Patent GB-190627130-A (GB)
Inventor: LEBEIS MARTIN
Filed: 1906-11-29
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 27,130. Lebeis, M. Nov. 29. Printing on tickets; typewriters and like machines; dating railway tickets etc.; numbering-apparatus.-Relates to machines for printing and issuing railway tickets &c. and recording the issues ; numbering and dating devices may also be included. Printing-plates are arranged in compartments, e.g. in a rectangular magazine or rotating drum or on endless chains, and are withdrawn wholly or partly from their compartments for introduction into a platen printing - device, the particular plate being first selected by adjusting the magazine &c. or the printing-device, or both. A ticketblank is simultaneously introduced from a magazine into the printing- device ; after the impression is made, the printing-plate is returned to its compartment and the ticket is discharged. The record is made on a paper strip or duplicate strips by means of type-drums set with the plate-selecting movement, or by a printing-surface on the reverse side of the plate. Figs. 1 and 2 show an apparatus in which loose printing- plates to be wholly withdrawn are arranged, in horizontal rows for the stations, and vertical rows for the classes, in a rectangular magazine 1 adjustable in relation to a fixed printing-device 4. The ticket-blank magazine 17 is divided into corresponding vertical compartments for the classes. The magazines 1, 17 are supported by a carriage 11 horizontally adjustable on rails 209, and the magazine 1 is adjustable vertically in the carriage, the adjustments being effected by means of rack-and-pinion gears 21, 23 and 10, 12, hand-cranks 24, 13, and' dials 25, 15. The printing-plates are formed with a lug for engagement by a hook or gripper coupling on a slide 8 integral with a rack 7 actuated by a pinion 6 on a shaft 5, by which means the selected plate is placed on and withdrawn from the table 9 of the printing-device 4. The lowermost ticket-blank in the selected compartment is ejected upon a forked support in the printing-device 4 by a head on a rack 20 actuated by a pinion 210 on a shaft 208. The shafts 5, 208 are actuated by means of a cranked double rack 212 connectible with a hand-lever 221 by means of a spring-retracted fork 222 depressible over a pin 223 on the rack. The table 9 is raised against a spring-depressed platen 225 by means of the hand-lever 221, bevel-gearing 220, and a screwthreaded spindle 30 working in a nut. The platen 225 carries an inking-roller 29. The printed ticket is ejected by an arm on gearing actuated from the rack 20. The record is made on a strip 230 by type-drums 226 on a shaft 227 geared to the rack 10. The strip 230 is led over an impression roller 238 rocked by connexions 237, 236, 235 with the shaft 219 of the hand-lever 221, and a pawl- and-ratchet feed 243 is actuated from one lever 237. An inking-roller 32 is mounted below each typedrum 226. Several arrangements in which the magazines are in the form of rotating drums are described. In one arrangement, the printing-device is arranged in the annular space between polygonal, concentric, vertical magazines. The recording type-drum is on the same shaft as the printing- plate magazine, and provision is made for adjusting the printing-plate magazine and type-drum axially, and for rotating either the two magazines and the type-drum, or theprinting-device and the recording-strip mechanism. Figs. 11 and 13 show an arrangement in which the printing-plate magazine is an horizontal drum with radial compartments 3, and the printing-device 4 is adjustable horizontally along a shaft 65 by an endless chain 57 or a rack set by a hand-crank and dial. The printing-plate and ticket-blank ejector .mechanisms move with the printing-device. The shaft 65 is rotated by a hand-crank 102 to operate the printing-plate and ticket-blank ejector racks 7, 20 from a cam 115, the platen 9 from an eccentric 68, and the ticket ejector 78 from a cam 77. The ticketblank magazine 17 is stationary, and each compartment is provided with an ejector 108 having a pendent pin 109 for engagement by the rack 20. Each pair of horizontal rows of compartments 3 is provided with a sliding strip 42, having pins 41 for retaining the printing - plates. The strips project at one side, and are recessed for passage through and actuation by a locking-fork operated from a cam on the shaft 65 ; the displaced strip enters a slot on the fixed ring and temporarily locks the magazine against rotation. The recording type-drum is disposed above the printing-plate magazine and geared to it. Two independent recording - strip mechanisms are arranged on a carriage traversed with - the printing-device, the strips being disposed on opposite sides of the typedrum and provided with impression hammers actuated one after the other, so that the two strips receive identical impressions. The printed ticket is discharged down a shoot formed by a strap 80 attached to the printing-device 4 and to a weight 81. The part 74 of the platen 9 may carry numbering and dating devices; or as shown in Fig. 11, a separate numbering and dating device is provided, comprising an adjustable printing-plate 142 in a holder 97 reciprocated from an eccentric 146 on the shaft 65, and a fixed platen 99 provided with a numbering and dating device 145. The spindle 98 of the numbering and dating device 145 is connected with a slide 84 actuated by the holder 97. The slide 84 normally closes the ticket outlet 88 and is slotted for the passage of the ticket after impression. The ticket is guided to the slide 84 by a hopper 83. In other arrangements, the printing-plates are attached to slides guided radially and arranged to be partly withdrawn, or to slides guided axially and provided with tapered shanks passing through holes in a flange, the slides being retained by an annular plate or mantle slotted opposite the printing-device. Or the printing-plates are pivoted in radial recesses and provided with gear teeth for actuation by a rack ; in this case, a conical inking-roller is used. Fig. 28 shows the printing-plates disposed in pans on an endless chain 308. A second chain 306 carries an indicator moving over a dial 15. The printing- device and the connected magazine ejectors are shown as operated by separate handles 257, 259. Fig. 28 also shows the printing-plates as provided with a printing - surface on the lower face for recording upon a strip 230 led over a small platen 238 within the table 9 ; this printing-surface is inked by a roller 29<1>.