US1976738A - Combined accounting - Google Patents

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QOMBINED ACCOUNTING, PRINTING, AND TYPESETTING MACHINE Filed Feb. 19, 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet l gwuentoz-s I: NW6) W. KMS M Q'QQTIL 7Q fag/ 0 WM duo M44144 Q 3.6, 1934. H. H. LINDSTROM El AL Oct.

COMBINED ACCOUNTING, PRINTING, AND TYPESETTING MACHINE 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 19, 1 931 Iii lll il i 16, 1934- H.- H. LINDSTROM ET AL 1,976,733

COMBINED ACCOUNTING, PRINTING, AND TYPESETTING MACHINE Filed Feb. 19 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Nam-c5 H. 35v ce n, 315m YQdI- 1934- H. H. LINDSTROM ET AL 1,976,733

COMBINED ACCOUNTING, PRINTING, AND TYPESETTING MACHINE Filed Feb. 19, 1931 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 FIG. 9

Patented I6, 1934 PATENT OFFICE COMBINED ACCOUNTING, PRINTING, AND

- 7 TYIHESETTING MACHINE Harold H. Lindstrom,

John MT. Lawrence, and

Clyde B. Bower, Minneapolis, Minn, sssignor:

to Mnltizraph Company, Wilmington, 11151., a'

corporation of Delaware Application Bela-nary 19,1931, Serial No. !,97'2 42 Claims. (Cl. 276-21) The general object of this invention is to provide a machine adapted to compose numeral type on a printing member by the actuation of a computing machine, so that a printing form may be made which automatically corresponds to the amounts added on the computing machine.

More particularly, it is an object of the invention to combine a so-called billing machine having a keyboard actuated computing mechanism 10 with a mechanism for assembling individual type in a line channel, with the result that as billing machine keys are actuated toadd certain amounts, there is a corresponding actuation of the typesetting unit to set up the same numerals in a row, ready for subsequent use in printing any number of copies of the same matter.

Another object oi the invention is to provide a simple, readily attachable, intermediate mechanism'adapted ior actuation by a standard billing machine to eflect operation of a standard typesetting machine.

Another object is to provide a manual mechanism adapted by one actuation to cause the assemblage of a definite number of type in the typesetting machine, as for instance, a number of space quads, thus avoiding the necessity of a number of successive actuations of a key or space bar. By this means, we are able to fill out the column with spaces at the left of the significant figures to cause such figures to be in proper column alignment in successive lines.

Another feature of the invention is to so combine the billing machine with a keyboard operated typesetting machine so as not to interfere with the operation of the typesetting machine by its own keyboard.

Billing machines having computing and typewriting mechanisms are sometimes equipped, in the typewriting portion, with a ribbon-shift to enable the writing oi deficits or similar amounts in red, and it is one of the objects of our invention to cause some corresponding indication in the line of set type. We effect this by coupling the ribbon-shift mechanism with means for setting an indicating type (for instance, an asterisk) with the row of figure type, so as to enable the printed column to disclose at a glance what-figures are printed in red on the typewritten portion of the billing machine. v 59 Our invention comprises the means by which we accomplish the above operations, or any of them. It includes, also, various other features hereinafter more fully explained contributing to the efliciency of the operation or the simplicity of the mechanism.

While our invention is not limited to the employment oi! any particular billing machine or any particular typesetting machine, we have found very eifective, for ourpurpose, the billing machine known as the Moon-Hopkins, set out in detail in Patent No. 1,336,904 to Hubert Hopkins, and also in Patents No. 1,366,566 to Hubert Hopkins and No. 1,317,604 to Otto Thieme, and as the typesetting machine we have effectively employed the machine known as the Set-O- yp made in accordance with Patents Nos. 1,686,031, 1,675,050 and 1,672,953 to F. H. Poeppelmeier.

