Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 28th May, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
I, KARL HEINRICH KOCHENDORFER, of 27, Neumarkt, Leipsic, in the Empire
of Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
The present invention relates to that class of type writing instruments in
which a flexible type plate is employed, the impression on the paper being pro-
duced by means of a single hammer which depresses the particular type of the
plate through an opening in the inkpad on to the paper below the same, after
the plate has been adjusted to bring the said type above the said opening.
The invention consists essentially in the means employed to mount the type
plate so that the same can readily be adjusted, as herein after particularly
described.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible refer-
ence is had to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which similar letters of
reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:
Fig. 1 is a plan of those parts of the type writer which are necessary to clearly
explain the invention,
Fig. 2 is a section on the line M-M of Figure 1,
Figs. 3 to 5, show the type plate in various positions.
The class of typewriter in question is well known and only such parts of the
same will be explained herein after as are necessary to afford a clear conception
of the present invention.
Above the bed plate A, the trough-like carriage B is supported on rails a and b
being moveable along the same by the ordinary transporting devices used in
connection with machines of the class specified. The flexible type plate C having
the types on its lower surface is fixed to the frame D and so mounted that any one
of the types thereon may be brought above the opening in the ink pad m mounted
at the bottom of the carriage B. The top of the carriage is covered by a plate G
having thereon the register g' having openings or depressions h provided with
the signs corresponding to the signs on the flexible type plate C. The frame D
(Figs. 3 to 5) is provided with an arm E to which is rigidly attached an arm E¹ ex-
tending over the register g. In the end of the arm E¹ is mounted the register
pencil c capable of being depressed into any one of the depressions h of the register
plate. The carriage B is provided with a lug f having pivoted thereto a lever F
the other end of which is pivotally connected to the arm E. As will be clearly seen
from Figs. 3 to 5 this attachment of the type frame D to the carriage B enables the
latter to be easily adjusted to any desired position on the register plate g.
The transporting device is not shown as the same is known and forms no part
of the present invention.
which
The operation of the device takes place in the following manner:-
The pencil c is first adjusted to the required letter or sign on the plate 9,
brings the type corresponding to the said letter or sign above the opening 7 of
the ink pad, the hammer of the lever i is now depressed by means of the spring

page_text: actuated lever or spring lever p and key o, thus depressing the type of the flexible
type plate on to the paper and reproducing the sign. The lever i is pivotally
mounted at and the lever 2 is advantageously a spring lever so that after each
depression it returns with the lever i to its original position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In a type writer of the class specified the attachment of the type frame carrying
the elastic type plate, to the carriage by means of the lever F pivotally mounted
at one end on the carriage and having its other end pivotally attached to the arm E
of the type frame D substantially as described.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.