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US1985741A
US1985741A US470320A US47032030A US1985741A US 1985741 A US1985741 A US 1985741A US 470320 A US470320 A US 470320A US 47032030 A US47032030 A US 47032030A US 1985741 A US1985741 A US 1985741A
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Pilgrim George James Munson
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    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/48Apparatus for condensed record, tally strip, or like work using two or more papers, or sets of papers, e.g. devices for switching over from handling of copy material in sheet form to handling of copy material in continuous form and vice versa or point-of-sale printers comprising means for printing on continuous copy material, e.g. journal for tills, and on single sheets, e.g. cheques or receipts

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  • My invention relates to typewriting or like machines and more particularly to means for aiding in quickly introducing and collating work sheets in the machine and for simultaneously feeding such collated sheets if desired.
  • the main objects of my invention are to provide comparatively simple yet highly efiicient mechanism of the character specified which may be employed in various kinds of billing operations; by whichvarious features or devices of the construction may be automatically controlled; in which an improved line indicating device is automatically shifted into and out of position for use; in which. various work i5 sheets may be rapidly introduced into the machine and quickly adjusted therein in proper correlation with. another prew'ously introduced sheet; and by which various work sheets may be introduced rearwardly intothe machine from in front of and beneath the platen after another or other previously introduced sheets have been inserted into the machine fromthe rear of and beneath the platen.
  • Fig. 1 is a vertical, fore and aft, central, sectional view taken on the line 11 of Fig. 6 and 85 looking in the direction of the arrows at said line.
  • This view shows the carriage of a typewriting machine mounted in place and'equipped with the devices of my invention; the parts being shown conditioned ready forwriting.
  • Fig. 2 is a like view of the same with parts omitted and showing themachine conditioned to receive a rearwardly introduced work sheet.
  • Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the carriage, showing the parts as they appear after the bill sheet has been introduced into the machine with the parts in the position they occupy just before the feed rollers are pressed and locked ineffective position.
  • Fig. 4 is a like view with the parts conditioned 501s they appear in Fig. 2 but showing the devices at the other end of the platen.
  • Fig. 5 is a vertical, transverse, sectional view taken through the" carriage on the line 55 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows at said line.
  • Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the carriage.
  • Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are fragmentary, skeletonized, end views showing the parts differently disposed, and more particularly the line indicator, when the machine is conditioned as represented in 5 Figs. 1, 3 and 2 respectively.
  • Fig. 10 is a like view including additional parts and showing the parts disposed in an intermediate position between those positions which are indicated in Figs. 8 and 9.
  • the present invention was devised-to attain some of the same general ends as the construction disclosed in the patent to Frederick A. Hart, 1,650,351, dated Nov. 22, 1927, and may be regarded as an improvement thereon.
  • the frame of the machine includes a top plate 1 on which fixed carriage rails 2 and 3 are-supported by brackets 4 in the usual manner. Said rails are provided with oppositely grooved race:- ways to receive crossed bearing rollers 5 which also are received in race-ways in a cross bar6 of the carriage. In this manner the carriage is supported'at the rear thereof for traveling movement from side to side of the machine over the top plate 1.
  • the carriage includes end bars 7 and 8 which are secured to and project forward from the rear cross bar' 6 and have bearing openings therein for the platen shaft 9 by which a cylindrical platen 10 is supported.
  • the usual line spacing mechanism and finger wheels (not shown) are employed for turning the platen. I
  • a paper table 11 is supported in the rear of the platen to aid in directing forwardly introduced work sheets to the rear of and beneath theplaten.
  • Upwardly and rearwardiy moving typebars strike against the front of the platen of the paper thereon.
  • a line a in the different figures represents the printing line or a line with register.
  • the type bars in moving to printing position coact with a type bar center guide 16 'of to brackets 21 provided with set screws 22 by which the deflector may be fixedly connected to a rock shaft 23.
  • a rocking of this shaft is effective to move the deflector from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position and vice versa.
  • the rock shaft 23 carries a crank arm 24 at one end thereof which is fixedly connected to the shaft by a set screw 25, thus enabling the crank arm to be secured in different v adjusted positions to the shaft.
  • a forwardly projec'ting link 26 is pivoted at its rear end, as at 27, to the crank arm 24 in order to automatically effect a movement of the deflector down from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position and up again, as will hereinafter more clearly appear.
