US563849A

US563849A - Autogeapeic eegistee

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Publication number: US563849A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-07-14
Anticipated expiration: 1913-07-14

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W. L. BGRY. AUTDGRAPHIG REGISTER.

No. 563,849. Patented July 14, 1896.

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AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER. No. 563,849. Patented July 14, 1896.

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lVlLlilAlll L. EGRY, Ol"1 DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE E lRY AUTO- GRAPl-UO REGISTER CO'IPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,849, dated July 14, 1896.

Application filed April 27, 1894. Serial No. 509,232. (No model To all 'wh/012?, t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, VILLIAM L. EGRY, of Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to improvements in devices for the storing of written records, such devices being generally known as autographic registers.

My improvements will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in whichw Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of an a-utographic register exemplifying my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional plan thereof; Fig. 3, a plan of the register; Fig. 4f, a face View of the rammer; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the remmer and its actuating mechanism; Fig. (i, a side elevation of the gripper and its actuating mechanism; Fig. 7, a plan of one of the darts on which the paper is stabbed, and Fig. S a vertical longitudinal section of one of the spindles for the roll of paper.

A In the drawings, referring in most instances to Fig. 1, 1 indicates the usual inclosing casing of an autographic register; 2, the tablet at the top thereof, over which the paper passes to be written upon; 3, the wicket in the top of the casing to expose the paper upon the tablet; i, the feed-rolls for carrying the paper forward; 5, the crank for operating the feed-rolls; (i, a roll of paper on a spindle within the easing, this paper being hereinafter spoken of as the bill-paper to distinguish it from a second paper which contains.

\ the record-paper on its way from its roll, over the tablet and through the feed-rolls,and then to a storage-compartment beyond the feedrolls, this record-paper being somewhat wider than the bill-paper, the two papers therefore lying together upon the tablet, it being understood that the usual carbon or transferpaper will be interposed between them; 10, folds of the record-paper in the storage-compartm ent stabbed upon darts; 1l, darts removably secured in the end door of the apparatus to receive the folds of record-paper, these darts bein g removably inserted in sockets in the end door, so that a pile of the folds of paper may be removed, the darts coming along with the pile; 12, the end door of the apparatus, supporting the darts inclosing the storage-compartment, and capable of being turned down so that the pile of record-paper can be gotten at; 13, Fig. S, one of the spindles employed for the paper-rolls, the same being adapted to enter the axial hole in the roll of paper or the bore in the spool in case the roll is upon the spool or reel; 14, end journals, capable of endwise movement in sockets in the ends of the spindle; 15, springs in the journal-sockets, urging these end journals outwardly, the journals having stop-pins to limit their outuf'ard movement, these stop-pins working in slots in the spindles; 1G, a flange mounted near one end of the spindle and capable of endwise motion thereon; 17, a sprin g urging the flange inwardly, this spring abutting against the fixed flange on the end of the spindle; 18, Fig. 2, vertically-open bea-rings in one of the side walls of the casing, one of the journals 14 of the spindle resting in the appropriate one of these bearings, the end of the roll of paper coming against the face of the bearing, while the other end journal of the spindle rests in a similar bearing upon the opposite wall of the casing, the spring 17 at that end of the spindle urging the iiange 16 against the end of the roll of paper, the arrangement being obviously such that the roll of paper is clamped with some force between the iiange 1G and the bearing 1S, whereby tensional resistance is maintained upon the roll as the paper is drawn from it, the end journals of the spindle being urged outwardly against the side walls of the casing by the spring 15, whereby the spindle is elastically held in its bearings; 19, a shaft journaled in the casing; 20, afolding-rod disposed across over the record-paper between the feed -rolls and the darts on which the paper is to be stabbed; 21, a pivoted arm carrying this folding-rod and serving to carry the rod up and down in producing the folds; 22, a pivoted lever having a pin in its long arm engaging under the arm 21 and having a pin in its short arm to be engaged by a cam on shaft 19'; 23, a fixed support for the pivot of lever 22; 24, a volute cam on shaft 19, this cam engaging the pin in the short arm of lever 22, the arrangement being obviously such that as the cam 24 rotates in the direction of the arrow it will lift lever 22, and consequently lift arm 21 and elevate the folding-` rod 20, and that when the offset in the cam reaches the pin in lever 22 the previouslyelevated parts will be at liberty to fall by their own gravity, thus allowing folding-rod 2O to descend and carry down a fold of the record-paper in front of the darts in position to be stabbed upon the darts, the folding-rod rising again to upper position before the stabbing takes place; 25, a pair of spring gripperfingers near one wall of the casing in position to grip the lower end of the fold of paper which has been carried down by the foldingrod 20, one of these fingers being stationary and the other being movable, so that t-he gripper may open and close; 2G, Fig. 6, a lever having one end in engagement with the movable gripper-finger and having the other end provided with a pin to be engaged by a cam on the shaft 19; 27, a fixed support for the pivot of this lever; 28, a cam on shaft 19, engagin-g the pin in lever 26, this cam being partly volute and partly concentric; 29, a spring tending to close the gripper 25, the general gripper arrangement being obviously such that the cam 28 will force the gripper open and hold it open until the offset in the cam reaches the pin which it engages, whereupon the gripper will spring shut and clamp upon the -fold of paper which has been carried down by folding-rod 20,

