US961799A - Line-casting machine. - Google Patents

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J. R. ROGERS.

n LINE CASTING MACHINE. 4 APPLICATION FILED MAY z5. 1909'.

961,799.l Patented June 21, 1910.

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LINE CASTING MAGHINE.

APPLIIOATION FILED MAY 25. 1909. 961,799. i Patented June 21 1910.

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LINE CASTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 25. 1909 961,799. l Patented June21,1910. n

a machine of this general class,

matrices therein.

UNTTED sTATns PATENT ortica JOI-IN R. ROG-ERS, OF BROOKLYNQjNEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINE-CASTING MACHINE.

specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 21, i910.

Application f11ed May 25, 1909. Serial No. 498,249.

To all wimmelt may concern:

Be vit known that I, JOHN R. ROGERS, of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Line-Casting Machines, of which the following is a speci cation. v

My invention has reference to line casting machines of thegeneral class represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 436,532. In these rices, stored in a magazine, are released by ingerkeys in the required order, composed in line, and the line transferred to the face of a slotted mold, which is then filled with molten -metal to produce a slug or linotype on whichv type characters are formed by the matrices; the vmatrices being thereafter returned through la distributing mechanism to the magazine channels from which they were discharged.

The object of my invention is to provide adapted to carry more than on'e font of matrices, so that type faces differing in size or in style may be produced at will, and so that each line may be composed of matrices from one or both magazines, and the distribution of the matrix lines carried on continuously without -reference to the character of the T o this end I employ two magazines, arranged to deliver matrices through intermediate means to a single assembler in which the line is formed. I arrange the-magazines in parallel, or substantiallyV parallel lines, with l the escapement devices for releasing the individual matrices on their inner or proximate faces that is to say, in the space vbetween the magazines; and for the purpose of operating the escapements of one magazine or the other at will, I employ a single series of reeds, connected withthe keyboard and mounted in a mov able guide, so that they may be adjusted to act upon one series ofv escapelnents or the other at will. `For the purpose of distributing the matrices, I extend along .the top of each magazine a distributer of the Merganthaler type such as represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 347,629, each consisting of a .horizontal bar provided with longitudinal permuted teeth, to sustain and carry the toothed matrices', which are moved along the bar by adjacent screws. The distributer of one magazine has more teeth, or

machines circulating mat'- view illustrating matrices of Fig. 9 1s aperspective view showing in outan arrangement different from that of the other distributer, and the matrices delivered to the respective magazines are toothed to correspond. All of the matrices are deliv ered tothe distributer of the first magazine, which delivers to said magazine the matrices belonging therein, while the matrices for the second magazine travel the entireA length of the bar and are delivered therefrom at one end, where they are carried mechanically to the second distributer, along which they' travel in a reverse direction, and by which they are delivered into their appropriate -magazine channels.

With the exception of the parts forming the subject of the present invention, and specically described and claimed herein, the machine may be in all respects of the saine construction as the commercial Mergenthaler machine'of the present day, or of any other appropriate construction.

AI have limited the accompanying drawingsl to those parts ofl the machine which are necessary to an understanding of my invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper part of the machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section from 'frontto rear on the line 2 2, with portions ofthe magazine shown in section. Fig. 3 is a diagram showing the mannerin which 'the distributer screws are driven. Fignt a vertical cross sect-ion on theline 4&4 of Fig. 1, showingthe 1nechanism for transferring the matrices from the first to the second distributer. Fig. 5 is a crosssection of the first distributer bar, having eight pairs of teeth, and a corre-- spondmg matrix. Fig. 6 is a cross section of the second distributerbar,

"in connection with a matrix having eight teeth.' Fig. 7 is a cross section of the tirst distributer barfwith eight teeth, showing a matrix thereon with all its teeth disengaged, in position to escape.. Fig. 8 is a perspective different fonts.

