US1224411A - Tabulating-machine. - Google Patents

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TABULATING MACHINE.

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To whom it may concern: o Be it known that I, JAMES Pownns, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tabulating-Machines, of which the following a specification.

. :My invention advancestheart of perfo- 1Q rated-card accounting, widens its field,

adapts it for more general use, reduoes'its cost and error-ratio, and greatly reduces the number of operations and the time necessary to analyze, transcribe and separately tabu- 1ate in print, for convenient. use and for comparison, pluralities of related but differing topical statements recorded in the per forations of record-card series. It relates-to analyzing,- transcribing and tab'ulating in It consists in adapting tabulating machines, with only onev transit through them of a cardseries, to analyze, transcribe, and separately f-tabulate in print a plura lity'of the related v but differing topical statements recorded in the card-series; and to do so with purely mechanical and therefore with the most reliable apparatus.

Heretofore, in this art, it has been deemed necessary, in order to so analyze and tabu-' late card-series records, firstly; to sort the cards topically, by passing them once or repeatedly through a sorting machine; to subsequently pass each sorted group of cards egfthrough a tabulating machine adapted, to

' analyze their records and tabulate the results in dials'or counters; to read ofi and prepare 'py of said dialor' counterrecords; ;and tohave the same reproduced,, in

40 print.--

Obviously,there 1s a minimum error-ratlo.

inherent in each operation which human care cannot avoid or reduce; and thus unnecessarily multiplying the number of operations directly-proportionally multiplies the error-ratio of the final tabulation. Tn

contrast with this complex, error-multiplying mode, my s mple process and mechanical apparatus enable me to run the card-series oncethrough my machine and analyze and tabulate in print a plurality of (as illustrated, two) statements recorded therein; run it through again and tabulate as many more and continue so to do until the analy;

sis and tabulation are complete; and

without introducing additional errorsinto the record or the results. a

In general terms, my improved apparatus constitutes a card-controlled,multiple-topic,

analyzing, and tabulation-printing machine adapted to simultaneously analyze, tra'n:

scribe and tabulate in print a plurality of (as illustrated,'two.) topical perforated cardseries records; and comprises a card-supporting plate with -'a plurality of series (preferably digital) of perforations correspending and registerin with record-points, (perforated and unper orated) of record- -card series; record-reproducing organiza-.

tions comprising movable pin-boxes, each of movable pins adaptedto e stopped by unperforated and to pass through perforated record-points of cards and to re reduce, beyond saidplate, the perforationrecords thereon-said organizations being topically settable to different card-area's so as to simultaneously reproduce different topical statements recorded in the card-perchanical actions adapted to co-act with record-reproducingpins, analyze the card-per- Patented May 1, 1917.

carrying a plurality of corresponding series foration record thereby reproduced and a select and cause the operation of corresponding tabulation-printing mechanism keys and the tabulation and summation 'in print thereby of the card,-'and card-series records.

-Each' analyzing and selective action com prises an analyzer adjustable in operable location relatively to different card-record series and when so located adapted to be positioned by and to thereby analyze the record reproduced by an extended pin of a co-acting pin series; a (digital) series ofactuators or striking keys severally nonadjustablyoperably located relatively to keys of a key series of a tabulation-printing I mechanism; a transmission; and a selector 'operably connected thereby with, and adapted to be positioned by,'said analyzer to select and cause the operation of the actuators and prmting-keys corresponding with the rec,

ord-reproducing pin then co-actin'g with said analyzer.

The analyzers of each aggregation of actions are organized by being mounted on a movable carriage and thereby adapted to be conveniently, coactingly located relatively to corresponding pin-series of the pin boxes and record-perforation series of cardareas to be tabulated; and because the tabulators are fixed in location, and the actuators and selectors are thereby located, the transmissions must be extensible in order to permit the translation of the analyzer organizations between different card areas.

