US2421078A - Cross totalizing mechanism for record controlled tabulators - Google Patents

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May-27, 1947. J, MUELLER 2;421,078

cRoss TOTALIZI'NG MECHANISM FOR RECORD CONTROLLED TABULATORS Filed Nw. 2o, 194s a sheets-sheet 1 FIG. l

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, l TCT/m- 5.78 l 1T TOTAL 5.78 l TCTAL 5.75 E l l l l ill JOHN MUELLER ATTORNEY Patented May 27, 1947 CROSS rlOTALIZING MECHANISM FOR RECORD CONTROLLED TABULATORS John Mueller, North Bergen, N. J., assigner to Remington Rand Inc., Buialo, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application November 2), 1943, Serial No. 511,003

12 Claims.

This invention relates to record controlled tabulating machines, and particularly to mechanism adapted to print the perforated data of successively sensed, diiTerent areas of the same card, at a plurality of places on a record sheet.

In the well known Powers tabulating machine a ninety column data card is used, which is divided into upper and lower Zones. Each Zone has forty-tive columns of six data index positions per column, or 270 code hole index positions. The sensing means, consequently, requires 540 sensing pins and a like number of set pins for registering, in a single sensing operation, the perforated data possible in the two zones of a single card. It has been found desirable to print on the same line of a record sheet or business form, duplications of data perforated but once in either an upper or lower zone of the card. This has required the extensive use of Y-wires and connectors, which limit the capacity or" the machine, because it is evident that for a triplicate printing, for instance, three times 540 or 1620 Y-wire branches would be necessary. The number of wires that can be employed is limited by the space and facilities available in the machine.

It is an object of the invention, therefore, to provide a grouping means which will concentrate the data sensed from twelve index positions per column in the two Zone area of a card, at six index positions per column in a substantially reduced single zone area.

A further object is to use the same wires in a connection box to transmit data from either zone of the card, and to group said wires in such manner relatively to the six index position per column area at which the sensed data is concentrated, that the total number of wires required is materially reduced, can be readily secured in place, and can be replaced or changed as desired with a minimum of effort and time.

Another object of the invention is to provide sensing pin locking means, so that different areas of a card can be sensed in successive machine cycles to print data from one area of the card at different places on one line of a record or business form, and from another area of the same card at different places on another line of said form. l

Another object is'to arrange the group of wires in the connection box so that printing of data from one area of the card may be done at two places on one line of the form, and from another area of the same card may be done at one place `on another line of the form.

Still further objects include the accumulation and totaling of dierent numerica] amounts from different areas of the same card, as said areas are successively sensed, and which is referred to here as intra-card accumulating and totaling, as distinguished from like operations involving a number of cards. Also, pin locking means that may be conditioned for the sensing of different areas of a card in such manner that said locking means can readily be varied, thereby adapting the mechanism to diiierent requirements that may be imposed by users of the machine, and changes in the zonal areas of the cards for doing different work. Also, additional objects of the invention contemplate the printing of the total at a plurality of locations on the same line of a business form; the control oi total taking mechanism for intra-card totaling by the use of designation data fields; the progressive sensing of the rones or zonal elds of a single card by the control of mechanism whose action is initiated by one or more perforations in said card and the printing of a business form in two, three, or four subsequently detachable parts, with information duplicated in each part and taken from different iields of one or more cards.

Other objects and structural features of the invention will be apparent from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front to rear vertical section of the connection box and card control sections of a standard Powers tabulator, looking from the left side of the figure, and showing the invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a View in rear elevation of the analyzing or sensing unit of the card control section of the machine illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a View in rear elevation of the registering or set-pin unit of the card control section of the machine shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a View in perspective of a portion of the lower interior section of the connection box showing the parts in exploded relation;

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2 showing the sensing unit mechanism and the card chamber portion of the registering unit;

Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2 showing the sensing unit control mechanism in side elevation;

Fig. 7 is a vertical section on line 'i-'i' of Fig. 2 showing a cam blocking control for one iield of a card;

Fig. 8 is a View looking toward the right end |84, and skid rolls H25.

o of Fig. 2 showing a cam blocking control for another field of the card;

Fig. 9 is a plan View showing pin locking slide conditioning means and controls as used in association with the sensing unit;

Fig, 10 is a view in perspective of the means employed in rendering pin locking slides ineffective if a card is not in the card chamber;

Fig. l1 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the transfer of data from a card to a business forni by the use of the invention;

Fig. 12 is a View of two perforated cards showing the intra-card total taking of amounts perforated in different areas of the same card, and

Fig. 13 is a View similar to Fig. l2 illustrating successive tabulation of amounts perforated in different areas of sequentially sensed cards.

