US1818830A

US1818830A - Type-card for printing machines

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Publication number: US1818830A
Application number: US479122A
Authority: US
Inventors: George Van Dusen
Original assignee: Gaylord Brothers Inc
Current assignee: Gaylord Brothers Inc
Priority date: 1930-09-01
Filing date: 1930-09-01
Publication date: 1931-08-11
Anticipated expiration: 1948-08-11

Description

Aug, 11, 1931. a. VAN DUSEN 1,313,830

TYPE CARD FOR PRINTING MACHINES Filed, Sept. 1. 1930 I N ENTOR 2 V V ATTORNEY? Mir/visa Patented Aug. 11, 1931 v UNITED STATES GEORGE VAN DUSEN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW

PATENT i OFFICE YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GAYLORD BROTHERS,

INCORPORATED, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK TYPE-CARD FOR PRINTING MACHINES Application filed September This invention relates to a type-card f the class set forth inthe pending application of L. W. Moulton, Serial No. 394,530,, filed September 28, 1929, and is adapted to be used in printing machines similar to those set forth in the pending applications of L. W. Moulton, Serial No. 394,531, filed September 28, 1929, and Serial No. 511,816,

filed January 28, 1931 for receiving and making impressions or records used in public circulating libraries and other places where books and other articles are loaned to patrons for limited periods of time.

In this particular instance at least two cards are used for each patron, one of said cards, commonly known as the identification card, being provided with negative identification type adapted to be impressed upon the other card, which in turn, known as the librarian or record card, is adapted not only to receive impressions of the dates of loan and return of the borrowed articles but also the impressions. from the type of the identification card opposite the dates of loan and return. v

These two cards are placed in the printing machine in such manner and in such relation that the identification impressions will be made simultaneously with and in opposed relation to the date impressions upon the librarians record card.-

That is, the record card for each borrower, with the identification number thereon, is retained bythe librarian while the other card bearing the type-plate with the identification number thereon, is retained by the borrower so that when the borrower wishes to obtain or return any I article from the library, the librarian places both cards in the printing machine which automatically prints the date of the loan or return upon the record card and simultaneously makes an impression upon the same record card of the identification number of the borrower oppositethe date of loan or return, both cards being then removed from the printing machine, one for the files of the library and the other to be given to the borrower.

Under th1s system provision is made for 1, 1930. Serial No. 479,122.

The type plates are usually made of metal while the remaining portion of the identification card 1s preferably made of tough paper or equivalent material and of about the same size as the record card with sufiicient space thereon to receive other records if desired, and it is therefore evident that the metal type plate will outwear the remaining portions of the identification card to such an extent as to require more or less frequent replacements of the type plate with other cards. I

The present invention is directed more particularly to the identification card bearing the metal type-plate and to the means for attaching the type-plate to the card in such manner that it will lie mainly in the plane of the card so that the latter may be readily inserted into and removed from the printing machine.

The main. object of the present invention,

therefore, is to construct the type-plate and its card in such manner that the former may be easily and quickly removed andreplaced with another card Without mutilating the latter and at the same time toautomatically hold the type-plate and card against accidental displacement, one from the other.

One of the specific objects is to provide the type-card with an opening and suitable guides along which latter the type-plate may be adjusted by sliding movement to and from a position across the opening with its type in registration with said opening when adjusted for use, so that when the type-card is placed in the printing machine its type may be impressed upon the other card by the action of the relatively movable platens of the printing machine.

Other objects and uses relating to the specific parts of the invention will be i brought out in the following description,

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front face v1ew of a typecard with the type-plate in operative position thereon.

Figure 2 is a rear face view of the same card showing the opening and guide slots therethrough, with the plate in operative position.

Figure 3 is a front face view of a portion of the same card with the type-plate removed.

Figure l is an enlarged sectional view taken in the plane of line l l, Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a perspective View of the card shown in Figure 1, except that it is slightly bent transversely to illustrate'the mode of inserting and removing the type-plate into and from its guides in the card.

Figure 6 is an enlarged transverse sectional View taken in the plane of line 66, Figure 5.

As illustrated, this invention comprises a rectangular card -1- of comparatively thin tough paper or equivalent material having a relatively small rectangular opening -2 and guide slots -3- along opposite sides of the opening 2-.

The opening 2- is formed in the card -1 near one side and substantially midway between the ends of the card some distance from the marginal edges thereof, said opening being elongated transversely of the card, as shown more clearly in Figure 3, and of just sufiicient size to permit the impressions of the type on the type-plate to be made. therethrough upon the record card, not shown.

