US Patent: 905,060
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| Printer's Composing-Stick
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Patentee:
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| Thomas Draper (exact or similar names) - Middletown, Middlesex County, CT |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Sep. 11, 1907 |
| Granted: |
Nov. 24, 1908 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Draper & Hall Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to printers' composing sticks; and it has for its object to provide improved means whereby the stick may be quickly and accurately adjusted to lines of various lengths, giving a column of a predetermined width.
Claim:
A composing stick having its wall notched at its upper edge and provided with a graduated scale, an adjustable knee having a recess in its upper surface, a spring secured in the recess and lying flush with the outer surface of said knee, said spring having a downwardly extending tooth to lock in the notches of the galley wall, and means for holding said knee in adjusted position. |
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