US1978931A - Tabulating machine - Google Patents
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- G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K13/00—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism
- G06K13/02—Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
- G06K13/07—Transporting of cards between stations
- G06K13/077—Transporting of cards between stations with intermittent movement; Braking or stopping movement
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- Fig. 3 is a circuit diagram 01 a complete tabuand more particularly to counter control mechlating machine constructed in accordance withanism therefor. the invention.
- Fig. 4 is a circuit diagram of a modification.
- Fig. 1 is shown a type of card having fields nations in columns it is customary to employ designated N and B representing cost price a plurality oi entry receiving devices such as and cash price" respectively.
- the accumulators or printing elements and operate corresponding fields A and M contain informaeach entry receiving device in accordance with tion relating to cash price and credit price". designations in a particular index column 01' the If these cards were run through the normal record which normally is in the form of a pertabulator, fields N and A would be added to-' i'orated card. It is frequently desirable to make gather and fields B and M would also be added certain types of entries such as cash price and together giving meaningless sums.
- a taburality of difierently located fields in successively lating motor TM controlled by associated coni'ed record cards may be selectively entered into tacts and relays 10 is employed for driving the a single data controlled device.
- tabulating machine during listing and tabulat- Another object is to provide a system whereby ing operations and reset motor RM controlled items in fields of a record card may be selectively by its associated relays and control circuits 11 entered into receiving devices in accordance is utilized for driving the machine during reset with the classification data of the record card.
- a further object is to provide a system wherelays and control circuits are well known in the by data contained in difierently allocated fields art and for further description thereof referof successive record cards may be separately ence may be had to the copending application accumulated in accordance with the location of of C. D. Lake, Serial No. 639,153, filed May 15, the fields and collectively accumulated at the 1923, now Patent No. 1,822,594, dated Septemsame time to obtain a sum of the separate her 8, 1932.
- the machine is controlled in reaccumulations.
- a plurality oi banks of accumulating elements 105 In the drawings: A, 13, C, M and N each comprising counter 1 is a detail of a fragment of one type of magnets 20 and printer magnets 21 connected. in record, x the usual manner are all adapted to be con- Fig. 2 is a detail of a fragment of another nected by plug connection to lower brushes 14. type oi record. Banks A, and C are connected to brushes 14 no which sense fields A-N of the record cards through relay coil 25 and its associated contacts 26 and 2'? respectively. Bank M is connected to brushes 14 which sense fields M-B of the record cards through contacts 28.
- contacts 26, 2'1 and 28 are closed and entries may be received from fields A--N of the cards in' banks A and C simultaneously and from fields M-B in bank M.
- Energization of coil 25 will shift themulti-contact device to open contacts 26, 27 and 28 and close contacts 29, 30 and 31 thereby connecting brushes 14 of fields AN to bank N through contacts 29 and connecting brushes 14 of fields M-B to banks B and C through contacts 30 and 31 .respectively.
- Relay 25 is controlled by an index point designation in the record controlling the machine as will now be described.
- ten index point positions are provided into which data for controlling the tabulating machine is entered.
- Two extra positions are also provided at the top of the card commonly called the 11 and 12 positions or the X" and Y positions. Since data are not ordinarily entered into these last two positions they may conveniently be selected for controlling the operation of relay 25.
- cam contacts 32 are designed to be closed only at the time the X" index point position of the record card is under the upper brushes 13.
- the coil 25 is controlled from brushes 13 to shift its associated contacts just before the card leaves these brushes.
- the actual entry. of the data designated on the card field into the selected banks occurs during the following machine cycle while the card is passing under brushes 14.
- the energizing circuit of coil 25 then, when once closed, must be maintained during that portion of this following cycle in which the data designating portion of the card field is passing beneath brushes 14 and the circuit must be opened before the X index point position of the following card reaches brushes 13.
- a holding circuit is therefore provided which runs from contacts 33, contacts 32 through relay coil 36 to post 35.
- Coil 36 closes its points 364 and a circuit is subsequently made from line 37, wire 38, cam contacts 39. points 36a, coil 25 to post 35.
- the cam contacts 39 are designed to be automatically closed by the machine operation Just prior to the closure of contacts 32 and to be opened during the following machine cycle after the entire data designating portion of the card field has passed the lower brushes 1! but before the X index point position has reached such brushes.
- the holding circuit is broken by contacts 39 so that the following record card may likewise energize the relay 25 or not depending on the presence or absence of a selecting perforation in its X index point position.
- the apparatus just described operates as follows: If a record card contains no control perforation in its "X" point position of a predetermined column, the relay coil 25 remains unenergized, contacts 26, 27, and 28 remain closed and the data on the card of Fig. 2 in field A will be entered into the accumulator banks A and C and that in field M will be entered into bank M from the brushes 14 through the contact device and connections as shown. However, if a control perforation is present in the "X" position of the card as in Fig. 1, relay 25 is energized, contacts 26, 27 and 28 open and contacts 29, 30 and 31 close whereupon the data on the card in field B will be entered into banks 13' and C and that in field N will be entered into bank N through the plug connections as shown.
- data may be collected into a common accumulator.
