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2,682,993

ACCOUNTING MACHINE DATA INDICATOR
Angus G. Helgeson, Birmingham, Mich., assignor
to The National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, a corporation of Maryland
Application November 21, 1950, Serial No. 196,906
13 Claims.

WI. 235-23)

This invention relates to accounting machines
and similar bUsiness machines and is directed particularly to means for speeding up the recording
of payroll data and the consequent printing of the
payroll checks, and to control various mechanisms
in the machine in this connection.
This invention is especially adapted to be used
in machines of the payroll type, shown and described in the United states Patent No. 2,467,704,
issued April 19, 1949, to Pascal Spurlino, Rudolph
J. Moser, Alfred G. Kibler, Marvin D. Frost, and
Walter J. Kreider, and for illustrative purposes is
embodied in a machine of the type shown in said
patent.
This invention is also embodied in machines of
the general type shown in the following United
states Letters Patent and reference may be had to
them and to the above-mentioned patent ·for a
complete showing and description of standard
mechanism not fully disclosed herein: United
states Patents Nos. 1,619,796; 1,747,397; 1,761,542;
and 1,916,535, issued March 1, 1927; February 18,
1930; June 3, 1930; and July 4, 1933, respectively,
to Bernis M. Shipley; No. 2,175,346, issued October 10, 1939, to Maximilian M. Goldberg; No.
2,141,332, issued December 27, 1938, to Charles H.
Arnold; No. 1,693,279, issued November 27, 1928,
to Walter J. Kreider; No. 2,305,000, issued December 15, 1942, to Mayo A. Goodbar; No. 2,361662, issued October 31, 1944, to Pascal Spurlino
and Konrad Rauch; No. 2,345,839, issued April
4, 1944, to Pascal Spurlino, Mayo A. Goodbar,
and Marvin D. Frost; and No. 2,351,541, issued
June 13, 1944, to Everett H. Placke.
The specific machine shown in the above-mentioned Patent No. 2,467,704, embodying the present invention, and as now constructed, is well
adapted for use by any organization where a large
number of payroll checks are to be issued periodically and particularly where such organizations
wish to keep accurate records of totals of amounts
paid to their employees, ·and also a record of various deductions which nowadays are common
practice. As is well known, such deductions include social security payments, group insurance
payments, income tax withholdings and union
dues, :md many other types of deductions, which
various organizations permit their employes to
make against gross earnings for a definite period.
Accurate records of each of the various types
of individual deductions are accumulated in the
machine, with the result that the company may
at any time definitely ascertain, by means of
printed records, the various totals of such .deQuctions, and also the totals of the net earnings

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of the employees, the gross earnings of the
employees, and other records relative to the employees.
Other records, such as the total number of regular hours worked and the total number of overtime hours worked, are also accumulated in the
machine, so that the company may at any time
definitely ascertain by means of printed records
the number of regular hours paid for and also the
number of overtime hours paid for.
The machine is also adapted to print a payroll check, upon the main portion of which are
shown the consecutive number, thedate,and the
net amount of the check printed in two places;
and on the stub portion of the check, which is to
be torn oft' and retained by the employee before
he cashes the check, are shown the number of
regular hours he worked, the gross earnings for
those regular hours, the number of overtime hours,
the gross earnings for the overtime hours, a total
of the gross regUlar-hour and overtime-hour earnings, a list of all deductions, showing the amount
of each, a symbol for each deduction, and the
net pay. The net pay printed on the stub portion
of the check is identical with the net amount
which is printed in two places on the main portion
of the check.
The machine in which the present invention
is embodied is also adapted to print upon the
payroll summary sheet, which, for example, may
be used for the departmental summary of the employees in anyone or more departments. If the
departments 'are too large, the payroll summary
may be allotted to various jobs of the departments.
An individual employee's earnings record card
may also be printed by the machine in which this
present invention is embodied. Upon this earnings card, which is divided into columns, there
may be printed the number of regular hours the
employee works and the number of overtime
hours he works; also the gross amount of earnings for regular hours and the gross amount of
earnings for overtime hours may be recorded.
The deductions against each employee are also
printed and recorded on this particular earnings
card record for the individual employee. In the
last column on the card there is a space for a
balance forward, which is picked up from a
former earnings record, set up on the keyboard,
and printed in this column, when a new card is
begun for the employee when his old card is
filled.
On the top of the machine there is provided a
time card box, which carries the time cards for

