US1748968A - Typewriting machine - Google Patents

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ATTURNEY Patented ar. 4, 193

'operator is prepared tol proceed illustrated in the abnormal position EDWIN E. BARNEY, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO REMINGTON TYPE- WRITER COMPANY, 0F ILION, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATON OF NEW YORK 'rYrnWarrme MACHINE Application led June 23,

My invention relates to typewriting and like machines and more particularly to paper controlling means therefor.

The main object of my invention, generally 5 stated, is toprovide comparatively simple,

yet highly effective automatically controlled auxiliary means for holding work sheets in close contact with the platen at and near the printing line. Y

A further object of mv invention is -to provide means ofthe character specified cornbined to work automatically in harmony with devices for conditioning the machine to readily Areceive and effectively correlate `work sheets successively introduced into 'the machine, such, for example, as are embodied in the Remington front feed bookkeeping machine, one form of which is disclosed in the application of S. L. Walsoe filed May 31, 1927, Sr. No. 195,321.

A still further object ofthe invention is to provide means of the character specified which may be readily included. in such machines wlthout modifying, or materially modifying the existing structural features thereof.

To the above and other ends which will hereinafter appear, my invention consists in the features of construction, arrangements o arts and combinations of devices set forth in the following description and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts in the dierent views Fig. l is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary, vertical, fore and aft sectional view taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 4 and looking in the direction of the arrows a-t said line; the view showing a portion of a typewriting machine equipped with the device of my invention, and illustrating thev parts in normal position, or disposed as they with the Writing. L A Fig. 2 is a view corresponding substantially to Fig. '1 except that the parts are to receive newly introduced work sheets.

0 Fig. 3 is an enlarged, detail,"fragmentary,

f Frederick A. Hart No.

appear when the I do not deem it necessary prepared 1927. serial No. 200,898.

vertical fore and aft sectional view of the machine corresponding in part to Fig. l, but showing some features not disclosed in Fig. l and'omitting others. Y

Fig. 4 is a detail, fragmentary, top plan view of the machine.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary, top plan view showing features of the novel auxiliary paper holding means and some of the associated parts.

Fig.` 6 is an enlarged, detail, fragmentary,

vertical, fore and aft, sectional view showing one of 'theintermediate feed rollers in contact with the platen; the section being taken on the line 6--6 of Fig. 7 and looking in the direction ofthe arrows at said line.. v

Fig. 7 is an enlarged, detail, horizontal sectional view of the same; the section being taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

The machine in which the features of the present invention are shown embodied is the same as that disclosed in said hereinbefore mentioned Walsoe application andl is of the same general character as what is known on the market as a Remington front feed bookkeeping machine, which may or may not be equipped with automatic carriage return mechanism such as disclosed in the patent to 1,576,590, dated December 29, 1925. However, I have shown only so much of said machine as is necessary to illustrate my invention in its inclusion therein. While the present invention may be readily embodied in such machine with-4 'employment in said machine but is of general ap lication wherever. found available.

s in the machines hereinbefore referred to the present machine is capable of'v a wide range of uses in connection with various socalled billing Voperations and the like, where two or more werk sheets are to be correlated and printed at a single operation. However,

to describe specifically the many dierent forms of` billing operations in which the machine may be used. It is sufficient for an understanding of the present invention to specificallyl de-/lee/r v A chine.

scribe one mode of billing that may be successfully carried out with the aid of the present machine, and perhaps briefly refer to some of the various other methods in connectilon vith which the machine may be' em o e P ne method of using the machine, which will be specifically referred to,is its employment for simultaneously, or at one writing, making out a bill, making corresponding entries on the ledger sheet carrying the account, and on a record or register sheet which receives the various entries written on all of the individual bill and ledger'sheets. In the example referred to the register sheet and its accompanying carbon sheet remain in the maa Means are providedy to enable the ledger sheet and its accompanying carbon Asheet to be quickly introduced and properly positioned to receive the requisite .entries without disturbing the previously introduced `register sheet and companion carbon sheet.

Means also are provided f or then quickly entering a bill sheet into the machine in front of the platen and accurately positioning it in proper correlation with the previously introduced ledger sheet and the printing line. The entries may then be made on the bill sheet, and

these will be transferred through the inter# and register sheets, ladvances the register sheet in position to receive a manifold copy of the next entry on the register sheet.

With the foregoing general explanation of the purpose and operation, I will proceed to y describe the invention as it is embodied, in the present instance, in said hereinbeforemen-y tioned Remington machine.

The frame of the machine includes the usual-top plate supporting fixed guide rails. The carriage or truck comprises front and rear guide or cross bars 1, united by end bars 2 and 3. The fixed guiderails and cross bars 1 are oppositely grooved to receive crossed antifriction rollers by which the carriage 1s supported in the usual manner to travel from` side to side of the machine over the top plate.

