Manual alpha-numeric hand operable card punch

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A BASE, A CARD CARRIAGE MOUNTED THEREON FOR LONGITUDINALLY MOVING A TABULATING CARD MOUNTED THEREON IN THE PLANE OF SAID CARD, A ROW OF PUNCH MEANS AT A PUNCH AND PRINT STATION ON SAID BASE, DISPOSED TRANSVERSELY OF THE CARRIAGE, MEANS CARRYING A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL ROWS OF PUNCH CONTROL MEANS MOVABLE TO SELECTIVELY COORDINATE THE ROWS OF CONTROL MEANS WITH SAID STATION, THE CONTROL MEANS OF VARIOUS ROWS OF CONTROL MEANS VARYING IN ARRANGEMENT FROM EACH OTHER, PRINTING MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF PRINTING INDICIA MOVABLE TOGETHER WITH SAID CARRYING MEANS TO SELECTIVELY COORDINATE DIFFERENT PRINTING INDICIA ON SAID PRINTING MEANS WITH SAID STATION, MEANS TO MOUNT SAID CARRYING MEANS AND SAID PRINTING MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUS MOVEMENT TOWARD SAID PUNCH MEANS TO ACTUATE PUNCH MEANS IN THE SELECTED ROW OF PUNCH MEANS TO CODALLY PUNCH SAID CARD AND PRINT THEREON, MANUALLY ACTUABLE MEANS MOUNTED ON THE BASE TO STEP SAID CARRIAGE LONGITUDINALLY IN ONE DIRECTION FOR BRINGING SUCCESSIVE TRANSVERSE COLUMNAR PORTIONS OF A CARD ON SAID CARRIAGE INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SAID STATION, AND MEANS MECHANIALLY CONTROLLED BY ACTUATION OF SAID STEP MEANS TO MOVE SAID CARRYING MEANS AND PRINT MEANS TO SIMULATNEOUSLY PUNCH AND PRINT THE CARD ON SAID CARRIAGE AT SAID STATION WITH EACH ADVANCING STEP OF SAID CARRIAGE, AND MEANS TO CAUSE STEP MOVEMENT OF SAID CARRIAGE WITHOUT MOVING SAID CARRYING MEANS AND PRINT MEANS FOR A PUNCH AND PRINT OPERATION, WHEREBY SAID CARD MAY BE ADVANCED STEP BY STEP WITHOUT PUNCHING AND PRINTING SAID CARD, SAID CARRYING MEANS COMPRISING A ROTARY MEMBER, SAID ROWS OF PUNCH CONTROL MEANS BEING EQUIANGULARLY SPACED ON SAID ROTARY MEMBER AND SAID PRINT MEANS BEING MOUNTED FOR ROTARY MOVEMENT COAXIALLY OF SAID ROTARY MEMBER TOGETHER THEREWITH, AND SAID ROTARY MEMBER AND PRINT MEANS BEING MOVABLE TOGETHER IN A DIRECTION NORMAL TO THE AXIS OF SAID ROTARY MEMBER, SAID MEANS TO MOVE SAID CARRYING MEANS AND PRINT MEANS COMPRISING A LEVER PIVOTED TO SAID BASE, MEANS TO MOUNT SAID ROTARY MEMBER FOR ROTATION ON SAID LEVER, A SECOND LEVER PIVOTED TO THE BASE, A DEPRESSIBLE KEY ON SAID SECOND LEVER AND CAM MEANS ON SAID SECOND LEVER TO ROTATE SAID FIRST LEVER, WHEN SAID KEY IS DEPRESSED.