US2003149A - Manifolding - Google Patents

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May 28, 1935. A. A. JOHNSON MANIFOLDING Original Filed May 22, 1951 Patented May 28, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEI'} MANIFOLDING Arthur A. .lolmson, Bridgeport, Conn, assignmto Autographic Register Company, Hoboken, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Original application May 22, 1931, Serial No. 539,245. Divided and this application Decem ber 29, 1933, Serial No. 704,406 r 3 Claims. (01. 282-12) This invention relates to manifolding, and ent invention and the specific mechanism 'used' more-particularly, to the provision of a pile ofv therewith. 7 strips with feed-regulating means so arranged, Broadly, the manifolding register comprises a that predetermined strips in the superposed pile substantially rectangular casing l having a stormay be fed prior to or after the other strips in the age supply compartment 1 I at oneend and a rec- 6. pile. It is a division of my copending application I 0rd compartment I! at the other end .with a feed Serial No. 539,245, filed May 22, 1931. mechanism l3 between the two.

In my aforesaid application there is disclosed The supply compartment H may be used to an autographic register with special feed and store a zig-zag folded pile of superposed strips,

control mechanisms adapted to select, advance, to store a single roll having a pile of superposed l0 cut-off and store in a master record compartstrips wound thereon, or to store several spindles ment or otherwise dispose of certain sheets from each having a single strip wound thereon, either a set in a pile of superposed strips and to subof these forms being arranged to be drawn in susequently select, advance and cut-off the reperposed condition across a platen Min 2. man- 16 mainder of the sheets in the one set of forms ne ow Well understood in this art; The record for disposition usually in a different manner storage compartment I2 is indicative of the cut during one operation of the feed mechanism.v 's o ge ype lso Well-known in the art.

The success of this entire arrangement is close- The feed mechanism I3 comprises a hand ly related to specially formed strips forming crank or actuator I5 having a limited ran the subject matter of the present divisional apc te movement between the normal s 20 plication, and intermediate stop l'l connected to suitable Other features and advantages will hereing rin w h n t us t s gearing in aiterappean arranged to impart uni-directional rotationto In th drawing feed disks l9 and feed disk shaft 20 during two- Figure 1 i an e e t n of complete register direction rotation of the crank, said mechanism on a .very reduced scale. being shown and described in detail in my afore-' Fig. 2 is a detail view of the regular feed mech- Said application Serial o. 5 2 5, filed May anism and of one form of starter device which 1931- e e disks and shaft up n w h t ey may be used to alternately start one part of a are mounted in combination with a pressure roll- 3 t a d th th r i de of a t of h t er flare substantially like that disclosed in the m superposed pi1e v aforementioned Shoup and Oliver Patent No. Fig. 3 is a side view of the feed and starter 1,396,070, for the disks are d p t p a p l mechanism shown i Fig 2, s 22 of strips 23 and 24, divided throughouttheir' Fig. 4 is a plan view of one form of superposed length w forms and Preferably y strips, transverselines of severance 25, in tractive en- 35 1; 5 is plan View of another fol-moi upergagement between the feeddisks l9 and pressure posed strips. roller 2| to advance them until the feed disks The novel pack or the present invention is enter feed-regulating apertures w ereupon most useful in manifolding registers at the presvement of the strips is pp d b cause of the 40 ent time and for this reason it has been so dislook of treotive engagement. 1 4o closed. Because machines of this order are most epatent also discloses a u ly opergenerally of the so-called Shoup and Oliver type able Structure for p in vs artingmovement disclosed, in Patent No. 1,396,070, granted Noto the pile of strips. i order to move e pervember 8, 1921, the present inventi is tures outof registry with the feed disks and to ciosed as embodied in a register of this general bring t pile o traetive n eme t again. 45 type, but this, should in nowise restrict the pre The structure so far described is standard in cut invention, for it is applicants intent that the nearly every respect and has been used V y 8110- novelpack be used in other types of machines, oessfully in manifolding register installations The register shown in my aforesaid, applicae where it is desired to advance the entire pile of tion Serial No. 539,245, filed, May 22, 1931,.also strips oneiorm-length at a time into a position 50 embraces and describes in vdetail certain imfor manual severance of a set of forms along a provernents over said Patent No. 1,396,070, which tear-oi! straight'edge or for automatic severance are neither shown nor described in detail here, by a knife controlled by the hand crank. in an effort to more clearly. show and describe This type of mechanism flndsextensive use and the special pile of stripsprovided by the presperforms very satisfactorilyi'nmany lines of busi- 55 ness. However, there is nothing about it which enables selected strips in the pile to be advanced prior to the others; as for example, advancement of a top record strip 23 a single form-length for delivery into the record storage compartment |2 downwardly through the-regular path of travel of the pile and then advance the remainder of the strips in the pile one form-length over the cover 21 of the storage compartment for severance there and disposition to the customer, shipping room, or the like.

