BE404620A - - Google Patents

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  Punch card accounting machine.
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   The present invention relates to counting machines controlled by punched cards, and in particular relates to Powers tabulating machines. The invention relates in particular to the creation of additional groups which can be used as desired, and with which the machine established normally can be equipped according to the conditions of its use, in order to make it suitable for particular accounting work.



   The invention relates especially to an improved embodiment of an additional unit for punching total cards, to interchangeable guide chambers.

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 intended for specific accounting work, on a character printing mechanism for 90-position cards, on an improved addition interrupt control., on a printing mechanism operating in conjunction with an adding mechanism, for letters and numbers, on an improved interline control mechanism, and on an auxiliary printing mechanism for dates, and the like.



   The accompanying drawings show a preferred embodiment of the object of the invention *
In these drawings:
FIG. 1 schematically represents the Pokers tabulator machine and the totalization control.



   Figure 2 is a section through front to back, through the tabulator machine and the total card directing mechanism attached thereto.



   FIG. 3 shows in perspective the driving mechanism of this machine.



   Figure 4 is a side view of this driving mechanism '
Figure 5 is a section through the tactile mechanism or scanning mechanism, as well as through the punch mechanism of the totals cards, and also shows the corresponding card transport means.



   FIG. 6 shows a 90 position punch card, intended for dual use, and provided with control perforations determining the mode of use of the card.



   Figure 7 shows schematically a steering chamber provided with forked guide bars, and zero stop blocks.

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   FIG. 8 shows a similar directing chamber intended for a balance mechanism working with the addition of complementary amounts.



   FIG. 9 shows a directing chamber similar to that forming the subject of FIG. 7, and comprising four guide bars in the fork.



   Figure 10 represents a guiding chamber mate cards with 90 positions *
Figure 11 shows a twin directing chamber,
FIG. 12 shows a sector stop mechanism for cards with 90 positions, with group change commando.



   Figure 13 shows a 90 position card stopper mechanism for printing characters.



   FIG. 14 shows a guide chamber with forked or double downward guide bars, intended for the control of one and the same tabulator mechanism, as required, from different map fields.



   Figure 15 shows in perspective two guide bars connected to each other,
Figure 16 is a longitudinal section through the bottom of the machine, showing the drive mechanism and the spindle box.



   FIG. 17 schematically represents a directing chamber intended for the exploration of the two fields of a dual-use card.



   Figure 18 is a side view of the steering chamber shown in Figure 17.

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   FIG. 19 is a detailed view of the device forming the subject of FIG. 18.



   FIG. 20 shows in perspective the zero stop blocks to be inserted or released at will.



   Figure 21 shows a board controlled zero stopper release mechanism.



   FIG. 22 shows in perspective a row of zero stop blocks, as well as the automatic control which belongs to them.



   FIG. 23 represents an automatic control mechanism for the counter mechanisms operating in group control command.



   FIG. 24 shows means allowing the release of an elector or distributor intended for the control of group control.



   Figure 25 shows in perspective the locking of the printing hammer, and its control from the totals tree.



   FIG. 26 shows a mechanism for controlling intermediate totals.



   FIG. 27 shows a mechanism for manually operating the adder-subtractor device.



   FIG. 28 shows a printing mechanism provided with a counter device, for letters and numbers, and also shows the corresponding stop or support mechanism.



   FIG. 29 is a corresponding side view, showing the control of the stop or support mechanism.



   FIG. 30 shows the advancement mechanism ensuring the longitudinal displacement of the paper holder roll, shown in profile.

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   Figure 31 shows seen from the other side the mechanism forming the subject of Figure 30.



   Figure 32 shows a line spacing control mechanism,
FIG. 33 shows a paper holder roll comprising a ring of lugs ensuring the advancement of the paper.



   FIG. 34 shows the advancement means intended for controlling the ring of lugs.



   FIG. 35 shows a particular adjustment mechanism intended for the crown of pins.



   Figure 36 is a cross section through the paper holder roll, intended to better show the control of the pin ring.



   Figure 37 shows an advancement device
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   Figure 38 shows an interline control mechanism with reversal of the direction of operation, seen in plan.



   Figure 39 shows a date imprint mechanism, seen from the side.



   Fig. 40 shows the card control mechanism belonging to the locking of the printing hammer.



   FIG. 41 shows a device for manually operating the printing hammer lock, shown in perspective.



   Figure 42 is a detail view of some organs belonging to the object of Figure 41.



   Figure 43 is a side view of the control mechanism forming the subject of Figures 41 and 48.

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   Figure 44 shows in perspective another mechanism for controlling the locking of the printing hammer.



   FIG. 45 shows a mechanism for adjusting and controlling the adder-subtractor device.



   Figure 46 is a detail view of some of the parts shown in Figure 45.



   FIG. 47 shows in perspective another embodiment of the means for controlling the locking of the printing hammer, making it possible to switch at will to the addition or printing of signs of groups.



   FIG. 48 schematically represents the members shown in FIG. 47, seen spaced apart from one another.



   Fig. 49 shows a modified embodiment of the printing hammer drive, for printing the distinctive signs, or features.



   Figure 50 shows a device for preventing the printing of additional amounts.



   Figure 51 is a side view of the object of Figure 50;
Figure 52 shows a detail of the means used to prevent the printing of additional amounts.



   FIG. 53 represents the organs forming the object of FIG. 51, during the totalization work.



   Figure 54 shows the operating mechanism shown in Figure 50 in another position.



   Figure 55 is a schematic view of this latter control mechanism? seen in perspective.



   Fig. 56 shows a totalization control mechanism for principal and intermediate totals, viewed in plan.

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   Figures 57-60 show different cams or ramp plates belonging to said control mechanism.



   Figure 61 corresponds to Figure 56, and shows the means for reversing or switching the totals control bar.



   Figures. 62-64 represent cams or ramp plates belonging to this control mechanism.



   FIG. 65 represents in perspective the various cams or ramp plates.



   FIG. 66 is a table of the different positions that the control mechanism forming the subject of FIG. 44, intended for locking the printing hammer, can take.



     Figure 67 shows in perspective the operating mechanism of the punching punches intended for the totalizing cards, a mechanism controlled by the rear counter mechanism.



   FIG. 68 is a vertical section through the device for operating the perforating punches shown in FIG. 5, comprising sliders which can be operated or adjusted at will for repeated perforation.



   Figures 69-70 show in a view corresponding to Figure 68 other slider adjustment positions.



   FIG. 71 is a detail view of the mechanism for operating or adjusting the perforation punches.



   Fig. 72 is a view corresponding to Fig. 71, showing still other adjustment positions.



   Figure 73 is a detail view of the object of Figure 23.

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   General layout of the tabulator
In the Powers tabulator machine there are three main parts, namely: the upper part 10, the middle part 11, and the lower part 1 @ (see fig.l).



   The lower part contains the card receiving container, the card depository container, the card transport mechanism, the explorer or touch mechanism, the totalization control mechanism, and the main drive mechanism.



   The middle part constitutes an open frame, and receives one or more interchangeable guide chambers, the arrangement of which responds to the accounting work to be carried out in each case. The whole of the guiding chamber mechanism consists in principle of seven partial groups, but the number of these groups may also be smaller in certain special cases. These different partial groups can be established so that they can be independently interchangeable, just as they can also be combined into a unitary body. Generally, each governing chamber is made up of the partial groups necessary for the solution of the envisaged accounting problem.



   The upper part contains the calculating mechanism proper, in which the result of the calculation results from the values represented or recorded on the punched cards, this in dependence on the interpretation of these perforation values by the fact of the directing chamber. The method of calculation can result from very different means. It can be controlled by manual maneuvers, or by special control perforations, which can be established either in the

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 post cards, or in specific order cards.



  In general, the calculating mechanism consists of sppt tabulating units, which may be either similar or different, units the number of which may also be smaller, in certain special cases. Each calculating mechanism itself consists of a group of character carriers, with one or more counting mechanisms, a printing hammer mechanism and a stop or support mechanism for the elements. rents of the counter mechanism drive connected to the character carriers.

   All tabulation units depend on -; a common main drive device having in particular the task of ensuring the movement of the totals shafts, the means for introducing and advancing the paper, the mechanism for advancing the ink ribbon, etc.



     Main drive mechanism. (fig. 2-5)
In the lower part of the machine is a shaft 24 passing through said machine front to back, shaft connected to the electric drive motor by means of a coupling or a round belt pulley. This shaft 24 drives by means of a worm and a crown of worm a main drive shaft 26 which moves in a vertical reciprocating movement the sets of exploration pins, by means of two eccentric, and which can also drive the camshaft controlling the totalizing mechanism.

   Further, the shaft 24 internally drives a worm and a worm ring gear, a shaft 88 coupled to the drive mechanism located in the upper part of the machine. Finally, the shaft 24 carried helical wheels intended for driving the rollers 30

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 and 31 lower, arranged in pairs and intended for the introduction of the punched cards in the exploration position, as well as for the expulsion of said cards. The advancement rollers 30 drive the card into the exploration slot.



  Here, the card is gripped at each end by sliding rollers 32 of the usual construction, which are also driven from the shaft 24. Above each sliding roller is located, as usual, a free rotating counter-roller, and driven by friction.



   As shown in Figure 5, the shaft 26 carries a cam which acts on a return lever 33 was under the action of a spring. This lever return serves to oscillate in a reciprocating back and forth motion the shaft of the card gripping arm 34, whereby the cards are successively fed to the pair of feed rollers 30.



  The arrangement and construction of the lever return 33 is such that said return can be locked at the instant when the gripping arm 34 is carried back, with a view to putting the card gripping device out of action. This is the case, for example, during totalization operations.



   The vertical shaft 28 is coupled by means of, - angle gears to a drive shaft 60 axis horizontally in the upper part of the machine * On the shaft 60 are mounted, at its two ends, crank plates 61 , one of these forming a toothed wheel, and these crank plates have the function, by means of connecting rods which need not be described more completely, to set the main shaft in oscillation 37 one way and the other.



  To this end, a braa is fixed at both ends of the shaft 37 on which the corresponding link is articulated.



  The shaft 37 carries advancement sectors 55 (see fig. 2)

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 resting freely on it, but connected however to the d it are by means of strong springs; a sector corresponds to each unit of tabulation. The purpose of these advancement sectors is to control the previous counting mechanisms. In addition, a bent coupling rod, extending rearwardly, connects to each advancement sector 55, which rod connects at its end to an oscillating lever 40 (see fig. 2). .The lever 40 has a slot forming a profiled control ramp in which the cam roller of an arm of the rearward return bridge 41 intended for the drive sectors 13, 14 engages.

   The slot forming the control ramp is thus determined that the lever 40, starting from its two points of reversal of movement, firstly oscillates by a determined angle, before setting the return bridge 41 back in motion. this empty stroke of the lever 40 is effected by the engagement or disengagement of the counter mechanisms, as well as the release of the printing hammers. These operations therefore take place at a time when the drive sectors are immobile. At the rear end of the coupling rod connecting the members 40 and 55 is connected, via a tenon with a slot and a spring, a push rod 42 leading to the hammer mechanism. impression.

   Its front end is fixed to a crank, which itself rests on the driving bridge of the printing hammers 18. The bridges 41 and 18 belong in common to all the units of the tabulating mechanism. In particular cases, for example with a view to driving letter printing mechanisms. it is possible to provide a special return bridge to the rear, which will then be driven in another way. In this case, we expect

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   In addition, a cam 43 is fixed on the shaft 60, serving 1. to maintain in the disengagement position all of the zero stops intended for the drive sectors, at the starting position of the machine.
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It is sometimes necessary not only to print the amounts calculated in the tabulator mechanism, as well as the corresponding characteristic indications, but also to cause corresponding perforations in particular cards. To this end, punching punch voters are brought into play during a totalization work using the drive sectors. The perforating mechanism established as an additional group can be arranged in the frame of the machine, extended correspondingly.

   The drive of the mechanism for activating the punching punch electors is provided by a second shaft 26, and by means of a cam and a pusher 630, which in turn, as shown in FIG. 67, causes the lowering of drive fittings 627, by means of a shaft 629 supporting arms 628, in order to put in position the electors of the corresponding perforation punches, by means of the push buttons 625 controls by the training areas. After placement, the die plate 227 is lifted, the plate on which the punch card is located.

   The punch punches 626 held by the lowered punch punch voters then perform the punching, while the other punch punches are recalled by the card.

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   The drive of the punch mechanism corresponds exactly to the drive mechanism of the pin boxes. This is also the case for the corresponding card transport mechanism, comprising the card stops, shown in FIG. 5. for this reason, the corresponding references will be added for the corresponding members also. The card gripper for the totals cards is suitably locked during the tab job, and is released only during the print totals job.



  The arrangement is therefore precisely the reverse of that of the card grippers for the cards to be scanned, because they are locked during the totalization work. Preferably, the lock for the card grippers for the totals cards is controlled by the same cam which starts or moves the totals shafts -220 or 221, as shown in Figure 5 in which in the lower part and on the right, we see the lock which is capable of maintaining the levers 33 of the mechanism for gripping totals cards in the extreme right position.



  Otherwise, the mode of operation of the card transport mechanism intended for the totals cards is the same as that intended for the cards to be explored. During tabulation, no card is placed in the punch mechanism, so that the latter operates empty. The worms of the shaft 24 responding to the perforating mechanism have a pitch opposite to that of the worms belonging to the tabulating mechanism proper, so that the totals cards move in the opposite direction to the cards to be scanned. This facility makes it possible to deposit the two categories of cards in the same receptacle, so that each total card comes to bear on the corresponding group of punched cards already explored.

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  A particular advantage of the invention resides in this arrangement. The drive of the perforation die 227 has had the same effect as that of the exploration pin set 96, so that it suffices to describe one of these mechanisms, since the other it is absolutely identical.



   Punch card transporter and explorer mechanism (Fig. 5)
The cards to be scanned, and the indications of which must be transmitted to the printing mechanism and to the calculating mechanism, as well as to the perforating mechanism, in certain circumstances, are stacked in a reserve container from which they are individually driven by the card gripping mechanism 34 to the feed rollers 30. These rollers push the cards back into the exploration housing 94, where they are temporarily held by means of a stopper. of cards 95 animated with an alternating back and forth movement.

   On the main shaft 26, two eccentrics are provided which cause the spindle box 96 to move in a back and forth vertical movement, by means of connecting rods acting on either side thereof, and this is a times during each work phase, that is, once for each rotation of shaft 26. If a card is in the exploration slot, the pin box rises and the pins that come to correspond to the perforations of the card are driven by the box with pins thanks to springs, and are finally locked in the box of breaches by means of a sliding latch 100. In effect, a lever arm is subjected to the tension of 'a spring acts on the latch 100, the lever arm working in conjunction with a fixed ramp.

   When the pin cabinet 96 has moved upward by a certain amount, the lever arm will be

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 released from the ramp, and its spring then pushes the latch 100 back into the action position, so that the pins 97 passing through the perforations of the card are locked in the housing or pin box moving upwards and are located The wire pins which have not encountered any perforations on the card are not themselves locked, and therefore remain at rest, compressing the weak springs which push them back, during the chase upward movement of the pin cabinet.

   The said box & pins continuing its upward movement, the exploration pins come to meet the upper pins 103, and cause the elevation thereof. When the pin cabinet 96 reaches its extreme high position, the top pins 103 are locked in the position they received. The pin cabinet 96 then moves back down and the instant these pins are removed from the card perforations, the card stopper 95 opens so that the slip rollers 32 can lead the cards to the card rollers. expulsion 31, which in turn lead the cards into the depositary receptacle. It can therefore be seen that the exploration pins have positively raised the upper pins 103 against the action of the springs belonging to the upper pins in question.

   The springs of the upper pins can therefore be chosen much stronger than the springs belonging to the exploration pins.



  The upper pins 103 are locked by means of the member 104, and in turn serve to control or adjust the members belonging to the guide chambers.



   The card stopper 95 is formed by a square piece guided so as to be able to slide vertically, and which can be moved in a vertical back-and-forth movement.

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 of two oscillating arms 105 fixed to the shaft 106. The drive ** ment of the shaft 106 is ensured in such a way that the card stopper 95 is always in its immobilized position when a card enters the slot. exploration accommodation. During the totalization work, the drive of the card stop 95 is thus locked that said stop remains in the locked or immobilized position.

   At the instant when the exploration pins 97 reach their high position, the locks 104 of the upper pins are temporarily released under the action of a particular command, against the action of their springs. This release is maintained throughout the totalization work.



   In the mechanism for punching the totals cards, the corresponding shaft 26 drives the punch die 227, instead of driving the pin cabinet, which die which, as indicated, pushes the cards up and down against. a punch punch panel 626, and thereby cause a punching of the card, at the places where the punch punch voters disposed above the punch punches 626 are locked in the lowered position by the action of the members 205. If desired, the card stop 95 of the de. mechanism / perforation of totals can be brought to different stop positions, as will be described further below. Sometimes it is necessary to accumulate totals cards independently of the cards explored.

   To this end, there is provided above the depositary container an auxiliary container comprising a base plate 649. This base plate 649 is attached to two levers activating the stop mechanism for the cards belonging to the punching device. The auxiliary container is thus moved in a vertical back and forth movement.

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 at each stroke of the machine. Said auxiliary container is provided with a row of rods carrying the card, and the bottom plate 228 is provided with correspondingly disposed toothings so that the curved top surface of the base plate warps the card around it. its median line, when said card is introduced upwards into the auxiliary container.



   Each row of the total punch card therefore has a corresponding row of punching punches, which row itself works in conjunction with a corresponding row of punching punch electors. An interchangeable directing chamber is placed above the perforation punches electors (see fig. 2, right part). Above the guide chamber, or at the top thereof, are provided adjustment pins mounted on the frame of the machine.



  A cross member 624 provided with a pusher 625 is able to move over each row of adjustment pins. The cross member 624 is connected to the drive rack of the rear counter mechanism (see fig 2).



   Whereas the drive teeth of one or more tabulating units, during the totalization work, are also set, in a known manner, & characteristic indications, for example at group signs, are perforated in the total card, not only the result of the calculation, but also the corresponding characteristic indications of the group of cards concerned. In order to be able to perforate additional indications; by hand control, it is possible to place above one or more rows of perforation punches, locks 651 which can be moved by hand, and comprising a stop nose for the perforation punches, as shown in the figures 68 - 70.

   Using this command by hand, we can by

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 Therefore punch special holes in the totals cards, for example characterization holes that will differentiate the totals cards from the post cards.



   In order to release the locking of the electors of perforation punches selected by the sleepers 624, and lowered by the fitting 627 moved by motive force, and as shown in figure 5, a special cam is provided on the shaft 26, which cam, after each working stroke, and by means of a suitable deflection, causes the lowering of a rod oriented horizontally behind the perforating mechanism.



  This rod then comes to meet the oblique edges of oscillating levers 622, releasing the bolts 205 during their oscillation. As can be seen from Figures 71 and 72, however, the swing levers 622 can be folded by hand to the inoperative position. During the time intervals during which this maneuver is carried out, the setting of the perforation punches electors remains unchanged. Before the introduction of the guiding chambers, it is possible to manually lower the electors of perforation punches, the actuation of which must be preserved. It is thus possible, using this device, to provide all the totals cards with a corresponding perforation of any kind.



   The pins 625 are pushed upwards thanks to springs which it was not considered necessary to represent. Their mounting is similar to that of the characters in the character carriers.



   It is known to provide tabulating machines with sectors of particular characters, serving only for printing signs intended for certain numbers, such as, for example, the signs "+" or "-" for stations, or else corresponding signs for totals, or a sign

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 particular intended to differentiate principal totals from ordinary group totals, and the like. in accordance with the invention, this distinctive character carrier is also provided with a cross member 624 in which is guided a pusher 625 intended for the selection of the voters of perforation punches 626.



