{"id":35,"date":"2017-06-05T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2023-01-15T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T08:32:15","slug":"square-base-linotype","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/early-machines\/square-base-linotype\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Base Linotype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/58.jpeg\" width=\"450\" height=\"655\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before the machine described as The Blower had been on the market very long, a new model (now known as the Square Base) was presented, which showed so great an advance over the first machine that it was at once adopted, and the machines then in use were in course of time displaced.<\/p>\n<p>This new machine did away with the air blast, the matrices being carried from a diagonally positioned magazine to the assembling point by gravity, and the distributing elevator was displaced by the now familiar arm which lifts the line of matrices, after the casting process, to the top of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>Machines of this type were first installed in 1892 and a few of them may still be in use [as of c 1945].<\/p>\n<p>Linotype fan? 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