Patent GB-190618437-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Ticket Printing and Registering Apparatus.
Inventor: LEBEIS MARTIN
Filed: 1906-08-17
Granted: 1907-04-18
Abstract: 18,437. Lebeis, M. Aug. 17. Printing on tickets; platen presses; typewriters and like machines; numbering-apparatus; dating railway &c. tickets.-Relates to ticket-printing machines having series of printing-plates on endless chains, and to means for registering the tickets printed. Fig. 1 shows a machine having the greater portion of its casing 87 omitted, Fig. 5 a vertical section through the printing-carriage, and Fig. 6 the registering- mechanism. One or more rows of endless chains 2 are provided, as shown two rows of four, each row being adapted to print four classes of tickets such as first, second, third, and return. Each chain carries a series of type-plates 1 for printing the names of different stations. 'The chains are arranged on wheels 3, 4 on two pairs of parallel horizontal shafts 5, 6, the latter of which are geared by wheels 7, 9 to a shaft 8,'having a hand-crank 12 for operating it and a pointer 11 moving over an index 10 marked with the names of the different stations. In the arrangement shown, the left-hand half of the index is for the left-hand row of chains, and the right-hand half for the other row. Beneath the chains is a carriage 13 having wheels 14 running on rails 15, so that it may be moved under any of the four chains in the rows. This is effected by a lever handle, moving over a ratchet-toothed locating- segment and provided with an index finger moving over a scale. This lever is geared to a pulley connected by a cord to one end of the carriage, which is pulled in the opposite direction by cords and weights. The carriage is bored to receive two camcylinders 33 splined to shafts 38 so as to rotate with and move longitudinally on them. Each shaft 38 is geared by bevel-wheels 37, 47 to two shafts 48, the wheels 47 being splined to the shafts and moved along them with the carriage. A revolution of a shaft 48 by its crank-handle 49 is sufficient to feed, print, and deliver a ticket from one of the hoppers 39, of which there are two rows of four, one for each chain 2. The lowest ticket is carried from the hopper by a sliding platen 30 having a shoulder 40 for engaging the ticket. The two platens 30 are arranged to move to and from the central line of the carriage on guides 28, and are moved by pins 32 thereon engaging the helical cam-grooves 34 in the cylinders 33. A fixed pin 35 on the carriage engages each cam-groove 34, so that the cylinders also move inwards, but to less extent than the platens. Straight portions a, b of the grooves 34 cause the platens to dwell when impressing the tickets against the lowest plates 1 and against the dating and numbering mechanisms 44. The platens are raised to print the tickets by projections on the floors of the grooves 34 which engage, and lift the lower ends of the pins.32. The printed tickets are engaged and drawn off the platens by hooks 45, and fall through the opening 46. The dating and numbering devices 44 may be of any known construction. The printing-surfaces are inked by rollers 42 on the platens, supplied with ink in any suitable manner. The registering-mechanism comprises means for printing one or two strips 55 by impressing them against type-wheels 54 on a shaft 53, geared by bevel-gears and a shaft 52 to the shaft 8. One of the strips 55 may be accessible to the operator, and the other to the superintendent. Each strip passes from a feed-roll 70 round a guideroller 60, an impression platen 57, guide-roller 61, and between ratchet-operated feed-rollers 62, 63 to the winding-roll 72. The platens 57 are each carried by levers:59 on shafts 58 operated by arms 85 each pivoted at 18 to the ends of two links 79, 80, the other ends of which are successively operated by a cam-projection on the wheel 47. The platens 57 are thereby operated in succession at each operation of either shaft 48 to print a ticket. The reels 70, 72 are geared together by slipping bands 73. The type-wheels 54 are inked by a roller 75 on pivoted arms 74, moved across the upper typeplate by a nose on each of the platen levers 59. The feed-rollers 62 are driven by pawls on arms 69 fast on the shafts 58. One or both of the registering- strip mechanisms may be omitted.