US2992294A

US2992294A - Business machines

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Publication number: US2992294A
Application number: US620310A
Authority: US
Inventors: John D Dillon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1956-11-05
Filing date: 1956-11-05
Publication date: 1961-07-11
Anticipated expiration: 1978-07-11

Description

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BY John D. Dillon His Attorney J. D. DILLON BUSINESS MACHINES 2 mm 96 2 wcozgm :4 2:"

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BY John D. Dillon His Attorney July 11, 1961 J. D. DILLON 2,992,294

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INVENTOR.

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BY John D. Dillon Hisi Forney July 11, 1961 J. o. DILLON 2,992,294

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BY John D. Dillon His tiny July 11, 1961 J. D. DILLON BUSINESS MACHINES l9 Sheets-Sheet 12 Filed Nov. 5, 1956 Conducting Wires .Pole actors Jo ecting con n Com Rotary Switches I (See Fig. 7) Card Reader Fig 6/ e G. n h F Spring Support Condu g Wir 1N VEN TOR.

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BY John D. Dillon His Attorney July 11, 1961 J. D. DILLON BUSINESS MACHINES Filed Nov. 5, 1956 19 Sheets-Sheet 15 Fig. 8k. Register Push-Button Switch F I Ready ln-Use Wolf I Go {I} l Fig. 8b. Dial Connect/ans Fig. 8a Traffic Routing Rotary Switch, RS -01 IO 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I 0 R Q Q w H b J J T J T Ti 7 K \LLJrClnLJA J TX I F Read Lump Q h 0 L Y m lfl l J sbe Ry-lDro g l Steady 8+ Z I? .6. b0 c RY- RDi y Re'wse Remy 0/a/amaf/c 574770 8+ from RL (Fig. 30,3c 8 3f.) via the searcher rotary switch wiper contacts 0. I Fig. 8d. Dial Control and Release Circuit V EN TOR Fig. 81?. Holding Relay, RY-DH] BY John D. Dillon His A orney July 11, 1961 J. D. DILLON BUSINESS MACHINES l9 Sheets-Sheet 16 Filed Nov. 5, 1956 Fig.8/7. Communications Lines Fig. 81'. Punch r Q m m mm .m e ND m M m Ill mw G i h 497l C 8 00.0 00 0 0 000 F 00 0o 0 00 0 n 0 o m F bu cu odll :8" l

l (See Figs.4 a 7d) Punched Paper Tape Output of Punch ldenhfler Fig. 8f? Rotary Switch, IRS-0.9; Dial Message S/ore INVEN TOR.

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BY John D. Dillon His Attorney July 11, 1961 BUSINESS MACHINES .Fi'led Nov. 5, 1956 Fig. 9b. Rotory Stepping Switches ERS- 3 and HRS-4. Count time in hours iftrom (O0 to 23 hours in code.

,J. D. DILLON 19 Sheets-Sheet 18 Fig. 0.

'00 to 59 minutes in code.

f fi if L *1 1RS- 4 R;S3 RS 2 R8 icouznfis lhmurs Counts hours Counts tens Counts minutib y tens from '0 by units from L0 i j of minutes, from es by units from rito 1'2, inolus'ivle. to 9, i n usfive, O to 5,inc-lusive. O 109, inclusive f upon receipt of; When RS-Z on the 10th mini reaches "the 2 I eoch lOth curry vreaches the 5 ute, RS-l od- Comu position, R's-3 idigit pulse from "position and RS- vunces to new Clock the 3 position, RS-2. RS-3 cd- ""1 reaches the 9 trot, resets to me a IRS-.2 the 5 vonces to neuposition, relays O, and passes shown in position and ,ltrol, resets to O, RY-l and RY-2 a carry (tens) figure RS-l the 9 and posses o are energized digit to RS-Z position, retoys carry (tens-ofto pass a carry RY-i,2,3ond4 hours) digit to (hours) digit to are simuitoneous- RS 4 RS-3 and to ly energized. to reset RS-2 deliver 0' carry to 0. digit (day to RY-5 and to order reloys RS4, 3,2 81 reset toQ #4 To R To RY-3 To RY-2 To RY-| 2 8- b g a 0 E5 0 A E o 5 L m L.- g 3 C 2 815 L 9 3 6,3 5 2 s L Zfis= Z15 3% 3 s 29g 153 15% as 1%.: 5 E -5 L 3 5:6. a 1 l o: C L- -Q -C "O0 II 5 as 2% (as 3 3 Ese sass see (is 1 i 5.3;