The present invention is incorporated in a standard Powers tabulating machine, fully shown and described in a patent to Lasker et al., No. 2,323,816, issued July 6, 1943, in which reference is made to Lasker Patent No. 2,044,119, dated June 16, 1936, and to both of which patents the present invention, as applied to a standard tabulator, is referable. As disclosed in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, a base portion lili) of the machine includes side frames lill and |02, between which are disposed front card feed rolls Hit, rear card eject rolls All of these rolls cooperate to pass cards one at a time from a card hopper Hit through the card chamber of a card sensing mechanism and into a card receptacle, not shown. The base also houses the main base shaft lil-, one complete revolution of which, from the position shown in Fig. 5, constitutes one cycle of machine operation, and which, through the eccentrics |68 keyed thereto, vertically reciprocates the lower Sensing pin box |99, or record sensing means, 0n the guide posts l H3. The lower pin box is pivoted in the upper ends or" pitmans Whose lower ends terminate in eccentric straps H2 which embrace the eccentrics |63. All of this mechanism, as well as some of the parts to be described, nnds its counterpart in the Powers standard tabulating machine and is disclosed and described in detail in both the patents referred to. It is, therefore, not deemed necessary to give a detailed description of each part and operation, except as it effects the working of the present invention.

As the lower pin box ISS is raised, sensing pins I3' that find. data perforations in a card detained in the card chamber lill by a closed card stop H5, are locked up by the suitably timed lateral movements of paired locking slides HS, HT, to positively raise data retaining set pins or set up means ld which are mounted in the upper stationary set pin box llt. The raised set pins i are latched up by latch plates H9 and upon a change of designation data certain of said pins initiate total-taking operation through actuation of cam slides |2|, in the manner set forth in the patents above referred to. The upper part of the tabulating machine includes a connection box frame |522 slidable in grooved rails |23, and releasably latched in place above the upper pin box H8 by manipulation of a finger piece i243. The wiring of the connection box transfers the movement of the set pins to upper pins |26, which set printing segment controlling stops as in Patent 2,044,119, or set permutation b-ars as in Patent 2,323,816, to control printing accumulating and totaling.

The present invention contemplates the successive sensing in the same card, of different zones;

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of different elds of the same zone; and of different elds of diiferent zones. A zone in this instance is considered as that area of a card which is bounded by two lines parallel to the long edges of the card, while a field is an area of a Zone bounded by lines parallel to the short edges of the card. Consequently, the sensing pins H3 of the lower pin box I must be selectively locked up in different zones or elds as the card is successively sensed. As seen in Figs. 2, 5, and 9 a lower rear frame bar |27 of the sensing pin box |69 carries the spaced brackets |28 through which pass the ends of rock shafts |3I, ist, and |33. Each shaft is slotted longitudinally to retain by force t, or in any other suitable manner, a longitudinally disposed locking slide rocker blade7 the rocker blades extending the length of the lower pin box |69 and being arranged as at |35, and |3t` in the rock shafts 53|, |32, and i333, respectively.

rl'he rocker blades and their associated mechanisin constitute means for locking up pins IIS' in different columns of the lower sensing pin box corresponding to data index columns in pree selected zones or fields of a Q10-column card.

Each column of sensing pins H3 is flanked on both sides by locking slides, one of the slides Il; or H having locking teeth |31 for the six pins that sense the upper zone of a card, and the other slide lil' or lil having locking teeth |38 lor the six pins that sense the lower Zone of a card. rThe pins i i3 that sense the upper Zone each have the usual locking extrusion |39, and the pins i i3 that sense the lower zone each have the usual locking extrusion Mii beneath which are projeoted the locking teeth |31 and |38, respectively, to lock up the sensing pins that have found data perforations in the card, when the slides are moved toward the left (Fig. 5). The slides ld, Hl', H6 and ill' are mounted at their ends between upper and lower frame bars of the sensing pin box for reciprocal movement, and as they are arranged in pairs with respect to each row of sensing pins, they can be selectively moved in cycles of tabulating operation to lock up the sensing pins that iind data perforations in successively sensed zones or zonal elds of a card.

As one example of a business form to be printed from tabulated data, reference is made to the diagrammatic showing of Fig. 11 in which a bill form M2, having separable parts, carries upper and lower lines cf printed data (shown in solid line) taken from upper and lower zones, respectively, of a perrorated card M3, said printed matter being the same in each of the parts of the bill. rI'he rst four data columns of the card in this instance, constitute a designation data eld and the locking slides designated IE6', iii that control the locking up of the iirst four rows of pins li 3 in the sensing pin box, are provided with extensions |46 and |156', respectively, which hook ov-er the upper edge of the rocker blade i3d, so that when the shaft ll is rocked, the slides Mii', Hl" will lock up any sensing pins that nnd perforations in the designation data ileld of either the upper or lower Zone of the card.

The shaft lill has secured thereto a pendulous cam arm id?, whose roller MS engages the edge of a stationary plate cam ifi@ which is carried by a bracket |53 attached by screws iZ to the guide posts liti. When a card is in the card chamber Elli, the roller ist is yieldably urged against the cam |519 by an arm and spring combination 53 (Fig. 8), the arm of which is secured to shaft |3|. In every cycle of machine operation, the sensing pin box |09, and with it, the shafts |3|, |32, and |33 reciprocate vertically, and in normal card sensing operation, the roller |48 moves along the vertical and oblique edges of the cam |49, which constitute the cam face |54, to rock the shaft |3| and blade |34 to impart alternate locking and unlocking movements to the slides ||6, |1'. Consequently, in every card sensing operation, any sensing pin ||3 that finds a perforation in the card corresponding to a data index position in the first four columns of the card, will be locked up by the slides, after the upper end of said sensing pin passes through the opening in the card and before it comes into contact with its corresponding set pin |20.

