US1916986A - Group indicating system - Google Patents

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' July 4, 1933. R. E. PAGE ET AL GROUP INDICATING' SYSTEM 6 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 15, 1928 FIG.|.

July 4, 1933. R. E. PAGE ET AL 1,915,986

GROUP INDICATINGSYSTEM Y Filed Dec. 15, 1928 6 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG.2.

July 4, 1933. R. E. PAGE El AL 1,916,986

GROUP INDICATING SYSTEM Filed Dec. 15, 1928 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 FIG.3.

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GROUP INDICATING SYSTEM Fiied Dec. 15. 1 92s 6 Sheets-Sheet 4 FIGS.

BY ATTO RN EY July 4, 1933. R. E. PAGE ET AL 1,916,986

GROUP INDICATING SYSTEM Filed Dec. 15, 1928 6 Sheets-Sheet 5,

7 I -I%ENTOR .BY ATTORNEY July 4, 1933; R] 5 P E Er AL 1,916,986

GROUP INDICATING SYSTEM Filed Dec. 15, 1 928 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 FIGS.

mulll filVENTOR z BY ATTORNEY Patented July 4, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RALPH E. PAGE AND CLAIR D. LAKE, F BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO THE TAIBULATING MACHINE COMPANY, OF ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY GROUP INDICATING SYSTEM Application filed December 15, 1928. Serial No. 326,275.

The present invention relates to accounting machines and has for its principal object the provision of a new and improved group designating system for such machines.

Record controlled tabulators are arranged to perform accounting operations, such as adding, subtracting, etc., with successive items represented by perforations in record cards. The diiferent digits are indicated by differentially locating a perforation or group of perforations on each card, ordinarily each denominational order being assigned to a separate card column. The cards, on passing through the machine, control its operat- 5 ing mechanism, through the perforatlons, to cause accounting devices, such as adders'or printers, to be suitably operated to register or record the data represented. The cards, in addition to the usual item perforations,

often carry classification data, likewise similarly represented by perforations, which identify the classification or groups to which the items belong. There is usually a plurality of cards in each of such groups and it is desirable to indicate or print the data in such a way that the classification or group of all items indicated or printed will be suitably designated, there being numerous ways in which this may be done. According to the present invention, the group designating data is printed opposite the first item of each group and repeated opposite the total or balance. This provides a clear out representation from which the group can-be ascertained at a glance but which does not require unnecessary repetitious printing. The group designation data when printed in this manner is read and entered from the first card of each group and retained in the machine in such manner that it can .be read out at the time of total taking. For greater convenience of operation, the data is retained in an accumulator which can be used for adding purposes if desired, and which is operated 5 as a data retention device only during the operation of group designating.

The group data is read from the first card of each group and entered into an accumulator r in the usual manner. After this single entry,

" arrangements are made for shifting the control of this accumulator from the record cards to another entering device which automatically and arbitrarily makes an entry which operates the accumulator during each machine cycle, but in such a way that its reading at the end of each cycle always corresponds with its reading at the end of the first cycle. Thus, after the first cycle of each card group, ten may be added on the units wheel of the accumulator and nine on all the other wheels, permitting the transfer to operate. This has the eiiect of turning all the wheels through a complete revolution and bringing them back to their original position. At the end of each cycle then the wheels register the group data which was entered into them during the first cycle and this data may be read out whenever it is desired to take a total.

An object of the invention is to provide an entry receiving device controlled by the first record card of a group and controlled during each subsequent cycle of thegroup by predetermined adjusted controlling means.

Another object of the invention is to provide an entry receiving device for an accounting machine which is adapted to receive auto matically entries of amounts representing powers of ten.

Another object of the invention is to control an automatically controlled accounting machine either arbitrarily or by predetermined adjusted controlling means whereby the manner of control is determined by record controlling means.

A further object of the invention is to automatically enter into an accumulator ten units into its units column and nine units into the remaining columns, preferably during each entering operation of a plurality of subsequent entering operations.

