An Improved Method of Raising and Lowering the Printing Head or Press in Cash Checking, Recording, and Indicating Apparatus.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Raising and Lowering the Printing Head or
Press in Cash Checking, Recording, and Indicating Apparatus.
I, JOHN HOWARD PLANT of King Street Works, Dudley, in the County of Worcester,
Manufacturer, Merchant and Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention relates to apparatus made as described by Sidney Firth in a
Complete Specification dated A.D. 1886 September 11th and Nod. 11,585 or on a
similar principle to that therein described.
I employ and fix between the frame or table of the apparatus and the printing press
thereof a spring or springs of such suitable length and strength as to sustain the
press and attachments a convenient distance above the frame or table. I bring down
the
press, thereby compressing the spring or springs, by means of a lever and con-
necting rod suitably attached to the base plate and the press respectively, and
arranged that when the lever is loosed the recoil of the spring or springs carries
back the press and sustains it at its original position.
SO
Instead of so placing the spring or springs it or they may be attached to the
lever or to the top of the press, so as to act either by compression or extension.
Dated this 30th day of November 1889.
JOHN HOWARD PLANT..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Raising and Lowering the Printing Head or
Press in Cash Checking, Recording, and Indicating Apparatus.
I JOHN HOWARD PLANT of King Street Works, Dudley, in the County of Worcester
Manufacturer Merchant and Inventor 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 :-
The object of my invention is to improve the method of raising and lowering the
printing head or press in cash checking recording and indicating apparatus and it
relates to that description of apparatus which is described in the Complete Specification
of Sidney Firth dated A.D. 1886 September 11 and Numbered 11585 and which is
hereinafter referred to as "the apparatus."
For the purpose of my invention I employ and fix between the frame or table
of the apparatus and the printing press thereof a spring or springs of such suitable
length and strength as to sustain the press and attachments at a convenient distance
above the frame or table. I bring down the press thereby compressing the spring
or springs by means of a lever and connecting rod-suitably attached to the base
plate and press respectively, and so arranged that when the lever is loosed the receil
of the spring or springs carries back the press and sustains it at its original position.
In that description of cash checking, recording, and indicating apparatus to which
this new method of raising and lowering the printing head or press applies, the
mechanism used for such purpose operates upon the ticket ejector slide and the inking
roller; it is therefore obvious that my new method must also be brought into unison
With the mechanism for effecting such purposes, and I have so adapted it in manner
hereinafter described. And in order that my said invention may be particularly
described and ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawing
in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts.

page_text: 2. The principle whereby the mechanism comprised in the claim No. 1 is adapted
to the ticket ejecting and inking portions of the apparatus by means of the lever D
and the forked levers K and G substantially as bereinbefore described and shewn in
the drawings.
Dated the Second day of Santonshor 1800.
JOHN HOWARD PLANT.