Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18,
Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Consulting Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by
Newman Russell Marsham, of 2253, Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York
City, United States of America, Merchant, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention consists in certain novel features of construction set forth in
the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings in
which:
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the machine.
Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Figs. 4 and 5 are views like Fig. 2 with parts in a different position than in
Fig. 2.
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Fig. 6 is a plan view of a carriage with an attachment not shown in Fig. 1.
The invention is shown applied to a machine like that described in the Speci-
fication of Patent No. 20242 of 1893 but of course is not confined to such machine.
The paper carriage 3 has a bearing or supports 5 for feed roller 6 and a platen
or impression bar 7. The type or type band 34 is set by pointer 47 and is pressed
toward the platen to print.
In addition to roller 6 the paper carriage is shown with a bearing or lugs 100
which can be formed integral with the platen or which could be screwed or
A bail
detachably secured in place. This bearing 100 supports a feed roller 101.
or frame is shown with side arms 102 and cross or front piece 103 and swinging
or jointed to the carriage at 104. This frame carries a roller 105 and when the
frame is swung down or the roller 105 comes in front of roller 101 (Fig. 2) a
sheet can be held or fed by or between these rollers. Swinging frame 102 up
(Fig. 4) will clear or move roller 105 away from roller 101 so that a sheet can
be readily removed or placed against roller 101 to be held when the roller 105
is again forced down in front of roller 101.
The frame or bearing 102 has a shoulder 106 (Fig. 3), and a spring or lock 107
engaging the shoulder will hold the frame to keep the roller 105 at the roller 101.
Accidental movement or freeing of roller 105 is thus prevented as the lock 106, 107
has to be opened before the roller 105 can be cleared or swung up.
The roller 105 can be rotated by button or handle 108 (Fig. 1) and a fluted
or tooth wheel 109 with spring 110 will prevent too easy or accidental rotation
of roller 105 and secure a step by step or suitably spaced rotation, the depressions.
of wheel 109 being arranged in line-space apart as described in said patent in
regard to the hand wheel 10 and dog of feed roller 6.
The arrangement of rollers 101, 105 has been found a convenient attachment
for writing small matter as for example in a drug-store for writing prescriptions
which as known are generally on small sheets or labels. Postal cards can also

page_text: be conveniently written on machines with such attachment. The bent or metallic
support 8 with guide 9 can have a cut or passage as seen at 111 so that a sheet
instead of being led between roller 6 and pressure plate 9 can pass or extend from
rollers 101, 105 through cut 111. The roller 6 could be dispensed with but has
been found convenient to aid the rollers 101, 105.
The roller 105 or the front frame piece 103 could have a scale or marks such
as are serviceable in type writing machines.
The paper carriage is shown with a holder or compartments 112 on suitable
ledges or extensions 113 and which carrier 112 can be supplied with sheets, pre-
scription blanks labels or the like, stationery or material which it is desired
to have readily accessible. The carriers 112 are shown carried by platen 7
to travel therewith and are spaced or separated to allow the indicator plate 114
on the frame 102 to move back when such frame is swung up. This indicator
plate serves to position a sheet or card which is being fed through the machine.
Such plate may have lines or marks thereon to aid the proper positioning of
sheets or labels.
At a suitable point such as to support 8 is secured a bail or arms 115 (Fig. 4)
with cross piece 116 (Fig. 6). Blocks 117 slidably mounted or travelling on said
arms 115 form a bearing for shaft 118 having handle or button 119 and clip or
holder 120. A sheet or label as for example a prescription blank 112 can have
an edge caught by clip 120 and the clip then turned and blocks 117 slid until
an edge of the label slips between roller 6 and plate 9. By then properly turning
roller 6 the label is drawn from clip 120 and can be fed up to roller 101 and then
clamped by roller 105. A ratchet and pawl can be applied to allow shaft 118
to turn in but one direction. A handle or wire 121 can be applied to blocks
or traveller 117 to readily move the same along tracks 115. When the shaft 118
is moved to bail piece or branch 116 the clip 120 is readily accessible or exposed
to the operator so that a label can be properly aligned or inserted in the clip
to be properly presented by the latter to roller 6 for neat or straight writing.
The support 8 is shown with a curve or lip 123 (Fig. 2) extended from pas-
sage 111 upward and forward so that a sheet or card 122 which should feed or
extend down from rollers 101, 105 will be bent or guided by lip 123 to the
outlet 111 or will be prevented by such lip 123 from bending forward under the
type 34 or into the operating parts of the machine.
Between the type and the platen is a guard plate the top 124 (Fig. 5) of
which is curved forward or above the type to prevent a card or sheet slipping
between the plate 124 and the type 34. Such plate 124 will guide the card or
sheet in between such plate and the platen 7, and this plate 124 is suitably per-
forated or forked to allow a required type to print or strike the sheet at the
printing point but prevent adjacent types from printing or touching the sheet.
In writing such articles as postal cards it has been found practical to have
the card fed or engaged both by the feed 6 and by the feed 101, 105. The clip
or holder 120 being mounted as shown or with its shaft 118 below the feed 6,
such clip as seen in Fig. 5 can deliver a sheet between the roller 6 and the
presser 9 so that such roller 6 when properly rotated, will feed the sheet 122 to
the feed rollers 101 and 105 or to the platen 7.
On the roller 105 (Fig. 1) is shown a scale or lines running about the roller
and which scale serves for centering a sheet or label between the rollers 101
and 105.
On the indicator plate 114 (Fig. 6) there is likewise an index or scale the
vertical lines of which correspond to or form a continuation of the scale on the
roller 105. The horizontal lines on the scale of plate 114 enable the sheet or
label to be fed upward for securing uniform spaces between the lines. The vertical
lines or the lines running about roller 105 and from the top edge to the bottom
edge of plate 114 serve for centering the sheet or label or for leaving a suitable
uniform margin along the right or left hand edge of a sheet. For example if
a sheet is so wide as to extend along the entire scale on roller 105, then by com-

page_text: mencing the writing on each line say one or two scale marks from the left, a
uniform margin is left along an edge of the sheet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is:-
1. A typewriting machine provided with a flat or straight platen, two feeds
made to feed on a line with said platen or printing point and each made to feed
the sheet independently of the other, substantially as described.
2. In combination with a flat or straight platen, a swinging feed mechanism
and a second feed mechanism on line with the first feed mechanism, substantially
as described.
3. A type-writing machine provided with a paper carriage having a roller 101,
a bail pivoted to the carriage back of this roller, and a second feed roller carried
by the bail, said bail being made to extend about or forward of the first named
roller to enable the bail roller to be swung forward of or into contact with the
front of the first named roller, and to be swung up for clearing or separating
the rollers from one another substantially as described.
4. A type-writing machine provided with a flat faced fixed or non-rotary
platen 7, feed rollers above the platen and a feed roller 6 and pressure plate or
guide 9 below the platen, substantially as described.
5. A type-writing machine provided with a platen having feed rollers at the
upper part of the platen, and a feed roller below such upper rollers said several
rollers having the feeding or sheet engaging portions or lines placed in a plane or
level with platen face to prevent curving or bending of the sheet substantially
as described.
6. A type-writing machine provided with a platen having a track or arms,
bearing blocks movably mounted on the track, a handle 121 for the blocks, a shaft
carried by the blocks, and a clip or holder carried by the shaft substantially as
described.
7. A type-writing machine provided with a platen having a track or arms, and
a clip or holder made to rotate and to travel on said track substantially as
described.