US2031686A - Installation for compiling and collaborating statistical data - Google Patents

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US2031686A
US2031686A US325341A US32534128A US2031686A US 2031686 A US2031686 A US 2031686A US 325341 A US325341 A US 325341A US 32534128 A US32534128 A US 32534128A US 2031686 A US2031686 A US 2031686A
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  • the present invention relates to the so-called continuous strip statistical apparatus, and is designed to replace the somewhat inadequate type of apparatus using perforated cards. It-allows the recording of data of transactions regarding onespecificitem chronologically and interspersed between other data, and to coordinate such data referring to. this item subsequently and in any manner desired. It allows the extension of the recordingof'data relating to a specific item beyond the space. of an individual field of the continuous. record strip, and to obtain subsequently-the cooperation of. the different strip fields in any manner desired. It provides for the combined, simultaneous and reciprocal operation of any group'of data sources identified by the same characteristic and recorded consecutively or in any; other order.
  • fields oflequivalent widths each containing .a predetermined number of lines for the recording of indices and data.
  • Fig. l diagrammatically illustrates a portion of the installation for automatically recording data in predetermined order from 15 a strip on which data is recorded at random and this figure discloses among others, quite schematically, a reading mechanism of the type disclosed inmy Patent 1,863,097, granted June 14, 1932.
  • Fig. 2 discloses the remaining part of this apparatus for reproducing data in predetermined order, the part termed distributor.
  • Fig. 3 is a fragmentary showing of a strip such as is produced according to my invention, the 25 said strip being divided into a plurality of fields, in each field of which a plurality of data is shown as recorded in code.
  • Figs. 4-7 show the various types of control and record strips which are produced during the several phases of regrouping according to my apparatus, while at the right of Figs. 5-7, the various relay connections are schematically indicated.
  • Fig. 8 diagrammatically illustrates a comparer.
  • the'first line of all the fields of a group serves for receiving the particular indices, which automatically release certainoperations, and in particular the motion of the perforated strip.
  • the second and the next to last group fields of each strip receive exclusively the perforation of the index I (ii in Fig. 3), while in the first and the last group fields the index 2 (is in Fig. 3) is punched in advance.
  • the index 3 (perforation indicated by is in Fig. 3), of the first line of a group field (corresponding to the space reserved for four perforations and, shown between the heavier black lines in Fig.
  • Figs. 1 to 7 illustrate the apparatus and procedure employed in regrouping a strip PE! in accordance with its data: n3 (hundreds), n2 (tens) and nl (units).
  • the installation (Figs. 1 and 2) comprises, apart from some individual relays and switches which will be treated later on, the following devices:
  • a current dispatcher (Fig. 2) of conventional design consisting of a number of cams rotating on the driving shaft of the installation, which cams close switches and thereby close the current between the two poles of the supply current over the respective circuits for a shorter or longer period for each rotation of the driving shaft (for each phase and corresponding to the time during which a strip field remains in the reader).
  • a current dispatcher (Fig. 2) of conventional design consisting of a number of cams rotating on the driving shaft of the installation, which cams close switches and thereby close the current between the two poles of the supply current over the respective circuits for a shorter or longer period for each rotation of the driving shaft (for each phase and corresponding to the time during which a strip field remains in the reader).
  • the framed (see Fig. 1, for instance) number of the figures designate the moment and the duration of the closing of the current and indicate the sign of the connected pole.
  • the connection of a circuit, by the current dispatcher, to the pole from the seventh fifteenth of a phase 'till the
  • the number 5 designates a set of four contacts for reading the perforations of the index lines while at 6 is shown the corresponding device for the line of the n3 (hundreds), at i the line of the n2 (tens), at 8 the line of the nl (units), while at 0 is designated the device for the line for all the remaining sets of four contacts of the group fiield.
  • the value of the individual points of the sets of four contacts is shown by the inserted number.
  • Said installation also includes a perforating apparatus l 0 (Fig. 1) such as shown by Figures 7 to 11 inclusive in my said United States Patent 1,863,097, for perforating the new strip, the group fields of which have to be reproduced in predetermined order according to the data n3, n2, or nl.
  • the electromagnets II and I2 as well as the switch I3 in this device have the same functions as have the devices 2, 3, and 4 in the reading apparatus I.
  • the groups of four electromagnets M to l8 for releasing the perforation of their corresponding lines correspond always to the sets of four contacts 5 to 9 of the reading apparatus.
