Patent GB-229616-A (GB)
Abstract: 229,616. American Sales Book Co., Ltd.., (Assignees of Johnston, C. L.). Feb. 23, 1924, [Convention date]. Memorandum appliances; manifolding-pads.- In record-strip feeding and folding mechanism for autographic registers, and particularly those described in Specifications 196,291 and 229,618, a finger penetrating and folding the strip and actuated by the feeding-mechanism is oscillated to and from transecting position with the strip. The record pad is of the kind described in Specification 229,617 and comprises printed strips 60 - - 62, Figs. 1 and 11, folded together in zig-zag form, each printed form of each strip being provided with form-registering apertures 64, and alternate sheets of the strips to be folded as a record after inscription, or of all the strips, being provided with an aperture 66 engaged by the folding finger. The strips may be creased or deformed along the lines 63 so as to tend to fold in alternately opposite directions, and perforations may be provided along these lines. The folded pad is placed in a supply compartment 16, Fig. 1, with a door 20, and is fed over a fixed writing plate 21 by roughened discs 30, Fig. 5, co-operating with a spring-pressed presser roll 26 in a hinged mounting 24 held by a spring-pressed latch 32. The latch is normally locked to prevent release of the feed pressure and to prevent access to a record compartment 17, which is separated from the compartment 16 by a partition 18 carried by a base 19 facilitating removal of the folded record. The feeding of the strips 60 - - 62 is interrupted by the apertures 64 and is started by side lugs 37 on the discs 30, the rotation of the feed shaft 28 by a handle 29 being limited to one turn by a spring-pressed hand-releasable stop 31. Initial register of the strips is obtained by a spring- pressed pin 36 in one disc 30 depressed by the roll 26 and held depressed by a spring-pressed latch 35, but releasable by an extension 34<a> of the releasing button 33 of the latch 32. The upper strips pass over the cover 23 and are severed against the edge 50 of the mounting 24, and the lower strip or strips pass over the slotted curved end 46 of the plate 21 and beneath a guide 49. A folding-finger 39, 40, Figs. 1, 3, and 5, is pivoted to a disc 38 on the shaft 28 and carries a pin 42 passing through a slot in the disc 38 and engaging a stationary cam 43 with inclined and concentric parts 44, 45. The disc 38 is of smaller diameter than the discs 30 and supports the record strips without gripping them for feeding. During the rotation of the shaft 28, the finger 40 is projected by a spring 41 on release from the cam 43, and, if a sheet with an aperture 66 is in position, engages this aperture, passes through slots in the end 46 and the guide 49, as shown in Fig. 1, and carries the. strip 60 transversely and reversely to the feed direction before disengagement therefrom by the cam part 44, thus co-operating with the deformation 63 in advance of the aperture 66 to fold the strip. In the case of the alternate leaves without an aperture 66, the finger presses against the strip as shown in Fig. 3 and then projects it into the compartment 17, the deformation 63 facilitating reverse folding. The strip is thus folded in definite manner independently of the initial position of the strips relatively to the feeding mechanism. The strips 60, 61, 62 pass a roller 57 and a spring 58 and are guided to the plate 21 beneath an apertured hinged cover 22 by guides 52, 53, 54 and rods 55 in a frame 51 hinged to the casing 15 as shown in Fig. 1 to facilitate initial threading of the strips. Carbon papers and the like, arrangement of.- Certain guides 53, 54 are hollow to receive rolls of transfer or carbon paper, the ends of which pass out through slots 56 and over the plate 21 between the strips 60, 61, 62 and are held stationary and smooth by the pressure of the strips. Slots 56<1> in one end plate of the frame 51 allow insertion of fresh transfer rolls.