US352817A - Type-case and galley support - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. H. GOLDING.

TYPE CASE AND GALLEY SUPPORT.

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Patented Nov. 16, 1886.

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NITED S ATES- P TENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. GOLDING, or CHELSEA, MAssAoiiUsErrs.

TYPE-CASE AND GALLEY SUPPOIRT.

SPECIPICATION' forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 352,817, dated November 16, 1886.

I Application filed November 2, 1885. Serial No. 181.675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concermr Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GOLDING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of construction and form as will adaptthem to be applied to any ordinary type-case, cabinet, or to any table, stand, or other similar piece of furniture, in order to convert the same into acompositors stand, and to enable the said brackets to be capable of an arrangement which shall adapt them to'support either short or long type-cases, and to facilitate the operation of shaking a case and-the type in the compartments thereof, as is customary with compositors, in order to dispose the type in positi'ons which admit of a more ready access to the individual types in each compartment,and to provide also a convenient receptacle for a galley and ready access to the same when such is desired. I

Heretofore metal typecase supporting frames or stands have been provided embodying supporting side or end pieces which when arranged in pairs have been adapted to support the upper and lower casein proper position for use.

My invention has relation to certain improvements in such brackets; and it consists in certain features of construction hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a type-case having mounted thereon case-supporting brackets constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front edge view of the lower portion, of one of the brackets.

Like letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

A represents a bracket, which, with acompanion bracket of the same form, constitute a support adapted to hold in position for use an upper and a lower case. The bracket A consists of a base, A, having projecting bosses or lugs A", through which screws or bolts are passed into any suitable top table or shelf for the purpose of maintaining the bracket in an upright position. At one end of the base A is a standard, A which at its upper end is provided with an inclined supporting-surface, A, at the front and lower end of which is a retaining-lug, A Asimilar surface, A, and lug A is formed at the opposite end of the base. Between the two supporting surfaces-in this instance at the upper end of the lower surface, A-is arranged an anti-friction roller, B, and to strengthen the bracket at the point where the roller is applied a standard, A", is formed in the general design of the bracket. Between the roller Band the lug A of the upper casesupporting surface is arranged a downwardly and rearwardly inclined supporting-surface, A ,which is extended into the body of the standard A as at A so that when the case is arranged upon the supportingsurface A it is prevented from tipping or falling upon the supporting-surface A, which action of the case might be caused by preponderance of weight therein in the front part of the case.

Now, it will readily be seen that two of the brackets thus constructed may be secured upon a suitable support and at the proper distance from each other,which distance, it is apparent, should be a trifle less than the length of the cases to be supported therein, and that an upper and 'a lower case, or two job-cases, may be supported in inclined positions ready for use, as illustrated at the left of Fig. l, and that the lower-case may be reciprocated, as indicatedby dotted lines in Fig. 2, to and fro from front to rear upon the rollers B, in order to shake up the type, and that said lower-case may be inserted into the openings A and thus retained upon the inclined supporting-su rface A", as illustrated at the right of Fig. 1, for the purpose of giving access to a galleyrest, 0, wherein matter may be deposited as fast as set up, or wherein matter to be corrected may be deposited.

The galley-rest C may consist of either an ordinary galley slid into grooves A, (see Fig. 3,) formed asapart of the front portion of the bracket, and below the supporting-surface A thereof, or the galley-support may consist of a board or shelf permanently secured at that portion of the bracket in any suitable wellknown manner.

It will be noticed that the galley-rest O is the only device which serves asa tie-bar between the two brackets,and in so far as it may give additional strength to the pair of brackets when arrangedin operative position it is in that degree advantageous; but, however, it is not an essential feature in that regard of.my invention, as the brackets themselves are of sufficicnt rigidity to support the load required of them without any connecting or tie bar between them. It is readily apparent that two or more of said brackets may be arranged across a table or cabinet top from front to rear, instead of the arrangement illustratedin Fig. 1, whereby access to the type-cases is given from the front of the cabinet. It is apparent also that the anti-friction rollers may be dispensed with and that the case may be reeiprocated at the apex of the lower portion of thebracket-that is, atthe point of union of the two supporting-surfaces A A"so that while I prefer the provision of rollers B, I do.11ot limit my in vention to their provision.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim is- 1. A type-case bracket having its upper edge shaped to form upper, lower, and intermediate inclined case-supporting surfaces, the

latter being inclined rearwardly and downwardly, and the others rearwardly and upwardl y, substantially as specified.

2. A typecase-supporting bracket having an upper, lower, and intermediate supportingsurface, the latter extending into the standard of the former, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A type-case-supporting bracket having a lower supporting-surface shorter than the case, and a downwardly-inclined supportingsurface, and anti-friction rollers arranged at the apex of the two surfaces, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with two type-case brackets, the upper edges of each of which are shaped to form upper and lower upwardlyinclined type-case-supporting surfaces, an-intermediate downwardly and rearwardly inclined case supporting surface, of a galley-

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