Patent GB-185770-A (GB)
Abstract: 185,770. Ellis, R. E., (Johnson Fare Box Co.). May 7, 1921. Tickets, issuing; registering number and value of; printing - arrangements.- A ticket stamp for zone fare systems has means for printing on manually-inserted blank tickets the entry and destination zones and the computed fare amount, which is also registered on a counter, this information being displayed to the passenger by means of index-wheels. A development view of the apparatus is shown in Fig. 21. Setting. A shaft 5, movable longitudinally in sleeves 6, 7, is turned in the outer position by a handle 3 to set the " on " zone index-wheels 34 by the engagement of a gear 13 with a Geneva gear 21 on a shaft 20 in mesh with a gear 38, also moving the " off " zone index-wheels 33 to the same position through a gear 15 on the shaft 5, integral gears 23, 27 on the shaft 20 and a gear 39. The shaft 5 is then moved to the inner position to lock the " on " zone wheels by the engagement of a cylinder 14 thereon with the Geneva gear 21. A second longitudinally movable shaft 53, when turned in the outer position by a handle 4, drives the fare index-wheels 32 through gears 57, 58, 59, and the " off " zone wheels through a Geneva gear 29 on the shaft 20, gears 17, 16 on the shaft 5, and gears 26, 27 on the shaft 20, so that the fare amount is set from the joint settings of the " on " and " off " zones. The face wheels are locked during the first setting operation by the engagement of a cylinder 18 on the shaft 5 with the Geneva gear 29. During the " in " trip of the vehicle, the " off " zone wheels may be rotated in the reverse direction through the intermediary of a gear 47 on a shaft 43 which also carries Geneva transfer wheels for the indexwheels. Registration. Loose on the operating-shaft 53, Fig. 9, are a sleeve GO carrying the gear 57 and a sleeve 63 integral with a gear 64 having internal and external teeth, both prevented from longitudinal movement by a bracket 61, whereby the shaft in the outer position drives the gear 57 through a clutch block 65, and is then moved tc the inner position, bringing a pin 69 on the block into selective engagement with the internal teeth of the gear 64, which conveys the fare amount to the registering mechanism upon rotation of the shaft. The rotation of the gear 64 ceases upon the contact of a pin 68, Fig. 15, on the clutch block with a cam 122 on a shaft 93 causing the withdrawal of the pin 69, and the locking of the gear by a pawl 124. Each of the, wheels 57,. 64, is locked when the other is being driven by a frame 71 moved by the shaft 53. Printing. The impression-wheels 100, 101, 102 are set from the corresponding index-wheels through gearing on the shafts 93, 109, while a wheel 115 for printing additional matter is set from a manually-operated gear 255 through either of two trains of gears on the same shafts. Prevention of the registering and printing operations except when a ticket 77, Fig. 9, is in position in a recess 78 is secured by a sliding carriage 81 connected to the frame 71 having pawls 85, 86 passing through slots in the lower wall 80 of the recess, and in the absence of a ticket, locking the carriage and frame by engagment in slots 89, 90 in the upper wall 79. The contact of the cam 122, Fig. 15, on the shaft 93 with the pin 68 at the end of the registering operation brings a toothed segment 92 connected to the cam by a link 126 into engagement with a gear 91 on the operating shaft 53, and continued rotation of that shaft swings the impression-wheel shaft 109, which is supported by arms 110, 111 pivoted on the shaft 93, by means of a fork 128 on the lower part of the segment 92 spanning the shaft. At the same time, the toothed lower end of the arm 110, Fig. 18, engages a pinion 112 on the impression-roll shaft 113 turning the impressionroll 114 to effect printing. The impression-roll may alternatively be turned by a cam on the arm 110. Return of the parts is effected by reverse rotation of the operating shaft 53.