US1729028A - Transposing device for tabulating machines - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to tabulating machines, and more particularly to mechanism for transposing the meaning of readings taken from a particular record by such machines.
- Another object is to provide a machineK this invention ;-v
- a set-up obtained from any particular type of record may sensed and used to actuate a machine normal; ly responsive to records of a diierent ty or the order of the 4readings may be ar itrarily transposed and used to actuate a machine in the new sequence;
- Fig. 1 is an elevation of the translat' mechanism constructed'in accordance witl Fig. 2 is a'plan view ofa portion of a bank of translating devices showing the manner of attachment to the accumulator of a tabulating machine;
- Fig. ⁇ 3 is a section taken on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1, disclosing certain details of the translating device;
- Fig. 4 is a detail view of a portion of the capable of transposing the order of the digits wup mechanism
- a further object is to provide for sensing a direct record or reading and obtaining another reading which is a complement thereof
- Fig. 5 shows a combinational hole record card
- Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of the brush and commutator used for reading the set-up combination
- Fig. 7 is a detail view of the set-up and reset mechanism constructed inv accordance f ss Fig. 8 is a circuit diagram showing the connections of the various apparatus;
- Fig. 9 is a detail view of a modified form of set-up mechanism
- Fig. 10 isa diagrammatic representation 90 of'the brush and commutator arrangement used in connection therewith;
- Fig. 11A is an enlarged view of a series of calns to be used with the set-up mechanism
- the translating mechanism comprises a vplurality of units 20, (Fig. 2) one unit being employed for each index column of the controlling record.
- a portion of a bank of such units is shown in Fig. 2 associated with an accumulator or countmg mechanism 21.
- Each unit is integrally mounted on a base plate 22 (Figs. 1 and 2) ,and is held thereby in mesh with gear wheel 23 on main driving shaft 24 which here makes one complete revolution per card cycle. Current is supplied through contacts 25 when the unit is 1n position in the machine. This construction permits the units to be removed and interchanged at will.
- the -accumulator element is drlven. from shaft 24 through gears 26 and 27 (Fig. 2) in the usual manner.
- Gear 23 and cam 30 (Fig. 1) are attached to shaft 24 and revolve in conjunction therewith.
- Cam 30 is used to control contacts 31 whereby certain operations of the set-up mechanism are interrupted during a portion of a card cycle. Contacts 31 are opened during one half of each revolution of shaft 24 and closed during the other half of the revolution.
- the set-11p mechanism 20 which will be rst described is driven from gear 23 through a driving train comprising gears 32, 33 and 34.
- Gear 34 is provided with a stepped cam 35 the purpose of which will be hereinafter described and a reset cam 36.
- the setl up mechanism operated by cams 35 and 36 is shown more in detail in Figs. 4 and 7.
- Magnet 37 is provided with four armatures 40 to each of which is rigidly attached an arm 41. Arms 41 are pivoted on rod 42 and terminate at their free ,ends in detents comprising undercut slots 43. Arms 44 pivoted on rod 46, are provided at one end with a set of contact elements A, B, C and D respectively, and at their other ends with projections 45 and 47. Projections 45 enter slots 43 in arms 41 and .normally lock the latter against movement.
- Projection 45 then prevents arm 41 from returnset as required and a reading derived there- ⁇ from in a manner to be later described, upon further rotation of gear wheel 34 reset cam 36 engages projections 47 and depresses the same releasing projections 45 from their retaining position on arms 41 and allowing arms 41 to be rest-cred to their original position in response. to a force applied by springs 52. Having assumed their original position they are again locked by the detent means comprising projections 45 and slot 43 above described. The device is then in condition to receive the next set-up in accordance with the subsequent record card.
- the set-up mechanism just described is operated in response to record cards 53 (Fig. 8) which are successively passed under brushes 54.
- record cards 53 Fig. 8
- ver a brush senses aperforation in the record card
- contact is made to the cooperating metallic member 55 anda circuit completed through magnet 37 which is temporarily energized.
- Magnet 37 will then attract its armatures and the particular one which happens to be released by cam 35 at that intant will be moved to the left and corresponding arm 44 assumes and retains its new position.