While the slides |l6, ||1 operated by rocker blade |34 control the sensing pins of the designation data field |44 in both upper and lower zones of the card in every tabulating cycle of the machine, and are not disabled in either of the upper zone or lower zone entry cycles, means are also provided for operating a group of slides ||6 to lock up the sensing pins corresponding to the upper zone data field |55 of the card on the first tabulating cycle, and operating another group of slides ||1 to lock up the sensing pins corresponding to the lower zone data field |56 of the card on the second or succeeding tabulating cycle. Reference will be made to upper zone locking slides ||6 and lower zone locking slides ||1, it being understood that these slides may lock up sensing pins in the selected field areas of upper and lower zones in successive sensings of a card.

In Fig. 11 the first line data on the card is perforated in the upper zone field |55 of the card, and the second line data in the lower zone field |56 of the card. The slides ||6 (Figs. 5 and 9), that lock the pins ||3 that nd perforations in the field |55 of the upper zone of the card, are arranged so that their hook extensions |46 catch over the upper edge of the rocker blade |35 fixed in shaft |32. The slides ||1, that lock the pins ||3 that find perforations in the field |56 of the lower zone of the card, are arranged so that their hook-extensions |45 catch over the uppe; edge of rocker blade |36 fixed in shaft |33.

The shaft |32 has fixed at its left end (Figs. 2 and '7) a pendant cam arm |58 whose roller |59 engages the inner vertical edges of a cam |60 and a cam gate |6|. The latter is pivoted as at |62 to the cam |60 and is limited in its rocking movement in clockwise direction under influence of spring |63, by an ear |64 engaging the outer edge of said cam. Substantially the same construction prevails with respect to shaft |33 whose depending arm |66, shown at the right hand end of Fig. 2 (also Fig. 8) carries a roller |61 for engagement with the inner edges of a cam |68 and cam gate |69, the latter of which, under influence of spring |19, is limited by an ear in its clockwise movement on pin |1| by which it is pivoted to cam |68. It will be here noted that cam |49 has no gate, while cams |60 and |68 are each provided with a gate. As the lower sensing pin box is vertically reciprocated, the cam roller |48 will follow the oblique portion of the face of cam |49 to rock the shaft |3| and move the slides ||6, ||1', that are actuated by blade |34, to alternately lock and unlock the sensing pins that have found perforations in the upper and/or lower zonal fields of the card reserved for designation data. Simultaneously, the rollers |59 and |61 in reciprocating movement will follow the 6 oblique portions of their respective cams |60 and |68 to rock the shafts |32 and |33, respectively, if not prevented from doing so by the cam conditioning gates, as will be described.

A cam conditioning gate detent shaft |13 (Fig. 8) extending through and journaled in the lower portions of cams |49, |60, and |68 is rocked by a remotely cont-rolled rod |14 through a rock arm |15. The latter, as well as an adjacent dog |11, is loosely pivoted to shaft |13, and connected in relatively yieldable relation with said dog |11 by spring joined pins |12 and |16 on the arm and dog, respectively, and by a spring |10 to the cam gate |69. The end of the dog |11 is notched as at |18 to engage a pin |19 on the lower forked end of the gate |69, to prevent swinging movement of the latter in counter-clockwise direction. The roller |61, associated with cam |68, is thus prevented from riding on the oblique edge of said cam against the influence of its arm and spring combination |80, to rock the shaft |33. In connection with cam gate |6| (Fig, 7) a detent |8| loosely pivoted to shaft |13 has a notch |82 for engagement with a pin |83 in a forked end of the cam gate. When the detent is lowered to engage the pin, counter-clockwise pivotal movement of the gate and consequent engagement of the roller |59 with the oblique edge of cam |60 to allow shaft |32 to be rocked under the influence of its arm and spring combination |84, is prevented.

The shaft |13 has fixed thereto, in operative association with rock arm |15 and detent |8|, the detent control fingers |86 and |81, respectively. With a card in the card chamber and at the beginning of the first tabulating cycle, the detent |8| is in raised position to allow gate |6| to swing (as shown in outline in Fig. 7), so that as the sensing pin box is elevated, the cam rollers |48 and |59 will ride along the oblique edges of their respective cams |49 and |60 and rock the shafts |3| and |32. As a sensing pin corresponding to a control hole in the card causes operation of the control rod |14, in a manner to be later described, said rod will depress arm |15 disengaging dog |11 from cam gate |69, and, through contact of the pin |12 on said arm |15 with finger |86 will rock the shaft |13. The rocking of shaft 13 (Fig. '1) will swing the finger |81 down to tension a spring |88 connecting studs |89 of the detent la! and finger |81, to cause the detent to bear against the pin |83. As the sensing pin box lowers, the roller` |59 will allow gate |6| to swing clockwise under influence of its spring |53, until the pin |83 rides into register with the notch |82 of the detent |8| under pressure of spring |88. The movement of the cam rollers, as set forth, has rocked the shafts |31 and |32 to move the slides H6', H1 and H6 connected to blades |34 and |35 to nrst locking and then unlocking position. On the next tabulating cycle of the machine, the locking slides ||6 for the upper zone sensing pins will be held at ineffective position by the latch gate V3i, but dog |11, being disengaged from gate 69, will allow the cam roller |61' to ride on the oblique edge of the cam |68 to rock shaft |36. The blade |35 on shaft 33 will impart locking and unlocking movement to the slides ill that control the sensing pins corresponding to the lower Zone of the card. Since the cam |49 is not provided with a gate the designation shaft |31 will be rocked causing the slides H5' and Ill to lock their pins ||3 up -but since there is no change in designation due to the-fact that the same card is being sensed, this action will be-ineffective.