The drawings illustrate such Moon-Hopkins billing machine and such Set-O-Type in sumcient detail to show the connection with our intermediate mechanism. Reference is made however to the patents mentioned for further details oi the billing machine and typesetting machine.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective 0! a complete machine in accordance with this in-= vention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the type-' writing and computing portionof the machine; Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of a portion of a typewriting machine, showing the ribbon shifting mechanism and the means for causing a corresponding operation of the typesetting machine; Fig. 4 is a perspective of the circuit closing machine operated by certain of the keys oi the computing unit; Fig. 5'is a plan of a portion of the keyboard of the computing machine with our attached actuator for the typesetting ma:- chine; Fig. 6 is a vertical section through the computor keyboard and the attached typesetter actuator, as indicated by the line 64 in Fig. 5; 99 Fig. 7 is a section on the line 77 of Fig. 6 through that portion of the typesetter actuator which releases a succession of quads; Fig. 5 is a diagram of the electric circuits connecting the various mechanisms; Fig. 9 is a vertical section 5 through the typesetting machine in a plane at substantially right angles to that general plane of the typesetting machine shown in Fig. 1, this view illustrating also the electric circuits for actuation by the billing machine keyboard or the typesetting machine keyboard as desired.

} The Moon Hopkins billing machine is adapted for various computations, additions, multiplications, subtractions, divisions, etc., but we are concerned primarily with its employment as an 5 adding machine. As illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, there is provided in the Moon-Hopkins machine a group of numeral keys distinct from the numeral keys of the typewriter machine itself, which group of keys operate the computing ma- 1 g 2 scrapes chine and may likewise cause printing on the typewriter cylinder. This leaves the ordinary numeral keys of the typewriter keyboard free for typing without aflecting the computing machine. The distinct numeral keys of the billing machine with which our invention is concerned comprise ten keys (one for each digit) arranged in the group A, Fig. 5, and these keys we have coupled with the typesetting machine as hereinafter explained.

In operating the Moon-Hopkins machine for adding purposes, the operator strikes any of the a place the number indicated by the depressed-keys inthe rear totalizer of the machine. This same operation is repeated for the different numbers;

fers the accumulated total from the rear total-' izer to the forward totalizer and causes special type-bar mechanism to coact with .the platen cylinder D to print the total thereon.

As an illustration, if the first number were "123! the operator would strike thel key, the 2 key and the 3 key in this order, and then depresses the E key to place the number in the rear totalizer. If the second number 'werp 456" he would then strike the 4 key, the 5 key and the 6 key inorder and depress the E key to add this number to the preceding number on the rear totallzer, so that the latter would stand at "579". Now, if the totalizer key F is depressed, this effects the printing of the numeral "579" on the platen B of the typewriter unit by means of special printing members.

The Set-O I'yDe machine comprises two active banks of type-cases M. one behind the other,

in which the individual type, which are short members grooved on their opposite sides, are con tained in upright channels side by side. These channels are curved outward at their lower ends, as shown in Fig. 9, so that the type comedown against a suitable abutment opposite the end of the curved path, The endmost type is'supported by friction between the abutment and the remainder o! the line of type, and is ejected whenever desired by the'downward action of themher end of a rocking lever N-one for each type channel. Each 01' these levers is actuated by the upward movement of a corresponding plunger P' acting as the core of a solenoid Q. The ejected type slides down a twisted tube R forming part of a triangular race plate 8. It is thus brought to the control oi an ejecting unit T which operates automatically to shove the bottommost type forward into a channel of a multigraph segment gghe rails of which occupy the grooves of the when the proper number of type have'been assembled in the multigraph segment, the same is indexed by a'suitable mechanism designated V to bring .a new line into registration with the election mechanism. Later, when the whole form has thus been set up on the multigraph segment, it is removed from the Set-O-Type and transferred to an ordinary multigraph printing machine. The Set-O-Type machine is ordinarily actuated from a keyboard W, the keys of which close circuits in a cable W1 leading to the respective solenoids Q, with the result that when a key is depressed, the corresponding type is discharged and is delivered to the receiving segment.

Our intermediate mechanism provides an attachment for the Moon-Hopkins billing machine adapted to coact with the numeral keys in group A thereof, and be operated thereby to close circuits which are coupled, in parallel with the circuits of the keyboard W, with the respective solenoids of the Set-O-Type. In other words, the conductors from the various solenoids Q which control the ten channels having the ten digits,

divide and pass equally to the numeral keys of the Set-O-Type keyboard W and to the circuit closers actuated by the ten keys of the group A of the billing machine. We have found it very convenient to attach the branch circuits from the billing "machine at the keyboard W' so that the original connections from this keyboard to the typesetting machine, grouped in the cable W, need not be disturbed.