A cylindrical platen 4 is mounted in thel usual manner in a platen frame comprising lthe rigidly connected end plates 5 and 6; the platen frame beingconnected to the carriage y the usual shift links 7 and 8. In the present instance, however, I contemplate writlng only with upper case characters and the platen is, therefore, preferably held in the upper case position. This may be readily done by screwing up the lowermost case-shift limiting screw-stops 9, thereby holding the platen shaft, or the buffer `springs 10 which surround it, against the pper-case limiting stops 9. This brings the printing line on the platen to a position where the uppermost types on the usual type bars will register: therewith. v

A ribbon vibrator 11 is mounted to slide up and down in the usual manner on a type bar center guide 12 secured to the type bar segment 13. The vibrator is actuated at each printing operation by the usual mechanism (see Fig. 3), Which includes an arm 14;. Said arm is pivoted at 15 on a shiftable carrier or support 16 mounted on parallel links 17. A

contractile spring 18 tends to lift the shiftable support 16, and, causes an anti-friction roller 19 carried thereby to bear upward against the lower edge of a bar 20. This bar is secured to the carriage and extends substantially throughout the length thereof. In the usual Remington machines the purpose of this construction is to cause the ribb'on yibrator to be shifted up and down with the platen in the case shifting movements of the latter. In the present construction there is no such case shifting movements of the platen but the construction, nevertheless, lends itself to the accomplishment of another result which will hereinafter appear.

As in the construction disclosed in the said previously led Walsoe application, it is desirable when introducing a work sheet backy'ward into the machine to lower the ribbon vibrator from its normal, Fig. 1, position. This is in order to enable the front paper deiector to be more conveniently moved to effective position, as shown in Fig. 2. In the present construction I have employed the same means that are disclosed in the aforesaid application for effecting this result. Thus, as in the prior construction, a bracket arm 21 (Fig. 3) extends forward-from the shiftable support 16 and carries an anti-friction roller 22 at the upper end thereof. A rock shaft 23 extends throughout the length of the carriage, and is mou-nted at its ends in bearing openings in the end lates 2 and 3 of the platen frame. This roc shaft 23 carries a plate 24 which extends substantially throughout the `length thereof and is bent down at its forward edge to form a flange 25 which coactsY with the anti-friction roller 22.l When the rock shaft 23, and the plate 24 carried thereby, are shifted by means to be hereinafter described, from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position, the shiftable support 16 will be lowered against the power of its spring 18, effecting a izs corresponding lowering of the ribbon vibrator 11.

Coming now to the means for controlling There are two curved paper deiectors 32 and 33 employed beneath the platen, one arranged above the other and -niaintaincd spaced apart by intermediate.spacing meinbersor blocks 34 and 35 located near the ends thereof. Generally speaking, these deflectors conform to the curvature of the platen or are substantially concentricl therewith and extend substantially throughout the length of the platen. As thus constructed there are two separate channels provided, one of which is the open channel 36 between the two deectors and which is bounded at its ends by separating members 34 and 35, either or both of which may constitute side guides or gages for cooperation with a work sheet or sheets introduced into the channel 36. 'lhe other separate channel 37 is provided between the under surface ofthe platen and the upper dcficctor 32. The forward edge of the deflector 33 terminates in advance of the vforward edge of thedeflector 32. The deflector 33 is continued up at the rear to provide an upwardly and rearwardly extending paper table 38 which terminates at a considerable height above the platen. On the other hand, the deflector 32 terminates in the rear of the platen at a much lower point vand below the top of the platen, where it is bent to forma loop 39 that loosely surrounds a rod 40 fixedly connected at its ends to the end plates 5 and 6 of the platen frame. In this manner the rigidly united deflectors 32 and 33 are mounted on the rod 40 and have a slight pivotal movement thereon. A light wire spring141 (Fig. 2) is connected by screws 42 and 43 to a cross-bar 44 of the platen frame, the spring -being anchored at one end on the screw 42and coiled around the stem of the screw 43. The upper free end of thefspring 41 is looped at 45, where itbears upward against the bottom of the deflector 33 and causes the forward edgeportion of the deflector 32 normally to be lightly pressed against the platen, or against the interposed work sheet. In this manner the sheets introduced from the rear of the platen through the channel 37 will be held snugly against the platen, and the sheets introduced into the channel 36 will be prevented from entering the channel 37.

In order to facilitatethe backward introduction of the the channel 36 from in front of the platen, there is provided a paper controlling device, guide, shield, or paper deector 47 that is movable on the carriage horizontally disposed ineffective position, shown in Fig. 1, to a downwardly and rearwardly inclined effective position, shown in regarded as parts of said end plates.

y shaft 23 by a. set screw 58a.

work sheets into the mouth of,

from a substantially Fig. 2, and vice versa, fas disclosed in said previously filed applications. In order to receive these movements the deflector 47 is constructed and mounted, in the presentp inystance, in the specific mannerA disclosed in said previously filed application.