The machine has ybeen illustrated with the parts as they appear when the card chamber is empty- Ink order to prevent the sensing pins H3 from being locked up in the absence of a card, operation of the rock shafts |3|, |32, and |33 is prevented by a rock latch |91 (Figs. 6 and 10) pivoted as at |532 in horizontal position in the lower ends ci pendant links |93l and Hill, the latter being fixed at its upper end tc shaft iSI. The link |93 is pivoted at |96 to a pin lever |37 fulcrumed as at |98 in bracket |93. The bracket |39v and a pin bracket 20| (Fig. 2) are mounted in one end of the sensing pin box its, the bracket 23|. constituting guide means for a card presence sensing pin Eil-2 supported at its bottom on the free end of the pin lever |31. The weight of rock latch lill and link |33 acting through lever |91l will tend to maintain the pin 232 in raised position, which keeps the nose 263 of the rock latch Iiil in latching engagement with the stud 233 of a pla-te 235 secured t0 one of the tubular sections 233 of the pin box fc3 that vertically reciprocates on the posts lli). The under side of latch lill is notched to receive pins 2st and 239. which extend from pendant links 2id and 2li, respectively, positioned at opposite sides of the latch |31. Link 2li? is fast to shaft |33 and link 2H is fast to shaft |32. When a card occupies the card chamber, the pin 282 is held down as the lower sensing pin bcx |53 rises and the resultant rocking of lever IH raises the nose 2133 of latch ISI free of stud 2312, so that the shafts |3I, |32, and |33 may be rocked by the motion of their respective cam arms.

Other control mechanism may influence or be iniuenced by the operation of the detent shaft |73 and to this end the latter has secured thereto a card feed control arm 2|3 and a card stop control arm 2M. The arm 2|3 (Fig. 1) through vertical and horizontal links Zit and 2|?, respectively, joined by a bell crank 2|8 having a yieldable connection 2li? to said link 2H, actuates the arm 22| fixed to a transverse rock shaft 222. Rocking movement of the latter swings a detent latch 223 into the notch 224 of a link 22s which joins the upper ends of vertically disposed rock arms 22? and 223, The arm 223 carries a roller 22S maintained in contact with a picker cam 233 by a picker operating spring 23| unless prevented by engagement of latch 223 with the link notch 22d when the high point of the cam is under the roller and the picker is in position to feed a card. The spring 23| is secured to rock arm 22W and, through it, actuates the shaft which carries another rock arm 235 joined at its upper end by link 235 with picker 236, the latter feeding a card from the hopper |35 to the front feed rolls m3 at each reciprocation of rock arm 234.

The card stop control arm 2 I4 fast on shaft |73 (Figs. 1 and 8) has a yieldable pin and slot connection 23? to a vertical card stop link 233 which is connected to one leg of a bell crank 239 pivoted in the machine adjacent the card stop mechanism and carrying in the other depending leg a blocking pin Zeil arranged to be moved under the outer end of card stop operating lever 242 upon rocking movement of the detent shaft |13. The card stop H5 (Fig. 3) is vertically reciprocated in well known manner by levers 242 and 243 joined by a short link 2de. The lever 253 is suitably fulcrumed (as shown in connection with its counterpart |35 in Fig. 3 of Patent 2,323,816) and operated by a vertically disposed link 235 connected at its lower end to the outer end of a roller arm 265 whose roller 241 rides on the card stop cam 2&8 fast on the main base shaft Il. The card stop I l5 is closed, except for a period of main shaft operation in a normal tabulating cycle, commencing at about 125 degrees and ending at about 2l() degrees, during which open period, the sensed card is ejected from the card chamber lili by the skid rolls and passes to the eject rolls, all of which are driven from a worm shaft indicated by numeral ll in Fig. l of Patent 2,323,816.

The card chamber i i4 (Fig. 5) is dened by spaced plates 249 constituting the bottom of the upper stationary set pin box ||8 and through which plates pass the sensing pins i3 to raise the data retaining cr set pins |2 contained in said box H3. The pins |23 are locked in their elevated positions by the latch plates IIS. Refer,- ence is here made to Patent 2,323,816, and particularly to Fig. 18. thereof, for illustration and description of the upper set pin box of the present invention, in which the designation slide retract bail 25i, its rock shaft 252, change of designation sensing interponent 253 and bail 255i, find their counterparts in the bail I (lf3, its shaft |45, interponents 533, 534 and bail 519, respectively, of said Patent 2,323,816. The rock shaft 252 is operated by a retract cam 255 on shaft |67, at about the end of each cycle to cause the b ail 25| to momentarily retract the spring urged latch plates H3, through mechanism not shown here, but having its equivalent in the cam operated lever arm |53, push bar lil-3, link I-Q and arm Il'l illustrated in Fig. 3 of Patent 2,323,816, and fully described therein, The latch plates I5 are alternately provided with projections for locking up the set pins |28 corresponding to the upper and lower zone index positions, and the designation slides I2! are adapted to condition the machine for total taking when a change of designation data is sensed. When this change is sensed the interponent 253 is swung by slide l2| to rock a shaft, not shown here, but illustrated in Figs, i9 and 22 of Patent 2,044,119 as at 336 to cause rotation of shaft 3&2 who-se cam 372, lever 314, link 3l@ and arm 33| will rock shaft 332 whose counterpart in the instant application is indicated as at 222. Rocking of shaft 222 will drop hook 223 into notch 224 and prevent card feeding operation cf picker 236.

