Image: Escapement
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Description: Action of an escapement in a Linotype machine. The keyboard has raised the escapement lever 22 to push against the plunger 11. This rotates the verge 8 which pulls down the front pawl 9, releasing the first matrix in the magazine channel. The rotation of the verge also raises rear pawl 8 to hold the second matrix.
Title: Escapement
Credit: Linotype Machine Principles, published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1940, p. 63
Author: Scanned and cleaned up by Paul Koning
Permission: Public domain (copyright expired, not renewed)
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