US1775132A - Tabulating machine - Google Patents

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US1775132A
US1775132A US55427A US5542725A US1775132A US 1775132 A US1775132 A US 1775132A US 55427 A US55427 A US 55427A US 5542725 A US5542725 A US 5542725A US 1775132 A US1775132 A US 1775132A
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Clair D Lake
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  • the invention is directed to the provision of a machine which is much more exible in the direction of being set up to l secure numerous and various results as detinue tabulating and adding another group of.
  • Tabulating machines as at present' conf structed are arranged to analyze perforated records, add and printy items, and to automatically print totals upon a change in the group designating perforationsl of the record.
  • Heretofore provisions have not been made for taking-a total automaticall upon a change vof one control number and or taking another total automatically upon the larly in cases where both or a plurality of control numbers change simultaneusly.
  • One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a tabulator of the automaticall controlled type in which a succession of di t ferent totals may be taken automaticalleby rs the machine as the various control rnum change, and also in the further provisibn of means for permitting the automatic taking of totals in. the event that there is a simul- Provision is made ⁇ for taking the proper totals regardless of whether control numbers change sequentially or simultaneously.
  • Another .object is to 've such machines a wider range of usefu ess by roviding nfechanism of greater capacity and exibility, to the end that the machines can analyze records, such as perforated cards, and print data derived therefrom in any predetermined field on the data sheet.
  • Another object is to provide means whereby totals may be printed wherever desired on the data sheet, lrrespective of the location of the counters wherein such totals are accumulated.
  • Another object is to provide means whereby thegroup control indications, may be in any field or fields on the record cards, from which fields they may be printed in any lield onthe data sheet.
  • Another object is to provide means whereby apluralit of counters mayadd concurrently from t e same field on the record card,
  • lAnother object provides 'that a plurality of accumulatois may add i minor and -major totals from thesame field on the record, and print such totals in the same field or in separate fields on the data sheet, and that said ,n major totals may include said minor totals.
  • Another object is to rovide a plurality of printing and reset cyc es occurring sequentially and printing in order the minor, intermediate, and major totals, either in the same or in separate columns.
  • T' Y nother object is to provide means whereby on a chan e of intermediate or major control the macine will stop, takea total, and reset automatically.
  • rovide means wherebyl a plurality oftota printing cycles are performed, in which printing either takes place or does not take place, de ending on l changes of group indicatingl num rs.
  • Fi 1 is a front elevation of our machine, showing the card feeding and stacking mechanism, the 10 counters arranged in two banks of iive counters Yeach, the printing section, and a portion of the plug board.-
  • Fig. 2 is a section through the printing portion of the machine, on line 2- 2 of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, showing a portion of the control devices for sequential printing and resetting.
  • Fig. 4 is a view of the control devices taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 5 is a view taken on line 5-5 of Fig.
  • Fig. 6 is a view on line 6-6 of Fig. 1,
  • Fig. I is a lan view, partly in section, on line 7-7 of Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 8 is a plan view, partly in section, on line 8--8 of Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 11 is a dia rammatic representation of the plug board o the machine.
  • Fig. 12 is a circuit diagram of an alternative zero buttoncontrollin circuit.
  • the contact blocks of up er brushes 51 are wired to plug sockets 62.' Fhese plug sockets 62, by the usual plugs and wires 63 may be connected to sockets 64 of the automatic control unit generally designated as 65.
  • This control unit also has sockets 66 which in the usual way are plugged back to the lower brush plugsockets 53 for controlling purposes.
  • contacts 1, 2, and 3 in one group or series, contacts 5 and 6 in another series, and contact 8 in another ciruit.
  • the 1, 2, and 3 control.
  • Wires 73 and 74 extend to binder posts 82 and 83while wires 75 and 76 extend to binder posts 84 and 85.
  • Posts 82 and 83 are connected to oppositevsides of the relay coil 86,.w hile posts 84 and 85 are connected'to opposite sides of relay coil 87.
  • relay 86 When contacts 5 or 6 are open current is supplied to relay 8,6 as follows -from Wire through relay 86, cam contacts L-9 now closed, resistance 91, wire 92 and through cam contacts P--7 and lower card lever contacts 93 to right side of line. At all times when contacts 5 and 6 are closed, relay 86 is shunted out of the circuit by line 90* through which current passes from line 90 to lines 73 and 74 Without passing through 86. When a change ingrou-pnumber occurs in. ⁇ colum11.
  • relay 86 one of their corresponding contacts 67 will open up and'current will fiow through relay 86 as above described.
  • the energization of 86 attracts its armature and lestablishes a circuit through relay coils 94, resistance 95,A supplementary stop relay coil 96 and thence through wire 92, cam contacts P--7, and out through right side of line as before.
