US926212A - Manifolding device. - Google Patents

Description

'.T. H. SGHWEICH.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11. 190s.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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J. H. SCHWEIGH.

` MANIPOLDING DEVICE.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 11, 190s.

926,212. Patented June 29, 1909.

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MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

Specification o' Letters Patent.

Application filed May 11, 1908.

Patented June 29, 1909.

Serial N0. 432,268.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn H. Senwnren, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have iu vented a certain new and useful Improvement in Manifolding Devices, or Devices for Making Copies of Bills, Letters, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan view of my improved manifolding device, partly broken away to show the record sheet and platen or writing surface 5 Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View on the line 2 2, Fig. l 5 Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional View, showing' the paper guiding-clip and the holding-frame in open position; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view, showing a portion of the transferring' and record sheets and of the holding-frame and also the locking means for locking said frame in closed position, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevational View of a portion of my manifolding device,showing the spacing member and the clutch mechanisms for holding the paper-clip and pointer or indicator in adjusted positions.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in mauifolding devices or devices for making copies of bills, letters etc.

My device is es peeially adapted for making copies by means of carbon or other transferring paper of bills, letters, etc., when written by hand, such bills or letters being transferred on to What l call a record sheet, which, when completely filled, is designed to be removed from the machine and preserved, preferably in a loose-leaf binder or the like, so that a compact and easily-accessible record of all such bills er letters maybe kept.

While my device may be used for making copies of any papers or documents, when written by hand, its operation is herein shown and described in connection with making copies of merchandise bills, for which use it is particularly adapted, one of the main obn jects of my invention being to fully utilize the record sheet, a bill or bills being transferred thereunto until the saine is conipletely filled, and thus not only is the entire surface of each record sheet utilized, but also the number of record sheets is economized,

rand as the figures entered in the dollars and cents columns of the several original bills will be transferred onto said record sheet ni like columns, the complete addition on said record sheet of the figures entered on said respective original bills will be facilitated.

l'Vith the above objects in view, my invention consists in the novel coi'istruction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of my manifolding device, all as will hereinafter be described and pointed out in the claims.

ln the drawings, 1 indicates the base-plate, on which is arranged a writing-plate or platen 2, preferably of zinc, so as to provide a smooth writing surface upon which the record sheet A is adapted to be placed.

3 indicates guides located adjacent the inner edge of the plate or platen 2, see particularly Fig, The guides 3 are preferably resilient members having hooked end portions 4, under which one edge of sheet A is adapted to be inserted. These guides 3 are mounted in recesses 5 in the base-plate 1, so that the same may be depressed, as hereinafter described. lt is preferable to also provide pins 6 a slight distance above the top of platen 2, by which the record sheet A is perforated to assist in holding said sheet A in position, but said pins 6 may be dispensed with, if desired.

lzlinged to the base-plate l at one side of the platen 2 is a rectangular frame 7, which is adapted to surround said platen when folded down against the base l. This frame 7 is arranged to overlap the edges of the record sheet A when on the platen 2 (see particularly Fig. l) and thereby hold the same in position, guides 3 being depressed in the 'recesses 5 by said frame when in closed position and the pins 6 entering perforations provided therefor in the frame 7.

Hinged to frame 7 is a frame S, which is preferably similar to frame 7, the carbon or other transferring sheet l5 being designed to be placed between said frames 7 and 8, and the free ends of said fiaines 7 and 8 being releasably held together by a spring-catch 9, which, when said frames are in lowered position, lits in a recess 10 provided therefor in the base l. Frames 7 and S, when fastened together, move as one frame and constitute a holding device for the carbon or other transferring sheet B, which, as before stated, is placed and held between the frames 7 and S. When the frames 7 and 8 are in lowered position, the top surface of frame S is preferably flush with the surface of the platen 2, so that the sheet B rests smoothly thereupon above the record sheet A.