   The downward movement of the head or fitting consisting of the horizontal grid pieces 627 takes place simultaneously with the release of the printing hammers, so that the placement or adjustment of the punching punches takes place at the same time as printing the total.



   When printing, characteristic indications such as "+" or "-" therefore respond on the total card to characteristic perforations which are obtained at the desired location by means of the total perforator mechanism, for example in II. or at the 12 point of perforation of the row of units.



  The directing chamber of the totals punching mechanism can also be used for punching total cards according to a punch key other than that of the explored cards, and thus, for example, the total cards can be cards with 90 positions. , while the explored cards will be cards with 45 positions.



   The two guide chambers provided for the tabulator mechanism and for the perforator mechanism, one of which connects the explorer mechanism with the tabulation sector stop mechanism while the other, conversely, transmits the setting of the tabulation sectors to the voters of the perforation punches may be the same or different.

   They are at least partially identical when the totals cards must be recorded in the same tabulator machine,

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 and when they have the same conventional division as the explored cards. When it is otherwise, the two guiding chambers are established differently - Each guiding chamber frame is, in the usual way, provided with a lower rim 234 (see fig. 17), which can be engaged in grooves of the supporting bars 235 belonging to the lower part of the machine (see fig.16).

   There is such a carrier bar on each side of the machine, when said machine is provided with the mechanism for perforating totals, the carrier bars 235 are so extended that they can extend both above the explorer mechanism that ' to the top of the panel of the voters of perforation punches * each directing chamber is combined, in the usual way. with a ratchet stopping it in the correct position, and if necessary each directing chamber can be provided with stops which determine its position.



   It is also possible to combine in a rigid whole the frames of the two guiding chambers, as shown in FIG. II, so that a single directing chamber is created for the exploring mechanism and for the perforating mechanism.



   Return transport of the result of the calculation to the control mechanism.



   This arrangement offers the additional possibility of transmitting back to the sector stop mechanism the setting of the tabulation sectors representing the result of the calculation. This feedback transmission is sometimes necessary, as, for example, in calculation methods such as that described in British Patent No. 2216/1854 to Scheutz. In this process, a succession of addition mechanisms is thus arranged

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 chain that the product obtained at each instant in one addition mechanism is repeated and transmitted to another addition mechanism, which likewise acts in conjunction with a third addition mechanism.



   In order to transmit the result of the calculation back to the control mechanism, Bouden 143 cables (see fig. II) are placed between the two guide chambers. These Bowden cables transmit the calculated amount in one tab mechanism to the stop field of another tab mechanism. (By tabulator mechanism is meant here the group of sectors responding to a determined map field, as well as the corresponding components, such as hearing wheels, etc.). When the machine is operated in this manner, correspondingly controlled zero stop blocks are provided for the release or disengagement of the various mechanisms, tabulators, and of which it will be discussed later.



   Arrangements of the guiding chambers for other purposes.



   In the simplest embodiment of the guide chamber, the latter contains for each map field a group of simple guide bars, leading directly to an integral group of sector stops, without the guide bars having to come together. cross thereby. The disposition of the directing chamber determines the mode of use or interpretation of the map, so that one and the same map can be used or interpreted in the most different ways, according to the nature or the arrangement of the directing chamber, this arrangement can sometimes be determined by specific control perforations of the cards, as will be described later.



   For example, a group of guide bars belonging to a guide chamber can, in the way just mentioned,

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 transmit directly and without modification the amount explored on a card field to the corresponding group of sector stops, so that the amount will pass as the real amount in the tabulator mechanism concerned. At the same time, another group of guide bars belonging to the same guide chamber can be arranged in such a way that it will transmit to the stops, as a complementary number, the amount perforated in the corresponding card field.

   It is also possible, by using forked guide bars, to transmit to two tabulating mechanisms, simultaneously, the amount requested on a determined card field, one as an actual amount and the other as an additional amount. In a corresponding manner, determined perforations may cause, depending on the setting of the corresponding governing bodies, different control effects. this is how, for example, a control perforation could cause a zero stop to act, in a directing chamber, while in another directing chamber the same control perforation will have the effect of releasing a usually effective zero stop.

   The frame of the guide chambers reserves a sufficient location to allow the crossing of the various guide bars, as will be necessary when it will be necessary to transmit a number from a given row of upper pins to any row of stop pins. The guide bars can also cross each other in such a way that the punched hole in a determined map field can be transmitted to any tabulation mechanism.



   Such crossing of the guide bars is particularly facilitated by the use of a system of combinations of punching keys in which, with a view to the transmission of each digit from the explorer mechanism to the mechanism

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 only five tab and sometimes six guide bars will be needed. Transmitting an odd number will then require movement of one of these five or six guide bars, while for transmitting even numbers two of these guide bars will be raised. Simultaneous actuation of a third guide bar only comes into consideration when it is not necessary to transmit numbers but letters.



   A particular arrangement of the directing chamber is necessary when, for the control of a determined tabulator mechanism, one card field must be replaced by another.



  This necessity arises, for example, when one must always use or reinterpret in a period of time encompassing several years cards bearing specific numerical indications, the characteristic indications to be printed must then also include the year concerned during the which the recording took place. In this case, sufficient space is provided on the map to be able to perforate the appropriate annual indication as required.



  Other indications should also be considered with a view to perforation in different map fields, responding to different modes of use. It is therefore generally a question of being able, using one and the same group of sectors, to print the indications which will be perforated as required in different card fields, without having to change the guiding chambers each time.



   The device used for this purpose is shown in figure 14. Each guide bar 120 splits into a fork downwards, so that its upper end, controlling a determined sector stop, can be lifted by means of the exploration pins 97 different map fields.

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  In the exemplary embodiment shown on page 14, a quadruple branching is used. This presents particular difficulties of. fact that the many overlays or the many necessary crossings must be found will place the interior of the chamber limited in dimensiona. The end of the guide bar 120 therefore carries four branches directed downwards, and which are fixed to a common and horizontal intermediate part 121. The intermediate piece 121 itself carries the upper end 120 of the steering bar. The different intermediate pieces 121 which correspond to a horizontal line of the card are superimposed.



  The lower intermediate part 121 is provided at each counting point with a perforation through which penetrate the lower forked ends of the intermediate part which is placed above it. In a corresponding manner, this intermediate part is again perforated with a view to the free passage of the forked ends of the intermediate part which is placed above it, and so on. As clearly shown in Figure 14, this arrangement is repeated for all the guide bars, so that it is unnecessary to repeat the description for the other bars. The ends of the intermediate pieces are therefore staggered and superimposed.

   The guide bars 120 corresponding to a determined tabulation sector therefore have their intermediate parts 121 in the same horizontal plane. The intermediate pieces 121 belonging to the following sector are located immediately below, and so on. The space remaining between the horizontal groups of intermediate pieces * is limited to the dimensions necessary for each intermediate piece to be able to rise without coming into contact with the one located above it.

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   A special arrangement is necessary in order to ensure that only one of the four map fields is operating at all times. This object can be achieved by the fact that between the forked ends and the upper spindles a group of movable spindles is placed in a carriage 122. This carriage can then be driven over the chart field which is to be made operative. , or else above the group of upper pins 127 corresponding to this field. A suitable displacement device is used for this purpose. The carriage consists of two perforated plates in which the transmission pins 123 are mounted so as to slide vertically undergoing the spring action. The pins 123 respond in their number to all the counting points of a field of cards.

   The carriage 122 carries at its ends blocks which are sliding guides in horizontal notches belonging to auxiliary plates of the guiding chamber, thus ensuring a parallel movement of the du.ichariot. On each block is articulated a bar 134, which is articulated at its other end on an arm 125. The arms 125 are fixed to a common shaft, centered at the upper part of the directing chamber, this arm itself carrying a handle 126. .



  In order to stop the handle at the desired adjustment position, the latter is provided with a catch that could engage in housings arranged accordingly. If desired, the handle can be provided with a window through which it is possible to read indications relating to the adopted map field. While in the exemplary embodiment described these map fields serve to receive date indications, the arrangement shown may find useful applications for other purposes as well. If the sliding carriage is not placed at the extreme lower part of the guide chamber, intermediate pins 127

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 will be necessary in order to ensure the transmission of movement between the upper broohes and the stop mechanism.



   We will now describe some other cases where <direction bars branched upwards will find application.



   The indicative number of the month will be perforated in row 22. This row has twelve perforation locations to correspond to the number of months. If it concerns the months of October, November and December, the indication of which includes two digits, two character sectors must be ordered or trained. For this purpose, forked guide bars leave the perforation locations corresponding to November and December, the guide bar corresponding to the November perforation location rising in both one and the other. two rows of sector stops, to bring there the stop N I. Correspondingly, the December guide bar introduces the stop N 2 in the units, and the stop N 'I in the tens.

   For October, it will suffice to provide a single non-forked guide bar, intended for the stop N I for the tens, since the zero of the units is controlled by an automatically actuated zero stop.



   Another example: in a row of cards we use seven perforation locations to indicate fractions, namely 1/8, 2/8, 3/8 .... 7/8. if the perforation corresponding to 1/8 is explored, it is necessary to cause a printing in the three decimal rows, behind the row of units, to write 1,2,5.

   Accordingly, the director bar concerned has three ramifications, one for ONE in the first decimal row, the other for TWO in the second decimal row and the third for FIVE in the third decimal row. If we explore the perforation corresponding to 2/8, we will print., 5, 0

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 behind the row of units, which is why a double branching guide bar will suffice, since the Zero is automatically printed again. It will be the same for the perforations corresponding to 3/8, 4/8 etc.



   The simultaneous introduction of the punched amount in a field up to several tabulation mechanisms is for example necessary when you want to draw up balance lists. The guiding chambers used for this purpose are shown schematically in Figures 7, 8 & 9. It is desirable for this purpose to provide different rows for the positive positions, the negative positions, the positive balances obtained by calculation, and the negative balances. For Debit amounts we will therefore use a row of debits, for Credit amounts a row of credits, for debit balances a third row, and for credit balances a fourth row, provided on the record sheet. very. To each row belongs in the tabulator a group of sectors equipped with a counter mechanism.

   Consequently, it is necessary to discriminate between a Debit item mechanism, a Credit item mechanism, a Debt Balance mechanism and a Credit Balance mechanism. Each of these tabulating mechanisms can be equipped with a single counter mechanism or with several counter mechanisms. It is then necessary to establish a new discrimination between the cases where a counter mechanism constitutes an additor-subtractor mechanism for direct subtraction, or else constituted. kills an ordinary additor mechanism, performing the subtraction by adding additional amounts.

   In the guiding chambers shown in Figures 7-8, the four tabulating mechanisms used to separately obtain and print the various stations and balances are designated in IV to VII.

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 mechanisms I to III can be used for printing any characteristic values, for example dates, account numbers and the like. Each post card is therefore punched with the information required for controlling mechanisms I to III. In addition, each card may have separate fields for positive and negative amounts.

   We must differentiate between the following fundamental possibilities:
I) Each station, depending on whether it is positive or negative, is actually perforated in one or the other of the two fields s, and simultaneously perforated complementarily in the other field, corresponding control perforations indicating whether the station is positive or negative. a) tabulation mechanisms are only established for addition, b) tabulation mechanisms are established quickly from direct subtraction.



   2) Each item is only really perforated, s have in one or the other of the two fields, according to its meaning, a) only mechanisms allowing simple addition are provided, b) mechanisms allowing subtraction are also provided direct.



   3) All the stations, whether positive or negative, are always perforated in one and the same coffee field, and are only differentiated by the control perforations a) the tabulator only has mechanisms for 'simple addition,

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 b) it also has mechanisms allowing direct subtraction.



   4) The tabulator has only one addition mechanism for each group of sectors.



   5) The tabulator has two addition mechanisms for one or more groups of sectors.



   Depending on the particular case, other designs of guiding chambers can also be considered. The said machine can also be provided with installations known per se, preventing the printing of additional uprights, and it can also be equipped with zero stop blocks serving to release the groups of corresponding character sectors, blocks controlled by the zero stops. card perforations.



   Each of the above cases will now be briefly examined. For the first of these we will have to make use of the guiding chamber shown in figure 7. The groups of guiding bars corresponding to the mechanisms of characterization I, II and III are each indicated by means of a line. full. The tabulating mechanisms IV & VI are controlled from the mast field of the chart by means of forked guide bars, so that they register the rising marl.

   It is the same for the V and VII mechanisms, but the V & VII mechanisms always receive the complements of the amounts arriving in the IV & VI mechanisms. The forked guide bars, represented in dotted lines, are intended to complete the fractional complements (complements of nine) punched in the cards, by addition of unit, to make them complements of unit. The unit is added by direct triggering, by means of the relevant guide bars, of the ten-point pawl of the unit strip. The guide bars shown in dotted lines control zero stops, which prevent additional uprights from reaching.

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 in IV & V mechanisms.

   We also see that the IV & V mechanisms form the totals of the positive and negative items, while the VI & VII mechanisms each form the balance, one of these mechanisms being complementary to the other. If the balance is positive:., It is actually indicated by one of these mechanisms, and if it is negative it is actually indicated by the other.



  In this arrangement, it suffices to adopt mechanisms for simple addition, since a subtractive command of the calculating wheels is not necessary. It is therefore immaterial whether the mechanisms are established as simple addition mechanisms, or as additor-subtractor mechanisms. Suitably, the machine is provided with a known control by which the printing of items can be retained at will, so that item totals and balances will only be printed at the time of the group change.



   In the second case, where the positive or negative nature of a position appears according to which of the two card fields where it has been punched, it is not necessary to resort to zero stops, but each guide bar must be filled. of three ramifications, in order to pass the items not only in a mechanism for adding items IV or V, but also in the two mechanisms VI and VII, with a view to establishing the balance. The guide bars are for this purpose crossed in such a way that the guide bars of one of the fields transmit the additional amount in the mechanism VII, and those of the other field, in the mechanism VI. The branches of guide bars crossed for this purpose are shown in dotted lines.

   A particular perforation in the card is still used to add additional units. However, this addition is only necessary with the forked ends of the guide rods crossing each other complementarily. Here again, we find ourselves in the presence of an addition

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 simple, so that it does not matter whether the addition mechanisms are also specific to direct subtraction.



   In the third case where positive and negative positions are punched in the same field of all the cards, and are differentiated by particular control perforations, it will be admitted that the mechanisms VI and VII are established in a similar way, and are specific to the subtraction direct * In this case, each guideline for the value perforations has four branches, as shown in figure 9.



  The guide bars corresponding to the characteristic perforations of the positive and negative stations are shown in dotted lines and in phantom. As can be seen, one of these guide bars is branched three times, while the other is simple, and only controls a zero stop block * The three-fold guide bar controls a zero stop by one of its branches, and controls by its two other branches the mechanisms VI and VII with a view to the subtraction * The mechanisms VI and VII consequently always contain the same amounts.

   As far as their construction is concerned, they differ only by the fact that in one of these mechanisms the printing of positive balances is prevented, and in the other mechanism the reprint of negative balances.



  Each tabulation mechanism can be equipped with an additional main totals counter mechanism. It is therefore possible to obtain the principal totals of the items, d 'as well. weighting to the sum of all group totals than the main balances totals. These additional counter mechanisms are indicated in Figures VII- @ X by rectangles placed above the tabulator mechanisms IV to VII. The order is carried out suitably in such a way that for an operation

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 to obtain principal totals, the printing of the principal totals of positive items, the totals of negative items, and the main balances of the partial balances is caused.



   The lateral derivation of the angled guide bars, which can in certain cases be very accentuated. Is liable to increase their elasticity to such an extent that the upper end of a branch may remain immobilized due to friction, although the The inner end of said guide bar is lifted by the action of the exploration pin. In order to avoid this drawback, the branched bars of the guide chambers can be established in the manner shown in FIG. 10. In this embodiment, it is a question of proceeding from the right field of the card to transports in five tabulator mechanisms. different.

   For this purpose, there is placed in the directing chamber, for each counting point of the field, a horizontal cross member 230 capable of sliding in the vertical direction, and capable of being lifted from an exploration pin by means of a bar. guide 245 The guide bar 245 terminates upwards below an elbow flange which bears on the crossmember 230 concerned. On its upper edge the crosspiece 230 also compotes soles, namely five soles for a quintuple ramification. Each sole controls a sector stop. Only the guide bars 231 are bent; the others are straight. In view of. guiding the sleepers 230 two sets of guide combs 232, 233 are used, one of which is located above and the other below the sleepers.

   The lower group is also used for guiding the ends of the guide bars 245. The crosspieces 230 are provided with guide surfaces with the aid of which they bear in the frames of the guide chambers.

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 we have seen that the sleepers 230, which are placed on the field, can be made very thin while retaining sufficient rigidity.

   As a result, seven sleepers 230 can be arranged within the normal interval between the count points provided in a row, without the need to bend the guide bars below the sleepers. , the two seven-row fields of a 90-position card can be fitted with such branch crosspieces, or the 14-row or row-field of an ordinary 45-position card can also be fitted correspondingly. angled guide bars are provided.

   It will be recalled in this regard that when using or interpreting 90-position cards, only half of the number of guide bars is provided for the transmission of each sign compared to that required for cards. with 45 positions, punched according to the system of single holes.



   In figure 10 it was assumed that these were cards with
90 positions, of which the stop mechanism 231 is established in a known manner. It is thus possible to relate two seven-row fields of the 90-position map with ten different tabulation units. Particular control perforations can also act on the control crosspieces 230, instead of the angled or branched guide bars.



   The sleepers 230 are not rigidly fixed to the guide bars, so that they can orient themselves obliquely during their lifting. However, a stop is provided for the two ends of each cross member, and when the cross member during its elevation bears against these stops, it is therefore corrected in its horizontality. These stops are formed by notches made in the frame, notches in which come

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 engage the ends of the sleepers. Thanks to this arrangement, each cross member, independently of the point of the latter where the guide bar acts, is able to lift in the same quantity all the sector stops which correspond to it.



   In many cases, for example when the perforated card process is applied in current account transactions where it is important to take account of overdraft items, it is desirable either to pass the perforated items through two neighboring tabulating mechanisms. in the same card field of the immediately following cards, or else act in this way on the machine, using the card command / in such a way that each of the two tabulation mechanisms will only register the stations of the one of the two map fields, although in this case also the two mechanisms will be simultaneously related to different map fields. The directing chamber arrangement used for this is shown schematically at. figure 15.

   The right direction bar 128 belongs to the direction bar group of field N- 2, and the left direction bar 128 belongs to the direction bar group of field N I. When one and the same item must be transmitted in both tabulator mechanisms, the post is only perforated in field N 2, while the field NI remains unperforated.

   If different stations are perforated in the two fields, the clearance of the two groups of guide bars 128 takes place independently of each other. By means of a special control perforation, the two groups of guide bars can however be coupled in such a way that they will be controlled or adjusted in coincidence, by control coming from field N 2.

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   In FIG. 15 only one guide bar 128 has been shown, belonging to each of the two groups of guide bars, for the sake of simplicity. The guide bars 128 are, in the usual way, so mounted in the guide chamber that they extend from the map fields which correspond to them to the stop fields of the corresponding tabulator mechanisms. Each guide bar of the field N 2 is provided with a block which carries a horizontal oscillating pin intended for a lever 130. One of these ends of this lever extends to. the corresponding guide bar of the other group, and engages in a bracket fixed to said guide bar. The other end of the lever is located under a horizontal cross member 133, carried by a frame capable of being raised and lowered.

