Patent GB-233187-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cheque endorsing machines
IPC: B41K3/14
Filed: 1924-06-24
Abstract: 233,187. Imray, O. Y., (International Postal Supply Co.). June 24, 1924. Rotary machines.-In a machine for endorsing cheques &c. of the kind comprising a stationary cheque-feeding table with a feed-roller projecting through it and printing-mechanism mounted in a housing and including another feed-roller, inking and printing rollers, and a motor operating gearing for driving the rollers, the housing is pivotally mounted on the frame of the machine so that the printing-mechanism is movable with it as a unit into and out of relation with the stationary feed table and feed roller. The printing-roller is angularly adjustable and driven frictionally. The feed-table 7, Fig. 2, has a sloping portion 9 and a lower portion 8, through openings in which project a feed roller 11 mounted on a shaft 12 and an impression roller 13 supported by curved arms 14 projecting from arms 15 pivoted on a rod 16. Springs 17 maintain the roller 13 in elevated position. The printing-roller 36 and the upper feedroller 26 are mounted in the forward part of a housing 24 pivotally mounted on a rod 20 secured to rear standards 18. A cover 21 for the housing is also pivotally mounted on the rod 20. The shaft 27 of the feed-roller 26 carries a worm gear 28 engaged by a worm 29 on an inclined shaft 30 driven from the shaft 34 of the motor 35 bv a worm gear 33 and worm 32. An intermediate worm 45 on the inclined shaft 30 drives the printing-roller 36 frictionally as follows. The worm 45 meshes with a worm gear 44, Fig. 3, loosely mounted on a shaft 43 extending from a member 39 having a socket 38 in which is supported one end of the shaft 37 of the printing-roller. A pin 43 projecting from one end of the printing-roller engages a hole in a disc 40 on the member 39, a series of such holes being provided in the disc 40 for circumferential adjustment of the printing- roller. The shaft 43 has a threaded bore to receive a pressure screw 52 acting on a spring 53 engaging a stud 50 on a cross-pin 49, the ends of which are received in openings in a sleeve. 46 provided with a flange 47. Friction discs 54, 55 are interposed between the worm gear 44 and the adjacent flanges so that, by adjusting the axial screw 52, the drive of the gear 44 may be transmitted to the printing-roller. The endorsed cheques fall into the space under the base plate 25 of the housing and may be readily removed by swinging the housing up into the dotted line position. Tripping-arrangements. - Trip mechanism, actuated by the cheques and similar to that described in Specification 215,149, may be provided to prevent actuation of the printing-roller except when a cheque passes through the machine. This comprises a device 56, Fig. 2, including a pivotallv mounted trip member coacting with a stop roller 57 mounted on the plate 40, Fig. 3, to normally overcome the driving friction between the disc 55 and the member 39. Inking-apparatus.-The inking-roller 58, Fig. 2, is mounted in a U-shaped member provided with guides fitting on standards 61. and rests by gravity on the printing-roller. The ink receptacle 66 is pivoted on the shaft 64 of the helical ink supply 65 and is weighted to maintain it always in upright position.