IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, PRINTING & NUMBERING TICKETS, CARDS & PAPER
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Lewthwaite of Halifax in the County of York
Gentleman for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING,
PRINTING & NUMBERING TICKETS, CARDS & PAPER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Lewthwaite at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th April 1883.
"IMPROVE-
JOHN LEWTHWAITE of Halifax in the County of York, Gentleman
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, PRINTING & NUMBERING TICKETS, CARDS, &
PAPERS."
My invention is based upon improvements upon the machinery and appliances
patented by me on the 8th day of October 1852 N° 308. The improvements for
cutting relate principally to cutting the card board or paper (from sheets or rolls)
during the process of printing the same and afterwards delivering them with
accuracy in a series of single double or greater numbers into separate compartments
or divisions or upon rolls containing a certain or required number.
The improvements in printing consist in a different arrangement of the cams
and levers whereby greater simplicity is attained and the working parts diminished.
In additional apparatus whereby the backs of railway and other like tickets or
cards are printed simultaneously with the faces. In a new arrangement whereby
more than one ticket can be printed at the same operation from sheets or rolls and
for causing the consecutive numbers to print backwards so that when taken up on
rolls after printing it may not be ncessary to unrol the tickets to get at the lowest
or commencing numbers.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Lewthwaite in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th October
1883.
IMPROVE-
JOHN LEWTHWAITE of Halifax in the county of York Gentleman
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING, PRINTING AND NUMBERING TICKETS, CARDS
AND PAPER
My invention consists First in improvements upon the machine patented by
me on the 8th day of October 1852 N° 308 and is designed to produce a machine
or machines specially and better adapted for the printing of Railway and such
other cards or tickets as are required to be produced in varying quantities kinds
and descriptions as hereinafter described. It consists also Secondly in improve-
ments upon and new adaptations of my patent for numbering machines etc dated
the 23rd July 1847 N° 11,812 in combination with certain movements or apparatus
described in the hereinbefore recited patent of October 8th 1852 N° 308 such
improvements alterations, adaptations and additions being specially adapted for
Omnibus, Tramway, parcel post, advertisements, and other cards tickets or labels
where greater numbers are required of one kind, class or description and hereinafter
described for the purposes for which they are intended.
The improvements in the Railway ticket printing machine consist in a new
arrangement of the cams and levers whereby in the feed motion under the hopper C
I dispense with the cam pulley C5 by altering the shape of the lever C² and changing
the position of its fulcrum so that it takes its motion from beneath the main or
centre cam pulley or wheel G2 and the tappet G'. In like manner I alter the shape
and remove the fulcrum of the back lever L' that actuates or moves the small
inking rollers K so that this lever also takes its motion from the centre cam pulley
or wheel G and the tappet G¹. The two levers C2 and L' are each fitted with
suitable friction rollers at the short or lower ends where they are actuated by the
cam pulley or wheel G and the tappet G' beneath the same and as near together
as practicable without touching, thereby dispensing with the bevil wheels L' the
transverse or cross shaft L³ and can pullies L³ and C³.
To enable me to print notices etc on the backs of the tickets, cards etc as they
pass from the printing and numbering to the delivery tube E. I add an apparatus
or connection to the slide plate D the short end bearing plate E¹ and the frame or
bearing of the hopper F consisting of an upper inscribed or stereotyped roller con-
veying the matter to be printed with a lower or impression roller so situated that
the tickets already printed on the face shall pass over the impression roller and
under the printing roller on their way through the plate D and the end bearing
plate E to the hopper F for delivery as described in the patent of October 8th
1852
The inking of the upper or printing roller is done by a small inking roller from
a small horizontal shaft mounted upon a vertical rod situated behind the plate D
and in front of the distributing roller M² Figure 7 and which at every revolution
of the main shaft is made to perform a quarter turn by means of a tappet added or
screwed to the side of the cam pulley or wheel G³ which acts against a projection
from the vertical rod carrying or forcing the small inking roller attached to it into
connection with the distributing roller M to be charged or inked during the back-
ward movement of the ticket feed lever C3 and releasing it as soon as, or beforo
this operation has been fully performed in order that the rod with its small inking
roller may turn by means of a suitable spring or other contrivance to the printing
oller and remain in contact with it and so inking it during the passage of the

page_text: ticket to become, marked, endorsed or printed on the back on its way to the tube E
when the next revolution of the main shaft and the cam pulley or wheel G³ with
its projection or tappet repeats the operation of forcing back the vertical rod with
its small inking roller to be resupplied with ink from the distributing roller M².
To enable me to print more than one ticket at a time and from a continuous ro'l
of paper etc I dispense with the hoppers F and Cand the lifting rod E³. I increase
the number of figure wheels (shown in figures 9 to 14) in the frame G and add to
it and alongside a second frame or chase adopted to carry types for printing the
body of the tickets corresponding with each set of figure wheels
The plate D is also altered to suit the increased number of figure wheels and
type printing surfaces and suitably fixed to receive the impression from the figure
wheels and printing surfaces at ench revolution of the main shaft. The continuous
roll is fixed either, above, behind, before or below the plate D as may be most
convenient and the paper from it is brought or forced forward beneath it to receive
the impression from the figures and types at each revolution of the shaft to an
extent equal to the width of the ticket to be printed. By a suitable arrangement
of cutting discs, knives or shears I also when required cut the continuous roll into
strips or shreds of the width of one or more tickets as required after it has passed
the printing point and by another suitable arrangement I cause the same to be
taken up in rolls upon one or separate shafts or centres to be ready for use in this
form. I also arrange the numbering wheels and pauls in such manner that the
figures for tickets so printed and supplied in rolls shall run inversely that is to say
from the highest numbers backwards to the lowest figure in order that the first
ticket taken for use from a printed roll shall be the commencing figure or number.
When these tickets are not required on rolls but in slips or single tickets I
dispense with the cutting discs etc and I have a suitable knife or shears so arranged
that if slips are required I cut a slip off the main sheet along its entire breadth and
force them seriatim into a convenient pile etc. If single tickets are to be produced
I then replace the cutting discs etc which make the lengthways cut while the cross
knife or shears makes the transverse cut on doing which the tickets are individually
When tickets,
forced into corresponding grooves or spaces to keep them in order.
cards, advertisements or other printed forms are required to be printed without
consecutive numbers I use or substitute a simple form of chase or type holder and
dispense with the numbering wheels and their carrying frame.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim
The several detail improvements herein mentioned upon the apparatus, machine
or machines described and shown on the drawings annexed to said specifications
before recited
In witness whereof I the said John Lewthwaite have hereunto set my land
and seal this tenth. day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three