US2796932A - Multiple to unit entry card converter - Google Patents

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US2796932A
US2796932A US530494A US53049455A US2796932A US 2796932 A US2796932 A US 2796932A US 530494 A US530494 A US 530494A US 53049455 A US53049455 A US 53049455A US 2796932 A US2796932 A US 2796932A
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  • FIG.8 F
  • This invention relates to record card machines and more particularly to the combination of a record card reader controlling a record card punch.
  • This invention is adapted to apply these principles to the ordering and requisitioning of goods by merchants, wholesalers, etc. vA number of manual operations are normally involved, for example, in the ordering of goods by a retailer and the filling of the order by a wholesaler.
  • This invention is part of an order system in which the person ordering goods marks an order card in accordance with the items desired; the marked order card is then passed through a conventional machine that electrically interprets the marks and punches corresponding data indicating holes in the card. Each card provides space for a large number of items.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a machine consisting of a card reader and a card punch wherein the card reader operates column by column and the card punch operates card by card, each of certain designated columns in the card reader corresponding to a card in the card punch.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a machine consisting of a card reader and a duplicating punch having controls interconnecting the reader and punch whereby certain data are reproduced from the reader column by column in a first detail card in the card punch, other data are translated from certain card columns in the reader and punched in the detail card representing an item number and a quantity; the previously reproduced data is duplicated column for column from the first detail card to a second detail card and an item number and a quantity are translated from other card columns in the reader to the second detail card, etc., until all items and quantities have been translated from the card reader into individual detail cards.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide a machine consisting of a card reader, a card punch, a card hopper in the card reader for receiving a plurality of multiple item cards, a card hopper in the punch for receiving a plurality of record blanks, and control circuits interconnecting the reader and the punch so an individual record is prepared for each item in certain columns of the multiple item cards, and all cards corresponding to items in a particular multiple item card receive common identifying data.
  • Fig. l is a schematic representation of the card reader or card punch.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of the function of the order card converter.
  • Fig. 3 is a sample order card.
  • Fig. 4 is an auxiliary drum card.
  • Fig. 5 is a card reader program card.
  • Fig. 6 is a card punch program card.
  • Figs. 7 through 14 show the wiring diagram.
  • Fig. 15 shows the arrangement of Figs. 7 through 14 to form the wiring diagram.
  • FIG. 1 A schematic representation is shown, in Fig. 1, of one of the duplicating punches referred to hereinbefore. This figure corresponds to Fig. 17 of the Patent 2,647,581, issued August 4, 1953, to E. W. Gardinor, et al.
  • the reader and punch referred to herein are each mechanically identical to the machine shown in the Patent 2,647,581 except that a read station card lever, identical to the punch station card lever, is positioned to be operated by a card at the read station of the reader to close contacts designated RCL contacts (read card lever contacts).
  • the circuits of the reader and the punch are identical to the circuits of the patented machine except as indicated hereinafter in the specification and shown in dotted lines in the attached drawings.
  • the circuits of the reader and the punch are altered in a manner whereby the normal functions of the machines as claimed in the Patent 2,647,581 or the functions claimed in the claims attached hereto may be utilized by the mere operation of a converter function switch 502, shown in Fig. 11. With the switch 502.in its off position, the reader and the punch may each be operated independently in the manner described in the cited patent. With the switch 502 in its on position, the reader and the punch cooperate as a single machine.
  • Patent 2,647,581 for the mechanical structure and for the functions of the individual machines.
  • the functions of the two duplicating punches forming the converter are described in detail only to the extent that they differ from the functions of the machine described in Patent 2,647,581 and to the extent necessary to describe the operation of the converter.
  • the reader and the punch each comprises a card hopper 10 from which cards are fed singly to a position E in registration with a punching line 11.
  • the movement of the card past the punching line is controlled to occur in a step-by-step or column-by-column manner which will advance the card toward a position F in registration with a reading line 12.
