Device for feeding vouchers to a printing location in a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like

Claim 2

Apparatus for drawing in manually disoriented vouchers of varying dimensions to the printing location of a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like and automatically positioning the vouchers so that they are imprintable at a location always having the same spacing from two edges thereof, comprising means for passing a voucher initially in a given direction toward and beyond the printing location with one of the lateral edges of the voucher extending, above the printing location, more forwardly than the other lateral edge thereof, said means for passing a voucher comprising motor means connected in an energizing circuit, a voucher blocking and adjusting device controllable by the voucher per se and having a plurality of transfer rollers located separate from one another above a printing table of the device and a plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending transversely to the travel direction of the voucher, means for reversing the direction of movement of the voucher and passing it back toward the printing location, a guide member for the voucher extending in said given direction and guidingly engageable by one of the lateral edges of the voucher as the voucher passes back toward the printing location, said guide member comprising a guide ledge located adjacent the transfer rollers and extending in the travel direction of the voucher, said transfer rollers and said pressure rollers cooperating with said guide ledge for feeding the voucher in the travel direction thereof, means for blocking the backward passing of the voucher at a location wherein the voucher is above and in registry with the printing location, means for sensing the presence of the voucher in printing position at said registered location, means for imprinting the voucher at said registered location, means for ejecting the voucher from the machine, a cam-operating control mechanism, including means for locking the voucher in registry with the printing location, motor means for driving said control mechanism, and electric circuit means controllable by the voucher per se for starting and stopping the motor means for said control mechanism whereby the voucher is advanced in the travel direction thereof toward and beyond the printing location, is reversed in direction and moved backwardly to the printing location, is blocked from further movement at the printing location, is sensed and locked in registry with the printing location and is ejected from the apparatus, said control mechanism including a control shaft carrying a plurality of cam discs connectable to the main operating shaft of a bookkeeping machine, said control mechanism further including a cam disc cooperating with a roller lever for simUltaneously switching over to a reverse direction drive for the voucher and switching over an electrical switch connected in the energizing circuit of the motor means for passing a voucher, said control mechanism further comprising a friction wheel reversing drive having switchable portions located on a two-part rocker arm means, the two parts of said rocker arm means being elastically coupled to one another by a tension spring.

Claim 3

Apparatus for drawing in manually disoriented vouchers of varying dimensions to the printing location of a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like and automatically positioning the vouchers so that they are imprintable at a location always having the same spacing from two edges thereof, comprising means for passing a voucher initially in a given direction toward and beyond the printing location with one of the lateral edges of the voucher extending, above the printing location, more forwardly than the other lateral edge thereof, said means for passing a voucher comprising a voucher blocking and adjusting device controllable by the voucher per se and having a plurality of transfer rollers located separate from one another above a printing table of the device and a plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending transversely to the travel direction of the voucher, means for reversing the direction of movement of the voucher and passing it back toward the printing location, a guide member for the voucher extending in said given direction and guidingly engageable by one of the lateral edges of the voucher as the voucher passes back toward the printing location, said guide member comprising a guide ledge located adjacent the transfer rollers and extending in the travel direction of the voucher, said transfer rollers and said pressure rollers cooperating with said guide ledge for feeding the voucher in the travel direction thereof, means for blocking the backward passing of the voucher at a location wherein the voucher is above and in registry with the printing location, means for sensing the presence of the voucher in printing position at said registered location, means for imprinting the voucher at said registered location, means for ejecting the voucher from the machine, a cam-operating control mechanism including means for locking the voucher in registry with the printing location, motor means for driving said control mechanism, and electric circuit means controllable by the voucher per se for starting and stopping the motor means for said control mechanism whereby the voucher is advanced in the travel direction thereof toward and beyond the printing location, is reversed in direction and moved backwardly to the printing location, is blocked from further movement at the printing location, is sensed and locked in registry with the printing location and is ejected from the apparatus, wherein said printing table comprises an upper printing table plate and two lower printing table plates disposed in a common plane, one behind the other in the initial travel direction of the voucher, said upper plate on the one hand, and said lower plates on the other hand, being spaced from one another by said guide ledge and by an abutment ledge located at the end of the travel path of the voucher in said initial travel direction, said plates being formed with a plurality of recesses, said plurality of transfer rollers and said plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending through said recesses for engaging the voucher to pass the same in said travel direction thereof, inlet funnel means for inserting the voucher into the device, said voucher blocking and adjusting device being located downstream of said inlet funnel means and comprising a plurality of multiarmed actuating levers swingable into the plane of movement of the voucher, the arms of said actuating levers being provided with blocking pins for blocking the advancement of the voucher, wherein said control mechanism includes means for the lateral reverse guidance of the voucher comprising a cam disC having a descending cam path and a roller mounted thereon, said cam disc being operatively engageable with a forked lever for forward and reversed switching thereof, said forked lever, through a push rod and link-rod, being movable to switch a plurality of bearing plates of said voucher pressure rollers for the reverse travel motion of the voucher into opposite inclined positions relative to the travel direction of the voucher.