In the accompanying drawings showing one embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a general plan of a'machine adapted to simultaneously analyze and tabulate in print two topical, card-perforation records. Fig. 2 is a partial vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, illustrating the relations of the record cards, record-reproducing pins, action-analyzers and transmissions. Fig. 4 is a complementary section on the line 4.4 of Fig. 1 illustrating the relations of the transmissions, selectors, actuators and tabulation-printing mechanisms and the keys thereof. Fig. 5 is a corresponding, enlarged, partial plan. Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the line 66 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of the .machine. Fig.8 is a view like Fig. 3, but

illustrating analyzers analyzing a pinreproduced record. Fig. 9. is an enlarged partial front elevation illustrating the mode of adjustably locating the pin boxes to different card-areas and the analyzer organizations thereto. Figs. 10 to 13 inclusive are details of the analyzers and their carriage, Fig. 10 being a plan, Fig. 11 a corresponding end view, Fig. 12 a side elevation, Fig. 13 an opposite end view. Fig. 14 is a side view and Fig. 15 a plan of a selector. Fig. 16 is a partial vertical section illustrating the pin box and the card-controlling means. Fig. 17 shows the lay-out of a record card and a statement recorded in perforations thereof. Figs. 18 and 19 illustrate means for accurately positioning the analyzer carri'ages and analyzers relatively to card-areas and pin-boxes adjusted thereto, Fig. 18 being a plan, and Fig. 19 a section on the line 19-49 of Fig. 18. y

In the art of card-accounting, it is common to lay out series of large cards in numerous rows and columns and thereby .adapt them for recording by one perforation in each column, a large number of attributes pertaining to the objects, or the single object, to whose record individual cards are devoted; to tabulate and summarize card series as such; and also to cull out, tabulate and summarize topical statements therefrom.

My work in mechanical card-accounting machines has abundantly demonstrated the superiority of purely mechanical actions over electrical, or fluid, or mixed actions for such general purposes; and I now apply purely mechanical actions to the final stages as I have heretofore to the initial and intermediate stages of such work and with a like gain in speed and reliability. Further, the size, and the number of record-series frequently occurring on record-cards enables me, in many cases, to save the cost and time necessary to sort them preparatory to topical tabulation (as has been the custom) and to simultaneously cull, tabulate and summarize two or more topical statements from a cardseries while passing them once through the machine and thereby double its capacity by the addition of auxiliary parts, without at all increasing the daily operating costs or greatly increasing its first cost and bulk. Hardly less important to speed, economy and the accuracy of the final results, I adapt my machines to tabulate and summarize in print, and thereby avoid the cost and the personal errors inseparable from the former practice of tabulating on dials, reading and preparing copy from them and having it printed.

In the herein-illustrated stage of my invention, I utilize stock adding machines, A and B, as summarizing and as tabulation and summary-printing mechanisms, and connect them with the record-reproducing pins 20 of the pin boxes 26 and 27, by analyzing and selective purely mechanical actions K, whose particular organization is due to and in consonance with the arrangement of said adding machines; thus quickly realizing my primary objects.

Most of the adding machines in use have a plurality of digital series of keys, each nine in number corresponding to the digits. I adapt my machine frame 2 to support a plurality of such adding machines with their keys severally in the lines of action of my actuators so that when any actuator is operated, it will strike the corresponding adding machine key, as it would be if struck by the finger of an operator. In the normal operation of an adding machine, after each number has been set up by striking keys corresponding to the digits of the number, a handle is swung and such number is caused to register on the machine and be added to the preceding number of aggregate numbers, which registering operation also has the effect of resetting those keys that are depressed.

I operably connect a power transmission member, preferably the main shaft of my apparatus, with. said handle, or the shaft of the adding machine, whereby immediately u on the actuators being operated correspon ing to the perforations in the card,

, keys to norma 1' 80- and adding-machine resetting cams 124;

and suitable transmission members, illustrated as sprocket wheels, (Fig. 3) for driving the card-feed rolls, which are generally designated by 3.0. I assume the axis of the main shaft to be the principal axis comprising anterior, parallel of. the machine. On the transverse axis I raise the frame 2 and mount the series-perforated card-supporting plates, 28 and 29; the card hopper 44, to contain stacks of cards to beanalyzed; the card picker 43, to

pick cards one at a time from .the bottom of the card stack and feed them to the feed rolls 30; the card-stop 31, which 0 eratively positions them for a-naylsis; and the pinox table or jig-frame 11 and opposite tothe hopper, but at a lower level, the analyzed-card bins 144.

