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US1612089A
US1612089A US756844A US75684424A US1612089A US 1612089 A US1612089 A US 1612089A US 756844 A US756844 A US 756844A US 75684424 A US75684424 A US 75684424A US 1612089 A US1612089 A US 1612089A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
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  • the object of my invention is to provide means for ausing the desired action or movement from a master controlling bar or member to devices from which desired movements may be effected.
  • I provide a bar or member having projecting and re-entrant parts. such as slots and projections integral with the bar ⁇ certain of which slots at spaced equal distances apart I term clearance slots. and the projections and slots on opposite sides of such clearance slots are adapted to serve with movable members for regulating or controlling movements of the latter, which bar is adapted to be shifted as required with respect to said members to permit the desired action of the latter according to the work to be accomplished.
  • Figure 1 is a face view of a bar embodying nl v invention ⁇ having slots and projections at one side thereof;
  • Figure 2 is a face View of a bar having slots or projections on opposite sides;
  • Figures 3 and -1 are views similar to Figures 1 and 2 illustratingthe bars having slots and projections reversed somewhat to those shown in Figures 1 and 2;
  • Figure 5 is a section on the linel 5, 5, in Figure 4:
  • Figure is a face view of a blank having the clearance slots and ready to have the operating slots and projections produced therein:
  • Figure T is a perspective view illustrating' means for slidably guiding a plurality of the aforesaid bars:
  • Figure 8 ⁇ is a section on the line 8, 8, in Figure 7; Y
  • Figure S is a paitlv sectional side view of the parts shown in Figures 7 and 8, illus- ⁇ trating devices /for shifting the bars, and devices controlled by said bars according to their shifted positions;
  • Figure 1t is an end view looking from the left in Figure 9. part of the bar-shifting rockers being omitted.
  • the bars 1 are made of suitable material, such as relatively thin steel ⁇ of desired length and width, andare provided at spaced distances apart with any desired number/of clearance slots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
  • the series of clearance slots extend into the bar on one of its sides, While in the remaining figures two series of clearance slots extend into the bar on its opposite sides, and either such series of clearance slots extend from the edge of the bar a desired and deiinite distance, constituting what may be. termed a base line.
  • the bars 1 are provided with projecting and re-entrant parts shown as projections 12 and intermediate slots 13, said projections being of desired heights and the slots of desired depths, some of which slots may pass to the level of the bottoms or the base line of the clearance slots, and others may not pass so far into the bar 1.
  • projections 12a are slightly longer than the projections 12 to serve as support-ing and guiding projections for bars 1 as the latter are shifted lengthwise, (see Figure 8).
  • the projecting and re-entrant parts of bar 1 are so designed that such projections will co-act with and limit the movement of movable members 14, shown in the form of plates, adapted when caused or per- ⁇ mitted to move toward the bar to rest upon said projections to limit the movement of said members 14 toward the bar accordin to Figures 1 and 2, whereas in Figures 3 and 4 it is designed that the slots 13 shall receive the members 14 to regulate the movement of said members toward the bar.
  • the bar 1 having the projecting and re-ent'rant portions 12, 13 determines the extent of'movement of members 14 toward bar 1 in accordance with the position of adjustment of said .bar relatively to members 14.
  • a frame or casing 15 having opposed interior grooves at 16, at suitable distances apart, (which may be formed by grooved pieces secured within the frame), in which grooves the end portions 1a and the extended ends of proj ectlons 12a are guided, whereby the bars 1 are slidably supported and suitably spaced apart for longitudinal adjustment.
  • Frame 15 is provided with transversely disposed slots 15a, and bars 1 are so set within the frame that in their normal positions the clearance slots 2, 3, 4, etc. are in register with the slots 15, as shown in Figure 8, and the end portions, 1a of bars 1 preferably, when said slots are in register, project slightly from the ends of frame 15.
  • Any suitable means may be provided for shifting bars 1 independently of one another, and singly or in any desired number simultaneously, and also for causing. the members 14 to be moved toward bars 1 as required.
  • means for( shifting bars 1 I have shown rock arms 17, 18 at opposite ends of each bar 1, and shown as having projections 17, 18EL to engage the ends of said bars.
  • Springs 19, 20 are shown respectively connected with arms 1.7, 18'and with one or more stops or lugs 21 tending normally to move arms 17, 18 away from the corresponding bars 1.
