US1008387A - Type-writing machine. - Google Patents

Description

H. H. STEELE.

TYPE WRITING MAGHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29, 1909,

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

INVENTUR:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT H. STEELE, OF MABCELLUS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE MONARCH TYPE- WRITER COMPANY. OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

Application filed November 29, 1909. Serial No. 530,394.

To all whom it may concern:

citizen of the United States, and resident of Marcellus, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-' Writing Ma chines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to typewriting machines and more particularly to means for feeding a plurality of separate cards or tags to be written upon.

Tags are variously marked depending on their use. Sometimes they only have the cost and selling prices, sometimes they have in addition the number of the goods; and sometimes several discount figures. It is desirable to have these different marks on different lines on the tags, ordinarily from one to eight different lines being employed, depending on the size and use of the tags.

The main object of my invention is to provide simple and efficient means for holding and feeding a plurality of tags so that a plurality of different lines may be written on each tag, and so that separate tags may be easily handled and quickly typewritten.

To the above and other ends which willhereinafter appear, my invention consists in the features of construction, arrangements of parts and combinations of devices to be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view partly in section ofa carriage embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same with some of the parts shown in Fig. 1 omitted; Figs. 1 and 2 show- Fig. 3 is a front elevation partly in section of a carriage equipped with devices embodying my invention. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on a line ww of Fig. 1.

I have shown my invention embodied in the present instance in a Monarch typewriting machine stripped of the usual paper feeding devices employed in such machines. It should be understood, however, that the invention may be embodied in various styles of machines employing rotative platens.

Fixed carriage rails 1 are supported on the top plate of the machine in the usual manner in which said rails are supported 'in the Monarch machine. These rails are oppositely grooved to receive anti-friction :rollers 2 which are likewise received in opposite-1y grooved rails 3 of a rear guide bar 4 which constitutes a rear crossbar of the carriage. End or side bars 5 are connected to the guide bar 4.- and receive in bearings therein a platen shaft 6 which sup orts a cylindrical platen 7 against the ront face of which upwardly and rearwardly moving type bars 8 are adapted to strike. For the purposes of my present invention the usual paper feeding devices employed on the Monarch machine may be eliminated although the lirie spacing mechanism, etc. may be employed. Thus the usual line spacing wheel 9 is fixed to the platen. A pawl 10 cooperates therewith, the pawl bein actuated in the usual manner by a finger lece 11, by

which a rock shaft 12 is turne to move a crank arm 13 on the rock shaft and thus actuate the line spacing pawl. upright members 14 on the platen frame or carriage are slightl modified to receive headed screws 15 whlch are adapted to turn in hearings in the upper portions of the members 14:. These screws'are threaded into tapped holes in the ends of a cross bar or rod 16, so as to connect the rod to the bea ring portions. The rod 16 takes the place 0:? the usual fixed rod of the Monarch machine which constitutes a support for certain of the paper feeding devices. The present construction is such that when the screws 15 are loosened the rod 16 may be turned to different positions and may then be re-secured against movement in its adjusted position by turning in the screws 15 to clamp the rod 16 between members 14 of the pl aten frame. Hubs 17 are mounted to turn freely on the rod 16 near each end of the pl LtBIl. These hubs are provided with forwardly extending arms 18 connected at their free ends by a cross bar or rod 19 which extends throughout the length of the platen and which is adapted to bear against the platen above the printing line which is indicated by the dotted line a. A coiled spring 18 surrounds the rod 16 near each end thereof, and one end of each spring is connected to the rod 16 by passing into a hole therein, while the opposite end of each spring is connected to the associate arm 18. The pressure of these springs is exerted to force the arms 18 to turn on the rod 16 and press the rod 19 with a spring pressure against the face of the platen. This pressure may be regulated by adjusting the rod 16 in the manner previously explained. A finger piece 18 is formed on each of the arms 18 whereby the spring-pressed bail, formed .ofthe rod 19 and-arms 18, may be swung on its supporting rod 16 so that the rod 19 may, when desired, be moved away from the face of the platen.

