US2411335A - Device for manipulating account forms in rotary office machines - Google Patents

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US2411335A
US2411335A US582441A US58244145A US2411335A US 2411335 A US2411335 A US 2411335A US 582441 A US582441 A US 582441A US 58244145 A US58244145 A US 58244145A US 2411335 A US2411335 A US 2411335A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/36—Blanking or long feeds; Feeding to a particular line, e.g. by rotation of platen or feed roller
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/36—Blanking or long feeds; Feeding to a particular line, e.g. by rotation of platen or feed roller
    • B41J11/38—Manually-operated feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/48—Apparatus for condensed record, tally strip, or like work using two or more papers, or sets of papers, e.g. devices for switching over from handling of copy material in sheet form to handling of copy material in continuous form and vice versa or point-of-sale printers comprising means for printing on continuous copy material, e.g. journal for tills, and on single sheets, e.g. cheques or receipts
    • B41J11/54—Apparatus for condensed record, tally strip, or like work using two or more papers, or sets of papers, e.g. devices for switching over from handling of copy material in sheet form to handling of copy material in continuous form and vice versa or point-of-sale printers comprising means for printing on continuous copy material, e.g. journal for tills, and on single sheets, e.g. cheques or receipts in which one paper or set is fed towards printing position from the front of the apparatus

