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7%. , (3 & 2, 2-4 Y2%Z- ATTORNEYS 3,183,817 United States Patent Office Patented May 18, 1965 2 3,183,87 material must be rigid enough to withstand normal han CHANGEABLE TYPORAAEC MAKE-UP SYSTEM dling and yet soft enough so that it can be cut with the George J. H. Sausele, New Providence, N.J., assigar to sharp biade in the cutting fixture which is a component American Type Founders Co., Inc., Elizabeth, N.J., a part of the novel system. corporation of Delaware According to one method of procedure, the galley Fied Oct. 3, 1952, Ser. No. 228,045 sheets from the photo-typesetting machine are cut in 3 Clairas. (C. 95-85) single column widths either before or after having been coated on their reverse surfaces with a pressure sensitive This invention relates to typographic make-up Systems wax, usually in a known type of hot wax coating machine. and more particularly to such systems as are adapted for O The strips of paper are then applied to the strips or bars the photo-mechanical make-up for recurring but fre of the base material described, the adherence of the sheets quently altered composition. Such as directories, catalogs, to the blocks or bars being ensured by rubbing the Sur and classified advertisement sections of periodicals. faces of the sheets briskly as a burnishing operation, the In recent monthe more and more newspapers, includ heat and pressure of burnishing effecting a good bond of ing some of quite substantial circulation, have gone over the paper to the base material. to offset printing rather than by the use of hot metal letter Another method of laminating the make-up components press cast type, and while they all employ photo-type involves coating the base material with a pressure sensi setting methods for their general make-up, some difficulty tive adhesive, such as for example the above mentioned has been experienced in the ready and facile preparation wax, the coating being protected from damage and normal of make-up for changeable recurring composition Stich as 20 handling prior to lamination by means of a paper pro classified ads. tective layer, the protective paper being removed just In the make-up of pages using the output of photo before the plastic strip is laminated to the galley of photo typesetting machines, for newspapers, directories, or any set type. composition requiring periodic updating, for example, In the case of the classified ad page of a newspaper by the insertion of new material or removal of obsolete 25 the galleys of type will constitute the new advertisments portions and at the same time retaining some type set which are to be inserted in the current edition of the material, photographic artwork or the like, which have newspaper. Since these insertions are applied to different not been outdated, it has been common practice to use columns or even different pages under the appropriate paste-up techniques, such as by pasting sheets of composi classified headings, it is necessary to cut the galley into tion down onto a base usually with a wax adhesive, which 30 the individual units which it comprises. For this purpose permits the operator to then lift the sheet and cut it as the galley of type is placed on the cutting fixture where required in remaking the page. This is a quite awkward it is accurately cut to separate the individual ads. procedure since it is necessary to cut and handle very The form for the entire page is then assembled, said small pieces of the photographic paper carrying the photo form including a novel chase which comprises a portion composition and these small pieces have the sticky wax of the original concept of the present invention. The coating on them. The method is so slow and time-con individual ads are inserted and removed as required, the suming that it has been found to be quite impractical in ads which are to be retained being capable of being slid the applications mentioned above especially in connection vertically in the column to make room for late insertions. with the preparation and revision of classified ad sections A particular feature of novelty of this phase of the of newspapers. In this latter area, even though the 40 invention resides in the fact that the material supporting greater portion of an offset newspaper may be made up the photographic paper containing the ads is resilient or by straight photo-typesetting procedures, most of such compressible enough so that if the column is tight by a periodicals have up to the present been forced to make line or two of six point type, for instance, a gentle pressure up their classified pages using linotype slugs. These hot in the Vertical direction will compress the material so as metal methods have been pursued in view of the obvious 45 to lock the column and squeeze in an additional line or flexibility of the individual slugs in page make-up. The two of type. This feature is of considerable practical make-up form is then placed in a proof press to procure importance providing as it does what may be called a a reproduction proof which is then pasted up together 'rubber' column. with the other material on the page for a camera