IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISH OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING AND DELIVERING CHECKS, TICKETS, OR LABELS CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED, OR OTHERWISE TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS OF CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONIES FROM PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND FOR OTHER GENERAL PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Alphaeus Gooding, of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MECHANISH OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING
AND DELIVERING CHECKS, TICKETS, OR LABELS CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED,
OR OTHERWISE TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS OF CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF
MONIES FROM PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND FOR OTHER
GENERAL PURPOSES."
Scaled the 7th October 1871, and dated the 13th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Alphacus
Gooding at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th April 1871.
I, RICHARD ALPHAEUS GOODING, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY
PRINTING AND DELIVERING CHECKS, TICKETS, OR LABELS CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED,
OR OTHERWISE TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS OF CHECKING THE RECEIPT OF MONIES
FROM PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND FOR OTHER GENERAL
PURPOSES," to be as follows:—
My Invention is designed for the purpose of printing and delivering
tickets or checks consecutively numbered or simply with subject-matter
printed thereupon to persons entering places of amusement, riding in

page_text: public vehicles, or for numerous other purposes where checking the
receipt of monies or articles is required.
The Invention consists in a peculiar arrangement and construction of
apparatus herein-after described that can be employed for severing
and delivering intermittently blank checks or tickets from a continuous
roll of paper or by a simple adaptation thereto of simultaneously printing
or endorsing subject-matter in conjunction with consecutive numbers
upon the tickets as they are successively delivered. Also by the cm-
ployment of a galvanic battery, connecting wires and dials the tickets
passing out can be told off at any distance from the place where
delivered, and a counter check effected upon the check receiver.
The peculiar arrangement of apparatus for printing and delivering
the tickets may be thus described:-A case, enclosure, or box is con-
structed in which is contained a curved or straight grid guide, one end
of which opens out at the back of the box and the other terminates
with the exit orifice of the box; at the back ontrance to this grid
guide a platform is provided, over which one end of a continuous
strip of paper or other material forming checks is passed into the back
orifice where it is taken hold of, printed, and delivered from the box by
the following arrangement of mechanism :-Between the spaces formed
by the curved grid guide perforators or knives protrude, which, when
in their lowest position, lio clear of the paper in the curved guide;
these perforators or knives are connected by hinge to one end of a bell-
crank lever, the opposite end of which is connected by a rod with a
treddle or other equivalent worked by hand, which when acted upon
forces the perforators or knives into and through the spacos formed by
the curved grid guide; with this action of the knives the paper becomes
perforated and carried along about two-thirds of the distance of the
throw or movement of the knives up the grid guide towards its exit
orifice, the said distance thus traversed corresponding to the length of
a ticket to be delivered at this portion of the throw of the perforators.
The length withdrawn is retained by the action of a vertical printing
presser which is actuated to rise and fall through the medium of lovers
projecting from their junction with the presser at the back to the front
of the grid, at which point they become acted upon by the forward
action of the expelling perforators in such a manner as forcibly to press
the consecutive numbers and printing block upon that portion of the
paper then over the platform at the back of the grid this action of the

page_text: printing block forcibly retains the paper thus withdrawn already printed
upon, and between the grid guides ready for the next delivery; at this
time during the action of printing the ticket in front of the perforators
is by the continued action of the said perforators severed from the
continuous roll or length and expelled from the box; thus simul-
taneously with the delivery of a ticket from the box the next but onc
to be expelled becomes printed upon and receives its consecutive number.
The return action of the perforators preparatory for again taking up the
paper relieves through the medium of the afore-mentioned levers the
presser or retaining printing block from the paper passing from the
continuous roll, and allows it freely to be withdrawn into and between
the guide grid with the next forward action of the perforators; the rise
and fall thus given to the retaining printing block effects the necessary
action to the ordinary rotating numbers for the purpose of conse-
cutively printing the numbers in conjunction with subject-matter upon
the tickets or checks.
Secondly. In connection with the movable perforators or levers
actuating the retaining printing block is an indicator which with every
complete movement of the perforators registers upon the dials of such
indicators consecutively the number of tickets delivered. An adaptation
may also be made to the register of an electric apparatus that will
enable the number of tickets as delivered consecutively to be told off
through the medium of the electric medium at any distance from
the register. This portion of the improvements consists in making a
projection of the moveable knives or perforators act as a detent to the
magnet connected with a galvanic battery, the to-and-fro action of which
connects and disconnects the poles of the battery, thus breaking the
current with each ticket delivered, the effect of which is to move the
finger of the dials to number or indicate consecutively the number of
persons having received tickets. The tickets as delivered are placed in
the check taker's box and fall on to platforms that are arranged to enclose
at intervals of time those already received. These platforms are con-
structed similar to internal lids at different heights in the box, and are
retained in their open position by means of catches acted upon by
vertical wires, the upward sliding motion of which is obtained through
the medium of an electric wire actuating a rack which is so arranged
that with any stated number of tickets received into the box the rack
and catch will be raised so as to relieve one of the lids, thus checking
at intervals of time the consecutive numbers placed in each com-

