Patent GB-142925-A (GB)
Abstract: 142,925. Julius, G. A., and Wilkinson, F. A. Feb. 12, 1919. Index type-wheel machines with printing-surfaces for tickets; roller inking-arrangements.-In motor-operated apparatus for printing, severing, and issuing tickets of various denomina. tions, a selecting-handle 15 is set by the operator according to the denomination required and then depressed to start the printing &c. mechanism. If the handle is released, one ticket only is issued, but, if it is kept depressed, tickets of the particular denomination will continue to be issued. Counters for the various denominations and for the total tickets issued and an indicator to show the number issued during anyone operation are provided. The handle 15 is pivoted at 16 on a turret 52 carrying the various counters and also an indicating dial 53 moved one step during each cycle of operations. The depression of the handle 15 into engagement with one of a number of apertures 11 raises a spring bolt 48 from locking engagement with a slide 38. This slide being thus released allows a constantly rotating shaft 25 to move endways and rotate a clutch member 42 which conveys rotation to a secondarv shaft 56. Towards the end of a revolution of this shaft 56, a cam projection 57a restores the slide 38 to normal position, so that if the handle 15 has meanwhile been released, the slide is locked and the clutch kept disengaged. Otherwise, if the handle is kept depressed, the rotation of the shaft 56 continues and another ticket is issued, and so on. The ticket strip 133 passes upwards through two pairs of printing and impression rollers adapted to print standard and variable matter on opposite sides of the strip and positively rotated from shaft 56. The denomination printing-rolls 108, with their inking-rolls 110, are mounted on a sliding carriage 114 which is movable across the face of the strip to bring the required roll into position by means of linkage and an arm 119 secured to the handle turret 52. The impression roller 104 for co-operation with the rolls 108 has a flattened portion to allow passage of the gear wheels 112 attached to each of the rolls and engageable with a gear-wheel 86 on the spindle of the roller 104 driven from the shaft 56. When the ticket has been printed with its denomination, a guillotine 98 is reciprocated by a cam and severs the ticket which is meanwhile engaged between the serrated edges of an ejecting device 131 and a co-operating pressure roll. This device 131 is connected with its shaft 89 by a spiral spring which is wound up during the printing operation. Owing to a detent, however, the device cannot rotate until this operation is complete, but when the detent is pushed aside by a cam 139 on the shaft 89, the spring acts to rotate the ejector, thus forcing the ticket rapidly upwards to a pair of constantly rotating feeding rollers 147, 148 which thrust it forward to an issuing mouth 21. The indicating- dial 53 is controlled by a spiral spring, and at each cycle of operations is advanced one step by a pawl 77 carried by a lever 61 pivoted at 62 and actuated by a rod 60 and crank pin connexion with one of the standard printing rollers. The end 64 of the lever 61 registers with one of a series of hooks 66 connected with the various denomination counters, and a link 153 also actuates a grand total counter 152 once in each cycle, that is for every ticket issued. The whole of the mechanism is supported on or from the desk top 20. mounted on pivoted arms 28, and a portion of the front wall of the desk is hinged so that it can be turned down out of the way to allow the top 20 to be swung out for access to the mechanism. The operative parts of the apparatus may be locked by positioning the arm 15 above a recessed spring- controlled plunger 83 and turning a barrel lock 82, whereupon a lever 81 is caused to release the plunger and then to engage it again when the plunger is in its highest position, thus keeping the arm raised and fixed.