US1863098A - Apparatus for computing statistical data - Google Patents

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US1863098A
US1863098A US323545A US32354528A US1863098A US 1863098 A US1863098 A US 1863098A US 323545 A US323545 A US 323545A US 32354528 A US32354528 A US 32354528A US 1863098 A US1863098 A US 1863098A
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  • FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic representation of FIG. 5.
  • the various data of a denomination may be obtained either by a succession of impu es in a sin le transmission circuit, or b a sin 1e impu se in at least one of a plurality of clrcuits (for example four circuits) in accordance with a in combination or code.
  • the said printing apparatus comprises also a number of elements, each element corre-. sponding to a given denomination, and each element comprising at least one electromagnet cooperating with the said element by-receiving electrical impulses corresponding to one denomination of the data to be printed, and a series of movable types corresponding to the transmitted data, and adapted to be temporarily arrested in the printing position by a corresponding electromagnet in such manner that a number of the said elements may produce simultaneously the printing of characters corresponding to the different denominations of a datum.
  • the said printing apparatus'ma comprise means for automatically preventing the printing of superfluous zero figures. It may also comprise means for automatically producing the printin of zeros in the denominations following tl ie decimal point, should these zeros be followed by another figure. It may also comprise an additional element similar to the others, for producing automatically the variable and prescribed advance of the recording sheeet in the said printing apparatus, in conformity with a variable datum received from the above mentioned electric impulse. This new and Farticulardisposition of the said elements 0 the installation permits it to render services of a variety which are not possible withthe devices now known.
  • igures 1 to 3 refer to a first method and mechanism in which each digit of the data to be transmitted is received in the form of a succession of'imp'ulses in a single circuit for each denomination.
  • Figure 1 shows diagramatically the mechanism for each denominational element of the apparatus.
  • Figure 2 shows diagramatically the mechanism for automatically advancing the printing or recording sheet; the position shown being that at the extreme end of the automatic advance.
  • Figure '3 shows a diagram of the electrical connections in'the apparatus.
  • Figures 4 to 8 refer to a second method and mechanism in which'eaoh digit of the data to be transmited is received in the form of a single impulse in the combination of at least four transmission circuits according to a code.
  • Figure 4 is a diagrammatic view of theregistering mechanism of a single denominational element, in the rest position.
  • Figure 5 isan elevation on a larger scale of a part of this registering mechanism.
  • Figure 7 shows diagramatically the driving mechanism of the printing or recording sheet, in the end position after the automatic forward movement of the sheet.
  • Figure 8 shows the change in gear connections for Figure 7 if it is desired to move the sheet immediately after, instead of before, each entry.
  • Fig. 9 is an elevation showing the operation of the cross bar
  • Fig. 10 is an enlarged detail of the disc 881 of Fig. 9, showing the operation of the cam and lift rods;
  • Fig. 11 is a detail illustrating the operation of the member 892 under the actuation of the lift rod 891 and cam 883; while Fig. 12 is a view illustrating the o eration of the contact closing cam 904 of ig. 9.
  • one element corresponds to the point sign, shown by the value 13 and its transmission is efiected in any desired manner by the sending or transmitting apparatus.
  • the sheet 701 ( Figure 1) is placed on the 'platen 702.
  • Each rotation of the driving shaft of the apparatus will hereafter be called a phase, in the course of which is carried out a transmission of a value to the various elements and also the various electrical and mechanical operations and movements necessary for.
  • the circuit of the electromagnet 706' is closed three times through the terminal 707 and the armature attracted and released as often, the rod' 705 being thus raised up three teeth by means of the spring 709 and the lever 710, and the chain 711 being raised by three writing type units 712.
  • the desired fi re here 3
  • the next previous figure (fire 2) hereby comes under the working range of the hammer 713, and as this is usually the case, the electromagnet must in each element be energized again immediately after the transmission of the digit.
  • the contact-s 717 of the element of the point sign ensure, as the rod 705 of this element is kept raised, the closing of the circuit of the relay 715 in the circuits of the elements following it.
  • the position of the point sign is given as invariable; the point is always registered by the same element.
  • the driving shaft of the installation releases the hammer 713 in each element, by releasing the common axis 719 driven by a tensioned spring, so that, in the usual manner the indications transmitted are printed on the sheet 701.
  • the ink ribbon 720 the feed of which is insured in the usual manner, may be in two colours.
  • the drive shaft 880 is'the drive shaft of the apparatus; this shaft is driven uniformly by a motor which is not shown.
  • the drive shaft carries sliding discs 881 and 882 keyed thereto. These two slides are identical. They serve to give reciprocating vertical motion to the bar 703. To that end, said bar is secured at its ends to the upper part of two vertical rods 898, 899 each sliding axially in two fixed guides 884,886, and 885, 887, respectivel
  • These rods at their lower extremities have fingers 900 and 901, respectively, engaged in 'the grooves or slides 902 and 903, respectively, of the corresponding discs 881 and 882, respectively.
