Transmitter receiver machine employing print sphere typewriter structure

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FOR USE WITH APPARATUS ADAPTED FOR RECEIVING AND EMPLOYING INFORMATION SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF DATA BEING MARKED ON A RECORD MEDIUM AND FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION SIGNALS TO CONTROL THE MARKING OF DATA ON A RCORD MEDIUM, A TYPEWRITER TRANSMITTER RECEIVER COMPRISING A PRINT SPHERE INCLUDING PRINT CHARACTERS THEREON, CONTROL MEANS SUPPORTING SAID SPHERE FOR ADJUSTMENT WHEREBY TO BRING A SINGLE ONE OF SAID CHARACTERS INTO EFFECTIVE PRINTING POSITION, A ROTATABLE CYCLE SHAFT, A PLURALITY OF MECHANICAL ELEMENTS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO SAID CONTROL MEANS AND DISPLACEABLE BY OPERATION OF SAID SHAFT TO ACTUATE SAID CONTROL MEANS, A MOTOR, A CLUTCH FOR COUPLING SAID CYCLE SHAFT TO SAID MOTOR, A CLUTCH LINKAGE SYSTEM NORMALLY ADAPTED TO ENGAGE SAID CLUTCH TO DISENGAGE THE CYCLE SHAFT FROM SAID MOTOR, SAID CLUTCH LINKAGE SYSTEM BEING EFFECTIVE TO DISENGAGE THE CYCLE SHAFT AUTOMATICALLY FROM THE MOTOR AFTER THE SHAFT AND MOTOR HAVE BEEN COUPLED, MECHANICAL MEANS TO ENGAGE THE CLUTCH LINKAGE SYSTEM AND OPERATE THROUGH THE SAME AND SAID CLUTCH TO ENGAGE THE CYCLE SHAFT WITH SAID MOTOR; RECEIVER OPERATING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID MECHANICAL ELEMENTS AND RESPONSIVE TO EXTERNALLY SUPPLIED INFORMATION SIGNALS FOR SELECTING A CHARACTER ON SAID SPHERE, SAID OPERATING MEANS COMPRISING A SOLENOID OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID MECHANICAL ELEMENTS TO OPERATED THE SAME, PIVOTED LEVERS COUPLED TO AND OPERATED BY THE SOLENOIDS, AND ROLLERS ON THE LEVERS TO ENGAGE AND DISPLACE THE MECHANICAL ELEMENTS AND SELECT A CHARACTER; CLUTCH TRIGGER MEANS OPERATIVE TO CONTROL SAID CLUTCH TO COUPLE SAI CYCLE SHAFT TO SAID MOTOR AND PRINT A CHARACTER SELECTED BY SAID RE CEIVER OPERATING MEANS, SAID TRIGGER MEANS COMPRISING A TRIGGER SOLENOID, A PIVOTED TRIGGER LEVER OPERATED BY SAID TRIGGER SOLENOID, AND A PIVOTED FISHTAIL LEVER OPERATED BY THE TRIGGER LEVER AND IN HOOKED ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MECHANICAL MEANS TO ACTUATE THE SAME; TIMING MEANS COMPRISING A TIMING DISC COUPLED TO AND ROTATED BY SAID CYCLE SHAFT ABOUT AN AXIS OF ROTATION IN 1:1 RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID CYCLE SHAFT, SAID DISC BEING PROVIDED AT A FIRST RADIAL DISTANCE FROM ITS AXIS OF ROTATION WITH TWO DIAMETRALLY OPPOSED FIRST ARCUATE SLOTS OF THE SAME LENGTH AND AT A SECOND RADIAL DISTANCE WITH TWO FURTHER AND SHORTER DIAMETRALLY OPPOSED SECOND ARCUATE SLOTS, PHOTOELECTRIC UNITS STRADDLING SAID DISC AND IN A POSITION TO SCAN SAID SLOTS AND BEING THEREBY ADAPTED TO GENERATE SIGNALS ADAPTED FOR INDICATING FIRST AND SECOND STATES, AND SLOTS BEING OF SUCH LENGTH AND ORIENTATION THAT ONE OF SAID UNIT GENERATES A DATA GATE SIGNAL BEING IN FIRST STATE FROM ABOUT 0-43* AND 167*-180* OF EACH HALF ROTATION OF SAID CYCLE SHAFT AND IN SECOND STATE BETWEEN ABOUT 43*-107* CYCLE SHAFT HALF ROTATION AND THAT THE OTHER OF SAID UNITS GENERATES A CLUTCH GATE SIGNAL BEING IN FIRST STATE FROM ABOUT 0-40* AND 107*-180* OF EACH HALF ROTATION OF SAID CYCLE SHAFT AND IN SECOND STATE BETWEEN ABOUT 43*-107* OF SAID HALF ROTATION; MEANS RESPONSIVE TO AN EXTERNALLY SUPPLIED SIGNAL INDICATING THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW INFORMATION SIGNALS FOR THE SOLENOIDS OF SAID RECEIVER OPERATING MEANS AND TO SAID CLUTCH GATE SIGNAL IN FIRST STATE TO ACTUATE THE SOLENOID OF SAID TRIGGER MEANS WHEREBY THE CLUTCH IS EFFECTIVE TO ENGAGE SAID CYCLE SHAFT AND MOTOR, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE DATA GATE SIGNAL IN THE FIRST STATE TO TRANSMIT THE NEW INFORMATION SIGNALS TO SOLENOIDS OF THE RECEIVER OPERATING MEANS TO ACTUATE THE SAME TO SELECT A CHARACTER.