US1224412A - Analyzing and recording mechanism. - Google Patents

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ANALYZiNG AND RECORDING MECHANISM.

I; APPHCAHGN FILED APR- 4 191: I lfi flzfll 2%. Patented May1,1917.

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A NALYZING AND RECORDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION man APR. 4, :913.

1,224, 11 8. Patanted May 1, 1917.

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ANALYZING AND RECORDING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED APR- 4. I913- Patented May1 191 7.

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ANALYZING AND RECORDING MECHANISM.

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JAMES rownns, or new roan, n. at, ASSIGNOR, 3r mnsnn assre nmnnrs, r0 rownns ACCOUNTING To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JAMES Pownns, a citi-* similar objects to that illustrated and described in, my pending application, Serial No. 698887, filed May 22, 1912, and consists in 'an improved key action. and operating meanstherefor which, although within the scope of said application, constitutes such an improvement in the art and so increases the speed and precision of action of such machines and reduces their bulk, weight and cost asto constitute, in view ofthe state of the-art, a valuable, new and patentable invention, which consists primarily in the substitution, in my analyzing and recording mechanisms, of rack-and-pinion transmiswith digitalseries of record cards; cardfeed means adaptedto feed cards, one at a sion in lieu of the rocker arms of said application, and secondarily of divers improvements' thereby made practicable.

As.in said application, I provide a-suitable main frame a main shaft suitably mounted therein to which I fix cams for operating the several members of the apparatus; a card supply magazine or hopper and an analyzed-card bin, card plates form ing. a card-Way and perforated with'registering holes in digital series, corresponding time, from the hopper to and through the card way and into the him a cardstop; a

vertically reciprocating pin box frame operable by cams on the main shaft, in parallel guides on the main frame and parallel pin box ways on said frame; a-plurality of. pin boxes (illustrated as two) slidably mounted and fixable in adjusted position on said Ways and moving with said frame; a plurality of digital series of pins in said boiles, each series consisting n n ne pins corresponding with the digits, spaced correspondingly with and adapted to register with series of holes in the cardovay plates and with digital series on record cards and a hoIe in one or more of said card series; a plurality of adding machines (two) suitably fixed on the main frame; and a like plurality of analyz- ANALYZING: AND RECORDING- MEGHANISM.

Patented May 1, 1917. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed Apri14, 1913. Serial No. 258,775.

invention relates to machines recording elements and. an adding a bracket rolj the MACHINE COMPANY, 03 NEW YQRK, N. Y-., .A CORPORATION OF DELA- .ing and recording mechanisms operably con nected with cams on the main shaft and therebytnned in their operation relatively to the operations of the pin-boxes and theirpins, and each adapted to analyze statements recorded in perforations incards and in. pins extending through said perforations and to cause the result of such analysisto be recorded by an adding machinef-each series of analyzing elements being adjustable in the machine and fixable in adjustedpositions coordinated with positions of the pin-boxes and with groups of digital *se- 'ries (some, it may be, perforated, each with one hole) of record cards recording statements to be analyzed and recorded; and positioning means adapted to enable the operator to quickly and accurately locate the adjustable elementeg in coordinating positions, 3 i v i In the drawings, Figure 1 is a partial plan showing the accounting machine proper With its card magazine'broken oil, and my analyzing elements; on the right a broken' plan illustrating several of my selecting and and on the left, broken transmission elewith Fig: 1'; Fig. 3 is a transverse section 0 machine;

ments indicating that like mechanisms, not

on the line 3-3 of .Figs. 1 and 2-, corre- I spond ng with my analyzing elements; and,

Fig. 4: is a similar section on the-line :of Figs. 1 andQ, corresponding with" my recording elements. I I Fig. 5 is a detail view of the analyzing member. Y

Fig. 6 i top plan view ofthe guide I rack bars of the analyzer. Fig. 7 is aside elevation of the mecha-- nismshown in Fig. 6. Fig. dis a vertical sectional view taken on the line 8+8 of Fig. 6; 1 I Fig. 9 is a side elevation rack bars of the analyzer. I v

