Patent GB-191127797-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Printing, Registering and Issuing Tickets, Cards of Admission and the like.
Inventor: MEYER PETER
Filed: 1911-12-11
Granted: 1912-05-23
Abstract: 27,797. Meyer, P. Jan. 4, [Convention date]. Tickets, issuing and cutting-off; registering number and value; printing - arrangements.- The printing-members are mounted in a drum 24 which is rotated for impression and is geared to a drum 54 containing totalizers for the number and value of the tickets issued, the totalizers being operated during the rotation of the drums. The printing - members comprise a series of disks 17<a> ... 17<f>, Fig. 8, for printing variable matter such as the fare, direction, starting-place, destination, and the hour and quarter of issue. The disks are connected by gearing 25, 26 to a series of telescopic shafts 27 having index-setting knobs 4 arranged at one or both sides of the machine. The printing-members also comprise consecutive-number printing- disks 18<a>, dating-disks 18<b>, and a printing-plate for fixed matter, these members being arranged to print their matter on the ticket following the one being issued. The disks 18<a> are actuated in the known manner by a pin engaging an eccentric groove in the crank. The dating-disks 18<b> are accessible through a door 14 and are set by hand. The drums are rotated by a crank which is arrested in the initial position by a spring-stud arranged to be released by pushing in the crank-handle. The printing-disks are alined by pawls 30, 31, Fig. 9, adapted to be locked by an arm 35 secured to a rock-shaft 34. The arm is provided with pins 36 which initially rest in the parts x of cam-grooves 37, Fig. 4, formed in the side-walls of the casing. A ticket-web 7 is accessible through a door 6, which is closed by spring-bolts 10 carried by knobs 11, the web being led over the top of the drum 24 and out through an opening 13 provided with a serrated cutting-edge 16. The printing-members are inked by a roller 9 which is accessible through a door 8 at the back. The rotating drum 54 carries a counter I for the total value of the tickets issued, a counter II for the number of tickets issued and a series of separate counters 44 ... 49 for the values of the tickets issued at each price. The counter I is actuated through a rack-pawl 41 which co-operates with one of a series of graded steps 5 ... 30, on a disk 38 secured to the shaft 27 of the fare-printing wheel. When a fare is set the corresponding step comes to the point a, the disk being shown set for a fare of 20 pfennige. When the crank is turned, the counter I and the selected step come simultaneously into engagement with a pawl 41, the counter being thereby moved forward an amount corresponding to the length of the step. The steps in front of and behind the selected step wipe idly over the pawl and do not affect the counter as this is in engagement with the pawl only during the passage thereover of the selected step. The counters 44 ... 49 are actuated through a pawl (not shown), by a projection 39, which is secured to the disk 38, the projection taking up a different angular position corresponding to the fare, and the parts being arranged so that the rotation of the drums 24, 54 brings the projection and the proper counter simultaneously into engagement with the pawl. The counter II is actuated through a pawl (not shown), by a projection 40 on the drum 24. The pawls are tensioned upwards by springs 51. The totalizers in the drum 54 may be read through an opening by rotating the drum by means of the crank or by a key arranged as usual to uncouple the gear-wheel of the drum.