US935543A - Galley mechanism for typographical composing-machines. - Google Patents

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H. PEARCE & J. E. BILLINGTO-N. GALLEY MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 190B.

935,543, Patented Sept. 28, 1909.

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H. PEARCE & J E. BILLINGTON. GALLEY MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL OOMPOSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11 1908.

HERBERT PEARCE AND JOHN ERNEST BILLINGTON, OF BROADHEATH, ENGLAND.

GALLEY MECHANISM FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING-MACHIN ES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1909.

Application filed May 11, 1908. Serial No. 432,235.

To all whom ttmay concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT PEARCE and JOHN ERNEST BILLINGTON, subjects of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at Lino.- type and Machinery Works, Broadheath, in the county of Chester, England, have mvented new and useful Improvements in the Galley Mechanism of Typographical Composing-Machines, of which the followlng 1s a specification. v

This invention relates to improvements 1n typographical machines such as linotype machines, and, for convenience of illustration, it is hereinafter described in connection with a linotyp'e-"f' machine of the class described inatheijspecification of Letters Patent No. 436532.

Since the date of the just named patent, means have been devised for adapting the linotype machine, at each cycle of lts operat-ions, to cast a series of disconnected short measure linotypes of relatively variable measures and suitable for the printing of tabular matter, and it is to machines thus or similarly operating that the present invention particularly applies. In this lastnamed class of machine, no provision has heretofore been made for enabling the said machine to be adjusted for keeping apart, that is to say, preventing the pieing of, the linotypes of the several relatively variable measures which the machine may be called upon to cast.

The present invention aims at overcoming the aforesaid difficulties by providing the galley with a series of'adju'stable galleries or shelves; the spring-pressed linotype guide plate, between the trimming knives and ga l ley, with a corresponding number of adjustable shelves or guides; and theh-notype lever .with a corresponding number of adjustable pushers or fingers. By these means the several shelves, guides and pushers may be adjusted to suit any desired series of linotypes which the machine may cast at each of its cycles.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read therewit In these drawings Figure l is a front elevation of apparatus constructed according to the present invention; Fig. 2 is an elevation as seen from the right-hand sideof Fig. 1, but with part of the apparatus removed; Flg. 3 is a plan of'part of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line l-l of Fig. 1, looking from the right hand side of that figure; Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of part of the apparatus, taken about on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a plan-of one of the ad ustable shelves detached from the galley.

n carrylng the invention into practice in the manner represented in the drawings,

each of the shelves 1, other than the lowest shelf .2 (which latter is the normal fixed one) is provided with two rearward extensions 3, Fig. 6, capable of sliding in verplate 5, and capable of being secured in any such position of vertical adjustment by two clamps 6 one above and the other below the said rearward extension, the clamps 6 being themselves secured in position by screwing the nuts 7 thereof, tightly against the back of the plate 5. The front upturned edge of each shelf 1 isprovided with two screws 8 in sliding engagement with two vertlcally slotted standards 9. -These standards are preferably formed, each in two parts or two symmetrical vertical halves 1 pivoted to the lowest shelf 2 by screws 10,

and capable of being moved apart (by being turned upon these screws as axes) so as to release the screws 8, for enabling the shelves to be removed from, and placed in position in, the galley,'to provide'for the reception of less or more short-measure linotypes. The two separable parts of each standard 9 are normallyv held together by a. clamp 11 which is slid over or-caused to embrace the upper ends thereof, andis retained in such position of engagement by a screw and nut 12 which secure it to a" bracket 13 fast to the top plate .14 of the galley. The brackets 13, as shown in Fig.

out of engagement with the upper ends of the standards 9. to enable the two separable parts of each of the latter to be moved apart or brought together as before mentioned.

Each of the shelves 1 and 2 is preferably provided with a resistant 15 suitably consisting of a piece of metal having abent-up end. The horizontal or base portion slides along in contact with the shelf, while the bent-up end is presented to the incoming tical slots 4, Figs. 3 and 4, in the back 1, are slotted so that when the screws 12 are loosened, the clamps 11 may be raised 1 nnotypcs accumulate thereon, the necessary resistance to the sliding movementof the resistants being provided by the springs 16 attached to the latter and bearing against the underside of the shelf 1 next above it or, in the case of the uppermost of such resistants 15, against the underside of the top plate 14. Each of the shelves 1 and 2 may moreover be provided with a spring-controlled gate 17 at its receiving end which, like those hitherto provided for the purpose, would yield in the event of a linotype, entering the galley, engaging the rear edge of another one already on the galley. The gates 17 are in effect hinged end portions of the front upturned edges of the shelves, springs being employed for normally alining such hinged portions or gates with their respective upturned edges.