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each individual employee. On these time cards
there is various data relating particularly to the
number of regular hours and the number of overtime hours which the employee has worked. On
this card there are also various types of deductions 5
which have been previously mentioned and which
are recorded thereon by the clerk.
These time cards are adapted to be ej ected
from the stack upon operation of the Net Pay
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key.
Mounted on top of the machine and alongside
the time card box is also what will be referred to
hereinafter as a pattern card box. This pattern
card, there being one for each individual employee, has printed on it certain constant figures 15
which relate to the printing of the payroll check
for this particular employee. This employee's
time clock card and his pattern card are side by
side, one in the time card box and one in tIle
pattern card box, and other employees' time 20
cards and pattern cards are stacked successivelY,
so that, each time a time clock card is ejected,
the corresponding pattern card for the same
employee will be ejected.
This pattern card on the left shows the number 2"
of hours worked, in the next column the base
pay for that number of hours, which base pay
has been figured according to the rate which the
employee gets per hour. Near the bottom of the
card the employee's name and check number are 30
shown and, in addition, his hourly rate, which in
the example and illustration given herein is
$1.29% per hour. The same employee's name is
on his time clock card. In the third column
from the left there are figures which show the 35
overtime pay. The next column shows the OAB
deductions at the rate of 1 %. The next column
shows the withholding tax to be deducted.
The next foul' columns show various net pays
for this particular individual, according to the 40
number of hours he has worked and according to
the deductions whiCh he has against his pay for
that week. The left-hand Net Pay column shows
the net pay with no other deductions outside of
the OAB and the withholding tax. The second 4';
Net Pay column shows the amount of net pay for
the employee when union dues have been
deducted in addition to the income tax and OAB.
The third Net pay column, which is the second
from tl1e right, shows the net pay to which the i);;
employee is entitled after his insurance premium
has been taken out, along with his withholding
tax and OAB, and the right-hand Net Pay column shows what his net pay will be when his
hospitalization is taken out along with his with- G5
holding tax and OAB.
As above mentioned, this pattern card is
ejected upon the depression of the Net Pay key,
which causes the employee's net pay to be printed
on the check which has been inserted in the GO
machine.
This pattern card is divided into groups of
hours, and the front of the pattern card box is
so arranged that only the proper line which is to
be used by the operator in computing the em-· Oli
ployee's pay is to be read. This is to be accomplished by lighting a lamp, the selection of which
is controlled by the number of hours the employee has worked, and which is under the control of the keys on the machine in the hourly 70
banks.
The card box is provided with a movable face,
which has windows, so that one line of each
group of lines is visible. The movable face is
adapted to be shifted downwardly under control 75
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of the differential mechanism of the hourly
banks, so that, through the combination of the
moving of the face of the box and the selection
of the propel' light, anyone of the four lines of
::\, group of data may be selected after the particula,r group has been selected by the depression of
the hours keys. This will all be described in
detail later on ..
Generally, the movable face is constructed in
such a manner that, through the use of solenoids,
the said movable face can be lowered four additional positions, making five in all, so that,
through a combination of the moving of the face
of the box and the selection of the proper light
to be illuminated, anyone of thirty lines can be
selected on each card.
Let us take a speCific example and describe
how the pre-calculated net pays are arrived at.
The first Net Pay column is the pre-calculated
net pay that would be paid to an employee if he
had no other deductions than OAB tax and withholding tax. The second Net Pay column is the
net pay that would be paid to that employee if
union dues of $1.50 were deducted from his pay
that week. The third Net Pay column is the
amount which would be paid to him if a group
insurance premium of $2.10 were deducted from
his pay that week, and the fourth Net Pay column is the amount which would be paid to him
if group hospitalization were deducted that week,
amounting to $6.25.
Only one of these columns should be clearly
visible on each pay. On the week that union
dues are being deducted, the Union Dues Net Pay
column should be completely visible, and, on the
week that insurance is being deducted, t.he
Insurance column should be completely visible.
On the week that there are no fixed deductions,.
the first Net Pay column should be clearly visible,
and, on the week that group hospitalization is
being deducted that Net Pay colunm should be
clearly visible. In each case, the other thr~e
columns should be and are at least partially
concealed.
However, on the weeks that the union dues or
insurance are being deducted, perhaps the employee does not belong to the union or does not
participate in the insurance, and in these cases
his pattern card would have the net pay calculations in either one of these columns marked
out. Therefore, when such a card appears in
the pattern box, no deduction would be made for
union dues or insurance, and it is then possible
to record the $47.38 in the first column, even
though the amount is partially concealed.
In order to make this partial concealment, a
Plexiglas fiexible slide is inserted p,t the beginning of the particular week, which Plexiglas may
be a red translucent slide. Also two opaque
slides to the right should be used when no fixed
deductions are taken; the red translucent slide
would cover the union dues column, and the two
opaque slides would cover the insurance and
hospitalization columns.
When union dues are being deducted, the red
translucent slide would cover the No Deduction
column, and the two opaque slides would covel'
the Insurance columns. Therefore, if any employee does not belong to the union, it would
still be possible to read, as above mentioned, the
$47.38 through the red translucent slide. However, the red tmnslucent slide would prevent the
operator from using the $47.38 by accident when
