US1182999A

US1182999A - Cash-register.

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Publication number: US1182999A
Application number: US78606213A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick L Fuller
Original assignee: NCR Corp
Current assignee: NCR Voyix Corp; National Cash Register Co
Priority date: 1913-08-22
Filing date: 1913-08-22
Publication date: 1916-05-16
Anticipated expiration: 1933-05-16

Description

F. L. FULLER.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.22. 1913.

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FREDERICK L. FULLER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO, (INCORPO- RATED IN 1906.)

CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed August 22 1913. Serial No. 786,062.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. FULLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which I declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cash registers or accounting machines, and has particular reference to the record strip printing mechanism of such machines.

The invention is shown as applied to a well known type of machine now on the market which is fully described in the Letters Patent of the United States No. 580,37 8 granted April 13, 1897, to Joseph P. Cleal and F. A. Reinhard, and reference may be had to that patent fora description of the parts of the machine that do not relate directly to the present invention. It is to be understood, however, that the machine shown is used for illustration only and that it is not the intention to limit the use of the improvement to any particular type of cash register or accounting machine. The invention is one that can be embodied in various forms in many other styles of such machines.

One object of the invention. is to provide in an autographic strip printing cash register means for positively oscillating the autographic strip table from the position where the written records are made to the position where the printed records are made and then back to the normal position.

Another object of the invention is to provide simple and effective means for controlling the record strip spacing mechanism so that the record strip may be either single spaced or double spaced by operations of the register.

lVith these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel fea tures of construction and combinations of parts the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter describedwith reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

' Of said drawings:Figure 1 is a right elevation of oneof the sections of the machine. Fig. 2 is a left elevation ofthe register with the outside casing cut away to show the printer with parts of the improvement assembled in position. Fig. 3 is 'an enlarged detail of the record strip feeding devices. Fig. t represents a transverse sectional view of a printer containing the improved devices. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section showing the arrangement of the type carriers and their operating connections. Fig. 6 shows the detail strip and the manner in which it is spaced between items by the machine. Fig. 7 is a view partly in section of the devices for regulating the width of the space between items.

Described in general terms the invention comprises an improved mechanism for printing on a record strip designed to receive both written and printed records. Such a printer is generally known as an autographic printer and the strip is usually called an autographic strip. and these are the terms used inv this specification. A

movable frame for carrying the autographic strip is provided, this frame being normally in position for the strip to receive the written record, and, upon every operation of the machine, it will be oscillated to the position for the strip to receive an impression from the type carriers after which the frame is returned to normal position. The strip is spaced during the return of the table to normal position. WVhen entering cash transactions or other transactions where no written record is needed, the items may be single spaced thereby preventing unnecessary waste of the record paper. However, these single spaces are so narrow that there is not enough room opposite the printed items to make satisfactorywritten records, particularly where several successive entries are printed each requiring a written notation. A. manipulative device is therefore provided for controlling the paper feeding mechanism so that the strip may be double spaced between the printed items when in aking entries requiring a written record or eX- planation, and single spaced between cash and other items requiring no such notations. This manipulative device is so constructed that the strip may be spaced by manually operating the device or it can be set to either single or double space the strip during operations of the machine. \Vhen it is set to double space, however-, an operation of the machine is necessary to make it effec tive so that the results of setting the manipulative device at the double spacing position are not apparent until the record of the succeeding operation is printed.

The Cleal and Reinhard machine used for illustrationhas, as is well known, a plurality of banks or sections, one of which is shown in Fig. 1. The number of sections in the register depends upon the registering capacity desired. Each of these sections has a vertical row of depressible keys 1 under the control of which a segment 2 is differentially placed by operations of the machine. Gears 3 are always in mesh with the segments 2 and any movement of the segments rotates the gears a corresponding extent and when the segment is finally locked in the position fixed by the key depressed the gear 3 will be heldin the corresponding position. Each of the gears 3 carries one of the nested sleeves 4 which are supported by and rotate freely about a shaft 5. Attached to the left end of each of these sleeves is a segment 'gear 6 (Figs. 4 and 5). These segment gears are meshed with pinions 7 attached toends of the sleeves 8 which have attached to their other ends the type carriers 9, having on their peripheries type suitably arranged to print the usual digits 0 to 9. The sleeves 8.