  • arms, 17, 18 are adapted to hear against movable stops 22, 23 which will be moved out of co-action with the corresponding arms 17, 18, at the required time of operation of the latter.
  • the stops 22, 23 are shown carried by shafts 24.
  • crank arms 26, 27 that may be operated by any suitable means, at the required time.
  • Arms 17. 18 may also be operated at any suitable time by desired means for causing re planetaryd adjustment or longitudinal shifting o bars 1. It is intended that members 14 may pass entirely down to the bottoms of the clearance slots 2, 3, 4, etc. of bars 1, or be stopped on their inward movement by the projecting or re-entrant parts of said bars, whereby the inward movement of members 14 is made variable, as required, to effect a variable movement to any device to be controlled from members 14.
  • Each shaft 29 also has a pin 32 to engage spaced shoulders or stops 30a on the corresponding arm 30 to permit independent swing of arm 30 relative to its shaft- 29, and to cause positive return of the said shaft by its arm 30 to the normalr position.
  • Each shaft 29 is intended to transmit motion to a part to be controlled, which may be accomplished in any suitable manner, such as by a crank arm 33 secured on said shaft yconnecting with a rod 34, ( Figure 10).
  • the arrangement is such that a set of arms 30 may be freely rocked, and the members 14 operated by said arms Will have such movement as is permitted by a bar 1 that has been adjusted to the right or left from its normal position.
  • An arm 39 is connected with the slidebars 35 as by pasting through an opening therein, and is mounted upon a shaft 40 suitably journaled and adapted to be operated at the required time by any suitable means.
  • IVhere bars ⁇ 1 have a projecting and reentrant member only on one side the frame 15 will be correspondingly slotted and one set of members 14 and their operating devices will be provided, and this entire action may he used in single or in double and multiple form, and where bars 1 have sets of projecting and re-entrant members on opposite sides two sets of members 14 and their operating devices will be provided.
  • the bars 1 will all normally be set in the frame 15 with their clearance slots 2, 3, 4, etc., in register with the slots 15, in other words, with the clearance slots of the bars lying normally together, corresponding to and with reference to members 14, making long parallel l UU clearance grooves or slots transversely across lll all bars 1.1-egardless of the number thereof placed side by side, and members 14 will be held retracted from bars 1 with the lower edges of said members free from bars 1 and guided in slots ltof frame 15.
  • any bar controlling mechanism (which may be controlled by a key, in the nature of a key board of a typewriting machine, linotype, telegraphing machine, adding machine, and other manually controlled machines) operating the rock arm 18 to.
  • stop 22 will be suitably shifted to permit rock arm 17 to swing with bar 1, yand bar l will be retained in such position, and then one or both of the slides 35 will be moved to the left in Figure 9, whereupon the corresponding members 14 will be advanced toward bars 1 and will be permitted to descend because the clearance slots of the nonshifted 'bars 1 will permit inward movement of members 14 only so far as the projecting and re-entrant parts 12, 13 of the said shifted bar 1 permit.
  • the inward movement of members 14 may vary with respect to one another, vwhereby corresponding movements through connections 34 will be transmitted to devices to be operated or controlled by such movements of.
  • any bar 1 any required distance between its clearance slots, and causingy members 14 to approach the shifted bar., such members will have imparted to them such variable movements as are required to cause operation, to a greater or less extent, of devices controlled by such members for producing the desired final results.
  • the object to be attained by the movement of the said members is the settingeof type for the production of meoifanically spelled words, phrases, or Whole numbers
  • the ⁇ .sl-ots and pins or re-entrant parts and the :aforesaid members 14 of the first seetion of the bars will represent the first character-'type of such words, etc.
  • the second section of such bars with the reentrant parts and members 14 Will represent the second type thereof, independent in action from the said first section and other sections, and the third' section of said bars and the third pair of members 14 will represent the lthird type of such words, etc., and so on successively for the other sections of the bars and the members 14 thereof.
  • the first set of pins and slots to the right of each clearance slot represent a series of pins and slots or re-entrant parts corresponding to a complete word or phrase, etef. disposed partly in each section along suchr bar, according to the length of such word, etc.
  • the first set of pins and slots to the left of such clearance slots is a different series, representing a different Word or phrase, etc., disposed along such bar, and the other sets ot' pins and slots all reprcsentdiiferent words, phrases, etc., corresponding tothe other series of slots and pins disposed along such bars.
