US1984516A - Apparatus for checking and verifying records - Google Patents

Apparatus for checking and verifying records Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US1984516A
US1984516A US566707A US56670731A US1984516A US 1984516 A US1984516 A US 1984516A US 566707 A US566707 A US 566707A US 56670731 A US56670731 A US 56670731A US 1984516 A US1984516 A US 1984516A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
card
pin
cards
sensing
arm
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US566707A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Brougham Leslie Ernest
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Accounting & Tabulating Corp
ACCOUNTING and TABULATING Corp OF GT BRITAIN Ltd
Original Assignee
Accounting & Tabulating Corp
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Accounting & Tabulating Corp filed Critical Accounting & Tabulating Corp
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US1984516A publication Critical patent/US1984516A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K5/00—Methods or arrangements for verifying the correctness of markings on a record carrier; Column detection devices

Definitions

  • This invention relates to apparatus for checkally effected by electrical conductors in the form ing and verifying record cards. of wipers which complete a circuit through per- In prder that the records on a record card or forations in the card where perforations occur, the like may be readily checked a method of and cause particular circuits to be energized.
  • the sensing pins are formed for 2 Means employed for carrying out the method differential movement when sensing a record, the may consist of two normal punching machines, differential movement being utilized to designate one or both of which has an adjustable feed for errors.
  • the cards one machine punching a normal per- In one form, where the perforations are of foration and the other an offset but partly overmodified circular or of 8 or elongated shape as 25 lapping perforation so that the outline of the hereinbefore referred to, a convenient form for a complete record is roughly like the figure 8 or pin is of rectangular form as regards the body so an elongated hole, whereas if a punching on as to pass through the normal predetermined either machine has not found complementary shape of a complete perforation, the rectangular operation on the other machine there will be body portion having a reduced end of suitable 30 left a normal circular hole which at once identisize or shape to pass through those perforations fies an error in one or the other punching stage. which have not found a complementary part,
  • the object of the present invention is to dclodge in an intermediate position to thereby indivise means for mechanically identifying the incate an error.
  • the invention consists in apparatus through a reciprocating testing plate which is for checking individual records formed in a pluadapted to co-operate with the pins, obstruction rality of stages on record cards or the like, which of the movement of this pla causing the i apparatus comprises sensing means for the rection.
  • distinctive signal cards the lodgment of a pin in According to a preferred form of the invenintermediate position being effected to obstruct tion the indication which is given when an inthe testing plate and to thereby cause the operacorrect card is encountered consists in inserting tion of apparatus for feeding one of such signal 45 distinctive signal cards, e. g., coloured cards, cards adjacent to the erroneous card.
  • Fig. 1 is an elevation of the testing machine ing but in the preferred form is applied to mapartly broken away to show clearly the means for chines in which the sensing occurs when the feeding signal cards. card is stationary.
  • Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. l.
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged detail view in section of part of the pin box showing the differentially movable sensing pins and the testing plate co-operating therewith.
  • Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the connecting rod and latching mechanism shown in Fig. 1.
  • Pig. 5 is a top view of a properly perforated, correct data indication in a card, showing the method of cooperation with a sensing pin and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of three sensing pins showing the method of cooperation with unperforated card, incorrectly perforated card, and properly perforated card, as indicated in Fig. 3.
  • the data perforations are made in two steps to produce a key-hole type of perforation, as shown in Fig. 5.
  • Each card is punched twice, preferably by two different operators, and on two different machines.
  • One machine produces one circular perforation, as shown in Fig. 5, and the other machine produces the adjacent and partly overlapping perforation to complete the correct perforation.
  • the holes will be in different locations in the card and will not overlap as indicated. Accordingly, when the sensing pins are applied to the holes, two of the small members 41, as shown, will pass through the hole in the card, as indicated for the middle sensing pin in Fig. 6, and for the third sensing pin from the left in Fig. 3, but the larger portion 42 rests upon an imperiorated portion of the card, thus producing the desired indication.
  • the pin box shaft 1 which is normally rotated by means of a motor not shown (but can be also manually operated by the hand wheel HW) is provided with two eccentrics one of which actuates the card feed to the pin box, and the other the pin box itself, the arm 2 being actuated by one eccentric to oscillate the pin box vertically and the arm 3 being oscillated by the other eccentric to rock a shaft 4 through the agency of an arm 5, and in turn rock an arm 6 which actuates a picker for a card magazine A, for holding record cards to be analyzed.
  • the cards are fed synchronously with the movements of the pin box.
  • An arm 7 is also actuated from the shaft 1 from a third eccentric and this arm 7 is connected by a pin 8 to a connecting rod 9 guided over a pin 10 fixed to the frame of the machine, the rod 9 being connected to a short arm 11 fixed to a rocker shaft 12 by which a picker arm 13 is operated to feed cards from a second magazine B at the other end of the machine, as errors are detected by the analyzer as hereafter described, these cards being preferably of distinctive colour.
  • a cam 14 which rocks a lever 15 carried on a rotatable shaft 16, this shaft being mounted in bearings in the frame of the machine, and being provided with an arm 17 connected by a spring 18 to a part of the frame of the machine,
