US974318A

US974318A - Type-writing machine.

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Publication number: US974318A
Application number: US57550410A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Waldheim
Original assignee: UNION TYPEWRITER CO
Current assignee: UNION TYPEWRITER CO
Priority date: 1910-08-04
Filing date: 1910-08-04
Publication date: 1910-11-01
Anticipated expiration: 1927-11-01

Description

J. WALDHEIM.

TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 4, 1910.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WALDHEIM, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO UNION TYPEWRITER COM- PANY, ILION, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Application filed August 4, 1910. Serial No. 575,504.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN VVALDHEIM, citizen of the United States, and resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to typewriting ma= chines and more particularly to tabulating mechanism.

The present invention is in the nature of improvements on the constructions disclosed in the previously filed applications of Sivertsen and Nielsen Serial No. 488,675; George H. Smith Serial No. 533,717 George F. Ballou Serial No. 541,995; and Charles H. Shepard Serial No. 574,908 and has some of the same general objects in view.

Generally speaking, the purpose of the invention is to provide means by which tabulator stops may be quickly selected and set to operative position, and may be quickly cleared or moved to inoperative position when the character of the work is such as to require the use of a new and different set of stops.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, my invention consist-s in the various features of construction, combinations of devices, and arrangements of parts to be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts in the various views, Figure l is a fragmentary side elevation, with parts in section, of one form of typewriting machine embodying my invention, only so much of the machine being shown as is necessary to an understanding of my invention in its embodiment therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail fragmentary plan view with parts in section, showing a portion of the tabulator mechanism and the means for moving the stops into and out of operative position. Fig. 3 is a detail fragmentary front elevation showing the carriage scale, the ordinary indicator which cooperates therewith, and a special stop se't indicator. Fig. 4 is a detail front elevation showing the column stop bar and the stop lockingbar. Fig. 5 is a detail fragmentary side elevation with parts in section; the View illustrating a portion of the tabulating mechanism, and the means for moving the column stops into and out of operatlve position. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the same with parts broken away and parts 1n section. Fig. 7 is a side elevation with parts in section; the view showing a portion of the tabulating mechanism, to gether with the means for moving the tabulator stops into and out of operative position. The parts are shown in this figure disposed as they appear just after a stop has been moved to operative posit-ion. Fig. 8 is a view corresponding to Fig. 7 but illustrating the parts disposed as-they appear just after a stop has been moved out of the op erative position. Fig. 9 is a detail plan view showing the means by which the carriage is arrested when the stops are to be moved to inoperative position. Fig. 10 is a fragmentary detail perspective view of a portion of the tabulator frame. Fig. 11 is a detail perspective view of the magazine for the column stops. Fig. 12 is a detail fragmentary front elevation showing a modified form of indicator to aid in setting the stops.

It has been customary heretofore to provide a column stop bar with means for connecting a series of column stops thereto at different points in the length of the bar cor responding to different letter space positions of the carriage, the stops being removed by hand. from one position on the bar and adjusted to another position as the character of the work required. The setting of these stops subjected the operator to considerable annoyance and consumed much time. By the present invention these diliiculties are overcome and the stops may be quickly selected and set and may be quickly cleared when the character of the work requires the use of a different set of stops.

I have shown my invention embodied in the present instance in a No. 11 Remington machine, though it should be understood that the invention may be embodied in various styles of typewriting machines.

The frame of the machine comprises a base 1, corner posts 2 and a top plate 3. A carriage 4 is mounted on anti-friction balls or rollers 5 to move over the top plate from side to side of the machine. The carriage carries a cylindrical platen 6 which is shown mounted in a conventional manner in Fig. 1. The carriage is connected in the usual manner to a spring drum 7 by which it is propelled across the top plate. The means for controlling the carriage in its step-by-step feed movement and for releasing it at tabulating operations may be of the usual wellknown construction. Rearwardly extending arms 8 are secured by screws 9 to the carriage and support a column stop bar 10 at the rear ends thereof. The column stop bar or support 10 is preferably formed with teeth 11 on the upper and lower sides thereof to provide interdental spaces 11 in which the bifurcated sheet metal column-stops 12 are adapted to slide and to be held. There are preferably as many sets of interdental spaces on the column stop bar as there are letter space positions of the carriage in its travel from side to side of the machine, or as there are letter space indices on the carriage scale 13 with which the usual fixed pointer 14 is adapted to cooperate. Then the column stops are in operative position as shown in Fig. 1, suitable tabulating mechanism is adapted to cooperate therewith. For the purpose of the present invention any suitable tabulating mechanism may be employed to cooperate with the column stops. In the present instance I have illustrated the form of tabulating mechanism employed in the No. 11 Remington machine. In this construction a tabulator frame 15 is secured by

