US2107398A

US2107398A - Typewriting machine

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Publication number: US2107398A
Application number: US704425A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jesse A B Smith
Original assignee: Underwood Elliott Fisher Co
Current assignee: Underwood Elliott Fisher Co
Priority date: 1933-12-29
Filing date: 1933-12-29
Publication date: 1938-02-08
Anticipated expiration: 1955-02-08

Description

Feb. 8, 1938. J. A. B. SMITH 'TYPEWRITING MACHINE Filed Dec. 29, 19:53 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Feb.'8,v 1938. J. A. B. SMITH TYPEWRI'TING MACHINE Filed Dec. 29, 1933 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 NVENTOR: M

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Feb. 8, 1938. J. A. B. SMITH TYPEWRITING MACHINE s sheets-sneet 5 Filed Dec. 29, 1933 EZNVENTOFU Feb. 8, 1938. J. A. B. SMITH TYPEWRITING MACHINE 5 Sheets-Sheet 4 I Filed Dec. 29, 1933 J. A. B. SMITH TYPEWRITING MACHINE Feb Filed Dec. 29, 1953 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Iuvanroa: ZWMQJM% BY Patented Feb. 8, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TYPEWRITING MACHINE Application December 29, 1983, Serial No. 704,425

24 Claims.

operationdypes one item by the side of another.

in a single line upon another sheet.

After the manifolding of each item, the sheets are recollatecl relatively to each other, and represented to the types with each sheet occupying a new position. The bill is line-spaced, so that the next item will be typed below the last; while the record-sheet is not line-spaced but is shifted to one side, so that the next item will be typed on said record-sheet in the same line as the next previous item but in a different column. Thus the sheets are collated anew after the typing oi. every item, and-this recollation is effected expeditiously by improved means provided by the present invention.

t will be understood, since each transverse line of items on the record-sheet represents an individual bill, that the vertical column-spaces of the record-sheet serve to classify like items of many bills.

The record-sheet may include column-spaces for certain items which are not required to be entered on the bill, and which column-spaces are therefore to be skipped in the said recollating operations.

The bill is automatically line-spaced as a result of its shift crosswise of the record-sheet. It is desired, however, when a record-sheet column is skipped, or when for any other reason the transverse spacing of the items typed on the recordsheet is not uniform, that there shall not appear on the bill a corresponding skip-space in the vertically spaced items of said bill. In other words, it is desired that the items in the single column on the bill-sheet shall be line-spaced automatically but uniformly, irrespective of whether or not the transverse spacing of said items on the record-sheet is uniform.

As aresult of one feature of the present invention the recollating of the sheets for each item automatically follows from a simple tabulatingkey operation, which may produce either corresponding spacings or dissentaneous spacings of the items as they appear on the bill and record sheets.

In the patent to Farnham, Smith and Phelps 1,071,612, of August 26, 1913, a typewriting machine is provided with a letter-feeding carriage for the record-sheet, said carriage being of special construction in order to work with another special carriage upon which is carried the billsheet, each carriage having an individual feedroIl-operating line-space mechanism for its worksheet. In recollating the bill and record-sheet a tabulating mechanism operated by one keymechanism is used for the record-sheet carriage, and another tabulating mechanism requiring the operation of another key-mechanism is used for the bill-sheet carriage.

According to the present invention there is only one key-mechanism to be. operated at each recollation of the bill and record-sheet, and consequently a substantial saving of time is effected.

In practicing the present invention use may be made of certain features of construction disclosed in my co-pending application 649,902, filed January 3, 1933, and adapted, by means of a novel organization herein set forth, for effecting itemspacings of agreeing or dissentaneous extents on the bill and record sheets. According to said application, a platen-carriage of conventional design, such as the Underwood, may be used to letter-feed, tabulate and line-space the recordsheet; and there may be mounted on said conventional platen-carriage a. truck carrying the bill-sheet and moving along with said carriage for letter-feeding, said truck being guided on the carriage to move the bill-sheet crosswise of the record-sheet; and furthermore by means of a cam or inclined guide-rail, which cooperates with said truck, the bill-sheet is caused to be moved endwise for line-spacing at the same time that it is moved crosswise of the record-sheet.

For universal use with different forms of bill and record sheets, the said inclined guide-rail is made straight, and extends crosswise of the platen-carriage. It results therefore that the line-spacing movement of the bill-sheet effected by means of said inclined guide-rail will be proportionate to the shift of the bill-sheet crosswise of the record-sheet. If the bill-sheet, for recollation, is moved from one column of the recordsheet to an immediately adjacent column, the bill-sheet will be automatically advanced one linespace, but if said adjacent column should be skipped and the bill-sheet advanced to the next column on the record-sheet, the bill-sheet would be line-spaced two spaces, the resulting two linespaces between successive bill-sheet items producing an undesired skip-space on the bill-sheet.

The inclined guide-rail and the part which, to effect bill-sheet line-spacing, is in engagement therewith, are therefore newly arranged for the purpose of the present invention so as to be capable of relative line-space retrograding move ment, said movement being proportionate to the difference between an extent of bill-truck movement for shifting the bill-sheet one column or unit transversely of the record-sheet and an extent of bill-truck movement for shifting the billsheet beyond said column, as for record-sheetcolumn-skipping. Thus the line-spacing advance of the bill-sheet eiiected between the typing of the items will be uniform irrespective of the spacing of said items on the record-sheet.

The inclined guide-rail may be the member which is mounted for backward movement for negativing any skip-space producing excess of line-spacing of the bill-sheet, the bill-truck being arranged to follow said inclined rail. The guide-rail, suitably guided'on the record-sheet carriage,'for its backward movement, is constantly urged backward by suitable means, such as a spring, and its position is determined by means of stops mounted preferably on the typewriter-carriage. Other stops, also mounted preferably on said carriage, determine the position of the bill-sheet truck crosswise of the carriage, so that the bill-sheet may be collated with different columns of the record-sheet, said bill-truck being constantly urged contrariwise of the columntabulating movement of said carriage by a spring. Still other stops determine the positions of the record-sheet carriage in accordance with the several record-sheet columns.

Only one key-mechanism is brought into use following the typing of an item in a space on the bill-sheet and in a corresponding column of. the record-sheet, to effect recollation of the sheets for the next item. The collating organization is so arranged that as an automatic result of such use of the one key-mechanism, the record-sheet carriage is released from the usual letter-feeding escapement, and then arrested by means of one of the aforesaid carriage-stops; furthermore, as an automatic result of such use of the one key-mechanism, the bill-truck stops are actuated to cause the bill-truck to move relatively to the record-sheet carriage and in a direction contrary to the tabulating movement of said can'iage, so that, in eflect, the bill-sheet-item column is not shifted from the typing zone. Incidentally to such relative shift of the bill-sheet truck and record-sheet carriage, the bill-sheet truck is moved upwardly to line-space the bill-sheet by reason of following said inclined rail.