  • the movement of the card past the reading line also is controlled to occur in a step-by-step or column-by-column manner while data columns of the card are sensed
  • card feed wheels 86 and 86a shown in the schematic of Fig. 1, represent the means for movin and read lines 11 and 12.
  • the card After passing the reading line 12, the card is advanced cards past the punch to a position designated C from which it is shifted at i ht an les o a me hanism which delivers it to a dis: charge hopper 13.
  • Punch elements arranged along the line 11 may be controlled selectively from a keyboard, from a record card at the sensing line 12 or from a record on an auxiliary drum 230a. Various functions of the machine are controlled, modified or facilitated by a record card on a program drum 230.
  • Some of the functions are; numeric punching from a keyboard; automatic skipping of desired portions of a record card; X skipping of a desired' portion of a card (punch an 11 hole in the first column of a field and skip the remainder); duplicating data from a card at the read station to a card at the punch station; alphabetic punching from a keyboard; zero print eliminate (punch zeros to the left of a significant digit without printing the zeros) suppress printing of all data punched; duplicate data from the auxiliary drum 230a; punch multiple holes in a single card colurnrn'
  • the foregoing are normal functions of the reader and the punch.
  • a first card feed cycle is initiated to move a prepunched card from the hopper 10 (M) to a prepunch position A (M) shown in Fig. 1.
  • a second card feed cycle is initiated to move the first card from the position A (M) to the position E (M) in registration with the punching line 11 (M) and to move a second card to the position A (M).
  • a release cycle is initiated to release the first card from the position E (M) to the position F (M) in registration with the sensing line 12 (M), and at the end of the release cycle, a third card feed cycle is automatically initiated to advance the second card to position E (M) in registration with the line 11 (M), and a third card to the prepunch position A (M).
  • a third card feed cycle is automatically initiated to advance the second card to position E (M) in registration with the line 11 (M), and a third card to the prepunch position A (M).
  • the first card is read it is advanced to the position C (M).
  • a card feedcycle of the reader a card is advanced from the position (M) to the stacker 13 (M)
  • another card is advanced to the position F (M)
  • a third card is advanced to the position E (M)
  • a fourth card is advanced from the hopper (M) to the position A (M).
  • the punch is used as, a duplicating card punch
  • a first card feed cycle is initiated to advance a blank card from the hopper 10 (S) to the prepunch position A (S).
  • a second'card feed cycle is initiated to advance the first card to the position E (S) in registration with the punch line 11 (S) and a second card to the position A (S).
  • the converter With a prepunched order card, DC, at the reading line 12 (M), a blank detail card, D, at the punching line 11 (S) and the converter function switch 502 in its on position, the converter is in readiness for converting a multiple item order card into a plurality of single item order or detail cards. 7
  • the cards for use with the converter are conventional cards comprising twelve rows of data recording positions divided into eighty columns.
  • the first six columns of the order cards in the examples are. set aside for identification of a particular store within a chain of stores, and for identification of a particular order sheet.
  • the store and the order sheet may each be identified by three digit numbers.
  • Columns 7 through 56 of each order card are identified, in a catalog supplied to each store, with particular items that may be ordered. Twenty-three of the eighty columns, columns fifty-seven to eighty, are unused. It will be apparent that additional columns may be assigned to additional items. However, in consideration of factors not pertinent to this invention, the last twenty-three columns are not used in the preferred embodiment.
  • FIG. 3 An exemplary order card is shown in Fig. 3 to facilitate the subsequent description of the converter operation.
  • Columns one to six contain the store number, for example, 134" and the order sheet number, for example, 512.
  • Column seven contains the quantity 21;
  • column eight contains the quantity 7;
  • column nine is blank;
  • column ten contains the quantity 21; and the remaining columns are blank. This example is followed hereinafter in describing the circuitry and functioning of the converter.
  • the arrangement of the denomination designations in the order card is provided to avoid errors since the original cards. from which the. order cards are prepared are hand marked and it would be confusing to retain the normal designations 1 through 9 and require that the person ordering then; shift to thetop of the card for higher denominations. With the described arrangement the denominations increase from top to bottom of the card.
