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US898635A
US898635A US29873706A US1906298737A US898635A US 898635 A US898635 A US 898635A US 29873706 A US29873706 A US 29873706A US 1906298737 A US1906298737 A US 1906298737A US 898635 A US898635 A US 898635A
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  • This invention relates to carriage retarding devices for Atypewriting machines and consists in theu features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which are hereinafter described and'specii'ied in the claims.
  • Figure 1 is a rear and sectional elevation of the frame and parts of the'inechanism of a Monarch typewriting machine, to which carriage-retarding mechanisin embodying the invention -is shown applied;
  • Fig. 1a a fragmentary side view of parts shown in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 2 a vertical section, at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1, of said Iframe and parts of the mechanism of the machine;
  • Fig. 3 an enlarged vertical section of the upper rear part of the machine, the section being at right angles to the axis of the platen;
  • Fig. 1 a rear and sectional elevation of the frame and parts of the'inechanism of a Monarch typewriting machine, to which carriage-retarding mechanisin embodying the invention -is shown applied
  • Fig. 1a a fragmentary side view of parts shown in Fig. 1
  • Fig. 2 a vertical section, at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1, of said Iframe and parts of the mechanism of the machine
  • Fig. 4 a front elevation of the carriage-retarding mechanism and of a lever operative to engage one of the parts thereof with the carriage, and a vertical section of a fragment of the top-plate;
  • Fig. 5 a front elevation of the mechanism shown above the top-plate in Fig. 4,' the positions of the parts being different from those shown in Fig. 4;
  • Fig. 6, a side and sectional elevation of parts shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the section being on the planes x-Q/J, Fig. 4, and the positions of the parts being different from those shown in any other iigiire; and
  • Fig. 7, a section of parts shown in Figs. 1 and 3, c25 seg. to 6 inclusive.
  • the carriage-rctarding mechanism iii which the invention is embodied is attached ⁇ to the top-plateA of the machine near its rear 4edge and 0n the right, preferably, of a vertical plane containing the axis of the escapement pinion.
  • the frame of the machine is composed of the base 1 and four posts 2, onlyth'ree of which are shown, and the top plate 3.
  • On the back partof the top-plate 3 are two standards 4, which are fastened to the top-plate and to which upper and lower guide rails 5 and 6 are attached by screws 7, these guide rails having in them grooves 8 and 9 extending throughout the length of the rails.
  • Thel carriage 10 in which is mounted the platen 11, has formed enit grooved guides 12 and 13, which Aextend from eni to end of the carriage, the grooves 14 and 15 of these guides forgning with the grooves 8 and 9, of the rails 5 and 6, ball 0r roller channels in which are shown anti-friction balls 16 and 17.
  • the carriage is thus supported by the rails 5 and 6 and is movable on the balls in opposite directions over the top plate 3.
  • the guides 12 and 13 are connected together by a web 18, and through holes in this web extend arms 19 which are pirotedto the ends of the carriage, and tol whose rear iends is affixed the carriage-rack 2O behind the web 18, the rack being movable up and down on the pivots 21 of the arms 19.
  • Springs 22, acting on the arms of the rack tend to keep the rack in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 3, that being its normal position.
  • the rack 20 normally engages a pinion 23 which is fast on a shaft having a bearing in a bracket 24 affixed to the top plate 3, and on the rear end of this shaft is an escapementwheel 25, arranged to co-act with feed dogs 26 and 27, mounted on a dog rocker 28, whose rock shaftl 29 is pivoted at its ends between lugs on a bracket 30 affixed to and extending downward from the top plate 3.
  • a spring 31 On the rock shaft 2Q is a spring 31 which tends to keep the steppingdog 2,7 in engagement with a tooth of the escapeinent wheel 25.
  • An arm 32 fast 0n the dog-rocker, extends in front of the rock shaft 29, and to the front end of this arm is secured a link 33 which extends downward therefrom to the universal bar of the machine.
  • To the standards 4 are rigidly attached under side of the top plate 3, and on the rearwardly extending arms 34, -in which a screw 62 is a coiledsp'ring 64 which bears at stop-bar 35 1s ]ournal ed at its ends. On the one of its ends against the lu 63.
  • crank arm 36 which 60 of the/lever', this arm of the lever extend- 75 extends fopxward and a little Iupward from the ing behind the rod 37 and under' the proj ecstop-bar aV d to which is pivoted at its front tion 39 of the collar 38, and having on its upend a rod or link.
  • 37 which extends downper edge a stop 65 which makes contact with ward from the crank arm through the to the under side of the top plate when the lever plate and into the base 1 of the machine.
  • the stop-bar to lift the carriage rack from the pinion 23, 90 35 has cut in it on opposite sides slots or rethe lifting device heretofore em loyed is uncesses 44 at letter s ace distances apart, and necessary in a machine provide with the car? on this bar are tabu ator-stops 45 which fit in riage-retarding mechanism. These recesses and which areadjustable on The retarding-mechanism comprises two the bar, eac ⁇ h tabulator-stop bei formed to cooperative devices, which are preferably 95 engage a recess at theback of t e bar and constructed and arranged as they are shown .another at the front of the bar.