and their attached parts rotate around a rod 10 fastened in the frames of the machine. The mechanism ust described is so arranged that when the segment 2 is differentially placed in relation to a key depressed the type carrier will have been rotated so as to bring into printing position the character representing said key. This mechanism is the same in general principle as is described in the Cleal and Reinhard patent. The only difference is in the addition of the mecha' nism intermediate the type carriers and the sleeves 4. This intermediate mechanism is interposed because the Cleal'and Reinhard construction prints the characters upside strip so that the notations can be conveniently made opposite the printed items. After the type carriers have been positioned they are held in alinement by a frame 11, Fig. 4, swung on a stub shaft 12 and which has 'a blade 13 to engage notches 14 in the type carriers. A rearwardly extending projection on the frame 11 carries an antl-friction roll 15 which rests in the groove 16 of a gear cam 17' turning idly on a stub shaft 18 in the printer frame. The gear cam 17 is given a complete rotation during each operation of the machine by the gear 19 fastened to the shaft 5, said shaft being one of the main drive shafts of the machine. The cam groove acting against the roll 15 swings the frame 11 on its pivot'and carries the blade 13 into engagement with the notches 14 of the type carriers. It remains in this position and holds the type carriers rigid until the printing operation is completed, after which the frame 11 is returned to the position shown in the drawing leaving the type carriers free to be rotated on succeeding operations of the machine.

In addition to printing on the autographic strip the register shown in the drawings also prints on a check strip, which strip is then severed and the check ejected from the machine to be given to the purchaser as a receipt for the transaction. However, the check issuing mechanism is not involved in this invention, and in this description it will be mentioned only where it is necessary to explain some detail of the construction.

The autographic printer comprises a frame 20 which is pivoted at 21, and carries at its upper end a table 22 over which the autographic strip 23 passes. The table 22 normally rests in the position shown in the drawings with the item last printed resting under a hand rest 50. This hand rest which is suitably mounted in the outside cabinet 51 of the machine, is made of glass to permit inspection of the last item recorded, but prevents any alteration of the written and printed record. A bell crank lever 24 (Figs. 2 and 4) which is pivoted to the printer frame at 25 is connected to the autographic frame 20 by a slot and pin connection 26 and carries at the other end an anti-friction roller 27 (Fig. 2) which engages the groove 28 of a cam 29 fastened to the drive shaft 30. This drive shaft 30 makes a complete rotation clockwise during the operation of the machine, causing the cam groove 28 to rock the bell crank lever on its pivot, thereby oscillating the frame 20 first anti-clockwise and then clockwise. The frame 20 carries at its upper end a frame 31 pivoted at one side on a screw 32 in the frame 20,

and at the other side on a stud 56 (Fig. 4) in the frame 20. This frame 31 is normally held against the stop 33 on the frame 20 by a compression spring 34 which has its upper end resting against the autographic frame 20 and its lower end resting against the laterally extending portion of the frame 31. Extending across the frame 31 is a shaft 35 on which rotates an impression roller 36. When the frame 20 is oscillated counterclockwise as above described, this impression roller 36 is carried under the printing line of type on the type carriers 9, after which the impression roller is raised twice through an opening (not shown) in the table 22. The first time it is raised the check, which has been fed through over the check guide 62 by'the operation of the machine, is pressed against a ribbon 37 by the roller, taking an impression through the ribbon from the type, after which the check is cut second time the roller is raised the impression is taken in the same way on the autographic strip.

