Improvements in Colour Ticket-printing Machines.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1890
CUMI LIET BUITIVATION.
Improvements in Colour Ticket-printing Machines.
We LEWIS HATFIELD HAWES of 185 Tompkins Avenue Brooklyn in the County
of Kings, Machinist and ALONZO KIMBALL, Manufacturer of 42 and 44 Bond Street
New York in the County and State of New York United States of America 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:-
Our invention relates to machines for printing railroad or other tickets in colours ;
and it consists of certain novel combinations of parts, hereinafter fully described, for
feeding a continuous strip of card-board to the printing mechanism, printing the
tickets thereon in the desired colours, and properly cutting the tickets therefrom.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 represents a front view of a machine embodying our invention.
Figure 2 represents a plan or top view thereof.
Figure 3 represents an end view of the ink-fount and concomitants.
Figure 4 represents a like view of the feed-rollers and concomitants.
Figure 5 represents an end view of the machine.
Figure 6 represents a rear view of a portion thereof.
Figure 7 represents a paper-guide employed with the machine, and
Figure 8 is a detail view of a sliding fulcrum.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
The letter A indicates the machine frame, consisting essentially of two standards
and suitable braces. B indicates a platen firmly secured in the upper part of said
frame, and a bed above the platen for receiving a chase with the proper type for
printing the tickets. The bed is secured at its opposite ends to vertical slides (7,
(Fig. 5 showing a side view) which are fitted in suitable guide ways C of the machine-
frame, and the lower end of each of which is connected by a pitman (³ to a crank C
on a shaft C, which is geared with a driving shaft C by suitable cog-wheels to revolve
therewith, so that a vertically-reciprocating motion is imparted to the bed from said
crank-shaft through the two cranks, the pitmen, and the slides.
The letter D indicates two levers supporting an ink-roller D¹, Figures 1 and 2, for
inking the type of the bed E, Figures 2 and 6, an ink-delivery roller; e, an ink-
distributing roller; f, an ink-fountain; G, a fountain-roller, and H, (Figures 3 and 6).
an ink feed roller.
The ink-roller-supporting levers D have their fulcra in pivots D³, on a fixed
portion of the machine-frame, and each of said levers is provided with a slot 1³, Fig. 5,
whereby it engages with a pin D' of a bracket D, fixed to the hed C, so that in the
motion of the bed said levers are vibrated by said pins of the two brackets travelling.
in the slots of the levers, thereby causing the inking-roller D' to travel over the
type.
The ink-delivering roller E has its bearings in the machine frame, and is geared
with the driving shaft C, by means of a cam journalled on said driving shaft, and
operating by means of a rod connecting the cain with the sliding fulcrum and con-
necting the ink delivery-roller E. The location of said delivery-roller E is such
in relation in the inking-roller D' that in the rearward position of said inking-roller,
and when the platen C is in an upper position, the inking-roller is in superficial
contact with the delivery roller, thus revolving therewith and receiving ink therefrom.
The distributing-roller e also has its bearing in the machine frame and is arranged
in superficial contact with the ink-delivery roller E to revolve therewith, while it is
provided at one end with a slotted wheel e engaging with a forked rod 9 passing
through a sliding stud g forming a part of said fulcrum engaging at its lower end
with a cam g3 journalled on one end of the driving shaft so that as the driving
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page_text: shaft revolves said cam gives said rod a reciprocating motion thus causing the
distributing roller to travel longitudinally and spread the ink on the delivery roller.
The ink fountain is secured to the machine-frame adjacent to the ink-delivery
roller E, and the fountain-roller Gis arranged within said, fountain parallel to the
delivery-roller. Said fountain-roller Gris provided at one end with a.ratchet wheel K,
engaging with a sliding pawl L, which is fitted in ways L', Fig. 3, on the machine-
frame in such position relatively to a cam I on the bed C that in the descent of the
bed said eam comes in contact with the tail end of the pawl and displaces the latter,
with the effect of imparting an intermittingly-revolving motion to said ratchet-wheel
together with the fountain roller. The ink-feed roller His mounted in two parallel
arms H', fixed to a rock-shaft' H³, which has its bearings in the machine-frame, and
to which is also fixed a third arm H, lying in the path of a tappet H³, Fig. 3, on the
bed C, so that in the descent of the bed said tappet operates to vibrate the arms, and
thereby shift said feed-roller from the delivery-roller E to the fountain-roller G, with
the effect of taking ink from the fountain-roller and conveying it to the delivery-
roller. The ink-delivery roller Eis divided transversely into sections, with intervals
between them, as shown in Figures 2 and 6, and the ink-fountain f is divided by
suitable partitions f into compartments, one opposite to each section of the delivery-
roller, so that if said compartments of the fountain are supplied with ink of different
colours the same- is conveyed to the corresponding roller-sections by the feed-roller H
from the fountain-roller.
