(under subclass 1) Subject matter, drawn to machines in which bars of variable length carrying a plurality of different matrix characters are released from their individual compartments and assembled together before the mold, each bar being stopped at a point to bring the desired characters into line, the same mechanism which releases the bar operating to determine its stopping-point and the bars after casting being returned to their respective compartments.
(1) Note. These are known as "circulating machines". (See definition of this class, subclass 11).
