Patent GB-357964-A (GB)
Abstract: 357,964. Printing machines ; typewriters. KALMAN, M., 34, Ulloi Ut, Budapest. June 26, 1930, No. 19485. [Classes 100 (ii) and 100 (iv).] Franking-machines ; index type-wheel machines ; stopping-arrangements.-A machine for franking, ticket printing, and like purposes comprises a drum adapted to be rotated by hand or motor and provided with printing devices, including value-printing devices set by hand or by coin-freed mechanism, arranged to print on an inserted envelope or the like or on webs or on both, means being provided for locking the drum after a predetermined value has been reached. The machine may include totalizing and subtracting registers operated through cam-disc differential devices by means of index levers. The machine shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 comprises a revoluble type-drum 9 geared to a shaft 1 and provided with a segment 21, Fig. 4, for printing invariable matter, sets 26, 51, 36 of type-wheels for printing amounts, other variable matter, and the serial number respectively, and a stamp 25s for printing the date. The typewheels 51 are geared to nested shafts 57 mounted in the drum and provided with setting-knobs 58 which are accessible through a slot in the casing of the machine. The casing has a base 13 detachably secured to a bed 14 by means of pins 19 on spring-urged plates 18. The dating-stamp is accessible through a slot in the casing when the type-drum is in normal position, the slot being provided with a door which is held closed by a cam when the type-drum is displaced. The type-wheels 36 are actuated by rod 48 mounted in the drum and co-operating with a cam 49 on a stationary plate 11, the cam being detachable or slidable to prevent operation of the rod. The type-wheels 26 and totalizing and subtracting registers T, S are set by means of index-levers 156 carried by toothed discs 154 mounted on the hubs of discs 145 secured to the shaft 1. Pinions 176 provided with indicating- discs 176a engage the discs 154 and co-operate with pinions 194 connected by nested shafts 200 to pinions 201 co-operating with pinions 35 on the type-wheels 26. The shafts 200 are mounted in rocking arms 192, 193 which are normally in raised position, the pinions 194, 201 being disengaged. Normally the type-drum engages a spring detent, and the pinions 201 engage a spring-pressed retaining-bar 205. Each disc 145 carries sliding totalizeractuating pins 148, Fig. 25, controlled by a camslot disc 150 which is coupled alternately to the associated discs 145, 154 by means of a slide 159 having teeth 158, 157 for engaging toothed slots in the discs. Slides 173 mounted on the discs 154 and engaging the slides 159, have teeth 2 for engaging apertures in index-plates 286. The slides 173 engage cam-plates 163 loosely mounted on the shaft 1 and connected to levers 167 co-operating with cams 181a on a shaft 182. A depressible key 185 is carried by a bell-crank 183 connected to the shaft 182, and to an arm 190 for depressing the arms 192, 193. Normally the teeth on the slides 173 lock the index-levers 156, but on depression of the key 185 the index-levers are released, the slides 159 couple the discs 150, 154, and the pinions 194, 201 are engaged with the pinions 176, 35. Displacement of the index-levers sets the amount on the type-wheels 26 and projects from each disc 145 a number, of pins 148. On release of the key 185, the shaft 1 can be rotated by means of a crank 6 to effect printing and operate the registers T, S. The typedrum prints as described below, on an envelope &c. placed on a table 98, and on two voucher strips passing over impression rollers 325a, 325b, Fig. 21. During rotation of the type-drum, the type-wheels 26 are looked by means of a rocking comb controlled by a cam on the plate 11. The amount is printed, as described below, on a record strip by means of type-wheels 180 mounted on a shaft 177 and having pinions 178 engaging the discs 154. The pins 148 engage pinions carried by a shaft 212 and geared through intermediate pinions 221, 221a to the pinions of the totalizing- register T and subtracting- register S. The sets of pins are arranged in different angular positions on the discs 145 so that the register pinions are actuated in sequence. For locking the machine when the pre-payment represented initially by the subtracting-register has been exhausted, each unit of the subtracting-register is provided with a cam disc co-operating with a spring-urged lever 226, Fig. 1, which co-operates with a spring-urged slide 228 geared to a shaft 232 actuating a stop-arm 235 for the shaft 1. When the pre-payment is exhausted, the slide is released by the levers, and the stop-arm is interposed in the path of a lug on the shaft. A housing for the registers is provided with a door 242, Fig. 3, adapted on being opened to lock the registers. For this purpose, the doorhinge has cams 243 for moving a locking-bar 245 into engagement with the totalizing-register. The