Fig. 10 is an end elevation of (meet the rack bars'of the analyzer. j-

Fig. 11 is a fragmentarytop plan 'view partly in section of one of the rack bars of. the analyzer. i

of one of the Fig; 12 is a vertical sectional view of the -plication referred to, comprising (besides elements not referred to) a main shaft 19, suitably mounted in hearings in said frame and connected with a source of power; pairs of cams fixed on said shaft, respectively, pin-box operating cams 18 containing cam grooves 11', retractor cams 11S and recording platen cams" 80; fixed on said frame 1. a eard'supply hopper -l-l-, an analv'zed eai'd bin 1-H and located between them, a pair of horizontal perforated plates, respectively 2S and 29, having a plurality of digital series of registering perforations with nine holes in each series, corresponding with the digits and said series spaced in consonance with digital series of num-' hers (some perforated) in record cards; a :ard-path between said plates; a card stop 31 comprising a pair of'stop-lingers 31 on a shaft 31" operably connected with the main shaft and adaptedto stop a card in registering position in the card-way between the card-plates 2S and 29; a cardfeedfl slide or picker 13, adapted to pick one card at a time from the hopper a l and advance it to a card feed mechanism (generally indicated by 30) comprising feed rolls on shafts suitably mounted and operably connected with the main shaft 15); a vertieally-reciprocating jig or pin-box table 11 provided with parallel guides engaging corresponding guides on the main frame 1, movable therein by the engagement of rollers 15 and 16 mounted on said jig) with the cam-grooves 17 of the cams 18, and adapted for the adjustable mounting of pin boxes 26 and 27 and comprising horizontal parallel pinbox ways 11 and 12, exterior positioning racks 24: thereon and downwardly-extending arms at the ends thereof united in pairs, 13 and 11, by transverse bars 13 and 1 1; and a plurality of pin-boxes (illustrated as two) 26 and 27 suitably mounted on the jig ways 11 and 12, and each of which comprises a pair of perforated pin guide plates, 7 and 8,separators. 9 and 10, to which said plates ai'e ioi11e(l (with their ends projecting to form mounting guides by which said boxes are mounted as aforesaid),a U-shaped upper, perforated positioning plate 22, the body of which is parallel with the pin-guide plates 7 and 8 -and the down-turned outer arms 23, of

which are provided with positioning rack teeth corresponding with the teeth of the positioning racks 24 of the jig ways 11 and 12,the perforations in the plates 7, 8 and (revolubly 22 being in digital series adapted to register with the aforesaid holes in the cardplates 28 and 29, and with digital series (some perforated with one hole) of record cards,-series of pins, 20, movable in said perforations and each having an exterior head 21, which limits its downward motion when its lower end projects suliiciently below the lower card plate 29,-and screws, 25, by which the pin boxes 2i and 27 may be secured in adjusted position on the ways 11. and 12. I

()u suitable side extensions 1 of the frame 1. I locate a pair of adding machines and A (the latter not illustrated) and .I provide duplicate, selective, analyzing and recording mechanisms R and R (the latter not illustrated) adapted to be Operated synchrommsly but independently by a suitable operative connection with the main shaft 19 and each adapted to co-act with the above-described accounting machine elements, to analyze one statement out of a plurality of statements recorded on a card by a perforation in each of a group of digital series of said card and to select and operate the proper keys of the digital key-series of the adding machine.

Each analyzing and recording mechanism Rcoinprises a series of independentlyoperable, selective key action, K. Each key action li comprises an analyzer 32, a, selector (58, a, digital seriesof (nine) striking keys in, each adapted to strike one key 58 of a digital key series of the adding machine A, a transmission T adapted to conmeet and synchronize the motions of the analyzer 32 and selector 68 and means to operably. connect and disconnect the selector with and from any selected key of the striking series. I

The analyzers of the series comprised in an analyzing and recording mechanism R (or R are operably mounted in a movable carriage 33, to the'end that they may be suitably positioned, as a series, relatively to the series of pins 20 in a pin box 26 and to a statement-recording group of digital series on .a record card.

