US925073A - Multiplex composing mechanism. - Google Patents

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W. BANCROPT. MULTIPLEX GOMPOSING MBCHANISM.

PPLIATIN 'LED MAR. 5, 1908` 925,073o Patented June 15, 1909.

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W, BANGROFT. MULTPLEX GOMPOSNG MEGHANISM. APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 5, 1909.

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W. BANGROFT. MULTIPLEX GoMEoSNG MEGHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED HAR. 5. 1908.

Patented June l5, 1909.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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NsYLvANIAfAssionon 'ro ininsron nono- Nsiiiviinia, i ooiiroiiii'i'ioN or MULTIPLEX COMPOSING MECHANISM.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Application lediMareh 5, 1908. Serial No. 419.3%`

To all whom it may concrrn.'

of Philadelphia, in the'eoiinty ol Philadeh certain new and useful Improvement in Mnltiplex Composing Mechanisms: and I herebv declare the iol exact description ol the saine, re'lei'enee lieing had to the accompanying drawings, forining a part ol this specification, and to the fig'- ures and letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention has for its object the simultaneous composition oi' setting up o'l' plural representations or copies of in justiiied to different measure oi' of different setwise dime in eharz'xcters nsions or both.

It is well known that in composing' mattei' i in justified lines regard must he had l'or the set size of the faces as well as the measure, for while the latter determines the space available for each line of type, the former affects the number of characters or vpe and of justifying:r spaces or word intervals hence the division of charaeters at the end of ilie lino i and the dimensions of tions.

For example, mattei' set or composed in pica or 12 point and justified to a mi'iasure of sav 30 eins, il in agate orif point will but partially iill the ineasure, 'requiring that a portion of the next succeeding' pica line be included therein, llius establishingr not only a different ending ioitlie line, but a dili'ercnt justification fraction; and the saine true if two lines :ire composed in the saine type but the justifying' fracto diilei'ent measure. the longer line will ndmit more characters :ind

spaces, :ind include mattei' carried over into the succeeding' shorter line. And in either ease where one of the lines of duplicated inatter ends in the middle of a word it becomes necessary to add a hyphen which d con'iplemental line composed or to a different measure,

laeli of correspond enee in. the two products,

it has heretofore been deemed impraetieable i to simultaneously compose oi' set up duplicate copies of the saine mattei' in justiiied lines where the setwise dimensions of the font or the"measure,dii'ei'ed in the two copies, notwithstanding the desirability 'of so doing on the score of economy. These difficulties have, however, been removed or overcome by the present invention which, in its broader aspects, is applicable alike to the various in different face i Because oi" this zitter in lines i j classes :ind kind Be it known that I, Wniirnnn BANeiioii'r.

equipped wiil in the linotyjiie7 mal rix mali'inir a a printing, print lowinfar to be a full, eleai', and

indirectly, as in tems, io produee tion or pattern wl matie meehantsni ioi' the printing' or Vnnpi i competent means 'toi' e. justification and phia, State of Pennsylvania, have inifented a s ol' composing machines i'ecting in;n either directly, as

scttiiio', ti'pcwi'iting', nd like machines, to `iroduce ed or impressed suri'i .'e, or, the monotvpe :ind lilie sysa preliminarjP representaiieh in turn .controls autoproduction o'l' the 'essed surface so impressed opera t type upon said fniittcrl'i.

ln addition lo nient illusti'aled siste, broadly, in

tion with a plural equipped witl ing mechanism, selective ineiiihe multiple with cori'espoin vices, or some oll dividnal con'iposing unil their action tei those oll one or more unil to the seleeting' at the several u performed and prof-ee at one or more units is and, il` necessary, a