Another object of the invention is to provide record controlled shifting means to shift an accumulator after a first record entry by predetermined adjusting controlling means.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a group indicator preferably comprising an accumulator and a coordinated printing device whereby the group number may be printed under control of the accumulator without interrupting entering operations into the accumulator after the first group number entry.

Other objects and advantages will be here inafter set forth in the accompanying specification and claims and shown in the drawings which illustrate by way of example what is now considered to be the preferred embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figs. 1 and 2 represent a circuit diagram of a machine embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 being a continuation of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 illustrates the group control mechanism and coordinated devices used for the purpose of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view according to line 44 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a detail of Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view illustrating printing mechanism.

Figs. 7 and 8 are sectional and plan views the - respectively, illustrating the counter and total taking mechanism.

Fig. 9 is a section illustrating the drive of the machine for total taking, and

Fig. 10 is a detail further illustrating the total taking contact mechanism shown in the upper part of Fig. 7.

The tabulator in combination with whichthe present invention will be disclosed is well known and is generally of the kind described in Patent 1,822,594 to C. D. Lake, so that for a detailed explanation not especially concerning the present invention reference may be made to that patent.

The circuit diagram of a tabulator equipped with the group designating system according to the present invention is schematically shown in Figs. 1 and 2... Power may be supplied to the tabulator circuits through the mam switch 33. It is customary to provide for a reset cycle before starting tabulating or adding so that any data which may be standing on the accumulators from a previous machine operation will be cleared. During the reset cycle the machine is driven b the reset motor RM, the resetting devices eing driven by this motor through a one revolution clutch of well known type, which is controlled by the clutch magnet 57 wired in series with the motor. The circuit through the motor and clutch magnet may be closed through reset key 56 whereupon a single reset 0 eration will occur, the clutch magnet 57 eing shortcircuited shortly after the start of the cycle bycam contacts P1 whereupon the stick circuits controlled bythe magnet are opened and the motor RM is stopped on the re-open'ing of contacts P1 at the end of the cycle, the motor and reset clutch stopping 1n their normal home position in the well known manner. During this reset cycle the magnet 36 is energized through a circuit including stick magnet 35, contactsGI 10 which are closed during the reset cycle and the cam contacts P-.5 and 45. The stick magnet 35 prepares an additional circuit for the magnet 36 extending through, the cam contacts C1 and the automatic control circuit 42 so that, as is well understood and will be briefly described hereinafter, the magnet 36 when once energized remains energized until the automatic control circuit breaks to initiate another reset and total taking operation.

When magnet 36 is energized it closes contacts 34 whereupon the tabulating motor TM, which drives the machine during tabulating operations, may bestarted by depressing the start key 38. This establishes a starting circuit for the tabulating motor extending through the card feed clutch magnet 6, stick magnet 39, start key contacts 38, contacts 34,

i stop key 40, and cam contacts P5 and 45.

A network of circuits is provided in shunt with the start key contacts 38 so that the tabulating motor will be kept in operation as long as cards are feeding and contacts 34 remain closed. The operation of these cir cuits is well known and will not be dwelt upon further.

The cards are fed from a stack 2 by means of a picker 1, one card being delivered each machine cycle. The picker delivers them to transport rolls 3 which conduct each card in succession between upper or control brushes 7 and cooperating contacts 8 and exactly one cycle later between lower or adding brushes 9 and their cooperating contacts.

minate in triplesockets 21 (Fig. 2) to which the several countermagnets 46 of the accumulators may be plugged through sockets 22,

this plugging arrangement permitting any countermagnet to bev coordinated with any lower brush. As the cards feed past the lower brushes their perforations permit the lower brushes to. engage their cooperating contacts at differential times causing difierentially timed impulses to be applied to the counter magnets to enter the data represented by the perforations. I

The machine should remain in tabulating operation after it is once started as long as the group designating perforations on successive cards agree. The circuit for motor control magnet coil 36 established by stick magnet 35 includes the cam contacts C1 and the automatic control circuit 42 in parallel.

