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Description Escapement.png	Action of an escapement in a Linotype machine. The keyboard has raised the escapement lever 22 to push against the plunger 11 . This rotates the verge 8 which pulls down the front pawl 9 , releasing the first matrix in the magazine channel. The rotation of the verge also raises rear pawl 8 to hold the second matrix.
Date	14 August 2007
Source	Linotype Machine Principles, published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1940, p. 63
Author	Scanned and cleaned up by Paul Koning
Permission ( Reusing this file )	Public domain (copyright expired, not renewed)

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14 August 2007