Reprinted technical and operational literature, for the Lanston Monotype Type-&-Rule Caster.
Note that since the Type-&-Rule Caster was derived from the Composition Caster, much of the technical information for the Composition Caster applies here as well.
Adjustments (1926)
Adjustments of the Type-&-Rule Caster: For the Type-&-Rule Caster Course of the Monotype School . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1926.)
It doesn't matter, but this digital reprint was assembled from two physical copies. In the primary copy the gathering (signature) for pp. 47-54 was missing (but a duplicate copy of the gathering for pp. 23-30 was in its place). In this digital version, I used instead pp. 47-54 from another copy.
Adjustments (1953)
Adjustments of the Type-&-Rule Caster: For the Type-&-Rule Caster Course of the Monotype School . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1953.) [Missing covers]
Note: For Plate Books for the Type-&-Rule Caster, see the Composition Caster's Plate Books.
Parts Price List, 4th Ed. (1930)
Parts Price List[,] Monotype Casting Machine and Type-&-Rule Caster . Fourth Edition. (Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1930). A parts price list for both the Composition Caster and the Type-&-Rule Caster.
This is a link "up and over" to this book as presented in the Composition Caster Notebook.
The Lanston Monotype parts price lists are essential for maintaining these machines, even though you cannot buy new parts. They are the only source which identifies completely what parts were in fact on a machine. They also identify which parts constitute a particular assembly, feature, or attachment.
Parts Price List (1941)
Parts Price List[:] Monotype Type-&-Rule Caster . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1941). An un-illustrated parts price list. First published March 1, 1941 and revised November 14, 1941. Together with a cover letter dated January 5, 1942. This is a parts price list specifically for the Type-&-Rule Caster, although of course it shares many parts in common with the Composition Caster.
As noted earlier, Lanston Monotype parts price lists are interesting because they describe what parts constituted particular mechanisms and attachments (and what attachments, accessories, and supplies were available).
Parts List (Typesetting Machine, 1952)
This is the Parts List (no prices) from 1952 for the "Typesetting Machine" (that is, the Composition Caster). The Type-&-Rule Caster shares many of these parts.
This is a link "up and over" to this book as presented in the Composition Caster Notebook.
Important Information ... Molds
A general information folder for Lanston Monotype molds for the Composition Caster and Type & Rule Caster (but not the Giant Caster or Material Maker). This is a link "up and over" to ../../../../ Composing Typecasters -> Monotype Composition Caster -> Literature for Monotype Composing Typecasters -> Technical -> " Important Information for Operators of Monotype Molds" [8230-5-49-10M]
Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving and making available this document.
Sorts Molds 1T & 1U (1918)
Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U Sorts Casting Molds (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1918.) This is a damaged and incomplete copy. Unless you need the 1918 printing, specifically, of this document, you'd be better off with the 1920 version, below.
Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving even such a tattered document as this, and for making it available.
Sorts Molds 1T & 1U (1920)
Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U Sorts Casting Molds . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1920). Printing code: 8095-5-20-2M-Fr.
"Style 1T mold for casting sorts, high and low quads and spaces of any width set-ways up to thirty-six points inclusive in twelve-, fourteen-, and eighteen-point sizes.""Style 1U mold for casting sorts, high and low quads and spaces of any width set-ways up to thirty-six points inclusive in twenty-four, thirty- and thirty-six point sizes."
Full-resolution (1200dpi RGB) versions of the Figures from Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U Sorts Casting Molds . 8095-5-20-2M-Fr. Figure 1 - Mold asembled and ready for use. Top View from rear left corner. (17 Megabytes). Figure 2 - Bottom view with CROSS BLOCK partly drawn out to show GATE PUSHER. (18 Megabytes). Figure 3 - MOLD BLADES and POINT BLOCK. (6.4 Megabytes).
Sorts Molds 1T & 1U; 2T & 2U (1949)
Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U (Also Styles 2T and 2U) Sorts Casting Molds . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1949). Printing code: 8095-11-49-500.
Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving and making available this document.
Full-resolution (1200dpi RGB) versions of the Figures from Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U (Also Styles 2T & 2U) Sorts Casting Molds . 8095-11-49-2M-500.
Cleaning Lead and Rule Molds 1R, 1RA & 1RB
Directions for Care and Cleaning Continuous Strip Lead and Rule Molds . (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1921). Printing code: 8087-6-21-2M-Fr. This is the mold for casting continuous rule in the Type & Rule Caster, not the mold for the Material Maker.
"Style 1R Mold, for Rules and High and Low Quads and Slugs in any given point size from 1 1/2 to 12-point inclusive."
"Style 1RA Mold, for HIgh or Low Tie-Up Slugs and Electrotype Bearers in 12-point."
"Style 1RB Mold, for 6-Point Column-Style Rule, also 6-point Standard Rules and High and Low Slugs."
