US1968001A - Typographical machine - Google Patents

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y H. BORRMANN 1,968,001 7 TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Filed Jan. 2, 1934 'I I I I I I HL IJLlLII I I NVENTOR Jag/7r- .50I'P/r7a/7/ ATTORNEY Patented July 24, 1934 1,968,001 7 TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Henry Borrmann, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Intertype Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y., a corporation of New York PATENT GFFECE Application January 2, 1334, Serial No. 704,974

9 Claims.

The present inventionrelates to improvements in typographical machines and more especially to those of the class disclosed generally in U. S. Letters Patent No. 436,532 granted September 16,

. 1890, wherein matrices bearing type forming characters are stored in a magazine and are delivered therefrom, under control of a keyboard, for assembly into lines which are presented to the face of a mold in which type bars or slugs are cast against the type forming characters of the matrices, after which the matrices used in the lines are returned, by distributing means, to the respective channels of the magazine from which they were drawn, and the invention relates particularly to improvements in the magazines for such machines in which the matrices are stored, Matrix magazines for machines of this class, as ordinarily constructed, each contain a full complement of matrices of a given font or type face,

. comprising the lower case orsmall letters of the alphabet, figures and points or punctuation marks, and the upper case or capital .letters of the alphabet, the total number of matrices making up a font of matrices having small text faces usually comprising 90 characters and those having larger faces, such as used for headings and display lines, comprising '72 characters and sometimes less. In any event, it is customary to retain within the complement of matrices comprising any font, the 26 lower case letters, the 2.6 "capital letters and the figures from 0 to 9 together with the most commoniy used points or punctuation marks such the period, comma and the like. Also, for some classes of composition, a set of small capital letters is required, and matrices bearing such characters may of course be arranged in any suitable order Within the font, they for example replacing the lower case or the large capital letters, or in the welt-known type of 40 machine known as a mixer, they maybe carried in another magazine. Furthermore, the machine may be equipped with a so-called auxiliary magazine unit at the side with its own keyboard and the capital letters of a matrix font may be car ried in the auxiliary magazines. 1 The primary object of the present inventionis to provide means whereby the groups of character bearing matricescornprising any font,-that is, the groups of lower case, figures and points, and

capital letter matrices, can be employed with greater facility, to the end that a font of matrices may e mad up at will to comprise any suitable combination of these groups (if-Character bearing matrices that may be desired. vThus,instead of a full complement or font of matrices comprising the three groups mentioned, all corresponding in style of face, the font may be made up of thatrices bearing lower case letters of one face or style, figures and points of another face or style, and capital letters, either large or small, of a third face or style. While it would be possible to place a complete matric font bearing different styles of type faces as between the groups thereof, in, a single magazine, ,such would be impracticable since it would require the constant drawing of 5 matrices from different fonts in different magazines and the running thereof into a single magazine according to requirements, and such breaking up of fonts would lead to great confusion and loss of time.

The present invention facilitates the mixing of the different above-mentioned groups of matrices making up a full complement or font thereof and avoids the difficulties and confusion certain to result from breaking up matrix fonts of like style as to characters in one magazine and mixing them as to groups to make up special mixed fonts in another magazine.

Such facility in the mixing of groups of character bearing matrices is particularly advanta-j 3 geous in advertising and display composition which is now being done extensively on machines of this class. In these classes of composition, it is frequently necessary also to employ special characters such as logotypes, top alining figures, 3,5

and extra ligatures, and several sizes of figures are often required, and matrices bearing these special characters are usually set by hand. Therefore, much time can be saved by facilitating the making up of mixed fonts of matrices contain- 99 ing the required groups of characters, including the special characters within the groups themselves, to suit any job to be composed. v p

' According to the present invention, such mixing of matrices as between the groups thereof in 9,5 any font is made possible by providing an individual magazine for each group of matrices. More particularly, the invention provides what amounts, in effect, to individual matrix storage magazineseach containing a group of matrices 1.0g

corresponding to one of the several groups required to make up a full complement or font whereby any group of matrices ofone font, say the lower case group, may be associated or com-j bined instantly with the figures and points group and the capital letter group of another font. Thus any desired combination of lower case, figures and points and capital letter matrices may be made available as a full complementjof matrices for a mixed font merely by combining side 0 by side the individual storage magazines containing the required groups of matrices of any font or type face.