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16 and 17 to the frame of the machine. A series of denominational stop levers 18 is pivoted in the tabulator frame at 19. The upper, forwardly extending ends of the denominational stop levers constitute denominational stops 20. These stops project through and are guided in slots formed in guide plates 21 secured to the tabulator frame by screws 22. The lower end of each denominational stop lever is connected to a link 28, the forward end of which is connected to a depending arm 24 of an angular actuating lever pivoted to turn on a pivot rod 25 secured to the base of the machine. Each angular lever has a forwardly extending arm 26 operatively connected with a key stem 27 which passes through, and is guided, in openings in

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28 and 29. Each key stem 27 is provided with the usual denominational or tabulating key 30. Each angular lever is connected to one end of a contractile spring 31, the opposite end of which is connected to the guide plate 29.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that a depression of any of the denominational keys 30 is effective to project the corresponding denominational stop 20 into the path of the operative column stops 12, and at the same time to efiect a release of the carriage through the usual carriage release mechanism not shown. Then pressure is released from the depressed tabulator key 30, the associated restoring spring 31 is effective to move the key and the parts controlled thereby to normal position.

The column stops are normally contained in a container, support holder or magazine secured by screws 33 to one side of the tabulator frame 15, which latter, for the purposes of the present invention, may be regarded as a part of the frame of the machine. The magazine, which is shown in detail in Fig. 11, has a rectangular opening 34 in which the column stops are received and also has a slot 35 in the front face thereof through which the upper arm of each column stop is adapted to project, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower arm of each column stop, except the one which is about to be projected to operative position, engages the front wall 36 of the container. A plunger or follower 37 bears against the se- *ries of column stops at the left-hand end thereof and is pressed to the right by a coiled expansion spring 38. From an inspection of Fig. 11 it will be seen that the magazine is provided with a groove 39 in which a shifting or moving device, projector or ejector 40 is received. This projector is adapted to move in its guide openings fore and aft of the machine and at the righthand end of the magazine beyond the righthand end of the wall 36 and is of such thickness as to cooperate with but one column stop at a time. The projector is preferably situated, say, at six letter spaces to the left of the left-hand, or decimal stop, of the series of denominational stops 20. As the carriage moves step-by-step from one side of the machine to the other, the interdental spaces 11 in the column stop bar are brought successively into register with the righthand column stop 12 in the magazine and in alinement with the projector 40. From an inspection of Fig. 5 it will be seen that the shape of the projector is such that it is adapted to engage the rear and bottom edges of the column stops as the stops are brought successively into the path of the projector by the spring pressed plunger 37. The projector is provided with a laterally extending pin 41' received in a slot 42 in the upper end of an actuating arm 43. The actuating arm 43 is fixed to a rock shaft 44 mounted in bearing openings in a bracket 45 secured to the top plate of the machine. At the oppo site end of the rock shaft from that which carries the actuating arm 43 is a sleeve 46, secured to the rock shaft by a set screw 47 and provided with an arm 48 perforated at 49 (see Fig. 8) for the reception of a pin 50 on an upwardly extending link 51. The upper end of this link is bifurcated to receive a pin 52 which projects from a shaft 53 mounted to move longitudinally in bearings in the bracket 45. The pin and slot connection between the upper end of the link 51 and the longitudinally moving shaft 53 is effective to guide the link in its up and down movements and to shift the upper end of the link when the shaft or rod 53 is shifted longitudinally. A coiled spring 54 surrounds the shaft 44 and is connected thereto at one end, the opposite end of the shaft bearing against the bracket 45 so as to turn the rock shaft 44 and tend to maintain the actuating arm 43 in the normal position shown in Fig. 8; or to return the shaft and the parts connected therewith to normal position after they have been actuated. The lower end of the link 51 is pivoted at 51 to a key lever 55 fulcrumed at 56 and provided with a finger key 57 which is arranged at the keyboard of the machine. This is a special projecting key, a. depression of which is effective to move the link 5] downwardly, and when said link is connected to the arm 48, the actuating arm 43 will be moved forwardly, carrying the projector 40 forward to move a column stop which is in register therewith from the magazine to operative position on the column stop bar. The position along the column stop bar to which the column stop will be moved by the projector 40 depends on the position of the carriage in its line of travel as will hereinafter more clearly appear.

