Patent GB-424328-A (GB)
Abstract: 424,328. Ticket-issuing machines. COMLEY, C. W. A., Wilton Villa, Albion Grove, Stoke Newington, London, and PARKER, W. J., 46, Rushgreen Road, Romford, Essex. Feb. 14, 1934, No. 28992. Divided out of 422,412. [Class 106 (iii)] In a machine with means for printing variable data such as fare values and for recording the total value of the tickets and the value of the ticket of each denomination issued, and in which the ticket is printed and issued by the uni-directional rotation of an actuating member, the adjusting means for the variable data printing wheel and the totalizing wheels is locked when the actuating member is rotated to print and issue the ticket. In the application to the apparatus described in Specification 422,412, a fare wheel 4b, Figs. 1 and 8, is set by a dialling disc 98 mounted on a vertical spindle 100 connected to the fare wheel by bevel gearing 101, 102, the disc being provided with finger holes 99 and a stop. A spring 116 tends to return the disc to the position for printing unit fare so that operation of the dial is only called for when tickets of a higher value are required. The dial and printing disc 4b are retained in the position to which they are adjusted and are released when the cycle of operations is completed, that is when the actuating shaft 19<b> has made one revolution, by means of a sleeve 104 slidable on but rotatable with the shaft 100 and urged upwardly by a helical spring 106. A pawl III engages between teeth formed on a flange 107 on the sleeve, each gap between teeth corresponding to a fare value, the unit gap at one end being deeper than the others, as shown in Fig. 3. At the lower end of the sleeve, a flange 108 is formed with a corresponding number of shallow gaps 114 and a deep gap 115 as shown in Fig. 4, these gaps co-operating with a specially shaped disc 55 fixed to the operating shaft 55, this disc occupying the position shown in Fig. 1 when the operating shaft 19<b> is in its inoperative position. If a higher fare than unity is dialled, a slot in the disc 55 allows rotation of the shaft 100 and sleeve 104 while pawl 111 retains them in the set position. Shaft 19<b> is then given one rotation to carry out the printing &c. cycle and the long tooth 115 then engages the flange 108 and forces the sleeve 104 downwards, thereby moving the flange 107 clear of the pawl III and allowing the spring 116 to return the dial 98 and fare printing disc 4b to the unit printing position. The long tooth 115 then coincides with the deep tooth 115 on the flange 108 so that the sleeve 104 can be moved upwards by the spring 106. When a unit value ticket has been printed the long tooth 115 moves freely through the deep slot in the flange 108. Fares, totalizing and indicating. The total value of the tickets issued is indicated by a totalizer 168, operated by gearing 172, Fig. 8, from toothed wheels 170 carried on the sleeve 51 which is slidably keyed to the operating shaft 19b and is moved longitudinally in accordance with fare printing adjustments of the dial 98 by a rack 164 gearing with a pinion 165 on the lower end of the fare dialling shaft 100. The number of teeth on each of the wheels 170 corresponds to a particular fare value so that the wheel in engagement with the gears 172 adjust the totalizer in accordance with the fare value set up. For the purpose of counting the numbers of tickets of each value issued, the sleeve 51 also carries an eccentric and a rocking-lever 160 which selects one of the fingers 153 according to the fare value set up, each finger being connected to a separate counter. When the operating shaft 19<b> is rotated, the finger 153 selected is operated.