A card or tag clamp which may be of any suitable construction is connected to rotate with the platen. In the present instance the card clamp shown is similar to that disclosed inmy application No. 476,653 filed February 8th, 1909 and comprises a metal clamping plate 20 curved to conform to the curvature of the platen and provided with an off-set foot'piece 21 at one end thereof,

which foot piece is bifurcated to cooperate with a headed pin 22 secured to the platen outside of-the Working surface thereof. The opposite end of the clamping strip is provided with a like off-set foot piece 23, which, however, need not be bifurcated like the foot piece 21. A segmental locking piece 24 is pivoted at its ends on headed screws- 25- t0 the right-hand end portion of the platen, beyond the working field thereof. This segmental locking member or bail 24 is adapted to be swung into and out of engagement with the member 23 on the clamping strip 20 in order to hold the clamping strip operativeposition or to afford a ready removal thereof when desired. From an inspection of Figs. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the opposite longitudinal edges of the clamping strip are undercut as indicated at 26 to provide long pocket.

like openings between the surface of the platen and the clamping strip. Inthepresentinstance the uppermost pocket 26 alone is employed and this is adapted to receivethe-bottom edges of a plurallty of separate tags or cards 27 as indicated in the drawings, and when said tags or cardsare seated in place in the manner shown they are clampedto andconnected with the platen to rotate therewith.- Tags .27 may be placed in position in a single row longitudinally of the platen, inthe-manner shown, and the outer face of the tag plate or clamp 20 is preferably provided with index marks 28 to indicate the positions of the tags, each tag being-received between or registering with an adjacent pair of index marks, p

A disk 29 is detachably'and adjustably secured to the right-hand end of the platen by screws 30 which pass through segmental slots 31 in the disk, said slots being concentric with the axis of the platen. The screws 30 are received at their threaded ends in tapped openings in the platen head. By loosening the screws 30 a rotative adjustment of the disk 29 on the platen is afforded and the disk may be secured in its adjusted position on the platen by tightening the screws 30 and thus binding the disk in place. The disk 29 is provided with two stops 32 and 33 which, as shown in Fig. 3, are off-set from the body of the disk and are adapted to cooperate with the rod 16, which constitutes a fixed. stop on the platen frame with which the rotative stops 32 and 33 co-act to arrest the platen in its backward and forward rotative movements. In setting the stops, in the particular construction shown, the screws are loosened and the platen is turned until the upper edge of the clamping plate 20 is just beneath the spring-pressed rod 19 as shown in Fig. 2. The screws 30 are then tightened to secure the stops in place. The tags or cards may then be introduced with the bottom ends thereof beneath the spring-pressed rod 19 and forced into place in the receiving pocket 26 be tween the upper edge of the clamping plate 20 and the face of the platen as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When a row of tags has thus been introduced into the machine, the platen may be rotated rearwardly or backwardly until the stop 32 engages the rod 16 when the platen is arrested against the further backward rotation. At this time the parts will be in positions corresponding to those shown in Fig. 1, with the upper or top end portions of the tags arranged beneath the spring-pressed rod 19 so that the longitudinal row of separate tags is maintained clamped against the platen, and caused to conform to the curvature thereof. It will be observed that the disposition. of the stops 32 and 33 is such, with reference to the stop or rod 16 withwhich they co-act, that the platen will be arrested in its forward rotation before-the card clamp 20 reaches the spring-pressed rod 19; and that in the rear- Ward rotation of the platen it is arrested before the upper ends of the tags reach said spring-pressed rod, so that the rod at all times remains in coiiperation with the longitudinally disposed row of tags on the platen, and the writing on the tags maybe effected between the card clamp at one side or below the printing line and the spring-pressed rod 19 at the other side or above the printing line. By turning the rod 16 and holding it by the screws 15 in the position to'which it may be turned, the pressure of the springs 18 on the rod 19 may be varied at will and both springs are simultaneously adjusted to a like degree.