From an inspection of Fig. 6 it will be observed that the longitudinally movable rod '3 is provided with a laterally projecting pin 58 which engages in an enlarged opening 59 in a lever 60 pivoted at (31 to an upwardly extending car on the bracket 45. The upper end of the lever is provided with a finger piece or key 62 by which the lever may be turned to effect a longitudinal movement of the rod 53, to throw the link 51 into and out of engagement with the arm 48, the pivotal connection 51 affording this swinging movement of the upper end of the link. It will be understood therefore that a movement of the finger piece 62 to the right is effective to swing the upper end of the link 51 to the right, bringing about a disengagement between the pin 50, carried by the upper end of the link, and the arm 48 with which said pin is adapted to be connected. A leaf spring (33 is secured by screws 64 to an upright member 90 on the bracket 45. This spring 63 has an angular engaging portion 65 which is adapted to be received in one or the other of two notches 66 in the rod 58, so as to retain the rod and the parts connected therewith in either one of the two positions to which they may be set by the finger piece 62.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that when the link 01 is operatively connected to the projector 40 a depression of the key 57 is effective to move the right-hand one of the series of column stops in the magazine to operative position on the column stop bar. As soon as the n'ojoctor 40 is withdrawn the spring pressed plunger 37 is effective to move the series of column stops bodily to the right so as to bring the next column stop into register with the projector. After the carriage has been moved to the desired position to receive the next column stop an actuation of the finger key 57 is effective to move the next column stop from the magazine to operative position on the column stop rod and so on until the desired number of column stops are projected to operative position.

It will be understood that the tabulator frame 15 is carried by the frame or by a fixed part of the machine and that the magazine is carried by the tabulator frame. For the purpose of the present invention the tabulator frame may be regarded as a part of the frame of the machine so that the column stops are normally carried by the frame of the machine and are projected successively to operative position on the column stop bar carried by the carriage.

The upper end of the link 51 is provided with a pin (37 that extends therefrom to the right and is adapted to be received in an opening 68 in an arm 69, secured to a rock shaft 70 mounted in bearing openings in the bracket 45 and arranged parallel with the rock shaft n. A coiled spring 71 surrounds the rock shaft 70 and is connected thereto at one end, the opposite end of the spring bearing against the bracket t5 to turn the rock shaft and normally maintain the arm 69 in the elevated position. The opposite end of the rock shaft 70 from that which carries the crank arm 69 is provided with an actuating arm 72 which extends upwardly and forwardly and is provided at its upper end with a laterally projecting pin 73 re ceived in a slot 74 in a shifting or moving device 7 5. This shifting device is carried by a bearing member 76 supported by the bracket 45, the shifting device being adapted to slide in its bearing fore and aft of the machine. The shifting device 7 5 is arranged in fore and aft alinement with the projecting device 40 and is in register with the slot tl'irough which the column stops are projected from the magazine. The shifting device 7 5 is also arranged on the opposite end of the column stop bar from the projecting device 40 and like the device 40 is of such thickness as to cooperate with but one column stop at a time. As the carriage re ceives a step-by-step movement the column stops on the column stop bar are adapted to be brought successively into register with the shifting device 75, so that a. rearward movement of the device at this time is effective to move the column stop 12 which is in register therewith rearwardly out of engagement with the column stop bar and to shift it into the receiving slot in the column stop magazine or into the slot in the magazine through which the stops are ejected. As a column stop is moved by the shifting device 75 from the column stop bar back into the magazine, the beveled end 77 of the col umn stop moved by the device 75 is adapted to engage the projecting end of the righthand column stop of those in the container or magazine and to cam or shift all of the stops in the magazine to the left against the pressure of the spring 38. Thus it will be seen that as each column stop is moved into the magazine it shifts those already therein to the left to make room for the newly introduced column stop. lVhen the finger piece 62 is shifted to the right it is effective, as hereinbefore pointed out, to swing the upper end of the link 51 in order to disengage it from the actuating means for the projecting device 40. This same movement is effective to move the pin 67 into the opening (38 with which it normally registers, thus effecting a connection with the arm 69, rock shaft 70, actuating arm 72 and shifting device 7 5, by which the column stops may be moved suc cessively from operative posit-ion on the carriage to the container or magazine on the frame of the machine; each depression of the key 57 at this time being effective to move a column stop out of operative position and the stop which is moved to inoperative position depending on the position of the carriage in its travel.

A locking bar 7 8 (see Fig. t) is mounted on parallel links 79 pivoted at 80 to the column stop bar 10 A depending arm 81 on the locking bar is connected to one end of a contractile spring 82 and projects under the stop bar 10 to limit the upward movement of the locking bar. The spring 82 has its opposite end connected to a pin 83 on the lower side of the column stop bar. The spring .82 tends to move the locking bar 78 to the elevated position above the teeth on the upper side of the column stop bar. From an inspection of Fig. 7 it will be observed that the engaging edge 84- providcd on the upper side of the locking bar. This engaging edge is angular in. cross section with inclined front and back faces which are adapted to be received in a V-shaped opening 85 in each of the column stops. An inclined face 86 is likewise pro vided on each column stop for cooperation with the engaging edge 84 on the locking bar. The construction is such that when a column stop is moved from the magazine to operative position on the column stop bar the inclined face 86 on the column stop coacts with the locking edge 84 to depress the locking bar against the pressure of its spring 82. As soon as the V-shaped notch 85 of the stop registers with the engaging edge 84 the spring 82 effects an upward movement of the locking bar to seat it in said notch 85 to prevent accidental displacement of the column stop from its operative position on the column stop bar. It will be understood, however, that when the shifting device 75 is moved rearwardly, it is effective to move the column stop which is in register therewith rearwardly, and at this time the locking bar will be cammed down by the forward wall of the V-shaped notch 85 against the pressure of the spring 82 to afford a disengagement of the column stop from the locking bar.

