Patent GB-191507339-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ticket or Check Printing and Issuing Mechanism.
Filed: 1915-05-15
Abstract: 7339. National Cash Register Co., Banwell, H. C., and Phillips, F., [National Cash Register Co.]. May 15. Cash registers with itemp r i n t i n g m e c h a n i s m ; voucher-issuing.-A check or ticket printing mechanism is arranged to produce a number of duplicate tickets from a single strip at each operation, each check being severed from the strip after each impression, or series of impressions relating to a single check, and means being provided for moving the checks to different destinations. As shown, the mechanism is combined with a machine of the kind described in Specifications 9381/14 and 13,269/14, comprising types 22, set by index slides 23, for printing the amount and character of a transaction and the customer's or ledger number. The mechanism prints two checks at each operation, one being delivered to a box in the machine, and the other to the outside of the machine ; the box may be supported by a plate 52 and be constructed as described in Specification 741/15. The printing- members comprise a roller 4 for printing the name of the firm &c., tLe types 22, and numbering and dating wheels 20 mounted in a rocking frame 33. The dating-wheels are set by knobs, and the numbering-wbeelsare set automatically by an arm 106 engaging a cam-operated lever. The roller 4 is inked by a roller 10, and the wheels 20 and the types 22 are inked by a ribbon 18 carried by spools 100, which are operated by ratchet mechanism. The ribbon may be bicoloured to cause the amount &c. to be printed in a different colour from the date and consecutive number. The strip passes round a rocking platen 19 arranged between the types 22 and the wheels 20, the rocking frame 33 carrying the wheels being provided with arms 63, 66 engaging cams 61, 64 on a shaft 60 driven by a crank. The cams 61, 64 serve respectively to lift and return the frame 33. When the frame is lifted, the strip is printed on simultaneously by the types 22 and the wheels 20, the frame lifting the wheels 20 against the platen, and the wheels lifting the platen against the types 22. A knife 45 working across a slot 44 is pivoted at 69<1> and is connected by a link 76 to a cam-operated lever. The strip passes between the roller 4 and an impression roll r 5, which are geared to the cam shaft 60. The roller 4 is mounted in eccentric bearings and can be depressed by rotating a knob. The strip passes fr om the platen 19 under a roller 40 and thence through the slot 44. The roller 40 is carried by a spring-pressed lever 41, which can be lifted to arrest the feed. An autograph table 39 may be provided. The device for delivering the checks comprises a frame 46 provided with a table 54 and two sets 47, 48 of fingers, and a frame 49 provided with fingers 50. The table 54 is secured to side plates 81, 82 formed with slots 83, 84, each having a vertical part and inclined part, engaging fixed studs 85, 86. The fingers 50 are secured to side plates 88, 89 formed with inclined slots 90, 91 engaging the studs 85, 86, and with a vertical slot 92 engaging a pin 93 on the plate 81. A cam-operated lever engag s a pin 80 on the plate 81. In operation, the first check is fed on to the fingers 50 and cut off, and the fingers 48 then push the check off the fingers into the box. The movement brings the fingers 47 opposite the slot 44, and the second check is then fed forward and cut off, the frame 46 then rising to bring the check outside the machine casing. Owing to the abovedescribed arrangement of the slots, the frame moves vertically without moving the frame 49, until the inclined parts of the slots 83, 84 reach the studs 85, 86. The frame 46 then descends at an angle and permits the fingers 47 to clear the knife, and the pin 93 causes the frame 49 also to descend at an angle. The fingers 50 may be provided with side guides 95 for the strip. A roller 56 carried by a light arm 55 is provided to prevent the check from being blown off the table 51.