The frame of our attachment to the billing machine comprises a suitable shallowinsulating box lo'adapted to extend beneath the front portion of the frame of the Moon-Hopkins machine and be clamped thereto. As shown more particularly in Fig. 6, this box 10 comprises a bottom'plate, a top plate 12 and suitable cross filling strips 13. We have mounted in the interior of this box, along the front and rear thereof, a pair of insulating strip carrying pairs of contacts,

the contacts of each pair being normally out of engagemeht with each other. One of such strips '15 and one pair of such contacts 20, 21 are shown in Fig. 4. The'upper contact of each pair is directly beneath a suitable plunger 23 which stands beneath the corresponding numeral key of the A group. f

Preferably the forward insulation bar carries five pairs of rearwardly extending contacts coacting with'the forward five keys of the'A group of the billing machine, and the rear bar carries flve pairs of forwardly extending contacts coacting with the rear five keys. If, for instance, the five keys in the A group of the billing machine arefor numerals l, 3, 5, 7 and 9, these five pairs of'contacts are carried by an insulating bar 15 along the front portion of the box 10. Then the second row of Moon-Hopkins keys, corresponding to the designation 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 coact with for-v wardly extending contacts carried by a rear bar 10inthe'bok.-"

In any case, there is a plunger 23 over a pair of contacts and directly beneath the numeral key of the Moon-Hopkins machine, so that whenever any one of those keys is depressed, 9. corresponding pair of contacts 20, 21 are closed, thus actuating the corresponding solenoid of the typesetting machine and causing the corresponding type to be set on'the multigraph segment.

In order that the numerals set in successive lines in the multigraph segment shallbe in proper column order irrespective of the length or the numeraL we set in the multigraph channel, by the Set-O-Type, a number of quads corresponding to the amount that the particular numeral is short of the maximum. For instance, if the numerals all run less than 1,000,000, a maximum space is to be provided for six digits; then, if the numeral to'be struck was for instance "2513", one would placein the multigr'aph segment two it, and so on; with the result that the last digit struck in a line always comes in a unit space;

The assemblage of the space quads might be accomplished by operating a space key a certain number of times, for instance twice in the case of the numeral 2513 and four times in the case 7 v to the iamiliar one on a telephone, is conveniently oi the numeral 57, but to expedite'the' operation, we provide a manual device which, by a; single actuation, will cause the ejection ot-the desired number of quads in the Set-O-Type; This manual device may operate on the principle of a telephone dial, the operator placing his linger in any particular opening, then turning the dial until his finger reaches the guard, and then allowing the dial to return to normal position. i This makes a number oi! successive contacts corre-' sponding to the numeral designation of the dial hole in which the operator placed his anger, and these contacts cause successive impulses-of the quad-releasing solenoid oi the Set-O-TYDe, resuiting immediately in that number of quads being assembled on the multigraph'segment.

The dialing provision is a very valuable feature, not only in saving time, but in insuring accuracy of the number of quads delivered, which gives accuracy in the alignment of the figures on the multigraph segment. For instance, 1! seven blank spaces are required before the significant iigures, there is less liability oi! error when the operator simply places his finger in the opening ted 7 and operates the dial in the usual telephone manner, than where he'gives"seven' successive actuations to a key. This dial mechanismwillnowbedescribedl:

The dial mec shown in Figs. 5, B, 7 and 8 comprises a stationary stud carried by an 1 insulated base plate 31 secured to the-top of the box 10; a revoluble stud 32 having a central bore embracing a reduced extension 0! the stationary stud; a disk 35 rigidly secured to the rotatable otud and having ten linger 36 adjacent its periphery; a. casing 37 having a top plate 38 with an arcuate row 01 numerals below the openings 36 and carrying a stop guard 39 overhanging thedisk35 andservingtolimittheflngerrotation thereof.

