Patent GB-190408511-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ticket Issuing and Recording Machines
Inventor: OHMER JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1904-04-13
Granted: 1904-05-26
Abstract: 8511. Ohmer, J. F. April 13. Ticket punches; tickets, issuing.-An apparatus is shown for issuing tramcar or other tickets from a roll, punching each in the proper section, and registering the number issued, with or without means for printing, when desired, the number issued and the date upon a record strip. The mechanism, shown in elevation from opposite sides in Figs. 3 and 4, is contained in a case with attachments for strapping to the conductor of a vehicle, and has a finger lever 6, the depression of which carries round the cam 25, and forces up the pitman 23 moving round a fixed pin by means of a slot 24, whereby the arm 21 is moved about its pivot 20, and the lip 19 forced down on the perforator 15, which punches the ticket as it passes through the slot 10 below the plate 9. The perforator is held in a socket 14 on the arm 13, which is keyed to a spindle 8 with head 12, whereby the socket may be brought over the part of the ticket it is desired to punch, a spring 27 controlling the movement. As the lever is brought up by the spring 26, forcing down the pitman on to the cam, the pawl 30 and ratchet-wheel 31 rotate the sleeve 32, which carries a ratchet-wheel 42 and thereby drives a third ratchet-wheel 43 through the means of a pawl 44 kept in gear by a spring 45. The wheel 43 acts as a cam to operate the lever 46 carrying the hammer 48 of a bell 49, and it also has fixed to it the spur-wheel 50, conveying motion through the pinion 51 to counting-wheels in the casing 41. Feeding is effected by the spurwheel 33 fixed to the ratchet-wheel 31 and driving a pinion on the spindle of the feed roller 35, which consists of a number of drums with intervening saw-toothed discs projecting sufficiently to grip the ticket web 17. The paper is kept in contacc with the feed roller by a small cylinder 36 carried in a frame 37 and normally pressed downwards by a spring coiled on the spindle 38. Any excess feeding is prevented by the pins 52, 53 with which the lever 6 and pawl 30 engage at the end of the up-stroke. Two or more of these apparatus may be combined in the same casing, with a single counter or independent counters, records of the numbers borne by the tickets being necessary in the former case to secure a complete check. Figs. 9 and 13 show the printing recording- attachment from which an impression is taken at will by rotating the milled head 81. The spindle 59 carries printing-wheels 56, 55, 57, 58 recording the direction or journey, the counter number, the month, and the date respectively, the two last wheels being mounted on sleeves which are set by external heads 71. The spur-wheel 50 drives a pinion 60, crank, and connecting-rod 62, and the lever 63 carrying a pawl 64 in gear with a ratchetwheel 65 fixed to the unit wheel of the group 55, the direction-wheel 56 being set by a rod 69, the lower end of which can be pivoted at one of four points on the wheel ; the upper end is connected by link work to the punch-setting arm 13 whereby it is moved longitudinally. Rotation of the fingerwheel 81 causes the inking-roller 72 to be swung by suitable linkwork across the types in the printing-position, and the cam 85 then lifts the lever 83 and forces the plate 82 thereon against the type, the record paper 86 intervening. A second cam upon the spindle 80 drives a mutilated gear-wheel on the feed roller 88, against which the paper is pressed by the plate 89, the finger-wheel 92 being used to draw off a length of the record. When more than one apparatus is attached to the same sets of total-counting and printing wheels, pivoted T-shaped lever locks are used to prevent depression of more than one lever at a time.