Patent GB-327102-A (GB)
Abstract: 327,102. Wallace, R., and British Totalizator, Ltd. Dec. 18, 1928. Totalizators.-Totalizator ticket issuing and registering apparatus includes ticket printing and issuing mechanism freed for operation by depression of a relevant key and registering mechanism operated by reciprocatory mechanism, the negative movement of which is given by depression of the key and the positive movement by the ticket issuing mechanism at or near completion of its operation. Depression of a horse number key 18 pivoted at 18<1> actuates a cable 17 attached to the key thereby rotating in an anticlockwise direction the pawl 16 to engage the next tooth on the ratchet wheel of the horse indicator drum 3, which when the particular horse is not running can be covered by a hinged flap bearing the number of the horse, rocks the frame 27, pivoted at 28, by means of the rod 29 attached to the frame to close the switch 30 to set the shaft 31 in rotation; rotates the shaft 24 by means of a detent 22 engaging the relevant spirally arranged projection 23 to position the horse number printing drum 45 on the shaft 39 to which the, shaft 24 is coupled; and places the tapered end 19 of the key in co-operation with the rack 20 on the pivoted lever 21. Only one key can be depressed at a time due to the crowding lock balls 26. At or near the end of the ticket issuing operation a cam 35 on shaft 31 engages an abutment 36 to release the key 18 from the rack 20 to actuate the indicator drum, and cams 33 engage buffers 34 on the frame 27 to return it to its normal position. The shaft 38, Fig. 9, is coupled to the shaft 31 and has keyed on it the two gear wheels 41 and 42. The wheel 42 engages a pinion 43, free on shaft 39, which is coupled up through a friction clutch to the disc 44 keyed to shaft 39, and the wheel 41 having an incomplete set of teeth engages a pinion 54 which has one tooth missing on one side but a complete set on the other side for engaging the pinion 55 mounted on the shaft 56 carrying the roller 51 for printing fixed data by co-operation with roller 52 carried by shaft 57. The rollers 51 and 52 thus only rotate intermittently. " Place " and " Win " are printed by the rollers 58 and 59 moved into operative position by means of a selector and striking fingers 60 and 61 connected respectively to the oscillating frames 27 of the " Win " and " Place " bank of keys by cables 32. After the ticket has passed under the printing roller 45 over the spring blade 49 urged upwardly by the cam 50 on the shaft 38 and under the printing rollers 51 and 58 or 59 it is fed under the knife 62, operated by the main shaft 38, and the number of the race is printed by the hand set printing device 67. Pool indicators are actuated by cables connected to the " Win " and " Place " frames 27 or by the cables 17 which are prolonged for this purpose. Manual means are provided for operating the machine in the event of failure of the motor driving means. Means may be provided for consecutively numbering the tickets and for providing a duplicate record. Specifications 322,578, [Class 31 (i), Cutting and severing machines &c.], and 323,535 are referred to in this respect.