By thus individualizing each of the matrix groups making up difierent fonts and storing them in separate magazines, great facility in composition employing diiiferent font matrices is made possible. Furthermore, matrix groups made up of those bearing special characters, such as hereinbefore mentioned and which would otherwise be stored as so-cailed side sorts matrices to be picked up and inserted in the line by hand, can now be stored in individual magazines and composed from the keyboard.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements or" parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the features of novelty being pointed out more particularly in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of a portion of a typographical machine embodying the present invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away, of the structure shown in Figure 1 as viewed from the right in that figure;

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of the mag- V azine carrier member removed from the machine;

and

Figure 1 is a detail view showing the magazine retaining means swung into releasing position.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the different figures.

a usually comprising a main frame 1 containing a keyboard 2 and an assembler entrance 3 to receive matrices delivered from a matrix magazine supported in the upper portion of the main frame. The keyboard shown in the present instance is of the usual and well-known kind commonly used in machines of this class, it comprising a set of finger keys 4 arranged to be depressed by the fingers of the operatonthese finger keys controlling the operation of corresponding reeds or escapement actuators 5, these reeds or escapement actuators being mounted in a row in the machine frame and being operated by the power means commonly used in keyboards of machines of this class, under control of the respective finger keys in the usual and well-known manner, these reeds acting, when operated, to actuate escapements which control the delivery of matrices from the respective channels in the matrix magazine. The keys of the keyboard are arranged in three groups, as usual in the keyboards of machines of this class, the group of keys6 at the left hand side of the keyboard bearing characters which designate them as lower case or small letter keys, the group of keys '7 in the middle of the keyboard bearing characters which designate them as figure and point keys, and the group of keys8 at the right hand side of the keyboard bearing characters which designate them as upper case or capital letter keys. The groups of keyboard keys 6, '7 and 8 control corresponding groups of the reeds 5 in rear of the respective keyboard groups, as usual.

The improved magazine structure provided by the present invention is preferably applied to -a divided or split magazine structure such as that shown and described in U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,338,627 granted April 27, 1920, comprising an upper magazine portion or section 9 mounted in the machine in a position to receive the matrices from the usual matrix distributor 90 located at its upper end, as well known in machines of this class, the upper end of the magazine portion 9 cooperating throughout its entire width with the distributor, the lower portion of this magazine structure, according to the present invention, forming a continuation of the upper magazine portion 9 and being divided into a plurality of individual compartments which are arranged side by side and cooperate collectively or as a whole with the upper magazine portion 9 to receive matrices therefrom. In the embodiment of the invention shown, three separate or individual magazines or sections 10, 11 and 12 are provided which are adapted to be placed in the machine between the lower end of the upper magazine portion 9 and the assembler entrance 3, these magazines being of relatively different or distinctive forms so that they may occupy different respective positions in the machine and collectively conform substantially with the lower end of the usual trapezoidal maga= zine, the left hand magazine 10 being adapted to contain matrices bearing lower case characters corresponding to the group of keyboard keys 6, the middle magazine 11 being adapted to contain matrices bearing figure and point characters corresponding with the group of keyboard keys 7, and the magazine 12 being adapted to contain matrices bearing capital letter characters corresponding with the group of keyboard, kays 8. and 12 in the machine as shown and described enables them to receive the matrices belonging to the respective groups of matrices contained therein as such matrices are returned by the The placing of the magazines 10, 11 1' 1 distributor, and enables matrices to be delivered if;

from the respective groups contained in these magazines by manipulation of the appropriate keys of the corresponding groups of keyboard keys. Any suitable means may be employed for releasing the matrices for delivery from the respective magazines under control of the keyboard, each magazine being shown in the present instance as provided with a set of escapements 13 which may be of the usual and wellknown construction, these escapements being arranged in a row so that when the magazines are placed in position in the machine, one beside the other, the escapements of the different magazines will register and correspond with the respective reeds or escapement actuating ,members 5. The arrangement is such that actuation of a key in the group of keys 6 will release and cause delivery of a corresponding matrix from the appropriate channel of the magazine tionship with the upper magazine section 9, the 45 assembler front 3 and the escapement actuators 5, and for supporting these magazines so that any one or another thereof can be easily removed from the machine and another magazine substituted. The magazine supporting means shown 131 '12 is provided on its under side with a transverse rib or rail 16 adapted to rest against the upper edge of the rail 15 whereby downward sliding of the respective magazine is prevented although each of the magazines 10, 11 and 12 may be individually lifted off thesup porting member 14.

