An Improvement in Typewriters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb.,
1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Typewriters.
HUGH BERTRAM Cox 15 Barton Street Westminster London Barrister at
Law, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A new & improved method by which, in a typewriter, the paper carriage may
be permitted to travel through relatively long distances, and arrested at any
predetermined stopping place; or successively at every one of a series of pre-
determined stopping places. This improvement is especially adapted for preventing
loss of time when executing tabular work, such as columns of figures and the like,
by enabling the operator when the end of one column has been reached, at once to
move the carriage to the point at which it is required to commence the next. A
rod, strip, or plate of metal, provided with adjustable stops or pegs is caused, by
the depression of a key or lever placed conveniently under the control of the
operator, to move in such a manner that a given stop or peg is brought into position
to meet a suitable part or projection upon the paper carriage, while further
depression of the aforesaid key or lever is caused to free the paper carriage from
the control of the dogs, or rack, or escape wheel, or other spacing or controlling
mechanism. The carriage then moves on, under the operation of the driving
mechanism, until its aforesaid part or projection is arrested by means of the stop
or peg upon the metal strip, rod, or plate already described. A spring or springs
may be provided to lessen the shock of impact. Release of the key or lever by
the operator first permits the paper carriage to re-engage with its ordinary spacing
or controlling mechanism, and after this has taken place, restores the rod, strip, or
plate of metal to its position of rest. By means of a series of stops or pegs
previously arranged by the operator upon the rod, strip, or plate, the paper carriage
may be successively arrested at the required number of points.
Dated this 29th day of April 1891.
HUGH BERTRAM QUA.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Typewriters.
I, HUGH BERTRAM Cox of 15 Barton Street Westminster Barrister at Law
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 improvement consists of a new and improved method by which, in a type-
writer, the paper carriage may be permitted to travel through relatively long distances,
and arrested at any predetermined stopping place, or successively at every one of a
series of predetermined stopping places. This improvement is especially adapted
for preventing loss of time when executing tabular work, such as columns of figures
and the like, by enabling the operator when the end of one column has been
reached at once to move the carriage to the point at which it is required to
commence the next. A rod, strip, or plate of metal provided with adjustable stops
or pegs is caused, by the depression of a key or lever placed conveniently under
the control of the operator, to move in such a manner that a given stop or peg
brought into position to meet a suitable part or projection upon the paper carriage,
while further depression of the aforesaid key or lever is caused to free the paper
carriage from the control of the dogs, or rack, or escape wheel, or other spacing or
controlling mechanism. The carriage then moves on, under the operation of the
is

page_text: driving mechanism, until its aforesaid part or projection is arrested by means of the
stop or peg upon the metal strip, rod, or plate already described. A spring or
springs may be provided to lessen the shock of impact. Release of the key or
lever by the operator first permits the paper carriage to re-engage with its ordinary
spacing or controlling mechanism, and after this has taken place, restores the rod, 5
strip, or plate of metal to its position of rest. By means of a series of stops or
pegs previously arranged by the operator upon the rod, strip, or plate the paper
carriage may be successively arrested at the required number of points.
In the accompanying drawings,-
Figure 1 shows a view in perspective of the back and side of an ordinary 1
"Remington number three" typewriter with the type bars and interior mechanism
removed.
Figure 2 shows a plan view of the rod, plate or strip of metal hereinafter
more fully described.
Figure 3 shows a stop or peg suitable for attachment thereto.
I
In Figure 1, A, A, shows the frame of the typewriter, B, the part of the paper
carriage to which the ordinary spacing dogs are attached, C the rack with which
the said dogs engage, and which is oscillated upon the shaft D, for the purpose of
spacing. is a metal projection fastened to the part B and projecting therefrom
to such a distance as to come in the way of and rest upon a rod, strip, or plate of 2
metal F when the said plate F is raised as hereinafter described. The plate F is
supported by two arms G, G, which pass downward through slots in the frame of
the typewriter as shown at g. The lower ends of these arms G, G, are suitably
connected with levers H, H, fulcrummed upon brackets I, I, fastened to the frame
of the typewriter as shown. At the other end of the levers H, H, and therefore in 2
the front of the machine there is attached a key or bar J, placed in easy reach of
the operator and preferably above the keys. The plate is so placed as to be
clear of the rack C when the said rack is oscillated for the purpose of spacing, and
is pierced with holes f, f, as shown in Figure 2, into which are fixed at any
required point pegs or stops K, K, which may be of the shapes shown in Figure 3, 3
if necessary, to resist the force of impact of the paper carriage when arrested in
the manner to be described. The plate F is supported at a convenient level when
in its position of rest, by means of feet L, L, fixed to its under side, and which stand
upon the surface of the upper plate of the frame of the typewriter.
The action of these parts is as follows,-
Depression of the key or bar J raises, by the operation of the lever H, the
plate Funtil, (as a first result,) the pegs K, K, are lifted into a position to meet
the projection E upon the paper carriage B, and, (as a second and subsequent
result,) the upper surface of the plate Flifts the projection E and with it the part
of the paper carriage to which it is attached and disengages the spacing dogs from
the spacing rack C. The paper carriage then moves on under the operation of its
driving mechanism until the projection E meets one of the pegs K upon the
plate when it is at once arrested. A leathern or other elastic pad M may be
placed upon that part of the projection E which meets the arresting peg in order
to lessen the shock of impact. The carriage is thus arrested at a point
predetermined by the place upon the plate at which the arresting peg has been
fixed. Release of the bar J by the operator causes the levers H, H, under the
action of a spring O, placed at any convenient point, to return to their position of
rest, when the plate F falls, and, (as a first result), the dogs re-engage with the
spacing rack C, and, (as a second and subsequent result), the peg K is disengaged from
the projection E. By means of a number of pegs K, K, this operation can be
repeated, and the paper carriage successively arrested at any desired number of
predetermined stopping places.
It is obvious that though for purposes of illustration, a Remington typewriter
has been selected, the use of this my invention is not necessarily confined to that
machine or to any particular typewriter or class of typewriters, but that it may be
used wherever it is possible to move a rod, strip, or plate of metal or other

page_text: suitable material fitted with adjustable pegs or stops, as described, in such a manner
as to free the paper carriage from the action of its ordinary spacing or controlling
mechanism, and allow it to travel on until arrested by a given stop or peg,
afterwards permitting the re-engagement of the said paper carriage with its
ordinary spacing or controlling parts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. In a typewriter, the use of a rod, strip, or plate of metal provided with
adjustable stops or its equivalent, which is caused at the will of the operator to
free the paper carriage from the control of its ordinary spacing or controlling
mechanism in order to allow it to travel independently of such mechanism, and
thereafter to arrest it and to permit of its re-engagement with such ordinary
spacing or controlling mechanism at a predetermined place, or successively at a
series of predetermined places, substantially in the manner described.
2. In a typewriter, the combination of a rod, strip, or plate of metal or other
suitable material with adjustable stops or pegs and a key and levers or their
equivalents, which said rod, or strip, or plate is caused to move in such a manner as
to free the paper carriage from its ordinary spacing or controlling mechanism and
to allow it to travel until arrested by the said stops or pegs at a given point,
(or successively at a series of given points,) and thereafter to allow of its
re-engagement with the said spacing or controlling mechanism substantially in the
manner described.
3. In a typewriter, the combination of the plate F and adjustable pegs K, K,
with the projecting part E fixed to the paper carriage B, B, and the levers H, H,
and key or bar J for the purposes and substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described and shown.
Dated this Sixth day of January 1892.