US2668626A - Card handling machine - Google Patents

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US2668626A
US2668626A US766764A US76676447A US2668626A US 2668626 A US2668626 A US 2668626A US 766764 A US766764 A US 766764A US 76676447 A US76676447 A US 76676447A US 2668626 A US2668626 A US 2668626A
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
    • G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
    • G06K13/08—Feeding or discharging cards
    • G06K13/14—Card magazines, e.g. pocket, hopper
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S414/10—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns
    • Y10S414/102—Associated with forming or dispersing groups of intersupporting articles, e.g. stacking patterns including support for group
    • Y10S414/103—Vertically shiftable
    • Y10S414/104—Shifted by change in weight thereon

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  • this invention relates to improvements in or relating to card handling machines, particular- 1y punched.
  • card machines in which bards after having passed through the machine are collected in receiving boxes. More particularly still, this invention relates to sorting machines for punched Car-d.
  • This lost time will, in relation to the total sorting time, be of a relatively greater amount, as: the speed of the -rnacl iine increases and the number of the receiving oxes is larger g. in alphabetical sortingmachines;
  • the present invention has for a particnlar es j'ect the eli'ini hation of the tiine required for einptyingthe receiving boxes as much as possible; so that sorting can take plane substantially withhiit less of time.
  • I is an elevational View of a device acczding to this invention with an em ty re caving-box; v v
  • Fig; Ii is a view like Fig. I, the receiving box however-pang filled;
  • IIIv an elevational view of the device looking from. the left of Fig. I with the era
  • Fig. IY isanother embodiment of the inven'-'- tion' elevation.
  • a supporting element comprising a carriage 2- is guided along a bar I by means of rollers 3 and l, the said element. acting as a receiving, element tor the cards, or having the receiving element thereto attachedi
  • a slideable part I which, at its end adjacent carriage 2 has an upstanding part; 8.
  • a toothed rack 9 is fixed to the undersideof part 1'.
  • the parts 5 and 6 and the slideable part I constitute the bottom: of the card receiving box, which adjusts itself along bar I according to the height of the pile of cards resting hereon.
  • 'l he helical spring a which bears the weight of thebottorn and of the pile of cards resting thereon, may, if desired, be arranged within the guid-' ing bar l, which then. of course is hollow, or may be positioned externally of the bar.
  • The. rollers l5 cooperate, by means of springs, betweentheir ends (not illustrated) with cam disks 5 having nose portions 16a, which are fixed to-a shaft It. 'I'his shaft l1 may be rotated hand, for example by means of a crank handle, inthe direction of the arrow and afterwards be moved back again.
  • a toothed wheel [8 is mounted for free rotation, which is provided with a groove or slot (9 through which a pin 20 passes that is fixed to the disk it
  • the toothed wheel 18 comprises an untoothed part 21 and is rotatable under the influence of a flexible drawing cable 23-, passing over a roller '24 and carrying a weight 22.
  • the toothed wheel [8 meshes: with a pinion 25-, which is fixed to the shaft 26.
  • the toothe wheels i8, which are operated. by the drawing force of the weight 22, are; arranged in such a way that the, untolothed. part 2!. limits the rotation of the: toothed-1 wheel I18 so. that it has an off-position as indicated in Fig. I.
  • the cam disks l6 are in the oiT-position illustrated in Fig. I, the pin 20 being nearly at the one end of the slot 19.
  • a receiving part 28 is arranged having a downwardly bent end 29 ( Figures 1-11).
  • the cards When sorting, the cards are falling according to the punched holes into the corresponding receiving boxes and are laid down, on the bottom thereof. As the height of the pile of cards in a box increases, the box will move downwardly against its supporting spring a. If. at the end of the sorting operation, the cards must be taken out of the receiving boxes, the shaft I! is rotated by means of a handle in the direction of the arrow. When shaft I! is so rotated, the disks l6 are moved, the pins 20 being moved through the grooves or slots IQ of the toothed wheels I8. The disks 1 6 press the rollers 15 downwardly and thereby also the bar Ill.
  • all cards are, at one and the same time, delivered to the re- 4 I DC closing parts 28, and all receiving boxes are empty.
  • successively the further cards are placed in the supply box in the normal'order of succession during sorting.
  • the time between two successive sorting processes is thus only the brief time required for simultaneously pushing out the cards from the receiving boxes and inserting the first pile of cards into the supply box.
  • a sliding part '1 provided with an upturned portion 8 is 'ar'- ranged, adapted to push the cards to theleft'as described for the first modification.
