US Patent Class 234
SELECTIVE CUTTING (E.G., PUNCHING)



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1  DF  METHODS
2  DF  .~ Comprising utilization of a pattern
3  DF  .~.~ And modification of the pattern or its effectiveness
4  DF  WITH TYPE-WIDTH AND INTER-WORD-SPACE TOTALIZER OR INDICATOR (I.E., FOR JUSTIFICATION)
5  DF  .~ Embodying exchangeable sub-assembly unit for font change
6  DF  .~ Embodying means to facilitate error correction
7  DF  .~ Embodying means to tabulate or to adjust line length
8  DF  .~ Embodying means to insert justification symbol
9  DF  .~.~ With means to effect selection of justification tools
10  DF  .~.~.~ With means to insert justification symbol at other than end of line
11  DF  .~ Embodying means to drive totalizer
12  DF  .~.~ "Unit-Wheel" type of counter
13  DF  WITH MEANS TO IMPOSE PROGRAMMED CONTROL OF AUXILIARY-OPERATION
14  DF  .~ Embodying means to change code
15  DF  .~ Embodying means to afford choice of programs
16  DF  .~ Embodying means to shift control between plural input sources
17  DF  .~.~ Diverse sources
18  DF  .~ Embodying means to effect selection or shift or skip of field
19  DF  .~.~ With change in feed of pattern or work
20  DF  .~ For start or stop of control from given input source
21  DF  .~ For stopping after predetermined number of operations
22  DF  WITH MEANS TO IMPOSE RANDOMLY ACTUATED CONTROL OF AUXILIARY-OPERATION
23  DF  .~ Embodying means to detect order of occurrence of input data
24  DF  .~.~ Zero suppression or insertion
25  DF  .~ Embodying means to detect indicium in work or pattern
26  DF  .~.~ With group number control of recording
27  DF  .~.~.~ With control of feed of pattern and/or work
28  DF  .~.~ With means to control feed
29  DF  .~.~.~ Control of pattern feed
30  DF  .~ Stopping means
32  DF  .~.~ Upon detection of machine defect or misoperation
33  DF  .~.~.~ With means to check on tool actuation
34  DF  .~.~.~.~ With verifier (data comparator)
35  DF  WITH INPUT MEANS COMMON TO TOOL SELECTOR AND PRINTER
36  DF  .~ Step by step printer
37  DF  .~.~ On same workpiece
38  DF  WITH NONSELECTIVE CUTTING OR PUNCHING MEANS
39  DF  .~ Work sizing or cyclic (e.g., feed hole) punching
40  DF  WITH SORTING MEANS OR COPY HOLDER
41  DF  CONVERTIBLE
42  DF  PLURAL TOOL FIELDS
43  DF  .~ With means to select a given field
44  DF  .~.~ By manually settable means
45  DF  .~ With independent manual input means
46  DF  NOTCHING OR SLITTING MEANS
47  DF  .~ Notching
48  DF  .~.~ Uniform depth
49  DF  MEANS FOR CUTTING MOVING WORK
50  DF  .~ Flying cutter
51  DF  EMBODYING UNICYCLIC TOOL ACTUATING MEANS
52  DF  WITH INTERLOCK BETWEEN TOOL ACTUATOR AND SELECTOR
53  DF  WITH MEANS TO ESTABLISH CONTROL PATH, FROM ONE OF A PLURALITY OF INPUT SOURCES, TO TOOL SELECTION MEANS
54  DF  .~ Diverse input sources
55  DF  WITH MEANS TO STORE AND RETRIEVE INPUT DATA AFTER REMOVAL OF INPUT-IMPULSE
56  DF  .~ With read-out in different order
57  DF  .~ With optionally settable means to clear storage upon read-out
58  DF  .~ With serial read-out from storage
59  DF  WITH MEANS TO INITIATE TOOL SELECTION BY SENSING PATTERN INDICIA OR CONFIGURED MACHINE ELEMENT
60  DF  .~ Means to sense cyclically movable machine element
61  DF  .~.~ Serial number punching of work
62  DF  .~ With repeated sensing of same pattern field
63  DF  .~ Pattern indicia carried by work
64  DF  .~.~ Processed work as pattern for following work
