US2149499A

US2149499A - Record receiving device

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Publication number: US2149499A
Application number: US424101A
Authority: US
Inventors: Bottle Edward Kirby
Original assignee: AMERICAN SALES BOOK CO Inc
Current assignee: AMERICAN SALES BOOK CO Inc; AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY Inc
Priority date: 1930-01-28
Filing date: 1930-01-28
Publication date: 1939-03-07
Anticipated expiration: 1956-03-07

Description

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\ E. K. BQTTLE RECORD RECEIVING DEVICE Filed Jan. 28. 1950 A TTORNEYS.

Patented -Ma r. 7, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RECORD RECEIVING DEVICE Edward Kirby Bottle, Elmira, N. Y., assignor, by mesne assignments, to American Sales Book Company, Inc., a corporation of Delaware Application January 28, 1930, Serial No. 424,101

2 Claims; (01. 282-12) This invention relates to improvements in record assemblies of the type employing long continuous record and transfer strips in interleaved transfer relation with each other and adapted for 5 use in various types of typewriting machines, billing machines and the like, or for manual transfer inscription.

It is a general object of the invention to provide a record receiving device or manifolding assembly of long continuous record and transfer strips arranged in transfer relation with each other and having improved means'whereby sets of inscribed record and transfer leaves severed from the assembly may be quickly and expeditiously separated from each other.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, whereby one of the transfer leaves of asevered set of inscribed record and transfer leaves may be quickly and easily separated or stripped from the other transfer leaves of the set and remain in position with the severed inscribed record leaves for the purpose of effecting supplemental transfer inscription to one of the severed record leaves.

Other objects of the invention will be in part pointed out in the following detailed description of certain illustrative but preferred embodiments of the invention and will be in part obvious therefrom.

The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplifled in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a more complete disclosure of the nature and advantages of the invention reference is had to the following detailed description and to the accompanying drawing in which: I

Fig. lis a partially diagrammatic perspective view of a fragment of a manifolding assembly embodying the invention;

Fig. 1A is a perspective view similar to Fig. 1

Fig. 2 is a similar view of a different form thereof, and

Fig. 3 shows a sheet which forms a part of the assembly;

As shown in Fig. 1, long

continuous record strips

5, 6, 1 and 8 are relatively superposed and interleaved with long continuous transfer strips 9, l0 and II.

" ordinary carbon paper and serve to duplicate but viewing the assembly from the opposite side;

The transfer strips may be ofupon record receiving strips underlying them the matter inscribed upon the uppermost strip 5.

As shown, the record and transfer strips are sub-divided at equally longitudinally spaced intervals therealong by weakened-transverse severance lines l2, which may be provided by scoring or otherwise weakening the strips to severance in any well known manner. These weakened severance lines l2 in the record and carbon strips are preferably arranged in groups" depthwise of the assembly, thus dividing the latter into a multiplicity of groups or sets of interleaved record and transfer leaves, the top leaf of which is the original record leaf receiving the original inscription. The complete assembly of record and transfer strips may be disposed in any desirable manner for convenient handling as in the form of a supply roll-but it is preferred to form it into a zigzag folded supply pack. When thus folded into a supply pack the folds of the pack may 00- incide with the groups of severance lines l2.

Usually, after the original or upper sheet of an end set of record and transfer leaves has been inscribed this sheet, and the leaves or sheets underlying the same, are separated from the strips of which they form end portions. This severance may be achieved by severance along the respective groups of weakened severance lines I2 as desired and may be assisted, for example, by a tearing bar (not shown). Upon severance of an inscribed set of record and transfer leaves the separation of the-record leaves" from the transfer leaves may be accomplished conveniently by forming the record receiving strips with cut-out portions. In the present exempliflcation these cut-out portions are positioned at the corners of the. sheets contiguous to the severance lines as indicated at II. The carbon strips are likewise formed with cut-out portions or apertures l4 disposed at points of the respective sheet sets spaced with regard to the cut-out portions i3 of the record receiving sheets. It will thus be seen that selective grip formations are provided in each leaf set and spaced apart thereon. Thus, operator grasping the projecting marginal portions of the carbon sheets at the cut-outs I3 of the record sheets, and at the same time grasping the projecting marginal portions of the record sheets at the cut-outs I of the carbon sheets,

may subdivide or strip the record and carbon Y sheets of asevered set into two different groups. However, according. to the present invention, these two groups of separated leaves need not contain solely carbon or record sheets. For example, as shown in Figs. 1 and 1A, the transfer outs M of the carbon strips 9 and II.