upon thc jusiili( that unit are hi intei'lirenee with the other eon'ipo liple coniposilioi the units and continued g arrives at the justihcaiion stage, oes not appear at all in the tho employment in conneeily oll composing iinii's each icliara'lei' designaningl and lino justil'uvnig devices or mec hanismfil oi a selccsuch as a keyboard, whose rs or lri'iys are connected in ling' character des-- olthe several units` so that arzictcrs ma)Y he i-iiiiiiiliaiietogether with controllable the character selecting; dethem', pertaining to the ins may he cul` out oi' nporarilifY suspended while s are free. to respond leviccs, so tliat composition nits can be simultaneously ded with until the line' completed lo measure, h vphen added, wherei devices pertaining' to iight into action, without orl`i'om those pertaining to sine; units, alter which innl resumed uponv all until another line, the addi-t i ma)r he tional mattei' being incorporated in and rforniing part of tl ie next snceeedin g line, ,at the unit where justif 'ation was first performed.

in the aecoinj )anying d ine,` a preferred forni of embedimma-Figore 1 is a lront eleva composing mach tion through one a lock-out applied View v'and Fig'. 4

ting and jiistiiieatioii indicator valves. 5 is a i'liagrammatie view tion of a muliplex controller ine. Fig'. 2 is a vertical see-. of the eomposing'iinits with thereto. Fig. 25 is a face a section through the reset- Fig,

showing the controlconnections. Fig. (i is a top plan view of 'a multiplex liiioty po machine embodyingv the rawings, illustrat- (Sii sions of the justiicstior.

Y justification indicato? i 6 for advancing the justifie, on indio H as fully iiescribed in the aioressi and scope of the present iin'mitioi'i, it shown as zip )iisd in Connection with tvo known but issiiniini forms of com units representative of the indirrfct ciasses mentionedy io Wit, ii, monotyp strip composing machine and ai iino Je 1 mnmonion iii with branch connecions inscri tri); composing and sing c in 1t 1s to be understood imt iii ioni iiinstrfitlons smi that other mii iin;

forms may be empio* ,i idi body ohfirzicter destin i inca-ns for fiustiying die i ies es t Referring iirst to the mono'iJ ferred form oi onlin/)dini 'to 5 inciusiw i frame upon which :n ing units B, loc-steil s. ing unit or keybmirii front oi and between me com that the operator ins); remii J progress ina-de et either or both no units.

The essential eiernents of eeen con" sing unit are a. series of character und spsoe designating lnembersenfi a justification inconnu? ism including means for indicating the amount of space remaining to oe filled by justification, together with in? ing n'proportionate i the line.

The composing u. identiooi. with ti dated Jniy l', i900 gustw06, omitt unit Contains a seri o, Y ein; designating; rnenii'iers in tir i, and a. iustiiicntion meeimni r forro of inmunes justification indicstoi anni carini series of punches i. in fi-Jdition, @son rovideci with record stri@ i f ism 3; actuating or sot per.

return cylinders j and measuring sind justiiost', enisms; ok release motor 2 'for indicator mechanism; resetting controlling the motor ond motoretnrn @yinder and release motor fyfor returning the line messuring and instiicstion indicator deu vices to zero osition when s, iin-e of compo* sition is competed anti justified; miti s justiiozition indicator *mitre isi. oentioiiing motor 'the 'enriches oi' L sinifie coinoosinff unit B,

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l; trois corresponding desigi siting elements of two or more units, which is sccompiisned by' i providing nach oi' the pipes or haies ot coina the corrcspondiiivf osigiiedevices seve si nuits indionted, oiziigrznn i mesiiy, in To enable time Character minimizing den of any eoniposinfg mit to separately si, :is where 1t desi fri to int-orpoiate "ri change the face or font, @dd n 1 oxeinsion o the forni this incitent :function 'for two reasons;

into the oompositioi'r, 'whiie the other repre i 't nach key is coupled in niuitipie with and conl unit E, is c font in. the io r zniber i?, i snp-- `n be i. texrposr between Manns i oifeiiyingg the punch trimming .V i, fr? ed nearing on the traso n. sind nisino i? is in t tive position it Wilii inter :p1- zind prevent the nominee of the punches 95 'i when pressure is applied to their motors 2 through the sotion of the keys of the seiecting member Esch iockout is provided with appropriate t ig devices such is n piston 1 rs 100 spring 20, and. in order to ins o out or soppressi@ .l oi' the jos 't a oi ne conig'iosingt 'viii ation signss or iiriorations el mit nino-thor nm., the ojy'i" 105 g .Y ioekoot nl ton i9 pertainin o tiefA i iit hand u is compiled, is jsy' .pe 2i, l with zii-C, pipe "z'introiiei ilf ji ation inti ifi 13.0

