Patent GB-191419219-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ticket Issuing Machines.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1914-08-28
Granted: 1915-08-12
Abstract: 19,219. Haddan, R., [National Cash Register Co.]. Aug. 28. Printing-apparatus for fare registering and checking apparatus. - Strip ticket apparatus for issuing and printing several kinds of tickets such as full, half, and excursion fares is provided with transferable controlling type-bearing members which are adapted to actuate a total - value counter and carry longitudinally-moving counting-members, such as those described in Specification 19,220/14, [Class 106(i), Calculating &c.], for setting printing-wheels. In addition to printing the destination on the ticket strips, the control members bear type for printing on a 'record strip and means are provided for disabling certain parts to allow a tabulated record to be taken at the end of the day from all the controlling - members. The controlling - members comprise long plates 88 pierced with holes 92, Figs. 18 and 19, and formed with grooves in which are secured type 94, 95. Also carried by the controlling-devices are the longitudinallymoving counting-members 97, referred to above, and graduated pins 96 which serve to actuate the total-value counter. The mounting-means for the control devices consists of split pins 89, Fig. 6, which enter the holes 92 and are mounted upon the edges of disks 90 fast on a sleeve 91. The selection of a particular control device is effected by a handle 117, Fig. 3, pivoted to an arm 116 on the sleeve 91 and adapted to move over an indicating - disk divided into sections corresponding to the kinds of tickets, the list of destinations being repeated in each section. Exact positioning of the handle is determined by the insertion of a pin carried thereby in one of a series of holes 120. Longitudinal movement of a shaft 121, to which the handle is attached, frees the operating-shaft 58, Fig. 5, and allows it to make one revolution, transfer of the selected control device from the carrying-disks 90 to two pins 131 on the printing-device 129 being effected by jaws mounted on arms 137 which are rocked by a cam 59 on the shaft 58. Rotation of the control carrier also sets one of a number of type plates 164, 165, 166, Figs. 5 and 9, bearing type corresponding to the kind of ticket and carried by spring-controlled sleeves mounted to slide on radial arms 168 which are fast on sleeves 169, 1691. The amount of movement is controlled by stepped cam surfaces 181<a> formed on the setting disks 90 which reciprocate a lever 178, Fig. 5, pivoted to a disk 180 fast on the frame. Connected to the lever 178 is a link 177 carried by a spring- controlled shaft which bears a fork adapted to reciprocate a shaft 170, Fig. 9, which is mounted in the shaft 68 and bears pins engaging spiral grooves in the sleeves 169 carrying the arms 168. Consecutive numbers are printed on the tickets and record-strips by counters 149, 1491 mounted on the disks 129, 130 on the printing- device and operated by sliding bars 141, Fig. 10, struck by a control device 88 when transferred. In addition, the tickets and record-strip have printed thereon by type-wheels 186, 224, Figs. 9 and 10, numbers corresponding to the consecutive numbers registered by the counting slides of the control devices. The wheels 186 are mounted between the disks 129, 130 and are provided with ratchet-wheels 188, Fig. 17, held by a pawl 189 against a zeroizing spring 192 carried by an arm 194 fast on its shaft. An arm 195, Fig. 10, is moved at the end of each operation of the machine to free the pawl by sticking the bevelled end of a bellcrank lever 196, the arms of which rocks the pawl 189. Adjustment of the printing-types is effected by stepped slides 114, Fig. 19, which co-operate with the ends of the slides 97 and are mounted to slide in a frame 198, Figs. 7 and 8. The slides 114 are connected by links to arms 200 carried by pivoted yokes 201 held in the upper position by a roller 202 at the end of an arm 203 secured to a shaft 204 which is rocked once per operation by a cam 209, Fig. 2, and a bell-crank lever 205. Descent of the arm 201 occurs just after the transfer of a control device, the descent being facilitated by weighted members 210 and limited by striking the ends of the bars 97. The downward movement is conveyed to the type-wheels 186 by ratchet-toothed racks 212, Fig. 6, which are carried by the cross-members 210 and engage the wheels 188. Disengagement of the racks at the end of the movement is effected by an eccentric 223, Fig. 6, rocked bv an arm 216 on the shaft 204 through a