US759251A - Duplicator. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. G. H. EPPLE. DUPLIGATOR, APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1903.

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No. 759,251. PATBNTED MAY 10, 1904. i

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" AQTTOHNE is Patented May 10, 1904.

lhviTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL HENRY EPPLE, OF NElV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO l-llh ISELF,

CHARLES L. CURTIS, AND JOHN A. KELLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DUPLICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,251, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed July 22,1903. Serial No. 166579. (No model-l To 06/: when it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, (last llENRY Errnn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

5 in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Duplicator, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in 1:0 machines for duplicating order-checks or the like, an object being to provide a device for this purpose that will be simple in construction, having no parts liable to get out of order, that may be easily operated, and by means of I 5 which a permanent record of the orders or sales may be made for the use of an accountant or cashier and at the same time duplicate the written matter on a check to be presented to a customer for settlement.

2o 1 will describe a duplicator embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

25 in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a duplicator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, and

Fig. 4: is a detail, showing the shifting mechanism employed.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a casing having a top 2, that may be removed for adjusting the parts arranged in the casing.

35 Having bearings in hangers 3 and attached to the under side of the top 2 is a driving-shaft 4, having a bevel-pinion 5 at one end meshing with a bevel-pinion 6 on a spindle 7 supporting a spool or roller 8, upon which the 40 permanent record strip 9 is designed to be.

wound, the same being given off from a spool 10 on a spindle 11, having a bevel-pinion 12 engaging with a similar pinion 13 on the shaft 4. The spindle 11 is held from back move- '45 ment, as here shown, by means of a springpressed pawl 14 engaging with ratchet-teeth 15 on the end of the spool. Secured to the spindle 7 is a toothed wheel 16, engaged by a spring-pressed pawl 17, carried by an arm 18,

having swinging connection with a hanger 19, which also forms a bearing for one end of the spindle 7. From this arm 18 a push-rod 20 passes upward freely through an opening in the top 2, and between the head portion on this push-rod and the top 2 a spiral spring 21 is arranged, which will raise the pawl 17 to its uppermost position when the push-rod is released.

Adjacent to the spool 8 is a spool 22, carried by a spindle 23, and designed to take up a carbon strip 24, the same being given off from a spool 25, which is held from backward movement by means of a spring-pressed pawl 26, engaging with ratchet-teeth 27 on the end of the spool. Secured to the spindle 23 is a bevel-pinion 28, designed to be engaged with a bevel-pinion 29 movable lengthwise of the shaft 4, but arranged to rotate therewith.

A shifting bar 30 has a fork portion engaging in an annular channel formed in the hub of the pinion 29, and this shifting bar extends upward through an openingin the top 2, where it is provided with a linger-piece 31. The two strips 9 and 2st are carried up through a slot 32 in the top plate, thence over a frame 33, under the opening of which is a bed-plate 3 1, and then the strips are carried through a slot 35 in said top 2 to their respective takeup rollers.

In the operation a ticket or check X is to be passed underneath the two strips at the portions passing over the frame, the check being also passed underneath the frame,which at its sides is spaced above the bed-plate and above the top of the casing, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. Then by writing the order or other matter on the strip 9 the same will be transferred by the carbon strip to the check. iVVhen it is desired to move the permanent strip 9 to place a new section thereof in position to receive an order or the like, the push-rod 20 is to be forced downward, which will through the medium of the pawl 17 and the wheel 16 rotate the spools 8 and 10, causing the strip to be taken up by one spool and given otf by the other. Each downward movement of the rod 20 moves the strip by one step; but it may be moved any desired distance by repeated movements of the push-bar. \Vhen this section of the carbon strip becomes useless, a new section may be drawn into position by moving the pinion 29 into engagement with the pinion 28. Then by operating the push-rod, as before mentioned, the carbon strip will be taken off the spool 25 and wound on the spool 22.

It will be understood that the several spools are mounted sufiicientlyfriction-tight on their spindles to turn the spools with the spindles, but permit of the necessary slipping or variations of speed as the rolls vary in diameter.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A machine for the purpose specified comprising a casing, a take-up spindle for a ree 0rd strip, a take-off spindle for said strip, means for simultaneously operating the spindles, carbon-strip spindles in the casing, means for operating said carbon-strip spindles with the first-named spindle, and means for releasing the carbon strip spindles from operative connection with said first-named spindle.

2. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a take-up spindle for a record strip arranged in the casing, a take-elf spindle for said strip arranged in the casing, a shaft, gear connections between said shaft and the two spindles, a take-up spindle for a carbon strip, a take-off spindle for said carbon-strip.a pinion on the last-named take-up spindle, and a pinion movable on the shaft for engaging with the pinion on the spindle.

3. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a casing, the top thereof having slots, a frame arranged on the top between the slots, a bed-plate arranged in the frame, a record strip passing over the frame and through said slots, a carbon strip passing through said slots and over the frame, and means for causing the lengthwise movement of said strips.

4. A machine for the purpose specified, comprising a casing, a frame on the top of the easing and spaced above the said top at the sides, whereby a ticket may be placed laterally underneath the framing, a record strip passing over said frame, a carbon strip passing over the frame, and means for moving said strips lengthwise of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GARL HENRY EPPLE.

'lVitnesses:

JNo. M. BITTER, C. R. FERGUSON.

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