US1714063A

US1714063A - Typewriting machine

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Publication number: US1714063A
Application number: US195321A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sigurd L Walsoe
Original assignee: Remington Typewriter Co
Current assignee: Remington Typewriter Co
Priority date: 1927-05-31
Filing date: 1927-05-31
Publication date: 1929-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 1946-05-21

Description

May 21, 1929. s. L. wAL'sOE -TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed May :51, 1927 4 Sheets-Sheet INVENTUR WM #444 5 ATTURNEY May 21, 1929. s. WALSOE I TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed May 31, 1927 4 Sheets-Sheet INVENTUR v BY Gum/L ATTURNEY WITNESSES y 21, 1929- s. L. WALSOE 1,714,063

' TYPEWRITING MACEINE Filed May 51 1927 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTDR m ATTORNEY WlTNESEES May 21, 1929.

s. L. wALsoE TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed May 31, 1927 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTUR ATTURNEY WITNESS Es Patented May 21, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIGURD L. WALSOE, 0F LYNDHURST, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF ILION, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPEWRITING MACHINE.

Application filed May 31,

My invention relates to typewriting and like machines and more particularly to paper controlling means.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement on the construction disclosed in each of the following applications:

Frederick A. Hart, Sr. No. 143,382 filed Oct. 22, 1926. \Valsoe & Hill, Sr. No. 121,13 1 filed July 8, 1926. Walsoe, Sr. No. 133,228 filed-September 2, 1926. i

The present invention is intended primarily to improve the constructions disclosed in said previously filed applications and to provide an efficient, so-called three-sheet biller', and one which may be readily converted into either a so-called two-sheet or three-sheet biller, as desired. 'A further object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means whereby automatically controlled end stops for the paper may be adjusted to different set positions around the platen without afl'ecting the automatic control of saidstops.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, my invention consists in the features of construction, arrangements of parts and combinations of devices set forth in the following description and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts in the different views Fig. 1 is an' enlarged, detail, vertical, fore and aft sectional view taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 4 and looking in the direction of the arrows at said line; the view showing a portion of a typewriting machine equipped with the device of my invention, and illustrating the parts in normal position, or disposed as they appear when the operator is prepared to proceed with the writing.

Fig. 1 is an enlarged detail, framentary,

Fig 1 is an enlarged detail, framentary, perspective "iew showing the upper end of one of the stop supporting springs and some of the associated parts.

Fig. 2 is a view corresponding substan tially to Fig. 1 except that the parts are illustrated in the abnormal position prepared to receive newly introduced work sheets.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged, detail, transverse,

1927. Serial No. 195,321.

tor and supporting means from normal position.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged, detail, horizontal sectional view taken on the line 66 of Fig. 8, and showing one of the intermediate feed rollers in contact with the platen.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary,

horizontal sectional view of the controlling connections and some of the associated parts; the view being taken on the line 77 of Fig. 1 and looking'in the direction of the arrows at said line.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary, vertical, fore and aft, sectional view taken on the line 8-8 of Fig. 6 and looking in the direction of the arrows at said line.

The machine in which the features of the present invention are shown embodied is what is known on the market as a Remington front f'eed bookkeeping machine, which may or may not be equipped with automatic carriage return mechanism such as disclosed in the patent to Frederick A. Hart No. 1,567,- 590, dated December 29, 1925. However, I have shown only so much of said machine as is necessary to illustrate my invention in its inclusion therein. It should be understood, however, that the invention isnot restricted to embodiment in saidmachmebut is of general application wherever found available.

As in the machines of the said previously filed applications the present machine is capable of a wide range of uses in connection with various so-called billing operations and the like, where two or more work sheets are to be correlated and printed at a single operation. However, I do not deem it necessary to describe specifically the many different forms-of billing operations in which the machine may be used. It is sufiicient for an understanding of the present invention to specifically describe one mode of billing that may be successfully carried out with the aid of the present machine, and perhaps briefly refer to some of the various other methods in connection with which the machine may be employed.

One method of using the machine, which will be specifically referred to, is its employment for simultaneously, or at one writing, making out a bill or statement, making corresponding entries on the ledger sheet carrylng the account, and on a record positioned to receive the requisite entries without disturbing the previously introduced re ister sheet and companion carbon sheet. eans also are provided for then quickly entering a statement sheet into the machine in front of the platen and accuratelyl positioning it in proper correlation with t e previously introduced ledger sheet and the-printing line. The entries may then be made on the statement sheet and these will be transferred through the interposed carbon sheets to the ledger and register sheets. If desired, additional entries may be made on the ledger sheet which are notto appear on the statement or register sheet. The statement and ledger sheets are then rapidly withdrawn from the machine without disturbing theregister sheet and its companion carbon sheet and another ledgersheet and statement sheet may then be quiclrly introduced, as before, and so on.

A line s acing operation effected by the return of t e carriage after writing a statement and making the corresponding entry on the ledger and register sheets, advances the register sheet in position to receive a manifold copy of the next entry on the register sheet.

With the foregoing general explanation of the purpose and operation, I will proceed to describe the invention as it is embodied,

in the present instance, in said hereinbefore mentioned Remington machine.

The frame of the machine includes the usual top plate 1 supporting hired guide rails 2. The carriage or truck comprises front and rear guide or cross bars 3, united by end bars d and 5. The guide rails 2 and cross bars 3 are oppositely grooved to receive crossed anti-friction rollers by which the carriage is supported in the usual manner to travel from side to side of the machineover the top plate 1.

