US1084224A - Typographical machine. - Google Patents

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0. MUEHLEISEN. TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.2, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

UNlTED STATES PATENT ()FFICE."

CARL MUEHLEISEN, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALEB LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL hflum-rnnrsnn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 23 Chausseestrasse, Berlin, N. 4-, in the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical machines in which matrices, types, type dies and the like are distributed into channeled magazines, and it has for its object to provide improved means for preventing these matrices etc., from entering the magazines in incorrect positions, or entering channels not intended for their reception.

For the sake of brevity the word matrices is herein intended to include matrices, types, type dies and other devices which are distributed into the various channels of the magazines of a typographical machine.

The invention is intended to be used in conjunction with a magazine having a socalled magazine entrance which is capable of occupying two different positions, in one of which it forms virtually an extension of the magazine for conducting into the latter the matrices as they leave the distributer, and into the other of which it is moved when access is required to be had to the interior of the magazine for removing therefrom or from the said magazine entrance any matrices which may have become jammed therein.

In magazines whose channels are not separated from each other by partitions eX- tending from one to the other end of such magazines it may happen that any matrices contained within the magazine emtrance at the time the latter is moved away from the magazine, will fall from the said magazine entrance into the magazine and enter the latter in an incorrect position, that is to say, flatwise or with one of its lateral edges foremost; this would cause an obstruction within the said magazine and prevent the following matrices from descending therethrough and would render it necessary to remove the obstructing inatrices by hand through the upper end of the magazine.

The present invention prevents these obstructions occurring by providing guide blades immediately below the discharging or lower end of the magazine entrance these Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 2, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

Serial No. 739,700.

blades preventing the matrices from falling fiatwise into or entering the magazine channels in any but the correct way.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a vertical section of suiilcient of a typo graphical machine of the well-known Mergenthaler construction, to illustrate the application thereto of the present improvements, this view being that of a double magazine machine and showing the devices in working position; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the magazine entrance swung away from the magazine and one of the guide blades turned out of its normal position; Fig. 3 is a view of part of Fig. 2 viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow in the last named figure; and Fig. 1- is a plan of a detached partof the devices shown in the other figures.

l and 2 are the upper parts of two maga: zines which are supported in well-known manner on their respective magazine frames 3, 41-, and 5 and 6 are the magazine entrances appertaining respectively to the said magazines 1 and 2, these magazine entrances being mounted so as to be movable as a single entity along with a rigid frame 7 pivoted at 8 to the magazine frame 4. To each of the magazine frames 3, 4, there is secured a frame 9; these two frames 9 are alike and therefore the following description of one of them will apply equally well to both. The frame 9 is provided with a series of lugs 10 leaving between every adjacent two of such lugs, a recess 11 in which is pivoted a guide blade 12, a wire or pivot 13 passing through the whole of the lugs 10 and guide blades 12 serving as a common pivot for the whole of the latter. At its upper end the frame 9 is provided with a series of notches or recesses 14.- alined with the recesses 11 and each, like the said recesses 11, serving to receive one of the guide blades 12. The guide blades 12, when in their normal position in which they are represented in Fig. 1, are at such distances apart, as shown in Fig. 8, that no matrix could pass between them in any position other than a correct one.

hen, for any purpose, it is desired to have access to the interior of the magazines, the magazine entrances 5, 6, can be thrown backward in the manner indicated in Fig. 2, and the guide blades 12 can then also, if desired, be swung backward away from the formed in one therewith.

The surfaces of the frames 9 with which the matrices come into contact, during their passage from the magazine entrances 5, 6, into the magazines, are preferably curved or otherwise formed so as to reduce as much as possible any tendency to obstruct the movement of the said matrices.

15 represents the distributer mechanism by which the matrices are distributed into the respective channels of the magazines 1, 2; as this distributor mechanism constitutes no part of the present invention and its construction is already well known in the art, no further description thereof is deemed necessary.

Instead of the guide blades 12 being movable independently of each other about the common pivot 13, they may all be rigidly attached together so as to turn as a single entity about the said pivot.

Means have heretofore been provided for intercepting the passage through the magazines, of matrices which have entered such magazines in incorrect position; these means have been in the form of removable combs the teeth or pins of which have penetrated the upper, and reached as far as the lower, walls of the magazines. The said upper walls however, have usually been provided with ribs or bars extending foreand-aft, which have prevented the stop pins being applied uniformly throughout all of the magazine channels, and, at these parts, gaps have existed through which matrices could pass while descending flatwise over the bottom walls of the magazines.

The present invent-ion is in no way affected by the presence of the above named ribs or bars and consequently the guide blades 12 can be applied in one uninterrupted series extending throughout all the channels of the respective magazine.

Having described my invention I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine, an entrance therefor provided with a series of partitions dividing it into channels, and a series of guide blades located between the magazine and entrance and forming continuations of the partitions of the latter.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine, an entrance therefor provided with a series of partitions dividing it into channels, and a series of guide blades located between the magazine and entrance and forming continuations of the partitions of the latter, the said blades being supported so as to be movable from their operative position when desired.

8. In a typographical machine, the combi nation of a magazine, an entrance therefor provided with a series of partitions dividing it into channels, and a series of guide blades located between the magazine and entrance and forming continuations of the partitions of the latter, the said blades being pivotally supported and movable independently from their operative position.

4:. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine, an entrance therefor, and a series of guard members located between the magazine and entrance and serving to prevent the entrance of matrices into the magazine in an improper position, the said guard members being supported indcpendently both of the magazine and entrance.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL MUEHLEISEN.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, IVOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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

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