Coming now tothe important provisions of the present invention, it should be particularly noted that the pile of strips 22, which, for the purpose of illustration, comprises only a top record sheet 23 and two copy strips 24 with a succession of sheets or forms 23a and 24a and which may be of roll type or zig-zag folded type, is especially formed so that the top record strip 23 or other predetermined strips in the pile may be selected by the starter mechanism fully disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 539,245, filed May 22, 1931, and shown by one illustrative embodiment in Figs. 2 and 3 of the present drawing, and advanced for disposition in one manner and thereafter the balance of the strips in the pile are selected and advanced a predetermined length for disposition or disposal in another manner. 7

To this end the present invention provides specially formed starter escape apertures 28 in one or more of the strips, one in each form 23a of the top or record strip 23 alone in the present showing while the copy strips 24 are left with solid grip sections 29a thereunder. Similarly, the copy strips 24 are provided with starter escape apertures 29 while immediately overlying these apertures 29 the top record strip 23 is left solid grip sections 28a.

It is the provision of these starter escape apertures 28 and 29 overlying solid sections 28a and 29a which makes it possible to automatically select and advance one or more strips and then other strips in the pile to advance them alternately one form length.

Only one form of novel starter mechanism 30, for use with the novel pack 22 of the present invention, is disclosed herein and it comprises a cam 3| with a primary lobe 3|a on the crank shaft 32 adapted to engage a dog 33 on the lower end of the bell crank 34 and move the latter in a counterclockwise direction about a shaft 35 against the tension of the spring 36 until a finger 31 clears a notch 38 on a starter roll carrier 39 as the crank I5 is initially pulled away from the normal stop |6 toward the intermediate stop l1, whereupon the carrier rotates with the feed disk shaft 20 in a counterclockwise dinection, as viewed in Fig. 3, until a starter roll 40 thereon moves into the copy strip apertures 29 and engages with a starter portion 28a of the record strip 23 to seize this record strip and impart a small initial forward movement to it, sufiicient to move the feed-regulating apertures 26 out of registry with the disks #9, whereupon the feed disks and pressure roller are in tractive en-- gagement with the record strip and work upon the latter through the feed-regulating apertures 26 of the stationary copy strips to advance this record strip one form-length until the next succeeding feed-regulating apertures 26 of the record strip move into registry with the feed disks.

As the crank |5 is moved through the half cycle of its movement into engagement with the intermediate stop H, the high point of the primary lobe 3|a quickly rides below the dog 33 and the finger 31 rides on the periphery of the carrier 39 into the secondary notch 4| to prevent further rotation of the carrier with the feed shaft 20. During this movement a secondary lobe 3| b on the cam ineffectively kicks a secondary dog 42 on the end of the bell crank 34 about the pivot 43 away from the stop 44 and against the compression spring- 45 until the dog snaps back into its normal position and the lobe 3|b underlies the bevel 46 portion thereof.

