Tabulating device having stops spaced by two letter spaces

Claim 1

A TABULATING DEVICE FOR A TYPEWRITER OR SIMILAR MACHINE HAVING A CARRIAGE TRANSVERSELY MOVABLE STEP BY STEP, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) A PLURALITY OF PRESETTABLE TABULATING STOPS, (B) A SUPPORT CONNECTED TO SAID CARRIAGE AND MOUNTING SAID STOPS AT AN INTERVAL EQUAL TO A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF STEPS OF SAID CARRIAGE HIGHER THAN ONE, (C) EACH ONE OF SAID STOPS BEING PRESETTABLE FROM AN INEFFECTIVE POSITION TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EFFECTIVE POSITIONS EQUAL TO SAID NUMBER OF STEPS, (D) A MANUALLY OPERABLE MEMBER FOR INDIVIDUALLY PRESETTING SAID STOPS TO ONE OF SAID EFFECTIVE POSITIONS ACCORDING TO THE TRANSVERSE LOCATION OF SAID CARRIAGE WITH RESPECT TO THE PRINTING POINT OF THE MACHINE, (E) A MANUALLY SETTABLE COUNTERSTOP ON THE MACHINE, (F) AND A NUMBER OF ELEMENTS ON SAID COUNTERSTOP ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EFFECTIVE POSITIONS AND MUTUALLY DISTANCED BY A DISTANCE EQUAL TO SAID STEP, EACH ONE OF SAID ELEMENTS WHEN SAID COUNTERSTOP IS SO SET BEING LOCATED ON THE PATH OF THE TABULATING STOPS PRESET IN THE ASSOCIATED EFFECTIVE POSITION, SAID ELEMENTS WHEN ENCOUNTERED BY ONE OF SAID PRESET STOPS CAUSING SAID COUNTERSTOP TO ARREST SAID CARRIAGE IN SAID TRANSVERSE LOCATION, WHEREBY SAID CARRIAGE MAY BE TABULATED AT ANY TRANSVERSE LOCATION ACCORDING TO SAID STEP BY A NUMBER OF TABULATING STOPS EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF STEPS DIVIDED BY SAID NUMBER.