US691685A - Linotype-machine. - Google Patents

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- No. 69l,685. Patented'lan. 2|, I902 M. H. WHITTAKER.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

(Applicaiion med Sept. 28, 1901,)

(No Model.)

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MATTHEW H. WHITTAKER, or SALFORD, ENGLAND,IASSIGNOR To THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LIN OTYP E-MACHIN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 691,685, dated January 21, 1902.

Application filed September 23, 1901. Serial No. 76.228- (No model.) I

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that LMA'r'rnnw HENRY WHIT- TAKER, of 6 Trafiord road, Salford, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lino.- type-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable oth-' ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in linotype ma'chines, andis'specially applicable to the linotypes and molding means described in the specification of Letters'Patent No. 436,532, dated September 16, 1890.

It consists in the combination,with the casting edge of the matrices, of projections adapted by standing in the mold for. the linotypebody to formin the resultinglinotypes cavities proper for receiving printing-faces additional to those that are cast on the linotype. One of the additional printing-faces used at present is a star or a letter at. the head of a line in a racing-program to indicatethat the respective horse has arrived. It is the practice at present to make the respective linotype an on short and to put a temporary space at the end of it, which space is replaced by the star or letter type as soon as the news of arrival is at hand. According to the present invention the improved matrixis composed at the head of the line, so that the linotype is of standard length, thereby dispensing with a change of mold.

By means of my invention it is possible to produce a printing-form before or during a race or other contest and to complete the same ready for instant use by simply inserting in the cavities of the proper slugs the sorts or other characters to indicate the winners or to give other information desired.

Another additional printing-face is a column-rule. The length of a rule varies from that of the whole column to that of a column of tabular matter in the principal column. According to present practice all rules are type-high; but according to the present invention an improved matrix is or may be composed into the line wherever a rule is to appear and will make a transverse notch in the top edge of the respective linotype for rel ceiving the column-rule or. appropriate por-- tion thereof. r

In the accompanying drawings, which are.

tobe taken as part of this specification and read therewith, Figure l is a perspective view C of one form of the improved Linotype adapted to receive an additional star or letter type, as

use; Fig. 5,aline ofprintingsuch asproduced by the linotype and type shownin Fig. 4;

. Fig. 6, a perspective view of a portion of one form of the improved linotype adapted to re- 6; Figs. 8' and 9, respectively, a transverse section and a side elevation of a portion of spective view showing portions of the linotype and rule ready for use; Fig. 11, a per spective View of a portion of another form of the linotype adapted to receive an additional column-rule, Figs. 12 and 13 showing the said rule in position therein; Fig; 14, a side elevation of a portion-of the column-rule de-' tached; Fig. 15, a printed impression of a linotype and column-rule arranged as in Fig. 10 or Fig. 13; 'Figs. 16, 17, 18, and 19, views illustrative of linotypes and column-rules for producing printing such as represented in Fig. 20; Figs. 2l and 22, perspective views of alternative matrices for producing star or let- 'ter receiving recesses in the linotypes; Fig. 23, a perspective view of a matrix for producing a rule-receiving recess in a linotype; Fig. 24., a rear elevation of as much of alinotype-machine as is necessary to show the improved matrices in position ready for the the-additional column-rule; Fig. 10, a percasting of a linotype with recesses for receivspring control and movable in the vise P and the latter practically fixed or adjustable as ICO to its outward movement in said vise by a stop-screw 1. The parts just enumerated are substantially as in existing linotype machines.

The improved matrices 2 or 3 correspond in general shape with those in use at the present time, each consisting of a solid piece of metal unchangeable in form or thickness. If the matrices 2 or 3 are to be distributed into the magazine, the V- shaped notches 4 thereof are toothed, as in dotted lines in Fig. 25, so that the said matrices may be engaged with and be raised by the elevator-arm, and they subsequently fall into the appropriate magazine-channel, as in the ordinary matrix distribution. If, however, the matrices are not to be so distributed, the V-shaped notches 4 are plain, as shown in the drawings, so that they will not engage with the suspendingplate of the elevator-arm, but fall into the sorts-box, from which they may be removed as occasion may require for composing by hand into the line of matrices formed in the assembly-box.

The projection 5 for forming a seating or cavity 6, Figs. 1 and 2, for a star or letter type 7, Figs. 3 and 4, is preferably circular in cross-section, slightly taper, and at its thickest part less in diameter than the thickness of the matrix 2. When the matrix 2 is presented in casting position against the mold-block 8, the projection 5 extends into the mold-cavity 9 in the manner indicated in Fig. 25 and serves as a core to produce the desired seating 6. The seating 6 may be of anydesired depth, provided it is less than the depth of the linotype 10, and the type 7 for insertion therein is formed of a depth to correspond therewith, so that the printing-faces 11 and 12 of, respectively, the linotype and the added type 7 may be in the same plane. The types 7 are inserted into the linotypes 10 by hand.

