Patent GB-382015-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved combined change giving, bell ticket punch, and registering device
IPC: G07D1/00
Filed: 1931-08-26
Abstract: 382,015. Ticket punches. EVANS, P. T., Newholme, Emscotte Road, WRIGHT, J. H., 26, Warwick Row, both in Coventry, and BRAMMER, H., Vesper Mount, Vesper Road, Kirkstall, Leeds. Aug. 26, 1931, Nos. 23946 and 30057. [Class 106 (iii).] Comprises a combined change giving bell ticket punch and registering device. A base formed from a bottom piece 1 end-pieces 2 and a back 3 is open at the front and closed by a top piece 4 to which are secured perforated tubular coin holders 5 closed at the top by a plate 8 provided with insertion slots 9 for coins. A vertical plate 11 is fixed to the piece 4 and the punching mechanism is located between this plate and a back-plate 12 to which the supporting strap is connected. The tube 5 may be detachable separate top and baseplates being provided for each tube such being secured to a back-plate sliding in guides secured to the plate 11. Change-giving device. The lowest coin in each column is surrounded by an ejector 21 operated through a toothed segment 24 and teeth on the bars of the ejector from a spring- controlled lever 23. The ejectors 21 and segments 24 are mounted on pivot pins 28, 29 respectively. The ejector may be locked by a bracket 30 slidable on the back-plate. The coin is moved into a position over an opening to drop into the conductor's hand. In some cases the ejector is shaped as in Fig. 13 and provided with a cam 33 having on the underside a headed pin 34 arranged to pass through a hole 35 and into a slot 36 in the baseplate 16 a leaf spring 39 retaining it in position against a stop 41. In another form a slot in the coin projector engages the pivot pin. A projection 42 on the lower end of each tube prevents coins escaping when the ejector is in normal position. When the tubes 5 are detachable a pin on the free end of a flat spring attached to the tube takes into a hole in the back-plate and locks the tube in position. A hinged door is provided at the lower end of the tube or the cover-plate may be hinged. Punch mechanism. The punch carrier 48 slides on the inner surface of the back-plate 12 against the influence of a spring 59 on a vertical pin 58 carried by a projection 57 secured to the plate. The carrier is moved by a lever pivoted on a pin 50 carried by lugs on the carrier the short arm of the lever being rounded at the end and engaging between projections 55. Arms 61 projecting from the top of the carrier pivotally support a two-armed lever 62 the pendant arm 63 passing at the end into a slot 64 in which it is retained by a spring 65. The short arm 62 rests on a plunger 66 working in the punch 67 carried by the arms 61. The lower end of the punch slides in a die 68. On inserting a ticket in the slot 72 the plunger 66 is slightly raised thereby causing the arm 63 to release the punch carrier which is moved on depression of the lever 52. The punch parts are enclosed in a casing 71 fixed to a projecting portion of the back-plate. The punchings fall into a detachable receptacle 74 through an inclined shoot 73. Bell-operating mechanism. In one of the edges of the punch carrier are cut two V-shaped notches 88, 89 forming a projection 90 adapted to engage a pivoted fan-shaped piece 91 with outwardly and inwardly flanged edges 92, 93 against which levers 94, 95 pivoted on a common axis with the piece 91 are pressed by a common spring 97. As the punch descends, the piece 91 is rocked and the lever 94 lifted this in turn actuating the lever 95 through the spring to engage a recess on the carrier 48. On the projection 90 passing, the parts are returned by the spring 97 and lever 94 strikes a bell 98. Registering. The Registering device 104 is operated through the eccentric end 102 of its spindle 103 engaging a recess in the bottom of the carrier 48 during the upper stroke of the carrier. A tubular guide allows a key to be inserted to engage a socket for zeroizing. In another form the counter is worked from a link attached to the lever 52. A curved cover 114 is fixed to the lever 52 to prevent dust entering the punch mechanism. Specification 366,979, [Group XVIII], is referred to.