Patent GB-933249-A (GB)
Title: Recording apparatus for recording data on a record sheet
IPC: B41K3/00
Filed: 1961-07-19
Abstract: 933,249. Selective printing. BURROUGHS CORPORATION. July 19, 1961 [Aug. 2, 1960; Sept. 28, 1960], No. 26237/61. Class 100 (4). Type-bar machine with additional type-wheel mechanism: paper positioning stops; interlocks.-In an adding machine (basically a Burroughs " Series P ") having the usual type-bars and additional wheels 24 which print on cheques C, as described in Specification 926,980, a pair of cheques feeding stops 303, 304 are provided in the path of the cheques so that the wheels print in either or both of an "account number" space F AC  and an "amount" space F AM , Fig. 10. As described in the earlier Specification, cheques C, Fig. 1, are fed manually from a hopper 4 into shoot 5 from where they are fed by belts to the printing positions, underneath the adding machine 2. To the right of the adding machine are two levers 300, 301, which control four specific operations, viz. (1) printing in " amount " space only. This is the more usual function and controls tend to revert to this position which is determined by control lever 300 being in central position, Position " B," Fig. 5, and wherein stop 303 is raised to arrest the cheque. Having set lever 3 0 a otor drives all the power units including cheque feeding belts 29 and a programme plate 325, Fig. 5, and associated linkages causes stop 304 to be lowered out of the path of cheque. A cheque is inserted in shoot 5 and characters to be printed introduced into the keyboard 3. The cheque has to be correctly positioned before printing cycle starts and this controlled by an electrical circuit (Fig. 11, not shown), which includes photoelectric sensing devices to ensure that the cheque is there and is not skewed. After the printing cycle the stop 303 is lowered by a cam mechanism associated with a cyclically power-driven shaft and cheque passes to the left, Fig. 8, into an angular shoot 500 which deflects the cheque at right-angles out of machine into a hopper 6 and at the same time turns the cheque over so they are stacked in the same order as at commencement. A leaf-spring 520 in the shoot 500 operates a switch which re-energizes a solenoid to effect a further cyclic action and restore the stop 303 to raised position. This ensures that a cheque cannot be caught by a restoring stop even though there is considerable slip between the cheque and feeding belt or if a long cheque is present. (2) The second specific operation of the machine the lever 300 is set to Position " A " in which case stop 304 is raised and stop 303 is lowered. The electrical control are modified and the operator has to depress account key 1011 instead of item 10<SP>1</SP>. (3) The third specific operation, that of printing in both " amount " and " account number " spaces takes place over two cycles of the machine: Lever 300 is set to Position " C." The cheque is first printed when stop 303 is active but then it is intercepted by stop 304 for the second printing. As the shoot switch lever 520 is not actuated in this case, separate means including a switch (SW11, not shown), the central position of lever 300 and position of the programme plate 325 arranges for the correct raising or lowering of both the stops 303, 304. (4) The fourth specific operation is the ejection of a cheque from the apparatus whenever there is some malfunction or the machine is not cycling. This is controlled by the lever 301 which rocks a bail 420, Fig. 5, through a chain of links, including link 425, causing the lowering of both stops 303, 304. Impression arrangements; aligning for impression; auxiliary power.-These arrangements are the same as described in the mentioned Specification.