Composite Type Bar Company
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Product Details
CompanyComposite Type Bar Company
Certificate Type
Capital Stock
Date Issued
April 24, 1902
Canceled
No
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Hand signed
Approximate Size
10 3/4" (w) by 7" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
Additional Details
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Historical Context
The Composite Type Bar Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey on March 23, 1897, and was based at 260 West Broadway in New York City.
This company owned the patents and inventions for the manufacture of the Composite Type Bar Machine, an invention designed to greatly reduce the cost and to improve the art of typesetting and printing.
The machine occupied a floor space of but two feet square, was three feet ten inches in height, weighed 250 pounds, and required less than one-tenth horsepower to operate. These items were but a fraction of the dimensions of all other typesetting or casting machines at the time.
The Composite Type Bar Machine is the only one which did away entirely with the distribution of type or matrices, thus greatly simplifying the working mechanism, reducing the liability to get cut of order, and accounting largely for its small size. The type molds, of which there were ninety-two, were maintained in a fixed relation to a mold-bar, and when the machine was running under ordinary speed, the type was being cast at the rate of 2,500 per minute and deposited in a magazine ready to be used by the operator. The typecasting was done automatically and independently of the operator, who by manipulating the keyboard simply assembled the previously cast type into lines, when the automatic machinery again took it up and after aligning the type perfectly from its face and justifying it, fused the base of the line of loose type into a bar and discharged it into a galley. All this was done as rapidly as the operator could work the keyboard.
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