Method and means for storing and selecting records

May 11, 1937. G. tauschek 2,080,100

METHOD AND MEANS FOR STORING AND SELECTING RECORDS Filed March 10, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet 1

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May 11, 1937. ^G tauschek 2,080,100

METHOD AND MEANS FOR STORING AND SELECTING RECORDS Filed March 10, 1933 3 Sheets-Sheet 2

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METHOD AND MEANS FOR STORING AND SELECTING RECORDS

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Patented May 11» 1937

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

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METHOD AND MEANS FOR STORING AND SELECTING RECORDS

Gustav Tauschek, New York, N. Y.

Application March 10, 1933, Serial No. 060,203

Claims. (Cl. 179—100.2)

This application is a continuation in part of my application Serial No. 627,458, filed August 4 1932

This invention relates to record retaining der. vices and more particularly to the type In which a plurality of such devices are provided for selection at will. . _j __

The main object is to provide an arrangement whereby a great number of record retaining deto vices may be provided in a small space and.to provide the devices of suitable material so that records may be represented thereon by means of electro-magnetic effects. .

The conventional arrangement for retaming records which may be obtained at will consists usually of a group of wheels which are rotated to set up a value and then rotated again to represent the value determined by the set-up. Such arrangements require the provision of a large _on number of wheels occupying considerable space ²⁰ and the employment of suitable operating devices therefor necessitating moving large masses and the objectionable mechanical difficulties increase as the number of groups are increased.

.,. Distinguishing therefrom the present invention utilizes strips or Other elements of steel or other magnetizable material each of which records by point by point magnetic effects, and such magnetic effects of all strips are transcribed to represent upon a series of wheels the data previously entered upon the strips. As other and subsequent data are sometimes required provision is made for neutralizing the magnetic effects upon the strips so that other and new data may be represented by the same strips.

The transcription does not necessarily depend upon a series of point magnetizations as differently located points may be magnetized to control differential effects. In addition^ there may 40 be superimposed over l—1- ----- Λ/.

variations in magnetism effected by variations in electrical resistance determined by sound, such as speech, directed into a transmitter. The various strips thus magnetized may be selected at 4- will for reproduction of the sound effects prevlously stored in the strips in the form of variations in magnetic effects. The reproduction is preferably effected by the same transmitter which is employed to produce the variable mag50 n^_e^ef^_{ntlon lg appUcable} m conjunction « Which are'norm^y open with systems for determining the status of an ^{tn the} account. Such information is derived by transcribing the magnetic effects upon a selected group of wires, strips or other elements of magnetizable material and representing such effects upon a group of wheels. As the amount ^reP™ sented may be changed by a transaction, the change represented by new positions of the wheels is recorded upon the selected group of strips for subsequent representation. Also, if desired, upon such strips there is registered under control of a telephonic device information relative to the account which may be reproduced at will. The latter feature may be used independ- . ently of the account representations and is to be construed as an object of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings in which

Fig 1 is a view in side elevation, partly fragmentary, of the unit containing the selectable groups of elements which record data by means of magnetic effects. _c .

Fig 2 is a plan view of the apparatus disclosed in Fig. 1, also partly fragmentary to show more clearly certain parts.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the unit which Is employed to select the groups of record representing elements. ,, __..

Fig. 4 is an electrical diagram coordinating the two units disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 with a data representing apparatus or unit.

Fig. 5 Is a diagrammatic representation of the operating devices for one of the data representing devices. .

The record representing devices are selected by a dial mechanism comprising a dialing plate 10 (Fig. 3) having a series of finger receiving apertures II. The actuation of the plate 10 by a finger to a position determined by a finger stop piece 12 turns said plate one or more steps depending upon which aperture 11 is employed for the actuation.

Tn anmtion mere umj Plate 10 is attached to a stud 13 and to said such magnetized points stud is secured aft arm 14 and a gear 15. The ₄₀ sucn magneuzea po _{ωΓΓ1β5 &amp; which has an approxi}_ mately rectangular pin 17 in the plane of a ratchet wheel 10 which is attached to a dentated disk 19, and both wheel 18 and disk 19 are loosely mounted on stud 13. The gear 15 meshes with 45 a pinion 20 to drive a suitable centrifugally controlled governor 21, which forms no part of the present invention.

