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'- J.- PFEIFER.

AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER.

No. 488,901. Ptemd 1160.27, 18-92.

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No. 488,901. vPatented Dec. 27, 1892. I

UNrrno STATES 'PATENT trice,

JOHN PFEIFER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,901, dated December 27, 1892.

Application filed August 16,1892. Serial No. 443,263. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PFEIFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a certain-new and useful Improvement in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple, cheap and practical autographic register in which the paper strips are drawn for- Ward over the writing tablet and the check strip or strips automatically cut off and the record strip Wound upon a storage reel, all by the operation of a single handle or driving' mechanism. So far as I am aware I am the first in the art to produce an autographic register embodying this mode of operation, and in another application filed simultaneously with this and bearing Serial No. 443,262, I have described and claimed the invention broadly. In the machine illustrated in said application the operating handle is a revoluble crank, applied to a revoluble driving shaft, and the purpose of the present application is to illustrate and more specifically cover a different embodiment of the invention, in a machine in which the operating handle is a lever fastened to a rock-shaft and having a backward and forward stroke at each operation of the machine.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of the machine just within the near side of the casing; Fig. 2 a sectional detail on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a detail view of the cutter and its support in normal position; and Fig. 4 a corresponding view to Fig. 3, with the cutter thrown downward to sever thecheck stri ps.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

The paper strips are carried in three supply rolls A B O, whose supporting spindles rest at their opposite ends in guides D upon the sides of the casing. From these rolls the paper strips are led over a guide roller E, thence forward over the writing tablet F, located beneath the usual opening Gin the top 5o of the casing, where sheets of manifolding material are interposed between the respective strips to cause the entries on the upper strip to be duplicated upon the lower one. From the writing tablet F the strips are led between a pair of feed-rollers H I, whence the two check strips pass through a horizontal slot .T in a cross bar K, Fig. 2, and thence out of the casing through an opening at L, while the record strip O is led downward and forward behind a glass window M in the front side of the casing, over a guide roller N and wound upon a storage reel O.

J ournaled at its opposite ends in the sides of the casing is a rock-shaft P having an operating handle or lever Q secured to its projecting left hand end, Fig. 2. Loosely mounted upon this shaft is a sleeve R having fast upon its right hand end, Fig. 2, a grooved pulley S, and upon its left hand end a gear wheel T which meshes with a pinion U fast upon the left hand end of the spindle of the i lower feed roller I; see dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Fast upon the rock-shaft P immediately to the left of the gear T, Fig. 2, is an arm V which has pivoted to it a pawl W spring-pressed into engagement with the gear T, Fig. l. It results from this construction that whenever the operating handle Q is given a backward stroke, to the left of Fig. l, the pawl W will turn the gear T in the direction of the arrow, and the gear Will turn the feed roller I and draw forward the paper strips, delivering the two check strips through the slot J and opening L and advancing the record strip to the storage reel. Upon the return stroke of the handle Q, to normal position, the pawl VV will slip idly over the teeth of the gear Tand the latter Will remain stationary. A yielding band X, in this instance composedof a coiled spring, passed around the pulley S and around a small pulley Y'fast upon the spindle of the storage reel, affords a frictional driving connection for the latter, which will cause the wheel to be turned just far enough at each operation of the machine to wind up the portion of record strip advanced to it by the feed rollers. The cross bar K before referred to is provided, in addition to the horizontal slot J, with a vertical longitudinal slot Z, which intersects the slot J and in Which fits IOO a vertically swinging cutter bladeA' adapted to play u p and down across the horizontal slot J, to sever the check strips passed through the latter. The left hand end of this cntter blade, Fig. 2, is bent downward and pivoted between lugs or ears B' upon the side of the casing and at its extreme lower end is loosely pivoted or connected to a link C' which is pivoted at its lower end between lugs D' upon the side of the casing. The link C' carries a plate E' pivoted at its lower end to the link C' and having its upper end confined between a pin F' on the link and a fiat spring G', as seen in Fig. 3.

