Patent GB-735939-A (GB)
Abstract: 735,939. Coin-freed ticket issuing machines. KOMUSIN, E. July 2, 1952 [July 7, 1951; Oct. 27, 1951], No. 16620/52. Class 27. [Also in Group XIX] A machine for issuing tickets of different values comprises a plurality of means each for storing and delivering one or more tickets of one value, means for selecting the value of the ticket or tickets to be issued by rendering effective one of the said storing and delivering means, further means common to all the said storing and delivering means for selecting the number of tickets of the selected value to be issued, at least one electromagnetically actuatable counter for indicating the total value of tickets issued, and means for emitting a number of impulses indicative of the total value of tickets issued at each machine operation for actuating said counter, the said impulse emitting means being presettable for emitting the appropriate number of impulses by the said two selecting means. The machine casing contains a plurality of ticket strips each corresponding to a different ticket value and selected for operation by a key lever 140, Figs. 1 and 3, to issue a number of tickets as selected by a telephone type dial, Fig. 6. Counters 136 show the number of issued tickets of each value or the number of such tickets remaining, counter 166 the total value of tickets issued at a machine operation and counter 165 the grand total value of tickets issued by the machine. Each ticket reel 101 is mounted on a spindle 102 held in slots 103 in walls 112. Each strip is drawn from the reel 101 over guide rollers 104, 107, Fig. 2, by a roller 105 having pins 106 which engage perforations in the strip. A spring 109 fixed to a tiltable member 108 maintains the strip against the roller 105. The strip passes over a plate 110 which is rocked by rollers 113 on the roller 105 to raise the strip from the pins 106. Each roller 105 is free on a shaft 115 having a gear 116 which meshes with a wheel 117 on a shaft 118 rotated during machine operation by a pawl and ratchet mechanism 122, 119 actuated by an electromagnet 121. Beside each roller 105 is a sleeve 123, Fig. 3, rotatable with and axially movable on the shaft 115 and carrying two spaced discs 125, 126, the latter of which has pins which, upon axial movement of the sleeve 123 to the left, enter holes 129 in a disc 130 fixed to the roller 105 which is thereby coupled to the shaft 115. A pawl 134 co-operates with a ratchet 132 fixed to the disc 130 to ensure correct stepping of the roller 105 and a gear 137 actuates the associated add or subtract counter through a gear 135. Each counter 138 operates a lamp 138 when the associated ticket strip is exhausted. The above coupling movement of a sleeve 123 is produced by depression of the associated key lever 140 to rock a lever 124 which moves the sleeve 123 to the left. Depression of more than one lever 140 simultaneously is prevented by a ball type crowding lock. The last depressed lever 140 is retained in its actuated position by a bar 149 and rocks an angle bar 150 to close contacts 153 in the circuit of the electromagnet 121. Actuation of the telephone type dial results in one or more impulses being sent to the electromagnet 121 so that the selected roller 105 is given one or more steps. At the same time the counters 165, 166 are actuated (see Group XIX). The lever 167, Fig. 1, is then rocked by its handle 168 so that a shaft 174 carrying knives 176 is rotated and the selected strip or strips are severed, the severed ticket or tickets drop along a guide 178 into a shoot 179 the covering slide 183 of which has been raised by actuation of the lever 167 connected thereto by a linkage. Upon the rotation of the shaft 174 a lever 181 is rocked by a gear 180 to move the bar 149 and release the last actuated lever 140 which is thereupon returned by its spring 142. In a modification, Figs. 6, 20, 21, the machine is coin freed and includes a counter 251 which shows the value of the coins to be inserted in the slots before the actuating lever 252 is freed. The wheels 203, 204, &c., of the counter 166 are each normally connected through gearing to the corresponding wheels 352, 339 &c. of the counter 251. On insertion of a coin in slot 332, say, a flap 333 is rocked to raise a rod 336 to rock an arm 349 counter clockwise so that the drive from the wheel 204 to the wheel 339 is broken by movement of the pinion 348 and the pawl 337 steps the wheel 339 backwards by actuating the ratchet 338 connected thereto. When the wheels of the counter 251 are rotated to zero in this way by the insertion of the correct number of coins the levers 368, 369 enter slots 367 in cams integral with the wheels 352, 339 to rock a locking lever 371 and release the operating handle 252. The arrangement may be such that the coins are inserted first to actuate the counter 251 which is zeroized from the counter 166 actuated in accordance with the value of the issued tickets.