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the No Deduction column, and one opaque slide
should be moved over to cover the Union Dues
column, and the other opaque slide to cover the
Hospitalization column.
At this point it might be well to describe briefly
the sequence of a normal operation of the
machine.
First, a group of clock cards for a particular
department is inserted in the clock card box,
which is located, as above mentioned, on the top
of the machine. Then a corresponding number
of pattern cards for these same employees is
inserted in the pattern card box, which is nol'mally located on top of the machine, just to the
left of the clock card box. This pattern card
box is provided with the same type of feeler
mechanism that the clock card box is provided
with, which will assure the operator that a. pattern card goes out of the pattern mud box every
time the clock card mechanism is operalLed to
eject a clock card. If a card does not go dovm,
a light is lighted on the face of the pattern card
box, and the current from the machine is shut
ot!. Thus, when the current is at!, the operator
can tell from whichever light goes on as to which
box failed to eject the card. Therefore, by proving, through the light system, that a card goes
down in each box each operation, it insures that
a proper sequence of cards will be maintained
between the two stacks of cards, so that the
clock card and the pattern card for the same employee will always be the front card in each of
their respective boxes. As above mentioned, the
name of the employee and his clock number are
on the clock card and are visible to the operator; also the name of the employee is on the
pattern card, and also the rate per hour shows
on the pattern card.
Having placed the two sets of cards in the two
boxes-that is, the clock card box and the pattern card box-the operator first will pick up
all of the old balances appearing on the earnings
card for this particular employee, which earnings card is taken from the regular payroll file.
She will first pick up the balance of the withholding tax and, at the same time she is making
these pickups, will insert the check into the checl{
chute, ready to be printed on at the propel' time.
The last pickup should be the earnings·-to-date
pickup, and at this time she should record the
total hours on the left side of the keyboard.
Just before the operation of the machine, she
will insert the earnings card in the machine on
the printing table, and therefore the total hours
will be printed on the earnings card and on the
check in this operation.·
At the same time, the regular differential
mechanism in the machine for the three banks
of hour l~eys will control three wipe switches and
move them into pOSition, which will set up the
right type of an electrical circuit to cause the
proper line to be selected on the pattern box,
moving the face of the box to the right position,
and illuminate the proper light in order that the
correct line is selected. The total hours are accumulated on this operation, together with a
total of the earnings-to-date, in their respective
totalizers.
The total number of hours accumulated in the
machine for e:3,ch payroll division is later checked
against a prelisted accumulation of hours from
the clock cards in order to prove that the right
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pattern box. Thus, as a result of the movement
of the light switches, under control of the hours
keys, which was brought about by the setting. of
the proper hours on those hours keys, the pattern box mechanism selects and illuminates the
proper line on the face of the card, according to
the hours recorded.
Reading from that illuminated line on the pattern card, the operator will then record the total
amount of the base pay and the total overtime
hours and earnings (if there are any), the total
amount of the OAE tax, the withholding tax,
and whatever fixed deduction is being deducted
that week, provided this employee has such a
deduction to be made. The net amount, depending upon the fixed deduction applicable to
this employee, appears in one of the Net Pay
columns and should be visible at all times. The
operator then records whichever net pay is
visible, either the one for the fixed deduction
factor being deducted that week or one without
any fixed deduction, depending on whether 01'
not that type of deduction is applicable to that
particular employee whose check is being written.
The "K" key, which is used to record the
amount of the net pay in this case, causes such
amount to be recorded to be deducted from the
crossfooter and causes that amount to be printed
on the main portion :3,nd on the stub of the
check as "veIl as on the journal sheet, thus completing the check and ejecting the same, as well
as actuating both the clock card box and the
pattern card box, causing the clock card and the
pattern card to be ejected, so as to bring to view
the clock wrd anel the pattern card for the next
employee whose check is to be written.
The routine of the sequence of operations on
the payroll machines of the type shown in the
above-mentioned Patent No. 2/Hl7,704 calls for
the use of the withholding tax pickup key fll"St
on every check, and it, therefore, requires the
operator to preBS the key regardless of whether
or not there is any withholding tax to pick up.
This withholding tax key then serves the purpose
of signalling the operator as to whether 01' not
the previous check written VIe,s wTitten correctly.
If the operator is able to piCk up the amount
of the withholding tax with that pickup key, then
she knows that the previous check was completed
correctly. If the withholding tax key is locked
on this operation, that means that there was still
some amount remaining in the crossfooter, thus
giving evidence of the fact that the previous
check was not correctly written.
Should such a thing occur, the operator would
then remove the last check from the check compartment underneath the machine, place it in the
check chute upside down, and hit the Net Fay key,
which would cause the machine to clear the
amount of the difference out of the crossfooter
and print that amount, which is the net amount
of the error, on the back of the check. The operator would then lay aside this check for correction
at a later time, and the machine, together with
the crossfooter, would be automatically adjusted
back to zero; thus the withholding- tax key would
be unlocked. If any condition should leave the
crossfooter at zero and locked up, as a result of
being on the subtract side, provision is made to
release this lock on the next pickup operation of
the withholding tax key.
Thus far the operation has been described in
connection with a pattern card, which has 27
patterns of hours, providing for every full day
up to six days and every half day within each