shot, With the page form made and locked up as described, which produces a film negative of the newspaper page the assembled page is photographed on a standard process which is used for making the offset plate from which the canaera. If the individual blocks of material are close page will be printed. fitting, which of course requires holding the make-up to The general object of the invention is to provide a reasonable accuracy, uniform lighting of the surface from novel and improved system of make-up for recurring and above will produce a good negative for plate making revised composition. Although the principles of the in 5 5 which will require little or no retouching. However, if vention are applicable to copy produced by non-photo the blocks are not held to close tolerance, but are loose graphic means, they are especially pertinent to systems fitting with shadow areas caused by this loose assembly, including methods, apparatus, and products, which pro it would be advisable to fill the shadows with light by vides a means for the utilization of the output of a photo also back-lighting the form. This brings up another typesetter such as, for example, the one disclosed in my 60 novel feature of the present invention which is involved in co-pending application Serial No. 686,233, filed Septem the making of the chase of a clear transparent plastic ber 25, 1957, granted March 26, 1963, as United States material. Patent No. 3,082,670, and which therefore affords a Some of the advantageous features of novelty of the in simpler, faster, and more economical method for such vention may be summarized as follows: specialized uses than the ones just described. (a) The bottleneck in the composing procedure in In its preferred embodiments the invention contem involved in having to cut and paste individual ads into plates the provision of novel methods and apparatus columns in a page or pages is eliminated. which involve the production of the type composition in (b) The make-up man can use in general the same sys the typesetter on photographic paper. After develop ten used in working with hot metal slugs. ment the columns of text are laminated to a light-weight, (c) The individual ad units are easier to handle than easily cuttable base material which can be foam plastic, individual ads composed in metal because an ad cannot cork, or other material having similar properties. The be pied or jumbled up at the time of make-up. 3,183,817 e esce 4. (d) Ads that run continuousuly will not need resetting piece of the plastic base material until the heat and pres as in the case of former procedures where the face becomes Sure have effected a firm bond. flattened out from rolling a mat day after day, or in pull Preferably the base blocks or bars 15, either before ing repro-proofs, hence the ad units according to the pres or after the applying of the galley sheets, will have their ent invention will not require resetting during the life of 5 side margins bevelled as at 17, the angle of bevel pref their run. erably being approximately between 5 and 10, this giv (e) The phototypeset classified ads according to the ing the cross-sectional aspect of the blocks the configura present to the present invention mounted on the proposed tion of a trapezoid, preferably isosceles. This has base material are substantially weightless and clean. several beneficial results. The arrangement provides for They will not Smear as strike-on image or repro-proofs O easy removal of the units from the assembled chase by paste material does. pressing downwardly upon the remote edges and thus (f) The present photoset classified ads are right-reading causing the blocks to tilt. It provides for more accurate and black-on-white, which makes the reading of the ads cutting of the blocks and the angular cut of the edges easier and faster than reading wrong-reading type slugs. provides for more effective elimination of shadows, due Other objects and features of novelty will be apparent to possible unevenness of fit at the side margins of the from the following specification when read in connection rows of blocks, by back-lighting in the camera. with the accompanying drawings in which one embodi Back-lighting of objects or material on the copy board ment of the invention is illustrated by way of example. in process camera work is well known for some purposes In the drawings: in the art, but is usually employed in connection with FIGURE 1 is a view in perspective of a laminating jig the sole illumination of the subjects for photographing employed in the pursuit of the invention; of opaque markings on clear transparent carriers, and FIGURE 1a is a view in end elevation of one of the not in connection with separate solid elements which may laminated typographic make-up units; or may not fit together with the utmost precision, this FEGURE 2 is a fragmentary view in prespective of a resulting in the production of shadows at the line of cutting fixture next employed; separation. Even though the solid elements may be FIGURE 3 is a similar view of a partially set-up page translicent or even transparent, uneven fitting at the form including a chase embodying the principles