Patent GB-293883-A (GB)
Abstract: 293,883. Comley, C. W. A. Jan. 14, 1927. Ticket punches. - A punch is provided for issuing, from a supply roll therein, a ticket punched with a hole designating the fare paid, a hole for the stage, and a hole for the kind of ticket, the fare and stage punches being differentially set, and the classification punch 5 for the kind of ticket being chosen from a set of five, while counters for the total fares, the number of each kind of tickets, and of all tickets may be fitted. The ticket strip 19, Fig. 8, has a field 115 for fare values, 116 for stage, and 117 for classification, and is fed by a three-toothed drum 21 from a supply roll on a spool 18. A casing 91 has a central spindle 17 having two internal diameters affording a locking shoulder for a headed split pin 96 on a closing cover 93. The casing has a slide 92 flared to dovetail in a guide channel 90 fitted on the base 16 of the punch. The stage punch 50 with a grooved head engaging an L-shaped cross bar 36 of a frame having side plates 33, 34 reciprocated by cams 64 on a shaft 63 is guided in a bracket 51 slotted to provide a passage for the ticket, and the bracket is movable along the length of the ticket by means of a handle 53 and a screwed shaft 52 to locate the punch opposite the " stage " in the space 116. Five punches 60 are provided for the classification of the ticket in the space 117, the punches being guided in the plate 113, Fig. 6, and actuated by a coupling member 61 engaging a groove in the head of each punch and slidable along an H- section bar 59 in one with the plate 34. A lug 610 on the slider is engaged by the forked end of a lever 611 for selecting the punch. Both the stage and some one of the classification punches is always in operative position, and both are operated when a fare punch is operated. Receptacles 106, 107 may be provided to receive the punchings. A counter may be actuated by the member 33 to show the total number of tickets; and further counters may be provided to show the number of tickets issued of each class. An actuating lever 84, Fig. 5 co-operates with a fixed handle 86, and is connected by a link 87 to a plate 74 having an arm 740 to which is pivoted a pawl 70 engaging pins 69 on a gear 66 driving the shaft 63 carrying the cam 64. After the members 70, 740 have been driven downwards to operate the punches, an extension 71 of the pawl 70 engages two of the pins 69 to hold the punches in their uppermost positions while a pawl 78 carried by the plate 74 engages one of three pins 81 carried by the ticket-feed drum 21, rotation of the drum being prevented when the plate 74 is in its upper and lower positions by an extension 79 of the pawl 78 and an extension 745 of the plate. A full-stroke pawl 89 engages the plate 74. The upper end of the pawl 71 is pressed outwards by a spring 741 engaging its lower end so that it moves into engagement with the pins 69. The fare punch 300, Figs. 6 and 7, is mounted in a carriage 133 slidable along the length of the ticket, running on a notched rail 132 along which it is positioned by a pawl 139 under the control of a thumb piece 143. A pin 129 carried by a sleeve 131 slidable on an upward extension 130 of the carriage 133 passes through slots in an arm 120 pivoted at 122 and a Z-shaped plate 123 vertically slidable in the casing. The arm 740 carries a rack 145 driving a pinion 147 meshing with a gear 149, on the same shaft as a gear 150 meshing with a curved rack 151 on the arm 120. Thus actuation of the arm 740, in addition to depressing the punch 300 by means of the bar 35, depresses through the arm 120 and pin 129 the plate 123 an amount proportional to the distance of the punch from the pivoted end of the lever 120. The end 125 of the plate 123 being connected to a lever 153 driving a counter 110 through a toothed segment 154, adds the amount of the fare punched, and thus totalizes the fares paid on all the tickets. The upper end of the arm 130 passes through the upper surface of the casing and enables the punch to be set correctly. Instead of punches impression type may be fitted.