US1094367A - Apparatus for justifying with hot metal. - Google Patents

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R. LANGSETH.

APPARATUS FOR JUSTIFYING WITH HOT METAL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1912.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914,

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APPARATUS FOR JUSTIFYING WITH HOT METAL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1912.

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Patented A i.21,,1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

' 1 ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANDOLPH LANGSE'IH, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO AUTOMATIC JUSTIFIER COMPANY, OF HAMMOND, INDIANA, A

CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

APPARATUS FOR JUSTIFYING WITH HOT METAL.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RANDOLPH Lanosnrn, a citizen of the United States. residing at Hammond, county of Lake, State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for JuSt1- fying with Hot Metal, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Cuts and the like are often supplied to the printer in a form which necessitates justify ing in order to make them fit into the column or page scheme, the justifying being done by laying beside the cut filling pieces in sufiicient numbers to produce with the cut a piece of composition of the desired width; the justifying process being a slow one because of the necessity of selecting and trying the filling pieces so as to secure just the proper dimensions; and the typographi cal material, with the piece of composition set into it being often weak and unstable instead of firm and solid, as it should be.

One of the objects of my invention is to;

produce a simple and novel apparatus whereby a piece of composition may be ust-ified quickly and with exactness, reducing the number of parts to a minimum and overcoming the objection of lack of stability and rigidity inherent in composition as heretofore justified.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is characterized will hereinafter be pointed out with particularity in the claims; but for a full understanding of my invention and of its objects and advantages, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of an apparatus arranged in accordance with a preferred form of my invention and adapted to carry out my improved process; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the apparatus; and Fig. 3 is a section on line 8-3 of Fig. 1.

Broadly speaking, my improved process consists in justifying with hot metal, the cut or other device being held within a form or mold having the exact dimensions of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1912.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Serial No. 722,710.

.right width, the hot metal will be so shaped that the piece of composition will fit accurately in the space available for it: there being no fitting and trying of filling pieces; and, because the piece of justified composition always is of exactly the right width and is composed of the smallest possible number of parts, solidity and rigidity is obtained when a piece of composition is set up with the rest of the typographical material. My process may of course be carried out with a simple apparatus of any kind, but I prefer to use an apparatus of the general type illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in order to reduce the time and labor required for justifying to a minimum.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents a flat table preferably set upon suitable legs or standards 2 so as to bring the top of the table to a convenient height. At one end of the table is a melting pot 3 adapted to contain molten metal for justifying; the pot being preferably carried by a part 41- secured to the table; and the metal in the pot being kept in a heated state by any suitable means such as a burner 5 arranged below the pot. Along the front of the table is a low upwardly projecting wall or ledge 6. A similar Wall or ledge 7 extends along one of the ends of the table. At the opposite end of the table preferably at the end at which the melting pot is situated is a detachable Wall or ledge 8 similar to the walls or ledges 6 and 7 In the arrangement shown, the wall or ledge 8 is pivotally connected or hinged at its rear end to the table, as indicated at 9, this arrangement permitting it to be swung around out of the Way in order to remove the justified piece or pieces of composition as will hereinafter appear.

The front end of the wall or ledge 8 and the adjacent end of the wall or ledge 6 are preferably so shaped that when the member 8 is in its normal position, butting against the end of the member 6, a tight joint is produced between the two. The member 8 may be locked in its normal or closed position in any suitable way as, for example, by means of a pin 10 inserted through registering openings in adjacent ends of the members 6 and 8. Upon the table and fitting accurately between the members 8 and 7, is a fourth shallow wall or ledge, 11, this ledge or wall being movable from and toward the member 6 and determining the width of a piece of composition. The upper faces of the members 8 and 7, along their inner edges, are preferably graduated as indicated at 12 and 13, respectively; the graduations permitting the movable wall or ledge to be accurately adjusted parallel with the opposite wall or ledge at any desired distance therefrom. The movable wall or ledge may be adjusted in any suitable manner. However, I prefer to provide some means by which it may be shifted quickly and easily through any desired distance without bringing it out of parallelism with the opposite ledge or wall. In the arrangement shown, I have connected to the member 11, near its ends, two long screws 14: and 15, which extend back across the table at right angles to the member 11. On the rear ends of the screws are nuts 16 and 17 respectively, suitably supported upon stationary brackets, 18, in such a manner that they are free to revolve but are held against axial movements. The nuts serve as the hubs of sprocket wheels 19 of which they form a part or to which they are secured. Mounted beneath the table, and ex tending from the front to the back is a revo-luble shaft 20 having at its front end a crank or handle 21 by which it may be turned. On the rear end of the shaft is a sprocket wheel 22. An endless sprocket chain 23 passes over the sprocket wheel 22 and around each of the sprocket wheels 19. It will be seen that by turning the crank or handle 21, both of the sprocket wheels 19 are turned in one direction or the other, rotating the nuts on the two screws and causing the screws to move axially and carry the movable wall or ledge 11 toward the front or the back of the table, as the case may be.