The mechanism for raising the roller 36 comprises a plate 39 (Fig. 2) slidably mounted in a guide frame 40 which is attached to one of the main frames of the machine, and the cam 41 fastened to the drive shaft 5. On every operation of the machine this cam is given a complete rotation anti-clockwise and the groove in the cam acting against the anti-friction roller 42 secured to the plate '39 gives the plate a reciprocating movement in the guide frame 40. Formed on the lower end of the plate 39 is a curved frame 43 to which is fastened a knife, 44 for severing the checks. This knife which is one of the usual pair provided in such machines, has an extension 45 at each end and each of these extensions carries one of the plates 46. WVhen the frame 20 is carried rearwardly so as to bring the impression roller 36 under the printing line of the type, the protruding ends of the shaft 35 rest above these plates 46 and when the sliding plate 39 is raised the plates 46 will engage the shaft 35 and raise the roller 36 to take the two impressions above mentioned. As shown, each of theseplates is adjustable so that either or both ends of the shaft 35 may be caused to be .carried up a greater or less "distance so as to get a uniform impression all the way across the printing line.

After the two impressions have been made the plate 39 is carried down allowing the spring 34 to return the frame 31 to its original position and the frame 20 is then swung back to the normal position. In order to stop the frame 20 at normal in such a way as to prevent a jar to the mechanism, a shock absorber 47 (Fig. 4) is provided against the spring pressed plunger of which an adjustable stop 48 on the frame 20 strikes when the frame reaches its normal forward position.

Mechanism is provided for holding the frame 20 and the parts attached to it rigidly in position while the printing impressions are being taken. This mechanism comprises a lever 52 (Fig. 4) pivoted at 53 and a cam block 54 attached to the side of the cam 29 opposite the side bearing the cam grooi e 28.

The forward end of this lever has a hook 55 to engage the stud 56 which forms one of the pivots for the frame 31 while the rear end 57 of the lever 52 is curved up so that it rests in the path of the cam block 54 when the block is carried around by the rotation of the cam 29. When the frame 20 is swung rearward far enough to bring the impression roller 36 under the printing line of the type and the operation of the machine is further continued, the surface 58 of the cam block 54' will strike the end 57 of the lever 52,

rocking the lever on its pivot 53 and bringpositively fed to tinned rotation of the cam carries the point 59 of the cam block past the end 57 of the lever and the end of the lever rides up in the curved recess 60 lowering the hook 55 out of engagement with the stud 56, after which the surface 61 of the block engages the lever and throws the hook 55 back into engagement with the stud 56 and holds it in engagement while the second impression, the one on the autographic strip, is made. After the lever is. clear of the cam block it is returned to normal position by gravitation, the front end of the lever being longer and heavier than the rear end. i

It will readily be seen that so far as alining the frame 20 is concerned one operation of this lever 52 would be sufiicient as the hook 55 could just as well remain continuously in engagement with the stud 56 while both impressions are made. However the two movements are provided because the lever 52 has other work to do. Owing to the width of the in Fig. 6, the extensions 45 on the knife 44 which carry the impression operating plates 46 are necessarily quite a distance apart. As

power is applied by the cam 41 to the outside only of the impression frame the tendency is for the inside extension 45 of the knife to lag behind on the upstroke. For this reason the alining arm 52 is formed so that the upper edge 64 of the forward extension is in the same vertical plane as a shoe 65 which is fastened at its front end by screw and slot connections 651 to the check guide 62 and has its rear end engaging a stud 66 which is an extension of one of the rivets holding the check guide 62 to the side of the extension 45 of the knife 44. The operating surfaces 58 and 61 of the camblock 54 are so timed that they operate the lever 52 at the same instants that the operating points 67 and 68 respectively of the cam 41 operate the slide 39 to make the two impressions. On each operation the edge 64 of the lever 52 engages the shoe 65 and raises the inside end of the knife 44 and the impression taking devices attached to it. In this way the alining arm 52 is made an auxiliary for the cam 41 to make the cutting and printing uniform all the way across the paper and the shoe 65 is adjustable by connections 651 so as to take up lost motion that may develop, uniform operation.

