Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1904)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas · London : G. Bell & Sons · leaf 160
e set up, side by side, in a line or row. A stationary box h contains a series of space-bands i,and a delivery device is connected with finger-key j, bvwliicli flic spaces are discharged and caused to fall into thelino at their proper places. Thus, by operating the keys, therequired matrices and… … MELTINGPOT Fig. 95. the linotype. After the line of matrices is thus composed, it is trans-ferred to the face of a vertical mould wheel k, through 134 PRINTING which a slot or mould proper extends from the front to therear face. While the line of matrices and space-bands is in frontof the mould,…
