Improvements in or relating to Railway and like Ticket Printing Machines.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1899-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1899
Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1899-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Railway and like Ticket Printing
Machines.
I, SIDNEY HERBERT HOLMAN, of 20, Budge Row, City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable a greater number than heretofore
of tickets to be printed on one or on both sides with facility from a single shaft
for operating the various mechanism of the coupled up machines.
For the purpose of this invention, I take, say, two, three, or four of the
upper parts of Lewthwaite's ticket printing machines, and by a long main
shaft connect them on the same base plate or stand.
Or I make the upper
frame of several parts in the same casting or attachments so localised that the
one main shaft may operate all the sliders for taking from the superposed columns
of tickets and pass them side by side along the races with the well known stops
while the cross traversing inking rollers and the rising of the type blocks take
place and also of the descending type blocks if the printing be on both sides of
the same
or of different colours of the tickets, as described in the Specification
of Lewthwaite's Letters Patent No. 13849 of the year 1894.
The cams and appliances referred to in the former patent are retained but
duplicated and operated from the one main shaft, the tickets from all the races
and when printed being fed into tubes and have an uprising motion as they
accumulate.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Sidney Herbert Holman.
Improvements in or relating to Railway and like Ticket Printing
Machines.
I, SIDNEY HERBERT HOLMAN, of 20, Budge Row, City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
The object of this invention, is to enable a greater number than heretofore
of tickets. to be printed on one or on both sides with facility from a single shaft
for operating the various mechanism of the coupled up machines.
For the purpose of this invention, I take, say, two, three, or four of the

page_text: upper parts of Lewthwaite's ticket printing machines, and by a long main shaft,
or by gear, I connect them on the same base plate or stand. Or I make the upper
frame of several parts in the same casting or attachments so localised that
one main shaft may operate all the sliders for taking from the superposed columns
of tickets and pass them side by side along the races with the well known stops
while the cross traversing inking rollers and the rising of the type blocks take
place and also of the descending type blocks if the printing be on both sides of
The same, or of different colours of the tickets, as described in the Specification
of Lewthwaite's Letters Patent, No. 13849 of the year 1894.
The cams and appliances referred to in the former patent are retained but
duplicated and operated from the one main shaft, the tickets from all the races
and when printed being fed into tubes and have an uprising motion as they
accumulate.
This invention is shown on the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 face view of one of Lewthwaite's ticket printing machines herein-
before mentioned, the main shaft T being broken at T from which point, or
from the opposite end T2, either by coupling blocks or by a longer shaft, a second
or duplicate ticket printing machine can be arranged and so on for as many
machines that may be desired. Each machine is complete in itself, and the series
of machines so coupled up will depend upon the space that can in a factory be
spared.
Figure 2 represents a couple of Lewthwaite's ticket printing machines set back
to back, the shafts T being geared for motion from the shaft T3 and spur gear-
ing T, the intermediate wheel T giving the necessary motion from the strap
pulley To
I have not deemed it necessary to repeat the letters of reference from the draw-
ings of the former specification because no new parts of the machine, other than
those above given, constitute any part of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is-
Arranging two or more of Lewthwaite's railway and like ticket printing
machines in proximity and operating them either directly from an elongated
main shaft, or by driving all the main shafts of the several machines by gear,
the operative or upper parts being on the same base plate, as described and sub-
stantially as represented for the purpose explained.
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1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Sidney Herbert Holman.