US1008591A - Device for teaching type-writing. - Google Patents

Description

H. E. FBAKES.

DEVICE FOR TEACHING TYPE WRITING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.20,1D11.

Patented 1011.14, 1911.

UNTTED STATES PATENT oFFIcE. y

HERBERT E. FEAKES, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR TEACHING TYPE-WRITING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Pat-cnt ed Novu 14. 1.911.

Application filed February 20` 1911. Serial No. 609,809.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

to provide an adjustable frame in which 'the' hands of theoperator are properly separated and guided and the keyboard concealed from view.

Another important object is to provide means'whereby the apparatus is easily applied to the machine and presented for service therewith, and to provide the adjustability required in adapting the apparatusto any of the well-known forms of typewriting machines.

The invent-ion consists in certain novel features and details of construction and ar rangement by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawings show the apparatus applied on a typewriter, indicated in dotted lines.

' Figure 1.is a lan or top view, Fig. 2 is a corresponding ront elevation, and Fig. 3 is a side view.

Similar letters of` reference indicate the same parts in all the--iigures A A are clamps each having two upwardly projecting spurs A1 A1 adapted to apply on the inner face of the typewriter baseframe on o posite sides of the machine, and a stud A2 rifurcated at the upper end. A screw As extending through the stud near its base is arranged to impinge against the outer face of the :trame in opposition to the spurs and thus hold theclamp reliably to the'machine.

In the bifurcation of each stud is mounted a close-fitting standard B held by a screw A!" and free to swing thereon to permit it to be inclined upwardly and forwardly at the desired angle. The standards are secured in the required positions by turning the screws A* to clamp the jaws of the bifurcations thereon. The upper ends of the standards are screW-threaded'and each receives two nuts B1 B2 located on either side of ya split yoke B in the body or loop of which is car- The fue D are each ot' wire having ried an end of a rod C extending transversely of the machine above the keyboard4` i 7 on which three split-cla` ips C* C? are mounted each carrying a finge r D. 4 Theclasps are arranged to slide upon the rod in 'spacing the fingers D, and to ro iate thereon'in pleeing the fingers in the d sired vertical Langi'llar position above the le yboa'rdf located the lingers are .ield b v turning screws D2 and compres :ing the arms of the clasps upon the rod. Thef latte j when l raised or lowered by manipulating' the'nu'ts B1 B2 which when tightened holdl the vrod firmly against axial o." rotary movement; a loop D1 mele-,ing its screw 2, so that by loose1`iing the laf, ter the finger may be adjusted at any desired angle later illy above the keyy. board.

On the overhanging nds of the rod are mounted arms F F' adju ited and held by the set-screws F1 F1. Eacl. extends angular-ly upward from the rod and is drilled transversely near the upper e id to receive a short` bar Gr held by a set-scr w F2 and carrying' on the inner end a cross -wire G1 having its free ends coiledas shov n into short helices G2. The function of the helices Vat cach side of themachine is to receive between ltheir coils `a sheet o1' shield, H. ofrp'aper, cardboard, or the like, servi i'gto hide the"key-V board from the operato1. y.

In using the device the lingers Dit-lare spaced angularly'to d vide the keyboard into two areas as nearly equal as may'be, along a diagonal line' ne ar the center of the board, and are inclined downwardly to lie a little above the keyboard and follow its inclinatibn. The keys i 1 the two area-s are to be operated by the iight and left hand respectively, the fingers D serving as stops or guides to prevent stri.` ring the' keys of one area with the hand res -rved for the other area, and yas the keyboai d is wholly or partially hidden by the shi l'd H, the operator is forced to manipulatey the keys in each area by touch and the ser se of location alone.

within its limits and is designed to serveV with any of the common types of writing machines without chang?. other than in adjustrnent, and it may b4 easily dismounted rod adjustably mounted 1n sald yokes, and

fingers carried by said rodv and extending over the keyboard of the machine, .all ar ranged to serve substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device of the character described, vin combination, clamps adapted tof grasp `the base-franie of a typeWrit-ing machine, a standard adj ustably mounted in each of said clamps, yokes carried by said standards, a rod adj ustably mounted in said yokes, lin-- gers carriedby said rod and extending over the keyboard of the machine, arms on said rif-ld, and a shield ea 'iod by id arms above said lingers, all arranged to serve substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In an attachment for typewriters, in 'combinatiom two clamps adapted to grasp the base-fran1e of the vtypevvriting machine on opposite sides thereof, a bifurcated stud one-ach of said Clamps, a screw-threaded standard on ef li of said clamps adjustably held in. such bifurcations, a split-yoke and holding nuts therefor adjust mounted on each of said standards, a rod held adjust-- ably in said yokcs, adjustable clasps on said rod, and adjustable lingers carried by said clasps and extending over the keyboard of the lnaohiue, all arranged substantially as and tor the purposes set forth.

'4. In an atiaehnwui for type\\'riters, iu combination, two clamps adapted to grasp the base-frame of the typewriting` machine on opposite sides thereof, a biflurcaled'stml on each of said clamps, a screrc-thremled standard on each of said clamps adjustably heldin such bifurcations, a split-yoke and holding:r nuts therefor adjustably mounted on each of said standards, a rod held in said yokes, arms adjustably mounted on said rod, a. bar on each. of said arms, and coiled wires carried by said bars and adapted to receive and hold a shield, all arranged substantially as and for the purposes s et forth.

5. In an attachment for typewriters, in combination, two clamps adapted to grasp the 'baseframe of the typewriting machine on opposite sides thereof, a bifurcated stud on each of said clamps, a screW-tln'eaded standard on each of said clamps adj ustably held in such bifurcations, a split-yoke and holding nuts therefor adjustablymounted on each of said standards,a rod held in said yokes, 'adjustable clasps on said rod, adjustable fingers carried by said clasps and eX- tending over the keyboard of the machine, armsadjustably mounted on said rod, a har in each of said arms, and coiled Wires carried by said bars and ,adapted to receive and hold a shield above said lingers, all arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testiinony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature, 'in presence of two Witnesses.

j HERBERT FEAKES.

Vitnesses C. E, MAoCHnsNi-n, @Harinas R. SEARLE.

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