page_text: partment, preventing thereby an advanced number being placed amongst
the lower ones.
Lastly. The Invention relates to further improvements on that portion
of the machine employed for printing the tickets, and consists in the
novel employment, use, and adaptation thereto of a cylindrical type
roller, upon the surface or periphery of which the subject-matter is
placed, and may either be etched, stereotyped, or engraved thereupon.
This roller either receives a reciprocating or rotating motion continuously
or intermittently as the continuous strip or roll of paper is caused to
pass underneath its printing surface, the consecutive number being
attached as herein-before described, and at times that will admit of
the number being impressed upon any portion of the ticket required.
The motion given to the printing cylinder may be obtained by means
of eccentric rack or pinion or other equivalent, the inking of the said
apparatus being arranged so as to print in one or different colors.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Alphacus Gooding in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 13th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ALPHAEUS GOODING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Richard Alphacus Gooding, Her special
license that I, the said Richard Alphacus Gooding, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Alphacus Gooding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend within the United Kingdom of
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING AND DELIVERING CHECKS, TICKETS, OR LABELS
FJR

page_text: CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED, OR OTHERWISE TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS OF CHECKING
THE RECEIPT OF MONIES FROM PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, AND FOR
OTHER GENERAL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Richard Alphacus Gooding, my executors or administrators,
by a instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Alphaeus Gooding, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, and accompanying Drawings, that
is to say :-
My Invention is designed for the purpose of printing and delivering
tickets or checks, consecutively numbered or simply with subject-matter
printed thereupon, to persons entering places of amusement, riding in
public vehicles, or for numerous other purposes where checking the
receipt of moneys or articles is required.
The Invention consists in a peculiar arrangement and construction of
apparatus, herein-after described, that can be employed for severing and
delivering intermittently blank checks or tickets from a continuous roll
of paper, or by a simple addition thereto of simultaneously printing or
endorsing subject-matter in conjunction with consecutive numbers upon
the tickets as they are successively delivered. Also by the employment
of a galvanic battery, connecting wires, and dials the tickets passing out
can be told off at any distance from the place where delivered, and a
counter check effected upon the check receiver.
The peculiar arrangement of apparatus for printing and delivering the
tickets may be thus described:-—A case, enclosure, or box is constructed
in which is contained a curved or straight grid guide, one end of which
opens out at the back of the box, and the other terminates with the exit
orifice of the box. At the back entrance to this grid guide a platform
is provided, over which one end of a continuous strip of paper, or other
material forming checks is passed into the back orifice, where it is taken
hold of, printed, and delivered from the box by the following arrangement