Lower than the card plates 28, 29, I provide axially-extending slide-ways for mounting, my action-analyzer carria cs 33, and -guides 98, on a bed-plate 98 and a posterior track 47 substantially under the rear of said cardplates. To the sides and anteriorly I provide elevated frame extensions for supporting the selectors and actuators of the actions and posterior lower frame extensions on which I locate the adding machines A and B.

As illustrated, the actions K and pinboxes 26 and 27 are divided into two groups combined respectively with adding machines A and B to form two distinct and independent analyzing and recording mechanisms,

R and R.

In each analyzing and recording mechanism, R and R the action analyzers, 32 are organized as a movable unit and suitably spaced in conson'ance with the series-spacing of the pins 20 of the pin boxes by mounting them on their carriage 33, which in turn is mounted on theguides 98 and rail 47; and the pin boxes are likewise units and adjustable as such, to different card-areas; and, while the carriage 33 and pin box are independently movable, I provide exact positioning means (to be described) to make sure that when adjusted relatively to particular card-areas, the several analyzers will be in' or table 11 built up of axially extending guide bars 11 and 12 and quadrangular verandpin boxes are reciprocated.

1n-- guide bar 11, 12, I provide a rack 24, for

tical open, end guide frames 13 and 14 which engage vertical parallel guides on the machine frame-2 and on whose lower crossbars 13 I revolubly mount cam-rollers l5 and 16,'which engage the slot-cams 17, on the main shaft 19, by which the ji frame 11 each exactly positloning the pin boxes.

Each pin box comprises upper and lower 'fixed series-perforated pin. plates 7 and 8 secured to separators 9 and 10 with their ends projecting to form therewith parallel channel guides by whichthe pin boxes are mounted on their ways 11 and 12 of the jigframe, and a movable U-shaped series-perforated-setting plate 22 with down-turned.

ends and rack-teeth .23 thereon adapted to engage the jigframe racks 24 to accurately position the pin boxes and secure them in adjusted positions. In the perforations of the plates 7 8 and 22.1 mount a plurality of series of record-reproducing pins 20 with exterior heads 21 by which they are normally supported on the plate 22. I provide for sliding the pin boxes on their guides 11, 12 and locking them in adjusted position by means of screws 25, axially fixed, by engaging shoulders, in the plates 22 and whose threaded shanks work in suitable tapped holes in the pin boxes. When the screws are backed out, the plate and the pins are lifted, so that the endsof. the latter clear the .upper card plate 28 and the pin boxes can be slid alongthe frame, and their rack teeth brought to engage other portions of the jig frame racks 24, whereupon the screws 25 are driven home to lower the plate 22 and the pins 20 to operative position, and position and lock the pin boxes 26, 27, in adjusted position.

The pins 20 register with correspondingly arranged holes in a pair of fixed card- support plates 28 and 29 spaced to form a cardpath 164 through which record-cards may be advanced by suitable means such as feed rolls, denoted generally by 30, as shown in Fig. 3. A card is so advanced until it engages a suitable stop 31 mounted on a rock shaft 31 and operably connected with a cam and lever connection 31 (Figs. 9 and 16,

dotted line Fig. 3), and thereby operated and turned to alternately clear the cardpath 164 for the passage of analyzed cards and obstruct it and arrest and position cards to be analyzed therein, with their record points registering with the perforations in the two card- plates 28 and 29.