Heretofore, when data sensed in a card was to be printed, for instance, at three different places on the same line of a record sheet, it was necessary to have at least three Bowden Wires in the connection box for each data designation set pin, or to use connectors of the type shown in Patent 2,160,113, whose arrangement within the con`I nection box frame was difficult due to the large number of Bowden wires involved, and made replacement of broken wires exceedingly diiicult. To cbviate the use of connectors and tc group and hold Bowden Wires in the connection box, so that the same wires will transfer the data set up in pins |26 from both zones of the card as they are successively sensed, a slotted plate 25? (Figs. 1, 3, and 4) closing the bottom of the connection box frame l 22 provides a guiding support for the depending shouldered ends 253 of six upper zone grouping bars 25S and six lower zone grouping bars 26e. The twelve lower ends cf these coacting bars are disposed in columnar arrangement tc coincide with each column of set pins |23 representing upper and lower zone data index positions. The bars 25S and 26|] are diagonally offset lengthwise in mid-section as at 26| and cross each other obliquely, to bring the upper ends of the corresponding bars of each zone together so that each pair, representing the same data. index position in each zone, protrudes through and is guided in a suitable slot 262 in plate 263. Thus, extending through plate 263 are forty-five columns of six pairs of bars each, the upper ends 264 of each pair being united by an extrusion 265 on one bar engaging a hole 266 in the companion bar, and each pair consisting of an upper zone bar 269 and a lower zone bar 269. Reference to Fig. 1 will show, therefore, that the two zone, twelve position length of a column at the top of the upper set pin box I9 is condensed by the bars 259, 260 into a column of one zone, six position length in the plate 263. In effect, the number of index positions as depicted by the set pins is reduced by half, as represented by the groups of Bowden wires operated by the grouping bars.

The plate 263 is supported in any suitable manner in the connection box frame and in turn supports, on posts 261, spaced intermediate and upper guide plates 263 and 269, respectively. Plates l 268 and 269 are drilled to provide vertically aligned holes, which holes 21|, in the upper plate 2619, guide the casings of Bowden -wires 212 whose lower ends are threaded into the tapped holes 213 in plate 268. The spacing of these guide plates provides means of the Bowden wires straight for an amount that will prevent too sharp a bend therein above the upper guide plate 269. The rigidity of the lower end of the Bowden wires held in plates 268 and 299 will provide for a gradual bend in the casings above the plate 269, so that friction of the core and danger to fracture of the casing is reduced to a. minimum. The Bowden wires 212 are arranged in this instance in groups of three, in vertical alignment with each pair of bar-ends 264, so that no matter which bar 259 or 260 of a united pair is moved upwardly by the action of upper or lower zone set pins, the three corresponding Bowden wire cores 214, whose headed lower ends rest on the upper ends ofthe bars, will be actuated and. will raise the upper pins |26 which are supported in the top of the connection box in the top plates 216 to control the printing and associated mechanisms as fully set forth in the patents referred to.

One pair of bars corresponding to a control hole 211, shown in the upper zone of the card in this instance, operates a control pin 219 (Figs. 1, 3, and 4), guided in suitable openings in the plates 268 and 269, to rock a control shaft 219 journaled in brackets 28|) mounted at opposite ends of the plate 269. The shaft 219 has iixed thereto a control pin arm 28| and a control rod arm 282, so that an upward movement of control pin 218 will rock the shaft 219 to depress control rod |14 against the yieldable resistance offered by rock arm |15.

As illustrated, the lower ends of two of the Bowden wires, of each three wire group rest on the upper ends of the upper zone grouping bars, 259, while the lower end of one of the Bowden wires of each group rests on the upper ends of the lower zone grouping bars 260, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 11, If the extrusion 265 is not used to join the grouping bars they will operate independently and the upper zone grouping bars will each actuate two Bowden wires and the lower zone grouping bars will each actuate one Bowden wire, with the result that data in the for holding the lower ends upper zone of the card can be printed in two different places on one line of the record sheet and data in the lower Zone can be printed at one place on another line of the record sheet.

A cycle of operation of the machine in printing data on the business forms illustrated in Fig. l1, defined by one rotation of the main shaft |91 from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5. When the upper zone of the card is sensed, the control pin is set, and on the next cycle card feed is prevented and the card stop held closed. When the lower zone of the card is sensed in this next cycle, the control pin is retracted when the lockedup set pins corresponding to the data of the upper zone are unlatched by the upward movement of the new group of set pins that correspond to the data of the lower zone. When the control pin 218 drops, rod |14 will rise, shaft |13 will be rocked to its counterclockwise limit 'and detent latch 223 will be disengaged from link 226. At the same time detent |9| will be disengaged from cam gate |6| by the finger |81 and these movements will have been completed at about 20 degrees of main shaft rotation in the following or new card sensing cycle. A new card is then fed into the card chamber against the card stop, which has closed after permitting ejection of the previous card. The sensing pin box |09, in its upward movement beginning at 180 degrees, causes the sensing pins |3 that have found perforations in the data designation field and upper zone of the card to be locked up at about 274 degrees by the slides H6', |l1 and H6. The slides are operated by the blades |34 and |35 under the rocking influence of their respective cam arms |41 and |58.