   The frame is guided to slide vertically inside the directing chamber, by means of a
 EMI35.1
 system of articulation $ as in paraâsZélogramm.e and can be raised against the Inaction of a strong spring by a particular guide bar, which has not been shown and corresponding to a special order perforation. Figure 15 shows that when a guide bar belonging to the group responding to Field N 2 is lifted under the action of an exploration pin, the corresponding lever 130 is put into oscillation, and in turn raises the ' guideline of the NI field that corresponds to it.



  The value represented by the scanning pin is therefore transmitted in accordance with the two tabulating mechanisms, since the corresponding sector stops are raised. The number of levers 130 therefore corresponds to the number of all scoring points in the map field.



  In order to be able to mount the levers in the limited position available, it is advisable to place the steering bars alternately in front and behind.

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 levers responding to a horizontal row of the map field.



   When the auxiliary frame carrying the stop rails 133 is raised during the exploration of the hole of the control perforation, the simultaneous raising of a guide bar of the field Ne 2 only results in the corresponding lever 130 swinging empty. . As a result, the guideline of the. NI field that responds to it remains stationary, as long as it has not been independently lifted by one of the exploration pins of the N I field. In this case, the amounts possibly perforated in the two fields can be transmitted independently to the corresponding tabulating mechanisms.

   As mentioned, the auxiliary frame carrying the stop cross members 133 is guided so as to be able to move vertically inside the directing chamber, by virtue of parallelogram joints. The shaft carrying the articulations in parallelogram, centered in the directing chamber, carries an arm which can be lifted by a particular directing bar, responding to the zone of the control perforations.



  When so, the shaft is rotated and all of the stop rails 133 are lifted. This arrangement shown in figure 15 can be used both for the interpretation of 45-position cards and for the 90-position punched cards according to the combination system. The guide bars connected by the levers 130 , and responding to each other in the two groups do not have to match the same digits.

   On the contrary, they can be combined in another way, for example complementarily. In this case, the amount punched in field N 2 is actually transmitted in a tabulator mechanism. and trance put complementarily in the other tabulating mechanism * The group of directing chamber that we described above therefore acts

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 just as a group of forked guide bars would do, which can be transformed into groups of independent guide bars by card control.

   In many application cases, where 90-position machines are used, a 45-position card would provide sufficient space for the indications to be interpreted. In this case, then only the upper half or the lower half of the 90-position punched card shown in FIG. 6 is used. It is therefore possible to use a single, dull card twice, and thus achieve an economy of cards, in comparison. - reason for the use of cards with 45 positions.

   As can be seen from FIG. 6, in this case there is provided on the two small side of the card a particular field intended for control perforations. The control perforations which are located right against the middle of this field then determine which of the top or bottom two card halves should be used.



  This is of particular importance because the card is arranged symmetrically (two opposite diagonal angles are cut obliquely) in such a way that one cannot directly recognize, in the stack of cards, which of the two fields must be used.

   A simple auxiliary device preventing the reading or interpretation of cards possibly placed upside down in the stack consists in the provision of particular order perforations * An order perforation carried out at point II of the 45-position card (abbreviated II., 45) means that the top half of the 90-position card should be used. If a second command hole still exists in point III, 45, the card should not be used, & will be par therefore skipped.

   If now, by mistake, a card in the stack has been engaged after having been rotated 180 degrees so that the end to the right in Figure 6

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 is placed on the left in the stack, the lower half of the card having thus become the upper half, special devices are foreseen which in this case, thanks to the exploration of the control perforations, will cause the interruption of the reading with respect to this card and at the same time trigger a signal, for example a light signal.

   If a control perforation is found ^ in the picture 111,45, a horizontal control shaft axis in the directing chamber, will be put into oscillation under the action of the exploration pin which will pass through this perforation, shaft under the action of which the card will be neglected, that is to say will be transported, without having acted, in the depositary container - If now the card has been placed upside down, or upside down in the stack, the same perforation of control will be placed at point IV, I, while control perforation II, 45 will be at point V, I.

   But if a perforation is at point V, I, the control shaft will still be put into oscillation, and the card will be neglected - Only - when in addition a control perforation is at point IV, I that this action is prevented.

   The following table gives all the possible combinations of commando perforations, indicating their action on the device allowing cards to be ignored:

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 <tb> Position <SEP> of <SEP> Perforations <SEP> of <SEP> command <SEP> Effect
 <tb>
 <tb> II, 45 <SEP> III, 45 <SEP> IV, I <SEP> V,

  I <SEP> Read <SEP> Sautéed
 <tb>
 <tb>
 <tb> 1 <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 2 <SEP> x <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 3 <SEP> I <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP>
 <tb>
 <tb> 4 <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP>
 <tb>
 <tb> 5 <SEP> x <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 6 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes
 <tb>
 <tb> 7 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 8 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes
 <tb>
 <tb> 9 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP>
 <tb>
 <tb> 10 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP>
 <tb>
 <tb> II <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 12 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP> µ
 <tb>
 <tb> 13 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes
 <tb>
 <tb> 14 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> Yes <SEP> No
 <tb>
 <tb> 15 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes
 <tb>
 <tb> 16 <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> x <SEP> No <SEP> Yes <SEP>
 <tb>
 
Each marked position of the

  gigne "" means that the card has been placed upside down, that is to say upside down and that said card must be skipped. The rule is that a single control perforation at points III, 45 or V, I causes the card to pass without effect. The card is read or interpreted when two perforations are found at points IV, I and V, I. This double control perforation means in fact that a card already used previously has been intentionally placed upside down, and has received new perforations in its free field. The second order perforation was performed at the same time as these new perforations.

   If in the latter case an order perforation is found at point III, 45, the card must be

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 skipped because it is then again misplaced, in fact twice upside down.



   Each card can therefore be used two times, said card being rotated 180 with respect to its direction when it is first used, to be used a second time. Both for the first use and for the second use, the machine accuses the incorrectly entered cards, and neglects them as regards the recording.



   The possibility of skipping or neglecting the cards, as already mentioned, is given by the rotation of a particular drive shaft. This tree closes 1. with a special arm the switch of a light signal. It further prevents the locking of the upper pins raised by the scanning pins, so that said upper pins come down again before the forward oscillation of the tab sectors and maintain the effective zero stops. * A special arm of the shaft prevents the action of the self-device. group control system. The letter printing mechanism, when a card is skipped, is also locked due to the rotation of this shaft.

   Details of the locking of the upper pins and the automatic group control device have been given elsewhere *
Instead, as we have already described, skip the cards placed incorrectly in the card stack, and trigger. Dear at the same time a signal intended for the user of the machine, it is also possible to simultaneously explore the two halves of the card at 90 positions, and each time render ineffective the half of the card which does not come into consideration. An embodiment of the directing chamber by which this result can be obtained will be described below. For this purpose,

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 Bowden cables are used instead of guide bars.



   This directing chamber working by means of Bowden cables can in a way be considered as a series connection of two directing chambers. The inner directing chamber has for each perforation point of the card a directing cable, and the cables of each row are arranged in a helical plane (see fig. 17 & 18) so that the cables corresponding to one 1 l ' other and relating to the two halves of the card are placed opposite each other in a strictly symmetrical way, and this according to the same law of symmetry according to which the card was designed (see fig. 6) . The guiding cables corresponding to each other are connected in pairs using a compensating lever.

   A second steering chamber is connected to this compensating lever, which ends at the stop field of the sectors. During simultaneous exploration of the lower half and upper half of the 90-position board, either group of guide cables is automatically disabled by the control perforations. The control perforations can be arranged on the card in the manner shown in Figure 6, and described above. The arrangement of the steering cables can be understood by examining figures 18 & 17.

   This arrangement is characterized in that, for example, the directing cables corresponding to the perforation points XII, 2 and IX, 44 (see fig. 6) are placed symmetrically, but are separated by ten cables interposed between them.



  Each of these two cables corresponds to the same number. Similarly, the cables responding to points II, 6 and V, 40 are placed symmetrically * but are separated by two interposed cables. It is the same for all other pairs of cables.

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 correspondents. The different cables are therefore located in the symmetrical arrangement corresponding to that obtained by reflection on a mirror, in FIGS. 17 & 18, and for simplicity, only two groups of director cables 160 and 161 have been shown, belonging to the same row of the card.

   The lower ends of each group of guide cables are, in the usual manner, provided with pistons capable of moving by the action of the upper pins 103 raised, and themselves moving the aces of the cables. These Bowden cables are passed at their upper ends through a fixed perforated plate 162, and each group is led at its lower part through a perforated guide plate 163, capable of being lifted for a purpose which will be explained. further.



  The cores of the guide cables terminate at the end of a piston which passes through the plate 164. The envelope of each cable is secured by soldering or otherwise to perforated plates which are fixedly disposed between the plates 162 and 164 (see fig. 18). The fixed mounting plates are screwed onto the master chamber frame.



   The cores of the mating direction cables are connected via the spring loaded compensating lever 165, and another Bowden cable connects the midpoint of each lever 165 to the sector stop which corresponds to the perforation points of the pair of cables.



   The various cables leading to the sector stops are again arranged along helical surfaces, as FIG. 17 shows. The cable envelopes are fixed in perforated plates integral with the frame, and the pistons fixed to the cores of the cables are suitably guided. The cables leading from each row of the card are

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   arranged in a warped helical plane of 90 @. At about the instant when the exploration pins have reached their extreme up position, and the corresponding cables of groups 160 and 161 are actuated, either of the two guide plates 163 is positively raised under the action of two cams 166 (see fig. 16 & 19).

   The elevation of the plate 163 results in the corresponding ends of the trim levers 165 being also raised, so that all of the midpoints of these levers rise by an amount which corresponds to half the stroke. of the plate 163 No actuation of the sector stops however results from this maneuver. However, the cables corresponding to the perforations, in the other group of guide cables, are also displaced and these have raised the ends of the compensation levers which correspond to them. This action results in the midpoint; of the compensating levers 165 involved is raised by the amount by which the cores of the Bowden cables have been displaced.

   These levers in turn move the cores of the upper Bowden cables, resulting in play of the corresponding sector stops. In summary, the result is that the upper direction cables which correspond to half of the board to be interpreted are displaced by the total amount necessary to engage the sector stops, while the upper cables which correspond to spawn in neglected map fields are only shifted by half that amount. This half stroke is not sufficient to bring the sector stops into play, so that in the stop field only the field of cards to be interpreted is represented.



   Just as it was above, the command perforations determine which of the two fields should be explored.

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  These control perforations, via the corresponding guide bars, cause the rotation of the control shaft 134 of the machine, axis in the frame (see fig. 18).



  The means by which the shaft is rotated according to the position and number of the control perforations, or else remains at rest, need not be described in more detail here.



  At each of its ends, the shaft 134 carries an arm 167 which, as shown in FIG. 19, comes to bear against a slide 168 movable horizontally, and undergoing the action of a spring, the slide whose upper edge is in zigzag. The slide 168 is capable of moving horizontally by means of a tenon and slot assembly at the upper end of the pusher guided vertically and set in a reciprocating motion under the action of a cam 166 belonging to the shaft. drive 26, at the same rate as that of the machine. When the upper field is to be interpreted, the control perforations do not cause the rotation of the shaft 134.

   The position shown in FIG. 19 in which the upper map field is on the left is then obtained for the organs concerned. If the slide 168 is raised, it causes the elevation of the plate 163 corresponding to the lower map field. If, on the contrary, the shaft 134 oscillates due to the control caused by the special perforations, which is the case when the card is incorrectly placed in the stack, the slides 168 will be moved in such a way on the pushers that when from their elevation they will lift the other plate 163, This has the consequence that the lower map field is then interpreted, in this way, one can therefore always automatically interpret the correct map field,

     her

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 take into account the direction in which the cards lie in the pile (provided naturally that they are not placed with their face down). A card incorrectly placed in the stack would, however, trigger the group control device which comes into operation when the cards are exchanged, in the absence of special means, and thus entail a totalization, given that the characteristic group sign of the misplaced card would respond to other upper pins than if the card was correctly seated. As a result, one would get the impression of a subtotal before the group was completed, which is undesirable.

   In order to remedy this drawback and in accordance with the invention, the members acting for the exchange of groups of cards are connected not to the upper pins, but to the sector stops. In fact, these stops are, because of the particular arrangement of the directing chamber that we have described above, always controlled in the same way by the group sign, whether the card is placed correctly, or whether it is. wrongly.



   Figure 12 shows the arrangement of the 90-position sector stopper field required for this purpose. The zero stop on the right is connected by a slotted tenon and springs to the horizontal arm of a triple balance lever which releases the zero stop when it has turned on its axis of oscillation in the opposite direction to that of movement. clockwise.



   This rotation is controlled by the drive of the machine, once for each work phase, and this by means of the crank which can be seen on the right and at the top of the figure.
12, crank whose crankpin comes to bear against the arm of the triple lever which is oriented upwards. The arm of this angle lever extending downwards is in the path

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 a horizontally guided trigger cross member 224, and which bears the five notches shown in dotted lines, one of these notches corresponding to each sector stop, with the exception of the zero stop. The sector stops have side tenons which engage in these notches.

   When one of these sector stops is raised (this takes place when the triple angle lever is put into oscillation; under the action of the crank, in the opposite direction to the direction of movement of the needles d 'a watch) it pushes the crosspiece 224 to the right, using its lateral tenon, so that the said crosspiece keeps the triple lever locked in its oscillation position, when immediately thereafter the crank returns in back. The triple lever thus locked by hand. in turn holds the zero stopper in its disengaged position, so that the tab sector concerned can play forward until it meets the raised sector stopper.

   If none of the five sector stops is raised, no movement of the sliding cross member 224 occurs, and as a result the triple angle lever, on the return movement of the crank, also returns to its position. starting point, under the action of the spring 238, which has the consequence that the zero stop is made operative.



   The following arrangement is provided to allow the control of automatic groups: each of the notches of the sliding cross member 224 forms by its straight edge in the direction shown in the drawing a protruding nose which engages under the tenon of the raised sector stop, and locks it in its raised position until another sector stop of the same row has been raised, in one of the following operations, that is to say until that a change of group occurs. When so, the cross

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 slide 224 is momentarily pushed to the right by the action of the newly raised stopper, and releases the hitherto locked sector stopper, so that it can be biased down by its spring.

   The sector stop which descends triggers the group control device by means of the following mechanism: next to each sliding cross member 224 is provided a second sliding cross member 225 also provided with guts in which the lateral tenons engage. sector stops. The right edges of these notches form rounded projections. Accordingly, each time a new sector stop is raised, and each time the previous stop is lowered, the sliding cross member 225 is pushed to the right, and then immediately returns to its starting position. This movement is transmitted to the totalization mechanism, so as to put it into action.

   To this end, each of the sliding crossbars 225 is provided with an extension extending downward and rearward which is placed by a control bridge 236, extending in a horizontal direction in front of the. stop field. At the rear end of each sliding cross member 225 is arranged an Intermediate piece 237 which can be moved by hand, and can be so adjusted that it fills the distance separating the sliding cross member; it, 25 from the bridge 236 When a sliding cross member 225 is moved to the right, during the change of group, with an intermediate piece thus removed, the bridge 236 is put into oscillation.

   This bridge is mounted freely rotating by its arms on a fixed rod of the frame and is attracted by a weak spring in the direction of the sliding cross member 225. The bridge is connected by a Bowden cable to the trigger end 146 of the totalizing mechanism 537 , 538, 153. When the bridge is put into oscillation, the Bowden cable

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 draws back the pawl 146, and thereby releases the pawl holder 153, which actuates the totalizing mechanism and causes the total to be printed.



   The newly raised sector stop, which caused the displacement of the cross member 225, is then again locked in the upper position by the sliding cross member 224, as long as a change of group does not occur.



  As can be seen, this device also acts in the case where before the change of group only one determined sector stop has been raised, while after the change of group the same sector stop has been raised, in addition to the stop. of
New visible at. left of Figure 12. In this case, the sliding tra .. verse 225 is pushed back by the stop Nine displa. upward, although the other sector stopper remains locked.



   In principle, this group control device therefore corresponds to those which work in conjunction with the upper spindles instead of working with the sector stops. However, a peculiarity resides in that the sliding cross member 224 locking the stops. raised sectors simultaneously control the zero stop.



   Zero stop blocks.



   It is often necessary to lock specific tabulation sectors, or groups of sectors during current account operations, while printing totals, or even during both operations. When it comes, for example, to establish subgroup totals, main group totals and intermediate group totals, in various tabulating mechanisms, the items to be added are transmitted via direct bars. - forked trices with two or more tabulating mechanisms

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 connected in parallel. If, for example, the totals of main groups and totals of subgroups are involved, one of the two tabulating mechanisms is locked during the totalisation operations, so that the total contained in that.

   This is not retrieved until finally a print of the principal totals takes place. This mechanism therefore forms the main total of all the stations introduced into the machine. In order to lock the tabulation mechanism of the main totxes during the work of totalising the subgroups, zero stop blocks are used which raise all the zero stops of this mechanism and therefore prevent the sectors from swinging.



   The zero stop blocks are raised by means of guide bars which are themselves put into action, thanks to special control perforations. If these are small zero stop blocks, for example intended for locking only one or two sectors, it is sufficient to attach the zero stop block to a single guide bar, even if this is 'extends transversely and diagonally in the directing flesh. If the zero stop block is larger, that is, if it is used for example for locking four sectors and more, it is advisable to split the upper end of the guide bar and fix the block at the ends of the fork thus formed. It is also sometimes necessary to simultaneously lock two tabulator mechanisms.



   For this purpose, forked guide chamber bars will then be used, the derivative ends of which will each carry a block.



   In all these cases the guide bars will be raised by the exploration pins which will pass through the card passing through the control perforations.

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   It is sometimes desirable to make a zero stopper generally ineffective in a specific way. A simple arrangement to achieve this is the sliding attachment of the zero stop block on the guide bar. The zero stop block is in this case slidably mounted at the upper end of the steering bar, and is provided with a pawl undergoing the action of a spring, which pawl can engage in the hinge or the latch. 'other of the two strikers included in the steering bar. After releasing the pawl, we can move the block to its lower position, and then let the pawl engage in the second keeper. The block is then no longer able to raise the zero stop by a sufficient amount to achieve the locking of the sectors.



   For larger zero stop blocks to be made capable of being engaged and disengaged, it is recommended that the arrangement shown in gigare 20 be adopted. The zero stop 175 is then provided with perforations or holes. - cages intended for the passage of the guide bars from zero, sometimes necessary for special orders. The zero stop block consists of a plate 175 carried by two arms belonging to a shaft 177. On this shaft is also fixed an arm 180.

   The bearings of the shaft are suitably fixed to the upper part of the directing chamber. The arm 180 of a square lever with movable branches and adjustable with respect to one another is provided at its lower end with a notch in the shape of M. In this notch engages a tenon 181 belonging to the arm of the angle lever 182. The tenon 181 can penetrate either in the upper part or in the lower part of the notch in M. In Either way, the zero stopper block 175 is moved, when a

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 guide bar 172 is lifted by an exploration pin.



  In the other case, however, the block is not moved. The angle lever 182 is provided at its point of oscillation with a U-shaped notch through which it engages the hub of the arm 180 and said lever 182 is pushed upwards under the action of a spring which connects the tenon 181 of the arm 182 to a tenon of the arm 180.



  This spring locks the members 180 and 182 in such a way that they work in the manner of a rigid square lever.



  The angle formed by the arms of this lever can however be modified at will. In view of this modification, the arm of the member 182 oriented downwards is lowered, and it is moved so that the tenon 181 engages in the other notch of the notch in the form of M. The arm horizontal part of the member 182 is provided with a head which engages above the guide bar 172. When the angle of the crank lever is set to its smallest value, the guide bar 172 is liable to bear. forward or engage the zero stop block. When the angle is set to its greatest value, the lifting of the steering bar 172 has no effect.



