US863442A - Type-setting machine. - Google Patents

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PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907.

W. P. QUENTELL.

' TYPE SETTING MACHINE. I

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 81,190 6.

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WILLIAM P. QUEN'IELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 13, 1907.

-Application filed December 31, 1906. Serial No. 350.225.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. QUENTEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention provides means by which selected type can be rapidlyand accuratelytaken from a magazine and delivered to a type rod or holder.

' his invention resides in certain novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawing, in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan view of a machine embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device of Fig; 1 in section along ling x a: Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows parts in adifferent position than in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a type guide. Fig. 5 shows a Weight. Fig. 6 shows a modification.

in this drawing is shown a support or platform a with risers or frame b carrying a series of magazines 0 for type d. Each magazine carries types of one letter. The selection from different magazines is made as presently explained.

To a slide or shuttle e or rather a depending arm or bracket fixed to this shuttle is iulcrumed at f a lever or rod 9 having a type guide h and means for detachably holding a type rod 1'. This part e is called a shuttle as it is slid back and forth to one point or another as required for selecting a specific type or magazine. As the slide with type guide is moved back and forth in selecting type or magazines, said guide is held by spring is away or out of register with the magazines. When at a selected magazine or letter the type guide is moved or swung to line or register with a magazine by i This finger lever actuates a bail o fulcruined at p so as to move the type guidetoward a magazine and against the action of the returning spring it. Such bail as seen at 0 in Fig. 1 extends across the machine in front of the type guide Fig. 3 for the type guide or rod as it iscarried back and forth by the slide e to move between this bail and the magazines. As bail o swings toward the magazines such bail presses or swings the type guide h in the same direction, such type guide or its rod g as already noted being swingingly supported at point f and in contact with but not connected to the bail o. The function of the bail in each case is to swing the type guide to a magazine 0. When released the spring It returns the type guide or swings it away from the magazines. It need not be specially stated that springs are applied where needed as for example to return the bail or finger lever or for other purposes. Such. details are understood in machines of this kind. A returning spring for the bail is shown at q.

Each magazine has a stop to prevent premature or improper discharge or loss of type. This stopr located at the bottom or outlet of its respective magazine is shown in form ofspring plunger, the spring 8 holding the stop in the way of the type.

The type guide h secured to or cast on the upper part of the swinging support 9 has a stop 1. which is normally held retracted by spring a. As the type guide swings to a magazine such guide strikes a stop r to move it out of the way. Also the projecting heel or rear part of stop t coming against a supporting block or other part carrying the magazine is projected or pressed forward so that its front extends out beyond the face of the type guide. As the stop 1 recedes and the stop t comes into action a type d slips or falls off the lower end of the magazine and is arrested by projected stop t. Upon thereturn of the type guide the stop 1* following outward returns to the stopping position to prevent the following types from coming off the lower end of the I the type which had been taken from the magazine and come to rest on stop t slips by its weight along the guide and onto the type rod 2'. The types and guide as also the magazines and the type rod are so formed that the types will hold to them and slide along the same without coming off between the ends, one such shape of construction being indicated in Fig. 1 at c and (1, while another form is shown in Quentell U. S. Patent No. 834,164, Figs. 6 and 7. The form of magazine shown in Fig. l is of dove tail shape in cross section which has been found effective and easily constructed.

'The type fitting outside of or clasping the magazine can easily slip onto and along the same and maintain hold thereon until they drop from the bottom end of each magazine. As the stops alternate under successive swings of the type guide one type after another is taken and comes to rest on the type rod. The type rods can be suitably mounted on the lever g adapted to act as a type rod carrier and when a type rod is filled it can be removed and a new one supplied. in Fig. .3 a screw is shown in the support g at the lower end of the type-rcd, while the upper end of such rod can have a dowel projecting into a hole, in the guide it and on loosening or removing the screw the type rod can be pulled'out of place.

The slide c has a handle or finger piece 3 by which it can be moved to a selected character on a letter board 4 having suitably placed stops at which letters or characters are placed. The handle has a stop piece 6 formed as a slide or loop which can be raised to pass over the stops and allowed to drop so as to be arrested against a stop. Any suitable stopping arrangement could be employed to enable the slide to be held firmly and accurately at a point selected for the type guide. to take a certain type or character from a magazine. A starter or scraper 7 in shape of an inclined faceor armscan be provided against which the type guide would strike the type and start it-to the type rod if any such type should stick at the upper part of the type guide. The upper part of rod or support g is slotted and the stop 1' engaged by said slotted or forked part acts also as a guide pin to insure accurate registering of the type guide and magazine. As the support 9 swings toward the starter 7 the inclined lower face or edge of this part 7 comes into the groove seen in Fig. 4 at the top of the support 9 and guide 72, and if a type should stick at such upper end portion of the guide it such type coming to the inclined lower surface of starter 7 would be pressed downward and started toward the rod 71. The slot 9 shown in Fig. 4 at the top of the rod g on the swinging of the rod or support 9 co-acts with v the guide pin 1' to insure accurate registry of the type guide and magazine when said parts are in operative relation to one another. The parts 9 h and i move in the machine asthough they were one part and for convenience of designation these parts might be collectively called a rod which collects the type on its part i which at suitable times is removed and replaced since the expression type guide necessarily includes the" type rod supporting such guide.. I