  • an auxiliary'card placed on the auxiliary drum 230a may be sensed to control the punches.
  • the auxiliary card used in the preferred embodiment is perforated to cause the punching of consecutive numbers 1-50 corresponding to columns seven to fifty-six of the auxiliary and order cards.
  • the columns. oneto six of the auxiliary card are blank Columns. seven to fifty-six are punched in accordance with the code described hereinbefore for the order card.
  • Program cards As describedin the cited Patent 2,647,581, when certain patterns of punches are sensed in the program card of a'machine, functions associated with particular patterns are performed automatically; for example, 12 holes in consecutive columns of a program car'd causes the corresponding columns of the card in the read or punch station to be skipped automatically; a blank column followed by 11 punches puts the machine in a condition for manual keying of data into corresponding columns of a card at the punch station; holes in consecutive columns causes data from corresponding columns of a card at the read station to be duplicated automatically in corresponding columns of a card at the punch station; a blank column followed by 2 holes causes zero print elimination to the left of the first significant digit in corresponding columns of a card at the punch station; and 3 holes in consecutive columns cause the suppression of printing of data punched in corresponding columns of a card at the punch station.
  • Reader program card The program card of the reader is shown in Fig. 5 and is punched as follows:
  • the number from column seven of the auxiliary card is translated and punched in columns seven and eight of the card D1 in a step designated 1B.
  • the numberin column seven of the card 0C1 is translated and punched in columns nine and ten of the card D1 in a step designated 1C.
  • the card D1 is advanced to the read line 12 (S) and a new detail card D2 is advanced to the punch line 11 (S).
  • the card 001 and the auxiliary card are advanced to column eight.
  • the data in columns one to six of the card D1 are duplicated into columns one to six of the card D2 in a step designated 2A.
  • the data in column eight of the auxiliary card are translated and punched in columns seven and eight of the card D2 in a step designated 23, and the .data in column eight of the card 001 are translated and punched in columns nine and ten of the card D2 in a step designated 2C.
  • the card D1 is advanced to the stacker 13 (S)
  • the card D2 is advanced to the read line 12 (S)
  • a card D3 is advanced to the punch line 11 (S)
  • the auxiliary card and the card 0C1 are advanced to column nine.
  • the data in the columns one to six of the card D2- are duplicated into columns one to six of the card D3 in a step designated 3A.
  • the data in column nine of the auxiliary card are translated and punched in columns seven and eight of the card D3 in a step designated 3B.
  • the data in column nine of the card 0C1 are translated and punched in columns nine and ten of the card D3 in a step designated 3C.
  • Columns one to six of each succeeding card are duplicated from the preceding detail card and the data in the auxiliary card' and the card 001 are translated and punched in the manner described until the last data-containing column of the card 0C1 has been read the corresponding data have been punched.
  • the card 0C1 is then advanced to stacker 13 (M) and a second order card, 0C2 is advanced to the read line 12 (M).
  • the procedure explained for the card 0C1 is repeated for all order cards in the hopper 10 (M).
  • Circuit description Referring to Figs. 7-14, the added circuitry is shown in dotted outline and is described hereinafter.
  • the reader circuit is shown in Figs. 10 to 14 and the punch circuit in Figs. 7 to 9.
  • the reader and the punch are to function together as the converter, so the converter function switch 502, shown in Fig. 11, is closed. With the switch 502 closed, a circuit is completed from the zero potential line 403 (M) through a line 504, the switch .592, relay coils 73P (pick), 73H (hold), 74P, 74H, 75F,
  • the relay points associated with R73, R74 and R75, and referred to hereinafter, are transferred. Twelve sets of relay points designated 73-1 to 73-12 are transferred when R73 is energized and, as shown in Fig. 10, connect the usual read station pin contacts 223 (M) to corresponding read relays designated RR1 through RR12.
  • relay contacts Twelve sets of relay contacts designated 74-1 to 74-12 are transferred when the R74 is energized.
