IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Year: 1883

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Melton Black at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1883.
JOHN MELTON BLACK of Bell Yard City Road in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM TO BE EMPLOYED FOR DELIVERING CONSECUTIVELY
NUMBERED TICKETS TO PERSONS RIDING IN PUBLIC VEHICLES OR ENTERING
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT"
This Invention is designed as a further improvement on Letters Patent granted
to Marcus Bebro on the 4th day of March 1881 N° 941, the object of the present
improvements relate to further developments and details which will simplify the
general construction usefulness and adaptability of the box containing and delivering
the consecutively numbered tickets.
The first of the said improvements relate to the manner in which the continuous
ribbon or strip of tickets is passed to the delivery rollers so as to maintain the
squaré true line of traverse when passing between such rollers out from and clear
of the box, To secure this object I mount in a position immediately behind the.
delivering rollers a swing guide with over turned lips between which the ribbon of
paper from the rolls is caused to pass to the rollers delivering such paper from the
box, the action of the said guide is such that it adjusts its position so as to allow
the paper to be held in a true horizontal position in a line direct with the line of
contact of the rolls thus preventing any skew or angular distortion of the paper from
the direct line of its traverse whilst being delivered from the box.
Secondly, the object of the invention relates to a means whereby the ribbon of
paper is readily placed in position in the box and between the rollers for delivering
and also for adjustment at times when the consecutive number of the ticket
delivered does not exactly assume the right and true position for being torn off,
this portion of the present improvements consists in connecting the supports or
bearings of the top roller in a frame connected with a set screw, the turning of
which will remove or ease the pressure of the top roller from the under roller so as
to clear or raise the marginal points on one roller from the dies or recesses of the
other roller without ungearing the driving wheels, and so allow the ribbon of
tickets to be easily passed between the same and adjusted for delivering, at which

page_text: time the top roller is again screwed down into working contact with the under
roller, or as an alternative arrangement I so place a curved finger or spring or its
equivalent above the axle of the top roller that when the box is opened by the
person in authority the curve or slot of the said finger or spring will remove the
top roller out of contact with the under roller in manner as herein described, and
again when the box is closed and locked such finger will bring the two rollers into
contact for delivering the continuous strip or length of tickets.
Finally, the improvements relate to the slot or orifice through which the tickets
as delivered are passed from the box the construction of such orifice or slot described
in the Specification of the Patent herein referred to, forms a narrow neck or
projection from the box the slot being confined in size to the thickness, and width
of the paper passing from the continuous roll.-Whereas according to the con-
struction I adopt I dispense with the projecting neck or slot forming a confined
passage for the paper and in lieu thereof I leave the exit orifice from the rolls open
and sufficiently wide to allow the tickets as projected from the roller to be freely
delivered from the box the lower edge of the slot or orifice is made angular and
sharp so that the delivered ticket when protruding can be taken hold of and readily
severed by such sharp angular edge.