Patent GB-368825-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coin freed ticket printing and issuing machines
IPC: G07F17/42
Filed: 1930-12-10
Abstract: 368,825. Coin-freed ticket printing and issuing machines. FISHBURN, J. E., The Island, Uxbridge, and WEBB, C. F., 33, Kenton Park Avenue, Kenton, both in Middlesex. Dec. 10, 1930, No. 37275. [Class 27.] Coin action, thrust and weight.-A coin-freed ticket printing and issuing machine comprises means operable automatically by coins of the same value so that any denomination, preselected at the will of the operator, of at least one series of letters, figures, characters, &c. in the form of printing-type or impression elements carried by a printing mechanism is printed automatically upon a ticket issued from the machine. The selected denomination is registered upon a mechanism associated solely with the selected denomination. The machine described is for issuing " win " or " place " tickets in connection with a totalizator. A number is selected by turning a dial 7, Figs. 3 and 5, the spindle of which carries toothed discs 12 to close contacts 13 in accordance with the number selected, and a pair of stepped cams 14, 15 with which the arms 17 of a pair of bell-crank levers 17, 18 co-operate. The contacts 13 actuate a decoding mechanism and produce an impulse in the circuit of an electromagnetically operated registering mechanism associated solely with the selected number. The levers 17, 18 adjust a printing- mechanism 32 to print the number selected. A coin is inserted in a slot 4 for a " win " or in a slot 5 for a " place." The insertion of a coin rocks, in one direction or the other, a lever 68 which is retained in displaced position by one of two notches 76 in a spring-controlled catch 77. The lever 68 displaces a lever 70 against the action of a spring 71 and causes its end 72 to engage a notch 73 in a disc 74 on the spindle 8, thereby locking the dial 7 in selected position, until the lever 68 is released. In the case of a " place " bet, the lever 68 through links 80, 81, 82 moves axially a spindle 83 to alter a type member 92 and to close a pair of contacts causing the decoding mechanism to be switched over to " place " registering mechanisms instead of " win." The coin finally drops to and closes by weight master contacts 122, Fig. 2. This energizes an electromagnet 51, the armature 50 of which is attracted and allows an arm 48 on a shaft 42 to be rocked by a spring 49. The shaft 42 has an arm which closes contacts to start an electric motor 62 driving a slotted collar 59 loose on a shaft 24 carrying the printing mechanism. An extension 53 of the arm 48 releases an arm 54 fast on the shaft 24 and also allows a latch 56 pivoted to the arm 54 to engage one of the slots in the collar thereby making a driving connection between the collar to the shaft 24. A cam on the shaft 24 maintains the motor contacts closed for a large portion of the rotation of the shaft. The contacts are then opened and the overrun of the motor completes the cycle of operation of the machine. The printing mechanism 32, Fig. 5, comprises a stereo 146, an alterable type-wheel 147, and a pair of rotatable type-wheels 37, 38, Fig. 3, connected with stepped cams 34 and operating as described in Specification 325,873, [Class 100 (iv), Typewriters, &c.]. The lever arms 18 move brackets 26 along the shaft 24 to positions determined by the cams 14, 15, these brackets positioning stops 29 in the path of the cams 34. The words " win," place " are on a type member 92 which is actuated from the spindle 83 as described in Specification 332,942, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.]. The ticket is fed from the roll 135, severed, inked and delivered as described in Specification 325,873. When it is desired to issue a test ticket, a manually operable lever 13c, Fig. 3, closes a special pair of contacts so that the issue is not registered in the remote control station, and the printing mechanism prints " No. 0 " on the ticket. Two selector dials for " win " and " place " respectively may be provided, or a series of coin slots, each being in respect of a particular number and the insertion of a coin being arranged to deflect differentially a movable member which adjusts the effective position of the discs 12 and the cams 14, 15. Testing coins ; returning coin.-A coin inserted through either of the slots 4, 5 passes through guides 98, Fig. 12, to a pivoted, inclined, counterbalanced shoot 99. Small coins drop through an aperture 102 in this shoot to a shoot 103, which is provided with two partitions 104, 105. Light coins slide off on the partition 104, and too heavy coins on the shoot 103. Correct coins slide off on the partition 105 and down a shoot 115. The incorrect coins pass to a counterbalanced tilting shoot 107, Fig. 2, which returns them to the outside of the machine. as this shoot is rocked by a rejected coin, it releases the catch 77 through a link 110, and lever 111, 113 provided with an extension 114. This extension is also operated during the actuation of the machine by an eccentric cam on the shaft 24. Correct coins pass from the shoot 115 to a shoot 116 pivoted at 117, Fig. 13, the shoot 116 having an extension 118 hinged thereto at 119. Coins pass down the shoot 116 to close the contacts 122. During the operation of the machine the shoot 116 is rocked to the left to discharge the coin through a shoot 123 to a till by means of a linkage 124, 125, 127 actuated from the shaft 42. Should the machine fail to act after the closing of the contacts 122, the extension 118 is swung to the right by a finger 131 on a hand-operated shaft 129, and the coin is returned through a shoot 132 and the shoot 107. Specification 326,446, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.], also is referred to.