US2072135A - Portable register - Google Patents

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March 2, 1937. J H N i L 2,072,135

PORTABLE REGISTER Filed Sept. 11, 1953 3 Sheets-Sheefl March 2, 1937. J, SHERMAN h L 2,072,135

PORTABLE 'REGI STER Filed Sept. l] 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet' 2 March 2, 1937. Q SHERMAN Er AL 2,072,135

PORTABLE REGI STER Filed Sept. 11, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet I5 Fatented Mar. 2, 1937 stars T F E! Q i...

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IPQR'EABILE RIEGKS'ILER Application September 11, 1933, Serial No. 688,935

34 Claims.

This invention relates to autographic registers for manifolding purposes, and more particularly to a portable register of relative small size and light weight which may be conveniently carried from place to place in lieu of an ordinary clip board.

In checking shipments and taking inventory of bulky articles such as machinery, lumber, vehicles of grain, and for car checking and the like,

it is customary for the accountant to carry from place to place record sheets slipped to a board supported upon his arm, upon which record'entries are made.

In the present invention there are employed l5 continuous series connected forms or record sheets with manifolding duplicates, the supply portions of which are enclosed in a comparatively thin housing or case of light weight material, preferably aluminum, from which successive, portions of the record material are withdrawn as required, and the top of which forms a suitable writing surface. For preparation of shipping or identification tags to be applied to shipments, machinery, or articles in storage, and particularly for making, work sheet records and tags when the register is used in vehicle drive-in places, for which it is especially desirable, means is provided for inserting in writing position beneath the manifolding material a separate sheet 30 or tag upon which will be reproduced the manifolded inscription. The device is adaptable for feeding record forms or portions of different lengths and has provision for temporary storage of detached sheets or for a supply of blank tags.

The object of the invention is to simplify the construction as well as the means andmode of operation of portable manifolding registers, whereby they will not only be cheapened in construction, but will be more efficient in use, uniform in operation, of compact construction and light weight, and unlikely to get out of order.

Another object of this invention is to provide a sniall portable manifold register that will accommodate various lengths of forms. This has been accomplished by providing a group of interchangeable pin wheel feeding mechanisms of various sizes so that one revolution of a selected pin wheel feeding device will advance a suitable form the desired distance.

Another object of this invention is to provide a portable pin wheel feed manifold register that will accommodate various sizes of one revolution pin wheel devices for feeding different lengths of 65 forms. This has been accomplished by providing a plurality of seats to accommodate the several sizes of pin wheel feeding devices in such a position that the pins of each feeding device when in position will extend the same distance beyond the writing material. 5 A further object of the invention is to provide improved means for mounting a. plurality of sheets of transfer material between superposed strips, in such relation that the transfer sheets extend longitudinally of the strips, and enable 10 the utilization of the full lengths of printed forms thereon, and to protect overlying strips from reverse impressions on the under sides due to overfolding of the end of the transfer sheets.

A further object of the invention is to provide 15 a manifolding register which may be easily and conveniently carried from place to place and adapted to contain an ample supply of continuous series connected record material or forms.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved feeding means for progressively advancing the successive record portions from the interior of the housing or register box to writing position on top thereof.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for inserting at will beneath the manifolding material an additional sheet or tag to receive a duplicate inscription.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for carrying a quantity of detached sheets or a supply of blank tags.

With the above primary and other incidental objects in view, as will more fully appear in the specification, the invention consists of the features of construction, the parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of operation, or their, equivalents, as hereinafter described and set forth in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown the preferred, but obviously not necessarily the onlyform of embodiment of the invention, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the assembled autographic or manifolding register, forming the subject matter hereof. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view with the top or cover portion of the register raised and disclosing the relation of the record sheets and carbon or transfer material. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views, illustrating the mounting of the pin wheel feed device and its control means. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of the tag receiving guide removed from the register. Fig. '7 is a perspective view of an identification tag and an overlying reco d 55 Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 9 dls= closes a modification of a stop for the pin wheel. feeding mechanism. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the register embodying a modificationthereof. Fig. 11 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of the modified register in open condition with the transfer material mounting'device discon nected therefrom. Fig. 12 is a detail view illustrating the relation of the transfer sheets and mounting means. Fig. 13v is a detail view illustrating the detachment of the transfer material. Fig. 14 is the detail view of a form or slip after detachment.

