Patent GB-453823-A (GB)
Abstract: 453,823. Calculating - machines. HUNTER, C. E., 33, Marryat Road, Wimbledon, London, and CAMPOS, F., 4, Rue Dufrenoy, Paris. Dec. 18, 1934, No. 36353. [Class 106 (i)] An adding-machine is combined with an account-storing device comprising individual account sets of denominational storing elements, selecting mechanism being provided whereby any desired account set be selected for co-operation with the adding machine. An account is selected by setting its number on the keyboard of the adding machine, depressing the non-add key and operating the main shaft. The account storing elements are then zeroized and so dispose abutments for stops connected to the adding-machine mechanism whereby the amount of the account is transmitted to the adding machine. Items may be added to this amount and the result or new balance is transmitted to the accountstoring elements by the stops and abutments. In the embodiment described, the acountstoring device 200, Fig. 1, is as described in Specification 377,988 and is combined with a known adding machine through a mechanism 403. Normally, the final amount of the account last dealt with is stored in the mechanism 403 and the storing members in the device 200 relating to this account stand at zero.. When another account is being selected, this amount is first entered into its storing members in the device 200. Selecting the accounts. The non-add key of the adding machine is depressed, the account number is set up on the machine and the main shaft oscillated. Any one of a hundred accounts, numbered 00 .. 99, can thus be selected. The non-add key is connected by a link 38b to a bell-crank 39, Fig. 9, which rocks to push a control plate 27 to the right. A cam groove 33 in the control plate moves a pin 37 connected to a rod 26, the pin finally resting in the part 33a of the groove. Each differential-actuating sector of the adding machine is connected by a link 6b, Fig. 1, to stops 6, Figs. 6 and 9, having slots 6a engaging grooves in the rod 26. When the rod 26 is shifted by the cam groove 33, the units and tens stops are positioned over stepped account-selecting plates 18, 19, Figs. 6 and 19. In addition to the account-selecting plate 18, 19 there are stepped amount-plates 5, one corresponding to each stop 6. Another cam slot 34 in the control plate 27 moves a link 50 which slides a sleeve 3 along a shaft 2, the sleeve being feather-keyed to the shaft and the shaft itself being connected to the main shaft of the adding machine. The sleeve 3 carries five cams 21 .. 25, Fig. 6, the accountselecting movement of the plate 27 bringing the cams 21, 22, 23 into operative position. The cams 21, 22 rock shafts 15, 30, Fig. 19, the shaft 15 actuating a bail 13 and the shaft 30 a bail 28. The bail 13 restores all the amount plates 5 to the extreme left-hand position against the action of springs, the bail 28 similarly restoring the selecting plates 18, 19 against the action of springs 18b. Each amount plate 5 is connected to a toothed rack 7 engaging a pinion 10 connected to the long pinion 8 of the corresponding denomination of the account-storing device 200. As the amount plates 5 are restored the amount standing thereon is thus entered into the storing members of the account selected at the previous operation. The cam 23 on the sleeve 3 of the shaft 2 then rocks a shaft 55, Fig. 14, connected by an arm 59 and link 60 to the control member 201 of the storing device 200. This member is thus lifted to its full extent and latched by a latch 61 engaging the arm 59, the units vernier bar 111 and the tens vernier bar 105, Fig. 15, thus being freed as described in Specification 377,988. These vernier bars select the accounts from the storing device as described in the said Specification. The main shaft cf the adding machine and the shaft 2 now commence the return stroke. The bail 28 is swung by the cam 22 to release the account-selecting plates 18, 19, which then move under spring action until arrested by the stops 6 set to represent the account number. This setting is transmitted to rack 74, 86, Fig. 15. The units rack 74 is connected directly to the units vernier bar 111 by a connection 108 and also engages a pinion 99 pivoted in a sliding block 98. The pinion gears with the tens rack 86. A lever 100 is pivoted about the axis of the pinion and has a projecting pin at each end, one pin 106 engaging a notch 107 in the framework and the other pin 102 co-operating with a slot in a member 104 secured to the tens vernier bar 105. The units vernier bar 111 thus moves through the same distance as its rack 74 while the tens vernier bar 105 has a movement which is the sum of the movements of the racks 74, 86. The storing members of the required account are thus selected as described in Specification 377,988. The control member 201 is then released, whereupon the selected members are brought into engagement with the long pinions 8. The plates 5 are next freed and are moved by their spring to take the setting corresponding to the amount of the selected account. Transmitting the amount of the selected account to the adding machine. This is effected by pressing inwards a balance slide 127, Fig. 1, which locks the keyboard by members actuated by a cam 128 and releases the differential-actuating sectors of the adding machine. The slide is also connected by a link 137 to the control plate 27 and shifts this to such a position that the cam slot 33 moves the stops away from the selecting plates 18, 19 but above the amount plates 5, the stops then descending to feel the stops in the plates 5 and transmit the amount to the adding machine. The cam slot 34 of the plate 27 so moves the sleeve 3 that all the cams 21.. 24 are inoperative. When the main shaft is operated the amount is thus added into the totalizer and other amounts can then be added to it. Transmitting an amount from the adding machine to the storing device. This is performed by depressing the total key of the machine and operating the main shaft. The total key is connected by a link 146 to the plate 27 and moves this plate so that the cam slot 33 brings the stops 6 over the amount plates 5 and the slot 34 slides the sleeve 3 to move the cams 24, 25 into active position. The cam 24 lifts the control member 201 to move the storing members out of contact with the long pinions 8. The cam 25 then moves all the amount plates 5 to their extreme forward positions and the stops 6 are set to represent the amount as the differential actuating segments return the adding machine totalizer to zero. The cam 25 next releases the amount plates 5 which move until arrested by the set stops 6. The control member 201 is now released by the cam 24 and the storing members of the account concerned are returned into contact with the long pinions 8, thus locking the amount plates 5 upon which the setting is retained until another account is selected. Statistical apparatus. The adding machine may take the form of a tabulating machine of the Powers type. In this case, the units and tens of the account number are set from the card when the latter is in the designationsensing box, a hole in another field causing the control plate 27 to be moved to the accountselecting position at the same time. The card feed is held up while the account is selected and the old balance transmitted to the accumulator of the tabulating machine. The card then passes into the item-sensing box and the amount thereon is entered into the accumulator to give the new balance, this new balance being printed and stored in the mechanism 403 by mechanism controlled by another hole in the card. Specifications 271,935, [Class 106 (i)], 364,612; and 434,722, [Group VIII], also are referred to.