one of those six days, and also providing for
patterns for five of the days, showing fractional
hours by quarters in order to take care of time
lates in quarter fractional hours.
There is also shown in connection with this
application a pattern card which provides five
fixed patterns for 39.9, 39.8, 39.7, 39.6, and 39.5
hours. This chart provides six patterns for every
even hour from 0 up to 48 hours. In addition to
that, it provides a special pattern chart at the
bottom, showing earnings patterns for each .1
hour from 0 up to 2 hours.
In addition to providing the earnings for these
various hours, it also provides a chart of proof
factors for the same units of hours. It is this
additional section of the pattern card, together
with the proper set-up on the machine, which
makes the additional spread of 500 patterns
possible.
The machine is constructed to provide an operating key, speciallcey No.1, which will cause any
amount recorded on the keyboard to accumulate
in its own total, and which non-prints an amounts
and non -spaces all of the records.
Another speeial key, named special key No.2,
is a non-operating key, which, when depressed
together with any operating key on the machine,
allows that operating key to function, as it normally does, but also causes the amount previously
accumulated in total key No. 1 to transfer automaticalJ.y into the accumulator controlled by the
operating key and print on all of the records as
determined by the operating key.
Such mechanism for controlling the selection
and operation of the totals and the transfer of
totals is fully illustrated and described in the
above-mentioned patents.
W~henever an operator sets up the hours on the
left side of the keyboard and the e:wnings on the
right side of the keyboard, and no line is selected
or illuminated on the pattern box, she then knows
that she does not have that pattern as an active
pattern on the card.
Now let us assume, for example, that the number of hours recorded were 34.6 hours. No line
will be illuminated, and therefore the operator
will press a special key No.3, which will not retain
but will select and illuminate the line for the
34-hour pattern, and it will also illuminate a
special light for the lower chart. Thus, there
will be two lights i.lluminated on the pattern box
at the same time, the lower light illuminating the
speCial chart at the bottom, and the upper will
illuminate the line for the 34 hours worked.
The operator then will set up $44.03 in the
speci.al key No.1, which amount will be accumulated into that total. She will then read from
her special chart at the bottom of the pattern
card, which amount appeared in the position for
.0 hour, which is the difference between 34 hours
and 34.6 hours. This amount is 78 cents, which
she will record on the keyboard, then she will
press the speCial key No. 1. The operator then
presses special key No. 2 fIrst, and, immediately
after, she will press the proper earnings key,
which in this case will be the key marked
"Straight Time." That would be $44.81,~ which
is the amount accumulated in the special total No.
2 to print as s, regular earnings entry on all
records and accumulate in the earnings total and
add the earnings to the crossfooter. The operator
then records the OAB tax, but she will see from
the po;:;ition of the 78 cents on the chart that she
is supposed to add. one cent to the OAB: tax and
ten cents to the withholding tax.