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

The present invention affords a simple, light weight, compact container for record material which may be conveniently carried from place to place and from which the record material is directed over the top thereof which afiords a suitable writing cabinet on which the material may be inscribed. The record material comprises continuous superposed strips of material marginally punched at spaced intervals for engagement of pin type feeding devices, such strips consisting of successions of record sheets or of printed forms connected end to end and collectively interfolde'd in zigzag formation into a packet.

The record material is advanced by manually operable pin wheel feeding devices located in a substantially cylindrical compartment at the forward end of the record material compartment, which engage the marginally punched feeding holes of the record material and which are limited to one complete revolution at each opera tion." Guides are provided on the writing cabinet between the lines of feeding engagement of the pin wheels and record material within which an additional record sheet or card may be slidingly inserted to receive a manifold inscription.

Referring to the drawings, the present register housing comprises a flat rectangular box like compartment i open at its rearward end for reception of a packet of folded manifolding material and having at its forward end a substantially cylindrical compartment 3 in which are revolubly mounted pin wheel feeding devices l intersecting the top of the compartment 3 and having engagement in the marginal feeding holes 5 of the superposed strips of record material. The peripheries of the pin wheels i are equal to the length of the record sheets or forms to be. fed at each operation. The cylindrical compartment 3 is of sufficient diameter to accommodate the largest pin wheel to be employed for the longest form or sheet accommodated by the compartment l and hence the diameter of the pin wheel compartment is commensurate to the length of the compartment I. To minimize weight and bulk, the box like compartment :1 is comparatively shallow and of less depth than the diameter of the pin wheels and the enclosing compartment 3, which depends below the bottom of the record material compartment i'.

The terminal heads of the pin wheel compartment 3 are provided with vertically elongated holes 8 across which are bridge bearing plates 1 in which are journaled the ends of the pin wheel shaft 8. The bearing plates 11 are adjustably secured to the heads of the pin wheel compartment 3 by attachment screws 9. These screws'are engageable alternately in different spaced holes I0 in the end walls or heads of the pin wheel compartment. The bearing plates l aovaiss are located interior ly of the terminal walls of the compartment 3 in which are located the yer-=- tically spaced holes id. The bearing plates l are provided with screw threaded holes regis trable with any pair of holes iii of the compart= ment heads to receive the attachment screws By shifting the bearing plates '3 upwardly or downwardly and engaging the attachment screws 9 through the corresponding holes it, pin wheels of different diameter may be accommodated. By such adjustment of the bearing plates l, the peripheries of the pin wheels l, whether of large or small diameter, may be made to intersect the top wall of the compartment to like extent for feeding engagement with the punched record material.

Secured to the extremity of the pin wheel shaft 8, beyond the terminal head of the compartment 3-, is a hand wheel l l which is preferably, though not necessarily, of polygonal form and may be provided with an eccentrically located crank handle it by which the pin wheels may be rotated. Located behind the hand wheel M and secured to the terminal head of the compartment 3 preferably by the attachment screws 9, is a depressible spring arm it which extends into the path of a stud or pin l4 projecting from the rear side of the hand wheel l i. This stud or pin M is preferably a continuation of the crank handle [12. The spring arm it forms a stop for limiting the rotation of the hand wheel M and thereby the pin wheels i to one complete revolution. This stop arm is manually depressible out of the path of the stud or pin id to release the hand wheel M and pin wheels l for a further rotation. To prevent reverse rotation of the feeding pin wheels d, a gravity pawl i5 is provided, the nose of which is beveled on one side and substantially vertical on its opposite side, and is engageable in a notch or recess ill in the pinwheel shaft 8. The detent pawl this extended downwardly at B8 to afiord a counterbalancing or weight portion which tends to move the arresting nose it of the pawl into locking engagement within the notch or recess ll when such notch or recess is brought into registry therewith. Upon rotation of the pin wheel shaft 8 in a forward or feeding direction, the engagement of the side of the recesslor notch l'! with the beveled side of the detent nose it serves to cam the detent out of locking engagement and permits rotary motion of the shaft. However, upon reverse motion, the opposite wall of the recess or notch ll, engaging against the vertical or fiat face ofthe detent nose it, prevents such reverse rotation of the shaft 8 which is thereby resisted by the detent.