A novel feature of organization resides in that as a result of the use of said one key-mechanism, the stops which control the position of the guiderail are also caused to be automatically actuated if, by such use of said one key-mechanism, a column of the record-sheet has been skipped, or if any otherwise-extended tabulation of the record-sheet has been effected. By such actuation of the guide-rail stops, the inclined guiderail drops back, so that, in effect, the bill-sheet is advanced only one line-space. Summarizing the foregoing, it may be stated that operation of said one key-mechanism not only effects tabulation of the record-sheet to a new column-position and recollation therewith of the bill-sheet, and also line-spacing of the bill-sheet; but also automatically 'eflects negativing of any skipspace producing excess in line-spacing movement of the bill-sheet resulting from said recollation. I

A further feature of invention resides in em- 5 the organization simplified by the use of such conventional tabulating mechanism, but the latter may be of denomination-selecting type to further conduce to expediting the operation of .recollating the bill and record-sheet, it being understood that, in said recollation, the billsheet column will not only be collated with the proper record-sheet column, but both columns will at the same time be positioned at the proper denomination for immediately starting the typing of the item.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear. g

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the novel organization for collating the bill and record-sheet, the figure showing a record-sheet carriage, the bill-sheet truck mounted on said carriage, and the novel means whereby the billsheet truck is line-spaced, and positioned transversely of the record-sheet carriage.

Figure 2 is a general top plan view, showing the relative disposition of parts of the sheetcollating organization.

Figure 3 is a diagram, illustrating the arrangement of the different kinds of stops to be used when it is desired not to operate a tabulating key repeatedly for column-skipping.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the carriage and bill-truck, taken on a plane passing through the bill-truck to bring out details of construction, and also illustrating how a bill-sheet is gaged and positioned in the billtruck.

Figure 5 is a perspective view similar to Figure 1, and illustrates the record-sheet carriage advanced relatively to the bill-truck and the inclined guide-rail in a backward position resulting from skipping a column on the record-sheet.

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional side elevation of the upper portion of the typewriter, the section being generally taken on a plane passing to the near side of the bill-truck.

Figures 7 and 8 are diagrams, indicating the items on the bill-sheet uniformly spaced in a vertical column, while the items as they appear on the record-sheet are not uniiormly spaced. Figure '1 shows the skipping of one column at a time between certain items; and Figure 8 shows the skipping of more than one column. The diagrams also indicate by graphs the negativing of excess line-spacing of the bill-sheet when 001- umns on the record-sheet are skipped.

Figure 9 is a perspective view, showing part of the means whereby the bill-sheet truck is guided for movement transversely of the record-sheet.

In the Underwood bookkeeping machine, Figure 2, to which the invention is applied, a typewriter lli is mounted on a computing base It, and has a letter-feeding carriage ll mounting a platen ll against which the usual singly operable type-bars, represented at ll, strike. Said platen I8 is Journaled in a frame 2|, supported for case-shift movement in a carriage-frame 2i, guided by front and rear tracks 22, 23 for letterfeed travel effected by means of a carriage-motor 24 and escapement-devices 25 controlled by .typekeys 25.

The carriage tracks 22, 23 are part of a machine-frame 23, which also has attack 29 upon which runs a carrier 30 mounting a series of totalizer-heads 3|. Said totalizer-carrier 30 is connected to the typewriter-carriage I! by means of arms 32 reaching forwardly from the latter. Computing wheels of the totalizer-heads 3| are driven in a well-known manner by means of a master wheel 34 of a digit-indexing mechanism 33, indicated in Figure 6, and operated by means of the type-keys 26.

A record-sheet 35 and bill-sheet 36 are introduced to the platen-carriage, preferably by rear insertion and front insertion respectively. To this end, the platen-frame 20 may include a rear apron 31 curving under the platen, as seen in Figure 6, to form with the latter a rear insertion course for the record-sheet 35. A second apron 38 of the platen-frame 20 curves under the platen and first apron 31 to form a front insertion course for the bill 35 and has a flared edge 39.

To facilitate front insertion of a bill-sheet past said edge 39, there is used a cross-blade 4i normally in the position seen in Figure 6, but swingable downwardly by means of pivoted arms 42 at the ends of the platen-frame 20, and on which the blade is mounted. The blade is spring pressed, as indicated, to follow a cam 43 mounted at the end of the platen-frame 20, so that said blade, when lowered, presents its lower edge to the flared edge 39 of the apron 38 for guiding the front inserted bill-sheet downwardly past said flared edge.

The aforesaid briefly described parts relating to the sheet-insertion courses are fully described in the copending application of William F. Helmond, Serial No. 570,845, filed October 24, 1931 (now Patent No. 1,994,647, dated March 19, 1935).

Bottom feed-rolls 45 are journaled in ears 45 of the apron 38 and bear on the recordsheet 35, but only at the side margins thereof, in order to clear the bill-sheet 36, which is to be shifted crosswise of the record-sheet. For facilitating front insertion of the bill-sheet, the bottom feed-rolls 45 and the curved part of the apron 38, the latter In order that the bill as may be guided for col lating shift, crosswise of the record-sheet 35, and be line-spaced incidentally to its crosswise shift, its upper portion is clamped, after the described front insertion of the bill, against an upstanding face of a truck 52 which runs upon a cross-rail 53 inclined as shown and mounted upon and above the platen-frame 20 in a novel manner which will presently be described. The lateral position of the bill on said truck-face is determined by means of a gage 41. By reason of the inclination of the cross-rail 53, aich extends lengthwise of the platen, a shift of the bill-sheet therealong, for collation with different columns of the record-sheet, causes the truck 52 to move transversely of the platen printing-line to thereby automatically effect the line-spacing of the bill 35.

For engaging a series of position-determining as indicated in Figure 1, to engage opposite sides of a forwardly-turned portion 58 of the plate 52 in which said slot is formed. Such connection permits the plate 52 and tongue each to move in the direction indicated, that is, the tongue 55 moves parallel to the row of stops 54, while at the same time the bill-carrying plate 52 moves along the inclined guide-rail 53.

The truck 52 has a pair of clamp-arms 59 for clamping the bill-sheet to the upstanding plate 52 and, in order that said clamp-arms 59 may be moved between a bill-clamping position, Figures 1 and G, and a bill-releasing position, Figure 4, they are fastened to a cross-rod 60, journaled at one end in the plate-portion 58, and at the other end in a similar plate-portion 5|. At said other end, said cross-rod 60 has fastened thereto an arm 62 which coacts with a manually-operable lever 63,

to enable the latter to move the clamp-arms 59 to i bill-clamping or bill-releasing position, said crossrod arm 62 and lever 63 also coacting, to detent I the clamp-arms in released position, as indicated in Figure 5. For running along the inclined guiderail 53, the plate 52 of the truck 52 has on its rear face flanged rollers 64 to engage opposite edges of the rail 53 and keep said plate on said rail.