withinthediaicasingflisadiskmhavingon its periphery ten or more equally proiec tions 4i, this disk being pinned rigidly to the rotary stud 32. This disk coacts with I. pawl 43' pivotalLv mounted on a movable contact spring 44 and held in normal position byaspring 45. The pawl is so mounted, that when the dial is turned by the operator's finger in the right hand direction, the corresponding teeth 41' successively push back the pawl 44 so that it has no eiifect. Mounted about the stud 32 is a spimlsprlng 46 anchored at one end to the hub oi the disk'do' and at the other end to the inner periphery of a stationary cupel which is secured to the top 33 oi the casing. This spring therefore is wound upasthedialisturnedintheright-handdirection, and operates to return the dial when released, and in such return, every timea tooth engages the pawl 43, it swings the contact'spring i lagainstanxedccntactsaandtliusclooestlie circuit. Accordingly. the circuit is successively closed a number oi times, to the numeral in which the operator's finger no insertedintumingthedialafiiromitsnormalpocition to the position where the operators-finger engages the guard 39.

To prevent undue speed oi the return ofthe toothed disk do of the dial, a suitable friction brake is provided. This is so comprising a wheel 50 connected by gearing 51, 52 with the revoluble stud 32, a suitable brake shoe 55 counting with the periphery of the disk. This brake shoe is shown be mounted on 9. ice! spring 56 adjusted by a screw 57. I

The dialing mechanism which is very similar located adjacent the right hand edge or the numeral keyboard or the Moon-Hopkins machine, and may be readily actuated by the operator thereof to cause the desired number or quad spaces to be set up in themultigraph segment in the typesetting'machine.

In addition to the setting of numeral type in the segment, it is convenient to set type for printing various signs, as for example, a period to space the cents, a dollar Sign. and an asterisk to indicate negative amounts. We have provided three special keys for setting such type. These keys are indicated at 6i, 62 and 63 in Figs. 5 and 8 and are-preierabiy located in a transverse row between the right hand edge of the Moon-Hopkins machine and our dialing 111. These keys operate contacts, which may be similar to those shownin Fig. 4, from which contact circuits extend to the Bet-O-Type in a similar manner to those" or the numeral keys;

The Moon-Hopkins billing machine is provideo with a ribbon shirt to enable the printing o! negative amounts in red. This ribbon shift is indicatediin Figs. 2 and 3 as a shfltable spool G connected by a link with a lever B, the other end of which carries .a finger key I. A suitable spring Jmaybeusedtomaintaintheribbonnormally in the position for printing in black.

Now, in our invention, we provide the asterisk circuit with a divided branch which has an additional closure operable by the ribbon shift key I.

similar-to those shown in'Fig. 4, carried byanv insulating support 75 in the casing. The two circuit wires leading-1mm the contacts 72 and '13 joint these contacts from the asterisk key 63, with the result that asterisks can be set up whenever desired by the key so, or may be manually set whenever the billing machine key I is shoved in to shift the ribbon.

As the Econ-Hopkins billing machine operates on the principle oi accmnulating the amount in the adding mec and thereafter causing the printing oi the i'igures struck by the operation or a motor energized by an operating key E, it follows that it the operator actuates the key I after the number has been struck and before the operating key is struck, the imprint on the platen of the billing machine will be in red and an esterisk will appear on the multigraph segment following the numeral struck. As the numerals in succesaive'lines in the multigraph segment terminate in "the same unit position, the asterisks,

whenever they appear, will stand at the right or the unit column and be readily observable on the printed copy.

Wewillnowtracetheeleetric circuitsasshown in Pig. 8. The various circuits irom the contacts :01, m2, 103 for the numeral keys. the sign keys, and the space bar oi the Set-O-Type keyboard are in the Bet-O-Timc machine carried in a cable W1 from the keyboard W to the various solenoids'Q. These circuits for the ten numerals are indicated in the collectively by W1. Ihecircultswehaveaddedarebranchesoithe Set-O-Type circuits and he carried in a cable leading from the attachmentlo to the Bet-O- lines'from the o, 2; 4, e. a of the Set-O-Type keyboard contacts-101 of the solenoids. There are likewise ilve other individual lines leading from the contacts 20,21 corresponding tothe front row oikeys 1,8,5,-'7,9ofthebillingmachinetothe corresponding Set-O-Type contacts 201. The common return line 88 from all of the I-group of contacts for the billing machine. Joins the common return wirom the Bet-O-Type contacts 101 and leads through a suitable source'oi power 0 tothelinewltoalloithesolenoidsqinparallel.