The horizontal shelves or guides18 secured to the before-mentioned spring plate 19 are attached to it by screw and slot connections 20 which readily admit of the said shelves being detached therefrom and vertically adjusted thereon; these shelves or guides 18- extend rearwardly between the .trimming knives 21 to keep the respective linotypes apart while they are being forced between the said knives, these rearward extensions being of reduced thickness, as compared with the parts directly attached to the spring plate 19, as shown best in Fig. 5, so as to present no hindrance'to the movement of the said plate when the latter is ressed back by the linotypes moving past it. The pushers or fingers 22 are attached with a capacity for ready detachment from an adjustment on-the linotype lever 23,

for which purpose the said lever may be formed with a slot 24 and each pusher 22 be ada ted to traverse the said slot and be secure at any part therwf by a nut 25.

, 26, Fig. 2, is the ejector which is slotted or divided to avoid contacting with the shelves orguides 18 (and which forms no part of the present invention), and 27 are a series of linotypes represented as being acted upon by the said ejector and just about to be pushed between the trimming knives 21.

We claim,

1. In a typographical machine, a galley shelf, a set of vertical front supporting guides for said shelf, a set of vertical rear supporting guides for said shelf, adjustable clamping means adapted to grip one side of said shelf and hold it to one of said sets of sets ofguides, adjustable rests forthe opposite sides of said shelves adapted to be clamped in desired positions on each member of the other of said sets of guides, and

means on said shelves adapted to engage said rests.

3. In a typographical machine, the combination with a galley adapted to receive linotypes, a plura ity of shelves adjustable thereon, each adapted to receive a shortmeasure linotype, means whereby the said shelves may be raised and lowered and secured in any such adjusted position, and a linotype lever adapted to swing in front of the galley shelves, of a plurality of linotype pushers adjustably attached to the linotype lever and each adapted to push one of the short-measure linotypes along its respective galley shelf.

l. In aktypographical machine, the combination of a galley adapted to receive linotypes, a plurahty of shelves adjustable thereon, each adapted to receive ashort-measure linotype, means whereby the said shelves may be raised and lowered and secured in any such adjusted position, linotype trimming knives, a spring-pressed plate between the trimming knives, a plurality of shelves adjust-ably attached to the said plate, and adapted to keep apart the several shortmeasure linotypes during their passage between the trimming knives and from the said knives to the galley.

5. In a typographical machine, the com- I bination of a galley adapted to receive linotypes, a plurality of shelves thereon, each adapted to receive a short-measure linotype, linotype trimming knives, a plate between the trimming lmives adapted to guide the linotypes, and a plurality of shelves on the said plate, adapted to keep apart the several short-measure linotypes during their passage between the trimming knives and from the said knives to the galley.

6. In a typographical machine, the combination of a galley adapted to receive linotypes, a plurality of shelves thereon, each adapted to receive a short-measure linotype, linotype trimming knives, a plate between the knives adapted to guide the linotypes, a plurality of shelves on the said plate, adapted to keep apart the several short-measure linotypes during their passage between the trimming knives and from the said knives to the galley, a linotype lever adapted to swing in front of the galley shelves, and a lurality of linotype pushers on the linotype ever, each adapted to push one of the shortnlllezfiure linotypes along its respective galley s e 7. In a' typographical machine, the combination of a galley adapted to receive lino types, a pluralltyof shelves adjustable thereon, each adapted to receive a short-measure linotype, linotype trimming knives, a springpressed plate between the trimming knives adapted to guide the linotypes, a plurality of shelves adjnstablyattached to the said plate, adapted to keep apart the several short-measure linotypes during their passage between the trimming knives and from the said knives to the galley, a linotype lever adapted to swmg in front of the galley shelves, ustably secured in any such a plurality of linotype pushers adattaehed to the linotype lever and each adapted to push one of the shortmeasure linotypes alon is respective galley shelf, and means Where y the galley shelves, the shelves on the spring-pressed plate and the ushers may be raised and lowered and adjusted position on their respective supports.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two Witnesses. HERBERT PEARCE.

JOHN ERNEST BILLI-NGTON. Witnesses: v

GEO. G. 'DAVISON, A. (l. FRYER.

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