   It is sometimes also desired to have the possibility of making inoperative by command using a card a zero stop which is usually operative, so that the locking of the sectors only occurs with specific cards, but does not place, however, with other cards, although these have response command perforations. dant to the zero stop block. FIG. 21 shows an arrangement making it possible to obtain this result. The zero stopper block 175 is lifted by the guide bar 172, which is hinged to an intermediate sink 183. The lever 183 swings around a tenon which generally remains stationary. This tenon is carried by an oscillating plate 184 undergoing the action of a strong spring.

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  The plate 184 also carries a second guide bar articulated thereto, and when said guide bar is lifted, also under the effect of a second control perforation, the plate 184 oscillates such that the point of articulation lever 183 is also lifted. In this case, the elevation of the guide bar 172 has no effect, so the zero stop block 175 does not come into action.



  The lever 183 therefore offers the possibility of preventing the action of the control perforation provided to allow the control of the zero stop block 175,, since a second control perforation is provided. The zero stop block 175 is therefore operative or remains inoperative depending on whether a particular control perforation exists or does not exist next to the normal zero stop control perforation. These control perforations ,, can be provided as long as on conventional plague cards as well as on particular control cards, for example totals cards, master total cards, and the like.



   It is frequently desirable to control the zero stops by means of the totalizing mechanism instead of using the control perforations, particularly where the tabulating machine is provided with an automatic group control device, and may therefore working without a totals card to be inserted into the card stack.



  At the same time, however, the zero stops should offer flexibility of their control by suitable perforations. Such an arrangement is shown in Fig. 22. The points drawn in black on the surface of the zero stop blocks 175 represent the attachment points of branched guide bars at their top. If these are raised by means of control perforations, the blocks 175 are made operative.

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   The shaft 186 is used to advance the b loes during the totalization work. This shaft is connected to the two total trees by means of means which have not been shown and is consequently rotated at each totalization operation.



   The totalization work can, as we know, be caused both by the automatic group control device, or also by means of a special control card, perforated at point XII of row 45, but otherwise not remaining. perforated. When using totals cards, one could also lift the blocks 175 to be operative by means of corresponding control holes in the totals card. If the totals card is then scanned, the zero stop blocks that correspond to these control holes are lifted by the scan pins and guide bars.

   A difficulty, however, lies in the fact that for the totalization work the upper pins 104 interposed between the guide bars and the exploration pins are released and will remain released so that, unless special measures are taken, the blocks 175 raised during the exploration of the totals map will return immediately to their starting position. For this reason, special catches are provided to hold the lifted blocks in place, so that they remain in their upper position even if the locking levers of the upper pins are released directly before the lifting. rotation of the totals shafts, and allow the guide bars to descend again.

   The lock levers 185 are freely rotatably mounted on a shaft 186, one of these levers responding to each of the blocks 175, and the shaft 186 is coupled to the totals shafts in a manner not shown. As a result, said shaft is rotated during the totalization work. For example, we can set the totals tree a

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 special arm capable of lowering a sliding part with a ramp by means of a vertically guided tenon. The ramp sliding part acts on an arm of the shaft 186. Instead of being actuated by the total shafts, the sliding part could also be actuated from the shafts accom * 'ted to them, and which bring back the zero stops, with a view to totalization.



   On the shaft are fixed stop arms 187 which are connected by a spring to the locking arms.



   During the totalization work, the shaft 186 is also set in rotation, and this has the consequence that all the locking levers 185, under the action of their springs attached to the arms 187, are also set in motion as if it @ had been fixed to the shaft 186, this provided that the corresponding blocks 175 are raised. However, the blocks which have not been lifted prevent the engagement of the locking levers 185, and the connecting springs between 185 and 187 are then stretched. Blocks locked in the raised position remain in their operative location for the duration of the totalization, while the scout pin set is lowered.



   Instead of lifting the blocks by means of guide bars, a special shaft could be provided for this purpose, to be coupled to the totals shafts, a shaft carrying the arms which would act under the blocks.



   Determination of the measure of. group change?
When the machine prints tables with main group totals and subgroup totals, or is used to establish progressive interest tables, it is necessary to automatically obtain different combinations of totals requiring different control of the counting mechanisms.

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   As an example of these cases it will be mentioned that in order to draw up a table of progressive interest totals it is necessary, after a change of card, to transmit to the other counter mechanism of the group of sectors the sum entered in one of the counter mechanisms of a sector group, without canceling it. The number of repetitions of this operation depends on the measurement of the change of groups, that is to say on the difference in the numbers of groups which represent the dates in the case of the calculation of progressive interest. If, for example, the date of a group of cards was January 12, and if the date of the next group of cards was January 15, the transmission of totals must be done three times, due to the difference between 12 and 15.



   An apparatus which can be used for this purpose will be described below. Its purpose is to automatically trigger the control of the necessary counter mechanisms, $ in each case, and to govern the totalization work.



   The principle on which this device is based is that of a mechanism & discontinuous progression, the pre-determined setting of which is automatically controlled by the steering chamber, and which drives a camshaft, the cams of which themselves control. counting mechanisms according to a law corresponding to the tables to be drawn up. Bans FIG. 23 shows the apparatus suitable for determining the measurement of the change of groups, applied to a directing chamber intended for cards with 90 positions. However, it should be noted that the apparatus is also capable of being applied without other difficulties to other directing chambers.

   Each
Each guide bar 188 (see fig. 123) is provided with a tenon or a projection which can be explored by a cursor.

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 tactile 246. Each exploration slider has a stepped end. The guide bars 128 may have an enlarged section to decrease their flexibility, as shown in the figure. It will be recalled, that the bure. guidelines 128 are raised to their extreme high point when the tab motors are in their home position. At this position, the guide bars are explored by the cursors
246. The result of the exploration of the tenons of the direction bars constitutes a non-unit and non-decimal system.

   It is therefore necessary to transform it into a corresponding decimal system. The following table gives the relationship between the two systems:
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 <tb> Decimal <SEP> 0 <SEP> 1 <SEP> 2 <SEP> 3 <SEP> 4 <SEP> 5 <SEP> 6 <SEP> 7 <SEP> 8 <SEP> 9
 <tb>
 <tb>
 <tb>
 <tb> No <SEP> decimal <SEP> 0 <SEP> 1 <SEP> 1 <SEP> 3 <SEP> 3 <SEP> 5 <SEP> 5 <SEP> 7 <SEP> 7 <SEP> 9 <SEP>. <SEP>
 <tb> and
 <tb> No <SEP> unitary <SEP> .. <SEP> 9 <SEP> # <SEP> 9 <SEP>. <SEP> 9 <SEP> # <SEP> 9 <SEP> 0
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As can be seen, the decimal digits are represented half by a single symbol, and half by two symbols.

   The mechanical transformation is carried out as follows; the representation of odd digits (1 except 0 and 9) occurs because the ends. tactile cursors 246 meet the tenons of the corresponding guide bars 128.



  * The representation of all even numbers is linked to the fact that both the guideline of the odd number immediately below and that of the number 9 are explored. Zero is represented by means of a generally operative guide bar, which is pulled back when any of the guide bar inputs are raised, with the exception of the steering bar of the
9.

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  Finally, the 9 is represented by the combination of the guideline of the. $ and the zero guideline. The available !.
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 ter permitomt. to obtain this result corresponds / apart from min .. mes, mod; Lflèations, to tr4ABfo, -rmatour belonging to the stop mechanism of the tabulating machine, with 90 positions. It has a cam slider 247 which returns the steerer bar back from zero generally effective, when one of its cams is moved laterally under the action of a lateral tenon of the other steerers (with the exception of the guideline of 9).

   If desired, a locking latch can also be provided which is subjected to the action of a spring, as is the case in the stop field of the old Powers tabulator machine.
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 It is important, however, that said locking latch is not triggered by the guide bar of 9. The perforated cards with 45 positions according to the decimal system can be interpreted in a manner absolutely identical to that described for odd numbers.



   FIG. 23 shows a grooved cylinder 248 working in conjunction with the explorer bars 246. It mechanically embodies the transformation table given above.



   The control mechanism of the counters consists of a group attached to the frame of the directing chamber. This group consists of two. main drive movements, which can be obtained by the cams of the shaft 26. These cams can for example be used in place of the two cams 166 of FIG. 16.



  The. Eame 250 is used to control the cylinder advancement pawl 251, and the cylinder locking pawl 252. The cam 253 is used to move the frame 254 carrying the bars or crossmembers back and forth. exploration, and furthermore enters a screen 255 for the advancement pawl 2si. The cams 250 and 253 are thus adjusted as regards the time of their action that the.

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 cursor 256 is moved with a view to setting the locking pawl 252 in oscillation, in order to immobilize all the explorer bars 246 which have come into contact with the displaced guide bars, including the cam slider.



   All these explorer bars are locked substantially at the moment when the immobilization of the upper pins takes place, so as to form a compact unit. Drug
253 then comes into action, and causes the displacement of the frame 254 in the direction of the cylinder equipped with the advancement wheel 257. For the remainder of the rotation of the shaft 28, the frame 254 remains in the advanced position under the action. a projecting part of the cam. The first-mentioned cam 250 continues to cause the movement of the carriage or slider 256, so that the feed pawl 251 can act on the feed wheel 257, as far as screen 255 allows.

   In the event that the locked scanning bars 246 meet their corresponding notches at the periphery of the cylinder attached to the feed wheel 257, the screen 255 keeps the pawl 251 disengaged. If on the other hand the same combination does not occur, the screen 255 is not likely to be moved forward to the extent that would be necessary to disengage the pawl 251.



   As a result, the advancing wheel 257 continues to rotate, namely one notch for three rotations of the shaft 26, or three phases of operation of the tabulating machine.



   The displacement of the frame 254 takes place at the moment when, for the totalizing work, the locking sliders of the raised upper pins are released. When the exploration bars in frame 254 don't come

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 encounter no corresponding perforation; at the periphery of the cylinder, the totalization mechanism is triggered.



  With regard to the above example, relating to the establishment of progressive interest tables, the consequence of this operating mode is as follows: when the advancement mechanism shown in figure 23 is assigned to the row of date punch units, and when the cards bearing the date January 11 have passed through the machine, a group change occurs as the January 12 cards then appear. As the January 11 cards passed through the machine, the scan bar 246 corresponding to the number 1 protruded towards the cylinder, and could enter one of the slots in the cylinder.



  After the change of group, however, it is the bar corresponding to the number 2 that protrudes. Simultaneously with the totalization work, cylinder 248 is rotated one notch. The slots are thus arranged in steps (as Figure 23 shows in its upper part) that another slot then arrives in front of the exploration bar corresponding to the number 8. After the first movement of the cylinder, c 'that is to say after a totalization operation ,. the process of transmitting totals is thus completed, and the reading or interpretation of the next group of cards, bearing the date of January 12, begins. However, it was admitted above that maps of January 15 will follow this group of maps.

   If a change of group occurs again, the exploration bar n 5 will be advanced in the direction of the cylinder. After the first totalization operation, for which the cylinder has been moved forward one notch, bar no.5

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 is not yet likely to enter. Further totalization work therefore takes place. This process is repeated a third time, the cylinder being each time moved one notch. It is only then that the cylinder presents to the exploration bar N 5 a slot allowing it to penetrate therein, so that the repetition of the totalization work is interrupted and the work exerted on the second group of cards begins.

   With each movement of the cylinder, the sum appearing in a specific counter mechanism is transmitted without cancellation to the other counter mechanism.



   After the purpose of the device, and its fundamental operating motor, has been understood, its construction will now be described in detail.



     The frame 254 in which the exploration bars 246 are mounted to slide horizontally, is guided between two mounts 245 fixed to the frame of the directing chamber.



  By means of a spring, the frame 254 is connected to an angle lever 261 fixed to a shaft centered in the frame.



  This right angle lever is put into reciprocating oscillation under the action of the cam 250 to which it is positively connected by means of a spring. The frame 254 carries transverse rods on which the exploration bars 246 are guided, which can slide by means of slots. Each exploration bar is connected to the frame by means of a spring. A locking pawl 252 is provided in the frame 254, immediately below the exploration bars 246.

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   The operating mode is as follows:
After the guide bars 128 have been lifted in the row of interest, for example the column of date perforation units, the frame 254 is pushed back against the guide bars by the action of the cam 250, together with its ten exploration bars, moving away from the cylinder The frame 254 then drives the exploration bars 246 which are mounted in it, with the exception of that of the ten exploration bars which corresponds to the number represented by the guide bar 128 raised. This exploration bar is held back while the frame 254 is moved. This has the consequence that this exploration bar or cross member is, relative to the frame 254, moved in the direction of the cylinder.

   In its advanced position, it is then locked by the pawl 252. The frame 254 then returns back towards the cylinder and when the advanced exploration bar or crosspiece enters one of the holes in the cylinder, the machine interrupts its tabulation work. normal * Otherwise, a totalizing job is performed, in which the cylinder is set in motion an additional notch.



   The advancement movement of the cylinder therefore only takes place when the trolley or frame 254 elastically pushed forward cannot complete its full stroke in the direction of the cylinder due to the meeting of the locked exploration crossmember. to its advancing position with said cylinder. To cause this command, the frame 254 has a ramp slot 255 which acts as a cover screen for the feed pawl.

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 designated at 251, and then maintains it clears when the oourse has not been complete. In order to activate the totalizing mechanism, the shaft of the bent lever 861 carries a second elastically mounted right-angle lever, designated 259, which passes through one of its arms in the path of the frame 254.

   If said frame performs a full stroke, it prevents oscillation of the angle lever. Otherwise, this lever oscillates and releases or releases the drive vliquet of the totalizing mechanism.



   The carriage 256 undergoing the tension of a spring is controlled by means of a right angle lever, a pusher and the cam 253-, with a view to driving the feed teeth 257. On the carriage 256 is mounted the advancement pawl 251 undergoing the tension of a spring, and carrying two teeth. The upper tooth of this pawl 251 drives a second advancement toothing arranged next to the advancement teeth 257. Three by three, the gap of this second toothing has a greater depth. The tooth. the shorter of the ratchet 251 drives the advancing toothing 257 once for three rotations of the shaft 26, during a series of totalization work. The advancement toothing 257 is fixed to a drum which in turn is connected to its fixed shaft by friction and by means of a spring.

   This spring connection corresponds to known safety devices opposing excessive winding of watch springs, so that said springs can only receive a determined tension. The advancement teeth 257 is provided with a retaining pawl 262 undergoing the tension of a spring, said pawl being able to be adjusted at will in such a way

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 that it remains clear when the exploration bars 246 have encountered the corresponding notches in the cylinder. The carriage 256 is provided with a slot through which it is able to control the retaining pawl 262.

   The layout and construction is such that when the frame 254 and the carriage 256 have been moved simultaneously (or alternatively when the frame 254 is held) the locking pawl 252 will be operative. From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the machine performs a series of totalizing operations until the scanning bars 246 meet the corresponding openings of the cylinder. The drum fixed to the feed teeth 257 can be equipped with cams to be chosen in each case, and which will cause the rise of determined guide bars 128, with a view to controlling the counter mechanisms, and which in particular control the counter mechanism for printing intermediate totals, as will be explained later.



   Figure 73 shows this arrangement. As long as cylinder 248 remains in the position shown therein, guide bar 128 is raised, and this causes one of the addition mechanisms to be actuated to obtain intermediate totals.



   The establishment of progressive interest tables has been mentioned as an example of application of the apparatus described above. Another example is the establishment of tables giving group totals from from main groups to intermediate groups and secondary groups. For this purpose, the handle 244 is operated in such a way that the retaining pawl 262 will remain free.

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  When a group change occurs, the cylinder is rotated by an amount that responds to the nature of the group change. Thus, when it is only a change of secondary group, the cylinder is only moved one notch. If it is an intermediate group, the cylinder moves on two notches, and on three notches in the case of a main group. The cams arranged on the cylinder control the various addition mechanisms and the various zero stop blocks.

   Suitably, the values to be calculated are transmitted from the cards, via forked or branched guide bars, to three different tabulating mechanisms *
Another example of application of the device described above will be given by the calculation of tables by the method of differences and anti-differences (see the work "The theory and Practioe of Interpolation" by Herbert L. Rice published in 1901). Tables of this kind are very often necessary, for example, in insurance business, in astronomy, for statistical work, scientific research work, etc. It has been described in British patent N 2216 / 1854 a process for the establishment of tables of this nature.

   It is therefore unnecessary to go into more detail here on these calculation methods.



  To establish a table according to the difference method, the following procedure is carried out: the first series of differences is transmitted to the corresponding counter mechanisms, preferably additours-subtractor mechanisms, these differences receiving either a positive sign. - tif, or a negative sign. The introduction of these differences

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 carriers of the sign which corresponds to them can be effected in any way, for example by means of perforated cards and with the aid of a suitably established directing chamber. When the introduction of the different has taken place in the counting mechanisms, the directing chamber is removed from the machine, and there is placed the directing chamber for the return transmission shown in figure 11.



  The return transmission out of the recording mechanism into the control mechanism, and from the latter to other counter mechanisms, is automatically controlled or controlled by the cylinder of the feed wheel. This also controls corresponding zero stop blocks, intended to alternately lock the different counter mechanisms. The operation is such that the sums appearing in a group of counter mechanisms are transmitted without cancellation in the stop mechanism, and from the latter to another group of counter mechanisms. The stop pins are released once for two work phases. The operation is repeated as many times as necessary to complete the calculation.

   If we start from anti-differences, we proceed in a similar fashion. However, sums are transmitted subtractively.



   Release of the group control device (Fig. 24).



   It is often desirable that the group monitor does not respond to particular cards in the stack, or at least to certain fields of these cards.

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  This result is obtained by the fact that these cards are for: views of a particular control perforation by Inaction from which the group control device usually operating is released. As can be seen in FIG. 24, the control perforation makes it possible to lift a directing bar 207, which acts on one of the arms of a right angle lever undergoing the action of a spring. lever whose other arm is connected to a horizontal push rod 208.



  This push rod in turn acts on a right angle lever 210 also undergoing the action of a spring, the lever of which the horizontal arm is capable of raising an intermediate member 205 with the aid of which the control device of groups is set on the corresponding row of the map. If no control perforation is placed at the corresponding point on the card, the intermediate member 205 remains in its operative position, so that each change made to the characteristic perforation of the corresponding row triggers a totalization work. Under the action of a determined control perforation, for example perforation XII of the row concerned, the guide bar 207 is however raised, which in turn lifts the intermediate member 205.

   Consequently, when a change occurs in the perforation of the row concerned, the totalization mechanism is not activated. Any number of rows can be fitted with the card to trigger the above action.



   Control of counting mechanisms for the calculation of intermediate totals, under the action of the cards.



   Sometimes it is necessary to order such "

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 the counter mechanisms that these transmit to the tabulation sectors, without cancellation or extinction, the sum which appears therein, so that said sum or total is either printed and transmitted to another counter mechanism, or else printed or thus transmitted. The transmission of the total appearing in a counter mechanism, without extinction, to another counter mechanism of the same group of sectors is for example necessary in the application of the method mentioned above, with a view to establishing interest tables. progressive. The totals which must be transmitted without extinction to the tabulation sectors will subsequently be denoted by the expression intermediate totals.



