US1826991A - Record card container - Google Patents

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Oct. 13, 1931. F. M. CARROLL ET AL 1,326,991

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RECORD CARD CONTAINER Filed Nov. 10, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Oct. 13, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRED H. CARROLL, 0F YONKERS, NEW YORK, AND JAMES SHIRLEY EATON, 0F RIDGE FIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO THE TABULATING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ENDICQTT, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY nnconn CARD con'ram'nn Application filed November 10, 1928. Serial No. 818,381.

This invention relates to record car containers and more particularly to that type having separate compartments for accommodating difi'erent kinds of record cards.

The record cards referred to are preferably of the type employed for tabulating purposes, and, as is well known, are provided with delimited areas constituting index points which are perforated by a punch operator in a certain' relation to designate tabular data. In certain special uses of the record cards it is necessary to obtain the information which is to be translated by the punch operator to data representing perforations at a oint distant from the punching machine. y way of illustration of one phrase of the present invention, one of the varied uses finds particular application in railroad work. In this case it is necessary for the checker to be at the many points of location of the several railroad cars for the purpose of obtaining-the desired information. Hence, provision should be made for suitably carrying a supply of such record cards together with additional provision for storing the cards uponwhich notations have been made. In some cases it may be desirable to-provide means whereby the notations may also be effected upon a paper strip for record purposes. It is then a broad object of the present invention to devise a portable carrying case having provisions for holding in a compartment a supply of record cards and a suitable compartment for receiving the used cards. It is a further object to provide an aperture in the case through which autographic notations may be conveniently entered upon the record cards as well as upon a record strip by the provision of a suitable duplicatin medium.

' t is a still further object of the invention to provide a manually o erated means for proecting cards singly rom the machine and exterior of the casing for subsequent disposltion in the card recelving compartment.

The above and other v objects are attained v by arranging the framework of the machine to provide one compartment for receiving a supply of record cards andanother which serves as a storage magazine. The casing of the machine has a suitable slot through which partinent. The machine is preferably light in weight to enhance its portable feature and the machine parts, are completely closed by a casing which forms a protection against the elements. To carry out the protective feature more fully the autographic slot is preferably covered by a sheet of thin celluloid or other diaphanous material having properties capable of carrying impressions directly to the duplicating medium. A strap passing about the machine and shoulder of the operator permits the checker to carry the machine around.

To these and other ends the invention consists in the novel features of construction, rrangement of parts and combination of el ments hereinafter described and more particularly set forth in the claims:

In the drawings: I v

Fig.1 is a top plan view of a recordcard box constructed according to the present invention, a portion of the casing bein broken away to show more clearly some of the interior mechanism.

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a sectional 33 of Fig. 1; 7

Fig. 4 is a view in end elevation taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of a portion of the record strip rewinding mechanism and is taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a partial central sectional view of the machine illustrating how record cards are inserted in the magazine;

Fig. 7 is a view in elevation 'of the front of view taken on the line the machine the casing having been removed;

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the assembled record card box.

The framework oft-he machine comprises a bottom plate 20 (Fig. 7) having integral u turned extensions 21 and 22. It will be 0 served that the extensions 21. and 22 are spaced apart so that by means of a pair of parallel vertical plates 23 (Fig. 3) fastened to the bottom plate 20, a horizontal top plate 24, a horizontal central plate 25, and a Vertical back plate 26, all of which are secured together, card receiving magazines or compartments 27 and 28 are provided. The interior mechanism is completely enclosed by means of a casing 29 (Fig. 3) which is of boxlike formation but has an open side to fit over the machine proper and is suitably apertured to provide for the accommodation of certain externally operable parts and other devices to be described more in detail hereinafter.

When the casing 29 is removed from the machine a stack of record cards designated by numeral 30 (Fig. 6) may be inserted in the upper magazine 28. To this end a finger of the operator is inserted through an aperture 31 (see also Fig. 1) in the upper plate 24 to depress one end of a follower plate 32 normally urged upwardly by coil springs 33. Insertion of a stack of cards may then be performed and when properly inserted and the follower released the upper car-d thereof will be in registration with a card throat 34 formed by a pair of spaced plates 35 and 36' (see also Fig. 7) rigidly fastened to the side wall extensions 21 and 22. Accidental lateral displacement of follower 32 is efiectively prevented by a plate 37 (Fig. 6) anchored at 38 to the central plate 25 and apertured at its other end to receive a pin 39 (Fig. 7 secured to follower plate 32.

Fivoted by a hinge 40 (Fig. 2) is a plate 41 which is adapted to close the open ends of the magazines 27 and 28 when said plate is in a vertical position, which position it occupies when the enclosing casing is fitted over the machine. The upper edge of theplate is not high enough (see Fig. 2) to'obstruct the passage of a record card fed through the card throat 34. When the casing isin position over the machine, cards projected through the throat 34 pass through a slot 43 (Fig. 8) in the casing 29 suficiently to be grasped by the fingers of the. operator.

The preferred means whereby record cards may be manually projected comprises a pair of upwardly extending arms 44 (Fig. 4) joined at their lower ends by a tube 45 pivoted to a bracket 46 formed by integral upstanding extensions of the back plate 26.

