Litton Business Systems, Inc.

Questor Corporation

Milton Bradley International, Inc.

Royal Business Machines, Inc.

Theodore N Madison

Mark B Johnson-Williams

Eugene A Murtha

Michael C Cartabiano

An animated display in the form of a representation of a face, is controlled by an associated audio tape player and a microprocessor-controlled liquid crystal display. The facial features are variable responsively to the audio signals of the tape player as controlled by the microprocessor.

Animated display controlled by an audio device

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A jam release control for a typewriter provided with a motor driven power train to rotate a power roll. The train includes a normally engaged clutch which can be momentarily disengaged by an operator when the power train is jammed thereby allowing the motor to come up to speed and develop torque as will overcome a jam incident to reengagement of the clutch.

Typewriter jam release mechanism

A typewriter power roll having a hollow core is assembled with end bearings which are adapted to rotatably support the power roll on a stationary center shaft. Assembling the core and end bearings as a unit allows the periphery to be ground concentric with the bearing axes. After grinding, the power roll can be located in a typewriter and the center shaft inserted through side frame openings and the bearings and adjustably secured to the typewriter side frames at opposite ends by being wedged between a slotted surface of an adjusting plate adjustably secured to the side frames and an eccentric mounted on the adjusting plate.

Typewriter power roll construction and mounting

A compact lightweight typewriter carriage having a rail supporting an escapement rack, tab rack and margin rack located relative to carriage supported control elements as to minimize twisting moments relative to its frame support incident to actuation and termination of carriage movement.

Typewriter carriage construction

A typewriter is provided with carriage control mechanisms such that more than one carriage control function can be initiated at one time. The arrangement of carriage function controls permit a dominant carriage movement to prevail, and less dominant carriage movement function controls will either give way or, in case of tabulation, give way and await completion of the dominant function while yet remaining in active position to arrest tabulating movement. No interlocking of carriage functions is necessary. More particularly, if a dominant carriage return is initiated, carriage return movement of the carriage will cause a backspace pawl, controlled by initiation of a backspace function, either immediately before or after carriage return movement begins, to move out of engagement from the escapement rack. If either a carriage or a backspace function is in progress, i.e., the carriage is moving to effect a carriage return or backspace, a tabulation function can still be initiated. If however, a set tab stop on the carriage, during movement of the carriage in return or backspace direction, encounters the tabular stop blade placed and latched in readiness to arrest a set tab stop during tabulation movement, it will cause the tab blade to be rocked out of the way yet remain latched whereby, on completion of carriage return movement, tabulation movement will begin and the first set tab stop encountered will be arrested by the positioned tab blade to terminate tabulating movement. Also provided is a tab set blade which, if operated during any carriage movement as would jam the carriage, will give way on encounter with set tab stops. Other features of the invention reside in a novel carriage construction, power roll construction, and power roll jam release controls.

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Windsor, CT, United States of America

Theodore N Madison