US947006A - Machine for making type-bars. - Google Patents

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F. H. RICHARDS. MAGHINE FOR MAKING TYPE BARs. APPLICATION FILED JULY13, 1901. nnnnwnn'oow. 9, 1909.

Patented Jan. 18,1910.

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Inventor.-

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F. H. RICHARDS. MACHINE FOR MAKING TYPEBARS.

APPLIVOATION FILED JULY 13, 1901. nmmwnn 0019, 1909.

947,006, Patented Jan. 18,1910. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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UNITED STATES 1 ATENT OFFIC,

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

MACHINE FOR MAKING TYPE-BARS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan, 18, 1910,

Original application filed January 14, 1899, Serial No. 702,124. Divided and this application filed July 13, 1901, Serial No. 68,137. Renewed October 9, 1909. Serial No. 521,951.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANcrs H. RICH- ARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Type-Bars, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for making composite typebars, each bar comprising a body-piece or type-support constructed to receive a series of types by an interlocking engagement between the sup port and the series of types distributed along the edge of the support to form words and Word-spaces, as may be desired.

The present application forms a division of an application for Letters Patent filed by me on January 14, 1899, Serial No. 7 02,124, for the manufacture of typebars, the subject matter of this present application was included in an application for Letters Patent on a machine for forming typebars divided out of said application, Serial No. 702,124: and filed by me on May 3, 1900, Serial N 0. 15,299, and renewed September 19, 1909, Serial No. 453,821. In this latter application there is shown, described and claimed an organization of mechanism for making a composite typebar in which organization there is included a mold-box designed to cooperate with successive portions of the edge of a typebar body-piece or type-support and in conjunction with selectivelylocated dies to form a series of types disposed along the edge of such body-piece. It is proposed, as set forth in that application, to justify the matter forming the line of types by some suitable mechanism. The mold feature is claimed in such other application; and certain type head severing, type head shifting and justifying mechanism, illustrated in practice herein, are also claimed in conjunction with said mold in said other application. Claims to the art of forming typebars in a closed mold from solid metal and interlocking these with a body piece are included in the parent application, Serial No. 702,124.

The present application is directed more especially to those fundamental features of organization which are essential for the proor interlocked with such support.

duction of a line of composed types along a proper typebar body-piece or type-support to constitute a typebar of a composite nature.

In the machine herein set forth, as in that set forth in my hereinbefore-mentioned application, the type-support will usually be fed along intermittently, or step by step, relatively to a type-forming mechanism, by which latter means type-material (pref erably supplied to the machine in the form of a wire of proper cross-section) will be shaped into regular heads, and at the same time each head thus formed may be interlocked with the type-carrying edge of the type-support or carrier portion of the cornpleted typebar. In some cases this interlocking will be effected by placing the typehead in engagement with the outside of a T-shaped or other suitable form of typeguide rib on the edge of the typebar bodypiece, while in other cases each head will be forced into a suitable retaining groove formed in the edge of such piece.

My improved typebar-machine is distinguished from all others of which I have knowledge by the fact that an essential feature thereof is the provision of mechanism for compressing the individual type-blank onto and into engagement with a suitable type-support to form a type-head engaged This act of compressing the material or blank results not merely in the compression of the material into engagement with the support, but also in the formation of the type-head itself, and hence the molding of the type and the interlocking thereof with the support may in practice be simultaneously effected and result from one operation.

In the preferred construction, and for the purpose of readily justifying the types, the type-support or typebar body onto which the type-heads are molded will be so constructed that the finished types will be capable of being shifted or slid along such body, and hence I make use of a typebar body or type-support in which there is a type-guide of uniform character throughout its length, this guide being on one edge of the typebar body, and consisting of a. rib or tongue projecting therefrom, or a groove or channel out therein, and with which the material of the typeblank may be engaged by the compression thereof.

The machine embodied in the present invention will comprise as an important feature thereof type-forming mechanism cooperative with the type-support or typebar body-piece to compress and hence form on the latter and in engagement therewith a type or row of types which will be shaped in place. In the preferred construction and mode of operation the type-support or typebar-body will form a wall corresponding to the bottom wall of a mold against which the type-blank is forced when operated upon by the die to form the blank into a type-head and interlock the same with the edge of the support or body-piece.