A weight 8 can be applied to the magazine supply of type so as to insure their descent or proper feed. Dif-- ferent rows of stops are shown on the key board 4 and the stop 6 can be slid on the handle 3 to engage a stop of any selected row. This handle 3 is attached to the slide or carriage e. i

The operation of the dcvice/is'readily understood. The type guide being brought to a selected stop on the letter board is swung to the corresponding magazine and the alternating stops are actuated to allow one type to come to rest on the guide 1 while the other types stay in the magazine. The steps r L being suitably spaced or the width of the type suitably gaged but one type at a time is cut off from the pile or taken by the type guide. The steps 1- t are called alternating because as either one of these steps moves out of action the other comes into action. As the support 9 moves or swings to the magazine or to the frame back b said support 9 engages stop r and pushes it back outof oper ativc position. At the same time such support butts the stop t against the frame b and projects such stop to active position as seen in Fig. 3 so that the column of type on the respective magazine slips down to come to rest on the stopt. As the rod' 9 returns or swings back to the position shown in Fig. 2 the type resting on stop t is carried away from the magazine, and this stop t moves out of action to let this type slide to rod 11, while stop r again moves into action. The column oi typereiuaining in the magazine rests on top of the rod 9 as it swings away from the magazine and on the ward and back movement.

stop 1" which follows this rod 9 as it swings away. On the return of the type guide such type slips or falls to the type rod. The slide or movable support e brings the type guide in front of a magazine, and the key in or the key actuated bail o and spring is move the guide to and from contact with the magazine. The type guide thus has a longitudinal and a transverse or for- The shuttle and moving parts can be made light so as to avoid wear and allow easy movements. The finger lever in could be fulcrumed on shuttleeand the bail o in such case dispensed with and the finger lever made to directly engage the type carrier (Fig. 6'),

What I claim is I 1. A type-setting machine comprising a magazine, a stop at the outlet of the magazine, a spring for holding the stop in action, a movable type guide, a stop on the receiving end portion of the type guide; and a spring for normally retracting the stop on the type guide, and means for moving the type guide to and. from the magazine to retract the stopat the magazine while projecting its own stop. I

2. A type-setting machine comprising a 'magazine,'a stop, a spring for holding the stop in action, a movable type guide, a stop on the type guide, and a spring for normally retracting the stop on'the type guide, and means for moving the type guide to and irom the magazine to retract the stop at the magazine while projecting its own stop said stop on the guide beingplaced-at the'end portion ,of the guide which 'lies toward the magazine so as to allow but one type at a time to passfrom the magazine. to the stop as the guide moves, to 'the magazine.

3. A type-setting machine comprising a magazine with suitable support, a stop at the outlet of the magazine, a spring for yieldingly holdingthe stop in active position means for actuating said stop, a type guide. movable to and from the magazine, a spring retracted stop on'the type guide, and means for moving the type guide to and-from the magazine and for bringing the stop on the type guide to contact with the support of the magazine to project said stop beyond the face of the guide,

4. A typesetting machine .comprising a magazine, a letter board, a type guide between the magazine and board, a slide by'which the type guide'is transported and on which-the typeguide is pivotally mounted so that/it can swing, a key, and a bail actuated by the key and mad to move the type guide.

5. A type-setting machinecomprising a magazine, a lon-. gitudinally and transversely movable type guide, and stops on the guide and'magazine. 4 v

6. A type-setting machine comprising a magazine and a type guide. and means for transferring type from'one to the other, said means comprising a longitudinally and transversely movable type guide, a stop for limiting the number of type to be transferred, and a stop for preventing type from unduly leaving the magazine.

'7. A type-settingmachine comprising a series of magazines and vibrating type guide, a shuttle or slide for-carryin the type guide in front or a magazine and'means for bringing the type guide into register with a magazine.

8. A type setting machine comprising a magazine with a type stop, a guide mounted to swing and guided by said stop, a slide and key for moving the guide to, and from a magazine, and a stop on the-guide made to act alternativeiy with the stop'at the, magazine.

9. A type setting machine comprising a series ,of magazines, a swinging type guide, a spring for normally lwlding the 'guide away from the magazine, a finger key for moving the guide to the magazine, a. slide-or shuttle for supporting the-guide, a key board and an arm with a stop for engagi ng'-the keyboard.

10. 'A type-setting machine comprising a series of magi rying qthe type guide in front of amaga zlne and me'an s for bringing the-type gnideinto registerviivith magazine and a scraper or starter for the type which has been taken from the magazine. v

'11. A type-setting machine comprising a series of magazines and yibrating type guide, a shuttle or slide for carrying the type guide in front of a magazine and means for bringing the type guide into register with a magazine and means for transferring a type from the magazine to the type guide.

12. A type-setting machine comprising a series of maga- Z the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

In testimony 'Whereof I have hereunto set my hand in WILLIAM P. QUENTELL.

Witnesses: Enwnnn WIEsNnn W. C. HAUFF.

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