Patent GB-191103156-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with Apparatus for Issuing or Delivering Tickets and other Articles.
Inventor: SOULAGE GEORGES ISIDORE FERDIN
Filed: 1911-02-07
Granted: 1911-09-21
Abstract: 3156. Soulage, G. I. F. Feb. 7. Counting - apparatus with variable-step movement.-In an apparatus for delivering tickets &c. and registering their values, the totalizer is electrically actuated under the control of the ticket - withdrawing slides. The totalizer drums g, Fig. 9, are mounted in a frame 40 pivoted at 41 and operated by an electro-magnet d when a ticket-slide is withdrawn so as to throw pinions g<1> on the drums into mesh with actuating-racks h. The drums are held when out of gear by a comb 67, which is automatically disengaged when the drums are lowered into gear. The frame also carries a contact-arm for closing a circuit including a main operating electro-magnet j. The racks are moved in the direction of the arrow x by a sliding carriage i until arrested by differential stops k<1> raised by the energization of electro-magnets k, which are automatically thrown into circuit according to the value of the ticket-slide withdrawn. The carriage is connected with and reciprocated by a core common to a pair of operating electromagnets j, j<1>, and is provided with projections 47 adapted to engage rollers carried by the racks. When a rack is arrested, the carriage continues its movement and forces the roller 48 upwards in a shaped aperture 49 in the rack until the roller rests in a toothed space within a fixed rack 54, the carriage then moving further without affecting the rack. At the end of its travel the carriage throws over a switch 77, and, its movement being now reversed, resets the actuating-rack, the rollers 48 taking up their normal positions under the influence of springs Transfer mechanism.-The racks are provided with two stops 58, 59, of which one, 59, is fixed thereto and the other, 58, is pivotally mounted so that it can be turned to avoid a differential stop k<1> and therefore allow additional travel of the rack. At transfer, an arm 61 on a drum g operates a transfer lever 63, which thereupon depresses a strip 60 which carries, and thus displaces, the movable stop 58. The transfer lever and movable stop are temporarily held in the transfer position by a pawl lever 68, which releases them when the frame 40, carrying the drums g, again rises. The necessary additional movement of each rack is made possible by the shape of the aperture 49 and is effected by a spring 53 which is under slight tension during actuation. Transfer to drums not actuated by stoparrested racks is effected by a rack h<c>, Fig. 18, which is under the influence of a spring p, but is restrained by a roller q bearing against a step r on a projection p'. When transfer occurs, the lever 63 carrying the roller q is depressed and the rack moves forward until arrested by a second step r<1> engaging the roller. Zeroizing-mechanism.-The slotted spindle 39, Fig. 9, when turned picks up pawls 92 pivoted on the drums, which are thereupon returned to zero. The spindle is turned by a rack 93, which may be operated by attachment to the core of an electro-magnet n, and when zeroizing takes place the comb 67 holding the drums is disengaged by a stop 98 and is then held by a pawl 101. Upon the return of the rack 93, a stop 102 thereon meets the pawl 101 and disengages the comb, which thereupon resumes its detent function.