AN AUTOMATIC COUNTING AND RECORDING DEVICE

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P. G. Tager
Thin artiols a Late: bristly the oanditiona, wbioh an
apparatus has to satiety for oounting aanntaotured artiola and
sesli?finish'ed produots, and recording the work and idling of
each unia of a aanufaoturing plant. ? desoription is givpt
of a counting reoording deviQti ?hiob satisfisa the prsesntation
requirsasnts and is o aloulated to handls 20 aachinsa siaul?
t.n.nu.iye The dsvio. ooaaiste of a oorrs.puuding nuaber of
tranaaitting slwenta and the oounting and reoording apperatuai
the latter is ooapzised of integrating aeohanisr and a
reoording apparatua, narking the ooapletion tiae for produotian
of e.eh r!oo'4ed wtiit (1000 feted ?*tIe3e!) for every
aeohins individually, by a line on the oounting and r.ording
oard.
In as produotion, the ootmting of aanufaotursd artioles
and recording the pork of every unit of annufaoturing .quip
cent aoquires great iaporianoe. dutartio oounting and recording
,'ot onLyy retleot the reaulte of the work in the plant and factory,
but eleo intluenees aaas production.
The oounting and reoording oeM, filled in autaoatioelly,
reflects the working rhytba of every r&ohine and uervea as an
objective indioator of its produotion and statadatilla at different
ti;~:: of Thi: is re of the
oc itio a for proper
production asnageaoent, t.ohnioal]y and organiartionally having
the goal of inoreued production output with the s ane taoilitiss
and labor fort iIr. The presence of an gbj.otdve recording
instn nt inorsassa the interest of the workers in raising 14 kie.(
labor produoti~aeti Studying the oo mtingg?reoording earde por es
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taming to different time intervals, makoe it possible to analyse
moves production, and to determine the influence of teohnioal
and organisational measuree wMre~- have been c arried out. Infor-
oration on actual production of eaoh manufaotured -mit melee
possible a fixed time for repaire on a technioal baeiet those
data also permit edm.-4e keepAt~rRok of the transportation of
hro ghovt the shone and
c ~rt.S
faotory, and to point out the stru where irk unfinished
produotion acoumulates, and rejets appear. Automatio counting
and recording simplifies the tranbL~rt--tceohnologioal line, since
there is no more need to transport the production to the recording
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points and beak again to the benches, ieor,a at the same
time the number of pereons handling the work.
In various factories and in individual shops certain
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requirements aroma-+~.a- regard,. eystem$ of oounting a nd re-
cording, wMo~i permit the complete or partial utilization
of the mentioned possibilities, and therefore the corresponding
'iea
installations are very diverse in iiwivL operating principles and
oonetruotion features.
The devioe de~oribed below ai.me to satiety as oompletely
as poseible the requirements presented in counting and recording
mass prodvotion. The general diagram of the device is shown in
the
Fig. 1. The device oonsists of three baaio parts:/'Fanemitting
elements, the integrating meohaniems, and the zeoording apparatus.
The tnaohine whose work is to be reoorded, is equipped
with a transmitting element conveying the primary electrical
impulse during the passage of one piece of work. The number of
machines served and the equal number of transmitting elemeute
determine the capacity of the installation ocmprisiug 20 items for
the device described.
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rating meohanism sad reaordbrs i ieh is the general system
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for all the oounting-reoording devices. Let us 1ee etex
c in detai n eeparate element.
