US827486A - Line-holder and cylindrical type-chase. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

F. W. WEEKS LINE HOLDER AND GYLINDRIGAL TYPE CHASE* APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,` 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

atented Saly S., i90@ Application iled July 21,1905. Serial No. 270.396.

To [1J/Z 'whom it rim/y conce/'ns Be it known that I, FRANK W. Wenns, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Line-Holders and Cylindrical Type-Chases, of which the following is a speci# i'lcation.' Y My invention relates to improvements in combined line-holder and. cylindrical type chase, and is particularly designed to be used in connection with a type provided upon one end with a printing' character and upon its opposite end with a corresponding proof lc aracter. Y

The object of my invention is to provide means for rapidly and easily setting type by an unskilled person and in which each line is separately set up and held in position and by means of which the same can be inverted and readily placed and held within the cylindrical chase. I l In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is av perspective view of my improved cylindrical chase. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view with several of the line-holders clamped therein. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved line-holder, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the clamping-blocks removed.

Referring now to the drawings, A reprerents a cylindrical member which is preferably made of sheet metal and provided with suitable journals B, by means of which it is placed within the clyindrical ress. rl`he ends of said cylinder are extended) outw ardly beyond the periphery thereof andere turned inwardly, forming the flanges C and C. Resting upon the cylinder and rigidly secured thereto is a stationary radially-extending rib D, which has both of its -sides extending radially from the cylinder. The 'flange C is about twice the width of the flange C', and this allows 'of the insertion of the lineholderwithin the chase and the holding of the same ,therein against radial movement. The line-holder consists of two plates E and E', which, as shown, are of a length slightly less than the distance between the, ends of the cylinder, and in order to insert the holder one end is inserted under the flange C until it strikes the end of the cylinder, and it is then lowered and moved in the o posito direction under the Aflange C and t ie holder is prevented from moving radially within the chase. The said line-holder, as before stated, consists of two plates E and E', which are spaced and held apart by blocks" F, which are of a thickness equal to that of the type, so that the same can be readily placed within the holder. The outer side of each of said plates "el and ll forming the holder is thickened so that when a number of them are inserted in the chase and rest upon the cylinder their outer surfaces will lit closely together and will extend radially from the cylinder, so that a cylindrical printing-surface is produced The blocks i9 are provided with inwardlyextending springs which are adapted to bear against the type and firmly hold the same between the plates. Instead of these springs the blocks F can be made oi spongeerubber and cemented between the plates and also serve as means for spacing the plates apart and frictionally holding the type within the holder. ln thisform ol line-holder l use the type covered by my United States Patent No. 744,836, dated November 24, 1903, and which consists of a type havingat one end the printing character and at the opposite end the proof character and provided with the shou der G, by means of which the type are supported within the holder and the type are set. with the roof end up in the regular reading order andJ the reversing of the holder arranges the type in the printing order.

It is understood that after the type are set within. the holder the same is inverted before inserting it in the chase to bring the type side outwardly. f

The leads and furniture are necessarily made wedge shape and of a length oqual'to that of the holders, so that the same can be readily inserted and so that they will extend radially from the cylinder, so as to form the cylindrical printing-surface.

The cylinder A is provided with rows of slots u, at various distances from the stationary rib and said slots passing through the shell of the cylinder. A

' In ord er to hold the line-holder in the cylindrical chase at the proper position, l provide thnblocks I, which. are inserted precisely like the line-holders and the leads, and said -IIO ` niture or the holders and iirmly clamp them thereon. The cylinder forms the backing for the type, and the shoulder absolutely prevents' the type Jfrom coming out of the holder.

Having thus'ully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A combined line-holder and cylindrical type-chase, comprising a cylinder, al stationary abutment carried thereby, a lurality of separate, wedge-shaped line-hol ers carried thereon, said cylinder having a series of slots extending across same and a movable abutment resting within said slots and settable at various distances from the statio n aryabutment, and means adapted to clamp the ,line-holders between the same and said stationary abutment.

2. A combined line-holder and cylindrical type-chase, comprisin a cylinder, a stationary abutment carried thereby, said cylinder having a series of slots extending across l the cylinder, a removable abutment having lugs resting within said slots,`and set-screws carried thereby and adapted to clamp the line-holder between the same and said solid abutment.

3'. A combined line-holder and cylindrical typeechase, comprising a cylinder, inwardlyextending iiangesof dierent widths carried by the ends of the cylinder, a stationary abutment carried by the cylinder beneath the flanges, wedge-shaped line-holders. of a length slightly greater than the distance between the flanges and ada ted to be placed Aon the cylinder under the an es, said cylinder having `a series of longitu inally-extend ing recesses, a removable abutment beneath said anges and having ,lugs entering the recesses in the cylinder, and set-screws carried between their ends and forming a space between said plates intermediate of the blocks adapted to contain type.

7. A line-holder comprising a plurality of longitudinally-arranged plates, and elastic blocks secured between the ends of said lates forming's aces between said plates for t e ree ce tion o type ada ted to impart longitudina pressure upon t etype. 8. A line-ho der comprising two lon itudinally-arranged plates aving elastic locks between their ends of a thickness equal to the width of the type and forming a s ace between said plates for the reception o type.

` 9. Aline-holder com rising two lon itudinally-arranged plates aving elastic locks between their ends and Jforming a space between said lates forthe reception of type,

one of said p ates extending beyond the other forming a the holder.

4In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK W.

guide in placing the type within Witnesses.:

LAURA E. WEEKS, J. BOLTON.

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