Improvements in Machines for Printing Railway and other Tickets.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 8th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Printing Railway and other Tickets.
1, Thomas JOHN EDMONDSON, of the firm of Jno. B. Edmondson, Railway
Ticket Works, Knowsley Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to railway ticket printing machines, and particularly to
those machines known as Edmondson's Railway Ticket Printing Machines, and the
object of my invention is to print both sides of the tickets in the same machine and
by a continuous operation instead of in two machines by two separate operations as
hitherto customary.
In applying my improvements to a printing machine of the type indicated for
printing tickets upon one side I make the frame of the machine long enough to
carry an additional type box with its actuating mechanism and the necessary inking
apparatus. 1 fit the extra type box in an adjustable vertical slide actuated by a
horizontal lever pivoted on a stud on the machine frame or the slide may be
actuated by other suitable means; one end of the pivoted lever is fitted in a box in
the lower portion of the main printing frame and the other end is fitted in the slide
which carries the additional type box so that when the printing frame descends to
print and number the face of the ticket the vertical slide is lifted and its type
simultaneously prints the back of another ticket which has been previously printed
on its face in the same machine. The tickets are fed continuously into the
machine from the tube of blanks and pass automatically into a receiving tube when
printed.
The inking apparatus for the extra type box is mounted in slideways on the
machine frame and actuated by connecting levers from the ordinary inking
apparatus which is actuated from the eccentric carried by the driving shaft as
usual.
Dated this 20th day of Tuno 1801
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Printing Railway and other Tickets.
I, THOMAS JOHN EDMONDSON, of the firm of Jno. B. Edmondson, Railway
Ticket Works, Knowsley Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to railway ticket printing machines, and particularly to
those machines known as Edmondson's Railway Ticket Printing Machines, and the
object of my invention is to print both sides of the tickets in the same machine and
by a continuous operation instead of in two machines by two separate operations as
hitherto customary.
In applying my improvements to a printing machine of the type indicated for
printing tickets upon one side I make the frame of the machine long enough to
carry an additional type box with its actuating mechanism and the necessary inking
apparatus. I fit the extra type box in an adjustable vertical slide actuated by a
horizontal lever pivoted on a stud on the machine frame or the slide may be
actuated by other suitable means; one end of the pivoted lever is fitted in a box in

page_text: the lower portion of the main printing frame and the other end is fitted in the slide
which carries the additional type box so that when the printing frame descends to
print and number the face of the ticket the vertical slide is lifted and its type
simultaneously prints the back of another ticket which has been previously printed
on its face in the same machine. The tickets are fed continuously into the
machine from the tube of blanks and pass automatically into a receiving tube when
printed.
The inking apparatus for the extra type box is mounted in slideways on the
inachine frame and actuated by connecting levers from the ordinary inking
apparatus which is actuated from the eccentric carried by the driving shaft as
usual.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side cleration and Fig. 2 a front elevation (with the ticket receiving
tube removed) of my improved machine for printing railway and other tickets and
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of part of the same.
The mechanism for printing the face or upper side of the ticket a is of the
ordinary or other convenient form and consists of the following parts -
A driving shaft a¹ is fitted in bearings in the frame of the machine and on it
is secured an eccentric e which acts upon a bowl d carried in the movable type
frame e which carries the type. The eccentric e depresses the type frame e at
every revolution of the shaft a whereby the ticket a is printed upon the face or
upper side and springs cased in a tube return the frame after this printing
operation. The inking apparatus which consists of a colour box and treacle
roller with a ratchet wheel g₁ is actuated as usual from an eccentric on the
main shaft a by a connecting rod i and lever j pivoted at ; a slide on the lever j
feeds the tickets to be printed from a tube in the machine and a rod m, also
pivoted to the lever turns by ratchet pawls m the ratchet wheel g¹ on the treacle
roller the travelling inking roller for inking the type in the frame e is not shown,
but it is actuated from an eccentric n, sec Fig. 2, on the main shaft a', which
operates an elbow lever n' pivoted on a stud n² through a rod n³.
After the ticket has been printed on its face or upper side, in the manner and by
the mechanism above described, it is pushed, by the advance of the next ticket into
the machine, along a slideway in the top of the frame bunder a pad o, which is
supported in a metal cover p; the ticket is then ready to be printed on its reverse
side by the type held in an additional type box q which is carried in an adjustable
vertical slider, actuated from the main type frame e by means of a horizontal
lever s pivoted on a stud si on the machine-frame; one end of this lever s is fitted
in a recess in e and the other end of the lever is fitted in a recess in the slide r, so
that when the main printing frame e descends to print one ticket on the upper side,
the slide and its type box q ascend and print the reverse or under side of another
ticket.
In order to ink the type in the box 7 I employ a colour box and rotating
treacle roller u, driven from a gear on the treacle roller g, with an inking roller,
mounted on an arm v, which is caused to reciprocate to and from the treacle
roller across the face of the type, by means of an arm w fulcrumed at te¹ and
rocked from the elbow lever n' by means of a projecting arm w² which connects the
lever n to the arm w; the ink is spread evenly on the roller by a plate y under
which the roller » passes.
When the tickets have been printed on both sides they pass into a receiving box
or tube ..
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 with mechanism for printing railway and other tickets on

page_text: one side, of mechanism whereby the said tickets can be printed on the other side,.
in and by a continuous operation substantially as herein set forth.
2. The combination and general arrangement of the parts embodying my
improvements for printing railway and other tickets on both sides in the same
machine and by a continuous operation substantially as herein described with.
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of March 1892.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.