The supporting member 14 is also preferably provided with grooves 116 appropriately spaced transversely thereon to receive longitudinal ribs 17 fixed to the under sides of the respective magazines 10, 11 and 12, whereby each of these magazines is appropriately positioned transversely on the frame member 14, although, as stated, each of the magazines 10, 11 and 12 is individually removable by lifting from the frame member 14 so that other similar magazines may be substituted therefor. The frame member 14 is also preferably removably mounted in the machine so that it may serve as a removable carrier frame for the magazines 10, 1-1 and 12 thereon, the frame 14 being removably seated in the present instance on a cradle 18 mounted in the machine frame, the frame 14 having lugs 19 projecting downwardly therefrom and arranged to seat in recesses 20 in the cradle 18 whereby sliding of the frame 14 downwardly and forwardly from its operative position is avoided. The upper magazine section 9 may be removably or otherwise mounted on the cradle 18 and the latter may be pivoted at 21 so that it may either occupy the normal position shown in Figure 2 in which the magazines are inclined downwardly and forward- 1y for the gravity flow of the matrices toward their .40 deliver ends or the magazines may be rocked into a rearwardly and downwardly inclined position if desired. In order to prevent displacement of any of the magazines 10, 11 and 12 from the frame member 14, either while the magazines are in operative position in the machine or while they are being carried by the frame member 14, a retaining bar 22 is provided, it being pivoted at its ends to the sides of the frame member 14 at the points 23 which are adjacent to the rail 15 56., so that this bar may be swung beyond the upper end of the frame member 14, as shown in Figure 3, to permit the placing of a magazine thereon or the removing of a magazine therefrom, and the retaining bar may be swung into overlying ,relation with the upper ends of the magazines on the frame member 14 as shown in Figures 1 and 2, it then retaining the magazines in proper operative position on the frame member 14. A spring 24 preferably connects the retaining bar 22 to the frame member 14 and serves to yieldingly hold the retaining bar in retaining relation with the magazines on the frame 14 as shown in Figure 2.

The magazines 10, 11 and 12 are preferably provided with individual card holders 25, 26 and 2'7 to receive appropriately inscribed cards 28,

spective groups of matrices, any one of which magazines can be easily lifted off the machine and another magazine substituted, thev handling of the magazines is greatly facilitated since the separate magazines are each much lighter in 'weight and therefore easier to handle than the previously used magazine arrangement which re quired the lifting off of the entire lower portion of the split magazine, and by mounting these individual magazines on a carrier member which is removable from the machine, the entire set of magazines can be lifted off the machine and carried to the magazine storage place where magazine substitutions can be made quickly. Furthermore, since for advertising and display composition it is sufiicient in many cases to use only the capital letter matrices or lower case matrices or perhaps figure matrices only of a certain style of type face, the provision of separate or individual magazines for the respective matrix groups enables the user to purchase only the required matrix group rather than the complete matrix font, thus saving considerable expense, and since these classes of composition call for only a few matrices of each character, the cost of such small partial font groups of matrices is thus further reduced.

In using the magazine structure according to the present invention, the separate or individual magazines 19, 11 and 12 containing groups of matrices bearing lower case characters, figure and point characters, and capital letter characters, respectively, and corresponding with the groups of keyboardkeys 6, 7 and 8, respectively, are mounted in the machine sothat their escapements will register with the corresponding escapement actuators 5 and their delivery ends will be positioned to deliver matrices therefrom into the assembler front 3, the upper ends of these magazines being also positioned to receive the matrices belonging thereto, from the usual distributing means and the upper magazine section 9. Actuation of keys in the respective groups of keys 6, '7 and 8 of the keyboard will serve to release the corresponding matrices from the respective magazines l0, l1 and 12. When the composition requires a change in the style of type face, it is only necessary to remove one or more of the separate or individual magazines and to substitute one or more other similar magazines containing matrices of the corresponding group or groups but having the desired type face or faces.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the individual or separate magazines provided for the respective groups of matrices enable partial fonts of matrices to be made available in almost any desired arrangement or combination, and that the range of composition heretofore obtainable only from a large number of magazines can be obtained from magazines which are accommodated within the space ordinarily occupied by a single magazine. Moreover, the range of composition ordinarily requiring auxiliary or side magazines, is made possible at substantially less cost and with greater facility and convenience. Since the plurality of separate or individual magazines provided by the present invention occupy the width of a single main magazine and are adapted to cooperate with the usual keyboard for such magazine and the single set of escapement actuators or reeds connecting the keyboard to such magazine, it will be evident that the separate or individual magazines provided according to the present invention may be applied directly to typographical machines of the usual construction in place of the usual main magazine and will cooperate properly with the matrix releasing and distributing means already existing in such machines.

