IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR PRINTING TRAM-CAR AND RAILWAY TICKETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I MARCUS BEBRO, of 36 Palmerstone Buildings in the City of London Financial
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MECHANISM FOR PRINTING TRAM-CAR AND RAILWAY TICKETS" to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object the printing and numbering in consecutive order
a series or number of tickets on a continuous web of paper or cardboard, and is
designed as a further improvement on Letters Patent granted to me on the
11th day of May 1880 N° 1917.
According to my present invention the web of paper when printed upon and
consecutively numbered, and as it issues from the machine passes between rotatory
perforators or under the action of rotating knives in manner similar to the rotating
knife now employed for cutting paper passing from printing machines which divide
a continuous web of paper as printed upon into separate sheets. The rotating
knives I employ cut into separate pieces the printed web or ribbon of paper or
cardboard, each piece of which will contain a consecutive number, and the subject
matter required for each ticket.
These pieces or tickets as severed by the knives are passed between rollers which
present them to the action of rollers positively driven by gearing, these rollers have.
a portion of their surfaces flattened so that when revolving the flattened portion of
each roller will come opposite each other, and form a space in which the ticket
delivered from the knives will lie and thus receive with each revolution of the said
rollers an intermittant feed.
This intermittant feed is so timed that the tickets passing between their surfaces
will be caused to overlap each other in which condition they are received between
a series of rollers which pass them on to an endless travelling web or into a box
where they are received one on the other in consecutive order ready for being
placed in nests, packets, or boxes for paying out.
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I MARCUS BEBRO of Palmerston Buildings Broad Street in the City of London
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM
FOR PRINTING TRAMCAR AND RAILWAY TICKETS" and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
The Invention has for its object the printing and numbering in consecutive order
a series or number of tickets: on a continuous web of paper or cardboard and is
designed as a further improvement on Letters Patent granted to me in England on
the 11th day of May 1880 No 1917.
According to my present Invention the web of paper when printed upon and
_consecutively numbered and as it issues from the machine. passes between rotary
perforators or under the action of rotary knives in manner similar to the rotary
knives now employed for cutting paper passing from printing machines which
divide a continuous web of paper as printed upon into separate tickets.
The rotary knives I employ cut into separate pieces, the printed web or ribbon
of cardboard each piece of which will contain a consecutive number and the subject
matter required for each ticket.
The pieces or tickets as severed are passed between rollers which present them
to the action of rollers positively driven by gearing these rollers have a portion
of their surface flattened so that when revolving the flattened portion of the top
'roller will come opposite the under roller and form a space in which the ticket
. from the knives will lie and thus receive an intermittent feed. This intermittent
feed is so timed that the tickets passing between their surfaces will be caused to
overlap each other in which condition they are received between a series of rollers
which pass them on to an endless travelling web or into a box.
In order that the Invention shall be readily understood I have described the
same by letters of reference to the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents in elevation the front of a machine designed for printing on a
web of paper cardboard or the like in consecutive and continuous order tickets
similar to those employed by Railway and Tram Car Companies and finally before
leaving the machine cutting up such continuous web into pieces representing tickets
and collecting them in consecutive order ready for delivery. Fig. 2 represents a
modification of that portion of the machine which collects the tickets from the
cutters in consecutive order.
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In these Figs. 1, 1, is the framing of the machine. 2, 2, are the type and 3, 3, the
impression rollers between which the continuous web of cardboard passes in the
'direction shewn by the arrows and receives on its surfaces impressions at equal
distances apart of subject matter in manner similar to that described in the
specification of the Patent herein referred to, the set off being removed by the
endless web 4 the continuous web after receiving its subject matter impressions

page_text: passes between the number printing discs 5 and its impression roller which are
known as "self acting" consecutive numbering discs.
The type of the subject matter discs 3 and the consecutive numbering discs
receive their supply of ink from the duct-6 and ink rollers 7.
When the machine is first started the printing and numbering rollers are raised
from their impression rollers so as to allow the strip of paper to be passed freely.
between them until received between the drawing and tension rollers 8, 8, the
printing and numbering discs are then lowered into printing contact and the
machine set to work the "set off" from the printed surface being removed by
the endless web 9.
When it is required that the continuous web of printed cardboard or the like
should be cut up into separate tickets as it leaves the machine and such pieces or
tickets as cut be collected one upon the other in consecutive order I cause the web
of paper after having passed through the tension rollers 8, 8, to pass under the
action of the rotary cutters 10, 10, the action of which cuts the continuous web of
printed matter up into tickets each cut being so adjusted that the pieces severed
represent tickets each one bearing upon its surface subject matter and a consecutive
number, these tickets as cut are received by the rollers 11, 11, the speed of which
is slightly greater than that of the disc 10 carrying the knives thus causing each
piece as severed to be rapidly withdrawn from the one next advancing each ticket
as it is delivered by the rollers passes to the first of the series of rollers 12, 12, see
Fig. 2, the axis of which are placed a little lower than the first pair of rollers and
are positively driven by gearing at a speed slower. than the feed rollers the
rollers 12, 12, have a portion of their surfaces flattened, this flat side as the rollers
revolve allows each ticket as delivered in succession to enter the space formed
between the flattened surface of such roller and the periphery of the under roller
thus giving a slight dwell or intermittent feed which allows the next ticket
advancing to overlap the one at rest between the rollers.-In this state the tickets
are received by a series of rollers 13, the upper. rollers of which have a slightly
accelerated speed which forces the tickets in a completely overlapped condition into
a box where they accumulate one on the other in consecutive order or the tickets
may be passed on to an endless travelling web from which the tickets are received
in consecutive order ready for packing in bundles.-The machine is driven from the
axle 14 through the wheels 15.
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
First. The combination with a machine which will print on a continuous web
of paper, cardboard or the like subject matter and numbers in consecutive order, at
distances apart representing tickets of an apparatus which will cut such web when
printed on up into tickets and collect them in consecutive order in the manner as
herein substantially described set forth and fully illustrated in the drawings
annexed.