- a combinational hole record card similar to that shown in Fig. 5 is employed with this machine, each of the digits being represented by a particular combination of perforations in the A, B, C and D positions.
- Cam 35 is timed with respectto the .passage of record card'53 under brushes 54 so that brushes A, B, C and D (Fig. 7 are released successively at the exact moment that brush 54 traverses the A, B, C and D positions, respectively, of the record c ard.
- the result is that the coml bination set-up b arms 44 corres nds to the combination ofperforations in t e record sensed by brush 54.
- Brushes A, B, C and D on arms 44 make contact with conducting strips 56 or 57 (Figs. 1, 6, 8 and 10) according to their respective set-up positions.
- the combination setup by mechanism 20 is analyzed by brushes 60 attached to ear wheel 32. These brushes make contact wlth the various segments of commutator 61 connected to conducting members 56 and 57.
- the construction of brushes 60 and their manner of arran ement may be seen by referring to Fi 3 wiich shows a sectional view thereof. rushes 60 are connected mechanically to the gear wheel 32 b means of metallic strips 62 which are'rigid y attached to wheel 32 and insulated therefrom by' means of insulating discs 63.
- Commutators 61 are shown in detail in Figs. 6, 8 and 10 and in section in Fig. 3. They consist of cast or stamped blocks having rim portions 64 and contacting strips 65. The various contacting strips or segments are so interrelated that a circuit is completed by the brushes in a particular angular position, depending upon the set-up combination of contacts A, B, C and D. Brushes 60 are timed in respect to the commutator to send an impulsev through counter magnets 67, at the proper instant to operate the accumulator clutch to enter the amount indicated by the set-u combination code. Contact 31, operated y cam 30 (Fig. 8), is adapted to open the circuit to brushes 60 during half of each card cycle.
- the brushes make one complete revolution per card cycle they are energized during one half of each revolution only.
- the half revolution during which contact 31 is open occurs while set-up mechanism 20 is being operated.
- contact 3l is closed.
- the circuit is then completed by brushes 60 to counter magnets 67 to permit energization thereof whereby the accumulator may be controlled in a manner well known in tabulating machines.
- the operation of the device may be brieiy summarized as follows: During the first half of each card cycle the perforations on the card are sensed and the combination thereon set up and retained by mechanism 20. During the second half of the cycle the set-up combination is read by brushes 60 and a circuit is completed through the counter magnets to control the accumulatoror other record actuated device. Y
- the brushes 60 and 62 are shown in the -act of passing the sixth point of machine operation. At this point a circuit is completed to enter 6, the nine complement of 3, into ⁇ the accumulators. It will be noted that for other shiftings of the brushes A, B, C and D according to the index point code in Fig'. 5
- the entering impulse will always occur to y enter the complement of the number represented on the control card.
- Fig. 9 The set-up mechanism for this purpose is shownin Fig. 9 wherein the cam 35 of Fig. 1 is replaced by four cams 70, (one for each arm 44) the details of which are shown in Fig. 11.
- Each cam 'p70 is designed to depress one of the arms 44 at the time a single index perforation is passing under one of the rushes 54 the combination of arms depressed corresponding to the particular code deter- 'llt mined upon to represent that index point.
- the cams shown in Fig. llv may be designed so that when the card contains a perforation 'in any position, for in- .stance the three position, the set-up combination of arms 44 will correspond' to its complement, or in that case to the digit six. On subsequent reading of the set-up mechanism by the brush 60, a six will be entered into the counter instead of a three.
- the machine is also adapted to transpose for complements other than the nine comple-- ments or to transpose to any given number or numbers which may be arbitrarily selected. For example, it may be desired to transpose the combination representing 5 on ya combinational hole card into a timed impulse representing 7. 7 is of course the twelve complement of 5 and if it is desired to comF plement the other digits also to 12 the commutator segments may be arranged for this purpose.
- the vtransposi- V tion may be purely arbitrary and the commutator segments may be so arranged that the 3 will be transposed into a 5, for example, the 2 into a 7 and so on for entry into the counters.
- trans ositions may also be effected from the usual ollerith cards on which each number is represented by a single perforation. In this case it is only nry to rearrange the extensions on the cams shown in Fig. 11 so that an index point in the 5 position on the card will be effective in deressing, for example, the A and B switch evers in Fig. 10 which will give an entering impulse in the 7 osition.
