US1090965A - Underscoring-rule. - Google Patents

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J. T. BARTON. UNDERSGORING RULE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1913. 1,090,965.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914 \0|."-\\HIA PLANOGRAPH C0,. WASHINGTON. n. z

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JOSEPH '1. BARTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB, TO FRANK G. FORBES, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UNDEESGORING-RULE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnted E1 24L 1914 Application filed March 10, 1913. Serial No. 753,245.

view of the preferred form of my underscoring rule shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring to the drawing, 5 designates a row of type-blocks bearing on one end thereof the type-letters 6.

7 designates various pieces of printers furniture that are assembled with the type in the usual way to make the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 8 designates the main body portion of my improved underscoring rule. At its upper edge the body 8 is provided with a laterally extending flange 9 that overlies the lower edge of the type-blocks 5 directly beneath the letters thereon. The flange 9 is of somewhat greater width than the underscoring line to be printed thereby, so that the inner portion of the flange lying nearest to the body 8 is countersunk or rabbeted, as shown at 10, leaving the upper or printing surface which forms the type for the underscoring line of a width corresponding to the desired width of the latter.

The underscoring rule is set either di rectly against the type-blocks or spaced therefrom by one or more strips 11 each one or more points in thickness, according to the desired degree of proximity of the underscoring line to the type. It is thus possible to print the underscoring line directly against the lower ends of the type forming the word or group of words underscored, or, by the use of one or more thin spacers such as 11, at any desired distance therefrom.

I claim- A printers underscoring rule, comprising a flat body portion and a flange on one edge thereof that extends laterally of and overhangs one side of said body portion and is adapted to overlap a type-block below the type-letter on the latter, the inner portion of the upper surface of said flange being countersunk to afford a relatively narrow printing edge laterally ofiset relatively to that side of the body portion which said flange overhangs.

JOSEPH T. BARTON.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrrr T. BARTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Underscoring Rules, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the art of printing, and has reference more particularly to a printers appliance in the nature of an underscoring rule.

leretofore, so far as I am aware, it has been impossible, in the printing of an un* derscoring line in printed matter, to set the said underscoring line close enough beneath the printed word or group of words to make a neat and attractive appearance, owing to the fact that the width of the typeblock carrying the type-letters is considerably in excess of the width of the letters themselves, and the further fact that the underscoring rule has heretofore consisted simply of a plain fiat strip or bar of metal of uniform thickness throughout, set against the lower side of a row of type-blocks, with one of its longitudinal edges forming the printing edge of the rule.

The object of my present invention is to eliminate this defect and produce an improved underscoring rule whereby the underscoring line may be printed as close beneath the letters ofthe underscored word or words as may be desired to secure the neatest and best effect; and this object I accomplish by forming on what corresponds to the printing edge of the usual underscoring rule a laterally extending rabbeted lip or flange that may overlie the upper edge of this row of type-blocks thus bringing its printing edge in close juxtaposition to the lower ends of the type-letters on said blocks.

The device of my invention, its mode of use, and its advantages will be readily understood when considered in connection with the following detailed description and the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a top-plan view of a short type form which includes my improved under- Witnesses: scoring rule. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional L. E. SWEINHART, View of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail G. B. PERKINS.

Copies of thin patent may he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G."

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