Category: Composition

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

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. Read the Full Article . . .

Most of the following illustrations and model descriptions were taken from “Intertype Book of Instruction” published by the Intertype Corporation in 1943, with the exception of Models A, B and C which were taken from a pamphlet entitled “Standardised and Interchangeable Intertypes” which it is believed was published in 1917.

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THESE MODELS are the latest development in the single distributor class of Linotype.

They are designed to not only to cover the field so long and creditably occupied by Models 8 and 14, but to extend that field because of their increased magazine equipment, quicker magazine change and various other worthwhile developments to increase operating efficiency. Read the Full Article . . .