Patent GB-555823-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to statistical machines
Filed: 1941-02-01
Abstract: 555,823. Statistical machines. REMINGTON RAND, Inc. Feb. 1, 1941, No. 1354. Convention date, Feb. 1, 1940. [Class 106 (i)] A record-controlled tabulating machine includes record-sensing means, a plurality of designation type carriers settable under control of said sensing means, accumulating mechanism also settable under control of the sensing means, totaltaking mechanism for causing said accumulating mechanism to yield its accumulated totals, and restraining means (546) for preventing the advance movement of the designation type-carriers (195), characterised by means for rendering said restraining means effective to prevent advance movement of the designation type carriers during total-taking cycles. The machine is of the general type described in Specifications 522,512 and 523,532, and the invention is directed towards improvements and modifications therein. The card-feeding, sensing, and change-of-designation mechanisms are of the usual kind. Means for starting and stopping machine.-This mechanism is the same as in U.S.A. Specification 2,044,119, and is shown in the running position in Fig. 11. Operation of button 162 via pusher 166 rocks lever 167 and pushes interponent 156 rearwards, so that under the control of cam 161 it rocks lever 171 clockwise to depress link 173 and rock shaft 107 to disengage the clutch, link 173 being held depressed by latch 175. At the same time pin 177 on link 173 allows link 176 to rock clockwise to lift pusher 166 into inoperative position. A second operation of button 162 causes forward shoulder of link 176 to release latch 175 so that link 173 is restored and the clutch re-engaged. Lever 167 may be operated automatically in certain circumstances to stop the machine. The head section of the machine, including the differential rack bars 195, spring-driven upwards until arrested differentially by stop bars 225 and restored to bottom position by bar 210, Figs. 2, 3, which dwells for a considerable time in bottom position so as to give time for transfer and other operations in adding numbers, is of the type described in Specification 523,532. The code, Fig. 18 (not shown), and code plates 235 are as described in the earlier Specification. If no plates 235 are raised, zero stop 226 is advanced half a space to engage the second tooth of projection 205, Fig. 16, to prevent the associated type bar 195 rising. Totalizers ;transfer; fugitive one. -The totalizers may be positioned where desired along bars 254, 255, Fig. 14, according to the computing zones of the cards. They are mounted on auxiliary frame 265 which can be moved bodily forwards or backwards (left or right respectively, in Fig. 14), by parallelogram linkage so that either the upper wheels 273 or the lower wheels 274, Fig. 24, may be engaged with the differential racks as described in the prior Specification, the upper wheels engaging for subtraction and the lower for addition. At transfer, the transfer tooth 285, Fig. 24, causes the spring-pressed linkage of the next higher denomination to be lifted bodily to the extent of one rack tooth ; the linkage is then moved bodily rearwards to engage the wheel 274 or 273 with the rack and the linkage is returned downwards to add or subtract one. For addition, this operation is initiated when tooth 285 rocks bell-crank pawl 284 to release latch 280 ; for subtraction, tooth 290 rocks bell crank 288 to release latch 286. Link 276 has tooth 291 at each end to act on one or other of pawls 284, 288 to put the transfer mechanism entirely under the control of either the upper or the lower wheels, respectively. In registering negative totals, pawl 288 of highest order via bell crank 292 and mechanism not shown releases latch 280 of lowest denomination to add the " fugitive one." Pawls 284, 286 arrest the totalizer wheels at zero in the total-taking. The means for putting the parallelogram linkage supporting the totalizers under spring tension is shown in Fig. 24. Towards the forward end of each lever 275 is pivoted bellcrank 302 connected by a spring to the end of lever 275 and acted on by bar 305, which when depressed applies spring pressure tending to rock lever 275 counterclockwise. Two bars 305, for the upper and lower totalizers, respectively, are connected to form a frame, spring-pressed upwards, but depressed by cam 311, Fig. 3, so that the bars 305 remain in upper and lower positions for substantial periods during each cycle. The lower totalizers are for accumulating totals. The upper for grand totals. The upper totalizer is engaged with the differential rack bars 195 by the clockwise rocking of shaft 321, pin 318 on arm 320 acting on shoulder 317 for addition, on shoulder 316 for subtraction, in the latter case, links 313, 314, relative movements of which are limited by lugs 319, being pulled downwards, as described under the heading " Subtraction." A totalizer may be disabled by the manual withdrawal of pin 318. The totalizer wheels, when disengaged, are held by spring-pressed detents 323, released by bail bar 335 when the totalizers are engaged with the racks. The operation of the lower totalizers is similar except that control is by arm 334 depending from rockshaft 333. Subtraction.