US844562A

US844562A - Type-justifying machine.

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Publication number: US844562A
Application number: US68285598A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benjamin M Des Jardins
Original assignee: UNITYPE Co
Current assignee: UNITYPE Co
Priority date: 1898-06-02
Filing date: 1898-06-02
Publication date: 1907-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 1924-02-19

Description

No. 844,562. PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907. B. M. DES JARDINS.

TYPE JUSTIPYING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 2,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

BENJAMIN M. DES JARDINS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE UNITYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEWV JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed June 2,1898. Serial No. 682,855t.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN M. Dns J ARDINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have inventedImprovements in Type-Justifying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to automatic justifying mechanism.

The particular embodiment of the invention hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, is a machine for ustifying lines of type composed with temporary spaces or separators. The basic principles of my justifying mechanism may, however, be utilized in connection with other forms of composing'machines, such as linotype and matrix-making machines, and it is to be understood that I desire protection for the invention commensurate with its utility.

In the following specification I shall term the difference between the amount of matter in an unjustified line and the required length of the line or column measure the shortage of the line. The shortage may be either a plus or minus quantity, depending upon whether the unjustified line is too short or too long. The places between words in which justifyingspaces are to be inserted I shall term intervals and the pieces utilized to separate the words in the unjustified lines I shall term separators, the number of intervals and separators in a line being, of course, one less than the number of words. The final quads or pieces used to separate the words in the justified lines will be termed justifying-spaces. The shortage of the line divided by the number of intervals will give the average width of the justifyingspaces, and this average Width I shall term a normal space in contradistinction to the justifying spaces,which may in some instances be partly less and partly greater in width than the normal. The term type as used herein will be understood to include matrices, such as are used in linotyping, as well as ordinary printers type.

My invention contemplates ustifying lines of type or composition by applying to the line justifying-spaces of sufficient aggregate value to fill the line to the contemplated length or column measure without affecting the space occupied in the line by the type or characters. This may be done by utilizing normal justifying-spaces equal to the quotient of the shortage divided by the number of intervals by utilizing a group of spaces of two or more different values equal in aggregate width to the shortage of the line and equal in number to the intervals in theline or by utilizing a still larger number of spaces equal in aggregate width to the shortage and adapted to be combined in subgroups to form justifyingspaces. In either case a device is necessary which will represent the number of intervals and which will distribute the shortage either equally or unequally among said intervals in the line under justification. My invention includes, broadly, the use of such a device, whether in the form illustrated and described or in any other form which will accomplish the result sought, by what may be termed a mechanical selection or computation governed bythe number of intervals and the shortage of the line to be justified. My invention as applied to the justification of lines of type or matrices includes any device for automatically and mechanically combining the shortage and the number of intervals of a line to determine in advance of the insertion of the justifyingspacesthat is, to predetermine the widths of the justifying-spaces required to justify the lineand in a more limited sense it includes all automatic devices for ascertaining the shortage and the number of intervals and utilizing the resultantof these quantities to automatically predetermine and select justifying-spaces prior to their introduction into the line.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated the first portion of the justifying mechanism comprises means for measuring or ascertaining the shortage of the unjustified line combined with means controlled by the number of intervals in the line to produce a resultant movement or effect representing the normal justifying-space for the line. Theoretically this movement or effect is obtained in the instance illustrated by constructing two similar triangles. One of the triangles is of known dimensions, one of its sides representing a known arbitrary space, another side the number of word intervals in the line under justification, and the inclosed angle being known, said angle in the case illustrated being a right angle. The shortage of the line is mechanically laid off across said triangle parallel to the side corresponding to the number of intervals, thus forming with the other two sides a similar triangle having a known. side and known angles, the remaining sides of which. may be readily calculated. One of these remaining sides which is mechanically computed corresponds to the normal space for the line, and a part meehanically movable through this normal space is made to control the justification of the line.

