Patent GB-190421372-A (GB)
Title: A Check or Ticket Registering and Issuing Machine.
Inventor: HARPER JOHN ROBERT
Filed: 1904-10-05
Granted: 1905-10-05
Abstract: 21,372. Harper, J. R., and Harper, M. A. J. Oct. 5. Fares and admission-fees, registering and checking; counting apparatus. -Check or ticket issuing and registering apparatus, which may also, when modified by the addition of a receiver, be used for registering checks or tickets collected, is constructed as shown. The checks 13, Fig. 2, rest partly on the bottom of the magazine 3 containing them, and partly on projections 36, Fig. 3, over the delivery aperture 35 in the base-plate 16. A hinge pin 4 is secured in the door 6 of the magazine by means of a padlocked cottar (not shown), and is fitted to a continuation 4<a> which carries at its lower end discs 22, 17. When the door is opened, a pin on the disc 17 engages a tumbler which throws a spring- controlled arm 23 across a flap 21 and lifts the latter against the-aperture 35. At the same time, the disc 22 presses outwards a spring arm 23, thereby forcing a pin 24 into a hole in the actuating- rod 2 and locking it. A flat surface on the disc 22 allows the spring arm to return when the door is closed. A guard 6<a> on the door covers the magazine during these operations. The actuating- rod 2, which slides in a tube 25, may be worked by hand, and may also be connected by a cord, attached to its lower end, to a pedal not shown. A lever passes through a slot in the rod 2 and is attached to a disc having oppositely-directed ratchet teeth separated by a semicircular opening. A lever shaped at each end to act as a pawl is held in engagement with either of the sets of ratchet teeth by a spring arm having a triangular projection which engages a similar projection on the lever. The motion of the disc and lever can only be reversed after the edge of the aperture has engaged a second projection on the pawl lever and thrown it over. On the shaft 28 of the disc is a lever 30, attached at one end to a spring 31 which causes the return motion of the actuating- rod, and having at the other a pin 32 engaging in a slotted plate 33 attached to a slide 34. This slide, which is thinner than the checks, is situated in a groove in the base-plate 16. As each check is pushed outwards, it displaces a block 38 on a spring arm 39 hinged to a sliding plate 40. The block 38 is arranged so as to ride over the check at the end of its movement and to depress it into the aperture 35, the projections 36 passing through notches in the check. The aperture 57 in the magazine through which the checks are pushed is curved upwards in the middle. The flap 21 has a recess to receive the block 38, and a tooth 21<a> to engage a recess in the block and prevent its movement, when the door of the magazine is open. The plate 40 is connected by a pin-and-slot device to an arm 42 acted on by a spring 51, and carrying a ratchet sector. A pawl 46 is held in engagement with the ratchet sector, while the actuating-rod 2 is depressed, by a spring 45 surrounding a rod 44 pivoted to the pawl. At the end of the return stroke of the actuating-rod 2, the end of the lever passing through the slot in the rod 2 engages another lever 49 and, by means of a pin 50 passing through the rod 44, moves the pawl away from the ratchet sector and releases the arm 42. A bar, consisting of two parts 53, 53<a> connected by a spring 53<b>, transmits the movement of the arm to a spring actuating a ratchet-wheel of a mechanical counter and having attached to it a block which prevents overthrow of the ratchet-wheel. The counter may be removable, and may be provided with a ratchet-wheel engaged by two pawls or other locking-devices, and unlocked, when the counter is in position, by projections from the apparatus. Attached to the arm 42 is a spring arm 47, the end of which is insulated, and in its movement to the left is depressed by a projection B, Fig. 6, on the insulating-base of the switch. In its return movement, the end of the arm is forced upwards by the projection against a spring C, pressing it against a spring F and thus closing the circuit. In the electric counter, a solenoid, designed for the voltage of ordinary supply mains, or other source of current employed, and protected hv a fuse, is wound on a slotted reel. Within the s a straight or curved core attached to a lever, to which is pivoted a pawl. Two fixed pins guide the pawl into engagement with a ratchetwheel of the counting-mechanism, and one of the pins also presses the pawl against the wheel and prevents overthrow. The counters are of the " Harding," " Vernon," " Veeder," or other types. The checks are inserted into the magazine by means of a file, such as that shown in Fig. 19, which can be withdrawn upwards through a slot 6<c>, Fig. 2, normally covered by a plate 6<b> attached to the door ; or the file may consist of a box open on one side, and having the opposite side movable, so that the checks can be pushed out. From the delivery aperture, the checks pass through a tube to the outside of the pay-window, which is provided with a guard, shown in side view in Fig. 17, to prevent the checks from being passed through it. The guard consists of a metal cage 9, open at the back and fitting in a groove in a vertical plate 10<a>, which has in its front side arch-shaped openings for the passage of money. Four bars 9<a> of the cage pass through the plate 10<a> and the shelf on which it rests, and are held by nuts at their lower ends. The plate 10<a> is also held by bolts and nuts between the arched openings, and has tongues projecting through the usual curved plate 11, which extends on each side of the guard.