Patent GB-359060-A (GB)
Abstract: 359,060. Totalizators. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd., Strowger Works, Liverpool, and SIMPSON, L. M., The Bungalow, Laurel Bank, Stanks, near Leeds. July 22, 1930, No. 22121. [Class 106 (i).] In totalizators of the kind described in Specification 331,500 provision is made for dealing with bets of other than decimally related stake values. Counting or adding switches, one for each stake value, are connected to different wipers of a translator - collecting switch, each arranged to control the advance of the latter switch a number of steps corresponding to the stake value. This is accomplished by adapting the counting switches to mark different numbers of contacts in the respective control banks of the translator switch which advances when its control wipers fail to encounter such marking. The translator switch operates a monogrammic lamp indicator. General layout. Fig. 1 shows the driving magnets and the adding or marking switches corresponding to stake values of 5/- (units), 10/-, ú1, ú5, and ú20 (80 units), their operation, and the transfer connections between them being as in Specification 331,500, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.]. The 5/-, 10/-, and ú1 marking switches are connected to a units (5/-) translator-collecting switch UTC, the ú5 and ú10 marking switches being similarly connected to the " tens " translator-collecting switch TTC. Transfer connections are necessary between the units switch UTC and both the ú5 marking switch and the tens switch TTC, simplified transfer connections being used between higher digit translator switches. Units translator-collecting switch; operation. When betting commences a start relay is operated closing contacts s1, s2, and, the adding switches being at normal, relays A, B, C are energized over wipers 1a, 3d ; 1b, 4d ; Ic, 5d, respectively, their contacts a1, b1, c1 maintaining open the drive circuit of magnet UTM. Assuming a 10/- bet tobe made, the wiper 1b is stepped on to its second contact de-energizing relay B. Contacts b1 close to energize a relay IR, which interacts with the driving magnet UTM to advance the wipers 1d .. 6d of switch UTC two steps when earth on wiper 1b again operates relay B to stop the switch UTC. The ú1 switch contacts are each multipled to four contacts, (corresponding to four units) of the appropriate bank 5d of switch UTC, and the commoning of banks 3d, 4d, 5d is such that the switch UTC will be advanced four steps for a ú1 bet, two steps for a 10/- bet, and one step for a 5/- bet, irrespective of the order in which the bets are received. (Transfer is effected between the marking switches 1a, 1b, 1c as described in Specification 331,500.) The ú5 and ú20 marking switches 1e, 1f, are similarly multipled to banks 5g, 6g and 7g, 8g of the tens translator-collecting switch, the operation of relays X, Y, Z, identical with that of A, B, C, stepping the switch TTC to sum the direct ú5 5 and ú20 bets as well as the transfers from switch UTC by way of banks 2d, 3g, 4g. To render the switches mathematically correct transfer is also necessary between switches UTC and 1e, and is effected at every twentieth step of the former over a wiper 6d and line 13 as described in Specification 331,500. Transfer between switch TTC and higher denominational translator switches is effected by slow relays Q, R, the relay Q being operated on the ninth step of switch TTC and the transfer impulse being sent over line 12 during the slow release of relay R when the switch TTC has moved its tenth step. The translator-collecting denominational switches each operate an indicator as described in Specification 331,500, extra banks 1d ; 1g, 2g .. being provided for this purpose. To ensure that the marking switches shall not over run the translator-collecting switches the ú5 and ú20 marking switch contacts are provided respectively with four and five independent sets of markings in the appropriate wipers of switch TTC. The relays C, Z may have contacts c2, z2 in the bet accepting leads to relays CM, EM to prevent the acceptance of further bets until the previous bets: have been dealt with.