strips or webs 9 and II are not cut away at parts thereof corresponding to the cut-out portions l3 of the record strips, while the transfer web I is provided with such cut-out portions proportioned and positioned exactly as in the case of the cut-outs I3 of the record strips. Also, while the

record strips

5, 6 and 1 are provided with the cut-outs [3, the bottom record strip 8 has its edges extending in line with the edges of the carbon strips 9 and II, or in other words, the record strip 8 is formed with cut-outs corresponding to and positioned exactly as the cut- Consequently, with this arrangement and positioning of the cut-outs of the several strips, the group of severed sheets containing the sheets torn from the strips 5, 6 and I will also include the sheet torn from the strip III, while at the same time the group, including the sheets torn from the strips 9 and II, will also include the bottom sheet, torn from the strip 8.

The desirability of this function will be apparent since it is very often required, after the main inscribing operation and separation of the sheets, to have an underlying record receiving sheet of the record group arranged so that additional or supplemental data may be inscribed thereon as this supplemental data is written upon the uppermost sheet subsequently to the separation of the inscribed sheets into two groups. In connection with the carbon group, the lowermost record sheet torn from the strip 8 may serve as a partition or separating member to isolate the group from succeeding groups associated therewith andmay also serve for identificationpurposes. While in the present instance, for the fold type.

transfer strips I9, 20and' 2|.

sake of conciseness, there has been shown one carbon leaf which remains in association with the group composed mainly of inscription receiving sheets, and While there has also been shown oneinscription receiving sheet remaining in association with the group composed mainly of carbon leaves, it is obvious that any number of casual sheets might be included in each group or that one group might be composed solely of, for example, carbon leaves or inscribed sheets.

In Figure 2 the invention. has been disclosed in association with a record assembly of the fan- Thus, the inscription receiving paper or other material is folded longitudinally of its direction of movement to provide inscription receiving webs Hi to Hi, and dispose between the folds defining Lhese several webs are carbon or Obviously, due to the construction of the record receiving body, it will be impracticable to provide the cut-out parts or, grip escaping apertures. As shown, the record receiving surfaces, as well as the layers of transfer material, may be provided with transverse lines of fold 22 which may additionally be defined by lines of scoring to facilitate the separation of an end group or pile of sheets from the main body of the webs. The lines of scoring provided in the carbon strips I9 and 20 have longitudinally deviating portions such that bulged portions or grip tabs 23 are furnished which necessarily afford complementary portions in the form of recesses or vacuities 24. However, according to the present invention, the carbon strip 2| will preferably be formed with straight score lines. Accordingly, a pile or set of record and carbon leaves is presented, after severance, which an operator may separate into difierent groups by simply grasping the inscription receiving body at points within the recesses 24 and also grasping the projecting portions or grip tabs 23 and moving the grasped parts in different directions. Thus, one pile of record receiving material, together with a transfer leaf or sheet 2|, will be found in one group and solelyin the present exemplificationcarbon leaves l9 and 20 will be found in the other group. Accordingly, the record receiving device is now in condition whereby matter additional to that previously inscribed may be filled in on the uppermost layer or web l and this matter will not appear upon the layers or webs l6 and H, but will be duplicated on the face of the web l8.

In the embodiment of the invention disclosed in Fig. 2 it will be noted that the longitudinally deviating portions of the carbon strip transverse severance lines are positioned intermediate the lengths of said lines, and that the grip tabs 23 and vacuities 24 are accordingly positioned at points inwardly spaced from both of the opposite longitudinal assembly edges. In this manner, the grip tabs 23 are protected in the complete assembly from damage due to handling of the record supply assembly. A further advantage of this arrangement is that the tearing operation in severing an inscribed set of record and transfer leaves may be initiated at either of the opposite longitudinal assembly edges. In this connection, it will be further noticed that the ends of the severance lines Where tearing is initiated at either -of the opposite assembly margins are positioned substantially in aligned relation with each other depthwise of the assembly so as to promote correct startingof the tearing operation and avoiding tearing of the record and carbon strips except at the severance lines.

