AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING TICKETS, LABELS, OR CHEQUES IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER AS DELIVERED FROM A CUTTING MACHINE
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN MELTON BLACK of Windmill Street, City of London in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for AN
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING TICKETS, LABELS, OR
CHEQUES IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER AS DELIVERED FROM A CUTTING MACHINE to be
as follows:
This Invention is designed as a further developement or extension of the
Invention for which application was made for a Patent by me on the 15th day of
May 1884 No 7776.
The present Invention relates to various modifications and additions to the said
Invention, the first part of which relates to the driving of the elliptical shaped
block which places the tickets as they are delivered from the rollers in their con-
secutive order one on another, and-Secondly to the box or receptacle in which
such tickets are received.
First-the pieces of paper cardboard or the like representing tickets as they are
severed by the revolving cutters and delivered by the feed rollers into the box or
receptacle designed to receive them, are forced down by a revolving elliptical
shaped block or other shaped block which shall have an oblong formation, that is
its transverse diameter shall be somewhat longer, than its conjugate diameter, so
that when in a horizontal position, the picce representing a ticket when delivered
by the rollers from the cutters will pass direct into the box, and be forced down
instantly from its line of traverse by the surface of the said block as its transverse
diameter assumes a vertical position. Or the block may be so formed that it will
with each revolution force three or more tickets into the box, but I prefer the use
of a block similar to that already described which may be driven by ordinary
wheel gearing or by elliptic gearing the object being to give such block a rate of
speed whether uniform or accelerated during a portion of its revolution that it will
with each ticket delivered to the box have one of its longer curved surfaces brought
into contact with the ticket so as to force such ticket down onto the surface of the
tickets already in the box, the speed of the revolving elliptical shaped block is
thus caused to give one complete revolution with every two tickets delivered by
the rollers passing the tickets from the cutters to the said box.

page_text: Secondly The Invention relates to the box or receptacle into which the
tickets as delivered from the rollers are placed in consecutive order by the
revolving elliptical shaped block. This box or receptacle I prefer to give a curved
formation and so shaped that its mouth or orifice receiving the tickets immediately
below the revolving block before mentioned shall have a drop at right angles to
the direction in which the tickets are delivered thereto so that as the tickets enter
they shall be successively forced down the trunk of such box, and be directed in
their traverse in a curved direction out from the bottom end of the said box onto a
platform or table from which they can be removed.
The curved box or receptacle when the machine is first started is filled with
blank tickets or their equivalent which will form a support for the tickets as the
are successively fed into the box, for example, as the first and subsequent tickets
are delivered by the feed rollers into the box, they are immediately forced by the
revolving block onto the upper surface of the blank tickets in the box, the whole of
which as the tickets accumulate are forced one on another by such block and so
gradually cause the whole set of tickets under the block to be propelled thereby,
and traverse down the trunk of the box onto the table or platform from which they
are removed in quantities or bundles as required.

page_text: I JOHN MELTON BLACK of Windmill Street Finsbury in the City of London
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "AN IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT
OF APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING TICKETS LABELS OR CHEQUES IN CONSECUTIVE
ORDER AS DELIVERED FROM A CUTTING MACHINE," 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 more particularly to further improvements in Letters
Patent granted to me 11th day of September 1883 N° 4350, and on the 26th day
of October 1883 N° 5092.-The first of the Letters Patent related to an Invention
for printing on a continuous web or ribbon of paper in consecutive and numerical
order tickets labels cheques or the like and an addition to which Invention was
Patented to me on the 18th day of February 1884 N° 3484 the Letters Patent
granted to me on the 26th day of October 1883 related to an invention for cutting
up such continuous length web or ribbon of printed matter into separate pieces
representing tickets..
The object of this Invention is the construction of apparatus in connection with
the rotary cutters described in the Specification of the herein recited Patent
No 5092 A.D. 1883 which will collect in consecutive order the pieces representing
tickets as they are delivered from the rotary cutters.
As the varying state of the atmosphere has a contracting and expanding influence
on paper material it is necessary where webs or ribbons of printed matter on that
material have to be rapidly cut up into tickets so that each piece or ticket shall
have its own consecutive number clearly represented thereon, the three processes
of printing cutting and collecting should be carried on simultaneously and in one
Machine therefore after the two operations of printing and cutting have been
accomplished as described in the Specifications of the Patents herein referred to
I collect the cut up pieces or tickets in consecutive order by the following arrange-
ment of Mechanism which will be more clearly understood on reference to the
accompanying drawings on which letters of reference are marked on corresponding
parts on all the Figs. alike.