A cylindrical platen '5' is mounted in the usual manner in a platen frame comprising the rigidly connected end plates 8 and 9; the platen frame being connected to the carriage by the usual shift links 10 and 11. In the present instance, however, I contemplate writing only with upper case characters and the platen is, therefore, preferably held in the upper case position. This may be readily done by screwing up the lowermost caseshift limiting screw-stops 12, thereby holding the platen shaft, or the buffer springs 13 which surround it, against the uppercase limiting stops 12. This brings the printing line on the platen to a position where the uppermost types on the usual type bars will register therewith.

A. ribbon vibrator 17 is mounted to slide up and down in the usual manner on a type bar center guide 18 secured to the type bar segment 19. The vibrator is actuated at each printing operation by the usual mechanism (see Fig. 5), whichincludes an arm 20, Said arm is pivoted at 21 on a shift-able carrier or support 22 mounted on parallel links 23. A contractile spring 24 tends to lift the shiftablesupport 22, and causes an anti-friction roller 25 carried thereby to bear upward against the lower edge of a bar 26. *This bar is secured to the carriage.

and. extends substantially throughout the length thereof. In the usual Remington machines the purpose of this construction is to cause the ribbon vibrator to be shifted up and down with the platen in the case shifting movements of the latter. In the present construction there is no such case shifting movements of the platen but the construction, nevertheless, lends itself to the accomlishment of another result which will heremafter appear.

As in the construction disclosed in my said previously filed application No. 133,228, it is desirable when introducing a work sheet backwardly into the machine to lower the ribbon vibrator from its normal, Fig. 1, position. This is in order to enable the front paper deflector to. be more conveniently moved to ehective position, as shown in Fig. 2. In the present construction I have employed the same means that are disclosed, in my said application for effecting this result. Thus, as in the prior construction, a bracket arm 27 extends forward from the shiftable support 22 and carries an'anti friction roller 28 at the upper end thereof. A. rock shaft 29 extends throughout the length of the carriage and is mounted at its ends in bearing openings in the end plates 8 and 9 of the platen frame. This rock shaft 29 carries a plate 30 which ontends substantially throughout the length thereof and is bent down at its forward edge to form a flange 31 which coacts with the anti-friction roller 28. 'When the rock shaft 29, and the plate 30 carried thereby. are shifted by means to be hereinafter described, from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position, the

\ shiftable support22 will be lowered against the power of its spring 24, effecting a cor-- Coming now to the means for controlling and guidin the work sheets, it will be observed in the first place that there are no paper feed rollers employed beneath the platen, such rollers as are employed being located above the printin line, leaving the space beneath the platen ree for the use of other devices. C

There are two curved paper deflectors 32 and 33 employed beneath the platen, one arranged above the other and' maintalned spaced apart by intermediate spacing members or blocks 34 and 35 located near the ends thereof. Generally speaking, these deflectors conform to the curvature of the platen or are substantially concentric therewith and extend substantially throughout the length of the platen. As thus constructed there are two separate channels provided, one of which is the open channel 36 between the two deflectors and which is bounded at its ends by separating merrbers 34 and 35, either or both of which may constitute side guides or gages for cooperation with a work sheet or sheets introduced into the channel 36. The other separated channel 37 is provided between the under surface of the platen and the upper deflector 32. The forward edge of the deflector 33 terminates in advance of the forward edge of the deflector 32, and has a slight downward curve in cross section. The deflector 33 is continued up at the rear to provide an upwardly and rearwardly extending paper table 38 which terminates at a considerable height above the platen. On the other hand, the deflector 32 terminates in the rear of the platen at'a much lower point and below the top of the platen, where it is bent to form a loop 39 that loosely surrounds'a rod 40 fixedly connected at its ends to the end plates 8 and 9 of the platen frame. In this manner the rigidly united deflectors 32 and 33 are mounted on the rod 40 and have a slight pivotal movement thereon. A light wire spring 41 (Fig. 2) is connected by screws 42 and 43 to a cross bar 44 of the platen frame, the spring being anchored at one end on the screw 42 and coiled around the stem of the screw 43. The upper free end of the spring 41 is looped at 45, where it bears upward against the bot-- tom of the deflector 33 and causes the forward edge portion of the deflector 32 normally to be lightly pressed against the platen, or against the interposed work sheet. In this manner the sheets introduced from the rear of the platen through the channel 37 will be held snugly against the platen, and the sheets introduced into the channel 36 will be prevented from entering the channel 37. By moving the upper end of the 'Of the lever 52 carries an paper table forward the forward end portions of the deflectors may be moved downward a limited distance, thus carrying the forward contact edge of the deflector 32 away from the platen, and limited in its cast off movement by adjustable stops 46 as provided for in the construction disclosed in the hereinbefor'e mentioned Hart application.

In order to facilitate the backward introduction of the work sheets into the mouth of the channel 36 from in front of the platen, there is provided a guide, shield, or paper deflector 47 that is movable on the carriage from a substantially horizontally disposed ineffective position, shown in Fig. 1, to a downwardly and rearwardly inclined eifec tive position, shown in Fig. 2, and vice versa, as disclosed in said previously filed applications. In order to receive these movements the deflector is constructed and mounted, in the present instance, in the speeifie manner disclosed in my said previously filed application.