11 indicates latches or other locking means provided at the side of base 1 and which are adapted to loch the frames 7 and 8 in folded or lowered position on the base 1, whereby the copying sheet B and record sheet A are firmly held in proper operative position. Preferably the edges of the platen 2 are rounded or beveled, and the inner lower edges of the frames 7 and 8 are beveled or undercut to avoid crimping or creasing the edges of the record sheet A and copying sheet B when the frames 7 and 8 are locked in closed or lowered position (see particularly Fig. 4), said frames and platen being so designed that the dropping or lowering and locking of said frames to said base will cause the sheets A and B to be drawn tightly across said platen, whereby a smooth writing surface is provided..

Near the top and bottom and at one side of frame 8 (see Fig. 1), are placed studs 12, in which is mounted a guide-rod 13, preferably rectangular in cross-section, extending along one side of the top of frame S.

14 indicates a spring-clip designed to hold the bill or the like C upon which the original entries are to be made. This clip 14 is provided with an extension 15, on which is secured a sleeve portion 16 designed to lit and slide upon the rod 13. Said extension 15 is also provided with a friction clutch (see particularly Fig. 5) comprising two oppositelydisposed members 17 and 18 designed to hold said clip 14 in adjusted positions on said rod 13. These members 17 and 1S have a pivotal slot-and-pin connection with the extension 15 and are each provided with an off-set portion 19, said portions 19 being each provided with an opening to slidingly lit the rod 13. The members 17 and 1S are normally held apart by the spring 20, in which position the off-set portions 19 are canted so as to cause the walls of the openings or perforations therein to bind on the rod 13 and frictionally hold the clip 14 in adjusted positions on said rod 13, for purposes hereinafter stated. lhen it is desired to adjust or move the clip 14 to various positions along said rod 13, the clutch members 17 and 18 are brought together against the tension of spring 20 until said offeset portions 19 are brought substantially perpendicular to the axial line of said rod 13, at which time said clip 14 may be shifted lengthwise of the rod 13. Thus said clip 14 may be placed in any position along the rod 13, so as to hold the bill or other paper in proper' place where the items entered thereon may be transferred therefrom onto some unused portion of the record sheet A. Said clip 14 is further provided with a paperguide 21, against which the edge of the bill or other paper is adapted to abut to properly position the same. 22 indicates a pointer, which is provided with a sleeve portion 23 designed to slidingly fit sait. rod 13. This pointer 22 is also provided with a friction clutch 24, somewhat similar in action to the above-described clutch members 17 and 18, said clutch 24 having also a slot-and-pin connection with the pointer 22, and said clutch 24 having a bent portion 25, which is provided with an opening or perforation designed to slidingly fit said rod 13. A coiled spring 26 surrounds a pin 27 in the pointer 22 and normally holds said clutch member 24 away from said. pointer, in which position said bent portion 25 binds on said rod 13 and holds the pointer 22 against movement on said rod. lWhen the clutch member 24 is depressed inwardly, said bent portion 25 is released fronirfrictional contact with said rod and said pointer 22 may be moved longitudinally along said rod, for purposes hereinafter stated.