The recording elements of the connected series on the contrary, operate in planes fixed by the mode of supporting said mem bers on the frame 1: and the transmission shafts 8,6 are revolubly mounted but axially fixed in the carriage 33' and revoluble but axially movable in bearings, 93, in the frame 1 and slidably engage transmission elsm ents (gears 95) directly connected with tho' selectors 68. Each analyzer 32 is preferably a rectangular bar provided with a finger, 31,; the contact face of which is concave, so that it may engage with and be stopped and accurately positioned by a pin 20 projecting below the card-support plate 39 and with, a rack, 32', formed in its under face.

The analyzer carriage, 33, is provided with mounting heads 33 and mounting slots V 33 therein for mounting the analyzers; a foot 87 and transverse therein a V guide 87 and av half dovetail ',g ;-uide 8.7 which engage correspondingguides 98 and 98 on a rail or way 98 connected with the machine frame 1 on which the carriage is slidable, and an arm 87 and screw 87 engaging a tapped hole therein .and adapted to clamp the car- 'riage in adjusted positions on said guides;

and a series of bearings 85, in which I revolubly-mount and suitably axially position the transmission'shafts 86 of the series. I also provide a track i7 connected with the machine frame, adapted to support the outhang of the frame 33, on which I revolubly mount rollers '45 to engage said track.

I provide a positioning engagementbetween'the carriage 33 and the m 98 to" enable the operator to quickly and accurately position the former relatively to an adjusted pin-box andcomprising a series of conical sockets 105 insaid way, each corresponding in position with apair of teeth in the positioning racks 24 and a positioningpin 104 located in a socket formed in the carriage foot, 8?, advanced by a spring-and provided with a conical head 104 correspondingwith the sockets 105,- Which head is so oblique that the pin is retractable by the sliding of the carriage. When the carriage is shifted the pi'n-headlO P plays in and out .of the sockets 105; and when the carriage :is nearly adjusted, the pin-head engages a socket and thereby enableszthe operator to set the carriage with prec1sion.-

The selectors 68 are preferably rectangular-bars and are slidably mounted series *of guide slots 68 formed in the; machine xframe 1,.are severally independently adjyanceable by a spring82, strained between a lug 83 on the selector and a pin 84 on the machine frame and each is provided with a 74c,slidable in l .tor head and having a lower head 75 pressed deck 68*" cut in its under face and a plunger vertical bearing in'the selecdown by a spring 76, against a platen 77, to

bedescribed hereafter. seriescorresponding with the selectors and The strikingkeys 48 which are levers in with digital series of keysf58 of the adding machine A, are pivot-ally mounted on the main frame 1 by means of pivot rods 57 and suitably separated or spaced thereon,

the keys in a series being alternated or staggered in two parallel adjacent planes, 7 so that'athey' may be individually operated, gjwithout-fojuling one another; their several i $0;

striking. endsare located just above the extendedpositionsj of the-several .keys 58 of a digital adding-machine series-and their op- "p'c'site ends are each pivotally connected iwith a ende'nt 'orkey rod 59 of a series arrange in the same-.yertieal-plane with a selector 68 and adaptedto be reciprocated in guides formed in a pairof'guide plates 81 and 81", (the latter their positioning plate). to be depressed by a spring 81,-

strained between the upper plate 81 and a collar 81 on said rod, said springs normally guidesformed on its end posts 77 and engaging. guides 78 on the frame 1, and operated by means of a pair of cams 80 on the main shaft 17 and cam rollers 7 9 on theplaten arms engaging therewith.

