US2598990A - Printing machine - Google Patents

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June 3, 1952 w. "r. GOLLWITZER 2,593,990

' PRINTING MACHINE Filed Feb. 17. 1945 7 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VEN TOR. Walter Z: Gollwz'tzer A TTORNEYS June 3, 1952 w. 'r GOLLWITZER PRINTING MACHINE 7 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 17, 1945 ooooeooooooag \n ooooooooooocw IEII P INVENTOR. Walter If Gollwz'zzer ATTORNEYS W. T. GOLLWITZER June 3, 1952 PRINTING MACHINE 7 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Feb. 17, 1945 MW M INVENTOR. ZMiZZQr .T. Gollwz'zzez' A TTORNE Ys June 3, 1952 w. T. GOLLWITZER PRINTING MACHINE '7 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed Feb. 17. 1945 INVENTOR. WdZiez' Z: GoZZzvzZzer MMMW ATTORNEY-s June 3, 1952 w. T. GOVLLWITZER PRINTING MACHINE 7 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Feb. 17, 1945 INVENTOR. Walter ZGoZZa/z'fzer ATTORNEYS June 3, 1952 w. 'r. GOLLWITZER 2,598,990

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275/ Walter Z." Gollwz'zzer (MAW WQ W A Tron/-15 Y3 June 3, 1952 w. r. GOLLWITZER PRINTING MACHINE 7 Sheets-Sheet 7 Filed Feb. 17, 1945 V @I' v INVENTOR. (Maker TGoZZu/z'tzer A TTORNEYS Patented June 3, 1952 PRINTING MACHINE Walter T. Gollwitzer, Euclid, Ohio, assignor to Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, a corporation of Delaware Application February 17, 1945, Serial No. 578,507

7 Claims. 1

This invention relates to printing machines and particularly to printing machines adapted for use in accounting work to produce accounting records and the like.

In the preparation of accounting records, situations often arise wherein it is desirable to perform posting operations in respect to a large number of accounts and in such instances it is desirable to verify the accounting operation through the accumulation of totals of the amounts that are thus posted upon the records that are prepared. One situation where such posting operations are to be performed arises where at least certain of the persons included on a relatively large payroll have authorized the making of deductions of varying amounts from the sum that would be due to such persons for each payroll period. Thus, for example, a person that is included on a payroll may authorize the deduction of a particular amount from his monthly pay, and may give instructions as to the disposal of the amount that is thus deducted, and in such an instance it is customary to prepare an accounting record in respect to each such authorized deduction so that the making of the deduction for each regular pay period may be recorded or posted upon such record, and to enable this to be accomplished accurately and rapidly is the primary object of the present invention. A further and related object of the invention is to enable records in respect to payroll deductions and the like to be rapidly and accurately printed while the amounts of such deductions are accumulated by an accumulator that forms part of the machine that performs the posting operation.

A further object of the invention is to enable each record card to carry representations of the amount that is to be deducted or posted on such card for each regular posting or pay period, and to enable accumulation of the posted amounts to be accomplished as a incident to the actual posting operation that is performed with respect to each card. Objects related to the foregoing are to enable the amount represented in such a record or card to be sensed at the same time when the posting of the card is accomplished, and to accomplish both of these operations at a single working or operating station so as to thereby require but a single stopping of the card inorder to perform these two operations.

A further object of the invention is to simplify the posting of records, and more specifically it is an object of the invention to enable a posting unit for operating on. such cards to be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily set in different positions so as to accomplish the posting operation in difierent areas of the cards or records in accordance with the setting of the posting unit.

Where data representations are afforded in a sheet or record card and where such representations are to be sensed while a posting operation is performed on another portion of the sheet or record card, the area of the card that is to be sensed for determining the value of the data representations will remain the same in each use of the cards and the machine, but the posting operations will be performed on different portions or areas of the cards in each successive run of the machine, and in accordance with the present invention the posting means or posting unit is mounted in diiferent positions to attain such different locations of the posting impressions, and it is a further object of the present invention to enable such a posting unit to be operated in a manner that facilitates such shiftable mounting of the posting unit. A more specific object of the invention is to operate the posting unit of the apparatus through a Bowden cable connected from the sensing means, thereby to cause operation of the posting unit each time the sensing means are operated through a sensing cycle.

Where amounts are represented in a record or card so as to enable these amounts to be sensed and accumulated, it is essential that each record card be accurately located in respect to the sensing means, and to enable this to be accomplished in a simple expeditious manner is still another object of the invention. Other and related objects of the invention are to so construct and relate the elements of a sheet or card feeding mechanism that the card may be advanced along a sheet guideway to an operating position and may thereafter be shifted in a lateral direction so as to attain accurate location of the card in such operating position. A further and more specific object is to embody jogging means in a card feed mechanism and to operate this jogging means so as to impart lateral shifting movement to each sheet or card as the card comes to rest in the operating position of the machine, and a more specific object of the invention is to aiiord stop finger mechanism and jogging mechanism in such a machine and to operate these two mechanisms from the same operating cam shaft.

Other and further objects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description and claims and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, by way of illustration, show a preferred embodiment and the principle thereof and what I now consider to be the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle. Other embodiments of the invention embodying the same or equivalent principle may be used and structural changes may be made as desired by those skilled in the art without departing from the present invention and the purview of the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a iragmental perspective View illustrating a machine embodyingthe features of the resent invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmental plan view of a portion of the machine illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmental sectional view taken transversely through the machine substantially along the line 33 of Fig. 2 and illustrating the relationship of the sensing means, the posting means and the card feed mechanism;

Fig. 4 is a fragmental plan view of the sensing mechanism taken substantially along the line i4 in Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a fragmental vertical sectional view taken substantially along the line 55 of Fig. 3 and illustrating the form and relationship of the elements of the sensing means;

Fig. 6 is a fragmental sectional view taken substantially along the line 66 of Fig. 7

Fig. '7 is a plan view taken from the line 1-! of Fig. 5;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged side elevational view, taken partially in section, and illustrating the construction of the'posting unit of the machine;

Fig. 9 is an end elevational View of the posting unit as viewed from the left in Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a fragmental elevational view of the automatic total control mechanism as viewed from the line |0IB of Fig. 3;

Fig. 11 is an. enlarged view of the automatic totalcontrol mechanism as viewed from the right in Fig. 10 and showing certain electrical elements of the machine in diagrammatic association therewith.

