Ludlow Typograph
USA. Ludlow Typograph Company.
Also third party, related and ancillary equipment, when specific to the Ludlow (vs. general third-party hot metal).
All-Purpose Linotype (A-P-L)
USA. Mergenthaler Linotype Company. [NOTHING YET]
Koike Ludlow Derivative (post-WWII)
Japan. [NOTHING YET]
Koike Manufacturing Co., Ltd. built what is perhaps the most diverse range of hot metal equipment of any company in history. Besides this Ludlow-derived caster, the machines they built included:
For a general discussion of the Koike Manufacturing Company and its founder KOIKE Rinpei, see the Notebook on the a Koike Automatic Type Caster.
{GB 1859} Great Britain, Commissioner of Patents. Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Printing. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1859.
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{Huss 1973} Huss, Richard E. The Development of Printers' Mechanical Typesetting Methods, 1822-1925. Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1973.
A 2008 search of the USPTO records indicated that the trademark "LUDLOW" in category 7 for printing machinery, registered 1949-11-01, was expired.
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