From. an inspection of Fig. 5 it will be observed that when all of the column stops are removed from the column stop bar the locking bar 7 8 is moved by its spring 82 to a greater height, where itis interposed in the path of the shifting device 75 to prevent an actuation thereof. Thus when there are no column stops on the column stop bar there is no necessity for actuating the device 75 and it is at this time automatically locked against actuation. Any attempt at this time to depress the key 57 will be resisted by the locking bar, assuming that the device 7 5 is operatively connected with the key 57. The operator is thereby warned that the column stops have all been cleared from the column stop bar, and that it is necessary at this time to shift the finger piece 62 if the operator desires to set up a new group of column stops. As soon, however, as a column stop is projected forwardly to operative position on the column stop bar the locking bar is moved and maintained down in a position where itno longer obstructs the movement of the device 75.

In order to facilitate a clearing of the column stops from the column stop bar, I have provided means for arresting the carriage successively at difi erent positions where the column stops are brought successively into position to register with the shifting device 7 5 and to be received in the magazine. A stop 87 is formed as an upwardly extending offset projection of an arm F48. The arm 88 is mounted for axial as well for turning movement on a shouldered pivot screw 89 received at its threaded end in a tapped opening in an upright 90 on the bracket L5. This upright also constitutes a support for the bearing and guiding member 7 6. A coiled expansion spring 91 engages the arm 88 at one end and at its opposite end is secured to the upright or support 90. This coiled expansion spring tends to normally maintain the arm 88 in the axial position shown in Fig. 2 where the arm bears against the head of the screw 89; the spring also tends to turn the arm around its pivot to the lowermost position. WVhen the stop 87 is in the operative position the relation between the stop 87 and the shifting device 7 5 is such that when the carriage is moved to the right a column stop contacts with the left hand face of the stop 87 and such column stop will then be in register with the shifting device 75 and adapted to be forced from the column stop bar into the magazine. lVhen a column stop and the stop 87 cotiperate through a movement of the carriage to the right, no axial movement of the arm 88 is effected as the arm at this time bears against the head of the screw 89 which resists such axial movement. If, on the other hand, the carriage be moved from right to left the first column stop will strike the right-hand face of the stop 87, moving the arm 88 against the pressure of the expansion spring 91 to effect an axial movement of the arm against the pressure of said spring, and this axial movement is limited by the hub of the arm 88 contacting with the supporting member 90. The axial movement of the arm 88, thus effected, is sufficient to move the stop 87 and arm 88 from the dotted to the full line position shown in Fig. 9, and in this position the column stop which engages the stop 87 is in register with the shifting device 75, so that an actuation of the shifting device at this time is effective to move the said column stop from the column stop bar into the container or magazine. It will be understood that in either arresting position of the stop 87, that is to say, whether it be in the position shown in Fig. 2 or in the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 9, it is out of the path of the shifting device 7 5 in the movement of the latter fore and aft of the machine. When the stop 87 and arm 88 have been moved from the dotted to the full line position in Fig. 9 and the column stop bar has been projected rearwardly from the column stop bar into the container, and thus disengaged from the stop 87, the spring 91 becomes effective to again restore the arm 88 and stop 87 to normal position where the said arm bears against the head of the screw 89, as indicated in Fig. 2. The stop 87 is therefore again in position to cotiperate with the next column stop which may be brought into contact therewith whether the stop is moved with the carriage from right to left or from left to right. The control of the swinging movement of the stop 87 into and out of the path of the column stops is automatically effected when the key 57 is connected to the shifting device 75. Thus from an inspection of Fig. 6 it will be seen that a cam 92 is provided on the rod 53 and that when the finger piece 62 is moved to the right a corresponding longitudinal movement of the rod 53 is effected. This movement of the rod, as hereinbefore pointed out, is effective to disengage the finger key 57 from the projector 41-0 and to operatively connect said finger key with the shifting clevice 75. A corresponding movement of the cam 92 with the rod 53 is effective to elevate the arm 88 against the pressure of its spring 91 and to elevate the stop 87 into the path of the column stops on the column stop bar.

