Patent GB-191014558-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ticket Issuing and Registering Machines.
Inventor: OHMER JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1910-06-16
Granted: 1911-03-09
Abstract: 14,558. Ohmer, J. F., and Bridenbaugh, E. H. June 16, 1909, [Convention date]. Ticket punches; tickets, issuing.-In a ticket punching, issuing, and registering apparatus of the type described in Specification 3469/07, the punches and the feed-roll are operated by successive turns of a crank, interlocking means are provided between the crank and the frame carrying the counters registering the numbers of each denomination of tickets issued, and a total receipts register is employed, and is set simultaneously with the positioning of the fare indicator and the corresponding denomination counter. Operating punches and feed-roll. The feedroll 4 is mounted on a shaft 3 provided with a pinion gearing with a mutilated spur-wheel 17. This spur-wheel is adapted to be partially rotated by a segmental gear-wheel 18 driven by a train of gearing 20, 21, 23 set in motion by turning the crank 28. In order to issue a ticket, a milled head 49 is operated so as to set the fare indicator 59, and this simultaneously positions the corresponding counter and preliminarily sets the total receipts register. By rotating the crank once, the various punches are caused by means of a pin 32 and slide 37 to perforate the ticket, and, by again rotating the crank, the feed-roll is turned to feed the ticket forward, the denomination counter and the counter for the total number of tickets are operated, and the amount of the fare is added on the register. The parts are normally locked by a pawl 30 which engages a notch in a disk 31. Interlocking. The denomination counters are disposed about a spindle 44, and are actuated, when in proper position, as described in the above-mentioned Specification. On the spindle 44 is fixed a notched disk which co-operates with a pawl 64 adapted when actuated to raise and lower a lever 66. The free end of this lever engages a slot in a sliding piece 68 provided with a tooth 70, which, when the pawl 64 is displaced by turning the shaft 44 and its disk, enters a notch in a disk fixed to the crank 28. Thus, while the shaft 44 carrying the counters is being turned, the crank 28 cannot be moved and vice versa. Total-receipts register. When the fare indicator and the corresponding counter are set by the milled head 49, a lever 88, Fig. 4, is simultaneously shifted to a position depending on the fare. When the feed-roll is turned, a crank 94, Fig. 6, is operated so as to withdraw a pin 92 from engagement with a lug 91<a> attached to a gear-wheel 84. A spring thereupon rotates this wheel until one of the shoulders 87 of a plate 86 comes in contact with the set lever 88. The gear-wheel 84 meshes with a wheel carrying a pawl 80, which slides over the teeth of a ratchet-wheel 79 on the spindle of the register. The crank 94 meanwhile continuing its rotation, the pin 92 travels from the portion 104 of a fixed cam-groove into the circular portion 102, and, picking up the lug 91<a>, carries it back to its normal position and retains it there. This backward movement causes the pawl 80 to return, and so adds the amount set on to the register. In the position of rest, an arm 105 depresses the operative end of the pawl 80 so as to prevent any shifting of the register.