  • the transfer points of the contacts 74-1 to 74-12 connect the auxiliary station contacts 246a-1 (M) to 246a-12 (M) to respective auxiliary relay designated AR1 through AR-12.
  • sense holes in a card at the read line 12 (M) and corresponding ones of the contacts 223 (M) are closed, circuits are completed through the normally closed points of R73 and the normally closed points of the relay R32 (M) to the usual interposer magnets designated 188-1 (M) through 188-12 (M).
  • Another circuit is complete from the read card lever RCL to a line 510, relay contacts 75-6, and the coil of a latch pick relay 47LP, through a line 512 to the line 402 (M).
  • the relay 47LP is of the type that, once energized, is latched and the contacts completed by the energization of the relay 47LP remain closed until a latch trip relay 47LT, shown in Fig; 13, is energized.
  • a circuit from contacts CF4 (M), through the contacts 75-9, the read card lever RCL and normally closed contacts 75-10, to the relay R3 (M) is broken by the opening of the contact 75-10.
  • the contacts 75-10 serve during normal punch operation to pick up R6 in parallel with R3 (M) since the relay contacts 6-b, 6-c, and 6-e, shown in Fig. 11, replace normal R3 (M) contacts 3-b and 3-0.
  • the normally open relay contacts 75-1 are used to isolate relay contacts 47-2 during normal key punch operation.
  • the relay contacts 75-3 shown in Fig. 12, complete the 0 star wheel contacts in the punch during normal key punch operation.
  • the relay contacts 75-4 shown in Fig. 11, provide a circuit from the contacts 6-]; to the program circuits of the reader when the reader is being used in the normal manner as a duplicating punch.
  • the relay contacts 75-5 shown in Fig. 11, complete the auto-duplication circuits in the reader during normal key punch operation thereof.
  • the relay contacts 75-7 shown in Fig. 12., are in series with the program drum 8 contacts and complete circuits for picking up a translation relay R56, also shown in Fig. 12.
  • Relay contacts 75-8 shown in Fig. 14, complete a circuit for use in the converter function for duplicating columns one to six of the order card into the first detail card of a card group.
  • the contacts 75-11 shown in Fig. 10, complete a circuit to the auxiliary pin contacts 246a (M) in parallel with the circuit to the read pin contacts 223 (M).
  • the relay contacts 75-12 shown in Fig. 13, isolate the P6 (S) pulses from the punch so that the punch cannot efiect spacing of the reader during normal duplicating punch operations.
  • the latch pick relay 47L? has three sets of contacts. During converter operation, when the relay contacts 47-1, shown in Fig. 11, close, they cause the release of a detail card in the punch during a reader feed cycle if no quantity had been sensed in the order card.
  • the relay contacts 47-2 and 47-3, shown in Fig. 11, are effective to drop out of the relay 47L? in the event it is energized when the release key or the feed key is depressed.
  • the relay R56 is picked up through the program contacts 8, shown in Fig. 12.
  • the relay contacts 56-1 shown in Fig. 13, are effective to switch the operation from column by column duplication from the order card at the line 12 (M) into the detail card at the line 11 (S) to the sequential reading out of values set up in the translation relay networks shown in Figs. 13 and'l4.
  • the relay contacts 56-2 shown in Fig. 12, are effective to cause duplication of columns one to six of one detail card into columns one to six of the following detail card when the order card is in a quantity field.
  • the relay points 56-3 shown in Fig. 13, are elfectiveto cause interrogation of the translation networks.
  • the relay R56 is tie-energized, its contacts 56-3 are effective to cause the spacing of the order card-in response to a P6 (S) pulse from the punch.
  • the relay contacts 56-4. condition the punch to take a punch cycle when the order card is in a quantity field.
  • the relay contacts 56-5 shown in Fig. 11, are efiective to provide hold circuits for the reader duplicating circuits during the time that one detail card is being escaped from the punch and another detail card is being fed'thereto during which time the contacts R3-e (8), shown in Fig. 8, are open.
