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Show I SOUTHERN UTAH LEADS THE PROCESSION I The Record Publisher Has Just Installed the Only Simplex Typesetting Machine I in Utah What it Does, M This in if proud day for tbo publish- I or ot this paper. Tho ilrnt of tho M present weok thcro wns installed, li ' our oillco ono of tlio Slpipl6x typo- fretting machines, of ' tho ndjust- "Wo pattern: It 1h a proud day for "M two reasons. First, because it Las been a long cherished desiro with us . to got some improved method of ns-M ns-M sombling J,ho typo for our papers, that would onablo us to regulato tho amount of composition to adequately covor tho news of our district; mid fiocondly bocauso ours is tho only Simplex machino now in tho Stato of I' Utah, and tho only ofllco outsido of M Salt Lako Olty and" Ogdon using ma-m ma-m clilno composition. This is n machino -I "80. nl i order to koop abroast m of tho times and in tho procession of progression tho Installation of this M- expensive jiioco of machinory is mado W.- necessary, and with our alroady woll " equipped plant wo fool justified in sotting up tho claim that wo havo tho best equipped country oillco in Utah. j tor, oach of which is a ilno illustration illustra-tion of tho wondorful ingenuity of man. But tho chief utility of tho two machines is not tho same Tho linotype is splendidly adapted to tho largo city daily, whoro tho high- est grudo of printing is not required, but tho speed with which it manufactures manu-factures tho typo loaves it imporfcot-ly imporfcot-ly adapted to high grade printing, whilo tho intricacy of tho machino is suoh that it gives tho best results when used in groups over which an expert machinist presides. But whilo tho linotypo is tho machino ma-chino for largo offices, tho Simplox typesottor, easily understood and easily oporatod, using tho best of factory movablo type, is tho best machino ma-chino mado for tho small oillco, particularly par-ticularly whoro a high grado of work is to be done, and that is tho machino which is now sotting tho typo used in printing this paper. A picturo of tho Simplox typesetting machino is given herewith. It will I, ABOUT THE MACHINE. I Tho Adjiibtublo Simplox, which is j tho bost modol manufactured by tho I Unltypo Company of Brooklyn, Now York, stands about six foot high, Bj weighs botwoon sovontoou and olght- k eon hundred pounds and occupies : about ns muoli floor spncoas a good- sized boating stove It is constructed s to assomblo and distribute individual typos, and will porform tho work of from throo to four hand compositors. composit-ors. It is a suporb pioco of mechanism, mechan-ism, and tho accuracy with which it does its work oxcoods that of tho avorago human. It is something ovor twenty years sinco a successful substitute for hand composition of typo was. found, . though for more than a coutury many Prosous had dovotod tholr talouts to tho subject. Prom tho flrst successful frtops thoro havo boon two linos of oirort by inventors, ono in tho handling hand-ling of ordinary movablo typo and tho i other in tho manufacture of typo ouch tinio It is used. Tho Thorn typo- Bottlng machino was tho first to handle- movablo typo, and tho linotypo was thfc first machino built to successfully enst typo in linos as a substitute for typesetting. In tho early stegos nolth-firwas nolth-firwas an unqualified succoss, -but from tho first plans thoro havo do'vol- k 1 m iv,, wots of nittchluoa," tho mod- t'ru linotypo md tho Sliuplox,typesot- bo soon tliat thoro are two cyliudors, u small ono resting on a larger ono. Tho small cylinder distributes tho typo which lias boon used, tho largo ono sotting it ovor again for now uso, tho typo thus being in continuous uso as with hand composition. At tho loft of tho upper cylindor tho projecting mechanism is to re-coivo re-coivo a column of typo direct from tho papor and load it automatically into tho Cylinder. Each of tho cylinders cyl-inders contain ninety grooves in which tho typo are carried, and as tho distributing cylinder revolves, whonovor ono of tho groovos is onipt-iod, onipt-iod, as it approaches tho column of typo a trigger is automatically worked, causing it plunger to forco it lino of typo into tho cylindor. Each of tho ninoty characters of typo has flvo nicks on ono sido, tho nicks on no two characters being tho same. In ouch of tho ninoty grooves In tho lowor cylindor thoro are flvo wards or slight projections matching tho typo nicks. As a result, no typo will outer ou-ter any groovo In tho composing cylinder cyl-inder except tho ono for its character. Tho top cylindor revolves on tho low-or" low-or" a stop at a time, pausing for a moment mo-ment whonovor tho top grooves are immediately ovor tho lowor grooves. This enables any typo in tho upper groovo to full Jnto tho lowor groovo (oaud sb uo nominuoo) SOUTHERN UTAH LEADS PROCESSION. whenever tho nicks und wards which match aro brought togotbor. In this way 25,000 sopnrnto typo can bo distributed into their respective grooves in an hour, counting 1 typo to tho printer's standard of measure, mea-sure, nn em. Immediately below tho lower cylinder cyl-inder and projecting from it about two inches, is a rapidly rovolving disc. In front of tbo operator in a keyboard similar to that on typowrit-ors. typowrit-ors. When ono of thoso koys is pressed tbo forco of tho mnchlno is brought to play on tho bottom typo in tho corresponding groovo, which is instantly driven at a tangent onto tho rovolving pinto, which carries it around tho cylinder to tho right of tho operator, whoro it is directed onto n switch und carried forward on an endless bolt for n short distauco, und by ingenious but simple machinery ma-chinery it is raised from a reclining position to its feet, on which it is forced along by tho typo which follow. fol-low. Whon it is considered that in a day of ton hours this machine can handle from 125,000 to" 150,000 sopnrnto pieces of motal it seems remarkable But tho comprohonsiou of tbo accuracy accura-cy of tho machine is moro full whon it is understood that tho typo aro sovou-oighths of an inch high, an eighth of nn inch wide, and somo of them but a fortioth of an inch in thickness. Tho typo aro novor wrong end up or wrong sido to. Tho mnchlno mn-chlno Is designed for olthor ono or two operators, ono operator bolng nblo to compose and distribute about .'1000 ems per hour, or about four times as fast as by baud. Two operators can carry tho amount up to 5,000 or 0,-000 0,-000 cms por hour. IT IS UP TO YOU. It is up to tho pooplo of Cedar City to say what kind of a pnpor you want to sornl out. Already wo aro giving as good a papor as tho prcsont patron ago will warrant, but if you uro disposed dis-posed to bo wido-awako and make Iron county moro conspicuous in all tho region round, wo aro now equipped to doublo your home-print pages. It is for you to say. Tho mnchiuo will ho (u operation nearly Qvory day and visitors aro invited in-vited to drop in and inspect it.' i |