In justifying composed lines of type it impossible to provide in advance the number of different sizes which. would. be required to justify every line with normal spaces. I use instead a magazine provided with a limited number of spaces differing from each other by fixed amounts, which for convenience 1 shall term units. It will be evident that any line may be justified by a combination of spaces comprising not more than two sizes differing from each other by a unit. Such justification is not absolutely correct, but in practice it always comes within a half unit of the column-measure, and the units may be made sufficiently small to effect practically perfect justification by the use of a sufficient number of space values. In practice six to twelve sizes of spaces will be found. su'llicient, depending upon the kind of matter under treatment. in the present machine I utilize the normal space value determined from the proportional triangles to govern a selecting device which selects ustifying-spaces from a magazine containing a limited number of what may be termed integral sizes of spaces. As above stated, it usually requires two sizes of spaces to justify a line. The selecting device may be set to select the larger size first and at the proper time shifted to select the next smaller size, or it may be shifted. from the smaller size to the larger size. ll provide a controller to ellect this shifting, and l set the controller for the spacing of each line by what I shall term remainder devices----- that is, devices which measure and are controlled by the portion of the shortage which would remain if the line were spaced with the largest size of justifying-spaces which could be inserted uniformly throughout. For example, if a given line had iive intervals and. twenty-three units of shortage the largest size of space which could be uniformly inserted would be the four-unit space. Five four-unit spaces would aggregate twenty units and the remainder would equal three units. The function of the remainder devices is to measure or gage the remaining three units, and these devices include a controller which is set automatically to effect the distribution of the three units equally in three of the intervals, the usti'lication of the line being therefore accomplished by inserting two four-unit spaces and three :live-unit spaces. In practice the larger spaces are selecting device is then reset by the cont roller to select spaces of the neXt smaller size for the remainder of the line. The basic principle underlying my method. of justifying ('K msists in plaeii'ig, either actually or iigu rat ively single units of space value successively in the intervals of the line under justification until the line is 'lilled. to within a fraction of a unit. Thus if a single unit in each interval will not fill the line a second unit is added, and. so on. until the line full. The resulting spaces will all be of one value or of two values, ditl'ering by a unit. Tn the present machine the justifying mechanism computes or :t ?('t! tains the number of units of space value required for each interval, and the magazine provides integral j ustifying-spaces of the different values; but in some cases unit-spares might be used, said spaces being inserted in the line either singly or in groups and the M116 result ellected. It will be evident that the normal space value determined by the justifying devices might be used to select normal spaces if there W01? a sullicient number of sizes in the magazine. in other forms of justiitiers where the spaces are cut or cast or where they depend upon the mtwement of a matrix or ty pe-writer carriage normal s 1 n2 cos may be utilized, and. my improved just il'ying devices are applicable to such machines.

The justifyii'ig devices which form the sttbject-matter of this invention. compute the j ustifying-spaccs independently for each line and I shall use the term compute to distinguish the present meciiz'tnism from certain justifying mechanisms in which the justification for all possible lines is worked out and represented in the machine by a key or register. In the latter class of machines no computation is efl'ectet'i by the medianism, while in the present invent the meeh anism computes the size of justi ying-s tat-es required for each line from the line shortage and the number of intervals tiiat is, there are elements in the mechanism which represent the line shortage and the number of intervals and which represent the quotient of the shortage divided by the number of inter vals, together with devices which are controlled by the quotient element to select proper justifying-spaces.

