US3432022A - Multiple-color printing structure for bookkeeping machines and the like - Google Patents

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US3432022A
US3432022A US544245A US3432022DA US3432022A US 3432022 A US3432022 A US 3432022A US 544245 A US544245 A US 544245A US 3432022D A US3432022D A US 3432022DA US 3432022 A US3432022 A US 3432022A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
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  • my invention relates to that part of the structure of a machine of the above type which provides printing on sheets such as vouchers, control strips, and the like.
  • My invention relates in particular to structures of this type where the imprint is made on sheets of the above type in different colors.
  • the objects of my invention include the provision of a structure which makes it possible to release the connection between elements of the structure so that sheets can be introduced into and removed from the apparatus in an exceedingly convenient manner while still permitting the apparatus to be quickly and easily set up in an operating position after a new supply of sheet material has been provided in the machine.
  • the bookkeeping machine or the like is provided with a pair of positioning means for respectively positioning a pair of sheets at locations where they are adapted to receive imprints through inked ribbons, respectively.
  • My bookkeeping machine also includes a pair of these inked ribbons which are situated at the above locations to provide the imprints on the sheets, and each of these inked ribbo-ns has at least a pair of different colors extending longitudinally therealong.
  • This pair of inked ribbons are respectively supported by a pair of support means for movement between a pair of different positions where the differently colored portions will respectively be situated at a printing position.
  • one of the support means supports one of the inked ribbons for movement between a first printing position where one color is at a printing location and a second printing position where the other color is at a printing location, and in much the same way the other support means supports the other of the ribbons where the first color thereof is in the printing position and this other ribbon can be moved by way of its support means to a second position where the second color is in a printing position.
  • a single switching means is operatively connected to both of these support means for simultaneously situating both of the inked ribbons in the first printing position or both of the inked ribbons in the second printing position, so
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary perspective side elevation of one possible embodiment of a structure according to my invention, this structure being shown in its coupled condition in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 2 shows the structure of FIG. 1 in a side elevation as it appears from the side opposite from that visible in FIG. 1, and in addition FIG. 2 shows the structure in its uncoupled condition.
  • the illustrated structure includes an inked ribbon 1 which has a plurality of different colors.
  • the inked ribbon 1 has a pair of colors, red and black, for example, extending longitudinally therealong.
  • the inked ribbon 1 is adapted to be situated by a support means described below at a location where it will participate in providing an imprint on a sheet such as a voucher or check, and a positioning means also described below positions this latter sheet at a location properly situated with respect to the ribbon 1 so as to receive the imprint therethrough.
  • the portion of the ribbon 1 through which the imprint is made extends horizontally and is parallel to a rotary paper roller or platen 3 which is adapted to support a second sheet, such as a control strip,
  • roller or platen 3 acts as a positioning means to determine the location of the control strip.
  • the inked ribbon 1 is guided between a pair of spools 40 and 4021 by a pair of ribbon-guiding levers 2 each of which has two sets of inwardly curved ribbon-guiding fingers 2' extending inwardly over the outer edges of the ribbon 1 and suitably carry ribbon guide posts 2a and 2b.
  • the pair of ribbon-guiding levers 2 are pivotally connected, by means of pivot pins 6, respectively, to a pair of levers 5, respectively, which are supported for turning movement by a shaft 7 which is in turn carried by the housing 4 of the machine.
  • This shaft 7 extends between the side walls of the housing 4.
  • Horizontal ears 41 and 42 are respectively connected to the pins 6 and the fingers 2.
  • a push-bar 8 is pivotally connected at one end to a lever and at its opposite end to a cam-follower lever 9 which has a camfollower roller 9 rotatably mounted thereon and maintained in any suitable way in engagement with the camming periphery of a rotary cam 10.
  • the lever 9 will be turned about a fixed pivot pin 9a to act through the push-bar 8 on the lever 5 to control movement of the levers 2 which carry the ribbon 1.
  • the structure shown in FIG. 1 for one of the levers 5 is duplicated to cooperate also with the other of the levers 5, so that both of the ribbon levers 2 will always be moved in precisely the same way.
  • the pair of ribbon-guiding levers 2 are pivotally connected by way of pivot pins 12 to the upper ends of a pair of rock-levers 11 which are themselves pivotally connected by way of pivot pins 13 to a pair of control levers 14.
  • Each lever 14 carries a dog pin 14' which is straddled by a forked end portion 15" of a shiftable control bar 15 which is pivotally connected at its bottom end to a control lever 16.
  • a spring 17 is fixed at one end to a stationary support and at its opposite end is connected to the shiftable member 15 for constantly urging the latter back into its starting position.