Thus, the sheet metal deiector 47, which extends substantially throughout the length of the platen, is carried supporting arms 48 and 49. These supporting arms are pivotally mounted on forwardly projecting arms 5() secured to the end plates 5 and 6 of the platen -frame and which may be The left-hand pivot pin 51, on which the arm 48 turns, supports a bell crank lever 5,2v one arm of which carries a pin 53 by which a detachable connection is made with the arm 48. The other arm of the lever 52 carries an outwardly projected connecting pin 55 that is received and works in a slotted cam 56 in an actuating arm 57. Said arm 57 isy provided with a hub 58 (see Fig..3) by which it is secured to the hereinafter mentioned rock T he character of the slotted cam and the construction and the arrangement of the parts are such that a forward pivotal movement of the arm 57 from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position,`causes a pivotal movement of the deiector 47 in the opposite direction, or rearward from its normally ineffective position. This brings the deflector 47 tothe effective position, shown in Fig. 2, where it virtually forms a continuation of the deflector 33. In this movement of the del-lector 47 it passes f rom'a position where it is out of the path of the type bars to a position where it is in the path thereof, and

crosses the printing line where, it is effective in directing work sheets introduced rearward from in front of the platenvdownward into the open channel 36. From thence the sheets in questionpass around and beneath the platen.

'.lhe actuating arm 57 is provided with a finger piece 59 at' the upper end thereof', whereby said yarm and the parts controlled thereby may be actuated at will. The arm 57 also ystands in cooperative relationship with means for controlling the shifting movement of certain automatically controlled thereby, as will hereinafter clearly appear.

The actuating arm 57 constitutes one of two supporting'arms for a wire line-indicator 60. Said indicator extends longitudinally throughout the length ofthe platen and is adjustably connected to the arm 57 by means of two clamp-ingjaws 61 and 62, as disclosed in said Walsoe application.

The opposite end of`-the line indicating wire may be supporting arm 63 (see Fig. 1), as disclosed in said prior construction. secured to the rock shaft 23 near the right- 'Ihe arm 63 isby parallel sheet metal-' of the feed rollers, to be adjustably secured to a second to return the arm hand end thereof. A coiled contractile spring.

64 is connected at lone end to the arm `57 and at its opposite end to a pin 65 extending in- Ward from the endglate 5. This spring tends 5 land the parts connected therewith to the normal, Fig. l, position and has an additional function for the purpose of the present invention, as will presently ing line, as shown in Fig. 3. The'paper feed rollers 66, as shown' in the present in# g stance, are constructed and mounted in the same general manner as in said h'ereinbefore mentioned Walsoe application. Thus, the

feed rollers are mounted for longitudinal adjustment along a supporting rod or spindle 67, supported at its ends by lforwardly eX- tending arms 68 that are pivotally supportedy on the platen frame. Springs 68a exert their force against the arms 68 and thus cause the feed rollers 66 to bear against the platen, or certain only of the work sheets thereon. swinging the spindle 67 upward and rearward the said feed rollers are released. i

In the present machine I have'included the paper feed roller controlling means disclosed in said Walsoe application, and also the pa-v per deflector 47, the line indicator and the ribbon vibrator l1 controlled thereby, I have combined with such mechanism the novel features of theFpresent invention lof providing auxiliary paper holding support-f ing or pressing means for snugly holding the work sheets against the platen at and nearv the 4 printing line, and for automatically controlharmony with the said mechanism with 1 which it is combined, as will now be set forth. As in the prior construction, there are employed a pair of outside .margin paper..

ylongltudlnally fore and aft of the machine.

feed rollers 69' and a pair of inside or inter.- mediate margin paper feed rollers 70 which coact with the platen above the printing line.

Each of these feed rollers is constructed,

.mounted and controlled in part in a like manner, and the description of one such feed roller and its mountingl and control will 'apply tothe others, except as hereinafter specifically pointed out. Each of the feed rollers 69 and 70 is mounted to turn on a pivot 71 received between and riveted to twolparallel roller carrying arms or slides 72. Each vpair of slides 72 thusfconnected, are supported for rectilinear movement fore and aft of the machine by and between a pair of supporting arms 73 'attached at their forward ends by screws 74 to a slottedsupporting ling-such paper holding means to work in.k

