US3307675A - Fluid operated apparatus for printing binary-coded information - Google Patents

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US3307675A
US3307675A US449800A US44980065A US3307675A US 3307675 A US3307675 A US 3307675A US 449800 A US449800 A US 449800A US 44980065 A US44980065 A US 44980065A US 3307675 A US3307675 A US 3307675A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L17/00—Apparatus or local circuits for transmitting or receiving codes wherein each character is represented by the same number of equal-length code elements, e.g. Baudot code
    • H04L17/16—Apparatus or circuits at the receiving end
    • H04L17/28—Apparatus or circuits at the receiving end using pneumatic or hydraulic translation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B01D45/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces
    • B01D45/02—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces by utilising gravity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J23/00—Power drives for actions or mechanisms
    • B41J23/20—Fluid-pressure power drives
    • B41J23/22—Fluid-pressure power drives for key or like type selection
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J23/00—Power drives for actions or mechanisms
    • B41J23/20—Fluid-pressure power drives
    • B41J23/24—Fluid-pressure power drives for impression mechanisms

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  • TAUBERT FLUID OPERATED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BINARY-CODED INFORMATION 7 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 7, 1967 w.
  • TAUBERT FLUID OPERATED APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BINARY-CODED INFORMATION Filed April 21; 1965 7 Sheets-Sheet 2 A y 2 IYIIIH 00 m "4! L- .I m F F B IN VENTOR Wee/v52 74 05527 ATTYSv March 7, 1967 w. TAUBERT 3,307,675
  • WazA/ee fauaszr ATTYS INVENTOR I United States Patent Ofiice 3,307,675 Patented Mar. 7, 1967 20 Claims. (c1. 197-15 The invention relates to an apparatus for the printing of binary coded information symbols, in which the energy required for decoding and the printing of a symbol is transmitted by means of fluid media under pressure.
  • such an apparatus is characterized by the feature that a type carrier, on which there are arranged symbols to be printed in one or in two coordinate directions, is coupled directly or over a translation lever with one or two adjustable slides which selectively move the type carrier in the coordinate directions of the symbols arranged thereon by means of one each of several piston pairs, corresponding in their number to the number of symbols arranged in the corresponding coordinate of the type carrier, and slid-able by action of a fluid media under pressure, conducted over adjustable decoding element in the direction of fixed stops (or over tion opening the pressure transmission path for the fluid media to an allocated piston pair, which control piston, preferably after completion of its functional assignment, is restorable by further fluid means into its rest position.
  • the decoding elements are settable indirectly by fluid media controllable by receiver sliders, which are slidable, preferably, by means of the fluid media under pressure into the effective range of receiver magnets.
  • the control paths are considerably enlarged as compared to known devices, although for receiver elements, a short Working stroke is required.
  • the punch stamps are actuable over pistons which select the selection members, by means of-fluid media under pressure, and which are controlled over the receiver sliders.
  • the punch stamps are actuatable over pistons which select the selection members, by means of fluid media under pressure, which are controlled over the decoding slider.
  • Such rotary slide valve is. preferably actuatable by a drive motor over a blocking slide through an electromagnet excitable by impulses and over a coupling which is actuatable by fluid media under pressure through a valve controllable by the electromagnet.
  • a pump device for the generation of the working pressure of the fluid media for the control pistons, for the piston pair operating the displacement of the type carrier, for the piston actuating the printing and, on the other hand, a pump device for the generation of the working pressure of the fluid media for the remaining functions.
