Patent GB-351981-A (GB)
Abstract: 351,981. Totalizators. SOC. ANON. DU TOTALISATEUR SIMPLEX INT•GRAL, 29, Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris. March 21, 1930, No. 9141. Convention date, March 25, 1929. [Class 106 (i).] In a ticket printing and issuing machine for use in a totalizator system, the printing platen is biased towards its operative position and the means serving to release the platen simultaneously enable a circuit to the registering mechanism to be completed and a cycle of movement of mechanism to be commenced during which cycle the circuit to the registering apparatus is interrupted. Setting of the lever 1, Fig. 2, actuates through a sector 2 and gearing 3, 4, the square shaft 5 to bring the appropriate type, " win," " place " or "trial," beneath the platen 46, and positions the two-pole, three-way switch AA<1>, BB<1>, CC<1>, Figs. 2 and 5, through levers 7, 8, 11 actuated by a pin 6 fixed to an arm of the sector 2, to the corresponding grand total counter magnet A<2>, win, B2, place, or C<2>, trial. The levers 12, 23 are set respectively to the " tens " and " units " digits of the runner number and position through gearing 13, 14 and hollow shaft 15; 24, 25, and shaft 26 to the corresponding type-wheels 16, 27. At the same time the shafts 19, 30, geared to the sectors 13, 24 respectively, advance their wipers 20, 21, 31, 32, Fig. 2, to the stud selector contacts a, a<1> .., b, b<1>, .. of the appropriate individual counter magnet c, c<1>, .. c<38>, c<39> (win), or f, f<1> . . (place). The race number type is set by rotating a disc 108, Fig. 1, to the appropriate number. The lever 34, Fig. 3, is now depressed, rocks through the shafts 35, 37, the lever 38 to close contacts 96, 97, and releases the bell-crank lever 42 which under the action of a spring 44 forces the platen 46 down on a paper strip 81, fed from a roll 82, Fig. 1. The closure of contacts 96, 97 momentarily energizes the switch AA<1>, BB<1>, CC<1> to operate the individual horse and the grand total counter. The magnet 101 is also energized ; its armature 102 is attracted and is held by the upper notch in the lever 103 which maintains closed the circuit of the magnetic clutch 114, 115, 116 at contacts 99, 100. The armature 116 is fixed to the shaft 66 which is now rotated for one revolution. Keyed to the shaft 66 is a cam 70, Fig. 3, which immediately lifts the platen 46 sufficiently for the ticket strip 81 to move; and a lever 71 which by means of two pins 88 and a star wheel 85 rotates the shaft 93 through two quarters of a revolution. The circuit to the registering apparatus A .. c<1> is now broken at the commutator 91 and the circuit to the magnetic clutch is made over the commutator 86 whereupon the cam 98 resets the lever 103 and armature 102. Subsequently an arm 68, Fig. 4, also fixed to shaft 66, co-operates with the star wheel 72 to drive the rollers 76, 79 which now advance the ticket through the ticket-ejecting aperture in the plate 51, Fig. 2. The severing knife 50, which is secured to the platen 46 by studs 49, normally covers the aperture. When the platen 46 prints the ticket the aperture is uncovered and after the ticket is ejected it is severed by the cam 70 lifting the knife 50 to its highest position when the aperture is again closed. Simultaneously, the second of the pins 88 commences the second quarter revolution of the shaft 93 at the end of which the magnetic clutch is de-energized at the contact sector 86 when the apparatus is at normal. The inking ribbon 61 is wound step by step between two reels 56, 58. When the lever 34 is depressed a pawl 55, Fig. 3, actuated through levers 53, 54 advances the reel 56. When the reel 56 is full the strip wound thereon will eventually contact with a roller 62 when the lever 59 will be tilted and the ratchet 57 become operative to wind the inking strip back on the reel 58. The arm 38 maintains the contacts 96, 97 closed until severing of a ticket when the lever 42 is again held in a raised position by the end 39 of lever 38. The regisration of the tickets issued may be observed on a mechanical counter through apertures 109, 110, 111. The generator D is connected to several ticketissuing machines through a rotating switch 119. Specifications 308,707, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.], is referred to.