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I LANSTON TYPE COMPANY I GERALD GIAMPA I
¶ SUMNER STONE inspects John Frame's cutting a punch with a Benton Pantograph. Frame's hands are guiding the follower around a pattern. Above, but not shown, is the punch blank getting cut with the quill. The next picture will show a closer picture of the Benton Pantograph.
The cutter was in fixed position. The punch blank moved around the cutter.
The technology is advanced. One of Lanston's trade secrets was its method of optical scaling with the pantograph. Optical scaling should be so easy with computer types that I have argued at to it is not a standard feature.
For reasons unknown to me some of the Open Type Forum members are not convinced that optical scaling is of any importance. Perhaps they think of it as a quaintness, not a function. However, readability is the sole purpose of optical scaling.
I also suspect optical scaling would greatly enhance screen fonts.
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¶ SUMNER STONE & JOHN B. FRAME seen through the netting and the ropes. The ropes were used to move heavy objects up and down from the plant floor to the various lofts.
Very heavy objects.