Patent GB-674151-A (GB)
Abstract: 674,151. Ticket printing and issuing machines. SETRIGHT REGISTERS, Ltd. May 26, 1950 [June 3, 1949], No. 15028/49. Class 106 (iii). A portable ticket printing and issuing machine of the kind comprising printing mechanism including wheels for printing various items on a paper strip to form a ticket, said wheels being adjustable by rotation to vary the items printed, feeding means for feeding the paper strip so as to feed the printed ticket from the machine, a manually-operable mainshaft operable cyclically to actuate the printing mechanism to take an impression during a first part of each cycle and a drive by which the main shaft operates the paper strip feeding means during a last part of each cycle is characterized by a counter which is appropriated to one of the printing wheels, means for further appropriating the counter to a selected item printed by that wheel, means for operating the counter each time the selected item is printed and settable means for varying the particular item selected. The invention is effected by modifying the ticket-issuing machine described in Specification 576,808 to provide two additional counters 202, 203, Fig. 5, adjacent the units counter, not shown. Each counter 202, 203 has an operating arm 204, Fig. 8, connected to levers 206, 207, the latter of which is cranked, Fig. 5. The levers 206, 207 are respectively connected to a pivoted bell-crank lever 210, 211 which cooperate with a spring cam 200 on a wheel 30 which rotates one revolution every machine cycle. The levers 206, 207 are provided, at their ends remote from the counters 203, with a T-shaped slot 216 and an L-shaped slot 215 respectively into which slots projects the end 234, Figs. 6 and 8, of a pivoted lever 232. The end 234 of the lever 232 can be set to one of three positions A, B and C, Fig. 9. In position A the levers 206, 207 are locked so that the bellcranks 211 do not follow the cam 200 in a succeeding machine cycle and no actuation of the counters 202, 203 is effected. In position B the lever 206 is freed but the lever 207 is still locked so that in a succeeding machine cycle the associated bell-crank 211 is moved clockwise by the spring 214, Fig. 8, the lever 206 is moved upward to actuate the counter 202. In position C the lever 207 is freed but the lever 206 is again locked so that in a succeeding machine cycle the counter 203 is actuated. A ratchetwheel 222, Fig. 6, is fixed to the manuallyadjustable "value" printing wheel 56 and co-operates with a spring detent 224 to rotate a disc 220. In one position of the " value " wheel a pin 230 on the disc 220 engages the lever 232 and positions the end 234 thereof in its position C, Fig. 9. Thus every time the machine is set to print the particular value of ticket the counter 203 is operated in the succeeding cycle. When the wheel 56 is set to print a ticket of the next but one value a pin 229 on the disc 220 engages the lever 232 to position the end 234 thereof in its position B and the counter 202 is operated in the succeeding cycle. The particular "value" for which the counter 203 operates can be selected by rotating the wheel 56 to the desired value while holding the disc 220 stationary by a key member 227, the stem of which may engage a slot 226 in the disc 220. In this arrested position of the disc 220 the pin 230 abuts the lever 232. The counter 202 is always operated when the wheel 56 is set to print the next but one value for which the pin 230 is set.