Thus, the sheet metal deflector 47, Which extends substantially throughout thelength of the platen, is carried by parallel sheet metal supporting arms 48 and 49. These supporting arms are pivotally mounted on forwardly projecting arms 50 secured to the end plates 8 and 9 of the platen frame and which ma be re arded as arts of said end plates. he le t-hand pivot pin'5l, on which the arm 48 turns, supports a bell crank lever 52 one arm of which carries a pin 53 by which a detachable connection is made with the arm 48. The other arm 54 outwardly pro jected connecting pin 55 that is received and works in a slotted cam 56 inan actuating arm 57. Said arm 57 is provided with a hub 58 (see Fig. 1) by'which it is secured to the hereinafter mentioned rock shaft 29 by a set screw 58. The character of the slotted cam and the construction and the arrangement of the parts are such that a forward pivotal movement of the arm 57 from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position, causes a pivotal movement of the deflector 47 in the opposite direction, or rearwardly from its normally ineffective position. This brings the deflector 47 to the effective position, shown in Fig. 2, where it overlaps and virtually forms a continuation of the deflector 33. In this movement of the deflector 47 it passes from a position where it is out of the path of the type bars to a position where it is in the path thereof, and crosses the printing line where it is effective in directing whereby said arm and the parts controlled thereby may be actuated at will. The arm 57 also stands in cooperative relationship with means for controlling the shifting movement of certain of the feed rollers, to be automatically controlled thereby, as will hereinafter clearly appear.

The actuating arm 57 constitutes one of two supporting arms for a wire line-indicator 60. Said indicator extends longitudinally throughout the length of the platen and is adjustably connected to the arm 57 by means of two clamping jaws 61 and 62, as disclosed in said Hart application.

The opposite end of the line indicating wire maybe adjustably secured to a second supporting arm 63 (see Fig. 1), as disclosed in said Hart application. The arm'63 is secured to the rock shaft 29 near the righthand end thereof. A coiled contractile spring 64: is connected at one end to the arm 57 and at its opposite end to a pin 65 extending inward from, the end plate 8. This spring tends to return the arm 57 and the parts connected therewith to the normal, Fig. 1, position.

The paper feeding mechanism embodied in the present construction includes a plurality of aligned paper feed rollers 66, arranged to coact with the top of the platen and with work sheets introduced from the rear of the platen through the channel 37. Said feed rollers 66 coact with said sheets after the latter have passed above and beyond the printing line. The paper feed rollers 66, as shown in the present instance, are constructed and mounted in the same general manner as in said hereinbefore mentioned Hart application. Thus, the feed rollers are mounted for longitudinal adjustment along a supporting rod or spindle 67, supported at its ends by forwardly extending arms 68 that are pivotally supported on the platen frame. Springs exert their force against the arms 68 and thus cause the feed rollers 66 to bear against the platen, or certain only of the work sheets thereon. By swinging the sfpindle 67 upward and rear ward the said eed rollers are released.

ln the present machine it have included certain novel features of the paper feed roller controllin means and also have ineluded certain of the means disclosed in m said prior application by which the paper deflector 47, line indicator 60 and ribbon vibrator 17 are automatically controlled thereby. In some instances l have modified such mechanism, and in other instances I have combined therewith new features for converting the machine into a so-called three-sheet biller andfor automatically controlling paper end stops as will now be de scribed.

In the present construction I have provided a pair of outside margin paper feed rollers 69 and a pair of inside or intermediate margin paper feed rollers 70 which coact with the platen above the printing line. Each of these feed rollers is constructed, mounted and controlled in part in a like manner, and the description of one such feed roller and its mounting and control will apply to the others, except as hereinafter specifically pointed out. Each of the

feed rollers

69 and 70 is mounted to turn on a pivot 71 received between and riveted to two parallel roller carrying arms or slides 72. Each pair of slides 72 thus connected are supported for rectilinear movement fore and aft of the machine by and between a pair of supporting arms 73 attached at their forward ends by screws 74 to a slotted sup porting block 75. In the slot in each block is received a supporting bar 76 that extends longitudinally of the carriage, throughout,

or substantially throughout, the length thereof. This bar is secured to the carriage by any suitable means, such as the screws 77 which connect the bar to the front cross bar 3 of the carriage. Each block 7 5 is held in place at any point to which it may be adjusted along the bar 76, by two set screws 78 received in tapped openings in the block and coacting at their inner ends with the supporting bar. The rear end portion of each supporting arm receive a headed guide pin 80 operatively connected with one of the arms 72 to support and guide it at its rear end. The forward end portion of each arm 72 is also slotted at 81 to receive a supporting hub 82 therethrough, and thus support and guide each arm 72 at its forward end. The shouldered stem of each of the guide pins 80 passes loosely through a circular opening in the associated arm 72 and is rivetedat its inner end to one end of a toggle arm 83. The other end of each toggle arm or member 83 is pivoted at 84 to one end of a companion toggle arm or member 85. The forward end of each toggle arm intermediate spacing sleeve 86, 86, 86 or 86 as the case may be, said sleeve being loosely supported on a rock shaft 87 and from both ends of which spacing sleeve the hubs 82 extend. From what has been said it will be understood that a turning movement of each sleeve 86, 86, 86 or 86 will cause the toggle arms 85 attached thereto to be moved from an angular position, such as is indicated in Fig. 8, to a substantially straight line posi- 73 is slotted at 79 to 85 is riveted to one end of an tion, such as is indicated in Figs. 1 and 6, v.

and vice'versa. In thus shifting each two pairs of companion toggle members 83 and

roller

69 or 7 0 will be moved in substantially straight line position the associated feed sure against the platen or the paper thereon,

86 and 86 and the rock shaft 87.

the slides 72 carrying the feed roller, moving longitudinally fore and aft of the machine. I prefer in practice to move the

arms

83 and 85 slightly over the straight line position in order to hold therollers positively applied in their operativeposition. In' order to arrest each companion air of toggle arms in proper position for th1s purpose I provide an inwardly extending lug 73 on each of the supporting arms 73, and with which either or both

arms

83 and 85 of the associated toggle may coact to arrest the toggle in its straightened position.

