US1486819A - Typewriter attachmen - Google Patents

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Be it known that 1, XVILLIAM E. "Winn, a citizen of the 1United States,` residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of lient and. 5 State ol" Michigan. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ty ewriter Attachments, of which the 'following is a specification. a My invention relates to improvements in lov typmvriters, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby a lonesheet, or long),` sheets of paper may be used in Writing with the machine; second, to provide a means whereby a large number of. letters may be, written without the necessity of re-r placing' sheets of paper for each letter; third` to provide a' means whereby briefs may be'written without breaking them u in pages, and without changing sheets wit 1 each page of brief written; fourth, to provide a means whereby several ,sheets of paper with carbon paper properly intervened, may be written upon Without the necessity of changing sheets and carbon with each page of writing, and, fifth, to provide for properly storing the carbon sheets as the Writing is being clone.

il attain these objectsrby the mechanism n and distribution of parts shown in the ac- :i companying drawing, in which Fig. l is an end eleva-tion of a writing machine with my appliance in place. Fig. 2 is a back elevation of my appliance detached Jfrom the machine. Fig. 3 is al plan of a typewriting machine 'svith my device in place. Fig. elis a plan oiA one end of the roller upon which carbon paper is to be stored after hai-'ing Written with it, showingspringl clamps 'for holdingj\the\\\edge of the'carbon paper in placefayhile hein@ Wound around the roller ormshart. Fig. 5 1s a like View of the other end oil said shaft or roller. Figs. 6 and 7 show a cop-y holder attachment in place.

Similar reference characters indicate simiH lar parts throughout the several views.

n the accompanying drawing; l represents a type-Writingf machine7 2 is the ear* riage kthat carries the platen le, upon which the printing' is done. 3 represents the side pieces or frame upon which the several working parts of my device are mount-ed. This frame has an integral cross piece, 3, at the bottom thereof, and a cross brace 3" well up upon the frame. At the lower end of this frame l mount two rollers, as 'in` 'longitudina ll .@.TTCEMEII 1922. Serial No. 559,465.

dicated in Fig. 2, to provide for the easy and ready movement of this` device with the carriage and platen of the machine as type Writing' is being done. it ll l have ,shown a rcel upon which thc writing' paper is to be stored, said rcel being mountfal upon the 'shaft T and made to revolve for windingv the paper upon it by 'means oli the crank or its equivalent.

l`he arms 8 are designed to he secured to the bearings u. on thc arriap'e in Such a, manner 'that the movements of the carriage will' he transmitted to the iframe 3 and will hold the reel G always in proper alinement with the carriage as the carriage travels y #he machine trame in the act offvriting' or printing* upon the paper.

In Winding the ping-ei" upon the reel the writing paper and the carbon paper are laid in in alternate layers, usually done in 'fili manifold Work, except that in this instance very long` sheets ot paper, and of carbon are used, instead of the usual short sheets.

To complete this device1 l mount several shafts, 12. in the frame. sides 3 soithal; they may be readily removed, vreplaced and made to revolve freely. and place a. drivingr pulley or sheave` as l), 11h ill, pon one end or' each Y shaft in such -a position that a belt passed over these pulleys and over the pulleyy l5, which is directly mounted upon 'the platen shaft i4', so that every time the platen is marie to revolve its action upon the belt l@ will cause the shafts l2 to revolve accordingly. rLillie shafts l2 are `provifed 'with -clasps 13' between which and the enarface the shalt the ends of the carbon sheets :are secured so that these shafts will be made to take up the carbon sheets as tas as they are passed over the platen, thus separating the e carbon sheets from 'the printed sheets, storing* the carbo-n sheets, and passing the printed sheets over and between the shaL lits lf2 into position baci: of the machine, as indicated at c, el e and .in l. in. passing from the reel ii upon te platen l"- the paper passes over the guard fr, ack o the platen, in the several folclsjas shown in Fig. l. ylhe reference character g representsthe car-- bon sheets the f -from the platen lil upon the shafts i, and. the manner of se curingthese sheets to the al'iaffts 5 is plainly illustrated in iigsf/iand the two figures showing the two ends oi what should 'ne a continuous shait which, in full size as shown, would bel too long to show as a oomplete shaft upon the dratting sheet, hence the divided shaftl shown in Figs. 4 andy 5.

At 5 l have shown the yokes into which the rollers or wheels l are revolubly mounted, which said yokes are securely connected with every revoluble movement' of the platen or writing roller 14, so that the movements of the niachine are fully as tree and unencumbered as if this appliance were'not in use, and the advantages gained by the limitless amount of writing that may h y"lone without changing sheets are almost inestuuablc.

llllhile the frame, ot' the auxiliary carriage 'l-B is made separate from the machine frame or carriage, it is so directly connected with the machine carriage as to `eccome ahsolutely auxiliary thereto, and to he made to move.` at. all times, in actual unison with the machine arriage 'lhe clamping lingers 13 should be made, adjustable longitudinally of the shafts 13 so they may be. adjusted to ditl'erent widths of papel'. as indicated by the dotted lineeiv on Fig. 4. i 2

ln Figures (l and 7 l have shown an end view, and a front View, respectively, of my device with an adjustable copy holder attachment, consisting of the attaching bar 18, which is secured to the side pieces ot1 my frame, as indicated at y', and to the upper ends of said bars l pivotally mount tihe, copy holder i5, as indicatedy at le, so that it may be made to stand aty various inelines 'from the. perpendicular, as desired, and as indi 'ated by the dotted lines in Fig. t'.

rlhis coliyholder is providedwith clampiiig bars 16 intended to engage the sheets ot copy and hold them safely while being copied t'rom upon a typewriter machines These clamps are made adjustable longitudinally of the eopyholder by being mounted u-pon bolts that pass through, and are ad-` justable, longitudinally, in the slots 1T so the said clamps may be adjusted to meet any lwidth of copy paper that it is found necessary to use.

prefer that the clamps 1G be mounted upon slidable supports m, placed in the slots l?, so it will not be necessary to loosen any screws or bolts when desiring to shit't the clamps from one position into another positionas-varying widths ot paper may demand.

fit it) I have shown a weight or latch pivoted to the traine 3 at a. and designed to resty upon the upper sides ot the ends of the shafts 1&2 to arert the danger of said sha'tts 'being raised out o'l' their bearings by the t'ensionof the belt 16 'when operating the machine. t

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is:

1. In combination with a t \f'pe\\.'riting malchine, and an' auxiliary .carriage having a -reel arranged to carry wrltnig paper and carbon paper and yto teed such paper properly to the platen on the machine, said aux iliary carriage arranged to move longitudi- -Ially of the machine with the corresponding movements ot the platen, shafts revolubly mounted upon said auxiliary carriage for receiving and storing each used sheet of carbon paper separately trom the others, a pulley mounted upon the end ot eaclrot said shafts and a corresponding pulley mounted upon the platen shaft, a belt engaging said pulleys in such a manner that the revoluble movements of the platen will revolve all of said shafts, said shafts so arranged that the several used sheets ot' carbon paper may be automatically separated from each other att er printing, and each sheet stored upon its respective shalt. and the printed paper may be stored separately from them-bou paper.

Q. 'In combination with the elements covered in claim V1,spring clamps mounted upon tlte. shafts ony the auxiliary carriage tor clamping the ends of the .arbon paper.

-l. ln couibinatioi with the elements covered in claim l. an adjustable copy holder liivotally mounted upon and movable with nty auxiliary carriage and forming close rictional connection therewith at. the pivotal bearings.

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