Patent GB-367768-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in manifolding devices for use on type writing and like machines
IPC: B41J35/30
Filed: 1930-09-19
Abstract: 367,768. Typewriters. DEGENER, G. 0., 1190, Eddy Street, San Francisco, and ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO., Inc., 2, Park Avenue, New York, both in U.S.A. Sept. 19, 1930, No. 28081. Addition to 352,085. [Class 100 (iv).] Web - feeding and guiding arrangements; paper-supports; line-spacing mechanism.-In the web-manifolding arrangement described in the parent Specification and comprising a pair of feed-rollers, and a platen which is movable to ease the webs, a pivoted frame carrying one of the feed-rollers is retained in normal position by means of a latch which is preferably associated with a spring for yieldingly holding the feed-roller in engagement with the companion feed-roller. One of the feed-rollers may be provided with variable line-spacing mechanism, and the webs may be guided by an adjustable table. In the machine shown in Fig. 1 the webs 86, Fig. 8, are fed over a bar platen C of the construction described in Specification 352,087 by means of feed-rollers 61, 62, the roller 61 being mounted in the carriage B, and the roller 62 being mounted in arms 131 secured a shaft 134 which passes through slots 135 in the carriage and is mounted on links 136. Latches 138 connected to springs 141 normally engage lugs 140 on the arms 131 and hold the roller 62 in yielding engagement with the roller 61. A notched shaft 142 is rocked by a handlever 145 to release the latches and thereby permit of the arms being raised to disengage the roller 62. A latch 163a, normally obstructing the hand-lever, is pivoted on a link 163 referred to below, and is releasable automatically by movement of the link, or manually. The roller 61 consists of a rubber sleeve 90 carried by a hollow shaft 89 which is mounted on balls in the carriage and is provided with a detentpinion 91, a ratchet wheel 102, and a knob 100. The ball races are formed in sleeves 96, 106 which are mounted on split hubs on the pinion and ratchet wheel and are clamped by nuts 95, 105. To permit of operation of the roller by means of the knob, a toothed coupling for the ratchet wheel is released by pushing inwards a button 121. A pawl 124 co-operating with the ratchet wheel is connected by a link 125, rocking arm 128, and link 176, Fig. 25, to a rocking arm 171 arranged in the path of a roller 174 on a line-spacing lever 154 mounted on a bracket 179 on the carriage. A stop-pin 181 is arranged in the path of a plate 164 pivoted on the line-spacing lever and having a guide-slot 189 engaging the pivot 168 of a roller 167 referred to below. The stop-pin can. be turned to present either the periphery or a notch 186 to the plate 164 and thereby arrest the line-spacing lever for single or double spacing. The stop-pin is turned by means of a finger-piece 182, and has a cross-pin 183 which passes through a slot 180 and carries a spring- urged collar 184 for holding the stop-pin. The platen C is secured to arms 31 which are suspended from the carriage B by means of links 33, 36 and have rollers 37 co-operating with cams 43 on a rock-shaft 38, the pivots of the rollers being eccentrically mounted to permit of adjustment. The platen is urged forwards by a spring 169 connected to an arm 166 on the shaft 38. The cams have concentric faces 44, 45 and a cam face 46, the faces 44 normally abutting on the rollers 37 and holding the platen in normal position. The line-spacing lever has a cam 157 co-operating with a roller 167 on a rocking arm 161 connected by the link 163 to the arm 166 on the shaft 38. During initial movement of the line-spacing lever, the cams 43 are depressed, and springs 40 associated with the links 36 move the platen rearwards to ease'the webs. During further movement of the line-spacing lever, the linespacing mechanism is operated, and the rollers 167, 37 ride idly on concentric faces 159, 45 of the cams 157, 43. On release of the line-spacing lever, the spring 169 returns the parts to normal position. The webs 86 pass over tables 63, 64, and around a roller 60 arranged in an apron 81, the tables being laterally adjustable to accommodate webs of different widths. The tables areprovided with perforated brackets 74 engaging a rod 30, and are formed with lugs 82 engaging the top of the apron. The brackets are provided with a block 76 carrying clamping-hooks 79 which engage the rod and are secured by nuts 80. The tables extend into the apron and have a flange 66 and lips 67 for guiding the webs. The webs are supported between the tables by means of arms 68, 70 and 69, 71 formed thereon, the arms 70, 71 having lugs 72, 73 engaging the rod. The margin and tabular stops 24, 26 are accessible through the space between the tables, and through apertures 84. Feed-roller detents.-The pinion 91, Figs. 1 and 10, co-operates with a toothed detent 281 secured to a spring-urged rocking arm 279. During operation of the line-spacing lever, the arm is rocked to release the detent by means of a pin 283 on a bell-crank 251 arranged in the path of a roller 249 adjustably mounted on an arm 247 on the shaft 38. On release of the line-spacing lever, the detent is restored. Web-cutting arrangements.-The webs 86 are severed by means of a rotary cutter 149, Figs. 1 and 8, mounted under a block 148 which can be traversed by means of a knob 152 along a rod 146 journalled in the arms 131. The cutter overlies a knife-bar 132 secured to the arms. Spring-fingers 153 hold the block in inoperative position. Ink-ribbon mechanism.-Carbon strips 190, Figs. 1, 8, 10, and 17, arranged between the webs 86, are drawn from spools 390 mounted at the rear of the framework A and pass through channel bars 192, 206 mounted at the sides of the carriage B and provided with rollers 204, 205 for guiding the carbon strips along the printing line. The bar 206 carries feed-mechanism comprising corrugated feed-rollers 238, 260, the roller 260 being mounted in a sliding yoke 264 which abuts on a spring 272. The roller 260 can be moved to release the carbon strips by rocking a cam shaft 275 by means of a fingerpiece 277. The roller 238 has a ratchet wheel 242 co-operating with a pawl 245 on a bell crank 243 which is connected by a link 258 to an arm 253 of the bell crank 251. On operation of the line-spacing lever 154, the carbon strips are fed prior to line-spacing of the webs. A finger 278 prevents the carbon strips from passing around the roller 238. The bar 192 carries guide-fingers 201 and a tensioning- device T for the carbon strips. The tensioning- device comprises a number of plates 212 having slotted feet engaging a bar 209, the outer plate engaging a spring 223 which is mounted in a post 210 and is adjustable by means of a screw 222. To facilitate threading of the carbon strips, the plates are graded in height. During feed of the carbon strips and line-spacing of the webs, additional tension is applied to the carbon strips by means of a spring blade 215 having one end secured to the bar 192, and the other end engaged by a rotary cam 220. An arm 224, Fig. 1, on the cam is connected by a spring 225 and link 226 to a bell crank 229, Fig. 25, having a roller 232 co-operating with a cam face 233 and a concentric face 158 on the line-spacing lever 154. When the webs are adjusted by means of the knob 100, Fig. 1, the carbon strips are maintained in tension by locking the linespacing lever in displaced position by means of a pin 295. When the coupling of the ratchet wheel 102 is released, the line-spacing lever can be employed to feed the carbon strips without feeding the webs. Specification 276,995, [Class 100.(iv), Typewriters &c.], is referred to.