Patent GB-490815-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to apparatus for dispensing strips of paper or the like
IPC: B41L5/08
Filed: 1937-02-19
Abstract: 490,815. Memorandum appliances. STANDARD REGISTER CO., SHERMAN, J. Q., and METZNER, A. W. Feb. 19, 1937, No. 5070. [Class 16] An autographic register comprises a container for a strip of record material folded into a zigzag pack along transverse weakening lines therein, a writing tablet over which the record material may be drawn from the container, and a guide member in the path of the material between the container and the tablet, the guide member having a sharp edge, prong, or the like adapted to engage in a fold of the strip as it reaches the member thereby to offer resistance to the withdrawal of the strip and to give an indication of when the fold reaches this member and being arranged, for the purpose of subsequently releasing the fold, for rotation or rocking movement, the record material in its path to the tablet passing over the guide member and then turning abruptly about one edge of the tablet into a position in which it lies on the tablet, and the guide member being spaced from the tablet edge about which the strip turns by an amount equal to or an exact multiple of the length between successive folds in the record strip. As shown, strips of record paper zigzag folded into a pack 2, and provided with transverse weakening lines coincident with the folds to provide removable record slips, are disposed in a container 1. Two arms 3 pivoted at their extremities to the side walls of the container, are interconnected at their free ends by a strip - arresting bar 4 which can be rocked about its longitudinal axis against the action of a spring 13. The record strips are drawn from the pack 2 about the bar 4, out of the container through a slot 10, and are then reversely folded about the edge of a hinged cover 5 which serves as the writing support. A clip 6 retains the strips on the cover 5. The edge of the bar 4 is sharpened so that when the transverse weakening lines in the strips engage this edge further movement of the strips is resisted. When this occurs, the previous set of transverse weakening lines coincide with the edge of the cover 5. After a writing operation, the strips can be drawn still further, in which case the bar 4 will first rock against the action of the spring 13 to allow the transverse weakening lines to move past the sharp edge of the bar, and then the latter will move back into operative position. A flanged plate co-operates with the bar 4 to form a restricted space between which the strips pass. The terminal sections of the record strips are interleaved with transfer sheets 7 provided with transverse bars 8 anchored in slots 9 in the arms 3. In a modification, the bar 4 has oppositely disposed sharp edges, and a leaf spring bears against a flattened hub of the bar to allow half a rotation of the latter when the record strips are pulled, the sharp edges engaging in turn the weakening lines in the strips. In further modifications, the bar 4 is rocked manually and is not attached to the arms 3. The bar may be carried in swinging arms adapted to be rocked by a lever situated outside the container 1, or rocked about a longitudinal axis by depressing a knob adapted to operate through pawl and ratchet means. Record slips torn from the strips may be retained by a clip 1a beneath the container 1.