line the two distributers .and the matrix feeding and transferring devices. Fig. 10 is an outline perspective showingl the manner in' which the .matrices are delivered to the second distributer. Fig. 11 is a vertical section on the line 1111 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A represents.` a'main frame, which may be of any suitable form; B and B1 two mclined magazines with seven teeth,

Areleased one at a iper W' 1ch they descend successively into the 530,931, or by Mergenthaler machine.

mounted on the mainframe, one over the other, and each adapted to carry a font or set of matrices, C and C1. Th be of the usual Mergenthaler construction, consisting of'two -parallel plates, grooved in their inner faces to receive and guide the upper and lower edges of the matrices, as shown; or they may be of any other appropriate construction. The magazines shown in the drawing differ from vthose of the ordinary Mergenthaler machines lin that instead of having vertically curved throats or entrances at the upper ends, they are continued in straight lines t'o their upperextremitiesthe upper'lines of the magazines being at'a common level so that the`matrices may be delivered directly therein. The discharge of the matrices from the magazines,- one at a time in the order in which will be effected by escapement devices of anv suitable form connected mechanism, as well understood in the art. I prefer, however, the construction shown in Fig., 11, in which thev upper magazine is provided on the under side with the escapement levers. D, while the lower magazine is provided on its 4upper side with corresponding escapements, D1, each escapement consisting of a centrally pivoted lever carrying at opposite ends two fingers, which are projected alternately into the magazine by the vibration of the lever; so that the matrices are time'. The escapement levers of the two series have their lower ends terminated side by side andexposed, as shown in Fig. l1, and they are actuated by vertical sliding reeds, E, equal in numberv to the escapement's in one magazine. These reeds may be actuated by a keyboard mechanism such as represented in Letters PatentI 0f the United any other suitable iingerkey mechanism, several of which are well known in the art. contain a permanent connection with the keyboard, but the upper ends are mounted in a -horizontally movable guide, F', connected to an angular hand lever, G, pivoted in the frame; so that by moving the lever the guide F may be shifted forward and backward, and all lof the' reeds caused to actuate the esca pements of the upper or lower magazine, as required. Thel matrices delivered from the ma azine descend through two vertically .channe ed guides or face plates, Hand H1,

Slmilar to-those used on the commercial IBelow the respective face plates are arrangedv parallel inclined belts, I and I1, by which the matrices are received .and directed downward and to the ends ofa forked guide, J, through usual assembling elevator, K, in which they are assembledor composed in line under the lnfluene ofthe usual star wheel or pusher, L.

e magazines may they are required,

with the keyboard vided with seven teeth States lto P. T. Dodge No.`

The lower ends of the reeds will It will bel observed that the two series .of escapements arelocated between the two magazines, and that the escapement operat 111greeds are seated between the two face plates and extended upward to a point between the magazines. admits of the matrices from either or both magazines being directed at will to a common line in the assembler. From the assembler the matrix line will be transferred to t-he casting mechanism, and vthence to the This arrangement secondelevator, M, .so-called, by which the lline is lifted to the distributing mechanism;

As the cast-ing and vat a commonL level or practically so the horizontal parallel distri uterbars N land N1, having their lower edges of V form, with horizontal teeth, varied innumber orarranged at different points in the-length. of

the bar, in'the'manner fully explained in the Mergenthaler Patent No. 347,629. The

first bar,v N, is provided with eight teeth on `each side, while f the-sflacond bar is proon y.

The matrices for the respective magazines are notched and toothed in the upper end in the usual manner,

as shownin Fig. 8, .exft

cept that the matrices-for the upper'maga'- 1 zine, received in the first distributer, are provided lwith seven pairs of teeth only, in order that they may be discharged from the first distributer directly into the upper magazine; while on the other hand the matrices forthe lower magazine are 'constructed with eight teethv each, in order. that they may travel the entire Iper ban-and then be delivered to the second Referring 'to Figi 10, O .and O Prepresent the horizontal rails ofthe ordinary distributer box, ,shouldered at ltheir .forward ends;

so that when the composed line of matrices is lintroduced horizontally, 4it will be sustained bythe rails and arrested at the forward end by the shoulders.