  • a further lever 15a which carries a key member 19, pivoted on the lever 15a at 20 and including a forked arm 21 which straddles a pin 22 carried by an arm 23 fixed to a rocker shaft 24, to which also is fixed arms 25, which are connected to a testing plate 26 carried by the pin box for reciprocation transversely of the sensing pins.
  • the cam 14 is recessed or otherwise formed so that at the correct time in the cycle the lever 15 and thereby the shaft 16 and the lever 15a are rocked under the action of the spring 18.
  • levers 15, 15a, and the cam 14 are suitably arranged in spaced relation transversely of the machine.
  • the plate will be moved to the right (as viewed in the drawings). If the plate cannot move the arm 23 is also held, the key member is then pushed at the point 20 and turns about the pin 22 which then becomes its fulcrum, thereby lifting the key member upwardly-the pin 27 being raised from the ledge 28.
  • the key member 19 normally controls a latch 30 pivoted on the pin 8 so that as the latch moves forward to the right with the arm 7, under operation from the eccentric, it is rocked by the key member 19 engaging the head 31 of the latch, but if the key member is lifted it does not hold the latch, then under influence of a spring 32 connecting an arm 33 of the latch to the eccentric arm 7, the latch is pulled downwardly and a catch 34 of the latch falls into a notch 35 of the connecting rod 9.
  • the latch 30 oscillates freely longitudinally, being attached to the arm 7, by the pin 8 which passes through a slot 36 in the end of the connecting rod 9, which latter remains stationary.
  • the key member 19 retains control of the head 31 of the latch, whilst there are no errors in the cards by remaining disposed in the path of the latch head 31 and towards the end of each right ing the latch head so as to hold the catch 34 out of the notch 35 of the connecting rod 9.
  • the latch head 31 is drawn away from the key member 19 so that the catch 34 is hand stroke, engage permitted to slide on the edge of the connecting rod 9 under the pressure of the spring 32.
  • the pin box shaft 1 may be driven from a motor carried in the machine frame through gearing which is also employed to operate continuously the feed rolls FR and skip rolls SR associated with each magazine A and B, the main receiving compartment C being disposed between the two magazines A and B, so that the cards therefrom are fed towards and into the said receiving compartment.
  • the testing plate 26 moves transversely. of spring pressed sensing pins 3'1 carried by the pin box in the analyzer, the pin box being reciprocated vertically by the eccentric arm 2.
  • the sensing pins are preferably of rectangular form as regards the body and recessed or notched at 38 and 39, leaving between the recesses a protuberance or abutment 40, see Fig. 3.
  • sensing pins may be spring pressed by means of separate spring influenced plungers disposed above the pins as an individual unit.
  • sensing ends of the pins are reduced, forming sensing heads 41 and shoulders 42.
  • the sensing .pins merely rest thereon by their heads 41.
  • the pin head 41 When, however, an erroneous perforation is found in the card, the pin head 41 only enters and the pin, by its shoulder 42 rests on the card. In this middle position of the pin the abutment 40 carried thereby is in alignment with the testing plate 26 and is effective to obstruct the movement thereof during the operation of the cam 14 on the lever 15.
  • the key member 19 loses control of the latch which then catches the connecting rod 9 and actuates the picker at the other end of the machine, through the agency of the arm 18 and a signal card is delivered on to the feed rollers FR associated with the magazine B, and thence in to the main compartment C which will have already received the erroneous card from the analyzer, the erroneous card being identified by its contiguity to its signal card.
  • the invention may also be applied to cards which have individual records consisting of the customary circular perforations, each of which is punched, however, in two complementary stages, punching in the one stage producing a part of the perforation and punching in the second stage completing the perforation.
  • individual records consisting of the customary circular perforations, each of which is punched, however, in two complementary stages, punching in the one stage producing a part of the perforation and punching in the second stage completing the perforation.
  • Apparatus for checking and verifying individual perforated records produced by a pinrality of sequential recording stages on record cards comprising in combination a plurality of three position pins respectively adapted to cooperate with said record, each pin being adapted to rest on the top of the card in the absence of perforations in an upper position, to pass through the card to a lower position through a complete record perforation, and to stop in an intermediate position upon an incomplete record perforation, and means cooperating with said plurality of pins to cause an indication to be given when any one pin halts in an intermediate position.
  • Apparatus for checking and verifying individual perforated record cards formed in a plurality of sequential recording stages on record cards comprising analyzing mechanism including reciprocable pins adapted to assume a plurality of different positions according as the point in the card under the respective pins is imperforate, properly perforated, or incompletely perforated, a testing plate cooperating with said pins, means'for moving said testing plate in synehronism with the reciprocation of said sensing pins.
  • Apparatus for checking a'nd'verifying individual perforated record cards formed in a plurality of recording stages on record cards comprising the tion of a reciprocable sensing pin box including displaceable sensing pins adapted to assume one of a plurality of different positions as the card under the respective pins is imperforate, properly perforated, or incompletely perforated, said pins having reduced sensing ends and shoulders adapting the pin to be held in an elevated position when the digit position thereunder is imperforate, to pass entirely through the card when the digit position thereunder is properly perforated and to be arrested by said shoulder when the digit position is improperly perforated. and means coop ratingwithsaidpinstocauseanindicationtobe given when an improperly perforated card is sensed. LEI-IE ERNEST BROUGHAM.

