Patent GB-190402482-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Combined Cash Registers, Ticket Registers and Bell Ticket Punches
Inventor: WHITING PAUL
Filed: 1904-02-01
Granted: 1904-03-17
Abstract: 2482. Whiting, P. Feb. 1. Ticket punches; receipts, checking and recording; counting-apparatus.- Modifications are provided in the combined cash registers and bell ticket punches described in Specifications No. 6929, A.D. 1902, and No. 14,467, A.D. 1903, whereby the total number of sales or tickets issued is registered, and likewise their total value. The rear view, Fig. 3, and transverse section, Fig. 4, show a casing 1 with a slot 2 along the face in which a ticket is placed for punching by the punch 9, 10 of proper value, the operation being registered on the count- ing-wheels 22, 23, 24, 25 and the value added on the train 28, 29, 30. A cover 7 slides in grooves so as to close the back and one side of the casing, in which position it may be locked, and behind it is a plate 81 which is either transparent or is provided with apertures through which the indications of the two trains can be seen. The punches, when depressed against springs 17, are guided by bushings 21 and recesses in a fixed plate 13, the motion being limited by the heads 10 and by collars 18 which carry pins 35 engaging grooves 34 of the locking-plate 32, Fig. 11, and moving it horizontally to the right, thereby locking all punches but the one struck. The return of this plate is effected by the pin 35 and the spring 52, and it is provided with a double rack-and-pawl arrangement 40, 41, 42, 43 which co-operates with pins 50, 51 on the plate and a spring detent 46 to ensure that the punch must be given full stroke before it can return, and must fully return before it can be again depressed. The unit counting- wheel 22 is actuated by a spring pawl 36 on the plate provided with a heel 39 to prevent over- running, and, as it turns, the pawl-lever 57 oscillates about its pivot 58 and causes the hammer 56 to strike the bell 65, a spring 61 and guide-frame 60 controlling the motion. The punches carry pins 69 at heights depending on their value, and these, upon depression, strike arms 68 keyed to the shaft 64 and swing them downwards to rotate the ratchet-wheel 65 and bevel-wheel 63 by means of the pawl 66. A spring on the shaft returns the arms 68 until the stop 70 engages with a pin upon one of them. The motion is communicated by a second bevel. wheel 62 to the half-pence wheel 28 of the value train, which is prevented from over- running by an arm 74 upon the locking-plate, engaging the teeth of the bevel-wheel 63 at the end of the stroke of the punch. The units wheels of the trains have spring detents 82, 83, and drive by long teeth 78, the higher wheels being locked by spring-pivoted pieces 75, Fig. 12, pins 76 on which engage in holes 77 until, at the moment of transferring, a cam surface 79 upon the lower wheel forces back the projection 80, and unlocks the higher wheel, the operation being performed by hand when re-setting. If the units wheel is required to register pence, a second long tooth is added at the opposite end of a diameter. Ticket clippings fall into the space 5, and the whole apparatus may be placed in a holder and suspended from the neck. A key may be inserted to push the locking-plate from its normal position and thus render the apparatus inoperative.