In the operation of my apparatus, the ad- Vance of a selector 68 is spring actuated (by spring 82), synchronous with the advance of its connected analyzer 32'and arrested by the arrest ofsaid analyzer. If the latter is not-arrested by contact with a pin 20 which has registered and passed through a cardperforation, the selector advances its v plungerflt beyond thekey rod series, but if the analyzerbe arrested by such a pin 20, the selector is also arrested with itsplunger 74 in register with one or other of the keyrods 59. All the selectors being thus and synchronously operated, the platen 77 is lifted by the revolution of the cams 80 and lifts the selector plungers. I Those of the latter which are in register with key rods 59 lift them, and operate the. connected striking keys 48 which strike the corresponding adding machine keys 58 and cause the adding machine to record the statement contained in the digital series of the record card, as analyzed by pins 20registering with card perforations and analyzers 32, each co acting with such a pin. Those selector plungers whose connected analyzers found no fact recorded by a projecting pin 20. being fully advanced beyond and clear of the key-rod series, are idly reciprocated.

' The transmission of each key actinncomprises a shaft 86 revolubly' mountedand axially fixed-in a bearing 85 in the carriage 88, a gear wheel 88 fixed on said shaft in mesh with the rack of the'analyzer 32 and.

a gear wheel 95 axially fixed in a supplemental frame 1 attached to the main frame I l but revoluble with the shaft 86 which engages andwliich is slidable through said gear by means of a suitable engagement 95 illustrated as aspline in the wheel-engaging a corresponding; way'in the shaft.

The analyzer 32 and selector-6 8 of each key action of the series, 'bei ng connected and synchronized in their motions by an independenttransmission T, are synchrononsly adninceable by their spring S2, in dependently ot the other key-actions of the series, the limit of their advance being such that when iullv advanced the finger 3i of the analyzer oat is beyond the last pin 20 (corresponding with the digit 9)' of the digital pin box series with which it is coacting and the selector plunger H; is beyond the last key rod 59 (also corresponding with the digit ll) of the digital striking key series; and when the. platen TT is next lifted, no adding machine key 58 in the correr sponding adding machine digital series will be struck, and it will record a naught or Zt'l'ti, for said series.

I provide a retractor i such as described in said application. operably connected with the main shaft 1! adapted to control the advance of the key actions K until they are arrested by contact of their analyzer lingers 334- with pins 20 or when not so arrested, throughout their advance, to simultaneously initiate the retraction of all fully advanced actions and to pick up pin arrested. ones, fully retract all of them simultaneously and to hold them retracted during a proper por tion of the function-cycle. The retractor F is a rocking 'l'rame pivotally mounted on the machine i'rame 1 and comprises a pair of end mounting bars 2-55, at retracting bar lit in the free ends thereof and adapted to contact with the inner ends of the analyzers 32 and retract them and a rod 42, on which I pivot one end of a link ii, the opposite end of which is pin-connected with the sliding card feed or picker 13.

The rctraetor F is rocked by a pair oi? cams 38 on the main shaft 19, being operably connected therewith by a pair of slotted links 256, each pivotally connected with a retractor mounting bar 35, provided with a slot 36 which envelops the shaft 19 and by the engagement of its sides therewith,

transversely positions and guides its own reciprocation and with a revolubly mounted roller'37 which engages a cam 38.

It will be understood by reference to the drawings, that the elements of the di licate analyzing and recording mechanism R are similar to those above described for the like mechanism R, save that their respective analyzer carriages 33 are left and right hand as to the disposition of their shafts.

The operation of my apparatus is as fol lows:

It being desired to analyze and record statements of similar facts recorded on record cardsby one perforation in each series of a group of digital series on each such earth-or to so treat two statements so recorded on each such card-the pin boxes are elevated to free their pins from the pin plates 28, the screws 25 of the pin box 26 or of both pin-boxes are loosened, the engaged positioning rack teeth of the positioning racks A and of the plates 22 are separated and the pin box or boxes adjusted in position relatively to the position, when 76 said record cards fed into the card Way, of the record digital series on said cards, and the screws are tightened, locking said engaging rack teeth and accurately positioning the pin box or boxes. The carriage or carriages 33 are then adjusted in position, being accu 'ately set by the engagement of the positioning pin head 10-h with a socket .105 in the way 9b and clamped thereto by the screw 87, the several axial planes of so the analyzers and corresponding series oi pins 30 being common to both.

