Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 925
spring to closeupon and hold tlie type. The next beat of the machine moves forward to the right this loaded car-rier, and brings into its place another carrier ready to receive the next type, and so on. The edge of the type opposite the usual foundry-nick is notched or nicked with two shallow… … feeler-slides. Each of these feeler-slides, of which there ore as many as there arc kinds of type orsorts to be distributed, has a short reciprocating motion with each beat of the machine, to andfrom the front line of carriers. Eaeli Blide carries two pins adapted to enter the exposed nicks ofits…
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