I claim as my invention:-

1. In a typographical machine having a keyboard the keys of which are grouped-to correspond with complemental groups of matrices comprising a font, a plurality of magazines of relatively difierent forms to contain individual groups of matrices corresponding respectively with the groups of keyboard keys and capable of assembly for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom, respectively, by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, one or another of said magazines being individually exchangeable with another magazine of similar form containing a corresponding group of matrices of another font.

,2. In a typographical machine having a keyboard the keys of which are arranged in groups corresponding, respectively, with the lower case, figure and point, and capital letter matrices of a font, a plurality of-m-agazines of relatively different forms to contain individual groups of matrices corresponding respectively with said groups of keyboard keys and adapted to be arranged for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom, respectively, by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, one or another of said magazines be ing individually exchangeable with another magazine of similar form containing a corresponding group of matrices of another font.

3. In a typographical machine having a keyboard the keys of which are grouped to correspond with complemental groups of matrices comprising a font, a plurality of magazines of relatively different forms to contain individual groups of matrices comprising complemental portions of a font corresponding respectively with the groups of keyboard keys, and means for supporting said magazines in a common plane for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, said magazines being individually exchangeable with other magazines of corresponding forms containing corresponding groups of matrices of other fonts for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom by the corresponding groups of the keyboard keys.

4. In a typographical machine having a frame and a keyboard thereon having its keys grouped to correspond with complemental groups of matrices comprising a font, individual magazines of relatively different forms to contain respectively complemental groups of matrices corresponding with the respective groups of keyboard keys, and a magazine supporting member removably mounted in the frame to position the magazines for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, the magazines being individually removable from said supporting member for exchange with other magazines of corresponding forms containing respectively corresponding groups of other matrices.

5. In a typographicalmachine having a frame and a keyboard thereon having its keys grouped to correspond with complemental groups of matrices comprising a font, a set of individual magazines to contain respectively complemental groups of matrices corresponding with the respective groups of keyboard keys, and a carrier member for supportingthe set of magazines in position for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, said carrier member being removably mounted in said frame to position the set of magazines therein and remove them therefrom, and eachmagazine of the set being individually removable from said member for exchange with another magazine containing a corresponding group of matrices of another font.

6. In a typographical machine having a frame and a keyboard thereon having its keys grouped to correspond with complemental groups of matrices comprising a font, a set of individual magazines to contain, respectively, complemental groups of matrices corresponding withthe respective groups of keyboard keys, a carrier meme ber removably mounted in said frame and on which said set of magazines are supported in position for control of the delivery of matrices therefrom by the corresponding groups of keyboard keys, the magazines being individually removable from said carrier member, and means carried by said member for releasably retaining the magazines thereon. I a

. In a typographical machine having a distributor and an assembler entrance, matrix magazine means cooperative therewith comprising a single upper magazine portion, and a lower magazine portion forming a continuation of said upper portion and constituting a plurality of individually exchangeable contiguous magazine sections.

8. In a typographical machine having a distributor and an assembler entrance, matrix magazine means comprising an upper magazine portion cooperative over its entire width with the distributor, and a lower magazine portion comprising a plurality of individually exchangeable magazine sections each cooperative in part with said upper magazine portion and cooperative as a whole with the full width of said upper magazine portion.

9. In a typographical machine having a main frame, a distributor and an assembler entrance, the combination of matrix magazine means comprising a single upper magazine portion mounted in the main frame and cooperative as a whole with the distributor, anda lower magazine por tion comprising a plurality of individual matrix magazines cooperative as a whole with the full width of said upper magazine portion, and a common supporting frame for positioning said individual magazines in cooperative relation with said upper section, said supporting frame being removably mounted in the main frame.

HENRY BORRMANN.

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