US2063118A - Tabulating machine - Google Patents

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US2063118A
US2063118A US324427A US32442728A US2063118A US 2063118 A US2063118 A US 2063118A US 324427 A US324427 A US 324427A US 32442728 A US32442728 A US 32442728A US 2063118 A US2063118 A US 2063118A
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
    • G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
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    • G06K13/077—Transporting of cards between stations with intermittent movement; Braking or stopping movement

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  • This invention relates to improvements in tabulating machines and is shown as applied to a tabulating machine of the well-known Powers type such for instance as shown in U. S. Patent 1,236,481.
  • the invention resides principally in mechanism to be inserted between the pin-box and stop-basket which takes the place of the usual connection-box, and forms a flexible connection device between the pins and stops such connection device being manually settable to transpose data and to effect all'that may now be accomplished by Y-wires, inverted Y- wires, N-wire, etc., and to make it possible to setior different forms without removing the connecting mechanismpommonly known in the art as the connection-box from the machine. This not only facilitates manipulation of the machine, but greatly cuts down the expense, for the present connection-box is so exacting as to manufacturing accuracy that each one is practicallya hand-made job.
  • a sort of keyboard has been provided whereby electrical connections may be made so thatdata from one.
  • zone of the record or punched card may be entered at any desired place inthe field of stops in the tabulator head.
  • data at the left-hand of the card may be printed by the right-hand unit of the tabulator or may be printed and added in a multiplicity of places in the adding head.
  • Fig. l is a fragmentary, vertical front-to-rear section of a machine showing my invention'and the correlated parts of a known tabulating me'chvices.
  • Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view substantially on line "5li of Fig. 1 and showing one of the bars carrying slides co-operative with the pins of the pin-box.
  • Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view of one of the controlling slides, taken substantially on 5 line 6-6 of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 7 is a front view of the control box.
  • Fig. 8 is a side view of the same.
  • Fig. 9 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal section of the control box taken just inside the lower frame of the same.
  • Fig. 10 is a diagrammatic view showing characteristic wiring.
  • stop basket connection-box and pin box and associated parts
  • 21 and 28 represent front and rear cross bars upon which are removably mounted a series of rails 29, there. being one rail 29 for each denominational row'of pins'2l and located directly thereover.
  • the rails may be suitably spaced by collars or washers and all rails are locked in place by a locking bar 30 extending across the rear ends of all of the rails.
  • Each rail carries. an adding slide 3
  • the pins 2! are all grounded in any suitable manner, as for instance by grounding their guide plate 20.
  • the contact plates .36 are insulated from the rails 29 by insulating material indicated at 40.
  • , are constructed electronna t e pin plate ounted on each slid-e The slides 1 i 1..
  • each bar 50 represents a respective one of the accumulator Wheels and by properly adjusting the slides 6
  • the cross bars 34 and 35 extend through slots 68, Fig. l in the housing 69 of the rails 29 and are secured at their ends to respective links 10 and H at opposite sides of the housing.
  • the links 10 are pivotally connected to the lower ends of rock arms i2 pivoted on a cross-shaft I3; and the links H are pivotally connected to the lower arms 0! rock levers l4 pivoted on a cross shaft 15.
  • ESecured to the arms 85 is a cross-bar 86 so as to form a frame.
  • Extending upwardly at each end this frame is an. ear 81, the ears 8! supporting between them a pivot rod 88, upon which are mounts the rear ends of rails 89, the connection being by slots in bars 89.
  • the front ends of the rails 89 are mounted on a cross-rod 90 carried by ears secured to the frame member 25.
  • Mounted on each rail 89 is a slide member 9
  • Each slide member Si is also formed with four bent lips 94 by which it is retained on its bar or rail 89.
  • each slide 5i there is provided a stop actuator 95 which is formed with a spring ear 96,a bent over lip 91 and a stop-actuating finger 98.
  • Each actuator 95 is slidably secured to its slide 9
  • Springs I020 tend constantly to draw members 95 and BI toward the rightin Fig. 1, and to hold lips 91 in engagement with any desired notch IN, the fingers 98 extend laterally across members 95 so as to give wide upper or stop-operating faces.
  • are normally held in left-most position by a universal bar I02 carried by links I03 secured to the upper arms 0! levers H.
  • the bar I02 may be supported and guided in a. slot in a frame or other stationary member (not shown).
  • Each of the electro-magnets 52 is provided with an armature I to the free end of which plate I06.
  • Each of the stop rods I! is positioned under the slide 9
  • a spring I01 holds arm," with roller 02 in contact with the periphery'of cam BI.
  • the ends of arms 05 are pivotally connected to a vertically reciprocating frame .comprising side frames we and cross bars I09, the latter operating when the frame is lowered, to return the stops 22 to ineffective position. Since this frame moves up with arms 85, the cross-bars I00 are moved up ahead of the stops 22 and do not interfere with the operation of the fingers 98.
  • the remaining'notches II are provided s that a number punched on the card may be arbitrarily changed when printed, as forinstance when a hole in 0 position may indicate factory No. 3, so that it is desired to print "3, etc.
  • the slides 3I are so positioned that when the elements 44 of a slide II reach the "9" pin 2
  • the II and "I2 pins may be utilized to efiect desired code designations such as factory or warehouse numbers, etc.
  • the I I and I2" pins are used in conjunction with the alphabetic unit for controlling printing of letters, and in the numerical units additional signs or sign type may be placed on the numerical type sectors and controlled by such pins.
  • representing the desired denominations of the adding heads are moved onto the bars 46 connected with the sensing members 36 of the desired card zone. For instance, if it were desired to enter data from the-first column on the card, in the first row of stops of units one and two of the tabulator, then the slides GI, numbered I and II in Fig. 7, would be moved onto the first bar 46 and if a 3 were punched in the first column of the card, the magnets 52 of the first and I eleventh rows of stops 22 would be operated to hold the respective fingers under the 3" pins of these two rows.
  • connection wire in the present Powers machine is bent so that the lower end cooperates with a pin 2
  • the present Powers construction in commercial use,' use s what are termed inverted Y -wires.
  • -,z-this may be accomplished by moving'the two slides SI of the required one of the rails into cooperative relation with the respective bars 46 corresponding to the columns of the card.
  • an electric impulse is then sent over either of these bars 46, itv will operate the magnet 52 of the required common column.
  • ei t J member in circuit with each I nets.
  • e nerd-controlled element a member with said card-controlled element, and etteb-le means mounted on one of said members opera ie for connecting said member combination of tabulator stops, electromagnets for oentroillng selecting oi said stops, 3 series of members each in circuit with a respec-; tive one of said magnets, a plurality of oardseries of members each in A one of said elements, ed on the members of able to connect any member of the other nozninational so My representaany one of said t to: setting said 'ion in a.

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