In order to provide an indicator to indicate the position of the carriage relatively to the projector 40 and shifting device 75 and by which the setting of the stops may be readily effected, I have provided an offset stop set indicator 93 which projects laterally from the fixed pointer 14 which cooperates with the carriage scale. It will be observed that this indicator 93 is set six letter space distances from the indicator 14 and to the left thereof, which distance corresponds to the distance between the first of the column stops in the magazine and with the left-hand or decimal stop of the series of denominational stops 20. Af er the operator determines the position on iii paper where the first column is to 11131761. this point, which may be assumed to be 1.1 23 on the carriage scale, will be moved to the stop set indicator 98. The finger piece 62 should then be in the left-hand position indicated in Fig. 6, to operatively connect the projecting device 4C0 with the finger key 57. A depression of said finger key is effective to actuate the projector, and to move the column stop 12 which is in register therewith forwardly into engagement with the column stop bar, and when pressure on the key 57 is released, the projector 40 will be withdrawn into the magazine ready to cooperate with the next column stop to be moved forwardly to operative position. Other stops may be successively set in the same manner.

Instead of providing an off-set pointer such as the pointer 93, I prefer to provide an indicator 94., as shown in Fig. 12, on the usual fixed indicator 95 employed in the No. 11 Remington machine and which is cooperative with the paper at or near the printing point. The special indicator 94 is off-set from the printing point, indicated at m in Fig. 12, six letter space distances which correspond to the off-set position of the devices L0 and 75 from the decimal stop. In selecting the stops by the aid of the indicator 94, I bring the point on the paper at which the column stop is to be selected directly into register with the indicator 94, regarding this indicator for the purpose of setting the stop as a printing point indicator. Thus, for instance, if a sheet of paper is provided which is ruled for four columns within which writing is to appear, the sheet may be introduced into the machine and the vertical lines on the sheet brought successively to the indicator 94E, depressing the key 57 as each line is brought into position to register with the indicator 94:. This is effective to project the column stop at a point which will correspond to and effect an arrest of the carriage in position to begin each column at the line on the paper. By being off-set siX letter space distances from a fore and aft vertical plane passing through the printing point the stop set indicator enables each of the column stops to be projected or set in proper-position, due regard being had to the position of the carriage in its line of travel with reference to the printing point.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a tabulator stop; and means for shifting said tabulator stop from one of said frame and carriage parts to and for connecting it with the other of said parts,

2. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of acarriage; a frame of the machine; a tabulator stop; means for shifting said tabulator stop from one of said frame and carriage parts to operative position on the other of said parts; and means for shifting said tabulator stop back to inoperative position.

3. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a tabulator stop; and a shifting device, said shifting device and stop both being normally carried by one of said frame and carriage parts, and the shifting device being operative to shift the stop to the other of said parts and to operative position thereon.

l. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a tabulator stop; a shifting device; a stop holder; and a stop support, said shifting device, stop and stop holder being normally carried by one of the carriage and frame parts, and the stop support being carried by the other of said parts, and the shifting device being operative to move said stop from said holder to operative position on said stop support.

In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a frame of the machine; a carriage; a column stop; and means for shifting said column stop from one of said frame and carriage parts to any one of a plurality of positions on the other of said parts, the relative movement between the carriage and frame determining the particular one of the said plurality of positions to which said column stop may be moved,

6. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a frame of the machine, a carriage; a column stop; a column stop bar with which said column stop is adapted to engage at different points in the length of said bar; and shifting means for shifting said column stop into engagement with said bar, the shifting means and the column stop bar being carried one by the frame of the machine and the other by the carriage, whereby a relative movement between the carriage and frame is effective to determine the position on the column stop bar at which the column stop may be engaged.

7. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a column stop; a column stop bar with which the column stop is adapted to engage at different points in the length of said bar, said column stop bar and column stop being normally mounted for movement relatively one to the other during the travel of the carriage; and shifting means for shifting said column stop into engagement with the column stop bar, the position of the carriage in its travel determining at what position along the column stop bar the stop may be engaged therewith.

8. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop normally carried by the frame of the machine; and a shifting means for shifting the column stop off the frame and into engagement with a part on the carriage to be carried thereby.

9. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism,v the combination of a carriage; a column stop bar carried by the carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop normally carried by the frame of the machine and adapted to engage the column stop bar at different points in the length of said bar; and shifting means for shifting the column stop off the frame and into engagement with said column stop bar to be carried thereby.

10. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of acarriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop normally fixed relatively to one of said frame and carriage parts; means operable at will for fixing the column stop relatively to the other of said parts; a cooperating tabulator stop normally in the inoperative position; and key controlled means for pro jecting said cooperating tabulator stop into operative position.

11. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop normally fixed relatively to one of said frame and carriage parts; and means for shifting the column stop back and forth from one to the other of said parts and for holding it on either of the parts to which it is shifted.

12. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of acarriage; an element which travels in unison with the carriage; a fixed part of the ma chine; a column stop; and key controlled means for shifting said column stop from said fixed part to and for coiinecting it to travel with said element.

13. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; an element which travels in unison with the carriage; a fixed part of the machine; a column stop; key controlled means for shifting said column stop from said fixed part to and for connecting it to travel with said element: and means for shifting said column stop back [0 and for holding it on said fixed part.

1%. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carria-ge; a frame of the machine; a column stop bar carried by one of said carriage and frame parts; a column stop adapted to engage the column stop bar at different points corresponding to different letter space positions in the travel of the carriage; a column stop holder carried by the other of said parts and normally holding said column stop; and means operable at will for shifting said. column stop from said holder to and for connecting it with said column stop bar.

15. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop bar carried by one of said carriage and frame parts; a column stop adapted to engage the column stop bar at different points corresponding to dilferent letter space positions in the travel of the carriage; a col umn stop holder carried by the other of said parts and normally holding said column stop; means operable at will for shifting said column stop from said holder to and for connecting it with said column stop bar; and means for shifting said column stop from said column stop bar to said holder.

1.6. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine: a column stop; and means for throwing the column stop into and out of operative position by shifting the stop from one of said frame and carriage parts to and for operatively connecting it with the other of said parts.

17. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops; and means for shifting said column stops into and out of operative position by moving said stops individually from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other of said parts, and for operatively connecting each of the stops with the part to which it is moved.

18. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops mounted for shifting movement from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other; and means for so shifting the stops.

19. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops mounted for shifting movement from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other; and means operative individually on the stops for so shifting them.

20. In a typewriting machine and tabu lating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops movable into and out of operative position; means for holding said stops in either of the positions to which they may be moved; a single key at the ke vboard; and means controlled by said key for moving said stops individually into and out of operative position.

21. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops movable into and out of operative position; means for holding said stops in either of the positions to which they may be moved; and key actuated restoring means for moving said stops ind'r vidually to inoperative position, said restoring means comprising a shifting device cooperative with but one stop at a time and effective by its actuation to move the stop which is in register therewith back to inoperative position.

22. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops movable to and from operative position by a movement from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other; and means for moving the stops to operative position, said means comprising a key actuated member cooperative with but one stop at a time, said member being carried by the part from which the stops are moved in their movement to operative position.

23. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops movable to and from operative position by a movement from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other; and means for moving the stops to inoperative position, said means comprising a key actuated member cooperative with but one stop at a time, said member being carried by the part to which the stops are to be moved in their movement to inoperative position.

24. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a series of column stops movable to and from operative position by a movement from one of said frame and carriage parts to the other; means for moving the stops to operative position,

said means comprising a key actuated member cooperative with but one stop at a til-no, said member being carried by the part from which the stops are moved in their movement to operative position; and restoring means for moving said stops-to inoperative position, said restoring means comprising a key actuated member cooperative with but one stop at a time, said member being carried by the part to which the stops are to be moved in their movement to inoperative po sition.

25. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of tabulator stops; a container for said stops, said container being carried by one of said frame and carriage parts; and means for forcing said tabulator stops from said container to the other of said parts.

26. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops; a container for said stops; means for moving the stops individually from said container to operative position; and automatically acting means for shifting said stops bodily along in said container.

27. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops; a container for said stops; a shifter for moving the stops successively from said container to operative position; and automatically acting means for moving said stops bodily along in said container to bring the stops successively into register with said shifter.

28. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops; a container for said column stops, said container being carried by the frame of the machine; means on the carriage with which the column stops are adapted to engage at different positions along the line of travel of the carriage; and shifting means for forcing the stops individually out of said container and into engagement with said engaging means on the carriage.

29. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops; a container for said column stops, said container being carried by the frame of the machine; means on the carriage with which the column stops are adapted to enat different positions along the line of travel of the carriage; shifting means for forcing the stops individually out of said container and into engagement with said engaging means on the carriage; and means for forcing said column stops along said container to bring the stops successively into register with said shifting means.

30. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a car riage; a machine frame; a container carried by one of said frame and carriage parts; a series of stops in said container; means for shifting the stops out of said container and into operative position and for operatively connecting them with the other of said parts; and means for forcing the stops out of operative position back into said container.

31. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a container carried by one of said frame and carriage parts; a series of stops in said container; and means for shifting the stops individually out of said container and into operative position and for operatively connecting them with the other of said parts; means for forcing said stops along said container and successively into cooperative relation with said shifting means; and means for forcing the stops out of operative position back into said container.

32. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism,the combination of a carriage a column stop bar on the carriage; a frame of the machine; a container carried by the frame of the machine; a series of column stops carried by said container; a key actuated shifting device operative on said stops individually for shifting the stops out of said container and into engagement with the column stop bar at different points in the length thereof; and a key actuated device cooperative with said columnstops individually to disengage them from the column stop bar and to shift them back into the containcr.

33. In a typcwriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a column stop bar on the carriage; a frame of the machine; a container carried by the frame of the machine; a series of column stops carried by said container; a key actuated shifting device operative on said stops individually for shifting the stops out of said container and into engagement with the column stop bar at different points in the length thereof; spring pressed means for shifting said column stops along said container to bring the stops successively into cooperation with said shifting device; and a key actuated device cooperative with said column stops individually to disengage them from the column stop bar and to shift them back into the container.

34. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a machine frame; a series of column stops normally held in inoperative position on one of said parts; means for shifting said stops to operative position on the other of said parts and for connecting them therewith; and means for shifting said stops back to inoperative position and for holding them on the part on which they are normally held, both sets ofsaid means comprising a key, and means for rendering said key operative for shifting the stops into or out of operative position at Will.

35. In a typeWriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to which they may be moved; key actuated means for shifting but one of said stops to inoperative position at each key actuation; and automatically acting means for rendering said key actuated shifting means inoperative.

36. In a typevvriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said posi tions to Which they may be moved; key actuated means for shifting said stops to inoperative position; and automatically acting means for locking said key actuated shifting means against actuation and in the normal position.

37. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanlsm, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to Which they may be moved; means for shifting said stops to inoperative position; automatically acting means for rendering said shifting means inoperative; and automatically acting means for rendering said shifting means operative.

38. In a typevvriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to Which they may be moved; key actuated means for shifting said stops to inoperative position; automatically acting means for locking said key actuated shifting means against actuation and in the normal position; and automatically acting means for releasing said locking means.

39. In a typevvriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to which they may be moved; a key actuated shifter operative on the stops individually to move one of them to inoperative position at each actuation of the key; and automatically acting means for rendering said shifter inoperative.

40. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to Which they may be moved; a key actuated shifter operative on the stops individually to move one of them to inoperative position at each actuation; and automatically acting means for locking said shifter against actuation and in the normal position.

41. In a typeWriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to Which they may be moved; a key actuated shifter operative on the stops individually to move one of them to inoperative position at each actuation; automatically acting means for locking said shifter against actuation and in the normal position; and automatically acting means for releasing said locking means.

4-2. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of tabulator stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to remain indefinitely in either of the said positions to Which they may be moved; a key actuated shifter operative on the stops individually to move one of them to inoperative position at each actuation; automatically acting means under control of said stops for locking said shifter against actuation and in the normal position; and automatically acting means under control of the stops for releasing said locking means.

43. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a column stop bar; a series of column stops; and means for operatively connecting the column stops to the column stop bar at different points in the length of said bar, the point of operative connection of each stop With the bar depending on the position of the carriage in its line of travel.

44:. In a typevvriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the stops one at a time to operative position; and means independent of the travel of the carriage for moving the stops successively into register with said projector.

45. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a machineframe; a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position; and means carried by the frame of the machine for moving said column stops successively into register with said projector.

l6. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops; a holder for said column stops; a key actuated projector for moving one of said stops from said holder to operative position at each actuation of the key which controls said projector; and automatically acting means for moving another of said stops into register with said projector when one of the stops is moved to operative position by said projector.

47. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a machine frame; a carriage; a series of column stops; a holder for said column stops; a projector for moving said stops one at a time from said holder to operative position; means for moving said stops successively into register with said projector, said holder, projector and moving means all being carried by a single one of said frame and carriage parts.

48. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position; and a special indicator for indicating the relation between the carriageand said projector.

49. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position; and a special inclicator cooperative with the work sheet for indicating the position of the carriage and the work sheet with reference to said projector.

50. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position, said projector being off-set to one side of a vertical fore and aft plane passing through the printing point; and an indicator set in a correspondingly offset position to indicate the position of the carriage with reference to said projector.

51. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position; said projector being offset to one side of a vertical fore and aft plane passing through the printing point; and an indicator cooperative with the work sheet, said indicator being set in an offset position which corresponds to the offsetting of the projector to indicate the position of the carriage and work sheet with reference to said projector. Y

52. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; a projector for moving the column stops one at a time to operative position, said projector being offset to one side of a vertical plane passing through the printing point; a fixed printing point and line indicator; and a special indicator carried by said fixed indicator, said special indicator being offset to a position corresponding to said projector to indicate the position of the carriage with reference to said projector.

53. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops; means for moving said column stops to operative position; means for moving said stops to inoperative position; a single key for moving either of said moving means; and an independently operable device for determining which of said moving means shall be moved by said key.

54. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops; means for moving said column stops to operative position; means for moving said stops to inoperative position; a single key for moving either of said moving means; and an independently operable hand actuated means for operatively connecting said single key with either one or the other of said moving means.

55. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops; means for moving said column stops one at a time to operative position; means for moving said stops one at a time to inoperative position; a single key at the keyboard of the machine; and independently operable hand actuated means for operatively connecting said single key with one or another of said moving means.

56. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; and means for arresting the carriage when a stop is in register with said moving means.

57 In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for effecting a relative movement between said series of stops and said stop moving means to bring the stops successively into register with said stop moving means; and means for arrest-ing the carriage each time a stop is brought into register with said stop moving means.

58. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, thecombination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for arresting the carriage each time a stop is brought into register with said stop moving means; and means for releasing thecarriage after each stop is moved to inoperative position.

59. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for effecting a relative movement between said series of stops and said stop moving means to bring the stops successively into register with said stop moving means; and means cooperative successively with said column stops to arrest the carriage as the stops are brought successively into register with said moving means.

60. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for arresting the carriage when a stop is in register with said moving means, and automatically actuated means for rendering said carriage arresting means operative when said stop moving means are operative.

61. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for effecting a relative movement bet-ween said series of stops and said stop moving means to bring the stops successively into register with said stop moving means; means for arresting the carriage each time a stop is brought into register with said stop moving means; and automatically actuated means for rendering said carriage arresting means operative when said stop moving means are rendered operative.

62. In a typewriting machine and tabulatin'g mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a series of column stops; means for moving said stops one at a time out of operative position; means for effecting a relative movement between said series of stops and said stop moving means to bring the stops successively into register with said stop moving means; means cooperative successively with said column stops to arrest the carriage as the stops are brought successively into register with said moving means; means for releasing the carriage after each stop is moved to inoperative position; and automatically actuated means for rendering said carriage arresting means operative when said stop moving means are rendered operative.

63. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; stop receiving means on the carriage and on the frame which are adapted to be brought into register; a stop; and means for shifting said stop from one of the carriage and frame parts to the other when said stop receiving means are in register.

64. In a ty ewriting machine and tabulating mechamsm, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a stop magazine 011 one of said parts and from which only one stop at a time can be ejected; means for ejecting the stops one at a time from said magazine; and stop engaging means on the other of said parts arranged at different points along the same, the different stop engaging means and the point of ejectmentof the stops being brought into register by the travel of the carriage to receive the stops from the ejector.

65. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; acolumn stop bar carried by one of said parts; a magazine carried by the other of said parts; a series of column stops carried by said magazine; and an ejector for moving the stops one at a time from said magazine to said column stop bar.

66. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop bar carried by one of said parts; a magazine carried by the other of said parts; a series of column stops carried by said magazine; an ejector for moving the stops one at a time from said magazine to said column stop bar, and means for moving the column stops along said magazine to register successively with said ejector.

67. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; a column stop bar carried by one of said parts, and provided with stop engaging means situated a letter space distance apart; a magazine carried by the other of said parts; a series of column stops carried by said maga zine; and an ejector for moving the stops one at a time from said magazine into e11- gagement with said engaging means, the position along the column stop bar at which each stop is engaged therewith depending on the position of the carriage in its travel.

68. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a carriage; a frame of the machine; stop receiving means on the carriage and on the frame which are adapted to be brought into register; a stop; means for shifting said stop from one of the carriage and frame parts to the other when said stop receiving means are in register; and means for arresting the carriage when the stop receiving means are in register.

69. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a stop support adapted to receive and support stops at different points in the length thereof, a series of stops; a magazine in which said stops are contained, said magazine having a slot through which but one stop can pass at a time; means by which a relative movement between said stop support and magazine may be effected to bring different parts of the stop support and the said slot in the magazine into register; and an ejector for forcing the stops from said magazine to said stop support.

70. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a stop support adapted to receive and support stops at different points in the length thereof; a series of stops; a magazine in which said stops are contained, said magazine having a slot through which but one stop can pass at a time; means by which a relative movement between said stop support and magazine may be effected to bring different parts of the stop support and the said slot 1n the magazine into register; an ejector for forcing the stops from said magazine to said stop support; and means for moving said stops along said magazine to bring them successively into register with said ejector.

71. In a typewriting machine and tabulating mechanism, the combination of a series of column stops movable into and out of operative position and adapted to be retained indefinitely in either of the said positions to which they may be moved; and a spring pressed bar with which the stops are forced into engagement when the stops are moved to operative position, the movement of each stop out of operative position disengaging it from said bar.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 30th day of July A. D. 1910.

JOHN WALDHEIM. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. SMITH, E. M. WELLS.