The superposed record strips packet 2 within the compartment l are passed about a guide rod or roller 2B adjacent the rear and open end of the compartment l, and are passed through a transverse slot 28 in. the top of the compartment and thence forwardly over the top wall of the compartment l which forms a writing tablet, into operative feeding'engagement with the pin wheels 4 which protrude slightly above the level of the writingcabinet through suitable located slots in the top wall of the compartment 3. Thus at each rotation of the pin wheels t, the superposed strips of record material engaged therewith are correspondingly advanced over the writing tablet or top of the compartment l, the extent of such advance movement being determined by theperipheral extent of the pin wheels d which, as before mentioned, are limited to one complete rotation at each operation. The" drawn from the record sheets or printed forms to be advanced are of a commensurate length so that at each rotation of the pin wheels, one complete record sheet or printed form is advanced beyond the device and another record sheet or printed form is withdrawn from the interior of the compartment i into writing position preparatory to making the next record.

Pivotally mounted, preferably though not necessarily, to the end walls of the pin wheel compartment 3, is a frame like swinging cover portion 23 which overlies the punched margins of the record material and defines the writing space. The rear or free end of such open frame like cover 23 is downturned at 24 to form a closure for the open end 25 of the record material compartment 8.

Located on the writing tablet or top wall'of the compartment 8 inwardly beyond the line of feeding engagement of the pin wheels and record material are parallel guides 26 which underlie the strips of record material withdrawn from the compartment l. At the forward end of the frame or housing overlying the compartment 3 is a slotted guiding portion 21 leading to the overhanging ledges or guides 26. A card or tag, as indicated at 28, may be slidingly inserted through the guide-portion 27 beneath the guide flanges 26 and hence beneath the superposed strips of record material, into position to receive a manifold inscription thereon. Such card or tag 28 is not subject to advancement by the pin wheels ii and is manually inserted and removed. The guides or overhanging ledges 26 are closed at their rearward ends as' indicated at 29 to afford stops limit ing the extent to which the card or tag may be inserted.

Located at one side of the compartment 0 is a compartment 3G for carbon or transfer material, having extending therethrough a shaft 3! upon which a roll 32 of carbon or transfer material is mounted. The strips of carbon material, of which there may be several interwound one within the other into the roll 32, are extended transversely of the writing tablet and interleaved between the superposed strips of record material, as is shown in Fig.3, and between the lowermost strip of record material and'the underlying card or tag 28. By this means such data or record as may be inscribed upon the uppermost or original record strip, is duplicated upon each of the underlying strips and also upon the inserted card or tag 28. Asv each record sheet or form is inscribed, the pin wheels d are manually actuated to advance such inscribed portion beyond the device and to draw a new uninscribed portion into writing position. At the same time the inscribed card or tag is slidingly Withdrawn and a new card or tag is inserted. To prevent the edges of the transversely disposed transfer sheets being mutilated or overturned by the friction of the traveling record strips, and to prevent the perforations of the latter being torn by contact with the edges of the transfer material, stationary shields or guide sheets 33, preferably of fabric, but which may be paper, extend into slightly overlapping relation with the transfer material as is shown in Fig. 3. These shields 33 are attached to transverse strips 33 attached to the writing tablet beyond the margins of the record strips. The underlying duplicate record strips pass between the mounting strips 33 and shields 33 whereby a pair of shields are provided beneath each strip with their terminal margins overlapping and underlapping the corresponding transverse strip of transfer material between such record strip and the transfer material. The lap ,is merely sumcient to protect the edge of the transfer material. To conveniently carry detached written forms or a supply of cards 28 there is provided beneath the compartment l a pocket 34 opening laterally and having an upturned lip 35 ofiset slightly beyond the side of the compartment l. The upturned lip 35 serves to retain the cards or tags within the pocket 34 from which they are removable by slightly bending the card or tag upwardly to clear the top of the lid 35. Thus a supply of cards or tags may be conveniently carried in readily accessible position. If cards or tags 28 are not required the pocket 34 may be utilized for storage of used or inscribed record sheets or printed forms after they have been detached from the supply strips.

