Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 500
e line of matrices is then lifted from the mold to the dis-tributor bar at the top of the machine, the wedge-shapedspacers being left behind and taken to their own receptacle. Automatic distribution, perfected in this machine, de-serves a moments pause. It began with a French inventor,Robert… … The Linotype Machine, ii OTTMAR MERGENTHALER 429 into box a, the bs into box b, and so on? Letus take the simplest case possible, and suppose that the as have an ear at each upper end, by which they rideon a rail along which they are impelled by a rapid screw.Let that rail end just above the a box,…
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