block 75. In the slot in each block is received a supporting bar 76 that extends longitudi- 73 is slotted at 79 to receive a headed'guide pin 80 operatively connected with one of the arms 72 to support and guide it at its rear end. The forward end portion of each arm 72 is slotted at 81 to receive a supporting vhub 82 therethrough, and thus support and guide'each arm 72 at its forward end. The shouldered stem of each of the guide pins l80 passes loosely through a circular opening'in the associated arm 72 and is riveted at its inner end to one end of a toggle arm 83. The other end of each toggle arm or memberl 83 is pivoted at 84 to one end ofv a companion toggle'arm or member 85. The forward end ofeach toggle arm 85 is riveted to one end of an intermediate spacing sleeve 86, 86a, 86b or 86` as the case may be, said sleeve being supported on a rock shaft 87 and from both ends of which spacing sleeve the hubs 82 eX- tend. From what has been said it will be understood that a turning movement of each sleeve 86, 86a, 86b or 86c will cause the toggle arms 85 attached thereto to be moved from an angular position, such'4 as is indicated-in Fig. 6 to a substantially straight line osition, such as is indicated in Figs. 1 and and vice versa. In thus shifting each two pairs of companion toggle members 83 and v85 from'fthe broken to the substantially straight line position the associated feed roller 69 or 70 will be moved in substantially a straight line from the Fig. 2 to the Fig. 1 position, and applied with a positive pressure, against the platen or the paper thereon, the slides 72 carrying the feed roller, moving In practice the arms 83 and 85 are moved sli htly over the straight line position in order to hold the rollers positively applied in their operative position. In order to arrest each companionv pair of toggle arms in proper position for this purpose there is provided an inwardly extending lug 7 3a on each of the supporting arms 73, and with which either or both arms 83 and 85 of the associated toggle may coact to arrest'the toggle in its straightened position.

It is desirable that the outer pair of feed rollers 69 may be moved together to the platen; that the inner pair of feed rollers 70 may be` moved together to the platen, and

that both the outside and inside pairs of feed 520 feed rollers 87 to be actuated thereby. That is to say,

3e up and the block 7 5 thereby may then be 50 of a pin and t5 tieularly to Figs. 1 and 6 65 secured to a hub 100, which in turn is masses 'there is provided ahub 88 secured to theshaft by a set screw 89.

Connected to each hub 88 is an upstanding finger piece 90 by which the shaft 87 may be rocked, a backward movement of a finger piece 90 applying the feed rollers 69 and a forward movement of the finger piece releasing the feed rollers 69 and 70. A set screw 91 passes into a tapped opening in each of the sleeves 86 and 86c for the outside pair of feed rollers 69, thereby at all times maintaining the toggles for these connected with the rock shaft such toggles are always maintained connected to the shaft 87 except in the event that either or both of the supporting blocks 75 for these feed rollers are to be adjusted along the carriage longitudinally of the platen. In such case it is merely necessary to back up the screw 91 for'the sleeve of the feed roller to be thus adjusted. The screws 78 may then be backed with the .parts carried shifted along longitudinally of the shaft 87. When the proper position has been attained-the screws 78 and 91 are again tightened to hold the parts in the new position to vwhich they are adjusted along the carriage and reestablish the connection between the sleeves 86 and 86'c and the rock shaft 87.

In order to control the toggles for the inner or intermediate pair of feed rollers 70 there is provided a collar 92 on the rock shaft 87 held to turn therewith by a set screw 93 received in a tapped opening in the collar and bearin g at its inner end against the shaft. As

best shown in Figs. 6 and 7, this collar is provided With a projection 94, one side of which is adapted to coact with a somewhat larger half circular projection 95 on the adjacent hub 82 of the sleeve 86B. This provides asert slot, or

between the shaft 87 and toggles for the inner pair of feed rollers 70,' for purposes which will hereinafter appear. Referring more parit wi/llbe seen that the particular sleeve 86, which is connected to the shaft 87 by the lost motion connection just described, has at its opposite end a half circular projection 96 that coacts with a cor- CO responding half-circular projection 97 on one end of a hollow. shaft98. Thev hollow shaft 98 loosely surrounds and is supported by the shaft 87 for independent turning movement thereon. An upstanding finger pie-ce 99 is secured lost motion, connection v between the shaft 87 and the sleeve 86, and j rto the hollow shaft 98 by a set screw 101.

The opposite end ofthis hollow shaft has a half circular projection v102 (Fig. 1) which engages a corresponding projection 103 on the hub of thel sleeve 86".

The lost motion connection`94 and 95 between the feedrollers 69 and 70 is such that the outside feed rollers 69 may be first applied, as shown of the finger pieces 90 rearward. This results in turning the shaft 87 and carrying the projection 94 to the position shown in Fig. 6. At this time the projection 94 is free from contact with either engaging edge of the projection 95. Consequently there isnothing to interfere with a rearward movement of the finger piece 99 and a straightening of the associated toggles to apply the feed rollers 70 with a positive pressure in the same manner as the feed rollers 69. This movement results in bringing the lower front edge of the projection 95 against the rear contact edge of the projection 94. It follows, therefore, that a forward movement of either finger piece 90 at this time will turn the member 94 clockwise inFig. 6, and carry with it the member 95 and the' parts connected therewith. This results in simultaneously shifting all of the feed rollers 69 and 70 away from the platen, as indicated in Fig. 2.

