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Show A Simple Typewriter. In cheap, and simple typewriters it has heretofore been unusual in printing print-ing a character to perform, three distinct dis-tinct operations to find the, letter, see that the parts were brought accurately to the proper position and then to impress im-press the character on the paper, this I. Operates by the Sense of Touch. last portion of the work being often done with the other hand than the one which adjusts the mechanism. In the drawing is presented a machine for which the inventor William H. Young of Athens, Ga. claims great simplicity of action, in that the sense of touch may be more fully utilized than is possible with most machines of this character. This machine has the type on spring fingers, and all the fingers are secured to the bar, which slides on a horizontal horizon-tal rod. , To print the proper character it is only necessary to insert the finger fin-ger in the wire bale which lies above the flat plate on which the letters of the alphabet are embossed, printed or countersunk; move the bale along until- the finger is in line with the letter desired, and depress the plate. A spring tongue on the plate transmits the motion to the type finger, which is forced downward until it strikes the ribbon overlying the paper. At each depression of the plate a rachet feed moves the paper forward to the next space. It is the sliding of the wire bale back and forth to insert the finger in the jsoper character which brings the type finger beneath the tongue for printing, and as there is no adjustment adjust-ment of the mechanism in addition to this movement the machine could probably be worked by a blind man, if the selecting. cj'rpcters were em-bosse.'e'? em-bosse.'e'? I . ' J L "" |