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Category: Composition
Intertype Model G4-4SM
The Model G4 is a double distributor mixer machine with four main magazines.
The magazines are of the wide 72-channel and 90-channel types and are available in any desired combination: two wide 72-channel and two 90-channel magazines, or one wide 72-channel and three 90-channel magazines, or three wide 72-channel and one 90-channel magazines.
Intertype Model F4
The Model F4 is a double distributor mixer machine with four 90-channel main magazines.
This machine may be equipped with two or four 34-channel side magazines (F4-2s.m. and F4-4s.m.). Front removal of main magazines.
Intertype Model C4-4SM
The Model C4 is a Universal Straight Machine (single distributor) and requires a magazine shift each time a change is made from one main magazine to another or from one side magazine to another.
Two types of straight machines are available: the straight C type, which carries standard 90-channel main magazines and the straight H type, which is equipped with main magazines of the standard wide 72-channel type.
Intertype Model C4
The Model C4 is a Universal Straight Machine (single distributor) and requires a magazine shift each time a change is made from one main magazine to another or from one side magazine to another.
Two types of straight machines are available: the straight C type, which carries standard 90-channel main magazines and the straight H type, which is equipped with main magazines of the standard wide 72-channel type.
Intertype Side Magazines
THE NEW side magazine, a standardized Intertype unit, will be applied before shipment to any new Intertype – Model A, B or C for $150.
The Side Magazine is used for head-letter faces, advertising figures, accents, special characters, or any other matrices required.
Intertype Model C
SIMPLICITY of design and construction is the predominant feature of the Intertype Model C.
The same simple assembling and distributing mechanisms that are used on the single- and two-magazine Intertypes are also used on this three-magazine machine, and it has the same direct connection between escapements and keyboard rods.
Intertype Model B
THE MODEL B two-magazine Intertype combines all the advantages of a single-magazine machine with the versatility afforded by multiple-magazine construction.
Changes from one magazine to the other are made in two or three seconds.
Intertype Model A
INTERTYPE Model A is the highest development in the field of single-magazine composing machines.
It is as far superior to earlier machines of its class as a modern automobile is superior to the cars brought out several years ago.
Star Base Intertype
Model A is a single distributor machine with one 90-channel main magazine. The machine may be equipped with one or three 34-channel side magazines (A-1 s.m. and A-3 s.m.). Rear removal of main magazine.
All single distributor A machines are convertible into corresponding single distributor models with two or three 90-channel main magazines (B and C). Similarly any of the models may have one or three side magazines.