The dentated disk 19 as it turns one or more steps is adapted to successively close contacts 50

For*example, to select the record representing device “20”, as dial 10 is turned three steps clockwise pawl 10 will ratchet over wheel 18 to position the pin 17 to cooperate with the radial edge 55 . ^Γ~ θΐ^,.⁰!^⁸ When turning dial

Wate II In * clockwise direction a spring 23 canned to a lug 24 which is pert ofi circular 2^1?’ ^also ^^ed to stud II, will be ten? ^{to nston} P¹*^ '· to norail when the finger is taken out of the nrevtousiv engaged aperture II. In so doing pawl II will i^{Wheel 10} cootmclockwise and disk Whin ΤΤΛ°^{10ββ 8ontacts 22} three time? When 0 is dialed, contacts 22 will dose once

Tbe record representing devices are contained ^C0Ptr01Up« unit shown in and 2 and comprise a baseboard 21 to which is secured a pair of supports 27 and 21 and^id supports carry a vertlcally-movable circular tutu» of Insulating material 21 whi&lt;* *^βears II and the latter are provided with £°^{te 91} to receive studs 32 which are XrieX ^{71 ln order} that the tube may be raised or lowered.

aliened with the tube 21 and movable ^{y thereto 1x3411 len}8thwise and around ? * ^{rod 40 whlch at} Its upperenSTS circular but beneath the circular portion II the “** >» «*

Referring to Fig. 4, it will be observed that «lid from _t^C°^{nnected to th}e Positive line ride Λ^47 ^f^i^L^maeD*^{et 1118 clrcuit} extends by wire 47 to closed contacts 41. thence contacts 22 to the negative line side ^n>Ug

If three Impulses are transmitted by the dial mechanism pawl 41 will successively steo I upwardly and each successive position as well as the last position will be held b7aretairS a!Jr ™^aCtlng shoulders 42.

mH _t^the-^de?^{lred lon}eltudlnal movement of given. ^{effected a} rotary movement is then

To this end, referring to Fir 3 it arm apa™, that when Ing Sw’A'SmSI XS °' “ ·Ϊ2Ϊ will close. By a wire 54 (Fig. 4) the circuit ^t8nds ^roueh such contacts 53 from the positive sirt! °^{ne S}?^{de of a ma}«ⁿet II, the°other Uh^t^COnT«^{d to the negatlve} hue side 51 When magnet 15 (Fig. 3) is energized it Ju attract its armature and shift a pawl It pivoted .hereto so that the latter will move into a notch tacS si^{Cam dUl}t^{M and 1S held} ‘herein until con.- ™i Wh”® ^{When the dlal plate} returns to nor55 mal. When contacts 51 open magnet kk u ho energizeil to permit a spring 51 to shift pawl 51 di* M k ^disk ” ^{one step}· ^Such turXg of tioi wh?ch^{ngS &amp;} t*³^¹⁰ thereof into a £si^hich permits the dropping of the intense mediate blade 51 to close contacts 12 and open contacts 41. The shifted position of disk 58 is «“ Μωϊί.’·’¹ ·· ‘^eu™ ^{1S dlal8d aft}er a previous dialing has ckU^he ,^contacts ·² closed, contacts 22 are th^? 2^{n y} ?^{nCe and the one} impulse is directed net Mlndⁿth^CtS ’^{2 &lt;Plg}' ^{4) by wlre 01 to} magnet II and thence to the positive line ride 41 PiSed^a™ iTan’d °L^{magnet 00 (see} «8· 2) is A»voiea at «I and the armature has pivoted aHreL’t hTT¹ !! ^1Π cooporation with teeth of ‘ ⁷⁰ “c^d to the lower end of the rod 41 (see Fig. 1). Also cooperating^ iwUHM^ ILh ^{a SPrfng} holding Pawl 71 (Mg. 2). Both pawls II and 71 are suffl10

8,060,100 been effected by the first dlal^peS™ ’’T : rsX^a&lt;?;°2 (££? l^Sandⁿ2)^{eCted t0} P^Phenr of disk 70 ® roTil wiuX⁰L^t5L‘}^x}^alH^andni?^{tary motlon} of rod 41 passes through a* slot n^Mg^Tin tab°e table are light SiS * , ^c “re eignt radially mounted magnet» as toll!⁰¹¹ °/ ^{the elght} denominationab^dwslmlts vide sStahTS; ^{1 m each} ““«net so as to pror ^{able wire} connections to said magnets Considering a single tier, it will bT otXLd that carried by the interior wall of „^rVed tudil»¹) ^{lp 70 S suffl}ciently long, in a long!

