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Oct; 1968 H. ST. L. DANNATT 3,405,254
PNEUMATIC SENSING DEVICE Filed April 6, 1964 INVENTOR HUGH ST. L. DANNATT AGEN T United States Patent O 3,405,254 PNEUMATIC SENSING DEVICE Hugh St. L. Dannatt, Rowayton, Conn., assignor to Sperry Rand Corporation, New York, N.Y., a corporation of Delaware Filed Apr. 6, 1964, Ser. No. 357,459
3 Claims. (Cl. 23561.11)
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This invention relates to a pneumatic sensing device and more particularly to a pneumatic sensing device for sensing perforations in punched record cards or tapes.
There are various arrangements presently in use for sensing perforations in cards or tape. Probably the most common arrangement for detecting perforations is an apparatus which includes a plurality of pins which upon the perforated cards passing under them protrude through the perforation. In this way the pins make contact with a conductive plate or pin on the other side of the card to close a switch. Alternately, instead of using pins, brushes may be used which operate in essentially the same manner. The disadvantages with the above arrangements are that they are slow acting, mechanically complicated and therefore prone in many instances to mechanical failure.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a pneumatic sensing device for sensing holes or perforations in data bearing cards or tape Which is capable of operating at high speeds without undue mechanical failures or Wear.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic sensing device for sensing perforations of punched cards which is simple in construction and inexpensive to make and wherein the parts are self-adjusting, easy to service, and readily interchangeable and which is capable of operating at the high speeds demanded by present day equipment without appreciable lost time due to mechanical failure or wear in parts.
Other objects and many of the attendant advantages of this invention will be readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanied drawings in which like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the figures thereof and wherein:
FIGURE 1 illustrates partly in section a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIGURE 2 shows a view of FIGURE 1 taken along the lines 2-2 of FIGURE 1.
Referring now more particularly to FIGURE 1 there is shown one sensing element of the present invention of which there may be several in alignment as shown in FIGURE 2. A perforated card or tape 11 adapted to be moved to the left by drive means not shown is disposed between an appropriately biased spring 12 and platform 13 over which card 11 is passed. One end of spring 12 may be rigidly fixed in any convenient manner while the other end holds card 11 down on platform 13.
3,405,254 Patented Oct. 8, 1968 ICC- Each of the sensing elements of the present invention comprises a central chamber 14. Central chamber 14 is vented by means of vent 16 through platform 13. Central chamber 14 communicates with air supply manifolds 17 and 18 by means of openings 19 and 21 through Walls 22 and 23, respectively. Air supply manifolds-17 and 18 are formed by platform 13, bottom plate 24, and walls 22, 23, 26 and 27, respectively. Air supply manifolds 17 and 18 which are supplied with air at some desired pressure are used to supply air to all of the chambers 14 of each of the sensing elements 10 used.
Another opening 28 passes through bottom plate 24 connecting central chamber 14 to cylinder 15. A spherical ended plunger 29 is biased by spring element 31 against opening 28. Opening 28 has formed around it a spherical seating 32 for receiving the spherical end of plunger 29.
As may be seen from FIGURE 2 the pneumatic sensing device of the present invention would normally comprise a plurality of sensing elements like element 10 with each consisting of a central chamber 14, sensing vent 16, plunger 29, etc., and with each having its separate electrical circuit. As aforesaid, the air supply manifolds 17 and 18 may supply all of the central chambers 14 with pressurized air. The actual number of sensing elements arrayed in one unit depends on the number of rows in a card or tape having punched data therein to be sensed or read.
The present invention may be constructed so as to use vacuum instead of pressurized air by reversing the spring, plunger and seat portions to act within the chamber instead of without. This alternate method of construction would provide an automatic eliminating the spring.
Obviously many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teaching. Therefore, the particular modification disclosed should not be construed as limiting the invention which is set forth in the appended claims.
The embodiments of the invention in which an eX- clusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A pneumatic sensing device for sensing perforations in cards or tape, comprising in combination: first chamber means having an opening to the atmosphere, second chamber means, port means connecting said first chamber means to said second chamber means, plunger means disposed within said second chamber means, means normally biasing said plunger means against said port means, means for providing said first chamber means Withfiuid so that when said opening is closed said plunger means is moved away from said port means, conductor means connected to said port means and said plunger means forming a continuous electrical circuit only when said plunger means is against said port means.
2. A pneumatic sensing device for sensing perforations in cards or tape, comprising in combination: first chamber means having a flat surface, said first chamber means communicating with the atmosphere through an Opening in its fiat surface, means for providing said first chamber means with fluid second chamber means, port'means connecting said first chamber means to said second chamber means, plunger means disposed within said second chamcard-hold-down feature thus ber means, means biasing said plunger means against said port means, data card means adapted to move over "said flat surface and to thereby normally close said opening causing said plunger means to move away from said port means, said plunger means moving back against said port means when a perforation in said data card means coincides with said opening, conductor means connected to said port means and said plunger means forming a continuous electrical circuit only when said plunger means is against said port means.
3. A pneumatic sensing device for sensing perforations in cards or tape, comprising in combination: chamber means having an opening to the atmosphere and a port means, a valve means adapted to be seated into said port means when in a first position and to be withdrawn from said port means when in a secondposition, means normally biasing said valve means to one of its positions, means for providing said first chamber means with fluid at a predetermined pressure so that when said opening is closed said valve means is moved away from its biased position to its other position, and conductor means connected to said port means and said valve means forming a continuous electrical circuit only when said valve means is held against said port means.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,510,552 6/1950 Carroll et a1. 2,824,182 2/ 1958 Lambert.
DARYL W. COOK, Primary Examiner.
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