It will be seen that the construction is such that the cards or tags may be readily intro duced rearwardly into the machine b insertingthe bottoms of the tags beneat the spring-pressed rod 19 and into the upper pocket 26 of the card clamp, as indicated in ig. 3. The platen may then be rotated rearwardly until the parts are in the position shown in Fig. l. The first line on the first tag may then be written. I The platen is then line spaced forwardly and the carriage returned to the beginning of the line, and the second line on the tag written and so on, completing the writing on each tag before beginning the next. When the last line on t e first tag has been written the platen may be turned rearwardly until arrested by the cooperation of the stops 32 and 16 and the first line on the next tag (counting from left to right) may be written.

Where tabulating mechanism is employed in the machine the tabulating stops are ordinarily set to correspond to the spacing of the tags. That is to say, the column stops will be set to positions corresponding to the index marks which separate the tags. The tabulator is useful for controlling the limits of letter spacing movements for each tag to i be written, and for properly positioning the carriage to write upon the next tag after the previously written tag has been completed.

It will be understood that the spacing between the stops 32 and 33 is dependent on the length of the tags to be used. If tags longer than those shown are to. be used the disk 29 may be removed by taking out the screws 30 and substituting another disk with more widely separated stops 32 and 33.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that I have provided simple and 'eflicient means for effectively handling a plurality of separate tags and for readily filling in said tags on the machine. By holding the bottom edges of the tags in the manner shown and by the use of the pressure rod 19, the tags may be readily clamped in position and properly squared and positioned with reference to one another and with reference to the platen and may be easily and quickly handled.

Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

, 1. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a rotative platen, a printing instrumentality that strikes against the front face of the platen, means attached thereto and rotative therewith and extending longitudinally thereof for holding the bottom ends of a line of tags, and a pressure device arranged above the printing oint and extending longitudinally of the p aten arranged longitudinally thereof for holding 1 the bottom ends of a line of tags, and a baillike pressure device arranged above the printing point and the cross bar of whith extends longitudinally of and bears against the platen for holding the upper portions of said line of tags.

3. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a rotative platen, a prin ting instrumentality that strikes a ainst the front face of the platen, a card clamp carried thereby and into which the bottom edges of cards or tags maybe introduced from above and downwardly in front of the platen, and a spring-pressed rod held against rotative movement with" the platen and bearing against the platen.

4. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a rotative platen, a printing instrumentality that strikes against the front face of the platen, a card clamp cairried thereby and into which the bottom edges of cards or tags may be introduced from above and downwardly in front of the platen, and a spring-pressed rod which extends throughout the length of the platen and bears on the tags when they are introduced into the clamp.

5. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a rotative platen, a card clamp carried thereby and into which the bottom edges of cards or tags may be introduced from above and downwardly in front of the platen, a spring-pressed rod held against rotative movement with the platen and bearing against the platen, and means for limiting the forward and backward rotation of the platen.

6. In a front-strike typewriting machine,

the combination of a platen, a card clamp reach said rod.

7. In a front-strike typewriting machine, I

the combination of a platen, a card clalrp carried thereby and into which the botton edges of cards or tags may be introduced from above and downwardly in front of the platen, a springpressed rod arranged abo e the printing line and bearing against the tags as they are introduced into the clamp, means for arresting the rearward rotaticn of the platen before the top ends of the tags reach said rod, and means for arresting the forward rotation of the platen before the clamp reaches said rod.

8. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a card or tag clamp carried by said platen, a springpressed bar carried by the platen frame and arranged above the printing line in a position to bear against cards or tags introduced into said clamp, and stops for arresting the platen in its backward rotation before the top ends of the tags reach said rod and for arresting the forward rotation of the platen before the card clamp reaches said bar.

9. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a card or tag clamp carried by said platen and adapted to hold a row of tags in place, a springpressed bar which extends substantially throughout the length of the platen and which is carried by the platen frame and arranged above the printing line in a position to bear against the row of cards or tags introduced into said clamp, and stops for arresting the platen in its backward rotation before the top ends of the tags reach said rod and for arresting the forwardrotation of the platen before the card clamp reaches the bar, so that the feed movements of the tags are confined to a distance less than the length of the tags.

10. In a frontstrike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a rod arranged above the platen and having a rotative adjustment, means for retaining the rod in its adjusted position, a bail pivoted on said rod and having a cross bar or rod adapted to bear against the platen, and a coiled spring connectedat one end to said adjustable rod and connected at the other end to said bail.

11. In a frontstrike ty ewriting machine, the combination of a p aten, a rod arranged above the platen and having a rot-ative adjustment, means for retaining the rod in its adjusted position, arms which are pivoted on and extend forwardly and downwardly from said rod near the ends of the platen, a cross bar connected to and carried by said arms, and a spring connected at one end to said rod and at the other end to one of said arms.

12. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a rotative platen frame, a disk, means for adjust-ably and detachably fixing the disk to one end of the platen, two stops formed on said disk, and a fixed stop on the platen frame with which said first mentioned stops co-act to limit the rotation of the platen.

13. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a platen frame, a disk having segmental slots concentric with the axis of the platen, headed screws that pass through said slots and connect the disk with a head of the platen, stops on said disk, and a cooperative fixed stop on the platen frame.

14. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen; a rotative platen frame; a card or tag clamp carried by the platen; and means for limiting the backward and forward rotations of said platen to a distance less than the length of the tags or cards carried by said clamp, said limiting means comprising a disk, means for adjustably and detachably fixing the disk to one end of the platen, two stops on said disk, and a fixed stop on the platen frame with which said first mentioned stops co-act to limit the rotation of the platen.

15. In a frontstrike typewriting ma chine, the combination of a platen frame; a

laten; a card clamp carried thereby and lnto which the bottom edges of cards or tags may be introduced from the front rearwardly into the machine; a springpressed rod held against rotative movement with the platen and bearing against the platen; and means for arresting the forward and backward rotations of the platen, said arresting means comprising a disk, means for adjustably and detachably fixing the disk to one end of the platen, two stops on said disk, and a fixed stop on the platen frame with which said first mentioned stops co-act to limit the rotation of the platen.

16. In a frontstrike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen frame; a platen; a card clamp carried thereby and into which the bottom edges of cards or tags may be introduced from the front rearwardly into the machine; a spring-pressed rod arranged above the printing line and bearing against the tags as they are introduced into the clamp; means for arresting the rearward rotation of the platen before the top ends of the tags reach said rod; and means for arresting the forward rotation of the platen before the clamp reaches said rod, said arresting means comprising a disk, means for adjustably and detachably fixing the disk to one end of the platen, two stops on said disk, and a fixed stop on the platen frame with which said first mentioned stops co-act to limit the rotation of the platen.

17. In a front -strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen; a card or tag clamp carried by said platen and adapted to hold a row of tags in place; a spring-pressed bar which extends substantially throughout the length of the platen and which is carried by the platen frame and is arranged above the printing line in aposition to bear against the row of cards or tags introduced into said. clamp; means for arresting the platen in its backward rotation before the top ends of the tags reach said rod and for arresting the forward rotation of the platen before the card clamp Signed at Syracuse in the county of P62161163 the rod so that the feed movements Onondaga and State of New York this 26th of the tags are confined to a distance less day of November A. D. 1909.

than the length of the tags, said arresting HERBERT H. STEELE. means comprising stop devices adjustably Witnesses:

fixed to the platen and cooperative with said ANNA T. LYNCH,

rod to arrest the platen. Bnssm G. KITTELL.

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