of the margins may produce line shadows if not provided invention; against, as by means of the expedients in the present FIGURE 4 is a plan view of the chase itself on a some invention. what reduced scale; With the strip of photographic paper containing the FIGURE 5 is a fragmentary view in vertical section new ads securely adhered to the base block 15 and pre taken on line 5-5 of FIGURE 4; cisely aligned therewith, the gallery of new ads is put FIGURE 6 is a plan view of the laminating jig shown through the cutter which is illustrated in FIGURE 2 in FIGURE 1; of the drawings. FIGURE 7 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 3 5 Basically, the cutter in FIGURE 2 consists of the 7-7 of FIGURE 6; foundation plate 20 and a pivot bracket 21 to which the FIGURE 8 is a fragmentary view in vertical section knife guide 22 is trunnioned. The strip of ads taken from taken on line 8-3 of FIGURE 6: the laminator is fed in as at 23 from the left-hand side FIGURE 9 is a plan view of the cutter shown in FG of the device and the separations between the ads are URE 2: 40 carefully aligned with the gauge on the knife guide and FIGURE 10 is a view in end elevation of the cutter; then the knife slide i4 is slid forwardly whereupon the FIGURE 11 is a fragmentary view in front elevation inclined sharp cutting blade 25 slices the separate ad of the knife and knife guiding portion of the cutter; blocks from the assembly as clearly shown at 26. FIGURE 12 is a vertical sectional view taken on line Now referring to the transparent plastic chase illu. 2-2 of FIGURE 11; and strated in FIGURE 3, this chase being given the general FGURE 13 is a transverse vertical sectional view reference numeral 30, it will be seen that it consists of taken on line 3-53 of FEGURE 9. the base plate 31, a fixed top guide bar 32, a fixed side The broad outline of the content of the present inven guide bar 33, and an adjustable side guide 34. At the tion has been set forth above in the stated objects thereof bottom of the chase an adjustable bottom guide 35 is and pursuant to this the operational FIGURES 1, 2 and Secured. Between the columns of ads the vertical guide 3 will not be described in quite broad aspects and then strips 33 are applied, these guide strips having a black later the details of the component parts of the system set vertical line on their upper edges to provide an image forth more minutely in connection with the other figures of the column rule in the finished printing. It will be of drawing. realized that many of the ad blocks will be retained for In FIGURE 1 the laminator is shown in use, this 5 5 republication in the current issue, but in order to make device comprising essentially the base plate 10, the fixed room for newly inserted ads these old ads are capable guide plate 1i, the adjustable guide plate 12 and the end of sliding vertically between the column guides and new clamp i3. Between the two guide plates and abutting the ads inserted; for example, the ad blocks 39 in the third front edge of the clamp 3 is the foam plastic galley base column from the left have been slid downwardly to make block 5. The adhesive upon the bottom surface of the 60 room for the new insert 40 in that particular classifica block 15 has been protected by the strip of covering paper tion. Similarly, in the first column the block 41 has and this paper has now been removed so that the block been moved downwardly for the insertion of the new can be pressed down upon the back surface of the strip of ad 42. ads on the photographic paper indicated at 6 (see FIG. When the form is finally assembled the page is then URES 1a and 8). The strip of photographic paper has photographed in a process camera and the negative em had its upper edge clamped beneath the clamp member ployed in the usual way for the make-up for the pro 13 and disposed in the slot between the guides A1 an E2 duction of an offset printing plate. and then the block with its adhesive surface has been Now the component parts of the apparatus involved in pressed down upon the strip. pursuing the invention will be described in detail. An alternative method of preparing the laminated strip 70 In FIGURE 6 of the drawings it will be seen that the of phototype material involves the coating of the back sur base plate 10 of the laminator is preferably made of faces of the photo strips 6 with a pressure sensitive wax transparent plastic as are also the other principal parts adhesive and then applying the strips to the surface of the of the device. Along the right-hand edge of the base base blocks or bars 15. The upper surfaces of the sheet plate is fixedly secured the guide bar a 1 as by means of 16 are then rubbed and burnished, for example, with a 75 the Screws 45. The adjustable guide 12 on the left-hand 3,183,817 5 6 side of the laminator is provided with slots 47 into which output side of the device. If desired, an oppositely dis the screws 48 are received, the slots providing means for posed guide bar 102 may be provided particularly on the adjusting the guide 12 laterally a small amount to accom incoming side of the device and if it felt at all to be modate to possible slight