Improvements in Quick Change Mechanism of Linotype Machines.

Fecha de publicación: 10/06/1909
Fuente: WIPO "pollen"
13,749. Pollen, A. H., [Toronto Type Foundry Co.]. June 29. lype bar making machines.-The magazine a is provided with external transverse bars a, which, for the purpose of a quick ' change,' rest upon hooks c depending from a bar c at each side of the machine. The front end of the magazine is normally supported by the lowermost bar a resting upon ledges on the framework. In order to remove the magazine it is slid upwards by eccentrics g' on a shaft g until the bars a at the right-hand side rest upon two pivoted connected latches f. Release of these latches, as shown in Fig. 10, allows the magazine to be lowered until rollers a thereon engage inclined tracks e depending from the lefthand bar c, and the magazine may then be brought into the position shown in dotted lines and removed from the machine. The rollers a and their supporting rod a constitute a carriage which is detachably secured to a magazine by an arrangement of hooks ; they may however be permanently attached to the magazine. The rotation of a hand-wheel g on the shaft g actuates gear-wheels i, i, Fig. 9, to rotate arms i, in the ends of which are recesses normally embracing crank-pins on an eccentrically mounted shaft. A bar i carried by this shaft is thereby moved into the magazine to lock the matrices therein. Further rotation of the handwheel, by actuating gear-wheels h, h, rotates cams h upon which ride rollers h carried by the ends of a frame supporting the magazine escapements. The frame is thus lifted against the action of springs h and the magazine may then be slid upwards by the still further rotation of the hand-wheel. The cams g act upon links g, the pins g in which engage bars a on the sides of the magazine. The magazine entrance k is supported by links k pivoted to the distributor brackets d, and by latcharms k, acted on by springs k which hold the entrance in contact with rollers k on the magazine. When the magazine is removed, the entrance is moved automatically until it is retained by recesses' in the arms k which snap over pins k. The pawls of the escapement mechanism may act through the bottom of the magazine instead of through the top. The slots in the magazine through which the escapement pawls enter are formed by the intersection of the matrix grooves inside and a transverse groove outside the magazine.5>2>4>3>2>1>18>4>2>1>11>6>7>10>9>3>2>1>6>7>4>4>3>6>3>1>3>