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Brass rules
The tweezers, that enable a compositor to pick up and arrange types in the narrow columns of a table,
Tweezers. is
a serviceable tool for withdrawing type from a
form on the stone. is a movable strip of smooth metal, type-high, of the length of the measure required, against which the compositor places the types that he puts in the stick. The smooth metal allows an easy movement and adjustment of the galley or an unlocked
The composing-rule
type
when
it is
caught
by the thumb. The rule is also used for empty-
Composing-rule.
ing the contents of the stick on the galley, as a
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support for type in the
and for dividing and moving The composand book-printers, who have to set
act of distribution,
matter in the process of making up.
ing-rules of jobtype to many measures, are usually of brass of news-compositors are oftener of steel.
;
those
BRASS RULES Brass rules, cut from hard-rolled sheet-brass and planed to the standard height of type, are usually furnished to the printer in strips two feet long.