  • a device for adjusting the type roller in rotation direction there are arranged a plurality of pistons, the number of which corresponds to the number of symbols disposed on the circumference of the type roller, with the pistons being individually selectable over the decoding elements and actuated by the fluid media under pressure, pins being arranged in circular form around the shaft of the type roller, actuatable over a start-stop coupling and disposed in the swinging range of an attachment which is fixedly mounted on the shaft of the 'type roller.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates decoding and control system actuation of a slide, over which a type carrier with a plurality of symbols thereon is shiftable;
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an end view of the slide member
  • FIG. 3 illustrates further media decoding system for the control of the slide apparatus (not shown in this figure) for the shifting of the type carrier;
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a control arrangement for a punch stamp
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a control arrangement for a printing hammer
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a control system for the paper advance in a strip slider
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the start-stop mechanism for the rotary slide valve
  • FIG. 8 illustrates a plan view of the rotary slide valve in the region of the locking pawl therefor
  • FIG. 9 illustrates an arrangement for the transmission of the longitudinal movement of the slide according to FIG. 1 into an axial movement of the type roller
  • FIG. 11 illustrates a time-path diagram of the individual actuation parts of the apparatus and the arrangement of the control channels for the individual actuating parts on the rotary slide valve;
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an arrangement of a piston-actuating slide for setting the type carrier provided with shock absorbing means of the rotary movement of a type roller, making use of a friction coupling
  • FIG. 14 is a hydraulic diagram for the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 12;
  • oil is supplied, under pressure, from a supply tank 1, through a gear type pump 2, to a rotary slide valve actuatable by the receiver shaft 3.
  • a gear type pump 2 Inserted in the oil line between gear pump 2 and rotary slide valve is an oil accumulator 5 with a pressure limiting valve.
  • an oil accumulator 5 Inserted in the oil line between gear pump 2 and rotary slide valve is an oil accumulator 5 with a pressure limiting valve.
  • the oil under pressure is distributed in correct time sequence to the individual operating parts of the apparatus.
  • magnet armatures 6 Upon reception of a symbol component which consists, in its coded form, of three symbol steps, magnet armatures 6 are disposed adjacent the corresponding receiver magnets 7 by the action of springs 9 through receiver slides 8.
  • the cooperable armatures 6 and there with, the corresponding receiver slides 8 are held in the shifted position. Any slide 8 and magnet armature 6, whose cooperable magnet is not energized, following release of oil under pressure, as a result of operational rotating of the rotary slide valve 4 for displacement or shifting of the corresponding receiver slide 8 will take place in opposition to the force of the spring 9, returning such slide 8 to starting position.
  • Each of the receiver slides 8 thus serves as a control valve for the oil feed and oil return of one of three decoding slides 10.
  • the oil standing under pressure following actuation of the rotary slide valve 4, is conducted to the decoding lines 11.
  • the line at the extreme left can the pressure oil penetrate to one of the eight control pistons 12 and act thereon.
  • the oil channels to the other seven control pistons are blocked by at least one of the three decoding slides.
  • the left hand control piston 12 is now shifted by the oil pressure out of its rest position into the illustrated working position.
  • the return oil of the pistons arranged at the right side of the slide 13 can escape over the control piston 12, situated in rest position, into the oil supply tank 1.
  • the control piston 12, situated in working position is returned by pressure oil to it rest position.
  • pressure oil is released to the piston 18 of the pressure device illustrated in FIG. 5, through the displacement of which the printing hammer 19 is propelled in the direction of the paper 20 and the type roller 21.
  • the movement of the piston is restricted by a stop 22 on the casing guide 23 and the printing hammer 19 continues the rest of its movement to the printing location in free flight.
  • the return movement of the printing hammer 19 and of the piston 18 from the printing location is accomplished by a spring 24.
  • the feed channel for the pressure oil to one of the piston pairs 14 is opened, then through the oil pressure the two pistons move to the projection 17 lying between them and one of the two pistons, on whose side the slide 13 happens to be at this moment, moves the slide 13 into overlying position with the projection 17.
  • the other piston prevents a further movement of slide 13. In this manner the slide 13 is fixed in a predetermined position by the piston pair 14.
  • the piston pairs 14 are so arranged that they may, on the one hand bear on the steps 17 and, on the other hand, on the slide 13 with the same bearing surface. 4
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a receiver decoding system in which the decoding slides 10 are direetlly shiftable by the magnet armatures of the receiver magnets 7.