mine ot' eine tractor anches oi' the nani or ron n n-resg ser f Y zing unit C, teifeiing with the intters eontroi over me nii-rector 120 designeting andv instit'd ing devices of the iinit Whose justiiication indicator key at the time noted upon, hence any cimrecte i may be added, to the iine or ne per-- formes st one composing unit without the boing carried over into the compositionotiier unit. i 'be remarked that the ustifief vor key nos been seiected to per No iirst, because its operation does not in any respect interfere with the action of the composing unit with which it is associated, inasmuchias it merely operates to eiiect the advance of the justification scale to the position determined by the line measuring devices without, however, arresting the latter, hence itcan be operated at anyA stage in the composition of a line; and, second, because said key is normally actuated preliminary to the formation ot' the justification signal, hence at a time when it is necessary to cut out the punches 0l` the companion unit B, in

order that the justification signals may not be reproduced at the last named unit.,

The manner of using` the duplex machine described is as follows: Assuming that two co ies of the same matter are to be composed eit er in type of different set-wise dimensions and to the same line measure, in type of the Same set-Wise dimensions but to different line measures, or in type of different set-wise dimensions and to ditl'erent line measures. The line measuring devices of the two composing units B-are first set for lines of the required length, and composition is proceeded with as usual by striking in succession the keys of the selecting unit C, representing the characters, spaces etc. until the signal devices at one'of t e composing units advises the operator that the line on the corresponding unit is nearly or quite completed,.whereupon he depresses the justification indicator keyf pertaining to that unit, thereby advancing the justi'l'ication indicator to registering position, yat the same time locking out the punches otthe other unit B whose line is as yet incomplete. W'hile holding the justification indicator key depressed he ascertains the keys required for justifying that line, depresses the indicated eys, to produce the justification signal perforations, releases the justification indicator key and depresscs the restoringkey of the unit Whose line is thus justified. Thus the line at one com osing unit iscompleted and justified while t at at the other unit is only partlycomposed. Multiple composition is now resumed and continued until the signal devices indicate that the lineat the second unit is completed, the added matter being composed as part of the next succeeding line4 at the first unit, Wliereupon the justifying and restoring operations are repeated, but

this time with reference to the second unit,k alone. ,j Referring to the alternative form of embodiment ol' the principle as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, the composing units l) are linotype machines of wel known construction, such, for example, as Athat illustrated 1n Patent No. 436,532, dated Septl, 1890, minus the usual key bank, each equipped witha series of character and space designating members, represented by the series of igodsO through which lthe matrix and space escapements are actuated, and provided with the usual justification mechanism, of which vthe starting or assembly block lifting lever 31, line scale and signal bell are constituent elements. As in the .case of the duplex monotype composing machine hereinbefore described the two composing units D are so disposed witli relation to each other and the selecting unit or keyboard E that the line measuring devices and justifying levers 31 of both shall be read-ily accessible to the operator. Each key of the composing unit is coupled in multiplewith corresponding designating members or rods 30 oi the two composing units D in a manner to produce simultaneous action and a consequent delivery of similar characters or spacers iii the two lines, and, in addition, each series of rods 3() is provided with a lockout by which one series may be thrown out of action while the other is l'ree to respond to the keys. A competent connecting mechanism or system lor this purpose is illustrated, wherein each designating rod'3() is provided with a lever 32 and motor 33. Corresponding motors 33 of the two units are connected through a pipe or pipes 35 with a valve 36 controlled by the key representing the character or space assigned t-o the designating rod 30. Located in proximity to each sei-ies ol designating rods 3() in position to engage shoulders or projections 37 thereon is a bar 38 pivot-ally supported and'provided with a motor 39, the latter couiled with a valve 4() connected tf- .t lockout key 41, there being a key 41 'for each eoinposing unit. The inode ofoperation is similar to that'hereinbefore described with reference to the monotype .composing machine. Composition is simultaneously perl'ormed on the two units until the operator observes that oney line. is completed and ready for justification, whereupon he dcpresses the justifying lever pertaining to the unit whose line is shown to be complete, thereby automatically justifying said line and restoring the .line measuringdevices to initial position for the 'reception of a new line after which multiple composition is resumed and continued until the line of the second unit is completed when the process is repeated with relation to said second composing unit.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to actuat-e a plurality of composing units from a single keyboard for the production of duplicate copies of the same matter,

