Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine
A 1928 parts catalogue of the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, issued as detail plates for the Monotype casting machine used by typefounders and compositors. Its pictures are numbered photographs of machine assemblies with leader lines running to lists of part numbers, so a designer can see the mechanical logic of hot-metal type casting; the plates work as diagrams of levers, cams and frames rather than as decorative imagery.
![Picture 1 of 5 from Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine (1928), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-LanstonMonotypeCastingMachineDetailPlates11Ed1928-16-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 5 from Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine (1928), leaf 36](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-LanstonMonotypeCastingMachineDetailPlates11Ed1928-36-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 5 from Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine (1928), leaf 56](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-LanstonMonotypeCastingMachineDetailPlates11Ed1928-56-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 5 from Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine (1928), leaf 70](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-LanstonMonotypeCastingMachineDetailPlates11Ed1928-70-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 5 from Detail Plates [of] The Monotype Casting Machine (1928), leaf 90](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-LanstonMonotypeCastingMachineDetailPlates11Ed1928-90-0.webp)