US1856445A - Tabulating machine for bookkeeping purposes - Google Patents

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.May 3, 1932- G, TAUscHEK 1,856,445

TABULATING MACHINE FOR BOOKKEEPING' PURPOSES Filed Feb. l0, 1930 E lo l `l ATI-m FW YS Patented May 3, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GUSTAV TA'USCHEK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ASSIGNOR T0 THE TABULATING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION F NEW JERSEY y TAIBULATING- MACHINE FOR IBOOKKEEPING PURPOSES Application led February 10, 1930, Serial No. 427,101, .and in .Austria February 17, 1928.

My invention relates to machines for tabulating the indications or data of cards. In contradistinction to the known tabulating machines which suppose a symbolic representation of the letter and number data of the cards by perforations or the like, the devices according to the present invention allow the tabulating of the characters provided upon the card by way of offset printing or photograjhy.

he importance of the machine according to the invention will become most evident if it is considered that all codes necessary for the symbolic representation of the letters and numbers are dispensed with and therefore the symbols need not be retranslated again into their sense, which means a simplified construction of the machine. Furthermore, the available space of the card may much better be used as all symbols, for instance, combinations of holes and so on, are omitted which, of course, require much more space than the letters or numbers. j

It is, of course, also evident thatthe tabulating machine according to the invention may be used in combination with a tabulating machine of known construction which, for instance, operates on the basis of perforations provided in the card. Such a combination 0 may preferably be used for the purpose of tabulating the letter data by way of photography or by way of offset printing, but of tabulating by means of the ordinary devices for feeling ofi' the holes, counting and printing mechanism, the number data which as a rule are to be subjected to a calculative interpreting operation, such as an addition or the like, and which are replaced or represented by perforated symbols.

The present applicatiion is a continuation in part of my co-pending application Serial No. 338,348, filed February 8, 1929.

The following description is based upon such a combined construction of the machine which will be explained in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 illustrates by way of example a perforated card used in connection with machines according to the invention; Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of a combined machine employ? ing recording by photography according to ethe invention; Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view showing a modification; and F ig. iis an enlarged view of the web advancing mechanism shown in Fig. 2.

As may be seen from Fig. 1, the perforated symbols for the number data are arranged in the upper half of the card, whereas the lower half of the card contains the written or printed notes. rEhe card represented in Fig. 1 may be used for the transmission of money and shows, for instance, a card which is usual in bank and post oiiicc services. rlfhe interpretation of the card for bookkeeping purposes requires a repeated tabulating of the numbers as well as of the letter data, and simultaneously the number data must be added.

Fig. 2 shows a tabulating machine in which the cards of the type shown in Fig. 1 are adapted to be interpreted and their values recorded.'

By means of an oscillating knife 14 they cards are in this case successively taken off from a pile 13 and are passed by feeding rollers 15 underneath an objective 16. As soon as the cardarrives underneath the objective 16 a powerful source of light 17 becomes effective which, by way of the mirror 18 and a second objective 19, )rejects the image of the card upon a part of the paper web 2O which has been made light sensitive. The card is further advanced and passes underneath the feelers 21 which are fully il lustrated in the Tauschek Patent 1,617,088 and which control the counting andprinting mechanisms of the tabulating machine 22. As soon as the printing is effected, the paper web is advanced. As already mentioned the paper web has a light sensitive portion which is situated opposite the objective 19 and a portion arranged opposite the printing mechanisms which is not light sensitive. Of course, the light sensitive portion of the paper web is permanently enclosed in a light tight cover or casing, so that an exposure can only be effected through the objective 19. For the purpose of developing and fixing the exposed portions of the paper web, the latter on its further way is passed through ,receptacles containing suitable solutions, whereupon said web finally passes a drying roller.

A further modification of this construction could result in replacing the type carriers of the tabulating machine 22 by stencil carriers, so that these data also could be projected upon the paper web which would then completely be made light sensitive.

The paper Web 30 which is Wound around the roller 31 may be advanced by means of any suitable mechanism. This mechanism may becomposed of a ratchet wheel 32 (Figs. 2 and 4) fixed to the roller shaft, the Wheel being engaged by a spring-pressed paWl 33. The latter is oscillated through the'links 34, 35 and lever 36 pivoted at 36 to a fixed part of the machine. The lever 36 is oscillated by the crank disk 87, which may serve also to operate the knife 14.

Fig. 3 illustrates a second mode'of carrying out the inventive idea with the aid of photography. The card 27 is brought into direct contact with the light sensitive paper Web 28, whereupon a source of light 29 comes into action, so that the Written data of the card are copied upon the paper web.

The construction of the machine according to the present invention may, of course, be altered in accordance With the numerous kinds of photographic printing methods, so that the machine may be employed with any and all of these methods.

I claim: v

l. In a t-abulating machine for bookkeeping purposes, in combination an oscillating knife for taking off cards from a pile, feeding mechanisms for advancing said cards successively through the machine, an automatically advanced paper Web carried by a platen arranged in a paper carriage provided at the end of the said tabulating machine opposite to that carrying the said pile of cards, an objective arranged above the path of movement of said cards, a light source cooperating -With said objective, a mirror behind said objective and a second objective be hind said mirror and arranged opposite a portion of said paper Web Which has been made light sensitive, said light sensitive portion of the paper being, before development, permanently enclosed in' a light tight casing and passed after exposure through receptacles containing suitable solutions and through drying rollers.

2. In a machine of the class described having a set of printing devices for printing on a Web strip and controlled by perforations in records analyzed by analyzing devices, said records having Written matter, means for advancing the records singly to said analyzing devices, and a photographic mechanism arranged to photograph in succession on a sensitized portion of said Web the Written matter on said records prior to feeding to the analyzing devices.

3. In a tabulating machine employing perforated records to control printing devices to print data on a web sheet, means for feeding records singly from a stack to printing controlling devices, a platen arranged to feed said web strip and a sensitized film portion thereof, a photographic mechanism arranged to photograph on said film unperforated data on the records and means for operating the platen and said record feeding means in correspondence to photograph on the film the unperforated data on successive records.

4. In a tabulating machine controlled b perforated records to represent on a We strip account data, means for feeding records to the account representing controlling devices, a photographic mechanism arranged in the path of the records to photograph on a sensitized portion of the Web strip data other than that represented by perforations, and 285 means for shifting said web in increments in correspondence With the record feeding` means.

5. In an apparatus for the photographic reproduction of parts of perforated records comprising Written or printed matter thereon, means for feeding records singly along the base of the apparatus to and beneath a feeding roller, and a photographic mechanism for photographing upon a sensitized film the Written or printed matter when the 96 perforations are concealed by said roller.

6. In an apparatus for the photographic reproduction of parts of perforated records having additional data thereon in the form of legible characters, means for feeding records singly to and beneath a feeding roller, means for photographing upon a film the exposed parts or legible characters of the record While beneath the roller, means for feeding the film to space the exposed portions, and means: for stacking the photographed records.

7. In a machine controlled by perforated records for representing account data on a web, means for photographing on another Web printed data on the records to identify the account data and means for feeding records singly from a stack into position for my hand.

GUSTAV TAUSCHEK.

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