-In each computing field, the two differential bars to the right of the lowest denomination are used to print letters to characterize the several operations of the machine. The lower edge of one of these bars engages roller 340, Fig. 14, and when this bar is raised more than four spaces, lever 341 rises to depress levers 357, 358, also Figs. 30, 31, 32 (not shown) and by depressing links 313, 314, sets the upper and lower totalizers for subtraction. The subtraction control hole is punched in any selected unused column of the card and controls a Y-wire to this rack bar. Total-taking ;timing cards.-Motor driven shaft 185 carries four cams 370-373, Fig. 25 (not shown) Fig. 7 and Figs. 35 ... 38 (not shown) positively actuating links 375 forwards and link 397 backwards. Links 375, 390 have pins 386 cooperating with spring-pressed push-links 383, 391 pivoted on arm 378 on shaft 333, Fig. 14, mentioned previously, while link 397 is provided with pins co-operating with pull-links 395, 402, on arm 392 on shaft 321. Link 383 is normally in operative and link 391 in inoperative position, so that upper and lower totalizers are normally in add position. The pull and push-links are controlled by bellcranks 430-433. Rocking of totalshaft 426 rocks bell-cranks 430 ... 432 for totaltaking from the lower totalizers, while setting the upper totalizers to non-add grand total shaft 427 rocks bellcranks 431 ... 433 to set upper totalizers for total-taking and lower for non-add. In transferring a total from one totalizer to another, bellcranks 431, 432 are operated independently.. Total-taking at change of designation.-Depressible keys 421, Fig. 1, are each connected to an interponent 422, which when depressed one step initiates a total-taking operation on a change-ofdesignation in the associated column, or when depressed two steps, a grand-total-taking, in the manner described in Specification 523,332. A total-taking operation comprises two cycles, (1) a preparatory blank cycle, (2) the total-taking. Grand total-taking requires in addition, (3) the grand-total-taking cycle, as already known. The two or three cycles involved in total-taking are controlled by total-control unit 451, Fig. 2 and Fig. 22 (not shown) in such a way that at the rocking of shaft 425, Fig. 1, shaft 462 (Figs. 22 and 39-44 (not shown) is caused to make one revolution in two cycles, while when shaft 429 is rocked, shaft 470, Fig. 39 (not shown), makes one revolution in three cycles. If both shafts 425, 429 are rocked, only shaft 470 rotates. Shafts 462, 470, Fig. 39 (not shown) carry a series of cams for effecting certain operations during the two or three cycles involved. A first pair of cams, Fig, 44 (not shown) pulls link 483, Fig. 11, movement of which causes pawl 488 to engage a notch in lever 116 to disable the card picker mechanism and suspend the card feed. Card stop 124 is maintained raised throughout the totaltaking operation. Total cams 491, 492, Fig. 40 (not shown) pull link 495, Fig. 48 (not shown) to rock total shaft 426 during the second cycle, while the single grand total cam 502, Fig. 41 (not shown) rocks grand-total shaft 427 during the third cycle of a grand-total-taking operation. Credit-balance cams, Fig. 43 (not shown) pull link 515, Fig. 43 (not shown) to rock shaft 521, Figs. 3, 14, into clockwise position for the whole operation, so that, as explained below, any totalizer having a negative total is set for subtraction. The means for detecting a negative total comprises rock levers 275 of the lowest denomination each carrying a pin 522 which rocks three armed lever 524 into one of two latched positions, that in the upper totalizer in Fig. 14 signifying a negative total, that in the lower a positive total, the operation occurring at transfer of the fugitive one to or from the lowest denomination. Thereupon, levers 524 position interponents 531, 539, whereby when shaft 521 rocks, arms 356, 357 are rocked or not, to set the respective totalizers for subtraction or addition. Cams 535, 536, Fig. 42 (not shown) control holding pawl shaft 545, Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 12, the function of which is described later. At the end of total or grand-total-taking cams 580, 581, Fig. 39 (not shown) disconnect the drive to the total-control unit, in known manner. Holding-pawl mechanism.-A pawl 546, Fig. 12, when engaged, permits downward movement of its associated rack bar 195, but not upward. Each pawl is spring-connected with a control bar 552 spring-pressed rearwards (right in Fig. 12) so that unless detained, bar 552 rocks pawl 546 to release bar 195 for upward movement. Spring- pressed latch 558 can be manually set to counter clockwise position in which it detains