  • one of the supports ,40 stop 47 which is rigidly attached tothe back being a standard 66 fastened to the top-plate V105 l of the carriage 10, about midway between'the by screws 67 passing through its base into ends of the carriage, extends backwardnearly the top-plate, and the other being a frame to the stop bar 35, its rear end bein out of having a base 68 and two upright posts 69,
  • a key lever 53 having on tions thereof, or those which are in theposts it a tabulator key 54, is pivoted at its rear 69,l are screw-threaded and engage with 55 -end by a screw 55 to a lug 56 formed on the screwfthreads cut in the osts, th pins hav- 12o under side of the roof 41 of the base and exing on their outer ends ook nuts 74.
  • the construction is such that which fits close to the rear face of the block when the key 54 is depressed, the lever 48 is and which is secured to the shaft by a screw 13o to be actuated by the carriage 81.
  • a roller 82 is mounted on the arm 77 by means of a shouldered screw 83 extending into the arm.
  • Under the block 72 is an angular lever, having arms 84 and 85, this lever being pivoted by a pin 86 between lugs'87 on the base 68 of the posts 69.
  • the arm 85 of the pinion 76 engaging the rack 20 and raising 1t out of engagement With the feed pinion 23, thusreleasing the carriage from the escapeme'nt mechanism.
  • a pivoted arm 91 and a spring 92 On the front-face of the standard 66 are a pivoted arm 91 and a spring 92, the arm be- 'ing pivoted to the standard by a screw 93, and the spring being secured in a slot inA a screw 94 which passes through the standard and on which is a lock-nut 95 bearing against the back of the standard.
  • the spring 92 bears on the top of the pivoted arm 91 and tends to keep this arm in contact with a sto -pin 96 fixed in the standard, as appears by ig. 4 in which the arm 91 is shownmty its normal position.
  • the lpressure of the s ing 92 on the arm 91 may e regulated by t rning the screw 94 and locking it by means of the lock-nut 95.
  • the arms 77 and 91 are Aso arranged that when the block 72 is in the position shown in Fig. v6 and the shaft 75 is rotated, the roller 82 of the arm 77 will be moved into contact with thelower face of the arm 91, and that the arm 77 must force the' arm 91 upward out of the ⁇ path of the roller 82, against the pressure of the spring 92 to enable the shaft 75 to make a com lete rotation, the roller being moved into t e space normally occupied by the arm 91.
  • the action of the arm 77 in forcing the arm 91 upward, as just described, is illustrated in Fig.
  • the machine contains a spring-drum 97 which is connected by a strap 98 with the carriage so that when the escapement is actuated, or the carriage-rack is raised out-of en- ⁇ gagement with the pinion 23, the carriage will be moved toward the left by the action on it'of the spring-drum and strap.
  • the upright arm 84 of the angular lever so supports the block 72 that little or no shock is transmitted to the iinger of the operator on the de 'ressed' tabulator-key 'when the arms 77 an 91 coact with each other. Since the arm 77 extends from the shaft 75 on the opposite side thereof from the eo-acting arm 91, when the pinion 76 is raised into engagement with the carriage-rack, the carriage then moves for several letter-space distances before the retarding devices co-act to check its The carriage therefore starts uickly, and while the arm 77 travels towards t e arm 91, the motion of the carriage increases.
  • . claimed. herein may The osition of the 'escapement pinion 23 with relation to the carriage-rack 20, when the rack isoperatively engaged with the pinion 76, is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6.'
  • the tabulator-key and stop-bar are restored to their normal ositions by the springs 57 and .42, andas t e collar 38 on the rod 37 rises, the spring 6 4 restores the lever 60--61 and the an ular lever 84--85 to their normal positions, t e carriage-rack descends on the escapement-pinion, forcing the pinion 76 downward, and the block 72 gravitates to the position shown inFig. 3, carrying the pinion 76 entirely below the carriage-rack.
  • the combinaof retarding means l adapted to act intermittently during a single run of the carriage, said mechanism comprising coperative devices,I and one of said devices being movable continuously by the carriage during its run, and the carriage being movable a plurality of letter-s ace distances between two successive retar ing actions f said means.
  • the vcombination with the carriage,of retarding means adapted to act intermittently during a s ingle run of the carriage, said means com rising a device movable bythe carriage whi e traveling a plurality of letter-space distances and while a portion of said meansis inactive.
  • V5. In atypewriting machine, the combination with the carriage, of retarding means adapted to act intermittently run of the carriage, said means comprising and one of said devices being movable continuously .by the carriage during its runfand a portion of said means being vinactive at times while the 4carriage travels a plurality of letter-space distances.
  • thc coiiibiiiation of4 a tabulatiiig stop, a stop co erative with said tabulating stop, means'incl uding a key for arranging said stops in coperative alinement and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapeinent, and carriageretarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one of tlieinbeiiig arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being iiiovable thereby into contact with the other, and one of said devices including a spring tending to during a single l keep this device in a normal positionron its sesss supportf'and this device being movable from of said devices including a pivoted arm and a spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and said arm being movable from its normal position by the action on it of the first mentioned device forcing said'sp'ing to yield.
  • a ta ulating-stop a stop coperative With said tabulating stop
  • means including a key for arranging said stops in coperative alinement and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapement, and carriage-retarding.
  • means comprising .a movable device including a s ring device in its norma posltion, and a coperative device arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby into contact With the other device and into'the space normally occupiedby the latter device.
