Show The Monotype is the Greatest 1 Mechanical Invention j Of all the mechanical devices invented by the Monotype is probably the most complex and has the greatest obstacles in the mechanical To conceive of a machine that can automatically make different chang- automatically change itself to form a body in thickness to correspond with any one of the type faces or while at the same time to have attached to that machine a crucible of molten type metal and a pump that will force the MONOTYPE CASTING MACHINE es from any one character to any as the fonts of modern type require in the ordinary for that same machine to have an interchangeable mold that will make the twelve different of the type in and for that mold to molten metal into the and form at controlled by the perforated paper any one of the different characters that the machine carries at one any one of the different type and a perfect type before it leaves the and at the same time set that type in regular manuscript delivering it automatically in justified lines on a galley ready to be made up for the at the rate of characters per you will then have some idea of the wonderful and almost human of the H. D. the efficient of the Skelton Publishing has kindly furnished us with a full description of the what it how it does it and its which we print This which first came into use in not only makes type but also sets it in lines justified more accurately than can be done by In it is a combination of type-caster and a type-setting machine equipped with an automatic justifying Unlike the linotype each monotype character is on a separate body so that corrections and alterations are made as readily as with hand-set The Monotype In the Monotype system two machines are used a paper perforator and a type The or perforator produces a ribbon of paper which controls by means of the the casting machine just as a paper roll controls a Pianola or automatic The which is not unlike a key arrangement is exactly the same as the universal typewriter consists of a punching and counting When a key is depressed the punches for this character perforate the paper and at the same time the width of this character is registered by the counting the paper ribbon five inches then automatically advances to receive the record of the next key As in a a bell signals the operator to the end of the and when this is a scale indicates the keys to be struck to justify the completed No calculation whatever is for the counting mechanism not only determines the amount the line is short of the required measure but it also divides this by the number of spaces in the line and indicates the proper size spaces to make this line the correct When the ribbon unwinds at the the first perforations for the line are these justifying which cause the caster to adjust its space-sizing ism to produce the proper size spaces for the Keyboard is the latest The Duplex development of the it introduces a new process to the printing It is like the ordinary Monotype Keyboard except that it is equipped with two perforating and counting mechanisms and consequently simultaneously produces two different paper ribbons for quite independent type sizes and width With this keyboard an article may be set in 10 point for a magazine while at the same time and the same matter is produced in 12 point for publication in book The same keystroke that for an lower case in a line 18 picas wide also makes a similar lower case in a line 30 picas The Duplex Keyboard is equally efficient for work in which two different sizes of the same face of type are for either paper tower may be locked out at a ribbon may be perforated on the left paper tower with the right that not When the operator comes to an note he locks out the left tower and throws in the Both ribbons are thus produced at the same avoiding two of the expediting the work and reducing opportunities for With a six alphabet combination italic and boldface caps and lower the operator may use twelve alphabets and four sets of figures without leaving his The measure is changed at the Keyboard and quite as easily as a compositor changes his To change faces the justifying scale in use is lifted off and replaced with the scale For different matrix case arrangements the key which couple the keys to the punching are no matter how the matrix case may be set up for special work no change is made in character positions at the The Casting This is a complete making quads and spaces in all sizes from 5 to 36 point This type may be put in cases and set by hand like found-dry when the Caster is controlled by a ribbon perforated by the the type in any sizes from 5 to 14 point is in any measure required up to 60 upon ordinary galleys in per In its justified product is exactly the same as handset foundry type and is corrected and made up in the same High or low quads and spaces way may be used in composition at the will of the The same ribbon may be put through the save the expense change point-size the 3 t W off and replaced by one p The matrix used in c is a piece of hard bronze t- of an inch square inch In the bottom 10 ORDINARY KEYBOARD to Caster once to produce low quads and spaces for letter and again for high quads and spaces for The mold makes type with a limit of accuracy of two ten-thousandths of an Each type is finished complete before it leaves the it is not cast and ing is driven the ck in the upper end is the conek which the taper centering pin to accurately position the i and hold it on the J casting the pin fits so tightly matrix that it practically bs part of consequently the i ment cannot To DUPLEX KEYBOARD then scraped to make it This ensures accuracy set-ways and height-to-paper that cannot be approached by a machine with adjustable knives that The point-size and height-to-paper are built into the mold and cannot be A face may be cast on its own body or on a larger to slid out an the matrix case is other substituted for Advantages of the w Producing separate used on be Monotype may ties of i system of justo tab ables it to handle every kind while the Rut face of its type makes it especially desirable for high grade It is used extensively for display composition since the matrices which the casting machine Carries at one time may be arranged i to suit a variety of thus bold-face and italic caps and lower with reference and punctuation as well as two kinds of may be used to-i Its range as a well as its versatility as a has led to its use J by newspapers for ad land the fact that large figures may be used with body enables it to successfully advertisements where prices fare Because of the ease which corrections and alterations are made the Monotype is extensively for catalogues and which are kept in type corrected as The Monotype is especially worthy of attention of advertisers not only cause it is so generally used on work but also since it unlimited type and borders if popular design it ensures that laid advertising plan need yot be modified to suit the of the that the The fact that f it is cheaper to make new Monotype type than distribute ensures that sharp new type is used on every As the same ribbon may be used a number of times at the casting machine it is not necessary to preserve type for subsequent editions as the ribbon may be The most careful hand compositor cannot produce as perfectly justified matter as the whether the line contains one or a dozen different each is There is no machine time on for they are made from the case with Monotype The absolutely uniform height-to-paper of Monotype type reduces make-ready to the while its clear-cut faces and deep counters are ideal for Another advantage of the Monotype the matrices are now made on the universal line and when regardless of whether they are or five point or fourteen characters produced line The Skelton Publishing This is one of the several up-to-date facilities of the Skelton Publishing and enables them to do the very great range of book- making in the same manner as Eastern having as they do the same or no more recently improved machinery and Authors of business will do well to consult this firm for by going East no better service can be rendered by any of the than by the Skelton Publishing they being make new type for each Their presses are of the latest model and the numerous machines in their make them the largest and most competent independent publishing plant in the inter-mountain |