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Cabinet stands and cases
improved construction, steel runs fastened to the side of the frame with countersunk screws are better substitutes for
runways of wood, for they enmore ease and lessen
able the cases to slide with
their wear. The steel runs have the greater advantage of enabling the maker-up to put cases closer Some forms of cabinets of double size together. will hold forty cases in their type-racks. Another form of case-rest is designed to enable
to work facing each other, over a cabinet rack that holds eighteen air-tight cases. It is planned to be placed in front of a window.
two compositors
As with
the Polhemus stand, a third compositor can have unobstructed access to ten cases underneath while the two compositors are at work.
CASES The cases on top of the cabinet that serves as a stand are held in proper angle by iron brackets. One kind of iron bracket is constructed to swing on a proper rest, so that it can be tilted upward and enable the compositor to empty his composed type on the galley underneath his case, or to make use of the top of the cabinet for the safe-keeping of copy out of use.
The case provided for ordinary composition is a shallow tray of wood 16j inches wide, 32 inches long, and 1 inch deep, divided by thin wood partitions into separate
compartments, or boxes, as