   It is considered sufficient to describe the means by which the control of the counter mechanisms will be influenced in such a way that the calculating wheels will remain in engagement with the sectors not only during their forward oscillation, but also during of their oscillation in return, so that they resume the amount transmitted to the sectors at the end of the working stroke, without having to describe the control of the counting mechanisms in this regard. herself. The previous counter mechanism of each group of sectors is controlled by a connecting rod 52 (see fig. 26) which causes the addition to its upper position, and the establish-.

   move the total to its lower position. If the connecting rod 52 is brought to the neutral intermediate position before the start of a working operation, that is to say having the forward oscillation of the sectors being caused, and if said connecting rod is maintained in this position throughout the operation of

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 work, the calculating wheels remain in engagement with the tab sectors, during the oscillating movement forwards and backwards of said sectors, and an intermediate totalizing operation is obtained. In order to fix the connecting rod in this neutral middle position, each of said connecting rods is provided with a tenon at its end.



   Thanks to this tenon it can come to bear on a stop lever 425 undergoing the tension of a spring, so as to be retained in its neutral middle position. At each totalizing operation, the connecting rod 52 is elastically brought downwards under the action of the rotation of the totals shaft. If the stop lever 425 is then carried forward, the printing of the intermediate total is obtained.



   The operation of the stop lever 425 can be done by hand, or under control of the cards. In view of the control by hand, a key 426 is used mounted in a control panel of the frame of the machine, and thus established in its depressed position it remains immobilized until the end of the operation, to then be released automatically. With a view to the forward movement of the stop lever 425, thanks to the control provided by the cards, a connecting rod is provided which connects the stop lever. 425 to a square lever 341, which can itself be moved by means of a guide bar assigned to a control perforation.

   In the frame carrying the stops of. sectors is provided a special rod which establishes the connection between the angle lever and the guide bar.



   Several groups of sectors can each be provided with the control device which has just been described.

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A similar control is provided for the later counter mechanisms of the groups of sectors. These are also controlled by a connecting rod movable in the vertical direction, and denoted by 63. Again, a hand control unit 427 is used, shown in FIG. 27, which allows the connecting rod 63 to be retained in its position. neutral median, during the totalization work. The control member 427 is guided so as to be able to slide vertically in the frame of the machine, and can, against the action of a spring, be drawn downwards and immobilized in its lower position.



  It has a lateral nose on which a tenon belonging to the connecting rod 63 engages. In order to keep the connecting rod 63, when ordering by card, in its neutral position of intermediate totalization, the device shown in figure 26. A stop lever 428 can be engaged with the aid of a keeper on a lateral tenon of the connecting rod 63, when it is moved to the left, in figure 26, under the action of a spring and a connecting rod. The connecting rod is further articulated to a right angle lever 341, which can be moved under the action of a special guide bar.
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  Tabulator neoanism for printing letters and numbers, with counter mechanisms (figures 28-29)
When using perforation wrenches with five calculation points, in order to represent each sign, it is necessary to make use of a sector stop mechanism which makes it possible to exhaust all the possible combinations. perforation. The relation between the five-hole punch key and the simple four-hole punch key can be expressed as follows:

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 vante: the first combination is a 4-port drill key plus a special order punch.

   If this last perforation is absent, the sectors are kept stopped earlier, by the value of a forward half-stroke, with respect to their movement in the event of the presence of said control perforation. The 4-hole key allows you to obtain 16 positions of the sectors. Thanks to the presence of the control hole, the number of control possibilities is doubled. In the exemplary embodiment which will be described below, only 16 sector stops are provided, and the sector itself, or else the rack which is coupled to it, has a step at its end, so that either of two stop surfaces can be used depending on how much the sector stops have been lifted.

   Each of the 16 sector stops can therefore, depending on how it was lifted, cause two different adjustments. As shown in Figure 28, the selection of the sector stop 472 to be lifted is ensured by two combination sliders 470 grooves and undergoing the action of a spring, said sliders are slidably mounted in the longitudinal direction, and can be adjusted by guide bars 188, by means of angle levers 471. Between the angle levers and the guide bars 128 are interposed vertically guided transmission pins, while between the combination sliders 470 and the square levers on the horizontal transmission branches.

   For the mounting of the square levers and that of the spindles, a frame or frame is used which takes the same position in the machine as the frame of the sector stops. The cursors 470 are arranged two by two in pairs in juxt apesition, and are

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 grooves at their lower edge, following the 4-hole key.



  The arrangement of the grooves can be chosen quite arbitrarily, but one must only take care that, in each combination of the 4 perforations that can be imagined, only one sector stop 472 can move upwards, and that the position of this sector stop corresponds to the position of the character which corresponds to it among the other characters. The 4-hole key is transformed into a 5-hole key by the fact that below the two pairs of combination cursors 470 a fifth horizontal cursor 474 is placed which determines the measure by which the sector stop 472 is to be moved. upwards, said sector stop being released by the two pairs of sliders 470.

   The sector stops 472 each carry three tenons laterally, the one which is placed higher works in connection with the upper pair of sliders 470, of which the one which is in the intermediate position works in conjunction with the lower pair of sliders 470 , and of which the one located below can come to engage either on a tooth or in the gap of the cursor 474, when it is moved upwards.

   If no movement of the slider 474 is caused, there is no perforation at the fifth perforation point, and the sector stopper 472 released by the slider 470 can then complete its maximum stroke, at which its lower tenon. if it engages in a gap of the slider 474. In this case, the rack 473 bears by its anterior face, when it moves forward, against the raised stop 472.

   If, however, the toothed slider 474 is pushed back by a commando perforation, it retains the stopper halfway up.

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 sector released, by one of its teeth, so that the rack 473, when it moves forwards, meets the sector stop raised by its step and consequently moves a further half-stroke beyond, beyond the position du'elle would have taken in the absence of the control perforation. It is also possible to provide other toothed sliders 474, so as to obtain at will three or more different height positions of the sector stops 472. In this case, it would be necessary to provide more. front end of rack 473.



   Each sector stop 472 is guided downwards in a frame 475 capable of sliding vertically, and pressed against this frame against a spiral spring which is not shown in FIG. 28. At each maneuver of machine, the frame 475 is moved upwards.

   It thus tends to push up all the sector stops 472, but all of these stops, except one of them, are retained by the two pairs of combination sliders 470. Only one sector stop is. released from its combination sliders and .; can move downwards! together with the frame 475, by an amount sufficient so that its lower lateral tenon meets the toothed slider 474. The amount by which the sector stopper 472 will be moved up is determined as described by the slider. 474. The reciprocating movements of the frame 475 upwards and downwards are provided in the manner shown in figure 29 by means of a cam 43 belonging to the shaft 60.



  This cam, via a cam lever, makes

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 moves horizontally in one direction and in the other two bars 476 guided in the frame of the machine, which bars, as figure 29 shows at the left and below, have two slits or inclined ramps. Tenons belonging to the four corners of the frame 475 guided vertically are engaged in these ramp slots. A spring shown to the left of Figure 29 serves to keep the cam levers in constant contact with the cam 43. The frame 475 is therefore, when the cam lever is released, under the action of the cam. 43, attracted again downwards thanks to this spring, and thus returns the sector stop which was raised to its starting position.

   The positive return movement of the sector stopper raised under the action of the frame 475 is ensured by the fact that each sector stopper 472 is notched at its lower end passing through the plate 475. In the notch comes s 'engage a return bar rigidly fixed to the plate or frame 475.



   During the totalization work, it is known that all the sector stops must be returned to the rear to remove them from the path of the racks 473.



  This result can be achieved by providing locks which will be able to immobilize the combination sliders 470 in their starting position, and which can be activated by the totals trees.



   The characters are thus arranged in character carriers 13 that the figures will be represented by the ten upper characters, and the 22 letters by the characters arranged below in the character carriers. From a known lanyard, the same character will be used here for the letter 0

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 and for the number Zero, and the same character will also be used to represent letters of similar appearance, such as for example the V and the U. 0 ballast for this reason that it is sufficient to use 22 characters of letters, in addition to the ten digits characters.



   A rack 473 guided horizontally in the frame of the machine meshes with each sector of characters bearing teeth at its lower part, as has already been mentioned. In front of all the arms of the character sectors, extends a rear return bridge 41, the arms of which come to bear on the axis of the sectors, and feels set in back and forth movement by means of a crank control provided on the shaft 59, this action being carried out in a
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   moves forward., the sectors tend to sà # é4 thanks to springs that we will not specially reproduce Above each rack 473 is mounted a bar @@ addition mechanism drive tee 477 , capable of sliding in the frame of the machine, said toothed bar or rack meshing in known manner with an addition mechanism 500. At the rear end of each rack! drive 477 is mounted a pawl 478 by means of a tenon and a spring. This pawl extends towards the having, and carries at its free end a head with two tenons. One of these tenons rests on the rack 473, while the other tenon can be engaged in the ramp slot of a plate 479 fixed to the frame.

   The rear end of each rack 473 carries a hook directed upwards. When said rack 473 is set for printing letters /

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 it moves over the course during which the hook does not meet the lower tenon of the stop pawl 478. Consequently, the drive rack 477 remains stationary. It cannot move, since the upper tenon of the front end of the stop pawl 478 is engaged in the vertical portion of the ramp slot belonging to the fixed plate 479.

   If, however, the rack 473, under the control action exerted by perforations of digits on the card, is set in motion, it moves forward to such an extent, that is to say moves to such an extent. to the left, in the pin 28, that its hook grips the tenon of the stop pawl 478 which rests on it.



  At the same instant, the tenon, under the action of the spring acting on the stop pawl, falls into a notch in the rack 473, so that the stop pawl is released from the ramp plate 479. The pawl stopper is then driven to the left under the action of the hook belonging to the rack 473, and this to the extent that corresponds to the figure concerned. The control of the addition mechanism 500 is carried out in the usual manner for the subsequent addition mechanisms of the Powers machine.

   Consequently, the transmission of the tens is ensured by the fact that a stop lever usually limiting the return movement of the rack 477 is set aside, and allows the rack 477 an additional control stroke under the inaction of the spring of the rack. stop pawl, when said stop pawl is driven back to its starting position under the action of the rack, and is locked in this position thanks to the plate 1 ramp 479.

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   When letters are to be printed, a considerable simplification of the stop mechanism can be achieved, (see Fig. 13), as long as a 6-hole key can be used, as is the case with 90 ° cards. positions. The letter printing mechanism shown in Fig. 13 responds with regard to the two-part arrangement of the tab sector with its two elements 13, 14 locked one on the other, to the letter printing mechanism known from the Powers tabulating machine . However, instead of the eleven sector stops required with the single punch system, the sector stop mechanism shown in FIG. 13 is the mechanism known per se, with 90 positions.

   Beside the five sector stops 223 to be lifted by guide bars, and belonging to this 90 position stop mechanism, a trigger 15 is guided so as to be able to slide vertically in the frame of the stops, which, when it is raised under the action of a particular guide bar releases the two halves 13 and 14 of the letter type sector, so that the half of sector 13 bearing the characters 1 letters, under the action of the spring connecting the two halves of said sector, can escape to the right. The return of the sectors back to the engagement of the pawl locking the two parts of the sector is ensured as usual by a backward return bridge 41 driven by a crank 37.

   The zero stop 216 which is only erased when one of the stop

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 sector 230 is raised is moved in the usual manner under the action of a slider 215 provided with ramps.



   Printing mechanism.
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Any printing backing of any kind, for example a usual typewriter roll, can be used with the tabulating machines described above.



  The usual arrangements with writing roller with mount
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 sets the requirement that each character be provided with a small return spring, because otherwise the character carriers, during their forward stroke, with the characters moved in the direction of the writing roller could remain hooked to the ribbon inker. Equipping each character with a special return spring, however, increases the cost of construction to a very large extent. For this reason, and in accordance with the invention, the writing roller will ordinarily be brought back somewhat, beyond the writing or printing position, and will be brought only temporarily to the position of. printing, at the precise moment when it will take place.

   Typing will take place as usual using printing hammers. To this end, two cams 263 in the form of a sector, and of corresponding profile, are placed on the main shaft 37 of the upper part of the machine (see Fig. 30-31), the cams of which the ramps are oriented concen- trally at shaft 37, except for a short protrusion at their posterior end. Each of these cams 263 acts on a balance lever connected by a coupling rod to the lower arm of an oscillating lever 264

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 with two arms, centered in the frame.

   The upper arm of each oscillating lever 264 forms with the upper arm of a right angle lever 266 arranged behind it a parallelogram guide for the supporting frame 265 of the pressure cylinder, with a view to attracting the latter by back out of the write position, and bring it back to that write position. The lower arm of each angle lever 266 is connected to a strong spring which provides the action contact with the cam or ramp control. As can be seen, the cams 263 push back the support frame 265, due to their shape. to the printing position, after which the carrier frame returns by recall to its starting position. The guides of the ink ribbon are so arranged that they follow the writing roller during its back-and-forth movements.



  Consequently, the ink ribbon is usually located at such a distance from the character carriers 13 that it cannot be hooked by any protruding characters.



  It is only when the carrier frame 265 is pushed back into the printing position that the ink ribbon guides are also pushed forward, so that the ink ribbon itself comes into close proximity to the characters in. so that these can be brought into play for printing under the action of the hammer mechanism.



   If desired, the writing roll can be subdivided / commuted.



   The control of the supporting frame of the writing roller 65 which has just been described allows in the simplest way the actuation of the known sector locking brackets which, during the totalization work

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 prevent the sectors from being thrown forward under the action of their spring, to their extreme position, when the feed wheels are returned.



   The frame 265 carries extensions on which are fixed plates 268 extending forwards (see Fig. 30), plates which are guided on a tenon of the frame, at one of their ends, by means of 'a slit.



  Thanks to the movement of the plates 268 the sector locking brackets are made operative during the totalization work.



  During tabulation, these locking calipers must remain inoperative. For this reason, a device controlled by the shaft of the pipes is provided, which makes the locking brackets operative during the totalization work.



  When the totals shaft 220 (see Fig. 31) is rotated, it causes the lowering of a hook 270. This belongs to an arm of the shaft causing the engagement of the locking brackets. . When the hook is lowered, it engages a tenon fixed to a posterior extension of the frame 265. When the frame moves forward, the hook is driven, and the shaft making the locking brackets operants is rotated. As this movement takes place immediately before the printing operation, that is to say before disengaging the feed wheels, the locking calipers are therefore engaged in due time.



  In the meantime, frame 265 rolls back, before the tab sectors have been recalled to the starting position, that is, before the locking clips can be released. For this reason, the stirrup shaft

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 lock is immobilized in its disengaged position.



  For this purpose, a pawl 871 is provided which is generally inoperative and is subjected to the action of a spring, which pawl reaches the latching position because it is held by a spring in action with a pin belonging to the rod which causes the lowering of the hook 270. The pawl 271 engages behind an arm belonging to the shaft of the locking brackets, as soon as the frame 265 of the writing roller moves forward. The locking caliper shaft thus remains locked in the operative position until the totals shaft 220 comes back, or, in other words, until the main drive shaft 37, when totalization work, has almost reached its original position.

   When the totals shaft 220 comes back, the pawl 271 is released, and the hook 270 is raised, so that the shaft of the locking calipers is released, and the latter returns to its starting position. , under the action of a spring. This can be seen, and thanks to the arrangement described above, the rear return springs of the characters are made superfluous, since it is irrelevant that said characters, at the moment of the oscillation of the sectors are in the retracted or advanced position.



   Line spacing mechanism.



   Tables to be printed using the tabulator differ to a very large extent in their layout. It is sometimes necessary to print items and totals in regular succession,

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 on an endless belt, with constant line spacing. Frequently, however, the totals must be distinguished from the items by a larger line spacing. Sometimes, also, a larger line spacing should be caused when printing a specific number of items. When printing on prepared tapes, the first item of a given position should usually come below the designation, or header.



   All of these different arrangements therefore require different line spacing. For this purpose, the leading mechanism is preferably established as an interchangeable group. For divided writing rolls, two such groups will be used, each controlling one half of the writing roll. The frame of the tabulating machine is provided with the necessary mounting fittings, holes, tenons, and other means allowing the different groups and the organs which belong to it to be placed therein, without other difficulties, and without only this effect. , nn must carry out a special preparation of the frame.



   The same is true for the writing rollers, which are generally mounted so as to be able to slide longitudinally in their frame. Different writing roll frames can be exchanged for each other.



   In the description which follows, the interline mechanism belonging to the Powers tabulator machine will be considered as known. The leading mechanism shown in Fig. 32, and of which the angle lever 280 corresponds to the lever 84 of the mechanism in question, differs from the arrangement

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 adopted in the Powers machine in that only a single interline pawl is provided, the stroke of which can be modified by the Variation of the limitation of the angular path of the lever 280, so as to vary accordingly the 'line spacing. In particular, these are two different settings.

   If the slider 284 which carries the stop block and which is guided vertically on the machine frame by means of slots and bolts, which slider is elastically drawn upwards by the action of a spring, is at its extreme low position, the stop block is placed below the angle lever 280, so that the latter can complete its longest stroke. The arrangement is such that a double space is thus produced. If the cursor 284 is at the upper position visible in FIG. 32, we will obtain the single line spacing. Suitably, the control of the lever 220, deviating from that belonging to the device mentioned, is provided by a cam wedged on the shaft 37.



   A key 288, which can be pushed back to different strokes, and capable of taking a total of three adjustment positions, controls the stop block 284 as will be described below, in such a way that: 1 A Interline loss, when key 288 is fully depressed.



   2) Single line spacing, when printing stations, and double line spacing after printing the totals, when key 288 takes an intermediate position,

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3) Single continuous line spacing when the key
288 is drawn in first position.



   On the totals shaft 220 which is set in rotation with each totalisation work, there is a free angle lever 286 whose arm facing upwards is in the path of the rod of the key 288, and whose horizontal arm is engaged on a tenon belonging to the cursor 284 <If key 288 is fully depressed, ebrew lever 286 will be moved to its maximum stroke in a clockwise direction, so that its horizontal arm will fully lower stop slider 284. .



  This has the consequence that the right angle lever 280 will be able to accomplish its maximum stroke, and will cause the control in double spacing. The angle lever 286 carries a tenon which can come to bear against a pawl 323 undergoing the tension of a spring, and which is rotatably mounted on an arm of the totals shaft 220. The touch rod 288 carries an arm 324 , which, in the outer position of the key, is in the path of the lower arm of the pawl 323.



  The operations which take place when the key 288 is placed in the extreme retracted position are as follows: the cursor 284 is in the position shown, and the single line spacing is obtained when the stations are printed. If the totals shaft 220 is rotated in the direction of clockwise movement, for totalization, it drives the pawl 323 mounted on its arm, the pawl of which one end meets the arm 324, so that said pawl is set in oscillation, and is released from the tenon of the arm 286. Consequently, the totals shaft is no longer able to make the lever oscillate.

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 squaring 286 during the totalizing work, so that said squaring lever releases cursor 284 to its full interline position.

   So we always get this single line spacing.



   At the middle position of key 288, its bra 324 is not in the path of pawl 323. The right lever 286 is not moved by a sufficient amount to cause double spacing. This gives the single line spacing when printing the positions. If, however, the totals shaft 220 is rotated, it using the pawl drives the angle lever 286, and thereby controls the slider 284 to bring it to the double-spaced position, so that we obtain a larger interval, in the table, after the tttal of a group and before the start of the following group.



   Advancement or transport of paper.



   It is sometimes desirable to use previously printed forms, consisting either of loose sheets or else of a continuous strip, for example when it comes to preparing invoices. In either case, it is desirable to provide for this purpose an auxiliary transport or advancement device which rapidly brings each form into print position for the first line thereof.



   Such an auxiliary transport device is shown in elevation in FIG. 37, and in plan in FIG. 38.



