US1873593A

US1873593A - Autographic register

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Publication number: US1873593A
Application number: US514686A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jensen Louis
Original assignee: United Autographic Register Co
Current assignee: United Autographic Register Co
Priority date: 1931-02-09
Filing date: 1931-02-09
Publication date: 1932-08-23
Anticipated expiration: 1949-08-23

Description

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AUTOGRAPHIC REGI STER Filed Feb. 9, 1931 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Aug. 23, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT Price '7 LoUIS JENSEN, or cIIIcAGo, ILLINOIS, 'AsSIGNoIt, T0 UNITED nn roennrrrio REGISTER 00.,01 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A coRPoRATIoNoF ILLINOIS AU'roenArnIc REGISTER Application filed February 9, 1931.. Serial No. 514,686.

This invention relates particularly to autographic registers of a type in which the duplicating Strips are taken from a suitable source of supply and led across a platenupon which blanks, or tickets, are filledin.

The primary objects of the invention are improved means for-:positioning the strips over the platen during the loading operation, and the. provision of improved means for filing the record copy in the machine.

-'The invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawings,

in whicha Figure lis'a. perspective view of an autographic register embodyingthe invention, the cover-members being shown in lifted po sition; Fig. 2 is a broken vertical sectional view on an enlarged scale, of the feed mechanism; Fig. 3, a broken longitudinal vertical sectional view on: an enlarged. scale taken as indicated at line 3 of Fig". 2;; Fig, 4, a similar viewtaken as indicated atline 4:- of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a perspectiveviewof the-reg ister-mechanism; Fig. 6-,'a; broken longitu- 23 dinal vertical sectional view of the mecha:

nism for operating the kick-off member; Fig. 7, a schematic broken. longitudinal vertical sectional view, showing the relation. be

tween the kick-off member, filing pins and 6 knife; and Fig. 8, a detaili of the cam-gear for operating the kick-off member.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated, A designates a casing, or'frame, provided with a storage compartment -A, a platen A a cover A? adapted: topartially inclose the platen,and a "closure A afi'ording a cover for the compartment A; B, feed mechanism located betweenrthe platen and thefiling compartment A G, clamping and the original strip; D, a'laterally-open delivery-chute through which the copy-strips are delivered, and E, mechanism for filing the record slips.

The casing A is ofknown construction. The platen A is pivotally connected at one lateral edge with the upper portion of; asidewalliof the casing. Thecasing is equipped with a pair of rigid arms which support a.

' when the upper feed-roll housing 4- islowcutting mechanism adapted to hold and sever pivot rod a towhich one a lateral;- edge oil the cover A is connected by means, of hingemembers. The closureA is connected at one end'to the casing by transverse pivots Z), and the closure is shown equipped With alock 0. The feed-mechanism B- is similar to that described in application Serial No. 289,821, filed J uly2, 1 928, and comprises an upper feed-roll 1, anda lower feed-roll 2, which are connected by'gearsB, 3. The upper feed-roll is mounted, in av transverse housing 4, one end of which is pivotally supported at 5. and the' otl1 er'equ-ipped with a releasable catch 6; v The feed-rolls are driven by a shaft 7, through themediumof' gears 8. The shaft- 7 is equipped with. acrank 7 which co-oper 3g. ates with a latch-device, or withdrawable sto;p,.9 p Int-he-present invention, register-pins are used during-theloading operation only, and

ered, to place the feed-rolll in operative po- 7o sition', an operating is engaged which withdraws; the register-pins from the register perforations in the strips. 7 I

Thenrachine is provided with a rock-shaft lO-which-carriesa pair of register pins 10 an operating arm 10 ,-'and ashort arm 10 to which. a; spring- 11 is connected. The spring tends to throw the pins-10* into engagement with the register-perforations in the mania fold strips, designated 12; It will be understood thatgwhen the feed-roll housing at is raised, thepins 10 will spring up into strip engaging position and that upon turning the: feed-roll tooperative position, the housing L will depress the arm- 10" and thereby throvv thepins down out of the patho'f-the' strips. The pins serve to assist in the proper posie tionin-g' of the-strips over the platen and feedmechanism during the loading operation,

The duplicating strips 12 comprise a series ofconnected forms orslipsdesignated 12?. Inthe operation of the machine the slips to bedispensed from the machine are usually torn from the strip 'vvhile those to be filed' in the machine are severed bya blade desig-; natedC'. I r I 1 7 Inthe filing mechanismdescribcd' in my applicationSerial- No; 289,821, the'feed-rolls advance the strips-to thecutter mechanism, rob

' but no means is provided for advancing the rear edge of the last set of slips from the feed-rolls to a position beyond the cutter blade, prior to its operation, and as a result the last set of slips are mutilated bythe cutter. In the present invention, themechanism E is similar to that previously described except that the kick-off member-is designed to .operate before the slips are severed and I again after they aresevered, so that mutila jf tion of theslips is prevented' The filing compartment A is providedwith filing pins 13 (one shown), and a ticket-oven turn device, or kick-off member 14, which is mounted on a shaft 14? and provided with an actuating arm 14. f A' slide 15'is engaged by a cam gear 16, which, in turn, isactuatedby the shaft 7 through a' train of gears 17. "The cam is provided with two arms'16 f'and' 16 which are positioned, to actuate thefkick-oif arm 14, bymeans ofthe slidei15, just-priorto the lowering of the cutter-blade C andagain thereafter A-spring 14 is wound onthe shaft 14'- and serves to (throw the kick-01f .member rearwardly when released by the slide 15.