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  • typewriters or calculating machines comprising a platen are not, suitable for bookkeeping work. In fact, for such operations it is necessary tointroduce on the platen, and over the first sheet of paper constituting the journal sheet, several additional independent sheets. The last line of writing on these additional sheets must be written to register with the last line of writing on the sheet carried next to the platen, which is generally the journal sheet.
  • the present invention relates to a device for manipulating the sheets of account forms'in an oifice machine such as a typewriter or a. calculati-ng machine comprisinga platen, in which maj 2 chine at least one sheet, of paper is drawn .by the platen and theothers by crossbars. controlled, by tapes and held in a position always parallel to the axis of .the platen. r
  • This device eliminates the drawbacks mentioned above by the, fact that it has, in addition. to the normal members for keeping a sheeton the platen of the machine, other members for handling the account forms or other additional sheets.
  • the subject. of the present invention is distinguished from hitherto known devices for this kind by the fact that the tapes carrying the crossbars by their ends are connected at one end to a tensioning drum which is subjected to the action of a spring, and at the other end to a manipulating drum which is subjected, to the action of an escapement device, the crossbars being adapted for holding the sheets by their upper edge, and a guide or roll passing under the rollers or members holding the sheet carried by the platen, being provided to guide freelythe lower ends of the sheets which are carried by the crossbars.
  • Fig. 1 is an assembled View in perspective of my apparatus
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevation
  • Fig. 3 is a front elevation
  • Fig. 4 is a median cross-section
  • Fig. 5 is a view in perspective with parts removed; i
  • Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are views of details, the last two to different scales from the first.
  • each side-piece 10 carries, near the platen a stub shaft II on which are freelymounted two rollers I2 and I3.
  • a stub shaft II on which are freelymounted two rollers I2 and I3.
  • an arm l4 carrying at its free end two rollers I5 and [6, as well'as two spring tensioning barrel members l1 positioned beside each other and turning loosely on a long shaft I8 which serves also as a connecting bar between the free ends of the two arms l4.
  • One end of the spring of the barrel connected to control drums-2l and 22-respectively.
  • Each pair of control drums is rigidly fixed on an individual long rotating shaft 23 and 24 respectively, carrying a toothed pinion 25 and 26 respectively.
  • Each of these ⁇ pinions meshes with a toothed segment 21 and 28 respectively rigidly fixed on a rotating shaft 29 and 39 respectively operated by a crank 3
  • Each arm 14 is connected to the upper end of the supporting side-piece I0 by a toggle lever 33, allowing it to be held in the working position shown in Figs. 1 and 5, or to be folded down as shown in Fig, 2, to allow the machine to be used normally, in the case for instance of. a. typewriter, for correspondence.
  • the tapes l9 serve as support for a crossbar 3d and the tapes for a crossbar 35.
  • Each crossbar carries a slider member 36 (Fig. 1-) movable longitudinally on it and allowing the sheetof paper to be placed at the desired position along the I width of the platen.
  • holding or fastening members 31 are provided on slider member 36 for the upper margin of the sheet of paper.
  • the rollers. supporting the tapes l9 and 20 are arranged in such. a way'that the tapes converge from the end of each arm M towards the typing line on the platen.
  • each arm [4, and also the tapes I9 and 20 are covered by a casing 38.
  • the left-hand sidepiece l0 carriesalso onits outer. face the device shown in Fig. 8.
  • this devic e is not shown in all thefigures of the drawmgs.
  • the shafts 23, and. 24, pass through the side-pieces l0 and, each, of them carries at its end an escapementwheel, or ratchet 39 and 40 respectively, the, pitch ofthe teeth corresponding to the spacing of the. line'son the sheets of paper.
  • the escapement device cooperating with each escapement wheel is constituted by apawl 4
  • the auxiliarypawls 4 are subjected toithe action of a springwhich keeps them normally out of engagement with the. pin on; each paw1 4! is rigidly fixed to; an operatin lever 43, by which rs b he rimner meet F
  • is operated which, by means of the toothed segment 21 of the pinion 25 moves the operating control drum 2 I, this latter being maintained in the chosen position by the pawl 4
  • the tape l9 winds up on thedrum 2. against the. action of the spring in the barrel l1, so that it always remains taut.
  • the sheet C is brought into position in a similar manner by means of the crank 32.
  • the sheets B and 0 like the tapes which carry them, converge, while being displaced from above to below, towards the typing line on the platen.
  • the two sheets pass freely under the latter in a guide 46.
  • Fig. '7 shows diagrammatically and in perspective, in what way the sheets A, B and C come to lie over each other on the cylinder of the machine.
  • each sheet can be displaced by. itself for instance:
  • the sheet 0 by operating the crank 32 for putting itin place, or the operating lever 43 of the escapement wheel as for taking it out of engagement.
  • a device for manipulating sheets of account forms in a rotary ofiice machine in which atleast one sheet of paper is carried by the platen of the machine and the others by crossbars operated by tapes and held in a positionalways parallel to the axis of the platen, in which the tapes carrying the crossbars by their ends are connected at one end to a tensioningdrum which is subjected to theactign ,ofa spring, and at the other end to a manipulating drum which is subjected I to the action of an escapementdevice, the crossbars being adapted for holding the sheets by their upper edge, and a guide passing under the members holding the sheet carried by the platen being provided, to guide freely the lowerendsof the sheets carried by the crossbars.
  • a device as claimed-in claim 1 which comprises operating members to actuate separately each pair of tapes carrying a crossbar.
  • a device as claimed in claim 1 having fixed supports, rigidly connected to the. m0V,ab1efpart of. the .carriage of the machine and. carryingthe manipulating drums, the tensioning drums being.
  • a platen In a line spacing copy attachment for a writing machine, a platen, a pair of terminal plates for rotatably mounting said platen, journal sheet retaining means for retaining a journal sheet in engagement with said platen, platen line spacin means for advancing the writing position of said platen line by line, pivot means carried by each of said terminal plates adjacent said platen, a pair of idler rollers respectively mounted on said pivot means, a pair of arms respectively supported at one end thereof by said terminal plates, a pair of spring drums carried at the free end of each of said arms, a shaft rotatably mounted between said terminal plates, a pair of control drums fixedly carried by said shaft at opposite ends thereof, a pair of flexible tapes extending respectively from each of said spring drums over the correspondin said idler roller to its corresponding control drum, a transverse member carried by and extending between the portions of said tapes which extend between said control drums and said roller substantially parallel to the axis of said platen, paper engaging means carried by said transverse member,
  • An attachment according to claim 4 and a guide member mounted under said platen and adapted to guide a sheet of paper carried by said engaging means beneath said platen but in spaced relation thereto substantially up to the writin line thereof.
  • a platen In a line spacing multiple copy attachment for a writing machine, a platen, a pair of terminal plates for rotatably mounting said platen, journal sheet retaining means for retaining a journal spacing means for advancing the writing position of said platen line by line, a pair of pivot means carried respectively by each of said terminal plates adjacent said platen, four pairs of idler rollers, one pair of said rollers being mounted on each of said pivot means, a pai of arms respectively supported at one end thereof by said terminal plates, two pairs of spring drums, one pair of spring drums bein mounted at the free end of each of said arms, a pair of shafts rotatably mounted between said terminal plates, two pairs of control drums, one control drum of each pair being fixedly carried by each said shaft at opposite ends thereof, two pairs of flexible tapes extending respectively from each of said spring drums over the corresponding said idler roller to its corresponding control drum, a pair of transverse members respectively carried by and extending between the portions of two corresponding tapes extending between said control drums and
  • An attachment according to claim 7 and a guide member mounted under said platen and adapted to guide superposed sheets of paper carried respectively by said two paper engaging means beneath said platen but in spaced relation thereto substantially up to the writing line thereof.

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US2581026A (en) * 1946-05-29 1952-01-01 Wean Engineering Co Inc Strip threading apparatus
US2639019A (en) * 1949-12-22 1953-05-19 Underwood Corp Front feed carriage for accounting machines
US2675904A (en) * 1949-10-24 1954-04-20 Rufbuchhaltung Ag Front-feed attachment device for bookkeeping machines
US3053175A (en) * 1958-11-21 1962-09-11 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Thermocopying machine

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US2581026A (en) * 1946-05-29 1952-01-01 Wean Engineering Co Inc Strip threading apparatus
US2675904A (en) * 1949-10-24 1954-04-20 Rufbuchhaltung Ag Front-feed attachment device for bookkeeping machines
US2639019A (en) * 1949-12-22 1953-05-19 Underwood Corp Front feed carriage for accounting machines
US3053175A (en) * 1958-11-21 1962-09-11 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Thermocopying machine

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