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H&lt;„,L, lv.^reCelve three impulses. When 0” r the magnet?!? Sn fromVSuS _?e^ ΤΧ* _sTe £ K “0” in η/ΛΤ rI^h‘^{Ch Strips represent} recOTd dial II wifi he³’ ^7t ^^{111 be und}erstood that the

Ik 2¹ ** ^operated twice in succession and plrticJlM ttr h^alin,^{g W1U effeCt a} Action'of ί rod 41 whn! ^{a lon}8itudinal movement of the «leelonll the second dialing will effect the selection of a particular element 78 in each of the h tS\r^T&lt;^^PS’ ^a circumferential or rotar/mo- ^5!I thereby, θ ^{and the magnets 04}

Assuming that the eight strips have been pre SfflXt^S^tiZed; ^{each havlng the same} or .. “liferent number of magnetized points and it is '''^J± ^ren^{d t0}^^{SCertain the} numerical vaiue «pre sented in the selected record device the follow mg operation is performed °^W’

Key 71 (Figs. 3 and 4) is now depressed so as to close contacts 80. Key 79 has an in“ffied lug • I coacting with a lug of a slidable detent ti so as to hold key 79 depressed in the usual manner, and thus retaining contacts 81 closed. When contacts II are closed the circuit PTtpnH. r £c^ets^ne.^g8^ai^{iVe hne Slde 50 (Fig}· ⁴⁾ through coiv tacts 10 to a magnet 83 and thence hv ηητ«,<>π closed contacts 74 and wire 15 tn tn ^ηο™^β.^Π2ΓHne side 4·. ” ^{to the} P^ftive

From Pig. 1 it will be observed that when M^agThe*’aSer^nergH^{ed U attracts Its arma}tlre ··. The latter carries a stud 07 of insnioft»,» »«»!· whlib normally hold, u» loXwj™ JX ⁰T‘^r&lt;^{y ,0 k}» closed. Therefore, when magnet 81 is energized,

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It opens its circuit by opening of contacts 14. Pivoted to armature II Is a pawl ·· coacting with a ratchet wheel 99. A spring Ila holds pawl IS in ratchet wheel operating position and 5 also elevates armature SI when magnet 98 Is deenergized by opening of contacts 14.

Thus, it will be clear that armature 88 will vibrate a number of times until the circuit to magnet 83 is permanently opened, by means to 10 be presently explained.

To ratchet wheel 98 there is secured a toothed wheel 8Sa. This wheel coacts with a toothed wheel 80b, which turns twice during one revolution of the wheel 90α. To the wheels 90b and 90 15 there are secured cams 91 and 92 respectively, the periphery of cam 91 coacting with a lower extension of the right ear 80 of tube 29. After rod 40 has been longitudinally positioned to select a record the points of the conical ends 84A of 20 the magnets register with the tops of strips 18 and for each step of rotation of ratchet wheel 00, cam 91 causes the tube 29 to be raised one step so that for ten steps of rotation of ratchet wheel 90 the magnets register with ten successive points 25 of the strips 18. Thus the conical points 84A analyze the strips for determination of magnetized points.

After a quarter of one revolution of cam 82 from the initial position shown in Fig. 1, a projec30 tion S3 of a disk 94 secured to cam 92 will, at the tenth position cf the magnets 84, engage the upper blade of contacts 90 to close said contacts. Such contacts extend the circuit from the positive line side to one side of a magnet 96 (Fig. 4), 35 the other side being connected to the negative line side 58. When magnet 96 is energized it attracts its armature 91 which is an integral part of the detent plate 82 and as the latter Is shifted it releases depressed key 19 to open contacts 80. 40 The circuit to magnet 83 (Fig. 1) Is now opened at the tenth analyzing position and operation of pawl 89 thus stops.

By magnetic induction one or more electrical impulses are created in the magnets 84 and in 45 order to register such effects on an accounting device for visual representation the following action takes place. Hereafter, numerical sub-scripts designate denominational orders.