  • means including a key for arranging said' stops in cooperative alinement, and carriageretarding' means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep the device inV its normal position, and an arm and a pinion both fast'on a shaft, said-pinion being normally underneath and disengaged from the carriage-rack, a pivoted bearing-1. block in which said shaft is mounted, and means arranged to be actuated yby said key and operative on said bearing-block to raise said pinion into engagement with the carriage-rack and to lift the rack from the escapement-pinion, the arm on said shaf being movable by the shaft, Whenthe cartf riage is disengaged from the escapemelnt, into contact With. the vaforesaid movable device.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising tWo cooperative devices, one of them being arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby into contact with the other, and one of said devices including a pivoted arm and a spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and said arm being movable from its normal position by the action on it of the first mentioned device forcing said spring to yield.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivtending to keep the ogted arm, and a spring tending to keep the i .occupied by the latter device.
  • a typewriting machine provided With carriage-retarding'means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep lthe device in its normal position, and-A an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneaththe carriage-rack, and said shaft being movable on an aXis to engage the pinion With and disengage it from the carriage-rack, and
  • said arm being movable by said shaft
  • the pinion When the pinion is operatively engaged with the carriage-rack, ⁇ into contact Withv the first mentioned device and'into the space normally occupied by that device.
  • a typewriting machine provided With carriage-retarding means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep the device in its normal position, an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriage rack, and
  • a pivoted block forming a bearing for said shaft and movable on its pivotal aXis to engage the pinion with and disengage it from the carriage-rack, said arm being movable by said shaft, when the pinion is operatively engaged With the carriage-rack, into contact With the first mentioned device and into the'space normally occupied by that device.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivotedl arm and a spring, the spring tending to keep the arm in its normalposition, a cooperative device mounted on an axis and arranged to be rotated by the carriage and being movable thereby against said arm and into the space normally occupied by said arm, and means for imparting motion from the carriage to the rotary device.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comp' ising a pivoted arm and a spring, the'spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriage rack, and said shaft being movable on an axis to engage the pinion with and disengage it from the carriage-rack, and the arm on said shaft being ,movable by the shaft,
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivoted arm and a spring, the spring tending' t0 kee the arm in its normal osition, an arm andp a pinion both fast on a s iaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriagerack, and a pivoted block forming a-bearing for said shaft and movable on its pivotal axis to engage the pinion with and to disen age it from the carriage-rack, the arm on sai shaft beingl movable by the shaft, when the pinion is operatively engaged with the carriagerack, into contact with the first mentioned arm and into the space normally occupied by that arm.
  • Au typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivoted bearing-block, a shaft mounted in said. blockl and extending from it underneath the carriage-rack, and a pinion on said shaft under the carriage-rack, in combination with an angular lever and means including a key for actuating it, said angular lever being pivoted to a Jfixed support under said block, and one arm of the angular lever being operative on the block to raise said )inion and the car ⁇ riage-rack, and said arni the bearing-block when uppermost position.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage retardin means comprising a bearing-block pivote on an axis parall'e of the platen of the machine, the pivotal axis of said block being behind the carriage-rack, a shaft mounted in said block and extending forward from it underneathwthe carria era'ck, and a pinion on said shaftunder t e carriage-rack, in combination with an angular lever and means including a key for actueing upright under said pinion is in its ating it, said angular lever being pivoted 'to a fixed support under said block, the pivotal axis of the angular lever being in front of a vertical plane containing' the pivotal axis of the block, and one arm of the angular lever being operative on the block to raise said p inion and the carriage-rack, and said arm being upright under the block when said .pinion is in its uppermost position.
  • a typewriting machine the combination of a tabulating-stop, a stop coperative with said tabulating stop, means including a key for arranging said stops in coperative alineinent and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapement, and carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one ofthem being arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby in a definite path and means for connecting with the carriage the device that to that is arranged to be' actuated thereby and for enabling the carriage to travel several letter space distances after the last mentioned of said devices is connected therewith and before, it is brought into contact with said other device.
  • carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one ofthem being arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby in a definite path and means for connecting with the carriage the device that to that is arranged to be' actuated thereby and for enabling the carriage to travel several letter space distances after the last mentioned of said devices is connected therewith
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one being a rotary device arranged to be rotated by the carriage and being movable thereby in a true circular path into contact with the other device, and means for connecting thel rotary device with the carriage and ,for enabling the carriage to travel several letter space distances after the rotary device is connected therewith and before it is brought into contact with said other device.
  • Atypewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding. means comprising two vcooperative devices, one of them having a single rotary arm normally extending from its pivotal axis on the opposite side thereof from said other cooperative device, in combination with means for o said arm with the carriage.
  • a typewriting machine provided with' carriage-retarding y means comprising two cooperative devices, one of them having an arm fast on a shaft and normally extending from the' shaft on the opposite 'side thereof from said other coperative device, in combination with a inion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rac and means including a key for rais' p he pinion into operative engagement wit the carriage rack.
  • a typewriting machine provided ⁇ with carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one of them 'having an arm fast on a shaft and normally extending from the shaft on the opposite side thereof from said other coperative device, in conibination with a ivoted hearing-block in vwhich said shaft is mounted, a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage rack, and means including .a key for turning the bearing block on its pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage-rack.
  • a typewriting. machine provided with Y carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices normally out of engagement with each other, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft, in combination with a pinion rack, and means including a key for raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage rack.
