US2950462A

US2950462A - Device for automatically recording information in dependence upon previously enteredcode

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Publication number: US2950462A
Application number: US737136A
Authority: US
Inventors: Dzaack Heinz Adolf
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1958-05-22
Filing date: 1958-05-22
Publication date: 1960-08-23
Anticipated expiration: 1977-08-23

Description

H. A. DZAACK TICALL Aug. 23, 1960 DEVICE FOR AUTOMA Y RECORDING INFORMATION IN DEPENDENCE UPON PREVIOUSLY ENTERED CODE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 22, 1958 m? 2 mo 00 o P N m m m N.

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8 Claims. (Cl. 340-147) cal errors, indistinct writing etc. and also at recording errors may occur through erroneous entering of the detail price in the keyboard machine or other suitable machine.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate these errors and to enable a recording of the code together with the detail price without manually entering the detail price. Instead of the detail price one may also record the notation of the article in letters or the customers address etc. or both detail price and notation of the article. The invention relates to a device for automatically recording an information in dependence upon a previously entered code, and the invention is characterized thereby, that contact means, each corresponding to a digit (or other sign) in the respective digit place of the code, are provided, which when actuated connect a contact bank, the contacts of which are intended, in correspondence with the said information to be connected to operating magnets for the keys of a writing machine.

Embodiments of the invention are shown on the accompanying drawing, illustrating the mode of operation of the device.

Fig. 1 shows a tabulator for entering the number code and also the electrical circuit for transferring electrical impulses to a typewriter.

Fig. 2 shows a circuit for connection of the tabulator to price contact banks.

The operation of the device is as follows.

On the tabulator, which consists of two contact rows each of which is provided with a row of push buttons -9, the desired code is entered, for instance 01, which designates for instance an article costing crowns 30:45 per kilogram. In the first button row I, the button 0 is pushed in and in the second row II the button 1 is pushed in. Every button of the first row I is provided with two pairs of closing contacts and every button of the second row with 11 pairs of closing contacts.

The common conductor for the first contact row, Fig. 1, is connected via a conductor, with the contact 1 of a program device, Fig. 2, and when the arm 12 of the program device is in the position 1 the said conductor is connected to the plus pole of the battery. The push button 0 of the first row I then connects, through its left contact, the conductor to an operating magnet on a typewriter (not shown), for instance, for the purpose of actuating a corresponding key 0 of the typewriter, in a manner hereafter to be described, and the said button 0 connects through its right hand contact the conductor to a contact bank belonging to the second button row II, in the example chosen the first contact bank 0,

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or the 0 bank. Further the button 1 of the second button row II is pushed in, as said above, whereby the conductor 01 is energized, which conductor is connected to the relay B (Fig. 2). From the relay B the current flows to the pole of the battery. The four contacts b2, b3, b4, b5 of the relay B close 4 circuits to a contact bank The contact bank consists of 4 rows, each row comprising 10 contacts. Each row corresponds to a decade of the price notation, thus the first row corresponds to Iii-crowns, the second row to crowns, the third row to a tenth of a crown and the fourth row to a hundredth of a crown. The code combination 01, as set by the push buttons, corresponds in the example chosen to a detail price of crowns 30:45. With the aid of conductors, for instance metal plugs, the corresponding contacts of the contact bank are short-circuited. Through the relay contacts b2, b3, b4, [)5 each contact row is connected to one of the

contacts

3, 4, 5, 6 of the program device. The other side of the contacts of the contact bank is connected via a conductor to operating (drawing) magnets of a typewriter, for instance, which magnets actuate corresponding keys of the typewriter for writing the digits. These magnets are shown in Fig. 2 at the right hand side of the contact banks.

