US2851285A - Autographic register - Google Patents

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AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed Feb. 4. 1955 zsneets-sheet 2 INVENTOR.

ROBERT 'w. STANECK BY JOHN H.KROEME R AUToGRAPrnc REGISTER John H. Kroemer and Robert W. Staneck, Dayton, Ohio, assignors to The Standard Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application February 4, 1955, Serial No. 486,256

4 Claims. (Cl. 282-7) This invention relates to autographic registers, and particularly to means for mounting and making use of carbon paper in such devices for transfer of the written inscription from the original or overlying record copy to the underlying record copies, the several such copies comprising manifold record strip material as used in autographic registers.

The object of the invention is to simplify the construction as Well as the means and mode of operation of autographic registers, whereby such registers may not only be economically manufactured, but will be more eflicient and satisfactory in use, adaptable to a wide variety of applications and be unlikely to get out of order.

A further object of the invention is to makeuse of carbon material which is neither an integrated part of the record strip assembly nor a separate strip fed in accompaniment with feeding of the record strip but rather is in the form of long lasting sheet material floating between the component parts of the record strip assembly.

Another object of the invention is to provide a floating carbon arrangement permitting carbon material to be interleaved with the record strip material up to and beyond the lateral plane of the strip feeding devices whereby the first or Writing line of a form may be located nearer to the upper or leading end of the form than has been the case heretofore.

A further object of the invention is to enable the use of various colored carbon sheets when this may be desirable.

Still another object of the invention is to provide carbon holders of unique construction simplifying and facilitating attachment and detachment of the carbon sheets to and from the holders.

A still further object of the invention is to make use of floating carbon material as described While obviating any dragging or binding of the record strip material in a manner to cause misalignment of the carbon sheets.

A further object of the invention is to provide an autographic register possessing the advantageous structural features, the inherent meritorious characteristics and the mode of operation herein mentioned.

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention intended to be protected by Letters Patent consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of operation as hereinafter described or illustrated in the accompanying drawings, or their equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawing wherein is shown one but obviously not necessarily the only form of embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a part of an autographic register constructed in accordance with the illustrative form of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section taken substantially along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail view, enlarged with respect to Fig. 2, of the carbon holder assembly;

2,851,285 Patented Sept. 9, 1958 Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan View of an individual carbon holder with a carbon sheet attached thereto;

Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of the carbon holder and carbon sheet of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 4 showing an alternate form of carbon clamp holder; and

Fig. 7 is a view in side elevation of the holder of Fig. 6.

Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, the cabinet of a register in accordance with the illustrated embodiment of the invention comprises a base 10, side walls 11 and 12 and an upper lid or closure plate 13 which also forms the front end wall of the cabinet and is suitably hinged to the side walls 11 and 12 so that it may be lifted for access to the interior of the register. The base 10 and side walls 11 and 12 provide a stationary support for the lid 13 and for other relatively movable parts of the register, to be described.

Longitudinally disposed in the register, immediately beneath the lid 13 is a writing table 14 having forwardly extending side arms 15 and 16 pivotally connected to respective brackets 17 and 18 secured to the inner walls of respective side frames 11 and 12. The front end of the writing table 14 rests on a stationary part of the register cabinet in a manner which it is unnecessary here to consider, the table normally being disposed as indicated in the drawing where it underlies an opening 13' in the lid 13 for access to record material stretched over the table.

The record material is comprised in a pack 19 of manifold strip material 21 made up of series connected sets of record or business forms, each set comprising a multiple number of superposed copies of the form. The pack 19 is housed in the bottom of the register in a space defined by the walls thereof and by an internal partition 22, access to such space being had by lifting the writing table 14 about the pivots represented by the brackets 17 and 18.

In general, the leading end of the strip 21 extends over the writing table from the front of the register toward the rear thereof, side margins of the strip being perforated for engagement by pin feed devices 23 and 24 mounted on a transverse shaft 25 journaled between the side frames 11 and 12. The shaft 25 is activated for intermittent rotary motion by hand or by a motor, as through gearing 26, and the effect of such rotation is to advance the record strip material 21 over the table 14 toward the rear of the register. Advance of the strip, it will be understood, is in steps of predetermined length, as for example one form length. An inscribed form is issued from writing position beneath a tear bar 27. Some copies thereof may be ejected from the machine and torn from the strip while other copies are fed into a refold or locked-in copy compartment at the rear of the register, one end of which may be defined by the partition 22.

