US837127A - Matrix for linotype-machines. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 2'7, 1906.

J. R. ROGERS.

MATRIX FOR LINOTYPE MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 0618,1906.

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JOHN RAPHAEL Booties, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, assicuoa TO MERGENTFALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION or .NEW

YORK.

MATRIX FOR LlNOTYP E-IVIACHINESQ Patented NOV. 27,1906.

Application filed October 8, 1906- Serial No. 337,933

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN RAPHAEL Roo- ERS, of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Matrices for Linotype'Machines, oi" which the following is a specification. I

In the print-ing of legislative bills and similar matter it is frequently necessary to place horizontal cancellatio'ndines across the letters or characters in such manner as to indicate that they have been or are to be canceled, and this without destroying their legibility. lation-lines extend continuously across the canceled words and the intervening spaces.

The Object of my invention is to adapt Mer enthaler linotype-machines and kindred mac ines commonly sold andknown in the art under the trade-mark Linotype in which the printing slugs or linotypes are cast against the composed lines of matrices to produce slugs with recesses extending through the characters and adapted to receive rules for printing the cancellation-lines. To this end I provide matrices each having in addition to the usual characters therein a rib or projection adapted to form a cavity in the slug in suitable position to receive the rule or other inserted member.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a ma trix constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the mold and amatrix in operative relation thereto. Fig. 4 isa erspe'ctive view of a slug produced from a iine of my matrices, together with the rule for insertion therein.

Referring to the drawings, A A re resent the matrices, B the mold witlrwh ic they are used, and C a slug produced inthe mold and a ainst the matrices.

isc of the matrices consists,-'as usual, of

a flat shouldered plate with distributing tech in the upper end and an intaglio char-.

actor or matnix proper, c, in one e e,.the'construction being essentially the same as that shown in Letters Patent of the United States Heretofore the character or letter has been punched or otherwise formed directly in the edge of the matrix and in complete and per- It is preferred to have these cancelfect form, so that it would produce on the edge of the slug an ordinary printing-type.

In applying my improvement I provide the matrix with a pro ectiug rib a, extending transversely through the character or matrix proper and projecting outward, as shown in the drawings. These ribs are alike as to size and location in the respective matrices, so that when a series of matrices are assembled side by side in the ordinary manner theribs will join or register at their ends, and thus form a continuous rib extending across the line of matrices. In use the matrices are assembled in front of the mold B in the ordinary manner, as represented inFig. 3, in connection with the usual blank matrices or spaces and the usual wedge-spacers to effect justification. When the mold is filled with molten metal, as usual, it flows into the matrices which form the type characters on the front edge of the slu while the projecting ribs 0, form in 68,51 character a transverse groove or cavity. The resulting slug will present the a pearance shown in Fig. 4, with a longitudina groove in its upper or printing edge through all the characters formed by the improved matrix. .The groove-thus formed is adapted to receive a thin rule or strip of metal D, which is seated 1 firmly therein with its outer edge flush with the faces of thetype. A line printed from this slug will represent the ordinary characters With a continuous canceling line through the characters and across the intervening spaces.

' The essence of my invention lies in providing a matrix with a rib or projection extending through the type character and ada "tedto form a groove or cavity in the face 0 the slu I twill of course be understood that when it is required to print lines which are canceled for only aportionof their length the matrices herein shown may be. assembled in line withthe ordinary matrices for producing complete or uncanceled characters. In this way the slug may be produced with complete or solid characters for a portion of its length and with slotted characters for the remainder of its length to receive the canceling-rule.

The rib a may be formed integral with the matrix, or it may be separately constructed and tightly and permanently seated in a maybe variedin form and in location, as

transverse groove in the matrix, as shown in the drawings. a

While have represented a matrix con taining a single character only, it Will of course be understood that matrices may be made with two or more separablyusable characters, as shown in United States Patent No. 54:7,633, and that either or both of these characters may be provided with a rib a. I

While it is preferred to use the plain rib extending centrally across the matrix proper, as herein shown, it Will be understood that it special requirements may dictate, provided only it is adapted to form in the slug a cavity to receive a rule or other printing member either in or adjacent to the type character.

It will be manifest to the skilled mechanic that my improvement may be incorporated in matrices for monoline-machines and other kindred machines, provided only they form type characters in relief on a slug or other supporting-body. 1

Having described my invention, what I claim is i 3. A type-matrix having a transverse rib or projection to form a cavity in the face of the type produced therein.

2. In a linotype-rnachine, a series of matrices containing intaglio characters or matrices proper, and provided with rojections arranged to aline in series; Where. y. they are adapted to produce a continuous groove through the series of type characters pro--' duced therefrom.

3. A linotype-matrix provided at one edge With an intaglio character a, and a transverse rib a.

4. A linotype-matrix containing a matrix character a, and having a rib a seated therein, snbstantially as described and shown.

5. A linotype matrix provided with a matrix proper a, and also With a rib or ro-

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