  • the bar Upon each turn of the shaft 880, the bar performs a complete up and down movement at the same time remaining in thesame vertical plane. In rising, it allows the bars 705 and the rods 721 (Fig.2) to rise under the eflfect of the springs .709 (Fig. 1) to the extent that the pawls 708 permit such action. In returning downwardly after the printing, .the bar 703 will return all the bars 704 and the rods 721 to the lower position.
  • the shaft 880 likewise carries a cam 883 (Figs. 9 and 11) controlling a vertical rod 891 having at its lower end a roller 891a resting upon the cam 883 under the action of a spring 896 pressing against a collar 897 of the rod 891 and bearing against. a fixed part 898a which at the same time serves to guide said rod.
  • This rod 891 is also guided in 890.
  • the cam 883 acts in such manner as to displace'the rod 891 upwardly,
  • 906 is an element made of insulating material. tacts 905 has the result of sending an impulse through the relay .715 (Fig.- 3) which immediatel'yis energized and simultaneous ly closes .all its contacts716. Across the contacts 716- now closed and across the contacts 717 which have been closed b'y the bars 705 (see Fig. 1) the impulse coming from 714 reaches the electromagnets 706. The electromagnets 706 which receive this supplemental impulse attract their armature 708 (Fig. 1) which permits the corresponding bars 705 to rise a step. All the movements of a phase are thus concluded and during the following rotation of the driving This closing of conshaft of the apparatus further data may be 7 registered on the next line of the sheet.
  • the element of Figure 4 is provided with four electromagnets 830 and with twelve locking rods 831 to 842f which permit-the registration in the use g the decimal system, of eleven different numerals (0 to as well as the'pomt. W1th the same electromagnets and 17 looking rods a maximum of 16, and with 6 electromagnets and 33 locking rods a maximum of '32, different signs (letters, numerals, etc.)
  • the electromagnets 830 (Fig. 4) of the element, energized by the sending or transmitting apparatus, attract their armatures pins 8520f which can engage in a tooth indentation'of one of the latch bars whlch are 843, and by the movement of the rod 844 and the bell-crank lever 845, the corresponding latch bars 846 to 849 are raised.
  • Each looking rod- 831 842 carries four pins corresponding to, and arranged to the right of, the
  • the pins are so arranged that they permit the displacement to t e left of only one locking rod 831-842 for each case when either none, one, or a combination of latch bars 846-849 are raised.
  • the toothed cross rod 850 is lowered and only that locking rod 832 to 842 is forced to the left by the pressure of the spring 851, the upper not raised and'the lower pins 853 of which engage in a tooth indentation of the raised latch bars 846 to 849.
  • the cross bar 854 makes an upward and a downward movement, the rod 855 and the type 856 following the upward movement until the nose or rojection 857 is stopped by the released ihcking rod 842.
  • the locking rod 832 corresponds to the zero to be registered
  • the T shaped inset piece 862 is provided which is wed ed between the lower special indentations o the latch bars 846and 847.
  • the point sign is registered by the simulta- 1 neous lifting of846 and 847, the part'862 is sufficiently raised to retain the pin 863 of the rod 831 in the next higher denominational. element,- so that in the units a zero is always written.
  • the pin 8610f one element retains the rod 831 of the next lower element, the zero can be printed behind/the. oint si
  • the line spacing mechanism ig. 7 or advancing the record sheet 867 (Fig.
  • the line spacing may be fixed, or determined at any desired size by either the sending or transmitting apparatus of the installation. This permits, inter alia, the use of continuous paper rolls from which the series of data registrations, of varying length, may be cut off. or of rolls which have been previously perforated to a prescribed size so as to be easily torn off in sections of similar length.
  • a single element of the printing apparatus can be arranged not only for a certain number of different numerals, but also for the entering of as many various wording, index, names ,of months etc. in the following man- .ner.
  • the upper end of'the rod' 855 Figure 4 carries a cross arm, to which are xed the necessary number'of parallel running type chains 856, the types in the same l ne of these type chains form, for instance, the word to be registered.
  • the apparatus is always mechanically separate from thesending apparatus transmitting the data. Consequently none of the movements of the parts of the apparatus is directly dependent on' the particular movement or position in the sending apparatus of the elements or counters transmitting the data or need coincide with such the data of the data forwarding apparatus is transmitted, the said means forming substantially the only connection between the forwarding apparatus and the printing apparatus, the said printing apparatus comprising a number of elements corresponding each to a given denomination and each comprising at least one electro-magnet cooperating with the said elements toreceive the electrical impulses correspondin to one denomination of the data to be printed, a series of movable types corresponding to the transmitted data, and adapted to be temporarily' stopped in the printing position by a corresponding electromagnet in such a manner that a number of the said elements may produce simultaneously the printing of characters corresponding to the different denominations of a datum, and means for automatically preventing the printing of superfluous zero figures.
  • printing apparatus at least one data forwarding apparatus with which the said printing apparatus collaborates in the abstracting of statistical data, means producing electric impulses whereby the data of the data forwarding apparatus is transmitted, the said means forming substantially the only connection between the forwarding apparatus and the printing apparatus, the said printing apparatus com-.
