Burnham C. Stickney

“ Katakana is usually written downwardly in vertical lines; but an object of the invention is to give added impetus to the movement which has progressed for many years in Japan, to introduce horizontal writing from left to right. To this end the present typewriting machine is organized to type horizontally from left to right, as in ordinary English typing, and the machine is of the usual Underwood construction throughout, except for the characters on the keys and the types which correspond thereto. ”

“ The portable keyboard composes a unit, which corresponds with a group of twenty-eight keys, viz., the three front rows of the standard keyboard, namely, the first nine keys in each of the first two rows and ten keys in the third row. The small characters in the fourth bank of the standard keyboard in said application are given third-shift positions in the rear bank of the portable keyboard.
Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and positions of the improvements may be used without others. ”

“ A three-bank Japanese katakana keyboard for a three-case machine, having lower or normal case characters as follows: third bank, TA TE, I, SU, KA, N, NA, NI, RA, dakuon; second bank, CHI, TO, SHI, HA, KI, KU, MA, NO, RI; first bank, TSU, SA WO, HI, KO, MI, MO, NE, RE; and having second or upper case characters as follows: third bank, FU, A, U, E, O, YA, YU, YO, WA, HO; second bank, Roman numerals; first bank Roman numeral 0, also the characters SE, SO, HE, KE, MU, ME, NU, RO ”