US933942A - Billing attachment for type-writers. - Google Patents

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H. B. YOUNG. BILLING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE WRITERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1908.

933,942. Patnted Sept. 14, 1909.

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HARRY B. YOUNG, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE OLIVER TYPENRITER BILLING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE-WRITEES v Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14:, race.

Application filed June 10, 1908. Serial No. 487,758.

To all whom z't may concern: a

3e it known that l, HARRY B. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvenunits in Billin Attachments for Type-Writers, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionis a billing attachment for typewriters, and has for its object to provide an attachment particularly adapted for use when a series of bills is to be copied onto a single larger sheet.

T he device comprises an indicator which after one bill is copied on the sheet will show where another bill may be started. This will prevent loss of space on the copy sheet incident to spacing the originals farther apart than necessary, and will also avoid running the matter of different bills together on the copy sheet. The matter of the sevcral bills will be regularly spaced apart at equal distances, irrespective of the number of items appearing on any particular bill.

The invention will be understood from the following description and the accompanying drawings. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of part of a typewriter carriage with the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a partial front elevation. Fig. 3 is an end view.

' In the drawings, the invention is shown as applied to an Oliver ltypewriter, but itmay be applied to other kinds with little or no modification, and no limitation is UDplIQ-(l with respect to the particular machine on which it may be used.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 1 indicates the end frame of the carriage, and this supports the platen 13 mounted on shaft 12 which may be turned by the knob 11. Mounted on the shaft 12, beside the frame 1, is a gear wheel 10 which meshes with a gear 8 which in turn mesheswith a gear The gear 8 is supported by one angle 1% etc bracket, and the gear 5 is supported by the other angle l thereof, the bracket being tastened to the outer side of the end frame 1,

with the wheels 8 and 5 at a right angle to each other. The former is mounted on -a stud 9 and the latter on a stud 16. The wheel 5 is a dial wheel, having on its front side a row of numbers corresponding to the line spaces of the machine, and by the mechanism described the dial wheel is turned simultaneously with the platen. The stud 16 supports a movable pointer. 7 and a fixed pointer 6, in front. of the dial.

in use,-the original bill 73, the carbon paper 9, and the copy'sheet (which may be a sheet from a loose leaf book, for example) are insorted within the machine in the usual way. The address and other items typewritten on the bill or original are duplicated onthe copy sheet It, the name of the buyer appearing, say, at the place a and the items at f. After one bill is completed it is pulled outand the number a p pearing on the disk wheel 5 at the pointer (Sis reversed back to the pointer '7' by turning the knob 11, the latter pointerhaving been seta distance from the former equal to the length ofthe bill head. When the plat-en is so reversed the sheet h and the carbon 5 are turned back accordingly; and a new bill form is inserted, as shown in Fig. 1 and turned up to the end of the heading of the bill, and then typewritten. The bill head thus overlaps the matter copied from the former bill and space of the bill head is thus saved. The pointer 7 setaccording to the length of the bill head,

and when once set it will not have to be" changed unless a new length of bill'is used. If desired, two pointers 7- can be used, for two sizes of bill heads.

The device will be found very useful for copying on onesheet matter appearing on several bill headsor letter heads, and it will save time and danger of mistakesor running difierent matter together in such work.

I claim:

1. An attachment ,for typewriters, comprising a dial wheel mounted on the carriage frame and having a series of marks corresponding to the line spaces, and geared to the platen, and pointers for the dial, on pointer being fixed with respect to the dial, and the other being settable with respect thereto and remaining at set position withframe o1 the carriage, a dial rotatably mounted on said bracket and geared to the platen shaft, and fixed and movable pointers for the (liahthe movement of the latter being independent of the rotation of the platen I shaft.

3. An attachment for typewriters, com prising an angular bracket one arm of which llU is fixed'to the end frame of the typewriter the dial, comprising a-gear fnounfied on' said carriage and the other arm of which rojects fixed arm. v outwardly therefrom, a rotatable m1 and In testimony whereof I afiix my signature,-'. pointers therefor supported by said projectin presenceof two witnesses. mg arm, one pointer. being settable with re- HARRY B. YOUNG. spect to the dial but non-rotatable therewith, Witnesses: r

a gear wheel on the laten shaft of the type- F. J. SKEEL,

Writer, and gearing etween said Wheel and l Mormon E.'M1LLpR.

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