US666882A - Linotypes having accented capital letters thereon. - Google Patents

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N0. 666,382. Patented Jan. 29, l9Ul.

C. HOLLIWELL & R. C. ELLIOTT. I LINOTYPES HAVING ACCENTED CAPITAL LETTERS THEBEON.

(Application filed Oct. 2, 1900.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHARLES HOLLIWELL AND RICHARD C. ELLIOTT, OF BROADHEATH, ENG- LAND, ASSIGNORS TO THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

LINOTYPES HAVING ACCENTED CAPITAL LETTERS THEREON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,882, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed October 2,1900- serial No. 31.783. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES HOLLIWELL and RICHARD CORNELIUS ELLIOTT, residing at Broadheath, in the county of Chester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected with Lino- Iypes Having Accented Capital Letters Thereon; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the present invention is to provide linotypes or printing slugs originally formed without accents over the capital letters, with such accents at the desired points; and to this end it consists, essentially, in combining with the linotypes proper distinct types or-characters to form the accents adjacent to the required letters on the linotypes.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of this specification and read therewith, Figure 1 is a perspective view of two linotypes as they stand in the slotting-machine by which the slot to receive an accent is out. These linotypes are broken off at both ends. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the accent which will be inserted in the slot to print the accent over the E of Ecoles. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the two broken linotypes of Fig. 1 in the relative position which they occupy in the printers galley and with the accent in printing position in the accent-slot. Figs. 4. and 5 are horizontal sections showing by the different sections of the accent-type slot that the cross-section of the said type can be varied.

1 is the linotype which has an accented capital letter 2 upon it, that letter being the E of Ecoles. 3 is the linotype whichiminediately preceds it in the galley to print the lineimmediately preceding the line that the linotype 1 will print.

4 is the body of the accent-type to print the accent over the above-mentioned capital 2, and 5 is its printing-face.

When the linotypel has been made, it and the preceding linotype 3 are set upon the table 01": a slotting-machine in the order illusback 6 up against a suitable stop on the machine-table, and the linotype 3 with its back against the belly of linotype 1 and its own belly 7 outward. The back is the side of a linotype opposite to the belly 7. Both linotypes register with each other at their respective ends. They are then made fast to the table of the slotting-machine, with that part of the belly '7 ot' the linotype 3 which is exactly opposite the proper position of the accent in the path of the cutter of the slotting-machine. This cutter is worked in the usual way until the slot 8 is made in the belly 7 of linotype 3. It will be seen that the use of the linotype 1 upon the table of the slotting-machine and in the above-described position thereon is to serve as a guide to the proper position of the slot 8 in the linotype 3. Consequently the means by which the two linotypes are made fast to the table of the slotting-machine must be capable of an adjustable motion thereon in the direction of the length of the said linotypes.

The accent-types are of course of the same height, both as to body 4 and printing-face 5, as the linotypes. ,In cross-section they and the grooves 8 correspond, the cutter ot the slotting-machine being shaped accordingly. Any desirable cross-section may be adopted. The rectangular one of Fig. 4. will allow of the accent-type being readily shaken out of the linotype 3 after the latter has been used, while the undercut one of Fig. 5 will not allow an accent-type to fall away from its linotype if the latter is standing with its belly 7 exposed.

When the linotypes are to be leaded 'i. e., separated from each other by interposed leads, whereby the printed letters will be The slotting-machine above mentioned is not included in the drawings for two reasons: (a) it does not form any part of the present invention, and (b) there is no invention in it. The particulars of it, which are specified above, are quite common place, and any maker of slotting-machines will be capable of making a suitable one without further particulars being given to him.

While we have described the employment of a slotting-machine for the purpose of forming, the slots to receive the accents, it is manifest that such slots may be formed by any suitable means.

It will be perceived that the essence of our invention lies in the employment of an accent which is mechanically distinct or independent from the character with which it is used and in seating such accent outside of the linotype carrying the letter with which the accent is to be read.

Vhile our invention is intended more especially for the production of accents, it is of course obvious that the independent character may be either an accent or any other character ordinarily used above the letters in a line of print, and therefore the word accent employed herein is intended to cover numerals, exponents, and like characters when applied in the same manner as the accents herein described.

What We claim as our invention is- 1. In combination, two linotypes each'bearing a line of characters and one carrying below its characters, an accent to be read in connection with a character on the other linotype.

2. A linotype having a separately-formed accent mounted therein and sustained thereby.

3. A linotype recessed to receive a supporting-accent substantially as described.

4. A linotype having type characters thereon, and having below said characters an accent to be read in connection with the letter on an adjacent linotype.

5. The combination of two linotypes and a separately-formed interposed accent, arranged to be read in connection with the letter on one of said linotypes.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as ourinvention We have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES HOLLIWELL. RICHARD O. ELLIOTT. Witnesses:

THOMAS TAYLOR, ARCHIE LOWE.

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