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DescriptionLinotype distributor.png
The Linotype distributor rail with a matrix hanging from it. The three screws move the matrix along the rail until it drops into the correct magazine slot
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Source
Linotype Machine Principles, published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1940, p. 31
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