Improved Delivering or Receiving Box for Railway Ticket and other Card Printing Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improved Delivering or Receiving Box for Railway Ticket and
other Card Printing Machines.
FREDERICK JAMES WOOD Newton-le-Willows Lancashire
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Printer do hereby
My invention relates to improvements in the receiving or delivering box, used in
connection with machines for printing railway tickets, cards and other matter.
At the present time the machine has to be stopped to empty, and replace, the
receiving or delivering box, which has been filled with printed tickets, cards, or
other matter, delivered or received from the printing machine.
My invention consists in the use or addition of an auxiliary, receiving, or
delivering box or receptacle which is provided with a moveable or sliding bottom
to be used in combination, and form the upper part of the usual delivering or
receiving box, used in machinery for printing railway tickets, cards and other
matter.
In carrying out my invention, I fix an auxiliary box, which I make stationery,
so as to form the upper part or top of the usual moveable, delivering or receiving
box, the two boxes together when fixed in the machine, forming one receiving box
or receptacle, when the lower, and removeable part of the box is full, and requires
to be empted, I insert a moveable or sliding bottom, in the upper or stationery
auxiliary box, to receive the printed tickets, as the machine deliveres them whilst
the usual removeable receiving box is being empted and replaced again, after
the receiving box has been replaced in the machine, then I withdraw the loose
or moveable sliding bottom from the auxiliary box, and allow the printed tickets,
cards, or other matter, that has accumilated, whilst the bottom or usual receiving
box has been empted, to fall into the bottom, or usual receiving box, thus allowing
a continuous delivering of printed tickets or cards without stopping the machine as
hitherto, whilst the receiving box or receptacle is being empted.
Doted this 19th dow of M. 1986
FREDERICK JAMES WOOD.

page_text: Improved Delivering or Receiving Box for Railway Ticket and
other Card Printing Machines.
I, FREDERICK JAMES WOOD, Oak Bank, Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire 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:-
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This invention relates to the receiving box used in connection with the machines
for printing railway tickets and other like articles, and is applicable not merely to
the printing part of the machinery but the subsequent counting part also.
At the present time the machines have to be stopped to empty and replace their
receiving or delivery boxes which has been filled with printed tickets, cards, or
other matter delivered or received from the machines.
My invention consists in the use or addition of an auxiliary receiving box or
receptacle which is provided with a movable or sliding bottom, to be used in
combination and from the upper part of the usual delivery or receiving box.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the present style of delivery box with my improve-
ments attached, Figure 2. plan of latter, Figure 3. horizontal section of delivery
box on line X Z, Figure 4 vertical section of Figure 1.
In these A is the receiving box, E the stationary auxiliary one. C is the
ordinary spring slide lowered from time to time as the pile of tickets increases.
Box A is pivoted at bottom by pivot D fitting into a suitable socket and is cut to
a slope or curve above so that when caused to turn on the pivot D it shall clear
the auxiliary box E. E an auxiliary box fixed to the machine in any convenient
manner having flanges F overlapping each side of box A, and a sloping bottom
fitting the top of A, any other plan can be arranged to cause a lateral lock between
the two boxes while leaving the main receiving box free to turn on its pivot or be
otherwise withdrawn, or the receiving box can have lateral guides on the frame of
the machine to keep it vertical. The ordinary ticket groove of box A is continued
through box E as shown. G is a sliding bottom for auxiliary box E which can be
made to pull out or rotate horizontally till clear of the ticket groove as desired.
I prefer to form it so as to pull out in front either altogether, or at least quite clear
of the ticket groove, but with a stop to prevent it actually coming loose and
getting lost. H are screws to secure the box against the sides of the recess into
which it is placed in certain machines in my possession. In new machines, box E
can be firmly bolted or otherwise fixed to the machine by means of bolts and
flanges or otherwise. The two boxes when in position form one continuous
machine or receptacle, a spring clip or even its own weight and friction keeping
box A in place.
The mode of action is as follows: when the two boxes are placed in position the
sliding bottom of box E is withdrawn, and as the box fills, the slide C is lowered
from time to time till box A is nearly full, slide G is now closed and box A with-
drawn and emptied; box E taking the tickets in the mean time. Box A is returned
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page_text: empty and inserted and slide C pushed up to near the top, sliding bottom G is
again withdrawn and the cycle of operations renewed.
By this invention therefore it will be seen that there is no need to stop the
machine when the box is being emptied, and thus the trouble each time the box
is emptied of setting the printing or counting mechanism to exactly register, or
at least of examining to see if it works true, is avoided. There being also no
stoppages, much more work can be got out of a machine in a given time.
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 :-
1st. In combination with a railway ticket machine such as described, a receiving
box so formed with a slide or temporary bottom G or its equivalent, that the lower
part of the box can be withdrawn and replaced or emptied from time to time
without stopping the machine or interfering with the satisfactory performance of
its work.
2nd. The auxiliary receiving box and its appurtenances of a railway ticket
machine constructed and arranged, substantially as and for the purpose herein
described.