Fig. 12 is a View illustrating the positional code whereby numerical amounts are represented upon the record cards that are used with the present embodiment of the machine; and

Fig. 13 is a front-face view of a record card that is adapted to be operated upon by the present machine.

In the form chosen for disclosure herein, the invention is embodied in an accounting apparatus embodyinga printing machine It! having an adding unit ll operatively associated therewith, and this apparatus is adapted to operate upon and under control of record cards C such as the card shown in detail in Fig. 13 of the drawings. The record card C is of substantially rectangular form, and hasa posting area [5 thereon that is divided into a relatively large number or spaces in which records may be made. The record card C that is herein shown is particularly adapted and intended for the posting of amounts that are to be paid monthly, and the system of accounting for which the card C is intended contemplates that this amount will remain the same for each month of the year. Thus the card C has a posting area 15 provided thereon which is divided into a plurality of columns l6, each of which is divided into- 12 line spaces I! that are allocated one to each of the months ofthe 4 year. The month of the year to which each of the horizontal lines or spaces pertains is printed in a column 18 opposite the respective spaces or lines of spaces ll. Thus a particular column is may be allocated to a particular year, and the year to which a column I6 is allocated may be written or printed at the head of the column as at [9. Since it is contemplated that the deduction or amount that is to be posted monthly on the card C will remain the same, this amount is written or printed in words as at 20, and in figures as at 2|, on the face of the card, and the fact of payment, for a particular month, of the amount that is thus written on the card is posted on the card merely by printing the word Paid as at 22 in the related space ll of the proper column l6 of the card.

When posting operations are performed in this manner in respect to a series of cards C, it is desirable for accounting purposes that the amounts of the deductions that are thus posted on the series of cards be accumulated, and to accomplish this, the amount that is written or printed on the card C as at 20 and 2| isalso represented on the card C by physical means such as coded perforations 25 that are in the present instance formed in the card in a field disposed near the upper left-hand corner portion of the card C as shown in Fig. 13. Such perforations are, in the present instance, formed in accordance with the positional code that is illustrated in Fig. 12 of the drawings, and it will be observed that this positional code includes five index points or positions. The makeup of the card C as herein shown contemplates the writing or printing of information such as a name 26A in the space between the two dotted lines 26 as shown in Fig. 13, and since this space extends across the field in which the coded perforations 25 are to be formed, the lower two lines of the positional code are spaced from the third line of the code in an amount sufficient to insure that such clear and unperforated space will be afforded in every instance on the card C between the lines 26. The field in which the numerical amounts are thus represented on the card C is of course arranged so that the digits of the numerical amount will be represented, order by order, in predetermined columnar locations that are related to an end 21 of the card in a particular and predetermined manner. The lines of the code in which the perforation as 28 are formed are also related to one of the longer edges of the card such as the edge 29, and when a card C is being punched to represent a numerical amount, or when the represented amount is being sensed, the location or positioning oi the card C is determined by the edges 2] and 29 of the card.

The printing machine [0 of the present invention embodies a frame 35 having a table top T with a sheet guideway G extended-longitudinally along the table top so that sheets or cards such as the car C may be fed longitudinally along the table top T in the sheet guideway G. The sheets or cards C are fed one by one into one end of guideway G, Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the

sheet is advanced along the sheet guideway by a 5, constantly operating feed belt 38 that may be mounted and driven in the manner described in Gollwitzer Patent No. 2,002,772, patented May 28, 1935. In its principal elements, the machine H) of the present invention is constructed and arranged in substantially the manner described in the last mentioned Gollwitzer patent, with the exception however that the mechanism for advancing printing devices through the machine of said last mentioned Gollwitzer patent have been eliminated in the machine of the present invention, and the platen that was utilized in said last mentioned Gollwitzer patent has been eliminated and the platen supporting frame has been utilized for other purposes Thu in the machine of the present invention, a main shaft is driven from a constantly operated flywheel 4| by clutch means of the one-revolution type that are under 2,002,772, this drives the timing shaft of the sheet separating and feeding means 31 in timed relation to the main shaft 40 and a stop finger cam shaft 44 that extends along the rear portion of the frame above the table top T as will be evident in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

In the present machine, as described in said Gollwitzer Patent No. 2,002,772, the sheet or card is fed by the feeding means 31 in such a timed relationship that a sheet or card is located in the operating position during the last part of the machine cycle, and the sheet or card comes to rest in this position a substantial time before the end of the machine cycle. When a sheet or card C has been discharged into the sheet guideway G by the sheet separating and feeding means 37, this card is faced upwardly in the relationship shown in Fig. 13, and the edge 21 of the card constitutes the leading edge. This locates the side edge 29 of the card within an undercut groove 46 of a stationary rear rail member 41 that constitutes the rear member of the sheet guideway G, while the other or forward edge of the card is disposed in an undercut groove 48 of a stationary forward rail 49 that constitutes the forward edge of the sheet guideway G. The rear side of the sheet guideway G is in the present instance afforded by the member 47 and by another member 41A that are separately formed and are secured in stationary positions on the table top T by screws 50, and the forward edge of the sheet guideway is also defined by a plurality of members including the stationary rail member 49. Thus the forward edge of the sheet guideway includes a laterally shiftable guide member that is disposed in substantial alignment with the stationary member 49, and at the left-hand end of the shiftable member 55, as viewed in Fig. 2, and a second stationary rail member 49A is disposed so as to form a continuation of the forward edge portion of the sheet guideway G. When a card C reaches a position opposite the shiftable member 55, it is brought to rest in an operating position by a stop finger that is adapted to be-moved from an upper or ineffective position into a lower or effective position wherein it is disposed in the path of the leading edge 21 of the card 0. When the card C is in the operating position that is thus defined, the perforation 25 of the card are disposed in position for cooperation with sensing mechanism 70, while the posting area 15 is disposed in position for cooperation with a posting unit that operates to print the word Paid as at 22 on the card C.

The advancing movement of the card C along the sheet guideway G is attained by frictional contact of the card with the constantly moving belt 38, and this frictional contact assured by a plurality of pressure rollers 13 that are resiliently mounted so as to bear against the upper faces of the cards C to press the same into engagement with the belt 38. As herein shown the stop finger 60 comprises a. plate 6| disposed transversely of the sheet guideway G and pivoted by a mounting stud 62 on the forward end of an arm 63 that is in turn pivoted on a supporting shaft 64. The arm 63 extends rearwardly from the shaft 64 and has a roller 65 disposed as a cam follower beneath the edge of a stop finger cam 66 mounted on the stop finger cam shaft 44. It will be observed that the stop finger plate 6| ha a slot 61 cut in its lower edge so as to afford clearance for the belt 38, and when the stop finger plate BI is dropped to its lower position by the action of the cam 66, the edge 21 of the card C will move into abutment with the adjacent face of the plate 61 so as to be held in the operating position beneath the sensing means 10 and the posting unit 80.