The means provided for automatically con` trolling the defiector 47, the line indicator and the ribbon vibrator 11'by the shifting movements of the feed rollers into and out of effective position vwill now be described. There is preferably employed for this purpose a single auxiliary pair of toggle lnembers of the same general character as those hereinbefore described, and such auxiliary toggle members are controlled from the rock shaft 87 and operatively connect it with the shifting arm 57.- Thus, it will be seen u on reference to Figs. l, 2 and 4 that a colar 104 is connected by a set screw 105 to the lefthand end of the shaft 87 This collar is in the nature of a hub to which a toggle arm 106 is attached, and a reduced end of said collar receives a support in a circular bearing opening ina bracket or supporting arm 107. Said arm 107 is secured by, screws 108 to a supporting block 109 adjustably held on the bar 76 by set screws 110. The rear end of the toggle arm or member 106 is pivoted at 111 to the companion toggle member or arm l112 `which carries at its rear end a headed pin 113. This pin is loosely received in a circular opening in a sliding, supporting or actuating arm or slide 114, and also is seated in a slot 115 in the supporting arm 107 to slide fore and aft of the'machine therein. The forward end portion of the slide 114 also is slotted at 116 to receive the reduced end of thehub or'collar 104 and thus support and guide the slide at its forward end. The rear end of the slide carries a laterally projecting in Fig. 6, by moving either stud 117 which is riveted thereto and in the forward movement of the slide 114 coacts after a slight extent of lost motion, with the arnr 7 and shifts it and the parts controlled thereby from the Fig. 1 to the Fig. 2 position. The supporting arm 107 ma also be provided with a lu 118 to coact with and limit the straightenlng movement of the toggle arms 106 and 112.

It will-be understood that the construction is'such that when the feed rollers 69 lare applied to hold, say, a ledger sheet L in its.

adjusted position, the arml 57 is free to be actuated by its finger piece 59 without being interfered withby the train of operative connections between the armv57 and the rock shaft 87. This is in order that thedeflector 47, line indicator 60 and vibrator 11 ma be temporarily shifted to and held in the Flg. 2 2o position, while a bill sheet B and its accompanying carbon sheetlB are introduced into the machine and into the channel 36 and correlated with reference to the previously introduced ledger sheet. As soon as this is done the finger piece 59 may be released and the feed rollers 70 are then applied to the bill sheet and all ofthe sheets are then held in position prepared to proceed with the writing.

' 30 Any suitable paper end stops may be. em-

ployed, ifdesired, to coact with the ledger sheet in order to properly position -it in the machine, such means, for example, as are disclosed in the application of Frederick A. Hart, Sr. No. 172,685 filed March 4, 1927 The auxiliary paper holding orpressing mechanism ofthe present invention is constructed and combined with the features hereinbefore described as follows Referring more particularly to Figs. 2, 3 and 5 it will be understood that there is secured preferably to the lower side ofthe deflector 33 near each end thereof, a spring strip or arm 119. Each strip 119 (see Fig. 5)

^ may be slotted at 120 to receive the stem of a headed clamping screw 121 received at its threaded end in a tapped opening in the deflector 33 and the associated spacing block or member 34 or 35. Each spring strip of 5o metal 119 is thus secured at its rear end -to the defiector and may receive a slightad-justment thereon fore and aft of the machine. lThe forward end of each strip 119 may be 0E- set inwardly -at 123 and is riveted or otherwise secured at 124 to an auxiliary'work sheet supporting or pressing device, bar or 4member 125. Ipreferably make this bar of sheet metal angular in cross section as shown in Fig. 2, and extend it throughout or sub stantially throughout the length of deflector 33. The member 125 at its upper edge is bent rearward to provide a flange 126 which overlaps the forward end of the deiector 33. as.

, shown in Fig. 2, and is preferabl beveled at its edge, as shown.. The force o the spring strips 119 is exerted to maintain the pressing bar or member 125 in-Fig. 2 position, with the flange 126 resting on the forward extension of the. deflector 33.l It will be observed that at this time the member 125 does not form an obstruction to the channel 36, but is maintainedaway 4from the platen and in a position where the face of the flange 126 forms practically a'continuation of the deflectors 47 and 33 for the ready backward introduction of a worksheet into said channel. In order to control the pressing bar 125, and

automatically shift it to the pressing position Y shown in Fig. 3, I provide on the plate 24 a plurality of contacts or actuating fingers 127 upturned from the surface thereof and which `are. adapted to coact with the bottom of the presser bar.