It is desirable that the outer pair'of feed rollers 69 may be moved together to the platenythat the inner pair of feed rollers may be moved together to the platen, and that both the outside and inside pairs of feed rollers may be moved away from the platen together at a single operation. In order to attain these objects I provide the following construction.

The rock shaft 87, hereinbefore referred to, extends throughout the length of'the car riage and receives its support from the supporting arms 73. Preferably near each end of the shaft there is provided a hub 88 secured to the shaft by a set screw 89. Connected to each hub 88 is an n standing finger piece 90 by which the shaft 8 ma be rocked either backward to apply the eed rollers 69, or forward to release the

feed rollers

69 and 70. A set screw 91 passes into a tapped opening in each of the sleeves 86 and 86 for the outside pair of feed rollers 69, thereby at all times maintaining the toggles for these feed rollers connected with the rock shaft 87 to be actuated thereby. That is to say, such toggles are always maintained connected to the shaft 87 except in the event that either or both of the supporting blocks for these feed rollers are to be adjusted along the carriage longitudinally of the platen. In such case it is merely necessary 7 to back up the screw 91 for the sleeve of the feed roller to be thus adjusted. The screws 78 may then be backed up and the block 75 with the parts carried thereby may then be shifted along longitudinally of the shaft 87. When the proper position has been attained the

screws

78 and 91 are again tightened to hold the parts in the new position to which they are adjusted along the carriage and reestablish the connection between the sleeves In order to control the to gles for the inner or intermediate pair. 0? feed rollers 70,, I provide a collar 92 on the rock shaft 87 held to turn therewith by a set screw 93 received in a tapped opening in the collar and hearing at its inner end against the shaft. As best shown in Figs. 6 and 8, this collar is provided with a'projection 94, one side of which is adapted to coact with a somewhat larger half circular projection 95 on the adjacent hub 82 of the sleeve 86. This provides a sort of a pin and slot, or lost motion, connection between the shaft 87 and the sleeve 86, and between the shaft 87 and toggles for the inner pair,of feed rollers 70 for purposes which will hereinafter appear. Referring more particularly to Figs. 3 and 6 it will be seenthat the particular sleeve 86, which is connected to the shaft 87 by the lost motion connection just described, has at its opposite end a half circu lar projection 96 that coact-s with a corresponding half-circular projection 97 on one end of a hollow shaft 98. The hollow shaft 98 loosely surrounds and is supported by the shaft 87 for independent turning movement thereon. An upstanding finger piece 99 is secured to a hub 100, which in turn is secured to the hollow shaft 98 by a set screw 101. The opposite end of this hollow shaft has a half circular projection 102 (Fig. 4) which engages a corresponding projection 103 on the hub of the sleeve 86". It will be seen that in this. manner the feed rollers 70, while individually mounted and capable ofindividual adjustment longitudinally of the platen, are, nevertheless, connected to move together to andfifrom the platen, and that the same is also true of the feed rollers 69. It should be understood that a relative adjustment between the feed rollers 70 would require the use of hollow shafts 98 of different lengths but this is of little moment since a machine, once set or arranged for a given establishment, ordinarily does not require any relative adjustment between the feed rollers 70.

It will be observed that I have provided 3 an interlocking projection'103 on both ends of the sleeve 86 although only one is in use at any given time. This is in order that the sleeves 86 and '86 andthe parts controlled thereby may be interchangeably used one in the position of the other.

The lost motion connection 94 and. 95

between the feed rollers 69iand 70 is such that the outside feed rollers 69 may be first applied, as shown in Fig. 8, by moving either of the finger. pieces 90 rearward. This results in turning the shaft 87 and carrying the projection 94 to the position shownin Fig.8. At thistime the project tion 94 is free from contact with either engaging edge of the projection 95. Consequently there is nothing to interfere with a rearward movement of the finger piece 99 and a straightening of the associated togq gles to. apply the feed rollers 70 with a positive pressure in thesame manner as the feed rollers 69, which 1s an important faetor. This movement results in bringing the lower front edge of the projection. 95

against the rear contact edge of the projection 94. i It follows, therefore, that a forward movement of either finger piece 90 at this time will turn the member 94 clockwise in Fig. 8, and carry with it the member 95- and the parts connected therewith. This results in simultaneously shifting all of the

feed rollers

69 and 70 away from the platen, as indicated in Fig. 2. From an inspection of this figure it will be seen that the intermediate feed rollers 70 are shifted as far forward from the platen as the rollers 69, and that both pairs of feed rollers are shifted away from the platen a considerable distance, giving ample room for the ready backward introduction of the work sheets into the channel 36, which also is an important factor.