It is important that the perforations 25 in the card C be accurately located with relation to the sensing means 70, and this is accomplished through the cooperative action of the stop finger 50 and a jogging mechanism that includes the shiftable member 55 of the sheet guideway G. In accomplishing this positioning action, the shiftable member 55 is mounted for shifting movement on supporting means that are in the nature of a parallelogram so as to maintain the shiftable member 55 parallel to the opposite member 41A of the sheet guideway at all times. Thus the rail member 49A of the forward side portion of the sheet guideway G has a forwardly projecting mounting arm 9|] provided thereon upon which a pair of parallel bars 9! are pivoted as at 92, and these bars 91 extend in parallel relation along the member 49A and are pivoted in their other ends on a mounting arm 93 by pivots 94. The mounting arm 93 is formed on the shiftable rail member 55 so as to extend forwardly therefrom, and hence the member 55 may be shifted along a path that is perpendicular to the sheet guideway, and the member 55 in such shifting movement is maintained parallel to the member 41A of the sheet guideway at all times.

When a card 0 moves from its position between the members 4! and 49 and into position between the members 47A and 55, such movement is facilitated by an enlarged and tapered throat portion 95 formed at the right-hand end of the rail member 55, and after the card has progressed along the guideway and has been stopped by the engagement of its leading edge with the stop finger 60, a rearward jogging movement is imparted to the shiftable member 55 so as to engage the edge 29 of the card C with the member 47A and thereby accurately locate the card C in the desired operating position. Such movement of the shiftable member 55 is imparted thereto under the control of cam means mounted on the stop finger aceegeco cam shaft 44; Thus, as shown inFigs. l, 2- and 3;

an upstanding bracket 98 is provided on one of" the arms near the midpoint thereof, and a connecting link I00, including an adjustable turnbuckle IO0A, has its forward end pivotally connected to the bracket 98. The rear end'of'the link I60 is pivoted to the pper end of a lever I M which carries a cam roller I02 that bears against the forward edge of a cam I03 mounted on the cam shaft 44. The lever I0-I ispivoted at I04 beneath the table top T, Fig. 3, and a forward extension IOIA of the arm IOI has a spring I06 acting thereon so as to maintain the cam roller I02 in engagement with thecam I03; It will be observed in Fig. 3 of the drawings thatthemajor portion of the cam I03 constitutes a dwell surface, and that a receding surface I03A is provided on the cam so as to allow rearward movement of the cam roller I02 and thelinlc I00 late in the cycle of operation of the machine and after the sheet or card has come to rest at the stop finger 80. Thus, the cam I03-acts to maintain the shiftable member 55 in a forward position throughout most of the cycle of operation of the machine, but after a card C has engaged the stop finger G0, the receding surface I03A of the cam I03 causes the member 55' to beshifted in a rearward direction, thereby to engage the edge 29 of the card C with-the rear side of the sheet guideway. Thus the edges 21 and 29 of the card C are accurately positioned so as to thereby accurately locate the card C in the desired relationship with respect to the sensing means It and the posting unit 80.

When the card C has thus been stopped and accurately located in the operating position, the machine operates in the next cycle thereof to effect the desiredsensin and posting operations, and the numerical amount that is represented by the perforations is sensed by thesensing means "I0, and the word Paid is printed at the same time in the appropriate space I! ofthe-card' C by the posting unit 80; The sensin means- I0 are in the present instance carried by a rocker I05 that corresponds in fo1'm-.with the platen supporting casting ll of the aforesaid Gollwitzer Patent No. 2,002,772, this rocker arm I05 in the present machine having cam rollers I06: thereon that are engagedby appropriatecam's I01 mounted on the shaft and cooperating with the cam rollers Ififi so as to actuate the rocker arm I05 in a downward direction each time the shaft 40' is rotated. The downward movement of the rocker arm I05 takes place in each cycle of op-- eration of the machine at thetime when the card C is located at rest in the operating position as defined by the stop finger 60, and the downward movement of the rocker arm I05 is utilized in the present instance to effect downward sensing movement of the sensing meanslfl. The construction of the sensing means IIJis shown in detail in Figs. 3 to '7 of the drawings Thus'the rocker arm I05-has a casting IIO extended from its forward edge and this. casting has mounting means thereon whereby a supporting plate I I I is secured in an adjustable position beneath the outer end of the casting I I0; The mounting'plate I I I, as shown in Figs. 4 .and. 5, is supported by a headed bolt II2 that is extended through abore I I2A in the outer web portion I ISA of the casting I I0, and the lower end portion of this bolt-is threaded through the mounting plate I I I. The mounting plate III also has positioning and-adjusting means interposed between the plate" and the. casting. I I0 on opposite sides-ofthe support- 8 ing bolt I I2, and as shown in Fig. 5, the web portion I-IOA has enlarged hubs II3- formed at the opposite ends thereof, these hubs having screw threaded openings extended downwardly therethrough. In each of the openings that are thus formed in the hubs II3, an adjusting screw H4 is mounted, each adjusting screw having a flange I I5 near its lower end that rests on the upper face of the mounting plate III. Beneath the flange I'I5, each adjusting screw has a pointed lower end II5 that extends into a bore H1 in the mounting plate. Thus, by adjustment of the screws I I4, the mounting plate I I I may be rocked so as to bring the plate into a level relationship with respect to the table top T, and such an adjusted relationship may be maintained by tightening of lock nuts I I8 that are disposed on the screws H4 in such positions that they may be lockedv against the lower faces of the hubs H3.