Considering magnet 84i, it will be observed ₅₀ that In a closed circuit including such magnet are two sets of normally closed contacts 98i and 180i and a relay magnet 99i. The magnet 99i when energized will close its related contacts IOOi thereby extending a circuit from the positive line ₅₅ side by wire 86, thence by a wire 101 through closed contacts IOOi, and thence by wire 102 to one side of a magnet IO9i. The other side cf the latter Is connected by wire 104 to the negative line side 50.

«0 Magnets IO9i—109» correspond to magnets of any suitable electrically controlled number representing device and may comprise the apparatus shown In Fig. 5 of the British Patent 372,742 and also herein diagrammatlcally in Fig. 5.

For each electrical impulse to magnet IO9i an armature 110 is attracted so that by a pawl ί 11 and gear 112 a related accumulator wheel or number wheel 113 will be turned a definite amount to represent the numerical values represented by 70 the number of magnetized points of the related steel strip 18.

It will be noted that in the particular construction illustrated by Fig. 5 the number wheel 113 has three zero positions, as indicated by the three 75 notches in its periphery, and said wheel there fore has three series of digit numbers (from 0 to 9). The gear 112 and pawl Hi are so constructed that each feed movement of said pawl will advance the gear 112 and wheel 118 one step, and that ten such steps will turn the number 5 whehl 113 from one of its three zero positions to the next. In other words, each feed movement of the pawl HI will Impart one-thirtieth of a revolution to the number wheel H3.

When the operator has visually read from the 10 wheels 113 the record on the strips 18 the wheels are reset to zero by means fully explained in the aforesaid British patent. If a new number changed by some transaction is to be represented upon wheels H3 they may be turned manually, 15 or by a cash register, tabulator, etc., so as to represent a new record. Magnets 109 have suitable wire connections 114 for impulse actuation under control of any suitable machine so as to set wheels to represent a new amount. 20

It is desirable, further, to neutralize the magnetic effects and thus permit the strips 18 to be remagnetized at points to record the new value. To enter a value to be represented by one or more magnetized points in a series of strips consti- 2 > tuting an account device a key 115 (Fig. 3) is depressed. When the key is depressed contacts 83 and I16 will be closed and retained closed by the detent plate 82 acting In the manner described in connection with key 19.

When contacts 116 are closed a wire connection 125 connects the negative line side to one side each of a pair of magnets 126α and 126b. The contact 90e is closed by the cam 90d (Fig. 1) to one s'.de of magnet 190, the other side of this C.> magnet being connected by wire 85 to the positive line side. When magnet 190 is energized the armature thereof pulls a member 193 upwardly so that the pins thereon close contacts 1911—191», which are connected with the positive line side. 40 When magnet 126α is energized the armature thereof pulls a member 121α downwardly so that pins thereon open contacts I8O1—180« and close contacts I28i—128« thereby connecting each pair of the related magnets 84 over the contacts 191 4j with the positive line side.

When magnet 126b is energized a member 121b is shifted downwardly and by pins 129 carried thereon contacts 98i—98« are opened and a series of contacts IO3i—103« are closed. Such contacts 50 1031—103« close the left side of the series of magnets 84i—84« together so that by a wire 133 one side of all magnets is connected to the negative line side 50.

When magnet 83 (Fig. 4) is energized by closing 55 of contacts 80 upon depressing key i 15, contacts 14 will be successively closed and opened thirty times as described before. The first twenty steps of the pawl 89 will by means of the cam 91 lower and raise the tube 29, and during this movement 60 the constantly energized magnets 84 will neutralize the magnetic effects of the related steel strips. If so desired, selecting means may be provided so as to energize magnets 84 by a higher voltage to more effectively neutralize the mag- 65 netization.

At the end of this movement by the position of cam 90c (Fig. 1) contacts 90e open thereby connecting the magnets 84 through contacts 192 to related contacts 101. Contacts 194 close so that 70 each time the armature of magnet 83 operates by opening and closing of contacts Hl, current impulses will be directed from the positive line side to a wire 118 (Fig. 4). The pawl 89 will now be operated ten steps thereby lowering the 75

9,080,100 tube II again and during this time contacts ill will under certain conditions direct ten impulses to the wire III.

, Considering the control of magnet Illi, for 5 iexample, it will be seen that from ill two paths are supplied, one through upper contacts Illi to magnet Illi, and thence by wire 114 to the negative line side, or by lower contacts Illi, thence by wire 116 to contacts Illi and Illi now closed 10 thence to magnet I4i, contacts Illi, now closed and wire 111 to the negative line side.