For recording the start button St is pushed in. Thereby a circuit is closed from the pole of the battery, via the conductor to the said start button St, a conductor to relay HR, and a conductor to the pole of the battery. The relay Hr closes its contacts hr and hr;. The contact lzr closes the motor circuit: battery hr motor Mt, battery The contact hr holds the relay HR, since a circuit is closed from battery through the conductor to contact hr contact or relay HR, conductor to battery Relay contacts (in and 6r are normally closed. The motor Mt turns the arm 12 of the program device in a clockwise direction, the arm 12' first arriving at the position 1. Thereby the magnet 0 of the typewriter receives current and the digit 0 is written: battery 4-, arm 12 of the program device, contact 1 thereof, conductor to the push button row I, the left contact of the push button 0, conductor 0 to the magnet 0 of the typewriter. In parallel thereto the current flows from the right hand contact of the push button 0 through the conductor to the push button row II, the button 1 of this push button row II, conductor 01 to relay B, battery The relay B closes its contacts b2, b3, b4, b5, belonging to the contact bank 01, but the keys of the typewriter are not yet actuated by an operating magnet. Through relay B also the contact b1 is closed, whereby relay B is held.

Thereafter the contact arm 12 arrives at the position 2. In this position the circuit to the push button row I is opened. Through contact 11 of the button 1 the current flows to the magnet 1 of the typewriter, and the digit 1 is written: battery conductor to arm 12 of the program device, contact 2 thereof, conductor to contact 11 of the push button 1, conductor 1 to magnet 1 of the typewriter 1, conductor to battery Then the arm 12 continues its movement to position 3. The circuit to magnet 3 of the typewriter is closed and the digit 3 is written: battery conductor to arm 12, contact 3, conductor to contact b2, contact 3 of the contact bank 01, conductor to magnet 3 of the typewriter. When the a rm 12 of the program device arrives at the position 4, the circuit is closed to magnet 0 of the typewriter, and the digit 0 is written: battery conductor to arm 12, contact 4, conductor to contact b3, contact 0 of the contact bank, conductor to magnet 0, conductor to battery When the arm 12 continues its movement to position 5, the magnet 4 receives current, and the digit 4 is written: battery conductor to arm 12, contact 5, conductor to contact b4, contact 4 of the contact bank, conductor to magnet 4, conductor to battery When the arm 12 arrives at position 6, the circuit to magnet 5 is closed, and the digit 5 is Written: battery conductor to arm 12, contact 6, conductor to contact b5, contact 5 of the contact bank, conductor to magnet '5, conductor to battery When the arm 12 arrives at position 7, the magnet U of the typewriter is energized and effects for instance an operation for displacing the ticket to the next line. When the arm 12 continues its movement to position 8, the circuit is closed to relay OR. Thereby the contacts or and or are opened. As a consequence thereof the circuit to relay HR is opened, and its contacts hr and hr are opened. The motor Mt then receives no current and the arm 12 stops at position 0. At the same time 01' opens the circuit to the relay B of the contact bank 312,

and the contacts b and are opened. A new recording can take place.

The invention is not restricted to the constructional form herein described and illustrated, but several modifications thereof are possible. For example, instead of the relays A-K contacts may be used, which are attached directly to the push buttons. Further, it is also possible, instead of contact banks having ten rows of contacts (Fig. 2) to use contact banks each consisting of one such row only i.e. four contacts (or another desired number thereof), the conductors to the typewriter being connected with flexible conductors, by plugs, which are inserted in the contacts of the contact bank. Thus, in the example shown the plugs connected to the

conductors

3, 0, 4, 5 would be inserted in the four contacts of such a contact bank. Instead of the digits being transferred in time succession by means of a program device, when using the construction as described and illustrated, they may also be transferred simultaneously to a writing machine having a complete keyboard, the contacts of the contact bank then being connected at each with a magnet of the said machine.

