Patent GB-324910-A (GB)
Abstract: 324,910. Wade, H., (United Autographic Register Co.). Nov. 1, 1928. Autographic cash recorders.-Sales slips &c. are made out in triplicate and one slip, after severance, is automatically filed face downwards on filing pins inside the casing. As shown in Fig. 1, the strips are contained in the right-hand half of the casing, pass above a platen B to a pair of feed rolls at E1 and a knife L<2>. The original is then automatically filed in the compartment A<2>, while the two duplicates pass out through a chute P. The lids C, 108 are hinged as shown. and the housing E<1> containing the upper feed roll may be swung up about a pivot at 1 for giving access to the parts below. Strip-supply arrangements. The three strip rolls are contained in a removable case 15, Fig. 2, and rest upon inclined plates 15<b> and against cross-rods 15a. The strips pass around rollers 28, and thence over the platen B, hinged to the casing along one edge. The rollers are supported in a frame B<1> pivoted to the platen at 26, and are urged to the right by bearing springs 32. A pivoted yoke 34 gives the necessary deflection to the strip 16<a>. Feeding-mechanism.-The strips are normally engaged for feeding, by discs 42, 43, Fig. 7, fixed on shafts D, E geared together at one end and driven at the other end by a crank-operated shaft F, Fig. 11, through an idle wheel G. Also secured to the shafts D, E are initial feed segmented discs 42a, 43<a>, adapted to feed the strips at the beginning of an operation, the feed-discs being then ineffective owing to their engaging filing holes 44 in the strips. When the feed is not taking place the strips are justified and held by fingers S, Fig. 14, pivoted at S<1> and controlled by a cam S<2>. Severing-mechanism. The knife L<2>, Fig. 14, is flanked by holding-plates L, L<1>, which are guided by clips 74<a> and move with the knife to clamp the strip down during cutting. The knife is reduced at its ends to engage recesses in reciprocating-bars K, and the plates L, L<1> are connected with these bars by springs. The bars are operated by the mechanism J<2>, J4, Fig. 11, and a cam-rocker lever I. Filing-mechanism. After passing the feeddiscs the strips are separated by a dividing bar 65, Fig. 14, the leading edge of which carries a pivoted spring-controlled bent plate 71a. The lower strips are thus deflected downwards into the chute P, and may be grasped by the hand and torn off at the edge 75<a>. The original slip is epgaged at the filing holes by a pair of filing-pins Q, Fig. 11, mounted on a shaft 84 rocked by a cam-operated lever V to remove the pins at the end of the cycle so that the next slip may advance freely before being impaled by the pins. After a slip has been fed and cut off, the turning- device R is rocked and, engaging the edges of the slip, turns it over on to the pins so that it lies face downwards. The control of the pins Q and device R is derived from cam mechanism associated with the trains of gears shown in Figs. 11 and 17, and operated by the crank shaft F. An arm 9 extending from the shaft 84 serves to raise the slips in the chute P to facilitate their being grasped. Crank operation control. The crank-handle F' is normally held by a latch T pin-and-slot connected with a finger-lever S<7>. To initiate am operation this lever is pulled to the right, Fig. 17, to free the crank-handle, and is then itself latched by the lever 96. The displacement of the lever S' effects through a link S<4> and cam S<2>, Fig. 14, the removal of the aligning fingers S, but after the feed has ceased a cam 107 rocks a leevr 105 to free the latching-lever 96 from the lever S'. The lever 105 also acts on the latch T to permit the passage of the crank-handle at the end of its first revolution, and so allow it to be turned for two revolutions. Modification. In a modified arrangement the lowest slip is filed while the original and first duplicate are fed out of the top of the cabinet.