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24 and 28 being so timed that the gripper will be held open a proper time to receive the fold of the paper as the folding-rod 2O brings the fold down, and close upon the fold when the folding-rod rises; 30, a rammer-plate disposed in front of the darts and far enough from them to permit the folding-rod to carry the fold of paper `downbetween the rammer-plate and the ends of the darts, this rammer-plate being pierced for the darts, as seen in Fig. 4 3l, a guide to support the rammer-plate and permit it t0 reciprocate to and from the paper stabbed upon the darts; 32, (see Fig. 5,) a lever having one arm linked to the rammerplate, this lever being pivoted upon a fixed support; 33, a spring tending to rock the lever 32 and urge the rammer-plate toward and upon the darts; 34, a cam fast upon the shaft 19 and having a peripheral side rim, this cam having a concentric portion and an extensionel-bow and an abrupt offset or jumping-off place leading from the concentric portion to the extension; 35, a pin in the guide-stud of the rammer, this pin engaging within the rim of cam 34, the general rammel' engagement being obviously such that as cam 34 turns it will hold the rammer-plate back and then suddenly release it and allow spring 33 to force the rammer-plate forward toward and upon the darts, the cams being so timed with reference to each other that the fold of paper will be carried down by the folding-rod and the fold then grasped by the gripper, and the folding-rod will then rise and the rammerplate then move forward and stab the fold of paper upon the darts, the gripper at the same time releasing the paper, the rammer-plate then retreating and the gripper opening ready for the folding-rod to carry down a new fold: 36, gearing connecting the feed-rolls with shaft 19, so that each folding and stabbing operation will correspond with such degree of turning of the feed-rolls as is appropriate for the amount of record-paper required to form a fold; 37 a stop-pawlto prevent retrograde motion of the mechanism; 38, Fig. 3, a line printed across the upper or bill paper at the end of each bill, the distance between these lines upon the paper therefore representing the length of the bill, a similar line being printed upon the record-paper in case the record-paper contains printed forms instead of being blank; 39, side extensions in the margins of the wicket over the tabletin the position line 38 occupies when the bill is in position to be written upon, this arrangement permitting a view of line 3S upon the wider under paper, thus rendering it possible to judge as to whether or not the two running papers are maintaining theirregistry; 40, Fig. 2, the bearings for the end journals of the spindles of the papier-rolls at the ends opposite the bearings 18; 41, Fig. 5, the offset in the cam which operates the rammer-plate; 42, Fig. 6, the offset in the cam which operates the gripper, and 43, Fig.. 7 a recess in the lower one of the darts adapted to receive an ordinary McGill paper-fastener in such position that the folds of pap er as stabbed upon the darts will also be received upon this paper-fastener.

In Fig. 3 the end door 12 is shown in dotted line as open, showing the three darts, two for the top of the folds of paper and one for the bottom, the bottom one being the one to receive the paper-fastener. The length of a bill is to correspond with the vertical length of the folds. By opening the end door 12 and tearing off the unfolded record-paper the entire pile of folded papers may be removed, the darts coming with the pile. The paper-fas tener m ay then be clenched and the darts withdrawn from the pile of paper, leaving the complete record somewhat in the form of a bound book whose leaves may be turned to expose all of the records, the back of the record-paper being the part which cannot be opened for inspection.

Vere the darts not removable it would be necessary for an inspection of the leaves to take vaway the partition in which the darts are secured, thereby totally crippling the use IOC IIO

of the machine, because the machine could not be used until the door was returned, and the machine would be inoperative were the darts not removable during the examination and consultation of the pile of leaves. The pile of leaves properly bound by the darts can be removed from the machine in bound form, and new darts put into the machine at once for use. In my Patent No. 518,230 it would require to put the machine in condition for use, not the insertion of new darts, but that substitute fasteners be put into the pile of papers, a very much more troublesome process.

ln my present machine a pile can be removed with its darts without removing the door, so that the use of the machine can be continued with other darts, while later the pile can be restored with its original darts and the record continued where it was interrupted. Such use can be made of the machine where it is appropriated to a certain salesman in a store. lVhen that salesman lays ed for a day, his record is removed on its darts and a new record started for the substitute salesman, the old record being returned and continued the next day. Another point is found in the character of the darts permissible by the present arrangement. In my Patent No. 513,230 the pile is required to be pulled from the front of the stop-wires, thus preventing the use of bold retainingbarbs upon the darts. In the new ease the darts can have bold barbs and the removability of the darts permit-s the paper to be stripped from their rear ends, or, otherwise expressed, permits of their being pulled out forwardly.