The means provided in the present instance for automatically controlling the (leflector 47, the line indicator 60 and the ribbon vibrator 17 by the shifting movements of the feed rollers into and out of eflective position will now be described. I preferably employ for this purpose a single auxiliary pair of toggle members of the same general character as those hereinbefore described, and control such auxiliary toggle from the rock shaft 87 and operatively connect it with the shifting arm 57. Thus, it will be seen upon reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 7 that a collar 104 is connected by a set screw 105 to the left-hand end of the shaft 87. This collar.is in the nature of a hub to which a toggle arm 106 is attached, and a reduced end of said collar receives a support in a circular bearing opening in a bracket or supporting arm 107. Said arm 107 is secured by screws 108 to a supporting block 109 adjustably held on the bar 76 by set screws 110. The rear end of the toggle arm or member 106 is pivoted at 111 to the companion toggle member or arm 112 which carries at its rear end a headed pin 113. This pin is loosely received in a circular opening in a sliding, supporting or actuating arm or slide 114, and also is seated in a slot 115 in the supporting arm 107 to slide fore and aft of the machine therein. The forward end portion of the slide 114 also is slotted at 116 to receive the reduced end of the hub or collar 104 and thus support and guide the slide at its forward end. The rear end of the slide carries a laterally projectin stud 117 which is riveted thereto and in the forward-inove ment of the slide 114 coacts with the arm 57 and shifts it and the parts controlled thereby from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position. The supporting arm 107 may also be provided with a lug 118 to coact with and limit the straightening movement of the

toggle arms

106 and 112.

It will be understood that the construction is such that when the feed rollers 69 are applied to hold, say, a ledger sheet L in its adjusted position, the arm 57 is free to be actuated by its finger piece 59 with- B are introduced into the machine and into the channel 36 and correlated with reference to the previously introduced ledger sheet. As soon as this is done the finger piece 59 may be released and the feed rollers 70 are then applied to the bill sheet and hold the sheets in position prepared to proceed with the writing. a

Any suitable paper end stops may be employed, if desired, to coact with the ledger sheet in order to properly position it in the machine, such means, for example, as are disclosed in the application of Frederick A. Hart, Sr. No. 172,685 filed March 4, 1927.

In the present instance I have provided automatically controlled paper end stops intended to coact with the bottom edges of rearwardly introduced bill sheets and the accompanying carbon sheets. Such mechanism will now be described.

I prefer to employ two automatically controlled end stops, though any suitable num ber may be employed. Inasmuch as each of these stops is mounted, adjusted and controlled in a like manner the description of one will apply to both. A supporting strip 119 which is preferably made of spring metal is slotted at the upper end portion thereof, as indicated at 120 in Fig. 1, to receive the stems of headed binding screws 121. The stems of these screws after passing through the slots 120 are threaded into tapped openings in a spacing block 122, soldered or otherwise secured to the back of the paper table near the upper end thereof. \Vhen the screws 121 are tightened the heads thereof will bind against the supporting strip and hold it in place. When said screws are loosened the supporting strip and stop carried thereby may receive a slight adjustment fore and aft of the machine. The supporting strip 119 extends down in the rear of the paper tableand has its lower end portion curved at 123 to conform generally to the curvature of the paper deflector 33. This curved portion of the supporting strip has a slot 124, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 7, that extends lengthwise thereof and fore and aft of the machine. A paper end stop 125, in the nature of a pin, is provided with a reduced threaded shank or stem that extends through the slot 124 in the supporting strip and receives thereon, back of the strip, a Washer 126 and a binding nut 127. The stop pin when thus secured in place is adapted to pass through a slot 128 in the deflector 33 and across the channel or passage 36 bein Fig. 1, this being the normal position of said stop to which it is pressed by the force of the spring carrying strip. This conjusted on its carrier to the desired position, a

tightening of the nut 127 will-secure the stop in place thereon. The means just described affords a rather wide range or major-adjustment of the stop to accord with bill sheets, checks, etc. of different depths,'whereas the comparatively slight adjustment previously described of the carrier, with theaid of clamping screws 121, may be, availed of to. effect a'comparatively minute adjustment of the stop by reasonof the more ready access that may be had to this last mentioned adjusting means.

The supporting strip 119 has off-setfrom one side of the lower portion thereof a depending finger or arm 119*, as best shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 7. This arm projects into the path ofafinger 129'secured to a crankarm 130, the hub 131 of which is secured by a set screw 132 to a rock shaft 133. This provides for effecting an adjustment of the finger 129 on the rock shaft 133., This shaft extends throughout the length of the carriage and has reduced ends received in bearing openings in the end plates 8 and 9. When the shaft 133 is turned clockwise in Fig. 1, thestop 125 is withdrawn to the ineffective, Fig.

2, position against the sprin force of the stopcarrying strip. When t e shaft 133 is released a light spring 134 tends toreturn said shaft to normal position, thereby enabling the stop 125 to be projected by its springcarrier to the operative Fig. 1 positlon.

From an inspection of F ig. 4 it will be understood that in the present instance I have provided two end stops 125 and companion supports and releasing devices therefor. These stops are aligned and located at a distance apart such as is required to coact with and arrest the comparatively narrow bill and carbon sheets B and accurately gage them. 1 v

The rock shaft 133 bywhich sto s 125 are controlled is itself controlledby t 1e followaround the platen shaft and provide a con-' ing means y A crank arm or actuating member 135 has a hub 136 secured to the rock shaft 133 .by

a set screw 137. This member is substantially U-shaped in outline so as to pass tact edge or stop 138 which normally coacts with the collar orhub 139 on the left-hand form.

and B respectivelyB and B'.

platen head to arrest said member and the parts controlled thereby in normal position, as shown in Fig. 1. A second contact edge or stop 140 on the. member 135 coacts with the opposite side of the hub 139 to limit the movement of the member in the opposite direction, as shown in Fig. 2. The upper arm of the member 135 is slotted longitudinally at 141 to receive a headed pin 142 on the rear end of a link 143. The forward end of this link is connected by a headed pivot screw 144 to the stud 117 on the slide 114. It follows from this construction that an actuation of the shaft 87 to withdraw the feed rollers so that a ledger sheet may be introduced, will automatically move the member 135 from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2

position, thereby withdrawing thestops 125 arm 135,'such arm and the stops 125 con-.

trolled thereby, may be controlled independently of the automatic operation thereof 1 with the feed rollers, a finger piece 145 being providedon the arm 135 for this purpose; This independent shifting of the stops 125 toineffective position is occasionally required when, for example, the stops 125 areadjusted for use in gagmg comparatively short bill sheets and it may be neoessary now and then to introduce a longer or deeper bill By temporarily holding the end St0ps'125 in ineffective position by the finger piece 145, the longer bill form may be introduced, past the stops and gaged with reference to the printing line and previously introduced ledger sheet with the aid of the line indicator 60.

