Patent GB-605926-A (GB)
Abstract: 605,926. Typewriters &c. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. April 18, 1946, No. 12042. Convention date, Dec. 28, 1943. [Classes 100(ii) and 100(iv)] [Also in Group XIX] An accounting machine includes means for printing in columns and lines on each of a plurality of inserted record media, feeding means for said record media, and a plurality of banks of control keys adapted to condition the machine for single or multiple cycle operations, and connections between the keys and the printing and feeding means to cause printing in different columns of the record media and to cause variable feed of the individual media backwards and forwards of the printing means and m timed relation therewith, whereby each item of a transaction will be printed concurrently in the appropriate line and column of each of the separate record media. A machine of the Shipley type is adapted for payroll transactions or for the analysis of sales distribution. In payroll transactions, records are made on a payroll summary 151, Figs. 1 and 28, on employee's check 152, Fig. 24, or envelope 154 (Fig. 26 not shown) and on the employee's personal earnings record 153, Fig. 29, the printing of several of the items constituting the pay statement being effected on two or all of the records simultaneously. The payroll summary is printed with an employee's hours at ordinary rates, overtime hours and earnings, bonuses and dividends and deductions of various sorts. The pay check has entries on a stub portion corresponding to the summary and a main portion bearing a consecutive number, date and net pay twice. The earnings record is individual to the employee and receives entries corresponding to the summary and additionally a cumulative total, earnings to date. In place of a check, an envelope may be used. Operating mechanism. The machine is described as being motor-driven but can be operated manually if required. The machine is released for operation by depression of any motorised key in the control rows, which rocks a key lock shaft 149, Fig. 5, to connect the driving motor to the main shaft 150, single and two-cycle operations being terminated by the return rocking of the shaft 149. Keyboard. The keyboard, Fig. 2, islargely self-explanatory, and has seven rows of amount keys 160 to the left and eight rows 161 to the right of a permanent split controlling totalizers split in the same manner. The keys 162 are motorised. The four lowest keys in row 2 are locked out during payroll operations. In analysis operations, the split in the keyboard is between the fifth and sixth banks. The amount banks control differential mechanism of known type (Fig. 3, not shown), which set indicators 225 and denominational type wheels 221 for printing on the payroll summary, the check and the earnings record. Transferring totals. Engagement and disengagement of the totalizers with the actuators is controlled by an engaging spider 251, Fig. 7, in known manner, except when it is desired to transfer a total from a crossfooter on the No. 1 line to the total net pay totalizer on the No. 2 line, or from a totalizer GT3 on the No. 3 line to a totalizer GT4 on the No. 2 line. Normally, a stud 310 provides a driving connection between a plate 315 and an arm 308 so that the shaft 300 of the framework of the No. 2 totalizer line is controlled by the engaging spider 251. The keys 162, 163 control the differential movmeent of a segmental arm 327, in which a notch 337 is presented to a finger 326 whenever the Net Pay key 162 or the Earnings to Date key 162 is depressed. This allows a crank 324 and a shaft 321 to be rocked clockwise by an arm 338 when so urged by a spring at the proper time of a cycle, whereupon the shaft 321 rocks an arm 320 to move the stud 310 downwards to disengage the arm 308 from the plate 315 and to carry a roller 340, Fig. 6, into a U-block 341 on an arm 342, to provide a driving connection from cams 348, 349, driven only in the second cycle of a total-taking operation, to the arm 308 and a crank 304 so that a cam slot 306 (Fig. 8, not shown) causes the No. 2 totalizer line to be engaged with the actuators to receive the amount from the cross footer or from the No. 3 line. To permit the segmental arm 327 to be moved freely by the differential mechanism associated with the keys 162, 163 the finger 326 is moved away from the arm 327 in each machine cycle under the control of a cam 351. Control keys. There are four rows of control keys, Fig. 2, some of which (Fig. 12, not shown) have pins co-operating with control bars or levers in its own row or in an adjacent row, these bars or levers being used to position the related differential mechanism automatically. The differential mechanisms are alike that shown in Fig. 5 being for the keys 164. The zero stop pawl in Row 2 is dispensed with, but the Account number key 164 has a special offset foot 407 to stop the differential mechanism in zero position whenever