Patent GB-1159474-A (GB)
Title: Fluid Dynamic System
Inventor: GREENE GEORGE BOYD
IPC: B41J23/20
Filed: 1966-08-03
Abstract: 1,159,474. Typewriters &c. G. B. GREENE. 3 Aug., 1966 [26 Aug., 1965], No. 34715/66. Heading B6F. [Also in Division G4] Type-bar machines; perforated record controlled character selection; power assisted type actions: permutation type selecting arrangements.-A power operated typewriter, having type bars b1, Fig. 2, operated by cams S which engage a continuously rotating roller 23 when a type action k enters an aligned slot in six permutation bars d and when a cam shaft 60 driven by a one-revolution clutch 102 presents a flat cam surface 61a to the type action k, is provided with a perforated card or tape reader 107 which selectively energizes one or more pneumatic conduits 149 associated with pulsators 105 such that the latter may displace their associated permutation bars d to effect the type selection. Pneumatic key and type selection arrangements.-Pneumatic type selection is effected by a motor driven pulser bank 100, Fig. 2 associated with six pneumatic conduits 114, one for each perforation in a perforated tape or card, the conduits terminating in a reader 107 which, depending on the character to be selected, enables one or more pulsator selecting channels 149, which actuate respective permutation bars d, through the pulsators 105. The pulser bank 100, Fig. 4, includes six pulsers 108, each comprising a fixed plate 152, Fig. 11, and a pivotal plate 151, the plates being interconnected by a pouch 109. The fixed plate 152 includes a recess 159 associated with the conduit 114 which is connected with its other end to an appropriate one of six spigots 194 in a manifold 189 forming part of the tape reader 107. The pulsers 108 are actuated cyclically by a bar 122, Fig. 4, which is reciprocated by a cam slot 126 through a pin 125 attached to the bar 122. The cam slot is provided at one end of a shaft 127 which is driven by a one revolution clutch. Actuation of the pulsers 108 induces creation of vacuum in the conduits 114 and application of the vacuum to all the chambers 196, Fig. 8, associated with respective conduits 114, whereby selected chambers 196 are vented to atmosphere by spring valves 227 whose coils are opened by deflection of associated rods 185, when a projection 183 on the reader arm 180 senses a hole 204 in the perforated tape 175. The conduits 149 associated with opened valves are thus vented to atmosphere and the pulsators 105 are disabled. Each of the conduits 149 which is associated with no hole in the tape is then subjected to the vacuum pulse applied by the pulser 108 and the pulsator 105 connected to the relevent conduit 149 is activated by pivoting of the movable plate 153, Fig. 11, against the bias of a spring 155 towards the fixed plate 152 to displace the permutation bar d provided with a pair of depending lugs 161, which are engaged by the movable plate 153. The conduits 149 are then vented to atmosphere by a cam 191 which is mounted on a shaft 192. In another embodiment the cam 191 is omitted and the chamber 196 is provided with an orifice 197, Fig. 34, which vents the chamber 196, which has been subjected to vacuum, to atmosphere after a time delay . In a further embodiment the chamber 196, Fig. 36 (not shown), is provided with an orifice 198 which is obturated by a check valve (199) lifted only if the pressure in the conduit exceeds the atmospheric pressure as a result of closure of the pulsator 105. The arrangement permits the pulsator 105 to be actuated repeatedly as long as no hole is being sensed in the tape. In a still further embodiment the coiled valve 219, Fig. 39, is totally enclosed in bellows 213 such that on flexing of the valve rod 209, i.e. when a hole is sensed, the pulser conduit 211 is connected to the pulsator conduit 216 by the open coils 210 of the coiled valve 219. The pulsator conduit 216 is vented to atmosphere by using again the venting valve which deflects the valve rod 209 and by connecting the pulsator conduit 216 to atmosphere. In a final embodiment the reader is modified by replacing the manifold 189 with a manifold 234, Fig. 43, which is provided with U-shaped channels 245, one for each transverse hole in the tape 175 and representing each character on the tape by two rows of transverse holes (Fig. 44) to provide the respective binary states of "1" and "0". Each of the channels 245 is connected to a respective vacuum line 247 which is activated cyclically by a pulser 208 for application of vacuum to the line. The shanks 243, 244 are obturated by the tape 175 for selective connection to the conduits 249, 250 which correspond to the binary states "1" and "0", respectively, and which are connected to the respective ends of a pulsator 237 having a central pivotal plate 231 which when oscillated actuates the type selecting slide d. The pulsator 237 acts as a pushpull device. Perforating machines.-The typewriter is associated with a tape or card perforator (not shown).