US1747346A - Work pack - Google Patents

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Feb. 18, 1930. A BRADLEY Q 1,747,346

WORK PACK Filed NOV. 10, 1925 FRONT ELEMT/DN Arm/,7

Patented Feb. 18, 1930 UNH'E i v 1 mane ARTHUR A. BRADLEY, or HARTFO D, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO uND woon EL- LIOTT FISHER COMPANY, on NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION or ELAW woRK PACK I Application filed November This invention relates to machines for facilitating the handling of work-sheets in typewriting machines, and is especially adapted to be used in certain systems of bookkeeping.

Bookkeeping machines are usually provided with a tally mechanism having a supply spool around which is wound a strip of carbon together with a strip of paper. Said tally-strip is passed under the platen and is rewound onto a receiving spool which is connected to the line-spacing mechanism of the machine. The center feed-rolls are usually removed and the tally-strip is made narrower than the width between the outer feed-rolls, so that in case the platen is rotated by the finger-piece at the end thereof, the tally-strip will remain stationary. In connection with said tally-strip it has been customary to insert a statement-sheet in front of the tallystrip, said statement-sheet being wide enough to engage the feed-rolls, thereby rendering it feasible to feed the statement-sheet independently of the tally-strip.

Sometimes, however, this is objectionable, and instead it is desirable to use a statementsheet no wider than the tally-strip. In this invention a work-sheet combines a statementsheet and a record-sheet, held together by a weakened line at the top thereof. The statement-sheet may beas wide as the tally strip, and the record-sheet much wider, being wide enough to engage the feed-rolls of'the ma chine.

'-,then rotated and the assembled pack is positioned to receive the first line of typing, whereupon the work-sheet is line-spaced'by means of the line-spacing mechanism, which alsoline-spaces the tally-strip. Owing to the construction of the machine it is possible to simultaneously line-space both the work-sheet and the tally-strip by means of the line-space handle, and at the same time to position the work-sheet without disturbing the tallystrip.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear. a

In the accompanying drawings,

. Figure 1 is a front view of the invention asapplied to an Underwood standard typewriting machine.

Figure 2 is an end view, showing the tallymechanism connected to the line-spacing mechanism of the machine.

Figure 3 is a cross-section through the center of the machine.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of. theworksheetp This invention is illustrated as applied to an Underwood standard typewriting machine, which has, as regular equipment, a platen 10, journaled in. the end plates 11 of a platen frame, upon which there is secured a tallymechanism. Said machine is also-provided with a line-spacing mechanism or sliding member 12, and typing instrumentalities rep resented by a type-bar 13. x

The tally-mechanism includes a supplyspool 1i, around which there is wound a tallystrip 15 and a strip of carbon'16. The strips are inserted at the introductory side ofthe' platen, under and around the same, past the printing point, and are rewound onto a receiving spool .17 which is connected to-the line-spacing mechanism 12. When the machine has a tally-mechanism, it is customary to remove the center feed-trolls,and only the outer rolls 18 are left on the feed-roll-shaft 19, so that the tally-strip may be fed around the platen independently of the feed-rolls. To

this end, there is provided mechanism for i operatively connecting the receiving spool 17 to the line-spacing mechanism. Said'mech-.

anism may include a pair'of spur-gears-20 and 21, respectivelysecured to the spool 17 and to a shaft 22, which has also secured there- 7 to, at theendthereof, a ratchet 23 co-operat:

ing withapawl 24: fulcrumed-on anj arn 25l 22. The arm 25 is operatively connected by which is pivotallyimountediupon. said shaft means of a link 26 to the sliding member 12, v which carries a pawl. 27 toengage with a ratchet 28 fast toa platen-axle 29. Byineans of a. finger-piece, not shown, the slide 12" moved rearwardly when the. carriage is re;

' n order to facilitate refilling the sup l spool 14, th ere;is provided a key-hol eslot 30 shaft, therebyilocking thespool in operating I v a 7v machine over an independe tly -feedable -tal-' 7 V ly-strip including a record-sheet. which is" in end-brackets 31; so that ashaft 3251115011 1 v Which thesupply-spoolis mounted, may beeir tered into the slots,- and then rotated by Ineans'of a finger-piece 33 at the end ofthe position; [It Ijwill bend-ted that the receiv w ing spoollis 'rotatably mounted upon, end j plates 34 'ofa frame rockably mountedupony the shaftfQQ, on. which it is swung upwardly i of the gearZO. The plates '34 may be tied 1 together by .meazns 'of ti e rods 36 and 37, I

V, 1Referring 1to Figure 4, in which a novel p jf'to remove the "supplysp ool l4, :Sai'd spool 14 is prevented from rotating backwardly by meansof:a-pawl 85'engaging with the cogs workaslieet: is illiistr'atedfit will be noted? that thereis provideda narrow statement-sheet 38 forming an integral part of a'recor-d-sheet 39 wl1ichisprovided'with-a pair of side ex- 7 tensions or feeding flaps46 and-'47 the 'twor isheetsbeingsof substantially the same length I 1 an'd'beingattached atthe top thereof by a weakened line 40; I The two sheets are interleaved with a carbon 42, so asto form. a'pack, 1

i V and the leadihg :edge thereofis inserted at ,the rear of the platen, over a table 43 in back of -thef-tally-strip,land is pushed down; so

. thatlitsleading edge :at'the feeding flaps will befsq-n'aredfar'gaihst :thefeed rolls. Then the Q platehis'r otate-d byga finger-piece 44,,and the" work-sheet'ispositioned for the first line of typing, asfishownin Figure 3.

i 7 Other lines of typing are spaced means 7 of-the line-spacing meehanism'in the regular V tally stripl 7 i Variationsmay 'niann'er and theplaten is always line-spaced asithe carriage is returned previously to'withdrawing the work-sheet from the machine,

to permit the insertion of a fresh sheet."

pair of integralfeeding flaps upon said rec ord-s'heet extending to both sides in such manner as to materially widenthe'recordsheet, so that both said feeding'fla'ps may be engaged by'the end feed rolls ofthe machin'e, whereby to feed said record-sheet,'andthereby feed said bill-sheet without cont'act of the feed-rolls with the latter sheet.

.2. A work-paek forfuse in a typewri-tingp adapted to be superposed on said tally-strip and relatively wider'tha-n the ,distance bettweenthe eiid feed-rolls of the machine and adapted to extend Over e y-strip on 50 I both sides, and a front sheet overlying said record-sheet intermedigately of the sides thereof'a'n-d friably connectedtheretoat the V rolls and corresponding. approximately with 7 Sinceit is desired'to laterally position the I worksheet relatively to the, position of the .tal-ly+strip, ;there maybe provided a side gage 45, slidably; mounted upon the rear table'43.

' Itibe ,noted that datafrnay be typed 'clirectlysonthe record-slieet 39-at the sides of thewstatement-sheetr38 without having the 1 on the lattersheetv :or on the p data appear I be resortedto within the "scopexofthe invention, and portions of-thel improvements {be usedwithout others.

thfls described'my invention, I

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