  • the lever 14 is fixedly mounted on a rotary shaft 18 on which there is also fixedly mounted a lever 19. This lever 19' is provided at its upper left end, as viewed in FIG.
  • a spring 20 is connected at one end to a stationary pin or the like and at its opposite end to the lever 19 so as to constantly tend to rotate the latter, and this spring 20 tends to turn the lever 19 in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. 1.
  • a receipt voucher 23 is indicated therein, and this receipt voucher 23 has its location determined by a positioning means which includes the funnel-shaped inlet guide 21 for the receipt voucher 23-, this guide 21 being provided at the printing position with openings 22 passing therethrough, so that in this way the portion of the sheet 23 which is to receive an imprint will be in registry with the openings 22.
  • the positioning means 3 in the form of a paper roller or platen, and this positioning means 3 is carried by a tiltable supporting frame or housing 24.
  • This frame 24 carries a known control strip feeding device and it is pivotally mounted on a shaft 25 for tilting movement about the shaft 25 in such a way that the control strip 26 can be brought into the printing position, indicated by the line 27 in FIG. 2, this control strip 26 being the other sheet whose location is determined by the positioning means 3.
  • the frame 24 serves as a mounting structure for a support means which supports a second inked ribbon 28 which also has a plurality of colors and which in fact has the same colors as the ribbon '1.
  • the second inked ribbon 28, through which the imprint is provided on the sheet 26 also has a pair of different colors extending longitudinally therealong, and these colors may also be red and black.
  • the arrangement of the colors on one of the ribbons is the reverse of the arrangement of the all) colors on the other of the ribbons.
  • the ribbon 1 has an upper black zone In and a lower red zone 112
  • the ribbon 28 will have an upper red zone 28a and a lower black zone 28b.
  • the inked ribbon 28 for coacting with the control strip 26 is derived from a supply spool 29 (FIG. 2) from which the ribbon 28 is guided for movement to a second spool 29a (FIG. 1).
  • the structure which guides the ribbon 28 includes a pair of levers 30, 30a which respectively form a support means supporting the inked ribbon 28 for movement between a first printing position where one of its colors is situated at the elevation of the line 27 of FIG. 2 and a second printing position where the other of its colors is located at the elevation of the printing line 27 of FIG. 2.
  • the levers 2 form a support means supporting the ribbon 1 for movement between first and second printing positions where the different color zones of the ribbon 1 are respectively situated at the elevation of the printing line 27.
  • These supporting levers 3t ⁇ and 39a respectively have ribbon-guiding and supporting portions 32 and 32a which directly engage and guide the ribbon 28.
  • a switching means is provided for switching the supporting levers for the inked ribbons between the positions where the differently colored portions of the ribbons 1 and 28 will be located at the printing elevation 27, and this switching structure of my invention includes a pair of levers 33 and 33a which respectively form integral extensions of the levers 39 and 30a and which respectively carry motion-transmitting pins 34 and 34a which form part of a motion-transmitting means of my invention in the form of a pin-and-slot connection which includes the above-mentioned slots or notches 19a of the levers 19.
  • the pins 34 and 34a can respectively be received in the slots 19a of the levers 19.
  • the machine housing 4 is provided at both of its side walls with a pair of open eyes or notches 4a (FIG. 2) which are adapted respectively to receive a pair of stoppins 24a of the frame 24 when the latter is tilted about the shaft 25 in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. 2.
  • a releasable locking lever 35 is provided at the housing 24 (FIG. 2), and the operator can turn the locking lever 35 so that in a known way through an unillustrated pinand-slot connection the housing 24 is releasably locked with the machine housing 4.
  • the lever 35 when the lever 35 is in its locking position it is not possible to displace the frame 24 from the position where its pins 24a are respectively situated in the openings 4a.
  • the lever 35 will initially be turned to its unlocking position so that the frame 24 can be turned to the uncoupled position of FIG. 2, thus facilitating the introduction of a new control strip 26 which can be threaded into the strip-feeding structure which is of a conventional construction and which is carried by the frame 24.
  • the frame 24 is turned in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG.
  • the stop-pins 2411 are respectively received in the openings 4a of the machine housing 4, and then the operator turns the releasable locking lever 35 so as to lock the frame 24 in its operative position from which it cannot be moved until the lever 35 is again displaced to its release position.
  • the levers 19 of the switching means of my invention are operatively coupled with the levers 33 and 33a which form a pair of actuating levers respectively connected with the support means formed by the pair of levers 30 and 30a by being integral extensions thereof, as pointed out above.
