Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
My invention relates to mechanism for printing tickets of different kinds and
registering the issue and sale thereof.
My invention relates more particularly to that class of apparatus in which the
ticket is printed from a continuous card-board strip, from which the tickets, after
printing, are detached or severed, each one being properly dated, and a record of
the printing, severing and detaching of each being kept by one or more registering
devices, according to the different kinds or prices of tickets sold, those of the same
kind, or of the same price, being registered upon the same registering train."
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My present invention is designed to provide improved means for inking the
printing die and to simplify and improve the devices for recharging the ink roller;
to provide simple and effective means for operating the shear-blade or knife
which severs the tickets from the continuous strip, and to combine with the feed
mechanism, by which the ticket strip is advanced, means whereby the gripping
surfaces may be separated after each ticket has been printed, to prevent deflection
of material of irregular contour in guide-ways.
A further object of my said invention is to provide means whereby a relative
adjustment may be given of the several parts of the mechanism acting directly
upon the continuous ticket strip to permit their entire and simultaneous withdrawal
from the guide-ways to permit the latter to be easily freed from obstructions which
may have become lodged therein.
I also purpose to provide and combine with the printing and registering mechanism
means for checking the action of the apparatus whereby an unauthorized operation
thereof is prevented.
My purpose is finally to provide an interchangeable multiplex registering device
of improved construction; to provide an improved form of pawl and pawl-lever,
and a novel and simplified form of dating stamp.

page_text: Ine said invention consists in the several novel features of construction and
combination of parts hereinafter fully set forth.
In the accompanying drawing :-
Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through the machine casing, showing the
apparatus in front elevation.
Figure 2 is a plan view of one of the registers, with part of the operating
mechanism connected.
Figure 3 is an elevation in detail of a portion of the mechanism for operating
the register.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of the mechanism shown in Figure 1, the registers
and connected mechanism being removed.
Figure 5 is an elevation taken from the opposite side to that shown in Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a rear elevation, the registers and ink-fount being removed.
Figure 7 is a detail elevation of the weighted lever.
Figure 8 is a plan view of the device shown in Figure 7.
Figure 9 is a partial plan view of one tier of registers with the operative
mechanism.
Figure 10 is a detail elevation of part of the hand-lover, shewing the blade.
Figure 11 is a detail elevation of the dater, taken from the rear.
Figure 12 is a side elevation of the same.
A denotes a bed plate, upon which is erected a frame B having a vertical slot or
opening B¹ in which slides a head 1, to the lower end whereof is attached a die-
holder 10 containing a series of printing dies 11, the die-holder being cylindrical
and carrying the dies upon its periphery as shown in Figure 1.
Attached to the sliding head 1, is a bridle frame 2, on which is hinged a bridle 20,
and to the free end of the said bridle is pivotally connected an inker-frame 21,
carrying in its lower end an ink-roller 22, which normally lies beneath the die-
holder 10. Between the inker-frame 21 and the base of the bridle-frame 2 is
interposed a spring 23, by which the ink-roller 22 is drawn up against the dies 11.
Upon the inker-frame, at its upper end, is a convex face or edge 24, which rests
upon a horizontal surface upon a lug 25, projecting from the frame 2. Upon the
back of the inker-frame 21 is formed a projection 21* which is connected, by a
link 26, to a rigid bracket depending from a frame C.
The convexity of the edge 24 is such that, as it turns or rocks upon the lug 25,
the ink-roller 22 will be swept backward and forward over the face of the lower
die 11, inking the latter equally at all points. This rocking of the frame 21 is
caused by the vertical reciprocation of the sliding head 1 and die-holder 10 carried
thereby. As the latter descends, the inker-frame and roller are both thrown
toward the rear a certain distance, contact between the lug 25 and edge 24 being
preserved by the spring 23, while the rocking movement is permitted by the
bridle 20 and link 26.