Connected to the branch return 8'! is a common return 88 for the Y-set of contacts relating to the sign keys 81, 82. 63. Individual lines r lead from these contacts to the individual lines of the Set-O-Type system W1. 'ihe sign contacts on of the Bet-O-Type lead by individual linesw5 to the corresponding solenoids and the common return 106 leads to the return to. It is to these individual lines 105 that the individual lines 1! oi the Y set are connected.

Another branch of the common return 8'! leads totheterminaluofthezunihthatiathedial system. From the other terminal 48 of this Z- group, a line 89 continues to a junction with the Set-O-Type line to! which comes from the space bar contacts 103 of the Bet-O-Type keyboard. The return line from the space bar contacts 103 is designated we and leads to the return to. Accordingiy, the actuation of the space bar or of the dial actuates that one of the solenoids Q which releases the space squads, this being the solenoid designated q in P 8. 8.

It will be seen from the tracing of the diagram that all the circuits provided by us, whether closed by the numeral keys of the billing machine, or

by the special keys 81, 82, 63, or by the actuation of the dial, are all in parallel with the corresponding circuits which already exist from the Set-O-Type keyboard 'to'the Set-O-Typesolenoids. This is further illustrated in Pig. 9 where illustrative keys are shown of the A-group in the billing machine and of the Wl-group of the Set-O Iype;

By making our connection from the Moon- Hopkins machine in parallel with the connecparent that they need not in any manner interfere with the normal operation of that keyboard. The Set-O-Type keyboard may be used for instance to set up in type, words and figures in the body of a form corresponding to the words and figures in a copy to be printed on the typewriter cylinder D by the ordinary typewriter keys. If desired, such form may be typed in advance on the Set-0- Type keyboard so that the words and non-computing figures of the form will be mounted on the multigraph segment as they are to appear in the typewritten copy. Thereafter, when the coupled numeral keys are struck, the addition is made on the computing machine and the same numerals are caused to be printed on the typewriter platen D and set up in the form of type in the multigraph segment. At the end of the computation, the striking of the totalizer key will produce the total and print it on the typewriter platen. The opera- Lemmas tor may. then/repeat this total by means of the numeral keysof the Bet-O-Type, which will thus set up the corresponding total in type on the mutisraph segment; or, in place of striking the total on the type-setter keyboard, one may use the billing machine numeral keys just as if the amount were to be added, and then, by operating the error key of the billing machine, clear that amount inom the computing mechanism.

It should be" observed that our attachment is very simple in construction and easily applied to existing machines, without requiring any alterations thereof, and when applied, it is out of the way and does not interfere in any manner with the ordinary operation of the machine. When however keys of the computing machine are struck which are to add figures on the computor,

the result is an automatic setting of the same figures in the printing member. 'Ihis increases the speed over that required to operate akeyboard' or keyboards successively for the different num bers, and has the very pronounced advantage of insuring absolute correspondence of. the figures added on the machine and the ilgures set in the printing form, and finally, due to our dialing system, the proper columnation of the successive items is eil'ected in the minimum time.

We claim:

1. The combination of a computing machine equipped with numeral keys, 9. typesetting machine and means whereby the numeral keys which actuate the computing machine may also assemble the corresponding type in the typesetting machine.

2. The combination with a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a typesetting machine having a type case, mechanism for ejecting type therefrom and assembling it, and connecting mechanism between each of said numeral keys of the computing machine and the ejecting mechanism for the corresponding numeral in the typesetting machine- 3. The combination of a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a composing machine having individual electrically operated elements corresponding to the diiiferent digit type, and a set of contacts in the computing machine actuated by the numeral keys thereof and controlling said elements.