variations in the width of a block. necessary, a similar driving guide might be applied to The clamping device 13 at the top edge of the lami 5 the far side by attachment to the body by the use of holes nator comprises a strip of plastic having a pair of open (4. ings 50 through which the adjusting thumb screws 51 The operation of the cutter device will be clearly extend. The screws 51 are threaded into openings in understood. The blocks are slid along the guides 100 the base member 10 and a socket 55 is provided in the and 102 and beneath the cutter until the line at the opening 50 into which a spring 56 is seated which urges O bottom of the first ad on the block is in accurate align the plate upwardly to released position. In clamping ment with the gauge edge of the gauge flange 80 of the the top edge of a sheet which is to be laminated with cutter bar 22 and then the blade slide 24 is manipulated the block of the base material the thumb screws 5 are by means of the handle 92 to move forwardly, the blade turned downwardly and similarly when the arrangement 25 severing the ad accurately along the line of division. is to be released the screws are turned in the opposite The pin 95 at the end of the travel of the member 24 direction. strikes the latch 72 which releases the bar 22 and the The detailed construction of the cutter will be described spring 97 urges it upward in position to receive another in connection with FIGURES 9-13. The base plate block, the upward movement being limited by means of of the cutter has been designated 20 and the pivot bracket the gauge pin 82 shown in FIGURE 11 of the drawings. 21 for the cutter guide will be seen to comprise a base 20 Spring 94 automatically returns blade slide 24 to its portion 60 and two upstanding flanges 61 and 62 each starting position. having aligned openings therein to accommodate the The detail construction of the chase and the assembly pivot pin 65 for the blade carrier 22. of the page form therein, will now be described in con The blade carrier 22 has an operating handle 67 nection with FIGURES 3, 4 and 5 of the drawings. The fixed to the end thereof and is adapted to be guided 25 base plate 31, as mentioned earlier, is made of trans at its near end between the blocks 68 and 69 which are parent plastic and so are the other principal pieces of secured to the base plate 20 as, for example, by means of the assembly. The upper marginal bar or plate 32 is bolts such as suggested at 70. secured in fixed position along the upper edge of the The cutter bar 22 is held down in operative position base plate 31 by means of the screws 110 and the fixed by means of the latch member 72 which has a hook por 30 side guide plate 33 is secured to the base plate by means of tion 73 engageable in a notch 74 in the end of the bar the screws 111. The page is made up in columns accord 22. The latch 72 is pivoted as upon the screws 75 and ing to the various ad classifications, each column being is urged toward latching position by means of a spring separated by the strips 38 and any slack in the width 76 seated in a recess 77 in the edge of the base plate 20. wise dimension of the arrangement is taken up by the The bar 22 itself has a ledge 80 which provides a 35 adjustment of the side strip 34, the strips for this purpose gauge for positioning the gallery with respect to the being provided with slots 112 through which the screws cutting blade 25 and also provides means for limiting 114 are passed. the upward movement of the bar as by contact with Similarly, when the columns are filled to the approxi the adjustable set screw 82 which passes through the mate dimension of their capacity, the bottom guide plate flange 83 of the block 69 and may be fixed in adjusted 40 35 may be pressed upwardly squeezing the columns of position as by means of the nut 84. The sliding blade soft block material slightly, this adjustment being per carrier which runs along the bar 22 has been designated mitted by the slots 115 and the securing screws 116. 24 and the sharp angled blade denominated 25. The As mentioned before, inaccuracies in the cutting of carrier consists of the inverted L-shaped body portion 85 the ad blocks may be compensated for by the "rubber' and a laterally disposed complementary plate 86 which column provisions whereby the material may be squeezed is secured to the part 85 as by means of the bolts 87. in the chase, and also the shadow effects of any remain These two parts 85 and 86 straddle the bar 22 and as ing loose fitting of the blocks may be eradicated by clearly seen in FIGURE 13 of the drawings the part 86 back-lighting in the process camera afforded by the has one or more dowel pins passing therethrough which transparency of the parts of the chase, and the admission enter the longitudinal groove 88 in the bar 22. The 50 of such diffused back-lighting through the wedge-shaped blade itself is adjustably clamped to the piece 85 as by passage afforded by the chamfering or beveling of the means of the clamping plate 89 secured by means of side walls of the blanks as already described. the screws 90. It is understood that various changes and modifica The sliding blade