Upon the vertical part of the frame C is placed a bracket D having lugs D¹ each
of which contains a notch adapted to receive the end of a knife-edge bar 272
formed upon an arm 271. This arm is rigidly attached to the ink-fount 27, and
in the latter is mounted a roller 29 provided with a thumb-wheel 28, by which
rotation may be imparted to the roller. By means of the arm 271, the fount
may be raised slightly and, as the ink-roller 22 passes, at each reciprocation of the
sliding head, just above the fount, by raising the latter, the ink-roller may be
brought into contact with the fount-roller 29, and thereby recharged with ink.
Referring now to Figures 1, 4 and 5, 61 denotes a shaft upon which is a cam 7,
which operates a lever 70, having one end pivotted to the frame B and the other
coupled to a sliding shear-blade 71, provided with a slot or opening 72, near its
upper extremity. The upper edge of this slot is ground sharp, and moves up and
down just in front and against the end of the ticket trough from which the ticket
strip issues. The reciprocation of the shear-blade is so timed relatively to the
other mechanism, that it severs the ticket at the moment when the feed movement
of the strip has wholly ceased, as will be more fully shewn hereafter and is raised

page_text: again, before the feed movement begins, to bring the slot 72 into such position that
the next ticket may pass into the same preparatory to its being severed.
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Upon the shaft 61 is a cam 8 which operates a lever 80, the end of which is
supported by a spiral spring 81. Upon the lever 80 is a bearing for a rock shaft 82
carrying an eccentric 83, the latter serving as a bearing for a feed roll 84. This
feed roll is arranged below a co-operating roll 85 journalled on a rigid axis 88, and
driven by positive mechanism whereby it is rotated at a proper speed to feed the
continuous ticket strip. The feed movement produced by the rolls 84 and 85 is
effected by the raising of the cam end of the lever 80, through the agency of the
cam 8 and by the cam-bearing or eccentric 83. Rotation of the cam 8 raises and
drops the end of the lever 80, causing the successive grip and release of the feed
rolls on the continuous ticket strip, thereby permitting the strip to adjust itself in
the guide-way or trough F, the object thereof being to prevent the strip from
becoming clogged, owing to want of uniform width or thickness of the strip, or to
slight imperfections in the feeding mechanism or the trough.
The machine is actuated by a gear-wheel 4 having a ratchet 40, the teeth of
which engage with a lock 41, carrying on its bolt a chock 42 which may be moved,
together with the bolt, by a key 43. When the bolt of the lock is thrown
outward, the chock 42 is carried under one of the teeth of the ratchet 40, in
position to arrest its movement, and also the movement of the main gear-wheel or
driver 4.
The relative arrangements of parts is such that, when the ratchet 40, engages
with and is arrested by the chock 42, the feed rolls 84 and 85 are separated and
the shear-blade 71 is raised until its slot 72 is in position to allow the ticket to
pass through. When the key 43 is removed from the lock, complete operation of
the machine can only be effected by the use of the same or a similar key.
The gear-wheel 4 drives a pinion 62 mounted on the shaft 61, and having a
crank 60 connected, by a link 6, with the sliding head 1.
The rotating die-holder 10 is mounted upon a spindle 12, in the rear end of
which is mounted a mitre gear 13, meshing with a similar gear 14 keyed upon a
vertical spindle 15. This spindle is provided with a spur wheel 16 with which a
segment gear 17 meshes, as shewn in Figures 5 and 9. The segment gear is
mounted upon a band lever 18, fulcrummed upon a stud 18%, and extending outside
the casing through a slot in the wall. Upon the lever 18, in a slot formed in the
handle thereof, is pivoted a stop-bar 181, having its ends bent downwards and
normally thrown down by a spring 182. The lever 18 sweeps over an arc
plate 191 provided with notches 19, with which the end of the stop-bar 181 may
engage.
Upon the spindle 15 are secured the collars 5, 5, one above and the other below
the spur gear 16. Arms 50 are also secured to said spindle, the arms 50 and
collars 5 being secured together in pairs by vertical rods 51, which have free
vertical movement through holes in the spur gear 16 and through the plates 52
and 53, each plate 53 having a bracket 54 mounted thereon and arranged
substantially as shown in Figure 1. The spur pinion 16, and plates 53 are
retained in vertical position by the plates 52, which are secured to them, the
plates 53 rotating freely in suitable bearings in the frame of the machine.