It includes an illustrated Parts List which specifies in to some degree the variations in parts in these molds in very early serial number molds.
Full-resolution (1200dpi RGB PNG) versions of the Figures and the parts list illustrations from Directions for Care and Cleaning Continuous Strip Lead and Rule Molds . The Figures are 18, 7.5, and 16 Megabytes, respectively. The parts illustrations are each about 30 Megabytes.
The user of the caster may be interested in various charts and tables which apply to Monotype and other typecasting generally and are listed in ../../../../ Noncomposing Typecasters -> General Literature about Machine Typecasting -> General Machine Typecasting Practices -> Charts and Tables (some of these tables of course are simply those presented here).
Display Type Attachment [& Font Schemes]
The Monotype Display Type Attachment: Directions for Casting Display Type with Schemes for Fonts of Various Sizes (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1945).
Display Type Wedge Positions, 2 1/4 - 36 pt (1952)
"Monotype Display Type Wedge Positions for Casting Type Bodies 2 1/4 to 36 Points in Width." Printing code: 8036-7-52-500. Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving this document and making it available.
Here, since this document has been a bit difficult to track down, is a full-resolution PNG of it (1200dpi): lanston-monotype-display-type-wedge-positions-2p25-to-36-point-8036-7-52-500-1200rgb-crop-7678x8084.png. It is quite large (83 Megabytes); you almost certainly don't need it.
Another version of this chart, probably earlier, seems to have been intended specifically for the Monotype Thompson Typecaster. The data in both versions are the same, although the column labels differ and the present chart has additional notes. The Thompson version is at ../../../ Sorts Casters (Exlcuding Monotype) -> The Thompson Typecaster -> An Anthology of Source Materials -> "Table for Conversion of Set Width Markings on Matrices to Points and Decimals of an Inch" (TC 8036) . The scan of the present version, however, is more legible than the scan of TC 8036.
Display Type Wedge Positions, 2 1/4 - 36 pt (1955)
"Monotype Display Type Wedge Positions for Casting Type Bodies 2 1/4 to 36 Points in Width." Printing code: 8036-3-55-500. Thanks are due to Sky Shipley of Skyline Type Foundry for preserving this document and making it available.
This is a later printing, regrettably less well-preserved, of the Display Type Wedge Position chart 8036-7-52-500 (see above) .
Display Type Wedge Positions, 2 1/4 - 48 pt
Positions of Display Type Wedges for Casting Type Bodies from 2 1/4 to 48 Points in Width .
I do not actually know the provenance of this piece. See the "Legal Notices" section at the end of this page for further information.
Varigear Attachment / Casting Speeds
"'Monotype' Varigear Attachment" (recto) and "Average Casting Speeds for Moulds Used on Composition and Type and Rule Casters." This contains Lubrication and General Instructions for the Speed Reduction Unit and the 'Monotype' Varigear variable speed unit. On the verso it contains charts of recommended average speed values for material from 1 1/2 point lead/rule through 36 point display type.
Unfortunately, this is an English publication which is still in copyright in the US, so I cannot reprint it. The link here goes "up and over" to the main presentation of this document in the Composition Caster section - where you will find only a note to the effect that it exists but I cannot reprint it.
My thanks to Kevin Martin of The Papertrail Handmade Paper and Book Arts for preserving this document.
The two editions of Type-&-Rule Caster Adjustements reproduced here are both in the public domain in the US due to expiration (and non-renewal) of their original copyright. The digital reprints of them here remain in the public domain.
The "Directions for Care and Cleaning Styles 1T and 1U Sorts Casting Molds" (1920), "Directions for Care and Cleaning Continuous Strip Lead and Rule Molds" (1921) 1941 Parts Price List, "The Monotype Display Type Attachment", and "Display Type Wedge Positions, 2 1/4 - 36 pt" were published in the US without copyright notice at a time when such notice was required to secure copyright. They therefore passed into the public domain upon initial publication. The digital reprints of them here remain in the public domain.
The copyright status of the "Positions of Display Type Wedges 2 1/4 to 48 pt" document is unknown. If it was published originally by the Lanston Monotype Machine Company in the US, then it is in the public domain in the US due to lack of copyright notice required at the time. If it was published by The Monotype Corporation Limited in the UK prior to 1940 then it is now (2010) in the public domain in the UK due to expiration of copyright for an anonymous work, but is now (2010) in copyright in the US due to the implementation of the Uruguay Rounds of the GATT talks. If it was published by The Monotype Corporation Limited in the UK after 1940 then it is now (2010) in copyright in both the UK and US. As such its reproduction here is either without issue (if it is in the public domain in the US) or an instance of "fair use" under US copyright law as this is a brief and very obscure technical document of uncertain status, not otherwise available, which may be of historical interest. It is not covered by the Creative Commons license under which the rest of this pages is licensed.
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