History of the Typewriter

—202— Fig. 148. Just over the platen is a bar, carrying two small fingers, which grip cards or stiff envelopes when fed into the machine, and so secure even printing without smudging. This bar is operated by means of a lever, and can be brought into use or thrown out of gear in a moment. The carriage can be readily removed from the machine, and the name plate in front can be lifted off for the purpose of cleansing the type when required. The type-bar is a very quick acting one, and is fitted with a circular rib at each side, which rests in corresponding grooves in the type-hanger, so that it is almost impossible for the bar to gain side- play, or for dust to find its way into the bearing. The machine has forty-two keys, governing eight-four characters, and will take paper up to ten and a quarter inches in width, writing a line of eighty-one characters. The Royal Typewriters. These machines—there are two of them, the Royal Grand and the Royal Standard— were placed upon the American market in the summer of 1906, and combine a number of very interesting features.