The brackets 54 are provided with pivots 541, on which oscillate levers 55
having a fork 55a at each end. When the sliding head 1 is reciprocated, it causes
a like movement of the mitred gears 13 and 14, the spindle 15, collars 5, arms 50,
rods 51, and, by means of a stud 501 in each of the arms 50, the levers 55 are
oscillated upon their fulcrums 541. With the free ends of the levers 55 engage
any one of the pawl-levers 56, by the reciprocation of which movement is given to
the initial disc of the registering train 58. I have shown these registers arranged
in two tiers or series, but I may use any number of similar tiers, according to the
requirements of each case, and to correspond to the number of separate printing
dies in the die-holder 10.

page_text: The free, forked ends of the levers 55, are arranged in vertical planes of such
variation as to distance that but one only of said levers can become engaged with
a pawl-lever 56, at one and the same time. The positions of the said pawl-levers
and of the notches 19 in the arc plate 191 are all so arranged relatively to each
other that when the arm 18 is locked by the spring-actuated bar 181, in any one
of the notches 19, the spindle 15 is turned so as to bring the corresponding die 11
into printing position, while, at the same time, the lever 55, or one of said levers,
is swept about in the arc of a circle until, at the moment when the engagement of
the arm 18 with the notch of the plate 191 takes place, when the forked end of the
lever simultaneously engages with the pin 56* upon the end of the pawl lever 56,
as shown in Figures 1 and 9.
Each of the registering trains is operated by a ratchet 57 (see right band of
Figure 1 at top) said ratchet being held against back lash by a detent of any
suitable kind. The pawl-lever 56 acts upon the ratchet by a pawl 561 (Figures 1
and 3) which is rigidly mounted upon the lever, the yield of the pawl, whereby it
is enabled to pass over the teeth of the ratchet, being permitted by a slot 562, the
latter being preferably formed at a right angle to the pawl-lever 56.
Vibration of the face end of the pawl-lever in one direction effects a partial
rotation of the ratchet-wheel, whereas, when the pawl-lever is lifted, the pawl 561
passes under the next succeeding tooth, the play of the ratchet upon its shaft 581
being allowed by the slot 562, whereby the pawl 561 is not only allowed to pass
over the next tooth but is drawn into engagement therewith after passing it.
The feed roll 85 has a positive movement imparted thereto by a Geneva stop-
motion, the construction thereof being familiar in watches and being also shown in
a prior application filed by me. The Geneva stop is driven by a spur gear 87
actuated by the gear wheel 4. The spur gear 87 is keyed upon a shaft 88 carrying
a crank 3 with crank pin 30 engaging in a slot 311 formed in a weighted lever 31,
fulcrummed in a rock shaft 32 to which is secured a supplemental lever 33. The
weighted lever 31 and supplemental lever or adjusting arm 33 are contiguous,
and through a slot 312 in the lever 31, a headed screw 31* passes and is screwed
into the arm 33. To the rock shaft 32 is rigidly secured a forked lever 34, which
carries between its forked ends a die-holder 35, containing a series of dating or
other dies 352 (see Figures 11 and 12). The die holder 35 is swivelled on a
dowel 343 and is clamped in the jaws of the forked lever 34 by the headed
screw 341 which passes through a hole in one of the forks of the lever 34 and also
through a slot 351 in the die-holder 35, (see Figure 12) and has its end tapped
into the other fork of the lever 34. The die-holder 35 carries a stud 363 in which
oscillates an inking frame 36, carrying an ink-roller 39. The frame 36 is provided
with an arm 361, in which is formed a slot 362 through which a guide-bar 37
passes, said guide-bar being secured to uprights 38. The slot 362 is so formed
relatively to the guide-bar 37 that reciprocation of the die-holder 35 causes
oscillation of the inker-frame 36 whereby the ink-roller 39 is carried beneath and
over, the face of the die 352 in the die-holder 35, but is caused to avoid the
impression bed E.