While the guide flanges 26 for the additional sheet or tag may be fixedly attached to the writing tablet or top of the compartment l, these guides 26 are preferably mounted on a separate plate 36, the forward extremity of which forms oneside of the guiding portion 271 by which the tag or sheet is directed into the guides 25. The guides and supporting plate 36 thus form a detachable unit to be applied and removed as necessity requires. Such unit is located upon the housing by means of short studs 37 projecting from the top of the housing l which engage in corresponding holes in the plate 36. required the unit is removed entirely, or it may be replaced by a different unit of greater or less length to accommodate other sizes of cards or tags.

In the modification disclosed in Fig. 9, the hand wheel 5 l is held in a fixed position by the stud or pin M projecting into a recess or cutaway portion 52 in the split spring 5 carried by the screwsQ.

The spring 5&1 is provided with a slot 55 extending from the outer lower edge to the hole 52 and a second slot 38 extending from the hole 52 towards the adjacent screw 9. When the pin M engages the recessed portion dd, shown in Fig. 4, the lower and smaller portion M of the spring 5% yields to permitthe pin M to enter the hole 52 whereby movement of the pin i l and the wheel H is arrested. By pressing the button 62 from the full line position, disclosed in Fig. 9, to the dotdash position, the wheel H is permitted to make another rotation, but cannot be retracted as the lower portion 60 is not affected by the movement of the upper portion 43. Thus by this structure the split spring fi l, as already described, eliminates the use of the gravity pawl 55;.

While transversely disposed transfer'strips as heretofore illustrated and described, and which may be of any necessary or desired width are quite satisfactory, it is found desirable for certain conditions of use to employ transfer sheets disposed longitudinally of the record strips. Such embodiment is illustrated in Figs. 10, 11 and 12 wherein id is a mounting frame having a succession of parallel spaced slats to eachof which is to be connected a sheet of transfer material and between which slats with their connected transfer sheets the superposed record strips are threaded, as shown in'Fig. 12. The mounting frame M is attached to the writing tablet by the screws or studs 65. The transfer sheets H are not attached directly to the slats of the mounting frame, but are carried. by transfer strips 50 which are secured only at their ends. The transfer sheets ll are preferably folded about the When not transverse rimming strips 5b, as clearly seen in Fig. 12. The extremities of the transverse mounting strips 5t) are suitably attached as by rivets to fabric or paper shields id adapted to be folded about the respective slats of the mounting frame. Tensioning spring channels 59 are pressed over the fold of the shield or carrier id about the slat so as to grip the carrier or shield id and slat by inherent tension. The shields or carriers 38 are of sufiiclent length that the opposite ends of the carriers when folded about the slats of the mounting frame will extend into overlapping relation with the reversely folded portions, of the transfer sheets ll. Thus the overlapping portions serve as shields'to protect the overlying record strip from receiving a reverse impression from the overturned portion of the transfer sheet which is disposed face upward, and to hold the fold down in place and keep it from pulling out.

In the form of embodiment of the invention shown in Fig. 10 the lid 23 has a writing opening of reduced size, coincident with the farther advanced of two sets of forms on the writing tablet and the lid thus covers the mounting frame and the carriers of transfer sheets attached thereto, as is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 10. The transfcr'sheets or extend the full length of the forms to be inscribed, with their extremities substantially coincident with the extremities of the writing tablet. The sheets are renewed from time to time by raising. the record strips and sub stituting new transfer sheets for those engaged with the transverse mounting strips of the carriers. 7

From the above description it will be apparent that there is thus provided a device of the character described possessing the particular features of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and ar-= pended claims.

Having thus described our invention, we claim: 1. In a pin feeding type maniiolding register, a tablet, a pin wheel feeding device for supplying manifold material thereto, and a removable guide mounted intermediate the tablet and the mani fold material, and arranged to receive record material advanced therein to the writing position in a direction opposite 'to the direction of advancement of the manifolding material relative to the tablet by the pin feeding device.

