Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia, T., Type Cast′ing and Set′ting ma-chine′.

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Type Cast′ing and Set′ting ma-chine′.

One which makes its type from matrixes, and sets them in a row, or in galley, as the letter-keys of the machine are manipulated in the order of the copy.

Westcott's machine, No. 115,796, June 6, 1871, is constructed to cast, dress, and set up type in a continuous line for solid matter, or book or newspaper work, the line being afterward divided off, justified, and set up into column, as usual. See also his patents 169,215, 169,216, October 26, 1875.

The machine contains keys appropriated to each letter, character, and number that the machine is adapted to cast. When one key is moved it brings into action levers, slides, and other parts, that place a matrix-stock, carrying the matrix corresponding to the letter or mark on the key, in position to be taken by a carrier to the place where the casting is effected. The molds forming the body of the type are opened to the proper extent for making the sized body adapted to the letter The type is cast, the matrix is withdrawn, carried back, and replaced in its receptacle. The type is taken out of the mold and brought forward to dressing-tools, that remove from the body of the type any burs, fins, or inequalities, and the type is then set up in line. By this machine the types are cast and composed in the order in which the finger-keys are moved; and when the types are no longer required they are either melted up, instead of being distributed, or else they may be distributed and used in the ordinary way, if desired.

1877.

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