page_text: of mechanism-Between the spaces formed by the curved grid guides
there are perforators or knives protruding, which when in their lowest
position lie clear of the paper in the curved guide. These perforators
or knives are connected by hinge to one end of a bell-crank lever, the
opposite end of which is connected by a rod with a treddle or other
equivalent worked by hand, which when acted upon forces the per-
forators or knives into and through the spaces formed by the curved
grid guide. With this action of the knives the paper becomes perforated
and carried along about two-thirds of the distance of the throw or move-
ment of the knives up the grid guide towards its exit orifices, the same
distance thus traversed corresponding to the length of a ticket to be
delivered. At this portion of the throw of the perforators the length
withdrawn is retained by the action of a vertical printing presser, which
is caused to rise and fall through the medium of levers projecting from
their junction with the presser at the back to the front of the grid,
at which point they become acted upon by the forward action of the
expelling perforators in such a manner as forcibly to press the con-
secutive numbers and printing block upon that portion of the paper
then over the platform at the back of the grid. This action of the
printing block forcibly retains the paper thus withdrawn already printed
upon and between the grid guides ready for the next delivery. At this
time, during the action of printing, the ticket in front of the perforators
is by the continued action of the said perforators severed from the con-
tinuous roll or length and expelled from the box, thus simultaneously
with the delivery of the ticket from the box next but one to be expelled
becomes printed upon and receives its consecutive number. The return
action of the perforators preparatory for again taking up the paper
relieves, through the medium of the afore-mentioned levers, the presser
or retaining printing block from the paper passing from the continuous
roll, and allows it freely to be withdrawn into and between the grid
guide with the next forward action of the perforators. The rise and
fall thus given to the retaining printing block effects the necessary
action to the ordinary rotating numbers for the purpose of consecutively
printing the numbers in conjunction with subject-matter upon the
tickets or checks.

page_text: indicators consecutively the number of tickets delivered. An adaptation
may also be made to the register of an electric apparatus that will
enable the number of tickets as delivered consecutively to be told off
through the medium of the electric current at any distance from the
register. This portion of the improvement consists in making a pro-
jection of the moveable knives or perforators act as a detent to the
magnet connected with a galvanic battery. This to-and-fro action
of which the connection and disconnection the poles of the battery thus
breaking contact with cach ticket delivered, the effects of which moves
the fingers of the dials to number or indicate consecutively the number
of persons having received tickets. The tickets as delivered are placed
in the check taker's box and fall platforms that are arranged to enclose
at intervals of time those already received. These platforms are con-
structed similar to lids at different heights in the box, and are retained
in their open position by means of catches acted upon by vertical wires,
the upward sliding motion of which is obtained through the medium of
an electric wire actuating a rack, which is so arranged that with any
stated number of tickets received into the box the rack and catch will
be raised so as to relieve one of the lids, thus checking at intervals of
time the consecutive numbers placed in each compartment, preventing
thereby an advanced number being placed amongst the lower ones.
Lastly. The Invention relates to further improvements on that portion
of the machine employed for printing the tickets, and consists in the
novel employment, use, and adaptation thereto of a cylinder type roller,
upon the surface or periphery of which the subject-matter is placed, and
may either be etched, stereotyped, or engraved thereupon. The roller
either receives or reciprocates a rotating motion continuously or inter-
mittently as the continuous strip or roll of paper is caused to pass
underneath its printing surface, the consecutive number being impressed
as hercin-before described, and at times that will admit of the number
being impressed upon any portion of the ticket required. The motion.
given to the printing cylinder may be obtained by means of an eccentric,
rack, or pinion, or other equivalent, the inking of the said apparatus
being arranged so as to print in one or different colours.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention I will proceed to
describe more particularly in what manner the same is to be performed,
by the aid of the accompanying Drawings, in which are represented the
parts of apparatus herein-before referred to.

page_text: DISCRIPTION
THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section, Fig. 2 an elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan or
horizontal view of the printing, severing, and delivering apparatus, the
same being shewn as mounted in a kind of table. To the framing of
this table is fixed a bracket or bearing which carries the short shaft a,
to which is connected outside the table a handle or hand wheel, and
inside of the same a disc or plate in which a crank pin is adjusted.
From this crank pin a reciprocating motion is imparted to the lever b
by means of the connecting rod . This lever is screwed firmly to a
rocking shaft c supported in bearings in the case or framing & of the
machine. To the rocking shaft c and inside of the case or box framing
of the machine is secured a plate lever e, to which is hinged a knife
holder e. The knives secured to this holder work to and fro in a curvi-
linear direction, and through an angle of about 45 degrees between two
sets of bars forming two grid guides, with a sufficient space between
them to act as guides for the strip of paper passing along, and also
supporting the same when being pierced by the knives in their upward
movement. On the plate levere is also mounted a bowl g, which as
the levere carrying the knives passes through its movements towards the
delivery opening of the machine raises a lever h arranged so as to be in
contact with the said bowl. This lever his fixed on a shaft or pin ¾¹,
and secured to this shaft are also two levers ³, which by means of
connecting rods impart an up-and-down motion to the printing
block, which is guided by upright guides resting on and adjusted
for different lengths of tickets in the framing d of the machine. The
roll of paper j is carried below the, beams or supports on which the
machine rests, and the strip of paper passes over a small guide roller j¹
below the printing block or press i and over the printing table k on to
and between the grid guides f,f. The centre of the rocking shaft c is
so situated in relation to the grid guides ff, that the points of the
knives in their curvilinear upward movement will at a certain and
adjustable point intersect the space left for the paper between the grid
guides, thereby piercing the paper in as many places as there are knives,
and in their onward motion will draw it off at the roll j, and also push
the ticket forward towards and out of the delivery opening 1. At the
same time the bowl g passing along and raising the lever and lowering
the levers causes the printing block or press to descend towards the
strip of paper moving under it until nearly touching, when by the.