The machine herein. .ter described in drtail is designed to justify lines of type which are set up with provisional or temporary separators and. protected by intermediate leads or rules to hold the uneven. ends of the lines in position. The machine has a galley for such unjustified matter and a second galley for justified matter. Each line is removed separately from the former galley and trans-- mitted through the justifying mechanism to the latter galley. The line rests for a moment while a measuring device takes the measure of its shortage, and. a second device first selected and inserted. in the line, and the 1 counts the intervals by contact with the separators. These two devices jointly set the space-selecting device. The line is then forwarded through a line-feed channel until the first word has passed into a word-cut-off channel which is capable of a transverse movement. The line is stopped in this position in the presence instance by the first separator encountering wards or projections in the cut-off channel, which projections correspond to the nicks in the type and permit the type to pass. Between the cut-off channel and the line-feed channel there is a short channel in a transversely-movable plate in which the separator lodges, the thickness of said plate being the same as that of the separators. The word-cut-off channel is moved to register with a word-feed channel which leads to the galley for justified matter, while the separator is removed from the line by the movement of the ej ecting-plate. The cut-off word is then forwarded through the line-feed channel to a position opposite the galley, where it rests upon the upper jaw of a clip which moves into the u per end of the linefeed channel immediate y after the word is elevated. The word-cut-off channel and the separator-ejecting plate then return to their original positions registering with the linefeed channel, and the line is forwarded until a second word has fully entered the cut-off channel. The operation of transferring this word to the galley and ejecting the separator proceeds as before; but before the word reaches the galley a justifying-space is taken from the magazine and placed in the clip above mentioned in line with the wordfeed channel. As the second word is elevated the clip is withdrawn, and the justifying-space is lodged between the two words. These operations are repeated until the last word is forced up through the word-feed channel and the justified line stands opposite the upper galley. At this stage a line-shaft starts, and devices driven by a revolution of the lineshaft transfer the justified line into its galley. The operation of the line-shaft is made to begin in the present machine before the line under justification reaches the galley, and its first movement is to start the succeeding line through the above cycle of operations, which may be done simultaneously with the forwarding of the ustified line, so that no time is lost.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a right end eleva tion. Fig. 4 is a left end elevation. Fig. 5 shows the main computing mechanism with its computing-bar and attendant parts and also the remainder-controller escapement and the connection thereof to the space plunger-blade, the parts shown being taken on line 5, Figs. 3, 4, 10, 11. Figs. 6 and 7 show parts of the remainder-computing mechanism with its special proportional computingbar. Fig. 8 is a plan view of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 shows the movable fulcrum of the remainder proportional computing bar. Fig. 10 is a right end view of the computing device, other views of the same being indicated by line 10 inFigs. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11. Fig. 11 is a plan view showing most of the parts contained in Fig. 5, other views of said parts being indicated byline 11 inFigs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 17, 18. Fig. 12 shows the engaging or holding star record-wheel of the remainder-controlling and record device with other record devices thereof. Fig. 12 shows said starwheel with its locking-arm. Fig. 13 is a left side view of the remainder-controller and record device. Fig. 14 is a front view of Fig. 13, the pawl-tripping finger 338 being left unbroken. Fig. 15 is an operation view of the quotient-record device shown in Fig. 11. Fig. 16 is a plan view of the space-pusher and its gat e-guard device. Fig. 17 is a front view of the same, including the lower part of the space-channels 123. Fig. 18 is an operation view of Fig. 17. Fig. 19 is a left side view of the clutching mechanism. Fig. 20 is an enlarged front view of the same. Fig. 21 is a left side sectional view of the clutch, taken on line 21 of Fig. 22. Fig. 22 is a sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 21. Fig. 23 is a sectional view showing the line-lifting plate with its operating-arm, also the line-clamp and its operating-arm, the operating-arm for the return moi ion of the tangent countingbar and the galley-rule-operating arm, other views of the same parts being shown as indicated by the arrow 23 in Figs. 1, 2, and 24. The positions of the

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600 and 700 are indicated in connection with the several parts herein shown. Fig. 24 is a plan view taken on lines 24 24 of Fig. 23. Fig. 25 is a view showing the separating-rule reservoir and the rule-galley 0, taken on line 25 of Figs. 23 and 24. Fig. 26 shows the mechanism for operating and directing the clutch-controlling and line-feeding devices with their operating cams and arms and the remainderdevice tripping-arm operating the escapement device, other views of the same parts being indicated by the arrow 26 in Figs. 1, 2 and the same view in part being shown in Fig 4. Fig. 27 shows the 2 complete series 'of channels through which the type-line is fed from its passage adjoining the feed-galley a until it reaches its position in front of the receiving-galley b. Fig. 28 is a sectional view showing the electrical counting device. (Also indicated by the arrow 28 in Fig.- 3.) Figs. 29 and 30 are respectively a left and front view of the secondary word-feeding plunger-cam, arm, and attendant mechanism, other views of these parts being shown as indicated by the arrow 29 in Figs. 1 and 2 and of the receiving-clip 540 by the arrow 30 in Fig. 4 and the arrows 29 and 30 in Fig. 31.

Fig. 29 is an operation view of the word plunger cam 625 shown in Fig. 29. Fig. 31 is a plan view showing the space-receiving clip and also the galley-rule and its operatingarm. Figs. 32 to 35, inclusive, snow the movable word-cut-o'lf channel, the space cut-off blade, and the operation thereof. Fig. 36 is a side view of a separator withoutnicks. Fig. 3711s a side view of a type-body, showing the nicks; and Fig. 38 is a diagram illus traring the computing devices.

l/Vhile the machine is inclined backward. at a suitable angle to handle lines of loose type in the description and especially in the draw ings it is for convenience referred to and shown as standing in a vertical position. As far as practicable the descrnation will follow the type-line in the order of its travel. from one galley to the other. The fact is to be kept in mind that the machine sinmltaneously acts upon two lines at a time that is, the column is moved along the lower galley and the end type-line is thrust forward and engaged and the calculating devices are ad justed while the spaces are being inserted in the preceding line.