The locked-up pins engage and start to raise the upper set pins |29 at about 294 degrees to condition the printing means so that the data perforated in the upper zone will be printed on the rst line of the form. The control pin 218 will be actuated by the sensing of hole 211 to cause the rock shaft |13, through rod |14, arm and iinger |86, to swing the detent |8| into engagement with the stud |83 of cam gate |6|. Simultaneously, the dog |11 is swung out of engagement with pin |19 of cam gate |69. This dog has prevented swinging movement of cam gate |69 and consequent locking up of any of the sensing pins thtat found data perforations in the lower zone of the card on the rst sensing cycle. The control rod |14 is held depressed by its control pin 218 and associated locked-up set pin |29 until the set pins are released in the usual manner on the next succeeding tabulating cycle, at about 335 degrees, At this time if the set-up of pins |20 changes, due to a change in designation data, the cam slides |2| will be moved as different pins are set up and such movement will operate the bail 254 through the interponents 253 to condition the machine for total taking. Depression of rod |14 rocks shaft |13 which pulls link 2|6 to cause the picker detent latch 223, to engage the notch of the picker link 226 and also pulls link 238 operating the bell crank 239 to throw the blocking pin 24| of the latter beneath the card stop lever 242 to prevent opening of the card stop. Thus, feed of a new card is prevented and the sensed card is held in the chamber for another cycle.

In this second sensing or tabulating cycle, as the pin box rises, the slides H6', ||1' and ||1 that lock up the sensing pins that find openings in the data designation field and in the lower zone of the card, are operated by the blades |34 the following cycle.

pins locked up 1 1 and 'i3d under the rocking iniiuence of their respective cam arms ilil and E35. The control rod being depressed, has caused latching of cam gate It! so that the cam arm lcannot rock the blade 35 Iand the pins that -sense openings in the upper zone of the card will not be locked up by the slides il t. In the two tabulating cycles the data of the successively sensed upper and lower zones ofthe card or record is printed at three diierent places on the two lines of the business form, and the numerical amounts having beenentered in three different accumulators, will permit the printing of a total at three places upon a change lof Vdata designation, as fully explained in the patents referred to. The total taking operation, carried out between two successive tabulating cycles, requires twoadditional cycles, so that a change of designation data in Aeach individual 'cardof a group, or in selected cards of a. group willfinitiatetotal taking Without interfering with the cycle sequence of the machine.

To recapitulate, the operation of the machine issuch that acardpasses into the sensing chamber and is sensed inthe designation data field |44 of both upper and lower zones and at the sameftimeeither the upper zone data iield 55 or the Alower zone data field yit only is sensed. Inl the `presentinstance itis the upper zone. If

r the card does Vnot have a control hole 2T! it will Ypass out of the sensing chamber after the sensing of the upper zone data field and a new card .will be fed thereto. However, when acontrol hole v2li' issensedfthe control pin 278 will be raised and held up by its associated locked up setpin |20 to cause rocking of shaft H3 thereby in turn disablingthe slides llt and operating the slides Hl to cause sensing or the other Zone, in this instance the lower zone, on theneXt cycle of the machine. The rocking of the shaft H3 in this mannerlikewise prevents operation of the card picker and release of the card stop to hold the vcard in the chamber for a seco-nd cycle. The slides I l 5' and l I 'l lock the designation data pins uup for the second cycle but since the samecard .isin the sensing chamber they are ineiective. When the set pinsof the previous or upper Zone reading are releasedtogether with the control pin, which occurs after the operation of slide UL the s ha'ftjll is rocked baci; `to normal to again cause sensing of only the iirst zone of the cardon the nextand succeeding cycles until such time as another control hole is sensed. The timing vof the Powers tabulating machine `is fully setforthin the aforementionedLasker patents. Briefly, when a card is in the sensing chamber, during the rise of the reciprocating pin carrier and after the sensing pins that nnd perforations in the card have passed therethrough, the locking slides shift Yinto position to lock up those lpins ythat `passed thro-ugh the perforations. Upon the continued rise o f the carrier the locked up pins push up corresponding set pins. The corresponding set pins are then latched up by the la-tchplates and remain in latched condition until Upon the rise of the Areciprocating v'carrierdduringthe second cycle when new rcard is in the sensing chamber with different data designations therein, the newly locked vup sensing pins will cause different set pins to rise. Therise of these new pins will momentarily cam the latch plates to the right to release the set on the rst cycle and the return of the latch plates will then latch up the newly raised set pins.

With the foregoing in mind, it will be obvious that during the first cycle when the sensing pins sense the data ldesignations of 'the upper zone together with the y'control hole the slide ill 4will lock up all"such pins, The corresponding set pins lii! will then be latched up and the set pin corresponding to the control hole will raise the cohtrol pin v278 and vheld it up until that time in the next cycle when thel set pins are released. Thus, through the linkage described, 'the rock shalt H3 will be rocked against the yieldable resistance oier'ed by the rock arm ll' and maintained in rocked position until such time in the next cycle when newly locked. up sensing 'pins through the rising set pins cam the latch plates H9 to the right permitting the rock shaft H3 to return to normal. This occurs during the second cycle and after the slides l I6 have locked up the sensing pins that found perforatio'ns in the lower zone of the card.

