Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMIDELE DI VITICATION.
Improvements in Typewriting Machines.
I SCHUYLER GRANT, of 76 East State Street, Ithaca, Tompkins County, State
of New York, United States of America, Druggist, 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 and accompanying
drawings
My invention relates to attachments for typewriters and has for its object the
production of a device by which great speed can be obtained in operating a
typewriter by allowing the eyes to be engaged continuously with the copy while
the fingers are enabled to find the respective keys by means of the guide pieces.
And to that end my invention consists in the several novel features of construction
hereinafter described and set forth in the claims annexed hereto.
It is constructed as follows reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1, shows a top plan view of that portion of the typewriter containing the
keyboard and showing a top plan view of the finger guide secured thereto.
Fig. 2, is a side view thereof.
Fig. 3, is a view of one of the finger guides showing means for adjusting it.
Fig. 4, is a side view of a modified form adapted to be used upon machines
having a double keyboard.
Fig. 5, is a top plan view thereof.
A, is the frame of a typewriter having the forwardly extending base or bracket B
within which the keys are located in the ordinary way.
C, is a bar constructed substantially as shown in Fig. 1 having the forward
projection a to which the finger guides 6 are adjustably secured as shown at c.
That portion a of the bar C may be constructed as shown or slightly curved so
as to pass around the top bar rods to accustom itself to machines of various
constructions, and the ends of the bar C are adapted to be adjusted to machines of
various widths and provided with ordinary means for securing the ends to the frame
of the machine.
The finger guides are secured upon the arms so that they may be readily
adjusted at any angle across the face of the keyboard so as to properly locate the
various letters.
It will be observed that it will be first necessary for the operator to learn the
location of the finger pieces b with respect to the letters upon the keyboard and
that the location of the letters will be more readily remembered with respect to the
finger guides or pieces by allowing the palms of the hands to rest upon the finger
guides while not actively engaged in manipulating the keys.
Where keyboards are constructed double and the letters are arranged in rows at
substantially right angles to each other, as shown in Fig. 5, I preferably use a
modified form of construction which comprises a bar d having its ends bent
downwardly and adapted as at e to be secured to the bracket B of the machine.
f, are bars secured transversely thereto and adapted to divide the letters upon
the keyboard.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. A finger guide as a new article of manufacture comprising a bar, means for
ecuring it to the frame of the machine, and finger pieces secured thereto, as set

page_text: 2. A finger guide as a new article of manufacture comprising a bar, means for
securing it adjustably to the frame of a machine and finger pieces secured
thereto.
3. A finger guide as a new article of manufacture comprising a bar having its
central portion extended forwardly, means for securing it to the frame of a machine
and finger pieces secured thereto."
4. A finger guide as a new article of manufacture comprising a bar, means for
securing it to the frame of a machine and finger pieces secured thereto and adapted
to be adjusted so as to vary the angle transversely across the keyboard, as set
forth.
5. A finger guide as a new article of manufacture comprising a bar, means for
securing it longitudinally through the keyboard and transverse bars secured thereto
as set forth.
Date 1 01
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.