The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-10-14 00:00:00

NEW TICKET-PRINTING.

A few days ago a number of persons, scientifically
acquainted with the mechanism of printing, assembled
by invitation at the printing offices of Piebro's l'atent
Printing and Ticket Registering Company, in Old-
street, London, for the purpose of observing in action
a new process of ticket-printing, which combines at
once naming, numbering, and registering. The system
is the invention of Mr. Marcusidebro. of Manchester,
whose object has been to execute a complete scheme
of tickets for the detection of fraud in public vehicles,
theatres, &c.; a machine being required which produces
consecutively numbered tickets in a continuous roll from
one up to a thousand, divided into proper lengths, each
length perforated, and having printed matter impressed
on its surface. A f ter considerable trouble a machine was
at length devised, which is capable of printing on Loth
sides if continuous rolls of paper r cardboard, nomber-
ing consee,.;tively and perforating 1,000 tickets per
minute hen the maeldoe is worked by hand. When
stema-power is applied to it rapidity of production
will, of course, be proportionately increased. The
printing is by an ingeni, am adaptation of the
usual cy Ruder process, the types being placed on one
or two cylinders, as may be required for printing on
one or both sides of the tickets. In passing from one
printing cylinder to the other, the strip of paper is
brought into contact with an intermediate cylinder,
which makes a series of perforations in the line of divi-
sion between the respective tickets. While the per-
foration is being executed the consecutive number is
impressed from beneath. The part of the machine by
which the ntunbering is done is quite novel and very
ingenious. It consists of a cylinder between two and
three feet in diameter and about the same in length, on
the periphery of which are arranged figures, ordinary
moveable types, from 1 to 3,000. By placing the
numbers in a continuous spiral line round the cylinder,
and making the latter move on its axis at a certain
rate, the numbers are presented and printed fronlin
succession, with unfailing accuracy. Distinct from
the printing machine is a patent register box, or
receptacle for the coil of tickets, which are issued
from the register as required. This part of the process
is particularly applicable to tralawsys and o:n:disuses,
and is actu lly in use with sit.l...das on the line of
tramway in tee City-road. he tickets being conse-
cutively numbered, there is tatty:dd., indication of how
many have teen issued, an i there is an unfailing
check on the distributor. The system is also applic-
able to tickets for railways, passenger and luggage

"'vac, eteimbrats, pawnbrokers' establishments,
colliery works, theatres, concerts, and all places of
public amusement. racecourses; public gardens, adver-
tisements, balloting and postal canis, postage and re-
ceipt stamps. It is citimaterl that a saving of not less
than 50 per cent, upon the present mode of printing
will be effected by Mr. Behro's improved machinery.
OThe patentee has visited Austria and Prussia, and has
obtained a patent from the Government of the latter
country. The machine was fairly exhibited, and all
its capabilitiel were shown to the persons %ill() were
a.,ke:l to inspect it; and there seemed to be but one
opinion of its simplicity and its capacity for carrying
out fully the objet it is intended to attain. It may
be added that it has met with the approval of many
scientific and practical gentlemen ; and several
railway companies are in communication with the
patentee in reference to the adoption of the apparatus
on their lines.