Patent GB-248747-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in manifolding devices
IPC: B41L5/06
Filed: 1926-03-02
Abstract: 248,747. Autographic Register Co., (Assignees of Oliver, W. E.). March 6, 1925, [Convention date]. Autographic cash recorders. - An autographic register having mechanism adapted to feed one or more record strips a predetermined distance upon the operation of a controlling-lever is provided with a guillotine. cutter which automatically severs record tickets from at least one of the strips, the severed tickets being received in an oscillating tray. The register, Fig. 1, is preferably provided with grouped paper strips 27 alternately folded to lie within a compartment 26, whence each strip passes over a guide roller 28 journaled within a frame carried by the writing bed. Each guide roller may be provided with a metal strip-separator 31, and a resilient tension member 32 secured to the frame bears upon the strips and separators to brake the unwinding of the strips. Manifolding material, such as carbon paper, interposed between the strips is supplied from a roll mounted in a holder on one of the side walls. The paper strips comprise a series of forms, each form being provided near its head with a pair of holes spaced to correspond with a pair of roller flanges 58, Fig. 6, on a shaft 52, the flanges co-operating with a feeding roller 36 to align the paper and limit the feed thereof in known manner. The ends 42 of the roller 36 are journaled within vertically movable brackets 40. 40<a> arranged one on each side of the casing and connected to springs 41, 41a which pull the brackets and feed roller downwardly. To introduce the paper strips beneath the feed roller the plates 40, 40a are lifted by a cam shaft 66 provided near its ends with flat-bottomed recesses 70 which engage within horizontal slots in the plates and exert a camming effect thereon when a handle 68 on the shaft is rotated. The feeding roller shaft has a driving pinion 48 engaging a pinion 50 on a shaft 52 arranged below the feeding roller within journals in the side plates 12. The shaft 52 carries a driving pinion 102 to which a oneway drive is imparted by a pinion 124 carrying a pair of spring-pressed pawls 123, Fig. 9, engaging a pinion 120 which is driven by a gear train operated by a driving lever 100 at the side of the casing. The co-operating strip-feeding rollers are operated during the forward swing of the lever 100, and remain stationary while the lever is returned to its original position by an axial spring 101. The disc rollers 58 are mounted upon two spaced collars 54 secured to the shaft 52. An auxiliary roller 60, at or near the middle, of the shaft 52, is held between a loose sleeve, 62 and a compressed helical spring 64, the resulting frictional engagement causing the auxiliary roller to revolve with the shaft 52. The auxiliary roller 60 consists of laminations secured together by a transverse pin, one lamination also serving as a pivoted pawl 95 which co-operates with a recess in the shaft 52 to establish a positive connection therewith. The roller 60 is provided with a flat 72 on its periphery, diametrically opposite to a recess 74 which is cut at one end to coact with a restraining pawl 88 on a transverse shaft 76. Fig. 6. In the normal position the cylindrical portion of the roller 60 co-operates with the roller 36 to feed the strips, and in this position the pressure of the roller 36 holds the pawl of the roller 60 in engagement with the shaft 52. The shaft 76 is journaled between the side plates 12 and projects at one end where it is keyed to a lever 77 which is controlled by the movement of the operating lever. When the lever 100 is moved forward in operating the machine the feeding of the strip is started by the roller 60 and is taken up and completed by the rollers 58 after the apertures in the strip have moved bevond them. The movement of the lever 100 also carries the pin 127 on pinion 110 away from the lever 77, allowing the latter to be pulled forward by a spring 128 until it strikes a stop. This movement of the lever 77 rotates the shaft 76 to swing the pawl 88 within the recess of the roller 60 to stop the roller at the end of a revolution, due to the pawl engaging an abutment in the recess. On the release of the lever 100 the pin 127 returns and strikes the lever 77, swinging it to withdraw the pawl from the roller 60, which is left in its normal position for restarting the strip feed. The cutting mechanism is operated at the completion of the feed of the receipt and record strips, of which the former pass out over a guide 204. In a modification of the feeding device means are provided to prevent the operating lever 100 from flying back in the event of it being released before the completion of a forward stroke. The pinion 110 in this instance is provided on its periphery with two notches spaced at an angular distance corresponding to the throw of the crank handle. A pawl pivoted to the casing and spring- drawn to engage the teeth of the pinion is adapted to override the teeth during forward movement of the pinion and to engage the teeth to hold the pinion if the lever is released prematurely. On the completion of the movement of the lever the pawl turns in the recess of the pinion so that it can override the teeth during the return of the lever. The severed record strip is received in an inclined stacking tray 166 when released by the indiarubber bumpers. The stacking tray is slidably mounted on two bars 172, 173 which are guided within end channels 174, the ends of the foremost bar 173 being also engaged within longitudinal slots in links 178, the other ends of which are pivoted to the upper ends of the levers 134. The movement of the levers 134 consequent upon the operation of the cutter pulls the stacker forward to receive the severed strip and on the return of the levers 134 the jarring movement settles the strips. To prevent a severed strip from lodging at the open end of the trav a leaf spring 180 is provided, against which the ends of the strip strikes on the next forward movement of the tray.