In accordance with the instant invention, the record strip material 21 reaches the table 14 after first passing over a forward extension 28 of the table. At its one end the extension 28 lies in adjacent relation to the front end of the table 14 and mounts a transverse roller 29 over which the strip material passes on to the table 14. Also on or adjacent to the said one end of the extension 28 are laterally projecting studs 31 received in the side arms 15 and 16 for support of the said one end of the extension table. At the opposite end of the table, on opposite sides thereof, are upstanding side brackets 32. The lower front extremities of the brackets 32 support a transverse roller 33. A rearwardly inclined series of spaced apart openings 34 in the brackets 32 provide mounting holes for carbon holders, as will be seen, and laterally projecting studs 35 on the brackets cooperatively The mentioned carbon holders, indicated generally at 36, comprise U-shaped clamps 37 each receiving a spring steelstrlp 38. A sheet of carbon paper 39 enters the clamp 37 'through'the open end thereof and is folded about the spring strip 38, and it will be understood that the clamp 37, in connection with the-strip 38 which acts as a filler, thus effectively anchors the said one end of the carbon sheet 39. The spring strip 38 has end portions 41 of reduced diameter which project from the ends of the-clamp 37 and are received in the mounting holes 34. The carbon holders 36 are in this manner removably installed in the brackets 32 and as so installed define vertically spaced apart individual slots for respective copies of the strip 21. Thus, as the strip is drawn from the pack 19," it passes about the roller 33 and separates into its component copy elements, each such component passing through an individual slot as defined by respective pairs of carbon holders 36. Passing through and beyond the a carbon holders 36 the strip material extends over the table extension 28, returning to an integrated strip form as it reaches the writing table 14.

The carbon sheets 39 extend rearwardly in parallelinterleaved relation to the strip 21 and in effect float between the component elements of'the strip. Thus, the record strip material advances relatively to the carbon sheets 39 which remain in position on the writing table, for use with successive sets of forms as they are brought to writing position on the table 14.

The instant disclosed arrangement for making use of carbon sheet material is such that the sheets 39 can; be made to extend all the way up to the front face of the tear bar 27, thus making it possible to establish the first or top writing line much closer to the upper edge of the form than is possible using transversely fed carbon material as has been known heretofore.

An alternate form of carbon holder 42 is shown in Figs. 6 and 7. The alternate holder has a clamp 43. and insert member 44 which are the same as corresponding elements of the holder 36. According to the modified structure, however, instead of the clamp assembly directly holding a sheet of carbon paper, it holds, in the same manner, a piece of carbon shield material 45. Holes 46 are cut in the top'flap of the material 45, the anchored end of such material being so disposed in the clamp 43 as to have its ends or flaps substantially coextensive in length. A length of tape or like material having adhesive on one side thereof is placed over the holes 46, with the adhesive side of the tape down. A sheet of carbon paper 48 is installed in the holder 42 by inserting one end thereof between the ends or flaps of the shield 45. Finger pressure applied along the tape 47 causes the adhesive thereon to contact the carbon paper through the holes 46 whereby to hold the carbon sheet material in an attached relation to the holder. The modified form of carbon holder facilitates a rapid change of carbon sheets since disassembly of the holder itself is unnecessary.

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the principle involved or sacrificing any of its advantages. While in order to comply with the statute the invention has been described in language more or less specific as to structural features, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise but one of several modes of putting the invention into effect, and the invention is therefore claimed in any of its forms or modifications within the legitimate and valid scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. An autographic register, including a relatively stationary support receiving a pack of manifold record strip material, a writing table mounted on said support in elevated relation thereto to have the leading end of the record strip material brought over one end of the table and extended to theopposite end thereof, arms projecting fromsaid one'end of said table and pivotally connected to said support to provide for raising and lowering ofsaid table relatively to said support, a table extension removably installed between said arms and having upstanding marginal bracket portions, said portions being on opposite sides of said extension and having a series of vertically spaced apart openings in each thereof, carbon sheet holders removably installed in aligned openings in said bracket portions, and transverse rollers on opposite ends of said extension, said carbon sheet holders defining individual passes for the elements of the record strip material, said record strip material passing over one of said rollers through said passes and over the other one of said rollers on to said table.

2. An autographic register according to claim 1, characterized in that each of said carbon sheet holders comprises a strip member having its ends installed in said openings and a clamp removably receiving the strip member, one end of the carbon sheet being folded over the strip member and held thereon by the clamp.

3. An'autographic register according to claim 1, characterized in that each of said carbon sheet holders comprises a strip member installed in said openings, a clamp removably receiving the strip member, and a shield folded over the strip member and having at least one end extending outside said clamp, said one end being adapted for detachable connection with the carbon sheet.

4. Anautographic register, including a relatively stationary support receiving a pack of manifold record strip material, a writing table mounted on said support in elevated relation thereto, the leading end of the record stripmaterial extending on to said table from one end thereof and thence to and beyond the oppositeend of the table, arms projecting from said one end of the table and,

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