Claim 4

Apparatus for drawing in manually disoriented vouchers of varying dimensions to the printing location of a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like and automatically positioning the vouchers so that they are imprintable at a location always having the same spacing from two edges thereof, comprising means for passing a voucher initially in a given direction toward and beyond the printing location with one of the lateral edges of the voucher extending, above the printing location, more forwardly than the other lateral edge thereof, said means for passing a voucher comprising a voucher blocking and adjusting device controllable by the voucher per se and having a plurality of transfer rollers located separate from one another above a printing table of the device and a plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending transversely to the travel direction of the voucher, means for reversing the direction of movement of the voucher and passing it back toward the printing location, a guide member for the voucher extending in said given direction and guidingly engageable by one of the lateral edges of the voucher as the voucher passes back toward the printing location, said guide member comprising a guide ledge located adjacent the transfer rollers and extending in the travel direction of the voucher, said transfer rollers and said pressure rollers cooperating with said guide ledge for feeding the voucher in the travel direction thereof, means for blocking the backward passing of the voucher at a location wherein the voucher is above and in registry with the printing location, means for sensing the presence of the voucher in printing position at said registered location, means for imprinting the voucher at said registered location, means for ejecting the voucher from the machine, a cam-operating control mechanism including means for locking the voucher in registry with the printing location, motor means for driving said control mechanism, and electric circuit means controllable by the voucher per se for starting and stopping the motor means for said control mechanism whereby the voucher is advanced in the travel direction thereof toward and beyond the printing location, is reversed in direction and moved backwardly to the printing location, is blocked from further movement at the printing location, is sensed and locked in registry with the printing location and is ejected from the apparatus, wherein said printing table comprises an upper printing table plate and two lower printing table plates disposed in a common plane, one behind the other in the initial travel direction of the voucher, said upper plate on the one hand, and said lower plates on the other hand, being spaced from one another by said guide ledge and by an abutment ledge located at the end of the travel path of the voucher in said initial travel direction, said plates being formed with a plurality of recesses, said plurality of transfer rollers and said plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending through said recesses for engaging the voucher to pass the same in said travel direction thereof, inlet funnel means for inserting the voucher into the device, said voucher blocking and adjusting device being located downstream of said inlet funnel means and comprising a plurality of multiarmed actuating levers swingable into the plane of movement of the voucher, the arms of said actuating levers being provided with blocking pins for blocking the advancement of the voucher, wherein said control mechanism includes means for the lateral reverse guidance of the voucher comprising a cam disC having a descending cam path and a roller mounted thereon, said cam disc being operatively engageable with a forked lever for forward and reversed switching thereof, said forked lever, through a push rod and link-rod, being movable to switch a plurality of bearing plates of said voucher pressure rollers for the reverse travel motion of the voucher into opposite inclined positions relative to the travel direction of the voucher.

Claim 5

Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said bearing plates of said control mechanism are formed with detent notches, and, including spring-biased detent latches engageable in said notches.

Claim 6

Apparatus for drawing in manually disoriented vouchers of varying dimensions to the printing location of a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like and automatically positioning the vouchers so that they are imprintable at a location always having the same spacing from two edges thereof, comprising means for passing a voucher initially in a given direction toward and beyond the printing location with one of the lateral edges of the voucher extending, above the printing location, more forwardly than the other lateral edge thereof, said means for passing a voucher comprising a voucher blocking and adjusting device controllable by the voucher per se and having a plurality of transfer rollers located separate from one another above a printing table of the device and a plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending transversely to the travel direction of the voucher, means for reversing the direction of movement of the voucher and passing it back toward the printing location, a guide member for the voucher extending in said given direction and guidingly engageable by one of the lateral edges of the voucher as the voucher passes back toward the printing location, said guide member comprising a guide ledge located adjacent the transfer rollers and extending in the travel direction of the voucher, said transfer rollers and said pressure rollers cooperating with said guide ledge for feeding the voucher in the travel direction thereof, means for blocking the backward passing of the voucher at a location wherein the voucher is above and in registry with the printing location, means for sensing the presence of the voucher in printing position at said registered location, means for imprinting the voucher at said registered location, means for ejecting the voucher from the machine, a cam-operating control mechanism including means for locking the voucher in registry with the printing location, motor means for driving said control mechanism, and electric circuit means controllable by the voucher per se for starting and stopping the motor means for said control mechanism whereby the voucher is advanced in the travel direction thereof toward and beyond the printing location, is reversed in direction and moved backwardly to the printing location, is blocked from further movement at the printing location, is sensed and locked in registry with the printing location and is ejected from the apparatus, said printing table comprising an upper printing table plate and two lower printing table plates disposed in a common plane, one behind the other in the initial travel direction of the voucher, said upper plate on the one hand, and said lower plates on the other hand, being spaced from one another by said guide ledge and by an abutment ledge located at the end of the travel path of the voucher in said initial travel direction, said plates being formed with a plurality of recesses, said plurality of transfer rollers and said plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending through said recesses for engaging the voucher to pass the same in said travel direction thereof, inlet funnel means for inserting the voucher into the device, said voucher blocking and adjusting device being located downstream of said inlet funnel means and comprising a plurality of multiarmed actuating levers swingable into the plane of movement of the voucher, the arms of said actuating levers beiNg provided with blocking pins for blocking the advancement of the voucher, said voucher ejection means comprising an ejection slot located between said lower printing table plates, and a flap serving as part of a wall for guiding the voucher out of the apparatus.