  • a typewritingmachine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices normally out of engagement with each other, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft, in c o bination with a pivoted bearing-block/ in i "ch said.. shaft fast on the shaft under the carriageis mounted, a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rack, and means including a key for turning the bearing-block on its pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative engagement With the carriage-rack.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two coperative devices, one of them ,being 'a ri id arm fast on a shaft and havingon 1t a ro er, in combination with a pinion'fast on the shaft under the carriagefrack, andmeans including akey. for raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage-rack.
  • a typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two coperative devices, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft and having on it a ro ler,fin combination With apivoted bearingblock in which said shaft is mounted, 'a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rack, and means including a key for turning the bearing block on its-,pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative .engagement with the carriage-rack.

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-wlTNEESE J. FELBBL.' 'TYIEI WRITING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED' JAN. 31, 1906.
Y Patented sept. 15,1908.
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J. FELB'EL. TYPE WRITING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, 1906.
'Patented Sept. 15, 1908.
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WITNEEEE LFELBBL. TYPE WRITING MACHINE.
APPLICATION FILED JAN.31, 1906.
Patented Sepb. l5, 19055 INVENTUR:
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iAcoB FELBEL, or New YORK, N.
Y., ASSIGNOR TO UNION TYPEWR1TER- COMPANY, OF
JERSEY CITY., NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.
TYPE-WRITIN MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Sept. l5, 1908.
Eipplication `filed January 31, 1906. Serial No. 298,737.
To all whom it may concern.'
zen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in
the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writing Machines, of which the following isa specification.
This invention relates to carriage retarding devices for Atypewriting machines and consists in theu features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which are hereinafter described and'specii'ied in the claims.
ln the accompanying drawings in which like reference numerals designate like parts in the different views, Figure 1 is a rear and sectional elevation of the frame and parts of the'inechanism of a Monarch typewriting machine, to which carriage-retarding mechanisin embodying the invention -is shown applied; Fig. 1a, a fragmentary side view of parts shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 2, a vertical section, at right angles to the plane of Fig. 1, of said Iframe and parts of the mechanism of the machine; Fig. 3, an enlarged vertical section of the upper rear part of the machine, the section being at right angles to the axis of the platen; Fig. 4, a front elevation of the carriage-retarding mechanism and of a lever operative to engage one of the parts thereof with the carriage, and a vertical section of a fragment of the top-plate; Fig. 5, a front elevation of the mechanism shown above the top-plate in Fig. 4,' the positions of the parts being different from those shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a side and sectional elevation of parts shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the section being on the planes x-Q/J, Fig. 4, and the positions of the parts being different from those shown in any other iigiire; and Fig. 7, a section of parts shown in Figs. 1 and 3, c25 seg. to 6 inclusive. n
Although the drawings illustrate this invention applied to a Monarch machine it is to be understood that it is also applicable to numerous others, including such as aie ycalled under stroke machines, 'as well as t visible-writing machines.
The carriage-rctarding mechanism iii which the invention is embodied is attached `to the top-plateA of the machine near its rear 4edge and 0n the right, preferably, of a vertical plane containing the axis of the escapement pinion. The frame of the machine is composed of the base 1 and four posts 2, onlyth'ree of which are shown, and the top plate 3. On the back partof the top-plate 3 are two standards 4, which are fastened to the top-plate and to which upper and lower guide rails 5 and 6 are attached by screws 7, these guide rails having in them grooves 8 and 9 extending throughout the length of the rails. Thel carriage 10, in which is mounted the platen 11, has formed enit grooved guides 12 and 13, which Aextend from eni to end of the carriage, the grooves 14 and 15 of these guides forgning with the grooves 8 and 9, of the rails 5 and 6, ball 0r roller channels in which are shown anti-friction balls 16 and 17. The carriage is thus supported by the rails 5 and 6 and is movable on the balls in opposite directions over the top plate 3. The guides 12 and 13 are connected together by a web 18, and through holes in this web extend arms 19 which are pirotedto the ends of the carriage, and tol whose rear iends is affixed the carriage-rack 2O behind the web 18, the rack being movable up and down on the pivots 21 of the arms 19. Springs 22, acting on the arms of the rack, tend to keep the rack in the position in which it is shown in Fig. 3, that being its normal position.