carrier has a handle 92 for manipula tions may be made in the embodiment illustrated and tion and is urged toward its retracted position as shown 5 5 described herein without departing from the scope of in FIGURE 9 by means of the spring 94 which is the invention as defined by the following claims. anchored to the part 61 of the pivot bracket. Having thus described the invention, what is claimed For the purpose of affording a better and more accu as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: rate guide for the blade 25 itself, two parallel bars 91 of 1. The method of preparing and maintaining current ground steel are bolted to the base plate within a well 60 a page form of selectively variable copy as for the classi or depression 93 therein and the narrow space 96 between fied advertising pages of a newspaper, which method com these bars is only wide enough to easily accommodate prises preparing fragmentary galley sheets of individual the sliding movement of the point of the blade 25. interchangeable items of various lineage mounted on the A pin 95 projects from the blade carrier 24 and this top surfaces of blocks of corresponding lineage areas; is designed to strike the latch 72 upon the conclusion 65 arranging the blocks with their galley sheets applied of the cutting movement of the member 24 and release thereto, in columnar series in a page form chase, includ the bar 22 so that it may spring upwardly to accommo ing removing any blocks bearing outdated items and date the advance of the galley or ad block to sever an inserting any blocks bearing new items at appropriate other ad portion. The bar 22 is urged upwardly by means places in the chase according to the proper classification, of the spring 97 which is seated in the socket 98 in the 70 displacing adjacent retained blocks such distances in the base plate and in a similar socket 99 in the bar 22. column as necessary; clamping the blocks in the chase; For accurately guiding the blocks toward the cut illuminating the faces of the blocks and photographing ting blade certain guide bars are screwed to the base the completed form contained in the chase, the blocks plate 20, one of them being shown at 100 and a con being chamfered to a somewhat trapezoidal sectional con tinuation of this guide being illustrated at 101 on the 75 figuration to produce downwardly convergent opposite side 3,183,817 7 3. walls, and the form being also back-lighted through a a plurality of separate blocks of approximately rectangular transparent chase in addition to the front illumination parallelepiped configuration; a sheet carrying galley proofs for photographing the form, such back-lighting being of an item forming a part of the whole page composition passed through the resulting wedge-shaped spaces be secured face-upwardly to the top surface of each of said tween the blocks and adjacent parts of the form, to elimi blocks, the blocks being of areas corresponding to the nate possible line shadows at the margins of the items. different lineage of the sheets bearing said items; marginal 2. A page form for use in the process of publishing confining members carried at opposite sides of the base variable copy as for example classified advertisement plate; means for effecting adjustment of said confining pages of a newspaper, said form comprising a rectilinear members to clamp the blocks in place, at least the base chase, a plurality of separate blocks of approximately plate of said chase being translucent and said blocks rectangular parallelepiped configuration, and of some somewhat trapezoidal in section with downwardly con what resiliently yieldable material; a sheet carrying galley vergent opposite side walls, providing wedge-shaped slots proofs of an item forming a part of a whole page composi for passage of supplemental back-lighting for elimina tion secured face-upwardly to the top surface of each of tion of line shadows at the margins of the blocks. said blocks, the blocks being of areas corresponding to the different lineage of the sheets bearing said items; References Cited by the Examiner marginal confining members carried at opposite sides of UNITED STATES PATENTS the base plate; means for effecting adjustment of said 692,291 2/02 Husson ------95-1 confining members toward each other to clamp the blocks 1,740,989 12/29 Lytle ------156-349 in place, compressing certain of said yieldable blocks where 20 1,938,394 12/33 Lyon ------83-49 necessary, at least the base plate of said chase being 1,975,439 10/34 Uher ------95-4.5 translucent and said blocks somewhat trapezoidal in sec 2,446,915 8/48 Filmer------96-35 tion with downwardly convergent opposite side walls, 2,489,458 11/49 Murphy ------95-85 providing wedge-shaped slots for passage of supplemental 2,572,322 10/51 DeGoeij ------95-85 X back-lighting for elimination of line shadows at the mar 2,615,380 10/52 Murphy ------95-85 X gins of the blocks. 2,684,341 7/54 Anspon ------96-27 X 3. A page form for use in the process of publishing variable copy as for example classified advertisement pages NORTON ANSHER, Primary Examiner. of a newspaper, said form comprising a rectilinear chase, JOHN M. HORAN, Examiner.