Claim 7

Apparatus for drawing in manually disoriented vouchers of varying dimensions to the printing location of a voucher-printing bookkeeping machine or the like and automatically positioning the vouchers so that they are imprintable at a location always having the same spacing from two edges thereof, comprising means for passing a voucher initially in a given direction toward and beyond the printing location with one of the lateral edges of the voucher extending, above the printing location, more forwardly than the other lateral edge thereof, said means for passing a voucher comprising a voucher blocking and adjusting device controllable by the voucher per se and having a plurality of transfer rollers located separate from one another above a printing table of the device and a plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending transversely to the travel direction of the voucher, means for reversing the direction of movement of the voucher and passing it back toward the printing location, a guide member for the voucher extending in said given direction and guidingly engageable by one of the lateral edges of the voucher as the voucher passes back toward the printing location, said guide member comprising a guide ledge located adjacent the transfer rollers and extending in the travel direction of the voucher, said transfer rollers and said pressure rollers cooperating with said guide ledge for feeding the voucher in the travel direction thereof, means for blocking the backward passing of the voucher at a location wherein the voucher is above and in registry with the printing location, means for sensing the presence of the voucher in printing position at said registered location, means for imprinting the voucher at said registered location, means for ejecting the voucher from the machine, a cam-operating control mechanism including means for locking the voucher in registry with the printing location, motor means for driving said control mechanism, and electric circuit means controllable by the voucher per se for starting and stopping the motor means for said control mechanism whereby the voucher is advanced in the travel direction thereof toward and beyond the printing location, is reversed in direction and moved backwardly to the printing location, is blocked from further movement at the printing location, is sensed and locked in registry with the printing location and is ejected from the apparatus, said printing table comprising an upper printing table plate and two lower printing table plates disposed in a common plane, one behind the other in the initial travel direction of the voucher, said upper plate on the one hand, and said lower plates on the other hand, being spaced from one another by said guide ledge and by an abutment ledge located at the end of the travel path of the voucher in said initial travel direction, said plates being formed with a plurality of recesses, said plurality of transfer rollers and said plurality of voucher pressure rollers extending through said recesses for engaging the voucher to pass the same in said travel direction thereof, inlet funnel means for inserting the voucher into the device, said voucher blocking and adjusting device being located downstream of said inlet funnel means and comprising a plurality of multiarmed actuating levers swingable into the plane of movement of the voucher, the arms of said actuating levers beiNg provided with blocking pins for blocking the advancement of the voucher, said voucher ejection means comprising an ejection slot located between said lower printing table plates, and a flap serving as part of a wall for guiding the voucher out of the apparatus.

Claim 8

Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein said voucher ejection means includes an ejection channel for the voucher, communicating with said ejection slot, said flap forming a wall portion of said ejection channel and being pivotable on a shaft within the said ejection channel, said shaft on which said flap pivots being operatively connected through a lever transmission with a cam disc.

Claim 9

Apparatus according to claim 5 wherein said lower printing table plate located behind the other printing table plate in the initial travel direction of the voucher has a curved end, and said upper printing table plate is formed with a transverse groove on the underside thereof, the free end of said pivotable flap being blockable by said curved end during feeding in of the voucher, and being engageable in said transverse groove during ejection of the voucher.

Claim 10

Apparatus according to claim 6 wherein at least one of said transfer rollers and one of said voucher pressure rollers are located in said ejection channel, said flap, during travel of the voucher in the reverse direction, serving as means for guiding the voucher between said one transfer roller and said one voucher pressure roller located in said ejection channel.