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Rotary Stepping Switches RS-B and J. D. DILLON BUSINESS MACHINES 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 Fig. 9c.

Rotary Stepping Switches RS-5, RS-S and RS-7. Count time in days from 1 to 366 days in code:

r a r L RS-9 RS-8 RS-7 RS-6 Rs-s l Counts years COUniS years Counts days in Counts days by :Counts days by: by tens from O in units from O hundreds from tens fromvO tounits; from, to 9, inclusive to 9, inclusive. 0 to 3 inclusive 9, inclusive; 9-, inclusive.

When RS-9 re- When RS-Bre- When RS-7 WhenRSFS l when- RS-5 ceives its lOth ceives its lOth reaches its 3pos:-- receives the IOlhV "receivesithe lOth a carry digit from carry digit from ition,RS-6 its. 6jcarry pulse-tram: carry pulsefrom RS-S, it will ud- Rs-7, it will adposition-,RSZ-Siits cdvflnc-gRs-sll i1 edvuncv-i vance to neutral vance to neutral, 6 position, R5;--4J es: to neutral, es toneutral, and reset to O. resets to O and itsr2iposition- RS3i fresets to O, and f resets to- O, and This would occur passes a carry its. SpositibmRS-Zl passes 0 curry passes a carry for the first "(l0 year) digit to its; 55 positions A (lOO days) digiit. (l0 days) digit time in the year RS-9. i and RS -li2ts9 :to RS-T; t m- RS-6. 2000. position, relaysi 1 R'IY l;, 2', 3 ,4, 5,6 4 and Tare. energi'zed simulta- R96 T0 neously. To deliver a carry tdigit to RS-8 and to order relays RY-l,2,3, 4,5,6 and 7 reset to zero. [Each regular year (not leap years) the technician will set this counter ahead one day on the last day of the year.]

l To RY'7 INVENTOR.

BY John D. Dillon torney States Patent 2,992,294 BUSINESS MACHINES John D. Dillon, 1001 Riverside Drive, Melbourne, Fla., assiguor, by niesne assignments, of one-half to William J. Ruano, Pittsburgh, Pa. Filed Nov. 5, 1956, Ser. No. 620,310

- 6 Claims. (Cl. 178-46) This invention relates generally to business machinery to facilitate records keeping and accounting and, more particularly, to a system and mechanism for storing fixed and variable source data in code form and for subse quently translating or recording such data in any desirable form.

An outstanding disadvantage of present day business accounting methods is that great dependence is made upon the human element, such as entries by a clerk on cards, etc. andthe transfer of such entries onto other records or machines, such as computing machines. Human errors, therefore, generally arise in such entries and transfers. Moreover, conventional record keeping sysmm are extremely time-consuming and involve considerable expense for their maintenance.

Although machines have been used to perform calculations on fixed data, such machines have left much wanting, particularly as to simplification of systems preceding use'of the machines and in elimination of errors and expenses involved therein.

:An object of the present invention is to provide business systems and apparatus that are devoid of the above named disadvantages and which will enable very speedy and accurate entry, storage, transfer, collating and recording of information at only a small fraction of the time and cost of use of conventional systems and apparatus. a

A more specific object of the invention is to provide a novel system to facilitate records keeping and accounting in manual, machine and manual-machine systems.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel system whichwill capture fixed and variable source data at its origin and immediately and automatically translate the data into machine language, such as teletypewriter code, and transmit such machine language data to a near or remote device, such as a paper card, tape punch, or the like, which may be transmitted to a teletypewriter, computer, converter, recorder or other machine.

