Improvements in Ticket Punches.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct.,. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ticket Punches.
I, JOHN SAXBY, the Younger, of 61 & 62 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to that class of punch in which the value of the tickets
issued is recorded (say in pounds shillings and pence) upon dials.
The object of the invention is to render the instrument compact and light and to
prevent the record kept by it from being tampered with.
The whole of the mechanism is mounted on a vertical central plate fitting and
locked into a case.
The gong which sounds each time a ticket is punched is fixed
on one side of the plate and the recording mechanism on the other. The horizontal
jaws in which the ticket is held whilst being punched are fixed to the front of the
central plate and there is a slot in the case to allow the tickets to be placed.
between the jaws. The punch works in vertical holes passing through the jaws
and is pivotted at its upper end to a horizontal arm running along one side of the
top of the central plate and pivotted at its other end to it. This arm is connected
by a link to a lever parallel to and beneath it having one end pivotted to the
central plate whilst its other end forms a handle projecting through a slot in the
back of the case, the latter being fixed to the central plate. The lever handle
works against a flat spring which tends to press it upwards and has a projection
upon it which passes through a slot in the central plate and lies above the top of
a curved spring carrying the hammer for striking the gong. When the handle is
depressed this projection forces the spring back and then escapes through a notch
in the spring which is thereby freed. The lever handle also has a pawl pivotted to
it which takes into the teeth of a ratchet wheel upon the axis of the pence dial so
that the latter is advanced one step each time the handle is depressed, a retaining
pawl being provided to prevent it turning back again.
The axis of the shillings dial has fixed to it a wheel having 20 teeth with concave
tops. These concavities fit a disc upon the axis of the pence dial so that normally
the shillings dial is locked and cannot turn, the disc however has one tooth upon
it which once in every revolution gears with one or other of the 20 teeth and so
advances the shillings dial one tooth when it is again locked. The pounds dial is
similarly locked and turned by a disc and single tooth on the shillings dial.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1892.
JOHN SAABI, JUNR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ticket Punches.
I, JOHN SAXBY, the Younger, of 61 & 62 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 that class of punch in which the value of the tickets
issued is recorded (say in pounds shillings and pence) upon dials.
The object of the invention is to render the instrument compact and light and
to prevent the record kept by it from being tampered with.
Figure 1 is an external view of the apparatus.
Figure 2 is a similar view with the outer case b removed,

page_text: Figure 3 is a similar view to Figure 2 with the plate covering the dials
removed.
Figure 4 is an edge and Figure 5 a back view of Figure 2.
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The whole of the mechanism is mounted on a vertical central plate a fitting and
locked into a case the two being secured together by the screw b. The plate a
also has fixed to it the handle 62 and back of the outer case. The gong c which
sounds each time a ticket is punched is fixed on one side of the plate a and the
recording mechanism on the other. The horizontal jaws d in which the ticket is
held whilst being punched, are fixed to the front of the central plate a and there is
a slot in the case to allow the tickets to be placed between the jaws d. The
punch e works in vertical holes passing through the jaws d and is pivotted at e¹ to
a horizontal arm running along one side of the top of the central plate
pivotted at to it. This arm is connected by a link g to a lever h parallel to
and beneath it having one end pivotted at to the central plate a whilst its other
end forms a handle projecting through a slot in the back of the case, the latter
being fixed to the central plate by the screw . The lever handle works against
a flat spring which tends to press it upwards and has a projection k upon it which
passes through a slot in the central plate a and lies above the top of a curved
spring Figure 5 carrying the hammer for striking the gong c. When the
handle is depressed this projection k forces the spring back and then escapes
through a notch in the spring which is thereby freed. The lever handle also
has a pawl m pivotted to it which takes into the teeth of a ratchet wheel n upon
the axis of the pence dial o so that the latter is advanced one step each time the
handle is depressed, a retaining pawl p being provided to prevent it turning back
again.
The axis of the shillings dial q has fixed to it a wheel r having 20 teeth with
concave tops. These concavities fit a disc s upon the axis of the pence dial so that
normally the shillings dial q is locked and cannot turn, the disc s however has one
tooth upon it which once in every revolution gears with one or other of the
20 teeth and so advances the shillings dial y one tooth when it is again locked. The
pounds dial is similarly locked and turned by a disc u and single tooth u¹ on
the shillings dial.
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. The combination of the central plate a carrying the mechanism with the outer
case substantially as described.
2. The combination of the jaws d with the plate a substantially as described.
3. The combination with the plate a of the punch e, arm f, link g, lever h,
pawl m and recording mechanism substantially as described.
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4. The combination of the plate a, lever h, projection k, spring 1, Hammer 1, and
gong c substantially as described.
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5. The recording mechanism substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
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6. Ticket punches substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of September 1893.
JOHN SAXBY, JUNR.