  • the setting, as desired, of the control pistons 12 as well as their restoration take place simultaneously over a single control channel in the rotary slide valve 4. So that this may be possible, there is arranged in the channel path between the last decoding slide 10 and eaeh of the Control pistons 12 a restrictive channel 25, and moreover, the sur'faces on which the pressure oil ean act in the shifting of the pistons 12 are of different size.
  • the active surface for the ressure oil bringing about the return movement of a piston 12 finds a considerably smaller thrust surface than the pressure oil controlled through the decoding slide 11 ⁇ for a certain control piston 12 to be set.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an additional device for the apparatus of FIG. 1, which makes it possible to operate a holepunch device simultaneously with the printing device.
  • the decoding slides 10 are constructed at their ends as control slides, which ontrolthe feed of pressure oil to the pistons 27 operating the paneh stamp 26. The control of the punching times and restoring times is accomplished over the rotary slide valve 4.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a hydraulically driven advance device for a slidahle strip.
  • FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the start-stop mechanism for the control of rotary slide valve 4, which in turnopens and closes the passage channels for the pressure oil to the individual actuating elements of the entire system.
  • rotor 41 is driven by a drive unit (not shown) with uniform speed.
  • a rest current holds an armature in working position by an electromagnet 43, the free end of the armature 42 being disposed in mechanical working connection with a control valve 44, a piston 46 acted upon by a spring 45 on the one hand and oil pressure controlled by the rotary slide valve 4, on the other hand,
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a slide 13, movable inthe direction of the arrow, which is operable to move a transmission lever 35, which carries a gear sector 37 meshed with a gear wheel 36 and then shift a type roller 21 arranged on the shaft of the gear wheel.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates, besides a side view of the apparatus for the actuation of the rotary movement of the type roller 21, a slide 13 which, over a translation lever 38, displaces a carrier 39 for the type roller 21, mounted longitudinally slidable on a partial axle 40, and thereby moves the type roller 21 in axial direction.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates a time-path diagram of a combined printer-punch system for parallel reception with hydraulic operation of the individual actutaing elements, in which the construction of the system is assumed to be in accordance with FIGS. 3 to 10.
  • the actual displacement of the slide 13 takes place according to FIG. 1, with being the time which is available for the printing of a symbol, and being the time which is available for the revolution of the rotary slide valve 4.
  • Channels not cross-hatched indicate the passage of pressure oil while cross-hatched channels represent the
  • Reference numeral 49 designates the start impulses of beat impulses received by a sending system and the numeral 50 designates the code impulses received from the system.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an arrangement of the slide 13, the pistons 15, 16 and the piston pairs 14 in connection with a hydraulic shock absorbing device.
  • a damping piston 51 On both sides of slide 13 there is in each case arranged a damping piston 51, which is held in rest position by a spring 52.
  • oil In a free chamber in the damping pistons there is situated oil which in movement of the damping piston escapes through a restricted port 53.
  • FIGS. 13 and 14 illustrate an example of construction in which rotary setting of the type roller is accomplished by engagement of a projection mounted on a type roller shaft driven by a friction coupling or oil motor, on a stop selectively operated hydraulically.
  • oil is conducted over a filter 62 by a gear pump 63.
  • the oil runs over a pressure limiting valve 64 to a cam-controlled control slide 65, which directs it in the first oil pressure phase, through the control slides 66-71 set previously by the receiver, and passes to the pistons 72-77, which turn the selector rings 78-83 (according to plus or minus storing-in of thereceiver) clockwise or counterclockwise.
  • the pressure oil passes parallel thereto over the control slides 66-71 to pistons 84-89, which shift the setting members 90-95 for the hole punch.
  • the return oil from pistons 72-77 and 84-89 can there flow back over the control slides 66-71 to the tank 61.
  • the path for the first oil pressure phase is blocked and the path for the second oil pressure phase is released.
  • the pressure oil passes to a U-shaped packing 96, whereby the selector rings 78-83 as well as spacing rings 97 are compressed with great force.
  • the selector rings 78-83 have a number of holes which in a certain selector ring displacement form a through passage.
  • Through the pressure oil one of a number of blocking pins 98-113 is urged outwardly.