page_text: Figs. 3 and 4 represent enlarged detached views of that portion of Fig 1 shewing
more particularly the flyer collecting the tickets in consecutive order as delivered
from the rotary cutters.
In these Fige A. is the framing of the Machine, which forms the termination of
the Machine described in the Specification of the Patents herein referred to viz the
apparatus for printing the continuous web of paper and the apparatus for cutting
such web up into consecutively numbered tickets.
The pieces of Cardboard or printed tickets as they are cut in register from the
continuous web a by the rotary knives B. B₁ are passed between two pair of
guide rollers bb' to the action of a flyer c as seen in Figs 1, 3. which places them
in consecutive order in the box or trunk d.
The manner in which the tickets are so collected may be described as follows:―
I mount in front of the rotary cutters B. B. delivering the tickets two pair of
rollers band b₁ the circumferential speed of the rollers b. is greater than the speed
of the rotary knives and the circumferential speed of the rollers b¹ is greater than
the speed of the rollers b. by this means I am enabled rapidly to withdraw each
ticket as severed clear from the ticket next following. Each ticket as it escapes
from the last pair of rollers b¹ passes underneath the elliptically shaped flyer c
whilst such flyer in its course of revolution assumes its horizontal position.
This flyer has two balanced arms with convex formations on their sides opposed
to their line of rotation .driven by the gearing e from the gearing transmitting
motion to the delivery rollers bb¹ the speed of the said flyer is half that of the
speed of the said roller b¹ and its position is so adjusted that when the ticket is
delivered from the roller b' the flyer will in its course of revolution be in a hori-
zontal position immediately over the ticket as shewn at Fig 3 its continued angular
velocity at this time wipes or forces with one of its convex surfaces such ticket
down as seen at Fig 4 on to the surface of the tickets previously delivered into the
box or trunk d. and as it continues its revolution the next ticket delivered is in
like manner again forced down by the other arm of the flyer thus enabling such
flyer with one complete revolution to place two tickets in the said box d.
In order that the upper level of the tickets as they are delivered in consecutive
order and placed in the box & shall always assume one level just clear of the flyer c
I support such tickets when the machine is first started on the platform f which
forms the top surface of a chain of wooden blocks which are inserted before starting
the machine up the trunk of the box d. to a point where their upper surface will
form a support for the reception of the tickets.
The lower end of these flexible wooden blocks I couple on to the endless
travelling web g which is driven by the worm wheel gearing h at a speed uniform
with the accumulation of tickets in the box d.
By the employment of these blocks of wood the tickets as they accumulate are
supported during the time they descend the trunk of the box d. until they issue
from the bottom thereof at which time the blocks f are removed and the tickets
are self supporting as they travel along horizontally with the endless travelling
web g from the surface of which they are constantly being removed whilst the
Machine is at work and stowed away in bundles of a given quantity for subsequent
use.
The trunk d. whilst the tickets are being received therein is so held that it will
allow a tremulous or vibratory motion to be transmitted thereto for the purpose of
shaking the tickets as they are collected and so cause them to settle down and
uniformly descend the said box out from the bottom thereof on to the horizontal
endless web g.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The novel combination with a Printing Machine, and rotary cutters of the
description specified in the herein recited Patents N° 5092, 1883 and N° 3484

page_text: A.D. 1884 of apparatus which will collect tickets, cheques, labels or the like in
consecutive order as they are delivered from such printing machine and cutters
in the manner as herein substantially described set forth and fully illustrated in the
drawings annexed.