The contacts cooperating with the lower brushes ter- 1 mechanism is well understood in the art and is fully described in the copending application previously referred to, its operation will be briefly explained insofar as it concerns the present invention.

.Referring to Fig. 7, a driving shaft 260 is driven by the tabulating motor whenever the "latter is in operation. Through trains of gearfing designated generally at 400, this'shaft drives individual counter gears 401 which are slidable on a shaft 402; Each of the counter driving gears 401 cooperates with a counter gear .403 whichdrives a rotatable counter element 404 and a total taking gear 405 to which a stepped cam 111 is attached. The pivoted lever 406 has one end projecting into a circumferential groove on driving gear 401 and tends to shift the latter on shaft 402 to force' a clutch element on the driving gear into driving engagement with a clutch element on the counter gear 403; this tendency being due.

'to the action of spring contacts 29 on the other end of the lever. This engagement is normally prevented by an extension on the and permitting spring contacts-29 torotate the lever 406 and shift the driving gears 401 into driving relationship with the counter gears 403. Thereupon the counter gears 40.3

' are rotated until at a given point in the cycle suitable kick-out mechanism shifts them back to their original position permitting the extension on the counter magnet armature to again engage lug 407 to latch the mechanism in inoperative position. In this manner the counter gears 403 as well as the counter wheels 404 and the total gears 405 assume positions corresponding to the numbers represented by the index points on the controlling records. This action is accumulative in that after several items have been entered, the po- As soon as a counter magnet is energized, the

closed contacts 29 open, deenergizing the counter magnet, and the open contacts close, energizing the printing magnet to effect printing, as will be described hereinafter, to list the items entered on the counter wheel.

The manner of printing for listing operations may be understood from Fig.6. During listing operations the shaft 294, also constantly driven by the tabulating motor, drives a box cam 311 having a groove to accommodate a roller on arm 309 freely journalled on shaft 305. Fixed to this shaft 305 is a two armed member 304, one arm of which, shown Fig. 6, has an extension projecting beneath a set screw fixed on arm 309, whereupon as the latter is rocked by the ,box cam 311, the

member 304 and consequently shaft 305 to which it is fixed,-rocks first clockwise and then counterclockwise. An arm 306 is also fixed to shaft 305 and attached by link 271 to a type operating cross head. The type bars 267 are slidably mounted in this cross head.

each type bar, is pivoted to a bracket extending from the cross head and a suitable spring indicated at 410 tends to hold this arm upwardly. The free end of the arm engages An arm 268 of which one is provided for the lower end of the type bar and raises it v with the cross ahead. The type bar at its upper end carries a printing head 265 having type 266 slidably mounted therein which successively pass printing position opposite the platen 263 as the printing cross head rises. The type bar may be arrested in position to select any type for printing by energizing its printer magnet 47. Whenever one of these magnets is energized it attracts its'armature 278 and pulls a call rod- 277 to the right thereby releasing a latch 273 and permitting a pawl.

272 to engage in ratchet teeth on the type bar to arrest further upward movement of the bar. This stopping of the type bar does not effect the motion of the cross headas the spring 410 stretches so as not to interfere with the upward movement of the cross head.

After all the type have been placed in proper printing position, a printing bail 283 is tripped by a trip lever 500, Fig. 6, pivoted at 501 on arm 306.- A shoulder on the upper end of lever 500 engages a depending arm on bail 283 and serves to rock the bail in a clockwise direction to tension spring 284 when arm 306 is lifted. The cross-bar 502, of the bail contacting the lower left side of the hammers, is lowered and suddenly released when the shoulder on lever 500 releases the arm on bail 283 and allows spring 284 to act. The shoulder on lever 500 is withdrawn from the arm when a stud 503 on the lever strikes the stud 287 on the frame. The cross-bar 502 forces the printing hammers 280 against the selected type to cause them to print on the record sheet carried by the platen 263. After the printing operation, the counterclockwise mo tion of shaft 305 lowers the arm 306 allowing the cross head to'restore through the action of spring 290, and a shoulder on the lower part of the cross head engages 2. lug or projection 411 on each type bar to restore it to normal home position.

