Keyboard Patents

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A gallery of patents that describe technologies or illustrate designs relating to IBM and family keyboards, typewriters and keypunches. This includes keyswitch/actuator designs, ornamental designs (overall appearance), integrated pointing devices such as TrackPoints, and host systems such as PCs, laptops, terminals, consoles and electronic typewriters. All illustrations provided are from the patents themselves, which are believed to be within the public domain. A total of 112 patents have been recorded. The patent list is currently filtered to 1 patent(s).

German Utility Patent 1,279,693 (DE1279693B)

A patent diagram of IBM's improvements relating to typewriter keyboards from a top-down perspective

Applied 28 Sep 1963

Published 10 Oct 1968

More info

Name	Standard keyboard divided into two mirror-image fields for controlling the drive of functional devices on typewriters and similar machines
Inventors	Jim Ladue, Werner Seydel
Assignees	IBM Deutschland
Description	An invention of a keyboard that is split into two parts and mirrored in shape, with the keys placed in columns angled from each other to allow the user to position their arms and hands at more natural positions and rotations. It was intended for typewriters or similar machines. Whilst IBM never brought this exact product to market, this patent will be cited by well-known ergonomic keyboard companies such as Kinesis and Maltron (Lillian Malt).