As best shown in Fig. 5 contacts Illi are opened at zero position of the wheel 111 and contacts IITi are closed at the zero position. If the wheel 15 stands at 6” contacts III] are closed and contacts IO7i opened. Hence, the first four electrical impulses will be directed through contacts Illi to the magnet Illi so as to give four feed steps to the wheel. As the wheel is now at zero con20 tacts Illi open and contacts Il7i close. Thus the subsequent six electrical impulses will be directed to magnet I4i to result in the magnetization of the related steel strip 71 at six points.

During the time the six electrical impulse» are 25 being directed to magnet I4i, cam 11 is being turned clockwise by pawl II and in this operation raising the tube 21. The conical points 14α of the various magnets 14 will cause point energizations in accordance with the standing of the accumu30 lator wheels ill. If a wheel stands at “0” each of the ten points of the related strip 71 will receive a point of magnetization and in clearing to set up the representation the wheel will again be turned ten steps to represent 0”.

··> After the amount has been recorded by point magnetizations contacts 91 (Fig. i) are closed through the action of projection 13' on the disk S4 thus energizing magnet IS and releasing the depressed key IIS in the manner previously ex40 plained in connection with the releasing of key 79.

At the termination of the entry operation key 150 (Fig. 3) is depressed to close contacts 151 thus extending a circuit from the negative line 45 side 50 through the closed contacts 151 to a magnet 152 and thence to the positive line side 40 (see Fig. 4). When magnet 152 is energized it will attract its armature 153 and by means of a slidably mounted member 154 (Fig. 2) integral with so the armature 153 a projection 155 will be shifted and since it (Fig. 1) engages holding pawl 71 the wheel 7|^Π ** ^{released from one of the te€th} of

An extension 150 of pawl 09 is engaged by pawl M 71 so as to free pawl 69 from the teeth of wheel 0. As the latter is now free of pawls 69 and 71 spring η*¹™ ^{t0 normal under} action of return Upon the initial turning of wheel 70 to select so a group of record representing devices a projec,¹⁰ⁿ y ^<Plg’ ²⁾ hereof Passes away from a plate 50 which is bent at right angles to form a plate ’J¹!¹,¹* ^1S Pivoted at III to the base plate 26. Plate 159 therefore permits opening of contacts ·>·) lor.

When the plate returns to normal, contacts 161 will close and referring to Fig. 4, closure thereof will cause magnet 162 to be energized since key .,, 5? ^IS> ^ke^ ^{d0Wn by the operator} to hold contacts di 15 f closed. ,

Magnet 162 will attract armature 163 (Fig 1) to shift an integral slide 164 and a pin 161 carried at its extreme which engages a fork in .- £^{aw 5 wiU release} the same from a shoulder 41. ‘° By suitable connections such as a pin 161 on pawl

II engaging pawl 43 the latter may also be shifted. Thus rod 41 and attached parts drop to normal position.

Farther, with respect to Fig. 3, it will be seen that depression of key III will also rock an ex- 5 tension 13' of the holding pawl 13 to free it from notch 14. Extension 13' will depress a plate 117 so that by means of a stud carried by a curved portion of said plate pawl M will be rocked. As ^P .XJ* ^{18 now free of 130111} pawls 13 and H a 10 suitable spring III may return it to normal.

All the operated parts are now at normal in readiness for selecting another group of stripe 71 to analyze another record.

By means of a transmitter 171 which also func- 15 tlons as a reproducer the current in magnet 14« may be varied according to sound vibrations to record speech upon the correlated strip 7| For controlling such, transmitter 171 has wire connections 171 and 172 to said magnet 14« 20 This arrangement permits a magnetization of strip 71 varying with sound vibrations to be recorded by the strip together with point by point ™^agn®^tlzatl°ns of the same strip. Hiese sound vibrations are recorded magnetically, and the in- 25 duced currents produced with the aid of such magnetic record affect only the transmitter. The sound vibrations may be remarks relative to certain accounts, such as “account overdue”, and are audible when the value of the account or rec- 30 ord is transcribed.

It is understood that in accordance with the nature of the relay magnets II and the transmitter 171 any known amplifying means may be employed to amplify the current impulses produced ³⁵in the coils 14.

The present application is a continuation in part of my earlier application Serial No. 627 453 filed in the United States Patent Office August 4,