When the crank-pin 30 reaches a certain point in its stroke, a recess 313 in the
lower face of the slot 311 receives said pin and allows it to drop far enough to
permit impressions to be made by hand by the depression of the die-holder 35, the
weighted lever 31 serving, at other times, to retain the die-holder 35 in position
to be operated by the gear 4 and the train of mechanism connected therewith.
The degree of pressure to be exerted by the dies 352 may be varied by loosening
the screw 331 and changing the relative positions of the arms 33, and weighted
arm 31 (see Figures 7 and 8), the screw 331 serving, when tightened, to hold the
arm 33, lever 31, forked lever 34, and die-holder 35 in proper position relative to
the crank-pin 30.
Perfect evenness of impression may be attained by loosening the screw 341, and
adjusting the die-holder 35 in the dowel 343, when the screw 341 being tightened

page_text: the die-holder is firmly held in position relatively to the surface of the ticket strip.
The revolution of gear 4 causes rotation of the spur gear 87 and actuates crank 3
carrying a crank-pin 30 which oscillates the lever 31, arm 33, rock shaft 32, forked
lever 34, and die-holder 35 with the contained impression dies, bringing the latter
into contact with the surface to be impressed, and the oscillation of the die-
holder 35 effects the rocking of the inking frame 36; the dies 352 being inked by
the ink-roller 39 carried by said frame 36.
When the key 43 is turned in the lock 41 (See Figure 4) so that the chock 42 is
caused to engage a tooth on the ratchet 40, the gear 4 being rotated as far as
possible, the relative positions of parts will be such that the recess 313 in slot 311
of lever 31 permits the crank-pin 30 to enter, whereby the end of the weighted
lever 31 may be oscillated far enough to permit impressions to be made by hand,
by pushing the die-holder 35 downward, the weighted lever 31 serving, at other
times, to retain the die-holder in position to be operated by gear 4; the ink-
roller 22 (Figure 1) is brought into vertical line with the print-roller 29, the
slot 72 in the knife 71 is brought in line with the surface of the ticket-trough F
through which the continuous ticket strip is fed, and the feed rollers 84 and 85 are
separated. The ticket strip is then introduced and, as it passes under the dating
stamp, the latter is operated by hand to impress each ticket portion with the date
until it passes between the feed rolls 84 and 85, and beneath the die-holder 10.
The descent of the latter then prints the ticket complete, which is fed out of the
casing through the slot in the knife 71 and severed for delivery by the rise of the
die-holder 10, the succeeding operations of the sliding head 1 and parts connected
are repetitions of the operations already described. After each action of the sliding
head which carries the printing dies, the stamp may be changed and the register-
lever engaged with the proper pawl-lever by simply shifting the arm 18 in the
manner already set forth. By loosening the screw 331 (Figure 4) and changing
the relative positions of the arm 33 and weighted lever 31, the degree of pressure
exerted by the dies 352 may be varied; the screw 331 serving, when tightened, to
hold the arm 33 lever 31, forked lever 34, and die-holder 35 in proper positions
relatively to the crank-pin 30.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
First: In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with a
printing die and a sliding head carrying the same, of an inking-frame, an ink-roller
journalled therein, a spring supporting said frame, a bridle and link connecting said
frame to its support in front of said spring, and a connecting bar connecting the
inking frame to a rigid point of support behind the spring substantially as
described.
Second: In ticket printing and registering apparatus, the combination, with an
adjustable ink supplying roller journalled in a fount, of an inking frame, an ink-
roller journalled therein, and means substantially as set forth for oscillating said
frame, whereby the ink-roller is replenished from the fount roller, substantially as
described.
Third-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with a
knife for severing the ticket from a continuous strip, of mechanism for reciprocating
said knife, a chock-bar, and a key for throwing the same into and out of engage-
ment with the operating mechanism, whereby the operation of the machine may be
arrested at will, substantially as described.
Fourth-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
a guide-way or trough for the continuous ticket strip, of a feed wheel having
positive rotation upon a fixed axis and a feed wheel journalled upon a cam lever
having elastic support at one end, substantially as described.
