US1115170A - Type or matrices. - Google Patents

Description

Af J. CAMPBELL.

TYPEVOR MATRICES.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 2a, 1913.

1,115,176, Patented 001127, 1914.,

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after returned through a c o i fi m". rill EL Us in Application fi led hik n 3, 1913, Serial 1E0. i80,621.

all 11:71 m 1' I; may concern;

o it known that 1, ANDREW J.

of the United States UAMPBELL, a A esid ng so ii'ilSl cmed cert n 31:;W ments 1. w

and useful iurirovetrices of which the I cation reference being said the n to the accompanying drawing.

invention relates to t pogrziphical lG-il ds linotype machines of the ;?IR. al 05, 'sstion represented. in Letters Pete-nix of the United State It nizir Mergonthziler No. l3(' ,532 wherein. circulating matrices are released from a magazine in the order in "whichtheir characters are to appear in print, and th'cu. assembled in line i116 composed line transferred to the face of :i slotted mold, the mold filled with molten metal to form {L sing or lino'type again attire matrices which produce the "type characters thereon, and the matrices theredistributing inechsnisin. to the magazine from which they ted, More particularly the invention reto 21- special form of matrix for use in the said matrix being provided "with :i iflZ1illl.}/' extending member adapted to overlain an adjoining matrix so that the matrix may be employed in connection with.

other matrices to produce composite orvarir purposes, such as the production of fractions conteininq' an unusual number of numerals; orosluction of designs oi vm s kinds, and the productionfoii other 11 and forms. The most common use of my improved matrix .will be for the production of numerical fractions, and for this purpose the matrices illustrated are shown as having their loter sly extending members provided, some with. formative numerals. and others with blanks, two sets or series of matrices being shown, one set with the ClHEIiHZtQIFbQ{Hing built-n m ntriX for members in posltion thereon to form. the

numerator of the fraction, and the other set lmving their charactenbeo 'ing members in. position to form the denominator, when the said matrices are used interchangeably and in difFerent corinhinations in producing 21. composite umtrix. it will understood however. that the laterally extend '19; metre hers may be provided with formative chornctcrs oi? other kinds and forms,- and that the members may project from one side or Specification of Letters Patent.

nngton, District of Columbia, have ill: formed integrally Patented @ct. 2. ri id;

from both out the matrix and may be inovshly or iininovshly therewith. Forth r it understood that While I have shown y invention in preferred form hy way or example. and as applied to the kind of either matrix shown and described in said Mergenthalcr patent, or embodied. in the com mercial linotype machine, obviously many changes and variations therein. and in its mode of application will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art wit out departing from the limits of the invention. Thus the invention he used in connection with other styles of typographical. mikCi1l1'lGS,-OI with. typecastcrs, typesctters and the like, or any machines which handle types or dies instead of matrices. desire it to he understood that I do not limit myself to the specific forms and embodiments herein described nor to any; particular form (ii-construction of the parts, except in so for as such limitations are specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 sections provided with laterally extending members, certain of them heerinrgthe nuinerals' 0 m9, the said mernhers losing soloceted on the respective sections that in the composite or built-up matrix they'wil'l'piroduce the denominator of the; fraction. Fig. 2 is 2; similar view showing the laterally err tending'memhers locstedto produce the nuroerstor of the fraction. Fim-Z'l is an elevation of a composite or built-up matrix in which sections of the forms illustrated in the preceding figures ere employed in combination.

F1 4 is a perspective view oi e number of t e different forms of sec tions separated. from each other, and showing how a built-up or'compositc matrix. an elevation showing the two kinds of ma; trirr sections in slightly modifiediorm. 6 is a perspective View of a'c'omposite niathcy can be combined to produce shown in. Fig; 5 I? is a horizontal transverse sectional elevation on the line Z'Z of Fig 1' showing how the laterally extending character-bearing member is spplied to its matrix section.

Referring to the drawings: The matrix formed and attached to the or Generally speaking I I an elevation of a series cl. matrices. or-

trill. built lip-of two sections'of the form sect-ions A..-A, etc., shown in Fig. '1 are each provided with a laterally extending member a; and the matrix sections B-B, etc., shown in Fig. 2 are'each likewise provided with a laterally extending member b,'the said members on one section, assembled side'by side to produce a composite'or'built-up matrix as shown in Fig.

3, overlapping the next adjacent section, so that the members on one section. are givensup'po-rt by the other sections, and such numerals or figures as may with the member of sections A-A have thefnmbers a exiend ing laterally from both sides of the same, and below the member each section has its edge fOl'IIlmi with a recess a. Likewise the members b project laterally from both sides of 'the sections B, and above the member each section is provided in its edge with a recess 6, the said members and recesses being so located on the respective sections, that when the latter side to form a composite or built-up-matrix, .the member a of section A will seat in the recess. 6 of. section B, and the member 6 of section B will seat in the recess a ofsection A. A series or set of sections A are shown in which the laterally extending members are provided with formative numerals from 0 to 9, and in which other members are em ployed which are blank. The series of sections B includes "sections bearing formative numerals from O to 9 and other sections havingblank members, as a result of which-assortment of sections, various forms'of fractions containing in their numeratorsand denominators various arrangementsof Illlll l'. bers or numerals may be produced, by employing the difierent sections, interchange ably in diiferent combinations and relations. For instance in Fig; 3 a built-up or composite matrix is shown to produce a fraction in which the numerator contains two numerals and the denominator three numerals,

