THE ELEKTRON

[Music] Now in this age of jet speed, Menthaler print the printing industry with a startling new concept. Electron here is fully automated type setting. Jet fast and all new from the base up. Automation starts here. Electron takes orders from perforated tape. Delivering the goods here. 15 lines a minute. More slugs on the galley with less time and motion than ever before. That is the real measure of type setting efficiency. Bright metal stacking on the gallon. How does Electron do it? By continuous assembly through straight line delivery. No stop and go on Electron. The same number of operations that produce 12 lines a minute on other machines deliver 14 lines on Electron. A slight increase delivers 15. Continuous assembly. A wholly new concept does away with the assembling elevator and moves matrices in a straight line to the first elevator where they go to the casting position in a smooth no bounce action made possible at all speeds by improved linkage. The mold disc is positioned accurately. It's free of vibration. Continuous assembly is backed up by an improved system for distributing mats, completing the tide casting cycle with a minimum of motion and effort. [Music] Yes, Electron is fast, but it never hurries. Electron's parts will have a long and healthy life. The path of Electron, straight as a gun barrel, a shorter path than ever before, reduces wear. [Music] Here's an old friend just for comparison. This conventional machine demonstrates the path of mat travel on all line casting machines before electron. It is assembling at the rate of 10 standard lines a minute. This is not in slow motion. Even while setting these wide column measures, it may be seen that the amount of time required for the rise and fall motions of the assembling elevator is a significant delay. The heart of electron speed. One line travels to the elevator jaw while the next line is being assembled. [Music] Now Electron is operating at 15 lines a minute but seen in slow motion. [Music] In close. Now we are watching the assembly of mats aided by a deaf set of fingers. [Music] Two deliver the line while a third dropped in to support assembly of the next line. The other two return and recycle as the line builds up. As the line fills up simultaneously with the release of each space band, a new lateral motion of the star wheel makes room for smooth seating of space bands, thus eliminating interward delays. [Music] We've seen another allnew reason why minute after minute and hour after hour, Electron delivers more lines with less effort than any other machine. A new rhythm for the composing room. Continuous assembly. Continuous assembly through straight line delivery. But Electron is all new in detail as well as in principle. Take space bands. When Electron returns them, they go directly to the spaceband box in one smooth motion. No more spaceband gathering. No more spaceband lever. One transfer lever delivers mats to the second elevator and they head for home. The mats keep marching. 15 standard lines a minute. The payoff in silver and gold. [Music] inside electron things are different too. Mechanical linkage in the justification system has been eliminated and replaced by a hydraulic system which gives constant justification driving force regardless of machine operating speed and reduces matrix and spaceband wear. Mergenthaler's exclusive assembler front. A simple lift out motion frees the read rack. Immediate accessibility. This dualpurpose motor drives the hydraulic system for magazine elevating and fanning and the intermediate shaft for assembly and distribution. Note the short drop from the magazines to the assembler belt, further reducing mat travel and wear. Mats follow a near vertical angle dropping to a new five-pointed star wheel. Electron has practical new details like this protective grill over the cam area. easily opened and closed for routine servicing. [Music] Subtle improvements are everywhere. Note this solid support given the pot pump mechanism, the heavyduty construction of the second elevator mechanism. Clean, crisp styling by Henry Drifus, right down to the base in a new standard color, Electron Blue. But Electron's beauty is more than skin deep. Cam profiles have been redesigned to provide the smoothest possible operation at all rates of speed. A redesigned first elevator cam is new, smaller. A shorter, huskier follower lever and connecting linkage provide more positive motion in the first elevator slide. Vibration free. An improved line caster is still only as good as its mat distribution system and electrons is best. New second elevator linkage holds the elevator bar horizontal in travel and mats are firmly held vertically without sway or vibration. The distributor shifter lever has been eliminated and the shifter is electrically driven. Main distributor clutch is all new, electromagnetic for fast, smooth stopping action. The font distinguisher is located at the entrance of the box, making simple the removal of wrong font mats. Electron's distributor system reduces mat wear to an absolute minimum at all speeds. These new improvements, combined with time- tested exclusive principles, permit safer mat distribution. The best ever. [Music] Electron's rear step, a removable cover over the electrical system. Here is Electron's main drive motor. Dualpurpose, it drives the cam shaft and the hydraulic pump for the justification system. A variable speed feature makes it possible to control the speed of the casting mechanism without affecting the hydraulic system. The electromagnetic clutch and brake eliminate the need for starting and stopping mechanisms which on conventional machines require complex linkage. The hand wheel can be used to cycle the machine when necessary. Electron is pre-wired at the factory. Its power goes through this power control center. Low voltage is adjacent to high. Both feature plug-in components and individually fused circuits. Electron can handle up to four standard 90 channel magazines with push button ease, elevating them hydraulically. Touch another button to fan them. Electron retains Linotype's built-in removal arms for easier handling [Music] and equally effortless replacement. [Music] You have just been introduced to jet speed hot metal line casting. Full automation for effortless roundthe-clock production. This completely new concept has been delivered to the printing industry by the only company that could after years of research on the linotype. [Music]