page_text: bowl passing under the adjustable projecting piece m on the end of
the lever the printing block is suddenly forced on to the paper, giving
the required impression thereon, and at the same time stopping its
further movement, while the knives continuing their motion sever the
ticket in advance of them from the printed strip of paper behind and
throw it on to the table. The printing block or press carries a type
plate and a consecutive numbering apparatus. The inking is per-
formed by the inking pad n carried in a cradle provided with rollers, and
drawn to and fro on the rails o and under the inking rollers p, which
are supplied from the ink trough p'. The motion is given to the cradle
by means of connecting rods and levers q, q, fixed to a shaft q', which
receives its required rocking motion through the slotted lever r and
connecting rod ¹ from the lever 8 fixed to the main rocking shaft c.
The inking pad in running under the printing press clears the type, but
when arrived at the end of its motion it is lifted up to the type by the
four lifting rods t, on to the hooked ends of which rods the rollers of
the cradle pass. These lifting rods are adjusted on the top to a plate t¹,
and this plate is lifted as required by the bell-crank lever, the bowl t³
of which is in contact with the cam plate a³, and a swell on the plate
gives to the bowl and the crank lever the quick movement required
to raise the inking pad. When arrived at the end of its inward motion
the cam plate a² is formed of the required shape to allow the bell-crank
lever to follow the up-and-down motion of the printing block until acted
upon by the swell t. Instead of an inking pad an inking roller may be
employed, receiving by suitable mechanism a to-and-fro movement under
the type plate.
Fig. 4 is a modification of the adjustable projection on the end of the
lever h, by means of which the strip of paper may be either pierced and
severed or only pierced and pushed on. This is effected by means of the
swivel plate u, which is held on either one side or the other by the pin
or stop v, and is free to yield to the action of the bowl g in the opposite
direction. When the strip is only to be printed and pierced the bowl in
its upward movement pushes the swivel plate u out of the way, and then
being held by the pin on the left hand, as shewn dotted in the Figure,
the bowl passing under it in its return movement causes the lever / to
rise to the extreme limit required to bring the printing block or press on
to the paper, which, as the knives are on their return movement, is then
motionless.

page_text: In Fig, 1 a hinged comb 10 is provided to prevent the slipping of the
paper when the knives begin their return movement. In Figs. 1 and 2.
a counting apparatus is shown at x, the working levery of which receives
motion at every movement of the knife holder and from the fingers,
thereby registering every ticket passed out. This counting apparatus as
well as the top plate of the machine are removed in Fig. 3. Instead of
working the machine by hand a treddle motion may be applied, the
connection of which with the machine is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.
To prevent the shaft a from being turned the wrong way a ratchet
wheel and catch is provided.
The second part of the Invention is shown in Figs. 5 to S. Fig. 5 is a
view of the dial as fixed in any building or situation required, and
marked with any required number of divisions. The finger of this dial
is worked by a battery in such a manner that for every ticket thrown
out or check thrown out of the printing and delivering machine above
described the finger shall be caused to move through one division of the
dial, the wires being connected in such a manner to the said machine
that contact in the electric current is either made or broken by every
oscillation of the plate lever carrying the knives whenever they are in
their highest position, having severed a ticket from the strip and thrown
it out on the table. The finger on the dial will then indicate the
number of tickets thrown out and sold.
In order to detect if the check taker has allowed checks to be used
over again I employ the apparatus represented at Fig. 7, which is a
sectional view of a hollow pillar or stand d into which the check taker
is required to pass every ticket or check received through an opening at
the top. In the interior of the pillar d a number of false bottoms or
platforms e', e, e³, are provided in such a manner that when desired
they can be thrown across the space formed for the reception of tickets,
so as to arrest such tickets and prevent their falling to the bottom. Then
as such tickets are consecutively numbered, any of them which should
be in one of the lower compartments but have been used over again will
be found in some of the higher ones. The manner in which these
platforms are worked and their connection with the dial (shewn in
Figs. 5 and 6) will be seen in Fig. 8, an elevation of the pillar or stand
with an outer compartment containing the mechanism for the dropping.
of the platform, shown open. On the dial plate a (Fig. 5) and outside the
circle of divisions an outer insulated ring is secured. On the ring and