The rack 20 normally engages a pinion 23 which is fast on a shaft having a bearing in a bracket 24 affixed to the top plate 3, and on the rear end of this shaft is an escapementwheel 25, arranged to co-act with feed dogs 26 and 27, mounted on a dog rocker 28, whose rock shaftl 29 is pivoted at its ends between lugs on a bracket 30 affixed to and extending downward from the top plate 3. On the rock shaft 2Q is a spring 31 which tends to keep the steppingdog 2,7 in engagement with a tooth of the escapeinent wheel 25. An arm 32, fast 0n the dog-rocker, extends in front of the rock shaft 29, and to the front end of this arm is secured a link 33 which extends downward therefrom to the universal bar of the machine. Whenever the universal bar is actuated by depressing a character key orspace key, the front end of the arm 32v is drawn downward by the link 33, the stepping dog 27 is swung forward free from the escapenient-wheel, and the holding dog 26 is moved into engagement with the escapenient wheel, and when the universal bar rises after the key has been released, the stepping dog27 ren- 1 depressed, and the link 37 rocks the bar 44, gages with the escapement-wheel and the car- .1 bringing the lugs 46 into the path of the ria e advances aletter-space distance. But sto 47. l if esired a reverse feed escapement may l lever having arms 60 and 61 is pivoted be used instead of the foregoing. by a shouldered screw 62 to a lug 63 on the 7'0 To the standards 4 are rigidly attached under side of the top plate 3, and on the rearwardly extending arms 34, -in which a screw 62 is a coiledsp'ring 64 which bears at stop-bar 35 1s ]ournal ed at its ends. On the one of its ends against the lu 63. and at its d right end of this stop bar, outside of the adother end against the lower e ge of thev arm jacent bracket 34, isa crank arm 36 which 60 of the/lever', this arm of the lever extend- 75 extends fopxward and a little Iupward from the ing behind the rod 37 and under' the proj ecstop-bar aV d to which is pivoted at its front tion 39 of the collar 38, and having on its upend a rod or link. 37 which extends downper edge a stop 65 which makes contact with ward from the crank arm through the to the under side of the top plate when the lever plate and into the base 1 of the machine. is in its normal position, Where the spring 64 80 collar 38, having on it a projection 39, is fastendsto. keep it. A lever substantially the tened by a screw 40 to the rod 37, and on the same asthis has been used in the Monarch rod 37, between the collar 38 and the part 41 machine to actuate a rack-lifting device, opof the base, is a coiled s ring 42 which presses erative to raise the carriage-rack out of enl V upward against the co ar and tendsto keep gagement with the escapement-pinion, and 85 it in contact with the underside of the top thus to release the carriage from the control plate 3, or a hub 43 formed on the top plate. of the escapement. Since, however, a part The collar 38 is so attached to the rod 37 that of the. carriage-retarding mechanism herein the projection 39` of the collar extends backshown is operative through the lever 60, 61
ward from the collar and rod. The stop-bar to lift the carriage rack from the pinion 23, 90 35 has cut in it on opposite sides slots or rethe lifting device heretofore em loyed is uncesses 44 at letter s ace distances apart, and necessary in a machine provide with the car? on this bar are tabu ator-stops 45 which fit in riage-retarding mechanism. these recesses and which areadjustable on The retarding-mechanism comprises two the bar, eac`h tabulator-stop bei formed to cooperative devices, which are preferably 95 engage a recess at theback of t e bar and constructed and arranged as they are shown .another at the front of the bar. Each tabuf herein, although it is app arent that for either, lator sto has a lug 46 which extends for- ,of these particular devices a modification i ward an upward from the body of the stop thereof might be substituted. One of them d secured to the stop-bar, when the bar is in is arrange the position in which it is shown in the drawand is movable thereby into contact with the ings, the bar being normally held in this poother. These devices are mounted on supsition by the upward pressure of the sprin ports which are xed on the top-plate 3 be- 42 against the collar 38 on the rod 37. hindthecarriage rack, one of the supports ,40 stop 47 which is rigidly attached tothe back being a standard 66 fastened to the top-plate V105 l of the carriage 10, about midway between'the by screws 67 passing through its base into ends of the carriage, extends backwardnearly the top-plate, and the other being a frame to the stop bar 35, its rear end bein out of having a base 68 and two upright posts 69,
alinement with the lugs 46 of the ta ulatorthe base being fastened to the top-plate by stops when the stop-baris in its normal posiscrews 70. The standard 66 has 1n it an 110 tion, and then being movable by the carriage opening 71, and between the posts 69 is pivast the stops 45 and under the lugs 46. oted a bearing-block 72, whose pivotal axis is The rod 37 is pivoted at its lower end to a parallel to that of the platen of the machine, lever 48, whose fulcr'um is a screw 49 passing this block being mounted on pins 73 which' r0 through its front end and` into a' boss 50 extend lthrough the posts 69 into the block. 115 formed on the frame of the machine. On Those pprtions ofthe pins 73 which are withthis lever is an upwardly extending ear 51 in in the look -are smooth, and the other porwhich is a slot 5,2. A key lever 53, having on tions thereof, or those which are in theposts it a tabulator key 54, is pivoted at its rear 69,l are screw-threaded and engage with 55 -end by a screw 55 to a lug 56 formed on the screwfthreads cut in the osts, th pins hav- 12o under side of the roof 41 of the base and exing on their outer ends ook nuts 74. The tending downward therefrom, there being bebearing-block 72 extends through the openhind this lug a coil-spring 57 bearing against ing 71 in the standard 66 and forms a bearings` the key-lever and the part 41 of the base and for a shaft 75, on whiclinre apinion 76 and an tending to keep the key lever in its normal arin 77 fastened tothe shaft y screws 78 and iis position in contact with the pad 58 near its 79, the -ar1n'7 7 fitting close to the front face front end. A pin 59 fixed on the key lever 53 of the block 7 2 and the shaft. extending extends through the slot 52 in the ear 51, of through the block and having on it a collarS() the lever 48. The construction is such that which fits close to the rear face of the block when the key 54 is depressed, the lever 48 is and which is secured to the shaft by a screw 13o to be actuated by the carriage 81.- A roller 82 is mounted on the arm 77 by means of a shouldered screw 83 extending into the arm. Under the block 72 is an angular lever, having arms 84 and 85, this lever being pivoted by a pin 86 between lugs'87 on the base 68 of the posts 69. The arm 85 of the pinion 76 engaging the rack 20 and raising 1t out of engagement With the feed pinion 23, thusreleasing the carriage from the escapeme'nt mechanism. When the block isin that position the arm 84 of the angularlever is upright, the axis of the roller 90.being directly over that of the pin 86.