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Therefore, when she records the OAB tax, instead of recording 44 cents, she will record 45
cents, and the withholding tax, instead of recording $2.80, which appears on the line for the 34hour premium, she will record $2.90, which is the
$2.80 plus the extra ten cents. The operator will
then read the proper net pay figure appearing on
the pattern card for 34 hours. In this case it
would be $40.79. She will record that amount on
the keyboard and press the speCial key No.1,
which will accumulate such amount. She will
then read from the special chart at the bottom
ax the pattern card the amount of the balancing
factor for the adjustment. In this case that
amount is 67 cents. Having recorded this amount
also through the speCial key No.1, she will press
the special key No; 2, followed by the "K" Net
Pay key.
This "K" Net Pay key functions as it normally
does, causing the amount to be printed on the
check for the total amount in the accumulator
of speCial key No. 1. That amount will be transfelTed into the totalizer associated with the "K"
key, subtracted from the crossfooter, and printed
on all records, and the amount so printed will be
$41.46.
This again causes the check to be ejected and
stacked, and the operator then proceeds to the
next check.
During the writing of the above check for 34.6
hours, $44.03 and 78 cents making a total of $44.81
were added into the crossfooter. The OAB of 45
cents, the withholding tax of $2.90, the net pay
of $40.79 for 34 hours and the net pay of 67 cents
for.6 hour making a total of $44.81 were all subtracted from the gross pay of $44.81, thus leaving
the crossfooter at zero which proves that all computations have been made correctly, and therefore, the operator may proceed with the writing
of the next check.
If an error had been made during the printing
of the above check the machine would have been
locl~ed by mechanism, well known in the art,
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The machine is also provided with an electrical
contact switch, which feels the pOSition of the
differential mechanism associated with the thousand-dollar bank of keys. When the thousanddollar banl~ is in the zero pOSition, or in the No.
1 or No. 2 position of the bank, the differential
will cause the switch to remain open, thus preventing any contact from taking place.
However, when the differential for that bank
is in the pOSition to record $3,000.00 or more, the
differential causes the switch to close, thus sending an electrical signal to a red lamp located
on the top of the machine, and, when this light
is illuminated on the clearing of the earnings to
date total, the operator of the machine will know
that the particular employee has just completed
earnings of $3,.000.00 or more. Thus, she will
split the amount of the OAB tax on that particular check. Vlhen the operator comes to record the
amount of the split OAB tax in a case of this
kind, she will look at the dials which show the
total and read the amount in excess of $3,000.00.
For example, let us say that we are writing a
check, in which the earnings of the employee for
this particular week were $100.00, and the previous earnings to date picked up was $2,970.00.
Therefore, when the new balance of the earnings
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and the operator will see by the total indicator
the .cAB key, so that it will be impossible to
dials $3,070.00, indicating that $70.00 of the earnrecord any OAB tax on such check.
ings were not taxable for OAB purposes.
This electrical hookup also actuates a relay
The operator, therefore, records 70 cents in
when the $3,000.00 amount is secured on the pickspecial key No.1 totalizer, which will non-print 5 up key, and no red light will be lit on the machine
all of the records and accumulate a total of that
in such a condition.
70 cents, and then she will record 30 cents, which
The mechanism of the pattern card box also
was to be collected as a tax, through the regular
provides for holding the electrical selection,
OAB tax key, in this particular case key No. 22,
which was made on the pickup of the earningsand marked "F." She will then continue on with 10 to-date, throughout the entire writing of the
the balance of her checks. Let us assume, for
check, eliminating any possibility of interference
example, that there is no withholding tax on this
which might occur from any source. For exparticular check, and normally, if OAB tax were
ample, the hours keys will be used again on the
to be deducted, the net check, as indicated by the
recording of the overtime hours, in which case a
pattern card, calls for $99.00 net pay. When it is 15 movement would be given to the wipe switches,
time to record the net pay, the operator will
setting up a new selection.
record the $99.00, in this case not through the
'However, an electrical hookup is provided in
"K" key but through the special key No. 1. She
order
that there will be no interference with the
will then press the special key No.2, followed with
depression of the UK" key. That will cause the 20 previous selection at th;; time the total hours are