The mounting plate II I serves to support and locate a pin box I20 in which a plurality of sensing pins I2I are mounted for vertical movement in positions for cooperation with the coded openings 25 formed in the cards C. The sensing pins I2I are mounted and guided for sliding movement in a pair of spaced plates I23 and I24 that are secured'respectively against the upper and lower faces of the mounting plate I I by a cap screw I25, and the plates I23 and I24 are held against rotation about the axis of the cap screw I25 by pins I 26' that are fixed on the plate I23 so as to extend into aligned openings I21 formed in the upper plate I 23 and the mounting plate I I I. The plates I23. and I24 extend beyond one end of the mounting bar III and are maintained in spaced relationship by spacer studs I30 that are riveted at their lower ends at I3I to the lower plate I24 and which have the upper plate I23 held thereon by cap screws I32 extended through the upper plate I23'and threaded into the spacer studs I230; The sensing pins I2I are extended through aligned apertures in the upper and lower plates I23 and I24,and each sensing pin has a flange I34 formed thereon by means of a washer that is fixed thereto so as to engage the upper face of the plate I24 and thereby limit downward movement of the sensing pin. Each of the sensing pins I2I has an expansive coil spring mounted in surrounding relation thereto so that the upper end of thespring bears against the lower face of the plate I23 while the lower end of the spring acts against the flange I34 of the pin. Thus the sensing pins I2I are yieldingly urged in a downward direction toward the projected relationship'shown in Fig. 5, and whenever a sensing pin I2I is in alignment with an opening or perforation 25 in a card C, this sensing pin will enter such perforation and pass therethrough as will hereinafter be described in detail. When, however, such a sensing pin I2I encounters an imperforate area of the card C, thesensing pin will remain in a stationary relationship as downward movement of the sensing means continues, and when this occurs the spring I35 that is associated with this sensing pin will, of course, be compressed. In the assembled machine the pin box I20 is enclosed and protected by a box-like housing 10A that surrounds and protects the top aswell as the ends and forward side of the pin box. At its rear edge the housing 10A has an upwardly extending flange I36 that is secured to the forward face of the rocker I05 by cap screws I31.

' The sensing pins I2I are disposed in positions whereinithey are adapted to cooperate with control means for setting up the adding machine II, and in the present embodiment of the invention, such control means are in the form of a plurality of Bowden cables I40, as shown in Figs. 3, and 6. The Bowden cables I have sheaths MI, and are extended to the setup mechanism of the adding machine II in the manner that is explained in detail in my copending application Serial No. 676,329, filed June 12, 1946, now Patent No. 2,501,444 issued March 21, 1950. The ends of the Bowden cables I40 that are to be actuated by the sensing pins I2I are arranged, as shown in Figs. 3, 5 and 6, in association with a. plurality of operating plungers I that are mounted for vertical movement in a mounting block I46, and the disposal of the actuating plungers I45 in the mounting block I46 is of course such that one actuating plunger I45 is disposed in position for cooperation with each of the respective sensing pins I2I. As shown in Figs. 5 and .6, the mounting block I46 is secured beneath the table top T so that a portion I46A thereof extends upwardly through an opening in the table top T, and such mounting is in the present instance attained by a plurality of screws I46 extended downwardly through the table top and threaded into the block I46. Each actuating plunger I45 has a flange or head I45A at its lower end, and is mounted in an appropriately positioned bore I48 formed in the mounting block I46. Thus the abutment of the flange or head I45A of a pin with the lower face of the mounting block I46 serves to limit upward movement of the actuating plunger, and this relationship is such that each pin extends for a very slight distance above the upper face of the mounting block I46. The lower end of each of the plungers I 45 has an axial bore formed therein, and the end of the Bowden cable I40 that is to be associated therewith is reduced, as will be evident in Fig. 6, so that this reduced end may extend into the bore formed in the lower end of the plunger I45. Thus the plunger I45 abuts a shoulder formed at the lower end of the reduced portion of the Bowden wire I40, and this relationship enables a downward movement that is imparted to the plunger I45 to be transmitted to the Bowden wire I40. The sheaths I M of the Bowden wires I40 are extended through an anchoring plate I50 and are secured thereto as by soldering, and this anchoring plate is secured to the mounting block I46 by connecting screws I5I and spacer sleeves I52, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings. Thus when the pin box I20 of the sensing means is moved downwardly, any one of the sensing pins I2I that is aligned with a perforation in a card C may pass through such perforation and impart downward movement to the aligned actuating plunger I45. This movement of the actuating plunger I45 serves of course to operate the associated Bowden cable I40 to efiect setup of the adding machine II in the manner described in detail in my aforesaid copending application.

At the time when the Bowden cables I40 have been completely actuated, the adding machine I I is started through its adding cycle, and this is accomplished through closure of a switch I53, Figs. 3, 10 and 11, that is operated by means connected to the rocker I05. Thus as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the rocker I05 is extended downwardly as at I05A, Fig. 3, and is pivoted at I54 in the manner disclosed in the aforesaid Gollwitzer Patent No. 2,002,772. On the rear face of the portion I05A, a rearwardly extending arm I54 is secured by means including a bolt [54A,

10 and at its rear end, the arm I54 has an adjustable abutment screw I55 adapted to engage the operating plunger I 53A, Figs. 10 and 11, of the switch I53. Such actuation of the plunger I53A at the extreme end of the downward rocking stroke of the sensing means 10 serves to close circuit to the control means of the adding machine II so as to initiate an adding cycle of the machine in a manner that will be described in greater detail hereinafter. Such a normal adding operation of the adding machine II takes place for each sensing operation of the sensing means 10.

At the time when the sensing means 10 are operated to sense the perforations 25 in a card C, the posting unit is operated to print the word Paid in the appropriate space I1 of the posting area I5 of the card, and such operation of the posting unit is attained by means of a Bowden cable I60, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 8 and 9 of the drawings. The Bowden cable I60 has one end of its sheath anchored in a bracket ISI that is mounted on a housing portion 40A of the machine just above the outer end of the rocker I05, and the corresponding end of the Bowden wire I60A is connected to the casting I I0 by a connector fitting I62. The other end of the sheath of the Bowden cable I60 is connected, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8, to the upper wall of the posting unit by a hub I63A and a clamping screw I63 so that in the course of downward movement of the sensing means 10, the Bowden wire USDA is so actuated that the end thereof that is disposed within the posting unit 80 is moved in an upward direction, and

this causes posting operation of the posting unit as will be hereinafter described.