Subsequently in the motion-cycle the cams 17 lower the jig frame 11, pin boxes 26'and 27 and pins 20; such pins as find unperforated record points in the card are thereby arrested; but such as find perforations therein pass their ends through them and the lower card plate 29, extend below the latter and there reproduce the statement recorded in the card perforations, ready for analysis by the actions K and tabulation and summation in print by the adding machines A and B. Each action K comprises an analyzer 32, adapted to co-act with and analyze a statement reproduced by extended pins 20, a transmission, T, a selector (68 73) thereby connected with and positioned by the analyzer, and a digital series of actuators (48 56) severally operably located relatively to keys 58 of a key-series of an adding machine (A or B), to the selector and to an operating platen 77, reciprocated by the printing cam 80.

The drawings illustrate two analyzing and recording mechanisms R and R, each including a laterally-adjustable pin box, 26 or 27, with six digital series of pins, 20; six actions, K; an action carriage 33, slidably mounted on its ways 98 and 47 and mounting six analyzers 32 and transmission elements severally operably connected therewith, and operably locating and spacing said analyzers in vertical planes corresponding with pin-series planes; an adding machine, A or B; a pair of printing cams 80, on the main shaft 19; and a printing platen 77, 116, each operably connected with a pair of said cams 80 and operably located relatively to the selecting ends of a group of selectors (68 73, or 115) and the co-acting ends of a like group of actuators 18 56, or 117) and adapted, whenelevated, to lift the plungers, 7 4., of advanced selectors and the ends of actuators co-acting therewith and depress and strike adding machine keys 58, with the outer ends of such actuators. Each analyzer 32 has an upstanding analyzing finger 3 1, and the carriage 33 is so arranged that when advanced the finger 3 1 will be adjacent to the bottom of the card plate 29 opposite one series of perforations, through which pins, of one set may pass. The analyzer finger is normally held just anterior to the pins, as indicated in Fig. 3, and when advanced will be arrested by engaging a pin which, by the lowering of the pin box, has been advanced through a perforation in a card properly located on the card plate 29. Since but one hole is made in each digital recordseries of the card in recording a statement, in pin-reproducing it only one pin of each pin series can be advanced below the card-plate 29, to co-act in analysis with its analyzer 32, by arresting the advance of and positioning the latter. In co-acting series where the card contains no perforation, the pin has no statement to reproduce, and is not advanced to co-acting position; and its analyzer advances to its limit and causes the tabulating mechanism to print a naught, or not at all when the naught, if printed, would occur on the left hand of the number printed. The analyzers 32 and selectors 68 73 are spring-advanced by a spring connected with the latter; and their advance is timed and they are all retracted by a common retractor, F; all as hereinafter set forth. Fig. 8 illustrates an analysis in process, with analyzers advanced, five coacting with and positioned by record-reproducing pins, and one advanced to its'limit.

The action carriage 33 is best illustrated in Figs. 10 to 13. Its web is a bar Z-like in shape; it has a lower anterior foot 87, in which areformed the parallel guides 87 a by which it is mounted and guided on the fixed guides 98 of the web-plate 98; a posterior steadying roller, 45, which runs on the track 47 and two slotted analyzer-carrying heads, 33 in which I form guide slots 33 which contain, locate and guide the analyzers 32. The exact positioning means which insures correct alinement of the carriage and its analyzers with a co-acting pin box and its pin-series comprises (Figs. 18 and 19) a series of conical sockets, 105, sunk in the bedplate 98 and corresponding with the teeth of the jig-frame racks 24, which position the pin boxes; and a spring-advanced plunger 101, which plays in a properly located bore formed adjacently in the foot 87 of the carriage and whose conical head 101 engages and fits the sockets 105. The obliquity of said head and sockets'is such that the plunger head will chatter over the'sockets while the carriage is being shifted, but as it approaches its desired position and its motion is slowed, the head 104E will engage a socket 105 and thereby enable the operator, by feeling such engagement, to exactly locate the carriage.

On the carriage foot 87 I mount the power-receiving members of the transmission T (which are operably connected with the analyzers) to that'end providing in its upper face a series of slots 88 substantially severally in the same planes with the analyzer slots 33 in the carriage heads 33*; a series of axial bores 85, transverse to and communicating with said slots 88 for the transmission shafts; and two axial bores, 100 and 101, respectively, threaded for engagement with the carriages feed screw 106 and made larger for the clear passage of a like feed-screw, 102, which is in engagement with the action carriage 41 of the other analyzing and recording mechanism R.