Itwill be observed that the seating or cavity 6 is adapted to receive and hold the type firmly against movement in any direction without assistance from any outside source.

In setting stock-reports, market-reports, tariff, and other tables requiring the figures or other characters to appear in vertical columns the matrices will be made, as usual, of uniform thickness, so that my matrices for producing the notches or seating or slots may be set in the line at predetermined distances from the end of the line, thus causing the seatings orslots in the successive slugs to fall in exact alinement when the slugs are assembled in the form, so that the printing-rules may be readily inserted.

The projection 13 for forming a seating-slot 14 for a column-rule 15 is as wide as the linotype is thick, so that the resultant notch or seating will extend completely across the said linotype, as shown most clearlyin Figs. 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, and 18.

The improved matrices 2 3 if their V-notches 4 be provided with teeth (such as are shown applied to the ordinary matrix 16 in Fig. are composed into the line in the assemblybox in the same way as are the said ordinary matrices at the present time-that is to say, by depressing a key-lever appropriated thereto; but if, as shown in Figs. 21, 23, and 26, the said notches be devoid of teeth then, as aforesaid, the matrices 2 3 are taken from the sorts-box and composed in to the asse mbly-box by hand.

In cases such as those illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, and 13, in which a recess 6 or 14 is to be formed at either end of the linotypethat is to say, either preceding or following the type- matterthereonthe projection 5 or 13 for producingit may be provided upon a matrix 17, Figs. 22 and 24, capable of being affixed to the vise-j aw p or p by two dowel-pins 17, which enter holes or recesses 18 in the appropriate vise-jaw. There are usually two matrices 16 (right and left handed) provided for each machine, one for each jaw p 9 that attachable to the jaw 19 being advantageously provided with the inclined end 19, which serves to direct the matrices 16 into their proper positions between the jaws 1 1 In Fig. 24 the matrix 17, attached to the visejaw 9', is arranged for forming a star or special letter recess or seatingfo'at the beginning of the type-matter on the linotype, and the matrix 17, attached to the vise-jaw p, is arranged for forming a rule-receiving seating 14 at the opposite end of the said type-matter. When a linotype is cast from a line of matrices arranged as in Fig. 24, it will be substantially as illustrated in Fig. 16--that is to say, it will consist of the legend M. H. Whittaker 1O 2O 3O 40 and have (besides the recesses 6 and 14 last mentioned) other rule-recesses 14 between the recess 6 and adjacent type-face M and before each of the numbers.

The rule-recess 14 when situated at either end of a linotype may either be formed as a recess proper, as shown in Figs. 11, 12, 16, and 17, in which case the subsequentlyapplied column-rule 15 will be supported 1 on both sides by the metal of the linotype,

or it may constitute practically a ledge, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, in which case the column-rule will be supported on one side by the linotype-body and on the other side by the chase or a filling-piece inserted between it and the said chase. The column-rule 14 may be either of the single-edged form (shown in Figs. 8, 9, and 10) or the double-edged form. (Shown in Figs. 12, 13, 14, 18, and 19.)

I claim-- 1. A matrix for a linotype-machine having a non-compressible metallic body with a solid projection adapted to enter the front of the slotted mold to produce a transverse slot of definite form and size in the printing edge of the linotype.

2. In a linotype-machine, and in combination with a slotted mold wherein the linotypes are formed, an incompressible matrix adapted to fit against the mold, and provided with a solid projection adapted to enter the front of the mold whereby it is adapted to produce in the printing edge of the slug or linotype a transverse slot of definite-form.

3. In a linotype-machine, the combination of a slotted mold wherein the linotypcs are formed, a series of cooperating matrices having female characters therein, and other mat-. rices having solid projections adapted to extend beyond the faces of the first-named matrices and into the mold whereby they are adapted to form cavities of definite form at definite points in the linotypes.

4. In a linotype-machine and in combination with a mold, a series of figure-matricesof uniform thickness in combination with a series of matrices having slot-producing projections, substantially as described, whereby figure-printing linotypes may be produced in succession with their figures and slots in position to aline vertically, thus permitting the introduction of column-rules in the slots of the form.

5. In alinotype-machine, the combination of a matrix-confining jaw and a matrixadapted to interlock therewith, and provided with a projection to enter the mold.

6. A matrix for a linotype having a-pro-

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