Page printer mechanism with tilting and travelling print head

Claim 1

A TYPE FRONT MECHANISM COMPRISING A HOLLOW, CYLINDRICAL TYPE FONT HAVING A PLURALITY OF INDICIA ARRANGED IN ROWS AND COLUMNS THEREON, A SPLINED SHAFT, SAID TYPE FONT BEING POSITIONED ON SAID SHAFT FOR LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT THEREON, SAID TYPE FONT HAVING INTERNAL SPLINES ENGAGING THE SPLINES OF SAID SPLINED SHAFT SO THAT SAID TYPE FONT ROTATES WITH SAID SHAFT, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID SPLINED SHAFT TO EFFECT SELECTION OF A COLUMN OF INDICIA, A PAIR OF ELONGATED MEMBERS POSITIONED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID TYPE FONT GENERALLY PARALLEL TO ITS LONGITUDINAL AXIS, MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID MEMBERS WITH SAID TYPE FONT SO THAT SAID MEMBERS AND SAID TYPE FRONT MOVE AS A UNIT LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID SHAFT, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS TO EFFECT SELECTION OF A ROW OF SAID INDICIA ON SAID FONT, A TYPE FONT CARRIAGE, SAID MEANS FOR MOVING BEING MOUNTED ON SAID TYPE FONT CARRIAGE FOR MOVEMENT THEREWITH, AND MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID SPLINED SHAFT IN SAID TYPE FONT CARRIAGE FOR MOVEMENT THEREIN AND FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXIS OF SAID SPLINED SHAFT AND PARALLEL TO A PLANE INCLUDING SAID ELONGATED MEMBERS.