Patent GB-190726306-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ticket Printing and Registering Apparatus.
Filed: 1907-11-28
Granted: 1908-05-07
Abstract: 26,306. Regina Maschinenfabrik, and Friedlein, H. Nov. 28. Typewriters and like machines ; printing on tickets ; dating railway tickets.-Relates to apparatus for printing and registering railway tickets and the like of the type described in Specification No. 27,130, A.D. 1906, in which loose type-plates are transferred from a magazine to a printing-device and afterwards returned. The printing-device is movable over a fixed magazine which may serve as a wash-basin for the type-plates. The segmental magazine 6 is divided into eight compartments notched, Fig. 3, for the reception of the typeplates 2, the bottom edges of which are cut so as to be locked by rods 5 capable of being rotated to unlock the plates by means of arms 8, Fig. 7. The printing-device is contained in a casing 32 movable transversely on bars 33 of a rocker 16. The latter is attached to the ends of a chain 22 which moves between flanges 11 on the magazine wall. Rollers 9 on the arms 8 pass between the chain and the upper flange 11, but the link 12 of the chain is constructed to rock the arms 8 and so unlock the type-plates of any compartment over which the printing-device is situated. The plates in the other compartments remain locked. A chain 141, Fig. 3 is attached by its ends to the casing 32 and prevents external access to the compartment beneath the casing. The printing-device is brought to any particular position by means of a pointer 46 which co-operates with the prism 47 on each side of which is shown two rows of names &c. arranged in the sume order as the type-plates. The casing 32 is releasably locked over the compartments by the nose 43 of a lever 42 operable by a hand-lever 35 engaging in a series of notches 44. Movable between walls 66 in the casing 32 is a slide 67, which is connected with a slotted lever loose upon a shaft 72. Movement of a handle 73 in the direction of the arrow rocks the lever through gearing 74, 76 and a crank-pin 78 and raises the slide 67. Through the action of a cam 94 and lever 63, further movement of the handle moves a cranked rod 60 towards the right against the action of a spring 57. The selected type-plate is picked up by means of a detent 64, Fig. 7, carried by the slide 67, which is normally held up by a lug thereon engaging the end of the rod 60. When the ticket is inserted, the rod 60 is retracted, and the detent swings down so as to hook under the type-plate which is slotted as shown. The ticket blank is inserted through a slot 50 on to the platen 52, on which it is held between a frame 51 and spring 71 and presses back a lever 152, thus withdrawing a bolt 54 from a slot in the rod 6U and allowing the latter to be retracted by its spring 57 for the descent of the detent 64. The platen 52 is moved up for the impression by means of cams 84 on the driving-shaft and co-operating rolls on side limbs: 86 of the platen. A pin 89 on the platen passes through a hole 90, Fig. 7, in the type-plate during the impression, the latter being supported against the walls 66 in which numbering-devices 125, 128 and a dating-stamp 129 are mounted. A roller 93 carried by links 92 inks the type-plate during its upward motion but is prevented from doing so during the downward motion by the wedge-shaped end 55 of the lever 152. The two arms of the slide 67 carry rollers 126 which ink the numbering- devices and dating-stamp. The printing is registered upon two strips 110 which are fed around platens in the mouth of a casing 102. The stamp 129, numbering-device 128, and upper part of the type-plate print upon the ticket blank, but the lower part of the plate and the numbering- devices 125 print upon the strips 110. The casing 102 is in two separate parts mounted upon the platen 52, the reciprocation of which operates by a cam action the ratchet-feed gear of the winding-on rolls 113. The strip 110 for use by the superintendent is rendered inaccessible. Water may be passed through the compartments of the magazine to clean the type-plates.