Improvements in Manifolding Autographic Registers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Manifolding Autographic Registers.
We, WILLIAM ASSHETON, DAVID STEWART, and CHARLES JEROME
CARROLL, of 111 South Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a manifolding autographic register for use in stores
to produce a plurality of copies of a salesman's check. The object is to provide
an improved autographic register which will produce at one writing on a single
strip of paper from a single roller three copies of a sale check or ticket, one of
which may be retained by the salesman, another given to the cashier, and the
third given to the customer or attached to the goods sold.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which,―
Figure 1. is a longitudinal section of my improved autographic register.
Figure 2. is a top or plan view of the same.
Figure 3. is a cross-section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.
Figure 4. is a view of the triplicate blank.
Figure 5. is a perspective diagram of the paper roll with a triplicate blank in
position as it is in the machine.
The improved autographic register comprises a platen or bed-block, A, of wood
or metal provided at each side at the rear end with an inclined standard, B, having
an inclined slot, c, with a lateral opening, c'; two guide rollers, e, f, and a reversing
roller, 9, extend across and are journalled in the said two inclined standards. The
platen or bed, A, has at its opposite end, or front, a depression, l, in which are two
rollers, i,j, one being a guide roller and the other a reversing roller.
Over these rollers, e, f, g, and, i, j, the blank or strip of paper passes from the
roll, D, which is on a shaft, D¹, whose ends fit and revolve within the inclined
slot, c, of each standard, B.
This machine is contrived to use a single roll of paper so as to yield three copies
of any memoranda, bill, check, or ticket from oue writing. Of course the roll
may consist of a plain unprinted slip of paper, or it may be printed to suit any
particular business concern. In Figures 4 and 5 a printed paper is illustrated
for the purpose of making the operation clear. Each transaction noted on this
register will result in producing three copies on one continuous strip, as shown
in Figure 4, which has just been detached. Two of the copies, h', h³, are on a
printed form, and the other copy, h² located between the two printed ones, is on
plain blank paper. This strip is folded twice on the lines, k, k³, in a manner
that will be presently described, so as to make three stretches, h', h², h³, see
Figure 5.
A mark made in a blank space on the printed copy, h³, is thus sure to be
reproduced in the corresponding space on the printed copy, h', because the top
stretch and bottom stretch of this paper strip on the register move in the same
direction and with the same speed.
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on the rollers, or
The strip of paper from the roll, D, is primarily "threaded
arranged in position on the platen, A, to form three stretches, h', h³, h³, for

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producing at one writing three copies of the written matter. In thus "threading
the paper strip from the roll, D, it is first passed under the guide roller, f, and
along on top of the platen-bed, A, to the guide-roller, i, this constituting the first
stretch, hand over this first stretch is placed a strip of carbon paper, m³,
indicated in Figures 1 and by broken lines; then the paper is passed down
between the roller, i, and the reversing roller, j, and then up and over roller, j, and
back along the top of the platen above the strip, m', of carbon under the reversing
roller, g, to form the second stretch, h', over which a strip of carbon paper, m³, is
placed as before; and, finally, the strip of paper is passed up and over the
reversing roller, g, then down under the guide roller, e, and again forward along
the top of the platen to form the third stretch, h³, which is above the second carbon
strip, m³, and terminating at, n. It will be seen that by using two pieces of
carbon, m', m³, and running the paper strip from the roller, D, forward then back,
and forward, again, three stretches or layers of paper are formed above the
platen, A, in position for being written upon, and consequently by the employment
of only one roller three manifold copies may be obtained. The carbon strips, m', m³,
are wider than the paper employed and their opposite ends are secured within
longitudinal grooves, o, at each side of the platen by means of bars, p, pivoted
at, g, which turn down into the grooves and press the carbon paper therein and
thus confine the carbon papers in such manner that while the two carbon papers
cannot be pulled out by the shifting of the strip of paper, yet the carbon papers
offer no hindrance to the free shifting or movement of said paper strip.
To remove the pencil-written top-layer and the two carbon copies of the paper
strip from the platen, A, the terminal end, n, of the paper is grasped by the band
of the operator and pulled across the platen, A, in the direction indicated by the
arrow in Figures 1 and 3 until the first, second and third stretches pass beyond the
outer-bar, r.
Simultaneously with this drawing out of the three written copies from the
register, the roll, D, will unwind to supply three fresh stretches to the platen, A,
in position to be written upon in the manner heretofore described in the preliminary
"threading" operation.
The cutter-bar, r, is pivoted at the front end of the platen, A, and serves as the
means by which the written copies may be severed from the fresh paper; this is
done by holding down the bar and pulling the paper sideways across the front edge
of the cutter-bar, r. The three copies see Figure 4 are then separated on the
lines, k¹, k³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is,-
1. In an autographic manifolding register, the combination of a bed or platen
provided with standards carrying a shaft for a single roll of paper; two reversing
rollers, g,, one at each end of the platen over which one strip of paper from the
same roll is passed to form three stretches above the platen; and a carbon paper
between the first and second, and second and third stretches, respectively,
substantially as described.
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2. In an autographic manifolding register, the combination of a bed or platen ;
a single shaft, D', mounted loose to carry one roll of paper; a reversing roller at
each end of the platen; suitable guide rollers; and a cutter bar, whereby a con-
tinuous strip of paper may be drawn from the one roll and stretched forward,
back and then forward again to form three stretches of paper above the platen with
the extremity of the paper strip resting under the cutter-bar.
3. In an autographic manifolding register, the combination of a platen having at
two opposite sides a longitudinal groove; a shaft for a single roll of paper; two
reversing rollers, g, j, one at each end of the platen over which one strip of paper
from the same roll may be passed to form three stretches above the platen; and

page_text: two bars each pivoted at an opposite side of the platen to turn down into the said
groove said bars serving to confine carbon paper.
Dated this 24th day of August 1894.
WILLIAM ASSHETON.
DAVID STEWART.
CHARLES JEROME CARROLL