4. The combination oi. a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a typesetting machine having channels for individual type, and individual magnets and mechanism operated thereby for releasing type in any desired channel, a set of contacts actuated by said numeral keys of the computing machine, and electric conductors between said contacts and the corresponding magnets of the typesetting machine.

5. The combination of a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a composing machine, a printing member, and means whereby the operation of the computing machine may cause the formation of a row of numerals on the printing member, said numerals corresponding to the actuated numeral'keys.

6. The combination of a computing machine, a typesetting machine, a multigraph segment, and suitable connections whereby the operation of the computing machine causes the assemblage of type on the multigraph segment.

7. The combination of a computing machine, a typesetting machine having channels for short type grooved on their opposite sides, a member suitable for use in a printing machine and having parallel rails with overhanging edges adapted can gel

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to confine rows of such grooved type, and suitable connections whereby the operation oi the computing machine causes the assemblage of such type in such printing member.

8. The combination of a composing machine having a keyboard including numerals, a computing machine having a numeral keyboard, mechanism for assembling printing characters in the composing machine connected jointly with numeral keys of the composing keyboard and with numeral keys or the computer keyboard, whereby type may be assembled from either keyboard without regard to the other keyboard.

9. The combination of a typesetting machine, as els for individual type and having a keyboard including numerals, a computing machine of the character in which the digits are struck m the order which such digits occupy lathe morals, and mechanism for assembling individual type in the typesetting machine connected jointly with numeral keys oi the typesetter keyboard and with numeral keys of the computor.

1c. The combination of a type case having provision for holding individual type, mechanism for assembling. type therefrom, two keyboards, either of which is adapted to cooperate said mechanism without regard'to the other.

ii. The combination of a case adapted to carry short individual type grooved on its opposite sides, electrically actuated mechanism for discharging such type from any channel and assembling the same in a grooved removably mounted printing member, a keyboard electrically connected with said electric actuating mechanism, a computing machine having numeral keys, and electric connections from said numeral keys to the same electric actuators tor numeral type on the tetting machine.

12. The combination, with a composing machine and a computing machine, oi an attachment for the computing machine comprising a frame carrying a set of contacts adapted to be closed by the actuation of numeral keys oi the computing machine, and electric circuits leading from said contacts to electric actuators in the composing machine.

it. The combination with a computing ma= chine, a frame adapted to be secured beneath the keyboard thereof, said frame carrying pairs oi electric contacts, one for each numeral key of the pertinent set oi the computing machine, a composing machine having individual electro-magnetic actuators corresponding to difierent numer al type, and electric conductors leading from the contacts on the attached frame to the composing chine.

M. The combination of a composing machine, electric actuating mechanism therefor, and a manual device adapted to cause automatically a series oi makes and breaks of the same circuit to the same electric actuator for one operation oi the manual device.

15. The combination with an electrically actu ated typesetting machine adapted to set up one type character for each actuation, and a manual device adapted, for each operation, to cause a succession of aotuations oi the same mechanism oi the same typesetting machine.

16. The combination of an electrically actuated composing machine, a manual dial adapted when turned from normal position and returned to make a series of contacts, and conductors from said dial to the electric actuator oi the combosing machine.

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17. The combination oi a composing machine having an electric actuator, a dial having finger openings and a spring return, and means whereby the returning dial closes a number of contacts corresponding to the number 01' the opening in which the operators finger is inserted, and a pair of conductors connecting said contacts with said electro-magnetic actuator of the composing machine.

18. The combination of a typesetting machine carrying space quads, an electro-magnetic device for asembling the same, a multiple circuit-closure adapted by one operation to make a. succession of contacts, and'electric connections between such multiple circuit closure and the electro-mametic device of the typesetting machine.

19. The combination of a typesetting machine having a case containing space quads, a prmt ing member, electro-magnetic mechanism for releasing the space quads one after the other, means for assembling the same on a printing member, a dial having a series of finger holes corresponding to the difierent digits and a spring return, and means whereby the turning of the dial to a definite position and allowing it to return to normal position makes a series of contact closures corresponding to the hole in which the finger was inserted, and electric connections from the dial to the magnet which releases the space quads.