As far as practicable the reference-numerals herein employed conform to the following order or arrangement, the ninnbers for the different grand divisions being taken from each one hul'idred figures respectively ployed: The figures employed which are eelow are the numbers in the drawings used in connection with the direction-indicating arrows, and broken lines are employed with. said numbers and arrows to show approximately at what part of the figures the correlative figures or parts are taken, the reference-nuinbers being ample to identify the parts shown. The first one hundred figures employed above 100 refer generally to the primary measuring elements, accompanying type-engaging parts, and other miscellaneous mechanisms; those above and including 201), to the difference devices and. accompanying parts; above and including 301), to the spacedislodging mechanism and parts generally relating thereto; above 400, to the mechanism which feeds the spaces into the line and such word-handling mechanism as is closely related thereto; above and including 500, to separator-handling mechanism and allied parts; above and. including 600, to the a'iitomatic word-actuating mechanism and parts relating thereto, and above and inrhzding 7 ()1) to the automatic line-actuating mechanism. Itwill be understood that the several members of this machine are suitably joiirnaled to or otherwise mounted on the frame A in. all cases not specifically provided for. The word-shaft 600 is driven by a belt (not shown) around. the pulley 601.

The lower galley a contains the unjustified. lines of type 121 Fig. 1, the bodies of type contained therein having the regular foundry-nicks and. 151, Figs. 32 to 35 and 1? The words in the galley a are separated by the plain metallic se mrators 1.52, Fig. an which are of the same size as the type-Mal bu t without nicks in their edges Ctnr-espoinh ing to said foundry-nicl-ts of the type. The loose uneven type-lines are separated from each other by the regnlsn' printers lands or brasscs, herein termed separating-r1lee," to distingr." h them from the se mrateis 152.

The galley friction-blecks 15-11, such as are ordinarily tsed in type-setting machines, are inserted. against the unprtn'ected ends of the colnnms of type 121 in the galleys (1, and l. The column of rnji'sti'licd type in the gallev a is moved to the left by th traveling p" sherarm 155. Said arn'i has its hifi rrated prejection 15C) extending into the central opening of said friction-block, locking them in1o operative ei'igagement with reference to earh other.

To move the column of type in the galley a one line at a time and to cease the so: rec of power to follow the constantly-diminishing column, a traveling feed device is employ ed coln 'irising a longitmfinally-mend:le rolnnn'i-feed ratchet-rod operatively connertrd to the traveling pishcr-arm and rtxated intern'iittently by the line-shaft through the medium of sijitable connecting mechanism.

The column-feed arm has a slicing huh 157, which. is in'iounted on the ratchet-red 158, said hub being provided with. the give ed spring-pawl 151), mounted in a slot in the top thereof and engaging the iratchnt-hmth of rod The ratchet-rod 155% has 11 slide-bearings in the middle and 'l'lfjjlli-(lll brackets of the frame it. It is provided ni h the rearward-preject engaging pin 1111, Fig. 2, operativeh en; gcd by the reciprocating column-feed arm 162, the latter being rigidly fastened to the rock-slmft 1623. through which said 1atchetr nt is given a longitudinallyrec .rocatmg motion. The

rock-shaft 16?) has its bearin s 16 1. and 113.3 in the front and rear projections from the li end bracket of the frame it, hi

Sai rock-shaft is also provided cam-operating arm 712, h-1\ ing 1 he tirejection 713 operatively engagt 1 against the surface cam 715 of the line-shaft T1111, being pressed against its snrfacw and into the :ieprossion 716 by means of the coiled spring" 714, which has its rear end resting against the inner side of the bearing and its front encl gainst the outer edge of said f((l1;1l'!l1 7.1.2. The left motion of said ratchet-red ratcl'iet-rod is returned to the right, it passes under the pawl 159 through the hub .15?