From an inspection of Fig. 4 it will be understood that the inner sliding arm 72 of the left-hand feed roller, when the latter is in effective position, constitutes a side edge gage for the sheets B' and B. It will be understood, moreover, that when such sheets .the feed rollers 69 have been applied to the ledger sheet, thereby conditioning the parts so that the arm 72 in question may properlyfunction as a side edge gage for the sheets (together with the parts carried by said gage, to be adjusted to proper position to coact'withthe sheets B. and B.

One manner of using the devices ofmy invention is as follows Y I Assume that a register sheet B (Fig. 4) and its accompanying outside-carbon sheet B have been introduced through the chan- The fact that the supporting block 75 for the left-hand feed roller 69 I are introduced, the feed rollers 70 have been nel 37 and properly positioned with the leading edges thereof beneath their feed rollers 66, and that the remainingparts are in' the Fig. '2 position. The operator then introduces a ledger sheet L from the front of the platen into the channel 36 and accurate ly positions said sheet. An actuation of a finger piece 90 in a rearward direction results in straightening the toggles to the Fig.

8 position and positively applying the feed rollers 69 against the platen and against the margins of the previously introduced ledger sheet. At this time the finger piece 99 and the parts controlled thereby are in the Fig. 8 position, with the feed rollers 70 in the released position. The bill or statement sheet B with an accompanying carbon sheet B may then be introduced from the front of the platen into the channel 36, and bethe writing, and the matter written will be produced on the statement sheet and through the carbon sheets on the ledger and register; sheets.

After the statement is written as described, the operator shifts the finger piece 90 to the Fig. 2 position,

therebyreleasingthe feed rollers

69 and 70 and permitting ready withdrawal of the statement sheet, the accompanying carbon sheet and the ledger sheet, and conditioning the-machine for new sheets to replace these withdrawn. It will be understood that the hollow shaft 98, the feed rollers and the intermediate connections by which said feed rollers are actuated and mounted may be detached from the remaining parts. Therefore, such parts may be applied or omitted, depending on the use to which the machine is to be put, as a two sheet or three-sheet biller. .v I have described above the means for moving-the feed rollers 69 into and out of contact with the platen without reference to the automatic control by such means of the line-indicator 60, the paper. deflector 47, and. the ribbon vibrator 17. The arrangement by which such automatic control is effected is to extend the actuating arm 57 into the path of the bodily movable stud 117. As'the parts move from the Fig. 1 .to Fig. 2 position, the stud 117 .will coact (after a preliminary extent of lost motion) with the actuating arm 57. This will result in automatically shifting the line indicator 60 to ineffem. tive position, in shifting the deflector 47 to effective position and in lowering the ribbon vibrator 17 out of the path of the said deflector, all as represented in Fig. 2..

This same movement of the parts is effective to shift thelink 143 and thereby move the end stops 125 to ineffective position as shown in Fig. 2, so that they Will not interfere with the-proper introduction of the new ledger sheet in place, as hereinbefore. explained. It will be seen that 'while the parts re ferred to above are automatically actuated during the withdrawal of the-feed rollers 69 from effective position, nevertheless, by an actuation of the finger piece 59, the line indicator 60, deflector 47 and the ribbon vibrator 17 may be moved independently of the feed rollers 69 from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position, and while said feed rollers remain applied to the platen.

At different times, depending on conditions of use of the machine, it is required that the deflector 47, line indicator 60, and ribbon vibrator 17 be automatically moved to their respective positions when the

feed rollers

69 and 70 are moved bodily back and forth between the Fig. 1 and the F ig.'2 positions, and that said deflector, line indicator and ribbon vibrator be independently controlled by the finger piece 59, as explained above. But it is also essential at times that said feed rollers be released without moving the line indicator from its effective position. This is necessary when, for example,

the line indicator is to be wholly relied upon to effect proper adjustments in a line feed direction of the sheets (such as the ledger sheet 'L and bill or statement sheet B) introduced rearwardly in the channel 36. To attain these ends the provision of lost motion between the stud 117 and the arm 57 enables the

rollers

69 and 70 to be moved a short distance from the Fig. 1

position, without moving the line indicator 60 fromits indicating position, and without disturbing the deflector 47 and the ribbon vibrator 17.. Therefore, at this time the ledger sheet beneath the rollers 69, and the subsequentlyintroduced statement sheet beneath the feed rollers 70, may each be separately adjusted with reference to the line indicator 60.

In substantially inbefore indicated the machine may be employed as a check-writing machine, at which time the sheet described above as a register sheet would constitute a manifold record of the checks written and may constitute a pay roll sheet. In this event, however, no ledger sheet will be employed. The feed rollers 69 will be employed to coact with the checks, and the finger piece 90 would not be manipulated, leaving the feed rollers 7 O ineffective.

Generally speaking, the sheet R described the same manner as hereabove as. a register sheet, and which remains in the machine when the other sheets are removed and new ones inserted, may constitute a register sheet, a proof sheet, a sales sheet, a distributing sheet, or a pay roll sheet, depending on the use of the machine for different purposes.