As shown in the drawings, means are provided whereby the autographic strip is space between the printed items. The supply of the autographic strip 23 is carried on a roller 71 which rotates freely on a stub shaft 72 fastened in the lower end of the oscillating frame 20. The

autographic strip as shown thereby maintaining this v paper is drawn up over the table 22 and a roller 73 to a storage roller 71 which rotates freely about the shaft 21 on which the frame 20 is pivoted. Attached to one end of the storage roll 71 is one member 75 of a clutch, this member being in the form of a drum. Loosely mounted upon the shaft 21 is a plate 77 (Fig. 3) which is the other member of the clutch. This plate is formed so that the main part of it sets inside of the drum 75 and has an arm 78 extending rearward which is held against the under side of a shaft 81 by a spring 82 connecting the plate 77 and an arm 83. Resting on the upper edge 89 of the plate 77 is a roll 85.

A tongue 84 is formed at the top of the plate to inclose the roll against endwise shifting and on this tongue is a guide pin 86 which is much smaller in diameter than the hole in the roll and is used in assembling these parts. The pin has no function in the operation of the machine. The head of a spring pressed plunger 87 carried by the tongue 81 is at all times resting against the periphery of the roll and forces it up along the beveled upper edge 89 of the plate 77 and into contact with the inner surface 76 of the clutch 'drum. It will be seen that if the clutch drum 75 is turned clockwise, as shown in Fig. 3, the roll will simply be forced back against the tension of. the spring 88 and no connection. will be established between the clutch drum 75 and the plate 77. However if the drum is turned anti-clockwise the spring 88 and its plunger 87 will force the roll 85 up along the bevel 89 and the roll will wedge between the clutch drum and the plate 77, thereby positively connecting the drum and the plate. At the bottom of the drum 75 is a clutch device similar in construction to the other clutch device just described. The arm 91 of this device is attached at 92 (Fig. 1) to the oscillating frame 20 and is carried bodily by the frame in its movements. A laterally extending flange formed at the forward end of the arm rests on top of the roll 91 which through the flange supports the arm while a lug 93 extending under the drum limits the upward movement of the forward end of the arm. The flange 90 is so arranged that it forms the operating bevel for the clutch roll 94. When the frame 20 is swung on its pivot 21 to the printing position the roll 91 of this second clutch device is forced by its spring 95 along the under side of the flange 90 to a position where it establishes connection between the inner surface 76 of the drum and flange 90 of the arm 91 and as this arm 91 is pivoted to the frame 20 and moves with it in its oscillation, the connection thus established between the drum 75 and the arm 91 causes the drum and the storage roll 74 attached to it to rotate bodily with the frame 20 on their comdrum. As stated in the foregoing the arm 78 of the plate 77 is held up against the under side of the shaft 81 thereby limiting the upward movement of the arm. This position of the plate is maintained by the tension of the spring 82 while the frame 20 is being rocked to the printing position and when the frame starts to return to its normal or forward position the roll 85 of the clutch plate 77 is pinched between the upper edge of the plate 77 and the inside surface 76 of the drum 75 and as the shaft 81 prevents the plate from rotating the clutch drum and the storage roll attached to it are held immovable during the return of the frame 20 to normal in the position to which they were carried by the clutch arm 91 when the frame was oscillated to the printing position. As a result when the frame 20 returns to normal the paper is pulled from the supply roll a distance equal to a single space. To state the operation of the strip spacing mechanism briefly, when the frame 20 oscillates to the printing position the clutch arm 91 is effective and holds the storage roll rigid with the frame 20, and as the supply roll 71 is also carried by the frame 20 the paper is not moved over the table 22. On the return of the frame 20 to the forward or normal position, the clutcharm 91 is rendered ineffective and the clutch plate 77 clutches the storage roll drum and holds the drum and storage roll immovable until the frame 20 reaches the normal or writing position. As a. result the paper is drawn one space from the storage roll and over the table as the latter is returned to normal position.