The feed- screws 106 and 102 are revolubly mounted but axially fixed in the frame 2 '1 and are each provided with a hand-crank 107, and 103, by which they can be turned to shift the action carriages 33 and 41.

Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation illustrating the digital series of actuators (4C8 56) of an action K (like in number to the pin-, and adding-machine-key series). their mode of coaction with. the se1ecwith a posterior striking head adapted to contact with and operate an adding machine key 58,- and a pendant key-rod (designated in series 59 67) pivoted on its anterior end and adapted to coact with the selector plunger '74; and is medially pivoted on apivot rod 57', common to like keys of all the actions of the mechanism (R or R). The

pivot rods 57 are graduated in their locations correspondingly with the length of their actuators pivoted on them and with the positions of the adding machine keys 58, so that one ratio is maintained between all the posterior and anterior actuator leverarms and the unvarying stroke of the platen 77 will cause equal motions of the striking heads of the actuators.

The actuators are properly spaced on the rods 57 by separators; and to economize space, as best shown in Figs. 1,2 and 9, their pendant key-rods (59 67 of each series are in one vertical, transverse plane and they are alternately staggered on opposite sides thereof, and tapered from their pivots, that they will not interfere. The pendant rods are equally spaced and guided in'registering holes bored in an upper guide plate 81 and a'lower guide and positioning plate 81; fixed on each pendant is a collar 81; and

a spring 81 strained between said collar and thefup'per. guide plate 81 retracts the actuator and normally positions it with said collar in contact with the positioningplate 81 and its striking head retired from the adding machine key 58.

I mount the selectors of each mechanism R, R", in slots formed in auxiliary axiallyextending plane members 268, and severally in the same vertical planes with series of actuators and their pendants. Each selector 68 73 is preferably a rectangular bar advanceable by a spring 82 strained between a lug 83 on the selector and a fixed abutment 84, and having a vertical guide bore in its posterior head and mounted therein a vertically-acting plunger 74 with a lower head 75 pressed against the platen 77 by a spring 76, strainedbetween said head and the selector. I

When the platen is elevated, it lifts all of the selector plungers and that actuator if any, of each each: action K beneath whose pendant a selector plunger is located. The

analyzer and selector ofeach action are connected, angularly fixed and synchromzed relatively to one another, but axially adjustable by an independent transmission T which is practically a forked rocking lever sleeves 93 and 94.

with an extensible pivot orrock shaft, an

axially fixed arm (the driven arm 95 connected with the selector) and an axially shiftable arm (the driving arm 88 connected with the analyzer). L In final-ar alysis the analyzing and selecting organization comprising the analyzer, transmission and selector, constitute in and of themselves a subordinate action included in that designated by K and arebest described as constituting a forked rocking lever with flexibly-connected arm-extensions (the analyzer and selector); and, to

adapt it to coact with differently located pin-series, provided with an extensible axis. It is obvious that this sub-action would be operable (but not adjustable to difi'erent pin-locations) if, made integral with slight structural but no functional modifications, and if made with its pivot shaft in two slidably-en'gaged sections each integral with an arm, and modified as aforesaid, it would possess all the functions it now does.

-A parallel-sided socket is formed on the'analyzer 32 and a similar socket 97 on the selector. cated in a slot 88 of the carriage-foot 87 and fixed to a telescopic, extensible shaft 86, by means of a bearing sleeve 86 rockably mounted but axially fixed in one of the bores 85 in said foot. The driven arm which engages the selector, is fixed on a revolubly mounted, but axially fixed section 91 of'the transmission shaft, coaxial with and adapted to telescope the section 86 connected with the carriage, and mounted-in the'main frame 2 by means of shouldered The shaft sections are illustrated as square tubes, but any sliding engagement would be effective.