this key is depressed. In known manner a differentially adjustable arm 416 is disconnected from a driving segment 413 when a latch contacts the stem of a depressed key. The arm 416 positions segments 421, 423 and through an external-internal gear 424 sets up type on the shaft 665 for printing in the appropriate columns of the record material. The gear 424 also drives another external-internal gear 428 to position indicating mechanism. The segment 421 drives a further external-internal gear 434 to drive a shaft 436, also Fig. 105, to control various printing functions. The keys 162, 163 position the usual total control plate 266 (Fig. 32, not shown) as well as type, indicators and printing control elements. Automatically controlled differential mechanism. Depression of the Prior Earnings key 164, Fig. 2, causes release of the machine and rocking of the lock shaft 149, Fig. 5, in known manner, whereupon arms 506, Fig. 5, and 502, Fig. 14, rock counter-clockwise to allow a lever 494 to move clockwise under spring action until a finger 495 strikes the projecting pin 394 of the depressed Prior Earnings key. This short movement of the lever 494 is communicated by a link 496 and a bail 499 to an arm 500 which engages a lug 493 to arrest a plate 492 connected by a pin and slot device to the differential arm 416 which is thus set automatically into the Account Number position, Fig. 2, to select the GT2 totalizer to receive the prior earnings, which are simultaneously entered in the GT3 totalizer because the Row 2 differential mechanism is held by its zero stop pawl. If a deduction from an employee's pay is made erroneously, the amount is added back into the crossfooter by setting up the amount again and depressing the Plus key 164, which co-operates with a lever 510 (Fig. 23, not shown), and an arm 519 (Fig. 21, not shown) generally similar to the lever 494 and arm 500, already described. The arm 519 normally lies in the path of a lug 520, Fig. 5, to halt the plate 492 and associated differential mechanism for automatically selecting the minus side of the crossfooter to subtract deductions from gross pay, but depression of the Plus key 164 limits movement of the lever 510 and the arm 519 does not move into the path of the lug 520 so that the differential mechanism goes on to the ninth position to select the plus side of the crossfooter. The keys R, T, S, X of Row 4 also have pins co-operating with the lever 510 so as to select the positive side of the crossfooter automatically. On the other hand, if an amount has been added to the employee's pay, the operator resets the amount on the keys 161 and depresses the Minus key 164 which halts the differential mechanism of Row 2 in the sixth position. Fig. 2. to select the minus side of the crossfooter. This selection is made automatically when any of the deduction keys of Row 3 or any of keys K, L, M, N of Row 4 is depressed, by a lever 522 (Fig. 21, not shown) similar to lever 494 co-operating with pins on the keys mentioned to halt the differential mechanism of Row 2 in fifth position. After entering the employee's pay, adding extras and subtracting deductions, the operator depresses the Net Pay key 162 to transfer the total from the crossfooter to the Total Net Pay totalizer, the differential for Row 4 automatically going to ninth position to select this totalizer because its zero stop pawl is moved out of effective position by a bar 541 (Figs. 18, 19, not shown) shifted by a pin 392 on the Net Pay key. Key interlocks. Depression of the Net Pay key also rocks a spring-pressed lever 549, Fig. 16, counter-clockwise so that a projection 552 prevents operation of the Minus key through its pin 394. The first three keys in Row 2 are normally locked by fingers 555 attached to the lever 549 but depression of the Analysis key through a cam finger 557 rocks the lever 549 to release these keys while locking the Minus key. Consecutive number mechanism. The consecutive number is printed on the summary 151 and on the check 152 during payroll work and can be printed on the analysis strip 155 and ticket 156 in analysis work. When a pin 566, Fig. 35, is moved upwards by mechanism described later, it forms a connection such that when the main camshaft 150 rotates to rock an arm 564, movement is transmitted to a link 567 to oscillate a pawl 575 to advance ratchets 576 and discs 571 equipped with deep notch transfer mechanism. The ratchets, through the square shafts shown, drive external-internal gears 582 which drive type wheels 583 and indicating wheels 558, Fig .1. When locking pins 592 have been released by means to be described, the consecutive number wheels may be set to any desired number by operating hand wheels 590 to actuate pawl and ratchet mechanism. Under control of a lock 597, Fig. 1, a bolt 598 can be moved out of a notch in a disc 599, Fig. 34, after which a hand-lever 600 can be set to any one of three positions to set the disc 599 and plates 605, 606 (Fig. 37,