20. The combination of a computing machine having a keyboard, a frame secured to the underside of the keyboard and extending at one side thereof, a composing machine having. numeral type and spaces, electric contaotscarried by said frame in positions to be actuated by the numeral keys of the computer keyboard, a multiple circuit closure carried by said frame beyond the keyboard, electrio connections from the contacts actuated by the numeral keys to the numeral magnets of the computing machine, and electric connections from the multiple closure mechanism to the space mechanism of the computing machine.

21. The combination oi a typesetting'machine having individual channels for numeral type and space quads, individual electro-magnets for re leasing the same, mechanism for assembling the released type and quads on a member adapted for mounting in a printing press, a computing machine having numeral keys, a frame adapted 1 to be secured thereto and having contacts adapt ed to be closed by the numeral keys and having a dial mechanism adapted to make such num-- ber of closures as desired, and electric connections between the contacts of such attached frame and the releasing magnets for the typesetter numerals, and electric connections between the dialing mechanism and the releasing magnet for the typesetter quads.

22. The combination of a composing machine, a computing machine, mechanism connecting numoral keys of the composing machine with the computing machine to cause the assemblage of corresponding numerals when the computing machine is actuated, and an extra key carried adjacent the computing machine and connected with the composing machine to set up a suitable indi eating member associated with the numerals.

23. The combination of a computing machine having a keyboard, an electrically actuated typesetting machine, carrying individual printing type, a frame adapted to be attached to the compute ing machine having a set of contacts operable by numeral keys of the computing machine, else lid trio connections betwem said contacts and individual electric actuators in the typesetting machine adapted to release individual numeral type, an additional key carried by said frame, and electric connections between such key and an actuator on the typesetting machine for releasing sui able indicating type adapted to be assembled in line with the released numeral type.

24. The combination ot a computing machine having a keyboard, a frame adapted to be attached to the underside-oi the keyboard and pro- ,iecting beyond the same, contacts carried by the frame beneath numeral keys of the keyboard and adapted to be closed. thereby, one or more extra keys carried by said frame beyond the computing machine keyboard, a dialing mechanism car ried by said frame beyond the computing machine keyboard, a'composing machine having electrically actuated mechanism for assembling numeral characters and sign characters and spaces, and

electric connections between the computing machine numeral keys and the numeral actuators oi the composing machine, and between the extra keys and sign character actuators oi the composingmachincmndbetwesnthcdialingmechanism and the space mech'aninn oithe composing ma- The combination of a computing machine having a numeral keyboard, a typesetting ma- ,9 chine having type channels, electro-magnetic mechanism for releasing type therefrom, mechamm for assembling the released type, means for removably holding a multigraph segment in positicn so that the type may be assembled thereon, mesns'ior indexing said segment to allow the as- ,semblage in diii'erent lines,- a frame adapted to be attached to the computing machine having Ti 11 of contacts beneath the numeral keys adapted to be closed thereby and carrying a dialing mechanism beyond the keyboard, which v dialing mechanism, when actuated, makes a vari able number or contacts, as desired, and electric circuits between the different contacts for the numeral keys and the corresponding electric actustars for numerals of the typesetting mechanism, 7 and conductor: connecting the dialing mechanism H th the space-quad releasing actuator 01 the 20. The combination of a computing machine, a typcwriting mechanism, a ribbon shirt tor the typcrriting mechanism, an assemblage mechanism. connections between numeral keys. oi the comniting mechanism and numeral actuators oi the assemblage mechanism, and a connection betweenv the ribbon shift with the typewriting machanism and an actuator for an indicating member 01 the-composing mechanism.

27. The combination oi a billing machine having computing mechanism and a typcwriting mechanism, moans corresponding to the numeral be automatically typed on the typewriting through a ribbon, .a ribbon mm adaptedto vary the color or imprecsiona composing machine, operating connections between computing numeral keys the billing machine and numeral m= blage mechanism of the composing ma chine, and an operative connection be tween the ribbon shiit of the billing machine and sign producing mechanism of the composing machine. I

28. The combination of a billing machine havin: computing mechanism, numeral keys therefor, a typewriting machine having a platen and averne keys of the computing machine and the individual numeral releasers oi the typesetting machine, and an electric connection between. the ribbon shilt oi the typewriting machine and the mechanism for assembling said special sign into the same row.