In a. complete mechanism for producing a typebar of the present character it is desirable to feed the typebar body-piece with which the type-heads are engaged different distances, step by step, according to the size of the head to be formed, and a construction operative in this manner is shown herein. Moreover, while the type-material may be supplied to the type-making point of the machine in any proper manner, I deem it desirable to feed a type-blank rod from which rod type-blanks will be severed 01' sheared, these type-blanks being of such lengths as may be necessary for the formation of the respective type-heads; hence, this rod may also be fed different distances and a variable feed device is provided herein for this purpose. After the formation of the type-heads to form a line of types, any excess material may be sheared therefrom and the heads trimmed by some suitable mechanism in a manner well. understood by those familiar with the art.

In the drawings accompanying the present specification,Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation, partly an outline, of a portion of an apparatus for making typebars, illustrating a simple form of mechanism for carrying my invention into effect for producing composite typebars. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, with parts broken away and with the stock-feeding device removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, on a somewhat enlarged scale, illustrating a partially completed typebar produced by the present machine. Fig. l is a transverse section of the typebar-body with the type-blank in position thereon before compression. Fig. 5 is a similar view illustrating said type-blank as having been compressed by a type-die to form a typehead. Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrating the typebar body-piece and its feed-rod; and Fig. 7 is a plan view of various parts located at and adjacent to the type-making point of the machine.

Similar characters designate like parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The several operative parts of the mechanism will be mounted upon framework, designated in a general way by A, and comprising a base-plate 22. Upon this framework there will be mounted some suitable form of typemaking mechanism, the mechanism, as herein shown, embodying orbitally-movable rotatable type-dies which are represented as carried by a rotating turret T substantially in the manner shown and described in my prior patent No. 403,216, granted May let, 1889, to which reference may be had for a more detailed description of the several parts. This turret T is here mounted for rotation in an end frame 2 and an upright 2' both rising from the main framework A, and in this case also, the turret carries four shafts, such as 3, on which are carried die-- wheels 20 provided with proper type-dies, such as those designated by d. Each of the shafts 8 will also carry a suitable startingarms, such as s.

For the purpose of starting the startingarms and hence the shafts of the die-wheels and the dies rotating, I may make use of the usual starting-latches, represented herein in a conventional way, and designated by Z, (the latches shown being spring-pressed ones) which latches when tripped will start the rotation of the shafts and will be reset or returned to their normal positions by the starting-arn'is s, substantially in the manner described in said patent. As many latches may be used as there are type-dies on the die-wheels, but only four are illustrated herein. It will be obvious, of course, that the main shaft 4 carrying the several members of the turret T should be rotated in order to effect the rotation of the die-wheels when any starting-arm comes into contact with a latch that may be set, and for the purpose of rotating the turret I have shown a crank or handle 14; which, it will be understood, will be given at least one turn each time a latch is set.

The end frame 2 is shown as provided with a suitable internal gear, designated by 7, with which the teeth of the gear-wheel segments 8 attached to the die-wheel shafts will mesh when said shafts are started rotating.

The gear-segments S on the shafts 3 will be rotated selectively one at a time as the latches Z are selectively operated, and when any gear-segment, its shaft and the diewheel thereon have been started rotating, the rotation of each wheel, etc., will be stopped in some suitable manner at the proper point, as, for example, by a springpressed detent 9 coming in contact with a flattened portion of the hub of the gearsegment.