  • the relay contacts 56-6 shown inFig. 14, are eifective to prevent the energizing of the relay R60 at P7 (M) time while an order card is in a quantity field.
  • a relay R33 shown in Fig. 8, having a number of sets of contacts is effective to interlock the operation of the reader and punch. Whenever the punch is duplicating, skipping, feeding cards, or at any time that the interposer bail contacts are closed, a circuit is completed to the first grid of a tube T-16 in Fig. '8 and the relay R33 in the plate circuit of the tube 'T-16, is energized to perform its interlocking function through its various contacts.
  • a latch pick relay 46LP shown in Fig. 13, is effective to start the sequential readout of four sets of storage relay networks representative of a tens digit column number, a'units digit column number, a tens digit quantity and a units digit quantity.
  • Four relays 49LP, 50LP, 51LP and 52LP are effective to cause the sequential interrogation of the four storage networks.
  • a relay R53P is provided with four sets of contacts. Its contacts 53-5, shown in Fig. 14, provide a hold circuit for the relay R53H. Its contacts 53-2, shown in Fig. 14, delay the starting of the above described sequential interrogation of storage relays to allow time for the feeding of detail cards in the punch.
  • Its contacts 53-4 shown in Fig. 13, switch the P6(S) pulses from interrogating the networks to spacing the order card
  • Its contacts 53-1 shown in Fig. 14, complete a circuit for picking the latch trip relay SZLT for deenergizing the latch pick relay 52LP.
  • the program cards of the reader and the punch are programmed to automatically commence duplication and when the card 001 :is registered with its column number one at the reading line 12(M'), duplication is started and the data in the identification field, columns one to six of the order card, are duplicated in columns one to six of the first detail card D1. When the order card is advanced with its column seven at the read line 12(M), the order card is then in the quantity field comprising columns seven to fifty-six.
  • the relay R60 picksup closing its contacts designated 60- 1 through 60-12 associated with lines designated 514-1 through 514-12 that run through a cable 516 to the punch interposer magnets 188-1 (S) through 188-12 (S) in Fig. 7.
  • P8 (M) time a circuit is completed from the line 403 ,(M) through the P8 (M') contacts, shown in Fig.
  • the plate of the tube is connected to the escape magnet 104 (S), the other side of which is connected through the wire 446 and the cam contacts P1 in Fig. 9 to the line 402 (S).
  • the escape magnet 104 (S) is operated to advance the card D1 one step to bring its first punching column beneath the rows of punches and upon energization it closes its contacts 107 (S) and 107a (S) in Fig. 8, of which contacts 107a (S) short circuits the bias resistor of the tube T3 (S) so that T3 (S) becomes conductive to energize the relay R22 (S) in Fig. 8, through the wire 446 (S) and the cam contacts P1 (S).
  • the relay R22 (S) thereupon opens its contacts 220 (S) in the grid circuit of the tube T4 (S) causing its deenergization of the escape magnet 104 (S) before the card D1 has advanced more than a single column or step.
  • Relay R22 (S) also shifts its contacts 22d (S) completing a circuit from the line 403 (S) to the contacts 3b (S) of the relay R3 (S) (now closed), the wire 447 (S), the contacts 22-d (S) transferred, to the first grid of tube T7 (S), rendering it conductive so that the punch clutch magnet 204 (S) in the plate circuit thereof is energized through the contacts P1 (S).
  • the reader program card moves synchronously with the order card and the auxiliary card, and as shown in Fig. 5, columns seven to fifty-six of the reader program card are punched with zeros to efifect duplication and also are punched with 8s to effect translation of data from the order card and the auxiliary card codes into the Hollerith code for punching in the detail cards.
  • a circuit is completed through the 8 contacts, shown in Fig. 12, through the transferred relay contacts 75-7 and the relaycontacts 1e (M) to the first grid of a tube T15 (M) thereby causing the tube T15 (M) to become conductive and energize the relay R56 in the plate circuit thereof.
