Patent GB-190022700-A (GB)
Title: A Machine for Printing, Dating and Recording Blank Tickets.
Inventor: LANGE GABRIEL
Filed: 1900-12-12
Granted: 1901-06-22
Abstract: 22,700. LangÚ, G. Dec. 12. Type-writers dating railway tickets.-Relates to machines for printing the name of the station, date, and price on blank parts of railway tickets such as are seldom used, and for printing a record, of such tickets issued, on a registering-strip. A number of radially-arranged type-carriers i is arranged to move to and from the ticket carriage q. Each carrier i is on a pair of links h, j pivoted on curved rods c, g. The key levers d are pivoted on the rod c, and their ends engage heads of the T-shaped links h. Springs s connecting the links h, return the holders i to normal position. The other projecting arms of the links h all engage a pivoted lever frame k carrying a pair of escapement dogs m, n engaging the teeth of a rack p on the main carriage q which is mounted to slide vertically in the framing. In the main carriage q is a second carriage movable vertically by a handle w<1> and cam arrangement. In the second carriage is a horizontally-sliding carriage x in which the ticket is placed. The carriage x moves on two rods y in the second carriage, and is pressed towards the right-hand side of the machine by springs, a projection v thereon engaging a stepped part w of the framing, so that, as the main carriage moves up, during the printing operation, the ticket and its carriage are moved laterally to bring different lines into the printing position. The printing is done character by character in vertical lines, the carriers i being provided with sets of type for printing on the ticket and also upon the record strip, which passes from one spool to another over an impression bar g', below the ticket a<1>, in the carriage. At each depression of a key e the dogs m, n permit the carriages to move up one space under the pull of a spring t. After the date, name of station, and price &c. have been printed, the second carriage is moved up in the main carriage q by operating the handle w<1>, and the length of time for which the ticket is available is then printed, after which the ticket is removed and another inserted. The handle w<1> is then turned to lower the second carriage, and to withdraw the inner or ticket carriage x so that its projection v may clear the stepped part of the framing as the carriages are pushed down for the printing of another ticket. The rack p can yield against the pressure of a spring as the carriage is pushed down. Each time the carriage is moved down the registering-strip is fed one step by a ratchet arrangement. The carriage as it reaches its lower position also operates the arm c<2> and pawl d<2> of a counting-mechanism f<2>. Inking-ribbons on reels z<1>, provided with any ordinary feed-mechanism, pass across in front of the carriage. The holders i each consist of a pair of plates riveted together and with the types fixed between them at their front edges. The holder i for the dating-types has chambers in which movable types may be set up and locked in position by a pivoted cam piece. When printing return tickets, they are placed vertically in the carriage, and the matter is printed in duplicate, two sets of type being provided on the holders i. When printing single tickets, they are placed horizontally and are printed by one of the sets of types.