page_text: opposite the divisions of the counter small hinged plates are arranged;
these hinged plates may either lie down flat on the ring or may be made
to stand in a position vertical or nearly so to the face of the dial, as
shown in Fig. 6, which is an edge view of the dial. The centre pin of
the finger is also insulated in its bearings and gearing connected with
it, and rests on a copper plate, to which is attached a conducting wire
which passes to an electric battery, and from thence to one of the poles
of an electro-magnet f (see Fig. 8). Another wire is connected to the
other pole of such magnet and passes to the insulated ring to which
it is connected. Supposing now that the taking of checks is to com-
mence. The finger c standing at zero, the attendant raises as many
hinged plates on the ring as there are platforms in the pillar d, and
opposite that number of division at which he wishes them to fall. For
instance, if the dial contains 1,000 divisions at division 250, 500, and 750,
the finger, the end of which is extended beyond the circle of division
over the insulated ring in passing round over the dial will come into
contact with the raised plates ', Figs. 5 and 6 depressing them again in
passing over them and at the same time establishing the electric circuit.
The keeper of the electro-magnet f, Fig. 5, is fixed to an arm of a
bell crank lever g, the other arm of which carries a catch / working in
a ratchet plate on the lower end of a bar i suspended from its upper
extremity. On this bar are fixed the detents which support the outer
ends of the levers or catches k', k³, k³, which by means of pins arc
connected with the platforms o¹, o³, o³, in the ticket compartment of the
pillar and hold them turned up in a vertical position in recesses of
the casing, as shewn in Fig. 7, so as to. allow the tickets to fall to
the bottom. Now the printing and delivering machine is set to work,
the finger c moving round until it meets the first raised plate at 250, the
circuit being formed the maguct ƒ will attract the keeper, thereby
moving the bell crank g; the catch h will be moved to the extent of one
tooth of the ratchet and push the suspended bar sufficiently to the right
to bring the detent beyond the end of the lowest lever ', thereby
allowing it to escape and at the same time causing the platform e¹ to fall
across the ticket compartment as shewn in dotted lines, when all tickets
afterwards put in will collect on such platform. The suspended bar i
is held in its position by means of the catch on the other side of the
bar until such time as the finger c, Fig. 5, comes in contact with the
second raised plate, say at 500, when by depressing such plate and
passing over it, the electric circuit is again made and broken, the electro-

page_text: magnet again attracts the keeper, and by means of the bell crank lever g
and catch the bar i is pushed further sideways, thereby allowing the
lever to escape from its detent and causing the second platform e³ to
fall. In this way the manipulation is repeated as many times as there
are platforms employed or desired to fall.
It is obvious that in the above-mentioned instance any ticket or check
up to number 250 or thereabouts should be found by inspection of
the ticket chamber in the lowest compartment under the platform e'.
Any ticket between 250 and 500 or thereabouts in the compartments
between platforms and e³, any ticket between 500 and 750 between
platforms and e³, and any ticket numbering above 750 above the
platforme. A ticket numbering, for example, 128 would have fallen
into the bottom of the ticket chamber and would lic under platform e'.
If this ticket is found above platform e¹ in any of the upper temporary
compartments it will shew that it has been used over again and that a
fraud has been committed.
The dial in Fig. 5 and its electric connections with the machine can
of course be used either as a counter ouly or in connection with the
above checking apparatus.
The machine for printing and delivering tickets may also be used
either with or without the counting apparatus shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
The third part of the Invention is shewn in a sectional elevation in
Fig. 9 on Sheet 2 and consists in the employment of cylinder or roller
printing and adaptation to and combination with the delivering part of
the machine described before under the first part of the Invention.
This machine is also shewn mounted on beams or supports in a kind of
table and the mechanism is arranged as follows:-To the framing of the
table brackets are fixed which carry the driving shaft a, to which outside
the table a hand wheel or any other convenient arrangement for rotating
the shaft a is attached, from this shaft motion is transmitted by a train
of gearing to the lower one 6 of a pair of rollers which are carried in an
upright frame d, this frame is made capable to slide on the framing of
the machine and to be secured where required so as to adjust for
different lengths of tickets, the roller to which motion is imparted by
the shaft a forms the support of the material to be printed upon, is
covered with printers' cloth and by means of spur wheels give also
motion to the upper or printing roller c. To the outer circumference of
the printing roller the type is attached or etched, stereotyped, or engraved