Means are provided in this construction for equalizing the spaces between items printed on the autographic strip. Owing to the fact that the storage roll is positively driven unless some such device was provided the spaces between items would gradually grow wider as the paper accumulated on the storage roll, thereby giving the roll a gradually increasing diameter and pulling more paper from the supply roll on each operation. The equalizing de vice consists of a frame 951 pivoted at 99 go the frame 20. This frame 951 has an arm 97 which carries a laterally extending tongue resting against the paper on the storage roll 71 and an arm 83 (Fig. 3) extending up on the opposite side or end of the drum 75. As the paper accumulates on the storage roll the arm 97 is forced away from the storage roll by the paper accumulating under the lateral extension above mentioned. This looks the frame 951 on its pivot 99 against,

ized during the latter part of the operation or while the arm 83 and the extension 98 are in contact, thereby causing the plate 77 to be moved bodily with the frame 20 and carrying the arm 78 out of engagement with the shaft 81. The farther away from the receiving roll the arm 83 is carried by the accumulation of the paper on the storage roll the quicker the arm engages the extension 98 and the greater the part of the operation during which the plate 77 will be carried bodily with the frame 20 and away from the shaft 81. In this way the degree of the forward oscillation during which the shaft 81 holds the plate 77 and spaces the autographic strip is gradually cut down in direct proportion to the increase in the diameter of the roll of paper on the storage roll 7 4, and causes a corresponding reduction in the width of the spaces between items. This device is effective and gives the same result regardless of whether the spacing devices are set to single space or double space.

As stated above a manipulative device is provided for regulating the length of the spaces between the printed items on the autographic strip. That is, this device is to determine whether the autographic strip is to be single spaced or double spaced by an operation of the machine. The normal operation of the mechanism to single space the paper has already been explained and the construction and operation of the mechanism to cause a double space will next be described. The manipulative device is shown assembled in position in Fig. 2 and in detail in Fig. 7. It comprises a sleeve 100 knurled at the outer end to make it easy to grip with the hand and bearing suitable wording to indicate the position at which it is set. A screw 101 connects the sleeve 100 and the elongated hub of a clutch element 102, the end of the screw extending through the hub mentioned and into a cut in the shaft 81. The purpose of this is to limit the longitudinal movement of the sleeve in an outward direction on the shaft and prevents the sleeve from being pulled off of the shaft. The torsion spring 119 has one end inserted in a hole in the shoulder 104 on the shaft 81 and the other end in a hole in the hub of the clutch element 102. A clutch element 102, a shape of which is best shown in Fig. 2, has twopins 105 and 106 to engage projections on the other element 107 of the clutch, which element is fastened to the shaft 81. In the drawings these parts are set at the single spacing position With the pin 106 under the ear 108 on the clutch element 107 and the pin 105 in contact with the projection 109 (see Fig. 3). Attached to a shaft 81- is an arm 110 with a slot engaging a pin 111 on the rear arm 78 of the clutch plate 77. When the two clutch elements are connected as shown in the drawings the paper can be spaced manually independent of operations of the machine. To do this the sleeve 100 is manually rotated clockwise (Fig. 2) and the arm 110 acts on the pin 111 so as to rock the clutch plate 77 about the shaft 21 against the tension of the spring 82. This movement of the plate will cause the clutch roll to establish connection between the plate 77 and the clutchdrum 75 and the drum will be turned a distance suflicient to carry the storage roll the spring 119 to turn the sleeve 100 and its attached clutch element 102 so that the portion 112 of the element 102 will be brought into engagement with a stud 113 on an extension 111 of the frame 43. At this time the end of the pin 106 rests against the flat side of the ear 108 intermediate-the upper and lower edges of the ear. When the slide 39 is raised as described in the foregoing the frame 43 and its extension 114 are raised carrying the stud 113 out of the path of the portion 112 of the clutch element 102. The spring 119 is now free to complete the rotation of the sleeve and its attached clutch element and the pin 106 is carried far enough to engage the upper edge of the ear 108, that is the edge side opposite to the one with which it is shown in engagement in the drawings, and the pin 105 will be brought into contact with the extension 115. When the slide 39 is lowered to its normal position near the end of the operation of the machine, the stud 113. will strike the extension 112 of'the clutch plate 102 and force it down. As the pin 106 is at this time above the ear108, the shaft 81 and the sleeve 100 turn as a unit and the slot in the arm 110 on the shaft 81 acting against the pin 111 in the arm 78 rocks the plate 77 around the shaft 21 and carries the arm 78 down out of contact with the shaft 81. At about the same instant that this movement begins the frame 20,

the rearward position, starts to rock forsleeve 100 at the single spacing position.