7 The revolution of the main shaft and cams raises and lowers the pin boxes $26 and 27 and the platens 7T; rocks the retractor i thereby retracting and permitting the rlrl'lllg-tltillllitlt l advance of the analyzers and selectors, and reciprocating the card picker l3; rocks the card-stop 31; and operates the card feed 30. The funetionings 90 ot the cams are so timed that during the rise of the pin boxes (by whichthecard way is cleared of pins) the card-stop is set, the card picker and card-feed pick a card from the hoppe and advance it to operative position (fixed by the card stop), the analyzers and selectors are retracted, the platens rest in their lowest positions, the striking keys are retracted and the adding n-achine keys are extended, all becoming ready to perform their functions.

WV hen 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 iind no record perforations in. the card series are arrested; but those which find such perforations extend their ends through the holes in the card-support plate 29 and reproduce, below said plate, the statement; recorded in the. card perforations. Immediately thereafter the retractor is retired, thereby permitting spring actuated advance of the analyzers and selectms-(and also retracting the aid picker). Those analyzers which find no pins in their path, advance with the retractor to the limit of its motion and their connected selectors 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 same record, each selector plunger being then operatively beneath a key-rod of the corresponding striking-key series.

The platens 77 are then lifted by their cams, and lift the selector plungers and such key-rods as register with selector plungers, which swing their connected striking keys 1 shaft of the adding which in turn strike their adding machine.

- Following the above described operations,.

the platen is lowered, the j ust operated striking keys and their key rods are retracted, the machine is operated to cause it to print said record and extend its keys, the card stop is retired opening the card way, the card feed 30 advances the-card from the card way to the analyzed-card bin, the "cardstop is again set to close the card Way, the retractor is advanced, retracts the analyzers and selectors and advances the card picker and another card and the ap pa'ratus is ready to perform another cycle.

It will beseen that is moved its rack 32- revolves theengaging gear 88 and the shaft 86' and selector gear 95, .andbecause, ofthe engagement of" said gear'with the selector rack, synchronously moves the selector 68; or vice versa; and that this mode of operation is much more precise and certain and less impaired by clearances, backlash and fiexure of the members than the rockshaft-and-arms transmission of my above-application; and also that the unital transmission shafts herein described are much superior in their operations to, and at the ftime cheaper than, the tw0-part extensible shafts of the former application. .1 illustrate the action shafts 86 as axially engaged and slidable with the carriage 33, Action shafts axially fixed in the machine frame and over which the carriage and analyzers severally, slidably engaged with said shafts could slide, would operate equally Well if I used only one analyzing and recording mechanism; or shafts so fixed and extending-to the central plane of the machine would satisfactorily operate duplicate mechthe carriages were never anisms provided moved so far as I to disengage the analyzers from the shafts.

But the construction illustrated increases the range of action of an apparatus employing duplicate mechanisms R and R because one carriage may be located'at the outer limit of its range and the second located in juxtaposition to the first, thus enabling my duplicate apparatus to analyze and record any two statements properly recorded in perforations of a card, hoW'-' ever thosestatements may be located thereon;

I have used throughout, the term adding machine because such apparatus is primarilyintended for the production of rinted numerical statements, generally ta ular, suchas'are produced by adding machines. But I might selector'havinga when an analyzer '32 adapt my apparatus to use in.

connection with any record-printing machine of a generally similar character; and

where 1 refer in the claims tosuch apparatus I use the broader term.

