Patent GB-191305657-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Printing and Issuing Tickets, Checks, Vouchers and the like.
Filed: 1913-03-06
Granted: 1914-03-05
Abstract: 5657. National Cash Register Co., Banwell, H. C., and Phillips, F. March 6. Printing-apparatus for fare registering and checking apparatus; inking-apparatus; tripping- arrangements; number - printing apparatus; counting-apparatus. - A machine for printing tickets, checks, vouchers, &c., particularly applicable for printing tickets for kinematograph shows, with the date, a consecutive number, and other matter, and with a duplicate of some of the matter on a stub portion which can be torn off along a line of perforations produced in the machine, is constructed with a series of printing-devices for printing tickets of different values, each operated by a single separate operating-member, which, when moved in one direction, rocks a segment containing the printing- surfaces and moves the impression cylinder into contact therewith, so that the ticket is thus printed, and is fed forward, and on the return movement of the member the impression roller is tripped and simultaneously the printed ticket is cut off. The operating-member is arranged to actuate a total adding-counter, a customer counter, and a visible indicator for indicating the price of the ticket. Each printing or like device is operated by a hand-lever 1, fitted with stops 42 for preventing the operation of more than one handle at once, and with arrester pawls 17 and racks 17<a> for ensuring full strokes. The handle 1 on its forward stroke moves, by a pin-and-slot connexion 9<a>, a rack 9 which gears with a segmental gear 10<a> on the shaft of a segmental drum 10 which carries duplicate number-printing wheels 55, Figs. 10 and 11, date - printing wheels 54, and other printing- surfaces 61. The impression roller 14 is mounted on a slide 11 fitted with a projection 12 engaged bv a cam-surface 13 on rack 9 which raises the roller into printing position as the rack 9 moves forward. The strip is thus fed from a roll (not shown) and is printed with the desired matter. On the completion of the forward movement of rack 9 the slide 11 is drawn downwards by the action of spring arms 28 on V-shaped notches 29 attached to the slide, and during the return of rack 9 the projection 12 is engaged by the underside of cam 13 and the impression roller is kept tripped. The descent of slide 11 is transmitted through a pin-and-slot connexion to a moving knife 26 formed with an inclined slot coacting with a similar slot in a fixed knife 24, through which slots the ticket is protruded during printing. As the slide 11 descends, the cut ticket falls down a slope 33. The ticket strip is guided to printing position by a tubular guide 34, the front side of which is fitted with a spring 35 which presses the strip against the back side of the guide. The total-adding counter 6 is actuated by a segment 7 loosely mounted on the shaft 2 of lever 1, and bridges 8 on the segments acted on by the lever 1. On the return movement of the lever 1, the counter 6 is thrown out of mesh with segment 7 by a cam 8<a> on a shaft 5 and a rocking member 8<b> The shaft 5 is oscillated from shaft 2 bv means of levers 3, 3b, link 3<a>, and a double rack 4, as shown in Fig. 3. The customer counter 16 is actuated from the rack 9 by means of a bent lever 15 and a pawl 15<c> and ratchet 15<d>, and as the handle 1 moves forwards, a cam 20 on the rack 9 raises a visible indicator 19 through lever 18 and rod 19<a>, and a retainer 22 is actuated from a cam on shaft 5 to retain the indicator in elevated position until a fresh lever is operated. The date-wheels 54 are set by means of segments 58 gearing with duplicate sets of wheels and actuated by handles 59 to adjust the various components simultaneously. The number-wheels 55 can be similarly reset to the zero position by means of segmental gear 57, Fig. 1. In the actuation of the machine, the number-wheels of the duplicate sets are simultaneously actuated by oscillating frames 36<a> fitted with ratchets 36<c> and connected by a bar 45 with a stud 45<a> which engages projections 43, 44 to cause the frames 36<a> to reciprocate. Check pawls 36<d> are provided. The segmental gear 57 engages gearwheels 56 fast on the spindles of the wheels 55, and the spindles are fitted with longitudinal grooves adapted to engage one-way acting pawls on the wheels and return them to zero,