US PATENT SUBCLASS 400 / 586
.~ Including feed of tally strip record-medium (e.g., plural tally strips)

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578  DF  SHEET OR WEB (E.G., RECORD-MEDIUM FEEDING MECHANISM) {13}
586.~ Including feed of tally strip record-medium (e.g., plural tally strips) {8}
587  DF  .~.~> And feed of endless transfer-medium
588  DF  .~.~> On plural-platen (e.g., divided platen) typewriter
589  DF  .~.~> With locking or interlocking mechanism (e.g., line lock, etc.)
590  DF  .~.~> Including feed varied for amount of tally strip on spool
591  DF  .~.~> Including tally-strip feed transverse to feed of main record-medium
592  DF  .~.~> Including feed independent of platen
593  DF  .~.~> With cutting or spring tensioning of tally strip
594  DF  .~.~> Including structure or mounting or adjustment of tally-strip roll {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 400/586

Including feed of tally strip record-medium (e.g., plural tally strips):

(under subclass 578) Subject matter wherein significance is attributed to the movement of a tally strip relative to the typewriter.

(1) Note. The term "tally strip" is a typewriter industry or "art" term for an elongated, relatively narrow piece of record-medium* that is used in a typewriter in addition to the record-medium ordinarily used. The tally strip is fed separately from the ordinary record-medium and is used to record thereon a summation of information. On a tally strip information that can be recorded includes for example, the sum of a column of numbers, a number representing the total items shipped during a particular day, a listing of bills of lading for a particular period of time, words identifying a particular document, and similar subject matter summarizing activities recorded by a typist using the typewriter. Due to the dimensions of a tally strip, it is handled in a typewriter (often an accounting machine) in a manner that is different from the way ordinary record-medium is handled. Disclosures for this and indented subclasses are distinguished in that the handling of one or more tally strips is significant.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

43, for a flat-platen* typewriter for typing on a tally strip.