Patent GB-191310084-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Apparatus for Issuing and Registering Tickets or Tokens.
Inventor: HARPER SIDNEY CHARLES
Filed: 1913-04-29
Granted: 1914-07-29
Abstract: 10,084. Harper, S. C., and Mills, F. B. April 29. Tickets and tokens, holding, issuing, and registering number of. -The tickets are held in a magazine provided with means for axially positioning them and with a key rod which fits an aperture in each ticket, the key rod and axial positioning-means being adjustable in relative position so that the machine may be adjusted to take any one group of a number of groups of tickets. In the apparatus shown. the tickets, different forms of which are shown in Figs. 14, 17, and 21, have an irregular contour and are inserted into a vertical magazine through a gauge plate f, which prevents their insertion in a wrong position. Two pairs of guide-rods g engage notches in the tickets r, Fig. 6, and maintain them in correct axial position. An adjustable key rod i<1>, carrying at its lower end a key which fits the aperture r<1> in the tickets, is secured to a rotatable arm i at the top of the apparatus. The arm i is secured to a spindle h<3> carrying au index plate h<4> by which the position of the key is adjusted. The index plate moves over an annular dividing-plate h<1>, having, in the case shown, sixteen equally spaced holes, with one of which a pin h<5> secured to the index plate engages. The dividing-plate is itself capable of angular adjustment on the carrier-plate h, and, by means of a pin which engages one of four holes in the carrier-plate, may be set into positions corresponding to one-fourth of one of the sixteen divisions of the dividing-plate. The key rod may thus be set in sixty-four positions about the axis of the machine, each corresponding to a different group of tickets. The key rod is itself adjustable on its axis, having a notched head i<3> which engages a projection on the arm i. The number of groups of tickets that may be employed is thus multiplied by the number of possible settings of the key rod about its axis. The ticket-releasing mechanism consists of a rotary slide plate b<4> having an opening to receive the lowest ticket, which is prevented from falling by a bearer plate b<5> until the slide is rotated to bring the ticket into coincidence with an opening in the bearer plate. The slide is operated by a handle b<2> and returned by a spring b<6>. A pawl j, Fig. 5, actuating a counter is engaged by the ticket just before its release. In another form, the dividing-mechanism for setting the key rod is omitted, and in adjusting the machine the tickets are first placed in the magazine, and a rod tightly fitting the key-rod perforations is passed through them. The suspension head is then adjusted to take the end of this rod, which is then replaced by the key rod, the rod being clamped in the suspension head. In this case, the key rod may have ninety positions about the axis of the machine and eighteen about its own axis, thus providing for 1620 groups of tickets. In either form of machine interchangeable key rods may be used, and in a simpler construction the key rod may be rotatable about one axis only.