2. In a pin feeding type maniiolding register,

' a tablet, a pin wheel feeding device for supplying manifold material thereto, and a removably mounted guide supported intermediate the tablet and the manifolding material, said guide being arranged to present record material into the vwriting position intermediate the pins of said pin wheel feeding mechanism.

3. In a pin feeding type manifolding register, a. tablet, a pin wheel feeding device for supplying aoraiss manifold material thereto, an auxiliary device removably mounted intermediate the tablet and the manifold material, said auxiliary device being arranged to present in writing position record material advanced thereto in a direction opposite to the advancement of the manifolding material by the pin feeding device.

a. In a manifolding register for use with a packet of manifold material, a supply compartmerit therefor, a tablet, a pin wheel feeding device for advancing manifold material from the supply compartment over the tablet, a guide supported intermediate the tablet and the overlylug manifolding material, said guide extending longitudinally in the direction of the advancing manifold material and being arranged to receive additional record material advanced to the writing position intermediate the pins of said pin wheel feeding mechanism. I i

5. In a pin wheel feeding type manifolding register, a magazine, a writing tablet, a pin wheel feeding device, a pin wheel supporting device adjustably mounted and arranged to accommodate interchangeably various sizes of pin feeding de-- vices, with the pins thereof projecting to like extent beyond the surface of the tablet to engage the record material. g

6. In a pin wheel feeding type manifolding register having a one revolution pin wheel actuating member, a locking mechanism for preventing the rotation of the pin wheel feed device, 7

said mechanism including a resilient member having one end thereof fixed, said resilient member including a pair of bifurcated arms, one of 'which operates in response to the movement of the pin wheel feeding mechanism for preventing return movement thereof, when the pin wheel actuating member is advanced to home position, the other arm of which limits the advance move ment of the pin wheel feeding device when in home position and is manually releasable to permit the rotation of said pin wheel feeding mechanism through one revolution.

"i. in a register device of thecharacter de= scribed, the combination with a rotary paper feeding mechanism of a nonrepeat device therefor including a bifurcated. spring arm, a stud carried'by the rotary paper feeding mechanism into the path of which both furcations of the spring arms project, a cam surface on one portion or the arm engaged by the stud to press such arm portion out of its path when moving in one direction, said arm portion preventing return motion, the second portion of the arm forming a manually depressible stop tor the stud normally preventing continued motion,

d; In a manifolding register, a writing tablet,

strip feeding means for advancing superposed record strips over. the writing tablet, a stationary transfermaterial I support associated with the writing tablet, including a stationary bar extending transversely of the path of travel of the strips and therebetween, a sheet of flexible material folded about the bar to afford overlying loose ends, and mounting meanslbetween the loose ends of the. sheet of" flexible material for attachmentof a sheet of transfer material to extend therebeyond in the direction of travel of the strips.

9. In. a portable manifolding register, a flat relatively shallow magazine compartment for a supply of record material the top of which forms a writing tablet, and having an exit opening at;

one end thereof, a transversely disposed compartment having a depth greater than the depth of the magazine compartment extending across the end of/ the latter opposite that containing the exit opening, feeding devices located in the transverse compartment andengageable with record material extending from the exit opening over the tablet to progressively advance such material and means for actuating the feeding devices.

10. In a portable register, a relatively fiat shallow magazine for a supply of folded superposed strips of record material, from one end of which and engageable with the record material withdrawn from the magazine, locating means for additional record material on top of the magazine and overlaid by the record material supplied from the magazine, said locating means being accessible intermediate the pin wheel units for insertion of record material in a direction reversely to the direction of feeding action of the pin wheel units and independently thereof, and stationary supporting means for transfer material interposed between superposed portions of record material from which sheets of transfer material extend in the direction of travel movement of the strips of record material.

11. In a pin wheel feed type manifolding register, a writing tablet, an adjustable pin wheel feeding device support arranged to accommodate any one of a plurality of pin wheel feeding devices of different sizes, said support being adjustably mounted with respect to the writing tablet, a pin wheel feeding device carried thereby, the pins of the pin wheel feeding device extending beyond the surface of the tablet to engage the record material.