Subsequently, the crank I 5 is moved in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed in Figure 1, from the intermediate stop I? back toward the normal stop I6 whereupon the secondary lobe 3|b on the cam 3| moving in a counterclockwise direction engages the dog 42 which is now held against clockwise movement on the pivot 43 by the stop 44 to kick the bell crank 34 in a counterclockwise direction again and releases the finger 3.1 from the secondary stop 4| so that another starter roll 41 on the carrier 39 rotating with the feed shaft 20 moves into engagement with the starter portions 29a of the copy strips 24 underlying the starter escape aperture 28 in the record strip 23 to seize these copy strips and impart initial advancing movement thereto, while the record strip 23 remains stationary, a sufficient extent for the feed-regulating apertures 26 of the copy strips to move out of registry with the feed disks l9 and to move these copy strips into tractive engagement between the feed disks l9 and pressure roller 2| to be advanced thereby as the feed shaft is rotated by the crank 5 and feed mechanism 3 until they have been advanced one form-length and the next succeeding feed-regulating apertures of the next succeeding forms in the copy strips move into registry with the feed disks.

The secondary lobe 3 |b engages the dog 42 and moves the finger 31 clear of the secondary notch 4| but very briefly and then allows the finger to ride on the carrier 39 again into the primary notch 38. The carrier 39 and starter rolls '40 and 41 thereon are held against rotation with the feed shaft 20 by a frictional clutch 43 comprising a collar 49 on the shaft 20 and a spring 50 yieldingly urging the carrier 39 against a face plate 5|. During final counterclockwise movement of the cam 3| with the crank I5 and crank shaft 32 the primary lobe 3 la engages the underside of the dog 33 to ineifectively kick the dog about the pivot 43 away from a stop pin 52 against the compression spring 45 until this lobe clears the dog and allows it to snap back into normal position again as shown in Fig. 3 just prior to the crank |5 reaching the normal stop I6.

Thus, only one set of forms in the superposed pile is advanced one form-length, but, according to the present invention, this is done in a divided manner; viz, predetermined strips (the record strip in the present showing) is advanced one form-length for disposal in one manner, as for example, forwardly over the cover 21 for disposal exteriorly of the machine or downwardly into the storage compartment l2 with the aid of a switching device disclosed in my aforesaid application for substantially permanent storage, and thereafter the balance of one set of forms in the pile of strips is picked up and advanced one form-length for desired distribution exteriorly of the machine. The next succeeding set of forms is then over the platen 4 in position for writing a record entry and subsequent disposal is effected in like divided manner by again operating the crank through one full cycle.

Various forms of feeding mechanisms and starter mechanisms may be used with the novel pack of the present invention. Also, the starter apertures 28 and 25 and grip sections 28a and 29a may be variously positioned and proportioned within the purview ofthe present invention, a modified form being shown in Fig. 4, wherein the starter apertures 53 and 54 are spaced wire apart.

Other variations and modifications may be made within the scope of this invention and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and for which it is desired to obtain Letters-Patent, is:-

1. A new article of manufacture comprising a manifolding pack with a strip of original sheets and strips of duplicate sheets, each strip having feed-regulating apertures in each 0! said sheets which align when said sheets are in superposed registered relation, starter escape apertures in each duplicate sheet underlying starter engaging portions in the original sheets, and a starter escape aperture in the original sheet overlying starter engaging portions in the duplicate sheets. 2. A new article of manufacture comprising a manfolding pack with a strip of original sheets and one or more strips of duplicate sheets, each strip having teed-regulating apertures in each of said sheets which align when said sheets are in superposed registered relation; starter engaging portions on one sheet overlying a starter escape aperture in another sheet of the pile; and a starter engaging portion in said other sheet underlying starter escape apertures'in the firstnamed sheet. 3. A new article of manufacture comprising a maniiolding pack with a strip of original sheets and one or more strips of duplicate sheets, said sheets being arranged in superposed sets and having aligned teed-regulating apertures for causing a feed mechanism to be inoperative for advancing until a starter device imparts initial movement thereto; and starter engaging portions on one or more sheets and in superposed relation to starter escape apertures in the other sheet or sheets in a set for eflecting feeding 01 one or more sheets in advance of the other sheets in the set.

ARTHUR A. JOHNSON.

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