Typographical photocomposing machine

Claim 1

A PHOTOTYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, INTERMITTENTLY OPERATED MEANS FOR FEEDING THERETHROUGH STEP BY STEP A PRE-CODED TAPE HAVING THEREON A SUCCESSION OF CODE SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF A JUSTIFIED COMPOSED LINE, MEANS FOR DECODING THE SIGNALS IN THE TAPE AS IT IS FED THROUGH THE MACHINE, A STATIONARY FONT PLATE PRESENTING AN ARRAY OF TYPE CHARACTERS ARRANGED IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS THEREON AND VARYING IN SET WIDTHS ON A UNIT BASIS, MEANS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING DIFFERENT SELECTED CHARACTERS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, FOR COMPOSITION IN LINE, A LIGHT SENSITIVE FILM ON WHICH THE CHARACTERS ARE RECORDED IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED, MEANS FOR PRODUCING A CONTINUOUS RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE LIGHT SENSITIVE FILM AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEANS FOR LINE COMPOSITION, A UNIT MEASURING DEVICE OF MEASURING EACH UNIT DISTANCE OF TRAVEL ON HE LINE COMPOSING MOVEMENT AND CONTROLLED IN ITS OPERATION BY SUCH MOVEMENT, INTERMITTENTLY OPERATED MEANS RESPONSIVE TO DECODED CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION SIGNALS IN THE CODED TAPE TO CONTROL THE SELECTION OF THE TYPE CHARACTERS TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO DECODED CHARACTER WIDTH SIGNALS IN THE CODED TAPE AS WELL AS TO SAID UNIT MEASURING DEVICE DURING THE CONTINUOUS LINE COMPOSING MOVEMENT FOR VARYING THE TIME OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ACTION FOR THE SUCCESSIVE CHARACTERS BEING COMPOSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH UNIT VARIATIONS IN SET WIDTHS OF SAID CHARACTERS, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO DECODED WORD SPACE SIGNALS IN THE CODED TAPE AND TO DECODED JUSTIFICATION SIGNALS IN THE CODED TAPE AS WELL AS TO SAID UNIT MEASURING DEVICE DURING THE CONTINUOUS LINE COMPOSING MOVEMENT FOR VARYING THE EXTENT OF THE LINE COMPOSING MOVEMENT FOR THE SUCCESSIVE WORD SPACES IN THE LINE ACCORDANCE WITH UNIT VARIATIONS IN JUSTIFIED SET WIDTHS OF SAID SPACES.