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as fast as a rapid compositor can set types by the old 

 method. By the use of a certain series of combined 

 letters, cast in single type, which Mr. Felt has invented 

 and which are used in the machine, there will be a further 

 gain of about one-third, thus bringing the capacity of the 

 machine nearly if not quite up to 10,000 ems an hour in 

 the hands of a quick and skillful operator. Besides setting 

 the type, this machine spaces and justifies the line, as 

 well, or even better than can be done by hand and also 

 leads the matter. The operation of justifying which print- 

 ers have usually pronounced impossible for machinery to 

 accomplish, and which no other type setting machine 

 does or attempts to do, is performed by the machine 

 automatically, all that the operator does, being to touch a 

 key when his line is full, which transfers the line into the 

 justifying apparatus and puts it in motion. Nor does the 

 justification take the time of the operator. It is performed 

 while he is setting the next line. 



Attached to the machine is a register as it is called, 

 which makes a complete record of all the operations of the 

 machine by punching holes in a strip of paper. The use 

 of the register is in resetting and distributing the matter. 

 These strips of paper being placed in the machine, and the 

 machine set in motion, it will automatically set and justify 

 the same matter in the same or a different type at any 

 future time. This will obviate the necessity and save the 

 expe»se of sterotyping books. The distribution is also 

 automatically performed by means of the register, or it 

 may be effected by the key board, or by nicks in the type. 



Besides this machine Mr. Felt has invented several very 

 simple and ingenious applications of the principles of 

 the machine to setting type by hand which will be of 

 great value, especially in small offices, where the large 

 machines will not be required. 



On motion of James Kimball it was voted — That the 