recorded. A relay is used in the circuit to diSaccumulation of special key No.' 1 to be printed
connect
the previously-selected hookup at the
on the check and all of the records and subtract
time the clocl~ card boxes are actuated. In other
it from the crossfooter, and complete the check
words, when either one of the Net Pay keys is
for $99.70, which is the correct amount of the net
pay. In this case the machine has again proved 25 used and the electrical impulse is given to the
pattern card box and to the clock card box, these
the accuracy of the computation. Through the
same impulses are used to actuate a rela¥ which
use of the line lock proof, the machine here proves
cuts off all the power which was locking the electhat each one of the amounts of earnings, detrical selection, so that the line selection will be
ductions, etc., was correctly entered, and also
proves that the operator made the correct split 30 completely wiped out on the net pay operation,
and the face of the pattern card box is hooked
in the OAB tax, because she read the first amount
from the total reading dial in the machine and
up with the mechanism which pushes the patthe second amount, which was a mental calculatern card down, so that, when the pattern card
tion of the difference, must be correct in order
box is actuated, the mechanism in this box will
to make the machine balance. Therefore, the 35 restore the face of the pattern card box to its
machine provides 100% accuracy, even though
home position from whatever position it has been
there are mental calculations involved in an
previously selected.
operation of this type.
In connection with payroll operations, there
Whenever the red signal is lit, warning of a
are certain conditions where unusual deductions
spli:t OAB tax of this type,' the same electrical 40 or earnings adjustments are made, for which
there has been no previous pattern set up. For
impulse is used to actuate a type wheel in the
journal sheet section of the machine, which prints
example, many employees might be affected by
a Community Chest deduction on a payroll, which
a clearly visible symbol, which will stand out so
that it can be seen at a glance. The purpose of
would make it impossible to complete the patthis symbol is to assist the balancing clerk in 45 tern and use anyone of the net pay figures. In
her audit. When she secures the journal sheet
order to efficiently accomplish this type of setfrom the payroll of the machine operator, toup, provision is made on the machine tocoDstruct
gether with the pattern card and other records,
one of the totalizing keys in the total row to funcshe will glance down .the sheet, providing that it·
tion as an indicating balance key. In other
is the right time of year to expect employees to 50 words, when that key is pressed, it will subgo over the $3,000.00 earnings point, and she will
total the crossfooter without printing on any
of the records or spacing any of the records and
be able to audit the sheet quickly in order to determine if any special signals appear on the jouronly indicating the amount of the net pay in the
nal sheet.
visible total dials in the front of the machine.
Then, the operator of the machine completes
Whenever she finds such a special printed signal 55
the writing of the check from the pattern c9,rd
appearing on the journal sheet, she will look for,
up to the point of inserting the amo:.1nt of the
the pattern card for that particular employee and
special deduction or addition, and, just prior to
see to it that said. card is turned around, so that
recording that amount on the machine, the opthe back of the pattern card faces the front, because the back of the pattern card has the same 60 erator will press the indicating balance key and
calculations which appear on the front, with the
then will check the amount which appears on
exclusion of the OAB calculation.
the visible total dials with the amount of the corThe electrical hook-up in this particular case
rect net pay visible on the pattern card. Thus.
on the $3,000.00 mechanism is made in such a
she will prove visually that the payroll has been.
manner that it takes into consideration the earn- 65 written correctly up to that point. She will reings to date pickup key on the machine as well
cord the amount of the special deduction adjustas the clearing key for the earnings to date. In
ment in one of the special deduction or addition
other words, if the $3,000.00 in the machine comes
. keys on the machine and complete the check by
about as a result of adding sufficient earnings
pressing the Net Pay l\:ey, which clears the crossto the earnings-to-date pickup to make $3,000.00, 70 footer and prints the amount of the net pay on
then a light is illuminated indicating this condiall of the records-namely, the check, the stub
tion to the operator. However, if the pickup of
of. the chec1" and the cheCk register-and eject
the earnings to date is $3,000.00 or more, then
and stack the check as on the normal payroll mathis mechanism also causes the machine to lock 75 chine operation of the type of machine shown