Formed upon and projecting rearward from the plate E', near its upper end, is a camlug I-I', beveled at its upper and lower ends and adapted to co-operate with a projection I' carried by the rock-shaft P, in this instance forincd upon and projecting forward from the hub of the pawl arm Vwhich is fast upon said shaft. WVhen the operating` handle is given its backward stroke at the beginning of an operation of the machine, to cause the feed rollers to advance the paper strips, the projection I' will pass up the left side of the beveled lug H' and force said lug and the upper end of the plate E' slightly to the right, against the resistance of the spring G', which Iatter will carry the plate E' back to normal position against the pin F' as soon as the projection I' has cleared the upper end of the lug Il'. Upon the return forward stroke of the operating handle and downward moveinent of the projecton I' the latter will pass down the right hand side of the lug III', and as the latter stands directly in its path it will force the lug and plate E' to the left, and as the plate E' bears against the pin F' on the link C' the upper end of the latter will be carried to the left and the cntter blade A' Will be thrown downward across the slot J in the bar K and sever the check strips, Fig. 4. A flat spring J' secured to the side of the casing and bearing against the upper end of the link C' serves to reset the parts after the projection I' has passed below the lug l-I'.

From the foregoing description it Will be understood that at each operation of the machine it is only necessary for the clerk to enter the desired meinoranda upon the upper check strip, through the opening G in the top of the casing, and then pull the operating handle Q toward him to its limit of stroke and return it to normal position. The first stroke of the handle will cause the feed rollers to carry forward beyond the cutting point the portion of the check strip which bears the written matter and to deliver behind the window M the portion of the record strip which has just been written upon, while the storage reel will have been turned to wind up the portion of the record strip which had been left exposed at said window by the preceding operation of the machine; and the return forward stroke of the operating handle Will cause the cntter blade to be thrown downisaeol Ward to out off the check strips. In this manner it will be seen that the entire eperat1on of the machine, after the entering of the memoranda, is produced by the backward and forward strokes of the single handle or lever Q.

Inasmuch as the novelty of my present 1nvention, in its broader scope, consists in the new mode of operation in this class of inachines, under which the paper strips are drawn over the writing tablet, the check strip or strips automaticallycnt off, and the record strip wound upon a storage reel, all by the backward and forward movement of the single operating handle and rockshaft, the 1n- 'vention is not restricted to anyof the details of construction or arraugernent which are found in the particular einbodiment of my invention illustrated in the drawings, except so far as may be indicated in my respective claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim:

l. In an autographic register einploying one or more check strips and a record strip led over a writing tablet and having manifolding material interposed between them, the combination of feed rollers for advancing the strips,a storage reel for winding up the record strip, a cntter for severing the check strip or strips, a rock-shaft having an operating handle applied to it, and suitable connections, whereby a backward and forward stroke of said handle and shaft will cause ali of the strips to be advanced, the check strips cut off, and the record strip wound upon the storage reel.

2. In an autographic register such as described, the combination of feed rollers for advancing the paper strips, a storage reel for winding up the record strip, a driving connection between one of the feed rollers and storage reel, a cntter for severing the check strips, a rock-shaft having an operating handle applied to it, and snitable connections between the rock-shaft and feed rollers and cutter, whereby a single backward and forward moveinent of said shaft will cause all of said strips to be advanced, the check strips to be cut olf and the record strip to be wound upon the storage reel.

3. In an autographic register such as described, the combination of feed rollers for advancing the paper Strips, a storage reel for winding up the record strip, africtional driving connection between one of the feed rollers and storage reel, adapted to yield when the storage reel has wound up the length of the record strip advanced to it by the feed rollers, a cntter for severing the check strips, a rockshaft, a handle for operating it, and suitable connections between the rock-shaft and the feed rollers and cntter, for the purpose described.

4. In an autographic register such as described, the combination of a pair of feed rollers for advancing the paper strips, a rock- IOO IIO

shaft, a gear wheel loose upon said shaft and meshing With a pinion upon one of the feed rollers, an actuatiug paWl carried by said shaft and co-operating with the gear to turn the lat-ter and the feed rollers during the stroke of the shaft in one direction, a storage reel for winding up the record strip, a driving connection between the gear and storage reel, a hinged cutter for severing the check strips, and a cam and connections for actuat-ing said cutter, whereby upon giving the rock-shaft a stroke in one direction the feed rollers Will advance all of the strips and the storage reel Will be turned to Wind up the record strip, and upon giving it a stroke in the opposite direction the cutter will be actuated to sever the check strips.

5. In an autographic register, the combination of the rock-shaft P, the handle Q applied 2o thereto, the feed rollers H I, the gear wheel opposite end between the pin F' and spring G', the beveled lug H' upon the plate E', and the projectionI' moving With the rock-shaft and co-operating With the lug H', substantially as and'for the purpose described.

JOHN' PFEIFER.

Witnesses:

v WILLIAM B. SULLIVAN,

F. A. L. SNECKNER.

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