  • the sliding part 1 carries a projection 30, this projection being provided with. notches.
  • the cam disk 40 is so shaped that the active portions sloping upwards and downwards respectively each take whereas the remaining part of the'circumference is of constant diameter.
  • a driving gear wheel 42 By a driving gear wheel 42 is rotated, the latter being connected to a disk 44 comprising a recess 45.
  • the gear wheel 43 and the disk 41 rotate freely on a shaft 5
  • the disk 41 carries a pawl 46 adapted to cooperate with and to engage the recess 45 when the pawl 46 is released by a lever 49.
  • a spring48 continuously urges the pawl 46 into this recess en-' gaging position, inwhich the disks 44 and 41 are coupled together by said pawl. Itwill be Under certain circumstances it may oc-
  • the cam disk 40 is driven a gear wheel 43 evident. that, when the recess; -45 is. thus engaged, bythe .pawlr46, the disk 43 will. rotate when the disk. 44 rotates.
  • the member 49 is pivotably mounted on a shaft 62 8111102,- pable-of being operated by akey '50. Twobrackets -3'
  • the member 49- is operable to keep the pawl 46 out of the path of the disk 44...
  • the gear wheeliZ and the coupling disk connected thereto is mounted for rotation.
  • the said filled boxes move into their lowest position.
  • a contact is closed in a known manner stopping the sorting operation.
  • the. projection 31] has passed the opening 34.
  • the projections are only partway through the openings, and when less than a predetermined number of cards are in a box, its. projection is not in the opening at all.
  • the cards which are pushed out now may be. laid aside during the rest of the sorting process in order to be added later on to the corresponding cards.
  • the gear wheel. 42 referred to above meshes with a further gearwheel 52 mounted for rotation on a shaftv 53.
  • the gear wheel 52 carries a disk 54, provided with a recess 55.
  • the shaft 53 carries a disk 56 provided with a catch 51, adapted to enter the recess of the disk 54.
  • the catch 51 is under the influence of a tension spring 58 and may befreecl by means of an intermediary mem-- ber 58. andaknob BB fixed thereto; v
  • a roller 62 bears which: is rotatably mounted on the arm 49' which, in. the lower position. keeps the catch. it out 'of the pathof the. disk it.
  • the described arrangement constitutesaoneerevolutioncoupling.
  • Fig. IVa device has been. provided for preventing the key 60 from being pressed. as long asserting has not been finnished, that is to say while cards are still in the supply box.
  • a feeler ta extends through the sidewall 83 of the supply box pressing against the pile of cards under the influence of a spring 65. The other end of this ieeler is beneath the end of the locking pawl 59, so that it cannot move downward.
  • the feeler 64 is moved to the right releasing the pawl 59.
  • the device may be started by pressing the key 89-.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles comprising vertically reciprocable carriages, horizontal guide means projecting from said carriages, bottoms on said guide means for receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being slideable on the guide means therefor, resilient means supporting each carriage yieldable under the weight of cards delivered to the associated bottom, receiving mean near a lower position of each receptacle for receiving sorted cards from the bottom thereof, discharge means for reciprocating each said bottom, when the associated receptacle is in the said lower position, and actuating means operable to actuate said means at the said lower position of the respective receptacle for transferring the sorted cards from said respective bottoms to said receiving means.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and being movable from an upper position of the respective receptacle to a lower position, receiving means spaced from said lower position of said receptacles for receiving sorted cards from the bottom of said receptacles, an actuating member common to all the receptacles and operable at one and the same time to move all of the receptacles to said lower position and to hold them therein and discharge means operable in cooperation with said control means to effect the discharge of cards from said bottoms to said receiving means, said discharge means being operable only when said receptacles are in their said lower position.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and being reciprocable in a vertical and a horizontal direction, receiving means spaced from the normal loading position of said receptacles for receiving sorted cards from the bottom of said receptacles, control means operable to control the movement of the bottoms of all the receptacles from said loading positions first in a vertical and then in horizontal direction into discharging position adjacent said receiving means, said control means including transporting means for each receptacle operable to move the respective receptacle bottom, from said loading positions into discharge positions in card transferring relation with said receiving means, said transporting means including first toothed means respectively associated with the bottom of the respective receptacle, and second toothed mean arranged for cooperation with said first toothed means thereby to cause said transporting means to efiect said horizontal movement of the respective recepta
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards in piles, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and each receptacle being movable in a substantially vertical direction from its upper or empty position into a downward or filled position and vice versa, resilient means supporting said receptacles yieldably under the weight of the cards therein, each receptacle including a part movable in a substantially horizontal direction in the lower or filled position of each receptacle for transporting sorted cards from the bottom of the respective receptacle, actuating means including a reciprocable member for actuating said part of each receptacle when the respective receptacle is in its lower or filled position, and means connected to said part of each receptacle and operable to pass through an opening in said reciprocable member for establishing driving connection with ment of the bottom from said upper position toward said lower position, receiving means near said lower position of each
