distributor

a person, firm, etc., engaged in the general distribution or marketing of some article or class of goods.

a wholesaler who has exclusive rights to market, within a given territory, the goods of a manufacturer or company.

(in a press) one of the rollers for spreading ink on the table, rolling it to a proper consistency, and transferring it to rollers that ink the form or plate.

Also called distributor bar. (in a Linotype) a bar with keylike cuts along its length, for sorting matrices into their proper magazines after type has been cast.