  • a strip movement control preferably comprising a group [9 (Fig. 1) of five relays of conventional design:
  • relay 20 will operate the advance of the strip in the reading apparatus I while relay 2'! occasions the return motion of the perforated strip.
  • Relay 34 will also operate its ad- Vance but will cut out all operations which normally take place simultaneously when the strip is advanced.
  • the relays. 24 and 3! serve for determining the sequence in the excitation of the three first designated relays.
  • my invention comprises a group 39 of four relays (Fig. 1), which depend from the index contacts 5 (except for omissions indicated previously) and which operate on the transmission circuits of other parts or portions of the installation.
  • a distributor 6! (Fig. 2) which comprises a group of thirteen pairs of relays of conventional design which are adapted to transfer the perforations of a group field from the control strip onto a new or record strip if the data 12 of this field corresponds to the value for which the distributor is set at the moment.
  • An individual relay 12 (Fig. 1) is also provided depending upon the distributor 6
  • the original strip-PD (Fig: 3) passes thro'ugh thereading5 apparatus; I alternately in 'difierent directions.
  • the first passage'thevalues ofsn3r will: permanently energize: the corresponding relays 62* in the-distributor 161" (Fig; Zlwhere- V I by-fu'rther and useless; passages will be avoided in those cases where no values exist to be record-' ed; therebyeconomizingiontimer. This willbe explained later.
  • The-coil will thus remain energized:during' all the-phases which correspondto all the group fieldsoi the stripduring the entire first traveliof the strip Pllacrossthe reading apparatus;
  • the circuit +5 '6, 43; working "contact 26? (relay Zi b'eing energized); restcontact of: 153 21, to th'e' pole:-
  • the coil I2 (Fig. 1) will not become energized if the index I appears in the last field of P6.
  • the coil 21 will become deenergized while the coil 26 will again become permanently energized, so that from this moment the perforated strip PI) will be made to advance during its third travel.
  • the index 3 will then be perforated in the strip PI and said index field will be replaced by the following one.
  • registers (by energizing the corresponding relay 62) the numbers 113 of the different existing hundreds, and does this by means of a selector 5!).
  • all the really existing numbers of n3, and these only, are registered by the distributor 6
  • the to and fro travel of the strip P0 through the reading apparatus and between its limit positions follows, without intervention of the distributor 6I, and during which travel the fields of strip P0 are reproduced on strip PI by the punching apparatus. This is done in such manner that the fields of the same number 113 are gathered and form a group, and so that the succession of said groups corresponds to the increasing numbers of 113, i. e. are regrouped corresponding to 113.
  • the second or reverse direction travel of the strip through the reader is controlled by the relay 66 (now energized), corresponding to the smallest digit of the hundreds n3 met with during the first passage of strip PI) through the reader so that, during this passage, and through the intervention of the selector 54, the fields bearing the digit corresponding to the energized relay 66 are alone reproduced on record strip PI by the punching apparatus.
  • the sole difference consists in the fact that the index 3 also takes the function of the initial and of the end index I, so that the to and fro travel of the strip PI takes place over the first series of hundreds, and thereafter each one of the next following series of hundreds. If, for instance, seven series of 113 appear, then the performances of the first transfer are automatically repeated seven times, each time-upon anothersection of .the strip P-l, .now
  • the switches 4, I3, .58, H and. 82,83 musttake the positions shown in Figs. .5, ⁇ Land 7 during the individual transmissions.
  • a comparing device which is called a comparing device, serves for the determination and for the comparison of. such relations between the data.
  • ab, ab, a"b designate the one set of data
  • cd, vc'd', cd designate the other .data in the fields which follow one another, .and that each of the .two data requires, for instance, two lines of four contacts.
  • the distributor will consist of .two groups H0 and ll I, each group comprising a group of coils.445, .449 and .455; 3.45, 349 and 355; 245,249 and 255;.145, 1.49 and I55 shown in Fig. 8. Every group of three relays arranged one on top of the other and consisting of one re- .lay of each of the three groups .445, 449 and 455;
  • Terminal II8 upper contact 441, upper contact 452, upper contact 341 and 352, lower contacts 241, 25I, I41 and II, I24, H3, upper contact 441, lower contact 452' and terminal I3 I which indicates that 0/1) is larger than c'd'.