The posting unit as herein shown comprises a pair of side plates I 10 and HI that are secured at their lower edges by screws I 12 to opposite edges of a base plate I13, and the side walls I10 and HI are connected at their upper edges by a top plate I14 that is secured to the side plates by screws I15. The forward end, that is the right-hand end as shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 8 of the drawings, is closed by an end. wall I15 that is connected to the side walls I10 and HI by screws I11. Within the housing that is thus aiforded, a rocker I80 is pivoted on a transverse shaft I8I, and a spring I82, acting between the rocker and its stationary transverse shaft IE3, is operable to urge the left-hand end of the rocker I80 to the elevated or inactive position shown in Fig. 8. The end of the Bowden wire I60A has a connecting fitting I 84 secured to the end thereof within the housing and this fitting is pivoted at I85 to the right-hand end of the rocker I80, and when the Bowden wire IE0 is actuated in a downward sensing movement of the sensing means 10, the rocker I80 is moved in a counterclockwise direction from the normal position shown in Fig. 3. In the course of such an operating movement of the rocker I80, a printing element I is moved from its normal elevated position shown in full lines in Fig. 8 to the operative or printing position that is shown in dotted outline in 8, and when this is done, the printing element I90 prints the word Paid in the appropriate space I1 in the card C, the location of the printed impression on the card C being determined by the location in which the posting unit 80 is disposed, as will hereinafter be explained in detail.

When the printing element I90 is in its elevated orinactive position shown in Fig. 8, it is in a reversed or upwardly facing position and is in contact with a downwardly-facing inking pad I9I, this inking pad being carried on a rockably supported mounting block I92. This mounting block is generally square in cross section, and is held in a position where the inking pad I9I faces downwardly, as shown in Fig. 8, by a spring biased detent arm I93 that is pivoted on the transverse shaft I93 and is urged downwardly against the fiat surface of the mounting bar I92 by a spring I99. When the user desires to apply ink to the ink pad I9I the mounting bar I92 may be rotated by a knurled operating handle I95 that is connected to the mounting bar I92 and is disposed outside of the side wall I19 of the posting unit. Thus the pad I9I may be faced upwardly for the application of ink there to, and in such rotative movement of the mounting bar I92, the force of the spring I94 will be overcome and hence the retaining element I93 will be ineffective.

In the course of downward movement of the printing element I99, the position of the printing element is reversed, as will be evident by comparison of the two positions of this printing element as shown in Fig. 8, so that as the printing element approaches its lowermost position it is located in a downwardly facing relationship wherein it may effect the desired printing operation on the posting area I of the card 0. In accomplishing such reversal of the position of the printing element I99, the printing element is supported on a mounting block I99 that is generally L-shaped in form,

and this mounting block I98 has aligned shafts :3.

I99 extended from opposite ends thereof along an axis that is parallel to the printing face of the printing element I99. These shafts have reduced ends I99A that are associated with the left-hand end, Fig. 8, of the rocker I89 so that the printing element may be raised and lowered by the rocker I80, and the reduced ends I99A are also extended outwardly through generally arcuate guide slots 290 formed in the side walls I19 and I'll respectively of the housing so that the shafts I99 are guided by such slots 299 as the printing element I99 is raised and lowered. The rocker I89, as herein shown, is so formed as to aiford spaced arms I80A that are disposed adjacent to the side walls of the housing where the slots 299 are formed in these side walls, and the arms I89A of the rocker I99 have slots 29I formed therein so as to extend longitudinally of such arms. The slots 29I embrace the reduced end portions I99A of the shafts I99 thereby to form the desired connection whereby the rocker I89 is effective to raise and lower the printing element I99, and nuts 294 are disposed on these shafts just inwardly of the arms I80A so as to effectually separate and guide these arms. Thus it will be clear that when the rocker I39 is moved in a counterclockwise direction from the position shown in Fig. 8, the shafts I99 will be moved downwardly along the generally arcuate path defined by the slots 299, and as this occurs the reduced ends I 99A of the shafts I99 will move longitudinally in the slots 29L The form of the slots 290 is such that the shafts I99 will first be moved in a downward and right-hand direction, and will then be moved in a downward and left-hand direction and then into vertical portions of the slots 299 until the shafts I99 reach the dotted line position shown in Fig. 8, and this path of movement of the shafts I99 is utilized in obtaining reversal of position of the printing element I99. Thus, as will be evident in Figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings, the mounting block I98 has a slide rod ZIIJ extended therefrom so that it projects downwardly from the block I98 when the block is in its upper position of Figs. 8 and 9. This slide rod 2 I9 extends downwardly through a transverse bore 2II in a rocking bar 2 I2 that is supported on a fixed horizontal axis halfway between the upper and lower positions that may be assumed by the shafts I99. The mounting for the rocking bar 2H2 in the present instance is attained in such a way as to afford clearance for the arms I89 and the ends I99A of the mechanism as these elements move through their operating strokes. Thus a pair of supporting brackets 2I5 are provided, and one of these brackets is mounted in a fixed position on each of these side walls I19 and IlI. The mounting brackets are generally U-shaped in form, and one arm thereof is held in position against the outer face of the side plate by rivets 2I5, this arm of the member being bent outwardly at 2|] to afford clearance for the adjacent end I99A of the shaft I99 that projects through the guide slot 209. At the rear or left-hand ends, Fig. 8, of the brackets 2I5, the material is bent in an inward direction and is then bent in a forward direction so that the other or inner arm 2I5A of the U-shaped bracket extends in a forward direction. The arrangement is such that the inner arm 2 I5A of each bracket 2 I 5 is spaced from the side wall upon which it is mounted in .an amount sufiicient to afford clearance between the side wall and the arm 2 [5A for the arm IBSA of the rocker I89. The inner arms 255A of the brackets are utilized to afford a pivotal or rocking mounting for the rocker bar 2 I2, and this is accomplished in the present instance by aligned pivot pins 2I8 that extend from opposite ends of the rocking bar 2 I2 and through the adjacent arms 2I5A of the brackets 2I5.

With the arrangement thus described, it will be apparent that the downward movement of the shafts I99 along the path determined by the guide slots 29%] serves not only to slide the rod 2H through its bearing 2II, but also serves to rotate the rocking bar 2I2 about the horizontal axis afforded by the pivot pins 2 I8. Hence when the rocker I89 has moved through substantially one-half of its counterclockwise rocking stroke from the position shown in Fig. 8, the slide rod 72!!! will be located in a substantially horizontal position, and the printing element I99 will be faced in a forward or right-hand direction as viewed in Fig. 8. Continued downward movement of the shafts I99 serves to complete the reversal of position of the printing element I99 so that when the shafts 599 reach the lower limit of their travel, the printing element I99 will be disposed in the downwardly facing position shown in dotted outline in Fig. 8, and it is while the printing element is in this position that the desired impression is made on the card C. Upon reversal of movement of the rocker I89, the position of the printing element I 90 is again reversed and the printing element is brought into its upper or rest position in engagement with the ink pad I9I.