  • I provide a plurality of flexible or resilient work sheet supporting and guiding bands 28, two being shown in the present instance. These bands are provided to cooperate with the platen 10 to aid in supporting, guiding and feeding one of the work sheets, L, to and around the platen as such work sheet is introduced from the rear thereof.
  • Each of these bands 28 is secured at its upper rear end by bolts 29 and nuts 30 to the upper horizontally disposed portion of the paper table 11.
  • the bands 28 extend from the attached ends thereof parallel with the paper table 11 and around and concentric with the platen and up in front of and above the platen where the free ends of the bandsbear against a cross bar 31 fixed to the carriage and extending from side-to-side thereof above the platen.
  • These bands are slightly resilient and bear against the platen with suflicient force to snugly maintain a work sheet L which is introduced into the ma- .chine from the rear of the platen andbetween said bands and platen, in contact with the platen and cause the sheet to be effectively fed therewith when the platen is rotated.
  • the cross bar 31 is secured to the carriage by bracket arms 32 carried thereby, said bracket arms being secured by set screws 33 to a cross rod 34 attached at its ends to the end plates 7 and 8 of the'carriage.
  • the cross bar 31 also constitutes a support for a second paper table 35, the front face of which is maintained substantially tangential to the platen at the front portion thereof.
  • This paper table constitutes'a support for a work sheet B that is introduced into the machine from in front of the platen and is directed downwardly and rearwardly beneath the platen to the deflector 20, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.
  • a second deflector plate 37 that is automatically moved from the ineffective position shown in Fig. 1, to the effective position shown in Fig. 2, where the lower end of the deflector 3'7 is moved into cooperative relation with the deflector 20 to practically form a continuation thereof for directing the lower end of the work sheet B into the machine past the type guide and ribbon vibrawhich the bottom ends of the printed characters torand into the channel 38 between the deflector 20 and the platen.
  • This movement of the deflector 3'? to and from effective position it moves past the printing line and must necessarily be moved from its effective position, shown in Fig. 2, to the ineffective position shown in Fig. 1, before the type bars can reach the printing position.
  • This operation of the deflector 37 is automatically controlled, as will hereinafter more clearly appear.
  • a carbon sheet C preferably substantially coextensive with the work sheet L is simultaneously introduced into the machine therewith and is employed for making a manifold copy of the work written onthe work sheet B.
  • a carbon sheet coextensive in size with the bill sheet B may be introduced and withdrawn with the latter instead of employing the carbon sheet C in the manner indicated.
  • a line indicator which is in the nature of a thin flat sheet metal strip 39 that extends longitudinally throughout the length of the platen and is connected at its ends to depending portions 40 of two arms 41 and 42. These arms at their forward ends are secured by set screws 43 to a rock shaft 44 that extends across the carriage from side-to-side thereof and is supported in bracket arms 45 fixed to the carriage.
  • the line indicator 39 receives a direct up and down motion to and from indicating position around the center of the shaft 44, the line indicator being shown in its indicating position in register with the printing line a in Fig. 8, and in the lowered, ineffective, position in Fig. 7.
  • Means are provided for automatically controlling the line indicator 39, as will hereinafter more clearly appear.
  • Each arm 48 carries a pin 50 by which one end of a coiled spring 51 is connected to the companion arm 48, the opposite end of said spring being anchored to a collar 52 secured by a set screw 52 to the rock shaft 53.
  • Each hub 49 is slabbed off at one side thereof, as indicated at 54, to provide a contact face for cooperation with a corresponding slabb'ed ofi portion or contact face 55 of a collar 56 secured by set screws 57 to the rock shaft 53. There is a slight lost motion provided between the contact face 55 of each collar 56 and the contact face 54 of the associated hub 49 with which it coacts.
  • each arm 48 is provided with an individual spring 51 which exerts its individual force on the companion arm 48, as will presently appear, and that the effective force of each of said springs may be varied by a rotative adjustment of the companion collar 52 to different set positions around the shaft 53.
  • both arms 48 and the springs 51 will turn bodily therewith, and but a slight spring pressure is exerted by each of the springs 51.
