Patent GB-343575-A (GB)
Abstract: 343,575. Ticket-issuing machines. GUY, F. E., Elmswood, Dukes Avenue, Canons Park, Edgware, Middlesex. Nov. 22, 1929, No. 35798. [Class 106 (iii).] Relates to apparatus for printing the date, fare and stage on a bus or like ticket, and comprises two or more printing drums combined with a manual device which forms a common setting means for two or more of the printing drums. The ticket strip 4 passes from the roll 3 under the feed sprocket 5 through a shallow rectangular guide tube 6 and over a knife 7 to an issuing slot in the side of the casing 1. The printing drums 9 .. 16 are arranged in line over openings in the guide tube 6. The fare drum 9 is fast on a sleeve 17 freely rotatable on a spindle 18. The drum 10 which is rotatable on the sleeve 17 has part of the circumference cut away and is controlled by a handle 19 to be moved to one of four positions corresponding to fares for child, workmen, return, and cheap-midday. The drums 11 .. 14 which may be integral serve to point the alighting print for the fares indicated by the drum 9. A further drum 15 prints the boarding stage. This numeral representing this added to the numerals indicated by the drums 11 .. 14 gives the stage to which the person is entitled to travel. The drum 16 is provided for the date or number of the service. The printing is effected by hammers 20, 21, 22, an inking ribbon being arranged above the guide tube. The hammers 20, 22 are of the width of two drums and are fast on the shaft 37, while the hammer 21 is wide enough only to print from one drum and is selectively moved on its squared shaft 37 from the handle 19 through bell crank 31, 32 and slide bar 36. The spindle of the handle 19 carries an arm 33 with a pin 34 engaging a slotted plate 35 on the drum 10. The rocking of the shaft 37 actuates all hammers simultaneously. The spindle 18 is slidable axially to a slight extent against the influence of a spring by pulling out the knob 50. A ratchet wheel 51 fixed on the spindle 18 is adapted to engage a locking pawl 52 when the spindle is pulled outward and thus to permit rotation of the wheel 51 through one step only. The wheel 51 is turned through one tooth at each stage of the journey, this moving the drum 15 through one step by engagement of a toothed wheel 55 on the shaft 18 with a gear 56 which through gearing is connected to the drum 15. The gear 55 is always in mesh with a wide pinion 60 in gear with the drums 11 .. 14. In the " in " position, the knob 50 can be turned to any extent, this movement being transmitted to the drums 11 .. 14 to print the stage to which the purchaser is entitled to travel, this depending on the rotary movement of the knob 50 and on the position of the handle 19. At the same time the fare drum 9 is moved by gears meshing with the gear 55, connection with which is broken when the push is pulled out. Printing is effected during the first part of the movement of a vertical bar 66 moved down against the influence of a spring 67 by moving the thumbpiece 68. The lever part 48 has a limited sliding movement relative to the bar. The spring 38, which has been tensioned during the previous return of the bar 66 is released by a recess in the trigger 66 engaging a pin 70 to release a catch 46 causing the spring 38 to actuate the hammers by means of the lever 39. The spring 38 is again tensioned during return of the bar 66 by engagement of the arm 47 of the three-armed lever 44, 45, 47, by the part 48. The arm 45 is retained by the catch 46. The ticket strip is fed by the sprocket 5, the spindle of which has a pinion 72 meshing with a sector 73 of an arm 74 which engages a slot 75 in the bar 66. A guillotine knife 7 is actuated by a spring-controlled lever moved from the bar 66. The return of the fare drum to zero causes the fare to be transferred to the totalizer 103.