US2059254A

US2059254A - Card magazine

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Publication number: US2059254A
Application number: US48063A
Authority: US
Inventors: William W Lasker
Original assignee: Remington Rand Inc
Current assignee: Remington Rand Inc
Priority date: 1935-11-02
Filing date: 1935-11-02
Publication date: 1936-11-03
Anticipated expiration: 1953-11-03

Description

Nov. 3, 1936. w. w. LASKER CARD MAGA Z I NE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Nov. 2, 1935 Nd: grw O v u L o o 0 Q MOE INVENTOR- WILLIAM W. LASKER NOV. 3, 1936. w, w. s 2,059,254

CARD MAGAZ INE Filed Nov. 2, 1955 2 sheets-sheet 2 FIG.7

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INVENTORI, WILLIAM w. LASKER .1 \L I i I HIS A TORNEY Patented Nov. 3, 1936 UNETED STATES cam) MAGAZINE William W. Lasker, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Remington Rand Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application November 2, 1935, Serial No. 48,063

3 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in machines which operate by the use of perforated data cards, and particularly to the magazine in which said data cards are stored pending their use by the machine.

Merchandise accounting systems have been developed in which a tag was perforated to show certain essential data such as stock item number, department number, value, and in the case of wearing apparel the size of the garment. In general, these accounting systems have required that when the merchandise was sold, the data portion of the tag was removed, and placed in an electrical transmitter, sometimes dubbed a waflle iron, from which a punch for standard tabulator cards was actuated. It appears then, that if these tags could be utilized to operate a tabulating machine, and could be handled in a card sorting machine, an expensive feature of the system equipment could be eliminated. With this in view, tabulators and sorters have both been modified to handle the merchandise tag, which is a card of dimensions much smaller than those of the card heretofore used with these machines.

In carrying out the system as intended, it is necessary to run the tags through the machines before they are attached to the goods, and again after the sale has been completed. This means that the card magazine of both the tabulator and the sorter must be made adjustable as to the length of the card.

The present invention contemplates an adjustable card magazine for embodiment in a tabulator and/or a sorter, to permit the utilization of cards of different lengths, but of unaltered width.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device for alternatively altering the length of a magazine for holding cards.

Another object is to provide manipulative means for securing an adjustable card magazine end in either of its alternative positions.

A still further object is to provide a manipulative device which may be latched in either its effective or ineffective position by means common to both positions.

The present invention contemplates a magazine for storing perforated records of differing lengths, comprising fixed members forming the ends of said magazine when cards of greater length are stored therein, a manipulative member forming one end of said magazine when cards of lesser length are stored, and common latching means for securing said manipulative device in either effective or ineffective position.

Other objects and structural details of the invention will be apparent from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. l is a front elevation of a magazine for storing perforated cards, showing the mechanism of the invention mounted thereon.

Fig. 2 is a section through Fig. 1 taken on the line 2-2.

Fig. 3 is a view of a card such as may be used with a machine equipped with the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the latching means.

Fig. 5 is an isometric view of the device latched in its ineffective position.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, showing the intermediate position of the mechanism.

Fig. 7 is a View similar to Figs. 5 and 6 showing the device latched in its effective position.

In a machine which utilizes cards of the general character of a perforated record card, the magazine is provided with an end piece I0. This end piece, which usually is channel shaped, may be of any suitable material, and either cast or shaped from sheet metal.

The mechanism of the invention comprises, hinge butts ll, rivets l2, hinge strap l3, hinge pins I4, rivets l5, corner member l6, latches ll, knob l8, ball l9, and spring 2|]. The hinge butts H are slidably mounted on channel shaped end piece ID by shoulder rivets l2. Each butt carries a hinge strap l3 secured to it in slidable relation by hinge pins l4. Spanning the hinge straps l3, and secured thereto by rivets I5, is an angle shaped corner member l6. Latches I! are provided. Each latch is pivotally mounted on the front flange of end piece l0, and is provided with an operating knob I8 within which is a detent consisting of ball l9 and spring 20.

Let it be assumed that merchandise tags, such as are shown in Fig. 3, are to be passed through a machine. The angle corner member i6 is securely fastened, as shown in Fig. 5, by latches ll being engaged over one leg of angle I6, and the detent balls l9 being entered in appropriate holes in the front flange of the channeled end piece ID.

If the data portion of the tags, that is, the portion shown to the left of the dotted line in Fig. 3, are to be passed through the machine, latches I! are removed from engagement with angle I6 by the manipulation of knobs l8. Corner angle I6 is then moved straight to the front until hinge pins l4 rest in the notches at the rearward ends of hinge straps 13, as shown in shown, whereupon corner angle i 6-is turned rear- Wardly about hinge pin l4, until hinge strap i3 rests against the front flange of end piece l0.

Latches I! are then turned about their respective pivots until they have been returned to their previous positions. Corner angle I6 is thereby locked in the position shown in Fig. 7, and the magazine is set for handling cards of the lesser length.

While I have described what I consider to be a highly desirable embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that many changes in form could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I, therefore, do not limit myself to the exact form herein shown and described, nor to anything less than the whole of my invention as hereinbefore set forth, and as hereinafter claimed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. In combination with a device for varying the length of a'perforated record card storage magazine, a plurality of latches for securing said device in ineffective position, a plurality of hinge elements for guiding said device to effective position, and means integral with said latches for securing said device in effective position.

2. In a magazine capable of storing perforated cards of different lengths, the combination of fixed ends for rendering said magazine suitable for storing cards of one length and amanipulative device for rendering said magazine suitable for storing cards of lesser length, said device being supported by one of said ends, and comprising a plurality of hinge elements for guiding said device to effective position, and latching means adapted to retain said manipulative device in either its effective or ineffective position.

3. A magazine for storing perforated record cards of different lengths, comprising fixed members forming the ends of said magazine when cards of one length are stored therein, and a manipulative device supported by one of said fixed members for forming one end of said magazine when cards of lesser length are stored, said device comprising a, plurality of hinge elements for guiding'sa id device to effective position, and latching means adapted to retain said manipulative device in either its effective or ineffective position.

WILLIAM W. LASKER.