The distance between the members 6 and 11 determines one of the dimensions of the piece of composition or of the mold in which it is produced and the other dimension is determined by one of the side walls, preferably the member 8, and a movable part lying between the members 6 and 11. The cuts or other devices are of course of various sizes and shapes, measured along the two aXes lying at right angles to each other in the plane of their faces and furthermore, it is often possible to justify several different pieces of composition at the same time. It is further necessary to provide some means for effectively forming the fourth wall of the form or mold whose other three walls are portions of the members 6, 8 and 11, and it is desirable to have means for conveniently dividing the form or mold into a series of compartments lying side by side. To this end I have provided a series of metal plates graduated in length so as to provide a plate for each width which may at any time be desired, the plate of the proper length being set on edge between the members 6 and 11 before the member 11 is adjusted to its final position and the plate therefore serving both as a spacing device between the members 6 and 11 and as an end wall for the form or mold. In the drawings I have illustrated one of these plates, the same being indicated at 25. The top faces of the members 6 and 11, along their inner edges, may be provided with suitable scales 26 and 27 for the purpose of permitting the plates 25 to be set accurately at right angles to the members 6 and 11. I have also provided a series of thin metal strips or rules 28, each series preferably containing several units of the same length and the series as a whole being graduated to correspond with the series of plates 25. The strips or rules 28 are intended to be placed in the form or mold so as to divide it into a series of compartments each of which contains a cut and each of which produces a piece of accurately just-ified composition.

In the drawing I have illustrated the ap paratus as arranged to form five separate pieces of composition, there being five cuts 31 to 34 inclusive within the mold or form bounded by the members 6, 8, 11 and 25; the cut 31 lying against the inner face of the member 8, the cut 35 lying against the inner face of the member 25, and there being a strip or rule 28 between each cut and the next out.

It is desirable that the loose plate 25 be pressed or supported in some manner in addition to being clamped between the members 6 and 11, and it is further desirable to have some means for pressing this plate laterally in order that there may be no looseness of the cuts or spacing strips or rules. To this end I have provided a rod or bar 36 extending transversely of the table between the members 6 and 11 and passing slidably through a block 37 which is in turn slidably mounted in any suitable way upon the member 7 so as to have capacity for movements back and forth at right angles to the front of the table. The rod may be locked against movement in the block in any suitable way, as for example by providing the block with a thumb screw 38 which may be screwed against the rod. The sliding connection between the block and the table may conveniently be secured by providing the member 7 with an elongated dovetailed slot 39 into which fits a complementary projection 40 on the block. Each of the plates 25 is provided on one side with a socket 4:1 for receiving the inner endof the rod 36. In ad justing the apparatus the block 37 is shifted so as to bring it halfway between the members 6 and 11, the set screw 38 is loosened, and the rod 36, then adjusted so as to fit its end into the socket in the plate 25. Then by pushing in on the rod the parts 31 to 35 inclusive and the spacing strips or rules 28 are clamped solidly between the members 8 and Since the rod 36 should lie halfway between the members 6 and 11, it follows that the rod must be shifted back and forth through half the distance traveled by the member 11 in making adjustments and therefore the block 37 may conveniently be connected to the actuating means for the member 11 in such a way as always to keep the block and the rod in the proper position, regardless of the distance between the members 6 and 11. In the arrangement shown,

the block 37 is carried upon the front end of a screw rod 43 which passes back through a stationary nut a l at the rear end of the table. 011 the rear end of the screw rod is a gear wheel 45 which meshes with an elongated pinion 46 secured to or forming a part of the nut 16; the gear wheel having twice as many teeth as the pinion and the threads on the members 14 and 43 being in opposite direction. It will be seen that by this arrangement the block 37 is always adjusted in the same direction as the member 11, when the latter is moved, but travels only through half the distance through which the member 11 passes.