The slides I IS, I l l' can be arranged with respect to each column of sensing pins, so that the extent and location of thedata fields of the card may `be varied to suit the requirements which the machine is to meet, thus providing a flexibility in manufacture that is attained without material alteration or" the general organization of the mechanism.

While three slide-controlling rocker blades are illustrated herein, it isobvious that others could be added, along with their vcontrolling cams and mechanisms, to afford successive ,sensing of more than two zonal areas of the card if desired.

It is evident that a business form having, say, three detachable parts could be duplicate printed in each part with four differentlin'es from two different cardseach having two Zonal fields. This would be accomplished to include a total if desired by a change of designationdata in alternate cards, In Fig. l2 the 'data perforated in the upper and lower zones of 'card designated IEM! is printed ina plurality of places on the business lforni M2 and as card l5|| bears a change in designation data the total of the u'pperand lower Zone data of card |519 is printedon the form in its proper place, Each Acard ofa grcupas shown in Fig. l2, carries data in two different zones and intra-card totaling occurs upon change of designation data. InFig. 13 two cards carry 4four sets of data in four zones, which data may be accumulated and may be totaled if desired by a c ard bearing change o f designation data. The data from the upper zones may be entered once on the form and rthe data from the lower zones entered twice on theform or vice versa, if the extrusion 24555 is omitted, depending upon how the ends of the Bowden wires are arranged with respect to the upper ends ofthe vgrouping-bars. Y

`While I have shown and described what I consider to be a desirablev and novel embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that changes in form could be madewithout departing frornthe lspirit of the invention and I, therefore, jdo not wish to ybe limitedl to the preciseform herein shown and described, nor to anything less than .the whole oi the invention as hereinbefore set forth, and. Vhereinafter claimed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure yby Letters Patent is: Y

l. In av machine of theclass described, sensing means including a'sensing pin carrie1',"means'for reciprocating the carrier, and spring pressed pins in the carrier for sensing data 'designations in a record; slidesc'in thecarrier -coopf'erating with different groups of pins and movable with the carrier and transversely thereof to lock in fixed relation to said carrier those pins of each group that sense data designations in the record, rock members engaged by said slides, cam means with which the rock members coact to operate said sides as the carrier reciprocates, the rock member relating to one of said groups being normally inoperative, and means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering said inoperative rock member operative and another inoperative upon a succeeding reciprocation of the carrier.

2. In a machine of the character described, a record chamber, means for feeding a record to and from the chamber, a stop for preventing the record from leaving the chamber, means for opening and closing the stop, a sensing pin carrier, means for reciprocating said pin carrier, means for sensing data designations in a record including rows of spring pressed pins in said pin carrier, slides in the carrier movable to lock in fixed relation to said carrier those pins of each row that sense. data designations in the record, a plurality of means associated with the pin carrie and operable in different reciprocations thereof to move slides corresponding to different pins of a row t pin locking position, means for controlling the operation of said last means for disabling one slide moving means and enabling another slide moving means upon a successive reciprocation of said pin carrier, means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering said last means operative, and means operated by said slide disabling and enabling means for preventing the stop from opening upon said successive reciprocation of said carrier.

3. In a machine of the character described, a record chamber, means for feeding records to the chamber in succession, a sensing pin carrier, means for reciprocating said pin carrier, means for sensing data designations in a record including spring pressed pins in said carrier, slides in the carrier movable to lock in fixed relation to said carrier, those pins of predetermined groups that sense data designations in the record, a plurality of means associated with the pin carrier and operable Yin different reciprocations thereof to move slides corresponding to pins of said predetermined groups to pin locking position, mea-ns for controlling the operation of said last means for disabling one slide moving means and enabling another slide moving means upon a successive reciprocation of said pin-carrier, means operated by the sensing means when a control designation is sensed for rendering said last means operative, and means operated by said slide disabling and enabling means for disabling the record feeding means upon said successive reciprocation of said pin carrier.

4. In a machine of the character described, a sensing pin carrier, means for reciprocating the carrier, means for sensing data designations in a record including rows of spring pressed pins in the carrier, a pair of slides for each row of pins, each slide of a pair being adapted for locking engagement with a different group of pins in each row, a plurality of means for moving the slides on successive reciprocations of the carrier to lock in xed relation to said carrier those pins of the different groups of each row that sense data designations in the record and means operated by said sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for disabling the slide moving means relating to one of said groups and enabling another slide moving means relating to another group upon a successive reciprocation of said pin carrier.

5. In a machine of the character described, means for sensing data designations in a record including a carrier, rows of spring pressed pins in the carrier, means for reciprocating the carrier to cause the pins to sense a record, a plurality of slides in said carrier for locking engagement with different groups of each row of pins, means normally rockable to move certain of the slides on successive reciproca-tions of the carrier to lock in fixed relation to the carrier those pins of the one group that sense data designations in the record, means for disabling said normally rockable means on any successive reciprocation and including means rockable to move certain other slides to lock in fixed relation to the carrier those pins of a different group that sense data designation in the record, means for controlling the operation of both of said rockable means, means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering effective said controlling means, a no-card detecting means in the carrier, and means operated by said detecting means for preventing rocking operation of any slide moving means when a record is not in position to be sensed.