On the front-face of the standard 66 are a pivoted arm 91 and a spring 92, the arm be- 'ing pivoted to the standard by a screw 93, and the spring being secured in a slot inA a screw 94 which passes through the standard and on which is a lock-nut 95 bearing against the back of the standard. The spring 92 bears on the top of the pivoted arm 91 and tends to keep this arm in contact with a sto -pin 96 fixed in the standard, as appears by ig. 4 in which the arm 91 is shownmty its normal position. The lpressure of the s ing 92 on the arm 91 may e regulated by t rning the screw 94 and locking it by means of the lock-nut 95. The arms 77 and 91 are Aso arranged that when the block 72 is in the position shown in Fig. v6 and the shaft 75 is rotated, the roller 82 of the arm 77 will be moved into contact with thelower face of the arm 91, and that the arm 77 must force the' arm 91 upward out of the `path of the roller 82, against the pressure of the spring 92 to enable the shaft 75 to make a com lete rotation, the roller being moved into t e space normally occupied by the arm 91. The action of the arm 77 in forcing the arm 91 upward, as just described, is illustrated in Fig.
5 of the drawings, the dotted circle indicating the orbit in whichthe end of the arm 77 travels. Whenever the block 72 is restored to its normal position, the action of gravity on the arm 77 causes this arm to assume the position in which it appears in Fig. 3, so that the arm 77 normally extends from the shaft 75 on the opposite side thereof from the arm 91.
AT he teeth of the pinion 76, which preferably has ten teeth or about that number, are properly formed to engage with the Iteeth of the carriage-rack 20, and'when this pinion is in' its normal position, or that shown in Fig.
rack. sc thatthe rack'may move in either dif motion.
rection with the carriage without' touching the pinion 76. When the pinion 76 is raised from its normal position to that in which it is shown in Fig. 6, it engages withv the carriagerac'k 20 and raises the rack out of engagement with the escapement-pinion 23, so that motion may4 then be communicated by the carriage to the shaft 75 through the rack 20 and pinion 76.
The machine contains a spring-drum 97 which is connected by a strap 98 with the carriage so that when the escapement is actuated, or the carriage-rack is raised out-of en- `gagement with the pinion 23, the carriage will be moved toward the left by the action on it'of the spring-drum and strap.
When the tabulator key 54 is depressed the stop bar 35 is turned on its axis by the action of the lever 53 on the lever 48 and of the latterlever and the rod 37 on the crank arm 36,
the lugs 46 on the tabulator-stops45 being moved downward into alinement with the stop 47 on the carriage. At the same time the projection 39 on the collar 38 fixed to the rod 37 forces downward the arm 6() of the lever 60-61, and the' angular lever 84-85 is actuated, the block 72 being moved on its pivotal axis to the position in which it is shown in lFig. 6. The carriage is then drawn rapidly towardthe left by the action on it of the spring-drum`97, and as the pinion 76- is turned by the carriage-rack the arm 77 is rotated and acts once during each rotation on the arm 91' as above-described. v
The upright arm 84 of the angular lever so supports the block 72 that little or no shock is transmitted to the iinger of the operator on the de 'ressed' tabulator-key 'when the arms 77 an 91 coact with each other. Since the arm 77 extends from the shaft 75 on the opposite side thereof from the eo-acting arm 91, when the pinion 76 is raised into engagement with the carriage-rack, the carriage then moves for several letter-space distances before the retarding devices co-act to check its The carriage therefore starts uickly, and while the arm 77 travels towards t e arm 91, the motion of the carriage increases. When the arm 77 acts on the arm 91, the carriage is momentarily retarded by the resistance of the spring 92, a movement of the carriage for about three letter-space distances being required while the arm 77, or the roller 82 thereon, is in contact with the other arm. The carriage will be so retarded whenever the arm 91'is raised by the arm 77, until the stop 47 meets the lug 46 of one of the tabulator stops. When the carriage is arrested, it being thenless than ten .letter spaces distant from where it was last subjected to the retarding action of the devices 77 and 9] --92, its momentum is not great enough, if the pressure of the snring 92 is properly regulated, to render the noise excessive or to expose the machine to injury.
. claimed. herein may The osition of the 'escapement pinion 23 with relation to the carriage-rack 20, when the rack isoperatively engaged with the pinion 76, is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6.' The tabulator-key and stop-bar are restored to their normal ositions by the springs 57 and .42, andas t e collar 38 on the rod 37 rises, the spring 6 4 restores the lever 60--61 and the an ular lever 84--85 to their normal positions, t e carriage-rack descends on the escapement-pinion, forcing the pinion 76 downward, and the block 72 gravitates to the position shown inFig. 3, carrying the pinion 76 entirely below the carriage-rack.
It is to be understood that the invention be embodied in mechanism differing in details of construction or arrangement of parts from that which has been specifically described above, and that it may be ap lied to machines containing denominationa or decimal tabulating mechaniism, instead of the particular tabulating mechanism shown herein, or other forms of columnspacing mechanism.
