Typecasting and composing machinery
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- Fig.1. Perspective view of type. Fig.2. plan of type
- Fig.3. Alinement of type. 25 times full size
- Fig.4. Body gauge for type
- Fig.5. Kerned type : perspective view
- Fig.6. Type series
- Fig.7. Stone-forcer for punches or jointer. Fig.8. Bad stricking metal : section
- Fig.9. Punch-cutting machine (Benton-Waldo). Fig.10. Enlarged view of follower stem
- Fig.11. Detail of sliding head of chuck
- Fig.12. Operation of punch-cutting (Benton-Waldo machine)
- Fig.13. Roughing tool for punch-cutting machine. Fig.14. Cutter for punch-cutting machine 5benton-Waldo)
- Fig.15. Rocker Sharpening appliance
- Fig.16-22. Tichener. Wicks rotary. Lanston monotype. Monocline. Linotype. Stringertype. Neddle point micrometer depth gauge, full size
- Fig.23. Micrometer measurer for punches and type
- Fig.24. Operations in machinery matrices
- Fig.25. Justifer's type mould
- Fig.26-28. Diamond square. Knife-edge straight-edge. Folding-hedge gauges for measuring type moulds
- Fig.29. Details of rotary typecasting machine (Wicks). Fig.30. Hard moulds. Fig.31. Angle-base moulds
- Fig.32.Angle-base operations. Rotary typecasting machine (Wicks)
- Fig.33. Magnetic chuck. Fig. 34. Magnetic Angle-Blocks
- Fig.35. Method of planning cost-iron lapping block
- Fig.36. Mould and mould-wheel (Linotype machine). Fig.37. Interrupted-revolution driving gear of mould-wheel (linotype)
- Fig.38. Type slug as cast in machine before trimming (linotype). Fig. 39. Type slug finished (linotype). Type 40. Type slug finished (monocline). Fig. 41. Type as cast in machine (Lanston monotype). Tang and jet shown dotted. Fig.42. type (Stringertype). Fig.43. Type (Springertype). Tang broken off
- Fig.44. Casting machine Llanston monotype)
- Fig.45. Pump plunger (linotype). Half size. Fig. 46. Metal-pot mouth : section (linotype). Nearly full size
- Pl. 1. Fig.47. Rotary typecasting machine (Wicks). Fig.55. Type composing machine (Wicks), with automatic line-justifier (Stringer)
- Fig.48. Section through mould of casting point. Rotary typecaster (Wicks)
- Fig.49. Delivery of type from rotary typecaster (Wicks)
- Fig.50. Operation in machining chain-links for rotary typecaster (Wicks)
- Fig.51. Block of type as delivered by Rotary typecasting machine (Wicks)
- Fig.52. Type slicer (Wicks)
- Fig.53. Type-freeing mechanism for composing machine (Kastenbein)
- Fig.54. Keyboard of composing machine (Kastenbein)
- Fig.58. Type-freeing mechanism for composing machine (Wicks)
- Pl. 2. Fig.59. Composing machine (Pulsometer). Fig.64. Distributing machine (Pulsometer)
- Fig.60. Type freeing mechanism for composing machine (Pulsometer)
- Fig.61. Lay of lower-case (hand composition)
- Fig.62. Compresible space (Mackie). Twice full size. Fig.63. Compressible space (Wicks). Two and a half times full size
- Fig.65. Detail of separating bridges for distributing machine (Pulsometer). Fig.66. Type nicked for distributing machine (Empire). Fig.67. Method of distribution
- Fig.67. Wher two characters appaear on the same key, the upper is roman or italic, the lower small caps. The 30 hatched keys are colored in bleue
- Pl. 3. Fig.70. Keyboard composing and line-justifying machine (Lanston Monotype). Fig. 71. Casting and setting machine (Lanston Monotype)
- Fig.72. Plan of keyboard of composing machine (Lanston monotype)
- Fig.73. Counting mechanism for composing machine (Lanston monotype)
- Fig.74. Standard lay-out as cast in long-primer modern
- Fig.75. Perforated ribbon for typecaster
- Fig.76. Matrix grid for casting machine
- Pl. 4. Fig.77. Matrix composing and slug-casting machine (Linotype)
- Fig.78. Distributor-bar and matrices for matrix-composing machine (Linotype)
- Fig.79. Matrix Liberating gear for matrix composing machine (Linotype)
- Pl.5. Fig.80. Line of matrices composed ready for casting the slug. Fig.81. Line of two-ltter matrices casting part of the line in roman and part in italic. Fig.85. path of matrices (Linotypes)
- Fig.82. Linotype. Fig.83. Monoline. Fig.84. Stringertype
- Pl.6. Fig.86. Metal-pot, pump and mould (Linotype). Fig.87. Ejector, mould-wheel and galley (Linotype). Fig.89. Matrix composing and slug-casting machine (Monoline)
- Fig.88. Two-line letter
- Fig.90. Keyboard for matrix composing machine (Monoline)
- Fig.91. Arrangement of strikes on matrices (Monoline)
- Pl.7. Fig.92. matrix composing, Line justifying, and typecasting machine (Stringertype)
- Pl.8. Fig.93. The lock-up Test for accuracy of type
- Fig.94. First method of correcting division plate. Fig.95. Second method of correcting division plate
- Fig.96. Third method of correcting division plate
- Pl.9. Fig.98. Matrix-wheel. Fig.100. Perforated strip. Fig.101. Fisrt Machine
- Fig.99. Arrangement of moulds for typecaster (Pinel dyotype)
- Pl.10. Fig 102. Double Magazine. Matrix composing and Slug-casting Machine (Linotype)
- Pl.11. Fig.103. Arrangement of escapements and shift key
- Pl. 12. Fig. 105. Normal (composing) position of upper part. Fig.106. Distribution position showing upper portion tilled back. Fig. 107. Line of two-letter matrices composed and line-justified
- Fig.108-110. Matrix composing and slug-casting machine (Typograph). Single-letter matrix. Double-letter matrix. Space disk
- Fig.111. Assembly channel filled with single-letter matrices and vice-jaw closed ready for line-justification. Fig.112. Line of single-letter matrices justified ready for casting
- Fig.113-116. Mould, tany-plate, and ejector. Type-slug as cast. Section through a space. Type-slug trimmed and tang cleared off. Type-slug finishes
- Fig.117.Keyboard of matrix composing machine (Typograph). Fig.118. escapement for matrix composing machine (Typograph)
- Pl.13. Fig. 119. Assembly channel empty. Fig. 120. Assembly channel filled with line of two-letter matrices
- Pl.14. Fig.121. Vice-jaw closed but line not yet justified. Fig 122. Line-justified ready for casting
- Fig.123. height-to-paper gauge. Fig.124. Turning gauge
- Fig.125. Perfored ribbon for typecaster (Goodson Graphotype)
- Fig.126. Typecasting machine : graphotype
- Pl.15. Fig.127. Unitype type distributing, composing, and line-justifying machine (Thorne). Fig.128. Thorne Machine
- Fig.129. The saving effected by reforming the alphabet
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