Patent GB-548136-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in movement transmitting systems
IPC: F16C1/10
Filed: 1940-08-02
Abstract: 548,136. Statistical apparatus. REMINGTON RAND, Inc. Aug. 2, 1940, No. 12539. Convention date, Aug. 25, 1939. [Class 106 (i)] [Also in Group XXIV] A movement transmitting mechanism comprises a number of sets of incoming and outgoing flexible connections terminating in a terminal board and a plurality of cables each having a number of interponents or inner members for selectively interconnecting the flexible connections at the terminal ends. The transmitting mechanism serves as a universal translator to connect the sensing mechanism with the stop pin mechanism of a record card controlled tabulator as described in U.S.A. Specifications 2,044,119 and 2,151,406. The tabulator as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, has a card feed and sensing mechanism 21, 23 and 25 of usual form, a translator mechanism in accordance with the present invention, and a calculating and printing mechanism 37, 40 of known construction. The sensing pin box 25 when raised acts through the pins 30 and the perforations in the card to raise pins 34. The pins 34 are held in raised position by locking slides 35 and as hereinafter described control the stops 38 of a stop basket 37 similar to that described in U.S.A. Specification 1,780,621. Translator mechanism. This mechanism includes a set of incoming flexible connections 50, a set of outgoing flexible connections 51 and interconnecting cables 52. The flexible connections 50, 51 are housed in a unitary structure or frame 53 which is removably mounted in the machine to facilitate adjustment and assembly. The lower part of the frame 53 has a perforated plate 54, supporting shouldered pins 55 in alignment with the pins 34, and a plate 61 with tapped holes to receive fittings 62 on the flexible connections 50. The upper part of the frame 53 is provided with a plate 63 to which are secured fittings 69 on the connections 51 in register with spring pressed pins 65 aligned with the stop pins 38. The frame has a rearwardly extending lower plate 56 and an upper bracket 68 to carry a terminal board 67. The plate 56 carries a pair of spring pressed locking slides which engage guide rails on the machine frame and are provided with lugs for engaging pincer levers 76 manipulation of which releases the frame for removal. The terminal board is divided into upper and lower zones each having a number of groups of concentrically arranged apertures 85, Fig. 4, into which fittings 86, Fig. 6, that receive the ends of the connections 50, 51 are threaded. Each fitting has a central bore enclosing a wire 90 and a plunger 91 with a projecting finger 92. On the terminal board is secured a panel board 96 with circular recesses 101 and apertures 100 in register with the apertures 85. Additional holes 95, 102, are associated with each group of apertures for the reception of a locating pin 116 on the end plugs 115 of the interconnecting cables 52. The cable 51, see also Fig. 10, contains six flexible wires and each wire 106 is enclosed in a sheath 107 secured to a socket 108 and extends into a plunger 112 with a projecting pin 113 to contact with the end of the corresponding pin 92. A resilient ring 120 holds the sockets 108 in the end plugs 115 and a central core 122 connects the end plugs of a cable, a protective covering 124 being also provided. The flexible wires are twisted an odd number of half turns to ensure equal displacement when operated. The plugs 115 are retained in position on the panel by means of spring controlled latching slides 126 with apertures 135, 136 and finger pieces 131, 132. Springs 137, 142 are attached to pins 138, 143 on the upper and lower slides and to the cross bars of a frame plate 141 that carries a spring controlled locking slide 148 with a finger piece 150 and cam slots 153, 154. Instead of the flexible wires in the interconnecting cables being twisted they may be arranged in parallel relationship by providing clips therefor along the length of the cable.