housing may be slidably mounted to permit of detachment and be provided with a lock. When the housing is unlocked, a cover is moved over an opening for the discs 154, and when the housing is removed it permits a spring-urged rod to move into the path of a stop on the shaft 1 and thereby lock the machine. The machine may contain another totalizing-register for use in directing fraudulent operation when the registers T, S have been removed. The crank 6 is carried by a slide 292, Fig. 2, mounted on an arm 294 on the shaft 1 and provided with a pin 299 normally engaging a stop 300. The crank is pulled out to disengage the pin, and after being turned through one revolution is arrested by the stop, a cam 301 causing the pin to engage the stop. If the shaft is powerdriven, means is provided for initially disengaging the pin. During setting operations, the shaft is locked by means of a pin 309a which obstructs the pin 299 when the key 185 is in depressed position. The pin 309a is carried by an arm 309 on a shaft 310 engaging an arm 313 on a shaft 314 rocked by the key. During rotation of the shaft, depression of the key is prevented by means of a stop controlled by a cam on the shaft. The pin 299 may be provided with a lock. The envelope is passed between a plate 121, Fig. 1, and a yielding table 98 carrying a spring-supported impression roller 102 which may consist of a number of discs graded in size from the middle to the sides. The table is pivoted at 109 and supported by a spring 103, adjusting means such as a cord connected to a screw 106 being provided. The pivots 109 are mounted on a spring-supported member 108 which is retained by means of dog carried by a knob 119 and co-operating with a rack. If the space between the table and plate is ..too small for the envelope, the table is depressed by the envelope and retained by the dog. The knob is pressed to permit the table to rise, a tapered member on the knob engaging a recess in the rack to retard the movement. In another form of table, the impression roller is mounted on spring-supported pivoted arms, and the table is provided with a pivoted retaining-rack engaging a pin. During rotation of the type-drum, the envelope is fed by milled flanges 126a, Fig. 4, and the type-members on the type-drum. When the ink-holder 70, described below, passes over the envelope, the table is depressed, to prevent soiling of the envelope, by means of an arm 123, Fig. 2, operated by a ring 89 on the type-drum. The record strip passes from a roll R, Fig. 3, and over the type-wheels 180 and is line-spaced by means of a feed-roller 272 having a ratchet-feed 273 in the path of an impression bar 257 carried by radially movable arms 255, 256, which are depressed by cams 261 on the shaft 1 and are raised by springs 259. Ink is transferred from a roller 268 to the type-wheels 180 by means of a roller 264 carried by arms 265 which are rocked by means of pins 262 on the discs 145,154. A winding-roller R<1> for the record strip is actuated by means of a bar 277 connected to a cam-actuated arm 276. Web feeding, guiding, and cutting arrangements ; roller-impression arrangements.-The type-drum prints on two voucher strips passing over the impression rollers 325a, 325b, Fig. 21, carried by spring-urged bell cranks 321a, 321b, a cam 323, Fig. 2, on the type-drum co-operating with the bell cranks to hold back the impression rollers until the type-surfaces pass thereover. The voucher strips enter slots in the casing and are guided to the impression rollers by bars 332a, 331 and 332b, 331b. The voucher strips pass from the impression rollers through guides 328a, 328b and around delivery rollers 335a, 337b connected by gears 351, the upper roller being geared to a shaft 345 operated by a spring drum 342 which is coupled by a pawl 33 9 to a disc 338 driven by the shaft 1. The spring is wound by means of the shaft 1, and on release of the pawl is effective to rotate the delivery rollers. Rollers 352a, 352b are pressed into contact with the delivery rollers 335a, 335b during the delivery movement. The voucher strips may be delivered to an autograph table 390, Fig. 1, provided at the sides with pivoted clamps for holding the strips ar d carbon sheet, a hand-lever being provided for rocking the clamps. Printing on the envelope can be prevented by means of a sliding mask 362, Fig. 1, which is interposed between the type-drum ar.d the impression roller by turning a crank 370, the crank shaft 369 being geared to a shaft 365 having pinions 364a engaging racks on the mask. By turning further the crank, a cam 371, Fig. 2, is caused to rock a shaft 375 having arms 376a, 376b for depressing the impression roller 325b and thereby preventing printing on one of the voucher strips. The voucher strips can be cut by means of knives m ounted in guides 359a, 359b and linked to a lever 35 which is depressed by a cam 353 on the shaft 1 and is raised by a spring 357 to operate the knives. Inking-apparatus.-The type-drum 9, Fig. 4, c