As seen in Figure 1, the platen-frame 20 has end members which may be extended as by brackets 65 to support a cross-bar 6B, which, in turn, supports the inclined guide-rail 53 and also cooperis embodied, said g'uiderods guiding the tongue 55 lengthwise of and parallel to the row of stops 54. Said structure includes a block 12, to which the rods 10 may be fastened, and from which said rods extend in opposite directions in order that preferably the rods 10 slide in the bosses 68, between which said block moves, as will be evident from Figure 9.

For attaching a draw-spring '13 for urging the truck 52, which includes said structure H and its tongue 55, and the plate 52*, in rightward billcollating direction, there is fastened to one end of the pair of rods '10 a block I4, to which one end of the spring 'I3is attached, the other springend being anchored to the cross-bar 66, as shown in Figure 9. The spring 13, disposed as shown for compactness of the mechanism, passes through clearance openings in the bosses 68. The tongue 55 is secured to the block 12, and may be formed as indicated in the drawings to reach under and forwardly of the supporting cross-bar 66. A bar 01 rigidly connects the blocks 12 and 14' and c0- operates with the rods '10 to stiffen the structure 1|.

It will be evident that with the guide-rail 53 stationary, the movement of the bill-carrying plate 52 of the bill-truck 52, in line-spacing direction, will be proportionate to the shift of the truck lengthwise of the platen-carriage. That is, if the truck is shifted from one column of the record-sheet to an adjacent column, the

plate 52 will not be line-spaced as far as when said adjacent column is skipped for collating the bill-sheet with a column farther on along the record-sheet. It results, therefore, if the guiderail 53 is fixed, that the line-spacing on the billsheet will not be uniform when columns of the record-sheet are skipped, or when for any other reason the bill-sheet is collated with the recordsheet columns not uniformly spaced crosswise of the record-sheet.

For illustration, the record-sheet, as shown in Figure 1 and in the diagrams at Figures 7 and 8, is divided into seven columns, each column representing a different item, described by the legend at the head of the column. The bill-sheet is shown as having five item-spaces arranged one below another in a vertical column. Some of the item-columns of the record-sheet, as, for example, the City Tax and Rural Tax columns, of Figures 1 and 7, of the Suburban Tax and Rural Tax columns, of Figure 8, are not represented on the bill-sheet and are therefore skipped in the collating operations.

Referring now to the novel arrangement whereby uniform line-spacing of the items on the bill-sheet is attained, irrespective of the crosswise spacing of said items on 'the record-sheet, the inclined guide-rail 53 is mounted so that it may be shifted for causing retrogression of, or preventing, any skip-space-producing excess line-space movement of the bill-sheet truck 52. In order that the positions of the guide-rail 58 may be controlled by an arrangement of stops 15 similar and parallel to the stops 54, the shift of the inclined rail 53 is made to take place in a direction paralleling the platen, that is, the inclined guiderail 53 is mounted on the platen-paralleling cross-bar 68, so as to be shiftable lengthwise of the latter. To this end, the guide-rail 58 is formed as indicated in Figure 1 to include extensions I6 bearing fiatwise against the front face of the cross-bar 68, and having slots 11 which slidably fit headed studs 18 projecting forwardly from said cross-bar face. For engaging the stops 15, the inclined guide-rail 53 has a forwardly reaching tongue 18.

The stops 15 for the inclined guide-rail 58 and the stops 54 for the bill-truck 52 are in the form of arms, the guide-rail stop-arms 15 being spaced along and fastened to a rock-shaft 88, and the truck stop-arms 54 being spaced along and fastened to a rock-shaft 8|. Said rock-shafts are relatively disposed as indicated in Figures 1 and 6, and are journaled in brackets 82 supportedby a cross-member 83 which may span, and be, in turn, supported by, the arms 82 which reach forwardly from the carriage i! to drive the totalizer-carrier 80. Each rock-shaft 88 or 8| is operative to move the corresponding stops 15 or 58 out of and back into holding position for enabling the truck 52, urged by its spring 18, or the guiderail 58, urged by a spring 85, to shift from one to another of the corresponding stops. The guide-rail spring 85 may be anchored to the cross-bar 88.

The rock-shaft 88 for the guide-rail stop-arms 15 has fastened thereto, and interspaced with said stop-arms 15, other arms, namely, checkarms 88. Said check-arms 88 are so disposed relatively to the stop-arms 15 that, when said shaft is rocked counterclockwise of Figure 6, to raise the stops 15 out of holding position, that is, out of'thepath of the tongue 18, said checkarms 88 are interposed in the path of said tongue 19 to check the spring-urged shift of the guiderail 53 after the tongue 18 has passed the stop 75 previously engaged. It will be seen that said guide-rail 53, momentarily thus held by a checkarm 86, will be released from the latter when the rock-shaft 88 is restored by rotation clockwise of Figure 6. Upon such restoration of the rockshaft 80, the stops 15 will also be restored, so that the tongue 18 in the resulting movement of the guide-rail 53 will engage the next stop 15. The rock-shaft 88 is yieldably held in the normal angular position seen in Figure 6- by a spring 81 which pulls upon an arm 88 fastened to said rock-shaft 80, said normal position being determined as by a stop 89 of said arm 88 abutting the bracket 82, Figure 6. Since the stops 15 are normally in the path of the guide-rail tongue 18, the latter is provided with a spring-pressed bypass pawl 88, so as not to impede restoration of the shifted guide-rail. Said by-pass pawl may be arranged as indicated in Figures 1 and 2, to

swing about a pivot 8|, but to normally stop against an edge 18 of the tongue, whereby a stop-arm 15, or 88 is enabled to hold the guiderail 58 against the pull of the spring 85. When returning the guide-rail 58 to its normal Figural position, the pawl 80 swings idly about the pivot 8| while passing a stop-arm 15,

For engaging its row of stops 58, the tongue 55 of the bill-truck 52 is also provided with a by-pass pawl 82, so that said steps 58 may not impede return of the shifted truck. The truckcontrolling rock-shaft 8| also has check-arms 84 interspaced with its stop-arms 54, and it will be evident that the operation and relative arrangement of said rock-shaft 8|, its arms 58 and 98, and of the pawl 82, are similar to the operation of the described similar parts for the guiderall 58. The rock-shaft 8| is yieldably held in normal position by a spring 88, said normal position being determined by abutment of an arm 85 of said shaft against a stop 85'.

Each stop-arm 54 and 15 has its tongue-engaging stop-surface extended in the direction of platen case-shift movement, as indicated in Figure 1, so that, when the platen is in upper-case position, said stop-arms will still be effective to hold the truck 52 and guide-rail 58.

It is provided that the recollation of the bill and recordsheets between the typings of items may be effected by the operation of only one key-mechanism, and that said key-mechanism may be the conventional tabulating key or keys of the typewriter i5, and that, furthermore, to expedite the recollating operations, a denominational tabulating mechanism is used. Referring to Figure 2, 88 represents the usual Underwood denominational tabulating keys, which are mounted upon the usual tabulating-key levers not shown, but which extend rearwardly to elevate the usual denominational stop-blades 81 into the path of column-stops 88, settable along a rack 88 carried by the typewriter-carriage l'l. At the operation of any tabulating key 88, the carriage will be released from the escapementdevices 25 when a corresponding stop-blade 81 is elevated, whereupon the carriage will ad- -vance under the pull of the carriage-motor 18 until arrested by means of the elevated stopblade 81 anda column-stop 88. The denominational tabulating mechanism thus serves between the typings of the items to advance the appropriate item-columns of the record-sheet 35 to the printing-point.