I provide flexible connections between the drivmg and driven transmission arms 88,

95 and the analyzers and selectors, consisting of cylindrical or rounded heads re ectively, 89 and 96 on said arms and soc ets torssynchronously to their limits.

In each mechanism, R and R, the six transmission shafts are arallel and as 90, 97 on the analyzers and selectors re closely s' aced as practica le; the driving arms 88 are correspondingly stepped in their slots. 88; and the sockets 90 and 97 of the analyzers and selectors respectively are correspondingly stepped, so that when retracted or extended said arms are all parallel as illustratedin Figs. 3, 4 and 6, and the selector plungers and analyzer fingers 34' 32 and retract them and the selectors 68 73; and a lower rod 42 on which I pivot one end of a link 42, the o posite'end of which is pin-connected wit the sliding card-feed or picket 43, to operate it. The retractor F is rocked b a pair of cams 38 on the main shaft 19, ing operabl connected therewith by a pairof slotte links 36, each pivotally connected with a retractor mounting-arm 35; provided with a slot 36'- which envelops the shaft 19 and by the engagement of its sides therewith, transversely positions itself and guides its own reciprocation; and with a revolubly mounted roller 37 which engages a cam 38.

The springs 82 tend to advance the selectors 68 and analyzers 32 to their limit. But their advance is controlled by the retractor F. The cams 38 will advance the retractor, retract all the analyzers 32 and se-.

lectors and so hold them with the fingers 34 anterior to the pins 20 (Fig. 3), the selector plungers 74 anterior to the actuator pendants, 59 64 (Fig. 4) and the springs 82 fully strained. Upon a card being inserted and a pin box advanced to cause some ofthe pins to project through the card and below the ,supporting plate, the said cams will retract the retractor and permit the springs to advance the selectors and analyzers synchronously with the retraction of the retractor until certain analyzers and their connected selectors are arrested and posi tioned by record-reproducing pins and the remainder have followed the retractor to the limit of its retraction; whereupon the cams 80 wall raise the platen 77 and the positioned spring plungers carried by the selectors will be elevated to engage the pendant rods on the actuators, and swing the latter to engage the keys of the adding machine.

The above descriptlon and reference characters generally apply to the analyzing and recording mechanism R. Its mate, R, is s1mila'r, but reversed, relatively to the transverse axis; its members correspond with and have like functions to those of the mechanism R and are indicated on the drawings by reference characters as follows; its carriage 41 analyzers 40 and transmission therewith; arms 111 connectedtherewith; selectors 115 and driven transmission arms 114 and connected selector plungers 115; actuators 117 and their pendant rods 118; and platen 116 and its cams are exactly like those of the mechanism R, respectively designated 33, 32, 88',68...73,74,48...56,59...67, and 77; its feed screw 102 and its handle 103- are like those 108 and 107 but the handle is at the opposite end of the machine; the permanently located transmission shaft sections 113 are' on the opposite side from those 91, and the shaft sections 112 connected with the carriage 41 extend oppositely to those 86.

This organization of the analyzing and recording mechanisms gives them the widest possible range of settings relatively to different record-card areas, because one mechanism, as B, may be located at the outer limit of its range and the other, R, located in juxtaposition to the former, thus enabling my apparatus as herein illustrated, to simultaneously cull out, analyze and record in print any two statements properly recorded in perforations of a card, however thosestatements may be located thereon.

Means are also provided for connecting the main shaft 19 with the handle or an operating member of each adding machine to cause the latter to register immediately after its keyshave been struck by the actuators.

The shaft of the adding machine, as indicated at 120, in Fig. 7, carries a gear 121 meshing with a slidable rack 122. On the latter is a roller 123 bearing on a cam 124 fast on the shaft 19. This cam is properly timed to advance the rack immediately after the actuators have struck whereby the shaft 120 of the adding machine will be rotated and cause the machine to register and reset its keys in the usual manner.

The cam roller 125 of the rack 122 is held in. contact with the cam 124 by a spring,

which is preferably that usual in adding marality of factspertaining to one object are recorded by making one perforation suitably located in some or all of said series.