slotted link 219, Fig. 7, and an arm 220 on the shaft 221 of the eccentric. To print the same number on the recordstrip, type-wheels 224 are provided similar in all respects to the wheels 186 and operated by racks 226, Fig. 7. Unlatching - members 195, 225, Fig. 9, for these type-wheels are operated by pinions 234, 235 on a spring-controlled shaft 236, Figs. 5 and 8, engaging rack teeth thereon. Rotation is imparted to the shaft 236 by a pin 242 on a disk 243, which is carried by a shaft 76 driven from the main shaft and strikes a pin on a disk 240 on the shaft 236, the adjustment being such that the wheels 186, 224 are zeroized before the slides 114 begin to descend. Actuation of the control counter slides 88 is also effected from the shaft 236 through a pinion 244 which depresses a rack 244, Figs. 7 and 8, adapted to engage a spring-supported slide 246. A pawl 252, which is carried by the slide 246 enters a gap 103 in the casing of the counter and engages ratchet teeth 101 on the units slide 97. Feeding of the ticker strips 273 is effected from a supply roll by the intermittent rotation of supplementary and main printing - devices 256, 129 in cooperation with impression rollers 264, 263, the strip passing over a guide roll 268 and between guiding-plates 269, 270 to a severing-device. The rollers 264, 263 are mounted in a sliding frame 258, Fig. 7, to allow withdrawal when a record is taken of the total operations of the machine. Inking-rollers 276, 277, Fig. 6, carried by spring-controlled bell-crank levers, are provided for the main printing-devices, those for the subsidiary one not being shown. Recording.-Two records are made on the record-strip, the first being made at each operation of the machine and showing the consecutive number printed by the wheels 1491, the kind of ticket issued, and the issuing and the destination stations printed by the type 95, Fig. 18, together with the consecutive numbers printed by the type-wheels 224 controlled by the slides 97. The second record is taken at the end of the day when it is desired to obtain a tabular record from all the controlling-devices 88 without the consecutive numbers printed by the counter 1491. The record-strip 500 is drawn by feed-rolls 503, 504, Fig. 7, between the main printing-mechanism 129 and two impression rollers, one 501, Fig. 7, of which is mounted in the sliding frame 258. The feedrolls are operated by a bell-crank lever 510, Fig. 2, which bears a pawl engaging a ratchet wheel 508 on the shaft 507 of the feed-roll and is spring-pressed into engagement with the camoperated bell-crank lever 205. To space the records, the feed-rolls may be rotated by hand. In taking a record from all the control devices at the end of the day, the following mechanisms must be disabled:-(1) The value-totalizer operating mechanism, (2) the ticket-printing mechanism, (3) the consecutive-number printing-counters 149, 1491, (4) the setting-mechanism for the wheels 186 printing the control number on the tickets, (5) the actuating mechanism for the counter slides 97. The various operations of disabling are performed by rotating a hand crank 350, Fig. 3, through a right-angle, whereby the following operations are effected: (1) A pinion 353, Fig. 13, bearing a plate 355 moved between the lugs 294 and lugs 357 carried by the value counter operating slides 287, is rotated through chain gearing 354. (2) The frame 258 carrying the impression rollers is moved against its spring by an eccentric 358, Fig. 7, fast on the shaft 351. (3) The shaft 361, Fig. 7, driven by a second chain 461, bears a crank 380 rocking through a link 381 a finger 382 loose on shaft 236, the lower end of which engages a notch 384, Fig. 12, in a disk 160 loose on a shaft 68. Teeth 159 on the interior of the disk 160 rock a pinion 158 on a shaft 153 which bears a cam 155, Fig. 11, engaging a flange on the slide 152 thus depressing it and moving out of range of the control parts 88. In a similar manner, a cam 146, Fig. 10, driven from a pinion on the shaft 153 depresses and disables the slide 141. (4) The racks 212, Fig. 6, setting the type-wheels 186, Fig. 9, are held out of gear by an eccentric 371 on a shaft 372 which is rocked from the shaft 361 by a crank 375, a link 374 and a crank 373 on the shaft 372, Fig. 7. (5) The rack 245 operating the counter slides 97 is disabled by a helical groove 363 in a cam 362 on a shaft 361, which rocks a lever 365, Fig. 8, and moves the pinion 244 out of engagement. A finger 370 on the lever locks the rack in the disengaged position. After all the parts are disabled, the setting- handle 117 is moved step by step to each station on the indicating-disk.