Ruling machine

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A ruling machine in historical reproduction technology is a device for drawing lines.

On the one hand, it is an apparatus used by engravers and lithographers , with which straight or wavy lines, ovals, circles etc. are produced on a printing form . It was also used in xylography . It consists of a burin connected to a device for drawing continuous lines. The first ruling machine that met all requirements was built in Germany by Wagner in Berlin (d. 1874).

In the stationery business and in the account book production, the ruling machine was an apparatus for drawing lines with liquid paint. Any narrow or wide adjustable springs get the color soaked with the same cloth or felt, and it is possible that to be drawn lines in exactly regulatory gaps interrupting (Liniierung of account books and business Blanke tablets ).

Newer ruling machines have brass disks on iron rods with metal blocks inserted instead of springs. The discs receive paint from elastic rollers that are fed from paint boxes. Several sets of rollers with corresponding paint boxes can be attached to a machine so that lines can be lined in up to three colors at the same time. Kiß in Stuttgart has improved these disk machines considerably.

Was used for drawing the parallel staves music engraving as specialized Liniiermaschine the rastrum .

literature

  • Friedrich August Wilhelm: The art of producing engine-turned patterns without a machine for copper, stone, type, calico, wallpaper and other print patterns and thus creating the most tasteful decorations for many commercial objects in a few minutes, along with a description and illustration of one newly invented, very cheap universal ruling machine for all types of lines, Quedlinburg: Basse 1840.