- In order that the same operation of the de- 5 nominational tabulating keys 96 that brings a new record-sheet column to the printing-zone may effect the necessary recollation of the single vertical column of the bill-sheet 36 with the new record-sheet column which has been advanced to 10 the printing-point, the tabulating movement of the carriage I I resulting from said tabulatingkey operation is utilized to automatically actuate the bill-truck position-controllingrock-shaft 6|. Said rock-shaft 8| has accordingly fastened l5 thereto a set of forwardly-extending tappet-arms I arranged so as to pass and be displaced by a fixed non-traveling cam, preferably a cam-roll IOI. In order that said cam-roll I00 may be effective in the advance of the carriage II in tabulating direction, but be diverted by the tappet-arms I00, so as not to actuate the latter 'in the return movement of the carriage, said cam-roll IOI may be mounted upon a pawl I02.

Said cam-roll pawl I02 is pivoted at I03 upon 25 a bracket I04, fastened to the non-traveling track 29 for the totalizen-carrier 30. A stop I02 of said pawl abutting said bracket I04 holds the pawl I02 so that the cam-roll IOI may be effective for rocking the shaft 8| by the advance 30 of the carriage in tabulating direction. In the return movement of the carriage, the pawl I02 will be idly diverted by thetappet-arms I00, swinging about its pivot against the pull of a pawl-spring I05 which serves to restore the 8.5 diverted pawl to the normal Figure 2 position.

It has been explained. that the line-spacing movement of the bill-sheet 36 isproportionate to the rightward shift of the bill-truck 52, by reason of the inclination of the guide-rail 53.

in If the bill-truck stops 54 are uniformly spaced,

as in accordance with uniformly-spaced recordsheet columns, and, furthermore, if, at each tabulation of the carriage II, the rock-shaft 8| is actuated by means of the cam-roll IOI to bring 45 successive ones of said truck-stops 54 into use,

then the items on the bill-sheet will be uniformly line-spaced, assuming that, following each tabulating-key operation, an item is typed.

Should the record-sheet, however, have columns for an item which is not to be entered on the bill-sheet, as, for example, the City Tax column of Figure 7, then, following the typing of the State Tax" item, a tabulating key 96 is operated to first tabulate the carriage I I to advance the City Tax record-sheet column to the printing zone, and then the appropriate denominational key is operated to bring the Suburban Tax record-sheet column to the printingzone. It will be obvious that, if the inclined Gil guide-rail 53 remains stationary during the described two operations of the tabulating keys 96 between the typings of the City Tax and the Suburban Tax, the bill-sheet 36 will have been advanced in line-spacing direction an extra-line- (55 ,space. That is, the spacing between the State Tax and Suburban Tax items on the billsheet will be greater than the spacing between the Flat Water (the first item typed) and "state Tax items.

7 In order to effect uniform line-spacing of the bill-sheet items when a record-sheet column is skipped, the guide-rail 53 is caused to be shifted by actuating its position-controlling rock-shaft 80 whenever a column on the record-sheet is 75 skipped in the tabulating operations. For this purpose, the carriage-movement resulting from said tabulating operations is utilized to actuate the guide-rail-controlling rock-shaft 80 which has accordingly fastened thereto a suitable number of tappet-arms I06, one for each shift of the guide-rail 53 required during the typing of a bill-sheet 36 and a corresponding line on the record-sheet 35. Said tappet-arms I06 may be arranged as indicated in Figures 1 and 6, so that they may be operated by the same cam-roll IOI that operates the tappet-arms I00 of the truckcontrolling rock-shaft 8|.

Assuming that, between the typings of successive items, a column of the record-sheet has been skipped, the tappet-arm I06, provided and suitably located on the rock-shaft 80 for this contingency, will, during the tabulating advance of the carriage occurring between the typings of said two items, have been actuated by the camroll IOI, thereby causing the guide-rail stops 15 to be raised and lowered again, and in consequence the guide-rail 53, urged by its spring 85, will move rightwardly from one stop 15 to another stop I5, it being understood that, following the escape of the guide-rail ensuing upon the raising of said stops "I5, the guide-rail shift is momentarily checked before its completion by the raised check-arm 86 until the stops I5 are lowered again. By reason of such rightward shift of the guide-rail 53 from one to a succeeding one of the stops I5, during column-skipping, the net result of the movement of the bill-carrying plate 52 in line-spacing direction, relative to said guide-rail 53, will be as though the billtruck 52 was only shifted from one record-sheet column to an immediately adjacent column, and therefore no skip-space will appear in the linespacing of. the bill-sheet items.

It will be understood that the truck-controlling stops 54, the guide-rail-controlling stops I5, and the tabulating column-stops 98 may be arranged in different ways in accordance with the arrangement of the record and bill sheets. For example, Figures 1, 2 and 5 show an arrangement of stops whereby, in order to make said arrangement universal for any bill-sheet and record-sheet arrangement, there is provided a column-stop 90 for each record-sheet column, and there is also provided for each record-sheet column a stop 54, wherefore skipping of a record-sheet column entails repeated operation of the tabulating keys 96. According to such universal arrangement such number of guide-rail stops I5 may be provided as will effect one stage of guide-rail shift for each record-sheet column that is to be skipped in the typing of a bill.

It will be understood, however, that the arrangement of the stops with respect to their number and disposition, as shown in Figures 1,

2 and 5, may be modified. Thus, for example, as indicated in Figure 3, and considering the items of the bill-sheet and their disposition on the record-sheet as seen in the diagram at Figure 7, the column-stops 98 (those indicated by the dotted lines) may be omitted for the City Tax and Rural Tax columns. Corresponding ones of the truck-shift controlling stops 54 may also be left out, the omitted stops 54 being indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 3. Still referring to the diagram at Figure 7, it will be noted that two stages of guide-rail shift are required since, between the skipped City Tax and Rural Tax columns, there is the Suburban Tax column, in which, and in a corresponding space on the bill-sheet, an' item is typed. Three guide-rail stops 15, and two tappet-arms I06, determining said two stages, are therefore indicated in the Figure 3 diagram. For clearness, the check-arms 96 and 94 associated respectively with the stops 15 and 54 are not shown in the Figure 3 diagram.

Figure 8 exemplifies a form of bill and recordsheet wherein two record-sheet columns, namely, Suburban Tax and Rural Tax, are skipped in the tabulating operation occurring between the typings of the City Tax and Paving Tax. If, for the skipping of said two record-sheet columns, corresponding column-stops 96 and truckstops 54 are omitted in an arrangement similar to that illustrated in the diagram at Figure 3, there will be only one stage of column-skipping, and therefore there need be only one stage of shifting the guide-rail 53, and hence only two guiderail stops I5 and one tappet I06 for determining said one stage of guide-rail shift will be needed.