  • Cam contacts L-8 and L--9 are'timed to I close and open synchronousl with the openthe D position. If the change in control number occurs in the major control circuitthrough the 8 column, relay 87 is energizedin a similar manner, the circuit being traced as follows from left side of line through 90, relay 87, cam contacts L-8, resistance 91 and throughv 92 to right ,side of line. This sets up a supplementary circuit through the armature of relay 87, relay-coil 99, resistance 95, through the supplementary stop relay magnet coil 96 to the right side of line as before.
  • the rst of our present cycles is used for Atotal printing the Aamount or sub-total. of the minor control number.
  • the second c clel is utilized for printing a sub-total indicative of the first major (intermediate) control number, and the third cycle is utilized for printing the amount indicative of the grand total or of the second major control number.
  • a supplementary shaft 100 (Fig. 4) which is geared to the total printing shaft 101 by gearin 102 having a' 3 to 1 ratio.
  • the P cams t erefore make one revolution for cach three revolutions of shaft 101.
  • certain of the P cams namely, P-l and P-6, control the reset motor operation these cams will not interrupt ythe reset motor operation orithe reset cycle until the end of the third revolution of t'he total print shaft 101.
  • Another P cam -contact, P4 controls the automatic restarting of the tabulator and this cam contact is so timed that restarting does not take place until after three reset cycles have been completed.
  • the machine therefore contemplates three complete tot-al printing operations. Printing may or may not occur in some of these cycles, depending upon whether' various control numbers change or not.
  • Figs. 5 and 9 for an eX- planation of the zero button mechanism, and 111 are the dual resetting shafts of the two banks of the tabulating machine c0unters.
  • the lower reset yshaft 110 is driven in the usual manner, and this shaft through bevel gearing 112, vertical shaft 113, and bevel gearing 114, drivesthe upper reset shaft 111.
  • Each counter has.' ⁇ means for clutching 4its reset, gear 115 With-its shaft 110 or 111.
  • Gear 115 meshes with a gear 116 having its hub 117 shaped in the form of a one-tooth clutch.
  • a collar 118 having a pin 119 freely slidablein a hole in the collar.
  • Pin 119 is .fixed in a clutch member 120 which is slidably mounted on one of the resetting shafts and normally held to the left, or out of engagement with 117, by spring 121.
  • Clutches 120 and 117 may be engaged by pushing pin 119 to the right by means of sleeve 122..
  • the shifting of this sleeve may be effected either manually by means of the usual reset button 123, or magnetically by the energization of zero button magnet 61.
  • the armature 61a of this zero button magnet engages a groove in sleeve 122, substantially as shown. It will be understood that when the reset clutch 120--117 is forced into engagement by the manually manipulated zero button 123 that the parts.
  • ne way in which the machine can be operated may be set forth as follows z-On a' particular counter which accumulates, say, the sub-totals corresponding t'o minor classifications, the reset devices may be locked b manual adjustment of zero button 123.
  • first printed total would be that of the minor 70 classifications
  • second rinted total would be that of the first major (intermediate) classiication
  • third printed total would be that of vthe second major classification
  • arate fields on the data sheet or the may e all on the eo same field one underneat the other, or they may be partly in one lield and partly in another, that is, in the illustration we are considering, two totals may be in a certain field one under the other and the other total may 95 be in any other field desired, provided only that the field is not already being used for another purpose.
  • these contacts are arranged to close during the secpreviously referred to a total will be printed 'hese pairs of plug connections 105 99, thence 115 l of the amount standing on No. 3 counter, the zero button of this counter having been manually thrown in and locked.
  • relay 94 ' will be energized, thus attracting its armature and closing contacts 174.
  • cam contacts P-9 are closed at the start of the second total print and reset cycle
  • the zero button magnet 61 controlling the No. 4 counter will be energized, the zero button will be thrown in, contacts 59 'will be closed and thetotal standing on No. 4 counter will be printed.
  • total printing operations may take place from either or both counters whose zero button magnets 61 are plu gedto the rela circuits. Any counters may ie plug ed to t ese relay circuits by manipulation o plug connections 132 and 133. p
  • cam contact P-4 (upper contacts) will close and re-initiate the starting up of the tabulator.
  • all of the various relays 87, 99, 86, 94 and 96 are deenergized, this being brought about by the opening of cam contacts P--7.
  • P-'-7 is the only cam contact which can control 86'and 87, they not being subject to control of cam contacts P'-8 and Fi 11 shows a dia minati'c view of the. plug oard of the mac ine, and from this dia-V gram various o rations of the machine can be explained.y n the first place, the. machine canbe used as a simple printin ⁇ tabulator with or without control unit 65. v e present practice with tabulating machines vis to provide fortyve e'ective columns on the card.'
