Patent GB-325555-A (GB)
Abstract: 325,555. Cruickshank, J. Aug. 22, 1928. Totalizators. - The invention relates to totalizators adapted to print and deliver tickets and to register the number of tickets so delivered. Preformed, partly printed tickets are arranged in groups within the range of a frame slidable transversely to select the first ticket of any one group and movable in the plane of the said ticket to deliver it to a printing mechanism for the completion of the printing. End frame members 1 are connected together by bars 2, 3, 4, 5, Figs. 4 and 5, and also by tubular guides 9 upon which a frame 12 slides in a longitudinal direction so as to be brought opposite to any one of a series of ticket sets 32, Fig. 3, each set appertaining to one competitor. To this frame 12 are secured by lugs 14 bars 15 upon which a frame 16 slides in a vertical direction. At the front of the frame 16 is a downwardly extending member 17 having a tapered end 17A which engages with guide slots in the fixed bar 3, a similar member 20 situated towards the rear of the frame being arranged to move between rollers 6 on the fixed bar 4. The vertically-sliding frame 16 is actuated by a rearwardly extending handle 16<A>, and is returned to its normal position by an adjustable spring (not shown). A rack 22, Fig. 5, attached to the frame 16 is engaged by a spring-controlled fullstroke pawl 23. The tickets 32 are arranged in a series of removable containers 29 having windows 31 through which consecutive numbers previously printed on the backs of each series of tickets are visible. The tickets are held in position by springs 33, and upon the lowering of the frame 16 the front ticket is ejected through an opening 30 in the bottom of the container by a member 18 having a lip plate 19 guided by a fixed rod 34. The ejected ticket is received in a space 36, Fig. 11, formed by guide plates 37 attached to a plate 39 having fixed to it a rubber pad. The plates and pad are mounted on a sliding frame consisting of four bars 40, 40A, attached to a base plate 41 integral with a rod 42 on the end of which is a wheel 28 riding on a cam plate 27 attached to the vertically sliding frame. The bars slide in lugs 43 attached by brackets 12<c> to the horizontally sliding frame 12. Portions 44, 44<A>, of the type are removably attached to the lugs 43, and a central portion 35 is attached to a fixed bar extending from end to end of the machine. A spring 45 keeps the roller 28 in engagement with the cam plate 27. On the downward movement of the frame 16, the ticket carrier 36 moves to receive the ejected ticket, a spring- pressed plate 51, Fig. 11, pivoted at 52 moving out of engagement with a catch 53A to form a rest for the base of the ticket. The upper part of the cam plate 27 consists of a vertical hinged portion 46 up which the roller 28 travels until it slips over the end, at which time electric contacts on the frames 12 and 16 come together and cause the energization of an electromagnet 57 which attracts the base plate 41 and presses the ticket against the type which has previously been inked by contact with an ink roller 58 supported on the frame 16. On the return upward movement of the frame 16 the cam follows the inclined path of the cam plate until the projection on the ticket rest 51 engages the catch 53<A> and releases the ticket. A projecting portion of the vertically sliding frame 16 engages a swinging bar 65, Figs. 2 and 4, connected to the framework by links, one of which, 67<A>, is secured to a shaft 68 having a lever 69 connected to a rod 71 which operates counting mechanism 73, 74, 75. A spring 70 attached to the lever 69 retains the bar 65 in its normal position. To the first disc of the counting mechanism are attached a disc 85, Fig. 18, having projecting pins 84, and also a ratchet wheel 79 operated by the rod 71 and controlled by a pawl 80. The end of the operating rod 71 has a slot through which one of the pins 84 passes at the commencement of a stroke of the rod. As the rod advances, the opening moves to prevent the succeeding pin passing through it.