2,682,003

and described in j;he above-mentioned Patent No.
2,467,704.

For the purpose of illustrating one form of the
present invention, the machine shown herein is
constructed to perform the functions ahove 5tE.ted, when used in connection with a machine similar to that shown in the above··mentioned
Spurlino ct. al. Patent No. 2,467,704, which machine is constructed primarily for the purpose
of payroll worle
It is, therefore, one object of this invention to
provide an accounting machine for distributing
items into a plurality of classification totals, and
also to provide the necessary crossfooters or adclsubtract totalizers for obtaining the propel' totals and balances of the various necessary items
in order to produce a payroll check and the necessary records in connection therewith.
Another object of the present invention is to
provide pattern cards having thereon pre,·cal,·
culated amounts used in connection with the
production of payroll checks, which pattern cards
show the total hours, the gross pay, vari.ous deductions, and net pay amounts, according to the
various deductions which have been taken from
the gross pay.
Another object of the present invention is to
provide a pattern card box for holding the cards
:50 that they can be properly read by the operator
while she is preparing the checl, to be printed by
the machine.
A still further object of the present invention is
to provide a line·'selecting mechanism, so that
the propel' line of the pattern card may be selected according to the number of hours which the
employee has worked.
A still further object of the present invention
is to provide mechanism associated with the
banks of hour keys to select the proper line on the
pattern card according to the the number oK
hours which are set up on the hour keys.
A further object of the present invention is to
provide means in the machine to signal the operator when the employee's gross pay has reached
the amount of $3,000.00, so that no further OAB
tax deductions will be taken from hIs pay after
such amount has been reached.
A still further object of the invention is to provide an electrical device associr,ted with the differential mechanism of the hours keys, which
electrical device will light up a signal light for
the operator whenever the employee's gross
amount h8,S reached $3,000.00 01' more.
A further object of the present invention is to
provide the pattern card box with a shifting
mechanism to shift to the proper Hne of the pattern card and light up that line so that it may be
easily read by the oP2rator, the Ug11t detel'minin;s
the line which has been selected accord:lng to the
number of hours which have been set up on the
keyboard.
A further object of the present invention is to
lock the machine against operation of the OAB
key whenever the employee's gross amount has
reached $3,000.00 or exceeded that sum.
With these and incidental objects in view, the
invention includes certain novel features of construction and combinations, a preferred form or
embodiment of which is hereinafter described
with reference to the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification.
In said drawings:
Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a keyboard
of the machine used in connection with the present invention, which keyboard is to control a ma-

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chine of the type illustrated and described in
the above-mentioned Spurlino et al. Patent No.
2,467,704.

Fig. 2 shows an employee's pattern card with
" pre-calculated amounts of net pay for amounts
of from 2 to 48 hours. This pattern card is broken
down into tenths of hours with relation to the
39 hour periods.
Fig. 3 shows a pattern card of an employee,
10 showing pre-calculated net pays associated with
the number of hours worked, and illustrates, in
five instances, %-hour periods.
Fig. 4 is a view showing the switch in connection with the differential mecllanism controlled
15 by the thousand-dollar bank to cause a light to
light whenever the employee'S gross pay has
reached $3,000.00 or more.
Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view through one of
the hour banks of the machine, showing the wipe
20 switches in connection with this bank for selecting the propel' line of the pattern card, according to the positioning of the wipe switch
under control of the hour keys.
Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a preferred form
25 of the pattern card box.
Fig. 7 is a left side elevation of the same box,
showing the magnets for causing the shifting of
the box face or front to select the propel' group
line according to the number of hours key de30 pressed.
Fig. 8 is a section on line 8-8 of Fig. 7, looking in the direction of the arrows, and shows the
solenoid-operated levers for tripping the pattern card box face to permit line selection.
35
Fig. 9 is a right side elevat.ion of this same pattern card box, showing the means for restoring
the box face or front to normal position at the
end of the writing of a pay check.
Fig. 10 is a wiring diagram showing the COl140 troIs for the pattern card box for lighting the
proper light of a certain group of lines and shows
the solenoids or electromagnets for selecti.ng or
adjusting the pattern card box face, dependent
upon the group of keys which is depressed in
4.) the hour banks.
Fig. 11 is a front elevation of a modified form
of a pattern card box, showing the selection of
the lines by means of lifting a shutter.
Fig. 12 is a left side elevation of the same, showGO ing the electromagnets for operating the shutters over the lines.
Fig. 13 is a right side elevation of the means
for restoring the shutters to their normal posi,·
tions.
35
Fig. 14 is a front elevation of a st.ill further
modified form of a pattern card box, where the
line selection is made by raising a shutter or lid,
which covers the lines, there being a shutter for
each of the lines.
60
In connection with the modified form shown
in Figs. 10 to 12 inclusive, the front or face of
this pattern card box does not shift, there being
only 16 lines which can be selected, and, therefore, it will take a pattern card with only 16
fjii lines.
With regard to the pattern card box shown in
Fig. 13, the face or front of this box shifts in the
same manner as the face of the box shown in
Figs. 6 to 8 of the preferred form, to select the
70 various groups of numbers on the pattern card.

