The three Vale Press founts and also the punches and matrices were destroyed when the Press ceased publishing.
On one bar of iron there may be many matrices of different sizes, only one die fitting the smallest concavity, is required to work the metal in all.
There is a different combination of teeth for each letter of the alphabet and all matrices of the same letter have the same combination of teeth.
After the line has been cast the matrices are all raised by their ears and fed one by one upon the distributing bar.
Then the matrices were returned automatically distributed to the proper channels of the matrix magazine ready to be used over again for succeeding slugs.
The teeth on the matrices are variously cut away and serve as keys to the different channels of the magazine.
The number of matrices of each character varies with the normal frequency of use of that letter.
By operating a keyboard, the matrices were assembled in a line which was justified automatically after the line was composed and then the whole line of type was cast in a single slug.
The brass matriceshave the characters of the alphabet, figures, points, etc.
One mold may be used to cast, in succession, all the letters of a font of type, or it may be used to cast any number of fonts of different faces that may be made on the same body, by merely changing the matrices that form the face.
Wedge-shaped space-bands are also controlled by a key, and when sufficient matrices and space-bands are assembled to make the line a bell rings.
The matrix-plate is about five inches square, and has on its face depressed images or matrices of each letter and character of the font.
In the Linotype the matrices for a desired line of words are assembled side by side and the line is cast in one piece.
By operating a lever the line of matrices then moves in front of the mold inserted in the side of a wheel and behind which is a pot of melted metal.
A third process of making matrices is with an automatic matrix-cutting machine, in which the shape of the desired letter is cut in the face of a plate of composition metal by a small rapidly-revolving cutting point.
There are a number of matrices of each character, and the arrangement of the machine is such that three lines of matrices may be kept in operation at once--one being assembled, one at the casting mold, and the third being distributed.
After thematrices have been used for the line they are lifted by an arm to the top of the machine and distributed again, each character in its particular channel in the magazine.
In the women of these two mother settlements are found the "foundations andmatrices of American femininity.
Linotype Baskerville is a facsimile cutting from type cast from the originalmatrices of a face designed by John Baskerville.
Samples of blue and violet glass rods, red jasper, and matrices of emerald.
Matrices that have been used a long time will sometimes show slight burrs, caused by walls of matrices being crushed.
If a new set of matrices is treated in this way before putting them into the machine there will be little or no trouble with them sticking in the magazine.
Second—If the part of the elevator jaw which holds the upper ears becomes sprung, the matrices will twist and you will get a squirt.
Matrices should be washed only when absolutely necessary, which would be if oil should collect on them.
If pin is set so as to throw the disk too far forward it would bind the spacebands and matrices and prevent the justification levers from driving up the bands sufficient to space the line, which would cause an indention of the line.
The assembler slide brake H and spring L should be adjusted to prevent the assembler slide from jumping ahead to the left or continually vibrating as the matrices enter.
In order to prevent transposition of matrices and spacebands the parts should be adjusted as illustrated in Fig.
Metal on the spaceband slides will destroy a set ofmatrices in a very few hours.
This not only prevents a squirt, but saves the ears of the matrices in many cases.
C will just pick up all the matrices and tighten check nut on the screw.
The assembler star should be renewed as soon as it is worn sufficient to prevent it from pushing the matrices inside the assembling elevator pawls, and it is advisable to renew the assembler chute rails at the same time.
If the matrices bind it will not only bend the ears, but also wear brass strip.
Figure 33 shows a sectional view of metal pot and well; also mold-disk, with a line of matrices assembled in front of mold ready to cast a slug.
The machine sets the matrices which correspond to the type, casts the type in lines from molten metal, delivers the lines of type on a galley, and returns the matrices to their appropriate tubes.
Immediately after the twomatrices recoiled again of their own accord and the two powerful men repeated the pressure.
Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the end, used in making the matrices for type.
What hath been said, concerning the several matrices from which Alum is obtained, sufficiently shews, that it is seldom solitary in the waters with which aluminous subjects have been lixiviated.
Gold being constantly found in its metalline form, and never combined with sulphur and arsenic, its matrices are not, properly speaking, ores; because the metal contained in them is not mineralized.
