Data processing apparatus for line justification in type composing machines

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DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A SERIES OF OUTPUT SIGNALS SUITABLE FOR OPERATING A TYPESETTING MACHINE TO REPRODUCE IN PROPERLY TERMINATED LINES JUSTIFIED WITHIN A PREDETERMINED LINE LENGTH, COPY MATERIAL IN WORD AND PARAGRAPH FORM COMPRISING, MEANS FOR GENERATING A SERIES OF SEQUENTIAL INPUT CODE SIGNALS, EACH REPRESENTING A SIGNIFICANT COMPOSITION ELEMENT OF SAID COPY MATERIAL; TRANSLATING MEANS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE SAID INPUT CODE SIGNALS, SAID TRANSLATING MEANS PROVIDING OUTPUT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO INDIVIDUAL INPUT CODES; DISPLAY MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID TRANSLATING MEANS AND ADAPTED TO DISPLAY SAID COPY MATERIAL IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO INDIVIDUALLY INDICATE EACH CHARACTER OF SAID COPY MATERIAL AT THE TIME THE CODE SIGNALS REPRESENTING SAID CHARACTER IS BEING RECEIVED BY SAID TRANSLATING MEANS; DATA STORAGE MEANS COUPLED TO SAID TRANSLATING MEANS AND ADAPTED TO STORE SEQUENTIALLY A PLURALITY OF SAID CODE SIGNALS; A CODING ELEMENT; A COMPUTER MEANS COUPLED TO SAID TRANSLATING MEANS AND ADAPTED TO ACCUMULATE FOR EACH OF SAID INPUT CODE SIGNALS AS IT IS RECEIVED BY SAID TRANSLATOR THE WIDTH VALUE FOR THE RESPECTIVE CHARACTER OR SPACE CORRESPONDING TO SAID CODE, SAID COMPUTER MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO PROVIDE AN OUTPUT INDICATION IDENTIFYING WHICH OF SAID CODE SIGNALS ARE WITHIN JUSTIFICATION RANGE OF SAID PREDETERMINED LINE LENGTH AND TO PROVIDE AN OVERSET INDICATION IDENTIFYING THE ONE OF SAID CODE SIGNALS, THE WIDTH VALUE FOR WHICH, EXCEEDS SAID PREDETERMINED LINE LENGTH, SAID DATA STORAGE MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO SEQUENTIALLY TRANSFER SAID PLURALITY OF STORED CODE SIGNALS TO THE INPUT OF SAID CODING ELEMENT AND TO STOP SAID TRANSFER IN RESPONSE TO SAID OVERSET INDICATION FROM SAID COMPUTER ELEMENT, SAID CODING ELEMENT BEING ADAPTED IN RESPONSE TO SAID TRANSFERRED CODE SIGNALS TO PROVIDE A SERIES OF OUTPUT SIGNALS ADAPTED TO OPERATE A TYPESETTING MACHINE; LINE TERMINATION MEANS ADAPTED TO RECOMMENCE TRANSFER OF SAID STORED CODE SIGNALS TO SAID CODING ELEMENT WHEN A CODE REPRESENTING AN INTERWORD LIES WITHIN SAID JUSTIFICATION RANGE AND TO STOP SAID TRANSFER AND TERMINATE SAID LINE WHEN THE LAST ONE OF SAID INTERWORD CODES WITHIN SAID JUSTIFICATION RANGE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED, SAID LINE TERMINATION MEANS BEING ADAPTED WHEN NO CODE REPRESENTING AN INTERWORD LIES WITHIN SAID JUSTIFICATION RANGE TO BE MANUALLY OPERATED TO INSERT A HYPHEN CODE AFTER A PRESELECTED CODE AND TO TRANSFER ALL OF SAID CODES IN SAID STORAGE PRIOR TO SAID HYPHEN TO SAID OUTPUT CODING ELEMENT AND TO TERMINATE SAID LINE.