Patent GB-370395-A (GB)
Abstract: 370,395. Ticket printing and registering apparatus. HANEL, C., 30, Lahnstrasse, Neuk÷lln, Berlin. Jan. 1, 1931, No. 85. [Class 106 (iii).] A ticket printing and registering machine comprises counters for different classes of tickets the spindles of which are operated solely by ordinary gear wheels which remain in gear with the operating shaft during the entire movement of the latter. In the apparatus shown in Figs. 1 and 2 for printing variable and invariable matter and a serial number, the variable type 4a, 4b in the printing cylinder 1 is set by the spring controlled arm 20 through the arm 27 and gears 28, 29, there being rotated at the same time through gears 30, 31 the rod 32 which through a V-collar on the rod and the spring controlled sleeve 34 causes the rod 35 fixed to the sleeve 34 to be pushed into engagement with apertures 37, 36 in one or other of the gear wheels 24, 25 geared through wheels 22, 20, 18 or 23, 21, 19 to the counters 16, 17 respectively, the rod 35 at the same time pushing one of the levers 41, 42 out of one of the apertures 37, 36 and pushing the other lever through the connecting arm 40 into the other aperture to lock the gear wheel and prevent operation of the corresponding counter. Normally tickets of one class are printed by type 4a, the lever 26 being actuated to print tickets of the second class by type 4b and after such printing has taken place the arm 38 on the rod 32 contacts with the stop 39 to return the type 4a into position for printing tickets of the first class. The printing cylinder is rotated by the crank 6 through gears 7, 8 and the impression roller 10 is carried by a pivoted frame 9 which also carries the paper roll 11 and the paper guide 12. The usual inking roller 14 and ductor roll 15 are provided and a serrated edge 13 is used for tearing off the printed tickets. Figs. 3 and 4, show an arrangement that can be used for six kinds of tickets, the printing cylinder a being fitted with an adjustable type wheel b having six radially distributed type bars b<1> .. b<6>. The type wheel b is connected to a gear wheel c meshing with a gear wheel d mounted on a shaft f. The printing cylinder a has a hollow shaft g through which the shaft f passes, the outer end of the shaft f being fitted with a hand-wheel l for setting the type wheel b. Slidably arranged on the shaft f, inside the shaft g, is a collar i provided externally with a lug h which projects through a straight longitudinal slot m in the shaft g, and internally with a lug k which engages in a helical groove e in the shaft f. On the shaft f being turned, the collar i will be axially displaced along the helical groove e. Mounted rotatably on the shaft g are six gear wheels n<1> .. <6> provided -with notches for engagement with the lug h of the collar i, the notches being normally held in alignment by spring-controlled catches o which snap into notches in the bosses of the gear wheels. In each position of the collar i the lug h engages in the notch of one of the gear wheels and the wheel will therefore follow the rotation of the printing cylinder and transmit the motion to the counter which is geared to this particular wheel. A modified but similar arrangement is described in which means are provided for printing nine different kinds of tickets, the arrangement being simplified by the provision of a single gear wheel for transmitting motion to all the different driving wheels of the respective counters.