ward to the normal or writing position, thereby causing the roll 85 to establish connection between the plate 77 and the inside surface 7 6 of the clutch drum and when the plate 77 is rocked and the arm 78 carried away from shaft 81 as just described the drum 75 and consequently the storage roll 74 are revolved, thereby pulling the paper 23 from the supply roll a distance equal to a single space. While this spacing operation is occurring the forward oscillation of the frame 20 is also causing the paper to be spaced the same distance and in the same manner as set forth in describing the operation of the spacing mechanism with t]l:ie 11 other words, while the usual single space is being given the paper as the frame is oscillated to normal position, a complementary movement is during the same-time given the clutch plate 77 by the slide 39 and the intervening parts, thereby feeding the paper an additional space.

As suggested in the foregoing, the ink ribbon 37 passes between the type carriers and the paper on which the impressions are taken from the type. This ribbon is carried by the spools 120 and .121 (Figs. 2 and 4). Mechanism is provided by which the ribbon is fed in one-direction at each operationof the machine until the spool receiving the ribbon is full, when the feeding mechanism is automatically reversed to feed the ribbon in the direction of the other spool. However, the ribbon feeding mechanism is not a part of this invention and no detailed description of it need be given.

While the above detailed description is thought to be clear a brief summary may be of assistance in arriving at a thorough understanding of the invention. In giving I this summary an operation of the machine to enter an item with the spacing mechanism in the single spacing position will first be given, then a description of the operation with the same mechanism set at the double spacing position.

In the present embodiment, any desired information in regard to the transaction to be entered is first written on the autographic strip through an opening provided for that purpose in the casing of the register. The proper keys to represent the amount to be registered are then depressed and the machine operated either by means of a hand operated crank handle or by means of a motor. The operation positions the differential devices and incidentally rotates the type carriers into the proper positions to print the amount registered. A frame carrying a writing table supporting the autozgraphic strip normally rests with the table opposite the writing opening. At the proper point in the operation of the machine the frame is positively oscillated to carry the autographic strip and the impression roll and is attached to the frame to the printing position under the type carriers. At this point a check which has in the meantime been fed through is pressed against the ink ribbon and type by the impression roll then cut off and ejected from the machine. An impression is next made in the same way upon the autographic strip, after which the oscillating frame carrying the strip and the impression roll is positively returned to the normal position. lVlien the frame is oscillated to the rearward or printing position the storage roll which is mounted on the same shaft as the oscillating frame is held rigid with the frame by the clutch member 91 (Fig. 3) attached to the frame and engaging the clutch drum attached to the storage roll.. hen the frame returns to the normal or forward position the upper clutch device (Fig. 3) engages the clutch drum mentioned and holds it against movement during the return stroke of the oscillating frame. In this way the autographic strip is pulled up over the writing table from the supply roll. the distance required to single space the items and when the oscillatin frame reaches its normal position the record just made is resting under and protected from alteration by the glass hand rest 50.