GENERAL DESCRI.'PTION
Described in general terms, the machine embodying the present invention is of the genera'l
75 type disclosed in the above-mentioned Shipley

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and Goldberg patents, and particularly the patent to Spurlino et al., No. 2,467,704. These pat··
ents all disclose a plurality of totalizers into which
.may be distributed various amounts, according
to the business system for which the machine is
being built. The Spurlino et al. patent last mentioned is used particularly for payroll work, and
the totalizers are adapted to receive the many
and various items constituting individual transactions that are handled in the process of making out payroll checks.
The above-mentioned Shipley and Goldberg
patents also disclose what are known in the art
as add and subtract totalizers or crossfootel's, by
which name they have come to be known, from
which balances may be printed at any time.
To control the printing' of the various printing
media, the machine has four rows of controllceys
and fifteen banks of amount keys, as shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1. The amount keyboard
is what is known in the art as a split keyboard.
The first six rows of amount keys on the left side
control amounts to be added into the left-hand.
side of a split totalizer, and the nine banks to
the right of this indicated split control amounts
to be added into the right-hand side of the split
totalizer.
The machine as shown in the last-mentioned
Spurlino et al. patent is adapted to print on an
earnings record card to the right of the machine
and on a check near the center of the machine,
and a payroll summary is adapted to be fed and
printed upon at the left of the machine.
'The four rows of control keys at the right side
of the keyboard control the selection of the columns and the selection of the various line spaces
in the columns to receive the printed data according to the several operations of the machine
necessary to complete a payroll check writing
and issuing transaction.
The number of operations, of course, varies
with the number of types of earnings to be
credited to each employee, and also varies with
the number of deductions chargeable against the
gross earnings of each employee. As has been
previously stated, the time clocl~ card box and
the pattern card clock box are located on top
of the machine, and stacks of pattern cards and
stacks of time. clock cards are put in the respective boxes in proper sequence, according to employees. In other words, the first c(l,rd on each
stack will be for the same employee, the second
card for the next employee, and so on through
the stacl{, and, upon the depression of the Net
Pay l{ey, whIch is the final operation of writing
an employee's payroll check, these cards are
simultaneously ejected from their respective boxes
to present to view the second card in each box.
The line of the pattern card to be selected is
under control of the keys headed "Hours" in Fig.
1, the keys depressed in the hours banl~ determining which of the lines of the pattern card are
to be selected, causing a shifting of the front
or face of the pattern card box to select the
proper line in the group after the group has been
selected.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION

ing and accumulating capacity of six banks to
the left of the split and nine banks to the right
of the split for the totalizers in the machine,
which are split according to the permanent split
between the keys 60 and 61 in a manner well
known in the art.
To the right of the amount keys !lI! and 61
are four rows of control keys designated "Row 1,"
"Row 2," "Row 3," and "Row 4." Keys 62 of row 1
are operating keys; that is, they release the machine for actuation .when depressed. Key 63 is
a non-operating key and is used in conjunction
with the "X Earnings-to-Date" key of row 2.
The top three keys 64 of row 1 are non-operating
keys and are used to select the totalizers corresponding to the keys of rows 2, 3, and 4, during
clearing operations.
The keys of row 2 are deSignated 65, the keys
of row 3 p.re designated G6, and the keys of row 4:
are designated In.
The "X," "Y," and "ZH keys

of ro\v 2 are used

to pick up the totals of earnings to date, bond
balance to date, and tax to date, respectively,
prior to the writing of an individual payroll check.
2G The remaining keys in this bank are used during
analysis operations. The functions of the three
bottom keys of row 2 have been previously mentioned generally and will be more fully given
later.
The "K Net Pay" key 65 of row 3 is used to make
30
the final printing of the net pay on the employee's
check. The remaining keys, L to U, in thi.s row 3
are used to set up the various deductions, which
may be applicable to any employee.
.'.J The keys 31 of row 4, marked "A" to "J," are
used in connection with the writing of payroll,
according to the design3.tion on the keys opposite the letters.
The keys of rows 2, 3, and 4 select v[',riOHS
40 totalizers in the machine in a manner whIch has
be~m fully illustrated and explained in the previously-mentioned Spurlino et al. Patent No.
2,467,704.
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