Patent GB-619673-A (GB)
Abstract: 619,673. Ticket printing and issuing machines. SUNDMAN, G. E. June 19, 1945, No. 15626. [Class 106 (iii)] A portable apparatus for printing and issuing tickets comprises a number of counters 50 each driven from a stepped gear 52, through a toothed gear 42, axially displaceable by an arcuate manual setting member 9-13, Fig. 1 and 2. The setting members have thumb grips 14 marked with numerals and are set by pushing down (clockwise in Fig. 2) until the thumb meets a stop 57. Each setting member is backed by a curved rack 15 which gears with a pinion 32 on one of a series of sleeves 55, thus setting type wheels 56. Each rack 15 also gears with a pinion 30 on a shaft 33 having a helical groove 34 engaged by a lug 38 in a collar 35. End plates 36 on the collar 35 are slotted to engage a shaft 39, Fig. 3, at either side of a pinion 42 keyed to, but slidable on, a shaft 40. Thus rotation of the shaft 33 causes the collar 35 and the pinion 42 to move laterally and so sets the latter in relation to the stepped gear 52 common to all the pinions 42. The shaft 40, and similar shafts carrying similar pinions 42 (not shown), are geared to respective counters 50 so that when the stepped gear 52 is given a complete rotation, the amounts set up by members 9 ... 13 are entered into the respective counters. A manual operating lever 60 is geared to the stepped gear 52 through a one-way ratchet device so that a quarter turn of the lever 60 in a forward direction imparts a complete rotation to the stepped gear. The lever 60 is spring-urged to its normal position through cam means, and when it is rocked backwards from the neutral position it rotates the shaft 85 carrying pins 87 which engage projections 86 on gear wheels 84 thus causing the type wheels 56 to be zeroized and the setting members 9 . . . 13 to be returned to their initial positions. The sleeves 55 are rotatable on a shaft 105, Fig. 5 and 6, which is given a halfturn at each forward operation of the lever 60. A notched plate 126 carried by the shaft 105 co-operates with a geneva pinion 129 to move the units element 110 of a type-bearing counter one step for each operation of the lever 60. Transfer to higher denominations 109, 108 is by similar Geneva pinions 129. The elements 108.. 110 comprise a serial number printing device. Two further type wheels 11, 112 are set manually by a member 115, Fig. 1 and 5, and this setting is indicated by numeral wheels 116, 117 observable through a window 120. Ticket printing. The paper strip 205, Fig. 4, passes from a roll (not shown), past type wheels 203 for date, &c., fixed type 202 for firm's name, &c., and type wheels 56, 108 . . . 112 already described. The paper is fed by a wheel 211 driven from the manual actuating mechanism and comprising a knurled portion for gripping the paper against a roller 208 and a cut-away portion which clears the paper strip. The wheel.211 also carries a pin or pins 216 which engages a short arm 221 of a lever 222 and flexes a leaf-spring 214 anchored at 215 which carries platens 217 . . . 219 and so forms a printing hammer. When the pin 216 moves clear of the arm 221 the printing hammer strikes the paper 205 against an ink-ribbon 204 and the raised type. Severing of the ticket strip is accomplished by the rotation of a cutaway cylindrical member 308 co-operating with the edge of a semi-circular section bar 307.