12. In a pin wheel feed type manifolding register, a writing tablet, a pin wheel feeding device support adjustable into a plurality of positions to interchangeably accommodate various sizes of pin wheel feeding devices with the pins thereof projecting to like extent into engaging relation with record material positioned over said tablet.

13. In a pin feeding type manifolding register, a magazine for holding a supply of manifold material, a tablet, a pin wheel feeding device for supplying manifold material thereto from the magazine, and a removably mounted guide supported intermediate the tablet and the manifolding material, said guide being arranged to receive record material advanced to the writing position intermediate said pin wheel feeding mechanism.

14. In a pin wheel feeding type manifolding register having a pocket for receiving written material, a writing tablet, a pin wheel feeding device, a pin wheel compartment arranged to interchangeably accommodate various sizes of pin wheel feeding devices, and an adjustably mounted support associated with the compartment for supporting the pin wheel feeding device, the pins of which extend beyond the surface of the tablet to engage the record material.

15. In a writing machine, a support for transfer material, said support including a bar having a strip of transfer material folded thereon, a shield overlying the fold of the transfer material for protecting the record material, and a U- shaped clamp for clamping the shield in fixed position.

16. In a pin wheel feeding type manifold register having a one-revolution pin wheel actuating member, a locking mechanism including a bifurcated member having one arm-operating in response to the movement of the pin wheel feeding mechanism for preventing return movement thereof when thepin wheel actuating member is advanced to home position, the other arm of which limits the advance movement of the pin wheel feeding device when in home position and manually releasable to permit the rotation of said pin wheel feeding mechanism.

17. In a manifold register having a pin type feeding device, including control mechanism moving through a predetermined distance for causing the pin feeding device to eject the written form and present anew form to the writing position, and locking means including a bifurcated member having one end fixed and the bifurcated end free, of which one arm prevents advancement of said control mechanism excepting when released, and the other arm operates in response to the advance movement of said control mechanism to permit the same to enter home position, said last mentioned arm preventing said control mechanism from being retracted from home position.

18. In a pin wheel feed type manifolding register, a writing tablet, a pin wheel feeding device and a support therefor adapted to interchangeably receive any one of a plurality of pin wheel feeding devices of different sizes to eject different form lengths per revolution, thereby accommodating various sizes of manifold record material, the tablet and the support having a relative adjustment whereby the pins ofthe various pin feeding device may extend equidistant beyond the tablet to engage the record material.

19. A manifolding register for use with continuous length superposed strips of record material and form length transfer material, including a container for the supply. of record ma= terial, the top of which forms a writing tablet over which the strips are extended from the container, and mounting means adapted to extend intermediate the strips of record material for supporting the transfer material, said means including two flaps one of which overlies the other, and to one of which the sheet of transfer ma.- terial is engageable, the other flap extending into overlapping relation with a portion of the engaged transfer sheet to afford a protecting mask.

20. A manifolding register for use with continous length superposed strips of record material and form length transfer material, including a container for the record material, the top of which forms a writing tabletover which the 'strips are adapted to extend from the container,

and mounting means for the interleaved sheets of transfer material including a ladder like structure overlying the writing tablet comprising a series of transverse spaced bars interconnected with each other, between the succeeding bars of which the different strips extend,-and flexible transfer material carriers connected with the different bars and extending therefrom in superimposed relation intermediate the several record strips, and in like direction.

21. In a writing machine for use with continuous length superposed strips of record material and form length transfer material, a support for said transfer material, said support including parallel spaced bars adapted to extend across the record material, at least one of which has a strip of transfer material connected thereto, a shield connected to one of said bars for shielding a portion of the record material, and a means for detachably connecting said shield to said bar.

22. In a manifolding register for use with continuous length superposed strips of record material and form length transfer material, in= eluding a writing tablet, strip feeding means for advancing the superposed record strips over the writing tablet, a stationary transfer material support associated with the writing tablet including multiple spaced stationary bars extending transversely of the path of travel of the strips and therebetween, and a guard sheet of flexible material oarried'by one of the said sup port bars in superposed relation with a sheet of transfer material also attachable to one of said support bars andextending between the strips in; the direction of travel thereof.