The several stop-arms 54, 15, the check-arms 94, 86, and the tappet-arms I00, I06 may be releasably secured to the shafts 00, 9|, as by setscrews H9 and I20, Figure 6. It will be evident that omission of the use of any one of these arms may be effected by swinging the same to ineffective position, so as to clear the tongues 55 and 19 of the bill-sheet truck and guide-rail, respectively. From the foregoing, it will be evident that the invention is not limited to the arrangements of the several stop-arms shown.

It may be noted, since the truck-stops 54 or 15 are, during the recollating operations, only mementarily out of effective position, the same being restored as soon as a tappet-arm I00 or I06 passes the cam-roll IOI, that, in some cases, the check-arms 86 and 94 may be omitted, as, for example, where the spacing between successive stops 54 or 15 is of such extent that said stops will have ample time to return before the truck 52 or guide-rail 53 reaches the stop 54 or 15 following the one from which it was released.

For returning the bill-truck 52 to its normal position relative to the typewriter-carriage I! after the typing of a bill, a handle or finger-piece II! is provided, and may be attached, as indicated in Figure 9, to the bar 61 of the tonguestructure ll of said truck 52. Said finger-piece II 1 also serves to return the guide-rail 53 to its normal position with the same stroke of the hand that returns the truck 52, and for this purpose the plate 52 of said truck may have a projection II4, Figure 1, which engages an edge 53 of the guide-rail 53, and thereby moves the latter along back to normal position when the truck 52 is fully returned.

The totalizer-heads 3I, one for each kind of item, are used for footing the items of the individual record-sheet columns. Each item in the last record-sheet column represents the total of a bill, and said total is computed in a crosstotalizer I01 afforded by the computing base I6 and operated in conjunction with the operation of the totalizer-heads iii in the manner set forth in the co-pending application of Thieme, Serial No. 680,036, filed July 12, 1933. Briefly described, therefore, as an item is typed and entered one figure at a time in the corresponding totalizerhead 3I, indexing-devices for the totalizer I 01 are set up in the computing base I6 by means of the numeral-keys 26 and denomination-selecting trains represented by jacks I09, Figure 6. Said jacks are operable seriatim by computing-zone tappets IIO, one for each item, on the carriage I'I. As the carriage advances a letter-feeding step after typingthe last figure of an item in a computing zone, the column-stop 96 for said zone may actuate a train III, diagrammatically indicated in Figure 6, to trip cycling mechanism not shown but represented by said train I I I. By the tripping of such cycling mechanism, the amount indexed by the numeral-keys 26 is caused to be run into the cross-totalizer I01. The last or Total Tax item on the bill-sheet and on the record-sheet is copied from the cross-totalizer I 01, and, preparatory to such copying, the mechanism in the computing base is automatically set for subtraction by means of a cam I I2 on the last column-stop 90, said cam operating a train H3 to set the computing base I6 for subtraction in the manner set forth in Minton Patent No. 1,280,065, which also shows the denominationselecting trains. By reason of said subtractionsetting, the cross-totalizer I01 will be cleared for the next bill when the computing base I6 is cycled following the copying of the Total Tax item.

The typewriter-carriage I! has the usual linespacing mechanism II5 including a. carriage-returning and line-spacing handle H6.

The operation of the machine will be readily understood from the foregoing description, and may therefore be summarized as follows.

Referring to Figure '7, it is indicated by the four transverse lines of items that four bills have already been typed, and the like items have been entered in the appropriate record-sheet columns, and that the typing of the first item, Flat Water", for the fifth bill is just about to be completed. Following the typing of said first item, the computing base I6 is cycled, as explained, and the appropriate denominational tabulating key 96 is operated to advance the carriage I! to bring the "State Tax column of the record-sheet, for which there is a column-stop 98, to the printing and computing zone. By such tabulating movement of the carriage H the billtruck 52 may be temporarily carried along to an extent depending on the relative positions of the first tappet-arm I00 and roller IN. The first tappet-arm I00 is so disposed on the rock-shaft 8| that the latter is caused to be rocked first in one direction to raise the stop-arms 54 and check-arms 94 as said tappet-arm passes under the cam-roll IOI and then is rocked in the opposite direction under the pull of the shaft-spring 93 to restore said arms 54, 94 as said tappet-arm I00 passes beyond said cam-roll IOI before said tabulating movement is completed, thereby'causing the bill-truck 52 to move rightward under the pull of its spring 13 to the position determined by the next truck-stop 54. By said rightward movement of the bill-truck 52 relative to the carriage I1, the single bill-sheet item-column is recollated with the State Tax column of the record-sheet, and incidentally the bill-sheetcarrying plate 52 is moved in line-spacing direction, by reason of the inclination of the guiderail 53 along which said plate 52' runs in said rightward movement of the truck. The recollating and line-space shift of the State Tax" space of the bill-sheet to the State Tax column thus effected is indicated in Figure 7 by the graph III.

It will be understood that, during the typing of each item, the bill-truck 52 moves in letterfeeding unison with the carriage IT, by reason of the coupling effected by means of the trucktongue 55 and whichever stop 54 said tongue abuts.

The State Tax" space in the single column of the bill-sheet having been collated with the Iii I g 2,107,398 State Tax column of the record-sheet, the

State Tax item is now typed, the computing base I6 being again cycled for entering the State Tax in the cross-totalizer I01. Since the "City Tax" is not represented on the bill-sheet 36, the Clty'Tax column of the record-sheet is to be skipped in the tabulating operation following'the typing of the State Tax. For skipping the record-sheet City Tax" column, any one of the tabulating keys 06 may be operated. In the resulting tabulating movement of I the carri'age H, the second tappet-arm I of Figure 2 will pass underneath the cam-roll, IOI, thereby causing the bill-truck 52 to move from the second bill-truck stop 54 of Figure 2 to"the third billtruck stop 54. The proper denominational key 00 is now operated to bring the Suburban Tax" column of the record-sheet to the printing-zone, and, during the resulting tabulating movement of the carriage, the third tappet-arm I00 of Figure 2 will pass under the roll IOI, hereby causing a shift of the bill-truck 02 to the fourth truck-stop 54 of Figure 2. The single bill-sheet column will thus have been collated with the Suburban Tax" column of the record-sheet.

