Patent GB-342261-A (GB)
Abstract: 342,261. Totalizators. AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE MANUFACTURING CO., Ltd., Strowger Works, Liverpool, SIMPSON, L. M., The Bungalow, Laurel Bank, Stanks, near Leeds, TAYLOR, R., 30, Oulton Road, Wavertree, BELAS, F. T., 24, Stanley Street, and McCLEW, J. W., 27, Arlescourt Road, West Derby, all in Liverpool. Oct. 15, 1929, Nos. 31293, 33012, 34039 and 34701. [Class 106 (i).] In an electric totalizator employing rotating collecting switches for collecting bets from a plurality of transmitting stations bet signals are simultaneously collected over different wipers of the same switch. The invention is an improvement in the apparatus described in Specification 331,500, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.], horse-collecting switches being adapted to collect multidenominational bets simultaneously over different wipers, only the higher denominational totals being normally displayed, the lower denominations, 2/- and 10/-, being registered on storage relays and transferred to the ú1 counting switch when a sufficient number have been accumulated. At the end of betting the operated storage relays actuate stored units switches to add the stored bets to the normally displayed totals. General layout. A bet set up at a 2/- machine SM, Fig. 18, sends an impulse through relays FEC and PB to a decoding relay group DCR1 which sends an impulse to the horse-collecting switch HCS corresponding to the runner key operated and then to the 2/- storing relay group SG1. When ten 2/- bets have been made on this horse an impulse is sent by way of the transfer switch TP to the ú1 counting switch PCS. The top four banks of switch HCS are associated with decoding relay groups from other 2/- machines. The fifth bank collects markings from 10/- decoding relay groups associated with 10/- machines TM, these markings being stored on a relay group SG3 every two stored causing the ú1 switch to be stepped by way of the transfer switch TP. The ú1, ú10 and ú100 banks of the collector HCS are associated directly with the corresponding denominational counter switches PCS, TPS, and HPS which actuate monogram lamp indicators. The pool total counter is similarly operated, impulses passing over leads 10 to a pool collecting switch. For place betting, the " win-place" key at a machine is operated to energize a relay PB which transfers all the signalling leads to another decoding relay group associated with the " place " adding machine. Two ticket machines each accommodating 40 runners are used in parallel, bets on horses 41-80 operating a relay FEC which connect the code leads to another decoding relay group associated with horses 41-80. The operation of the switch HCS is suspended during registration of bets, and transfer is held up during a direct bet registration. At the end of betting the stored units switch SUC is operated to add the bets stored on the relay groups SG1 .. to the total. Bet starting operations. The main control key MSB, Fig. 12, and the keys SB corresponding to the adding machines (which are connected to the corresponding collecting switches by multiple contact plugs and sockets the horse number corresponding with the collector being displayed by an inserted card or on a lamp indicator) are operated. Relays S and SA operate to open the homing circuits of the various counting switches, and earth over line 52 operates relays DA and MS, Fig. 10. Relay DB is operated over contacts da2 and locks up over db2, tw1 to earth on line 51. Contacts ms1 extend earth to line 54, Figs. 10 and 6, interrupter springs hcm to operate relays SR and CD in series. Relay SR by way of contacts sr2 now interacts with the driving magnet HCM to step the horse collector switch HCS which is associated with the runner corresponding to key 1 at the ticket machine, Figs. 1 and 2. Setting up a bet. Assuming that horse-key number 1 is depressed and the " win-place " key WP thrown to "win," a circuit is made from earth, contacts Z (mechanically closed by the depression of any runner key) contacts be2, relay T, line 59, key 1, line 60, contacts fec2, pbl, swr1, relays A and P in series, the three relays operating. Contacts t1 energize a slow-to-release relay BE which locks up over contacts be1 and breaks the previous circuit contacts be2. The relay A locks up over its upper winding and when relay P releases consequent to the opening of contacts be2, a twostep relay SW is fully actuated and locks up to earth on conductor 62, Fig. 4. Contacts sw3 energize a relay SWR the contacts swr1 .. swr6 of which open the coding leads to prevent further signals passing until the present one is registered. Earth is now extended over contacts swr8, Fig. 4, low resistance relay TR, contacts it4, line 64, by way of various contacts of the coding relays A .. F, which extend this marking over conductor 65 to the correct horse collecting switch HCS, Fig. 6. When the corresponding switch wiper reaches the marked contact a circuit is made over