P is the vertically movable finger by which the matrices are lifted successively from the 'front end of thel line, clear-of the detaining shoulders, and into engagement with the lfeed screws, by which they are carried'forsothat their teeth will ward horizontally,

distributer bar N at its engage those of the left end.

' Q, isa stationary. bar overlying the posil tion occupied by the matrix line, for the purpose of holding down all but the foremost rmatrix' in the llne.

R and R1 represent the horizontal screws, extended parallel with, the distributerv bars, three for each bar,

length of the first distribuin position to engage lthe edges of the matrices and carry them along the bar toward the right to the points at which their teeth disengage and permit them to fall into the magazine below, inthe mannerwell known in the art.

The teeth of the first distributer and its matrices will beformed in all respects like those iii the ordinary single magazine Mergenthaler machine; so that the matrices for the upper magazine will be delivered directly thereto from the first distributer, N. The matrices C1,of the lower magazine, however, by reason of their extra teeth at the top., will continue to engage the distributer bar N until they arrive at its right end, from which they escape. In other words, all the matrices intended for the lower or second magazine traverse the first distributer from left to right, where they are all discharged at one point. Arriving at this point ,'the matrices are received in a horizontal channel, S, extending beneath the rear distributer bar. As each matrix is thus received, it is acted upon by a horizontalfslide,v1 and pushed rearward to a position under the second distributer bar, and over a vertically reciprocating finger, U, by which it is'raised into engagement with the screws of the second distributer, along which it is caused to travel to the points at which its teeth disengage; so that it may fall into the lower magazine.

It is to be noted that the foregoing devices serve to deliver the matrices positively and one at a time to the second distributer.

The various screws are connected by gearing, as shown in Fig. 3; so that while all the matrices are compelled to Vtraverse the first distributer from left to right, the matrices transferred to the second distributei are carried along the saine from right to left.

I The lifting finger 'U may be operated in any suitable manner; for example, as shown in F 10, by an angular lever, u, acted upon at one end by a cani, u1, on the `end of one of the'distributer screws.

As the matricesV are raised to the 'second distributor bai', they are guided and held forward in proper position by a Vpressure shoe, if?, acted upon by a spring, as, lwith suitable guiding devices on the opposite side, to insure the delivery of each matrix in proper position between' the screws, where 1t is free'to engage and travel along` the disreeds F with the escapements of one magazineor the other, according'to the style of type face demanded; fingerkeys being manipulated, as usual, to actuate by reeds E the escapements, and permit the matrices to descendfrom the magazines through the face plates to the guide J, whence they pass intr. the assembler, from which they are transferred to the casting mechanism. After the casting operation, the line is lifted and transferred horizontally to the rails O and Ol on the distributer'box, and urged forward against the stop shoulders. The finger .P lifts the matrices successively, and they are transferred, as 'usual,'to and along the bar N. The matrices of the rst magazine escape directly from this bar, while those ofy the second magazine continue to the right end of the bar, where they fall successively into the path of the slide T, by which they are carried `one at a time rearward over the finger U, which lifts them to the second distributer bar, N1, along which they are carried ina reverse direction to their points of delivery, to the second magazine. The corresponding channels of the two magazines will contain matrices bearing like charac-A ters; that is to say, the same characters in different forms. For example, the left hand channel in both magazines may contain matrices for the letter e It follows, thereforethat the combinations of the second distributer bar must be arranged in the reverse order from those of the first bar, and that its matrices must have their combinations correspondingly arranged. In. vother words, the matrices which are discharged from the first position on thebar N will have the saine combination as .those which are discharged from the last position on the bar N1; the

matrices of the second bar having, however, the extra pairof teeth, preferably at-the upper end.

