US2225297A - Master plate for card slotting punches - Google Patents

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Dec. 17, 1940. R. CONNOR 2,225,297

MASTER PLATE FOR CARD SLO-TTING PUNQHES Filed March 2. 1940 A.Cusiomer I F 1- I258 High 31., --9

Akron Ohio Acct. No. 453

ADMIT A. WORKER me. $55 EFT. 56 S. 1 0?; AT ANY GATE A.B.C. MFG. CO.

F76. 5 mxmwua mm PETREL OI UMP/(NY CREDIT cam) FIG-6' ISSUED m: ACCT. NO. 455

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o STATES MASTER PLATE Foa CARD- SLOTTING runcnns Roger Connor, Athens, Ohio, assignor to The of Ohio McBee Company, Athens, Ohio, a corporation Application March 2, 1940, Serial No. 321,824

2 Claims.

My invention relates to slotting devices such as are illustrated and described in 'United States. Letters Patent issued to Lucien L, McCart, No. 2, 144,412, for a Card slotter.

The object of that device, asexplained in the specification, is to provide. a machine to slot or notch a predetermined pattern of notches in a card such as is described in United States Letters Patent No. 1,544,172, issued to A. Perkins, in order that a stack of mixed cards can be readily sorted into a numerical or other predetermined sequence. 7

As explained in the McCart patent, a master card is formed which can be inserted in the slotting or punching device in such a manner that the points on the master plate or card will render inoperative certain predetermined punching dies but which will permit those dies in the position oppositethe notches or slots to remain active. A Perkins card may be then inserted underneath the master 'card and by actuation of the-device, the pattern of slots appearing on the master card will be reproduced on the Perkins card. Reference may be had to the McCart patent for more specific information as to the manner in which the device is operated with the master card.

Experience has shown where the cards of the Perkins patent are being utilized for factory workers to write their clock numbers or other identification on their time cards during the day. When the cards are received in the oifice, it is necessary to slot them for employee's number he iore they can be sorted into sequence, as taught by Perkins in his patent.

It is common knowledge that the writing of factory workers is often illegible. Also frequently employees make errors in writing their clock numbers or spelling their names. This results in causing incorrect slotting of cards and errors in the preparation of the payroll.

The principal object of my invention is to.provide a master sorting and addressing plate to be given to each employee, this addressing plate having embossed thereon his name and number, and being slotted or notched on an edge for the coding of his particular number.

Asmall addressing machine should be located at each work station in the plant so that the worker, upon starting on a given task, need only insert his plate in the addressing machine together with one of the time cards made under the Perkins patent. Actuation of the addressing and slotting machine will, at a single operation, imprint his name and number on .the Perkins card and will also cut a pattern of notches in the edge of the card corresponding to his number. It will be clear to persons familiar with this operation that, in this manner, errors will be eliminated,

the work will all be done at one time, a great deal of time will be saved in preparing the payroll, or

in estimating the cost.

My means of accomplishing the foregoing object may be more readily understood by having reference to the accompanying drawing which is hereunto annexed and is a part of this specification in which:

Fig. 1 illustrates a metal embossed addressing plate such as in common use for addressing or printing commercially, with the exception that it is provided with a pattern of notches corresponding to the account number, and has a paper or card insert bearing an impression or imprinting from the embossing, so that the plate may be easily identified and-read;

Fig. 2 is a view ,of the reverse side of the same plate, showing the embossed and stamped numerals of the coding on the face of the metal plate; 7 Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the plate taken on line 3-4 in Fig. 2; r Figs. 4 and 5 show the same type of addressing plate with the imprinted card or paper omitted; and

Fig. 6 shows a card such as is usually furnished to customers as credit cards for identification incident to charge accounts; the credit card in question however being provided with a pattern of notches to identify the same with the account number.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar numerical indicia area pluralityof perforations 65 3 which may be located adjacent one or more edges of the card, if desired. Eachone of these perforations 3 as described in Perkins patent to which reference may be had for more detailed description, are susceptible of being slot ed directly out to the edge of the card, thus forming slots or notches 4 in a pattern relating to a single classification. 1

As shown, they are slotted for the workers number 453, the code being notched 4 for the 5 hundreds; 4 and 1 for the 5 in the tens; and

2 and 1 for the3 in the units, all of which is clearly set forth in the said second Perkins Patent No. 1,739,087. I

As shown in the drawing, the name of the worker and the department, as well as the number of the account and the worker, are embossed as at 5 in Fig. 3 on the metal plate, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, together with data such as the.

name or other desired information. The card may also be provided with clips 6, I, 8, 9 and III, which can be conveniently stamped out of the metal plates for the purpose of holding the printed card as'shown in Fig. 1.

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that by slotting the pattern of notches in the manner described in Perkins Patent No. 1,544,172 that a mixed pack of master cards or plates can be sorted, and thus quickly obtain all of the cards for this particular account number. As shown in the drawing it is number 453.

It iscustomary when the workman finishes his work, he throws his time card into a box and these boxes of mixed cards are taken into the ofiice each night and must beready for distribution on the following morning to the workers. Now it is easy to perceive that if one has some thousands of men employed in a factory, that thework of sorting these cards is very great, and if the names are incorrect or illegible or the account number is i1- legible, or, workers number is incorrect, confusion worse confounded results. Whereas by providing the pattern of notches as described in the Perkins. Patent No. 1,544,172, together with the data embossed on the master sorting and addressing plate, not only is all possibility of error and costing eliminated, but it is possible to sort the time cards prepared by the use of this master plate with the greatest speed obtainable.

A number of uses of this type of master sorting and addressing plates will occur to persons familiar with the art, for example, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the plate can-be one from a large file representing customers of a particular company. At the time of addressing ledger 7 accounts and customers record cards, the use of such a plate would automatically slot the-ledger card 3 or customers record card made according to Perkins patent for that particular account, to-

to that account.

the sorting of the cards into the ledger or other desired order by the statistical or accounting department. Many other uses of this card will ocour to accountants.

Having described my invention what I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A master sorting and addressing plate provided with a plurality of numerical indicia adjacent one or more edges, embossed data embossed on the surfaces of said plate and a pattern of slots in one edge relating to a single classification whereby to control a punching machine in accordance withthe pattern of the notches.

2. A master sorting and addressing plate provided with a plurality of numerical indicia adjacent one or more edges, embossed data embossed on the surface of said plate and a pattern of slots in one edge relating to a single classification whereby to control a punching machine in accordance with the pattern of notches, and means to hold a card on the face of said plate.

ROGER CONNOR.

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