When a total is to be taken the reset motor RM (Figs. 6 and 9) through a worm 339 and 70 in dotted lines to the right of the-shaft in worm wheel 340 drives shaft 315. The worm wheel is loose on this shaft but carries a clutch element 341 (see Fig. 9) consisting of a disk with ratchet teeth therein. The shaft 315 carries a large disk 342 having a pawl 344 pivoted to it, the pawl being constantly urged into engagement with the ratchet teeth of disk 341 by a spring 345. The pawl 344 is normally held out of engagement with the ratchet teeth by a latch lever 348 which is pivoted at 347 and carries armature 346 of total printing magnet 57. When the printing magnet is energized it attracts its armature 346 and rocks the latch lever 348 clockwise releasing pawl 344 which moves into engagement with the ratchet teeth and drives the totaling shaft 315. An arm 352forming part of the assembly of latch lever 348 there upon closes contacts 235 whose function isto short circuit the magnet 57 and deenergize it immediately, whereupon latch lever 348 moves back into its latching position. After a single revolution of shaft 315 the latch lever again engages. the pawl 344 forcing it out of engagement with the ratchet disk 341 thus limiting the movement of shaft 315 to a single revolution. The shaft 315 (Fig. 6) carries a cam 301 which cooperates with a roller on arm 302 freely journalled on the rock shaft 305. This arm carries a lug 303 engaging with a set screw in one arm of member 304 whereupon the raising and lowering of arm 302 by cam 301 will again-cause the rock shaft 305 to rotate first clockwise and then counterclockwise to raise and lower the type bars 267 for total'printing.

The printing magnets 47 for total printing are energized in accordance with the counter or accumulator position. It will be recalled that during accumulating operations the totaling shaft 315 during total taking operations. A contact .arm 360, of which one is provided for each total cam 111, is pivoted to shaft 358 and a spring 362 is provided to yieldingly hold this arm in engagement with the frame 359. An arcuate extension 112 carried by the arm 360 but insulated therefrom is in engagement with a fixed stationary con tact 366 mounted on the machine frame. The frame 359 carries a contact 365 adapted to coact. with the arcuate extension 112 but normally spaced therefrom as shown in Fig. 7 The printing magnets are in series with con tacts 365 and 366. During the rockingmotion of shaft 358, as long as the arm 360 is free to follow frame 359, there is no electrical connection between contacts 365 and 366, but

when set screw 361 (see Fig. 10) engages the nection between contacts 365 and 366 occurs at a time in the machine cycle corresponding to the reading on the counter whereupon the printing magnet 47 is energized at the proper time in the cycle to arrest the type bar 267, s

with the printing type corresponding to the total on the accumulator, opposite the platen.

The upper analyzing brushes 7 cooperating with the group designating columns are plugged through their sockets 20 to the sockets 23 of auto control magnets 27 and the latter through sockets 26 are plugged to the I lower brushes cooperating with the control* columns through their sockets 21. A magnet 27- is thus wired in series between the upper and lower brushes of each group designating card column and the corresponding contacts 28 are plugged in series in the automatic control circuit by plug 30. When the group designating perforations in cards under the upper and lower brushes agree the magnet 27 coordinated with each of these columns is energized instantaneously at some time during the cycle. This instantaneous 28 to close and to remain closed until toward the end of the cycle. 'If the cards under the upper and lower brushes agree, then all the contacts 28 in the auto control circuit 42 are" closed. In this case the opening of the contacts C1 which occurs once each card cycle after the adding portion thereof will be ineffective to deenergize the motor control magnet 36 and" the machine starts another tabulating cycle. As soon as the control e-nergizat-ion causes its associated contacts P perforations in cards under the upper and lower brushes do not agree, one or more of the magnets 27 fail to ehergize during the cycle and its corresponding contacts 28 remain open, therebyopening of cam contacts C1 deenergizes motor control relay mag net 36 permitting contacts 34 to open causing the tabulatingmotor TM to cease operation at the end of the cycle whereupon the tabulating mechanisms of the machine come to rest in home position at the end of the cycle.

