Improvements in Tying-up Boxes for Railway and other Tickets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tying-up Boxes for Railway and other Tickets.
I, JOHN GRAHAM of 10ª Caledonian Street, King's Cross, London, Ticket Printer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be follows:-
This invention relates to improved devices for pressing the tickets intended to
form a packet closely together, and holding them so pressed together while the string.
is being applied and tied round the packet. Heretofore this pressure has generally
been applied to the tickets by means of a screw working through one end of the box;
but this arrangement is slow in action and otherwise unsatisfactory, and the object of
my present invention is to provide apparatus which can be operated more quickly
and easily.
For this purpose I provide an open topped box of a depth such that when the tickets.
are stood upright therein about one half of their length projects above the top of the
box as usual. At one end of this box I fit a sliding plunger preferably of about the
same cross section as that of the interior of the box. This sliding plunger is suitably
guided, and part of it projects downwards through a slot in the bottom of the box
and is acted on by a spring which tends constantly to force the plunger towards the
end of the box. A lever having a cam or eccentric shaped end is pivoted at the end
of the box, and the cam or eccentric shaped end of the lever bears against the end of
the aforesaid sliding plunger or against a friction roller mounted thereon. It will
now be understood that if the space between the end of the box and the face of the
sliding plunger be filled with tickets and the lever is operated the cam or eccentric
shaped end thereof will force the sliding plunger forward and compress the packet of.
tickets to the required extent, and the string can then be passed round the latter and
secured in the usual way.
A knife edge may be fixed if desired at the side of the
box for cutting off the string after the tying is completed.
In order to lock the lever when the tickets have been sufficiently compressed so that
it can be let go of while the tying is being effected the cam or eccentric shaped part
may be provided with notches, into one of which the friction roller of the sliding
plunger, or a projection on the latter takes as soon as the required pressure has been
attained thereby preventing the lever from being forced back by the spring acting on
the plunger. The particular notch that comes into operation is dependent upon the
number of tickets in the box, their thickness and the degree of pressure exerted
on them.
When the tying-up of the packet of tickets is completed it is only necessary to
move the lever in the opposite direction, the spring then forces the sliding plunger
back, and the tied up packet of tickets can be removed from the box.
Dated this 1st day of October 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Tying-up. Boxes for. Railway and other Tickets.
I, JOHN GRAHAM: of 10ª Caledonian Street;,King's Cross, London, Ticket Printer..
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:
This invention relates to improved devices for pressing the tickets intended to form
a packet closely together, and holding them so pressed together while the string.is
being applied and tied round' the packet! Heretofore this pressure has generally,
been applied to the tickets by 'n means of a screw working through one end of the box;
buttthis arrangement is slow in action and otherwise: unsatisfactory; and, the object
of my present invention is to provide:apparatus which can be operated inore quickly
and: easily:.
: In the accompanying drawings Figure: 1 is a longitudinal section of a tying-up
box with my improvements applied thereto and Figure 2: is a plan of same. A'is:
an open: topped. boxt of: a depth such that when the tickets Biare stood upright
therein about one half of their length projects above the top of the box. as- usual!.
At one end of this: box: I fiti a sliding plunger C.preferably of:about the same cross
section: as that of the interior: of: the: box. This sliding plunger is suitably guided;
and part of it C projects downwards through a slot D.in the bottom: A¹ of the box
and is acted on by a spring Elone.end of: which bears: against the fixed abutment F,.
the other end against the downwardly projecting part of the plunger: C so. that
the said spring. E. tends constantly, to force the plunger towards the end of the
boxx Alever Ghaving a cam or eccentric shaped end Glis pivotted.at.G2 at the end
of the box A and the cam: orr eccentric shaped endiof the lever bears against the end
of the aforesaid sliding: plunger C or against. a friction roller: C2: mounted thereon.
It will now be understood that if the space: between the end of the box. A and the
face: of the sliding: plunger: C be filled with tickets: B-andi the: lever. G: is: pressed:
downwards the cam or eccentric shaped end G¹ thereoft will force the sliding plunger C.
forward land: compress the packet of tickets to the required: extent; and.. the string
can then be passed round the latter at the top of the box and secured in the usual
way. A knife edge H mayrbe fixed if desired at the side of the box for cutting, off
the string after the tying is completed.
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In order to lock the lever G when the tickets: have been sufficiently.compressed
so that it can be let go ofi while: the tying is being: effected the: cauror: eccentric
shaped parto G may be provided with knotches: G3, into one of which the friction
roller: C2 of the sliding plunger: C, or a projection on the latter takes as soon as
the required pressure has been attained thereby preventing the lever G. from being
forced back by the spring E acting on the plunger. The particular notch that
comes into operation is dependent upon the number of tickets in the box, their
thickness and the degree of pressure exerted on them:
When necessary an adjustable stop J may be provided to prevent the lever. G from
being pressed down beyond the distance required to impart the desired pressure to
the packet of tickets.
When the tying-up of the packet of tickets is completed it is only necessary to move
the lever G in the opposite direction the spring E then forces the sliding plunger C
back, and the tied up packet of tickets can be removed from the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In a tying-up box for railway and other tickets the combination of the
box A, sliding plunger C, and cam or eccentric lever G G', substantially as described.

page_text: Second. In a tying-up box for railway and other tickets the combination of the
box A, sliding plunger C, cam or eccentric lever G G and spring E, substantially
as described.
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J. GRAHAM,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.