Show THE REAPERS LATEST improvement typesetting machine added to its mechanical equipment wonderful piece of mechanism this week keek begins a ne new era en in the larrer helper office an and it is N with ith pride tint that ftc ac invite in our friends ind readers to see iee our wonderful simple simpler type ae tilting eting machine just installed InStall Ld the demand for plenty of frh fresh news mat ter for lite late news in full detail right up to the hour of publication the necessity for keeping in the front rink rank with the preat great of the ne depiper piper during rt ri mit cent eais ind and the desire to anc ic our readers as much as possible for their monea the these thee e considerations among others led us to sil si L thill that something oni ething swifter and better than hind hand must be provided ded after a long and careful investigation of the whole subject of mechanical etting vo ne have finally installed the machine N aich is NN working such I 1 lc h a lev ev alution in the old methods 0 of f ardue ing new pap cri it is probable that on no I 1 abol sn a ing machine his has moie mot c time and lionly inonia been expended cp ended than on i a dei de lee ile to set lt and distribute type for over i a cen tury inventors ine struggled u with ith the buc question tion and while their r efforts were ere par partially lly successful it his been in the past ten ye yens it thit that i a il N workings or j WL publish a picture in this isue issue winch which is accurate is fu fit a s general ancas s go but of couise gits gi t s no idea as to how hoi it is oper cited thu the simple just the same ame kind of type is is set b hind hand each individual tape has a ce parate combination of nicks dicks or notches cut on the edge and on this fact is based the fundament il pie of the machine As will be noticed in the picture the bod bode of the simplex simple consists of two cylinders one aboc and rotating on the other in both cylinders extending their full length are ninety channels each channel corresponding to some one tape the upper cylinder rec receives eiNes the dead for distribution ind and the other reci ies this dead tape filom the appel candir ind furnishes it for n tt opy copy the lower lon er cilin c lindea dei is and at the bottom of lach ach channi 1 it contains a iener aich is iq connected with 2 kt bint to that of a critel the machine is once in oilra ton tion all that is necessary in the vay of distributing i is to place a galley of 14 11 machine has been put on the market it seems like an impossibility thit that any combination of mich mi chinery mery other than that encompassed in the human body could separate nearly a hundri cl characters pick them up again form them into words hords combine the words nords into sentences and place them in inroad read in mess ss for that older but none the less marvelous marv clous result of brains the mod ern printing press the simplex does it though and does it five fine or six si times as fast as the most rapid compositor it aas eiby to make mistakes cs in the old way an e would slip into the it box or a el into the n box but the simplex simple can make no such mistakes 1 I 1 I he operator c cm in and doubtless will continue to make mistakes but thc jhc mill be fewer than be fort fore and the of the proof reader will be considerable lr and the sensibilities of the critical nc shaper reader howled hod eil less frequently thin than before it would be almost an impossibility to give an accurate description of this wonderful machine and the only way to get even a faint idea of its possibilities bili ties is to come and e examine x mune its dead type on the side of the upper cylinder in a place prepared for it it does docs the work perfectly and while it i is apparently simple it would be impossible to explain the matter intelligently telli gently so we ue wont tra tr but again invite you to come and see for bour self the simplex is small and compact weighing about 1100 pounds and occupying no more floor door space than an ordinary coal stove and bihue it took brains and lots of them to invent atit it it is of remarkably simple construction and not it at ill all liable to get out of repair we have had it in operation only a few davs but that is long enough to discover its true hiorth orth and an every enery time we sie tc t c it work nork with ith almost human intelligence xie we feel like taking off our hat bat in its pre ince it is certainly the best ind and most wonderful m schine that i c ir cr graced graci d a country print shop this puts the reaper in the van nan of the country printing offices of utah and we invite everybody to step in and see what a real modern progressive newspaper plant looks like |