US1791858A - Autographic register - Google Patents

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Feb. 10, 1931. B D 1,791,858

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed Feb. 25. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Address Samuel Brand MM W- Feb 10, 1931.

5. BRAND 1,791,858

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed Feb. 25. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FrG- 3 43 ClerkHN w. .h

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ilnncnloz Sarnuel Brand Patented Feb. 10, 1931 UNITED f arts SAMUEL BRAND, OF DAYTON; OHIO, ASSI COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO,

AUTOGBAPHIC REGISTER GNOB TO THE NATIONHJ CAGE REGISTER A COBPOEATIGN OF MARYLAND Application filed February 25, 1927. Serial Re. 170,851.

A further ob'ect of. the invention is to provide a novel eeding device to control the issuing strip feed to render the feed 1216f: fective when the printed forms thereon are in proper position at the writin opening.

Another object is to provide slits in the issuing strip at regular intervals to control the feeding feeding of the strips.

Another object is to provide a severing means located in relation to the feeling de-' vice, so that, the strip is severed across the slits in the strip.

With these and incidental objects in View, the invention includes certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawin I Fig. 1 is a longitudinal, sectional view of the autographic register.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view 'device to stop the of the register. Fi 3 is a view showing an original slip toget or with a duplicate slip printed on opposite sides of a single strip.

ig. 4 is a detail view of the operating cam together with its cooperating members. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a section of the issuing strip, as it would appear if unwound from the supply roll, before the strip is issued from the machine, and shows the location of the U-shaped slits at regular intervals in the strip,

feeding control feeling finger cooperates Ushaped and also shows how the.

with the U-shaped aperture to stop the feed 3 of the strip.

Fig. 6 is a detail view between the main feed rollers.

of the friction drive operating means and the In general, the register contains a check or slip supply roll of ed on both sides a perforated line double slip is fed paper having forms printplaced alternately and with between the forms. This from the register and is to automatically severed from the strip. A

separate record strip is maintained Both alining devices which maintain a uniform The records are made upon and by the aid the register.

feedingof each. the'original slip paper duplicates within strips are controlled by of carbon are simultaneously made upon the other slip and the record strip.

The strip is provided with a U-shaped slit forms for each pair of printed on the slip paper, to co-act with feeling devices to control the len th 0 strip. By t iis means, a

f feed given the issuing uniform feed is maintained for each pair of slips fed out or? the machine.

Described in detail 30 upon which rests the register has a case a casing 31 having a writing opening 32 through which an orig? nal strip 33 is accessible for items thereon. T from a supply roll roller 35, across a second 42 in the Th vided with printed the entry of 1s unwound over a guide his strip 33 34 and moves a writing table 36., around guide roller 37, and returns across a the writing table and 39, through a slot 40 in a rigi passing between feeding casing 31. e issuing check ofslip strip 33 is profornis on opposite sides of printed forms are arranged alternately on opposite sides of t he issuing strip 33, in the direction of the length of the slip having a perforated line between them theslips are removed from the so that after register they may be easily separated from each other.

When the original form LS in position at the writing opening as shown in Fig. 2, a duplicate of this form, of the strip, is im printed on the other side mediately below the original form shown. As the records are entered upon this original form, duplicates are made upon the other form on the opposite side of this strip by the aid of carbon pa er, which is inserted between the two folds 0 this strip. This strip is provided with U-shaped slits (Fig. 5), placed at regular intervals, and these slits are spaced, one for each pair of printed forms, or in other words one for each set of original and duplicate checks or slips. The relative position of the U-shaped slit in relation to its printed form on the strip, is clearly shown in Fig. 5.

As the strip is fed through the rollers 38 and 39, the slit in the strip is in alinement with a finger 48 which is held by a spring 49 against the under surface of the strip 33, and as the slit approaches the finger 48 the spring 49 will cause the finger to raise a tongue 43 formed by the slit and by so doing rocks a downwardly projecting arm 50 into engagement with a ratchet 51 and stops the feed of the strip 33. Fig. 5 illustrates how the feeding finger 48 raises the tongue 43 and enters the strip. The ratchet 51 is freely mounted on a rod 52 and has fastened to it a gear 53 in mesh with a pinion 54 secured to the feed roller 39. Also mounted upon the rod 52 is a gear 55 which lies alongside of gear 53 and drives gear 53 by afriction means so that the gear 53 can be stopped by the arm or detent 50, and the driving gear 55 continues its rotation. The friction means includes a collar 44 (Fig. 6), secured to the rod 52; a friction disk 45 loosely mounted on the rod 52, and connected by a mortise and tenon to the hub of the gear 55, also loosely mounted on the rod 52; and a compression spring 46 acting to separate the friction disk 45 and gear 55 to create friction between the gear 53 and the friction disk 45, and between the gear 55 and collar 44, to drive the gear 53 to feed the check strip. The above described friction drive is substantially the same as that shown in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,506,056, granted to M. M. Goldberg on August 26. 1924. In mesh with the gear 55 is a gear 56 mounted upon a shaft 57, this shaft being rotated by an operating crank 58 located on the left hand side of the register, as shown in Fig. 2. The crank 58 has a plunger 59 projecting through a hand knob 60 and the end 61 of said plunger engages the lower end of a yieldable stop 62 which is fastened at its upper end to the casing of the register.

As the crank 58 approaches its home position during an operation, a lug 63 on this crank engages the lower end 64 of the yield able stop 62 to stop the crank. To start the crank, the operator pushes the plunger 59 inwardly bending the yieldable stop 62 out of the plane of the lug 63.