It has been pointed out hereinbefore that the printed impression 22 that is made upon the card C by the posting unit is formed in a particular one of the spaces. of the card in accordance with the location of the posting unit 89 with respect to the operating position in which the card 0 is located by the stop fin er I99, and

in accordance with the present invention, the posting unit 80 may readily be set or located on the table top T of the machine so as to attain the desired location of the printed impression 22 on the card 0. In attaining this result, the posting unit has a pair of fastening bolts 22!) extended downwardly through the top wall I14, and the reduced lower ends of the bolts 220, as indicated at 22I in Fig. 8, are extended through openings formed in the base plate I13 of the posting unit. The shoulders formed on the fastening bolts 220 above the reduced portions 22! thereof are arranged to seat against the upper face of the base plate H3 and the screw threaded lower ends of the reduced portions 22! are adapted to be threaded into selected screw threaded openings 224 that are formed in a mounting plate 225 that is secured on the table top T of the machine. In the present instance the mounting plate 225 is secured in position on the table top T by cap screws 225 that extend through slots 22! formed in the plate 225, these slots being extended transversely with respect to the path of movement of the card C so that the plate 225 may be accurately located transversely with respect to the sheet guideway G. In forming and locating the threaded mounted openings 224 in the mounting plate 225, the arrangement or disposal of these openings 224 is correlated with the arrangement of the columns l6 and the spaces I! in the posting area [5 of the card C. Thus where the card C has five columns, the mounting plate is formed with six vertical columns of threaded openings 224, and the spacing of these columns is exactly the same as the width of the columns it. Thus the two fastening bolts 220 are also spaced apart in an amount equal to the width of each of the columns 16, and with this arrangement, five different transverse locations of the posting unit 80 may be attained that correspond with the locations that will be assumed by the different columns l6 when the card C is stopped at the operating position of the machine by the stop finger 60.

It will also be observed that in each column of openings 224 the present embodiment of the invention provides twelve such openings that are spaced from each other in an amount equal to the line spacing dimension of the spaces I! on the card C. Thus the mounting screws or bolts 220 may be engaged with the openings 224 in any selected one of the twelve lines of openings in accordance with the month for which the posting operation is being performed. Hence the selection of openings 224 with which the mounting bolts 220 are associated determines or selects not only the column IS in which the posting impression 22 is to be made, but also determines or selects the spaces ll of the selected column in which such impression is to be made. Such selection of course is in practice applicable to a complete and relatively long run of the machine so that when posting operations are to be performed for a particular month, the selection and mounting of the posting unit 80 in a particular position serves to locate the posting impressions 22 in the proper location on the cards for the entire run of the machine.

It will be observed in Figs. 3 and 8 of the drawings that rearwardly of the base plate I13, the lower edges of the side plates I10 and I'll are offset upwardly as at 228, thereby to assure adequate clearance between these plates'and the surface of the table top T. It should also be observed that in the course of adjusting movement of the posting unit in a front to rear direction, the operator must avoid the making of impressions directly over the belt 38, and hence after the posting unit has been adjusted to a particular relationship, the belt 38 may be disposed in a lateral position wherein it will be spaced substantially from the location at which the impression is to be made by the printing element I90. Proper clearance for such adjustment of the belt 38 is afforded by the slot 6! in the lower edge of the stop finger plate 6|, and it will be recognized of course that the pressure rollers 13 will in such an instance be adjusted to proper positions laterally of the guideway G by the adjusting mechanism 229 that is indicated generally in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Since the posting operations that are performed by th present machine constitute a part of an accounting procedure, it is desirable to afford a constant check on the operations of the machine, and as one means for enabling this to be done, a visual counter 230 is mounted on the housing 40A immediately above the rocker arm H15, and the counter 230 has an operating arm 23! that is connected by a link 232 to the casting HO. With this arrangement, each operation of the sensing means 10 serves to actuate the counter 230' and thus the number of cards C that have been sensed by the sensing means 10 is visually indi cated by the counter 23!! at all times.

As another means for affording a ready check upon the accounting operations performed by the present machine, means are provided for taking a total in the adding machine I I each time a predetermined number of cards C have been passed through the machine. Such a total may, if desired, constitute a group total relating to the total of th amounts sensed from the particular group of cards C and when such a group total is taken, only the primary accumulator of the adding machine II is cleared, leaving the grand total accumulator of the adding machine with the running total standing therein. In order that the adding machine H may operate through such a total operation, the machine I0 is stopped whenever such a total operation is to be performed, and means are provided for counting the number of cycles of operation of the machin I0 and for stopping the machine I0 and initiating a total operation of the adding machine! I each time a predetermined number of cards C have been passed through the machine. Thus, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, l0 and 11, a counting mechanism 248 is mounted on an end wall of the housing 48A so as to be actuated by the machine [0 each time the machine operates through a complete cycle. In the present instance the counting mechanism 240 is in the nature of a ratchet mechanism that is shown in detail in Figs. 10 and 11. This ratchet mechanism includes a ratchet wheel 2 having a mounting hub 242 whereby the ratchet wheel is supported on a stub shaft 243. This stub shaft 243 is carried on the vertical arm 244 of a mounting bracket 245, this mounting bracket being L-shaped in character and providing a horizontal arm 246 extending to the right in Fig. 10, and upon which a pair of normally open switches 24! and 248 are mounted. The bracket 245 also serves as a support for the microswitch I53, which is secured to the left face of the vertical portion of the bracket by screws 153B. On the end of the stub shaft 243, a rocker 250 is mounted and held in place by friction plate 25|A that is urged into contact with the rocker 250 by a spring 25!. Nuts 252 threaded onto the reduced end of the stub shaft 243 serve to hold the spring 25I in place on the stub shaft 243. The rocker 258 has a pawl 255 pivoted thereon as at 256 and having the pointed end thereof yieldingly urged into contact with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 2M by a spring 255A acting between the pawl 255 and the laterally bent flange 250A formed on the rocker 255. The rocker 25% has one end of a link 25'! pivoted thereto, and the other end of the link 251 is pivoted on the end of the shaft 24% by a pivot 258 that is located eccentrically with respect to the rotative axis of the shaft ll]. The eccentricity of the pivot 258 is such that in each rotation of the shaft MI, the ratchet wheel MI is advanced in an amount equal to the spacing of the teeth EMA thereof, and the ratchet wheel MI is held against retrograde movement by the friction plate 25IA. The number of teeth 24! A that are thus provided on the ratchet wheel 2M is equal to the number of cards that are to be passed through the machine for each total operation of the adding machine II, and in the present case th ratchet wheel 24! has fifty teeth so that a total is taken by the adding machine II and is printed on the tape IIA thereof for each fifty cards C that are passed through the machine.