  • relay 455 remains energized during the rest of the preceding and the present phase through its auxiliary circuit 11:10, I33, 456, 455, to the negative pole. In the momentary or present phase the datum of relays 445, 345,
  • terminal I29 355, etc. in the same manner as previously described, but making use of the working current of terminal I29, from where the current passes for the example comparison of 14 and 12 over upper contacts 448, 460, 348 and 369, lower contacts 248, 259, I48 and I59, I36, I29, upper contact 448, lower contact 480' and terminal I43.
  • the relays 449, 349, etc. of the middle line and the relays 455, 355, etc. of the lower line and the working current over terminal I21 will be used, the other relations remaining the same as in the preceding case.
  • a group of relays 445, 345, etc. and 449, 349, etc. of Fig. 8 is provided with a plurality of armature contacts 441, 45I, 452, 341, 35I, 352, etc. It will constitute a multiple comparison device with the help of which divisions etc. may be executed in the shortest possible time.
  • the reproduction in'predetermined order is made speedierand, in fact, for the firsttime practical, by limiting the back and forth movecase the digit 723, to which the strip PI passing through the reader I (Fig. 1) was previously grouped, is transmitted in code by means of a four-wire lead, connected to the four wires which lead from the switches 58 to the right (not shown), to the four-pole jacks H2 and I22 (Fig. 8).
  • the current entering terminal II2 energizes the relays 445, 345, 245, I45, and the current entering through terminal I22 energizes relays 449, 349, 249, I49 in accordance with the classification digit perforation in the reader at the moment.
  • the next field will enter the reader and its index perforation will energize the first two sets of relays (445, 345, etc. and 449, 349, etc.) according to its classification'digit.
  • a distributor for determining the order of reproduction, the said distributor comprising a plurality of relays adapted to be energized according to the value of the said classification digits of the several fields, the energized relays being retained over a period of time in their energized position, said group of distributors also comprising a second group of relays each relay of which corresponds to a relay of the first group, that relay of the second group corresponding to the first energized relay of the first group being energized upon repassage of the strip through the reading means, whereby when the digit corresponding to the energized relay of the second group appears in the reading means, a working circuit is closed by the said relay of the second group and causes the direct reproduction of at least part of the data of the field under the reading means.
  • a distributor for determining the order of reproduction, the said distributor comprising a plurality of relays adapted to be energized according to the value of the said classification digits of the several fields, the energized relays being retained over a period of time in their energized position, a second group of relays each relay of which corresponds to a relay of the first group, that relay of the second group corresponding to the first energized relay of the first group being energized upon repassage of the strip through the reading means, whereby when the digit corresponding to the energized relay of the second group appears in the reading means, a working circuit is closed by the said relay of the second group and causes the direct reproduction of at least part of the data of the field under the reading means, energization of a relay of the second group causing the deenergization of the
  • a combined regrouping and reproducing mechanism for reading data from strips comprised of a series of perforated fields, each having classification digits thereon comprising means for reading the perforations, selecting means connected with and controlled by said reading means for selecting certain classes of data from the record, means under the control of both the said reading means and the said selecting means for reproducing in fields at least part of the selected classes of data on a second strip, means for comparing classification digits on two succeeding strip fields, and means, depending from said comparing means, which will cause the reversing of the direction of the strip movement in the reader and the temporary suspension of any perforation in the event that the classification digits of two succeeding strip fields and not of equal value.
  • a combined sorting and reproducing mechanism comprising means for receiving and reading perforated records containing data in code thereon, a distributor for controlling and causing the automatic reproduction in predetermined order in accordance with the arbitrarily I selected classification digit of at least part of the perforated record in the reading means, and means controlled by the said distributor for reproducing directly the data in the reading means.
  • a combined sorting and reproducing mechanism comprising means for reading the fields of a perforated strip containing data thereon in code, part of said data being arbitrarily selected as classification data, the succeeding fields of the said strip being out of order in regard to the classification data, feeding means for causing the displacement of the strip field by field in either direction, means for receiving and perforating a copy strip, connecting means between the reading means and the perforating means, perforating means for causing the reproduction on a field of the copy strip of at least part of the data in the field under the reading means, and a distributor for controlling the feeding means and for causing the automatic regrouping and reproduction on the copy strip in predetermined order in accordance with the classification data of at least part of the data on the strip field under the reading means.

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