65  DF  .~ Including plural input means, jointly effective
66  DF  .~ Serial read-out from full bank of pattern-sensers
67  DF  .~ With means to modify effect of pattern data
68  DF  .~.~ By inversion of pattern data
69  DF  .~.~ Code conversion
70  DF  .~.~.~ Combinational-code to or from one-hole-code
71  DF  .~.~ Means for timing the tool actuation
72  DF  .~.~ Means for transposition, shift or suppression of field
73  DF  .~.~.~ By adjustable electrical means
74  DF  .~ By a senser with more than two output signals
75  DF  .~ Pattern or senser in motion during sensing
76  DF  .~ Sensing by tool directly engageable with pattern
77  DF  .~.~ Tool actuation blocked by pattern
78  DF  .~.~ Tool actuating force transmitted by pattern
79  DF  .~ With means to feed pattern or pattern sensing means
80  DF  .~.~ With means to adjust pattern position or feed, or senser
81  DF  .~.~ Senser moves tool into position to receive actuating force
82  DF  .~.~ Senser controls effectiveness of actuating force to selected tool pair only
83  DF  .~.~.~ Senser actuates tool
84  DF  .~.~ Interposer movable by senser
85  DF  .~.~.~ Integral or fixed thereto
86  DF  .~.~.~ Biased interposer and senser
87  DF  .~.~ Senser controls application of power to interposer
88  DF  .~.~.~ Connects or disconnects interposer linkage and cyclically movable actuator
89  DF  .~ Pattern or record and/or sensing means per se
90  DF  WITH MEANS TO CAUSE DELAYED ACTUATION OF SELECTED TOOL
91  DF  .~ With plurality of selecting means sequentially controlled by one input means
92  DF  WITH OPTIONALLY SETTABLE MEANS TO CLEAR TOOL SELECTION
93  DF  .~ Effective on portion of tool field
94  DF  WITH SPECIFIC MEANS TO SELECT A PLURALITY OF TOOLS (I.E., COMBINATIONAL CODING MEANS)
95  DF  .~ Successively
96  DF  .~ With means to change or facilitate change of code
97  DF  .~ Coded interposer
98  DF  .~.~ Differentially positioned
99  DF  .~.~.~ Turret of interposers
100  DF  .~.~.~.~ Power transmitting
101  DF  .~.~ Power driven
102  DF  .~ Coded selector means
103  DF  .~.~ Actuates contacts
104  DF  .~.~ Paired bars
105  DF  .~.~ Selector means drives interposers
106  DF  .~ Direct punching (coded actuation)
107  DF  .~.~ With power means to actuate tools
108  DF  .~.~.~ Individual electrical drives
109  DF  WITH SPECIFIC MEANS TO SELECT A SINGLE TOOL
110  DF  .~ By immobilizing a portion of an element in tool drive train
111  DF  .~ Interposer
112  DF  .~.~ Differentially positioned
113  DF  .~.~.~ Turret of interposers
114  DF  .~.~ Power driven
115  DF  .~.~.~ By individual electric means
116  DF  .~.~ Reciprocable in a straight line
117  DF  .~ Means to move an element of the tool drive train into power transmitting relationship with a power source
118  DF  .~.~ Shiftable element is the tool
119  DF  .~.~ Continuously rotating actuator
120  DF  WITH INPUT MEANS OTHER THAN PATTERN SENSER TO CONTROL TOOL SELECTION
121  DF  .~ Differentially positionable input element (e.g., lever)
122  DF  .~ Plural input channels
123  DF  .~.~ Keyboard
124  DF  .~.~.~ With auxiliary function control means
125  DF  .~.~.~.~ Repeat key
126  DF  WITH MEANS TO VARY WORK FEED INCREMENT
127  DF  .~ Dependent upon tool(s) selected
128  DF  WITH WORK HOLDER OR MOVER
129  DF  .~ With reversible work-feed (e.g., with back spacer)
130  DF  .~ With cyclically advanced work carrier
131  DF  MISCELLANEOUS
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