General Information

Serial #

PD245

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

CAST ALUMINUM BASE & FRAME ASSEMBLIES/ PRESSED STEEL & MACHINED SMALL PARTS/ MOTOR HAS CAST IRON BELLS, STEEL ROTOR & COPPER WINDINGS/ PAPER TAPE

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

53.0 cm

Width

41.0 cm

Height

25.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Typesetting

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

TELETYPESETTER

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Illinois

City

Chicago

Context

Country

North America

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1932 TO 1960'S

Canada

NIL

Function

USED TO PERFORATE 6 LEVEL TELEPRINTER CODE TAPE FOR AUTOMATIC TRANS- MISSION TO TYPESETTER MACHINES LOCATED AT NEWSPAPER OFFICES REMOTE FROM THE ORIGINATING OFFICE.

Technical

THIS DEVICE ALLOWED A SINGLE OPERATOR TO PREPARE TAPE THAT RESULTED IN AUTOMATIC TYPESETTING OF MANY TYPESETTING MACHINES THUS WAS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY IN THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

MFR'S PLATE: 'TELETYPE/ REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./ MANUFACTURED AND LICEN- SED BY/ TELETYPE CORPORATION/ CHICAGO. U.S.A.'/ ANOTHER PLATE: 'U.S. PATENTS/ [SEE LIST IN PATENT REFERENCE FIELD]/ OTHER PATENTS PENDING'/ STAMPED ON MACH- INE: '370218 12'/ PLATE ON SIDE: 'PD-245'/ STANDARD KEYBOARD MARKINGS EXCEPT: 'RUB/OUT' 'QUAD/RIGHT' 'THIN/SPACE' 'EN/SPACE' 'EN/LID' 'LR' 'EM/SPACE' 'EM/LD''QUAD/LEFT' 'UR' 'UN/SHIFT' 'ELEV' 'TAPE' 'QUAD/CENTER'/ MFR'S PLATE ON MOTOR IN PART: 'TELETYPE CORP./ CHICAGO, ILL./ A.C. SYN. MOTOR/ MODEL S-9017V.6/ NO. 381KA/ HOLTZER-CABOT/ BOSTON.MASSACHUSETTS. U.S.A.'/ SCALE FROM '0' TO '45'/ PRINTED ON TAPE: 'SPARTAN*

Missing

COVER/ SPOOL SUPPORT FOR PAPER TAPE From CA of 10/18/1996 by Kevin Machan: Undetermined

Finish

BASE, FRAMES, PROTECTIVE COVER AND TAPE REEL ASSEMBLY, BLACK GLOSS ENAMEL

Decoration

NIL