Patent GB-143821-A (GB)
Abstract: 143,821. Haddan, A. J. H., (National Cash Register Co.). Feb. 21, 1919. Tickets, issuing and cutting-off; printing- arrangements.-A machine for printing and issuing different kinds of "local" railway, &c., tickets, such as "single" and "return" tickets from a central station, wherein is employed a number of detachable destination devices or matrices, is adapted for use with the key-controlled, validating machine described in Specification 143,603, issuing printed tickets composed of a number of detachable coupons. The destination devices are provided with type for printing the destination and the fare, with consecutive number printing wheels and value-representing holes of different depths for controlling the differential mechanism of the total and detail-strip printing mechanism described in the above-mentioned Specification. In addition to the type on the detachable destination device there are provided in the apparatus rollers which print, before the ticket is severed from the strip, a serial number once on the back of the ticket and, on the front, the date once and the name of the issuing station once or twice according to the adjustment of an external lever to the "single" or "return" position, such adjustment also causing, in the case of a "return" ticket, a second imprint to be made by the destination device. The motor-driven operating- mechanism employed is that described in Specification 143,826 controlled by the keys described in the above-mentioned Specification 143,603. Destination devices; controlling insertion and ejection. The destination devices are inserted at a shoot 109, Figs. 3 and 4, from which they pass to a carrying frame 118, Fig. 5, comprising side plates 119 connected by a member 123 secured to flanges 122 and having ribs 124, 125 adapted to receive the destination device, the frame being pivoted on rods 120 supported by brackets 121. Normally the frame 118 is in a position below the shoot to receive the destination device which is supported by a bar 127 carried by links 128 and arms 130 carried on the rods 120. The insertion of more than one destination device into the machine at a time is prevented and the release of a previously inserted device, by the forward movement of the bar 127 in cam slots 131 in the brackets 121, is effected on the depression of an exterior handle 134. Connected to the handle is a spring-retracted slide 141 formed with an inclined slot 147 which engages the bar 127 and forces it forward in the slots 131 to release the previously-inserted destination device. A stud 171, Fig. 9, carried by a lever 170 pivoted at 144 is forced into the shoot, to block the passage until the bar 127 is again in the supporting position, by a pin 173 on the slide 141 engaging a cam slot 172 on the lever. Insertion of a destination device prior to the release of the previous one is prevented by a lug 164 on the lever 134 which normally enters the shoot. The bar 127 is held in the supporting position by the hooked end of a spring-controlled bar 155, Fig. 8, pivoted at 156 to a side plate 119 and lowered when a pin 162 thereon is struck by the end of the slide 141. The lever 134 is locked against movement during operation of the machine on the depression of a key in the ticket-seller's bank which rocks a shaft 186, Fig. 4, in a counter-clockwise direction, as described in the above-mentioned Specification 143,603, a crank 185 thereon moving, through a link 183, a pivoted arm 180 to bring a shoulder 181 below a projection 182 on the slide 141. Movement of destination device to printing position. The frame 118 is rocked from the position shown in Figs. 4 and 8 by the bar 127 which engages the flanges 122 on the frame and is raised, to lift the destination device into position to print on the ticket and control the differential mechanism of the validating printer, by the carn portion 201 of the slot 131. Movement of the bar 127 to the rear is effected by the cam groove 197 of a cam 198 through a three-armed lever 193, bearing a roller 196, and links 191, 188 connected to one of the arms 130. The cam 198 only serves to move the frame 118 to the rear, the return movement being effected through the hooked lever 155, Fig. 8, by a second cam 203 through a link 205 connected to an arm 206 of the lever 193, the cam 203 only commencing to rotate after the cam 198 has completed half a revolution. Alinement of the frame 118 in either position is effected by the engagement with notches 228 in the frame of rollers 226 carried by spring-controlled arms 224, Fig. 8, rocked by a lever 238 through rollers 239, 240 thereon engaged by the peripheries of the cams 203, 198. Impression means for destination type. A platen frame for printing from the inserted destination device comprises a channel-shaped plate 243, Figs. 4 and 8, secured to arms 244 loose on the rods 120, a block 246 carrying the platen 245 being adjustably secured to the platen frame. Carried