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US2153191A
US2153191A US121809A US12180937A US2153191A US 2153191 A US2153191 A US 2153191A US 121809 A US121809 A US 121809A US 12180937 A US12180937 A US 12180937A US 2153191 A US2153191 A US 2153191A
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Juriga Anton
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  • the leading edge of the record card successively passes the ends of blades which form passage-ways leading to different sorting pockets. As the leading edge of the card successively passes beneath the blades, those in advance of the leading edge may be caused to drop below the record card, thus forming a passage-way which is selected in accordance with the position which the edgeof the card occupies at the time the blades are lowered.
  • the sorting blades are separated into two groups each operated by a separate tripping mechanism. The one group of blades corresponds to the even numbered index point positions of the record card and the other group corresponds to the odd numbered index point positions. In this manner, the ends of succeeding blades in any group are spaced twice as far apart as heretofore, which doubles the time interval within which the tripping mechanism can function.
  • Fig. l is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of a sorting machine in which the invention may be embodied.
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram of the electrical connections of the invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a drawing in perspective of the group sorting blade arrangement and operating mechanism.
  • a sensing brush Record cards 20 (Fig. 1) are placed in the usual magazine and removed one by one from the bottom of the stack by a picker 2
  • a link 25 pivoted to one of the arms 23 is also pivoted to a crank pin 26 carried by a crank 21 on a shaft (not shown) which is driven at the rate of one revolution per record cycle through suitable spiral gearing connecting the said shaft and the main drive shaft 28.
  • the latter is shown in broken lines in Fig. 1.
  • is gripped by feed rollers 29 driven by spiral gearing from shaft 28 and by said rollers is fed to the left to pass the usual sensing brush 30 which coacts with the usual metallic contact roll 3! to sense data designating holes in the records.
  • the plates 33a, 33b are integral with the armatures of sorting magnets 35a and 35b, respectively, which are provided with suitable knife-edge pivots and with springs 36 which normally hold the bars in the position shown in Fig. 3.
  • Suitable feed rollers as 35 serve to convey the records to the various pockets selected by operation of the magnets 35a and 35b in the well known manner, such records being guided to the appropriate pockets by the guide blades 34a and 34b.
  • the plates 33a. and 33?) are normally held up by the springs 36 and will be drawn down a certain amount whenever their magnets are energized.
  • the ends of the blades are so disposed relative to the brush 30 that when, for example, a 9 hole in the record is sensed, the leading edge of the record in which such hole appears will occupy a position between the end of the blade 34b leading to the 9 pocket and the end of the blade 34a leading to the 8 pocket, this position being approximately indicated, in dotted outline in Fig. 3.
  • energization of the magnet 35a in a manner to be explained, as a consequence of the hole sensed by the-brush 30, will cause the record having the 9 hole to be guided to the 9 pocket since all the even numbered blades 34a to the left of the leading a gap between the 9 and the 8 blades.
  • the blades 34b will, of course, remain in their upper position resting on bar 33b, but the edge of the card will be deflected upwardly along the outer curvature of the 8 blade 34a so that the card Will pass over the 7 and lesser numbered blades-34o in its transit toward the 9 pocket.
  • distributor 42 having a common conducting ring 43 which has electrical connection with a ring of contact segments 44 and a second ring of similar segments 45. Thesesegments are traversed by brushes 46 and 41 respectively and the timing is such that the segments v44 contact with the brush 46 for the odd numbered index point positions and the segments 45 contact with the brush 4'! when the even numbered index point positions of the card are at the sensing brush 36.
  • Relay 54 closes its contacts 54a to provide a holding pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a single modification, it
  • an analyzing device comprising means for causing electric current to flow through holes in afcard, a pair of magnets operable by said analyzing device, a pair of groups of superimposed blades forming distributing passages for the cards, the receiving end of the first blade of one group being longer than the end of the first blade of the second group, the end of the first blade of said second group being longer than the end of the j second blade of the first group and so on, andall the blade ends of each group resting on a separate plate so positioned that said card while emerging from the analyzing devices passes between the blade ends and said plates, means for bringing about a lowering of either plate and all of the blades on such plate except thosesuperimposed upon the card being analyzed upon the analyzation of a card to thereby open a passageway for the card between a blade in one group and a blade in the other group, the particular passage opened depending upon the position of the card at the instant of lowering the blades.
  • a feeding device comprising means for. causing electric current to flow through holes in the card, a plurality of superimposed blades forming passages between them for cards, the first and alternate blades comprising one group and the second'and alternate blades comprising a second group, a pair of magnet armatures one for each group, movable in response to said analyzing means, the receiving ends of each group of blades resting upon the related armature, and the armatures operating in conjunction with the card to open a passageway for the card between a blade of one group and a blade of the second'group,
  • amachine for sorting cards into difierent receiving pockets guide blades leading to said pockets, said blades ending in parallel card entrance ends, the first and alternate odd numbered blades comprising one group, and the second and alternate even numbered blades comprising a second group, the ends of the two groups being laterally spaced from each other, the entrance ends in each group being superimposed'and longitudinally spaced from each other, a pair of separate plates, one normally supporting the ends of one group and the other normally supporting the ends of the other group of blades and means for eifecting relative vertical displacement between said plates to cause like relative displacement between the ends of the two groupsof blades.

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