as illustrated in Patents 663,971 of Dec. 18, 1900, and 279,790 of June 19, 1883, but they diiie'r essentially from my present invention, in that but a single justification mechanism common to the several composing units is einployed instead of a separate justification mechanism fori'each of said units hence the several lines produced, if justifiedat all, must be identical both in the mattei' and in measure.

Josed thereon and a selecting unit commonl to all the com osiiig units.

2. In a mu tiplex com osing mechanism such as describe( the com mation of the rollowing elements, to Wit; a plurality of composing unitseach equipped with character designatmgand line justitying devices, 1n-

cluding means lor measuring the line as com-` posed; and a selecting unit provided with a series of selecting members or keys each of i the latter coupled in multiple with corresponding designating devices of the composing units.

3. In a multi lex composing mechanism such as describe the combination ol' a plurality of composing units each containing means for justifying the lines composed thereon, and a selecting unit provided with a series of selecting members each coupled lWith corresponding designating devices of the several com osing units and located. in

Such relation an roximity to said coinposing units that the justiiication devices tliere-f of Will be under the direct ol'iservatioii and control oi the operator at said selecting' unit.

4. In a multi lex composing mechanism such as describe the combination of the iollowing elements, to wit; a plurality of composing units each provider with a series of designating members, means for measuring and justifying the line, and a lockout for its designating members; a selecting unit pro# vided with selecting members, each coupled with corresponding designation members of i the several composing units; and means for separately actuating said lockouts.

5. In a multiplex composing mechanism suoli as described, the combination with a ol com osing units each provided l With a series of c aracter designating memplurality L unit.

bers, a justifying mechanism and a lockout for said 'character designating members, of a selecting unit provided with a series of selecting ykers each coupled with corresponding designating members of the several composing'units and with a plurality of keys, one for eacli composing unit, coupled with said lockouts.

6. In a multi lex composing mechanism sudh as describe rovided with a plurality of composing an justifying units each equipped With a lockout for its designating members, Aand iii-combination therewith, a keyboard or 'selecting unit common to the several composing units provided With means for separately controlling the lockouts and restoring the line measuring devices of the several composing and justifying units.

` 7. In. a multi lex composing mechanism such as described),

lowing elements, to Wit; a plurality of composing and justifying units each provided with a series ot' character designating members and line justifying devices including line measuring inechanisni'and resetting or restoring devices; a plurality ollockouts, one

for each series 'of' 'character designating members; and a selecting unit or keyboard Whose selecting members or keys are each coupled in multiple with the corresponding character designating devices of' the several composing units, and provided in addition. with a 'plurality of' keys, two for each composing and justifying unit, tlie one controlling the resetl ting devices and the other the lockout.

8. In a multiplex composing mechanism such as described, the combination With a plurality of' composing and justifying units each provided with a series ofdesignating members, a lockout therefor, a' justiiication indicatorvand means for positioning the lat- `ter, of a selecting unit common to the designating members of the composing units, and a plurality of justification indicator keys, one for each composing'unit, the justification in dicator key of each composing unit control-- ling the lockout of the companion composing Wiiirinin Biiuonorir.

Witnesses Cries. Bannsnnr, Son. IiaAzirii.

the combination of the fol-

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