At a high production tempo whon tens of thoueande of nc-
e M:e pass through every machine during ~m shift 3.t ie advisable
it ~r : L.Ac4 n f X .NL'L
Frei to register every?Dri-vhWb but^to uee ooneolidated indioa-
tore in order that the 'quantity of registered recorded unite
does not exceed ti ConeequentlY, it ie necoeeary,
firet of a11, to eunrnarise the primary impuleee of the trane-
n
mittere. This operation is av3oWp1._wed o~~~ through th integrating
the primary impuleee form a oomputed unit ie reoorded,
The eeoonda y impuleee aut on the reoordere, which a re joined
together in thereoording apparitue, and on one eheet of
etgedily moving paper every recorded unit of production which
pe.edee through each maohine is marked dam with a oonvential
symbol (line). Thu., every b~noh has its traasaitter, integ-
meohaniem which conveys the a eoondary impuleed when the number of
The machines - presses - equipped with this device, had
individual eleotrio drives. A special ohareoterlstio in this
case ie thet during the working stroke (or with Tome phase
a,c
diaplaoement), power required by the eleotrA motor increases
Fig. 2 ~. ~~.t1V the osoillogram
of the electric motor current intensity. During the working
stroke the current intensity increases rapidly up to a maximum
value imax' and then th oreae es graddu~lly to ice{ n. res"'+ 'e!t-
'VPhen the machine is idl+ng, the current
intensity drops to j This variation?cnar?acteri~tic of ho
c'.rr.ent intensity in the electric motor circuit was utilized
in developing the tranersitter, palled "im;~ulee"= actually,
it repreeents en overload relay. In reality the armature of
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the impulee transmitter has to ro,nain in its extreme position,
when the ourrent intensity does not exceed ig, and passes into
its other extreme position whnn the current intensity exceeds
i The greater the relationship i /tga th9 more reliable
g
is the work of the impulee transmitter.
In designing the t ranemitter system, special oharaotoriatics
of its operation under the given oonditione have to be oon-
operate during a long period of time, in spite of tens of thou-
an extremely heavy overload when the machine is etartedf it must
sideredc without disturbing the adjustment, it must withstand
sands of impulses daily M?.x
iR magnetic circuit
c4 of an i ehaped braoket with a horizontally arranged cylindrical
core on which is plaoed a winding connected in series with one
of the wires of the eleotric motor. There is a weight on the
armature which oauses it to remain normally in a pulled - out
ustctent of the transmitter i carried out
d
j
position; the a
tui?e ~w~ tranemitter
by shifting the weight on the arms
under production conditions
~d durable oporat q e?
a period of several month without additional adjuetment.
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meohanism.
device--the integrating
is shown in Figs 1. The magsaetio cirouit oonaiets of an L-
Shaped braoket end a oylindrioal oore on which a coil is placed.
.4__w" The armature of the integrating mechanism is not shown in Fig 1,
because a oross seotion is presented here. With each current
impulse sent by the transmitter to the coil of the integrating
the
meohanis~a,~armatuY?e turne the step gear one tooth ahead, with
the ?Lj of a lever and a spring. The working principle of the
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?71armature eyete+a--step gear ie identioal to * analogous
prinoiple used in telephony.. On the a haft of the step gear
there ie a eorew whtoh turns the worm gear. On the same shaft
with the latter, a oam having one gear tooth is fitted on.
During rotation of the cam its gear tooth aots on the oontaot
aet, and, by oloeing it, oonveya the aeoondary impulse.
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In the devioe examined, the step gear of the integrating
meohaniam had 25 gear teeth, the worm aorevr-.single-out, the worm
gear-?90 geat teeth; thus, one reoorded unit oorresponded to
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1000 pies:
?t[he step
bear puah-rod is the part of the mint counting and recording
devioe whPt r moat ausoeptible to wear and tear1 Therefore,
the oonatruotion of the push-rod must permit very simple re-
placement. For the aame reaaan, the integrating meohanisma
should be easily acoeesible from every direction for repaire
Yed
and e~&mination.
The reoording apparatus ooneieta, baeioally, of t wo joined
parts the paper pulling meohaniem and th~ device.