Another specific object of the invention is to provide novel apparatus for storing, in machine language, such as teletypewriter code, information fed into the machine from a plurality of coded input sources, such as cards, time clocks, dials, wired-in or already stored fixed data etc., thereafter collating and combining such information and translating the resultant into usable form, such as by feeding it into another machine, such as a teletypewriter, computer, converter etc. I

A still further object of the invention is to provide a novel type input card which distinguishes from ordinary punched cards (such as IBM cards) used to operate business machinery. The cards according to the present invention are of conducting material, instead of paper, and the positions of the holes are not correspondingly meaningful.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a time and records keeping system including a time clock which operates in code language, such as teletypewriter code.

A still more specific object of the invention is to provide a novel automatic business machine selectively operated in teletypewr'iter code, by one of a plurality of punched cards or one of a plurality of dials, as selected by a controller, to feed in fixed and variable data,

also operated by a time clock in teletypewriter code to feed in variable time data, all of which data is combined, transmitted over a teletypewriter communication system and Efinally converted into either a form for reading, as by a teletypewriter, or used to actuate a business machine, such as a computer.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become more apparent from a study of the following description taken with the accompanying drawings.

It should be noted that for the sake of brevity, I have coined a number of new words or trademarks, such as Codomatic, Amicode, Cardamatic, etc., which are referred to in the following description of figures and which are fully defined thereafter.

DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES FIGURE 1 is a functional block diagram of the Codamatic System, showing the functional interrelationships of the various modules of the system.

FIGURE 1a shows a card input, one of the Card Readers shown in FIG. 2b.

FIG. 1c shows a number of Dial Stations, each of whose inputs is a dialled message followed by a Go signal.

FIG. 1d is the Controller, which permits but one Card Reader or Dial Station to operate at a time and which controls the sequence of electrical operations within the Codamatic System.

FIG. 12 is the Master Timer which records the time continuously in teletypewriter code.

FIG. 1] is the Communications system which may be only a few feet in length for local operation, or a commercially available long lines system such as A. T. & T. or Western Union.

FIG. 1g is the paper tape punch, which accepts electrical signals from the Card Reader Stations, Dial Stations and the Master Timer to produce a punched paper tape output in S-Channel teletypewriter code.

FIG. 1h indicates the paper tape output.

FIG. 11 illustrates the operation of the signal lamp circuits. FIG. 1i (1) shows the signal lamps in ready condition at all stations. FIG. 11 (2) shows the signal lamp conditions at all stations when station #1 is in use. FIG. 1i (3) shows the signal lamp conditions at all stations when the action at station #1 is completed and station #N is in use.

FIG. 2 is an expanded functional block diagram of the Codamatic System, and shows somewhat more detail than FIG. 1.

FIG. 2a shows an Amicode card input to any one of the Cardamatic Stations. Cardamatic Station #1 is shown since it is a typical station. FIG. 2b shows that within each Card Reader are the control circuits essential to its operation, designated as Master Control #1 in the figure, a Card ReadingRotary Switch, start push-button switches, called In and Out, and signal lamps with the associated circuitry.

FIG. 20 is a block diagram of Dialamatic Station #1, which is a typical station. It consists of a Dial, a Go switch, dial control and release circuits, a selector rotary switch, RSD1, Dial Message Digit stores designated RSD2 to RSD8, inclusive, a Master Dial Message Store, RS-D9, and a Time Delay Relay.

FIG. 2d is the Controller which governs the sequence of actions in the Codamatic System. It consists of a Holding Relay, Trafiic Manager (a rotary stepping switch), a Searcher (a rotary stepping switch), a Reading Pulses Generator and a Records Keeper, as indicated in the diagram.

FIG. 2e is the Master Timer consisting of an electromechanical device (the Clock) which generates electrical pulses at the rate of one per minute, a clock ad-