Having. thus described my claim g 1. An action for analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machines comprising an analyzer having a pluralityof rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, shafts connecting the pinions of the analyzer and thepinions of the selector, means for driving the said pinions, a recorder, and means carried byjthe selector for causing an operation of the recorder. I

2. An action mechanisms of accounting machines, comprisingan analyzerhaving a pluralityfof' rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, connecting means between the pinions of the analyzer and the pinions of theseleetor, means for drivingtne pinions of the analyzer,- a recorder, and means carried by the operation of the recorder.

3. An action for'analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machines, comprising an analyzer having a, plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing. therewith, connecting means bet-ween the pinions of the analyzer and the. pinions of the selector, means invention, I

for analyzing and recording selector for causing anfor normallydriving the pinions, means for retaining said driving means, a recorder, and means carried by the selector for causing an operation of the recorder.

4. An action for analyzing and recording mechanisms of'accounting machines, compris-v ing an'analyzer having a plurality of rack bars and pinions therewith, the pinions of I meshing therewith, means for driving the said pinions, means for l1m-,

plurality of rack bars and the pinions of the selector prising an analyzer having a plurality of rack barsand meansfor driving the said pinions, stops carried by the said rack bars providing means for limiting their movement, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, shafts connecting the pinions of the analyzer and the pinions of the selector whereby the rotations ,of the pinions meshing therewith,

prisin former are transmitted equivalently to the latter, a recorder, and means carried by the selector rack bars for causing an operation of the recorder.

6. An action for analyzing and recording mechamsms of accounting machines, comprising an analyzer having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith,

the pinions of the analyzer and the pinions' of the selector whereby a movement of the former-"is transmitted to the latter, a re corder, and means carried by the selector for causing an operation of the recorder.

7. An action for analyzing andrecording mechanisms of accounting machines, coman analyzer having a plurality of rack ars and pinions meshing therewith, means for driving the said pinions, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, means for driving the said pinions, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, shafts connecting the pinions of the analyzer andthe pinions of the selector whereby a movement of the former is transmitted to the latter, a recorder, keys arranged to operate it, and means carried by the selector for causing the said keys to move for operating the recorder.

i 8. An action for analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machines comprising an analyzer, a selector, gear teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, a shaft, pinions on said shaft respectively engaged with the gear teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, and a series of keys, the selector and the series of keys operative substantially in a fixed plane, the analyzer adjustable into and operative in a plurality of planes, the

gear engaged with the analyzer movable with it, and a sliding connection between one of said gears and said shaft.

9. An action for analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machines comprising an analyzer, a selector, gear teeth on the analyzerand on the selector. a shaft, pinions on said 1shaft respectively engaged with the gear teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, a'series of keys, the selector and the series of keys operative substantially in a fixed plane, the analyzer adjustable into and operative in a plurality of planes, the shaft and the gear engaged with the analyzer axially fixed relatively to said analyzer, the

gear engaged with the selector axially'fixed,

and a sliding connection betweensaid shaft and the gear engaged with the selector 10. An action'for analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machines comprising an analyzer, a selector, racks on the analyzer and on the selector, a shaft. pinions on said shaft respectively engaged with axially xed relatively to said analyzer, the

gear engaged with the selector rack axially fixed; and a sliding connection between said shaft and the gear engaged with the selector rack.

11. An analyzing and recording mechanism for accounting machines comprising a plurality of actions, and, con1prised in each such. action, an analyzer, gear teeth on said analyzer, a selector, gear teeth on said selector, a shaft, pinions mounted on said sha ft and engaged with the teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, a series of keys; a nun-- able carriage on which the analyzers of the plurality ofactions are mounted, the gears engaged with said analyzers are rcvoluhly mounted but axially fixed relatively to said carriage and its action shafts are similarly mounted and fixedLand an axially adjustable engagement between the shaft aud'selcctor gear of each action.