  • utilizing sockets $0 and switches 69 may be pli't at any point, between any'columns, as
  • connections can be made to any of the forty-five lower brush plug sockets 53. From these' forty-five lower brush sockets 53 selective plug connections can be -made to any of the eighty 4sockets 54. If it isdesired toaccumulate items from the same .card field in two or more counters, multiple plug connections ,can be inserted in sockets-53- to the No. 5.
  • Cam contacts L-8 and L-9 are'timed to open and close synchronously with the opening and closing of contacts C--1'.
  • l' Extending from either side of cont-acts L-9 and L--8 are pairs of plug wines 82, 83 and 84, 85, respectively, which are arranged to be' plugged to contacts 67 through sockets in such combinations as may be desired.
  • the record cards 200 (Fig. 1) are :ted downwardly one at a time by the picker 201. They pass the upper and lower sets of brushes -51 and 52 contained within section 202 and are restacked at 203.
  • Power is furnished to drive the tabulator by pulley 204, which in turn receives power from the driving motor through belt 205.
  • the cards While passing the brushes the cards are analyzed by the brushes and the information derived therefrom is set up in the counters, which are serially numbered 1 to 10. .Subsequently the information compiled in the counters is printed, if desired, by the printing mechanism contained in section 206, on
  • data sheet 207 carriedby platen 208.
  • the data is printed on the record sheet in any desired arrangement as already explained.
  • 210 is the list-non-list lever, well known in the art, by which many of the listing and printing operations are controlled Whenever a printing operation is to take place the type 212 are raised by arms 213,
  • Each bank of type is arrested at the proper time by a catch 214 controlled by a magnet 57 through rod 215, so that when hammers 216 are actuated, the proper type are in position on the printing line.
  • Hammers 216 are actuated by members 217, which are released at the right instant by arm 218.
  • Arm 213 is fast to shaft 220 and when the machine is set for listing operations the rocking of shaft 220 and raising of the type is brought about b listing cam 221 (Fig. 2) on shaft 222. hen totaling operations are i to be carried out the type raising is ⁇ effected by total cam 223 on printing shaft 224. Cams 221 and 223 actuate shaft 220 by means of interconnected arms and levers fully described in the other applications already referred to. i
  • Reset motor 144 drives Worm wheel 226 and this in -turn drives printing shaft 224 through the instrumentality of yprinting cam '227 (Fig. 5)., controlled by reset clutch magnet 141 through arm 230 and suitable ratchet mechanism designated in general'as 231.
  • the lower card lever contact assembly 260 shown in the conventional diagram at the bottom of Fig. 10 is made ⁇ up of the 2-point assembly shown in the upper part of Fig. 10 at 265 plus the single point lower card contact 93 in Fig. 10.
  • a record controlled accounting machine comprising in combination a plurality of accumulators, total taking mechanism and means for initiating operation of the same to automatically perform a predetermined succession of total taking operations vand means for selectively associating the accumu-A lators with the total taking mechanism to ber and order of accumulator/s from which totals are taken may be varied independently of the predetermined order and number of ⁇ total taking operations.
  • a record controlled accounting machine comprising in combination a plurality of accumulatore, means for automatically taking totals successively from one or more of said accumulatore, individual resetting means for individually resetting the accumulator or accumulatoi's from which the total or totals have been taken by the operation of the machine and preselecting means manipulable at the Will of the operator for preselecting the accumulators from which the total is to be taken and which are to be reset by the niachine' operation 3.
  • a record controlled tabulator including, in combination, a plurality of accumulators, means for automatically initiating a predetermined fixed number of successive total taking operations, and means controlled by the record for predetermining and selecting the accumulators from which totals are to be taken.
  • a record controlled tabulator including in combination a plurality o'f accumulators, means for automatically taking totals successive- ⁇ sively from more than one of said accumu-- lators, means individual to each accumulator for resetting the 'same upon total-taking opfrom which 'the totals are to be taken.
  • a tabulat-or including a plurality of counters, automatic electrically controlled devices for initiating the taking of totals from several of said counters, and manipulative means for predetermining the counters from which the totals will be taken.
  • a record controlled tabulating machine comprising, in combination, electric ⁇ means for reading amounts from the records, a plurality of counters for accumulating totals of such amounts, tot-al taking mechanism and means for initiating operation of the same to automatically perform a succession of total taking operations, and means for selectively associating the several counters with the total taking mechanism for pre-selecting at the will of the operator the counters from ivhich the totals areto be taken during the successive operations of the total taking mechanism.
  • An accounting machine including, in

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