  On the shaft of the paper-holder roll is fixed a pinion which meshes with a toothed wheel 292. The toothed rune can be rotated by hand, by acting on a hand crank 293, undergoing the tension of a spring. This crank

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 carries an advancement pawl 294 undergoing the action of a spring, pawl by means of which it can engage in the teeth of the wheel 292. Beside the wheel 292 is arranged a fixed sector on which a return lever 295 can be set. This is so set up that its position corresponds to the length of the formula. The sector can be provided with a division which facilitates the adjustment of the stop according to different lengths of formulas. The pawl 294 can take two positions.

   At one of these, it engages in the toothing of wheel 292, and at the other of its positions, and as shown in FIG. 37, it is released from said denture. A locking lever 293a serves to immobilize the pawl in its two positions. In addition, a fixed anterior stop 296 is provided. As soon as the crank 293, by virtue of its swing to the left, has reached the position where the locking lever 293a which is mounted on it meets the anterior stop. 296, said locking lever is lifted and itself causes the release of the advancing pawl 294, by means of a connecting spring.



  The locking lever and the advancing pawl then remain in the reciprocal position which they have just taken, and which is shown in FIG. 37. If the crank is then moved again, and if the pawl 294 meets the rear return lever 295, this pawl 294 is again engaged. Using the crank, we can therefore print on the paper holder roll a determined number of rotations, a number fixed by the adjustment of the stopper or rear return lever 295 This ration can be so adjusted that it will be sufficient to bring

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 a formula engaged in the machine with its first printing line below the header in the writing position.



  The device is also capable of ensuring writing on a continuous strip, subdivided into formulas, and of causing the last movement of advance by hand, necessary to bring the following formula into the writing position, to allow the printing of the next group of stations, after printing the previous form which will indicate the group of stations, and the corresponding total. At the start of printing posts, the hand crank 293 is in its far right position.

   The paper holder roll is then rotated, for printing stations, under the action of its interline mechanism in normal setting, and the toothed wheel 292 is driven, which in turn drives the hand crank. 293 through the pawl 294, until the printing of the total takes place. The lever 293 can then be drawn by hand to its extreme position, and allowed to return quickly from this position. The following formula is therefore brought into the writing position.



  As usual, the paper roll is connected to the line spacing mechanism via a releasable coupling 297, which allows exact focus of the formula to fractions of the normal line spacing. The guiding of the paper on the writing roller takes place in the usual way in typewriters, by means of paper pressure rollers.



   When printing a continuous web, subdivided into formulas, it is inconvenient to have to proceed each time by hand at the end of the advance along the length of the formula.

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  This can be done automatically in a very simple way. The crank 293 is so adjusted that it would rotate the paper roll over the entire height of the formula, if it was pulled forward by hand. Next to the toothed wheel 292 is placed another toothed wheel on the same axis, and of the same diameter, this second toothed wheel, all-in-one, not meshing with the pinion of the paper holder roll, but being in engagement with the advancement pawl 294, established for this purpose of sufficient thickness. The feed pawl therefore couples the two toothed bolts.

   The additional toothed wheel is connected by means of a pinion with a toothed wheel 300 centered in the frame, which wheel itself can be driven from the shaft 60 through the intermediary of the toothed wheel chain 301, a chain, and the chain toothed wheel 61 wedged on the shaft 60. Between the chain wheel 301 and the toothed wheel 300 is interposed a coupling capable of being engaged and disengaged.



  This coupling is thus arranged that a toothed wheel 302 is connected to each of the parts to be coupled, and a pinion 303 centered in an oscillating frame can be engaged in the teeth of the two wheels 302. The oscillating frame rests on the shaft. locking calipers, which, as mentioned above, makes the sector locking calipers operative during the totalizing work, in order to prevent the forward movement of the sectors, after the release of the feed wheels. By virtue of this arrangement, the coupling of the toothed wheel 300 to the drive mechanism of the machine takes place only when the engagement of the

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 sector locking brackets.

   From the moment of coupling, the paper roll is driven until the pawl 294 is released due to the meeting of its locking lever 293a with the anterior stop 896.



  The remaining stroke that still has to be completed with this command is smaller the more stations have already been printed. In fact, each time a station is printed, the crank 293 is moved one notch to the left, in the manner described above. After releasing the pawl 294, the crank 293 returns to its starting position under the action of a spring. Printing of the new station group then begins with the following formula. As soon as the totalization work is finished, the sector locking calipers are again rendered inoperative, at the same time as the drive is uncoupled by means of the pinion 303.

   Thanks to the arrangement which has just been described, the possibility of lateral displacement of the paper holder roll is not hampered.



   If it is the printing of formulas united in a continuous web, it is advisable not to insert these in the form of a roll, but in the form of a stack in which the continuous web of formulas is folded in zigzags. The introduction of the tape from this stack requires the provision of a relatively large cabinet, and flat bottom, disposed on the paper carriage. oi the paper carrier is not capable of moving sideways, the box intended for the stack of formulas can also be mounted on the frame of the machine, for example on the rear part of the envelope

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 which encloses the organs visible to the right and at the top of FIG. 2. This envelope is relatively large and flat.



  If desired, it can also be completed to form a container.



   The condition posed to the mode of operation satisfying or making the transport advancement device just described and in which the rest of the length of the formula is advanced only by virtue of the rotation / paper holder lies in that the paper strip does not slip on the paper holder roll. This position is especially to be observed when duplicates are to be printed, so that several layers of paper and carbon paper are superimposed. For this reason, the desired paper holder shown in Figs. 33-36 is provided with teeth which engage in a perforation in the paper. The distance between the crowns of teeth is thus determined that the perforation wedges with the edges of the paper web.

   The known arrangements in which the teeth 504 are fixed to the paper holder roll fie can be applied directly in the present expected case that the teeth could come and grip the ink ribbon, and damage it. For this reason, the teeth are mounted so as to be able to play radially, and they are attracted inward as they approach the ink ribbon, to come out again after having passed said ribbon. In addition, several crowns of teeth of this kind are provided on the paper-holder roll, so that it is possible to transport strips of formulas of different widths. Fig. 33 shows the end of such a two-crowned paper holder roll 504.

   These teeth

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 are guided in rings 503, so as to be able to slide radially. The distance between the rings 503 corresponds to the width of the formulas taken into consideration, taking into account the width 502 of the rings. These rings are drilled radially and the pins 504 constituting the transport or drive teeth are passed through their holes. To each ring 503 corresponds a cam 505 fixed to a hollow shaft 506 which can be adjusted by hand. The hollow shaft itself carries a sector 507 which can be adjusted by hand and which is placed at the end of the writing roll. The hollow shafts of the various rings 503 are thus concentrically superimposed that the adjustment sectors which correspond to them are juxtaposed.

   Each sector 507 is secured to its adjustment position by means of a pawl 508 releasable by hand. The cam 505 engages by a flange in the slots of the radially guided pins 504, so that said pins are moved radially during their rotation with the paper holder roll. Each cam is of such a profile that it causes the exit of the pins 504 which correspond to it only over a quarter of a revolution. When the setting sector is set to conform, pins 504 begin to exit the paper roll when they reach the write line.



  They then remain operative for about a quarter of a rotation. If the sector 507 is brought into the disengaged position the exit of the pins 504 begins only where the sheets to be printed have already left the paper holder roll and said pins are then moved in such a way that they will again be pulled back into position. back before power

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 engage in the perforated paper. They are therefore only pushed back so that they protrude where the sheet is not on the roll. The sectors 507 allow different settings between the two extreme limits indicated.



  A particular use of the pins 504 is to lift the paper from the printing roll when the sectors are placed in a mid-acting position.



   Date printing mechanism.



   It is often desirable to print the date in one or more places of the report to be made in the tabulator. To this end, a particular printing mechanism is used, activated by means of special order perforations which can be provided in normal post cards, or also also in special order cards to be inserted. Thanks to this perforation of the controls.:, The guide bar indicated at the right and at the bottom of Fig. 39 can be lifted, a guide bar which pushes up a slidable pin 222 in the stopper mechanism. replacing the punching of commands on the card is irrelevant. Any free perforation point can be used for this, for example point I, 45.

   The pin 222 oscillates a right angle lever 197 which, via a correspondingly bent rod is connected to a pawl 342 undergoing the action of a spring. The pawl bears free on the shaft which also carries the return bridge behind the hammers of the printing mechanism. The pawl 342 tends to grip a projection belonging to the oscillating frame 343, under the action of its spring. This oscillating frame carries

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 the date imprint wheels 344 to be manually adjusted. Generally, the oscillating frame 343 is for this purpose retained by the pawl 324 and kept apart.

   It is only when the special control perforation is explored and the guide bar pushes up the spindle 222 that the pawl 34 is released and the date imprinting mechanism therefore comes into action.



   Frame 343 is centered on one of the tabulator mechanism dividers, shown in dotted lines, in FIG. 39. Date printing wheels 344 can be set in any way, for example, as metal fluted wheels. They are held in their adjustment position by means of a spring loaded pawl. One of the two cheeks of the frame 343 has an extension directed towards the rear, having a tenon which engages in the split end of a connecting rod 345. This connecting rod is fixed to a crank arm integral with the main shaft 37 from the top of the machine. A relatively Sort spring connects the tenon of the frame 343 with a tenon belonging to the connecting rod 345.

   Consequently, the oscillation of the main shaft 37 results in the spring being tensioned, as long as the frame 343 remains locked. In its position pulled back, the frame 343 is locked by a second pawl 346 undergoing the tension of a spring, and which engages behind a nose of the frame, but can be released under the action of a projection of the connecting rod 345 when the latter approaches its extreme low position. !! The spring acting on the frame 343 is then stretched, and ensures; As long as

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 pawl 342 is knocked off character wheels 344 on the paper roll.

   The connecting rod 345 is strongly bent, so that it is in itself elastic, and therefore it ensures the withdrawal of the type wheels 344 and their distance from the paper roll, after the printing strike. At the end of one of its arms, the lever 197 is articulated to a rod, which connects it to the pawl 342, which rod is split, so that the pawl 342 can come back to engage when the frame has been returned to its starting position, under the action of the main shaft 37.



   Release of printing mechanisms.



   Each of the expression mechanisms can be released by locking the printing hammers. For this purpose, each group of tab sectors is connected to a hammer locking bridge 21, mounted on a shaft 22 (see Fig. 43). When the bridge 21 is moved by oscillation upwards, it is placed by its lower edge in the path of the printing hammers 16. when the printing hammers 16 are released by their hooks 17, after tensioning the hammer springs. , they can then execute only in this case a short oscillation, and come to meet the bridge 21 placed in the action position, that is to say moved upwards. Many of the locking brackets can be attached to the axis 22. They are then engaged by the fact that their axis is rotated.

   Others, locking bridges 21 can be arranged freely rotating on the axis. They are then engaged by the fact that one causes the lowering of a bar 156 which is articulated on an arm of the locking bridge directed towards the rear (see

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 Fig. 42-43) The bar 156 can also act simultaneously on several bridges.

   If said bar 156 is placed in its upper position, the printing mechanisms which correspond to it are operative, and consequently the corresponding locking bridges "open". If the bar is pulled down, the bridges connected to it are "closed" and prevent printing (provided that some printing hammers do not remain operative because the edge of the bridge is milled opposite of them, as is the case, for example, when part of a subdivided printing mechanism must be able to trigger printing at each working operation.



   Fig. 25 shows one embodiment of the control of locking bridges for printing hammers. At one of the ends of the axis 22 of the locking brackets is fixed an arm 854 connected by a rod to an oscillating plate 360. On this plate is articulated a second rod 361, which rests by its posterior and lower end split on a tenon belonging to an arm 362 of the totals shaft 220. In addition, the rod 361 carries a tenon which is located in the path of an arm of the main shaft of totals 221.

   If one of the totals shafts is rotated, which takes place in a totalising operation, the rod 361 is moved downward, and rotates the axis 22 of the locking bridge, so that the locking bridges attached to this axis are opened and release the corresponding printing mechanisms. In their open position, the rod 361 is locked by means of a pawl 363 undergoing the tension of a spring, which pawl comes

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 engage on a stem nose. The pawl 363 can be released either by hand or by command with the aid of the cards, in order to re-lock the corresponding printing mechanisms. For this purpose, an arm is fixed to the addition exemption shaft 366, the arm whose head is housed in the forked end of the pawl 363.

   A second arm belonging to the shaft 366 is connected by a coupling rod to a right angle lever 197 which can be put into oscillation by means of a guide bar, and by means of a guided pusher 222. in the stop field. When the pusher is lifted, the pawl 363 is released. By rotating the shaft 366, the printing mechanisms, the locking bridges 21 of which are fixed on their axis 22, are therefore released.



   The shaft 366 can also be rotated by hand, by means of a key which has not been shown.



   In addition, the locking bridges moved by the bars 156 can be made integral with the rotation of the axis 22, in order to be able, independently of the bar 156, always to reach the open position when the axis 22 is set. in corresponding rotation. To this end, tenons can be screwed into the axis 22 which will drive the locking bridges mounted free on said axis to the open position.



   It is common for a control of the locking bridges to be necessary, thanks to which said locking bridges resting free on their axis will be closed after obtaining an impression. The axis 22 releases the interline mechanism at the same time as it causes the

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 closing of the bridges which are fixed on it. If, consequently, it is only rotated until it takes the open position during totalization work, or totalization operations, the characteristic signs of groups may, during the first tabulation operation. which will follow, be printed on the line where the totals will be printed later, during the next totalization job.

   For this purpose, it is only necessary to ensure that the mechanisms for printing characteristic signs whose locking bridges rest free on the axis: .5, are only operative during a single working phase, after each addition or totalization work. The control mechanism used for this is shown in Fig. 43 in profile view, in FIGS. 41 and 42 in perspective, and in FIG. 42 with its elements clear.



  The bar 156 tends to move downwards under the action of a spring, but is maintained in its upper starting position by means of an escapement similar to that of a typewriter cart, and which consists of of the two pawls 364. In its starting position, the upper pawl 364 engages via its upper bent or angled end under a shoulder of the bar 156, and keeps the latter stationary. When this pawl is released, it drives with it the other pawl 364, and thus causes the latter to oscillate which it reaches by its finger belonging to its lower end under the bar 156, so that the latter cannot move down that a certain amount.



  It is only when releasing the lower pawl ± 664, repeated for this purpose, that the bar 156 can completely

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 go down. The lower control pawl 364 has an arm extending rearwardly, and which is placed under a tenon or under an ear belonging to a bridge 365.



  Bridge 365 extends along hammer pawls 17, as shown in FIG. 41. When all the locking bridges 21 controlled by their supporting axis are moved to their position stopping printing, the interline mechanism then being released, as mentioned above, the others Locking bridges 21 are brought to their closed position only because of the release of the printing hammers 16 which correspond to them, via the bridge 365. These bridges are therefore closed only after the printing has has taken place, and thanks to this printing, the characteristic signs will be printed on the line which will receive the totals, at the next totalisation operation.

   If some of the locking brackets of the hammers were to be moved to their closed position before the return of the hammers 16 to their starting position, the heads of the hammers could shift said locking brackets, provided that a corresponding elastic connection exists between an arm of the axis of the locking bridges and said bridges.



   The means by which the bar 156 which has descended in stages is raised again will be described.



   On each locking bridge 21 is hinged a long double bent bar 463, which is connected to a tenon of the bar 156 by means of a vertical slot of relatively large length (see Fig. 41).



  The bar 156 is guided by means of two slots, the shaft 511

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 passing through the lower slot, while a tenon belonging to an arm of the shaft 22 engages in the upper slot. When the shaft 22 is rotated to the open position, under the action of the control mechanism shown in FIG.



  25, during the totalization work, the bar 156 is thus raised by means of the arm of the pin 22 engaging in the upper slot that it carries. in this position, the bar 156 is held by the upper ratchet 364 of the exhaust. Bar 463 is drawn upward with a suitably placed spring. If the escapement 364 is disengaged or released by the action of the printing hammer bridge 365, a spring belonging to the bar 156 pulls it downwards, and the latter drives the bar 463 with it, so that 'obtains the closing of the locking bracket 21 eorres- pante :. Fig. 43 shows the arrangement of this spring.



  This extends between a posterior tenon of the bar 156 and an arm of the bridge 365 extending forward. As shown in Figs. 41 and 43, the spring is fixed by its lower end to the rear arm of the lower pawl 364. When one of the shafts 220 or!?! is rotated, an arm 464 resiliently attached to it. This draws the double-bent bar 463 downwards, regardless of the position that the bar 156 is likely to take, and the closing of the bridge 21 is thus obtained, so as to lock the hammers of the printing mechanism with characteristic signs, during totalizing work (see fig. 41).

   If button 465 is pressed, its rear end causes a right-angle lever to swing in such a way.

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 designated at 466 that the latter releases or disengages the escapement 365 or bridge, which has the consequence that the locking bridge 21 is able to perform its first movement in the direction of its locking position. The lower pawl 364 of the exhaust, however, releases the bar 156 before the bridge has reached its final locking position. However, the hammers are already locked in this position, so no printing takes place. By pressing the button 465, an intermediate piece 467 is simultaneously engaged under a lateral bend of the bar 463 (see Fig. 41).

   If the totals shaft is then rotated- an arm 468 fixed to it, and carrying the intermediate piece 467, is lifted and pushes the bar 463 upwards, so as to open the locking bridge 21. When the key 465 is pushed back, the corresponding printing mechanism is therefore made operative, even during a totalization job.



  The arm 464 discussed above does tend to pull bar 463 downward as the totals shaft rotates, but it can be done as long as it or 'is not elstically connected to the totals shaft. the totals tree. Only the spring concerned is therefore stretched. If the key 465 is not pressed, only the printing of the characteristic signs is obtained. If the key is pressed, only totals are printed. The lower pawl of the exhaust 364 consists of two elastically connected halves, in order to prevent the impression hammers from being hampered in their movement by the pawl during oscillation of the bridge 365. inferior. Measurement of the oscillation of bridge 21

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 is determined by the length of the top slot in bar 156.



   No addition command, under the action of the cards.



   It is sometimes desirable to disengage the adding mechanisms of determined tabulating groups, and at the same time to open the locking bridges of the hammers. This will be necessary, for example, when you want to print in the columns of tables, where there are usually amounts to be added, indications of another kind, for example street numbers, account numbers, or other indications. - analogous cations. The control mechanism used for this purpose generally remains inoperative. It is suitably put into action thanks to a particular guide bar brought into play by a control perforation. If this guide bar is raised, it causes the release of a pawl which is generally held in the inoperative position by a slider 380 guided on the base plate of the top of the machine (see Fig. 40).

   If the control perforation comes into action, it causes the slider 380 to move backwards, so that a cam belonging to its anterior end oscillates clockwise a three-arm lever 381 , against the action of a suitably arranged spring. The upwardly and rearwardly extending lever arm 381 thus meets a tenon of lever 54 which, in the Powers tabulator machine, is in a known manner coupled to the control crank of the prior addition mechanism.

   The lever 54 is thus set in oscillation by the corresponding arm of the lever 381 which it

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 that it can no longer be engaged by sector 55 during its rearward movement. Consequently, the advancement of the addition mechanism does not take place during the return movement of the sector 55. The addition mechanism thus remains clear in the non-addition position. The arm of the lever 381 directed upwards engages by a tenon in a slot of a pendulum arm 382. The arm 382 thus arrives under a pusher 383, during the rotation of the lever 381 in the direction of the movement of the needles. of a watch, pusher fixed to an arm of the carrier axis 22 of the hammer locking bridge.