What I claim is:

1. A device for automatically printing information in response to operation of coded selector members comprising, a plurality of operable devices for respectively eflecting printing of a selected character, a plurality of information stores, each store including a plurality of energizable elements respectively connected to the operable devices for rendering them operable to eifect character printing, programming means common to all of said information stores for sequentially energizing each of the elements of a selected store, means for selecting an information store comprising a plurality of selectively operated members designated by code indicia, and means separating associated with each store and respectively responsive to the operation of a lesser number of predetermined members than the energizable elements of a store for connecting the energizable elements of an associated store to the programming device to be energized thereby in sequence, for rendering the devices operative to eifect the printing of information corresponding to the selected code.

2. A device in accordance with claim 1, including additional energizable elements respectively connected to' the operable devices and means responsive to operation of each of the members for connecting a respective additional energizable element to the programming device to be energized thereby in timed relation to the sequential energization of the elements of a selected store.

3. A device for automatically printing desired information in response to operation of coded selecto'r members comprising, a plurality of electrically energizable elements for operating respective character printing devices, a plurality of information stores, each store including a plurality of separately energizable circuits, each circuit being connected through a respective normally open switch to a selected electrically energizable element, programming means for sequentially energizing the separate circuits, means for selecting an information store comprising a plurality of selectively operated members designated by code indicia, and means separately associated with each store and respectively responsive to the oper ation of a number of predetermined members less in number than the switches of a store, for closing the switches of its associated store, whereby the energizable elements become sequentially energized to effect printing of the information corresponding to the selected code.

4. A device in accordance with claim 3, including a second plurality of normally open switches adapted to be respectively closed upon operation of the selectively operated members in selecting an information store, and a circuit connecting a respective one of the electrically energizable elements through a closed switch of the second plurality to the programming device to be energized in timed relation to the sequential energization of the separatelyenergizable circuits of a store, to effect printing of a character representing the selectively operated member.

5. A code selected price printing circuit comprising, a plurality of energizable elements for respectively operating different number printing devices, a plurality of storage circuits, each storage circuit having successive conductors respectively connected to selected energizable elements such that different combinations of numbers will be printed upon energization of the elements under control of different storage circuits, switch means for se quentially connecting a source of energy to successive output terminals, a switch between the successive con ductors of each store and the respective successive output terminals, a plurality of selectively operable members to be operated in accordance with a code and means responsive to the operation of a lesser number of predetermined members than the number of conductors in a storage circuit for closing the switches between the successive conductors of a selected storage circuit and the output terminals of the sequentially operated switch, whereby the price corresponding to a designated code will be printed.

6. A device for printing the price corresponding to a selected code comprising, a plurality of electrically energizable elements for respectively operating number printing devices, a conductor connected to each of the energizable elements, a plurality of information storage circuits each including a plurality of normally open switches, oneterminal of each switch in a storage circuit being connected to a selected one of the conductors, the other terminal of each switch of a storage circuit being connected to a corresponding other switch terminal of the other storage circuits, a programming device for sequentially connecting the other switch terminals to a source of power code selecting members and means operated by a lesser number of members than the number of switches of a storage circuit, for closing .all the normally open switches of a selected storage circuit whereby the conductors connecting selected energizable elements for operating the printing devices and the one terminal of the switches may be sequentially energized by the programming device.

7. A device in accordance with claim 5, in which the switches of each storage circuit comprise the contacts of a relay and a separate circuit connected to each relay, each circuit being energizable by operation of predetermined code selecting members for closing the contacts of a selected storage circuit.

8. A device for printing the price corresponding to a selected code comprising, a plurality of electrically energizable elements for respectively operating number printing devices, a conductor connected to each of the energizable elements, a plurality of information storage circuits each including a plurality of column conductors, a plurality of row conductors common to all of the storage circuits and respectively connected to an energizable element, means connecting a junctionof each column conductor with a selected row conductor, a normally open switch connected between each column conductor of a storage circuit and a source of energy, selecting members operated in accordance with a code, means responsive to operation of a lesser number of predetermined selecting members than column conductors of a storage circuit to close the switch of each column conductor of a storage circuit and means for sequentially connecting the source of energy to each column conductor through the switch for sequentially operating energizing elements of the number printing devices.

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