It is desired to cull out, analyze and record and summarize in print one, or it may be two, topical statements from a series of such cards.

The cards are stacked in the card hopper 44; the jig frames 11 and pin boxes 26 and 27 are ra1sed'(by their cams 17) and the screws 25 are backed out, which lifts the l l I plates 22 and the pins 20 clear of the card plates 29, 28 and the positioning teeth 23 of the plates 22 clear of the racks 24; the

pin boxes are shifted to coacting positions relatively to record card areas whose record points are used to designate facts of the said topics, and the screws 25 are set, which 104 with sockets 105 in the bed plate 98. The revolution of the main shaft and the transmission members thereon, reciprocates the jig frame 11 pin boxes 26, 27 and pins 20, andthe platens 77 and 116; rocks the retractor F, thereby retracting, and permitting the spring-actuated advance of the analyzers and selectors and reciprocating the card picker 43; rocks the card-stop 31; and operates the card feed 30.

The functionings of the cams are so timed that during the rise of the 'p'inboxes '-(by which the card-path is'cleared of pins), the card-stop is set, the card-picker and card feed pick a card from the hopper and advance it to operativeposition' (fixed by the card stop) the analyzers and retractors are retracted, the platens rest in their lowest positions, the actuators are retracted and the adding machine keys are extended, all be coming ready to perform their functions.

When the pin boxes descend, the points of the pins of their digital series register with corresponding points in the digital card series; those pins which find no record perwhich find such forations in the card are arrested; but those erforations extend their ends throu h the oles in the card support plate 29 an reproduce, below the plate, the statement recorded in the card perforations.

Immediately thereafter the retractor F is retracted, thereby permitting spring-actuated advance of the analyzers and selectors and also retracting the card-picker 43. Those analyzers which find no their paths advance with the retractor to the limitof its motion and their connected Jselectors advance with them to zero position;

but those analyzers which find and are arrested by pins, severally arrest their connected selectors with the plungers thereof in selected positions which reproduce the card record, eachrecording selector plunger being then beneath a pendant rod of an actuator of-the series with which it coacts.

v The platens 77, 116 are then lifted by their i cams 80" and lift the selector plungers and such actuator pendants as register "with selector plungers and swing the connected actuators; wich' strikefandgdepress, and set their adding machine-keys, ready to .Ifepro duce in print, in and b the adding mai adding machine keys corresponding with-the chines, the statements cul ed from the cardrecord. At-such times non-registering se lector-plungers and actuator pendants respecti'vely move idly and remain at rest; and

latter remain extended and cause no record.

Following-the above described operations,

pins 20 in other card, for another cycle of operations;

and so continues until the power supply is suspended.

claim 1. A tabulation-printing card-accounting machine of the type in which movable pins coact with record-card perforations to reproduce statements thereby recorded and comprising movable pins arranged infseries adapted to be shifted to different recordpoint series of record cards and to coact with and reproduce statements recorded in perforations of such card-series, tabulationprinting mechanism adapted to print such statements in tabular form, and a purely mechanical action adapted to be operably located relatively to the locations, as aforesaid of said pin-series and toconnect recordreproducing pins. thereof with said tabulation-printing mechanism and-cause its operation and the printing therebyof statements reproduced by said pins.

7 2. A tabulation-printing, card-accounting machine of the type in which movable pins coact with record-card perforationsto vreproducestatements thereby recorded and' .80 Having thus described my invention, I

record-point series of record cards and to simultaneously and independently reproduce statements recorded in perforations of the difierent card-series with which said in series coact, a plurality of tabulation-printing mechanisms adapted to print suchstate ments in tabular form, and a plurality of purely mechanical actions each adapted to independentlyconnect one of said pin-series with a tabulation-printing. mechanism and cause itsoperation andthe printing thereby of statements reproducedby pins of the pin series with which it is connected by-said action. 3. A tabulation-printin card-accounting machine of the typein w ich'mcva'ble pins M coact withrecord-card perforations to reproduce statements thereby recorded and comprising movable pins. arranged in a plu-i rality of series, in-series adaptedto beindependently shi ed to coact with different record-point series of record cards and to simultaneously and independently. repro form, a purely mechanical action adapted to be operably located relatively to the loca- I tion and adapted toaccurately position it relativelyto said pinseries.