The guide slots 3 are relatively narrow and are arranged equal distances from and at opposite sides of the lower and upper walls of the opening 2, said slots being extended uniform distances beyond the corresponding ends of the opening.

The slots -3 are provided at one end with lateral branches -3- extending toward each other for receiving portions of a type-plate 4-. r

This type-plate preferably consists of a rectangular piece of relatively thin type metal or equivalent material of about the same length as the length of the slots -3- and of approximately the width corresponding to the distance between the slots.

The central portion of the main body of the plate 4 is provided with negative type 5- embossed therein to face in one direction and adapted to register with the opening 2 in the card when adjusted for use.

The opposite longitudinal edges of the plate 4 are offset in the same direction and returned toward each other to form flanges -6 and intervening grooves 7.

The transverse widths of the offset slots 3 correspond approximately to the transverse widths of the flanges -6 on the plate 4:- to enable the ends of the flanges to enter the offset slots 3 and thus permit the entire type-plate to be moved endwise along the guide slots 3 with the main body of the plate closely contiguous one face of the card --1- while the flanges 6 overlap upon the other face of the card for holding the plate and card against relative transverse movement.

That is, when. assembling the plate upon a card it may be tilted at an angle to the plane of the card and one end of the flanges 6 inserted through the branch slots 3-, whereupon the entire plate may be moved along the guide slots -3 until the ends of the flanges abut against the corresponding ends of said slots.

()r, as shown in Figures 5 and 6, the card may be slightly bent to cause the inner walls of the branch slots -3' to be sprung outwardly, whereupon the ends of the flanges 6- may be inserted through the branch slots -3 and then the entire plate moved endwise along the guide slots -3- until the ends of the offset portions of the plate engage corresponding ends of the slots.

This slight transverse bending of the card is particularly necessary when removing the plate from the card in which case the inner walls of the offset slots 3- are slightly deflected outwardly, thus permitting the flanges -6 to pass through the branch slots, whereupon the plate may be withdrawn endwise from the guide slots 3- and thus detached from the card l-.

In either method of assembling, however, when the plate is in operative position in the slots 3 its ends engage corresponding ends of the slots to hold said plate and card against accidental detachment, one from the other.

It will also be observed that when the plate is properly positioned on the card its type -5 will be registered with the opening -2 so that if another card, such as a record card, is placed across the embossed face of the type plate 4 and the two cards then press together, a positive impression of the type -5 will be'made upon the record card, these impressions being made by the operation of the platens of the printing machine shown in the pending applications above referred to.

The portions of both faces of the card above and below the type-plate are left blank for the reception of a multiplicity of records such as dates of loan and return of the borrowed article so that the same card may serve the triple purpose of printing, identification of the borrower and receiving the records of dates of loan and return and may be retained by either the librarian or borrower to be used in the printing machine upon the dates of said loan or return for keeping a record of the transactions.

What I claim is 1. A card having an opening therethrough and slots along opposite sides of the opening, and a type-plate engaged in said slots and slidable therein to and from a position across said opening.

2. A card having an opening therethrough and slots along opposite sides of the opening, and a type-plate operatively extended across the opening adjacent one face of the card and having its opposite edges extended through the corresponding slots and overlapping upon the other face of the card.

3. A card having an opening therethrough and slots along opposite sides of the opening, and a type-plate engaged in said slots and slidable therein to and from a position across said opening, the lengths of the slots being substantially equal to the lengths of the adjacent portions of the type-plate to cause the ends of the slots to engage the adjacent ends of the plate for holding the plate a ainst accidental endwise displacement W en adjusted for use.

4. A card having an opening therethrough and slots along opposite sides of the opening and a type-plate operatively extended across the opening adjacent one face of the card and having its opposite edges extended through the corresponding slots and overlapping upon the other face of the card, said slots having offset branches at one end of sufficient transverse Width to permit said overlapping edges of the type-plate to pass endwise therethrough.

5. A card having an opening therethrough and slots along opposite sides of the opening, and a type-plate extended across said opening at one side of the cardand its opposite edges extended through the corresponding slots, and provided with return flanges overlapping'upon the other face of the card, said slots having branches at one end oflset toward each other a distance not less than the transverse widths of the corresponding flanges to allow the latter to pass therethrough.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of August, 1930.

GEORGE VAN DUSEN.