Patent GB-583252-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to cheque writing or printing machines
IPC: B41K3/00
Filed: 1944-09-27
Abstract: 583,252. Typewriters. LASZLO, P. D. De. Sept. 27, 1944, No. 18470. [Class 100 (iv)] Index setting-arrangenents. In a chequeprinting machine having a series of independently rotatable, co-axial discs, drums, or sectors carrying word-printing type mounted side by side and each coupled for rotation to the corresponding discs &c., of a second similar series carrying figure-printing type, the coupling means comprises a number of concentric shafts or sleeves 20, each projecting at each end beyond the sleeve surrounding it, one end of each sleeve carrving one of a series of side by side rotary members, while the other ends are connected by straps 17, disposed at progressively increasing radial distances from the axis of the sleeves, to a second series of side by side rotary members co-axial with the first series. The machine is of the kind wherein the cheque is thrust through a slot in the casing to lie on a platen beneath an ink-ribbon, and depression of a hand-lever raises the platen. As shown, the first set of rotary members comprises a number of setting-discs 2, mounted independently on the concentric sleeves 20 on a shaft 8, and integral with the word-printing discs 10. Each sleeve 20, except the one on the extreme left, is connected to a disc 21 with a radial arm 22 which is joined by a strap 17 to a radial arm 18 of a quadrant gear 19, mounted on the shaft 8, mesbing with a toothed sector on the corresponding figure - printing disc 24 mounted on a shaft 25. The sleeve 20 of the disc 2 on the extreme left is secured directly to its disc 21, and the disc 2 on the extreme right has no sleeve and is coupled by a strap 17 directly to a radial arm 18. The shafts 8, 25 are spaced to enable the words and corresponding figures to be printed on the cheque in the desired position. The discs 2 are marked with numbers on their peripheries which can be registered with holes in an indicator or numberregistering plate extending across the front edge of the casing. Each disc 2 comprises a sector 9, a flange portion 10 slotted transversely to receive word-type 11, and an arcuate plate 13 secured to the ends of the fiange 10 to complete the periphery of the disc 2. A bored extension 14 of the sector 9 houses a rod 15 which carries a setting-knob 3. In a modification, instead of integral setting and word discs 2, 10, the word-type 11 may be on separate wheels with toothed sectors meshing with quadrant or sector gears which support an arcuate plate on which the setting figures are worked. Further, the figure-printing discs 24 may be mounted on the shaft 8 and each provided with a radial arm 18. Additional means for printing the date on the cheque comprises three printing discs mounted on concentric sleeves which can be set by nested knobs integral with the sleeves and disposed on the.outside of the casing. Aligning for impression.-The rod 15 of each setting-know 3 is slotted to receive an arcuate bar 16 secured to the casing. The bottom of the slot in the rod 15 is formed with a knife-edge to engage, under spring action, one of a series of notches in the bar 16.