  • the P7 (M) pulse is ineffective since, when the reader program card advanced to column seven, the relay R56 picked up and the contacts 56-6, shown in Fig. 14, opened.
  • the relay contacts RR8-3 and RR12-3, shown in Fig. 13 are transferred, and at P8 (M) time, -240 degrees of the reader cycle A (M) during which the order card was advanced to column seven, a circuit is completed from the line 403 (M) through the P8 (M) contacts, shown in Fig. 13, through the transferred relay contacts 56-1, through a line 523 and the transferred relay contacts RR12-3 and a line 524 to the latch relay 46LP and the line 402 (M).
  • the relay 46LP is picked and latched.
  • a parallel circuit is completed from line 524 through a rectifier 526 and a trip coil 47LT of the latch pick relay 47LP to the line 402 (M) thereby unlatching the latched relay 47LP.
  • the order card has no quantities punched therein, it is desired to release the detail card, D1, since it has thev identifying store number and order sheet number punched therein.
  • the previously described circuit through the relay contacts 75-1 and 47-1, shown in Fig. 11 to the R1 (S) coil of the punch effects a release of the detail card, D1, during the card feed cycle during which the order card, having no quantities punched therein, is released from the read line 12 '(M) and a new order card is fed thereto in the manner described hereinafter.
  • a latch relay 50LP is energized by a circuit from the line 403 (S), through the contacts P8 (S), a line 536 in the cable 516 to Fig. 14, a line 538, the transferred contacts 49-2 and the relay 50LP to the line 402*(M).
  • a parallel circuit from the line 538 through the contacts 49-1 energizes the latch trip relay 46LT thereby dropping out the relay 46LP.
  • cycle D 80-170 degrees of cycle C (S), during which column seven is punched, a circuit is complete from the line 403 (S) through the contacts P6 (S) in Fig. 7, the relay contacts e (S) (transferred), the line 520 in the cable 516 to Fig. 13, the contacts 6a, the transferred contacts 56-3, the normal contacts 53-4, through a line 540 and the transferred contacts 50-3, through the transferred contacts AR12-2 that represent the reading of the item number 1 in column seven of the auxiliary card, through a line 534-1 in Figs. 13 and 14, through a line 514-1 to the interposer magnet 188-1 (S), in Fig. 7, thereby causing an escape and punch cycle hereinafter referred to as cycle D (D) during which a 1 is punched in column eight of the card D1 representing the units digit of the item number.
  • cycle D 80-170 degrees of cycle C (S) during which column seven is punched
  • cycle F (S) and effecting the punching of a l in column ten of the card D1.
  • cycle E 200-260 degrees of cycle E (S)
  • the previously described circuit is completed from the line 403 (S), through the P8 (S) contacts in Fig. 9 and the iine 536 to the line 538 in Fig. 14, through the normal contacts 51-4, the transferred contacts 52-2 and the relay R531 to the line 402 (M).
  • a hold circuit is provided for the relay R53 as follows: from the line 403 (S) through the contacts PR3 in Fig. 8, through the contacts P.3d, (S), through a line 544 in the cable 516 to the contacts 53-5 in Fig. 14, through the relay R53H to the line 402 (M).
  • the card D2 is then escaped to the read line 12 (S), under program control and a new card D3 is advanced to the punch line 11 (S) and the order card, 0C1, and the auxiliary card are advanced one column.
  • the card D1 is advanced to the stacker 13 (S).
  • the P6 (S) pulse emitted during the punching of column ten of the card D2 is effective to cause cycle of the reader, hereinafter referred to as cycle H (M) and to cause a one-column advance of the order card, 0C1, and the auxiliary card to present their columns nine to their respective read lines.
  • cycle I a punch shaft cycle
  • the relays RR8, RR12 and ARI are energized representing the reading of the quantity 21" in column ten of the order card, 0C1, as shown in Fig. 3, and the item number 4 in column ten of the auxiliary card, as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the P8 (M) pulse interrogates the relay contacts RR12-3 through RR9-3 for each of the columns eleven through fifty-six and each time, upon finding none of the latter contacts transferred, initiates another one column advance of the order card and the auxiliary card.