'Pivoted by pins 47 to each side arm 44 is a picker plate 48 which passes beneath the top plate 24 (see Fig. 6) and the upper edge of the back plate 26. The picker plate has a shoulder 49 which is adapted to engage the uppermost card of the stack 30 to project that card through the throat 34 and the slot 43 in the casing. The feeding movement projects the card sufficiently so that it may be grasped by the fingers of the operator and completely withdrawn whereupon the spring urged ftllower 32 will cause another card to be placed in feeding position. The plate 48 has an integral thumb piece 50 (Fig. 2) which is in registration with an aperture 51 in the. casing 29. By encircling a finger piece 52 attached to the casing with the middle finger operation of plate 50 by the thumb against the action of a return spring 53 will be facilitated.

A full stroke of plate 48 in a feeding direction is insured by a pawl 54 (Figs. 4 and 6) ratcheting over the teeth of a ratchet plate 55. Pawl 54 is pivotally carried by a bracket 56 attached to the thumb piece 50, the engagement of the pawl with the ratchet tooth being permitted by virtue of the lowermost position of a controlling plate 57. Plate 57 has a pair of inclined cam slots 58 in engagement with pins 59 secured to the plate 55 which is attached to the back plate 26. When the feeding operation is completed a lug 61 integral with the bracket 56 will engage an extension 62 of plate 57 thereby raising the latter to disengage pawl 54 from engagement with the ratchet teeth. The plate 57 is held frictionally in its. uppermost position to permit free return movement of the plate 48, at the completion of which the lug 61 engages another extension 63 to positively lower plate 57 to its normal position, at which time pawl 54 again engages the ratchet teeth of plate 55.

lVhen a card has been withdrawn manually it may be inserted in the receiving magazine 27 by its introduction in slots 64, 65 (Fig. 2) formed in the casing 29 and the pivoted front plate 41, respectively.

The cards illustrated are'preferably tabulating cards in which data is represented by perforations. In order to inform the punch operator the data to be represented by perforations on the card legible notations are made upon one side of the card. To this end the casing 29 and top plate 24 are provided with similar apertures 66 and 67 (Figs. 1, 3, and 8) respectively through which autographic notations may be directly entered upon a record card.

It is preferable, however, to make one or more copies of the notations for record purposes and the machine is, therefore, provided with a pair of record strips 70 and 71 (Figs. 1 and 3) which strips have their underside coated with carbon or similar material for edecting an original and carbon copy of the notations entered. The lower strip 71 is drawn from its supply roll 72, passes between the plate 24 and casing 29 to a storage roll 73.

The uppermost stri' 70 is drawn from a supplf roll 74 and li ewise passes between plate 24 and casing 29 but over strip 71 to ,its. storage roll 75. Accidental unwinding of supply rolls 72 and 74. is effectively prevented by a pair of flat springs 76 engaging the periphery of their related supply rolls-of pape After the desired notation has been entered the strips are fed manually to present a fresh or unused portiont'o apertures.

of shafts 83 which carry the supply rollers 7 2,.and'74 (Fig. 1) are journalled in the back plate 26 and a bracket 84 (Fig. 1) secured to one of the side plates 23. The pair of the back plate 26 and a bracket 86 (Fig. 1) attached to the other side plate 23.

In use it is intended that the machine be of such construction that it is portable since the operator may be required .to obtain the desired information at various stations or positions. To this end a strap 87 (Fig. 8) is held to the casingby brackets 88 and is strapped around the shoulder of the operator for the purpose of carrying the machine around. Since the machlne may be in use during inclement weather, proteetion'against rain or snow may be provided by the provision of a diaphanous material, such as thin celluloid, over the writing aperture 66. Im-

plression on the celluloid are carried 'to the rst record strip, producing like carbon impressions upon the second record strip and the record cardbeneath the latter.

While there has been shown and described .and pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a single. modification it will be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the device illustrated and in its operation may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spiritof the invention. It is the intention to be limited therefore only as indicated by the scope of the following claims: 1. In a machine of the class described com prising in combination with a casing having a compartment and an aperture'normally opened and in registration with a record card in saidcompartment for autographic notations, a manually operable means comprising a card picker plate for projecting the autograph. To thisend each of the supply rollers 73and has secured thereto gear the autographed card from said compartment by the initial operation thereof and means comprising a full stroke device for cards singly from said compartment and manually operated means for operating said rewinding device to feed said record strip being i transversely with respect tothe feeding di- R rection of said cards.

0 3. In a record carrylngcase havlng a rec- 0rd card supply compartment and an aperture, a card picker mechanism, means whereby the card picker mechanism is positioned exterior of the compartment but within the case, and a picker plate of the picker mechanism normally contacting with the edge of a record to eject the same by an initial movement thereof, said picker mechanism being manually operable through the aperture of shafts and are slmilarly supported by the case.

4. Ina record card carrying case hav ng a base, a record card supply compartment said picker mechanism being mounted on the base plate-of the carrying case and manually operable through its aperture.

5. In a record card cover whereby the records may be inserted carrying case having a record card supply compartment, a hinged.

in .said compartment,a picker member pro- 'jecting intothe compartment for/ejecting a record by an initial movement'thereof and means carried by the hinged cover for form'- ing a card throat to restrict the number of cards ejected; In testimony signatures.

' FRED M. CARROLL.

JAMES SI'iIRLEY EATON.

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