In my previously-mentioned application from which the present one is divided, a mold is shown cooperative with each diein succession as it is brought to the typ'e-mak ing point and rolled over the type-blank located in such mold to form therefrom a type-head. ,The employment of such a mold is convenient in that it offers one'means for assisting in the ready production of a regu larly formed type-head, and also as set forth in that application, for shearing surplus material in excess of that needed for the formation of the type-head. Satisfactory types may be formed, however, without the use of such mold and any surplus material which it is desirable to remove may be trimmed off by any of the wellknown means commonly used in the art for trimming linotypesor typebars. The mold may therefore be omitted as a cooperative type-making member for the production of the successive typeheads and each type result solely from the type-forming action of the corresponding die upon the blank. i R

The end of the plunger 13 farthest from the die is connected to a pin or stud eccentrically mounted 011 a short spindle 25,

suitably journaled in the base-plate 22 arid having secured thereto an operating handle or lever, such as 26, from which projects a pin or detent 26. The body of the'lever 26 is resilient in order to permit a slight rising and lowering of the detentpin 26- which, 'in this case, will have an extreme range of movement between two stops 27 depending from a projection or plate on the frame work. In the under side of this platethere may be a series of recesses, such as 27", into any one of which the end of the pin 26 may f be slipped for the purpose of locking the pin and the lever temporarily in place, the distance between the stops 27 corresponding to the extreme range of movement of the slide 13, while the distance. between coir secutive locking recesses 27 represents unit spaces as does also the intervals between and the locking recess adthe stop-pin 27 jacent thereto.

In the present illustration of'a simple organization, the group of .dies carried by the four shafts 3 are of four different widths, and the right-hand stop-pin 27" and the locking recesses 27 are so located and spaced as to permit the adjustment of the slide 13 to control the production of finished types or type-heads of four different widths. Hence, if the lever is shifted from its normal ositionin which it is in contact with the right-hand stop-pin 27 until the pin 26 reaches the first locking recess 27.a typehead one unit wide may be formed, and if the lever is shifted to the second, third, or fourth recess 27, type-heads two, three, or

four units wide, as the case may be, will be formed. The extreme movement of the lever 26 from one stop-pin to the other is intended to be independent in point of time of the shorter movements just described and such extreme movement may serve the purpose, in addition to another to be ad-verted to presently, of shifting the finished type along the type-guide of the body-piece Z) and locating it in its proper or final position on the typebar body unless, of course, a repositioning thereof should become necessary for justification, although the shifting of a formed type-head out from under the dies to permit a second head to be made, may and will in practice generally be accomplished by impartinga movement to the body-piece Z), as will presently appear.

Not only does the typebar body have a type-guide but so does the actuating device or feed-slide by means of which such typebar body is shifted or fed, to permit the terminal type or types of the line to be made upon the feedslide and afterward shifted onto the typebar body, although such type .or types may generally be made directly on such body-piece. Still for the purpose of allowing the plunger 13 to move freely to and fro such feed-slide will ordinarily be provided with a type-guide, such as g, similar to and in alinement with the guide 9 on the typebar body-piece. This feed-slide may also be of any suitable construction and may be substantially of the form shown herein. Here it is a vertically-disposed slide 30 in alinement with and substantially of the same cross-section as the body-piece b. The feed-slide 30 is connected to and is operated in unison with a feed-screw 32, the bodypiece occupying a position between the feedslide and a similarly disposed keeper 30 at the opposite end of the body-piece. This feed-screw may be operated in any suitable manner, in this case a bevel-pinion 33 being ,shown which feeds said feed-screw lengthspindle 35 suitably mounted and having thereon an operating wheel or dial 35 having an index 2' coacting with a pointer 36 on a fixed portion of the framework. By turning this index-wheel the feed-slide 30 and hence the typebar body I) may be fed forward to shift the formed type out from under the dies and bring the next portion of the typebar body-piece under the dies, depending upon the position of the next type to be formed.

In the construction shown, the slide 13 coacts with the feed-slide 30. For this reason I deem it desirable to support the slide 13 on the typeguide g of the feed-slide 30, and from the drawings it will be seen that said slide 13 is guided on the projecting rib g. If it is desired to form the last type of a complete series on the feed-slide 30 the described construction will permit this to be done in exactly the same manner as the preceding type of such series have been formed on the body-piece Z). After being finished, of course, the finished type will be shifted from the slide 30 by the slide 13 onto the typebar body-piece.

