Patent GB-761329-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to record card controlled ledger posting machine
Filed: 1954-11-12
Abstract: 761,329. Statistical apparatus. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION. Nov. 12, 1954 [Nov. 17, 1953], No. 32811/54. Class 106 (1). In a ledger card posting machine for posting two " order " data from a plurality of journal cards the ledger card posting field consists of a plurality of rows and columns, the rows representing respective digits of one order of the data and the columns the respective digits of the other order. A plurality of posting means are arranged in a line, the rows of the posting field are arranged to be moved at right angles thereto, and selected posting means are operated to effect posting (punching) under the control of data sensed on the journal cards. The machine described in Specification 442,534, [Group VIII], is used for posting the identification numbers of negotiated bank-cheques 21, Fig. 6, the 100 cheques (journal cards) from each cheque-book being posted on a respective ledger card 20, Fig. 5. Provision is made for checking (a) duplicating of postings, and (b) stop checks. Normal I.B.M. punched cards are used for both cheques and ledger cards. The check-book number, is punched in columns 1-5 of a ledger card and also of the cheques of the book corresponding thereto. Individual check numbers 00-through 99 are punched in columns 6, 7 of the cheques and these numbers are posted on the ledger card in one or more of the three posting fields, shown by a single hole whose columnar position 20 ... 29, 40 ... 49, 60 ... 69, corresponds to the tens order of the cheque number and whose row position 0 ... 9 corresponds to the units order of the cheque number. The posting machine, Fig. 4, may be used for reproducing, in which case cards fed from a hopper P ar punched to correspond with cards fed synchronously from a hopper R, or it may be used for gang punching in which case successive cards fed from the hopper P are punched to correspond to the previous card. Ledger cards and journal cards are first collated by a machine as described in Specification 523,652 so that the journal cards are stacked in front of their associated ledger cards. The cards are then placed in hopper P and the machine set for gang' punching. During the first card feed cycle the first journal card, cheque A, Fig. 1, is fed past the first brush station 32 where the tens order digit of the cheque number is read and energizes relays to condition a matrix circuit for selection of the corresponding posting field column. During the second card feed cycle the A cheque number units order is read at station 35 and through the matrix circuit effects at punching station 33 posting of the cheque A number in the current posting field of the succeeding cheque B. At the same time the tens order of the number of cheque B is read at station 32 to energize corresponding matrix set up relays. In the third card cycle, cheque A passes to the stacker 28, the units digit of the number of cheque B is read at station 35 and through the matrix circuit effects posting, in the current posting field of the succeeding cheque C, of the check B number. At the same time the number of cheque A punched in the current posting field of cheque B is gang punched into the current posting field of check C. Similarly, all the current postings in cheque C are gang punched into the next cheque and so on until the turn of the ledger card which is thus posted with the. numbers of all the cheques relating thereto. The ledger and journal cards are now placed in the read hopper R for checking. During the first card feed cycle, Fig. 3 (not shown), magnets in the matrix circuit are set up corresponding to the tens order of the number of cheque A, so that during the second card feed cycle an impulse corresponding to the units digit is fed through the conditioned matrix circuit and compared with the posting effected during the previous run in check B. In this manner all postings are checked the machine being stopped if an incorrect posting is found or if a stop cheque is met. The machine is run as a reproducing machine, Fig. 2 (not shown), for the preparation of new ledger cards.