8. A tabulation-printin card accounting machine of the type in w ich movable pins coact with record-card perforations to' reproduce statements thereby recorded" and comprising a series of movable pins adapted to coact with and reproduce statements recorded in card perforations, tabulationprintingmechanismadapted to print such statements in tabular ,form, keys of said mechanism operable to cause items of such statements to beprinted, an analyzing and selecting mechanical action adapted to connect record-reproducing pins oi said pinseries with said tabulationeprinting mechanism and cause its operation and the printing thereby of-statementsreproduced 'by said pins, said action comprising an angularly-movable member. adapted to be positioned by. record. reproducing pins and to cause the selection and operation of keys of and the printing by said tabulation printing of record items reproduced by r printing by such tabulatlon-printlng mechmechanism sald pins.

' 9. A tabulationprinting, card-accountingmachine of the t in which movable pins coact with recor -card perforations to reproduce statements thereby recorded and comprising a series of movable pins adapt.-

ed to coact with and reproduce statements recorded in card perforations,- tabulationprinting mechanism adapted 'to print such statements in tabular form, keys of said mechanism operable to cause itemsiof such statements to beprinted, an'ana-lyzingand' selecting mechanical action adapted to connectvrecord-reproducing pins of said pin-series with sand ""tabulatlon-printingi mechanism and cause itsoperation'andtheprint- 'ing thereby] of statements reproduced by said ins, said action .co'mprisinga movable mem er adaptedtolbe positioned-by record reproducing pins and to cause the selection and operatlon of keys -of'and by said tabulation printing mechanism 0 record items reproducedby-saidpinsf 10, A tabulation printing, card accounts ing machine of theltype-in which movable pms coact withrecord-card perforations'to reproduce statements thereby recorded; and

oint series of record cardsand to coact the printing with and'reproduce statements recorded in perforations of such card-series, tabulationprinting mechanism adapted to print suchtions, as aforesaid, of said pin-seriesand to l connect record-reproducing pins thereof with said tabulation-printing mechanism and cause its operation and the printin thereby of statements reproduced by sai pins, said action comprisingan-angularly movable,*axially extensible member adapted to be adjusted to connect said pin-series and tabulation-printing mechanism and 'to be positioned by a record-reproducingvpin and to cause the selection and operation of keys of and the printing by said tabulation- .prmting mechanism of record itemsreproduced by said pins.

11. In a. tabulation-printing, cardaccounting machine of the class described, an

analyzing and selecting action adapted toconnect movable record-reproducing pins of apin series with corresponding keys of a corresponding key-series of a tabulation-- printing mechanism and cause it to print record ltems so reproduced and'comprlsing a series of actuators corresponding was such. pin and key series, and an an arly movable member adapted to be pos1tioned" by record re roducing pins and to cause the selection an operation of keys of and the anism of record items reproduced by such ms. a 12. A machine for'operating a calculator from record members, comprismg a support for arecord member, a plurality of sets of controlling members arranged to engage a record member on the support, a plurality of sets of actuators correspondin to the controlling members respectively or operating. the calculator keys, means connecting the controlling members with the actuators and arranged to effect the operation of the actuators according to the records on the.

members that cooperate with the controlling means, means, for advancing the record members successively into the said support,

means successively operating the controlling members and the actuators as each record is advanced by said means, and means for ac tuating the re stering member of calculator after eac operation of theaetuators V 13.-=A 1nach1ne for operating acalculator ,from record members, comprismg'a 'supp'ort sets 0 controlling pin, members arranged a to engage :afperforated ec0rd card on "the for a erforated recordjcardya plurality of support', '-a plurality of: sets gramma -a rrespon to the controllingmembjeifs" spectively" or operating the calculatdffikejrs', V

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