Patent GB-697914-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to a sheet feeding and guiding device for a typewriter
IPC: B41J11/38
Filed: 1950-10-23
Abstract: 697,914. Typewriters. RUF-BUCHHALTUNG AKT.-GES. Oct. 23, 1950 [Oct. 24, 1949], No. 25799/50. Class 100(iv) Sheet feeding and guiding arrangements.-A sheet feeding arrangement for typewriters having means for the individual advancement of two sheets comprises feed wheels 77, 78, Fig. 10, coupled to line-spacing ratchet discs operated respectively by handles 11, 13, Fig. 1, which when moved to feed the separate sheets downwardly to a line to be typed also each winds up a return spring coupled to a line spacing escapement mechanism which is controlled either manually e.g. by keys 56, 57 or automatically at the end of the line to move the sheets upwardly; the mechanism is constructed so that the sheets are automatically discharged after the last line has been typed, and any sheet may be ejected e.g. by keys 51, 52. In the arrangement shown the device comprises a casing 1 having a detachable back plate la, Fig. 10, and two side walls 2, 3, held together by rods 3a and an axle 4 fixed on a lower extension of the left hand wall and bent upwardly and backwardly at 4a to the right-hand wall 3 to allow a platen-width under-copy sheet to be used. The device is adjustably and detachably supported on the carriage W by the axle 4 pivotally engaging a pair of brackets 5. An original (account) sheet is placed in aperture 80, Fig. 10, and a duplicate (journal) sheet placed in aperture 81 of a paper guide 82 so that the lower edges of the sheets rest respectively on the feed-wheels 77 and 78. The sheets are then fed individually, past an intermediate ink-ribbon 98, to the required line for typing by rotation of the feed-wheels effected by the handles 11, 13, the line being indicated by pointers 18, 17 travelling over a scale 20. Handles 11, 13 are coaxially mounted on a shaft 10, Fig. 3, and sleeve 12 respectively which carry gear sectors 14, 16, meshing with pinions 21, 22 secured to line spacing ratchet discs 24, 25 mounted on coaxial shafts which extend from the housing 19, Fig. 1, across the machine to a housing 31 wherein the shafts carry gears 29, 30, Fig. 7, driving feed wheel shafts 75, 76 and a centrifugal braking arrangement. Rotation of the shafts 75, 76 also winds up the respective return springs which advance the sheets during typing and when required eject them, the ejection speed being controlled by the centrifugal brake. The sheets are automatically advanced one line space at the end of a line by the engagement of a lever, 65, Fig. 3, with a member on the machine framework. Lever 65 rocks a pair of control levers 35, 36 whose extensions 35a, 36a engage cam members 32, 33 freely rotatable about shaft 10 and sleeve 12 and cause noses 32a, 33a to engage a tooth of the discs 24, 25 at the same time as a nose 45 of the cam members 32, 33 releases arrester levers 41, 42 from the toothed section of the discs. The discs, in consequence, move one tooth pitch and the respective sheets are advanced one line space. Line spacing may also be effected directly by depression of keys 56, 57 having arms 59 which directly engage a projection 59a of the cam members 32, 33. The sheets can be advanced simultaneously one line space or one of the sheets advanced and the other ejected by the adjustment of a sliding control.34, 34a, Fig. 5, shown in position to effect simultaneous advance and as described above wherein the control levers 35, 36 directly engage the cam members 32, 33. If one of the sheets is to be ejected, control 34 is moved one or two notches of a ball-and-groove locating device 90, 91, so that the control levers 35, 36 engage only one cam member and one lever 37 or 38 according to which sheet is to be ejected. The engagement of either lever 37 or 38 permits shoulder 48a of a locking member 48, spring-urged anticlockwise to move underneath them and so hold arrestor levers 41 or 42 clear of the discs 24, 25 which return to normal under the drive of the return springs. A similar action results from the operation of ejection key-levers 51, 52 which directly engage the arrestors 41, 42 by means of a pin 54. When a sheet reaches the bottom line of a line during typing, the arrestors 41, 42 reach the untoothed portion of the discs 24, 25 and again the discs return to normal under the urge of the return springs and eject the sheet or sheets.