Patent GB-368403-A (GB)
Abstract: 368,403. Ticketissuing machines. FISHBURN, J. E., The Island, Uxbridge, and WEBB, C. F., 33, Kenton Park Avenue, Kenton Park, both in Middlesex. Dec. 10, 1930, No. 37273. [Class 106 (iii).] A ticket-issuing machine having selective means to issue a predetermined number of tickets has the throw of the directly manipulated operating means limited by the selecting means. To set the machine for the number of tickets required, the appropriate key lever 62 .. 65 is depressed thereby positioning a lug 68 on the key lever under the edge of the bar 69. The handle 35 is then depressed until a stop 40 contacts with the appropriate notch 41 .. 44, determined by the position of the lever 45, pivoted at 46, which is fixed by the bar 61 contacting with the end of the depressed key lever. Depression of the handle 35 causes the notched member 28 to be removed from engagement with the pins 27 on the feed wheel 25 prevented from anticlockwise motion by the pawl 39, the notched member 32 to be dragged over the pins 27, and the roller 47 on the bar 29 to rotate the cam plate 48 and the bar 49 to which it is attached to move the notched bar 55 into locking engagement with the bar 57 and to slide the knife 52, held by a spring 53 on the platform 18 through a slot in which and the knife 52 one end of the bar 49 extends, away from the slot 17 for the ticket strip 10. On allowing the handle 35 to rise under the action of the spring 31 the following operations take place : (a) the notched member 32 engaging with the pins 27 rotates the feed wheel 25 the pins 24 on which engage in holes in the ticket strip by passing through a slot in the guideplate 16, with which the ticket strip is maintained in contact by an outer guide 19 and catch 21, to feed the required length of ticket strip through the slot 17, (b) the counter 76 is actuated through gearing 77, 75, the movement of the gearing 75 moving the foot 74 to rotate the bar 69 and release the lug 68 to allow the depressed key to return to its normal position under the action of a blade spring 67, and (c) the roller 47 is moved clear of the cam plate 48 and the nose 59 on the member 28 strikes the extension 58 of the bar 55 to remove it from engagement with the bar 57 and allow the bar 49 to rotate under the action of the spring 60 to move the knife 52 to the left and sever the ticket strip extending through the slot 17. When one ticket only is to be issued the handle 35 is depressed without depressing a key, and the stop 40 contacts with the notch 41 on the lever 45 under the action of the spring 72 connecting the bar 69 with a pin 73 on the bar 61. When five tickets are required, the lever 45 is kept clear of the stop 40 and the length of ticket strip fed out is determined by the contacting of the rod 36 with the bottom of the slot 38. An incorrect key depressed can be restored to its normal position by depression of the correct key or partial depression of any key without retaining such partially depressed key in a depressed position. Any known forms of dating or other subsidiary or impressing mechanism may be incorporated with the machine, e.g. a dating wheel with an appropriate inking roller may be rotatably mounted upon the ticket guide 19 and arranged to effect the impression of a date upon the tickets as they pass through the ticket guides. When the machine is used in connection with a totalizator the issue of tickets may be registered upon appropriate mechanism, e.g. a cam or cams mounted upon the spindle 26 of the feed wheel 25 may actuate electrical contacts or Bowden wire controls for operating the registering mechanism. The ticket strip 10 of fanfolded tickets is housed in a magazine 11 and is provided with perforations corresponding in pitch to the length of one ticket. The magazine is formed in two halves hinged together at 12 and maintained apart from one another by distance-pieces 13, one of which is secured to each of the said halves of the magazine. The upper edges of the magazine 11 are provided with flanges 14 arranged to rest upon supporting rails 15 secured within the casing 1.