In both of the illustrative embodiments above particularly set forth, it will be noticed that the structure or structural features of the record and carbon strips provided by the cut-outs l3 and M of the embodiment of Fig. 1, and those provided by the relative positioning of the transverse severance lines of the record and carbon strips including the longitudinally deviating portions of the carbon strip-severance lines to provide the grip tabs 23 of the embodiment of Fig. 2, result in producing the selective grip formations positioned at opposite parts of a severed set of record and transfer leaves. Thus in a severed set of leaves in either of the disclosed embodiments, the transfer leaves have parts or grips extending beyond the contiguous marginal portions of the superposed record strips, while in another part of the set the record leaves have marginal portions or grips extending outwardly from the adjacent portions of the superposed transfer leaves. The grips of the record leaves may thus be selectively engaged and at the same time the grips of the carbon leaves may be selectively engaged and the severed set thus quickly and easily separated into two different groups by exerting'a pull in opposite directions. It should be noted, however, that in either embodiment one of the carbon leaves may be selectively gripped and stripped from the other carbon leaves so as to remain in interleaved transfer relation with the separated group of record leaves, thus providing for the supplemental transfer inscription described in detail above.

Since certain changes may be made in the above construction and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having described my invention; what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. In a manifoldingassembly, in combination,

a plurality of long continuous record strips and -a plurality of long continuous transfer strips in interleaved transfer relation with each other, said record and transfer strips having longitudinally-spaced transverse weakened severance lines,. said weakened severance lines being'arranged in depthwise groups in the assembly for simultaneous severance of the strips into' sets of record and transfer leaves in interleaved transfer relation, said record and transfer strips having structural features therein positioned respectively at said groups of transverse weakened severance lines and including marginal grip portions of record leaves of respective sets extending outwardly beyond adjacent edges of one or more but not all of the transfer leaves of the same sets,

. and including also marginal grip portions of one or more but not all of the transfer leaves extending outwardly beyond adjacent edges of record leaves, said structural features thus providing upon severance along said lines spaced selective grip formations for-each set of leaves whereby the record-leaves ofa severed set may be simultaneously gripped at one part of the set 'to the exclusion of certain but not all of the transfer leaves and whereby certain but not all of the transfer leaves may be simultaneously gripped at its said grip portion positioned in depthwise alignment with those of the severed record leaves of the same set so as to be simultaneously pped with the latter, thus removing one ,transfer leaf of a severed set with the record leaves thereof and in interleaved transfer relation therewith.

2. In a manifolding assembly, in combination, a plurality of long continuous record strips and a plurality of long continuous transfer strips in interleaved transfer relation with each other, said record and transfer strips having longitudinally spaced transverse weakened severancelines, said weakened severance lines being arranged in depthwise groups in the assembly for simultaneous severance of the strips into sets of record and transfer leaves in interleaved transfer relation; said transverse weakened lines of certain but not all of said transfer strips including longitudinally deviating parts spaced inwardly from the opposite ends of the lines thus forming, upon sever- ,ance along said lines, grip .tabs spaced inwardly from each of the opposite longitudinal strip edges and projecting from the severed edges of'the strips for selective gripping thereof, and also forming corresponding recesses or vacuities in the adjacent severed strip edges, the said transverse severance lines of said record strips and one of said transfer strips being substantially straight and forming outer boundaries of rectangular record and transfer leaves and providing, upon severance along said lines, marginal grip portions of the record and transfer leaves in depthwise alignment with said recesses or vacuities so that they may be selectively gripped through the recesses, said grip tabs of the transfer leaves of a severed set, and saidgrip portions of the record fer leaf at said grip portions thereof through said recesses, thus providing for separation bf some but not all of the transfer leaves from the record leaves while a transfer leaf remains in interleaved transfer relation with the record leaves.

EDWARD K; BOTTLE.