  • levers 30 and 30a are supported for turning movement about the coaxial pins 31 which are respectively carried by the side walls of the frame 24 so that these pins 31 provide an axis of turning for the support levers 30 and 30a while the ribbonsupporting levers 2 are supported for turning movement about the common axis defined by the pair of pins 6, so that with the structure of my invention the pair of support means for the pair of inked ribbons are respectively turnable about a pair of parallel axes between which this pair of support means extends with the levers which constitute one of the support means extending toward the levers which constitute the other of the support means.
  • actuating levers 33, 33a, on the one hand, and 14, on the other hand are interconnected with the levers of the support means so as to turn in the same directions as these latter levers, while the levers 19 will transmit the turning of the levers 14 to the levers 33 and 33a so as to provide for the ribbon 28 a direction of movement which is always opposed to the direction of movement provided for the ribbon 1.
  • the levers 30 and 30a are retained in position when the housing 24 is in uncoupled position by means of a locking pin 36, extending from the housing 24 and inserted in an opening 37 formed in the lever 30, when the slot 19a formed in the lever 19 disengages from the pin 34 as the housing 24 pivots away from the housing 4 about the pivot shaft 25.
  • the lever 30 pivots clockwise as shown in FIG. 2 until the pin 36 comes into abutment with the edge of the opening 37. This pivoting motion is great enough to permit the pin 34 to come into contact with the inclined edge 1% of the lever 19 when the housing 24 is again pivoted, so that the pin 34 can be inserted into the slot 19a.
  • the rotary cam disc turns and acts through the cam-follower lever 9 to turn the latter in such a way that the push-bars 8 act on the levers 5 to turn the latter in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. 1.
  • the ribbon-supporting levers 2 simply rest on the upper ends of the rock-levers 11 which turn about the pivots 13 so as to displace the ribbon 1 to its printing location, and in the particular position shown in FIG. 1 it is the upper half of the ribbon 1 which is situated at the elevation of the printing line 2 so as to be in a printing position.
  • the levers 19, 33, 11, 2 and are designed in such a way that when the upper portion of the ribbon 1 is situated at the printing elevation 27, the lower portion of the ribbon 28 is simultaneously situated at the same elevation and of course in alignment with the upper portion of the ribbon 1. This is the coupled position of the parts which is shown in FIG. 1.
  • a pair of housings one of which is pivotable toward and away from the other, a pair of positioning means respectively housed by said housings and respectively positioning a pair of sheets at locations for receiving typing imprints through inked ribbons, respectively, a pair of inked ribbons respectively mounted in said housings and situated at said locations for determining the color of the imprints provided on the sheets through the inked ribbons, each of said inked ribbons having at least two different colors eX- tending longitudinally therealong, a pair of support means respectively mounted in said housings and supporting said pair of inked ribbons for movement of each ribbon between a pair of printing positions, one of said support means supporting one of said ribbons for movement between finst and second printing positions where one of the colors of said one ribbon will be typed in said first printing position and the other of said colors of said one ribbon will be typed in the second printing position thereof, and
  • said single switching means includes a pair of levers respectively connected operatively to said pair of support means and a motion-transmitting means cooperating with said levers for transmitting the motion of one of said levers to the other of said levers.
  • pinand-slot connection includes an elongated slot which is open at one end for receiving a pin of said pin-and-slot connection, so that said levers can be displaced away from each other to non-operative positions where they do not engage each other and said motion-transmitting means is not operative to transmit motion between said levers.
  • a pair of positioning means respectively positioning a pair of sheets at locations for receiving typing imprints through inked ribbons, respectively, a pair of inked ribbons respectively situated at said locations for determining the color of the imprints provided on the sheets through the inked ribbons, each of said inked ribbons having at least two different colors extending longitudinally therealong, a pair of support means respectively supporting said pair of inked ribbons for movement of each ribbon between a pair of printing positions, one of said support means supporting one of said ribbons for movement between first and second printing positions where one of the colors of said one ribbon will be typed in said first printing position and the other of said colors of said one ribbon will be typed in the second printing position thereof, and the other of said support means supporting the other of said ribbons for movement between first and second printing positions where one color of said other ribbon will be typed when said other ribbon is in said first printing position and the other color of said other ribbon will be typed when said other ribbon is in said second position thereof, and a single switching means operative
  • said pair of support means respectively include levers turnable about parallel axes with said levers extending toward each other between said axes and said switching means including a pair of actuating levers respectively connected with said levers of said pair of support means for turning the latter in the same direction as said actuating levers, respectively, and a third lever forming part of said switching means, turnably connected to one of said actuating levers for turning movement therewith, and operatively connected to the other of said actuating levers for turning the latter in a direction opposite to the direction in which said one actuating lever turns, so that the ribbons will respectively be displaced simultaneously in opposite directions.

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