Incidentally to the described repeated operations of the tabulating keys 96 resulting in shifting said single bill-sheet column, first ,to the City Tax column of the record-sheet, and then to the Suburban Tax column of the recordsheet, the guide-rail 53 will have been shifted, and, to this end, a guide-rail-shift-contro1ling tappet-arm I06 is disposed so as to pass under and be rocked by the cam-roll IOI, either during the shift from the State Tax to the City Tax" column, or during the shift from the City Tax column to the Suburban Tax column. As indicated in Figure 2, the tappet-arm I06 is disposed adjacent to the second tappet-arm I00 which controls the truckshift, so that the guiderail shift takes place during the shift of the truck from the "State Tax to the City Tax column. By the shifting of the guide-rail 53 rightward relative to the carriage H, the skipspace producing excess of line-space movement incident to the skipping of the City Tax column is negatived, as is indicated by the break I2I in the graph I22 of Figure 'I, said graph indicating the collation of the Suburban Tax space on the bill-sheet with the Suburban Tax column on the record-sheet. The graph I22 also includes, as will be readily noted,a portion corresponding to the previous graph I I8. In the described shift of the guide-rail 53 attending the skipping of the City Tax column of the recordsheet, said guide-rail will move from the first stop I5 to the second step I5 of Figure 2, it being obvious that the operation of the guide-rail rockshaft 80 and its arms I5, 85, by means of the tappet-arm I06, will be similar to the described operation of the rock-shaft BI.

The Suburban Tax is now typed, and, following this, there is a repeated operation of the tabulating keys 96 to bring the Paving Tax space of the bill-sheet to the Paving Tax column of the record-sheet, the repetition of said tabulating-key operation being necessary toskip the Rural Tax column (for which there is no space on the bill-sheet). During said repeated tabulation, the guide-rail 53 .is again shifted by means of the second tappet-arm I00, Figure 2, to negative the skip-space producing excess of line-space movement oithe bill-sheet resulting from skipping the Rural Tax column. The guide-rail, by such shift, comes in contact with the third guide-railstop I5, and the truck 52 will of course have been advanced to the sixth truckstop 54 of Figure 2 by the repeatedtabulatingkey operation. The collation of the Paving Tax bill-sheet spaced with the record-sheet Paving Tax" column is indicated by the graph I23 which includes a break I24 to represent the shift of the guide-rail attending the skipping of the ,Rural Tax column, it being understood that the graph I23 includes the previous graphs 8, I22. Similarly the bottom graph I25 includes the previous graphs and also the portion indicating the collation of the Total Tax bill-sheet space with the Total Tax record-sheet column.

, For the Total Tax collation, the appropriate tabulating key 05 will be operated, thereby causing the last tappet-arm I00 to pass under the roll MI and resulting in the truck 52 escaping to the last column-stop 54. The Total Tax is now copied on the

sheets

35, 36 from the crosstotalizer I 01 and incidentally entered into a corresponding vertical totalizer-head 3i, it being understood that each record-sheet column in which an item is typedis represented by a totalizer-head 3|. Following the typing of the Total Tax" item, the computing base is subtractively cycled as already explained, thereby causing the cross-totalizer I01 to be cleared, A proof-key I26 may be operated to print a clear sign verifying the correct transcription of the total shown by the cross-totalizer I01.

, In the diagram at Figure 7, the lines I2'I represent the addition of the items of a bill byfihe cross-totalizer I01, the .last line I21 representing the subtraction of the Total Tax item from said cross-totalizer I01.

The typewriter-carriage I1 is now returned, and incidentally to such return, by means of the line-space handle H6, the record-sheet 35 will be line-spaced for a. new bill 30. The typed bill is removed from the bill-truck 02, and, before the new bill is inserted, the bill-truck resting against the last stop 54 is returned to its normal position relative to the carriage H by means of the handle III, in order to bring the bill-receiving plate 52 in proper relation to the bill-gage 5|. Incidentally to such return of the bill-truck, the guide-- rai1'53 will also be returned to its normal position, determined by'the first stop I5.

From the foregoing, it will be evident that the operation of the machine for producing a bill and record-sheet having the forms represented in the diagram at Figure 8, will be effected similarly to the operation just described with reference to the sheet-forms of Figure 7, it being noted, however, that the guide-rail-controlling tappet-arms I06 will be positioned on the rock-shaft 80 in such wise as to cause the guide-rail 53 to be shifted When the Suburban Tax" and the Rural Tax record-sheet columns, Figure 8, are skipped. The graphs I28 in Figure 8 represent the bill-sheet collating movements of the truck-plate 52 it being noted that the two lower graphs I28 include portions I28 representing each a line-space-modifying shift of the guide-rail 53, the shift of the bill-sheet from the City Tax record-sheet column to the Paving Tax column being effected in two stages by repeated operation of the tabulating keys 9B.

As already explained, Figure 3 represents an arrangement of stop-arms designed to avoid repetition of operating the tabulating keys 96 when a column is to be skipped, and it willbe understood that operation of the machine with reference to a stop-arrangement such as shown in Figure 3 is, aside from avoiding repetition oi tabulating-key operation, similar to the operation of the machine described with reference to Figure '1. The by-pass pawls 80 and 92 may each be provided with an anti-friction roller I" for contacting the stops l5 and 54 to ease the operation of the shafts 80, 8| by means of the movement of the typewriter-carriage i I.

For preventing springing of the left end of the tongue-structure ll of the truck 52 when the operator's hand is applied to the handle Ill for returning the truck, said handle may carry a roller ill which bears on the top of the cross-bar 86 and also bears against an edge of a strip or ridge I32 of the cross-bar 66, see Figures 1 and 4.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a machine, having types, for typewritingmanifolding a bill-sheet with a record-sheet, the combination of a carriage for the record-sheet, a truck for the bill-sheet, said carriage and truck mounted for letter-feeding movement in unison, and also for movement relative to one another and to the types, so that items typed, one under another, in a single column of the bill-sheetare at the same time manifolded alongside one another in different columns on the record-sheet, a single set of denominational tabulating keys, and means whereby, at the operation of any tabulating key, following the printing of an item on' the bill-sheet and in a column of the record-sheet, said record-sheet carriage is tabulated to bring a corresponding denomination of a succeeding record-sheet column to the printing-point, and whereby, as a result of said tabulating-key opera tion, the bill-truck is automatically positioned relatively to the record-sheet carriage to bring the same denomination in the bill-sheet column to said printing-point.

2. In a machine, having types, for typewritingmanifolding a bill-sheet with a record-sheet, the combination of a letter-feeding carriage for the record-sheet, a truck for the bill-sheet, means for effecting coupling of the truck to said carriage in different positions relative to the latter, so that items typed one below the other in a single column of the bill-sheet are at the same time manifolded alongside one another in different columns on the record-sheet, a single set of denominational tabulating keys, and means whereby, at the operation of any tabulating key, following the printing of an item on the bill-sheet and in a column of the record-sheet, said record-sheet carriage is tabulated to bring a corresponding denomination of a succeeding record-sheet column to the printing-point, and whereby, as a result of said tabulating-key operation, said coupling means are automatically actuated to reposition the truck relative to the record-sheet carriage, to bring the same denomination in the bill-sheet column to said printing-point, means being provided to automatically effect line-spacing of the billsheet;

3. In a machine, having types, for typewritingmanifolding a bill-sheet with a record-sheet, the combination of a letter-feeding carriage for the record-sheet, a truck for the bill-sheet, means for effecting coupling of the truck to said carriage in different laterally and vertically spaced relations to the carriage so that items will be typed one below the other in a single column of the bill-sheet, and will at the same time be manifolded alongside one another in different columns on the recordsheet, a single set of denominational tabulating keys, and means, whereby, at the operation of said tabulating key following the printing of an item on the billssheet and in a column on the record-sheet, said record-sheet carriage is tabulated to bring a corresponding denomination of a succeeding record-sheet column to the printingzone, and whereby, as a result of said tabulatingkey operation, said coupling means are automatically actuated to reposition the truck relative to the record-sheet carriage, to bring the same denomination in the bill-sheet column to said printing zone and to change the vertically-spaced relation of the truck and carriage to effect line-spacing of the bill-sheet.

