US949720A - Type-writing machine. - Google Patents

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R.- s. VALIANT I TYPE WRITING MACHINE. APPLIGATION FILED mm. 1908.

949,720. Patented Feb. 15, 1910.-

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ROBERT S. VALIANT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR T UNDERWOOD TYPE- W'RITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb 15, 1910.

Application filed June 12, 1908. Serial No. 438,016.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERTS. VALIANT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TypeJVriting Machines, of which the following is a specification. t

This invention relates to paper manipulating devices of typ'ewriting machines, and particularly to means'for gaging the sheet in the operation known as retail billing and charging, and is an improvement onthe' device disclosed'in Patent 829,989, granted September 4, 1906 to H. S. McCormack. In said patent a late havin ledges is mounted on the delivery side 0 the platen, and the sheets are brought to register with the ledges or gages on said plate by pressing the fingers on the surface 0 the sheet and pushing it forward and sidewise to the gages. While the adjusting of the sheet once is but a small-matter, still where the same sheet is inserted and adjusted and removed from the machine agreat many times, the repeated rubbing of the fingers'thereon is aptto soil the sheet in some cases.

It is the object of theinvention to improve said device, with a View to avoid the necessity of pressing the fingers forcibly 113011 the sheet; and for this purpose I provide a recess in the rear edge of the plate, so as to permit the leading edge of the sheet to be readily picked up between the finger and thumb and pulled or set to the gages, Without any liability of soiling the sheet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a pers )ective view of a platen and platen frame oi an Underwood typewriting machine with my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation illustrating the manner of setting the sheet. to

the gages. 4

Type-bars 1 strike on the front of a platen 2, mounted by means of an axle 3 in the ends 4 5 01' a )laten frame which also com- 7 7 7 prises a paper table 6 1n the. rear otthe} down around and up in front of the platen to guide the paper forwardly to the printing line. An adjustable gage 8 is usually mounted upon the paper table 6 at the introductory side of the platen for the right hand edge of the sheet. Over the laten is mounted a plate ortablet 9 provi e with ledges or gages 10, 10 for the leading and side edges of the "sheet. The plate is adjustably supported by a pair of arms 11 secured to yokes12 journaled upon-a rod 13 secured in the platen frame, said yokes being locked on the rod against accidental rotation by means of spring-pressed rollers 14 engaging a groove 15 extending along the rod; I provide a recess 16 in the rear edge of said plate, about midway of its length, to permit the operator to conveniently pick up the leadin end of a sheet lying on theplate, to pull it l orward and sidewise to the ledges or gages on said plate, without pressing or pinching the sheet so forcibly as to mark or smudge the same.

In operation 'the feed rolls'17, 18 are cast off from the platen in the usual manner. The sheet 19 is then inserted and slipped around the platen and onto the plate 9;

The leading edge of the sheet is then pickedup by the finger and thumb and pulled forward and sidewise to s uare it with the ledges 10 and 10. The. eed rolls are then thrown into engagement with the platen, and the writing proceeds. I i -Having thus described my invention, I claim: H In a typcwri'ting machine, the combination with a platen and a platen frame,'of a gage-plate lying along the top of the platen and having a finger-recess to permit grasping the paper at the leading end to square it a ainst the gage. v

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