The data entered in the accumulators may be listed through printer magnets 47 which are controlled by contacts 29 in turn controlled by countermagnets 46. When countermagnets 46 are energized the contacts 29 are closed thus energizing the printing magnets 47 substantially simultaneously with the countermagnets 46. The printing magnets are therefore energized differentially with the same timing as the coun'termagnets and call printing type for operation in the well known manner to print the items.

At the end of the tabulation of a group, I

' hereinafter.

total taking may be initiated by closing rein accordance with the position of the coun- The steps on these cams are ofv ter wheel. different height being progressively lower to represent the difi'erent digits indicated by the counter wheel position. During the total -taking operation these cams serve to close the contacts at 58' at difi'erential times corresponding to the numbers standing on the accumulator-wheels thus energizing the print ing magnets 47 at differential times to select the printing type corresponding to the data standing. on the accumulator to elfect total printing.)

The accumulator bank designated No. 1 is wired to perform the function of the storage or retention device previously referred to in connection with group designating. This accumulator differs from the others in that its countermagnets 46 are not wired directly to sockets such as 22 on the plug board but are wired to a series of group indicating contacts 49 whose operation will be described A socket 24 is provided for each countermagnet 46 of this accumulator but each countermagnet is also wired to a manually operative switch 19 and a pair of group indicating contacts 49 which in turn are connected to a common bar 32. The common bar 32 is connected to the main circuits of the machine through cam contacts 31 which are arranged to close during each machine cycle at such a time as to initiate an impulse differentially timed to effect entry of 9 on the countermagnets. This wiring applies to all the countermagnets except the units countermagnet. The latter isconnected to the middle contact ofa group 49a which middle contact may cooperate with upper contact connected through switch 19' and cam contacts 43 to the main circuits of the machine, or with a lower contact connected to a so'cket 24' on the panel board. The cam contacts 43 are arranged to close. at such a time in the cycle as to initiate an impulse" properly timed to enter 10 in the counter whose countermagnet it operates.

It may be noted that the ordinary tabulatoris not designed to enter 10 in one cycle but the timing may easily be arranged to provide for this merely by shifting back the home or D position of the machine sufficiently to allow the entry of 10 to be made during the single cycle. When it is desired to use the accumulator bank No. 1 as a straight accumulator, switches 19 and 19 should be opened and switch 25 in shunt with the lower contacts 49a should be closed whereupon sockets 24 and 24,maybe plugged to lower brush sockets 21 to operate the accumulator in the usual manner to receive items from each which the countermagnets receive.

record card. When the accumulator No. 1 is to be used as a storage device for group .indicating data, the switches 19 and 19' are closed, switch 25 is opened and the counter magnets through their sockets 24 and, 24' are plugged to the sockets. 21 of the lower brushes cooperating with the group indicating card colunms. The contacts 49 are opened during each reset cycle, remaining opened during the adding portion'of the followin 'tabulating cycle and closing at the end 0 this cycle. The contacts 49a are moved to the position shown in the drawings, the middle contacts cooperating'with a lower one, during each reset cycle and remain in this position during the adding portion of the first tabulating cycle at the end of which they are shifted to break the engagement between the middle and lower contacts causing the middle contact to engage the upper one. As the first card passes the lower brushes its data are entered into the countermagnets in the usual manner. At the end of this cycle, contacts 49 and 49a shift, as explained, thereby throwing all the countermagnets 46 of bank No. 1 in circuit with cam contacts31, and upper contacts 49a Owing to-the transfer operations from the.