23. In a writing machine for use with record material having feed holes, a support for the writing material, a pin wheel feeding device the pins of which extend beyond the surface of the support for advancing the record material thereover, and a second support for adjustably supporting the pin wheel feecllng device so as to present the pins in material feeding relation with the surface of the first support.

24. In a writing machine for use with record material provided with feed holes, a pair of supports one of which is adjustable, one of said supports supporting the record material, a pin wheel feeding device supported by said other support and arranged to have the pins project 'beyond said record material support to advance for use with marginally punched record material, a magazine for supplying writing material,

a tablet, a pair of pin wheels for feeding the manifold material from the magazine to the tablet, said pin wheels engaging the leading ends of the record material in. writing position, and a I guide mounted upon the tablet, the width of the ,mounted upon the tablet, said, guide being narrower than the distance between the engaged margins of the record material whereby a narrow strip may be supplied to the guide intermediate said engaged margins.

27. In a manifolding register for use with con tinuous length strips of record material, a magazine for the record material, a writing tablet, a feeding device including means for engaging opposite margins of the record material, said means engaging the leading ends of the material overlying the tablet, and a longitudinal guide, narrower than the distance between the engaged portions of the record material, said guide opening toward the leading ends of the record material whereby a strip narrower than the distance between the engaged portions of the aoraise record material may be inserted from the leading ends of the record material into the guide.

28. In a portable pin wheel feeding type mamfolding register having a plurality of compartments, one for receiving the written material, one for a supply of record material, and a third compartment, said register including a tablet,

a pin wheel feeding device for supplying mani-- fold material from the record material compartment to the tablet, the pin wheel feeding device being mounted in said third compartment and a removably mounted guide supported intermediate the tablet and the manifold material, said guide being arranged to receive record ma== terial advanced to the writing position intermediate said pins and said pin wheel feeding device.

29. in a portable pin wheel feed type manifold-= ing register having a plurality of compartments one for receiving the written'material, another for a supply of record material and a third com= partment, one side of one of said compartments forming a writing tablet, said register including.

an adjustably mounted support mounted in said third compartment arranged to interchangeably accommodate various sizes of pin wheel feeding devices, the pins of the pin wheel feeding device extending beyond the surface of the tablet to engage the record material.

30. A manifolding register wherein continuous record material is progressively advanced from a supply compartment past a writing position including a feeding device engageable therewith, mounting means for difierentially supporting one at a time different feeding devices of difierent size in feeding relation with the record material, means for operating thefeeding device to ad= vance the material a predetermined measured distance, at each operation, said feeding, device being one of a plurality of interchangeable feeding devices of difierent sizes successively engageable with the mounting for advancing the material different predetermined distances, to which I said operating means is common.

, 31. A manifolding register wherein continuous record material is progressively advanced from a supply compartment past a writing position including a feeding device engageable therewith actuating means for operating the feeding device to advance the material a predetermined meas-= ured distance at each operation, said feeding device being one of a plurality of interchangeable feeding deviceslfor advancing the material different predetermined distances, and mounting means for difierentially supporting the interchangeable feeding devices one at a time in feeding relation with the record material.

32. In a manifolding register a holder having therein a magazine compartment for a supply of record material, feeding means for intermittently advancing the record material from the megadirection over the writing tablet into manifolding relation with the first mentioned record material.

33. A manifolding register wherein a. continuous strip of record material is advanced from a.

supply compartment past a writing position including a pin wheel feeding device mounted therein, mounting means therefor adapted to diiferen tially support one at a time several interchange able pin wheel feeding devices of difierent diameters for feeding different lengths of record material, and means for limiting the rotation of the pin wheel feeding device to a movement necessary to advance the record material a predetermined distance appropriate to the particular pin wheel device being used.

34. A manifolding register wherein a continuous strip of record material is advanced from a supply compartment past a writing position including a pin wheel feeding device mounted therein which is one of several interchangeable pin wheel feeding devices of different diameters for feeding different lengths of record material, and mounting' means therefor for diflerentially supporting one at a time the several interchangeable pin wheels of dififerent diameters in substantially tangential relation with the path of advancement of the record material.

JOHN Q. SHERMAN. ALBERT W. METZNER.

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