Mounted on the extension 15 of the clip 14 is an adjustable stop or abutment 28.A This stop 2S comprises preferably a rod threaded through said extension 15, so that the same may be adjusted toward or away from the pointer 22, in order that said pointer 22 may be kept a predetermined distance .from said clip 14, for purposes to be stated.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The record sheet A is first placed over the platen 2, the pins 6 perforating the top edge of said sheet and the inner edge being inserted under the hooked portions 4 of the clips or guides 3. T he carbon or other transferring sheet is placed between the frames 7 and 8, said frames then fastened together by the catch 9, and the said frames then folded down and locked in closed position by the latches 11, in which position the record sheet A, the edges thereof extending under the lower frame 7, is firmly held in place. Usually merchandise bills have a sp ace at the top thereof in which is printed the name of the dealer', his address, and other descriptive items, such space being shown at c on sheet C herein. Depending upon the width of such space c, the stop 23 is adjusted in the extension 15 to abut against the pointer 22, so that the space between said pointer 22 and the clip 14 is just equal to the space c, the pointer 22 being used to indicate where to begin to write so that the entries placed on the bill C will be transferred to the unused portion of the record sheet A. The bill C is shown herein in a position where the items placed thereon will be transferred onto the upper portion of the record sheet A, the pointer indicating the top of the unused portion of sheet A and being properly spaced from clip 14 to provide for said space c. if'llhen said bill C has been used to the required number of items, the pointer 22 yis released from frictional contact with rod 13 andL moved along said rod to a position slightly below the last written line or entry Cil A. Bill C is now removed from clip 14, and said clip 14 released from frietional contact with rod 13 and moved along said rod 13 until the stop 2S abuts against the pointer 22. A second bill is now placed `in clip 14, and when said second bill is made out and transferred onto sheet A, the saine series of operations is gone through with as just described in connection with bill C, in this way no part of the surface of record sheet A being wasted. When one side of a record sheet A is used, the frames 7 and 8 may be readily unlocked and raised and said sheet reversed, in order that both sides thereof may be used, and the frames 7 and 8 again locked in closed position. When sheet A is completely filled, such sheet may be quickly removed and a new sheet placed in proper position, and so 0n, the sheets A when filled and removed from the machine being designed to be bound in a loose-leaf holder, whereby a complete record or day-book is formed. Whenever it is desired to insert a new carbon or other transferring 'sheet B, the frames 7 and S are easily unfastened and a new sheet B readily inserted and locked in place.

It is obvious that the stop 28 may be adjusted to keep the pointer 22 any predetermined distance froin the clip or other paper holding device 14, so that bills with varying widths of space c may be taken care of. It is also obvious that, while I have specifically described the operation of my machine in connection with merchandise bills, it may be used for many other purposes and that minor changes in the arrangement, consti'uction, and combination of the several parts may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a manifolding device, the combination with a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a frame hinged to said base-plate and adapted to surround said platen when in closed position to releasably hold said record sheet in position thereon, a second frame hinged to said firstnamed frame, said frames forming a holding device for holding a transferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, a guide-rod, and a paper-holding device movably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and adapted to be moved along said guide-rod over said platen; substantially as described.

2. In a manifolding device, the combination with a baseplate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a frame hinged to said base-plate and adapted to surround said platen when in closed position to releasably hold said record sheet in position thereon, a second frame hinged to said firstnamed frame, means for fastening the free ends of said frames together, said frames forming a holding device for holding a trans ferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, means for releasably fastening the free ends of said frames to said baseplatc, a guide rod, and a paper-holdiiig device inovably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and adapted to be moved along said guide-rod over said platen 5 substantially as described.

3. In a inanifolding device, the combination with a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, depressible paper-guides mounted on said base-plate for receiving one edge of said recoi'd sheet, a frame hinged to said base-plate and adapted to surround said platen when in closed position to releasably hold said record sheet in position thereon, a second traine hinged to said first-named frame, a catch for releasably fastening the free ends of said frames together, said frames when in locked position forming a holding device for holding a transferring sheet in operative relation to said reeord sheet, a guide-rod mounted on said second frame, a paper-holding device inovably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and adapted to be moved along said guide-rod, and latches for releasably fastening the free ends of said frames to said base-plate; substantially as described.

4. In a manifolding device, the eombina tion with a platen adapted to receive a record sheet, of a device adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to the record sheet, a device adapted to hold an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved over said platen, an indicator adapted to indicate the line of 'iirst entry upon the original entry sheet and also arranged to be moved to indicate the line of last entry thereon, and means for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry-sheet and the indicator when indicating the line of 'lirst entry; substantially as described.

5. In a mani'l'olding device, the combina- I tion with a platen adapted to receive a record sheet, of a device adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to the record sheet, a device adapted to hold an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved. over said platen, an indicator adapted to indicate the line of iirst entry upon the original entry sheet and also arranged to be moved to indicate the line of last entry thereon, and an adjustable stop for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry sheet and said indicator vwhen indicating the line of first entry; substantially as described.