Thus,it will be r not restrained the strip 12' they willbe drawn from 'underthe blade before its operation In other words the kick-01f arm is de-' signed to'operate twice during each cycle of operations on a single set of slips. While the cam 16 is shown with a pair of cam-arms serving to give the kick ofl arm two distinct swings, obviously the device would function f as well if the camwer'e arranged to make the longer swing in two; steps,the first step being suflicient-to-assure-thefend of the slip reaching the cutter, and the' second step con tinuing the swing sufficiently to ov'erturnv the slip afterthe cutting operation. Thejcam arm '16 is made somewhat shorter than the cam-arm 16 which will prevent thearm from tearing slips which are not free from the strip lprior to the c'utting 'operation.

The foregoing detailed description has been given for cle'arnessof under-standing claims shouldbe construedas broadly as 1. In eombinaaon in a duplicating ma ch ne equipped w th a cas ng; a platen over which may be fed strips provided with regisoer-perforations; feed-mechanism comprising a displaceable-rollg and a register-finger movably mounted-onsaid casingindependently of said feed mechanism and operative to engage a'register perforation when said roll is in inoperative position, said finger be ing equipped with means-for throwing it to inoperative position in the operation of moving the roll to its operative position;

seen that if the slips 12 are 2. Means as specified in claim 1, in which said feed-roll is mounted in a movable housing equipped with register-finger retractin means.

8. In combination in a duplicating machine: a platen; an automatically projected register-member feed mechanism, including 7 a withdrawable upperfeed-member; and

,means for retracting said registeremember, 'comprislng an actuatingarm associatedfwlth said register memb'er, and means carried with said feed-member serving to move said arm member and thereby effect retraction of V the; register-member; in the operation of throwing the feed-member to operative position.'

4. In combination in a 'duplicatingfma chine: feed-mechanismcomprising a housing mount'edto swing about one 'end thereofisaid housing carrying an upper feed-roll'; a reg-.

ister-member mounted'in 'i'ear of said feedmechanismand equipped with means for pro- H jecting it to registering position when said housing is lifted; and means carried by said housing servingto eifect withdrawal ofv said register-member when said housing is lowered to operative position. 1 I 5. Means as specified in claim I 4,1 in which the register-member V is carried by a rockshaft equipped with an actuating arm which so I extends into the path of'a co-acting'member v V with which saidhousi ng 'isi-equipped.

=6. In a'register: a platen over whichstrips provided with'perforations may be drawn,

a frame in which said platen is mounted, feed means adapted to engage said strips and" draw them; over said platen, register pins' mounted adjacent to and independently of said feed means and adapted to enter the perforationsof the strips, and .means for autos matically withdrawing said register-pins from theperforations when the feed means is placedin strip-engaging condition. r :7. A device ofthe character set-forth in claim 6, in ;which the register-pins are mounted on arock-shaft having anactuating" arm projecting into? the path of movement of said feed means.

. 8.1In a'reglster: forated strips may be drawn; a pair of feeda' platen over which rolls serving to draw said strips overthe platen, one of saidfeed-rolls'being adapted to be separated from its'companion rollto permit the introduction of strips; a rock-shaft provided'with an operating arm anda register-pin adapted. to enter perforations 1n the strips and means for operating said arm and Y withdrawing the register-pin when the feedrolls are brought together. v i I 9. In a register: a platen over which strips comprisingconnected slips may be drawn; a filing-compartment in advance of' said platen; a cutter interposed between the platen V and filing compartment; feed-mechanism q serving to feed said stripslover' said'platen] to the cutter; cutter-actuating means operating in timed relation to said feed-mechanism; and a device actuated in timed relation to said cutter serving to carry the last slip clear of the cutter after said last slip has passed from said feed-means.

10. A device of the character set forth in claim 9, in which the filing compartment is provided with register pins which are adapted to impale the slips as they leave the cutter and the device actuated in timed relation to the cutter is mounted in said compartment and serves to overturn the slips after they are impaled.

11. In a register: a platen over which a strip comprising connected slips may be drawn; a cutter device adapted to sever said slips; feed mechanism adapted to engage said strip back of the cutter device and feed it over the platen and project it past the cutter; and a final slip withdrawing device operative, after the final slip has cleared the feed-mechanism, to cause said final slip to clear the cutter.

12. In a register: a platen over which a strip comprising a series of slips may be fed; a filing-compartment in advance of the platen; a cutter operating in a plane between said platen and compartment; a suitably actuated filing-pin in said compartment; feed-mechanism engaging said strip back of said outter; means for guiding the strip as it enters the filing compartment to cause the advance end to be iinpaled'on said pin; a kick-over device operative to aid in overturning the slip fed into said compartment; and actuatingmeans for said kick-over device having means for causing a succession of kick-over impulses against each slip.

13. In a register: a platen over which a strip comprising slips may be fed; cutter mechanism adapted to sever said slips; feedmeans for advancing a strip over said platen to the cutter mechanism; a filing compartment in advance of said cutter mechanism adapted to receive the severed slips; and a kick-ofi' member in said filing compartment operated in timed relation with said cutter mechanism, adapted to strike each slip prior to its severance and again thereafter to prevent mutilation of the slips by said cutter mechanism.

operative position.

LOUIS JENSEN.