While I have described herein my invention as embodied in a machine having two.v

magazines, it will be obvious that the number involved may be extended to vthree or more magazines by thel employment ofa corresponding number of fonts of matrices, the matrices of the different fonts being differentiated as to the number or arrangement of their teeth, so that the matrices ,remaining after traversing the first, or lthe first and second distributers, may be transferred to a third, and so on indefinitely.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patents-- 1. In a line castingv machine, two magazines, one overlying the other, two parallel distributers arrangedl to deliver matrices to the respective magazines, and matrices of two fonts differentiated as to their dist-ributing teeth, in combination with means for delivering all the matrices to the firstdistributer, and positively acting means adapted to deliver all the matrices not delivered to the first magazine one at a time to the second distributer. i

2. In a line casting machine, two parallel distributer bars; two sets of toothed matrices, the teeth of one set being adapted to carry them the entire length of the first distributer; meansfor causing the individual matrices to traverse the first distributer in one direction; means for delivering the matrices which traverse the entire length of the first distributer, to the second diStributer; and means for matrices along the. second distributer in a reverse direction.

3. In combinatio'nwith the two parallel distributer bars N and 'N1'at a common level, two fonts of matrices, differentiated as to their distributing teeth;

fing all the matrices to the first distributer;

' means for transferring the matrices'of the second font from the first bar to the second; and means for moving the transferred matrices in' a reverse direction along the second bar. p

5'. In a line casting machine, two fonts of matrices representing like characters, the distributing teeth of the two Afonts being arranged in reverse order; in combination with parallel distributer bars, having their teeth arranged in vlike manner; means for presenting all matrices to the firstvbar, and the matrices of the second font to the second bar; and` means for, moving the matrices along the respective bars in a reverse ldirection; whereby a matrix of one font, bearing a given character, will be discharged from one distributer at a point directly oppo-y site the delivery of the corresponding matrix ofthe second font, from'the other distributer.

6. In a line casting machine, two inclined magazines one overlying the other and both contmued in straight linesl to their upper moving saidy means for deliver;

and atransverse carrier, located at the dev zines and j the 4respective zines, one adapted to distribute the matricesl 1n a reverse order from the other,4 means for delivering all the matrices to'the first distributer, and means for delivering all the matrices which are not distributed by Athe first distributer to the second distributer.

' In combination with the distributer bars N and N1, asupport, S, to receive the matrices deliveredvfrom the end o f the bar N; a carrier, T, to transfer said matrices to a position. beneath the second distributer, and a finger, U, to lift matricesto a second distribufter.

8. The combination of thebars N and N1;

the adjacent feed screws, arranged to deliver matrices in reverse directions alongtherespective bars; and meansfor transferring matrices from the first bar to the second.

9. In combination with. the two inclined magazines, two channeled face plates arranged to'r'eceive matrices from the respec. tive magazines, 'an assembler, anda guide J adapted to deliver ,matrices descending through the two face plates to the assembler.

10. In combination, the inclined magathe channeled guides or face plates H H1; the conveyer belts I and I1; an assembler, K; and the forked guide J, "to deliver matrices from the respective magazines to a common line in the assembler.

ll. In combination, two parallel magazines having escapements coperating with magazines and located bt-` tween them, a series'of escapement actuating reeds, and means for at will to disengage them of escapenlents lfrom either series and engage them with the 12. In conibinatioin the twov inclined l magazines; the intermediate escapements D an D1, coperating with the respective shifting the reeds magazines, said escapements each pivoted atv vthefmiddle and'exposed at the lower end;

the upright reeds Il; and a shiftable guide for` said reeds whereby they may be caused to directly actuate the escapements of the upper or the lower magazine at will. l .4

In testimony whereofI hereunto set my hand this 13th day o f'May, 1909, in the presence of two attest-ing witnesses.

JOHN R. ROGERS.

VVitnesses:

E. J. LAMB, n JAMES J. PENDERGAST. v

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