Patent GB-276091-A (GB)
Abstract: 276,091. Marks, E. C. R., (Ohmer Fare Register Co.). May 28, 1926. Recording and registering receipts. - A machine for indicating, recording and registering fares or admission fees is described as applied to the checking of fares and for this purpose is provided with drum indicators for showing the number of passengers during a particular journey, the amount of the fare received, the number of the zone and the direction of travel. These details are also recorded upon a strip and totals may, whenever desired, be printed upon another strip by manipulation of an inserted operating-key. General construction and arrangement. The indicating, recording and registering mechanisms are contained in a cabinet 1, Fig. 1, supported on a pedestal 2 to which it is hinged at 4 and normally locked by a catch 6 and key lock 9. The amount of the item is set up by the manual displacement of levers 23 along numbered slots and is indicated at the window 13, Fig. 2, in the front of the cabinet. Unity is added to the passenger number drums at 12 by connection with the main operating means and the number of the zone in question is displayed at 14 by one or more depressions of a finger lever 194. The direction of travel is indicated at 15 by automatic means. The registration and printing are performed by depression of a treadle 109 which through a lever 107 and a vertically-guided rack-bar 104 effects the necessary driving-movements. The operation of the mchine is signalled by a bell and various interlocks and other devices are provided to ensure correct and complete use of the machine. Passenger-number and item-amount indicators. The setting-movements of the levers 23 are transmitted by nested sleeves and spur pinions to four drums 16 - - 19, Fig. 2, of which the first indicates receipts other than cash and the others show units, tens and hundreds of cents. The consecutive number of the receipt is displayed by the drums 163 the lowest of which is driven by pawl and ratchet 167, 165, Fig. 8, and a slotted link 170 actuated by a pin 172 on the operating rackbar 104. The hammer 176 of the bell 175 is also cocked and released by this link 170 through a pin 183 and a trip-dog 180. A flash 158 for the drums 163 is secured to the actuating-pawl frame so as to obscure the indication during change. The flash 153 for the item-indicating drums 16 - - 19 is urged to obscuring position by a spring 155, Fig. 12, but is normally held down to allow the item to be seen by means of a latch arm 156 secured to a shaft 137 rocked by the displacement of any of the setting levers 23. Thus when a setting is made the flash is released to cover the drums and is subsequently disabled by the flash 158 which in its movement to covering position lowers a plunger to depress the flash 153 until this is held again by the latch-arm. An interlock between the zeroizing-shaft 164 of the passengernumber counter and the operating-bar 104 of the machine is provided and consists of a notched disc on the shaft and a pitman pointed at one end to co-operate with the notch and attached at its other end to a pivoted stop adapted to be swung into the path of a pin on the bar. Zone and direction indicators. The drums 184, for showing the number of the zone are turned by manual depression of the finger-lever 194, Fig. 12, acting through a shaft 185 and frame 188 carrying oppositely-directed pawls 189, 190 engaging a ratchet-wheel 187 on the first drum. The direction of rotation of the drum is determined by a cam 193 rotatable_to throw one pawl out of action and permit the other to function. The cam is shifted by a pin-and-slot connection at 196 with an arm 197 linked to a crank-pin 202 on a wheel geared with the resetting-shaft 164 of the passenger number drums. These are intended to be zeroized at the end of the journey and the necessary manual rotation of the shaft for this purpose therefore changes the pawl in operative engagement. A second pin 207 on the arm 197 also serves to rock the partial drum 204 to display the direction symbol " in " or " out." To prevent simultaneous operation of the shafts 164, 185 a pitman connected with shaft 185 has a nose co-operating with a radial slot in a ratchet wheel fixed to shaft 164. Main operating-mechanism. The upward travel of the rack-bar 104 is transmitted by a ratchet and pawl 112, Fig. 21, to the main shaft 73. To prevent overthrow of this shaft a spring-controlled pawl 114 co-operates with a disc 111 fixed to the shaft, this disc having a notch into which the pawl enters at the end of the