The ink-distributing roller e, also, is made in sections, one to each section of the
delivery-roller E, as shown, the distributing-roller sections being, however of less
length than the delivery-roller sections, so that in said reciprocating motion of the
distributing-roller its sections remain entirely within or between the edges of the
proper delivery-roller sections.
At one or the receiving end of the machine are paper feed-rollers J-one above the
other which are geared together by cog-wheels i; and one of which is provided with
a ratchet wheel, engaging with pawl of an arm, which is hung on the shaft of
the proper feed-roller and connected by a link to one end of a lever, having its
fulcrum in a pivot on the machine-frame and engaging at its other end with a stud
of the bed in such a manner that an intermittingly-revolving motion is imparted to
said feed-rollers from the bed. The lower feed-roller J has fixed bearings, while the
upper. feed-roller has movable bearings, combined with an adjustable lever y, Fig. 4,
set screw y', and spring y² for the adjustment of said upper roller in relation to the
lower-roller: At the end of the machine opposite to said feed-rollers J. are vertical
rotary knives m; fixed to a suitable shaft, which bas its bearings in an extension. M of
the platen; and is geared with the driving shaft (by a belt m*, pulleys m² m², and
suitable bevel-wheels, as shown, to be operated from the driving-shaft. Said
extension M. of the platen carries an upright N, forming guideways for a vertical
reciprocating knife N1, which is in rear of said rotary knives, and is connected by a rod N
with an eccentrick' so that said vertical knife-receives its motion from said. eccentric
connected on a-shaft and worked by a cog-wheel m*: In Figure 8; represents a
rod with a forked end engaging in a slotted wheel connected to the ink-delivery-
roller E. A slotted strip or piece of iron is firmly bolted or otherwise connected to
the machine-frame wherein a sliding stud is placed so that it can be slid and fastened
by means of a bolt at different places on the rod ; thus, when the machine is in
motion the ink distributing roller can be set to distribute the ink any desired width on
the delivery-roller.
In the operation of our machine the strip of card-board R is fed in between
the feed-rollers J and passes through a slot in the paper guide 1 (see Fig. 7) then
passes over the platen Bunder the bed' containing the type,-it being advanced after
each impression and in the ascent of the bed to a distance equal to the size of the
desired tickets, so that successive sections of the strip are successively printed with
the different colours of ink in the ink-fount--that is to, say, in the first impression
the first section of the strip receives 'one colour' and in the second impression the first
section receives a second colour, while the second section receives the first colour and

page_text: so on until the different sections have received all the colours. After being printed
the strip R passes under the rotary knives m, and is cut or sub-divided into narrower
strips, and the latter are then cut by the vertical reciprocating knife N¹ into tickets, or
said rotating knives may be omitted and the strip left of normal width to be cut simply
by the reciprocating knife.
When the rollers are divided into four sections, as shown herein, the first three
sections are used for three different colours of ink and the fourth section is used
for inking the type of a numbering-machine P, (shown in Figures 1 and 2), which
may be of any suitable construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. In a machine for printing tickets in sections from a continuous strip and in
different colours, the combination of a pair of feed-rollers, a reciprocating bed, an
inking roller, an ink-fountain having compartments to receive the different colours of
ink, a fountain-roller, an ink-delivery roller constructed in sections, one to each com-
partment of the ink-fountain, an ink-distributing roller also constructed in sections,
which are in contact with but of less length than the sections of said delivery roller,
and ink-feed roller operating to convey the ink from the fountain roller to said
delivery roller, vibrating arms carrying said feed-roller, and actuating devices for
said arms, all substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth.
2. In a machine for printing tickets in sections from a continuous strip, the
combination of a vertically reciprocating bed, a crank shaft carrying two cranks,
pitmen connecting the bed with said cranks, a vertically-reciprocating knife for cutting
the tickets from said strips, and a rod connecting the knife with said eccentric; a
sliding fulcrum for the purpose of causing said distributing-roller to travel longitu-
dinally over and spreading the ink on said delivery roller, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
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F. W. BARKER,
Applicants' Agent.