US984234A - Type-writing machine. - Google Patents

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L. O. MYERS. TYPE WRITING MACHINE.- APPLIOATION FILED APKM, 1909.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

WITNESSES; 5';

M v AITORNEY UNITED sTArEs PlENT OFFICE.

LEWIS C. MYERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY,

' OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITIIilG MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pa te nted Feb, 14 19.11,

Application filed April 24, 1909. Serial No. 492,044. I

To all whom it may concern:

citizen of the United, States 'of America, re-

siding in the borough of Brooklyn, city and The invention is applicable to machines of various types.

It comprises a laterally. adjustable readily removable gage-plate adapted to be applied to the paper table of a typewriting machine.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view showing the paper table of a Royal Standard typewriting machine (well known in the market) having applied to it two paper gages: Fig. 2, a' plan view of a paper gage detached from the paper.

table: and Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are views-illustrating the mode of attachment of the gage to the paper table- 1 indicates the paper table. The gage comprises a fiat sheet-metal body portion 2 formed with an integral spring clip 3 at its upper or rear end and with a jaw 4 at its front or forward end constituting a spring or friction latch for engaging. the front or lower edge of the paper table.

Fig'. '3 indicates the manner in which the gage is initially applied to the paper table, the spring clip portion3 being forced down over the upperedge of the table into the position shown in Fig. 4:, and then the forward edge of the gage is pressed down until the portion 4 snaps over or around the front edge of the paper table as indicated in Fig. 5. This affords a sufliciently secure connec tion of the gage to the table and yet permits .of the gage being moved laterally-on the table. Atbne edge of the body portion 4,

preferably the outermost edge, there is a turned up lip or flange extending from the forward edge of the gage tothe rear edge.

This flangeis marked 5, 5, the part 5 being preferably of greater Width than the ortion 5. .The, purpose of this difference 1n width is to provide a part 6 that is bent outwardly and constitutes a convenient handle or finger piece by which the gage may be grasped and manipulated.

In Fig. l, the paper table is shown as h av'-' ing secured to it two gages the inner faces of the flanges 5, 5' of, which. engage the edges of a card or sheet of paper fed to the p machine. Devices of this character are particularly useful 1n writing on cards or on forms ruled in vertical columns. The gages when once properly adpisted serveto pro sent the cards or ruled sheets unii'onmlv to the platen with respect to the printing-point thereon.

lclaiinz V edges of a'pa'pcr table s'o-as to ue, adjustable laterally thereon and a flange at one edge I 6'5? 1. A paper gage for a typewriting ma .chine having means at each end for engaging respectively with the upper and lower serving as a gage for the edgeso-f sheets fed to the machine.

2. A paper gage for a typewriting ma- 3. A paper gage for a typewriting ma chineiformcd of a single piece of sheet metal having a spring clipat one end adapted 'to engage one edge of the paper table and means at its other edge for engaging the otheredge of a paper table and a'flange at one of its side edges serving as a gage for edges of sheets fed to the machine and-haw 111g l'lllIBQlfIl therewith a lateral handle or:

finger piece by which the gage may be manipulated for adjustment laterally on the paper tablefand' for application to and removal from the latter.

chine formed of a single piece of sheet metal having aspring' clipat one'end adapted to' In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name. a Lewis 0. MYERS.

Witnesses:

E. B. Hess, A. J. SHERIDAN.

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