Landscapes

  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Investigating Strength Of Materials By Application Of Mechanical Stress (AREA)
  • Control Of Vending Devices And Auxiliary Devices For Vending Devices (AREA)
US566707A 1930-10-10 1931-10-03 Apparatus for checking and verifying records Expired - Lifetime US1984516A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB4643/31A GB362770A (en) 1930-10-10 1930-10-10 Improvements in or relating to statistical calculating and like machines controlled by mechanical records

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US1984516A true US1984516A (en) 1934-12-18

Family

ID=9781060

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US566707A Expired - Lifetime US1984516A (en) 1930-10-10 1931-10-03 Apparatus for checking and verifying records

Country Status (5)

Country Link
US (1) US1984516A (en(2012))
BE (1) BE383257A (en(2012))
DE (1) DE561852C (en(2012))
FR (1) FR724432A (en(2012))
GB (1) GB362770A (en(2012))

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2474861A (en) * 1940-07-01 1949-07-05 Donald R Putt Control
US2535125A (en) * 1944-07-04 1950-12-26 Remington Rand Inc Perforated record card
US2647580A (en) * 1948-05-13 1953-08-04 Ibm Machine for punching records
US2687644A (en) * 1950-06-26 1954-08-31 Powers Samas Account Mach Ltd Statistical record verifying apparatus
US3018887A (en) * 1958-04-04 1962-01-30 Burroughs Corp Card file marking device
US3412237A (en) * 1964-03-06 1968-11-19 Sangamo Electric Co Card reader means
US3437794A (en) * 1963-12-17 1969-04-08 Sealectro Corp Sensing devices

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2474861A (en) * 1940-07-01 1949-07-05 Donald R Putt Control
US2535125A (en) * 1944-07-04 1950-12-26 Remington Rand Inc Perforated record card
US2647580A (en) * 1948-05-13 1953-08-04 Ibm Machine for punching records
US2687644A (en) * 1950-06-26 1954-08-31 Powers Samas Account Mach Ltd Statistical record verifying apparatus
US3018887A (en) * 1958-04-04 1962-01-30 Burroughs Corp Card file marking device
US3437794A (en) * 1963-12-17 1969-04-08 Sealectro Corp Sensing devices
US3412237A (en) * 1964-03-06 1968-11-19 Sangamo Electric Co Card reader means

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
DE561852C (de) 1932-10-19
BE383257A (en(2012))
GB362770A (en) 1931-12-10
FR724432A (fr) 1932-04-27

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US1991729A (en) Record card controlled statistical machine
US1984516A (en) Apparatus for checking and verifying records
US1976600A (en) Card punching machine
US2265445A (en) Record controlled machine
GB508954A (en) Improvements in machines for operating upon statistical cards
US2647580A (en) Machine for punching records
US2502960A (en) Record controlled punching machine
US1727471A (en) Printing-punch mechanism
US2098359A (en) Tabulating machine
US2798668A (en) Card-locating apparatus
US3696993A (en) Apparatus for punching record cards or tapes
US2615333A (en) Record card verifying machine
US2013540A (en) Printing punch
GB360044A (en) Improvements in or relating to record-controlled statistical machines
US1496358A (en) Statistical machine
US2013534A (en) Verifying machine
US1976615A (en) Electric verifying machine
US2153193A (en) Record card feeding mechanism
US2122206A (en) Translator for record controlled machines
US2114667A (en) Verifying machine for combinational holes record cards
US2048397A (en) Sorting mechanism
US2000203A (en) Card verifier
US2059799A (en) Card verifier
US2043280A (en) Card verifier
US3104002A (en) Carriage motion control arrangement