The material from which the type-heads are to be formed will be suitable for the purpose and be delivered at the type-making point under the die in proper manner, but I prefer to feed intermittently a typeblank rod, such as 7, which may be fed in any suitable manner as by means of a pair of feed-rolls f, f, the former of which has a graduated periphery'or index 2" composed of equidistant graduations with which graduatious of the feed-roll corresponding to those of the index '1 and also to those between the recesses 27. length of the rod has been fed foravard a type blank 1' will be severed therefrom in some suitable manner. The slide 13, shown in the present organization, offers a convenient the stock guide 13 for shearing 0d consecutively the separate type-blanks, 1t having an edge 13 cooperative with the edge 13 of the stock guide 13 for severing a blank upon the 5 forward movement of said slide, although it will be understood by those familiar withthis and allied arts that the type-die itself may be so formed as to shea a blank from the rod immediately prior to its operat1on in shaping the blank to the form or a ty qehead.

A die )erformin such two-fold function 1 will be recognized by those skilled in the art as commonly utilized in the stamping and shaping of various articles from stock larger than the blank necessary to form the indi- \idual product. The amount of materialso cut off may vary according to the size of the type to be, formed. The material in excess of that necessary to form a type-head will be disposed of in a suitable way, as by trimming otl' the same, an operation commonly adopted in the finishing of linot-ypes and typebars. heads having a fin (see for example 00) at the side which will ordinarily result from the application of a die, necessitating a subsequent trimming operation.

The operation of an apparatus such as has been described hereinbefore for producing an improved typebar of'the class specified is as follows: it being assumed that there is a finished typc-head directly under the die the feedscrew 32 will ordinarily be operated to carry the typebar body-piece endwise and shift the type-head out from When a proper anay, of course,

Some of the views show type 1 under t-he die and bring the proper portion of the type-support or body-piece in the plane of movement of the dies. 'lhereafter one of the latches Z may be tripped, such latch corresponding, of course, to the type to be formed. The handle t should then be operated to turn the feed-roll f a distance corresponding to the width of the type which .the latch just operated represents and the rod r will thereupon be fed forward and a portion of the rod will then project over the body-piece. The lever 26 is then shifted from its right-hand position until the detent-pin 26 comes opposite and slips into that recess 27 which corresponds to the width of the type to be formed, during which movement "the lever 26 and the slide 13 cause the shearing off of a type-blank 1" from the rod 9* and the transfer of such blank into the plane of movement of the dies. The handle 14 may now be turned to start-the turret rotating and when the proper starting-arm comes in contact with the actuated latch, such starting-arm and its shaft and diewheel will begin to rotate and this rotation will continue until the orbitallymovable rotating type-die corresponding to the latch selected is brought with a rolling action into contact with the type-material means for cooperating with the edge 13 ofor blank and compresses the latter, thus siinultaneously forming a type-head corresponding to such type-die and engaging or interlocking said head with the type-guide on the typebar body or typesupport, or on the feed-slide, as the case may be. Of course, each time the handle lat is operated it should be given a complete turn, during the first part of which the starting-arm will commence rotating and afterward will reset the operated latch. This series of operations be repeated at will to produce a series of selected. types of varying widths which may be properly spaced along the typebar body either by leaving a blank space between the separated groups of words, or by forming quads between the wordgroups in the same manner that the several type-heads G are formed. lvlanifestly, the spaces which may be left between the wordgroups or other groups may be of varying widths according to the manner in which the several parts are operated.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of aseries of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a given working position to make types; means for operating adie and the type-support one toward the other for forming stock into a type-head engaged with the support; and means for feeding the support on the retraction of the die to carry the type away from said working position of the die and place the support in position for receiving the next type-head.

2. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece having a typeretaining guide, of a type-die, one of said members being operable toward and from the other for forming stock into a type-head engaged with said guide, and the members being adapted to have a relative movement whereby a second type may be formed and engaged with the guide.

3. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece having a typeretaining guide, of a type-die movable in a curvilinear path toward and from said typesupport for forming stock into a type-head engaged with said guide.

4. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining and feeding a type-support or body-piece having a type-retaining guide, of an orbitally-movable rotatable type-die cooperative with the support for forming type material into a type-head engaged with the type-guide.

5. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece having on one edge thereof a type-guide and with feeding mechanism for said type-support, of a typeforming mechanism embodying type-dies cooperative selectively with the type-support for forming type material into type-heads engaged with the type-guide.

6. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of type-forming and shifting mechanism operative for forming stock into a finished type-head on said support and then shifting the finished typehead along such support.

7. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece having a type guide on one edge thereof, of type-forming and shifting mechanism operative for first forming stock into a finished type-head engaged with the type-guide and then shifting the finished type-head along the guide.

8. In amachine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of a series of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a given working position to make types; means for conveying stock into a position to be operated upon; means for severing a type-blank from such stock; means for operating a die and the type-support one toward the other for forming a type-blank into a type-head engaged with the support; and means for shifting such type-head from under the die and placing the support in a position for re ceiving the next type-head.

9. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of a series of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a given working position to make types; means for conveying stock into a position to be operated upon; a slide for severing a type-blank from such stock; means for operating a die and the type-support one toward the other for forming a type-blank into a type-head engaged with the support; and means for shifting such type-head from under the die and placing the support in a position for receiving the next type-head.

10. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of a series of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a given working position to make types; means for conveying stock into a position to be operated upon; a slide engaging with the typecarrying edge of such type-support for severing a type-blank from such stock; means for operating a die and the type-support one toward the other for forming a type-blank into a type-head engaged with the support; and means for shifting such type-head from under the die and placing the support in a position for receiving the next type-head.

11. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of a series of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a given working position to make types; means for conveying stock into a position to be oper-- ated upon; a slide engaging with the typecarrying edge of the type-support and adapted to sever type-blanks of variable size from said stock; means for operating a die and the type-support one toward the other for forming a type-blank into a type-head engaged with the support; and means for conveying the support on the retraction of the die to carry the type-head away from said working position of the die and place the support in position for receiving the next type-head.

12. In a machine for making typebars, the combination with means for sustaining a type-support or body-piece, of a series of type-forming dies supported and adapted for being brought one at a time into a working position to make types; means for bringing stock into a position to be operated upon; a device for severing a section from such stock; means for operating the selected dies in succession to form types engaged with the support; and means for shifting a type from under the forming die to thereby permit a second type to be engaged with the support.

13. The combination with a type carrier or support, of a feed slide for feeding such carrier or support; an adjustable slide reciprocatory in line with said support or carrier and said feed slide; and means for feeding stock across and into the path of the said adjustable slide whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from such stock.

1 The combination with a type carrier or support, of an adjustable slide, and means for feeding stock across and into the path of the slide whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from such stock.

15. The combination with a type carrier or support, of a feed slide for feeding such carrier or support; an adjustable slide reciprocatory in line with the upper edge of said support or carrier and the feed slide; and means for feeding stock across and into the path of the said adjustable slide whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from such stock, said adjustable slide engaging with the upper edges of said type carrier or support and said feed slide.

16. The combination with a type forming die, of an adjustable reciprocatory slide having an edge constituting one member of a shear, a cooperative shear member, and means for feeding stock variable distances to said cooperative shear member and across and into the path of reciprocation of the slide whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from the stock and advance the same to the working position of the die.

17. The combination with a type-carrier having a shear edge, of an adjustable slide reciprocatory in line with said carrier and eflective with said shear edge for severing the stock, and means for feeding the stock variable distances into the path of the slide whereby said slide may sever the stock at a predetermined point.

18. The combination with a series of dies, representing various unital values, of a re ciprocatory slide and means for adjusting the same to correspond with the die unital values in the length of its path of movement, means for feeding stock across said path, and means cooperative with the slide for shearing the stock into type lengths,

19. The combination with a type carrier or support, of an adjustable slide, a cooperative shear face, and means for feeding stock across and into the path of the slide and over said shear face whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from such stock.

20. The combination with a type carrier or support, of a feed slide for feeding such carrier or support, an adjustable slide reciprocatory in line with said support or carrier and said feed slide, a rock shaft and means for rocking the same, an eccentric stud on said shaft, and a link connecting said stud and slide, and means for feeding stock across and into the path of the said adjustable slide whereby the forwardly moving slide may shear a blank from such stock.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

\Vit-nesses FRED. J. DOLE, C. E. Voss.

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