Patent GB-455006-A (GB)
IPC: G07B1/02
Abstract: 455,006. Ticket printing and issuing machines. HANDLEY, J., and SUCKLING, C., 22, Sandringham Road, and SUCKLING, R. H., 19, Heather Gardens, both in Golders Green, London. Jan. 9, 1935, No. 17269/36. Divided out of 454,920. [Classes 106 (i) and 106 (iii)] In a ticket printing and issuing machine for use with a totalizator, in which the runner type is selected by depressing a selected plunger key on a rotatable dial and by rotating the dial by means of the depressed plunger key, the printing, issuing and severing of the tickets are effected by the forward and return movement of an operating lever 1. The dial settings may be cancelled by the lever 1 which is controlled by a full-stroke device and may be operable in either of two gates to effect the necessary changes for the printing and ticket counting for " win " or '' place " betting. On its forward movement, the lever 1 effects the printing, and on its return movement it effects successively the strip-feeding and cutting-off operations. The lever 1 is pivoted on a main shaft 2 and engages alternately with each of two stops 3, 3<a> on a swinging rack 4, which by means of a pawl 5 engaging teeth 9 on the rack cannot be moved back until it has completed its forward stroke and the pawl 5 has been rocked by a projection 6 on the rack, and a spring- loaded plunger 7 is engaging the other side of an abutment 8 movable with the pawl 5. On the complete return movement of the lever and rack, which is effected by a spring, a projection 10 on the rack restores the parts 5, 8. The rack 4 is secured on the main shaft 2 together with a bracket 11 which forks at 13 over one of two pivoted paper-feed arms 12, a spring- leaded plunger 14 allowing the fork 13 to continue its travel to actuate the cutting-off trip device after the paper strip p has come to rest. The feed arms 12 carry rollers 16, 17 adapted to grip the paper strip p, the roller 16 being eccentrically journalled and urged in a gripping direction by a spring 18, as described in Specification 454,920. The roller 16 may be rotated in a releasing direction by a pin 19. Similar retaining rollers 20, 21 are provided at the lower end of the guide 15. After the feeding of the strip the final return movement of the lever 1 causes a link 24 to engage a roller 31 on a detent 27 and release a spring-urged arm 23 which actuates the blade 22 to cut-off the printed ticket. Printing is effected by a carbon ribbon adapted to be squeezed between type and a platen 33 by a cam 34, which is rotated through ninety degrees on each forward stroke of the lever 1. Dials 53, 54 actuate gear sectors 51, 52 to rotate type wheels to the required printing positions as determined by the depression of selected plungers 55. The plunger spindles 56 engage with trip plates 57 and release a plunger 59 which is lifted by a pin 60<a> on a spring-urged control lever 61 (operated by the lever .1) and locks both dials 53, 54 by engaging slots 63 therein. At the same time a plunger 66 is permitted to move out of the path of the rack 4. Until the rack is restored to its normal position, it is impossible to release the dials 53, 54 because the plunger 59 cannot be depressed until the plunger 66 is freed. When a test ticket is required, the lever 1 is operated with the dials at zero, and the contactor unit is not affected to actuate either the ticket counter or the aggregators. For the purpose of transmitting counting impulses to aggregating machines, there is provided a contactor unit which is actuated from the control lever 61 as described in Specification 455,133. A cam 84 on the spindle 72 of the contactor unit lifts an arm 85 to actuate a ticket counter, the arm 85 at the same time allowing a pawl 87 to lift to arrest the rack 4 and prevent the lever 1 from returning until the contactor unit has completed its cycle. A locking solenoid 93 when energized locks the control lever 61 to obstruct the plunger 59 so that the machine cannot be set up. A locking bar 96 is at the same time withdrawn from the teeth of a rear number control knob 97 for a type roller 98, the bar being restored when the correct pair of contacts 99 are made. A " win " and " place " machine is described having only one type wheel actuated by a gear sector which is rotated from an outer dial for printing a " win " ticket and from an inner dial for printing a " place " ticket, a cam-operated fork spindle serving to lock the idle dial and to thrust forward the " win " or the " place " type block, and also to guide selectively the ticket counter push rods.