without disturbing the arm 155 or the friction-block 156, and said return motion also releases the pressure from behind the column of type. above described takes place for each line of type, and a succession of actuating engagements follows the friction-block wherever it may be. By means of the operation of the column-feed just described the left-end unadjusted line of the column in the galley a becomes located over the line-lifting plate 202, with the leftward separating-rule 153 against the stop or limiting block 201, forming the left wall of the line-measuring channel 182, Figs. 23, 24, 25, and 27. The line of type 121 being released from the tension of the columnfeed devices is new free to be moved forward by the line-pusher or lifting-plate 202 and then transferred into the channel 182, which is especially termed the measuring-channel, where it is brought into engaging relation with the computing devices described farther on. The line-lifting plate 202 has its slidebear'ings in the central bracket of the frame A and starts with its forward edge in line with the bottom of the galley a, forming a continuation thereof, and then serves as a suitable bottom for the column-feed channel 121. By being transferred forward the plate 202 forms a similar bottom for the measuring-channel 182 and again for the feed-channel 183. Said plate is operated through the connecting-rod 719 and the arm 720, the projection 721 of which is engaged by the grooved cam 722 on the lineshaft 700. The arm 720 is pivoted at 723 to the frame A. j

The rule-distributer is described as follows: On its left side near the front end the liftingplate 202is provided with the rule-removing snap or spring hooks 217, the springs 218, Fig. 24, of which keep them continually pressed to the left. During the first part of the forward travel of said lifting-plate the spring-hooks217 are thrust inward by the contact of their inclines 219 against the edge of the separating-rule 153, which lies against the stop-block 201 to the left of the type-line. Said stop-block is rigidly fastened to the central bracket A by the screws 203, bymeans of which it may be adjusted right and left to compensate for different thicknesses of the separating-rules which may be used. It has fastened thereon the detent-springs 215 215, the rear ends of which are offset to the right until they lie in the path of the inclines 219, said path being in a plane beyond the right edge of said stop-block 201. The liftingplate 202 is further provided with. the plate 220 rigid thereto, inclined or wedge-shaped at its front end, Fig. 24.

The separating-rule-galley abutment 221, forming a receptacle for the rules, is rigidly fastened to the central bracket of the frame A. The rule-galley 0 extends to the left as A repetition of the movements far as the left-end bracket A. (Shown inFig. 4, also broken away in Figs. 1,24, and 25.) The abutment 221 is provided with the flat friction-retaining springs 222 222, fastened to its upper and lower edges to hold the rules in position when thrust into the receptacle, and has accessory thereto the detent-springs 21.5 215. The right end of said rule-abutment which is adjacent to the lifting-plate 202 is cut away to allow of the passage of the inclined plate 220.

The operation of the line-lifting plate has been explained and it will not be necessary to indicate the operation of the rule-distributer and the functions of the rule-galley just described. The three divisions of the machine above designated-namely, the liftingplate, rule-distributer, and galleyare in a measure coordin ate, and their purpose or use is to remove the rule from the type-line acted upon an d to transfer said line into the measuring-channel. In the forward movement of the lifting-plate 202 its inclined plate 220 passes to the right of the rule or rules contained in said receptacle and forces them along between the springs 222 thereby making room for the reception of the rule, which is now against the stop-block 201. Upon the return of the plate 202 the hooks 217 carry said rule backward beyond the de tents 215 and between the springs 222 in the abutment 221, owing to the fact that the inclincs 21.9 of said hooks snapped to the left over the front edge of said rule and engaged the same during the forward movement of said plate. The detents or springs 215 bear upon the rule while it is being actuated by the hooks 217 until contact is had with the springs 222 to prevent misplacement of the same during this part of its travel.

The computing devices into engagement with which the type-line is transferred when pushed forward into the measuring-channel 182 after leaving the column will next be described. chanical operation consists in clamping the type-line in said channel by means of a gage, which is automatically moved from a given starting-point into contiguity with the end of said line by means directly to be explained. While the line of type 121 is held in the channel 182 it rests against the end of the lifting-plate 202 and upon the base of said channel, which consists of the abutmentblock 138, a plate rigidly fastened to the frame A. The type-line measuring-gage 120 is rigid with the line-measuring slide-b ar 119 which is fastened to the measuring-bar 119 by means of the connecting-plate 119 Figs. 5, 10, 23. The bar 119 has a longitudinal movement in the slide-boxes 124 and 126, fastened to the middle bracket of the frame A for a distance corresponding to the aggregate difference between the separators 152 and the spaces required to fill the type-line,

The first step in the present meaudit is held with a constant downward ten- 1 is hollowed out somewhat in the form o the sion by means of the coiled spring 120. Said line-measuring bar is supplemental to the measuring-gage 1.20 and is provided with the projecting T-blade 112, described farther on.