- thereby turning the shaft 23 in an anti-clockwise direction as the partsareviewed in these figures. This results not only in applying the feed rollers 69 but also in shifting the deflector 47 to ineffective position; in shifting the line indicator 60 to effective position; in elevating the platen 24 whichpermits the vibrator`11to be'elevated, and in forcing the work sheet pressing bar or member 125 up relatively to the deflector 33 across the open mouth of the channel 36 and into pressing engagement with the sheets B, B', L, R and R. VThe bar 125 is thus 4maintained in its pressing. action on said sheets by the force of the spring 64 and continues to press them in this manner as they are fed forward -with the platen. The bar acting 'as it does on the sheets below the printing line, and in a line not remote therefrom, causes said group of sheets to be pressed and 'held snugly against the surface of the platen at and near the printing line, while they are held against the platen above the printing linevby the feed rollers 69 and 70. This prevents the sheets from bellying away from the platen at the printing line, such bellying ordinarilybein more pronounced when a comparatively eavy ledger sheet L is employed andaresulting in the production of imperfect imprints and a drumming noise as the types impact withthe sheets. By the use ofthe present invention, however, this'is entirely overcome.

A forward shifting of one of the finger pieces 90 results in restoring the parts to the Fig. 2 position, at which time the plate 24 is lowered allowing the spring strips or arms 119 to carry the pressing device 125 down relay j it while the bill -tively to the deflector 33 to ineffective posishifted to ineffective position when the ma-A chine is conditioned to receive the sheets to be collated and is automatically shifted to effective position after said sheets have been collated and as the machine is Conditioned to proceed with .the writing. More particularly it wi-ll be seen that the deflector or controlling device 47 and the work sheet pressing bar 125 are operatively connected to work in harmony, the pressing bar automatically moving out of effective position, and out of the path of the deflector 47, when said defiector ismoved into effective position to condition the machine to receive the work sheets in the' channel 36, and vice versa.

One manner of using the machine is as follows f Assume that a register sheet (Fig. 3) and its accompanying outside carbon sheet R have been introduced through the channel 37 and properly positioned with the leading edgesithereof beneath theirfeed rollers 66, and that the remaining parts are in the Fig. 2 position. The operator then introduces a ledger sheet L from the front of the platen into the channel 36 and accurately positions said sheet. An actuation of a finger piece 90 in arearward direction` results in straightening the associated toggl'es to the Fig. 6 position and positively aapplying the feed rollers 69 against the pla-ten and against, the margins of the previously introduced ledger sheet. At this time the finger piece 99 and the parts controlled thereby are in the Fig. 6 position, with the feed-rollers 70 in the released position. The parts controlled by the finger piece 59 may then ed to and heldin the Fig. 2 position by moving the finger piece 59 forward and holding sheet B with an accompanying carbon sheet B are introduced from the frontof the platen into the channel 36 and between the feed roller 7() andthe platen or the ledger sheetLthereon. After the bill sheet and the accompanying carbon sheet have been properly introduced and shifted rearward by the operator from the will be rodu'ced on the bill sheet and through operator shifts the the car on sheets on the ledger and register sheets.

After the bill is written as described the finger piece 90 to vthe Fig.

betemporarily shiftadjusted, the finger piece 59 1s released and the finger piece 99 is 1 featmes thereof. the matter written 2 position, thereby releasing the feed rollers 69 and 7 0 and the pressing bar 125 and permitting ready withdrawal of the bill sheet, the accompanying carbon sheet and the ledger sheet, and conditioning the machine to receive new sheets to replace these withdrawn.`v

It -will be understood that the hollow shaft 98, the feed rollers 70 and the intermediate connections by which said feed rollers are actuated and` mounted may be detached from the remaining parts. Therefore, such parts may be applied or omitted, depending on the use to which the machine Lis to be put, as a two-sheet or three-sheet biller.

In substantially the same manner as hereinbefore indicated the machine may be elnployed as a check-writing machine, at which time the sheet described above a-,s a register sheet would constitute a manifold record of the checks written and may constitute a pay roll sheet. In this event, however, no ledger sheet will be employed. The feed roller 69 will be employed to coact with the checks, and the finger piece 99 would not be manipulated, 'leaving the feed rollers 70 ineffective.

` Generally speaking, the sheet R described above as a register sheet, and which remains in the machine when the other sheets are removed andl new ones inserted, may constitute a register sheet, a proof sheet, a sales sheet, a distributing sheet, or a pay roll sheet, depending on the use vof the machine for different purposes.

In some instances the line indicator may be employed to position, in a line feed direction, each sheet introduced from in front of the platen into the channel 36 when1it is not feasible or desirable, another, to employ end stops, end stops to coact with a sheet to the ledgervsheet.

By the present invention I have combined with features of a machine such as is disclosed in the above mentioned VValsoe application', simple, inexpensive' and highly efficient auxiliary work sheet pressing means which are automatically controlled to operate in harmony therewith and to be thrown into and outv of use depending on whether the machine is conditioned for `receiving -the work sheets orfor proceeding with the writor to employ correspondmg glt also will be observed that the work sheet pressing -devices of the present invention may he readily embodied in a machine such as has been referred to without modifying or materially modifying, the existing structural The claims in this case are specific to features not disclosed in the said hereinbefore mentioned application.

