Patent GB-190311393-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Printing and Issuing Railway Tickets.
Inventor: PISCICELLI ROBERTO TAEGGI
Filed: 1903-05-19
Granted: 1903-10-01
Abstract: 11,393. Piscicelli, Count R. Taeggi-. May 19. Fares, registering and checking. -Relates to a machine for printing and issuing railway tickets at an issuing - station, as required, the tickets being for predetermined stations, or for other stations to be composed in the machine by the ticket clerk. While issuing a ticket, the machine performs the addition of the money received, being described for francs and centimes, and addition of the number of each kind of ticket, registers the total number of tickets issued, and prints a duplicate of the ticket. The machine is shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4. It prints tickets for predetermined stations at the sides and tickets for occasional stations in the middle. The handle 9 is set on a semicircular guide to the kind of ticket required, thereby moving the traversing table frame 83 into position along the bars 86 by sprocket and band gearing. Two hand-levers 16, carrying locking- levers 18 and working in the notched slots, are arranged to place in position the stamping-discs 30 bearing the small printing-plates 31 for printing a predetermined station and the class and price of the ticket. One lever 16 works two stamping- discs for single tickets on express or ordinary trains respectively, and the other lever 16 works the two discs for corresponding return tickets. Cams 34 connected with the stamping-disc 30 are turned by it to control the apparatus summing up the money received. The movement of the lever 16 simultaneously lowers one of the labels 26 to indicate to the clerk and the purchaser that the machine is about to print a ticket such as the label notifies. For occasional tickets the name and price are composed by turning the wheels 20, which set the discs 74, four of which bear numerals for the price and the others bear letters. The discs 74 are in duplicate portions, so that an indication, when set, is read at the opening 21. Printing is effected by two rotations of the side handle 28, and, while this is occurring, the duplicate is printed on the paper ribbon 162, the numerator corresponding to the kind of ticket is increased by unity, the summing-up apparatus is actuated and the new total shown at the opening 13, and the numerator placed near the handle 28 is increased by unity. The four summing-up cams 34 are cut out into gaps or notches of depth proportional to price numbers, and by means of toothed sectors connected with bell-crank levers and sliding rods pushed by springs against the bottoms of the cam notches, they impart angular displacements to the summing-up discs 172-177 mounted loosely on the shaft 178. The travelling carriage, shown in plan in Fig. 11, carries the summing-up apparatus and the paper ribbons for the tickets and the duplicates, also the cutting and defacing mechanisms. The operating-mechanisms are driven from the wheel 249, sliding along but turning with the square shaft 248. The ticket ribbon 103, as it travels along, has printed on its back commercial advertisements or information, together with the number of the starting train, and on its front the progressive number, the date and name of the issuing-station, and afterwards the station of arrival, the class and the price of the ticket. The date-printing discs are set by hand, but the numbering discs are automatically set. Gear is provided for putting out of action the printing-cylinders. The cutting-knife 155 is. fixed on a block, which is moved twice up and down by a cam groove and pin arrangement while the disc 146 makes one revolution. The ticket is delivered, after being defaced and having the company's cipher added, on to the inclined plate 12. The labels 26 are left free to fall when the raised part 44 of the traversing table actuates the lever 43, the rod 42, and the arm 38 supporting the tails of the labels. One label only falls, namely, that one selected by the slide 45, which is operated by one of the two stamping-discs. To raise the labels, the shaft 37 of each set is connected with a U-shaped rod 58 mounted loose on the shaft 37, the rod being turned by pressing the handle 18 against the lever 16.