   If the sector 55, at half the working stroke, reaches its extreme anterior position, shown in phantom in FIG. 40, it comes to meet the tenon of a lever with two arms 384 which carries the pendulum lever 382 and thus causes this lever to oscillate so that the lever or pendulum arm 382 is raised. When the pendular arm 382, due to the rotation of the lever 381, is brought into the suitable position, it strikes, when it is raised, the pusher 383 and causes a positive rotation of the axis 22, thanks to to which the locking bridges attached to said axis are open.

   On the main drive shaft of the machine is keyed an arm 385 which again returns the slider 380 to its starting position, after each working stroke, position where it is held by a pawl, until it stops. either released again under the action of the control perforation.



   We know that it is possible to cause the printing of characteristic indications on the line which carries the totals by the fact that the characterization number. of the group,

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 during the passage of the first card of a group, is introduced into the addition mechanism, the latter being placed in the non-addition position until the next totalization operation, that is to say say being kept clear. During the totalization work, the characteristic sign printing mechanism is then controlled by the corresponding addition mechanism, so that it prints the number retained.



  Now, it is desirable to be able to adjust the addition mechanism at will, so that it will remain operative during the passage of each card through the machine, in order for example to cause the printing on each line of the characteristic sign. group, the printing of the stations being ensured, under control by the cards, that either the characteristic sign will only be printed when the first card of the group passes, and during the totalization work, or that still the printing of the characteristic mark will take place during the printing operation of the stations, the printing mechanism concerned being however locked during the totalization work. There is shown in FIGS. 44 and 66 a mechanism which allows these various adjustments using simple control levers.

   The locking bridges 21 of two tabulating mechanisms have been shown which can be used either for printing characteristic indicia, for example of the many characteristics of groups, or also for printing digital amounts. Each of the locking bridges carries an arm on the tenon of which a bar 156 is engaged, by means of a slot. The bar 156 is drawn downwards by a spring, and is held in the high position under the action of the exhaust described in support of Figures 41 and 42.

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  This exhaust is actuated by a bridge 365 responding to the clicks of printing hammers. If the bar 156 moves downward, it oscillates the corresponding hammer locking bridge 21 upwards to bring it to the closed position. This occurs after the escapement has been brought into play by triggering the pawls 17, that is to say after printing has been carried out, as has already been explained. The bridge 21 is on the other hand elastically coupled to its supporting shaft or axle 22. This elastic coupling is suitably constituted by two arms mounted free on the axle 22 and brought together by a spring, these two arms maintaining between them two tenons. , and thus tending to maintain these two tenons and 1 * axis in reciprocal connection.

   One of the tenons bears on an arm of the bridge 21, and the other tenon itself bears on an arm secured to the axis 22. This elastic coupling tends to drive the locking bridges 21 in the closed position and tends by therefore to push the bar 156 downwards.



   A second shaft is arranged parallel to the axis 22, and is connected to it by means of an arm and a coupling rod, with a view to their synchronous rotation, as figure 44 shows in its left part. The arm of this second shaft on which the coupling rod is articulated forms a right angle lever, and its horizontal branch is connected to a push rod 361, the lower end of which engages. by means of a slot on an arm of the totals shaft 220. In addition, the rod 361 has a lateral tenon on which an arm of the main totals shaft 221 acts.

   If to initiate a totalization work one of the shafts 220 or 221 is rotated in the direction opposite to that of the movement of the diguilles of a watch, the rod 361 is lowered, and it makes

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 thus rotate the axis 22 and the shaft which is parallel to it, also in the direction opposite to that of clockwise movement. This movement can cause either the opening or the closing of the bridge 21, depending on the position occupied by the lever 393.

   This lever is established in two parts, and its two parts are capable of moving relative to each other. One of these two parts is provided - 'id' notches or striker $ and constitutes an arm fixed on the shaft, the other part of the lever 393 comprising a handle which can engage in the spoil of the first part, using a lateral tenon. The part comprising the handle is guided on the carrier shaft by means of a slot, and is connected to the other part by means of a spring which tends to attract the tenon in one or the other. 'other of the two strikes of the other part, so that these are rigidly connected.

   The arm which carries the handle has an extension extending towards the rear, and which bears on the same tenon of the locking bridge 21 which is engaged in the slot of the bar 156. This bar also has a projection in hook shape extending forward, and the end of which bears on a tenon of lever 393. If this lever 393 is so adjusted that it occupies the position shown in figure 66, to the left of the second group shown , the rotation of the two parallel shafts in the direction of clockwise movement, during the totalization work, causes the bridge @ 21 to be moved by the lever 393 to the locked or closed position.

   At the same time, the bar 156 is raised under the action of the front lateral tenon of the lever 393, and is retained in its upper position by means of the exhaust. If, however, the lever 393 is so adjusted that it occupies the position shown to the right of Figure 66, in the second part thereof, this oscillation of the lever 393 during work

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 totalization remains ineffective, and the lock bridge: -binding 21, due to the rotation of its shaft or carrier axis 22, will then be opened by means of the elastic coupling 355.

   Finally, there is also a locking lever 394 which, using a lateral tenon and two strikers provided in a fixed plate of the frame, can be placed in such a way that it will rotate and maintain the carrier axis 22, after having made it move in the opposite direction @ to that of clockwise movement. Figure 66 shows the effect obtained by the different combinations of the positions of the levers 393 and 394.



   The levers 393 can receive a position either of addition or of printing of characteristic signs. If those * -CI are in the add position, at which the handle occupies its lower position, the anterior tenon of lever 393 is placed in the path of the hooked projection of bar 156, and prevents the latter can complete its downward movement. As a result, all stations are printed while the lock bridge 21 remains open.

   When the lever is brought to the position where the pinnae occupies its high position, the position where the pinnae occupies its high position, the rear end of the lever acts on the connecting pin provided between the locking bridge and the bar. 156, so that with each downward movement of the rod 361, during the totalizing work, the locking bridge is closed. If the lock lever 394 is in its down position, the device is set for printing posts, and the elastic coupling 365 tends to open the lock pot. lage 21. If the handle of lever 394 is in the high position, the shaft 21 tends to close the locking yoke, via the coupling 355.

   We thus obtain in all eight

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 different combinations of settings, all of which are shown in figure 660
It is sometimes desirable to use, in view of printing characteristic marks, tabulating mechanisms which are equipped with more than one counter mechanism.



  In order to make this arrangement possible, the arrangement forming the subject of FIG. 45 can be used. This figure represents part of the control of the counter mechanism of the additor-subtractor group. The connecting rod 72 which determines whether the counter mechanism is placed in the addition or subtraction position is for this purpose slightly modified in that it is extended backwards beyond its point of rotation. On a plate 397 fixed to the frame are mounted two centering levers 396 connected by a spring (see fig. 46), these two pin levers. eant between them a tenon belonging to the connecting rod 72. The tenons fixed to the free ends of the levers 396, and to which the spring is fixed, enclose the two edges of a ramp plate 398 which can be moved by hand.

   When this plate is pushed back, the level in which the centering levers 396 tend to hold the connecting rod 72 is modified. Each of the two centering levers can be made operative or inoperative, so that a total of four adjustments are obtained:
I) the two levers are inoperative. Normal operation is then carried out) the upper lever is inoperative. In this case, the posterior addition mechanism is controlled for the addition
3) the lower lever is operative, and tends to drive the control to the subtraction position
4) The two levers are operative and we then obtain the non-addition position of the posterior counter mechanism.

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   The slide controlling the plate with movable ramps by means of a rod carries a scale 595, and moves to the front part of the machine, where it can be moved by hand. The necessary indications are given on the said graduation.



   The continuous vertical reciprocating movement of the levers 393, in the operating mechanism shown in Figure 44, while the tabulator machine is in operation can be regarded as troublesome. This control mechanism for locking hammers can therefore be set up in the manner shown in Figures 47 and 48. The T-shaped control levers 492 and 492 A are pivotally mounted on corresponding supporting brackets 493, which are they -same mounted at the front of the cross member 158 of the frame. Each of these control levers is provided with folded down stops acting on the fingers of the mounting brackets projecting forward. In addition, each of the mounting brackets 493 has an arm to which a leaf spring 494 is attached.

   This leaf spring has at its end a stop pin which passes through the arm of the mounting bracket and can engage in one or the other of the two holes of the control lever, in order to retain the one. here at one or the other of its two adjustment positions.



  The control levers remain stationary while my machine is running.



   If the T-shaped control lever 492 is moved to its down position, its downward facing arm pushes back a stud 495 of the exhaust pawl 304, so that the bar 156 is likely to begin its downward movement. The locking bridge 21 then remains temporarily in its open position, since the nose, located at the end of the other pawl 364 of the exhaust, reaches under the lower end.

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 bar 156, and restricts its downward movement. The upwardly oriented lever arm 492 is connected via a coupling rod 499 to a yoke 497, so that the latter, when moving the control lever,

  arrives in the path of the upper projection of the bar 156 directed towards the front. The longer arm of the caliper 497 is split at its front end, to form a fork, and engages by this fork on the rod 496. In addition, said fork also engages on a tenon of the arm 498 , which is fixed to the shaft or rod 496. One end of the forked arm of the caliper 497 extends rearwardly and forms a finger which is capable of closing the locking bridge 81, by striking its tenon 499, when the shaft 496, after adjusting the lever 492 to make it assume its high position, is rotated. The rotation of the shaft 496 takes place during the totalizing work.

   Consequently, during this totalization work, the locking bridges 21 are obtained, the control levers 492 of which occupy the upper position, that is to say the position of printing characteristic signs.



   If the lever 492 is brought to its low position, that is to say to its addition position, the yoke 497 is outside the path of the bar 156, because said bar moves towards the end. low in front of its forward-facing protrusion. As a result, the control lever is locked and secured 1 = safe from movement during machine operation. The lever 492 A acts quite as it is for the lever 393 discussed above.



   In FIG. 48, the parts shown in FIG. 47 have been shown spaced apart, so as to be able to better indicate their reciprocal position.

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   It is sometimes desirable to characterize by special perforations in each card the first station of a group, after obtaining a total. This is particularly the case when the machine is used for printing statistical lists for stores in which it is a question of printing only once the indication of a given commodity, for each group. . The control mechanism used for this purpose can be placed later on the machine if necessary, and can replace the known advancement or control mechanism.



   A bridge 21 intended for locking the hammers is directly connected to a vertically movable slide 40I, by means of the elastic coupling, and said slide can be actuated by the totals shaft 20. On the totals shaft 220 is clamped a mount which carries both a pawl 402 and a stop block 403. If, during the totalization work the shaft is rotated in the direction opposite to that of clockwise movement, the pawl 402 engages on a projection of the slide 401, attracts the latter downwards, and thereby closes the locking bridge 21.

   The block 403 is at the same time placed in such a way that it prevents the engagement of a second pawl 404. The locking bridge 21 is connected to its carrier shaft 22 not rigidly, but elastically, and it can therefore be closed during the totalization work, regardless of the movement of the shaft 22. If after the totalization work the totals shaft 330 returns by a rotation in the direction of clockwise movement to its position of departure, the lower nose of the front edge of the pawl 402 comes to meet the projection of the slide 401, and causes

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 the elevation thereof, whereby the locking bridge aI is opened.

   This results in the fact that during the first ../Tabbing operation following the totalizing operation the characteristic number will be printed, responding to the perforation of the first card of the group. The locking bridge is then closed in the following manner: in the supporting frame of the control mechanism is an oscillating lever 405 which is subjected to the tension of a spring, and which has a tenon placed in the path of the rear edge of the sector 55, so that during each working operation of the machine it is put in oscillation once. This oscillating lever carries the pawl 404 which has already been discussed, which pawl also undergoes the tension of a spring. Thus, with each operation of the machine, this pawl moves forward and backward.

   As mentioned, the pawl is released under the action of block 403 during the totalization work.



  During the next working operation, however, it is no longer released, and therefore engages on a pre .. lug seen behind the pawl 402; it attracts this last pawl backwards after the characteristic sign has been printed, so that the slide 401, under the action of the elastic connection between the carrier shaft 22 and the bridge 21 redes--sells towards the down and close the bridge.

   Printing is thus interrupted during the following working operations * Finally, a cam slider 406 is also provided which, when * !! is attracted forwards - by means of a key (that is to say to the right in figure 49) is rendered inoperative and consequently allows the operations just indicated If, however, this cursor is pushed back, it maintains using a lateral tenon the pawl 402 continuously released, at the same time as by its

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 rear end, it engages under a tenon of the lever by oscillating 405 and / prevents reciprocating movement.

   This has the consequence that the locking bridge 21 is only opened and closed under Inaction of its supporting shaft 22, so that only the printing of the totals takes place.
Locking of hammers to prevent printing of additional or negative items or totals.



   In many cases, for example for the establishment of tables in which the Credit amounts and the Debit amounts are entered in different colonies, it is desirable that the printing mechanism of one or more mechanisms. tabulators is blocked, when the character carriers are loaded with additional amounts.



   The locking bridges 21 of the corresponding tab mechanisms are for this purpose closed by the pawl of the printing hammer of the highest number. In the Powers tabulating machine it is known that the hammer pawl is only released when the corresponding tab sector is moved. For a given magnitude of the capacity of the mechanism / actuation of the sector of the highest digit only takes place, however, when an additional amount with a 9 in the highest row is transmitted.



  In this case, the pawl 17 of the highest rank is released and ', itself closes the locking bridge, as shown in Figure 50, by means of a slot and spring tenon connection. One of the arms of the locking bridge 21 is in fact coupled to an arm of the pawl 17 of the highest rank extending rearwardly, by means of a split bar 407 to which this arm of the bridge is connects by means of a spring.



  The other arm of the locking bridge also acts

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 a split bar. This leads to a lever mechanism 408 fixed to the totals shaft 220. This lever mechanism consists of a square lever and a plate mounted to rotate freely on the totals shaft 220, and connected to this lever by a spring. The right angle lever is itself connected to the locking point 21.



  A slider 410 is articulated on the plate undergoing the tension of a spring, slider which can be carried by hand to three different positions, and consequently modifying the lever mechanism 408 The positions which the adjustment slider 410 makes it possible to obtain , depending on the strikes it includes, make it possible to obtain successively from right to left in figure 50 the following commands:
I) All amounts are printed
2) We print only the positive items and all the totals
3) Only totals are printed.



   Right against the lever mechanism 408 mounted li @ re on the shaft 220 is arranged an arm integral with said shaft. This arm ensures the opening of the locking bridge 21 when the totals shaft rotates during a totalization operation, if the adjustment slider 410 occupies its second or its third position from the right. In this case, in fact, the arm of the totals shaft lifts a tenon provided at the lower end of the link bar leading to the locking bridge.



   If the adjustment slider 410 is driven to its first position, i.e. is shifted completely to the left in Fig. 50, the locking bridge 21 is held in the open position, so that all uprights are printed. .



  In fact, the lever mechanism 408 then kept the link bar raised. If the pawl 17 of the higher row hammer is released, the tie rod spring 407 will be

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 just stretched to this position. At the intermediate adjustment position of the slider 410, the connecting bar between the lever mechanism 408 and the locking bridge 21 can be drawn down by the hammer pawl 17, so that printing of negative positions will be prevented. . when the cursor 410 is pushed all the way to the right, the locking bridge 21 is kept closed even for the printing of positive items, and is only opened during the totalization work, under the action of the arm fixed to the tot aux shaft.



   The totals main shaft 221 also acts by an arm under a tenon of the link bar.



   If the arm attached to the totals tree is removed and the control cursor 410 assumes its intermediate position, the printing of the positive items will be obtained, and the printing of the totals will be completely suppressed. The control mechanism just described is particularly suitable in the case where two tabulating mechanisms serve to cause the printing in different columns of positive and negative balances. The highest ranking printing sector can be considered as a sign printing device, for example serving to print a minus sign. It prevents 1 printing, by closing the locking bridge 21, with the same security as if it had been set for printing complementary mutants.



   For balance jobs, it is not only important to prevent printing of additional items, but it is also frequently desirable to prevent printing of additional totals amounts, and the control cursor 410 will then be. set so that only totals will be printed. To obtain this result, a link is provided by a slot and spring tenon between the lever mechanism 408 and the

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 locking bridge 21. The spring of this link is however chosen weaker than that of the coupling bar 407.



  If therefore the lever mechanism is so set that only the totals are printed and the printing of the items will be prevented, the introduction of a complementary total has the consequence that despite the rotation of the shaft totals 220 or a2I bridge 21 will be closed when pawl 17 of the highest row is released. The spring of the connecting bar between the lever mechanism 408 and the locking bridge will then be simply tensioned. in the same way it is also possible to prevent the printing of positive totals.



   If the character carriers are controlled by a 1 direct subtraction mechanism, the printing of negative amounts cannot be prevented when ordering by the hammer pawl of the highest rank, since the negative totals are transmitted in the printing mechanism with their real value, and not with their complementary value. In this case, the operating mechanism shown in figures 51 - 55 will be used when it comes to printing in one column of the table only the negative balances, and only the positive balances in the other column. The direct subtraction mechanisms assigned to these two columns are connected in parallel, so that they always register the post marls and always contain the same amount.

   If this is positive, it is printed only by one of the two mechanisms. If it is negative, it is printed only by the other mechanism. This mechanism prevents the printing of posts
This control mechanism relies on the action of an articulated lever which is generally rectilinear, but can be positively bent.

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   The control sector 4II (see fig. 51 - 54) of the direct subtraction mechanism known per se, takes the position shown in figure 51 and that shown in figure 52, depending on whether the upright appearing in the mechanism is positive or negative. This control sector 4II controls the generally rectilinear articulated lever. This articulated lever consists of a branch 412 and the branch 415 of an angle lever.
The branch 412 is fixed and articulated at the rear end of a bar 413. It is also connected to a crank 414.



   The crank 414 is freely rotatably mounted on the hub of the angle lever 415, and this hub is fixed to a shaft 340. A tenon and slot connection is provided between the branches 412 and 415 of the. articulated lever. These branches of the articulated lever are generally held by a spring as an extension of one another, this spring being stretched between tenons which belong to them.



   The branches of the articulated lever are protected from movement beyond their position of parallelism, under the action of their connecting spring, by the fact that a tenon of the branch 212 comes to meet the edge of the branch 415. The members can take the position shown in Figures 51 - 53. If a totalization work is performed, the shaft 34 is positively rotated. This has the consequence that, using the then rectilinear articulated lever, the bar 413 is moved rearward, that is to say to the right with reference to the figures. Said bar then reaches the position shown in FIG. 53. The extended position of the articulated lever is however only obtained at the consition of sector 4II shown in FIGS. 51 - 53.



   If this sector is moved to take the position shown in figure 52, at the time of the totalization work the handle 414 will be retained by a tenon duss ector which will enter into

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 a keeper of the crank 414. If alons, due to the totalization work, the shaft 340 is set in rotation, the articulation of the lever will act, and the displacement of the bar 413 towards the rear will not have location. The bar 413 will only be lowered somewhat due to the play in the lever joint.



   The bar 413 controls the two locking bridges 21 of the tabulation mechanisms connected in parallel. Generally, one of the locking bridges 21 is open and the other closed, during tabulation work. If bar 413 is carried back, the relationship is reversed, and the generally closed locking bridge is opened, the one that was open then being closed. Consequently, the balance is printed only by one of the tabulating mechanisms and the mechanism called for printing is chosen because of the position of sector 4II.



  The front end of the bar 413 is, as shown in figure 55, established in two parts * The upper part acts on an arm of the shaft 417, while the lower part is coupled to a square lever 421 mounted freely on this shaft, by means of a tenon and slot connection. On the shaft 417 is further fixed an arm 420 which engages us a tenon belonging to the bar 416 of one of the locking bridges. The angle lever 421 engages by one of thes arms under a tenon of the bar 416 of the other locking bridge.