Rw't'eh?~ d?vioee'?"!o produod
automatioallya by various means, conventional symbola on
paper when an eleotrioal impulse ie reoeived. The moat prevalent
method in maiiy aelf-recording devices is an ink entry by pen,
operated through an eleotro-magnet. However, the utilization
of thia method under the oonsidered oiroumetauoes would be
inconvenient due to the neoeaeit3r of oaring for a large number
of pane, refilling them with ink, eta. Therefore, snot h;:
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method oP reoording the impuleee wa8 employed, whereby the
.a ~
', part operates reliably , long, uninterrupted,
ewriter ribbons ,
eriod;of time, without any mainten.auoauL ii. yP
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is L$$l The a6 instrument.-recorder-
t (pig? l). Its armature
pt,T;esw#e the usual eleatro-magna
ie L-shaped and forma one unit with th&V1+'tt* plate. The
_ri_-_i_ of the plate t$ 0.6 mm. wide and 6 mm long; the
lines obtained on the paper are of the mane length. A11 the
reoordere, equal in number to those of the tranamittere, record
on the same sheet of paper, and have, therefore, to be a 8aembled
01080 to each other in two roars . '?
1" 1 r"1 11 r .~
The arrangement of theftifl screw (Meyers spiral)
i8 seen in Fig8. 1 and 6. It ie composed of a shaft, V, on
which a spiral groove is out 0e3 - 0.5 IIIfl deep. Along this out
a tightly pulled ateelw iro, 2, (0.7 - 1.0 dim) is wound, fastened
eeourely to the shaft ende. Thus, the w ire f orma a protuberant
't'`'?" elowl during the operating
spiral line. The'eorew turns y
n?)?
period (2-5 rotations per
The lines are printed on the paper as followa$ the paper
p and the erisr-&n ribbon L are inserted betwedn the fin of
r'
the ~w#i-U4 plate Rand the wire of the writing screw. In
a normal condition, when the current dae8 not go through t he re-
P r l r~~
corder and its armature is not pulled in, the fin of the wr t
plate does not preen against the ribbon, the paper, or the wire
of the writing 8orew. When current pas86e through the reoorder,
F" late rvase8 >~ its
it8 armature is pulled in and the P P
fin against the ribbon.
"r not If the r~ e.r sorew were not rotating the ribbon would
make a clot imprint on the paper at the preeeure point.
When the rotates the where the~4['bt+.
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plate preesee the fin will move steadily and leave a line
traoe on tha paper. If the time of the current flow in the
winding of the recorder exoeeds the time of one full rotation
of the sorew (whioh can eaeily result) the length of
v, t; , r
the line imprinted will be equal to the length of the
plate fin of the recorder.
r' .~ a sorew is uaed for all :recorders, and slso
The same
the tame rLaWribbon, repeatedly re-wound in oppoeite
direction fray one spool to the other, ae in a typewriter.
The speed of the motion is not important; 2--20 nan,/hr is
suffioient. For better exploitation of the entire width of
the ribbon L ike-r~ibs ie ar'r'anged (Fig. 7) in a elant
direction with respect to the lines of the fine H of the
Pr corder " ,plates P.
The reoording of lines on the paper, using reoordere of
the above type and a typewriter ribbon have a number of ad-
vantages sine *n~+applianoe of this kind doee not require any
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care and is always :-' in operating conditon
periods of many months.
The other part of the reoording apparatue ie a paper-
pulling meohaniad. The paper ured in the rcarding apparatus
can be of blank form, typogaphioally imprinted; the oounting
and recording device will insert the lines in the empty vertioal
columns. Under the ea7ae headings, -k dates, a numbers of
the maohinen, plants, oounting?reoording oarde, etc., are filled
in by hand. Cn a can aleo use a roll of printing paper for
entries and tear off the filled in o.r at shift change.
The main part of the paper-pulling arrangement ie the drum
(Fig. 1) equipped with a clamping device to fasten the eM
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of the bl,u&k papor? To avoid warping or dieplaoing the
paper, it ie put between two felt pade which act ae a brake.