  • the type roller 122 is driven over a friction coupling (or oil motor) I123 and stopped by one of the hydraulically shockabsorbed levers arranged on the type roller by the pressedout blocking pen.
  • Another cam-controlled control slide 125 shifts to the third oil pressure phase, while the second oil pressure phase is still in operation. Pressure oil thereby passes to two further pistons 126 for the operation of the holepunch needles and 127 for the tensioning of a pressure spring for the printing process. After this, the control slide 125 is shifted over to the fourth oil-pressure phase returning the pistons 126 and 127, in which process the piston 127 at the termination of all movements unlatches the tensioned pressure spring 128. The printing then takes place, with the type sleeve 122 stationary. For the next symbol, on shifting over of the control slide 65 for the new selector ring setting the blocking pin operated by the last symbol and the control valve are restored by spring force, in which process the return oil can escape over the continuous selector ring apertures and the control slide 65.
  • Apparatus for the printing of received binary-coded information symbols in which the energy required for the decoding and the printing of a symbol is transmitted by means of a fluid media under pressure, comprising a type carrier on which the symbols to be printed are arranged in predetermined relation in at least one of two coordinate directions, slide means operatively connected to said type carrier for moving the latter to effect a symbol selection thereon, means operatively connecting said type carrier and said slide means for transmitting movement therebetween, a plurality of pairs of pistons, such pairs being equal in number to the number of symbols arranged on said type carrier in such a coordinate direction, a plurality of stops, each cooperable with one of said pairs, the respective pistons of which are movable in opposite directions toward the cooperable stop, and arranged to transmit movement to said slide in a direction toward such stop, the latter being operative to restrict such movement of cooperable pistons, means operatively connecting the respective pairs of pistons to a fluid media under pressure, and decoding elements cooperable with said last-mentioned means for selectively controlling
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 comprising shockabsorbing pistons disposed between the slide means and the respective piston pairs.
  • a pressure channel extends between the decoding elements and each of the control pistons, from which there branches 011 a restricted channel leading to the fluid media supply tank, the surfaces of the control pistons on which the fluid media under pressure acts, when rendered active by the decoding elements, being greater than the surface on which the fluid media under pressure acts in resetting the control pistons into a rest position, the resetting of a control piston and the setting of another control piston taking place simulaneously, with the fluid media respectively acting thereon being under approximately equal pressure.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 comprising receiver elements, the receiver slide or decoding element serving as a receiver slide being slidable by means of fluid media under pressure into the effective range of said receiver elements, which are operative to selectively retain a respective slide in predetermined position.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 in connection with a hole punch mechanism, wherein the punch stamps thereof are operable over pistons operable by selector members actuated by fluid media under pressure, controlled by cooperable receiver slides.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 in combination with a hole punch, wherein the pistons controlling the punch stamps are operable by fluid media under pressure, controlled over the decoding slide.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 for the setting of a type roller in direction of rotation, wherein pistons are provided which are selectively slidable over the decoding elements by fluid media under pressure, and pins arranged in circular form around the shaft, driven over a slip coupling for the type roller, and in the path of a projection rigidly mounted on the shaft of the type roller.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein a rotatably supported slide, controlling the fluid media under pressure for the individual operations is controllable over an electromagnet energizable by impulses, and over a coupling which is operable by the electromagnet, by means of a valve which is actuatable by a drive assembly.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 comprising a slidable control piston disposed in the transmission path between each pair of pistons and the decoding elements, said control pistons being slidable, in dependence upon the position of the decoding elements, by the fluid media under pressure, from a rest position into a position opening the pressure transmission path for the fiuid to the allocated pair of pistons.
  • Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein that one or more slides, a-ctuatable by the receiver shaft are provided, by means of which the fluid media under pressure is made active in proper time sequence for the individual actuating parts of the apparatus.
  • Apparatus according to claim 16 wherein, for the control of the fluid media under pressure for the control pistons and the pairs of pistons a control channel is arranged in the slide.
  • Apparatus according to claim 16 wherein the pistons operating the punch stamps are operable by fluid media under pressure, controlled over a slide member.

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