4. In a typing machine, the combination of a tabulating carriage for a record-sheet upon which diiferent items" are typed in corresponding vertical columns, a truck constantly urged to move lengthwise oi said carriage in a direction opposite to the tabulating movement of the latter, and arranged to present a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the recordsheet, the items. being typed on said second sheet one below the other in a single column, a series of stops for restraining the truck and determining, by means of one or another thereof, the position of the truck relative to said carriage, said truck and carriage being coupled by means of said stops to advance in unison for letter-feeding, and tappet-means whereby the carriage, by its movement to tabulate successive columns of the record-sheet to the print ing-zone, automatically causes said truck to be repositioned, at each column, relatively to said carriage by means of said stops, whereby, as each column of the record-sheet is tabulated to the printing-zone, the single column of the second worksheet is automatically collated with said each record-sheet column.

'5. A machine, having types, for typewritlngmanifolding a. bill-sheet and a record-sheet, including a carriage for presenting the record-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting the bill-sheet in manifolding relation to the record-sheet and types, said bill-sheet truck being shiftable lengthwise of the carriage to collate a single column of the bill-sheet in which items are entered one below the another with a multiplicity of item-classifying columns spaced transversely of the recordsheet, and means whereby the movements of the truck for shifting same lengthwise of the carriage to collate the single bill-column with different record-sheet columns automatically eifects linespacing of the bill-sheet, said line-space-eil'ecting means being arranged so that the items on the bill-sheet are uniformly line-spaced irrespective of uniformity or non-uniformity of the spacing of,

the record-sheet columns in which said items are entered.

6. A machine, having types, for typewritingmanifolding a bill-sheet and a record-sheet, including a carriage for presenting the recordsheet to the types, a truck for presenting the billsheet in manifolding relation to the record-sheet and types, said bill-sheet truck being shiftable lengthwise of the carriage to different stop-positions to collate a single column of the bill-sheet in which items are typed one below the other with a multiplicity of different item-classifying columns of the record-sheet, and means whereby, at each shift of the bill-truck from one stop-position to another, the bill is line-spaced, the billtruck being repeatedly shiftable to skip a recordsheet column, said line-space means being arranged so that, when a column is skipped, the

one below the other, in manifolding relation to said record-sheet, said truck being movable lengthwise of the carriage for locating the billtruck at different positions, corresponding to the unequally-spaced record-sheet columns, lengthwise of the carriage, and means whereby the movements of the truck in its shifts to successive unequally-spaced positions automatically causes the bill to be uniformly line-spaced.

8. In a typing machine, the combination with the types, of a tabulating carriage arranged to present to the types a record-sheet having a multiplicity of item-classifying columns spaced different distances apart crosswise of the recordsheet, a truck for presenting a bill-sheet, having a single item-column in which items are typed one below the other, in manifolding relation to said record-sheet, said truck 'being movable lengthwise'of the carriage for locating the billtruck at different positions, corresponding to the unequally-spaced record-sheet columns, lengthwise of the carriage, a camming device automatically effective, in the shifts of the truck to successive positions relative to the carriage, to cam the truck in line-spacing direction, said camming device arranged to cam the truck in uniform ratio to its shift lengthwise of the carriage, in order to providefor line-spacing the truck uniformly, as for equally-spaced record-sheet columns, and means whereby, in tabulating the carriage with reference to two successive recordsheet columns whose spacing varies from the equally-spaced columns, said camming device is automatically shifted to maintain said uniformity of the line-spacing.

9. In a typing machine having types, the combination of a paper-carriage for presenting a work-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the first work-sheet, means including an inclined guide-rail operative for guiding said truck for movement relative to said carriage whereby an item-column of the work-sheet on said truck may, by shifts of the truck relative to said carriage, be collated at different item-columns spaced crosswise of the first work-sheet, and may also be line-spaced incidentally to said shifts, and means for effecting a displacement in said truck-guiding means with reference to said inclined guide-rail, whereby unequal shifts of the truck for collating its work-sheet with unequally-spaced columns of the first work-sheet will nevertheless effect equal displacements of the truck in line-spacing directions.

10. In a typing machine having types, the combination of a paper-carriage for presenting a work-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the first work-sheet, a. guide-rail inclined relatively to the printing-line of the first work-sheet, and along which said truck runs in shifts effected for collating an item-column of'the workequal spacing of the columns of the first work sheet, and means operative for displacing said guide-rail in accordance with the inequality in the collating shifts of said truck, thereby to effect uniform line-spacing of the work-sheet on said truck.

11. In ,a typing machine having types, the

combination of .a paper-carriage for presenting a work-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the first workisheet, means for guiding said truck for movement relative to said carriage, whereby an item-column of the work-sheet on said truck may, by shifts of the truck relative to said carriage, be collated with different item-columns spaced crosswise of the first work-sheet, and may also be line-spaced. incidentally to said shifts, and means including stops for effecting displacement, gaged by said stops,- of said truckguiding means, whereby unequal shifts of the truck for collating its work-sheet with unequally-spaced columns of the first work-sheet will nevertheless effect equal displacements of the truck in line-spacing direction.

12. In a typingimachine having types,the combination of a paper-carriage for presenting a work-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting h a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the first work-sheet, means for guiding said truck for movement relative to said carriage, whereby an item-column of the work-sheet on said truck may, by shifts of the truck relative to said carriage, be collated with different item-columns spaced crosswise of the first work-sheet, and may also be line-spaced incidentally to said shifts, andomeans including stops for effecting displacement, gaged by said stops, of said truckguiding means, whereby unequal shifts of the truck for collating its work-sheet with unequallyspaced columns of the first work-sheet will nevertheless effect equal displacements of the truck in line-spacing direction, said last-mentioned means being arranged so as to be automatically operated at predetermined points in the travel of said carriage.

