the invention and that in point of principle the said invention is capable of manifold other uses. Otherwise stated, the invention renders available a multiplied number of stoppingr positions from a single set or bank of stops, thereby enabling a much larger number of matrices or dies to be provided on the matrixcarriage, regardless of what these maybe,and, nevertheless, to permit the same to be selected under the control of the strip without requiring any increase in the number of the stops themselves. Instead of being applied to only one of the two banks of stops the shift-action mechanism might be duplicated or otherwise readily modified for application to both of the two banks of stops under the control of the strip, thereby again doubling up or multiplying the number of stopping positions available to the matrix or die carriage. The matrix or die carriage is in point ofpfunction, of course, a die-selecting Vcarriage, and whether the dies, whether male or female, be on the carriage or the carriage be simply a selecting device taking different positions in order to select the desired die my invention herein disclosed and claimed would apply equally Well for multiplying the number of selections securable from any given number of stops.

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

l. A representative pattern or dummy for controlling the actions of a type casting or setting machine, which pattern contains normal representations for the normal selections of character-type and, when necessary for the given composition, also contains the representation of a shift-action for cooperation to secure a dierent selectionl of charactertype, substantially as described.

2. In a type casting or setting machine, the combination with a die-selecting carriage, of a bank or set of stops, for variably intercepting said carriage to make the desired selection, and a shift-action device operative to shift said bank of stops for multiplying the stopping positions available to said carriage from said bank of stops, substantially as described. y l

3. In an automatic type casting or setting machine, controlled by a pattern or dummy representing the desired composition,tl1e combination with a die-selecting carriage, of a bank or set of stops under the control of said pattern, for variably intercepting said carriage to make the desired selection, and a shift-action device also controlled by said pattern and operative to shift said bank of stops for'mnltiplying theV stopping actions available to the carriage from said stops, substantially as described.

4. In a type casting or setting machine, the combination with a two-way movable diecarriage having the dies thereon arranged in rows in two directions, of two corresponding banks or sets of stops, for variably intercepting said carriage, one set of stops serving to select the row, and the other set thereof serving to select the individual die ot' the row, and shift-action mechanism operative to shift at least one of said banks of stops, for multiplying the stopping positions available to said carriage from said stops, substantially as described.

5. In an automatic type casting-and setting machine controlled by a pattern or dummy representing the desired composition, the combination with a two-way movable matrix-carriage, having the matrices arranged thereon in rows in two directions, of two corresponding banks or sets of stops under the control of said pattern, for variably intercepting said carriage to select the desired matrix, and a shift-action device also ebntrolled by said pattern and operative to shift at least one of said banks of stops, for multi- Vplying the stopping positions available to said carriage from said stops, substantially as described.

6. The combination with a bank of magnets and armature-levers, of a bank of stops including movable members subject to said armaturelevers,and a'shift-action device operative to shift the position of said bank of stops relative to said armature-levers but maintaining the same subject thereto in both of the shift positions substantially as described.

In testimony whereofl I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE ARTHUR GOODSON.

Witnesses:

JAS. F. WILLIAMsoN, F. DMERCHANT.

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