IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Melton Black at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September 1883.
JOHN MELTON BLACK of Bell Yard City Road in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY
NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES
OF AMUSEMENT
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This Invention is designed as a further Improvement on Letters Patent granted
to Marcus Bebro on the 4th day of March 1881 N° 941. The object of the present
improvements relate to the further developments and details which will simplify
the general construction usefulness and adaptability of the box containing and
delivering the consecutively numbered tickets
The first of the said improvements relates to the manner in which the
continuous ribbon or strip of tickets is passed to the delivery rollers so as to
maintain the square true line of traverse when passing between such rollers out
from the box, To secure this object I mount in a position immediately behind the
delivering rollers a swing guide with overturned lips between which the ribbon of
paper from the continuous roll is caused to pass to the rollers delivering such paper
from the box, the action of the said guide is such that it adjusts its position so as
to allow the paper to be held in a true horizontal position in a line direct with the
line of contact of the rolls thus preventing any skew or angular distortion of the
paper from the direct line of its traverse whilst being delivered from the box.
Secondly. The object of the invention relates to a means whereby the ribbon of
paper is readily placed in position in the box and between the rollers for delivering
and also for adjustment at times when the consecutive number of the ticket
delivered does not exactly assume the right and true position for being torn off,
this portion of the present improvements consist in connecting the supports or
bearings of the top roller in a frame connected with a set screw, the turning of
which will remove or ease the pressure of the top roller from the under roller so as
to clear or raise the marginal points on one roller from the matrices or recesses of
the other roller without ungearing the driving wheels and so allow the ribbon or
strip of tickets to be easily drawn through or passed between the same and
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page_text: adjusted for delivering at which time the top roller is again screwell down into
working contact with the under roller, or this easing of the contact between the
two rollers for the purpose named may be accomplished by any suitable mechanical
adjustment.
Thirdly The improvements relate to the slot or orifice through which the tickets
as delivered are passed from the box, the construction of such orifice or slot
described in the Specification of the Patent herein referred to, forms a narrow neck
projecting from the box the slot or passage being sufficient only for the width and
thickness of the paper passing through the same, whereas according to the
construction I adopt I dispense with the projecting neck and slot forming a
confined passage for the paper and in lieu thereof I leave the exit orifice from the
delivering rollers open and sufficiently wide to allow the tickets as projected from
and between the rollers to be freely delivered from the box, the lower edge of the
said slot or orifice has a sharp angular formation which enables the ticket
projecting from the box to be taken hold of and severed by such sharp angular
edge from the roll of tickets in the box.
Fourthly The improvements relate to a method I adopt in connection with the
box which will enable the consecutive numbers contained on the tickets and
delivered from the box to be checked by counters or dials which as each length of
ticket is projected from the box the rollers delivering the same will as they
intermittently revolve give motion to the fingers of: counting dials in a manner
which will indicate in successive consecutive order the progressive numbers of the
tickets as they are delivered from the box, and
Finally The improvements relate to that class of box designed more particularly
for places of amusement or places of public resort where it is necessary to check
the number of persons entering such places, When carrying out this part of my
invention I fix the box in a suitable position and provide the delivering rollers
with a pinion which is caused to gear with a rack supported in slides and connected
at its lower end with a treadle (or in lieu of a pinion and rack a spring pulley or
its equivalent can be employed) the depression of which will give motion to the
rollers delivering the tickets from the box, the adjustment of the throw or
depression of the treadle so as to correspond exactly with the length of ticket being
obtained by set screw stops so that each time the treadle is depressed a ticket. will
be projected from the box and its corresponding number will be registered on the
dials contained in the box, the severing of the protruding ticket being effected in
the manner as previously described