Improved Date and Time Stamping Apparatus for Tickets and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Date and Time Stamping Apparatus for Tickets and
the like.
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I, CHRISTIAEM CORNELIUS VAN DER VALK, of Haarlem Holland, Electrician,
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 following
statement:-
This invention relates to an improved date and time stamping apparatus for
tickets and the like, in which the ticket &c. on the rotation of a cylinder, is taken
thereby from a receptacle and is brought to the stamping die which is also actuated
by the rotation of the cylinder, and in which the setting of the stamping discs
carrying the relief type for marking the hour and the date is effected by toothed
gearing actuated by an ordinary clock.
The invention also relates to a device combined with such a stamping apparatus
whereby, should the stamping die not be in its normal position, the toothed gearing
actuating the hour disc cannot revolve, so that a fracture of the teeth of the
stamping disc is effectually prevented.
The construction of the said stamping apparatus is shown on the accompanying
drawings.
Figure 1 shows a side view, Figure 2 a sectional front view, Figures 3, 4 and 6
shew enlarged views of the stamping mechanism, and Figures 54 to 5º details of
the mechanism for setting the stamping discs.
Below a vertically arranged case A, Figure 4 which contains the tickets &c. to
be stamped is arranged a cylindrical sector B, which I will call "the cylinder,"
rotatable in the direction of the arrow. The cylinder B is formed with a recess on
its periphery into which can enter the lowest ticket of the pile at each to and fro
motion. The rotation of the cylinder is effected by means of a crank handle
on the shaft H, not shewn.
At the side of the case A is arranged the stamping die C, pivotted at Z, and
provided with a downward projecting curved arm C, by means of which, on the
rotation of the cylinder B, tbe die C is also turned on its pivot, the front edge of
the cylinder being made to butt against the inner surface of the arm for this
purpose.
For preventing more than one ticket from being carried along by the cylinder B
from the case A, there are provided on the side of the latter springs A which
press upon the ticket lying in the recess of the cylinder, and which keep all the
other tickets back.
By means of the spring A also, the ticket to be stamped contained in the
cylinder recess is effectually prevented from falling out too soon.
A counterweight B on the shaft H serves to bring the cylinder B back to its
original position. The shaft H also has a carrier H which, each time that the
cylinder B approaches its end position, effects the sounding of a bell by means of
levers J J and Jb, and simultaneously actuates a registering mechanism F of any
known construction, which indicates, the number of tickets stamped.
The stamp C consists of a fork, the pivots of which are mounted in grooves on
eccentric discs Figure 3 so that the stamp can be adjusted at will and thus the
impression thereof be regulated as may be required.. Between the fork are
arranged three discs of equal diameter..
The periphery of the first disc C is divided into 24 divisions and each of these

page_text: carries in relief a numeral representing one of the hours 1 to 12 A.M. and
1 to 12 P.M. The periphery of the second disc e is marked with 31 divisions, and
each of these carries a numeral 1 to 31 representing the day of the month. The
third disc d situated in the middle between the other two, carries on its periphery
the names of the several months of the year.
When the hour disc c has completed one revolution it effects by known means the
turning of the day disc d one division, and when the day disc has completed one
revolution, it turns the month disc d one division.
The movement of the hour disc is effected by toothed gear E which, at the
termination of every hour, is set in motion by means of an ordinary clock
Figure 2, and which effects the complete rotation of an eccentric I on a shaft i
Figure 4. This eccentric I thus prerses upon a disc C', whereby a pawl C, is
made to turn a ratchet wheel connected with the hour disc one tooth forward, so
that this disc is also turned through one of its 24 divisions. The dise C', is then
brought back into its original position, as at Figure 6, by a helical spring.
The toothed gear E actuating the eccentric l consists of a barrel 1 containing a
strong spring, toothed wheels, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and a fly 6, (Figures 5 and 5").
The toothed ring of the barrel 1 gears with a toothed wheel 8 on shaft i
(Figure 5) which also carries a dise 7 having a lateral pin 7", and having a recess
on its periphery, as shewn at Figure 5³.
The releasing mechanism consists of a horizontal rod 9, an elbow lever 10, and a
horizontal lever 11, arranged as shewn at Figures 5" and 50.