Fifth In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination of a
guide-way or trough for the ticket strip, a feed roller having positive rotation on

page_text: a fixed axis, a feed roller journalled upon a bearing carried by a cam lever, means
substantially as described for imparting rotation to the said rollers, a chocking bar
adapted to engage with a ratchet rigid upon one of the actuating gears, and a key
for shortening said chock bar, substantially as described.
Sixth In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with a
guide-way or trough for the continuous ticket strip, of feed rollers for advancing
said strip, a reciprocating knife severing the tickets from said strip and a chocking
bar which is thrown by a key into and out of a lock case to permit and arrest the
action of the operating devices, substantially as described.
Seventh-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
the actuating devices, of a chocking bar or plate, a closed casing containing the
same and a key by which it is thrown out and into engagement to arrest, or permit
the operation of the mechanism, substantially as described.
Eighth In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
an adjustable die-holder having a plurality of printing dies, of a corresponding
series of separate registering trains, a ratchet actuating the initial disc of each
train, a pawl-lever actuating the said ratchet, a lever fulcrummed on a rotary
support mounted on a spindle, and gearing connecting said spindle and die-holder,
whereby shifting the latter engages the lever with the lever of the corresponding
train of registering devices, substantially as described.
Ninth In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with a
die-holder having a plurality of printing dies, of a spindle having gearing by which
the die-holder may be rotated, one or more rotatable supports keyed on said
spindle, levers fulcrummed on said supports, a series of registering trains each
actuated by a pawl-lever, and an arm carrying a gear meshing with
spur pinion
on the spindle by which simultaneous adjustment is given to the die-holder and to
the levers actuating the pawl-levers, substantially as described.
Tenth-In printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with a
plurality of registering trains, of ratchets actuating the initial discs thereof,
pawl-levers moving said ratchets, one or more forked levers fulcrummed on a
rotatable support, a rotary die holder containing a plurality of printing dies,
gearing connected with the supports for the forked levers and adapted to rotate
the die-holder, an arm by which the master gear is turned, and means for arresting
and holding said arm at the proper points of adjustment, substantially as described.
Eleventh In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
a rotary die-holder having a plurality of printing stamps, of a sliding head,
carrying said die-holder, a crank and pitman for reciprocating the same, a spindle
carrying a mitre gear for rotating the same, a register actuating lever, or series of
levers, fulcrummed upon a support turning with the spindle carrying the mitre, an
arm rigid with said spindle and having a pin engaging with the forked end of the
register-lever, and a series of registering trains each having a pawl-lever with
which the free end of the register-lever engages as the die-holder is rotated,
substantially as described.
Twelfth In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
a dating stamp, of a forked lever oscillating the same, a rock-shaft on which said
lever is mounted, a prolonged weighted end extended beyond the rock-shaft and
having a slot provided with a downwardly inclined notch, a pin moving in said
slot and a crank arm carrying said pin, substantially as described.
Thirteenth-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination,
with two or more registering trains, of a ratchet moving the initial disc of each, a
pawl-lever projecting from a disc provided with a central angular slot, receiving the
shaft of the registering discs, an actuating lever mounted on a pivoted support and
engaging with the pawl-lever and a connection between the die carrier and the
devices adjusting the same, whereby the actuating lever is engaged at each
adjustment with the pawl-lever of a corresponding train, substantially as described.
Fourteenth :-
-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, an ink-roller mounted
in an oscillating frame, a die-carrier having a series of printing dies, a bridlę

page_text: connection between the oscillating frame and its support, a spring acting upon said
frame, a cam surface upon the latter rolling upon the support, a connecting bar
behind the spring, and means for giving vertical reciprocation to the die-carrier,
whereby the ink-roller is swept over the die in use on the die-carrier, substantially
as described.
Fifteenth-In ticket printing and registering mechanism, the combination, with
an ink-roller carried by an oscillating frame actuated by the descent of the printing
die, of a fount-roller arranged in an ink-fountain and carried by a lever having its
end projected outside the closed casing containing the operative parts, whereby the
ink roller may be replenished at will by raising the fount-roller as the printing die
descends, substantially as described.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.