  • the said printing apparatus means producing electric impulses whereby the data of the data forwarding. apparatus is transmitted, the saidmeans forming substantially the only connection between the forwardlng apparatus and the printing apparatus, the said printing apparatuscomprising a number of elements corresponding each to a given denomination and each comprising at least one electro-magnet cooperating with the said elements to receive-the electrical impulses corresponding to one denomination of the data to be printed, a series of movable types corresponding to the transmitted data, and adapted to be temporarily stopped in the printing position by a corresponding electro-magnet in such a manner that a number of the said elements may produce simultaneously the printing of characters corresponding to the different denominations of a I datum, a printing sheet, and an additional element similar to the others, for producing automatically the variable and prescribed advance of the said printing sheet, in conformance with a variable datum received from the said electric impulses.
  • printing apparatus at least one .data forwarding apparatus col laborating with the said printmg apparatus in theabstraction of statistical data, a single circuit for each digit of the data to be transmitted, the transmlssion taking the form of a succession of electric impulses, the said cir-- cuit constituting substantially the only connection between the forwarding apparatus and the printing apparatus, plurality of elements corresponding each to one denomination and respectively to one of the preceding circuits, each element comprising at least one electro-magnet adapted to receive the electrical impulses corresponding to a given denomination of the data to be printed, and a series of movable types corresponding to the data received and which are adapted to be temporarily stopped in the printing position by the corresponding electro-magnet, whereby a number of elements may produce simultaneously the printing of characters corresponding to the different denominations of a datum, the said single circuit for each digit being adapted to transmit the impulses for mallgelocking the locking rods and adapted each denomination.
  • each element comprising at least 15 one electro-magnet adapted to receive the 1 electrical impu ses corresponding to a given denomination of the data to be printed, and a; series of movable types corresponding to the data received and which are adapted to 99 be temporarily stopped in the printing posi- 5 tion by the corresponding electro-magnet, whereby a number of elements may produce simultaneously the printing of characters 7 corresponding to the different denominations, each grou of circuits beingadapted to transmit the igit for each denomination to a corresponding element in the form of a single impulse in at least one of the circuits of the
  • printing apparatus at least one data forwarding apparatus 001- laborating with the said printing apparatus in the abstraction of statistical data, a plurality of groups of electric circuits, each of which groups of circuits is adapted to transmit one denomination of data from the said forwarding apparatus to the said printing 106' apparatus in the form of a single electric impu se in at least one circuit of thisgroup, according to a code, the said circuits constituting substantially the only connection be- 45 tween the forwarding apparatus and the 110 printing apparatus corresponding each to one denomination and each comprising at least one electro-magnet adapted to receive the electrical impulses corresponding to one denomination of the "data to be printed, a series of movable types corresponding to the data received, and which are adapted to be stopped by the 'electro-magnets in their printing position, so that a number of elements ma 1 simultaneously.
  • each element comprising a plurality of latch bars each of which latch bars is controlled by one of the said electrQ-magnets and controls a group of locking rods in such manner that for each of said groups but one of the said rods can act at a given time to hold one of the types inthe printing position, and cooperating means with each element for nor

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US2641180A (en) * 1949-01-12 1953-06-09 Ibm Zero splits
US2675176A (en) * 1950-01-09 1954-04-13 Powers Samas Account Mach Ltd Decoding device for statistical machines
US2826139A (en) * 1954-08-25 1958-03-11 Ibm Printer with shifting printing means
US2829593A (en) * 1954-12-30 1958-04-08 Ibm Wire printer
US2893312A (en) * 1954-08-25 1959-07-07 Ibm Character selection mechanism
US3014653A (en) * 1961-12-26 Column numerals
US3565000A (en) * 1969-10-06 1971-02-23 Yeiser Lab Inc Electrically controlled printing machine employing reciprocable type bias
US3887792A (en) * 1973-12-04 1975-06-03 Scope Inc Method and device for reading and decoding a delta-distance code
US3904855A (en) * 1973-07-16 1975-09-09 Grosse Webereimaschinen Gmbh Read-in system for the control of card-punching machine, jacquard machines and the like
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US3014653A (en) * 1961-12-26 Column numerals
US2641180A (en) * 1949-01-12 1953-06-09 Ibm Zero splits
US2675176A (en) * 1950-01-09 1954-04-13 Powers Samas Account Mach Ltd Decoding device for statistical machines
US2826139A (en) * 1954-08-25 1958-03-11 Ibm Printer with shifting printing means
US2893312A (en) * 1954-08-25 1959-07-07 Ibm Character selection mechanism
US2829593A (en) * 1954-12-30 1958-04-08 Ibm Wire printer
US3565000A (en) * 1969-10-06 1971-02-23 Yeiser Lab Inc Electrically controlled printing machine employing reciprocable type bias
US3904855A (en) * 1973-07-16 1975-09-09 Grosse Webereimaschinen Gmbh Read-in system for the control of card-punching machine, jacquard machines and the like
US3887792A (en) * 1973-12-04 1975-06-03 Scope Inc Method and device for reading and decoding a delta-distance code
WO1981001684A1 (en) * 1979-12-06 1981-06-25 Ncr Co Impact printer
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