The ratio of the gears from the operating crank to the feed rollers 39 is such that the strip 33 will be moved its full distance before the operating crank has made a complete rotation, the difference of the movement being taken care of by the friction drive between the gears 53 and 55. At the beginning of an operation the finger 48 is withdrawn from the path of the strip by a cam which engages a pin 71 mounted in an arm 72 pinned to a shaft 73 to which the finger 48 is secured.

Near the end of an operation, the checks or slips are severed from the strip b a movable knife 74 connected by a link 75 to an arm 76 pivoted on rod 77. The arm 76 carries a roller 78 which cooperates with a cam 79 secured to the shaft 57. The knife 74 is so located in relation to the feeling finger 48, that the issuing strip is severed at a.point where the U-shaped slit is located in the strip. and for this reason, when the slip is removed from the machine, the tongue 43 (Fig. 3) remains on the duplicate strip and a notch is left in the original slip. The feeling finger 48 raises the ton ue 43 high enough to push the tongue out 0% for this reason the tongue is not severed from the strip.

It may be stated that the slits in the check strip which control the stopping of the feeding rollers may be elliptical or oblong in shape, or they may be in the form of holes and when the check is severed the cut is made through a slit or perforation so that when the severed check is removed from the machine the 0 en end of this perforation will slip.

over nger 48.

In addition to the original and duplicate check strip there is another strip 85 which remains in the machine. This strip is fed from a su ply roll 86 across the writing table 36 aroun a uide roller 87 and onto a receiving roll 88 w ich is mounted upon a shaft 89, the records being made upon the strip 85 by a second sheet of carbon paper placed between stri 33 and this strip 85.

1e receiving roll 88 is operated by a friction drive between the operating crank and the receiving roll. Secured to the receiving roll is a ratchet wheel 90 engaged by a pawl 91 to stop the receiving roll 88 when the right amount of paper has been moved across the writing table. The control of this stopping pawl is similar to that of the check strip stopping pawl 50. This pawl 91 is mounted upon a stud 92 and fastened to a finger 93 held against the surface of the record strip 85 by a spring 94. When this finger 93 is engaging the surface of the strip 85 the pawl 91 will be disengaged from the ratchet wheel 90. The record strip, like the issuing check strip, is provided with slits or holes spaced at regular intervals so that when the proper amount of paper has passed over the writing table the finger 93 will enter a slit or perforation, allowing the pawl 91 to engage the ratchet wheel 90 and stop the rotation of the receiving roll 88. The pawl 91 is disengaged from the path of the knife, and

the ratchet wheel 90, and the finger 93 disengaged from the strip 85 at the beginnin of an operation of the machine by a cam 96 ig. 4) cooperating with a pin 97 mounted in an arm 98 which is supported on the stud 92 and operatively connected to the arm 93 by a hub 99. The receiving roll 88 is rotated by the driving gear 56 through a gear 95 which lies alongside of the ratchet wheel 90 and drives this ratchet wheel by friction.

The feeding of the check strip and the rec- 0rd strip is always uniform as the slits or holes in these strips cooperate with the fingers 48 and 93 to correct any discrepancies due to slippage, or any other cause, occur in the feeding of these strips during an operation of the machine.

While the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form or embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is:

1. In an autographic register; the combination of a pair of feed rollers to feed a record strip; means to sever the record strip at regular intervals; a feeler to enter an aperture in the record strip when the aperture is adjacent the severing means; and means controlled by the feeler when the feeler enters the aperture to arrest the record strip in position to be severed at a point across the aperture.

2. In an autographic register, the combination of means to feed a record strip, said strip having at regular intervals therein a slit shaped to form a tongue; severing means to cut the strip to form a separate slip; a feeler adapted to strike the tongue, raise the same out of the path of the severing means and enter the aperture made by the removal that may to sever the strip; a device to enter an 9. erture in the record strip at a predetermined point; a detent connected to said device and adapted to engage the strip feed means to arrest the strip so that the severing means operates on the strip across the aperture; and means to control the detent to disengage the detent from strip feed means, and to control the deviceto remove the device from the aperture in the strip. 1

5. In an autogra hic register; the combination of means to eed a record strip means to sever the strip at regular intervals; and means, yieldingly actuated in one direction to enter an aperture in the record at a predetermined point, and to engage the strip feed means to arrest the strip so that the severing means operates on the strip across the aperture, said last-named means being positively actuated in another direction to be withdrawn from the aperture and disengaged from the strip feed means. I

6. In an autographic register; the combination of a pair of feed rollers to feed a record strip, said strip having apertures cut to form tongues; means to sever the stri at regular intervals; a feeler to enter one o the apertures asthe strip is fed, feed roller arresting means connected to the feeler to be actuated thereb to arrest the strip when the aperture into which the feeler is projected, is adjacent the severing means; and means to actuate the severing means when the aperture is adjacent thereto, to cut the strip across the aperture to form a slip with a. tongue at one end and a notch at the other end.

In testimony whereof I afiix my si ature.

SAMUEL BR ND.

of said tongue; means connected to and operated by the feeler, as it enters said aperture, to stop the feed of the strip withthe aperture in the path of the severing means; and means to operate the severing means to cut the strip on a line running across the aperture.

3. In an autogra hic register; the combination of means to eed a record strip; means to sever the strip at regular intervals; at device to enter an aperture in the record strip when the aperture is adjacent the severing means; means controlled by said device as the latter enters the aperture, to engage and arrest the strip feed means, whereby the strip is arrested in position to be severed across the aperture; and means to disengage the lastnamed means from the strip feed means and remove said device from the path of the strip.

,. 4. In an autogra hic register; the combination of means to eed a record strip; means

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