Patent GB-190000116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Printing Tickets, Checks, and the like.
Inventor: HARRISON GEORGE
Filed: 1900-01-02
Granted: 1900-03-24
Abstract: 116. Harrison, G., [Graham-Jones Ticket Co.]. Jan.2. Platen presses; paging and numbering apparatus ; cutt i n g - apparatus; feeding - apparatus for webs.-Relates to machines for printing, cutting, and punching &c. to produce tickets or checks from a web or strip of paper. The web of paper 60 passes under guide-bars 63, 630 and over the bed of the frame e under the forme carriers a, b pivoted at c and oscillated to make the impressions by rods 2, 3 and crank-pins 4, 5 on shafts 8,9 driven from the m a i n shaft 12 by gearing 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, &c. Each of the forme carriers a, b is provided with means for securing ordinary types, and with a deeper recess for a numbering- mechanism having discs for printing consecutive numbers of larger size such as those shown on the tickets in Fig. 11. The carrier a is preferably arranged to print the numbers in one colour, such as red, and the carrier b to print the ordinary matter in black ; or each carrier may print and number a separate ticket. The recesses for the numbering-mechanisms in the carriers a, b may be so arranged that they may be filled in with plates or blocks which form backings for the numbering- mechanisms. The types are inked by rollers 24 in spring arms or holders 22, 26 pivoted at 20, 21 on the carriers and operated by rods 34, 36 connecting them to fixed points 35 on the framing. On the backs of the carriers are sets of ink-distributing rollers 38, 42 supplied with ink from rollers 39, 43 in ducts 40, 44 mounted on a bracket 41 of the frame. The distributing-rollers are driven from shafts 12, 18 by bevel gearing and shafts 205, 206, which latter shafts are mounted in swivelling yokes 207, 208, 214, 215, which permit of the movement of the carriers a, b. The duct rollers are rotated by ratchet gear 46, 47, 50, 51, &c. actuated by rods connected to an adjustable crank on the shaft 9. One edge of the web is strengthened by gummed strips 160, 161 which pass over moistening-rollers 164, 165 in water troughs 166, 167. This strengthened edge of the web is that which is to receive the eyelet perforations 305, Fig. 11. The printed web passes between longitudinal cutting-discs or perforators on shafts 72, 73 and between feed-rollers 64, 65, by which it is fed intermittently. The lower feed-roller 64 and the cutter shafts 72, 73 are driven by gearing operated through a ratchet mechanism driven by a rack bar reciprocated by an adjustable crank on the shaft 85. The perforations 305, and, if desired, the elongated perforations 150, Fig. 11, are made by punches mounted on a bar 101 reciprocated vertically in a bracket 102 by a pair of toggles 103 connected so as to move together by a rod 105, and operated by a rod connected to a crank arm on a longitudinal shaft rocked by a rod connected to a crank on a shaft driven from the shaft 85. The notches 306 are cut by a V-shaped cutter on a reciprocating bar 120 ; and the tickets are cut off by a fixed cutter and a movable cutter on a reciprocating bar 132. The bars 120, 132 are operated by toggle &c. mechanism similar to that by which the bar 101 is operated. A change gear arrangement is provided by which the feed-shaft 85 and feed-rollers 64, 65, may be operated to feed the strip forward either one or two movements for each operation of the forme carriers.