Patent GB-456951-A (GB)
Title: System and apparatus for sorting perforated record cards
IPC: G06K21/04
Filed: 1936-02-14
Abstract: 456,951. Sorting index cards. DESAUBLIAUX, R. R. M., 84, Rue la Fontaine, Paris. Feb. 14, 1936, Nos. 4597 and 4598. Convention dates, Feb. 15, 1935 and Jan. 22, 1936. [Class 106 (i)] Apparatus for manually sorting perforated record cards wherein selecting rods are passed through characteristic holes and the cards to be selected are moved laterally with respect to the unwanted cards, the card-container remaining in its normal position in relation to a horizontal plane, is characterized in that the record cards are moved by laterally - displaceable driving cards which are adjacent the record cards. In the first construction, the driving cards F are moved transversely by a common rod R engaging all the cards F. In a second construction, the driving cards 70 are carried in an inner box movable transversely of the outer box by linkage 40, 45, 33 and a hand lever 30, 31. In Figs. 1-4, the front and rear plates B, B1 of box A have rows of holes T1 ... T4 corresponding to holes t1 ... t4 in the index or record cards f, which also have each a tongue C and hole D. The driving cards F, of which there is one between each two adjacent cards f, have slots F1 ... F4 registering with holes T1 &c. and have each two portions O1, 02 resting on shoulders S1, S2 of the box. To allow for the thickness of the record cards f and to prevent the friction being too great, the portions 01,02 are thicker than the remainder of cards F. The characteristics are marked on the record cards f by forming slots f1 . . . f4 from one hole to another hole in the same horizontal row. To select, say, all cards f with slots f1, a rod 21, Fig. 4, is passed through the holes, as shown, in plates B, B1 and all cards F and f. Bar R is then used to move all the driving cards F to the left so that record cards with slots f1 are also moved by friction to the left for the length of slots f1 and all other cards f are held by rod 21 and their unslotted holes. Cards f could thus be moved to the left, or right, for the pitch distance a or a multiple thereof. In a modification, Figs. 6, 7, 9 and 10, the record cards 65, Fig. 9, co-operate with rods 21 as before, but the cards 65 and their driving cards 70, Fig. 10, are carried in an inner box which rests between upstanding lugs 36, 37, 38 on a skeleton frame 35 which is movable on rollers transversely of the outer, main box. The inner box may thus be readily replaced by other boxes of record and driving cards. The frame 35 is moved transversely by linkage 33, 45, 42, 40 actuated by a hand lever 30, 31 pivoted at 29 on a cross-bar 27 of the outer case. The selecting rods 21 are carried in a front, perforated plate 16 which may slide towards and away from the outer-case front plate 5 by means of rods 14, 15 sliding in tubes 12, 13 so that a particular arrangement of rods 21 may be preserved whilst the inner box is changed. The driving cards 70 fit closely in the inner box and have apertures 74 through which are threaded two bars on the inner box. These two bars also support the side pieces 69, 691 of each second card 65 ; the main part of each record card is not so wide as the driving cards so as to allow lateral movement relatively thereto.