Patent GB-191320372-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Printing or Perforating Adding Machines.
Inventor: FAGUER LOUIS MARIE
Filed: 1913-09-09
Granted: 1914-07-16
Abstract: 20,372. Faguer, L. M. Sept. 10, 1912, [Convention date]. Adding - apparatus with printing - mechanism. - A printing or perforating adding-machine in which the items to be printed &c. are set by means of differentially - adjustable handles attached to toothed sectors which gear with pinions secured to the numeral wheels of a totalizer and with pinions on type or numeral-perforating wheels adapted to be depressed bodily to mark or perforate a strip &c., and so controlled that two or more impressions may be made while the number set is added once to the totalizer, is provided with means to lock the setting-parts and totalizer during the repeated printing or perforating operations. The handles 1 are set according to setting-scales upon the casing and therewith move toothed segments 6, 7, and 8 attached to a carrier 5. The segments 6, 7 engage respectively with pinions on the type or numeral - perforating wheels 10 and with pinions on the totalizerwheels 12, and the segment 8 is adapted to be engaged by a part 64 for the purpose of locking the setting-parts during the operation of the printing - mechanism. The setting-parts and type-wheels are carried by a vertically-adjustable carriage 17 controlled by springs. The carriage has a roller 24 which, on the downward movement of the carriage, moves an inking- roller 26 away from the type-wheels. On the spindle of the roller are pivoted two connecting- rods 28, 29. The rod 28 during its reciprocation with the carriage is oscillated by means of a spring-controlled lever 46 engaging one or other of a pair of pins 43, 44, and by means of pins 37, 38 on the rod 28 a ratchet - wheel 36 is rotated to operate a cam 35, which acts on a pin 39 secured to a member 30 in order to draw the member 30 away from a groove 31 during the first printing operation and to move it into the path of a finger 32, sliding in the groove, at the final operation. The arrest of the finger 32 during the final upward movement effects the return to normal position of the setting- parts by means of an arm pivoted to the finger 32 and an arm 34 pivoted at 2 and carrying a universal bar 16. The connecting-rod 29 moves in a similar manner to the rod 28 and rotates a cam 53 having a pinion attached thereto to rotate a second cam 56. The cam 53 operates an arm 60 pivoted to a spindle 61 which is provided with two arms 62 connected by a rod 63 adapted to act upon the arm 64 and to cause it to engage the teeth of the segment 8 to lock the parts during the operation of the carriage. The rise of the spindle 2 is arrested by the cam 56, and thus prevents the engagement of the actuating - segments with the totalizer and its transfer mechanism during the printing operation. The cams and operating-arrangements therefor, as shown, are designed to enable two impressions to be made for a single addition of the item to the totalizer. Transfer mechanism.-Transfer is effected by means of a pin 69 on the lower numeral-wheel which is adapted to engage a plate 70 pivoted at 71 and carrying a pawl 72 to engage the next higher wheel and having a projection 75 which is moved by the rocking of the plate 70 into the path of, and is operated by, staggered projections 76 on a sleeve 77 secured to a spindle 23 rotated by means of a'rack 21. The plates 70 are returned to the normal after the printing operation by means of a rod 81 which is oscillated by pawls on the spindles 23, 71. The totalizer numeral-wheels are locked during the printing operation by means of pawls 86. Zeroizing-mechanism. - The numeral-wheels are zeroized by imparting a longitudinal and rotary movement to the numeral-wheel spindle, which spindle is provided with a groove adapted to pick up pawls on the wheels.