Patent GB-332657-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in coin-controlled document devices
IPC: G07F17/26
Filed: 1929-05-03
Abstract: 332,657. Bell, P. D. May 3, 1929. Coupons &c., issuing; delivery of labels &c. cut from strips; ticket printing &c. apparatus. -A coin-freed apparatus actuated by coins of different values for delivering tickets &c. severed from a continuous strip and bearing the time and date of issue has a series of rack-bars one bar of which is adapted to be actuated on the insertion of a selected coin so that the selected rackbar is caused to engage a pinion associated with a control lever which is operatively connected with the printing, the severing and the delivering mechanism. The apparatus is provided with means for indicating the coin by which the apparatus was operated, for presenting the ticket at a window to receive writing such as' an autograph and for retaining a duplicate of the document in the apparatus. A web 11 from a roll 12 passes over a plate 8 to a winding roll 14 driven by a belt 18 from a shaft 15 which carries tooth discs 16 projecting through slots 17 in a plate 9; another web 19 from a roll 20 passes round a guide roll 21 and then along the top of the web 11, and a band 23 of carbon paper passes round four rolls 24 - - 27 and between two webs 11, 19. The insertion of a coin causes one of the rack bars 41, 44, 45, e.g. the bar 41, to engage a pinion 55 on a shaft 54 and as this bar is moved downward by a control lever 53 rotating the shaft 54 it will carry down printing wheels 29<1> in a frame 31, suspended by links 32, 33 and normally held raised by a spring 34, by an arm 58 engaging a rod 59 carried by the frame 31. At the same time an arm 62 connected to the link 33 will turn the tooth discs 16 by a hook end 65 and pins 63 and advance the two webs 11, 19 and the carbon paper 23 which have holes along their edges as shown in Fig. 2, the holes engaging the toothed discs. At the end of the downward movement of the rack-bar it will, together with the printing mechanism, make an impression on the web. The mechanism is locked in this position by a latch 75 carried on a lever 74 engaging a pin 76 on an arm 77 fixed to the shaft 54, and an autograph may be made at a window 2. The arm 74 is moved downward to release the mechanism, when the arm 62 further advances the two webs and the carbon paper by a hook end 67 acting on the pins 63, the upper web passing out at a slot 29 while the other web is wound up in the casing. During the return movement a cutter 177 severs the upper web. The window 2 may normally be closed by a plate 40 carried by an arm 80 fast to the link 33, and as the link 33 swings downward the plate will be withdrawn. The name may be printed by a wheel 71, Fig. 3, which can be swung over the window 2. The movable printing mechanism has a gear with a square bore in which slides a square rod connected with a clock. Coin action, multiple-coin, thrust.-The coin mechanism is operated by a selected coin causing the engagement of one of the rack-bars; this bar will indicate on the web the value of the coin used. A coin inserted in a slot 36 will by a lever 39 and link 40 swing the rack-bar 41 to contact with the pinion 55. Only the selected bar will operate; the other two will normally be locked by cross pins 60 thereon engaging a stop plate 61. The coin is now supported by arms 39, 110 and an arm 42 on a shaft 43 connected to the lever 71 the movement of which will release the coin. The arm 42 when swung serves to move the coin sideways by having an inclined edge that will engage the coin as held between the arms 39, 110 so that the coin will be free to drop as shown in Fig. 8.