2%. The combination oi a typcvnfitlm machine having a ribbon shift, a composing machine, and mechanism adapted to cause the presentation of a; special character in the composing machine when the ribbon shift is operated.

30. The combination of a typewriting machine having a ribbon shift, a typesetting machine, spe cial sign characters carried in the typesetting machine, mechanismgior releasing the same for assemblage with other matter, and a connection between the releasing mechanism for the special signs and the ribbon shift mec oi the typewriter.

31. The combination with a computing having numeral keys and computing mechanism,

a typewriting machine having a ribbon c typesetting machine carrying numeral type and sign type, a printing memberin which such is p may be assembled, mechanism iorcsusing the numeral keys of the computing mechanism to release corresponding numerals in thetypesetting machine, and mechanism for causing the actuation of the ribbon shiit oi the typewriting machine to be accompanied bythe release oi one oi the sign type oi the typesetting machine, means for assembling such numerals sign type in the same line.

32. The combination oi a, computing oi the type wherein a single set or digit keys is eflective irrespective oi the column in which digit appears, and a-composing machine having a set for numeral characters; and operating connections between the numeral keys of the com puting machine and the numeral character mechanism 01' the composing machine.

33. The combination oi atcomputing machine having computing and a set of ten keys for operating theten digits irrespective oi the column position-oi such-digits and a settingimachine having a type case containing type oi the ten digits with ten individual actuators adapted to release the same, a set of ten ccn tacts controlled, by the computing machine, and ten circuits leading from such contacts to the composing machine actuators.

34. A computing machine of the type wherein the digit keys are actuated in the order in which the digits appear in the numeral to be added, combined with a composing machhfic oi .1 wherein characters are cause the order of actuation, and m up tcnecusly the inoctho composing machine.

so. The combination oi a. computer of the type wherein the digit keys are actuated in the order in which the digits appear in the numeral to be added, a composer of the type wherein the characters are assembled in the order cl actuation, and operating connections between lzoys i of the computer and indidividual numeral actuators of the composer.

36. The combination of an adding machine, a typesetting machine, a type chase, an actuator common to the adding machine and typesetting machine, and means operated thereby for including numerals in the adding mechanism of the adding machine and for releasing corresponding numeral type of the typesetting machine and assembling the same in the type chase.

37. The combination of a Moon-Hopkins billing machine, a Set-O-Type typesetter, a multigraph railed segment, and a common numeral key-board actuator for the billing machine and typesetter operating the computing mechanism of the billing machine and the type discharge mechanism of the typesetting machine and causing the assemblage on the multigraph segment of the type discharged by the typesetter.

38. The combination of a computing mechanism, a composing mechanism, and mechanism for simultaneously actuating both the computlng mechanism and the composing mechanism.

39. The combination of a computing mechanism, a composing mechanism, a set of numeral keys and intermediate mechanisms between said keys and the computing mechanism and between said keys and the composing mechanism, whereby the same keys may simultaneously operate both mech to add amounts on the computing mechanism and assemble corresponding printing members in the composing mechanism.

40. The combination of a computing machine, equipped with numeral keys, a typesetting machine and means whereby said numeral keys, while they are actuating the computing machine may also assemble corresponding type in the typesetting machine.

41. The combination with a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a typesetting machine having a type case, mechanism for ejecting type therefrom and assembling it, and connecting mechanism between each of said numeral keys of the computing machine and the ejecting mechanism for the corresponding numeral in the typesetting machine, said keys simultaneously operating the computing machine and the ejecting mechanism of the composing machine 42. The combination of a computing machine having numeral keys to actuate it, a composing machine having individual electrically operated elements corresponding to the different digit type, and a set of contacts in the computing machine actuated by the numeral keys thereof and each simultaneously controlling one oisaid elements 0! the computing machine.

HAROLD H. LINDSTROM. JOHN M. LAWRENCE. CLYDE B. BOWER.

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