units counter to the tens, hundreds, etc., each counter wheel makes a complete revolution and regains its original position, and thus, at the end of each tabulating cycle, the data which was entered on it from the first card of the group is indicated. A total taking operation may thus be instituted at any time and the closure of the contacts at 58, Fig. 2, will eflect printing of the group designating data. It may be noted that each card after the first causes an impulse from the analyzing brushes to energize the countermagnets 46 accordingto the group data but as each countermagnet has been previously encam contacts 43 or 3l, this impulse has no entering effect as these machines enter only in accordance with the earliest counting impulse The printing circuit of magnets 47 extends through contacts GI-9 shunted by manual switch 59. When the bank is being used ,for group designating, switch 59 is opened. Contacts GI9 are controlled from the group indicating magnet and are closed duringthe first tabulating cycle and opened for each ensuing tabulating cycle of the group. This operation will be explained in detail hereinafter. The printing circuit is 115 ergized in every cycle after the first by the due to the entry 0 operating contacts 28 as in Fig. 3, the contacts closing as released by the separate levers 752 when the magnets 27 are energized, and remaining closed. until positively reopened when the levers are actuated by cams represented at 544, this reopening occurring after the momentary opening of cam contacts C1. The levers 7 52 (Fig. 3) are pivoted on shaft 754 in line 'with'shaft 54 and are heldin normal contact opening position by the cooperation with armature latches 751 associated with magnets 27 ina manner similar to the cooperation of lever 52 with armature latch 51 described hereinafter. This operation is well understood and it will not be explained in detail because. it is fully disclosed in the Patent No. 1,822,594 referred to hereinbefore.

The group indicating contacts 49, GI-9 and GI-10 whose functions .have been heretofore explained are controlled by bail which in turn is controlled through group indicating magnet 48.- This magnet, re-

ferring to Figs. 1 and 2, is energized during each tabulating cycle by a circuit extending through cam contacts C2 and T'2, T3, it being energized toward the end of the cycle. The normal position of parts is shown in Fig. 4 where contacts 49 are-opened. Contacts GI-9 and GI1O which as may be seen from Fig. 3 are in line with contacts 49, are normally closed as indicated in Fig. 5. The group designating contacts are held in this position by the common bail 50 which is supported on arm 52' and lever 52 fixed to ,a

I shaft 54. A spring 54' tends to turn this shaft clockwise to close contacts 49 and open contacts GI-9 and GI-lO. The bail is heldin the. position shown through the lever 52 latched up against the action of spring 54 by a latch 51 which carries the armature of the group designating magnet 48. Also fixed to the shaft 54' is an arm 50 carrying a pin 602- cooperating with a segmental plate 601 on a cam 600 on shaft 44. Just: prior to the energization of magnet 48 in each tabulating cycle, the cam 600 which is constantly rotating during tabulating operations, rocks arm 50" slightly counterclockwise, relieving tension on the latch members 51 and52 Whereupon en ergization of the magnet 48'withdraws the latch member 51 from cooperation w th arm 52 and permits'the spring 54 to rock shaft 54 clockwise removing the bail 50 from cooperation with the group designating contacts and permitting the latter to shift, closing contacts 49 and opening contacts GI9, GI--10. This occurs, of course, toward the end of the first tabulating cycle. During ensuing tabulating cycles, the latch mechanisms 51, 52 having been released, the energizationof group indicating magnet 48 is without effect. This condition persists until a reset' cycle when shaft 54 is rocked counterclockwise through the instrumentality of arm 53 operated by reset mechanism, forcing bail 50 to the left to reverse the conditions of the group designating contacts and permitting latch member 51 to relatch arm 52 preparing the group designating mechanism for operation upon the next group tabulated.

While the fundamental features of the invention have been shown as applied to a single modification, it will be understood that many omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details illustrated and in its operation will readily occur to those skilled in the art. The disclosure is therefore to be taken in an exemplary sense and not in a limited one. The invention is intended to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the following claims.

We cla1m: a 1. In an accounting machme, an accumulator having transfer devices for different denominational orders, operating means for said accumulator, means for automatically controlling said operating means to enter ten units into the units order and means for automatically controlling said operating means to enter nine units into all other orders of the accumulator irrespective of the amount represented by each order of the accumulator.