stroke. The pawl is controlled by a lip 119 on a bar 120 depending fiom a lever 125 pivoted at 124 and provided with a pin 126 coacting with a notch in the bar 104. At the beginning of the stroke therefore, the lever 125 is displaced counterclockwise to lift the pawl and free the main shaft. Towards the end of the stroke, however, a pin 132 on the bar rocks an arm 129 the end of which thereupon forces the bar 120 to the right to release the pawl in readiness to perform its overthrow-preventing function. To ensure performance of a full-stroke a ratchet-wheel 133, Fig. 22, on the main shaft cooperates with a pawl 135 pivotally carried by a spring-controlled lever 136. An interlock between the operating-bar 104 and the fare-setting levers is provided and comprises a bail 140, Fig. 10, carried by arms on shaft 137 and spring-urged against spring-controlled arms 138 the ends of which engage spur pinions 42 forming part of the gear trains between the setting-levers and the indicating-drums 16 - - 19. One of the arms 142 forming the bail takes under a shoulder 145, Fig. 21, of a latch 148 so that whenever a tooth on a pinion 42 rides under an arm 138 the latch is rocked to the left to seize a pin 149 on the bar 104 and so to prevent its rise. Printing-mechanism for items. The various indicator elements other than the passenger-number indicator drums are geared with type-wheels 50, Fig. 8, supported on a shaft 49 and other type are also provided for recording the date, the machine number, the consecutive number of the entry, and the operator's number, this last type being carried on a key 234 which must be in position in the machine in order to release the main shaft. The consecutive number type wheels are advanced by connection with a ratchet-wheel 228, Fig. 21, stepped by a pawl 229 on the arm 129 rocked by the pins 131, 132 on the operating-bar 104. The record-strip to receive the item imprints is wound from a roll 78 to a roller 82 passing over a platen 67. Line-spacing is effected by a ratchet pawl 85 reciprocated by lost-motion mechanism including a pin 88 on an arm 63 supporting the platen and rocked by a link 71, Fig. 7, from the main shaft 73. The length of the feed by the pawl is controlled automatically in accordance with the size of the roll of paper by a stoparm 91 rigid with an arm 94 bearing on the roll. The platen 67 and the inking-roller 74 are carried by arms 63, the roller 74 being supported by spring-controlled arms pivoted on the platen shaft 65. The platen has a gear 69 meshing with a stationary rack 70 so that when the platen frame is swung to the right, Fig. 8, by the pitman 71, Fig 7, the platen itself rotates to impress the type radially. The record-strip and the impression mechanism are mounted in a frame 60 pivoted at 61 and normally held up by arms 98 notched to embrace pins 101 and extended at 103 for manipulation to release the frame. Operator's key. The main shaft 73 is locked unless the key is in place by means of a lever 230, Fig. 7, having a nose to enter a notch 232. The other end of the lever is bifurcated to receive the shank of the insertible key 234, Fig. 7<a>, which has a notch 236 and a lug 235 to rock the lever out of effective position and retain the key in place. Registering and printing totals. Mechanism described in Specification 266,954 and shown to the left in Fig. 9, is provided for actuating totalizer type-wheels 247 by an amount corresponding with the setting of the levers 23. To take a total from these wheels a key is inserted through the casing and turned so as to rotate a shaft 322 and therebv through a cam 321 raise the platen 318 against the type. An ink-pad is contained in an inktrough 324, Fig. 19, resiliently supported by end plates 326 pivotally mounted on pins 329 and guided by pins and slots 332. As the shaft 322 is rotated a cam disc 334 causes the plates to turn and slide to press the pad against the type, and after the cam elements have passed, the plates are restored to normal position by springs 333. The record is made on a strip drawn from a roll 341 by feed rollers 342 driven from the shaft 322. Corductor's register, adapted for use as. Instead of setting the machine bv the use of the hand-levers 23, two cords or rods extending along the car may be arranged so as to rotate respectively the paper-receipt drum 16 and the tens drum. By imparting complete rotations to the drum 16, the fare units drum 17 may be set the medium of a transfer-mechanism ; the hundreds drum 19 receives its movements from the tens drum through another transfer-mechanism.