  • Fig. 3 represents the positions of the parts when the feed rollers 46 have been brought to bear against the work sheets without tensioning the springs 51. At this time the feed rollers bear against said work sheets wholly by the weight of the parts, free from any pressure of the springs 51. This is in order that the ledger or bill sheet, and more particularly the latter, may be adjusted relatively to the line indicator while the sheet is held by thefeed rollers 46 in its position of adjustment, but without suflicient pressure to interfere with the adjustment of the sheet.
  • the rock shaft 53 is given a further rocking motion to tension the springs 51 and effectively apply a feeding pressure to the feed rolls 46.
  • Means are provided for locking the rock shaft at the end of this movement by which the springs are tensioned, in order to prevent a return of the rock shaft under the reaction of said springs.
  • Such locking means and the means for controlling the rock shaft 53, as well as other of the devices previously described, will now be referred to.
  • the rock shaft 53 constitutes the main actuating shaft by which the various devices of my invention, including the feed rollers 46, the bottom deflector 20, the'line indicator 39 and the front deflector 37, are controlled.
  • This shaft 53 is mounted at its ends in bracket plates 58 and 59 secured to the carriage frame, and near the right-hand end thereof said shaft is provided with a crank arm 60 that terminates in a finger piece 61 by which the shaft may be actuated.
  • Fivoted at 62 on the outer side of the arm 60 is an angular or bell crank lever 63 provided at the end of one of its arms with a finger piece 64, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3.
  • the other arm 63" of the lever 63 has a locking pawlor latch 65 pivoted thereto at 66, said latch having a hooklike engaging end 67.
  • Extending laterally from. the member 65 are two lugs or stops 68 and 69 that are on opposite sides of and coact with the arm 63' to limit the motion of the latch relatively to said arm.
  • a leaf spring 70 is fixed at one end by screws 71 to the lever 63 and bears at its free end against the lug 69 to normally maintain the latch member related to the arm 63 as shown in Fig. 2.
  • a coiled spring 72 surrounds the pivot 62 by whichthe lever 63 is mounted on the crank arm 60, the other end of said spring being fixed to the lever 63, as indi-' 'cated at '75.
  • the force of this spring is therefore relative movement of the lever 63 is limited by a pin 74 carried by the arm 60 passing into a slot 76 in said lever 63.
  • the finger piece 61 In addition to controlling the feed rollers in the manner described, the finger piece 61 also controls the movement of the bottom deflector 20 from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position and vice versa. Such means will now be described.
  • the link 26 (see Fig. 3) is a two part link, the members of which are united by a thread.- ed connection at 78 and the front member is slotted at 79 to receive the shank of a headed screw or pin 80 received at its threaded end in a tapped opening in a disk 81.
  • This disk has a hub 82 (see Fig. 6) tapped .to receive a set screw 83 by which the disk is secured to the rock shaft 53. Due to the pin and slot connection-80, 79 between the link 26 and the shaft 53, the deflector 20 will remain unaffected by the turning of the shaft 53 until just prior to the time that the arm 60, in swinging forward, reaches the Fig. 10 position.
  • the pin 80 When such position has been reached, the pin 80 has reached the forward end of the slot 79 and has shifted the link 26 forward and moved the deflector 20 down away from the platen in order to create an enlarged, unobstructed, channel 38 between said deflector and the platen for the free passage of a rearwardly introduced work sheet B, and an accompanying carbon sheet if such be used instead of the carbon sheet C.
  • the bands 28 hold the previously introduced ledger sheet L snug against the platen so that it offers no obstruction or obstacle to the ready backward introduction of the bill sheet B into position in the manner described.
  • the pin 80 will be carried rearward enabling a spring 84 (Figs. 6 and 10) to elevate the.d eflector 20 to a position where it will bear lightly against the sheet B and press it lightly against the under sides of the metallic bands 28.
  • the spring 84 surrounds the rock shaft 23 and is connected at one end to one of the brackets 21 and is connected at the other end to a fixed part 85 (see Figs. 1 and 10) of the carriage.
  • the rock shaft 53 also controls the movement of the line indicator 39 to and from effective, or indicating position, as will now be pointed out.
  • one of the supporting arms, 41, for the line indicator 39 has one end of acontractile returning spring 86 connected thereto, at 87.
  • the other end of this spring is connected to a pin 88 that projects from one side of the adjacent bracket plate 58.