2. In an automatically controlled accounting machine, an entry receiving device, operating means therefor, means for controlling said operating means for the first entry to effect entries of various data and means'for controlling said operating ,means uniformly to effect entries of uniform data' for all subsequent entries, said last named means including mechanism to fix the data for said subsequent entries.

3.. In an automatically controlled acc'ounting machine, an entry receiving device, oper-' ating means therefor, means for controlling said operating means to enter various data,

data in said device, in combination'with manner of controlling the device whether by the controlling means for entering the various predetermined adjusted controlling means --for said device, operating means for entering data or the predetermined .adjusted control- I ling means for entering data.

4. In an automatlcally controlledaccount-v ing machine, an entry receiving device, operating means therefor, means for controlling said ope :ating means to effect entry of various data for the first entry and means for controlling said operating means to enter an amount representing a power of ten during each subsequent entering operation.

- 5. In an automatically controlled accounting machine, an accumulator provided with transfer devices, operating means for the accumulator, means for controlling said oper- V ating means to enter various data for the first entry and means for controlling said operating means to enter ten units into the units order and to enter nine units into all other orders of the accumulator during each subsequent entering operation.

6. A record controlled machine comprising an entry receiving device, means for controlling said entry receiving device. by means of records, means for controlling the entry receiving device according to a predetermined adjustment and means to effect control of the entry receiving device by the first mentioned records during a single entering operation and to efi'ect control by the predetermined adjusted controlling means over data entered during the following entering opera- 1 tions.

7. A re'cord'controlled machine compris ing an entry receiving device, means for controlling said entry receiving device by means of records, means to control said entry receiving device to enter data by predetermined ad]usted controlling means and means'for automatically shifting the entry receiving device from record controlled controlling means to said predetermined adjusted controlling means.

8. A record controlled tabulating machine comprising an entry receiving device, means for controlling said entry receiving device by means of records, means to control said entry receiving device by predetermined ad justments, a group control mechanism for comparing index points of subsequent records passing through the machine and shift ing means cooperating with said group control mechanism to shift the entry receiving device from record control to predetermined adjustment control.

9. A record card controlled tabulating machine comprising an accumulator, means for controlling ,said accumulator by means of ord controlled controlling means to the controlling means for entering an amount-corresponding to a power of ten during each following entering operation.

device and printingdevice by means of record cards, means to control the entry, receiving device by predetermined adjustments, means to prevent controlling of the printing device by record cards, a group indicating mechanism and shifting means cooperating with said group indicating mechanism to shift the entry receiving device from said record controlled means to said predetermined adjustment controlling means and the coordinated printing device from its operative to its inoperative position after the controlling operation of the first card.

11. A record card controlled tabulating machine, comprising an accumulator, means for controlling said accumulator by means of record cards, means to control the accumulator b predetermined accumulations, a group in icating mechanism and shifting means cooperating therewith to shift the accumulator from record card control to said predetermined accumulation controlling means after the first entry and selective means to efiect or not to effect controlling of the predetermined controlling means after Shifting.

12. A record card controlled tabulating machine, comprising an accumulator, a printing device coordinated thereto, means for controlling said accumulator and printing device by means of record cards and means for controlling said printing device also by the accumulator, means to'control the accumulator by predetermined adjusted controlling means, means to prevent controlli ng of the printing device by record cards, a group control mechanism, shifting means cooperating with said group control mechanism to shift the accumulator from the record con-. trolled means to said predetermined adjustment controlling means and the coordinated printing device from its operative toitsinoperative position after the controlling opcolumn and means to enter nine units into" the other columns of the accumulator.

said data entering records for conditioning said operating means to be controlled by said predetermined adjusted controlling means.

In testimony whereof we'hereto aflixour 14. In a machine comprising an entry receiving device controlled by data entering records, means for operating said entry device, means for controlling said operating means to enter various data in said device, signatures. I 70 predetermined adjusted controlling means RALPH E. PAGE for saiddevice, and means under control of CLQAIR D. LAKE.

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