13. In a typing machine having types, the combination of a paper-carriage for presenting a work-sheet to the types, a truck for presenting a second work-sheet in manifolding relation to the first work-sheet, a member mounted on said carriage and co-operative with a part on said truck for guiding said truck for oblique movement relative to said carriage, whereby an itemcolumn of the work-sheet on said truck may, by shifts of the truck relative to said carriage,

be collated at different item-columns spaced crosswise of the first work-sheet, and may also be line-spaced incidentally to said shifts, means constantly urging displacement of said guidemember relative to said carriage, and stop-means normally restraining said member and operable to effect and gage said displacement, whereby unequal shifts of the truck for collating its workthe first work-sheet, a member mounted on said carriage and co-operative with apart on said truck for guiding said truck for oblique movement relative to said carriage, whereby an itemcolumn of the work-sheet on said truck may, by shifts of the truck relative to said carriage, be collated at different item-columns spaced crosswise of the first work-sheet, and may also be line-spaced incidentally to said shifts, means constantly urging displacement of said guidemember relative to said carriage, stop-means normally restraining said member and operable to effect and gage said displacement, and a tappet-device whereby the carriage at a predeter-- mined point in its travel operates said stop-means to effect a displacement of said guide-member, whereby unequal shifts of the truck for collating its work-sheet with unequally-spaced columns of the first work-sheet will nevertheless effect equal movements of the truck in line-spacing direction.

15. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a carriage for presenting to the types a record-sheet having a plurality of item-classifying columns, a truck for presenting a bill-sheet in manifolding relation to the record-sheet, said truck shiftable relatively to the carriage for collating a bill-sheet column, in which diflerent items are typed one below another, with corresponding record-sheet columns, means tending to line-space the bill-sheet in proportion to the shift of the truck lengthwise of the carriage, whereby, for entries of items in uniformly-spaced record-sheet columns, the corresponding items on the bill-sheet are uniformly line-spaced, and means operable to act on said line-spacing means to modify the line-spacing when, between the typings of successive items, the truck is shifted lengthwise of the carriage for entry of said successive items in record-sheet columns that are difierently spaced, whereby the items are uniformly line-spaced on the bill-sheet irrespective of the spacing of corresponding record-sheet columns.

16. A machine constructed according to claim 15, and including a tabulating mechanism for said carriage, whereby, following the typing of an item in one record-sheet column, the carriage is tabulated to bring a new record-sheet column to the types, and means automatically brought into use at the operation of said tabulating mechanism to cause the bill-sheet truck to be correspondingly shifted, and also to cause said linespace-modifying means to be operated to act on said line-spacing means if the carriage and truckshifts resulting from said tabulating-mechanism operation are made with reference to said differently-spaced record-sheet columns.

'17. In a typing machine, the combination with a. platen for presenting a record-sheet to the types, of a truck, for presenting a bill-sheet in manifolding relation to the record-sheet, a member engaging a. part of said truck for guiding said truck for shifts relative to the platen in a direction oblique to the printing-line, said shifts effective to collate a bill-sheet column in which items are typed one below another with different item-classifying columns of the record-sheet, said oblique direction of the truck-shifts being eifectiveto also line-space the bill-sheet proportionately to the movement of the truck from column to column of the record-sheet, and means operable incidentally to any shift of the truck to' effect a bodily relocation of said guiding member relative to said platen, whereby the line-spacing aromas v of the items of the bill-sheet is rendered comparatively dissentaneous with the spacing of the record-sheet columns.

18. In a typing machine, the combination with a platen for presenting a record-sheet to the types, of a truck for presenting a bill-sheet in manifolding relation to the record-sheet, a member engaging a part of said truck for guiding said truck for shifts relative to the platen in a direction oblique to the printing-line, said shifts effective to collate a bill-sheet column in which items are typed one below another with different itemdassifying columns of the record-sheet, said oblique direction of the truck-shifts being effective to also line-space the bill-sheet proportionately to the movement of the truck from column to column of the record-sheet, key-operated tabulating mechanism operable, preparatory to the typing of an item in the bill-sheet column and in the corresponding record-sheet column, to effect the tabulation of said record-sheet column with the types, and to correspondingly effect a shift of the truck to collate the bill-sheet with said record-sheet column, and means operable incidentally to any tabulating operation to effect a bodily relocation of said guiding member relative to said platen, whereby the line-spacing of the items on the bill-sheet is rendered comparatively dissentaneous. with the spacing of th record-sheet columns.

a 19. A machine constructed according to claim 18, including means whereby said guide-memberrelocating means are automatically operated at the tabulating operation executed preparatory to typing a certain one of the items.

20. The combination of a carriage for a multiple-column record-sheet, a bill-sheet carrier repeatedly shiftable laterally of said carriage to collate a single column of the bill-sheet with successive record-sheet columns, a cam-connection, between said carriage and carrier, normally effective to line-space the bill-sheet in proportion to each lateral shift of said carrier relatively' to said record-sheet, whereby even lateral shifts of the bill-carrier result in even line-spacing of the bill-sheet, means operable to substantially disable said cam-connection for a portion of an extended shift, such as a column-skipping shift, of the bill-carrier, to preserve the even line-spacing, and means settable to predeterrnine automatic operation of said disabling means at and only for an eirtended shift of the bill-carrier.

21. The combination of a record-sheet carriage, a bill-sheet carrier repeatedly shiftable laterally relatively to said carriage for collating a single column of a bill-sheet successively with a multiplicity of columns of the record-sheet, and

means operating automatically at successive lateral shifts of the bill-carrier relatively to the carriage to uniformly line-space the bill, said line-spacing means being arranged to automatically maintain the uniform line-spacing for column-skipping shifts as 'well as for shifts eflected relatively to adjacent record-sheet columns.

22. The combination of a record-sheet carriage, a bill-sheet carrier repeatedly shiftable laterally relatively to said carriage for collating a single column of a bill-sheet successively with a multiplicity of columns of the record-sheet, said bill-carrier being also shiftable for linespacing, a device on the carriage, extending in the direction of bill-carrier shifts, and means on the bill-carrier interacting with said device so that the lateral collating shifts of the bill-carrier relatively to the carriage produce line-spacing shifts of said billcarrier, and means for displacing said device, relatively to the means interacting therewith, for limiting the line-space shift at an extended lateral shift of the carrier, as for column-skipping, whereby uniform linespacing results irrespective of whether or not the several bill-carrier lateral shifts include a column-skipping shift, said device and the therewith interacting means remaining efiective, after their relative displacement, for continuing the' uniform line-spacing.

23. The invention as set forth in claim 22 inclusive of means operative to concomitantly return the bill-carrier to an initial position relatively to the carriage, and relatively restore said device and the therewith interacting means if displaced as aforesaid.

24. The combination of a tabulating carriage for a multiple-column record-sheet, a bill-sheet can'ier repeatedly shiftable laterally relatively to the carriage, at the tabulating advances of the latter for successive record-sheet columns, to collate the bill-sheet with said columns, an inclined track on the carriage effective, at each lateral shift of the bill-carrier relatively to the carriage, to shift said bill-carrier in line-spacing direction, means operable for displacing said track relatively to the carriage, whereby, if a carriage advance is for column-skipping, the line-spacing for said column-skipping advance is negatived, thereby to provide for uniform line-spacing of the bill-sheet, and means cooperative with the carriage at a column-skipping advance of said carriage to automatically operate said track-displacing means.

' JESSE A. B. SMITH.