I do not intend to restrict the invention to mechanism composed of a rotary device; like the arm 77 vand a single coperative device including a spring, it being evident that a pluralityi of spring-pressed arms 91, or simiar devices, may be arranged to'coperate successively with the arm 77, and it being my purbse to also utilize the in vention, if desire 'It will be seen from the Jforegoing that .I have provided means for interrupting the motion of the carriage a plurality of times during a sin le run,` orduring the travel of the carriage rom right to left when released from the control ofthe escapement mechanism. `These successive interruptions operate to break u or diminish the speed and striking force o the carriage. and to such an extent that even when the carriage is released -to run for its maximum-travel, it will finally be arrested by the tabulator stops or margin sto s Without undue noise or shock, and with no iability of breaking or Ainjuring any of the parts of the machine. It will be understood, of course, that the said interruptions of the motion of the carriage do not eiect a coin-y plete stoppage .of the carraige at any one of the plurality of interrupting points, but on' the other hand, that these interruptions are caused intermittently by the interposition of obstructing devices relatively weaker than the momentumof the carria e, and which operate momentarily or perio ically to slacken lthe pace of the carriage and absorb some of the striking force which the carriage would otherwise have if left to continue uninterruptedyntlo the end of its travel.'
at I claim as new andl vdesire to vsecure by Letters Patent, is f 1 In a typewriting machine, the combination with a carriage,
as set forth in a companion application' 'cooperative devices,
. iiled by me.
of means for intermittently and partially checking the speed ofthe carriage during a single run thereof.
2. In a typewriting machine, the combination with the carriage, of retarding `means adapted to act intermittently during a single run of the carriage, the relation of said means to the carria e being such that the carriage is mqvable a .p urality of -letter-space distances between two successive retarding actions of .said means.
l 3. In a typewriting machine, the combinaof retarding means ladapted to act intermittently during a single run of the carriage, said mechanism comprising coperative devices,I and one of said devices being movable continuously by the carriage during its run, and the carriage being movable a plurality of letter-s ace distances between two successive retar ing actions f said means. 4. In a typewriting machine, the vcombination with the carriage,of retarding means adapted to act intermittently during a s ingle run of the carriage, said means com rising a device movable bythe carriage whi e traveling a plurality of letter-space distances and while a portion of said meansis inactive.
V5. In atypewriting machine, the combination with the carriage, of retarding means adapted to act intermittently run of the carriage, said means comprising and one of said devices being movable continuously .by the carriage during its runfand a portion of said means being vinactive at times while the 4carriage travels a plurality of letter-space distances.
6. I n a typewriting machine, the combination With'the carriage, of retarding means adaptedto act intermittently during a single run lof the carriage, said means comprising a portion mounted on a fixed support, and a cooperative device arranged to e moved by the carriage while said portion on the 'fixed support is at rest.
7. In a typewriting machine, the combination with the carriage, of retarding means adapted to act intermittently during asiiigle run of the carriage,l said means comprising a operative device arranged to flportion mounted on a fixed support and a coe nioved by the carriage into and out of contact. with said portion on the fixed support.
8. In a typewriting machine, thc coiiibiiiation of4 a tabulatiiig stop, a stop co erative with said tabulating stop, means'incl uding a key for arranging said stops in coperative alinement and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapeinent, and carriageretarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one of tlieinbeiiig arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being iiiovable thereby into contact with the other, and one of said devices including a spring tending to during a single l keep this device in a normal positionron its sesss supportf'and this device being movable from of said devices including a pivoted arm and a spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and said arm being movable from its normal position by the action on it of the first mentioned device forcing said'sp'ing to yield.
10. In a typjewriting machine, the combination of a ta ulating-stop, a stop coperative With said tabulating stop, means including a key for arranging said stops in coperative alinement and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapement, and carriage-retarding. means comprising .a movable device including a s ring device in its norma posltion, and a coperative device arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby into contact With the other device and into'the space normally occupiedby the latter device.
1,1. In a typeWriting machine, the-combination of an adjustable tabulating stop, a stop cooperative With said adjustable stop,
means including a key for arranging said' stops in cooperative alinement, and carriageretarding' means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep the device inV its normal position, and an arm and a pinion both fast'on a shaft, said-pinion being normally underneath and disengaged from the carriage-rack, a pivoted bearing-1. block in which said shaft is mounted, and means arranged to be actuated yby said key and operative on said bearing-block to raise said pinion into engagement with the carriage-rack and to lift the rack from the escapement-pinion, the arm on said shaf being movable by the shaft, Whenthe cartf riage is disengaged from the escapemelnt, into contact With. the vaforesaid movable device.
l2. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising tWo cooperative devices, one of them being arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby into contact with the other, and one of said devices including a pivoted arm and a spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and said arm being movable from its normal position by the action on it of the first mentioned device forcing said spring to yield.
13. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivtending to keep the ogted arm, and a spring tending to keep the i .occupied by the latter device.
v15. A typewriting machine provided With carriage-retarding'means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep lthe device in its normal position, and-A an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneaththe carriage-rack, and said shaft being movable on an aXis to engage the pinion With and disengage it from the carriage-rack, and
said arm being movable by said shaft When the pinion is operatively engaged with the carriage-rack,` into contact Withv the first mentioned device and'into the space normally occupied by that device.
16. A typewriting machine provided With carriage-retarding means comprising a movable device including a spring tending to keep the device in its normal position, an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriage rack, and
a pivoted block forming a bearing for said shaft and movable on its pivotal aXis to engage the pinion with and disengage it from the carriage-rack, said arm being movable by said shaft, when the pinion is operatively engaged With the carriage-rack, into contact With the first mentioned device and into the'space normally occupied by that device.
17. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivotedl arm and a spring, the spring tending to keep the arm in its normalposition, a cooperative device mounted on an axis and arranged to be rotated by the carriage and being movable thereby against said arm and into the space normally occupied by said arm, and means for imparting motion from the carriage to the rotary device.
18. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comp' ising a pivoted arm and a spring, the'spring tending to keep the arm in its normal position, and an arm and a pinion both fast on a shaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriage rack, and said shaft being movable on an axis to engage the pinion with and disengage it from the carriage-rack, and the arm on said shaft being ,movable by the shaft,
.into contact with the other,
when the pinion is operatively engaged by.
the carriage-rack, into contact with the first mentioned arm and into the space normally occupied by that arm.
19. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivoted arm and a spring, the spring tending' t0 kee the arm in its normal osition, an arm andp a pinion both fast on a s iaft, said pinion being normally underneath the carriagerack, and a pivoted block forming a-bearing for said shaft and movable on its pivotal axis to engage the pinion with and to disen age it from the carriage-rack, the arm on sai shaft beingl movable by the shaft, when the pinion is operatively engaged with the carriagerack, into contact with the first mentioned arm and into the space normally occupied by that arm.
20. Au typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising a pivoted bearing-block, a shaft mounted in said. blockl and extending from it underneath the carriage-rack, and a pinion on said shaft under the carriage-rack, in combination with an angular lever and means including a key for actuating it, said angular lever being pivoted to a Jfixed support under said block, and one arm of the angular lever being operative on the block to raise said )inion and the car` riage-rack, and said arni the bearing-block when uppermost position.
21. A typewriting machine provided with carriage retardin means comprising a bearing-block pivote on an axis parall'e of the platen of the machine, the pivotal axis of said block being behind the carriage-rack, a shaft mounted in said block and extending forward from it underneathwthe carria era'ck, and a pinion on said shaftunder t e carriage-rack, in combination with an angular lever and means including a key for actueing upright under said pinion is in its ating it, said angular lever being pivoted 'to a fixed support under said block, the pivotal axis of the angular lever being in front of a vertical plane containing' the pivotal axis of the block, and one arm of the angular lever being operative on the block to raise said p inion and the carriage-rack, and said arm being upright under the block when said .pinion is in its uppermost position.
22. 1n a typewriting machine, the combination of a tabulating-stop, a stop coperative with said tabulating stop, means including a key for arranging said stops in coperative alineinent and for releasing the carriage from the control of the escapement, and carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one ofthem being arranged to be actuated by the carriage and being movable thereby in a definite path and means for connecting with the carriage the device that to that is arranged to be' actuated thereby and for enabling the carriage to travel several letter space distances after the last mentioned of said devices is connected therewith and before, it is brought into contact with said other device. A 23. A typewriting machine provided with carriage retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one being a rotary device arranged to be rotated by the carriage and being movable thereby in a true circular path into contact with the other device, and means for connecting thel rotary device with the carriage and ,for enabling the carriage to travel several letter space distances after the rotary device is connected therewith and before it is brought into contact with said other device.
24. Atypewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding. means comprising two vcooperative devices, one of them having a single rotary arm normally extending from its pivotal axis on the opposite side thereof from said other cooperative device, in combination with means for o said arm with the carriage.
25. A typewriting machine provided with' carriage-retarding y means comprising two cooperative devices, one of them having an arm fast on a shaft and normally extending from the' shaft on the opposite 'side thereof from said other coperative device, in combination with a inion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rac and means including a key for rais' p he pinion into operative engagement wit the carriage rack. i 26. A typewriting machine provided` with carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices, one of them 'having an arm fast on a shaft and normally extending from the shaft on the opposite side thereof from said other coperative device, in conibination with a ivoted hearing-block in vwhich said shaft is mounted, a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage rack, and means including .a key for turning the bearing block on its pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage-rack.
perativelylA connecting 27. A typewriting. machine provided with Y carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices normally out of engagement with each other, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft, in combination with a pinion rack, and means including a key for raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage rack.
A typewritingmachine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two cooperative devices normally out of engagement with each other, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft, in c o bination with a pivoted bearing-block/ in i "ch said.. shaft fast on the shaft under the carriageis mounted, a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rack, and means including a key for turning the bearing-block on its pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative engagement With the carriage-rack. v
29. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two coperative devices, one of them ,being 'a ri id arm fast on a shaft and havingon 1t a ro er, in combination with a pinion'fast on the shaft under the carriagefrack, andmeans including akey. for raising the pinion into operative engagement with the carriage-rack.
30. A typewriting machine provided with carriage-retarding means comprising two coperative devices, one of them being a rigid arm fast on a shaft and having on it a ro ler,fin combination With apivoted bearingblock in which said shaft is mounted, 'a pinion fast on the shaft under the carriage-rack, and means including a key for turning the bearing block on its-,pivotal axis and raising the pinion into operative .engagement with the carriage-rack.
31. In a typewriting' machine, the combination with a carriage, of-coperating retarding' devices, and automatic means to render fthe co-action of said devices intermittent during a single run of the carriage.
2A ln a typewriting machine, the combination With a carriage, of cooperating retarding devices mounted 0n the fr ame of the machine, and automatic means to render the co-action of said devices intermittent during a single run of the carriage.
Signed at the vborough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the countT of New York, and lState `of New York, this 30th dav of January A. D. 1906.
JACOB FELBEL.
Witnesses i E. M. WELLS, M. F. HANNWEBER..
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