line 67, Fig. 7, contacts ub4, ui3, uj3, uz1 in parallel, line 68, contacts sr1, Fig. 6, line 69 to impulsing relay IA, Fig. 7, of a 2/- storing group SG1. Relay IA only, operates to connect battery by way of its low resistance lower winding to line 67 to effect now operation of relay TR. Contacts ia2 earth the line 70 to maintain magnet HCM energized thus suspending rotation of HCS during registration of the bet. Earth-over contacts ia3 partly operates the two-step relay UA whose light contacts ua1 only now close. Relay IT, Fig. 4, now operates over contacts tr2 and locks up to earth over line 63 ; contacts it1 open the holding circuit of relays A .. F, it3 open the cancellation circuit over lead 75 so that the bet cannot now be cancelled, it6 mark the 2/- bank of the pool total collecting switch over lead 74 from earth at relay CP ; it4 open the circuit of relays TR and IA, the relay UA now operating fully, its windings being in series to earth over the lead 53 and contacts db3. The switch HCS again hunts to find marked bank contacts. Operations at ticket machine. When operated, relay TR, Fig. 4, extends battery over relay Q, contacts tr1, lead 71, relay R, Fig. 2, to earth. Contacts r1, r2 actuate a magnet LAM to close a switch KNS in circuit with the ticket printing and issuing motor MOR, the contacts Z, and relays R, Q and BE returning to normal upon issue of the ticket. (The type is set by depression of the relevant keys.) When the pool total collecting switch has found the marking over lead 74 an impulsing relay similar to IA will operate the relay CP which returns to normal the relays SW, IT, CP and SWR, when conditions are ready for the further registration of bets. For place betting the W-P key operates a relay PB to change all the coding leads to a place decoding relay group over contacts pb1 .. pb6 ; a relay FEC being similarly operated if the machine caters for horses 41-80 to change the leads to an appropriate group over contacts fec1 . . fec7. Units, 2/- storage relays. Registration of further 2/- bets will energize the relays UB, UC .. UI, Fig. 7, consecutively. On the tenth bet being received relay UJ energizes, relay UZ energizing over contacts uj4 and locking up over contacts url, uz5. Contacts uz2 cause the relays UA, UB .. UJ to release in succession. Earth is now extended by way of contacts uz4, uz3 lead 77 to mark the first contact of bank 2a of the ú1 transfer switch TP, Fig. 11, and a relay ZC, Fig. 10, is operated. Transfer switch, TP. The banks of switch TP are connected to all the 2/- storing groups such as SG1 and also to the 10 /- storing groups, and, if the wipers now rest on contacts other than those marked by the operation of relay UZ the driving magnet TPM is energized in series with a relay BP over wiper 1a, conductor corresponding to 79 in another group and contacts corresponding to ur2, uz3 over lead 78 to earth at contacts uz4. The switch magnet TPM interacts with its interrupter contacts tpm and steps the switch arms until it reaches the first bank contact, which is unmarked over lead 79. When relay SR next operates, earth on the first contact of bank 2a is extended to lead 80, contacts sr3, lead 81, to relay CG, Fig. 13. Contacts cg1 earth lead 82 to maintain magnet HCM operated. Contacts hcm being opened, relay SR de-energizes breaking the original circuit to relay CG which now holds in series with relay CZ over contacts eg2. Contacts cz4 now energize relay UR, Fig. 7, over contacts sa3, pcm, cm2, cz4, lead 83, wiper 3a, lead 84. Relay UR locks up over contacts ur1 releasing relay UZ, and relay CR, Fig. 13, now operates over contacts ur3, lead 85, wiper 4a, lead 86. Contacts cr7 release relays CZ and CG ; contacts cr5 and cr2 further hold magnet HCM and relay UR; cr4 extend earth to the driving magnet PCM of the ú1 counting switch PCS which energizes ; contacts pcm now open to release relay UR which releases if UZ has released, whereupon contacts ur3 release relay CR which releases magnet PCM to advance the switch PCS to register ú1. Direct registration of ú1 bets. The ú 1 wiper and bank of the horse collecting switch HCS extends ú1 markings direct over lead 88, Fig. 13, to energize a relay CM over contacts cz3, cr1, lead 89, contact sr4, Fig. 6, and lead 90 which locks up over a resistance and contacts cm2, pcm, sa3. Contacts cm1 connect battery by way of the low resistance upper winding CM to lead 88 to revertively actuate the TR relay associated with the ú1 decoding relay group which permits issue of a ú1 ticket. The magnet PCM is energized over contacts cm3, contacts pcm opening the holding circuit of relay CM which in releasing breaks the circuit to magnet PCM which now steps the switch PCS to register the bet. Should a transferred and a direct ú1 impulse come together the former will operate relay CG as before, when the magnet HCM will be held operated over contacts cm4 until the direct ú1 bet has been registered when the magnet HCM being released at contacts cm4, relay CG will be held i