In some instances the line indicator may be employed to position, in a line feed direction, each sheet introduced 'from in front of the platen into the channel 36 when it is not feasible'or desirable, for one reason or another, to employ end stops, or to employ end stops to coast with a sheet corresponding to the ledger sheet.

By thepresent invention I have provided a construction which has proved rapid of operation, highly eflicient and reliable in use, which is compact and comparatively simple in construction and can be manufactured at comparatively small cost and be readily embodied in existing Remington machines without inodifying, or materially modifying, the existing structural features of said machines.

.The claims in this case are specific to features not disclosed in any of said hereinbefore mentioned applications. Various changes may be made in the construction and certain parts thereof may be employed without others, without departmg from my invention as it is defined in the accompanying claims.

\Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Thecombination of a cylindrical platen, a pair of margin outside paper feed rollers, a second pair of intermediate margin paper .feed rollers, means for mounting said intermediate feed rollers to receive a wholly rectilinear movement into and out of contact with the platen, and hand actuated controlling means for moving said intermediate rollers into contact with the platen by a positively applied pressure and for maintainingthem indefinitely thus applied.

2. The combinationpf acylindrical platen, a pair of margin outside paper feed rollers, a second pair of intermediate margin paper feed rollers, means for mounting said intermediate feed rollers to receive a wholly rectilinear movement intoand out of contact with the platen, and hand actuatedcontroL ling means operable independently of said outside margin feed rollers for moving said.

intermediate rollers into contact with the platen by apositively applied pressure and for maintaining them indefinitelythus app e i v v I 3. The combination of a cylindrical platen,

a pair of margin,outsidedpaperjfeedroller-s a. late margin paper second pair of interme feed rollers, n' eans formountlng said intermedia'te' feed rollers to receive a wholly rectilinear movement into and out of contact with the platen, hand actuated controlling means operable independently of said outside margin feed rollers for moving said intermediate rollers into contact with the platen by a positively applied pressure, and hand controlled means for simultaneously withdrawing both pairs of feed rollers from the platen.

l. The combination of a cylindrical platen, a pair of margin outside paper feed rollers, a second pair of intermediate margin paper feed rollers, means for mounting said intermediate feed rollers to receive awholly rectilinear movement into and out of contact with the platen, two pairs of toggle members for each of said rollers of the intermediate pair, and hand controlled means for simultaneously straightening all of the pairs of said toggle members and thereby applying the intermediate feed rollers to the platen or to a work sheet thereon when such toggle members are substantially in a straightened condition.

5. The combination of a cylindrical platen,

a pair of margin outside paper feed rollers,

a second pair of intermediate margin paper feed rollers, a pair of toggle members for each of said feed rollers, hand controlled means for simultaneously straightening the pairs of toggles for the intermediate feed rollers and thereby move them into contact with the platen by a positively applied pressure, separately operated hand controlled means for straightening the pairs of toggle members for the outside feed rollers, and means by which the pairs of toggles for all of said feed rollers are broken from their straightened position to simultaneously withdraw both pairs of feed rollers from the platen.

6. The combination of a carriage, a platen carried thereby, paper feed rollers, an individual support for each of said feed rollers, means for affording an adjustment of. each of said individual supports on the carriage and longitudinally of the platen, and actuating means for said feed rollers comprising a pair of toggle members for each. roller, both toggle members of each pair being carried by and adjustable with the individual support forthe associated feed roller, an application of said feed rollers being eifccted substantially when said toggles are in a straightening position.

7. The combination of a carriage, a platen 'carried thereby, paper feed rollers, an indi-..

vidual support for each of said feed rollers, means for aflording an adjustmentof. each of said individual supports on the carriage and longitudinally of the platen, actuating means for said feedrollers comprising a pair of toggle'members for each roller carried by;

and adjustable with the individual support for the associated feed roller, a shaft 'connected to the toggle members one set of said feed rollers for controlling the move ments thereof into and out of contact with the platen, and a hollow shaft surrounding said first mentioned shaft and connected to the toggle members of another set of said feed rollers for controlling the movement thereof into and out of contact with the platen.

8. The combination of a carriage, a laten carried thereby, two sets of paper fee rollerswhich coact with the platen, and means for controlling the movements of said feed *ollers into and out of contact with the platen comprising a rock shaft operatively connectcd with the feed rollers of one set, and

a hollow shaft surrounding said first mentioned shaft and operatively connected with the feed rollers of the other set.

9. The combination of a carriage; a platen carried thereby; two sets of paper feed rollers which coact with the platen; and

means for controlling the movements of said feed rollers into and out of contact with the platen comprising a rock shaft operatively connected with the feed rollers of one set, a

hollow shaft surrounding said first mentioned shaft and operatively connected with the feed rollers of the other set, and operative controlling connections between said 3 shafts that enable each shaft to be rocked independently of the other to apply its set of feed rollers and which causes both of said shafts to rock together when one of them is rocked to withdraw its feed rollers from the platen, whereby both sets of feed rollers may be withdrawn at a single operation.

10. The combination of a carriage, a platen carried thereby, a pair of slideshavmg a rectilinear movement towards and from the laten, a paper feed roller carried by and etween said slides, a support on the carriage for said slides, a toggle connected to said feed roller, and hand controlled means for straightening said toggle to apply the feed roller and for breaking the toggle from substantially a straight line condition to withdraw the feed roller.