12. An analyzing and recording mechanism for acounting machines comprising a plurality of actions. and, comprised in each such action, an analyzer, a rack on said analyzer-,h selector, a rack on said selector, a shaft, pinions mounted on said shaft and engaged with the rack on the analyzer and on the selector, a series of keys; a movable such action, an analyzer, gear teeth on said analyzer, a selector. gear teeth on said selector, a shaft, pnnons mounted on said shaft and engaged with the teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, :1 series of keys; a movable carriage on which the analyzers of the plurality of actions are mounted, the gears engaged with said analyzers are revolubly mounted but axially fixed relatively to said carriage and its action shafts are similarly mounted and fixed; an axially adjustable engagement between the shaft and selector gear of each action, parallel guides parallel with said shafts formed on said carriage and adapted to engage corre sponding guides on a machine frame, and fixing means adapted to fix said carriage in desired positions on said guides.

14. An analyzing and recording mechanism for accounting machines comprising a plurality of actions, and, comprised in each such action, an analyzer, gear teeth on said analyzer, a selector, gear teeth on said selector, a shaft, pinions mounted on said shaft and engaged with the teeth on the analyzer and on the selector, aseries of keys; a movable carriage on which the analyzers of the plurality of actions are mounted, the gears engaged with said analyzers are revolubly 'mounted but axially fixed relatively to said carriage and its action shafts. are similarly mounted and fixed; an axially adjustable engagement'bctween the shaftand selector gear of each action, parallel guides parallel with said shafts formed on said carriage and adapted to engage corresponding guides on a machine frame, and clamping-means adapted to clamp said carriage in desired positions on said guides.

15. An action for analyzing and recording mechanisms of accounting machirfis of that type in which statements recorded on cards by means of "perforations are registered by pins passing through such perforations, said action adapted to be actuated by actuatingmeans connected with the accounting machine to select and strike keys of a record-printing mechanism, and said action comprising an analyzer, a selector, a rack and pinion gearing transinission, and a series of keys. said analyzer adapted to be positioned by contact. with such a pin, said transmission adapted to position said selector eorrcs ondingly with positions ofsaid analyzcr, and Said selector adapted to be so positimed in selective and operable positions relatively to individual keys of saidkey series and. to cause the operation thereof.

16. An analyzing and recording mechanism for accounting machines of that type in which statcmi nts recorded on cards by means of perforations are registered by pins passing through such perforations, said imwzhanism comprising a plurality of aclions each adapted to be actuated by actuatinn means connected ivith the accounting machine to select and strike keys of a recoi'ilprinting mechanism, and each action comprising an analyzer, a selector, a rack and pinion gearing transmission and a series of keys, the analyzer of each action adapted to be positioned by contact with such a pin, the transmission thereof adapted to position the selector thereof with, positions of said analyzer, and said selector adapted to be so positioned in selective and operable positions relatively to individual keys of the key series thereof and to cause the operation of said selected keys.

"said action comprising an analyzer, a selector, a rack and pinion gearing transmission, and a series of keys, a movable car- 'riage on which theanalyzers of the'plurality of actions are mounted, the gears engaged with said analyzers are revolubly mounted but axially fixed relatively to said carriage and the action shafts are similarly mounted but axially fixed, and an axially adjustable engagement bet con the shaft and selector of each action, the analyzer of each action adapted to be positioned by contact with such a pin, the transmission thereof adapted to position the selector thereof with posi tions of said analyzer, and said selector adapted to be so positioned'in selective and operable positions relatively to individual keys of the key series thereof and to cause the operation of said selected keys.

18. An action for analyzing and record ing' mechanisms of accounting machines, comprising an analyzer having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, a selector having a plurality of rack bars and pinions meshing therewith, connecting means between the pinions of the analyzer and the pinions of the selector, resilient means for normally driving the pinions, means'for retaining said driving means, a recorder, and means carried by the selector for causing an operation of the recorder.

" JAMES POWERS.

Witnesses:

H. D. lnnnnr, J 01m MORRIS.

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