  • any one of the members 14 of the primary set may operate or set some movable element or body of, say, a stop action, at any time that any of the several positions of principal member 14 is assumed, according to the i7ength or depth of the pin or re-entrant art of bar 1 acted upon by a primary. mem- Eer 14, anda projecting and re-entrant por tion of thel opposite or secondary side of said bar 1 by the like action of member 14 of the secondary set of members, mayy operate the same or some other movable element in such stop action, with relation to or modifying the movement of the first mentioned operated element of such stop actjon.
  • the projecting and rc-entrant parts of Ithe primary set of bars 1, grading by 1/16H range from 1/16 to 6/16 in length above the base line or bottoms of the clearance.
  • each bar 1 Whether in a single or double form, are arranged in sections, and that the sections are arranged first section having a clearance slot, preferably centrally disposed, and fifteen projections or pins and slots disposed on either side thereof, and in some cases is shown a single taller pin 12 which serves as a guide for the bar, and the first set of primary and secondary members 14 bear relation to and act upon projections and slots of such first section only of bars 1.
  • the second section of bars 1 comprises the next or secondclearance slots, and the fifteen projections or slots (and guide pin 12n if desired) and the second pair of primary and secondary members bear relation to such second section only, said latter members 14 being independent in their movements with respect to the projections and slots of the second section of bars 1, sofar as the first set of members 14 are concerned, and so on, the bar herein shown being made of ten such sections, and for each such section is illustrated a pair of primary and secondary members 14.
  • the bars 1 may contain any number of Such sec-v tions with the corresponding members or pairs of members 14 according to the nature and extent of the combinations it is desired to make. i
  • any number of the bars 1 may be placed in parallel order side by side at desired distances apart, and the members 14 may be made long enough to span the bars so arranged.
  • the clearance slots of the first sections of such bars will provide a clearance groove or slot across the central part of such first section of bars 1, for the corresponding member or members 14; the clearance-slots of the second section will likewise provide a clearance groove or slot across such second section or bars 1, and so on for the other clearance slots and their respective sections.
  • the bars 1 illustrated herein, in single or double edged form may be made of thin ribbon or fiat steel and that all of the projections or pins or such bars may be punched or otherwise formed integral with the bars, and that such bars with their projections or pins and slots may be formed of soft steel and then hardened and'tempered, or may be punched out of spring steel.
  • My invention may be utilized to control type printing rwheels in writingmachines, as in word and phrase writing machines, in linotype and type setting machines. in billing machines. ⁇ in bookkeeping machines, in machines for prorating accounts and payroll machines in single and multiple columns of figures, in means for transmitting electric impulses, such as for telegraph typewriters,
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece of material having on one side a plurality of projecting and re-entrant parts of -did'erent graded lengths and depths spaced along the bar, and means to move said bar toa plurality of different positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar comprising a relatively thin piece of metal provided on one side with spaced projections and intermediate Tice-entrant parts of varying Ilengths and depths, and means to move said bar to a phlrality ot different positions longitudina 3.
  • yA controlling bar comprising a relatively thin piece of metal provided along one side with spaced projections and intermediate re-cntrant parts ot'- varying lengths and depths, certain oit said rie-entrant parts terminating in the same plane through said bar, and means to move said bar to a plurality of diderent positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar comprising a relatively thin piece ot metal provided along one side with spaced projections and intermediat re-entrant parts of varying lengths and depths, certain of said re-entrant parts terminating in the same plane'through said bar, and being spaced equi-distantly apart, and means to move said bar to a plurality oit ditlerent positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar comprising a relatively thin piece ot' metal provided along one side with spaced projections and intermediate ire-entrant parts of varying lengths and depths, certain of said re-entrant parts terminating in the same plane through said bar, and being spaced equi-distantly apart, said projecting and said other re-entrant parts being disposed between said latter re-entrant parts ot the same plane.
  • a controlling bar having spaced clearance slots and projecting and re-entrant members between the clearance slots, and means to move said bar to a plurality of ditierent positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar having spaced clearance slots and projecting and re-entrant members between the clearance slots, said clearance slots having an approximately equal base line through said bar, and means to move said bar to a plurality of different positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar having s aced clearance slots and projecting an re-entrant parts between the clearance slots, said clearance slots terminating on the same plane through said bar, and means to slide said bar to a plurality of diderent positions longitudinally.
