Patent GB-206959-A (GB)
Abstract: 206,959. Marsh, A., and Alais, H. P. Sept. 1, 1922. Tickets, issuing and cutting off.-Relates to a construction of ticket-delivering machine of the type described in Specification 134,638, and particularly to the means for feeding out and cutting off tickets from a roller, for actuating a datestamping device, and for showing the delivery upon a counter or indicator. A group of units issuing differently-priced tickets is contained in one casing 1, Fig. each unit dealing with one roll 4. The rolls are loosely mounted on pivot pins 8 carried by brackets projecting from a vertical support 6, the pivot pins being slightly coned so that the rolls tend to move up to the bracket. A roller 9 prevents each roll from rotating too freely. The ticket strip is fed into each unit through a slot and on actuating a handle 13 a ticket is delivered through an opening 14, a transparent shield 15 covering the openings of the upper units to shield them from draughts. Each unit comprises a bed 23, Fig. 1. bolted in side frames 20, 21 secured to the casing 1 and an upper frame 27 attached by a pivot 28 to extensions of the side frames. The upper frame carries a roller 45 and is normally pulled towards the bed by springs 30. The ticket strip passes between the pivoted frame and the bed and is clamped at its forward end by a plate 33 on the upper frame. A hand-lever 34 provides means for lifting the upper frame for the insertion or the removal of a ticket strip. A mutilated feedroller 40 mounted on the shaft 41 of the handle 13 is adapted to grip the ticket strip against the roller 45 and to feed it, the pressure of the ticket against the roller 45 lifting the upper frame and so raising the clamping plate 33. The length of the operative section of the roller 40 is such that the length of one ticket is fed forward at each operation. To position the ticket for cutting off a sliding bar 50 arranged at the front of the machine is actuated by an arm 53 projecting from a cam-operated shaft 55; the upper end of the bar is formed as a finger 54 which, when the strip is stationary, projects through a hole in the strip into a recess in the plate 33. A guillotine knife 60, Fig. 5, cuts off each ticket after it has been fed forward, being actuated by a link 65 connected to a lever 66 carrying a roller 68 engaging a cam 69 on the shaft 41. A spring 70 attached to the knife holds the roller against the cam and a coil spring on the pivot 61 maintains the guillotine knife in cutting relationship with a co-operating knife 64. A ratchet wheel on the shaft 41 ensures it being turned in the correct direction. A counter 82 is actuated each time the knife cuts off a ticket, the dials of the counters being seen through openings 16 in the casing 1; a distant indicator may be actuated electrically at each operation of the machine. When the machine is used for issuing railway tickets a dating-stamp is secured on rods 91, Fig. 7, and is actuated by a cam-operated lever 92 pivoted on the shaft 55, the lever moving rapidly upwards and striking up printing-type to mark the date on the ticket. The upward movement of the lever 92 is checked by stop 101 so that the type engage the strip with their own momentum only. To permit the first ticket of a new strip to be dated, the pawl engaging the ratchet-wheel on the shaft 41 is raised when the handle 13 is in its initial position, and the handle may be moved backwardly for a short distance, actuating the dating-mechanism without moving the ticket strip.