6. in a nianifolding device, the combination with a platen adapted to receive a record sheet, of a device adapted to hold a transfer'- ring sheet in operative relation to the record sheet, a device adapted to hold an original ent-ry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved over said platen, an indicator adapted to indicate the line of iirst entry upon the original entry sheet and also arranged to be moved to indicate the line of last entry thereon7 an adjustable stop for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry sheet and said indicator When indicating the line of first entry, and means for releasably securing said holding device and said indicator in their adjusted positions; substantially as described.

7. in a manifolding device, the combination with a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a device adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to the record sheet, a guiderod located adjacent to one side of said platen and extending lengthwise thereof, a device slidably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved along said guide-rod over said platen, an indicator also slidably mounted on said guide-rod adapted to indicate the line of first entry upon said original entry sheet and arranged to be moved on said guide-rod to indicate the line of last entry thereon, and an adjustable stop for limiting the space betvv'een said holding device for the original entry sheet and the indicator when indicating the line of first entry; substantially as described.

8. In a manifolding device, the combination with a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a device adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, a guiderod located adjacent to one side of said platen and extending lengthwise thereof, a device slidably mounted on said guide-rod adapted to hold an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved along said guiderod over said platen, an indicator also slidably mounted on said guide-rod for indicating the line of 'lirst entry upon the original entry sheet and movable on said rod for indicating the line of last entry on said entry sheet, means for limiting the space between said holding device for the original entry sheet and the indicator when indicating the line of first entry, and means for releasably securing said holding device and said indicater in their adjusted positions on said guide-rod; substantially as described.

9. ln a manifolding device, the combination with a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a device adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, a guiderod located adjacent to one side of said platen and extending lengthwise thereof, a paper holding deviceslidably mounted on said guide-rod adapted to hold an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved along said guide-rod over said platen, an indicator also slidably mounted on said guide-rod for indicating the line of iirst entry upon the original entry sheet and movable on said rod for indicating the line of last entry on said entry sheet, an adjustable stop for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry sheet and said indicator Awhen indicating the line of first entry, and clutch mechanisms for releasably securing said holding device and said indicator in their adjusted positions on said guide-rod; substantially as described.

l0. ln a manifolding device, the combination With a base-plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, of a frame adapted to hold a transferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, said frame being adapted to also hold said record sheet in position on said platen, a guide-rod located adjacentto one side of said platen and extending lengthwise thereof, a device slidably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved along said rod over said platen, an indicator also slidably mounted on said guide-rod for indicating the line of first entry upon the original entry sheet and movable on said rod for indicating the line of last entry on said sheet, an adjustable stop for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry sheet and said indicator When indicating the line of first entry, and clutch mechanisms for releasably securing said holding device and said indicator in their adjusted positions on said guide-rod; substantially as described.

ll. ln a manifolding device, the combination With base plate, of a platen thereon adapted to receive a record sheet, a frame hinged to said base-plate and adapted to surround said platen When in closed position to releasably hold said record sheet in position thereon, a second frame hinged to said firstnamed frame, means for releasably fastening the free ends of said frames together, said frames forming a holding device for holding a transferring sheet in operative relation to said record sheet, means for releasably fastening the free ends of said frames to said base-plate, a guide-rod extending along one side of said platen, a paper holding` device slidably mounted on said guide-rod for holding an original entry sheet in operative relation to said transferring and record sheets and arranged to be moved along said rod over said platen, an indicator also slidably mounted on said rod for indicatingl the line of first entry upon the original entry sheet and movable on said rod for indicating the line of last entry on said sheet, adjustable means for limiting the space between said holding device for said original entry sheet and said indicator when indicating the line f of first entry, and clutch mechanisms for releasably securing said holding` device for said entry sheet and said indicator in their adjusted positions on said guide-rod; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribingl witnesses.

JOSEPH H. SCIIl/VEICH.

Wvitnesses KARL M. VE'rsBURG, JESSE E. GORDON.

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