The series of plates 25 and rules or strips 28 are preferably carried in a suitable rack 47 mounted upon the table at the back thereof; the rack being divided into a series of graduated compartments t8 each of which is adapted to contain one of the plates 25 and the set of spacing strips or rules having the same length as the plate. This arrangement makes it easy for the operator to select the proper material for making the form or mold.

After the cuts have been set up as illustrated in Fig. 1, molten metal is taken from the pot and is poured into the spaces between the several cuts and the members 6 and 11. The hot metal completely fills the space in each compartment so that when the metal cools and solidifies, each compartment contains a piece of composition accurately justified. Vihen the justifying metal has cooled, the member 3 is swung around as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and, upon releasing the pressure of the member 11 upon the ends of the members 25 and 28 and loosening the set screw 38, the rod 36 may be used to push the justified matter off the side of the table upon the auxiliary table formed by the member 4. After the printing has been completed, the justifying pieces may be remelted and thus be used over and over again.

It will thus be seen that I have produced a simple eflicient and practical apparatus whereby it is possible to justify cuts or the like quickly and accurately regardless of the width of the space available therefor in the typo-graphical matter and in such a way as to make the typographical matter solid and firm.

I claim:

1. A hot metal justifying apparatus comprising a table, walls or ledges projecting above the table and forming thereon a rectangle, means for moving one of the said walls from and toward the opposite wall, and a series of spacers of various lengths adapted to be inserted between the latter walls.

'2. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls or ledges projecting above the table, one of said walls or ledges being fixed and the other being movable from and toward the same, an abutment lying midway between said walls, actuating means for said movable wall, and connections between said actuating means and said abutment for maintaining the latter midway between said walls regardless of the distance between the walls.

3. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, walls or ledges projecting above the table and forming thereon a rectangle, one of said walls being movable from and toward the opposite wall, a series of spacers of various lengths adapted to be inserted between the latterwalls, and each of the walls being graduated so as to permit the movable wall and the spacers to be accurately adjusted.

at. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, walls or ledges projecting above the table, one of said walls being stationary and the other being movable from and toward the same, an abutment lying midway between said walls and adjustable longitudinally of the walls, and means for moving the movable wall and simultaneously moving the abutment in the same direction and through half the distance.

5. An apparatus of the character de scribed, comprising a table, walls or ledges projecting above the table and forming thereon a rectangle, one of said walls being stationary and the opposite wall being movable from and toward the same, screw devices for actuating said movable wall, one of the other walls being hinged at one end so as to permit it to be swung away from the adjacent walls.

6. An apparatus of the character de scribed, comprising a table, relatively movable walls or ledges projecting above the table, and a plurality of series of thin spacers diifering in length from each other, the spacers of any series being adapted to be adjusted between said walls to form therewith a plurality of compartments separated from each other by the spacers.

7. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls or ledges projecting above the table, one of said walls or ledges being fixed and the other being movable from and toward the same, a device spaced apart an equal dis tance from each of said walls, actuating means for said movable wall, and connec tions between said actuating means and said device for maintaining the latter midway between said walls regardless of the distance between the walls.

8. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls projecting above the table, one of the aforesaid walls being stationary and the other being movable from and toward the same, screw devices for actuating the aforesaid m vable wall, and a third wall or ledge mounted in proximity to corresponding ends of the other two walls, the third wall being 'movable to a position in which it leaves the top of the table unobstructed for a portion at least of its length at the ends of the other two walls adjacent to the third wall.

9. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls or ledges projecting above the table, one of said walls being stationary and the opposite wall being movable from and toward the same, a plurality of series of spacers difiering in length from each other, the spacers of any series being adapted to be adjusted between said walls to form therewith compartments separated from each other by the spacers,and means for actuating said movable wall so as to carry it from and toward the stationary wall.

10. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls or ledges projecting above the table, one of said walls being stationary and being located along the front edge of the table, the other wall being movable from and toward the stationary wall, screw shafts extending from the ends of the movable wall to the rear of the table, an actuating handle at the front of the table, and driving mechanism between said actuating handle and said screw shafts.