  • the force of this spring is exerted to move the arms 41 and 42 upward and bring the indicator 39 to the line indicating position, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8.
  • the parts are arrested in their movement to such position by an adjustable screw stop 89 threaded into a fixed part of the carriage or bracket plate 58 and cooperating at its lower end with the arm 42, as shown in Fig. 8.
  • the arm 42 carries an upwardly extending finger 90 and extends into the path of a cam 91 formed as a depending part of the crank arm 60.
  • the cam 91 will be brought into engagement with the upper side of the arm 42, and the finger 90 which is formed thereon, to depress the line indicator 39 to the ineifective Fig. 10 position, and hold it in such position.
  • the curved contact faces 92 on the cam reaches and coacts with the arm 42 and acts in the nature of a dwell to hold the indicator in its lowered position during the further forward motion of the arm 60.
  • Such forward movement of the arm 60 is limited by a stop pin 93 on the hub 94 of the arm 60 coacting with a pin 95 projecting from the righthand bracket plate 59, as shown in Fig. 9.
  • the body portion of'thearrn 60 also is operative on the extreme end of the finger 90 of the arm 42 when said arm is moved backward and downward from the Fig. 8 to the Fig. '7 position, and at this time moves the indicator 39 from the indicating to the ineffective position out of the path of' the types.
  • This motion of the arm 60 takes place as said arm is moving from the Fig. 3 to the Fig. 1 position, to tension the springs 51 and apply the force thereof to the feed rollers 46, as hereinbefore described.
  • said springs 51 will be looked under tension and the line indicator will be held depressed until the latch 65 is released in the manner hereinbefore pointed out.
  • the upper edge of the deflector 37 is bent around and secured to a shaft 96 supported at its ends for pivotal move ment in bearings 97 in supporting arms 98 secured to a rock shaft 99.
  • Fixedly connected to the rock shaft 96 near one end thereof is a crank arm 100; a set screw 101 being employed to adjustably connect the hub of said crank arm to the shaft.
  • the upper end of the crank arm 100 is provided with a headed screw or pin 102, the shank of which is received and works in an arcuate slot 103 in a link 104. This link is pivoted at 105 to a crank arm 106 mounted on the rock shaft 53.
  • the deflector 37 is adapted to receive a bodily pivotal motion around the rock shaft 99, and also may receive a pivotal motion around the shaft or pivotal center 96 under control of the link 104.
  • the construction and arrangement of the parts are such that the deflector 37 may receive a movement from the ineffective, normal position indicated in Fig. 1, where it rests on soft rubber buffers 37 on the shaft 99, to the position indicated in Fig. 10.
  • the pin 102 will have reached the rear end of the slot 103 in the link 104, thus from this point on controlling the motion of the deflector 37 around its pivotal center 96.
  • the rock shaft 53 near the right hand end thereof is provided with a gear wheel 107 fixed to the shaft by means of set screws 108 (Fig. 6) that are received in tapped openings in the hub 109 of said gear wheel.
  • the gear wheel 10'1 meshes with an idler 110 supported on a headed pivot screw 111 supported on the right-hand bracket plate 59.
  • This idler. 110 meshes with a second idle pinion 112 supported on a pivot screw 112 secured to the bracket plate 59.
  • the idler 112 in turn meshes with a gear 113 secured to the shaft 99 on which the arms 98 are secured.
  • crank arm 106 is loosely mounted on the I capable of rotative adjustment on the shaft to different set positions to regulate the force of the spring on the arm 106.
  • the force of the spring 116 normally maintains the arm 106 against a stop pin 119 projecting from the bracket 58, as
  • the force of the spring 116 is suiflcient to hold the arm 106 in the normal position until the parts reach the 10 position. It will be observed that at this time the pin 102 has reached the rear end of the slot 103 and caused the de- 'arm- 100 positively moving down with the arms 98 will actuate the link 104 and'arm 106 against the force of the spring 116. As the parts are brought to the Fig.
  • an adjustable screw stop 120 carried by one of the arms 98, will reach contactive engagement with the arm 100 and arrest and positively hold the deflector 37 against pivotal movement in one direction around a the pivotal center 96, whereas the force of the spring 116 tends to hold the arm 100 against said stop 120, thus assuring the maintenance of the deflector 37 in proper relation to the platen and to the deflector 20.
