US1008394A - Type-writing machine. - Google Patents

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S. W. TURNER.

TYPE WRITING MAUHINE. APPLICATION 11.21) SEPT. 9, 1909.

1,008,394. Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL WILLIAM TURNER, 0F CANONBURY, LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIONOR '..O YOST WRITING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ILION, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION (IF NEW YORK.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1911.

Application filed September 9, 1909. Serial No. 516,963.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WILLIAM TURNER, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 11 Douglas 5 road, Canonbury, in the county of London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to inking pads, especially the inking pads used in typewriters, and more especially the inking pads used in the Yost typewriter: its object being to form the felt or body of the pad (which supports or holds the ink) in such a manner as to enable more than one side or part of the felt to be used for type inking purposes, means being provided to enable the several different inking surfaces to be brought into co-action. with the printing type at different times by a turning or twisting movement causing a fresh inking surface of the pad to come in contact with the printing type as required. The main body of the pad may be slung or supported by its ends, or it may be held in a suitable framework, or other suitable means. The pad support, clip, or framework may be pivoted, held or supported in any suitable manner on any convenient support such for example as the frame of the typewriter, or other type inking mechanisms. A tray serves not only to keep the pad in position, but also serves as an ink and pad felt protector. To facilitate the easy turning or moving of the main body of the pad, I form on the pad support, or pad fastenin a handle, knob or such like adapted to indicate the kind and color of ink used. The pad attachment which holds the pad to the typewriter or other support may be slotted for the ready removal of the pad proper, also for changing or altering the inkin surfaces of the pad. If for example, a strip of felt of a suitable length, having a four-sided surface (2'. 6. square) is taken and the whole of these surfaces are inked, when the type has acted on one surface, three surfaces will still be unused, and by brin ing these unused surfaces into action one a ter another, the pad will thus have a four-fold life. I merely describe this as an illustration as any shaped felt or pad may be used, whereby a number of inking surfaces may be made on the one feltor pad main body. Furthermore, different colored inks or different kinds of inks can be used on the one pad. In ;he case where different kinds or different colored inks are employed I may make the pad felt sectional, or of several layers or parts, and

cordance with my invention, mounted on supports attached to the frame of a typewriter. Figs. 2 and 3 show different forms of trough shaped pad supports whie h can be used when such support is necessary. Fig. 4 is a section of a double pad, and Fig. 5 1s a section of a quadruple pad.

Referring to Fig. 1, a is an ink ing pad composed of two layers a and a a being red and a being black, by way of example. At the end of the pad a, clips I) are attached by means of rivets 6 or any other suitable fastening. The said clips carry a stem or pivot member 6 on to which a mil led head b is attached. The stem 6 passes through holes in the bearing plates 0, which are supported on or form part of the supporting device 6, which in the illustration given is the top plate of a typewriter like the. Yost Visible. It will be noticed that the pad hangs in a substantially semicircular formation depending from the bearing pl ites 0 by the stems b and a sufficient amount of free movement is left for the stem b, to enable the whole pad to be turned about the axis of the two stems by means of the milled heads o The types p normally rest wth their printing faces against the operative face of the inking pad; and when the pad is turned, as by operating the milled heads 6 the portion that is in normal contact with the types will be changed so as to present a fresh inking surface thereto.

In cases where it is necessary tc provide some form of support for containing the pad a, I may use a trough d as shown in Fig. 3, having projecting flanges, which are substantially at right angles to the bottom of the trough at the center portior thereof,

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and flare outward toward the end. The trough may be supported fixedly in position by means of brackets d In Fig.- 2, the trough is divided in half, hinged together at the center and is supported by means of the spindle of the hinge. This trough has its flanges parallel to one another, and at right angles to the bottom of the trough, and is adapted to hinge so that when the pad is to be turned so as to present a fresh surface, the two halves of the trough are turned downward so as to enable the turning action to take place.

In Fig. 4, we show a double strip pad, for two colors similar to that illustrated in Fig. .1. On the non-operative sides thereof, I arrange a series'of clips a in order to keep the two sections of the pad inv relative position one to the other.

Suitable indicating devices, preferably associated with the heads 6 may be provided to indicate when the different inking surfaces are in use.

In Fig. 5, the pad a is made up of a central core a of a nonporous and nonabsorbent material such as a square spiral spring, rubber or the like, and the different felt layers a a a and w, are attached to the central core in any suitable way, such as by sewing or any equivalent means.

I claim:' r

1. A multi-faced inking pad consisting of a plurality of layers of flexible absorbent material, supports at each end of the pad, the pad being rotatable on said supports to present the various faces of the pad to be contacted with the type, substantially as-de- 2. A multi-faced pad consisting of a plurality of layers of flexible absorbent material, means for separating said layers from one another through part .at least of their extent, means for maintaining said layers connected to one another, dependin means at each end of the pad, and means or rotat-ively carrying such depending means on .a

L).- A multl-faced inkingpad having 9. P111- rality of layers of flexl le absorbent masuitable support, substantially as described.

ter i a l. and-means for turning said pad to present'one or.0ther,..0f. its inked surfaces for tion of an inking tion to vary the portion of the operative contact with type in combination with a supporting trough adapted to hold the pad and to allow it to be turned therein, substantially as described.

4. In a typewriting machine, the combination of printing types, an inking pad against which the types normally rest, and means for turning saidpad to vary the portion in normal contact with the types.

5. In a typewriting machine, the combinapad, a pivot member connectcd thereto, a fixed bearing for said pivot member, and means for manually at will turning said pad to vary the port-ion presented for inking purposes.

6. In a typewriting machine, the combinaof a segmental inking pad, pivot members secured at the ends of said pad, and fixed bearings for said pivot members, the pad being pivotally movable to vary the part presented for contact with the types.

'7. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a segmental inking pad, pivot members secured at the ends of said pad, fixed bearings for said pivot members, and finger pieces connected with said pivot members or turning said pad to vary the portion presented for inking purposes.

8. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a rotatable inking pad having a plurality of inking surfaces, and a support for said pad. v 9. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a pivotally mounted inking pad comprising a plurality of inking-surfaces, and 1neans for turning said pad at will to pre sent any desired inking surface for coijperation with the types;

10.111 a typewriting machine, the combination of types, a rotatably mounted inking pad, and means for at will turning said pad surface thereof that is presented to the types.

In testimony-whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL WILLIAM TURNER. I

Witnesses: RICHARD A. HOFFMANN, 7 CHARLES J. R. BULLOUGH.

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