The bar 1.1 9 through the medium of the connecting-rod 131, the releasing arm 731, Fig. 23, and the roller 732 is operated against the action of the clamping-spring 129 by the surface cam 733, Fig. 2, on the line-shaft 7 ()1). The cam 733 causes the gage to be removed from the path of the advancing typeline on the plate 202 and to occupy its highest position, which corresponds with one extremity of the longest unjustified line for which the machine is adapted. After the line has been introduced into the channel 182 the cam 733 allows the spring 12.) to draw the gage 120 down onto the top of the line, thereby clamping it. tion from the end of the required line to the end of the actual line the gage 120 traverses a distance equal to the difference between the present separators and their displacingspaces or the actual line shortage. The arm 731 swings on the stud 13 1, which extends from the frame A.

After the type-line has been clamped by means of jaws adjustable with reference to the length of said line in the holding device, which agrees substantially in size with the height and width of type, all as elsewhere described, the counting mechanism comes into operation for determining the number of spaces required and supplying the divider for the quotient sought by automatically counting the intervals between. the words in said line. Each separator corresponds sub stantially with the body of the type character, except that it has no nicks, as previously described. The separators must extend at some one or more points beyond the typebody in order to afford a place of contact for the counting mechanism, such contact portions being provided conveniently by the portions of the separators opposite the foundry-nicks of the type.

The electrocontact-point 170, the electroconductors 171., and the electromagnets 172 are embraced in the coui'iting mechanism, together with other parts about to be men.- tioned, Figs. 3 and 28. The slide winch carries the contact-point over the typeline consists ofthe two sides 173 and 17 1, extending on either side of the lifting-plate 202 and sliding in. suitable boxes projected from the middle bracket A. The arm 7 36 has its 1 pro ection /37 111 engagement with the boxcam 7 38, Figs. 1 and 2, on the line-shaf t 700. Said arm, through its connecting-rorl 17 6, operates the sliding sic es 173 and 1741. Said slide is movable in its bearings in the middle bracket of the frame A a distance slightly In changing its posil x l l 1 letter to make room for the -liber plate 175, which. insulates the contact-plate 177, fastened on the out idc thereof. Said eontactplate also somewhat longer than the type-line. The contact-plate 177 is s,.l.l at one s e to provide a spring 'z-rojection integral therewith, Figs. 3 and 23, upon \vneh the coi'itact-poliit 171) is carried. he Olentropoint 1.70 is secured to the longllunaal center of the plate 1.77 and passes through a suitable opening in the insulatlinn la and the slide 174-, extending a short ars tance beyond the latter into the measurngline channel 182. point passes freely Said through the groove magic by the founmr vnicks 151 of the type, the groove J ll) of ihe measuring-gage .120, and the groove HI of the alnrtmeut-blocl: 133, Figs. 23 and 2s. The cam 738 actuatcs said slice at the pro, er time through the intervening ineelsan'..- .in. causing it to move umvard. the full one] site of its travel, or a mi ance slightly in ex: (as of the length of the type-linc 121, and the point 170 has a perfectly clear passage, as explainedv above, except where it encouni ers the metallic se ntrators 152, in. iss. g ever which an. electrgcal contact 18 ma: e. The

resiliency of the spring projection 1 3 can bles the point 170 to pass the separators 152 Wii hout unnecessary frict on, but at the same time furnishing the r ht amount of ener v for proper electrical contact. The concur-i ing-spring projection'178 insulated from the maclnne by the fiber plate 16$) and has fastened to is u'ener end one of the cont um" tors 171. An elec ric batt vy (not shown in the drawings) has one pole connected directly to the frame of the machine and the other to the second conrluctor 171 from the magnets 1.72. The circuit over or through which the electrical current must pass from and to the battery every time said circuit Is completed by the contact be tween, the gzoinl 170 and a separator 1.52, is mare up of the two conductors 171, the magnets 172, the projection 173, the plate 177, and the he me of the machine. Every time sa d circuit is com -leteil in the manner d 221i (Ll an electrical pulsation sent through the magnets 172. Each of said. pulsations depresses the armature 179 on the magnet-arm 131) against the tension. of the s,;1'lng 131, l igs. 3 and 10, and operates the esca :ementverge 11.3, thereby allowing the counting esea,1emerit-ratchet 1.22 and the slice tangent-bar 117 to move downward unzer the inlluenee of the spring 131) one teeth at a time.

The mechanism and its o leration just i escribed has fully revealed the interrelafion of the two vertical slide-bars 117 and 115;. with the means whereby the former 11s placed one step to represent each space u h Feh the line requ'res, and the latter an amount in excess of the length of the type-line. 1t equal to the full. shortage of the line, less the