  • actuating means including a reciprocable member for actuating said discharging means when the respective bottom is in its discharging position, means connected to said discharging means and operable to pass through an opening in said reciprocable member for establishing driving connection with said actuating means, and a locking mechanism provided between said last mentioned means and said reciprocable member to maintain driving connection between said discharging means and said actuating means during the discharge of cards from the respective bottom to said receivmg means.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle bein adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and being movable in a substantially vertical direction from its upper or empty position into a lower or filled position and vice versa, resilient means governing the movement of the bottom of each of said receptacles from said upper position into said lower position, and being yieldable under the weight of cards on the respective bottom, receiving means near said lower position for receiving sorted cards from the bottom of the respective receptacle, discharging means respectively associated with the bottom of each of said receptacles and movable together with the bottom pertaining thereto from said lower position into card transferring position with said receiving means and vice versa, actuating means including a reciprocable member for actuating said discharging means when the respective bottom is in its lower position, means connected to said discharging means and operable to pass through an opening in said reciprocable member for establishing driving connection with said
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards, each bottom being resiliently supported in an upper or empty position of the respective receptacle and movable under the weight of cards therein to a lower or filled position, receiving means spaced from said lower position of said bottoms for receiving sorted cards therefrom, an actuating member common to all bottoms and operable to move, at one and the same time, all of the said bottoms to the said lower position thereof, discharge means associated with the bottoms of said receptacles movable for discharging sorted cards from said bottoms to said receiving means, and control means operable successively to bring about movement of said bottoms to their respective lower position by said actuating member, then to cause actuation of said discharge means to discharge the cards from said bottoms to the receiving means, and then to allow return of said emptied bottoms to their upper positions.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards, each bottom being resiliently supported in an upper or empty position of the respective receptacle and movable under the weight of cards therein to a lower or filled position, receiving means spaced from said lower position of said bottom for receiving sorted cards therefrom, an actuating member common to all bottoms and operable to move, at one and the same time, all of the said bottoms to said lower position thereof, discharge means associated with the bottoms of said receptacles for discharging sorted cards from said bottoms to said receiving means, first driving means for operation of said actuating member, second driving means for operation of said discharge means, and operating means adapted to be brought into driving engagement with said first and second driving means and operable on each of said driving means during a complete cycle of operation.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards, each bottom being resiliently supported in an upper or empty position and being yieldable under the weight of cards there in to a lower or filled position, receiving means spaced from said lower or filled position of said bottoms for receiving sorted cards therefrom, an actuating member common to all bottoms and operable at one and the same time to move all of the bottoms into the said lower position thereof, discharge means associated with the bottoms of said receptacles for discharging sorted cards from said bottoms to said receiving means, a first one revolution driving mechanism for driving said actuating member, a second one revolution driving mechanism for driving said discharging means, and means associated with said second drivin mechanism for initiating operation thereof in response to the actuation of said first driving mechanism.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving the sorted cards, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and being movable from an upper or empty position of the respective receptacle to a lower or filled position, receiving means spaced from said lower position of said bottom for receiving sorted cards therefrom, an actuating member common to all bottoms and operable at one and the same time to move all of the bottoms to said lower position thereof, discharge means associated with the bottoms of said receptacles for discharging sorted cards from said bottoms to said receiving means, a first one revolution driving mechanism for driving said actuating member, a second one revolution driving mechanism for drivin said discharging means, means associated with said second driving mechanism for initiating operation thereof in response to the actuation of said first driving mechanism, and means operable for making said last mentioned means ineifective.
  • An apparatus for sorting cards comprising in combination, a supply box, a plurality of receptacles for respectively receiving sorted cards from said supply box, the bottom of each receptacle being adapted to support a pile of sorted cards and being movable from an upper or empty position of the respective receptacle to a lower or filled position, receiving means spaced from said lower position of said bottom for receiving sorted cards therefrom, an actuating member common to all bottoms and operable at one and the same time to move all of the bottoms to said lower position thereof, a feeler element to detect the presence of cards in said supply box, and means operated by said feeler element for preventing operation of said actuating member in response to the presence of cards to be sorted in said supply box.

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