. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . e matrices emerge from the magazine, they are received on an inclined traveling belt,by which they are delivered one after another into a receiver, in which they are composed orassembled in line together with the spaces. The composition continues until all the char-acters to appear in a line are assembled. The operator then depresses a lever, and theassembled line of. matrices and spaces is transferred to the face o
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . e matrices emerge from the magazine, they are received on an inclined traveling belt,by which they are delivered one after another into a receiver, in which they are composed orassembled in line together with the spaces. The composition continues until all the char-acters to appear in a line are assembled. The operator then depresses a lever, and theassembled line of. matrices and spaces is transferred to the face of a mold having the internaldimensions of the Iequired linotype. The matrices and spaces thus assembled act jointly toclose the face of the mold, and while in this position the spaces are aiitomatically adjustedto elongate the line to the required lijnit, or, as technically termed by the printer, to justifythe line. A melting pot, containing at all times a supply of molten type metal, and pro-vided with a force pump, is connected with the mold, and after the line of matrices is pre-sented to the font, the pump causes the molten metal to flow into and fill the mold, where it. Fig. 3.—Mergenthaler linotype machine. solidifies in the form of a bar or linotype, bearing on its edge the impress of the matriceswhicli are, for the time being, assembled in the front. After the linotype is thus formed,the matrices are withdrawn, the mold moved, and the linotype automatically ejected andadded to the series which preceded it. As soon as the line of matrices and space bars isremoved from the mold, the spaces are separated and returned to their magazines, wliile thematrices are transferred to a distributing mechanism, by which they are returned to themagazine channels from which they started. The distributing mechanism is of extreme simplicity. It consists, essentially, of a singlebar extending horizontally above the upper ends of the magazine channels, and having alongits sides a series o
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