The paper-pulling drum i$ rotated by a synohronou. eleotrio-
paper, It is advantageous if the drum make. a full rotation
motor, in order to assure better .peed stability of the moving
in exactly 12 hrs. The drum diameter ie seleoted in order tic
motor rotates at 1600 rpm) have to be installed between the
Bare with a very high gear ratio (1.080000 if the electrio-
g
obtain a paper speed ~f 20 mu/hr. It is olear that reduction
t'' 1
sorex -_- rotated
in one oil gear box. The Pr wrtD
placed
planed in use oonsiet of two pinion gears and three worm gears,
drum. The reduction gears of the counting-reoording devioe
shaft of the eieotrio-motor and the ehaft of the paper-pulling
at onus of the intermediate gear ratios of the reduction gears.
rte have noted that the counting-reoording oard should make
it possible to oheok the working rhythm of every machine, i.. e.,
unit reoorded for any of the maohines or to determine the places
permit the deteriination of the completion tirie for each produotioa
and c~aa:e of i(~le periods, 1'hie sill be aohteved if the t rme
of starting and stopping of the entfe installation is recorded
on the counting-reoording oard by meane of a button-saitoh of
one of the reoordere, especially designated for this purpose.
Snowing the paper speed and the time when the marks were reoordear
it is easy to arrange the hours and minutes over the entire
length of the counting-reoording oard in millimeters.
If the shop has a standard eystemized olook system, it is
easy to oomleot in the oirouit of the recorder assigned to
register the time, a special integrating meohaniem in parallel
with the button used for manual marking. This meohanism should
ul.e
b?~~outrolled by each minute impulse
have a gear ratio of 603
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 of the olook eyetem it Will make hourly marks on the oounting-
recording oard. In shops with thie olook system, the a leotrio
n ad
motor and the reduotion geare oan ala-~ be
tJt; a very simple installation (mechonism of an eleotrio
cloak) supplied with impulses every minute and rotating the
paper-pulling drum. It ie expedient, in euoh a case, to rotate
.4.
the eorew of the recording apparatus by means of a Warren
motor.
For inserting and removing the oounting-recording garde
e
are mounted is hinged (4.
and also for inspecting tho reoordera, the rack on whioh they
. 81.
The eleotro-teohnioal eyetem of the counting and recording
device le simple; ite fundamental elements are ehown ia-Figo.9?
The supply for the integrating m9ohaniem8 should be direct
I
ourrentw from a rectifier, ainoe with a production rhythm
of one hundred artiolee per minute the duration of a transmitter
impulse is 0.1 sec. If the integrating mechanism were supplied
with alternating current itsw~ld start vibrating during its
movement ?rern one extreme position to the other produoin~ errors
in the step gear rotations. The supply for the reoorders is
taken directly from the alternating current system, ainoe the
vibration of the armature does not have significance here.
In oonolueion we shall point out that the counting and
recording device could be utilized for signaling to a central
dispatch point the status of the work of the maohine.i or their stand-
still., This could be accomplished, for example, with the aid of
neon signal-lsatp tsble in parallel with the eleotro-magnets of the
integrating mechanism. During every impulse oonveyed by the
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transmitter, the oorreeponding neon lamp on the cable 4t
flaeh j thus provide c 'ign*le oonoerning the work of the
maohine3.
1. D. Andreyev and D. V. Zernov, partioipated in the
development of the devioe.
(Institute of Automatiosgut r+1 and Telemeohanios of the
Aoademy of Seienoea of tho USSR.)
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ooording apparL
Schematic osoillogrSm of current in the circuit of
Figure
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an eleotr~mvtui p+o~y?
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Figure 1: Diagram of the oounting and recording apparatus
Figure b: Reoordere
Figure 6: Method of reoording the lines on paper
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Figure 3: Impulse transmitter
Flinging; E - stop screw on the armature B, preening on
} t set K; g - atop nuts holding the arriaturef R ? insulating
the oQntac
plate of contact eet; L = oommutator bars M ? contact nute;
F' - baee Q - weight; R ? fin of armature; S - magnetic o;rouit;
;
T . pine for oover
Figure 4: Two groups of integrating meohaniemet at left"
aratua; at right ? the eleotric?'otor;
the recording app
Fi re l; Relative position of reoordera and the caisv4
ribbon
Figure B: Reoording apparatus
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