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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ROBERT CLARKE, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
PORTABLE TYPE-DISTRIBUTER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,182, dated August 4, 1891.
Applicationfiled September 1, 1890. Serial No. 363,645, (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, ROBERT CLARKE, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Galves-
ton, in the county of Galveston and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvementsin Portable Type-Distributers;
and I do hereby declare the following to be a
full, clear, and exact description of the inven-
tion, such as will enable others skilled in the
to art to which it appertains to make and use the
same.
My invention relates to a distributing de-
vice which is adapted to be carried in the
hand by the person distributing type, and is
15 provided with a suitable receptacle or recess
to receive the page of type or other form being
distributed, and with suitable compartments
or boxes to receive "leads" and "spaces;" and
it is also provided on its rear or bottom side
20 with two reversed handling-lugs so arranged
as to fit the fingers of the hand, thereby ren-
dering it easy and convenient of manipula-
tion, and it is also provided with suitable
supporting legs or feet.
25 The object of my invention is to provide a
type-distributing device which can be com-
fortably held in the hand and without strain
on the wrist, and which is provided with a
suitable main receptacle to hold the matter
30 being distributed and also with auxiliary re-
ceptacles for leads and spaces, whereby the
labor of distributing is greatly facilitated
and lessened and the work much more rap-
idly accomplished.
35 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a perspective view of the distributing device,
showing a receptacle for the page or other
form of type and other receptacles for the
leads and spaces. Fig. 2 is a bottom perspec-
40 tive view of the same, showing the handling
lugs and feet. Fig. 3 is a section through one
of the handling-lugs; and Fig. 4 is an end view
of both of the handling-lugs, showing them
detached from the distributing device.
45 A represents the portable distributing de-
vice or case, which is preferably rectangular
in form, and may be of any convenient size.
This device is intended to be carried in the
hand by the person distributing the type, and
50 serves as a very convenient support or recep-
tacle for the type while they are being dis-tributed, and also provided for readyand con-
venient disposition of leads and spaces, as will
be hereinafter described.
The distributing device has a broad base 55
portion, which is provided on its front lower
edge with a ledge a, which serves to hold the
page or other type-form in position on the
distributer and from falling off of the same.
A short distance from the top of the dis- 6o
tributer a narrow horizontal strip a' is placed,
which forms an upper receptacle, preferably
for leads. At one side or end of the distrib-
uter a series of recesses or boxes, one above
the other, are formed for the reception of va- 65
rious kinds of spaces. I have shown five re-
ceptacles, (marked 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,) preferably
designed for spaces, as this is the most con-
venient number used in distributing. In dis-
tributing, for instance, pica, I would place 70
"en-spaces" in the first receptacle, marked 1;
three-em spaces in receptacle marked 2; four-
em spaces in receptacle marked 3; five-em
spaces in receptacle marked 4, and six-em
spaces in receptacle marked 5; and likewise 75
in distributing long primer, brevier, or non-
pareil the same order would be followed.
The utility of the boxes or spaces at the
left-hand end of the distributer will be ob-
vious from thefollowing: In all well-regulated 80
printing-offices spaces are not or should not
be placed in the "job-cases," for the reason
that in large offices there are two or three
hundred job-cases, and when each one con-
tains some spaces the result is a constant 85
shortage of spaces; but such inconvenience
might be readily avoided if each size were col-
lected during distribution and put in a "sort-
case." Where a space-box is provided in a
job-case, it usually becomes a receptacle for 90
all kinds of trash, and as some cases are used
many times a day and other cases are used
not more than once a week, and as all these
cases may be full of spaces, great inconven-
ience arises. It is not uncommon for men to 95
hunt in all the cases for spaces, and thereby
lose valuable time. To avoid these incon-
veniences and annoyances the little spaces or
receptacles at the left side of the distributer
have been provided for the spaces, and when roo
they are filled with spaces they are emptied
into the sort-case.
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Clarke, Robert. Portable Type-Distributer., patent, August 4, 1891; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172756/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.