6. In a record controlled machine, the combination with spaced sets of movable members, one of Which corresponds to the data index positions of different Zones of a record; of a connection box comprising a frame removably positioned between said sets for transferring motion from the first to the second set and including grouping means and motion transmitting means mounted within said frame, said grouping means comprising c oeXtensive bar members arranged for registry at one end individually with each of the members of said first set and arranged at the opposite end in paired relation to present contiguous areas corresponding in arrangement to the data index positions of one zone of the record, means for securing said paired bar members together, and said motion transmitting means including members a plurality of which at one end engage each of said areas and at the opposite end individually register with the members of said second set whereby said connection box may transmit data indications from either zone of a record to a plurality of movable members in the machine.

7. In a record controlled machine, in combination, a sensing pin carrier, means for reciprocating the carrier, means for sensing data designations in a record including rows of spring pressed pins in the carrier, a pair of slides for each row of pins, each slide of a pair being adapted for locking engagement with a different group of pins in each row, cam means for moving the slides on successive reciprocations of the carrier to lock in fixed relation to said carrier those pins of the different groups of each row that sense data designations in the record, means for controlling said cam means to disable certain of said slide moving means and to enable other of said slide moving means upon a successive reciprocation of said carrier, and means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering said last named means operative.

8. In a record controlled machine, in combination, a movable pin carrier, spring pressed pins in the carrier for sensing data designations in a record, locking slides in the carrier corresponding to diiferent groups of pins, means for selectively moving the slides to lock in xed relation to said carrier those pins of each group that sense data designationsin the record, means for controlling said slide moving means to disable certain slide movingmeans and enableother slide moving means upon a successive sensing movement of said carrier, and meansoperated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering said last named means. Operative.

9. In a record controlled machine, the combination .with spaced sets vof movable members, one of which corresponds to the data index position of a record andthe otherof which corresponds to the data receiving elements of the machine; of meansor transferring motion `from the rst set of movable members to the second set of-movable members including afrarne ,positioned .between said sets of members, aplurality of spaced platesin the frame and including upper and .lower plates, grouping means comprising coextensive bar members `movably mounted in the lower of said plates and arranged at one end to be engaged Vindividually by members of said first set and secured together at the opposite end in paired relation to presentcontiguous' areas corresponding in arrangement to ilialf the number of data index positions presented by said first set of members, and motion transmitting means inoluding individually encased wires positioned at one end .in `the upper of said plates for group engagement witheach of said areas in numbers exceeding'the Ydata index positions represented by said first set of members, and arranged at the opposite end for individual registry with the members of said second set.

v10. In a record controlled machine having record data set-up means, the combination with a reciprocal sensing means including a pin carrier, and spring pressed sensing Vpins in the carrier for engaging a record to sensefdataA designations in upper and lower zones thereof, of upper and lower zone slides in the carrier for holding sensing pins ofthe corresponding zones in data sensing position, cams for effecting movement of the slides during reciprocation of said sensing means to cause entry in said set-up means of the data sensed fromeither zone of the same record, the cams `for one iof said zones being normally effective to cause lentry andthe camsforrthe other of said zones being normally-ineffective to cause entry, means for Aselectively conditioning said cams to render ineiiective saidfnormally effective cams and'render effective saidnormally ineiective cams, and means operated by the sensi-ng means when acontrol designation in the record is sensed for lactuating said conditioning means.

11. In a machine of the. class described, sensing means including a sensing pincarrier, means for reciprocating the carrier and spring pressed pins in the carrier for sensing data designations indifferent zones ci a record; slides in the carrier corresponding to pins of said different zones and movable to loclr in relation to said carrier those pins of each zone that sense data designations in the record, means operable on each reciprocation of the carrier for moving slides corresponding to pins of both zones, means normally operative on reciprocation of said carrier for moving slides corresponding to pins of one zone, normally inoperative means operative on reciprocation of said carrier for moving slides corresponding to pins of another Zone, means for disabling said normally operative means and enabling said normally inoperative meansion a successive reciprocation, means for controlling the operation of said last named means, and means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for rendering eective said controlling means.

12. In a machine of the class described, a sensing pin carrier, means for reciprocating said carrier, rows of spring pressed pins in said carrier for sensing data designations in a record, slides in the carrier each movable to lockthose pins in each row that nd data designations in an upper or a .lower Zone of the record immovably with respect to said pin carrier, means associated with said pin carrier Yfor moving the slides to pin locking position, a plurality oi means for actuating the slide moving means upon reciprocation of said pin carrier, means for rendering the actuating means relating to one zone inoperative and those relating to the other zone operative upon a successive reciprocation of said pin carrier, and means operated by the sensing means when a control designation in the record is sensed for controlling the operation of said last means.

JOHN MUELLER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are or record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,044,121 Lasker June 16, 1936 2,107,184 Laslrer Feb. 1, 1938 2,290,827 Thomas July 21, 1942 2,324,438 Thomas et al July 13, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 473,757 Great Britain Oct. 13, 1937 475,037 Great Britain Nov. 8, 1937

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