Patent GB-291845-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in sheet feeding mechanism for statistical or accounting machines
IPC: G06K13/16
Filed: 1927-03-03
Abstract: 291,845. Last, J. March 3, 1927. Statistical machines. - Sheetfeeding mechanism for statistical or accounting machines is constructed to feed cheques &c. or pliable record cards having perforations corresponding to data on or pertaining to the cheque &c. by the progressive unfolding of a band or bands in which the cheques &c. are stored. A cheque 3, Fig. 3, and a record card 5 corresponding thereto may be wound up in a single roll, or in two independent rolls 1, 6 mounted on a common or independent spindles. In some machines a record card only may be wound up in a roll 1, or a cheque 3 may be wound up in a roll, the web of which is perforated in such a way that it may pass to a statistical or tabulating machine to operate such machine in accordance with the data on the corresponding cheque which is fed in associated relation to the web 1, and may as illustrated in Fig. 8 be rewound with the web. To feed a cheque 3 or card 5 from a roll 1, or to rewind a roll 1 and insert a cheque or card in the roll, the winding and unwinding attachment shown in Fig. 4 is employed. This consists of a casing 9 which can be attached to a statistical machine, and is fitted with web winding and unwinding cords 15, 16 attached to spring-pressed pivoted arms 13, 14, and associated with the cores 15, 16 are driven rollers 20 - - 23 around which the web passes. The rollers on the cones 16, 16 are pressed against the roller 20, 21 and driven thereby, and against the rollers 20, 21 and driven thereby, and cheques &c. can be fed in at B to be wound up in the roll being wound, or can be fed from A to a statistical machine. When a roll with perforations has plain cheques wound up therein the roll may be rewound after operating a statistical machine, and the cheques may be led to position B, Fig. 4, to be wound up in a web being wound on core 15, the casing 9 being connected to the statistical machine. Or the web 105, Fig. 8, from such a roll may be led direct to the sensing mechanism 106 of a statistical machine, and the cheques follow a path of equal length through rollers 110 and are wound up with web 105 to form a roll 109 containing cheques. An apparatus for producing side-by-side rolls 6, 1, Fig. 3, with cheques and perforated cards 5 wound up inside them is shown in Fig. 9, and consists of a detachable casing 63 from which paper to form the cards 5 is unwound, and is fed forwards intermittently to a perforating device set by a keyboard 50 and operated by a handle 64 which controls a motor or like device for driving rollers 52, 53, for advancing the cheque. The cheque is placed on a platform 51, and the record card 5 made by the perforating-device. The same device also operates winding and unwinding rolls 54, 56 around which passes a band, or a pair of bands for receiving the cheque and associated record card. A bar 66 operates switch 65, 67, and may cause the cheque and card to pass to a further winding set 61, 62, instead of to the first set. An arrangement somewhat similar to Fig. 9 may be used to make a tabulated list of cheques which are passed together with a perforated record web to be wound up therewith. This web is unwound from a casing similar to 3, and passes near a platform similar to 51 on which cheques are placed by hand. The band controls the tabulating mechanism and then the band and cheque are wound up together in a roller similar to 54. In a further application, Fig. 11, to a machine for assorting cheques and record cards according to data thereon, the cheques &c. are passed from a roll 115 through sorting mechanism 118, and certain of them pass direct to a winding roller 123. Others are fed out laterally by rollers 121, 122, and are passed through other sorting devices with winding rollers as 123 associated therewith. Instead of winding up the cheques &c. in rolls they can be stored in bands folded in any other manner, such as in zig-zag form in a container, and the cheques &c. are fed by progressively unfolding the bands. The bands may be fitted with pockets to store the cheques &c. in correct register, and may be composed of tapes fitted with thin metal, stiff cardboard, or other material spaced apart longitudinally. For stormg two series of cheques &c. and record cards, two tapes spaced apart and connected by cross strips could be employed.