- a greater amount of data may be designated in a lesser number of card columns, as for instance in the examples chosen, columns 1 to 8 are used to record cash price” and cost price” and columns 9 to 15 contain "credit price” and cash price", the machine automatically separating the unrelated items into appropriate counters for separate tabulation.
- bank A will contain a total of all cash price items of the type of card in Fig. 2.
- Bank B will contain a total of all cash price" items of the type of card in Fig. 1.
- Bank C will contain a total of all cash price" items of both types of cards, and banks M and N will contain separate totals of "credit price items and cost price” items respectively.
- FIG. 4 An arrangement whereby this can be accomplished is shown in Fig. 4.
- coil 25 When a card such as shown in Fig. 1 but without the special hole in the sixteenth column controls the operation, coil 25 is not energized.
- An item representing field N is entered by contacts 26 and wires 40 to totalizer N M.
- An item representing field B of the same card is entered by contacts 28 and wires 41 to totalizer A B.
- a tabulating machine controlled by records having item representing index points arranged in columns a plurality of totalizers, means whereby items in certain columns are entered in said totalizers, and means whereby a special index point causes the items in said certain columns to be entered into said totalizers in transposed order.
- an accounting device In an accounting machine adapted to be controlled by records in which data of the same classification may be designated in different record fields of successive records, an accounting device, means for normally connecting said device for entry of data from a field of a record and means controlled by the classification designation on another record for automatically disabling the first named connecting means and connecting said accounting device to receive data under control of a different field.
- a plurality of sets of sensing devices adapted to analyze the several record fields, an accounting device, andv means controlled by the absence or presence of a classification designation on a record for automatically determining which 01" the sets of sensing devices related to the different controlling fields are to control the entries in the accounting device.
- a group of threetotalizers means for connecting one of said totalizers to function as a grand totalizer to receive items entered under control of two different record fields 'of successive records, means controlled by the record characterization for connecting one or the other of the two remaining totalizers to receive items entered under control of the other field of the record in accordance with which record field controls an item entry in the grand totalize and devices for controlling the different item entries.
- a group of at least four totalizers means for entering one or two items in a single machine operation, means for causing one of said totalizers to function as a grand ,totalizer to receive items entered during successive machine operations, means for causing two other totalizers of said group to separately totalize the last named items entered,'and means for preventing another item entered during the same machine operation an item is entered in one of the two other totalizers mentioned from being entered in the grand totalizer and causing it to be entered in a related totalizer comprising the remaining totalizer of the group.
- a group of five totalizers means under control of the records for entering an item represented by one,of two different fields of successive records into a common totalizer of said group, means controlled by classification characteristics of records for causing the items represented by said fields to be selectively entered in two other totalizers of said group, and means for preventing the item represented by the other record field of each controlling record from being entered in any of the totalizers mentioned and for causing said item to be entered selectively in another totalizer of the remaining two totalizers of the group.
- a plurality of totalizers means under control of a record having a single index point designation at a common predetermined position-of the records for effecting the entry of the items represented by the record having such designation in certain of said totalizers, and means dependent solely upon the absence of the single index point designation at said common predetermined position of another record for causing the items represented thereon to be entered in certain other totalizers.
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Priority Applications (4)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| US492183A US1978931A (en) | 1930-10-30 | 1930-10-30 | Tabulating machine |
| FR723025D FR723025A (fr) | 1930-10-30 | 1931-09-19 | Perfectionnements aux machines tabulatrices |
| DET39609D DE631674C (de) | 1930-10-30 | 1931-10-18 | Durch gelochte Zaehlkarten gesteuerte Geschaeftsmaschine |
| GB29998/31A GB391486A (en) | 1930-10-30 | 1931-10-29 | Improvements in or relating to record-card-controlled statistical machines |
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| US492183A US1978931A (en) | 1930-10-30 | 1930-10-30 | Tabulating machine |
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| US1978931A true US1978931A (en) | 1934-10-30 |
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| DE (1) | DE631674C (fr) |
| FR (1) | FR723025A (fr) |
| GB (1) | GB391486A (fr) |
Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US2580768A (en) * | 1947-08-14 | 1952-01-01 | Ibm | Data look-up apparatus for computing or other machines |
| US3035764A (en) * | 1955-05-24 | 1962-05-22 | Telecomputing Corp | Point of sale recorder |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR880929A (fr) * | 1941-11-27 | 1943-04-08 | Bull Sa Machines | Perfectionnements aux machines tabulatrices commandées par cartes enregistreuses |
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- 1931-09-19 FR FR723025D patent/FR723025A/fr not_active Expired
- 1931-10-18 DE DET39609D patent/DE631674C/de not_active Expired
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Cited By (2)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US2580768A (en) * | 1947-08-14 | 1952-01-01 | Ibm | Data look-up apparatus for computing or other machines |
| US3035764A (en) * | 1955-05-24 | 1962-05-22 | Telecomputing Corp | Point of sale recorder |
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| GB391486A (en) | 1933-05-01 |
| FR723025A (fr) | 1932-04-01 |
| DE631674C (de) | 1936-06-25 |
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