Autographic Registers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
Autographic Registers.
I, CHARLES ARTHUR ALLISON, of 52 Chancery Lane, London, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which
has been communicated to me from abroad by James Waring See, of Hamilton,
Butler County, State of Ohio, United States of America, Engineer,) to be as
follows:
:-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dispensing paper on which
is to be written memorandums or the like and at the same time a duplicate thereof,
the memorandums being torn off for use and the duplicates being stored in the
apparatus in the form of folds.
At the
An enclosing casing contains the roll of paper on which the writing is to be done
and the roll of paper which is to receive the duplicate of the writing. The two
papers pass together over a tablet under an opening in the top of the casing through
which the writing may be done, the duplicate being produced by means of carbon
paper or transfer paper disposed between the two layers of writing paper. The
papers are advanced by feed rolls which are provided with a hand-crank and geared
to a cam-shaft the duplicate paper being laid into the form of folds and stabbed
upon darts supported in the end door of the casing. The upper paper may be
torn off at the back of the casing. As the folds of the under paper are formed in
front of the darts they are rammed thereon by a guided rammer which is held back
by a cam which at the proper time releases the rammer, the cam acting on the
rammer through the medium of a pin in a lever. When the cam releases the
rammer a spring quickly advances and is returned by the cam. The rammer-plate
is provided with apertures to pass over the darts. The folds are laid by a folding-
rod which rests over the paper between the feed-rolls and the darts, this folding rod
being held up by a cam operating on the folding-rod through two arms.
proper time the cam releases the folding-rod and it falls and carries the paper down
in the form of a fold in front of the rammer-plate, the folding-rod then being
returned by its cam. The cam-shaft referred to is geared to the feed-rolls and
prevented from retrograde motion by a stop-pawl. The gearing is so proportioned
that each turn of the cam-shaft corresponding with the production of one fold of
paper, corresponds also with an appropriate amount of paper advanced by the feed
rolls. The foot of the fold of paper is received in a gripper held open by a lever
actuated by a cam on the cam-shaft, and is released at the proper time, the gripper
then closing by a spring and again being opened by its cam in time to permit the
ramming to take place. The lower dart, there being two darts above and one dart
below, is preferably arranged to receive an ordinary tee-shaped paper fastener so
that when the paper is stabbed upon the darts it finds its place upon this paper
fastener. By letting down the end door and tearing off the unfolded paper the pile
of paper and the darts may be removed from the door, being socketed therein, and
the darts may then be removed from the paper which may be clinched for permanent
use by the paper fastener, leaving the paper in the form of a book hinged by the
paper fastener and permitting the entrance upon the face of the paper to be readily
inspected.
:
· Dated this 26th day of April 1894.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Autographic Registers.
I, CHARLES ARTHUR ALLISON, of 52 Chancery Lane, London, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (which
has been communicated to me from abroad by James Waring See, of Hamilton,
Butler County, State of Ohio, United States of America, Engineer), and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dispensing paper on which
is to be written memorandums or the like and at the same time a duplicate thereof,
the memorandums being torn off for use and the duplicate being stored in the
apparatus in the form of folds.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1, is a plan of the apparatus:
Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section :
Fig. 3, a horizontal section :
Figs. 4 and 5 side views of cams and the parts operated by them, and
Fig. 6, a plan of one of the darts.
The
An enclosing casing 1 contains the roll of paper 2 on which the writing is to be
done and the roll of paper 3 which is to receive the duplicate of the writing. The
two papers pass together over the tablet 4 under an opening in the top of the casing
through which the writing may be done, the duplicate being produced by means of
carbon paper or transfer paper disposed between the two layers of writing paper.
The papers are advanced by the feed-rolls 5 which are provided with a hand-crank
and geared to a cam-shaft 6, the duplicate paper being laid into the form of folds 7
and stabbed upon darts supported in the end door 8 of the casing. The upper
paper may be torn off at 9. As the folds of the under paper are formed in front of
the darts they are rammed thereon by the guided rammer 10 which is held back by
the cam 11 which at the proper time releases the rammer, the cam acting on the
rammer through the medium of a pin in lever 12. When the cam releases
the rammer the spring 13 quickly advances and is returned by the cam.
rammer-plate is provided with apertures to pass over the darts. The folds are laid
by the folding-rod 14 which rests over the paper between the feed-rolls and the
darts, this folding-rod being held up by cam 15 operating on the folding-rod
through arms 16 and 17. At the proper time the cam releases the folding-rod and
it falls and carries the paper down in the form of a fold in front of the rammer-
plate, the folding-rod being, then returned by its cam. The cam-shaft 6 is geared
to the feed-rolls and prevented from retrograde motion by the stop-pawl 18. The
gearing is so proportioned that each turn of the cam-shaft corresponding with the
production of one fold of paper, corresponds also with an appropriate amount of
paper advanced by the feed-rolls. The foot of the fold of paper is received by the
gripper 19 held open by lever 20 actuated by cam 21 and released at proper time,
the gripper then closing by a spring and again being opened by its cam in time to
permit the ramming to take place. The lower dart 22, there being two darts above
and one dart below, is preferably arranged to receive an ordinary tee-shaped paper
fastener so that when the paper is stabbed upon the darts it finds its place upon
this paper fastener. By letting down the end door 8 and tearing off the unfolded
paper the pile of paper and the darts may be removed from the door, being socketed
therein, and the darts may then be removed from the paper which may be clinched
for permanent use by the paper fastener, leaving the paper in the form of a book
hinged by the paper fastener and permitting the entrance upon the face of the
paper to be readily inspected.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
A casing containing a supply of strip-paper and feed-rolls for advancing the
paper and darts on which folds of the paper may be stabbed, a folding mechanism
operating between the feed-rolls and the darts, and a rammer-plate to force the
folds of paper upon the darts.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.