by an arm 250 pivoted on one of the rods 120 is a ticket frame comprising a plate 253 provided with side members having flanges 268 adapted to hold the ticket on the platen 245. Normally the frames are held in the positions shown in Figs. 4 and 8 by the engagement of an extension 254 of the plate 253 with a spring catch 257 which is carried by a slotted arcuate plate 256. To receive the ticket after it has been severed from the strip, the frames are lowered to the positions shown in dotted lines on to a block 266 by a cam-operated link 261, Fig. 3, connected at 260 to one of the arms 244, the platen 245 being clear of the flanges 268 of the ticket frame between which it is gripped when the platen frame is raised by the link 261. Movement of the platen frame is effected by two arms 269, Figs. 3 and 4, rigidly connected by a cross rod 270 and pivoted on the shaft 194. Cam slots 271, Figs. 3 and 4, in the arms 269 engage rollers 272 on the platen frame, and move it against the type of the destination device. The ticket frame is held on the return movement by the catch 257 thus causing the ticket to be released and caught by a stop 275, Fig. 5, on the frame 118, this stop in the printing position being over the mouth of the ticket delivery shoot 153. The ticket is pressed into engagement with the stop by a spring-retracted arm 276, Figs. 4 and 8, operated by a catch on the arms 269. Printing single or return ticket. A return ticket is differentiated from a single ticket by having the name of the issuing station printed twice thereon by printing means permanently carried in the machine and by being moved against the destination type both before and after the ticket is arrested by the stop 275. Two cam disks 289, 291, Fig. 12, are provided to move the arms 269 once or twice per operation accord. ing to the setting of an external lever 298 loose on a cross rod 299. Secured to the lever 298 is a cam 306 provided with a special groove adapted to move a sleeve 308 along a rod 309 by means of an arm 310 thereon provided with a roller engaging the cam groove. Arms 312, 313, Fig. 12, carried by the sleeve are situated on either side of a ]ever 293 bearing rollers 295, 297 adapted to be moved by the cam 306 into engagement with one or other of the grooves 290, 292 of the cams 289, 291 to rock the lever once or twice, this movement being transmitted to the arm 269 through the cross rod 270 with which the lever 293 engages. At the end of the operation when the carrying frame 118 is returned to the normal position the stop 275 is removed from below the ticket which slides down the delivery shoot 153, the destination device being freed on the next operation of the lever 134 to slide down the front of the ticket shoot. The lever 298 is locked during an operation of the machine by a roller 320 on a slide 321, Fig. 4, engaging one of two notches 319 formed in an enlarged portion of the lever, when one of the above-mentioned ticket-sellers' or clerks' key is depressed to rock the shaft 186, a roller 325 on a crank thereon engaging a slot 324 in the head of the slide. Conversely prior movement of the shaft 168 prevents movement of the lever 298 unless the lever is in the correct position. Consecutive numbering device, operation of. An arm 211, Fig. 8, provided with a nose 213 and pivoted at 212 to the side plate of the frame, is rocked during the rearward movement of the frame into the destination device to actuate the counter operating pawl by a pin 217, Fig. 9, on the link 188 engaging the curved face 218 of a member 216 on the shaft 212 on which the arm 211 is mounted. Printing means mounted in the machine; ticket feeding and severing. The ticket strip is drawn through a guide 351, Figs. 3 and 4, by printing and feeding rolls 333, 334, which print a consecutive number on the back of the ticket from numbering wheels 341. The ticket then passes through rollers 337, 338, adapted to print the date from hand-set wheels 346, and the name of the issuing station once or twice on the front of the ticket, to a severing knife 360, which is reciprocated by a cam 369 on the shaft of the roller 333 through a lever 363. During the severing operation, the ticket is gripped between a fixed flange 374 and a flange 371 on a spring- pressed plate 370 depressed by a pin on the knife 360 when this is lowered by a cam 369 to permit the ticket to be fed. Single or double printing of the issuing station is effected by providing single and double type on the printing cylinder and moving this longitudinally on its shaft to correspond with the position of the lever 298 by means of a fork 353 on the sleeve 308 engaging a groove on the printing roller 337, the date wheels being unaffected by this movement. To feed the ticket quickly on to the platen 245 the feeding rolls are driven by elliptical gearing. Control of differential mechanism for totalizer and detail strip printer. Nested sleeves 429, Figs. 3 and 4, are connected as described in