Patent GB-735484-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to manifolding or copying apparatus
Inventor: SKUSE WALTER RICHARD
IPC: B41L3/14
Filed: 1953-04-22
Abstract: 735,484. Bookkeeping; manifolding apparatus. ANSON & CO., Ltd., G. April 7, 1954 [April 22, 1953], No. 11117/53. Class 16. Bookkeeping or manifolding apparatus comprises a baseboard, a magazine for holding a stack of slips, sheets, envelopes or the like with the uppermost exposed and substantially level with the surface of the baseboard and displaceable endwise, the magazine including a casing having a spring-loaded platform for gripping and holding a stack placed therein, means for gripping the edges of sheets placed on the baseboard and positioning them relative to the magazine, and operating means actuation of which effects movement of the magazine into displaced position and simultaneously moves the platform against its spring-loading to enable a slip or the like to be readily removed from or inserted in the magazine, the spring- loading of the platform being transmitted thereto through inclined or cam surfaces arranged so as to provide resistance to a depressing force applied thereto as in writing thereon. A baseboard 1 of box or desk form has a recess 2 for the magazine of slips which comprises a casing 3 slidable endwise in the recess 2 and having flanged edges 4 each side of a central slot 5 through which the slips are viewed, the edges 4 being level with the upper surface 6 of the baseboard 1. Outwardly extending flanges 10 on the magazine close the recess 2. The end 7 of the magazine may be closed by a pivoted plate 8. The endwise movement of the magazine is effected through a link 15 connected to a pin 11 attached to the base 12 of the magazine and projecting through a central slot 13 in a plate 14 closing the bottom of the recess 2, a washer 16 being secured to the pin 11 under the plate 14 to secure the magazine in the recess. The platform 9, which presses against the flanges 4 when the magazine is empty, is mounted on posts 17 which project through holes in the base 12 and slots 13 in the plate 14, the posts 17 having slots at their lower ends to pass over a cam plate 18 mounted on edge in. channel-shaped brackets 19 for sliding movement in the direction of magazine displacement. A pair of inclined slots 20 are formed in the plate 18, each receiving a cross pin 21 secured near the bottom of each post 17. A stop 22 limits outward displacement of the cam plate 18 which is urged outwardly by a coil spring 23 secured thereto and to the outermost post 17. The magazine is urged inwardly by a coil spring 24 secured to the same post 17 and to a pin 25 on the plate 14. As shown in Fig. 4, with'the magazine empty, the platform 9 engages the flanges 4 with the pins 21 adjacent the top of the slots 20. When the link 15 is actuated to move the magazine outwardly against the spring 24, the pins 21 ride down the cam slots 20 and draw the platform 9 downwards so that slips can be inserted, and on release, the spring 24 returns the magazine and the pins 21 travel up the slots 20 until the slips are gripped between the flanges 4 and the platform 9, the loading spring continuing to move the magazine thereafter, the plate 18 being moved away from its stop 22. The magazine may be actuated by a handle as described in Specifications 571,620 and 597,519, or, as shown, by an electric motor 25a controlled by a push button (not shown) to drive a slidable actuating fork 27 through suitable gearing, the fork 29 engaging an arm 28 of a bell crank lever on a vertical axis 29, the other arm 30 of which is pivotally connected at 31 to the actuating link 15. A push rod 32 connected to the arm 28 actuates a crank 33 for operating means for gripping the edges of sheets or the like whereby said means is displaced on the baseboard in a direction perpendicular to the direction of magazine displacement. An arm 34 may be provided, on the baseboard 1, which is movable outwardly for supporting the ends of papers on the board.