Patent GB-191309277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Ticket Producing and Delivering Apparatus.
Inventor: GRAHAM EDWARD ALFRED
Filed: 1913-04-19
Granted: 1914-01-01
Abstract: 9277. Graham, E. A. April 19. Tickets, issuing and cutting-off; printing- arrangements; registering number of; ticketpunches.-In strip-ticket issuing-apparatus, two marking or punching devices are provided, one, comprising a platen adapted to move the strip against a time-and-date printing-stamp and a punch, being operated alone to issue tickets of unit fare, while its operation is preceded by one or more actuations of the second device, consisting of a handle adapted to depress the punch and feed the ticket forward a short distance, when tickets of more than unit value are required. The strip c is drawn from a detachable casing b between feed-rollers k, j, the upper one being supported by a slotted arm m pivoted at n and depressed when the top o of the casing is closed by a spring plunger p. When the casing is open the rollers k can be raised by means of a lever r to facilitate the positioning of the new strip. Mounted on the cover o is a time-and-date stamp s and in the ticket guide d a spring-supported punch 2, an ink-ribbon being located between the stamp and the ticket-strip. Printing and punching for the issue of unit tickets is effected on the rotation of a handle 70 mounted on a shaft 7, the rotation of the shaft serving to elevate a spring- supported platen y bearing a die 1 for the punch. Severance of the ticket is effected by a shearing blade 8, Figs. 2 and 4, pivoted at 9 and pressed by springs 11, 12 against a cutting- block 10. The knife is operated from the shaft 7 through gearing 18, 19, a crank 16 and a slotted link 15 engaging a pin on the knife 8. A mutilated ratchet 20 on the shaft 7 is engaged by a pawl 20<a> to prevent backward rotation during the printing and issuing. The ticket feed-roller j is rotated from the shaft 7 through the wheel 19 which drives a mutilated pinion 21 bearing three sets of teeth 25 adapted to engage a geneva wheel 26 loose on the shaft of the roller j. Secured to the wheel 26 is a ratchetwheel engaging pawls 27 on the feed roller j. When issuing tickets of more than unit value. the punch 2 is operated alone, prior to the rotation of the shaft 7, by the rotation of a second handle 34 according to the number of times the ticket exceeds unit value. The handle 34 is secured to the shaft n which bears a cam 32 serving to depress the punch through a lever 30 pivoted at 31. Movement of the strip between each depression of the punch is effected by a toothed sector 35 engaging a wheel 36 which bears a pawl 37 adapted to engage a wheel on the shaft of the feed-rollers k. To prevent the handle 34 from being operated while the shaft 7 is in operation, a spring-controlled slide 43, Fig. 5, is forced out of a notch on a disk 41 on the shaft 7 into a notch in a disk 45 on the shaft n. An alarm bell is sounded at each operation of the shafts 7, n through a rod 33. Covers 47, Fig. 1, of counters 40, adapted to be actuated by the handles, are locked in position by arms 49 carried by a slide 50 when the slide is depressed on closing the cover o, such depression serving also to lock a drawer 52. The cover o is secured by spring catches 53 and a staple 55 adapted to receive a padlock.