The control of the total operation of the adding machine II and the stopping of the machine 55 by the counter 240 are attained by the switches 2 and 248, and means are associated with the ratchet wheel 2 for closing the switches 241 and 248 when the ratchet wheel 2M has completed a full revolution. Thus as will be evident in Figs. and 11, the sleeve 242 upon which the ratchet wheel MI is mounted has a switch operating arm 250 fixed thereon and so as to extend radially therefrom, and this arm 265 has a tooth 250A formed at the end thereof in position to engage a cam surface 26I that is provided on a resilient operating arm 252 disposed immediately above the upper blade of the switch 248. Thus when the flexible operating arm 262 is bent downwardly due to the engagement of the cam surface I by the tooth 253A, the switch 253 is closed, and at this same time, an insulating lug 253 provided on the end of the operating arm 252 engages the extended end of the upper blade of the switch 241 so as to impart similar closing movement to the switch 23?. Such closure of the switches 24! and 243 occurs prior to the completion of a particular cycle of operation of the machine Ill, and as an incident to such closure, electrically operable means are energized that serve to stop the machine Ifi at the end of the cycle and which serve to initiate a subtotal or group total operation of the adding machine H when the adding machine has completed the cycle in which it is then operating. The total operation of the adding machine I I is instituted when a control solenoid 285, Fig. 11, of the adding machine II is energized, the manner in which the solenoid 255 operates in initiating such a total operation being described in detail in my copending application Serial No. 676,329, filed June 12, 1946. In Fig. 11 of the drawings, the appropriate total control solenoid 265 of the adding machine II is shown in diagrammatic association with the switch mechanism, and as there shown, a wire 266 extends from one terminal of the solenoid to the lower blade of the switch 231. Wires 251 and 268 in series extend from the other terminal of the solenoid 255 to one terminal of a battery 269, while wires 210 and. 2H extend in series from the other terminal of the battery 259 to the upper contact of the switch 24?. Thus an energizing circuit is afforded for the solenoid 255 and this circuit is completed so as to initiate a total cycle of the adding machine when the switch 241 is closed by the counter 2 15. The other switch 248 serves to control the stopping of the machine I0, and for this purpose, an operating solenoid 215 is mounted on the frame of the machine II adjacent to the stop lever 53, and the armature 216 of the solenoid 215 is pivotally connected to the stop lever 43 as indi cated at 211 in Fig. 11. Thus when the solenoid 215 is energized, the stop lever 43 is actuated in a counterclockwise direction so as to disengage the clutch means that serve to connect the flywheel M to the operative mechanisms of the machine II. The clutch means that are thus disconnected are of the one-revolution type, as described in the aforesaid Gollwitzer Patent No. 2,002,772, so that the mechanism driven thereby comes to rest in a predetermined relationship which constitutes the end of the operating cycle of the machine H. The solenoid 2'55 has one terminal thereof connected by a wire 288 to the juncture of the wires 261 and 268, while a wire 28I extends from the other terminal of the sole noid to the upper contact of the switch 248. The lower contact of the switch 248 is connected by a wire 283 to the wire 21! so that an energizing circuit is provided for the solenoid 215 and this circuit is completed when the switch 248 is closed.

With the arrangement that has thus been described, the counter 24I] operates after fifty cards C have been passed through the machine to close the switches 24! and 248 and such switch closure causes the solenoids 265 and 215 to be energized. The solenoid 215 serves to operate the stop lever 43 of the machine II thereby to stop operation thereof, while the solenoid 265 causes a total cycle of the adding machine II to be instituted. As soon as this total operation has been performed, the operator may again shift the start lever 42 so as to cause operation of the apparatus to be resumed.

It has been pointed out hereinbefore that the microswitch I53 is closed in each operation of the sensing means It after set-up of the adding machine II has been completed so as to cause the adding machine to operate through an adding cycle, and this is effected by operative association of the switch I53 with a starting solenoid 285, Fig. 11, that constitutes the starting solenoid of the adding machine as set forth in my aforesaid copending application Serial No. 676,329, filed June 12, 1946. Such association of the switch I53 with the solenoid 285 is afforded by circuit including a wire 286 extended from the wire 268 to one terminal of the solenoid 285, and a wire 28'! extended from the other terminal of the solenoid to one contact of the switch I53, as shown in a diagrammatic way in Fig. 11. A wire 288 extends from the other contact of the switch I53 to the wire 283, thereby providing an energizing circuit that is closed by the switch I53 in each operation of the sensing means I5.

It will be recognized that when the supply of cards C is exhausted, or when such cards become jammed in the sheet guideway, or when a card is not properly positioned at the operating position for any other reason, it is desirable that sensing operation of the sensing means Ill and the related operation of the adding machine II should not take place, and in the present apparatus such undesired operation is prevented by sheet safety means that are effective to prevent a succeeding cycle of machine operation when a card C is not detected in the operating position at the proper time near the close of a particular cycle. Such sheet safety means are efiective in each cycle of machine operation to sense the presence or absence of a card at the operating position shortly after the time when such a card should arrive at such position, and in the event that absence of a card is detected the stop solenoid 215 is energized so as to stop the machine at the end of the cycle in which it is then operating.

Thus, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 11, a detecting finger 290 is mounted on the shaft 64 so that a downwardly projecting finger 290A on the forward end thereof is adapted to engage a card C in the operating position near the forward edge 21 of the card. The finger 290 is urged in a downward or detecting direction by a spring 29 I, and such movement is governed by a cam 292 fixed on the stop finger cam shaft 44, the earn 292 being engaged on its lower edge by a cam roller 298 carried on the rearwardly projecting end of the detecting finger 290. The cam 292 is so timed and related to the operation of the sheet feed means 31 and the stop finger 60 that the detecting finger 290 is moved downwardly through a detecting stroke late in each machine cycle and after the time when a card C should be located at the operating position. In the event that a card C is located at the operating position the detecting finger 299A comes to rest momentarily on the upper surface of the card C, but if such a card is not present, the finger 290A continues its downward movement through an opening 296 in the table top T. When this occurs, the finger 29% engages and closes a normally open switch 291 that is disposed beneath the opening 296, and such switch closure causes the stop solenoid 215 to be energized. Thus, as shown in Fig. 11, the switch 291 has a wire 298 extended from one contact thereof to the wire 28I, while a wire 299 extends from the other contact of the switch 291 to the wire 210, and this affords an energizing circuit for the stop solenoid 215 that is under control of the switch 291. It will be noted in this connection that the closure of the switch 291 when a card C is not detected takes place a sufficient time before the end of the cycle to enable the resulting operation of the stop lever 43 and the associated one-revolution clutch mechanism to stop the machine at the end of the cycle that is then in progress.