11. The combination of a. carriage, a platen carried thereby, two sets of paper 60 feed rollers cooperative therewith, a pair of sli-les for each feed roller, said slides mounted for rectilinear movement towards and from the platen, a pair of toggles for each feed roller, hand actuated means for simultaneously straightening all of the toggles of one set of feed rollers to ositively apply them to the platen, inde em ently operable hand controlled means or simultaneously straightening all of the toggles of the other set of feed rollers for positively applying them to the laten, and means effective to simultaneous y break all of said toggles and Withdraw the feed rollers of both, sets from the platen on a reverse operation of one of said hand actuated means.

apply them to the platen, independently operable hand controlled means for simultaneously straightening all of the toggles of the other set of feed rollers for positively applying them to the platen, means effective to simultaneouslybreak all of said toggles and withdraw the feed rollers of both sets'from the platen on a reverse operation of one of said hand actuated means, and means by which each of said individual supports may be adjusted along the carriage longitudinally of the platen.

13. The combination of a cylindrical platen, a pair of margin outside paper feed rollers, a second pair of intermediate margin paper feed rollers, means for mounting said intermediate feed rollers to receive a wholly rectilinear movement into and out of c0ntact with the platen above the printing line, means for moving said intermediate feed rollers to' the platen with a positively applied pressure, a paper deflector shiftable into and out of effective position and when in effective position aiding in a rearward introduction of a. work sheet from in front of and beneath the platen, and means controlled by the movement of said outside paper feed rollers into and out of contact with the platen for automatically controlling the shifting of said deflector out of and into effective position.

14. The combination of a carriage, a platen carried thereby, a pair of outside margin paper feed rollers mounted for rectilinear. movement into and out of contact with the platen, a second pair of intermediate margin papenfeed rollers mounted to receive a wholly rectilinear movement into and out of contact with the platen, means by which-each pair of feed rollers may be moved against the platen independently of the feed rollers of the other pair with a positively applied pressure but a withdrawal of the outside rollers will effect a withdrawal of the intermediate feed rollers, a aper deflector shiftable into and out 0 effective position and when in effective position aiding in a rearward introduction of a work sheet from in front of and beneath the platen, and means controlled by the shifting movement of said outside feed rollers for automatically controlling the shifting of said deflector out of and into effective position.

15. The combination of a carriage, a cylltl lindrical platen carried thereby, an end stop for the paper, means that enable said en stop to be adjusted in a curved path around and beneath the platen, paper controlling devices, and means controlled thereby for automatically controlling the movement of said end stop into and out of effective positiion.

' 16. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, paper feed rollers movable into and out of contact with the laten above the printing line, an end stop or the paper shiftable into and out or effective position, means that enable said end stop to be adjusted in a curved path around and beneath the platen, and means controlled by the shifting movement of said feed rollers into and out of contact with the platen for automatically controlling the movement of said end stop into and out of effective position. a

17. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a curved I supporting member substantially concentric with the platen, an end stop for the paper carried by and adjustable along said supporting member in a curved path, and means for shifting said supporting member for controlling the movement of the end stop into and out of effective position without destroying its position of adjustment.

18. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a leaf spring permanently maintained in a curved condition and attached at one end on thecarriage, an end stop for the'paper carried by said spring and adjustable'along it.in a curved path to different set positions around the platen, the flexing of the spring controlling the movement of said end stop intoand out of effective position and normally holding it in one of said positions, and means for controlling the flexing of said spring and thereby controlling the shifting of said end stop into and out of effective position.

19. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a curved paper deflector beneath the platen and between which and the platen a rearwardly introduced work sheet may be inserted from in front of and beneath the platen, a slot that extends fore and aft of the machine in said deflector, a support that is curved to conform substantially to the curvature of said deflector and is movable towards and from the deflector from beneath it, an end stop forthe paper carried by and adjustable along said support in a curved path and adapted to project through said slot in the deflector, and means for controlling the movement of said support towards and from the deflector and thereby control the movement of said end stop into and out of effective position.

20. The combination of a carriage; a cylindrical platen carried thereby; a curved paper deflector beneath the platen; paper controlling devices comprising paper feed rollers which co'act with the platen, and apaper deflector shiftable into and out of effective position and when in the last mentioned position actingto aid the rearward introduction of a work sheet from in front of and between said platen and said curved deflector; an end stop for the paper normally in the path of a work sheet introduced from the front of and beneath the platen between it and said curved deflector; means for affording an adjustment of said end stop to different set positions foreand aft of the machine in a curved path that conforms substantially to the curvature of said curved deflector; means for withdrawing said feed rollers from the laten, and automatically operating'means or shifting said end stop to ineffective position and for shiftingsaid shift-able deflector to effective position when said feed rollers are withdrawn from the platen.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, cit of New York, in the county of New Yor and State of New York this 28th day of May, A. D. 1927.

' SIGURD L. WALSOE.

Patent No. 1,714,063.

Granted May 21,. 1 929, to

SIGURD L. WALSOE.

It is hereby above numbered strike out all to and "85 from the. broken to said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. Signed and sealed this 9th day of July, A. D. 1929.

certified that error appears in the printed specification of the patent r'equiring'correction as follows:

43; page 4, line 125, beginning with the word "roller" including the word rolls"-linel27, and insert instead the substantially straight line position the associated f Page 1", strike O'ut line eed roller"; and that the CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,714,063. Granted May 21, 1929, to

SIGURD L. WALSOE.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 1, strike out line 43; page 4, line 125, beginning with the word "roller" strike out all to and including the word "rolls" line 127, and insert instead "85 from the broken to the substantially straight line position the associated feed roller"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 9th day of July, A. D. 1929.

M. J Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.