Patent GB-303403-A (GB)
Abstract: 303,403. Marsh, A. Sept. 30, 1927. Totalizators. - A machine for stamping and registering tickets comprises a punch and a selectively operated printing device adapted to be actuated by mechanism which also operates a selected one of a series of counters every time the machine is actuated, in combination with selective electric circuit devices adapted to control distant electrically operated registering mechanism. The invention is described as applied to the ticket-punching machine described in Specification 199,827, [Class 106 (iii), Fares &c.]. The slot 48 is so arranged that a ticket inserted therein is disposed to be acted upon simultaneously by a punch 100 on the plunger 1 and by a printing device. The latter comprises a drum 101 rotatable on a spindle 102 fixed to a slide movable with the plunger 1. The drum is rotated upon the spindle so that any one of the dies 103 may be selectively brought to printing position. An ink ribbon 105 is wound off a spool 105 on to a spool 106 by a ratchet device 107 operated from the lever 6. The drum is rotated to position selectively a die by a wheel 108 having a pointer 109 moving over an indicating dial the selected indication being duplicated in a window 112. The punch 100 is mounted in a slide 113 in the plunger 1 and cooperates with a die plate 114 carried by a slide 115 which may be withdrawn together with the punch 100 by means of a handle 116. A tray 117 collects punchings. Interchangeable punches 100 and corresponding die plates 114 of different design are used so that the ticket which itself is of distinctive colour &c. corresponding to price may be distinctively punched to indicate a particular race and distinctively marked by a die 103 to indicate a horse, jockey &c. The total number of tickets of each price will be registered on a counter 11. To obtain the total number of tickets at each price for each horse &c. an electric spring contact 118 is provided with each counter 11 closed by a tappet lever 119 fixed to the trigger plate 29 of a counter selection trigger 30. A fixed distributor plate 120 provided with insulated contacts 122 is arranged coaxially with the drum 101, and a contact arm 123 fixed on the drum moves over the contacts 122 and has a ball contact springing into a cup shaped recess of the contact 122 and holding the drum. The contacts 118, 123 are each connected to distant counters. Each of the contacts appertaining to a particular horse is connected to one pole of each of a series of counters, whilst each of the contacts 118 appertaining to a particular price is connected to the opposite pole of each counter for that price. Thus when the circuit is closed through a battery between the arm 123 and the common terminal of contacts 118, the counter appertaining to the horse indicated by the position of the drum 101 and to the price on the depressed trigger 3C will be advanced one unit. A trip contact switch is adapted to be actuated at every operation of the machine for ensuring that one impulse only be sent to the distant registering mechanism. A bolt 131 may be slid across below the lever 6 and locked by a key inserted at the opening 136 to prevent unauthorized use of the machine.