Through this arrangement the absence of a card C at the operating position causes the operation of the machine to be stopped in such a manner that the proper counting action of the counter 24!! is assured and improper or false operation of the adding machine I I is avoided.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that the present invention materially simplifies the production of posted records, particularly where such posted records relate to a regular amount that is to be deducted or applied to some specific purpose at regular periods. It will also be apparent that the amounts that are thus represented in the posting operation may under the present invention be sensed and accumulated at the time when the posting operation is being performed, and hence a rapid performance of the desired work is accomplished under this invention. The apparatus of the present invention also assures proper location of the sheets or record cards with respect to the sensin mechanism, thereby assuring that the proper amounts are introduced into the accumulator. Moreover, the apparatus of the present invention enables the posting unit to be readily set in different positions so as to perform the posting operation upon different areas of the record cards, and the arrangement is such that this shifting or setting of the posting unit may be accomplished without material disturbanoe of the means that operate the posting unit. Through the use of the present invention, posted records of the amounts that are to be deducted from at least certain of a group of pay roll checks may be readily prepared, and the accounting operations may be verified by the accumulated totals that are produced in the course of operation of the present machine.

Thus, while I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that this is capable of variation and modification and I therefore do not wish to be limited to the precise details set forth, but'desire to avail myself of such changes and alterations as fall within the purview of the following claims.

I claim:

1. In a machine of the character described, a frame affording a table top, a sheet guideway extended along said table top, means for separating and feeding sheets into said sheet guideway at one end thereof, means for advancing such a sheet along said sheet guidcway, stop finger means adapted to be disposed in an operative position to stop the movement of such a sheet with the sheet disposed in a predetermined operating position in said sheet guideway, means for sensing data representations in such a sheet while the sheet is located in said operating position, printing means for making a printed posting impression on a predetermined area of such a sheet While such a sensing operation is being performed by said sensing means, accumulator mechanism set up under control of said sensing means and rendered operative to perform an accumulating operation when said accumulating mechanism has been set up by said sensing means, means for counting the number of sensing operations of said sensin means, and means associated with said counting means and operable when a predetermined number of sheets have been passed through the machine to institute a total operation of said accumulator and also operable to stop operation of said sheet feeding, sensing and printing means.

2. In a machine of the character described, a frame affording a table top, a sheet guideway extended along said table top, means for separating and feeding sheets into said sheet guideway at one end thereof, means for advancing such a sheet along said sheet guideway, stop finger means adapted to be disposed in an operative position to stop the movement of such a sheet with the sheet disposed in a predetermined operating position in said sheet guideway, means for sensing data representations in such a sheet while the sheet is located in said operating position, printing means for making a printed posting impression on a predetermined area of such a sheet while such a sensing operation is being performed by said sensing means, accumulator mechanism set up under control of said sensing means and rendered operative to perform an accumulating operation when said accumulating mechanism has been set up by said sensing means, and means :operable when a predetermined numberoi sheets have been passed through the pea-chine to :stop

operation of .said sheet feeding, sensing and printing to initiate total taking operation of said accumulator.

3. In a machine of the character described, a r'frame affording a table top, a sheet guideway extended along said tabletop, means for separating and feeding sheets into said sheet guideway at one end thereof, means for advancing such -a sheet along said sheet guideway, stop finger .means adapted to be disposed in an operative position to stop the movement of such a sheet with the sheetdisposed in a predetermined operatingposition in said sheet guideway, means .forsensing data representations in such a sheet while the sheet is located in said operating position, printing means for making a printed posting impression on a predetermined area of such a sheet while such a sensing operation is being performed by said sensing means, and accumulator mechanism set up under control of said sensing means and rendered operative to perform an. accumulating operation when said accumulating'mechanism has been set up by said sensing means.

4. In a machine of the character described, a frame afiordinga table top, means forseparating andieeding sheets one at a time into a predetermined operating position on said table top, means for sensing data representations in such a sheet while the sheet is located in said operating position, accumulator mechanism set up under controlof said sensing means and rendered opera- .tive to perform an accumulating operation when said accumulating mechanism has been set up .by said sensing means, and means for making a printed posting impression on a predetermined area of such asheet while such a sensing operationis being performed by said sensingmeans.

5. ,In a machine of the character described, a frame embodying a table top, means affording an operating position on said table top, means for feeding sheets one at a time into said operating ,position, means for sensing data representations in said sheet while it is located at said operating position, means for printing a posting impression on such a sheet in apredetermined area thereof .an indication that such data representations have been sensed, and means for accumulating the amounts sensed by said sensing means.

6. In a machineof the character described, a frame affording atable top, means for separating and feeding sheets into a predetermined operating position on said table top, means .,for sensing data representations in such a sheet while the sheetislocated in said operating posit-ion, printing meansiormakingga printed-posting impression on a "predetermined area :of .such 'a'isheet whiletsucha sensing operation=is being performed by said sensing means, accumulator 'mechanism -set up under control of said sensing means and .renderedoperative toperform an accumulating operation when :said accumulating mechanism has-been set up by said sensing, means, and means for changing the'operative relationship of said posting unit with respect-to :said operating position to thereby change the location of the printed impression formed thereby'on .a sheetlocated in said operating position.

7. In a-machineof the'character describedga frame embodying a table top, means affording an operating position on said table top, -means for feeding sheets one at a time into saidoperating position, means for sensing'data representations in said sheet while it is located at said operating position, means for printing a posting impression on such a sheet in a predetermined area thereof as an indication that such data representations have been sensed, means forming an operating connection between said sensing means and said posting means to operate said posting means each time said sensing means are operated, and means for accumulating the amounts sensed by said sensing means.

VZALTER T. GOLLWITZER.

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