Various changes may be made in the construction and certain parts thereof may be employed Withoutpothers, without ldeparting for one reason or from my invention as it is defined inthe accompanying claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a paper deflector movable to and from effective position and when in said last mentioned position constituting an aid for directing a work sheet introduced backward from in front of the platen around and beneath the same, paperl feed rollers, an auxiliary paper supporting device shiftable towards and away from the platen and when in effective position supporting va work sheet in snug condition against the platen at and near the printing line, and means controlled by said delector for controlling the shifting movement of said paper supporting device.

2. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, means for directing a work sheet introduced backward from infront of the platen around and beneath the same, a paper deliector movable to and rfrom effective position and when inl said last mentioned position coacting lwith said directing means, paper feed rollers, an auxiliary paper supporting device for holding the paper snugly against the platen at and near the printing line andv shiftable toand from effective position by the operationv of said deflector.

v 3. The combination of a carriage,'a cylin-A drical platen carried thereby, means carried by the carriage for directing a work sheet introduced backward from in front of the platen around and beneath the same, a paper deflector carried by the vcarriage and .movable to and from effective position and when in said last mentioned'positioncoacting with said directing means, paper feed rollers, an

\ auxiliary paper supporting bar'carried by the carriage below'the printing line and movable to and from effective position, said bar when in effective position'pressing a work sheet snugly against the platen at and near the printing line, and operative connections between said bar and deflector by which he bar is moved to effective position when t e deilector is. moved from effective position.

4. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a paper deflector carried by the carriage and movable to and from effective position across the printing line, said deflector when ineffective po-' istion constituting an aid in directing work sheets introducedbackwards from in front of the platen around'and beneath the same, an auxiliary paper supporting bar carried by thev carriage vand extending substantially throughout the length' of the platen, said bar movable to and from effective position and when in effective position pressing a work sheet snugly against the platen at and near the printing line, and operative connections yspaced away from said platen forjthe free introduction of work sheets,- a paper pressing bar mounted on said deflector for movement independently thereof towards and from the platen while the deflector is maintained away from the platen, and hand actuated means for controlling such movements of said bar.

6. The" combination yof a carriage, a cylindrical platen, a curved paper deflector beneath and maintained spaced away from said platen, a paper pressing bar mounted on said delector .for movement relatively thereto towards and'from the platen whilev the delector is maintained away from the platen, paper controlling means movable independently of said deflector to and from effective position, and operative connections between paper controlling means and paper pressing bar for automatically controlling one 'by the operation of the other.

7. The combination'of a carriage, a. cylindrical platen carried thereby, feed rollers, two united paper deflectors arranged one above the other beneath the platen and providing two separated channels or passages through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper passage between the platen and the upper deflector and the other a lower passage between the two deflectors, a paper pressing bar movable relatively to said double deilector to and from effectivev position and when in effective position maintaining the paper snug againts the platen at and near the printing line, ,and means for controlling the movements 'of said bar. 8. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a double paper delector arranged beneath the platen and providing two channels `or passages through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper passage between the platen and the upper deflector and the other a lower passage between the two defiectors, a paperpressing bar movable relatively to said double deflec- -upper passage between the platen and the upper, deflector andthe other a. lower. passage between the two deflectors, a paper pressing bar movable relatively to said dou- :mapas ble delector to and from effective position,

an auxiliar paper defiector shiftable to and from effective position and when in effective position coacting with said double delector auxiliary defiector for controlling the movement oi' the bar into and out of effective position by the; shifting oi' said auxiliary deflecto'r.

10. `The combination of a carriage, a cyl'in.

a double padrical laten carried thereby, per de ector arranged beneath the platen and providing two channels or passages through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper assage between the platen and the; up-

per de ector and the othera lower passagev etween the two defiectors, arms each ,con-

nected at one end to said double delector and` carrying a paper pressing bar that coacts with a work sheet introduced in said lower passage to hold the work sheet in a snug conition against the platen, and means for controlling the movement'of said bar towards and from the platen.

11. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a double paper' defiector arranged beneat the platen andl providing two channels or passages through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper assage between thev platen and the upper eficctor and the other a lower Ipassage between the two deflectors, spring arms each fixedly attached at one end to the bottom of said double defiector, said spring arms carrying a paper pressin device that coacts with a work sheet intro uced in said lower passage to hold the work sheetfin a snug condition against the platen, and hand controlled means coacting with said pressing device to control its movement towards and from the platen.

12. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a double paper deiector arranged beneath the platen and providing two channels or passages thipugh which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper passage between the platen and the upper defiector and the other a lower passage between the two deectors, spring arms each attached at one end to the bottom of said double defiector, said spring arms carrying a paper pressing work sheet introduced in saidlower passage to hold the work sheet in a snug` condition against the platen, the force of the spring arms icing exerted to move the paper pressing device away from the platen,` and means for overcoming the force of said spring arms and for forcing said pressing device towards the platen. o

13. The combination of a carriage; a cylindrical platen carried thereby; means'for dian ineffective o moving-. said paper dev1ce that coacts with aI rectin a work sheet introduced rearward from 1n front of the platen `beneath and around the same, said means including a paper deflector arranged beneath the platen and maintained spaced apart therefrom .to providean open passa o through which a work sheet may be introcgluced as specified, an auxiliary paper deflector movable from ineffective to an effective position `where it forms virtually a continuation of the first mentioned deiector; a paper pressing bar movable towards and from the platen across 1 the mouth of said passage from an inedective to an effective position where it causes a work sheet to be pressed 1n a snug manner' against 1 the platen at and near the printing line and .means for controlling the-movements o said auxiliarg defiector and paper pressing bar. 14. T drical platen carried thereby; means for d1- recting a work sheet introduced rearward fromm front of the platen beneath and around the same, said means including a pager defiector arranged beneath the platen an 'ao i maintained spaced apart therefrom to provide\an open passage through which a work sheet may be introduced as specified, an .auxiliary paper delector movable from to an effective position where it formsv virtually a continuation of the first mentioned deiector'I a paper pressing bar movable towards an from the platen across the mouth of said passage from an ineective to an effective position where it causes a work sheet to be pressed in a snug manner against the platen atl and near the printing line; and automatically operating means for pressing bar away from platen and out of the path of said auxT the latter is moved to the iliary deflector when e'e'ctive position.

e combination of a carriage.; a cylin- 15. The combinationlof a carriage; aicylindrical platen` carried thereby; means for d1- rectin va work vsheet introducedrearward from 1n front ofthe platen beneath and around the .V same, said means including `a pa er deflector arranged beneath the platen an maintained spaced apart therefrom to provide an open channel through which a work sheet ma be introduced as-pccified; a bar which is s iftable from an e ective position where it closes the mouth of said channel and presses a ,work Vsheet against the` platen to an ineiective position where the ar releases-pressure on the work sheet and opens` the mouth of saidv channel; and means for shifting said bar.

16.' The combination of a carriage, a cylin- .drical platen carried thereby; means for d1- rectin a work sheet introduced rearward from 1n front `of ythe platen beneath and around the same, said means 'including a pa er deflector arranged beneath the platen maintained spaced aparttherefrom to provide an open channel through which a lob work sheet may be introduced as specified, an auxiliary paper deflector movable from an ine'ective to an effective position where it forms virtually a continuation of the first mentioned deliector; abar which is shiftable from an effective position where it closes the 'mouth of said Iehannel'and presses a work a bar which is shiftable from an effective po-` sheet against the platen to an ineffective position where the bar releases pressure on the work sheet and opens the mouth of said channel; and automatically operating means controlled by the movement of said vauxiliary deflector to eective position for moving said bar out of the path thereof and to ineffective position.

17. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried thereby, a double paper deflector arranged beneath the platen and providing two channels through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper channel betweenthe platen and the upper deflector and the other a lower channel between the two defiectors, said lower channel receiving a work sheet introduced backward from in front of the platen and directing such sheet beneath and around to the rear of the platen,

sition where it closes the open mouth of said lower channel and presses a work sheet therein against the platen to an ineffective position where the bar releases pressure on the work sheet and opens the mouth of the lower channel, and means for shifting said bar.

18. The combination of a carriage, a cylindrical platen carried' thereby, a double paper deflector arranged beneath the platen and providing two channels through which work sheets may be introduced, one an upper channel between the platen and the upper deflectv front of the platen and directing `such sheetl or andthe other a lower channel between the two deiectors, said lower channel receiving a work sheet introduced backward from in beneath andaroundlto the rear of the platen, `a bar which is shiftable from an effective position where it closes the open mouth of said lower channel and presses a work sheet therein against the platen to an ine'ective position Where the bar releases pressure on the work sheet and opens the mouth of the lower channel, an auxiliary paper deflector carried by the carriage and shiftable from anl ineffective to an effective position where it coacts with said double deflector to direct a work sheet to the lower channel thereof, and

beneath the same, said deflector being shiftable from an ineffective to an effective position, a ribbon vibrator, a paper pressingde- Lveaeee yfrom an effective to an inedective position,

and means controlled by the shifting of said deflector to effective position vfor moving the ribbon vibrator and paper pressing device out of the path thereof.

20. The combination of a carriage, a paper defiector beneath the platen and spaced apart therefrom to form an open passage through which a work sheet may be directed bottom end foremost `around and beneath the platen from in front thereof, lan auxiliary paper deflector cooperative with said first mentioned deflector to direct a work sheet thereto, said auxiliary deflector being shiftable to and from effective position, a ribbon vibrator, a paperv pressing ar cooperative with the platen below the/printing lineand shiftable into and out of effective position, and means for simultaneously shifting saidauxiliary deflector to effective position and for shifting said ribbon vibrator and bar out of the path thereof. y

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, in the county of New York andV State of New York, this 22nd day of J une,

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