If the paper-fasteners be not used, still the pile of paper is removable from the appara-- tus in convenient form for inspection, being bound, book-like, by the darts, and the pile may be easily replaced by simply reinsertin g the darts in the door.

It is to be understood that the spindle 13 has an endwise-sliding spring-pressed journal la in each of its ends, thus permittingthe insertion of the spindle int-o its bearings in the easing by a square or non-tilted presentation, a matter of importance in dealing with large but short rolls of paper.

I claim as my inventionl. In an autographie register, the combination, substantially as set forth, of feed mechanism to advance a strip of paper, darts beyond the feed mechanism on which the paper is to bc stabbed in folds, a rammer-plate mounted for reciprocation to and from the darts, a folding-rod and operating 1n echanism arranged to lay the paper in folds between said rammer-plate and darts,` a cam holding the rannner-plate away from the darts and having a releasing point or lobe, and a spring arranged to, urge the rammer-plate to the darts.

2. In an autographieregister, the combination, substantially as set forth, with feed-,

rolls, stabbing-darts, a rammer-plate, and a folding-rod arranged to lay paper in folds between the darts and rammelt-plate, of a gripper at the end of the path of the folding-rod, and mechanism for opening and closing the gripper to receive and grip and release the fold of papercarried down by the folding-rod.

3. ln an autographic register, the combination, substantially as set forth, with feedrolls, stabbing-darts, a rammer-plate, and a folding-rod arranged to carry a fold of paper between the darts and rammer-plate, of a pair of gripping-fingers at the end of the stroke of the folding-rod, a spring tending to close said gripping-fingers, and a cam connected with one of said gripping-iingers and adapted to open and hold open the grippingiingers and permit them in proper time to close by the aotion of said spring.

4. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a casing, paper-feeding mechanism, a rammer-plate, a folding-rod to lay the paper in folds in front of the rammer-plate, a pair of stabbing-darts supported near one end of the path of said folding-rod in position to engage near the edges of the paper being dealt with, and a third stabbing-dart supported near the other end of the path of said folding-rod in position to engage at the center of Width of the paper being dealt with.

5. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a casing, a pair of feed-rolls arranged to feed forward a strip of paper with itsface uppermost, a rammer-plate, a folding-rod engaging over said paper in front of said rammer-plate and arranged to carry a fold of paper down in front of said rammer-plate, a pair of stabhing-darts supported in front of and near the top of the rammer-plate, and a third stabbing-dart supported in front of and near the bottom of said rammer-platein position to engage the center of Width of the paper being dealt with.

6. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a casing, paper-feeding rolls, darts on which the paper is to stab in folds, a rammer-platc reciprocating to and from the darts, a folding-rod adapted to rise and fall between the rammerplate and darts, a gripper to engage the base of the fold of paper, a shaft turning with the paper-feeding rolls,-and three independent cams upon said shaft one for operating said folding-rod and one for opere ting said rammer-plate and one for operating said gripper.

7. In an autographic register, the combination substantially as set fort-h, of a casing, a door thereto, vstabbing barbed darts temporarily supported in said easing, paperfeeding mechanism to advance a web of paper into said easing toward said stabbingdart-s, paper-folding mechanism to lay said paper into reverse folds in front of said stabhing-darts, and a rammer to force the :folds of paper upon the stabbing-darts, whereby IOO IIO

is produeod a; bound book of reverseliy-"foldod ft'omi Substantiallyas set forth,Y with Y papel*- rleavos Supported with said casing :md colpa- 4 feeding mld paperfold11g mechanism and a Vbl'e'of boing 'detached in bound om'therorammel' to force theV folds of pnpor upon from.L Y A darts, of L dart supported in position to have 15 'A VS; in mautographerogser, the Combina-f the fods oi" papel foroed'upon it and'pvo-V o tion, Substantalyas set forh, with a Casing vided with a. bolder fo n cenohng poper- Y' paper feeding ,and folding mechanism, and n fastonor; Y Y

rammel' flo force tho .fods of paper upon` dafts, of` oaxcbodV darts havngshanks Tomovo Vtnesses: Y

[o ably supported in sockets 'in the casing; JOSEPH A. VORTMAN:

9.- In m1 autograph@ register, the combina- LAURA A.- XVRIGHT.

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