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Abstract

A keyboard for a typewriter or the like including a series of elongate keys disposed in a row and normally with respect to the front edge of the typewriter or at an acute angle with respect thereto. Each of the keys is depressable when a finger pressure is applied on the center, home tablet surface of the key for causing the typing action of a certain letter; the key is depressable when the finger is reached to a tablet surface adjacent to the upper edge of the key and the key is then depressed to cause the typing action for another letter; and the key likewise provides a typing action for still another letter when the finger is reached downwardly toward the lower edge of the key to a lower tablet surface and the key is then depressed. Numerals may be typed either using separate numeral keys located in a separate row or may be typed by depressing the upper tablet surface on each of the elongate keys after using a shift key to cause the printing of the numeral instead of the letter for which the upper tablet surface is primarily dedicated.

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