   Bars 416 are controlled in the manner shown in Fig. 50, so that they are drawn down during the tabulation work of the machine, and close the two locking bridges to prevent printing of - only during totalizing work can the locking bridges be opened * During totalizing work one of the locking bridges

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 is thus attracted elastically to its closed position, by means of a spring acting on the bar 416. If the bar 413 is drawn backwards, the arm 420 descends and the arm 421 rises, so that the other of the two locking bridges is then open.

   Thus, one or the other of the two tabulating mechanisms is each time selected for printing the totals. In the above description, we deliberately refrained from specifying which of the two mechanisms printed the positive balances or the negative balances * This is only determined by the particular application case. binding of the machine.



   Control mechanism for printing the totals of main groups and subgroups, under group control.



   It is desirable in many cases to provide a control mechanism which will automatically cause, when changing groups, the printing of secondary group totals or main group totals, or the printing of both kinds of totals. . Thanks to this control mechanism, and depending on whether it is a question of changing a secondary group of cards or a main group of cards, a different choice of the counting mechanisms to be brought to zero after printing of the sum will be caused. that they contain.

   If there is a change in the characteristic sign of the secondary group of the cards passing through the machine, a totalization job is caused in which only the partial total counter mechanism or the partial total counter mechanisms are reset to zero after printing. of the amounts they contain.

   If, however, it is the characteristic sign of the main group of punch cards that usually changes a change in the

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 characteristic sign of secondary group takes place at the same time two totalization operations must be carried out successively, so that during the first totalization operation the secondary totals are printed, and during the second operation the main totals are printed .



   In the following description of the control mechanism in question, the totalization mechanism of the Powers tabulator machine will be considered as known. In this known control mechanism, a characteristic change of group perforation in the cards passing through the machine results in that during exploration of the first card of the new group a shaft is rotated, which activates a stepped advancement mechanism controlling three machine operations. The shaft of this stepped advancement mechanism carries a series of cams with the aid of which the necessary commands are caused for the printing of the totals. After the execution of the three operations in question, the stepped advancement mechanism is automatically immobilized.



   The control mechanism for the printing of the main totals and subtotals which is the object of the present invention is established in a similar manner. It consists of a shaft 535 set in discontinuous rotation, and on which * which are mounted cams intended to cause the necessary controls. The purpose of a cam is to keep the card stop mechanism in the locked position for the duration of the totalization work. Another cam immobilizes the card ph @ hension device during the totalization operation (Printing of totals). A cam is also provided which causes the rotation of the shaft or the totals shafts. This cam lowers bar 214 (see fig. 61).

   The bar 214 is mounted oscillating and depending on whether it is offset to the right or to

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 the left it ensures during its downward movement the rotation either of the shaft of the partial totals, or of the shaft of the principal totals. The discontinuous advancement mechanism intended for the shaft 535 is thus established, as will be described later, that said shaft is driven during three phases of operation of the machine, for a change in the characteristic signs of secondary groups, and causes in known manner the printing of the totals, the bar 214 not being moved, that is to say remaining in the position to which the tree of the subtotals! was driven during the totalization work.

   If, however, the characteristic sign of the main group changes, the shaft 535 is rotated five times during five successive machine operations. During the first three operations the partial total is printed. Then the bar 214 is moved under the action of a special cam 544, so that during the next two working operations the printing of the main total or the main totals will be obtained.



   To control the drive in discontinuous rotation of the shaft 535 we use a ratchet wheel 536 with three teeth (see fig. 60 ce 65), a ratchet wheel 537 with nine divisions, of which only six are provided with a tooth (see fig. 68 - 65), since every third tooth is deleted, and an irregular ramp cam 443 intended for the automatic release of the advancement or step-drive mechanism. Finally, we. further provides a cam 444 which serves to lock the letter printing mechanism during the totalizing job.



   The three-tooth ratchet wheel 536 can be driven by a ratchet 538 A, whose 145 A mount (see fig. 65) is put into vertical oscillation during the totalizing work by means of a plunger which is applied by a spring. against one

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 cam of the main drive shaft 26. The drive of the ratchet carrier 145 A is known. During tabbing work, the ratchet mount is held in the raised position by means of pawls 541 and 533.

   The ratchet 538 A carried by the 145 A mount only drives the ratchet wheel 536 & three teeth, only one notch for every third rotation of the shaft 535, although the ratchet 145 A mount moves up and down once. during the totalization, at each work of the machine, that is to say at each rotation of the main shaft 26, provided that said mount is not locked. The ratchet wheel 537 is driven by a Dochet 538, whose mount 145 is driven in the same way as the 143 A mount with only this difference that the mount 145 does not have to be locked during wait tab operations. then ratchet 138 slides into the void created by the removal of every third tooth, and therefore remains inoperative.

   The cam 443 with an irregular profile and which serves for the automatic release of the advancement mechanism in stages, works in connection with an arm 153 undergoing the tension of a spring, and which aims to lock in the disengaged position the clips. quest 533 and 541 during the totalization work, and, after completion of the totalization operations, to let these clicks engage again in order to retain the ratchet mount 145 A.



   Enter the wheel at. ratchet 536 with three teeth and the ratchet wheel 537 with six teeth, a cam 444 is provided on the shaft 535.



  This works in conjunction with a lever 540 undergoing the tension of a spring, and comprising three arms, for the following operations:

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1) The lever 540 is used to fix the springs which tend to raise the arms 153 and 153 A. The arm
153 A is controlled by cam 443 A (see fig. 64-65)
2) The lever 540 turns a shaft 340 (see fig. 56) from which different commands can be obtained, for example the locking of the letter printing sectors during the totalization, or the command of the locking of the hammers for the purpose of printing the scales (see fig. 51-55) or ordering other hammer locks.



   The three-arm lever 540 serves to secure the springs which usually keep the stop levers 541 and 542 free.



   On the shaft 535 set in discontinuous rotation is mounted a sleeve on which is fixed a series of other cams. Oe are the cams which are put into action when printing a main total, namely the cam 544 (fig. 62) intended for the movement of the bar 214, and a cam 443 A (see fig. 64) intended for the interruption of the continuous rotation of the sleeve;

   finally, said sleeve still carries a ratchet wheel 543 with eight teeth (see fig. 65). The drive of the ratchet wheel 543 is provided by a ratchet 538 B (see fig. 65) whose supporting arms 145 B are driven in the same way as the pawl mounts 145 and 145 A, namely through of a pusher set in vertical reciprocating motion by means of a cam belonging to the main shaft 26. This cam, however, has a profile such that it does not lift its pusher until after the pusher 530, ( see fig. 61) has practically finished its upward stroke in order to act on the ratchet mounts 145 and 145 A.

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   A spring tensioned stop arm 545 works in conjunction with cam 443 A, which arm interrupts the discontinuous drive of the sleeve, and therefore acts analogously to stop arm 153. The cam 544 controlling the change to the printing of principal totals moves a lever 546 connected by a coupling rod to a right angle lever 545. The right angle lever 545 is itself connected by a connecting rod. the switching bar 214.

   When the angle lever 545 is oscillated in the opposite direction of clockwise movement, the bar 214 is moved to the right, referring to Figure 61, so that then the main totals shaft is rotated when said bar is pulled down. The ratchet mount 145 A and the ratchet mount 145 B are retained by the stop pawls 533 and 534 in the up position, during tabbing work, as mentioned, one of the two pawls 533 and 534 being assigned to each of the ratchet mounts. In addition, each ratchet mount is locked as necessary during totalizing work by the action of a particular pawl 541 and 542.

   The conjugation of the actions of these different organs will be best understood with the aid of the description which will follow of the interactions occurring during the totalization.



   In front of the group control locks 204 (see fig. 5) is mounted a control bridge which can be placed opposite any sections of the cards by means of intermediate pieces capable of being engaged and released at the hand, so that this bridge is set in oscillation by the locks 204 of these sections, in the event of a change in the characteristic perforations which have contained therein,

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In the current case, two control bridges are provided, one of which, or secondary group bridge, releases the stop pawl 533 during its oscillation and the other, or main group bridge, releases the stop pawl. 534.

   Intermediate parts movable by hand make it possible to match the locks 204 of each map field with either one or the other of the two bridges.



   If therefore the characteristic sign of the secondary groups changes, the pawl 533 is released. It releases the ratchet mounting 145 A, so that the latter, under the action of its spring, is capable of following the push-button 530 A which descends. Shortly thereafter the pusher 530 A goes up and raised the ratchet mount 145 A, so that the corresponding ratchet 538 A turns the ratchet wheel 536 by the value of one division. This division corresponds approximately to the division of the rock wheel 537.

   As the pawl 533 has only been released temporarily, it has already returned to its stop position when the ratchet mount 145 A also returns to its up position. Consequently, the pawl mount is locked while the sub or subtotals continue to be obtained. The rotation of the ratchet wheel 536 causes that of the cams 537 - 444 - 536 - 443 (see fig. 65). As a result of the rotation thus caused, a tooth of the ratchet wheel 537 reaches the zone of action of its ratchet 538. The rotation of the cam 444 causes the oscillation of the triple lever 540, the purpose of which has been indicated above.

   On the next rotation of the main drive shaft 26, that is, the next action, the pusher $ 300 (see fig. 61) is lifted, and lifts the ratchet mount 145, so that ratchet 538 will cause the ratchet wheel to rotate.

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 designated in 537 by the value of a division. This discontinuous drive remains without action on the lever 540, since the latter is kept raised under the action of the cam 444. The machine runs empty, at this phase of operation. On the third rotation of the main shaft the pusher 530 is raised again, and the ratchet wheel 537 is driven in a third division, which results in all the cam levers returning to their original position. departure.

   The lever 540 thus falls through its cam roller into a housing of the cam 444, while a tooth of the ratchet wheel 536 is located in the driving position vis-à-vis the ratchet 538 A. The roahet 538 is again inoperative, since it then works in correspondence of a vacuum left in the ratchet wheel 537 due to the removal of a tooth. By means of a cam not shown in the drawing, the switch bar 214 is lowered so that the counting mechanisms of the partial totals belonging to the various totalizing units are reset to zero after printing the amounts contained in. these. The partial totalization operation is then completed.

   If major totals are to be printed in addition to the subtotals, the cams attached to the sleeve (see fig. 62 to 64) come into action.



  If, in the cards which successively pass through the machine, the perforation occupies another point in the field which is assigned to the main group bridge, this bridge is put into oscillation and the latter releases the two stop pawls 534 and 542. At the same time as the main group, the secondary group wnant last is exhausted so that a change is manifested in the perforation of signs characteristic of the secondary groups. Consequently, the bridge of the secondary groups is also put into oscillation and this releases the pawl 533.

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  The two ratchet mounts 145 A & 145 B thus following the downward movement of their common pusher forming an oven. che which, as mentioned, is driven by a special cam of the main shaft 26, and begins its downward movement when the stroke of the pusher 530 (see fig. 6I) is completed. the first rotation of the main shaft, the ratchets 536 and 543 are moved one prant, under the action of their ratchets 538 A & 538 B. The control cams of the shaft 535 (see fig. 57 - 60 ) participate in this partial rotation, as well as the control cams of the sleeve (see fig. 62 - 64). The first fraction of rotation of the cam 544 (see FIG. 62) has no effect as the cam roller which bears on it then corresponds to its depression in an arc of a circle.

   The partial rotation of the cam 443 A causes the engagement of the stop arm 545, with the consequence that the pawls 534 and 548 will be immobilized in the disengaged position. At the same time, the pawls 533 and 541 will be immobilized, under the action of a branch 545 A of the stop arm 545. In this way it is ensured that the two ratchet mounts 145 A and 145 B come into action simultaneously. .



   At the next work light, that is, during the second rotation of the main drive shaft 26, the ratchet mount 145 is first lifted. It drives, via the ratchet 538 and the ratchet wheel 537, the shaft 535 carrying the cams of FIGS. 57 - 60, over a fraction of rotation. Immediately after completion of this partial rotation the ratchet mounts 145 A and 145 B also rise. The ratchet 538 A belonging to the first of

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 these two frames then move in a void of the tochet wheel 536. However, the ratchet 538 B of the frame 145 B provides additional rotation of the sleeve, on a division.



  This phase of work constitutes an empty run.



  * During the third rotation of the main shaft 26, the ratchet wheel 537 is again rotated over the length of a tooth, under the action of the pusher 53 @ which moves upwards, so that the shaft 535 and the cams of FIGS. 57 - 60 which rest thereon reach their starting position with respect to the members which work with them. During this third phase of work, the switch bar 214 is pulled down, and the printing of the subtotals takes place.



   Furthermore, during this working phase, the two ratchet mounts 145 A and 145 B are lifted, immediately after the partial rotation of the ratchet wheel 537.



  The ratchet 538 A drives the ratchet wheel 536 by the amount of one division, and thus rotates the shaft 535 by the same amount. As a result, the next tooth of the ratchet wheel 537 is brought into the operative position. At the same time, the ratchets 538 B drive the ratchet wheel 543 and with it the sleeve carrying the cams of figures 537 - 560. Thus, the arm 546 is put into oscillation under the action of the cam 544, and causes the displacement. - reinforcement of the switching bar 214 to bring it to the printing position of the main totals.



   During the fourth phase of work, the shaft 535 is partially rotated by the action of the ratchet 538 and the ratchet wheel 537. Immediately thereafter the ratchet mounts 145 A and 145 B rise so that their ratchets 538 A

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 and 538 B tend to continue driving the ratchet wheels 536 and 543. However, the ratchet wheel 536 then has a vacuum at its ratchet, so that the shaft 535 does not turn. In the meantime, the sleeve has been moved a notch under the action of the ratchet wheel 543. The cam 544 then releases its lever 546. This is however temporarily locked by other means, of so that the switch bar 214 remains in the position it occupies.

   During this phase of operation, the bar 214 is again drawn downwards, so that the shaft of the main totals is caused to rotate and the main totals are printed. Cam 443A shown in Figure 64 disengages stop arm 545 and its bypass 545 @, so that pawls 534-542 and 533-541 drop again. Because the ratchet mounts 145 A and 145 B are raised at this time, they are locked by the released pawls. During the fifth rotation of the main shaft, shaft 535 is rotated by ratchet 538 and ratchet wheel 537, on a further split, and the entire operating mechanism thus reverts to its starting position.


    

Claims (1)

ABSTRACT. Punched card tabulator machine, characterized in that: I. Its main parts (upper part, directing chamber) are subdivided into individual removable groups, which can be replaced by different groups so as to make the machine suitable for particular jobs . 2. As this is provided with a punching mechanism for the totals cards, the punch punch voters can be commanded at will under the control of different counting mechanisms (main totals mechanism, punching mechanism. subtotals). 3. The said machine being equipped with an exploration mechanism controlling the recording mechanism, a transformation element capable of switching is interposed between the exploration mechanism and the recording mechanism, with the aid of which the card perforated can be interpreted in different ways, depending on the key system adopted. 4. This machine comprising a directing chamber interposed between the calculating and recording mechanism on the one hand, and the exploring mechanism on the other hand, there is provided in said directing chamber a switching member by means of which an element usually accomplishing a given function automatically performs another function. 5. Its directing chamber is provided with a movement transmission mechanism through which a single field of <Desc / Clms Page number 129> The scanning mechanism is likely to control a larger number of tabulating units (sector groups) than is usual. 6. Its scanning mechanism controlling a counter mechanism, it comprises control means with the aid of which the counter mechanism can be subjected to the control of a card field chosen from. will between multiple map fields. 7. The said machine having a recording mechanism controlled by the scanning mechanism, and a directing chamber interposed between them, its directing chamber has an arrangement such that it correctly controls the recording mechanism even if the card explored is placed incorrectly, that is to say rotated 180 in its plane. 8. This machine has a directing chamber comprising an organ capable of acting under the control of the cards (zero stop block) which renders inoperative a unit of the recording mechanism, or part of a unit of the mechanism. recorder (group of sectors). 9. A component which normally renders a tabulation mechanism unit (zero stopper block) inoperative is likely to be disengaged under control of the boards. 10. The machine comprising a totalization mechanism triggered under the control of the cards, sound. triggering is caused only by a change in the group of cards, regardless of the punch key used for controlling the counter mechanism. <Desc / Clms Page number 130> II. The latter comprising a group of counting mechanisms and a totalization control mechanism assigned to them, which causes when the characteristic sign of the groups is changed to obtain the totals contained in the counting mechanisms, it has means. automatic devices that measure how much the characteristic perforation of the cards has been changed. 12. The automatic means (according to II.) Transmit as many times the amount contained in a balance mechanism, without extinction or cancellation of the latter in an auxiliary counter mechanism (progressive interest calculation mechanism) as required by the measurement of the change in characteristic sign observed. 13. The machine having a group control device causing the totalization in the presence of a change of group of cards, this group control device can be made inoperative by controlling the cards so that the totalization is not performed. in the event of a change of perforation in the selected card field. 14. The latter comprising an algebraic counter mechanism for direct subtraction, which can be controlled for addition or subtraction under the control of punched cards, it has an automatic control mechanism which sets the algebraic counter mechanism to intermediate totalization without extinction or cancellation. 15. The said machine comprising two groups of addition mechanisms (anterior addition mechanism, and posterior-) <Desc / Clms Page number 131> its order by punched cards can ensure that an addition mechanism of one of the groups transmits the amount it contains, without extinction or cancellation, to an addition mechanism of the other group. 16. The machine being equipped with character-bearing members, driving the addition wheels, and controlled by a stop mechanism, this stop mechanism can be influenced both by numbered combination perforations and by combination perforations. alphabetical, so that one and the same character holder can print both numbers and letters. 17. It comprises a character carrier which moves them according to the sign to be printed, the characters capable of sliding individually in the character carrier being able to be placed on the writing elements in any position with respect to their character carrier. . 18. The machine having a group of movable character carriers with respect to the paper holder roll supporting the sheet, the paper holder roll is provided with means ensuring the positive guiding of the paper, consisting of pins capable of being removed, and engaging in a perforation in the paper. 19. The paper holder roll is usually withdrawn from the area of type movement, and is advanced, before printing, towards the characters, after which they are affixed with a hammer hammer. Impression. <Desc / Clms Page number 132> 20. Said machine comprising several groups of character carriers, it also has date character carriers mounted independently, and which can be punched under the control of special perforations on the card. 21. The latter being provided with several groups of counting mechanisms (anterior and posterior counting mechanisms) of trees of totals belonging to the groups of counting mechanisms, as well as bodies bearing characters, integral with the counting mechanisms. , each of the totals trees controls means making it possible to make the character printing mechanism operative or not. 22. Said machine having two tabulating units printing the balances calculated from a series of items in one or in the other of two columns of the sheet or formula, the column to receive the printout is determined by the counter mechanism of the tabulator units. 23. This machine being equipped with several algebraic counter mechanisms for direct subtraction and elements carrying characters, assigned to them, a character carrier is provided in known manner printing the "Plus" sign or the "Minus" sign, assigned to each of the two groups of character carriers, and this particular character carrier renders the printing mechanism inoperative, depending on the position it occupies, in order to prevent in one of the mechanisms the printing of negative poses and , in the other mechanism, the printing of positive positions: <Desc / Clms Page number 133> 24. Its counter mechanisms, for example counter mechanisms of main groups and secondary groups, being successively brought into play by a voting device, during the totalization work, the said voter is driven in different ways by means of a control mechanism or discontinuous actuation, depending on whether it has to select or choose a small number or a large number of counter mechanisms. 25. The selector drive is under the action of the device operating when the characteristic perforations of the groups are changed. 26. The machine being provided with several groups of control members, and counter mechanisms assigned to these groups, as well as a stop field intended for the actuation of these control elements, the stop field is adjustable. under the action exerted on it by the counting mechanisms.