with the numerator symmetrically or centrally arranged with respect to the denomi' nator. Three sections A are employed-in this composite structure, whose lateral members bear numerals 1, 0, O, respectivcl ing the denominator, and four sections B are employed the two outer sections having blank members,

with the numerals 2, 4' formin the numerator, the lateral members of t e sections A overlapping the-adjacent sections B and extending into the recess therein an lateralfmembers of sections B overlapping the adjacent sections .A and extending into the recesses in said sections A, with faces of said members extending flush with each other in a common fiat plane. In Fig. 4 a number of sections A and B member and when the sections are be borne'by the member of one sect1on,,,may -be'associated the other ectiorr:""THe seated in the adjacent section, 1- g the section's r as that (19- zscribed, the only difierence being that this, oject frontare assembled side are shown partiall two sections of eacli form, one with a blan the other with a characterbearing member. From the position occupied by the projecting members on the res ective sections, it W11 1; e sections are placed together side by side, the prdj-ectin members on the sections A projectingmembers of sections B will" seat in the recessesin the sections A, ;thus producingh composite matrix with the member on one -section overlapping and In Fig. 5=theconstructionoi B is substantially the same gcase the lateral members afi b? p ,one 'tide only of the sections. "ihe sections may be assembled however insibstantially the same manner as thB. '0tll1 forms .de-- scribed in difierent relations and tions, to produce different iorms-of tions; or the sections of used in combination with those sections ing the lateral members projecting from posite sides-which" use is indicated in composite matrix shown in Fig. '3. The two sets-or series of' sections shown in Figsifl and 2 include sections having the members projecting from one side only;- these sections which are similar tofthose free athe-two series of Figs. 1 and 2, and being adapted for use interchangeably with. the other sectionof the series.

In Fig. 6 one combination y forms.

. are seated and the two inner ones hav- 55 ing their members provided respectively the sections shown in Fig. 5 is illustrated, the composite matrix to be produced being made up of'one section of each of the forms A and B to produce matrix the lateral overlaps and other section. r

The lateral membersv may be applied to the matrix sections in any appropriate and suitable manner. They may with the sections, or they may! a separate member and attac tions either movably or immovably. In the form of construction illustrated the lateral members are separate from the sections, an

be formed as adjacent [edges of the respective members A,"B,' being chamfered so that when they 'meet in the assemblage of the sections $16.6

by overlapping and seatin in thereccss in the adjacent sections, to the 1nd assembled, there beingwill seat in t e recesses in the sections B,

this form mayi be:

a to

lateral 1 be seen that when shown in F1g. 5, being shown atthe ends of.

of the formof the fraction In this -member of one section is seated in a recess in-thd be integral I in undercut recesses therein, the

by side, ahorizontal formative indentation members formed a d to the respectiv -sec-y ual sections together with sufficient firmness to enable the series of sections to be handled as a unit.

Having thus described my invention What I claim is: v j

1. A type or matrix section constructed for circulation in a typographical machine and adapted to be set in line therein with other scrtions and provided with a laterally extending member adapted to overlap and seat against the front face of an adjoining section.

2. The combination of a plurality of type or matrix sections adapted to beset side by side in a. composed line, and each provided with a laterally extending member overlap-v ping and seated against the front face of the adjacent section.

3. A composite type or matrix comprising a plurality of sections adapted to be set side by side in a. composed line and provided with laterally extending members overlapping and seated against the front faces of adjacent sections.

4; A type or matrix section constructed for circulat'on in a typographical machine and adapt to be set in line therein with other sections and provided with a character bearing member projecting laterally from its front face and adapted to seat in a recess in the froht face of an adjoining section.

5. :A type or matrix constructed for circulation in a typographical machine and adapted to besetin line therein with other type or matrices and comprising a plurality of-sections, one provided with a recess in its front face, and the adjoining one provided with a character bearing member projecting laterally from its front face and seated in said recess.

)6. A type-101. matrix comprising a plurz tlity of sections adapted to be. set side by side in a composed line, and each provided with a recess in its front face and with a character bearing member projecting laterally from such face, the.latcrally extending member of one section being seated in the recess of the adjoining section.

7. A type or matrix section adapted to be set in line with other sections and provided with a. character bearing member projecting laterally fromits front face and formed withan adjacent recess in such face.

8. The combination of a plurality of type or matrix sections adapted to be set side by mg members bearing complementary portions of a composite character, the members on the sections of one set being adapted to overlap the sections of the other set.

10. The combination of two series of matrix sections provided with laterally eXtending members bearing complementary portions of a composite character and adapted to be used interchangeably in different combinations, with the members on one section overlapping the adjoining sections.

11. A type or-matrix section constructed for circulation in a typographical machine and adapted to be set in lmetherein with. other sections and provided with a character bearing member extending laterally from opposite sides of the same-and adapted to overlap and seat against the front face of adjoining matrix sections.

12. A type or matrix section constructed for circulation in a typographical machine and adapted to be set in line therein with other sections and provided with a character bearing member projecting laterally from its front face and adapted to overlap and seat against the front face of an adjoining section.

13. A composite matrix comprising a phiqrality of sections adapted to be set side by side in acomposed line and provided with character bearing members projecting later- 1 ally from their front faces, the member of one section overlapping and seating against the front face of an adjacent section.

1 1-. A composite matrix formed for use in a typographical machine, and comprising a plurality of sections formed to overlap each other and bearing complementary portions of a composite character, said portions bea ing offset with respect to each other to per mit such overlapping:

In testimony whereof if have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ANDREW J. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

J. D. YoAKLnY,

M. SAUNDERS.

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