CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING AND DELIVERING CHECKS OR TICKETS CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED OR OTHERWISE TO PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES, OR. FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHERE CHECKS ARE REQUIRED AS A MEANS OF DETECTING FRAUD
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Alphaeus Gooding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th October 1870.
I, RICHARD ALPHAEUS GOODING, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED FOR
SIMULTANEOUSLY PRINTING AND DELIVERING CHECKS OR TICKETS CONSECUTIVELY
NUMBERED OR OTHERWISE TO PERSONS ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT, RIDING IN
PUBLIC VEHICLES, OR. FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHERE CHECKS ARE REQUIRED AS A
MEANS OF DETECTING FRAUD," 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 thereon to persons entering places of amusement, riding in public
vehicles, or for numerous other purposes where checking the receipt of
money 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 intermittantly blank checks or tickets from a continuous roll of
paper, or by a simple adaptation thereto of simultaneously printing or
"

page_text: 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
of mechanism :- Between the spaces formed by the curved grid guide
perforators or knives protrude, which when in their lowest position lay
clear of the paper in the curved guide; these perforators or knives are
connected by hinges to one end of a bell-crank lever, the opposite
end of which is connected by a rod with a treddle, which when
pressed down forces the perforators 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 movement of the knives up the grid
guide towards its exicit orifice, the said distance thus traversed cor-
responding 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 levers projecting from their junction with their
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 printing block forcibly retains the paper thus
withdrawn already printed upon and between the guide grid 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 per-
forators severed from the continuous roll or length and expelled from
the box, thus, simultaneously with the delivering of a ticket from the box
the next but one to be expelled becomes printed upon, and receives its

page_text: consecutive number. The return action of the perforator 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 consecutively 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 movable 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 moves 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 checktaker'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 compartment,
preventing thereby an advanced number being placed amongst the lower
ones.