- the cam extensions for the ot er index points can also be arranged to effect set ups correspondingto any selected characters.
- t e invention finds particular utility in transposin record readin s of one type into readings o another t pe, t e invention in its broad aspect is not imited to uses in direct connection with a perforated record, but the device may be utilized in accounting machines and the like generally or in other places where a conversion from a given reading into a correlated reading of a different type is desired.
- means including a single brush for sensing said representations, means for transposing the meaning of said representations and means for operating a responsive mechanism in accordance with the meaning of the transposed representations.
- means including a single brush for sensing said representations, means for transposing the meaning of said representations and means icluding commutators and brushes for operating a responsive mechanism in accordance with the meaning of the transposed representations.
- means including av single brush for sensing said representations.
- means including a single brush for sensing said representations, set-up contacts for transposing the meaning of said representations, and means including brushes and a staggered commutator for operating a responsive mechanism in accordance with the meaning of the transposed representations.
- means including a .single brush for sensing said representations
- means for setting up contacts corresponding mas to said representations means including com-- mutators and brushes for transposing the meaning of said representations and means chine, data res onsive means and' means for for operating a responsive mechanism in accordance with the meaning of the transposed representations.
- means including a single brush for sensing said perforations
- a magnet and armatures coperating therewith for setting up contacts orresponding to said perforations, a commutator and brushes for transposing the meaning of said perforation and means for operating an accumulator in accordance with the transposed meang.
- means 'forsetting up and retaining a reading comprising a plurality of rock arms, brushes attached to said arms, a rotating cam for actuatln said arms and setting iup a reading on sai thereon,
- means for setting up and retaining a reading comprising stationary contacts, movable brushes adapted to cooperate withl said contacts, a rotatable cam' for actuating said brushes and setting up a reading thereon and magnetically operatedlatching means for retaining said brushes in set-up position.
- means f or setting up and retaining a reading comprising a stationary commutator includingrimlike segments and interleaved fingers attached to said segments and extending in a direction parallel to the axisor ⁇ said segments.
- means f or setting up and retaining a reading comprising a stationary commutator including rimlike segments, interleaved fingers rigidly attached to said segments and extending in a direction parallel to the axis of said segments,
- a revolvable cam for actuating said brushes and setting up a combination corresponding to a reading magnetically operated latching means for retaining said brushes in set-up position
- a stationary commutator comprisingy rim-like segments and .interleaved metallic fingers connected thereto and extending in ⁇ a direction parallel to the axis of said Vrim-like segments, means connecting said commutator to said stationary contacts and revolving .brushes cooperating with lsaid commutator for deriving a reading therefrom.
- data responsive means and means comprising a single brush for deriving data from records, means controlled by said data derivl ing means for transposing the derived data into data of different meaning and means for .K
- data responsive means comprising mechanism operable at different times to t' manifest different data, means for deriving data from records and means controlled by said data deriving means for transposing the derived data into timed operations to control said mechanism for manifesting data with a different meaning from that appearing on the controlling records.
- means responsive to numerical data and means for deriving numerical data from records while they are in motion means controlled by said data deriving means for transposing the derived numerical data into nu shockal data complementary thereto and means for controlling the data responsive means in accordance with the complementary data.
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| US279308A US1729028A (en) | 1926-05-13 | 1928-05-21 | Transposing device for tabulating machines |
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| US271096XA | 1926-05-13 | 1926-05-13 | |
| US279308A US1729028A (en) | 1926-05-13 | 1928-05-21 | Transposing device for tabulating machines |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| US2532331A (en) * | 1946-01-05 | 1950-12-05 | Rose Ernest | Punching circuit |
| US2551088A (en) * | 1948-06-23 | 1951-05-01 | Ibm | Record controlled accounting machine having two forms of item entering mechanisms |
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US2532331A (en) * | 1946-01-05 | 1950-12-05 | Rose Ernest | Punching circuit |
| US2551088A (en) * | 1948-06-23 | 1951-05-01 | Ibm | Record controlled accounting machine having two forms of item entering mechanisms |
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| GB271096A (en) | 1928-08-13 |
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