  • the P8 (M) 7 pulse eifects'the usual one-column advance, column fiftyseven of the reader program card, shown in Fig. 5, which advances synchronously with the order card andauxiliary 0C1 advances past column eighty, the contacts PR3 (M),
  • CF cams described in the Patent 2,647,581, are actuated.
  • CF 5 (M) time a circuit is completed from the line 403 (M), through the contacts CFS (M), shown in Fig. 11, through a line 546, a relay R5 and a line 548 to the line 402 (M).
  • a card handling machine comprising, in combinatron, a card reading station, means for feeding at least one columnar prepunched record card through said reading station in a column by column manner, means operable synchronously with said card feeding means for emitting signals .coincidently with the reading of selected columns of said prepunched record card and indicative of respective ones of said selected columns, a card punching station, means for feeding blank record cards serially through said punching station in a column by column manner, means actuatable for causing punching of data in said blank record cards as they pass through said punching station, means controlled by the sensing of data in successive columns of said prepunched card and by the corresponding column indicating signals for actuating said actuatable means whereby successive blank record cards are punched each in accordance with data sensed in one of said successive columns of said prepunched record card and in accordance with said corresponding column indicating signals.
  • a card handling machine comprising, in combination, a card reading station adapted for reading at least one columnar prepunched record card, means for moving said card through said station in a column by column manner, means operable synchronously with the column by column reading of said prepunched card for emitting signals indicative differentially of said columns, a record card punching station, means for feeding other record cards serially through said punching station in a column by column manner, means actuatable for causing punching of data in said other record cards as they pass through said punching station, means controlled alternately by said column indicating signals and by the sensing of data in successive-onesof said columns otsaid prepunohed card for actuating said actuatable means whereby successive ones of said other record cards are punched each in accordance with data in one of said successive columns of said prepunched card and in accordance with said corresponding column indicating signals and means operable after the reading and punching of data from one of said successive columns and the punching of data according to said corresponding column signals for elfect
  • a card handling machine comprising, in combination, first means adapted for reading at least one columnar prepunched record card in a column by column manner, said card having selected columns punched in accordance with a first code and other selected columns punched in accordance with a second code, means operable synchronously with the column by column sensing I of said prepunched card for emitting signals indicative differentially of said columns punched in accordance with said second code, a card punching station, means for feeding other record cards serially through said punching station-in a column by column manner, means actuatable for causing punching of said other record cards as they pass through said punching station, means controlled by the reading of data in said selected columns of said prepunched card for actuating said punching means for duplicating last said data in corresponding columns of a first one of said other record cards, means controlled by the sensing of data in the first of saidother selected columns of .said prepunched card and by said corresponding column indicating signals for translating last said data and said corresponding signals and for causing punching
  • the invention set forth in claim 4 including means operable when an unpunched one of said other selected columns is read for effecting said one column advance of said prepunched card while suppressing the advancing of said other cards.
  • the invention set forth in claim 6 including means operable each time a prepunched card is advanced from said first reading means for advancing a succeeding prepunched card to said first reading means.
  • a card handling machine comprising, in combination, card reading means adapted for reading in a column by column manner a columnar prepunched record card having selected columns punched with data in accordance with a first code and other selected columns punched with quantities in accordance with a second code, second card reading means adapted for reading a code punched record card synchronously with the column by column reading of said prepunched card said code punched card being punched in accordance with said second code with numbers designating said other selected columns of said prepunched card, card punching means, means for serially feeding other record cards past said punching means in a column by column manner, means actuatable for causing punching of said other record cards as they pass said punching means, means controlled by the sensing of data in said selected columns of said prepunched card for actuating said punching means for duplicating data from said selected columns of said prepunched card into corresponding columns of a first one of said other record cards, means controlled by the reading of data in the first of said other selected columns of said prepunched card and by the

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