11. An apparatus for justifying typographical material comprising a table, a wall or ledge projecting above the table, guides arranged at right angles to said wall or ledge, a second wall or ledge resting upon the table and slidably engaging the guides, and means acting upon the latter wall or ledge at two separated points for positively moving it from and toward the other wall or ledge and maintaining it at all times parallel therewith.

12. In an apparatus of the character described, a table, two stationary walls or ledges projecting above the table at right angles to each other, a third wall mounted on the table and movable from a position above the table at right angles to one and parallel with the other of the stationary walls to a position away from the top of the table and provide a doorway through which the work on the table may be slid off, and a fourth wall or ledge resting loosely upon the table and slidably engaging at its ends with said third wall and the stationary wall op posite the said third wall.

13. In an apparatus of the character described, a table, two stationary walls or ledges projecting above the table at right angles to each other, a third wall resting upon the table and hinged at one end so as to permit it to be swung from a position at right angles to one of the stationary walls and in contact with one end of the latter to a position in which it is clear of the latter wall and leaves a door opening through which work on the table may be slipped, and a fourth wall or ledge resting loosely upon the table and slidably engaging at its ends with the said third wall and with the stationary wall opposite the said third wall so as to be movable from and toward the remaining stationary wall.

14. In an apparatus of the character described, a table, two stationary walls or ledges projecting above the table at right angles to each other, a third wall mounted on the table and movable from a position above the table at right angles to one and parallel with the other of the stationary walls to a position away from the top of the table and provide a doorway through which the work on the table may be slid off, a fourth wall or ledge resting loosely upon the table and slidably engaging at its ends with said third wall and the stationary wall opposite the said third wall, and actuating means for said fourth wall adapted to move the same from and toward and maintain said fourth wall always parallel with the stationary wall opposite thereto.

15. An apparatus for justifying typographical material comprising a table, a stationary wall or ledge projecting above the table, a second wall or ledge resting upon the table parallel with and movable from and toward the stationary wall, actuating mechanism for the movable wall arranged to move opposite ends of that wall simultaneously in the same direction and to the same extent so as always to maintain the two walls in parallelism with each other, and a third wall mounted upon the table and movable from a position above the table at right angles to and in proximity to corresponding ends of the aforesaid walls to a position away from the top of the table toprovide a doorway through which the work on the table may be slid ofi'.

16. An apparatus of the character described comprising a table, a stationary wall or ledge projecting above the table, a second wall or ledge resting upon the table parallel with and movable from and toward the sta tionary wall, actuating mechanism for the movable wall arranged to move opposite ends of that wall simultaneously in the same direction and to thesame extent so as always to maintain the two walls in parallelism with each other, each of said walls or ledges being provided with graduations distributed lengthwise thereof, and a plurality of spacers differing in length from each other and adapted to be placed between said walls and adjusted by the graduations.

17. An apparatus of the character described comprising a table, a stationary wall or ledge projecting above the table, a second wall or ledge resting upon the table parallel with and movable from and toward the stationary wall, actuating mechanism for the movable wall arranged to move opposite ends of that wall simultaneously in the same direction and to the same extent so as always to maintain the two walls in parallelism with each other, and means cooperating with said walls or ledges to form with them rectangular compartments of various widths and lengths.

18. An apparatus of the character de scribed, comprising a table, two parallel walls projecting above the table, one of the aforesaid walls being stationary and the other being movable from and toward the same, and a third wall mounted upon the table in proximity to corresponding ends of the other two walls, the third wall being movable to a position in which it leaves the top of the table unobstructed for at least a portion of its length at the ends of the other two walls adjacent to the third wall and thus provide a doorway through which the work may be slid off.

19. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a table, two parallel walls projecting above the table, one of the aforesaid walls being stationary and the other being movable from and toward the same, means for actuating the aforesaid movable wall, and a third wall mounted in proximity to corresponding ends of the other two walls, said third wall being movable from a position above the table in proximity to the ends of the other walls to a position away from the top of the table to provide a doorway through which the work on the table may be slid off.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

RANDOLPH LANGSETH.

\Vitnesses:

WM. F. FREUDENREIGH, RUTH E. ZETTERVAIL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

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