  • the spring 116 will be effective to turn the arm' 106 until the latter reaches the stop 119, as indicated in Fig. 10. This arrests the arm 106 andlink 104, and in the further continuedv rearward and downward movement of the arm 60 to the Fig. 3 or Fig. 1 position, the pin 102 will move freely along the slot 103 while the deflector37 is returned to its ineffective, Fig. 1, position. v
  • said deflector may be moved from the ineffective position shown in Fig. 1, remote from the front face of the platen,
  • the flngerpiece 64 is depressed to place the feed rollers 46 under ,the tension of the springs 51 and lock the parts in such condition.
  • the depression of the finger piece 64 also results in forcing the line indicator 39 down to and in holding it in the ineffective position.
  • the machine at this time is conditioned for writing and the operator may proceed with the writing, making a manifold copy on the ledger sheet L through the interposed carbon sheet C .of all matter written on the bill sheet B, the latter of course being produced by the operation of the type faces on the usual inking ribbon 19 carried by the ribbon vibrator 18.
  • Suitable side edge gages for the ledger sheet L and for the bill sheet B may be provided.
  • I employ the usual side edge .the nature of a plate or blade that extends up from' the paper table 11 at substantially right angles thereto. This gageis adapted to coact with the left-hand side edge of the ledger sheet inserted in the rear of the platen. I also provide a side edge gage 122 (see Figs. 3 and 6) by extending an upright flange from the left-hand 'side of the paper table 35, the plane of the gage 122 being at substantially right angles to the plane of said paper table 35. r
  • a curved paper deflector beneath the platen movable towards and from the platen independently of said bands for receiving awork sheet introduced rearward into the machine from in front of and beneath the platen and into the space intermediate said bands and deflector, and a second paper deflector movable across the printing line into and out of efiective position and being when in effective vposition in cooperative relation with and forming substantially a continuation of said first mentioned deflector to aid in the rearward introduction of a work sheet thereto.
  • the platen mounted for movement towards and away therefrom, a second paper deflector movable towards and from the front of the platen, means for moving said first mentioned deflector towards and the second deflector away from the platen as said feedrollers aremoved towards the platen and ior moving the first deflector away from and the second deflector towards the platen as said feed rollers are moved away from the platen, said controlling means including a hand actuated member, and latching means for locking said member at the end of its movement in one direction for holding said feed rollers applied to the platen with a spring force.
  • a rock shaft turned on its longitudinal axis by said manually controlled member, a spring intermediate said rock shaft and saidieed rollers and which is placed under tension by a movement of said manually controlled member and rock shaft after the feed rollers reach the p'aten, a latch for locking said manually controlled member against return movement under the reactive force of said spring, and means operable at will for releasing said latch and thereby relieving the spring pressure on the feed rollers without moving the feed rollers away from the platen.
  • a paper deflector mounted for movement towards and from the platen, and means controlled by an actuation of said finger piece for controlling the movement of said deflector.
  • a work sheet guiding and controlling means comprising a work sheet deflector movable to and from effective position across the printing and .when in effective positlon aiding in directing a work sheet rearward and downward in front of and beneath the platen, and means for controlling such movements of the deflector comprising means for mounting the deflector to turn on two pivotal centers and for controlling its movement around such centers so that the deflector in its movement toeifective position will first move bodily towards the platen and will then receive a downward movement substantially tangential to the platen at the front face thereof.
  • a cylindrical platen fixed against movement from printing position flexible bands partly surrounding the platen and extending from the rear thereof up and beyond the printing line and effective for holding a work sheet introduced in the rear of the platen snugly against it at the lower side and'front thereof and directing such work sheet up past the print line at the front of the platen, a curved paper deflector permanently maintained beneath the platen for re ceiving a work sheet introduced rearward into the machine from in front of and beneath the platen and into the space intermediate said bands and deflector, paper feed rollers shiftable at will to and from the platen independently of a movement of the latter, and automatically operating means for shifting said deflector towards and from the platen depending on the movement of said feed rollers with reference to the platen.
  • rock shaft that turns on its longitudinal axis, and means that enable said rock shaft to continue its rocking movement to stress said spring after the feed rollers reach the platen.

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