Patent GB-349110-A (GB)
Abstract: 349,110. Ticket-printing machines. CLAYTON TOOL CO., Ltd., India Pavilion, Wembley, Middlesex, CAMP, E. G., 17, Tudor Close, Kingsbury Hill, and CLAYTON, A. C., 64, Church Road, Willesden, both in London. Feb. 6, 1930, No. 4077. [Class 100 (iv).] Index type-wheel machines; hammer-impression arrangements.-In a ticket-printing and issuing machine the various types, each allocated to a certain class of information, are arranged on the corresponding end faces of a plurality of rotatable, concentric, annular type-members nested one within another, each type-member being independently adjustable to bring required types thereon to a printing station. The machine is described as issuing betting tickets for a totalizator system as set forth in Specification 343,605, [Group XIX]. The types for the number of the race ; the kind of bet, " win," " place," or " each way " ; the stake value; and the runner number are carried respectively on nested annular concentric members 42 .. 39, Fig. 2, attached to corresponding gear wheels 34 .. 37. The horse number type is set by rotating an arm 15, Fig. 1, around a dial 12 graduated in horse numbers, the arm 15 rotating the gear wheel 37 through the spindle 14, Fig. 7, and gear wheels 31, 33. The gear wheels 34, 35, 36 mesh respectively with gears 29, 30, 32 attached respectively to the spindle 22 and to rotatable concentric sleeves 23, 24 controlled respectively by a knob 21 moving over a race number scale, an arm 27 moving over a scale 20, and an arm 25 moving over a stake value scale 17, 18. Duplicate types 139, 140, 141 are rotated by gears 137, 136, 135 meshing with the gears 37, 36, 35 to print duplicate tickets. The control arms being set, the knob 16 on the arm 15 is depressed closing circuits which cause, by means of a contact drum 47, Fig. 1, as in Specification 343,605, a continuously rotating motor 43 to drive through gearing 45, 44 through one revolution a shaft 46 which drives the shaft 70 through a clutch and during the first few degrees of rotation a cam 76, Fig. 4, rocks a bell-crank lever 79 to depress the printing platen 77, Fig. 3. A ribbon 85 is fed over rollers 86, 87 by means of a pawl 88 mounted on a spindle 81 attached to a member 82 carrying the platen 77. Web feeding and cutting arrangements.-Main and duplicate ticket strips 200, 201 are fed between rubber impression rollers and rollers 53, 54 which also print any desired permanent data, the rollers being driven from the shaft 46 through Geneva-stop mechanism, lay shaft 48, and shafts 49, 50, the duplicate ticket strip being driven at only oneseventh the speed of the main ticket strip. Further rollers 57, 58 may print advertising matter on the reverse side of the ticket. A cam 89 fixed to a shaft 75, Figs. 1 and 6, driven by pinions 73, 74 from the shaft 70, Fig. 3, lifts, by means of a plunger 92, a frame 91 carrying a diagonal severing blade 90 which falls severing only the main ticket 200. The shaft 75 drives through a bevel pinion 101, Figs. 1 and 6, and gearing, a spindle 103 carrying cams 102 and rubber-faced rollers 109 acting in conjunction with metal rollers 110 carried on a spindle 111 of a pivoted member 106 acting in conjunction with the cams 102. The rollers 109, 110 project through a slot in the shoot 112 and when the crest 105 of the cam 102 is operative with the follower 106 the rollers are forced apart to admit the ticket. Upon further rotation of the cam 102 the root 104 becomes operative; the spring 108 causing the rollers 109, 110 to grip and eject the ticket. A similar shoot 113 conveys the duplicate ticket strip to a receptacle below.