page_text: in such manner that it only covers one part of the circumference of the
roller, say about one half, and at the same time projects slightly abovċ
the space left blank. A continuous rotary motion is given to the roller,
but the paper passing through only receives an intermittent motion
because at the time when the knives moving upward pierce the paper
and draw it forward, the projecting type on the roller c at the same
moment arrives opposite the highest points of the lower roller, thereby
bringing the two rollers in firm contact with the paper between them,
giving impression on the paper and at the same time moving it for-
wards. From the printing rollers the paper passes under the consecutive
numbering apparatus e onwards to and between the guides f,f³, where
it is acted upon by the knives or piercers in the same manner as in the
printing and delivering machine described in the first part of the
Invention. The consecutive numbering apparatus is provided with
guide blocks and capable of moving up and down in an upright frame g
also adjustable on the framing of the machine. A connection is formed
between the apparatus and two bell-crank levers ŉ by means of the
connecting rods h, and the apparatus is moved up and down by the
cam i on the shaft a, being in contact with a bowl on one of the arms
of the bell-crank levers, and the movement is so timed as that when
the knives have drawn forward the required length of paper the con-
secutive numbers are forced down on the paper giving the impression
and also arresting the paper, the ticket or piece of paper in advance of
the knives being severed from the strip the same moment and pushed
out on the table. The plate lever j then begins its return movement
and the knife holder being hinged to the plate lever allows the knives
to fall forward and to slide under the paper until when near the end of
the return motion they clear it and fall back to their position shown
in the Drawing ready for another upward movement. The arrangement
of the delivering part of the machine as regards the rocking shaft, the
plate lever, fingers, knife holder, knives, and grids is essentially the
same as in the machine before described and shewn in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,
Sheet 1, but the required oscillating movement is given to the rocking
shaft c by means of a cam k fixed on the shaft a and acting on a bowl k¹
on the end of one of the arms of a double-armed lever, the fulcrum of
which is situated at 1, the other arm terminates in a segment of a spur
wheel gearing with a smaller segment m secured to the end of the
rocking shaft. The cam k is made of the required shape to impart to
the knives at the point where they hold the paper a velocity corre-

page_text: sponding as near as possible to the velocity of the circumference of the
printing roller so as to prevent the tearing or slackening of the strip of
paper. The inking of the printing roller is performed by the inking
rollers m³, m², m³, one of which m¹ is in contact with the surface of the
type, another m³ is placed in the inking trough », these rollers may be
driven either by friction or gearing which is found most convenient.
The inking of tho consecutive numbers in the apparatus e is performed
by an inking roller o mounted between two levers p secured to a cross
shaft g, to this shaft another short lever r is fixed, and this lever r is
connected by means of the connecting rod
bowl which is in contact and acted upon by another cam u fixed on
the shaft a. By this arrangement the inking roller o moves to and
fro between the numbers and a stationary inking roller v, from which it
receives the supply of ink.
to an arms carrying a
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim
as of my Invention is,―
First. The combination of parts constituting the printing and delivering
apparatus represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and described.
Secondly. The indicating apparatus combined with the checking
apparatus represented in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 and described.
And, thirdly. The combination of roller printing and check delivering
apparatus represented in Fig. 9, Sheet 2, and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Alphacus Gooding have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
onc.
RICHARD ALPHAEUS GOODING. (L.S.)
Witness,
WM. HY. DAWSON,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.