  • a controlling bar provided with spaced clearance slots, and rojecting and re-entrant parts of different.v engths and depths between said clearance slots.
  • A, ⁇ controlling bar provided with spaced clearance slots and projections disposed substantially centrally between pairs of such clearance slots and extending beyond the main body of said bar, the latter having projecting and re-entrant parts disposed between said clearance slots and on o pposite sides ot said extended projections.
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece of relatively thin metal having projecting and :re-entrant parts of different graded lengths and depths on opposite sides oit the bar and means to move said bar to a plurality of different positions in a direction transverse to the line ot projection et the projecting parts.
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece of relatively thin metal having clearance slots on opposite sides, and spaced apart, said bar having projecting and re-entrant parts of graded lengths and depths on opposite sides ot the bar between pairs of clearance slots.
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece ot relatively thin metal having clearance slots on opposite sides, the clearance slots on one side ot the bar being opposed to the clearance slots on the opposite side of the bar, said clearance slots on each side of the bar terminating in a base line along .the bar, and projecting and re-entrant parts on opposite sides of the bar between corresponding pairs of clearance slots.
  • said clearance slots on each side of the bar terminating in a base line along the bar, and projecting and re-entrant parts on opposite sides Vof the barsbetween corresponding pairs of clearance slots, the corresponding clearance slots of said bars being in alignment. transversely of said bars when the latter are in normal positions.
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece of material having on one side a plurality of series of projecting and re-entrant parts of different graded lengths and depths spaced along the bar, means for guiding said bar f or longitudinal adjustment, and means to shift said bar longitudinally to a number of positions equal to the number of series of projecting and re-entrant parts.
  • a plurality of bars spaced Side side means for guiding said bars for longitudinal adjustment, said bars comprising pieces of material each having on one side a plurality of series of projecting and reentrant parts of diderent graded lengths and depths spaced along the corresponding bar, and means to shift said bars separately longitudinally to a number of positions equal to the number of series of projecting and reentrant parts of each bar.
  • a controlling bar comprising apiece of material having on one side a plurality of projecting and re-entrant parts of difierent graded lengths and depths spaced along the bar, means for guiding the bar for longitudinal adjustment, means to retain said bar in normal central position, and means to shift said bar lon itudinally in opposite directions from sai normal position.
  • a controlling bar comprising a piece of material havingon one side a plurality of projecting and re-entrant parts of different graded lengths and depths s accd along the bar, means for guiding said ar for longitudinal adjustment, members opposed to said bar, and means to cause said members to approach said bar to co-act With its projecting and re-entrant parts.
  • a controlling bar having spaced clearance slots and projecting and re-entiant parts between the clearance slots, members opposed to said bar, means for normally retaining said members in alignment with said clearance slots,.and means to cause said members to move toward the bai to enter the clearance slots and to co-act 4v-fith said projecting and re-entrant parts of the bar when the latter is shifted from a normal clearance position.
  • a controlling bar having spaced clearance slots and projecting and, re-entrant parts between the clearance slots, members opposed to said bar, means for normally retaining said members in alignment with said clearance slots, means to cause said members to move toward the bar to enter the clearance slots and to co-act/With said projecting and re-entrant parts of the bar when the latter is shifted from a noi-mal clearance position, and means connected with said members to transmit different movements thereof.
  • a controlling bar having spaced clearance slots and projecting and re-entrant parts between the clearance slots, members opposed to said bar, adapted to enter said clearance slots and co-act with said projecting and re-entrant parts of the bar, means to move all of said members simultaneously toward said bar, means to permit said members to move diterent distances toward said bar, and means to transmit different movements from said members.
  • rlhe combination ot' a plurality of bars spaced side by side,and having projecting and re-entrant parts, means to support said bars for longitudinal adjustment, meansto separately move said bars longitudinally, a plurality of members opposed to said bars, a support for each member, an arm tor eaeil,
  • said bars comprising pieces of material each having on one side a plurality ot series of projecting and ire-entrant parts of different graded lengths and depths spaced along the corresponding bar. mea'ns to shift said bars'separately longitudinally to a number of positions equal to the number of series of projecting and re-entrant parts of each bar, and movable members opposed to said bars to coact therewith.

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