lVhen it is desired to have the autographic strip double spaced the sleeve 100 is pulled out as far as it will go against the longitudinal tension of a torsion spring in the sleeve. This disengages the clutch element carried by the sleeve from the inoperative position. The torsion spring then rotates the sleeve until the clutch element attached to its end is stopped by an extension on the impression operating frame. At this time the clutch element is held by the spring 119 against the side of the other clutch element intermediate the inoperative position and the operative or double spacing position. When the mechanism is operated far enough to carry the impression operating frame up out of the way the torsion spring 119 in the sleeve rotates the sleeve the rest of the distance necessary for the clutch element on the sleeve to engage the other element of the clutch in the double spacing position, when the sleeve is moved lengthwise on the shaft by the longitudinal expansion or fully lowered position the sleeve and the shaft to which the second clutch element is attached rotate as a unit. A slotted arm attached to this shaft operates against one element of the strip spacing clutch and causes .it to rotate the storage roll far enough to space the autographic strip a single division. This movement of the strip spacing clutch element tensions the spring 82 and on the next operation when the impression operating frame is carried up out of the way this spring rotates the spacing clutch element, and through intervening connections turns the sleeve 100 and the parts with which it as at the time clutched in engagement until the strip spacing clutch element is at the single spacing position. fWhen the impression operating frame is returned to its lowered position it engages the space regulating clutch in the manner described in connection with the preceding operation and spaces the autographic strip. Prior to the spacing operation just mentioned the oscillating frame carrying the autographic strip operating devices was carried to the rearward or printing position and its return to normal position causes the same space as when the manipulative device was set at single spacing position. In other words there are two operations involved in double spacing and. while the operations are performed at approximately the same time. the

effect is the same as though the autographic strip was first given the usual single space by the oscillation of the frame 20 back to normal position and then moved an additional space by the impression operating frame rotating the space regulating clutch devices and through them, operating the spacing clutch mechanism to feed the paper an additional space.

Vhile the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated. it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment shown and described herein. as it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms, all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is:

1. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main operating mechanism, of a rock frame carrying record material arranged to receive both printed and writtenrecords, the frame being normally in position to receive a record of one class, and means whereby an operation of the main operating mechanism will positively rock the said frame to carry the record material into position to receive a record of the other class, and then positively rock the frame and record material back to normal position.

2. In a machine of the class described. the combination with a main operating mechanism. of a rock frame carrying a record material arranged to receive both printed and written records, the frame being normally in the position where the written record is made, and means requiring an operation of the main operating mechanism for positively rocking said frame to carry the record material into position to receive the printed record and then positively returning the frame and record material to normal position.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a rock frame carrying record material arranged to receive printed and written records, type carriers for making the printed records, and means for positively rocking the rock frame to carry the record material from the position where the written records are made to a position to receive the printed record from the type carriers and then positively returning the rock frame and record material to normal position.

4. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with type carriers, of a casing having an opening therein, a rock frame carrying record material arranged to receive written records while in normal position opposite said opening in the casing and printed records from the type carriers, and means for positively rocking said rock frame to carry the record material away from the casing opening and into position to receive the printed record from the type carriers and then positively returning the frame and record material to normal position.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a casing having an opening, of a pivoted table normally adjacent said opening and carrying a record strip, type carriers, a main operating mechanism, and devices requiring an operation of said main operating mechanism for positively oscillating said record table to a position adjacent said type carriers and back to its normal position at each operation of said operating mechanism, and devices for positively moving an element of said table so as to force the record strip against said type carriers.

(3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a record strip feeding clutch normally feeding the strip a single space, of a normally ineffective member for actuating the clutch to feed the strip an additional space, and manipulative means for rendering said member effective.

7. In a machine of the class described, thecombination with a. record strip feeding clutch normally feeding the strip a single space, ofindependent means for actuating the clutch whereby to feed the strip an additional space, said means having a constant extent of movement at each operation but being normally ineffective to operate the clutch, and manipulative devices for rendering said means effective.

8. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main operating mechanism, of record strip feeding devices, said feeding devices normally feeding the record strip a single space, a normally ineffective torsion spring, manipulative means for rendering said torsion spring effective, and means carried by said manipulative means and operated by said torsion spring when effective whereby an operation of the main operating mechanism will render the spacing devices effective to double spaceythe strip on succeeding operations.

9. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving mechanism, of record strip feeding devices comprising a clutch normally feeding the strip a single space, a manipulative device, and means controlled by said manipulative device and requiring an operation of the main driving mechanism to render same effective for causing said feeding clutch to double space the record strip.

10. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main driving mechanism, of record strip feeding devices comprising a normally stationary clutch element, a manipulative device, a member having an invariable extent of movement on each operation of the main driving mechanism and means controlled by the manipulative device whereby connection may be established between the invariably moved member and the aforesaid feeding clutch element thereby moving said clutch element to space the record strip on operations of the driving mechanism.

11. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with an operating mechaspace, an invariably moved normally ineffective member for giving said feeding devices an additional movement to double space the record strip, a space regulating clutch, a manipulative device carrying one element of the space regulating clutch, and means for rotating the manipulative device and engag-- ing the clutch element carried by it with the other element of the clutch thereby rendering the aforesaid invariably moved member effective to double space the record strip on operations of the operating mechanism.

13. In' a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of record strip feeding devices comprising a storage roll and means normally turning said roll to single space the strip on each operation of the operating mechanism, a manipulative device, means controlled by said manipulative devlce and requiring an operation of'the operating mechanism to render same effective on subsequent operations to give the feeding devices an additional movement and double space the record strip, and means whereby a uniform width-of both the single and the double spaces is maintained regardless of the amount of record strip accumulated on the storage roll.

14. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism of record strip feeding devices comprising a storage roll on which said strip is wound, said devices normally feeding the strip a single space, a manipulative device, means controlled by said manipulative device and requiring an operation of the operating mechanism to render same effective for giving the feeding devices an additional movement on subsequent operations, thereby double spacing the record strip, and means whereby a uniform width of both the single and the double spaces is maintained regardless of the amount of record strip accumulated on the storage roll.

15. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a rock frame carrying a record material, a storage roll, means effective while the frame is rocked in one direcord material, a storage roll for said record material, a clutch element effective while the frame is rocked in one direction for connecting the storage roll and the frame to cause them to move as a unit; a second clutch element effective while the frame is rocked in the other direction for holding the storage roll stationary, thereby spacing the record strip, a manipulative device, and means controlled by the manipulative device where by the second clutch element may be rendered effective to move the record strip an additional space. Y

17. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a movable frame carryln'g a record strip, of a storage roller to receive the strip, a clutch mechanism arranged to cause the frame and the storage roller to move as a unit in one direction but holding the roller stationary during movement of the frame in the opposite direction,

thereby feeding the strip a single space, an

I element effective.

18. In a machine of the class described,

the combination with a rotary record strip storage roller, of means for rotating the roller in one direction only, said means comprising a driving and a retaining device normally cooperating to feed the strip a single space, normally ineflective means for actuating the retaining device whereby to feed the strip an additional space, and manipulative devices for controlling said means.

19. In a machinerof the class described, the combination with a rotary record strip storage roller, of means for rotating the roller in one direction only whereby to feed the strip, said means comprising a driving and a retaining device normally cooperating to feed the strip a single space, an invariable record element for operating the retaining device whereby to feed the strip an additional space but normally disconnected from said device, manipulative devices, and means controlled by the manipulative devices for establishing connection between the invariably moved element and the retaining device.

20. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an invariably moved element, of record strip feeding devices compr1s1ng operating and retainin members arranged to feed the strip norma ly a single space, an element having an invariable movement at each operation, a manipulative device, means normally held in ineffective condition by the manipulative device but effective when released to establish an operating connection between the invariably moved element and one ofthe aforesaid members whereby to feed the strip an additional space.

21. In a machine of the class described, the combination with record strip feeding mechanism comprising driving and retaining members normally feeding the strip a single space, an element normally disconnected from the feeding mechanism and having an invariable extent of movement ateach operation, means'adapted to be interposed between the invariably moved element and one of said members whereby to render said element effective to feed the strip an additional space, a spring for interposing said means during an operatlon, and manipulative means for controlling the spring.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK L. FULLER.

Witnesses:

J. B. RIoKETTs, CARL BEUST.