A wedge 10 Figure 50 at the end of lever 10 is, in the normal position, made to
bear against the left hand side of a stud 94, and a projection on the front end of
lever 11 is, in this position, pressed by a spring 12 into a notch in a disc 3* fixed
on the shaft of toothed wheel 3.
On the rotation of a cam. G fixed on the minute arbor of an ordinary clock,
Figure 2, a lever G is actuated, which by means of a rod Ge gradually raises the
rod 9, Figure 5.
A projection 9 on rod 9 then presses the wedge 10 of lever 10 away from the
stud 9, so that the lever 10 can be forced by a helical spring to the right hand
(Figure 5B).
The lever 11 is turned by this means, and the front projection of this lever is
moved out of the notch of disc 3* (Figure 5).
The toothed wheel 4 can now rotate, which rotation continues until a laterally
projecting pin bears against a pin projecting from the rod 9.
When the minute. hand of the clock has reached the numeral 12, the lever Go
will turn, causing the rod 9 to sink down.
By this means the pin which holds the toothed wheel 4 is set free, the toothed
gear E is set in motion and the eccentric I is turned.
The pin on the dise 7 then presses the lever 10 back into its original position (54)
and the above described operation is repeated.
As it may happen that the toothed gear E begins to move at the moment when
the stamp is to be used, means must be provided whereby the running of the toothed
gear is prevented from actuating the hour dise. For this purpose a suspended
pivotted bar K, Fig. 1, is provided, which engages by its lower bent end with the
carrier Hof shaft H.
When the cylinder B is at rest, the rod K is held by the carrier H. As soon
however as the cylinder turns, the rod. K will be set free. If, now, during this
time the rod 9 is raised by the clock G, this rod bears upon a projection K* of the
rod K, and cannot descend again until the cylinder B is again in its normal position,
and the rod K is drawn back by the carrier H.
The action of the above described apparatus is as follows:-I will assume that
the cylinder B, is in the position of rest, Figure 4, in which its recess is directly
underneath the case A, containing the tickets; if it be now turned round, it will,
by means of the curved arm C, also turn the stamp C which will thereby be
impressed by degrees upon the ticket situated in the recess of the cylinder.

page_text: The cylinder and stamp then assuming the position shewn at Figure 6. On the
farther rotation of cylinder B, the curved arm C, and with it the stamp, pass
rapidly away from the cylinder (see the dotted position Figure 6) so that the
stamped ticket is set free, and falls onto the shoot Db. The carrier H then
causes the bell to be sounded, thus giving a signal that the operation is.
completed, whereupon the counterweight B brings the cylinder B back to its
original position again.
The stamp C is continuously actuated by the clock through the toothed gear E,.
so that each ticket receives correctly the proper date and time stamp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A date and time stamping apparatus in which the ticket or similar object to
be stamped is, by the rotation of a cylindrical surface having a recess corresponding
to the size of the ticket, taken from a ticket receptacle and brought before a stamp
that is rotatably mounted on pivots and is turned by the cylinder, and whose date
and time stamping discs are actuated by an ordinary clock, whereupon, on the
farther motion of the cylinder, the ticket impressed with the date and time stamp.
is liberated so as to fall out of the cylinder recess, substantially as described.
2. In a date and time stamping apparatus such as is referred to in the first.
claim, effecting the motion of the pivotted stamp C by means of the cylinder B by
a curved arm Ca fixed to the stamp, by the curvature of which arm the ticket is at.
once set free by the stamp, whereby the duration of motion of the cylinder is.
considerably shortened.
3. In a date and time stamping apparatus such as is referred to in the 1st and.
2nd claims, the provision of a suspended pivotted rod K which at the normal
position of the cylinder B Figure 4 is held by a carrier H on the cylinder shaft H
but is released on the rotation of the cylinder and which, in this position stops the
releasing mechanism of the toothed gear E by means of a projection K so that the
toothed gear E cannot revolve and consequently cannot actuate the date stamp C
if this be not situated in its normal position, thus preventing any damage being
done to the stamping discs, substantially as described.
4. A date and time stamping apparatus combined and operating substantially as.
herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of July 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.