In some countries, and especially in America, the method of Amalgamation is used for extracting Gold and Silver in large quantities, from the matrices which contain them in their metalline form.
In the twentieth century machine the matrices will be replaced by permanent type from which, when ranged in the line, an impression will be made by hard pressure on a small bar of soft metal or plastic material.
The oldest of all the matrices is lime, and many splendid examples of its use by the Romans still exist.
Other matrices are slag cement, a comparatively recent invention, and some other natural and artificial cements which find occasional advocates.
With such patrices only lead matrices could be made, but the latter could be produced in two ways.
Enschede concludes that the Costerian type were produced from leaden matrices and the latter from brass patrices.
Enschede thinks that Gutenberg obtained his matrices by the second mode.
These matrices are held in the magazine of the machine, a channel of it being devoted to each separate character, and there are also channels which carry quads of definite thickness for use in tabular work, etc.
This series of assembled matrices forms a line matrix, or, in other words, a line of female type adapted to form a line of raised printed characters on a slug which is cast against them.
This frame is mounted horizontally on a slide, which by an ingenious mechanical movement brings any one of the two hundred and twenty-five matrices over what is termed the mould.
The matrices are cut in steel and in watchmakers' nickel, and the work is so accurately done that about half the labor of finishing is saved.
Indeed, a single letter may have half of these faults, but when the matrices are properly fitted, the printed page presents a smooth and even appearance.
Only one mould is necessary for one size of type, and with it all thematrices for that size may be used.
Yesterday the Professor sent you five more bronze matrices of ecclesiastical seals.
Years ago I started to collect material; but my affliction came, and now I can only feel thematrices and picture them in my mind.
He sat fingering those big oval matrices of bronze, listening to Gabrielle's voice deciphering the inscriptions, and explaining what was meant and what was possibly their history.
The sulphur-casts sent with the matrices she placed carefully with her father's collection, and during the remainder of the evening they were occupied in replying to several letters regarding estate matters.
The cookery of the ancients must have been superior to our humbler art, since they could find dainties in the tough membranous parts of the matrices of a sow, and the flesh of young hawks, and a young ass.
Enschedé of Haarlem had in his type-foundry matrices of lead, which he claimed were used by Peter Schœffer in the fifteenth century.
His belief in the use of these rude implements is based on the well known fact that matrices of lead were frequently used by the earlier German and Dutch printers.
The matrices of lead noticed by Enschedé were probably made by striking the punch of wood in half-melted metal, after the process described by Didot.
The types [p342] of this book resemble those of the Speculum, but they are sufficiently unlike to establish the fact that they could not have been cast from the matrices used for the Speculum.
Six of the matrices owned by Enschedé, and by him attributed to Schœffer, were made to be combined.
The imperfection of the process is obvious, for it required the destruction of many matrices and punches.
This curt review of the works and workmanship of Peter Schœffer should be enough to show that his reputation as the father of letter-founders, and the inventor of matrices and the type-mould, is entirely undeserved.
They seem to be the production of an incompetent punch-cutter; the letters were rudely cut, the matrices were not properly fitted up, and the types do not line.
The types of this office are of home manufacture, made from punches of hard wood and matrices of baked porcelain.
We may suppose that the types were worn out, and that the punches and matrices were also worn out or obsolete, for we find no traces of them in the books of any later printer.
Not every goldsmith[370] could do this work with neatness, and for this reason, as well as for the sake of economy, many beginners bought theirmatrices from the printers who owned punches.
Some have thought that the early types were made by stamping half-molten metal with wooden punches, and so forming matrices from which the types were subsequently cast.
On the other hand, there are many who think that matrices and punches are due to the ingenuity of Peter Schoeffer, to whom reference is made below.
When the roll is full it goes to the casting room where it is put on another machine containing hot type metal and bronze matrices from which the letters of the words are to be cast.
At the end of the line, the matrices forming it are carried in front of a slot where melted type metal from a reservoir meets them.
Skilled specialists were chipping away at matrices other artists were reconstructing, doing a thousand things necessary to the work.
There's a hard and interesting day ahead of us to-morrow, and I want to read Orling's new work on matrices before we begin chipping at the amber.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matrices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
