Patent GB-692560-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in registering or recording apparatus
Inventor: LANGRISH EDWARD KENNETH
IPC: B41L5/00
Filed: 1949-11-10
Abstract: 692,560. Book-keeping appliances; filing papers. CAKEBREAD, Ltd., C. Feb. 12, 1951. [Nov. 10, 1949] No. 28893/49. Classes 16 and 146 (i). In manifolding apparatus in which an inscription on one form is reproduced on one or more other forms by carbon paper or a carbon coating between the forms, and which has means for holding a record form and guiding it over a support and a holder for a pad of receipts, tickets or other voucher forms, the pad is pressed upwards by a spring-urged plate in the holder so that its opposite edges bear against two retractable lips. The voucher 'forms in a pad 9 may be perforated at one end to fit on pins 21, Fig. 1, in the pad holder and may have slots 57 : thus a meter- or other card to receive a further copy of the inscription may be inserted beneath the top form of the pad and that part visible through the slot 57 may be used to locate it ; in this case the backs of the voucher forms may be partially or wholly carbon coated. In the device shown a main body 1 of segmental cross-section (Fig. 2) is encircled by a record form 19 whose ends are stuck together to form an endless band passing over rollers 11, 12 at the edges of top and bottom panels 2, 5 and protected by a cover comprising a fixed back 16 and hinged flaps 17, 18, e.g. with transparent plastic windows. A trough 8 for the pad 9 is sunk between the panels 2 and a plate 25 therein pressed upwards by springs 29 and manually lowered by pulling out a release lever 39 supports a removable plate 20 carrying the pins 21 which is held in place by a nut 23 on its threaded pin 22 projecting through a slot 24, Fig. 3, in the wall 3 ; the springs 29 press the pad 9 up against a fixed bridge piece 54 (slotted at 56 for the pins 21), and against the lips 48 of sliding spring-loaded stop plates 43 which project over the top edges of the trough 8 and are also retracted by the release lever 39 ; a guide strip 51, with a legend or scale 52 to identify the columns to receive entries, extends across the apparatus, behind the trough 8. The connections between the lever 39. which has cam faces 41 bearing on the wall 4, and the plates 25, 43 are via a spring- loaded rod 38, Fig. 3, connected by a cross-bar 37 to plates 32, Fig. 2, slotted to slide horizontally on screws 33 and having triangular cam-slots whose upper sloping sides depress the ends of cross-bars 26 secured by brackets 27 to the plate 25 ; cam lugs 50 on the plates 32 act on studs.45 projecting through slots in the top panels 2 from the plates 43. According to the Provisional Specification the plate 25 is fixed and pairs of spring-loaded pivoted fingers project upwards through short slots therein from longitudinally slidable carrier members fixed at intervals along a central operating rod having a knob projecting from one end of the trough by which it may be moved, against a spring, to retract the fingers below the slotted plate ; the two end carrier members are extended through slots in the trough sides and are fitted with cam plates having inclined slots which engage the studs 45 of the stop plates 43.